Live Healthy Now: Recent Episodes
Nicola Mercer
Live Healthy Now helps you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits to live the happy, strong life you are craving. Now is the time to stop waiting until you have reached the goals you think will make you feel fulfilled and happy. Each week we’ll share insights into the world of health and wellbeing so you know why taking care of yourself matters and which healthy habits are the right ones for you. It’s time to strip back and lay out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the life you’re striving so hard to create.
Are you waiting for a crisis before you take your health seriously?
You’ve been pushing through the brain fog, the weight gain, the pressure to hold it all together. But what if there’s a better way — one that doesn’t require hitting rock bottom?
In this powerful episode of Women’s Health Unwrapped, I’m celebrating three years and 155 episodes by pulling together the biggest insights, real-life stories, and transformational truths from my journey so far.
This episode isn’t just a look back — it’s a wake-up call to stop waiting and start becoming the CEO of your own life.
In this episode we’re unwrapping:
- The 3 biggest lessons learned from over 150 hours of women's health conversations.
- Why most women only make change after a crisis — and how to choose differently.
- Real-life guest stories that reveal the turning point before transformation.
- My personal story of navigating midlife after loss, grief, and reinvention.
- How midlife can be a powerful turning point if you choose to see it that way.
- That small, consistent shifts create life-changing ripples.
- A sneak peek into the next chapter of the podcast — and how you can be part of it.
About Life Now Coaching with Nicola:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
👉 Take the free Midlife Reset Quiz and find out what’s holding you back — and the first step to feeling like yourself again: https://nicola-w4qugfu9.scoreapp.com
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
What if the glass of wine you use to unwind is actually what’s holding you back?
In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by former BBC journalist and now alcohol-free coach Tracy Ollerenshaw, who shares how one courageous decision — to take a break from drinking — transformed her energy, purpose and sense of self.
Together, we explore what so many midlife women are quietly questioning: “I’m not out of control, but I don’t feel fully in control either.”
This is where grey area drinking lives — where habits are “normal,” but you don’t quite feel like yourself anymore. Through honest reflection and inspiring insights, Tracy opens up about how she broke free from autopilot living, and how the simple act of pausing helped her reconnect with joy, clarity and a whole new vision for her life.
In this episode we’re unwrapping:
- What grey area drinking really looks like for high-achieving women.
- How alcohol impacts mood, hormones and identity, especially in perimenopause.
- The hidden cost of “coping” and the power of choosing clarity instead.
- How Tracy built a new identity by changing her environment and habits.
- Why podcasts and social media can be lifelines when you feel alone in your decision.
- The unexpected joy of sober living — and how it helped Tracy reconnect with herself, her kids and her purpose.
- The importance of community, support and self-compassion on this journey.
- Three small steps to start redefining your relationship with alcohol, without pressure or shame.
About Tracy Ollerenshaw:
Tracy Ollerenshaw is the founder of Sober Glimmers and an accredited Alcohol-Free Coach who supports grey area drinkers ready to reclaim their energy, clarity and confidence. After two decades in broadcast news, including 15 years at BBC Radio 1, Tracy made the life-changing decision to go alcohol-free and is now passionate about helping other women break free from habits that no longer serve them.
Through her Go & Glow 30-day walking coaching programme and signature DRI Method (Disrupt – Reprogramme – Integrate), Tracy offers a powerful yet compassionate approach to change. She also leads the Sober Glimmers Community — a space for women navigating midlife, perimenopause, relationships and identity shifts who are ready to step into their 2.0 era with intention and joy.
Connect with Tracy:
Website
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About Life Now Coaching with Nicola:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
👉 Take the free Midlife Reset Quiz and find out what’s holding you back — and the first step to feeling like yourself again: https://nicola-w4qugfu9.scoreapp.com
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
In this deeply insightful episode I sit down with Cindy Dupuie, a functional health practitioner and midlife woman herself, to explore the real reason why your digestion might feel completely different in perimenopause and beyond.
We unpack the complex, but often ignored, connection between hormonal shifts and your gut health, explaining how changes in oestrogen, progesterone and cortisol can ripple through your body in unexpected ways.
This isn’t about symptoms in isolation. It’s about how they shape your identity, and how understanding your body gives you back your power. Whether you’re already navigating midlife changes or just starting to notice subtle shifts, this episode will help you connect the dots, understand what your body is asking for, and take steps to feel more like yourself again.
In this episode we’re unwrapping:
- Why digestive issues often start before menopause and ramp up as hormones shift.
- The critical role of stomach acid and bile (and why they matter more than you think).
- What your skin, mood, and bloating might be telling you about your gut.
- How cortisol and stress disrupt digestion — and what to do about it.
- The surprising link between your gut microbiome and hormonal balance.
- What Cindy wishes every woman knew about functional testing and symptom mapping.
- Daily practices to support digestion naturally — no supplements or lab work required.
About Cindy Dupuie:
Cindy is a Functional Medicine practitioner with over 17 years of experience helping people move from feeling “sick and tired” to thriving. In the past five years, she’s focused her work on perimenopause, menopause, and HRT, combining her clinical expertise with her own lived experience to guide women through this stage of life with clarity and confidence.
Her passion for supporting women in their Pause years comes from what she’s witnessed in her clients, her contemporaries, and her own journey — from early menopause at 43 to navigating different forms of HRT. This perspective allows her to meet women with both deep knowledge and genuine empathy.
Alongside her telehealth practice, Cindy offers courses, lab assessments, and still finds time to teach hot yoga. At the heart of her work is one clear mission: empowering women to become their own best healthcare advocates.
Connect with Cindy:
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About Life Now Coaching with Nicola:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
👉 Take the free Midlife Reset Quiz and find out what’s holding you back — and the first step to feeling like yourself again: https://nicola-w4qugfu9.scoreapp.com
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
In this honest and empowering episode, I sit down with Candice Mason, founder of Mother Cuppa, to explore how her early health struggles led to a deep connection with plant medicine, and how that journey now supports thousands of women navigating midlife and menopause.
From being diagnosed with endometriosis as a teenager to experiencing medically induced menopause at 20, Candice shares how she rebuilt her wellbeing and self-trust through herbal rituals, lifestyle shifts, and listening to her body in a way she never had before.
Whether you’re curious about adaptogens, herbal teas, or simply need permission to slow down and tune in, this episode offers wisdom, warmth and practical tools to help you feel more like yourself again.
In this episode we’re unwrapping:
- Navigating endometriosis and early menopause.
- The emotional and mental health aspects of dealing with chronic conditions.
- Taking control of your health and wellness through informed choices.
- Why hydration and fibre can make a bigger difference than you think.
- How adaptogens and nootropics support hormone and brain health.
- The challenges of navigating the supplement market and the importance of quality.
- The power of ritual and consistency in feeling well again.
- What inspired Candice to crowdfund her most popular tea blend.
About Candice Mason:
Candice Mason is the founder of Mother Cuppa and a trained tea sommelier. After years navigating endometriosis and early menopause, she turned to plant medicine and created caffeine-free blends that support women’s hormone health and wellbeing. Today she blends science with ritual—adaptogens, nootropics and quality botanicals—to help midlife women swap overwhelm for clarity, one cup at a time.
Connect with Candice:
Take up Candice’s special offer to save 25% off the wellness collection using code UNWRAPPED25. Buy here
About Life Now Coaching with Nicola:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
👉 Take the free Midlife Reset Quiz and find out what’s holding you back — and the first step to feeling like yourself again: https://nicola-w4qugfu9.scoreapp.com
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
Do you miss the woman you used to be and want a clear way back to her?
