Not Another Mindset Show

In this Q&A episode, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas tackles 6 questions straight from her audience, covering everything from how to find your niche and translate it into your content, to what it actually sounds like to use values-based goal setting in a real coaching conversation.   She also gets personal about her best business investments ever, whether a cognitive behavioral coaching mini course is co...

Your client checks in and says it was a stressful week, so they couldn't stay on track. Now what? Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas breaks down the neuroscience behind why stress and self-control are literally competing for the same mental resources, and what that means for how you coach through it. This isn't a stress management episode. It's a coaching skills episode.   She covers: Why stress...

In this first episode of a new series, The 15-Minute Framework, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas breaks down the CLEAR decision framework, a tool she originally created for HMCC alumni to use on sales and discovery calls. She covers: What CLEAR stands for and how each step guides a sales conversation toward a confident decision Why most prospective clients misidentify their actual problem, and how to help the...

The reason your ideal clients aren't buying might have nothing to do with your offer. Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas introduces her concept of the "root belief," the one thing your ideal client needs to believe before any of your content, copy, or offer can actually land. If that belief isn't there, it doesn't matter how good your testimonials are or how clearly you've laid out...

If you've ever felt like your business problems were strategy problems, this episode will flip that completely. Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas sits down with her mentors James and Jenni Wedmore for a conversation about what business breakthroughs actually require, and why the internal work isn't separate from the business work.   In this episode, they cover: What a business breakthrough actually i...

100 episodes. 1,000 students. Six years mentoring health and fitness coaches. For the milestone 100th episode, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas is sharing the 10 things she couldn't have known without all of it. In this episode, she covers: Why the coaches who care most are often the ones struggling most with client motivation and consistency The ceiling coaches unknowingly place on their own clients (an...

You just had a great consult call with a prospective client, but at the end they hit you with a "I'm not sure now is the right time". And now you're left wondering what you did wrong. Most of the time, it has nothing to do with your pitch, your price, or your program. And it has everything to do with what was going on inside your prospective client's mind (that neither of...

If you've ever told yourself you're just not a salesperson, that belief is probably costing you more than you realize. In this episode, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas talks about how money mindset beliefs create resistance to selling, but that isn't a character flaw. It's a story. This episode helps you unpack that story.   In this episode, she covers: Why coaches with a strong "hel...

Are SMART goals actually helping you change your behavior or just checking a box? In this episode, host Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas and co-host Sarah Tierney play "overrated or underrated" with popular health and behavior change concepts, debating what actually works for long-term success versus what sounds good in theory but falls short in practice. From SMART goals, to accountability buddies,...

"Is my client just making excuses?" If you've ever asked yourself this, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas has some thoughts. Spoiler: the answer doesn't actually matter, and asking the question might be getting in your way.   In this episode, she covers: What happens when coaches or clients label something as an "excuse" vs. a "valid reason" How the excuse vs. valid reas...

A client can have hyper-positive check-ins every single week and still be struggling through an entire month without telling you. In part two of this live Q&A, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas gets into why that happens, what coaches are accidentally doing to make it worse, and what to do instead.   In this episode, she covers: Why calling a client an 'emotional eater' (or letting them call them...

This Q&A session was so good, we had to bring it to the podcast! Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas takes real questions from coaches and breaks down the moments quietly making or breaking client results. Unsupportive partners, scale obsession, meal prep struggles, and the fixed vs. growth mindset conversation: she brings her psychology background to the actual coaching challenges you're facing. In thi...

What do you do when you can't figure out what your client actually needs? Coaching alone is hard, and without peer review or a space to troubleshoot tricky client scenarios, it's easy to feel stuck, uncertain, or like you're missing something important.   In this episode, host Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas and co-host, Sarah Tierney, pull real questions from HMCC students and alumni about ch...

Your client falls off the plan. You tweak the plan. They fall off again. In this episode, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas breaks down why changing the plan isn't fixing the problem, and what's actually going on underneath it: psychological flexibility. Research consistently links it to better outcomes in weight loss, exercise adherence, and emotional regulation, and it's one of the most overlo...

If you're a health and fitness coach and things have felt harder lately, this episode is for you. Dr. Kasey Jo is bringing 3 business mindset reframes straight from her most recent Growth Collective retreat, where she sat down with a room full of health and fitness business owners and actually diagnosed what's going on. She covers: The real reasons coaches are struggling to sign clients...

Have you ever watched a client fall off track and chalked it up to a lack of motivation? What if that's not actually what's going on? Clients who can't seem to stick to the plan might have nothing to do with motivation and everything to do with this: lack of discomfort tolerance. The process of behavior change requires staying resilient when things get uncomfortable, and this is som...

You've heard this before: "If you don't want to be tempted to eat it, then don't have it around". But is this really an effective strategy to use with your clients? In this episode, host Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas and co-host Sarah Tierney break down a powerful coaching tool: momentary restriction (also known as abstinence sampling). With this tool, the goal isn't to take a...

The Health Mindset Coaching Certification is the gold standard for mindset and behavior change coaching in the health and fitness industry. And enrollment for the Spring 2026 cohort is officially open! Host, fitness coach, and mindset expert Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas shares what you can expect from the fully upgraded (and improved) program. After working with 1,000 health and fitness professionals worl...

Are you worried GLP-1 medications will make coaches obsolete? Medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are changing the weight loss conversation, but they're not replacing the work coaches do. In fact, they're making behavior change coaching more essential than ever. In this episode, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas breaks down what GLP-1s actually do, why 50-75% of users stop taking them with...

Ever wonder exactly who and what's behind the research and coaching advice? In this personal Q&A episode, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas answers questions you've been asking, from the decision she almost didn't make that changed everything, to what she's working on next, and what really matters to her outside of coaching. In this episode, she gets personal and shares stories, values,...

After working with 1000+ coaches, Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas breaks down the hidden mindset barriers coaches carry and how those blindspots directly impact client outcomes, confidence, and results. If you're a coach who's over-educating, over-delivering, or constantly planning instead of acting, there's a good chance you need to address one of these mindset blocks. This episode is for: Co...

Have you ever felt like you need to look a certain way to sign more clients as a health coach? That "your body is your business card" belief could be doing more harm than good for you and your clients. In this episode, host Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas sits down with co-host, Sarah Tierney, to unpack the belief that coaches must achieve a certain aesthetic to be credible. Sarah, who teaches body...

This idea has been hitting host, Dr Kasey Jo Orvidas, over and over lately: "Do we really have to change who we are to see success?" Health, fitness, business, relationships: it's a question we all wrestle with. In this episode, she unpacks why the belief that you must be someone else to succeed can actually hold you back. She talks about: How "ideal person" thinking can b...

Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “Am I even capable of this?” (about your dating life, business, school, or health?) That could be your fixed mindset creeping in. In this episode, host Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas, breaks down practical ways to coach clients (and yourself) when belief in change feels impossible, even when progress is already happening. She talks about how to: Ask the right question...

We’ve all heard the dramatic claims about food being “as addictive as drugs,” but a new EEG study offers a much clearer, more grounded look at what’s actually happening in the brain. In this episode, host Dr. Kasey Jo Orvidas, breaks down research comparing brain activity in lean adults, adults with obesity, and people with alcohol addiction... and what this reveals about cravings, overeating, and...