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Send us Fan Mail For as long as I can remember, I was trying to shrink. Compete, cut, lean out, take up less room my body was always a project to be fixed. This episode is about what changed when I turned 34 and finally started respecting my body instead of managing it. I'm coming to you as both here: the coach, and a woman still doing this work in real time. We talk about the decade nobody w...

Send us Fan Mail There's a quiet story a lot of women start telling themselves somewhere in their forties that the most driven, most fired-up version of them is now behind them. The energy shifts, the spark flickers, the drive that used to be automatic suddenly needs manufacturing and they file it under "I've lost my edge." In this episode I'm joined again by performance p...

Send us Fan Mail Katie Collins on losing everything she'd built her identity around and choosing to rise anyway. Katie Collins used to live for the stage. Deep in the UK bodybuilding world, her whole life was built around it the training, the structure, the identity. Then life made a decision she didn't get a say in. She moved back to Ireland to care for her dad, leaving the gym, the equ...

Send us Fan Mail Becky a mum of two and a nurse who spent her whole life looking after everyone but herself until she couldn't name a single thing in her day that was actually hers.  In this raw, honest conversation, she tells me how she walked into a gym looking for something she couldn't name, and walked out years later now a family business owner and an intermediate strongwoman compet...

Send us Fan Mail If you've started noticing that your body feels like it's playing by a different set of rules — the sleep that doesn't recover you the way it used to, the mood that swings for no obvious reason, the weight that shifts despite you doing everything 'right' — this episode is for you. Perimenopause can begin a full decade before your periods stop. And the conv...

Send us Fan Mail We're kicking off Season 2 with something that sits at the root of so much of what holds women back and it's not laziness, lack of motivation, or discipline. It's the quiet, cumulative damage of measuring too much, comparing too often, and waiting for perfect conditions that never actually arrive. In this solo episode, Scarlett breaks down the tracking trap why obse...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most powerful thing you could do for your confidence had nothing to do with how you look? This week's guest has spent years mastering her body — first as an IFBB Figure Pro, then as an Ironman triathlete crossing finish lines that have nothing to do with a stage. Erin Thompson is also one of the most open advocates for ADHD in women, and what it really means to be...

Send us Fan Mail Why do so many women who know better still find themselves chasing smaller instead of stronger? In this solo episode your host, Scarlett gets completely honest by sharing her own journey from overweight, insecure beginner to competitive powerlifter, bodybuilder, and now strongwoman — and breaks down exactly where the conditioning that keeps women small actually comes from, what it...

Send us Fan Mail What started as a conversation about body language and posing turned into a deeper dive into mindset. Katie is a coach, competitive bodybuilder, posing coach and mum of one. I thought we were going to talk about how to stand. How to walk into a room. The physical stuff. And we did. But then something shifted. Because you cannot talk about how a woman holds her body without talking...

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually mean to feel confident in your body — not just look confident, but genuinely feel it from the inside out? In this episode, I sit down with Barbra Kiss — IFBB Pro figure competitor turned CrossFit and strength athlete — to talk about one of the most underrated shifts a woman can make: moving from training her body to look a certain way, to discovering what her...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the thing that gave you identity stops serving you? Former NPC & PCA bikini competitor Jenny Chisty gets raw about stepping away from the stage and navigating the identity crisis that followed.  Her life revolved around prep cycles, stage weight, and how her body looked under lights—until she realised it wasn't making her happy anymore. This conversation...

Send us Fan Mail Navigating Your Hormones: Perimenopause, Identity & Thriving in Your Mid-30s and Beyond Hosted by Scarlett | Guest: Adele Johnston MSc, The Menopause Coach In this deeply personal and empowering conversation, Scarlett sits down with her now mentor Adele Johnston — one of the UKs leading menopause experts to explore what really happens to women's bodies and minds from thei...

Send us Fan Mail If you've been busy for months but feel like you're going nowhere — this episode is for you. In this solo episode Im going deep on one of the most common patterns I see holding women back from their goals and it has nothing to do with strategy, consistency or not working hard enough. It's people pleasing. And chances are you're doing it without even realising....

Send us Fan Mail The voice in your head is lying to you. You know the one. The constant commentary telling you you're not good enough, you've let yourself go, everyone else has it together except you. The one that catastrophises a wrinkle into an existential crisis. The one that says "I ate one cookie so the day is ruined, might as well eat everything." That voice isn't tr...

Send us Fan Mail What if the missing piece in your training wasn't physical—it was mental? In this powerful episode, Scarlett sits down with World Champion Strongwoman Chloe Brennan, who's made the transition from elite competitor & coach to mindset specialist, using hypnosis and mental performance tools to help athletes unlock their full potential. But here's the thing: this co...

Send us Fan Mail Why does hitting 30 feel like your body sent you a breakup text? Welcome to The Uplift Podcast with Scarlett Portues a podcast for women 30+ who are tired of fighting their bodies and ready to build real confidence that lasts. In this premiere episode, Scarlett breaks down exactly why this decade feels like such a reckoning with your body and your sense of self. This isn't ab...