I sat down with Swiss sophrologist Dominique Antiglio to explore sophrology — a simple, guided mind and body practice that blends breathwork, body awareness, gentle movement and visualisation. We talk sleep, the phone and sleep loop, and how short daily practices rebuild calm, clarity and self-trust in perimenopause.
You will hear how to start light, stay consistent and make changes that last in real life. We also dig into identity — reconnecting with your values so the habits you choose actually stick. Dominique shares lots of practical tips for incorporating Sophrology into daily life, emphasising the significance of self-connection and compassion in the journey towards better health.
In this episode we unwrap:
- What sophrology is and why it works for busy minds.
- Why sleep sits at the foundation of your wellbeing.
- Kinder evening routines that beat the scroll and protect your sleep.
- A quick 3-step reset you can use anywhere.
- Small steps over all-or-nothing, every time.
- Compassion as a performance tool, not a nice-to-have.
- Reconnecting with values and self-worth in midlife.
- How sophrology supports the five pillars in my RESET plan: mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
About Dominique Antiglio:
Dominique Antiglio is the founder of BeSophro and the best-selling author of The Life-Changing Power of Sophrology. Trained in osteopathy and sophrology, she studied with Dr Alfonso Caycedo, the method’s founder. Her approach combines breathing, relaxation, gentle movement, meditation and visualisation to help busy minds build calm, clarity and better sleep.
Dominique works globally through keynotes, corporate programmes, digital courses and private sessions. She specialises in stress, anxiety and sleep, and has supported Olympic athletes, CEOs and teams at Amazon, the UK Government, Asics’ Movement for Mind, the World Economic Forum and The Guardian Masterclass. At BeSophro she leads a team focused on practical, scalable mental wellbeing.
Connect with Dominique:
Website
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About Life Now Coaching with Nicola:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
👉 Take the free Midlife Reset Quiz and find out what’s holding you back — and the first step to feeling like yourself again: https://nicola-w4qugfu9.scoreapp.com
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
Ever caught yourself saying, “It must be my hormones”?
You’re not alone — and you’re not wrong. But what if you could stop feeling at the mercy of your hormones and start working with them instead?
I’m joined by Ashley Rocha, trained herbalist, hormone educator, and founder of Ladywell, to talk about what your hormones are really doing, how they impact your identity, and what you can do (without overwhelm) to feel clear, calm and connected again.
Ashley breaks down the basics of hormone function and explains why perimenopause isn’t about chaos — it’s about learning to listen to your body and building small, sustainable habits to support it.
This is an empowering, myth-busting conversation that will help you feel more in control of your health — without needing to do all the things.
In our conversation we’re unwrapping:
- Why hormone imbalance can feel like an identity crisis.
- That lifestyle factors like diet and sleep significantly impact hormonal health.
- How balance is about working with your body, not striving for perfection.
- How magnesium, adaptogens and cycle tracking can help.
- The role of stress, sleep and food in creating balance.
- Why supplements aren’t a quick fix, but how they can be powerful tools in your toolkit.
- That quality and formulation of supplements matter for effectiveness.
- 3 simple strategies to create hormone-supportive habits at any life stage.
About Ashley Rocha:
Ashley Rocha is the CEO & Founder of Ladywell and a trained herbalist specialising in women's health. Ladywell gives women the tools to care for their hormones and wellbeing through targeted life-stage supplements. Ladywell has helped 1000’s of women regain hormone balance, fix PMS, improve fertility and gracefully navigate perimenopause to live pain-free, fulfilling lives.
Connect with Ashley:
Website
Ashley is kindly offering 20% off her Ladywell supplements for those of you based in the US. Just use code: UNWRAPPED20 when you shop here
About Life Now Coaching with Nicola:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
👉 Take the free Midlife Reset Quiz and find out what’s holding you back — and the first step to feeling like yourself again: https://nicola-w4qugfu9.scoreapp.com
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
What if the toughest mental health challenges you faced as a teenager could become the foundation for your greatest resilience in midlife?
In this honest and powerful conversation, I sit down with entrepreneur Helen Tudor to explore her journey from teenage anxiety and panic attacks — and a stay at The Priory — to becoming a business owner who prioritises self-care and advocates for mental health awareness.
If you’ve ever felt stuck, labelled, or like your mental health challenges define you, this episode will show you there’s another way forward — one built on self-awareness, radical responsibility, and permission to prioritise yourself.
In this episode we’re unwrapping:
- The importance of honouring your feelings and taking breaks.
- How essential it is to advocate for yourself in mental health matters.
- Why incremental changes in habits can lead to significant improvements over time.
- How early-life experiences can shape the way we navigate perimenopause and menopause.
- Why teenage and midlife anxiety share more similarities than we think.
- The three powerful steps Helen uses to stay grounded and well.
- How to build a personalised mental health toolkit — and why there’s no single “fix”.
About Helen Tudor:
Helen Tudor is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and a leading expert in ideal client attraction. She blends strategy with spirituality to help mission-driven entrepreneurs call in their perfect-fit clients with ease. With a no-nonsense approach, Helen teaches business owners how to magnetise clients without cold DMs, complicated funnels, or endless faffing around. Her proven methods have helped thousands of entrepreneurs build aligned, profitable businesses while staying true to their values.
Connect with Helen:
Website
Take Helen’s Free 3-minute ‘The Ideal Client Attraction Alignment Quiz’
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
✨ Take our FREE ‘Midlife Reset Quiz’: https://nicola-w4qugfu9.scoreapp.com
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
What if midlife wasn’t the start of the end — but the beginning of your real, full, vibrant life?
In this special episode of Women’s Health Unwrapped, we’re doing something a little different. I sit down as a guest on the Nutrition and Life Podcast with host Lisa Franz to share my own powerful backstory — one that many women will deeply relate to.
From decades of diet culture and self-doubt, to anxiety and career burnout, I opened up about what finally helped me feel strong, confident, and in control again. You’ll hear how a lifetime of “not feeling good enough” led me to create a health coaching practice that puts mindset, movement, and self-worth at the heart of midlife wellness.
This conversation is honest, empowering, and full of real-life insight to help you feel more like yourself again — especially if you’ve been feeling lost in the noise of midlife.
In my interview with Lisa I’m unwrapping:
- The truth about my mental health journey and the cost of high-functioning anxiety.
- Why dieting never worked—and what finally did.
- The five core pillars that transformed my health (and now transform my clients’ lives).
- How strength training shifted my confidence from the inside out.
- Simple, realistic habits to start feeling good again—no matter your age.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
✨ Download your FREE guide: 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
Have you ever felt your heart race for no reason, avoided a motorway drive, or lain awake at 3am convinced something bad is about to happen? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone — and you’re not broken.
In this solo episode I’m opening up about my own 26‑year journey with anxiety and panic attacks — and why menopause can trigger anxiety for the very first time in so many women. I share the science behind what’s happening in your brain and body, and the tools and habits that can help you calm the alarm, quiet the loop, and feel like yourself again.
If you’re ready to replace fear with understanding — and panic with practical steps — this is your starting point.
In this episode I’m unwrapping:
- Why menopause and perimenopause can trigger anxiety even if you’ve never experienced it before.
- How hormonal shifts affect your brain chemistry and emotional regulation.
- The “psychological loop of menopause” and why it’s so exhausting.
- The importance of self-compassion during the menopause transition.
- Quick, in‑the‑moment tools to ease anxiety when it strikes.
