The Chase Life Podcast

This is a huge stress, overwhelm, and ultimately a cause of "falling off the wagon" for so many people. Knowing how to navigate those moments when you're caught out of your regular routine, and you don't have full control over your food. How the hell are you supposed to remain on track, remain consistent, and avoid ruining your diet or your body…? … when you're traveling? … when your schedule chan...

Discover how to fully and permanently eliminate your struggles with binge eating, emotional eating, compulsive eating, stress eating, mindless eating, or an otherwise disordered relationship with food… … Even if you've been struggling for years… … and even if you feel like you've tried everything. Just because you haven't fully resolved these struggles YET, says nothing about you, or your capabili...

Most people who start a diet, very quickly start to feel a sense of pressure, stress, and OBLIGATION with the diet. They have a whole list of "should's": "I SHOULD do this, and I SHOULDN'T do that" "I HAVE to do this… and I CAN'T do that" Which tells us that they don't WANT to change their diet or their lifestyle… they just feel like they SHOULD, because if they don't they're stuck feeling somethi...

A big misconception is that eliminating binge eating, emotional eating, or a disordered relationship with food, and establishing LASTING food freedom is at odds with being able to prioritise the behaviours necessary to be lean, fit and healthy are at odds with each other. So many people feel trapped between approaches that feel like they're excessively restrictive and controlled, versus creating a...

Episode 069 of course had to be about relationships! In this episode we kick off with the "fairy tale in spandex" – the backstory of how we met, and how we knew it was a "fuck yes" almost immediately. We go on to discuss what it takes to meet – AND ATTRACT – your "fuck yes" in the first place, how to fall in love with the process of dating, and how to exude genuine confidence and sexiness that cre...

The Chase Life podcast is back with another Q&A series, this time on all things related to binge and emotional eating and your relationship with food. Rachel and David get to the bottom of 3 common questions so many people are struggling with: 1. How can you stop yourself from a binge when you know you're going to do it but you just can't stop? 2. I'm fine during the day but then I become the cook...

Rachel and David answer three big questions: 1. How to learn to love being single and on your own at 43… 2. Tips on making decisions and sticking to them for example which goals to focus on… 3. How to get yourself out of a rut. Rachel and David dive deep into why age is only a number, how to uncover hidden beliefs you have surrounding love and relationships later in life, why it may be better to b...

What is a High Value Women and how do you know when you are one? Or what happens on the days that sometimes you feel "Hell yes!" I am that woman and feel utterly UNSTOPPABLE and on other days, well… not so much. There can be a lot of blindspots and misconstruing of the words around the term High Value Woman and the identity and role it has in your life. For example… Maybe you feel pressure to live...

Confidence is the absolute foundation to creating the life that you love. Except…What's behind real self confidence? And more importantly, how do you create it?!! The thing is… There's a ton of bs and happy flower woo woo out there around "how to be more self confident", but these approaches hardly, if ever, work long term. Approaches like "fake it till you make it" and "be it until you see it" ar...

Losing 5-10kgs is great and all that, but what do you do when you have a significant amount of weight to lose? What do you do if you have 10-50kgs to lose and are facing a longer journey ahead of you, not just 12 weeks? We're bombarded by images all around us on social media and marketing of how to lose 20kgs in 12 weeks and we see an amazing transformation…. But that's literally just a snapshot i...

How do you know when it's appropriate to take your foot off the gas, have a lighter session and reduce volume and how do you know when you're just bullshitting yourself? Things are rarely black and white but sometimes we hold ourselves to impossible rules and standards that keep us trapped from not only progressing in our training, but in our lives. The problem is…. So many of us have lost the abi...

You're extremely good at doing everything externally that needs doing. You can do the job, run the business, manage the team, organise the kids and run the home. You're ambitious, driven, hardworking and prepared to do the work to achieve whatever it takes which is great but….on the inside? On the inside, you're having a complete meltdown. The thing is… With ambition comes achievement and with ach...

