Grace & Grit Podcast

Weight loss is not a conversation I am interested in for so many reasons (many of which I addressed in  episode 217 ). Healthy fat loss, however, IS a topic that I am interested in having with the right women at the right time. In this episode of the Grace & Grit podcast, I bring some clarity to what can be a very confusing topic. More specifically, I discuss: Why I don't believe fat loss is the r...

Back to the Grace & Grit Podcast for the second time, Amanda Thebe gives us insight into her new book, Menopocalypse. This book is a brilliant read for any woman who is trying to navigate her way through the hormonal fluctuations and uncertainties of perimenopause and menopause. Listen in as Amanda and I have a very real conversation about the menopausal years and what you can do to travel through...

The Grace & Grit Podcast is about to enter its 6th year of production and in the over 215 episodes that I have recorded, I have only specifically addressed the topic of weight loss a couple of times. And, that has been VERY intentional. If you want to hear more about my thoughts about weight loss, do not miss this episode. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-217/ **** Are you lov...

How might your physical health improve if your financial health improved? In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, my friend and financial expert, Hilary Hendershott helps up explore precisely that. If you are someone who's financial health could use a little (or a lot) of TLC, you do not want to miss this episode. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-216/ **** What if you had...

This is our final episode in our  Unrelenting Ownership  theme and in it I talk about what it means to: own your motivation own your strategy own your failure own your success Have a listen and let me know if it helps! Mentioned in this episode: Rumble & Rise Membership Arena – Now Open! Learn more and sign up: https://graceandgrit.com/readytorumble **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? ...

Your relationship with time is a very big deal because how you spend your time will either bring you closer to the life you said you wanted to live… or further away. In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, I give you some ideas for how to improve your relationship with time, so you can spend less time in a space of overwhelm and more time with the things that matter most to you. I hope it hel...

What is possible for your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts. => What you choose to believe about your life. => What you choose to believe about yourself. => What you choose to make failures and obstacles mean. In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, I explore what it means to own your possibility regardless of what has happened in the past or what might happen in the future:)...

Most women I work with have spent a lifetime trying to prove or earn their worth, but worthiness is not something you need to hustle for. Worthiness is baked into your humanity. That being said, worth does need to be acknowledged… BY YOU because if you don't think you are worthy of time and attention, you won't show up to do the things you are being called to do. This month on the Grace & Grit pod...

More than ever the world needs people who are grounded, resilient, and operating from a space of proactive thinking NOT reactive thinking. I dedicated the entire past month on the Grace and Grit Podcast to The Practice of Realignment  to help you stabilize yourself when life may be feeling more difficult and uncertain than ever. In part 3 of this series, I give you 3 steps to make your realignment...

​All month long on the Grace & Grit podcast, we have been talking about the  Practice of Realignment  because life is going to present you with a LOT of opportunities to get "thrown off your game" in terms of your self-care. And when you do… there are graceful ways to pivot yourself back with less struggle and more grace. Really. In part 1 of this series (episode 209), I introduced the first two s...

To say that 2020 has thrown us a curveball is a massive understatement. Routines have been disrupted, new stressors have emerged and a lot of people are struggling to navigate these new waters while keeping their mental and physical health in check. I get it! I have been swimming in those waters too. So, I am dedicating the entire month of the Grace & Grit Podcast to "Realignment" and in today's e...

I have long wanted to have an expert come on the Grace and Grit podcast to talk about sex because having worked with hundreds of clients over the years, I know there is a lot of shame, resentment, and frustration about what happens, or doesn't happen, in the bedroom. Since our theme this month is pleasure, I thought this would be the perfect time to broach this topic. My guest, Janna-Denton Howes,...

The human brain is hard-wired to seek pleasure. The problem is we are living at a time where concentrated pleasures are being sold to at every turn and our over-consumption of them is actually hurting our well-being. In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, I talk about natural vs false pleasure and why the type you pursue will have a huge impact on the future of your health. You can listen he...

​Emotion can be incredibly helpful or horribly destructive depending on what we do to process them or if we process them at all. I deeply wish that emotional management was a course taught in primary school. There is so much needless suffering in the world because people either do not allow themselves to feel difficult emotion or they don't take responsibility where they can for the emotion they d...

Admitting where we could do better is not necessarily fun, but oh-so-important to our personal health and even to the health of the world at large. The past few weeks have shown me where I could serve women (all women) better AND reminded me of the art of listening. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-205/ **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! B...

I wish I could tell you that deep health could be attained by following a playbook that worked for someone else's life, but that's not how it works (the horrific failure rate of the diet industry is proof of that). Deep health requires deep inner work so YOU can author the playbook for your own life. I meet women every day who say they want to get off the diet hamster wheel but they also want to a...

I have long believed that improving health, be it mental or physical, is a practice of self-leadership. Self-leadership is a practice of righting decisions and habits that may no longer be serving you. To move your life to higher ground, you must be willing to rumble between who you have been and ultimately who you want to be. Rumbling is how we learn, how we grow, and ultimately how we become str...

This week for the podcast I decided to reach out to my community and ask them what they were rumbling with, and I got some GREAT questions that are going to be relevant to a lot of women. In this episode, I answer 4 questions: I was doing so well with not eating sugar, why am I struggling again? How do I get traction with a routine again when life has been so disrupted? I am noticing that I am dri...

Yes, life is a little (or a lot) disorienting right now and we are being challenged in new ways. It is all too easy to focus on everything that is wrong with our current reality and why it shouldn't be happening. The sooner you stop fighting reality (because let's be honest you will never win that argument) the easier you will be able to navigate your way through it. No, we cannot control what is...

Weeks ago I asked the Grace & Grit community members what they thought I should talk about on the 200th episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast. The word "resilience" came up more than once, which I love because I think we need to be reminded of our capacity for resilience now more than ever. So in this episode, I weave together a celebration for our 200th episode on the Grace & Grit Podcast and a con...

The diet industry is a multibillion-dollar industry that has sold people on the notion that "what works for one person will work for everyone". And it has failed, miserably. Wellness is not a cookie-cutter formula that can be applied to every human. In fact, the path that will return a person to a state of well-being is as unique as the individual who is pursuing it. In this episode of the Grace &...

​In the age of diet dogma and copious amounts of nutrition information available at your fingertips, I think it is more important than ever to turn inwards and ask yourself what is working for you. What is your food philosophy and are you living in alignment with it? Surprisingly, although many women can quickly tell you their food beliefs, they aren't necessarily living in line with those beliefs...

When it comes to health in modern-day culture, we have a commitment issue. The truth is, you will never learn to be consistent if you don't learn to commit. We commit to marriages. We commit to our kids. We commit to our careers. We commit to our retirement funds. When it comes to our health? Not so much. Think about how your health would improve if you could commit to improving it with the depth...

We are all continually striving to improve our health. And the longer I work with women, the more I realize the last thing most of us need is more information about diet and exercise. You know what you need to do. You even want to do it.  Most days. What you truly need is to learn how to apply the knowledge you already have – with consistency. In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, I talk ab...

As someone who has worked in the women's wellness space for more than 20 years now, I have come to see improving health as  an exercise in self-leadership . Because to improve your health, be it mental, physical or spiritual, you must willing to better understand yourself and have trust in yourself and your abilities. Self-confidence, I believe, is an invaluable part of self-leadership, because it...