- The 5 health pillars to build long‑term resilience for your mind and body.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
✨ Download your FREE guide: 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
Midlife isn’t about fixing what’s on the surface — it’s about rebuilding from the foundations up.
In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by Courtney Townley to explore why boundaries, self-care, and authenticity are the cornerstones of health and happiness in midlife.
We talk about the renovation years — that stage where you start questioning what’s truly working for you, and what’s no longer aligned. We uncover why managing your stress, setting boundaries, and letting go of people-pleasing can completely transform how you feel, think, and show up in your life.
Courtney shares her simple, practical steps for creating and honouring boundaries — starting small so it feels doable — and we discuss why self-care isn’t about spa days, but about consistently honouring your energy, values, and priorities.
If you’ve been feeling drained, spread too thin, or ready to reclaim your energy and confidence, this episode will help you reconnect with who you are and what really matters.
In our conversation we’re unwrapping:
- Why taking time to know yourself is one of the most nutritious habits you can develop.
- The power of journaling to reveal patterns in your thoughts.
- What boundaries are — and why they’re essential for every aspect of your health.
- How people-pleasing leads to self-abandonment and integrity pain.
- Why health is a direction, not a destination.
- How self-care and boundary setting are inseparable.
- Why stress management is the ultimate midlife health skill.
- How authenticity deepens relationships.
- The value of starting small when practising boundaries.
About Courtney Townley:
Courtney Townley is a health and self-leadership coach, speaker, and host of the top-rated Grace & Grit podcast. She helps midlife women to cut through the noise of wellness culture and lead themselves with less overwhelm and more confidence.
With over three decades in the wellness industry, she’s discovered that deep health isn’t about following someone else’s manual—it’s about writing your own. A sought-after speaker and educator, she blends science with straight talk, helping women navigate behaviour change with grace, grit and self-trust.
When she’s not coaching, speaking, or podcasting, you’ll find her salsa dancing, traveling, or soaking up time with her family and her beloved Great Dane, Sully.
Connect with Courtney:
Website
Download your free Power Pak from Courtney and unlock the secrets to ditching the self-doubt and restoring your confidence
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
✨ Download your FREE guide: 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
You’re holding it all together - but inside, you’re fraying at the edges.
If you've ever told yourself to just keep pushing... this conversation is for you.
I’m joined by personal performance and wellbeing coach Gail Grace to talk about a topic that quietly affects so many women: chronic stress.
Gail shares her powerful story of reaching burnout in a high-pressure corporate career - before realising the real problem wasn’t just her workload. It was the internal pressure, the guilt, the belief that coping meant constantly doing more.
Together, we unpack why so many women in midlife are hitting a breaking point, how to recognise the subtle signs of stress before they become symptoms, and what to do when “pushing through” is no longer sustainable. This is an honest, insightful and practical episode that reminds us: You’re not weak. You’re just carrying too much—and there is another way.
In our conversation we’re unwrapping:
- How small pauses in your day can reduce overwhelm.
- Why it’s the little stressors—not the big events—that lead to burnout.
- How chronic stress symptoms show up in midlife.
- What it really means to live with intention (and how to start).
- The difference between external pressures and internal beliefs.
- How what you think and the language you use shapes your experience of stress.
- Why self-care doesn’t need to be big or fancy to make a difference; small habits matter most.
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The simple but powerful 90-second rule for managing stress in the moment.
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- Why self-awareness is the foundation for lasting change.About Gail:
Gail Grace is a certified Personal Performance and Well-Being Coach with over eight years of experience helping individuals build confidence, manage stress, and create lasting balance.
After over a decade in the male-dominated construction and rail industries, Gail left corporate life burned out and disconnected from herself. That lived experience now fuels her mission to support women in rewriting their internal narratives, preventing burnout, and building healthier ways to work and live.
She works with both individuals and organisations to challenge imposter syndrome, reshape unhelpful thought patterns, and embed wellbeing as the foundation for long-term success.
Connect with Gail:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
✨ Download your FREE guide: 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence
🌎 Visit ourwebsite
📸 Follow onInstagram
💼 Connect onLinkedIn
🎥 Watch podcast episodes onYouTube
📖 Full episode notes available on our website here
🎙 Love the podcast? Subscribe, rate, and review to help more women create their own healthy habits and thrive through every season of life - including menopause!
Have you found yourself thinking, “I’ve lost my confidence”?
In this powerful and grounded conversation, I’m joined by speaker coach and TEDx speaker Helen Packham to unravel what really happens to our confidence in midlife, and why the answer isn’t to fix yourself, but to reconnect with who you are now.
We explore the emotional terrain of perimenopause, identity shifts, and what it means to lose your sense of self, even when everything on the outside looks fine.
Whether you're navigating perimenopause, coming out of burnout, or simply feeling out of sync with yourself, this episode will meet you where you are, and gently guide you back.
You haven’t lost your confidence. It’s still there. Let’s find your way back to it.
In this episode, we unwrap:
- Why confidence dips during hormonal and life transitions.
- How anxiety masks as self-doubt (and what to do when it spirals).
- Personal development is a continuous journey, but one that becomes an integral part of who you are.
- The role of distraction—alcohol, sugar, scrolling—in numbing what we really need.
- How self-care is essential for mental wellbeing.
- The tools Helen uses to reconnect with herself and rebuild trust.
- Three powerful steps to help you feel like you again.
About Helen Packham:
Helen Packham is a speaker coach and verbal communications strategist helping leaders 10x the impact of their verbal communication to engage, retain and maximise the potential of their people. She has 15 years experience in leadership and executive development and 10 years in entrepreneurship. A TEDx curator and speaker, Helen passes on the powerful tool of storytelling to her clients so that they can confidently present and speak with impact.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Have you ever wondered why you’re doing everything “right” but still feel unwell?
I'm joined by Justin Janoska for a conversation that I know will expand how you think about your health. We explore the complexities of autoimmune conditions, particularly Hashimoto’s, and why these illnesses are increasingly impacting women in midlife. But more importantly, we unpack what’s often missed in conversations about health: how your emotional patterns, the stress you carry, and your lifelong habits of doing more can quietly shape your wellbeing.
Justin shares how chronic dieting can contribute to chronic stress and autoimmunity, and why it’s time to rethink the “fix it with food” mindset so many women feel stuck in. We talk about the importance of silence, solitude, and stillness- three things many of us resist, but that can change everything.
We’re unwrapping in our conversation:
- Why autoimmune conditions are on the rise, particularly for women in midlife.
- How chronic dieting and restriction can add to the stress driving illness.
- The role of hormonal changes in menopause and why they can be the “final straw”.
- Why your emotional patterns and history matter in your health journey.
- How perfectionism and people-pleasing drain your energy and affect your wellbeing.
- The importance of silence, solitude, and stillness for true healing.
- The mind-body connection and how it impacts your health more than you think.
- Why it’s not about doing more, but often about learning to do less.
About Justin Janoska:
Justin is on a mission to revolutionise the way we approach healing from autoimmune disease. After watching his mother live with Hashimoto’s for over two decades, he knew there had to be a better way.
He founded The Autoimmune Revolution, dedicated to helping women not only reduce symptoms but reconnect with their purpose, feel good in their bodies again, and step into the life they truly want to live.
Justin holds a Master’s in Human Nutrition, has studied mind-body medicine extensively, and is currently pursuing his doctorate in Health Sciences with a concentration in Trauma Counselling. He is the author of three books, including The Post-Dieting Comeback and The Autoimmune Breakthrough Journal, and hosts The Autoimmune Revolution Podcast.