So many people think that "when I lose weight or get leaner/thinner or more muscular, then I'll feel more confident or like myself more". After all, you're changing what you dislike about yourself so what could go wrong? Except… What happens when you do lose weight or lose a lot of weight yet still feel like that fat girl inside? What happens if you get to your goal weight or dream body and feel e...

Most people run around from one thing to the next, loads on their plate and arrive at the end of the day exhausted and frazzled. With so much busyness and chaos inside their mind, they find themselves looking for the fastest way to escape, to disconnect or just calm down for a while. For many, this takes the form of food. It's so easy to blame external circumstances for all that stress – the spous...

Negative body image affects so many people to varying degrees. At one end we have people who feel a little self-conscious and don't like how they look around their cycle. At the other end we have the people with extreme feelings and dislike of their bodies – feelings that affect all aspects of their lives from their confidence, to their career, their relationships and even their ability to get dre...

With so much nonsense, fluff and faff floating about in the health and fitness industry, most are left scratching our heads lost, hopeless and REALLY confused about how to lose weight and keep it off, for good. If you're a busy, time poor parent and / or professional over the age of 35 with weight to lose, a ton of responsibilities at work, a team of people relying on you and a family to take care...

What do you do when you're in a relationship where fundamentally nothing is wrong, the person ticks all the boxes, is nice, a great person… but deep down you know you won't be with that person for the rest of your life? How do you avoid feeling like a failure or the sinking feeling that you've wasted years of your life going down the wrong path after having invested so much time and energy into so...

New year, new you! We've heard it all before and coming into January we've all set our resolutions and goals and are full speed ahead… then Christmas hits and it's two belligerent weeks of decadence and social events and come January we're all left thinking "oh yes, those January goals…?!" Except…. How do you actually do that? How do you take what you write down on paper and action those desires a...

Episode 55 is all about personal growth, self-development, business growth and the hard stuff that comes along the way. Rachel welcomes friend and successful business owner Tara Rose Kidd to the show, where they discuss Tara´s journey, the ups, the downs, the successes and the failures… and everything in between! Learn how Tara went from passively bumbling along with not much going on in life, tur...

Do you find yourself: • Stressed, overwhelmed and unable to cope? • Running from task to task unable to relax until everything is done? • Always putting others first and unable to say no... even though you secretly resent it?? • Constantly worrying and anxious about the future? • Feeling lazy and useless unless you're being productive? If so, Episode 54 is your episode! Rachel and David are back w...

Are you someone who suffers from: • Painful periods? • Horrendous bloating? • Pelvic pain? • Postpartum issues? • Gut problems? • Back pain? • Pain during intercourse or even just peeing your pants when you sneeze? If so, Episode 53 is for YOU! Rachel welcomes her friend and women's health physio Jade Lucas-Reed to the podcast where they talk in a very candid and refreshing manner about all things...

Want to know what really motivates you and lies at the heart of the destructive behaviours holding you back? Want to know the role that past conditioning and environment have played in shaping your behaviours up till now? Want to know what keeps you stuck, petrified and unable to act, whether it's making a career change, changing country, leaving a destructive relationship or taking action on some...

Are you sick and tired of making goals, not reaching them, or worse, achieving them and feeling desperately empty on the other side? Are you tired of having good intentions and a plan of action… yet never being able to follow through? Do you find yourself stuck in the same place year after year, always making promises that tomorrow, next week, next month, next year will be different yet somehow no...

Episode 50 is all about relationships, and in particular… How to help your partner navigate tough times when you find it emotionally draining and exhausting yourself. How to support and help the other person without trying to "fix" them. How to know if you are coming across as judgemental... and what to do instead. What healthy boundaries actually mean, how to create them, and how to prioritize yo...

If you are someone who has tried everything, from therapy, to countless diet and exercise plans, to yoga and mindfulness and even romantic candlelit baths for one all to no avail… then this is YOUR episode! Episode 49 digs DEEP into binge and emotional eating at a level you haven't heard before. Find out why food struggles have nothing to do with food, and why treating binge and emotional eating w...