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We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Have you ever felt like you’re running out of time — or behind where you should be?
In this solo episode I’m opening up about a pivotal moment that reshaped my midlife journey. Inspired by my recent trip to London to see Mel Robbins live, I’m sharing the powerful message that helped me rebuild my identity, reclaim my confidence, and make one life-changing decision after another.
From leaving a long-term corporate role to starting over in my mid-forties, I get raw and real about what it truly means to trust yourself — especially when everything feels uncertain.
If you’ve ever thought “this is just how life is now,” this episode is your permission slip to believe otherwise.
A few highlights from this episode:
- How Mel Robbins’ words sparked my transformation.
- The shift from anxiety and burnout to self-trust and clarity.
- What your inner voice is really telling your brain — and how to change it.
- Why self-worth isn't something you earn, it's something you remember.
- How to start making decisions from a place of belief, not fear.
- Motivation is not a prerequisite for action; action creates motivation.
- Your thoughts shape your reality; be mindful of your self-talk.
- Change requires discipline, not perfection.
- You are capable of making significant changes in your life.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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How well do you really sleep?
Maybe you're one of the many midlife women who’ve found yourself lying awake at 3 a.m., wide-eyed and wired—even though you’re exhausted.
If that sounds familiar, you're not alone. In fact, disrupted sleep is one of the most common (and frustrating) shifts many women experience as they move through perimenopause and menopause.
In this episode I’m joined by sleep expert Imogen Russell for a real and practical conversation about why your sleep has changed—and what you can do to feel more rested and in rhythm with your body again.
Here’s what we unwrap in this episode:
- Why midlife sleep disruption is so common—and what’s really going on behind it.
- The role of circadian rhythms and sleep pressure (and how to reset them).
- How a good night’s sleep starts in the morning—not just before bed.
- What “parenting yourself to sleep” actually looks like (and why it works).
- Simple switches you can make to build a wind-down routine that truly supports you.
- Why aiming for better—not perfect—sleep is the shift that matters most.
If you’ve been searching for a quick fix, this episode might challenge you. But if you’re ready for a supportive, doable approach that meets you where you are, this one’s for you.
About Imogen Russell:
Imogen is a paediatric sleep consultant and founder of The Little Sleep Company, known for her calm, attachment-focused approach to infant sleep. With a background in education and therapeutic parenting, she works at the intersection of sleep science, parental wellbeing, and responsive care, offering practical, evidence-informed support to families across the UK and beyond.
She has partnered with national retailers like Mamas & Papas as their Resident Sleep Expert, where her content reached almost a million views. Beyond the parenting world, Imogen is increasingly shaping how businesses support working parents, developing workplace wellbeing toolkits and speaking on the link between sleep, performance, and culture. Imogen helps people feel less alone, more empowered, and better rested.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Did you know that 1 in 2 women in the UK will be diagnosed with osteoporosis and that breaking a bone increases your risk of death from any cause?
Living long and strong is our focus today in this enlightening conversation with GP and menopause expert Dr. Nancy Allen to explore the often-hidden health risks that come with menopause and midlife, and how you can take control before it’s too late.
Nancy shares her personal experience of entering menopause early, being diagnosed with osteopenia, and the powerful lifestyle changes she made to turn things around. It’s a real, honest conversation about health, ageing, and the simple habits that can shape the rest of your life.
If you’ve never given your bone health a second (or even first) thought, or found yourself putting off looking after yourself until things feel urgent, this conversation is for you.
Here’s what we unwrap in this episode:
- Why osteoporosis is a major, often-overlooked risk for women post-menopause.
- How your family history may hold vital clues about your future health.
- The lifestyle changes Nancy made to reverse her osteopenia (and how you can too).
- The role of HRT in protecting your bones and your heart.
- Why improving your health span, not just your lifespan, matters more than ever.
- The truth about protein, strength training, and daily movement in midlife.
- The link between alcohol, nutrition and how we actually feel (and age).
About Dr Nancy Allen:
Dr. Nancy Allen is a GP and menopause specialist with a passion for empowering women through every stage of midlife and beyond. She is a respected member of the British Menopause Society, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the European Menopause and Andropause Society, and the International Society of Gynaecological Endocrinology.
Having experienced early menopause herself, Dr. Allen deeply understands the daily challenges women face during this transition. Her personal journey has shaped her compassionate, holistic approach to care. With a strong foundation in medical expertise and a commitment to treating the whole person, she is dedicated to helping women feel their best—physically, mentally, and emotionally—through the per menopause and menopause.
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We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our RESET plan focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Ever feel like your mind just won’t switch off?
You’re not imagining it. We have up to 60,000 thoughts a day, and most of them are the same ones we had yesterday.
In this honest and powerful conversation with business coach Libby Langley, we’re unwrapping how your thoughts shape your reality, and how to take back control before burnout takes over.
We talk about the pressure to keep doing, the silent stress of overthinking, and the deep discomfort that so many high-achieving women feel in midlife when their lives no longer feel like a fit. Libby shares her personal story of climbing the ladder, hitting breaking point, and finally choosing a different path — one built on happiness, intentionality and self-worth.
Whether you're in a career that no longer feels right, or just tired of feeling like you're not quite yourself anymore, this episode is for you.
Together we explore:
- Why prioritising happiness isn’t selfish and why doing more won’t bring the happiness you're chasing.
- The silent toll of overthinking and how it impacts health and identity.
- The quiet crisis of authenticity in women’s careers.
- Why midlife can feel like everything is shifting, and how that’s not always a bad thing.
- How to use intentional pauses to rethink what really matters.
- The link between self-worth, burnout and bravery.
- How burnout can be a catalyst for change and self-discovery, but why you shouldn’t wait to burnout before making changes.
- Practical, empowering steps to shift your life gently but powerfully.
About Libby Langley:
Libby Langley is a business coach, bestselling author, and host of the Unstuck podcast.
She helps women who are overthinking everything in their business to untangle their thoughts, simplify what’s working, and build a business that actually feels good to run.
With over a decade of experience and a refreshingly honest approach, Libby combines practical strategies with gentle mindset support - helping solo business owners find clarity, confidence, and momentum (without burning out or starting from scratch).
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We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Hearing lots about changing hormones in midlife and menopause but feeling a little lost with what it all means? If you want real insights you can act on, this episode is a must-listen.
This week I’m joined by Functional Medicine Practitioner Victoria Wright for an enlightening chat about hormonal health, especially the roles of oestrogen, cortisol, and even cholesterol (yes, really). We break down what’s actually going on in your body during perimenopause and menopause, and why the symptoms you’re experiencing might not just be about “low oestrogen.”
We talk about how these hormones interact, how chronic stress can throw everything off balance, and why taking a step back to look at the whole picture is so important. Victoria also shares why a functional medicine perspective—one that treats the whole person, not just the symptoms—is the missing link for many women in midlife. We both agree: education, empowerment and prevention should be at the heart of women’s healthcare.
You’ll also hear us dive into:
- The hormone hierarchy and why cortisol might be stealing the spotlight from oestrogen.
- What cholesterol really does in your body (hint: it’s not the enemy).
- Why sleep, food, and managing stress matter more than ever in midlife.
- The difference between conventional healthcare and a functional approach.
- How to advocate for yourself when you feel dismissed or overwhelmed.
- Understanding hormonal health is crucial for women for informed health choices.
- Women often approach menopause with a prescription mindset.
- Taking responsibility for health leads to empowerment.
About Victoria Wright:
Victoria offers evidenced-based, natural health care for all stages of women’s hormone health. This covers everything from stress management, period and fertility issues to menopause and post-cancer care.
Her mission is to redefine women’s healthcare. Functional and herbal medicine allow individualised, patient-centred care. Instead of focusing on the traditional disease-centred approach, using her 15 years’ experience she helps to identify and treat the root causes.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Are you waking up excited and energised to see how the day unfolds? Or does your day start with a sigh and a sense of ‘here we go again’?
If it’s the latter, this episode is definitely one for you.
I’m joined by Charlotte Carter, high performance coach and energy mentor, for a rich and inspiring conversation about what it really means to feel energised—and how to start building that from the inside out. Charlotte’s approach is grounded in the idea that energy is more than just how awake or tired you feel. It’s physical, yes, but it’s also mental, emotional and spiritual. And when you understand all four, that’s when everything starts to shift.
We dive into her personal journey from a career in mental health to helping women live with intention, presence and purpose. We chat about how to navigate the busy trap so many high achievers fall into, why creating space is essential for health and happiness, and how your daily habits can either drain you, or completely light you up.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- Why creating space is essential to help you feel more present and clear.
- How your energy is a reflection of what you value (and how you’re living).
- That energy encompasses physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects.
- How high achievers often fall into the busy being busy trap.
- The link between burnout, identity and the pressure to always be ‘on’.
- What success really looks like in midlife (hint: it starts with inner peace).
- Why movement should feel like a celebration, not a punishment.
- How building new healthy habits starts with valuing yourself.
About Charlotte Carter:
Charlotte Carter is the Founder and CEO of I Dare To Leap Ltd, where she mentors high performers to transform their lives through targeted coaching and energy work.
As a clinical hypnotherapist, transformational coach, positive psychology practitioner, energy healer, breathwork facilitator, and personal trainer, Charlotte brings a holistic approach to personal development.
Her work with high achievers all over the world focuses on removing barriers to living a truly fulfilling life. An Amazon bestselling author and international podcast host with Align with Abraham, Charlotte's expertise has been featured in prominent publications including Hello Online, Grazia, Daily Telegraph, Marie Claire, and Metro.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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You know that feeling when you really want to make a change, but no matter how much you want it, you just don’t seem to follow through?
Maybe it’s a health goal you’ve been thinking about for months, or a shift you want to make in how you show up in life or work. You start with good intentions, but then life gets in the way… or maybe your own mind does. I’ve been there too.
That’s why in this episode, I want to share one simple—but powerful—mindset reframe that’s helped me, and so many of my clients, finally move through the resistance and actually implement the changes we want for ourselves. Join me as I unwrap the importance of mindset in building sustainable healthy habits, especially for women navigating midlife and menopause. I’m giving you lots of actionable, practical tips to help you implement difficult changes so you can better navigate menopause, midlife to feel more energised and worth living that amazing life you desire.
Some of the highlights from this episode are:
- The crucial role of mindset for building sustainable healthy habits.
- Why overcoming resistance to change requires self-trust.
- Knowing that procrastination is often a form of self-protection.
- The ways that perfectionism can hinder personal growth and making changes that last.
- The key to taking small, consistent steps for lasting change.
- Why it is so important to celebrate small wins along the way.
- Identifying and overcoming mindset blocks.
- Recognising and being okay with change being a gradual process, not an overnight transformation.
- 6 practical actions you can take to start supporting your change journey today.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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If you’re stuck in a cycle of dieting and know it’s time to release yourself from these chains, then take a listen as I chat with Nikki Clarke, a personal trainer and advocate for women to stop dieting.
We discuss the importance of building a healthy relationship with food and self-worth, emphasising realistic habits over restrictive diets, digging into what’s holding so many women back from this. Nikki shares his experience of working with midlife women and highlights the need to shift focus from weight loss to overall wellbeing and protecting your future health - something we chat about the difficulty of doing.
We unwrap the critical role of nutrition and exercise in women's health, particularly during midlife and menopause and challenge the notion that women must accept menopausal symptoms and linking this to the importance of a proactive approach to health. This one is especially for you if you’re in your 40s or 50s, navigating perimenopause, feeling overwhelmed, and wondering why your usual methods just aren’t working anymore.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- Why quick-fix diets don’t work in real life – especially in midlife.
- How to shift your focus from weight loss to how you want to feel.
- What changes most in your body during menopause and how to support it.
- How strength training supports longevity and confidence.
- The power of realistic goals and simple habits that actually fit your life.
- Why self-worth is the foundation of sustainable health.
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What to focus on instead of calories and scales.
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- Why long-term habits are more sustainable than quick fixes.About Nikki Clarke:
Nikki Clarke has coached 1000s of women over the last 23 years to not only lose weight but get out of the dieting cycle once and for all. His team approach is centred around making you feel your very best - to feel fit, strong and healthy so you can live your life as the best version of yourself.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Today we’re diving into something that so many women struggle with but rarely talk about properly—staying consistent with health habits.
I'm joined by Lisa Franz, head coach at Nutrition Coaching and Life, and together we’re unpacking why consistency feels so hard, and how to actually make it work for you without the guilt, the burnout, or the need to be perfect.
We’re getting real about the all-or-nothing mindset that holds so many women back. If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing really well during the week but everything unravels at the weekend, this conversation is going to feel like a breath of fresh air.
Lisa and I share why aggressive, restrictive approaches almost always lead to failure (and frustration), and how a gentler, more mindful way of living can help you stick with the habits that support you—not exhaust you.
If you’ve been stuck in the cycle of starting over every Monday or feeling like you’re failing because you can’t be "perfect"—this episode is absolutely for you.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- Why consistency is the real key to sustainable health—not perfection.
- How setting realistic goals keeps motivation alive (and helps you avoid burnout).
- Why aggressive approaches to diet and fitness almost always lead to failure.
- How environment and community massively impact your ability to stay consistent.
- The role your mindset plays in building habits you actually want to keep.
- Why moderation beats restriction every time when it comes to nutrition.
- How focusing on long-term goals creates lasting change (and more joy!).
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How being intentional with your choices helps eliminate feelings of guilt.
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- The truth: It’s never too late to start making positive changes for your health.About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
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What expectations do you place upon yourself – and what’s the cost of pursuing them?
In this episode of Women’s Health Unwrapped, I’m joined by Kat Moody – a solicitor, speaker and passionate advocate for women’s mental health. Together, we explore Kat’s deeply personal story of empowerment, growth and self-discovery, and the impact of chasing success without stopping to reflect on what it’s costing you.
Kat opens up about growing up in poverty, entering foster care, and the relentless determination that fuelled her 14-year journey to qualify as a solicitor. But behind the drive to succeed was an overwhelming pressure to prove herself – leading to anxiety, disordered eating and burnout.
This is a conversation about what happens when we pause, reflect, and finally allow ourselves to ask for help. It’s about letting go of perfection, embracing vulnerability, and learning to value yourself as a work in progress.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- How Kat’s three daily practices are helping her live with more balance and authenticity.
- Why self-reflection is essential for true personal growth.
- How childhood experiences shape self-perception and drive.
- The mental health cost of people-pleasing and perfectionism.
- What happens when we stop numbing and start breathing.
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The power of therapy and supportive relationships.
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- Why health is not a finish line – but a lifelong journey of connection with yourself.About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
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Do you experience energy crashes, cravings or that familiar mid-afternoon slump that leaves you reaching for something sweet? You’re not alone — and your blood sugar might have more to do with it than you realise.
In this episode, I’m joined by Beverly Mazza, a Registered Nurse and Integrative Health Consultant, to explore the powerful connection between blood sugar regulation, metabolic health, and hormonal changes in midlife. Bev shares her own health journey and explains why so many women in perimenopause and menopause are struggling with fatigue, brain fog, weight changes, and poor sleep — even when they’re trying to do “all the right things”.
We go far beyond food in this conversation. Bev unpacks how stress, sleep, and movement impact your blood sugar just as much as your meals — and why it's time to stop chasing diets and start building sustainable habits that support your whole health.
If you’re feeling frustrated with your energy, mood or weight, this episode will help you understand why, and what you can do about it.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- Why blood sugar regulation is crucial for women’s health, especially during menopause.
- How insulin works and what happens when your body becomes more resistant to it.
- The hidden impact of hormone shifts on energy, cravings and metabolism.
- Why stress and poor sleep can spike your blood sugar (even if you’re eating well).
- The power of a holistic approach to managing blood sugar — not just focusing on food.
- What Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) can reveal — and how to use the data wisely.
- How to build more nutrient-dense meals without obsessing over calories.
- The truth about midlife weight gain and why it’s not your fault.
- Why women often experience different glucose responses as they age.
About Beverley Mazza:
Beverly Mazza, BSN, RN, NC-BC, is a Registered Nurse, Board-Certified Nurse Coach, and Integrative Health Consultant, specialising in helping perimenopausal and menopausal women with prediabetes achieve better blood sugar control and sustainable weight loss. Bev combines nursing expertise, functional medicine principles, nutrition, and mindfulness with her advanced knowledge of continuous glucose monitor (CGM) data interpretation to provide personalized strategies to address the unique metabolic challenges of midlife women.
As the founder of Purely Present Health, Bev leverages her nursing background, functional medicine training, and holistic coaching techniques to deliver customised programmes that empower clients to lower blood sugar, manage stress, and improve overall health for lasting change.
Connect with Bev:
Website
Get Bev’s FREE ‘The Complete Prediabetes Checklist: 10 Steps to Lower Blood Sugar for Women in Perimenopause’
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Today we’re diving into something that’s very topical right now, and a subject I think it’s critical to share on my platform.
I’m joined by Helen Perks, registered nutritional therapist and nutrition and lifestyle medicine practitioner, to delve into the controversial topic of weight loss drugs, particularly GLP-1 injectables like Ozempic and Mounjaro. We discuss the origins of these medications, and unpack the risks, side effects, and long-term impact these drugs can have—especially for midlife women navigating perimenopause and hormonal change.
Our conversation emphasises the importance of a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, advocating for education and addressing root causes of unhealthy habits, and the importance of a personalised approach to wellness. We explore the impact of movement, environment, and community on health, the dangers of easy access to weight loss drugs, and the need for education and support, especially during midlife changes such as menopause.
If you’ve ever felt tempted by quick fixes or wondered if these injections are worth the risk, this episode is a must-listen. Let Helen and Nicola help you shift focus from aesthetics to longevity, from dieting to nourishing, and from shame to empowerment.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- What GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro actually do in the body.
- The alarming ease with which women are accessing them.
- The risks taking these drugs pose to overall and long-term health and wellbeing.
- Why weight loss should be managed under strict medical supervision, especially in relation to the prescribing of these weight loss injectables.
- The societal pressures that influence women's obsession with weight loss.
- Rapid weight loss is not a healthy goal.
- How optimising health involves more than just weight management and your size.
- Addressing root causes of eating habits is essential.
- Education about health and nutrition is crucial for long-term wellness.
- Acceptance of body changes during menopause is important.
- Stress management is key to maintaining a healthy weight.
About Helen Perks:
Helen Perks is a health and wellness strategist, registered nutritional therapist, and nutrition and lifestyle medicine practitioner with 12 years of clinical experience. She specialises in uncovering and addressing the root causes of health issues for lasting results.
Helen is passionate about empowering women to take back control of their hormones. With a 100% success rate in securing critical tests and referrals for clients, Helen’s work saves time, reduces costs, and quickly pinpoints underlying health concerns. Her registered trademark RESPECT® model of health and wellbeing delivers rapid and sustainable results, helping clients reclaim their health with minimal disruption to their lives.
Connect with Helen:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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Are you moving your body in a way that supports you or punishes you?
If you’ve ever felt like exercise is something you should do, but never really enjoy, this episode will change the way you think about movement forever.
In this solo episode I’m sharing my personal journey from hating PE to becoming a passionate advocate for strength and movement in midlife. As we pass the first quarter of 2025, it’s the perfect time to pause and ask: How strong do I feel — physically, mentally, emotionally?
This episode will help you rethink your relationship with movement, and choose strength, vitality and joy for your second half of life so you can navigate menopause with strength, ease and confidence. Listen now and take one small step towards feeling your strongest yet.
In this powerful, inspiring solo episode, I share:
- Why movement is my cornerstone habit for health and identity.
- How my mindset shifted from “exercise to lose weight” to “movement to feel strong.”
- The importance of movement for women's health, particularly during midlife and menopause.
- What women in midlife really need when it comes to fitness.
- The link between strength training and reduced menopause symptoms.
- How movement can significantly improve mental health.
- Building muscle is key to longevity and vitality.
- My favourite expert-backed advice for building a long, strong life.
- The benefits of moving your body whether you're already active or starting from scratch.
- The scientific evidence that you can start exercising at any age and reap the benefits!
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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✨ Download your FREE guide: 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence
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Are irregular work hours affecting your health and energy levels? Maybe you’re one of the 4 million people in the UK who work shifts and struggle with the disruption this causes? If you're a shift worker or simply navigating an unpredictable schedule, this episode is a must-listen.
I’m joined by nutritionist and lifestyle medicine expert Anna Earl to discuss the impact of shift work on metabolism, digestion, and long-term health. We explore the concept of chrono-nutrition, which emphasises the importance of aligning eating patterns with the body's natural rhythms.
Our conversation also delves into workplace culture, the science behind nutrition and body clocks, and practical tips for making healthier choices while working irregular hours. Anna shares the importance of viewing nutrition as a lifestyle change rather than a short-term diet and we chat about the challenges faced by midlife women, particularly during hormonal changes like perimenopause and menopause, and how nutrition plays a crucial role in managing symptoms.
Anna shares practical, easy-to-implement tips to help you maintain energy, regulate your body clock, and feel your best, even when your schedule is all over the place.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- How shift work disrupts digestion and increases chronic disease risk.
- The science behind chrono-nutrition and why timing your meals matters.
- Why workplace culture can make or break healthy eating habits.
- Simple food swaps and meal prep strategies to fuel your body effectively.
- The importance of community support in building healthier habits and enhancing motivation for healthy eating.
- Why nutrition should be viewed as a lifestyle change, not a diet.
- How hormonal changes affect metabolism and insulin production.
- How midlife women can adjust their diet to support hormonal balance.
- That stress management is crucial for effective weight management.
- The ripple effect of making positive changes to your diet in your wider wellbeing.
About Anna Earl:
I’m Anna Earl, a former police officer, now a nutritional therapist specialising in nutrition and lifestyle medicine to support shift workers. Shift work puts you at an increased risk of a range of chronic health conditions. But there are ways to mitigate this. My area of expertise is Chrono-nutrition; the relationship between our 24-hour body clocks, food intake and timing, digestion and health. I deliver solution-based programmes to promote health and energy whilst navigating shift work.
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Book a free consultation call with Anna
About Life Now Coaching:
At Life Now Coaching, we unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
✨ Download your FREE guide: 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence
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Is menopause throwing you into an emotional spin? Do you feel like you’re pushing down your emotions because if they come to the surface it may lead to you hitting breaking point?
Recognising your emotions and learning to manage them is one of the most important skills you can have, yet it’s something we’re not taught about as kids or even as adults! I’m joined today by guest Hayley T. Wheeler, an emotions expert who specialises in harnessing the connection between emotion and mind to achieve peak performance in life, sports, and work.
As you navigate menopause and midlife changes, emotions are often something that is more prominent and impactful, meaning it’s more important than ever for you to understand the significance of emotional health. We discuss the importance of proactive habits for mental wellbeing, Hayley's personal journey through depression, and the role of emotions in overall health.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- The need for emotional expression and the consequences of suppressing emotions.
- The process of releasing emotions as a powerful tool to achieve better mental health.
- How emotional health is crucial for overall wellness.
- Midlife and menopause amplify emotional responses, making it more important than ever to process them effectively.
- The need for societal shifts in how we view and handle emotions, particularly in the context of raising the next generation.
- Why proactive habits can prevent emotional crises.
- Understanding and prioritising yourself is essential for mental health, but something many women struggle to do.
- Self-awareness is the foundation for emotional health.
- Hayley’s emotional step back technique to help you regain control in challenging situations and support your emotional wellbeing.
About Hayley T. Wheeler:
Hayley T. Wheeler is a pioneering innovator in the field of emotional and mental health, dedicated to transforming lives through her unique EmotionMind Dynamic six-step process. With a mission to empower individuals and businesses, she helps clients harness the connection between emotion and mind to achieve peak performance in life, sports, and work.
Having personally battled and overcome depression, Hayley brings a deeply personal and inspiring perspective to her work. She believes in self-development over medication, advocating that self-knowledge is a superpower®. Through her keynote speeches, workshops, and coaching, Hayley challenges audiences to take control of their emotions, break free from limiting beliefs, and maximise their potential.
Connect with Hayley:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
At Life Now Coaching, we unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
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Have you ever felt like you lost a part of yourself when you became a mother? You're not alone. A staggering 62% of women in the UK say they’ve felt this way, and yet, we rarely talk about it.
In this episode I’m joined by Lucy Wylde, a coach and expert in matrescence—the transition into motherhood—to explore the profound identity shifts that happen when we become mothers. We discuss the emotional, physical, and societal expectations placed on women, why so many of us feel unseen, and how to start reclaiming our sense of self.
We also go deep into the empowerment that comes with both motherhood and midlife and the impact of hormonal changes happening in both of these life seasons.
Whether you’re a new mum, experienced parent, or navigating midlife, this episode will inspire you to take up space, own your worth, and build a life that feels aligned with who you truly are.
Note that there are some expletives used during our conversation today, so please skip if you may be offended
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- How becoming a mother can impact your identity, body image, and mental wellbeing.
- The necessity of acknowledging and sharing experiences for personal growth and healing.
- Why societal expectations make it harder for women to feel seen and valued.
- What matrescence is and realising that it’s a continuous journey, not just a phase.
- Why it's important to give ourselves permission to rest and the value of sleep as a mother.
- How motherhood can evoke a range of emotions, including guilt and shame -and why we need to normalise this.
- The hormonal changes that significantly impact mental health during motherhood.
- The parallels between matrescence and perimenopause, and how both transitions impact self-worth.
- Why all women should feel empowered and step into their value.
About Lucy Wylde:
Lucy Wylde is a coach for women and mothers. Her work and passion lies in helping women to thrive in body and mind, not just survive. Lucy is a matrescence coach as well as a highly experienced perinatal exercise specialist, yoga teacher and Mum, to Matilda, born in 2014.
Connect with Lucy:
Website
Lucy's My podcast: Mums F**king Matter
About Life Now Coaching:
At Life Now Coaching, we unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
Explore Our Free Resources & Support:
✨ Download your FREE guide: 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence
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This special bonus episode for International Women’s Day 2025 is all about why women’s health is the foundation of empowerment, and why prioritising yourself isn’t just about feeling good, but about creating real change.
This year’s IWD theme, #AccelerateAction, is a powerful call to push forward progress for gender equality. Because at the current rate, it will take until 2158 - five generations from now - to reach full gender parity. But together, we can change that timeline.
In this episode, I revisit one of my most-loved IWD conversations from 2023, a discussion that’s just as relevant today and that I believe holds so much to consider and be inspired by as a woman in 2025.
In this special episode I explore:
- Why you are worthy and how building self-belief and confidence starts with looking after yourself.
- Why you have a responsibility to lead by example, especially for the next generation.
- Why happiness is directly linked to your health, and why waiting for the ‘right time’ to prioritise yourself is holding you back.
If this episode resonates with you, share it with another woman in your life who needs to hear this message today.
Listen now and let’s #AccelerateAction together.
About Life Now Coaching:
At Life Now Coaching, we unwrap what healthy living really means, helping you cut through the confusion and overwhelm to build sustainable, healthy habits that actually fit your life. We’re here to strip back the noise and show you why prioritising your health is the key to the happy, vibrant life you’re striving for.
We specialise in supporting women in midlife to take control of their wellbeing and menopause journey using our proven success framework focused on: Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Sleep, and Stress. Because when you feel strong, capable, and in control, everything changes.
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How can workplaces move beyond awareness and take real action to support menopausal women?
In this enlightening conversation I’m joined by Swim England’s Head of People, Tracy Lowe Sheppard, to unpack the real challenges menopausal women face at work and the steps organisations can take to create meaningful change. Tracy shares her journey of raising awareness about menopause at Swim England, and why it is such an important topic and area of wellbeing for the organisation to invest in.
The work Tracy is doing at Swim England is a fantastic example of how a workplace can create a supportive environment that recognises the value of women in the workforce and the impact of hormonal changes on their professional lives. And as we discuss, the world very much needs women to be able to contribute and know their value beyond midlife and menopause.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- Menopause is often a taboo subject that needs to be normalised.
- How organisations can go beyond policies and take action that truly supports employees.
- The hidden psychological and physical symptoms affecting confidence and career progression.
- How awareness and education about menopause can significantly impact women's health.
- Practical, budget-friendly initiatives companies can implement right now.
- Why men play a crucial role in understanding and supporting women during menopause.
- Helping women to feel empowered to seek help and support during menopause.
- The conversation around menopause needs to include younger generations for better understanding.
- Awareness and support in the workplace can create a ripple effect beyond the workplace.
- Creating supportive environments can improve employee retention and productivity.
About Tracy Lowe Sheppard:
With over 20 years of experience in Personnel, HR, and Payroll, Tracy has navigated a diverse landscape across private, public, and charitable organisations, including Boots Contract Manufacturing, Loomis, Vision Express, and Nottingham City Council. Currently Tracy is the Head of People at Swim England, overseeing the entire employee lifecycle—from recruitment to wellbeing, reward, and compliance.
Tracy's career has taken her from starting out in clerking in a small office, transitioning to the education sector as the Deputy Head of Student Support in a secondary school, winning a national award during National Learning Week and leaping back into HR. Throughout her career Tracy has witnessed HR evolve from a purely administrative role to a strategic powerhouse that prioritises wellbeing and reward.
Outside of her professional life, Tracy is a proud parent to two amazing children, aged 17 and 23, who are carving their own paths in music and design. When not immersed in the world of HR, Tracy enjoys rejuvenating in the great outdoors, savouring the tranquillity of nature, away from screens and bustling crowds.
Connect with Tracy:
Download my whitepaper:
Menopause At Work: The Untold Impact
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
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- Full episode notes available on our website
Please take a moment to subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause.
What if losing your hair meant losing a part of your identity?
I’m joined in this episode by Nicola Wood, founder of The Wonderful Wig Company, TEDx speaker, and author, to explore the profound psychological and emotional connection between hair and self-worth—especially for women facing hair loss due to cancer, alopecia, or other health conditions.
Nicola shares her personal journey of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 36, the struggles she faced, and how a transformative moment during her treatment led her to create a life-changing service for women experiencing hair loss. From working with the NHS to providing holistic support, Nicola discusses why hair is more than just appearance—it’s a fundamental part of confidence, identity, and emotional wellbeing.
We delve into the importance of valuing your health, prioritising yourself, and the journey Nicola went on from her cancer diagnosis to writing a book to support others, who as she describes - are forced to join the club that nobody wants to join: The Cancer Club.
This is such a thought provoking conversation that emphasises why women must value themselves and their health.
The key highlights from our conversation are:
- Why Nicola dedicates the first two hours of every day to self-care.
- How important morning movement is vital for overall energy and wellbeing.
- The significant role that hair plays in women's identity and confidence.
- How a cancer diagnosis can shift your perspective on life and health.
- The emotional support that is crucial for women experiencing hair loss.
- How building a community can help women feel less alone in their struggles.
- Writing can be a therapeutic process for sharing personal stories.
- How self-worth is essential for overall health and happiness.
- Tracking habits can help maintain balance in life and support you in feeling healthy and well.
About Nicola Wood:
My journey began starting with my first salon, Kitui Hair Design, which I opened at just 21 years old. I was a committed and passionate hairdresser, enjoying the impact I had on my clients and building a small, local business.
At 36, a diagnosis of Invasive Breast Cancer became a pivotal moment in my life. Having already navigated the challenges of Rheumatoid Arthritis since my early twenties, the cancer diagnosis led me to realise during my treatment the inadequate hair loss solutions available to women. Existing services left people feeling defeated, with wigs that were unnatural and failed to restore their sense of self.
This experience became the catalyst for The Wonderful Wig Company. Nicola is the author of ‘The Cancer Club’, TEDx Speaker - “How to stop minimising the impact of hair loss”, Winner of the Entrepreneur for Good Award 2023 and the Northern Power Women Disruptor for Good Award 2024.
Watch Nicola's TEDx Talk: Why it's not 'just hair'
Connect with Nicola:
Nicola's website
The Wonderful Wig Company
Free Hair-Loss Guide
Get a copy of Nicola's book The Cancer Club
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please take a moment to subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
If you’ve ever felt trapped in the endless cycle of dieting—starting every Monday, feeling like you’ve failed by Friday, and promising yourself you’ll "do better" next week—you’re not alone. I spent years in this cycle, believing that once I hit a certain weight, I’d finally feel confident, happy, and worthy. But that moment never came.
In this episode, I’m sharing how I finally stopped dieting for good and built a way of eating that supports my long-term health and happiness. This is not about why diets don’t work (we’ve covered that before!)—it’s about what actually helped me break free, shift my mindset, and embrace food in a way that fuels both my body and my life.
If you’re ready to stop the dieting cycle and find a more sustainable, empowering way to approach food, this episode is for you!
The key talking points in this episode are:
- The endless dieting cycle – how I spent years stuck in a loop of restriction, guilt, and frustration.
- Why my self-worth is no longer tied to my weight.
- The role of food beyond weight loss.
- Breaking the emotional connection to food to shift away from how I used food for comfort, stress relief, and reward.
- The truth about weight and health.
- What I do now instead of dieting – how I nourish my body in a way that feels good and supports my future self.
- How you can start breaking free from dieting today.
Supporting podcast on dieting mentioned in the episode:
Podcast episode #46 - Why you should never go on a diet again
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
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Have you ever felt like midlife is a time for slowing down or fading into the background? What if, instead, it was your chance to redefine fun, confidence, and self-expression?
Join me as I chat with Staci Berkovitz, author ofNaked at 50, to challenge outdated ideas of ageing and inspire you to fully embrace this powerful phase of life. We dig into the transformative journey of midlife, and why it certainly does not mean you are past it or on the slippery slope to old age!
Staci emphasises the importance of self-awareness, mindset shifts, and embracing the messiness of life in all your nakedness - yes you read that right! We talk about the significance of prioritising sleep, the privilege of ageing, and the holistic approach to health that goes beyond diet culture. We’re encouraging every woman to take charge of your health and wellbeing as you navigate the complexities of midlife and menopause by empowering you to know where to start to shift your mindset and your habits.
Join us to find out what it means to live freely, how to shake off societal expectations, and why joy and playfulness are essential to feeling vibrant and alive at any age.
In our conversation today we explore:
- How midlife can be a time of growth, exploration, and breaking free from limits.
- Building a mindset that supports you in menopause and midlife.
- How menopause can bring unexpected gifts of wisdom.
- Why awareness is the first step to any change.
- That embracing vulnerability can lead to personal growth.
- Creating a toolkit of habits can help manage stress.
- Why your internal wellbeing and self-acceptance are more significant than societal standards of beauty.
- The key to focusing on what you want to attract into your life.
- How finding your 'why' can motivate change.
- The importance of being open to new experiences and bringing more fun into your life.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get yourFREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit ourwebsite
- Follow onInstagram
- Follow onLinkedIn
- Watch the episodes onYouTube
- Full episode notes available on ourwebsite
Please take a moment to subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Do you believe that you are valuable? It’s a question not many of us ever ask ourselves, but one we absolutely should be, and one we should always be able to answer with: “Absolutely”
I’m going deep today with guest DeDee Cai about the critical importance of self-worth and its impact on women's lives. DeDee shares her personal journey of discovering her self-worth, the challenges she faced, and the transformative power of self-care.
We discuss the cultural influences on self-worth, the definition of success, and the connection between wealth and self-worth, and what true net-worth really means.
As always, our episodes are created to help you build strong health so that you can live a full, vibrant and long life. This episode brings you a topic that I believe is fundamental in achieving this because if we don’t value ourselves, whatever it is we’re trying to change to live this full and joyful life, we’re never going to achieve the happiness we desire.
In our conversation we share:
- What self-worth is and why it is fundamental to building a life you deem successful and happy.
- The impact that self-worth has on all areas of life, including your relationships.
- How to reflect on your own self-worth and take proactive steps towards personal empowerment and fulfilment.
- The intricate relationship between self-worth, personal growth, and financial mindset.
- Why wealth should be viewed as an internal state rather than external possessions.
- Why so many women often live apologetically, undermining their self-worth.
- The role of self-care routines in enhancing your self-worth.
- Understanding that growth is a continuous journey, not an overnight change.
- The importance of embracing emotions, recognising self-sabotage, and taking actionable steps towards self-improvement.
- Practical advice on how to enhance self-worth through physical movement, emotional engagement, and self-care practices.
About DeDee:
Dedee Cai is founder and a performance coach of FIT TO PROFIT, a company that utilises psychology, cognitive science, holistic wellness to help entrepreneurs get holistically fit to attain peak level of performance in their life and businesses. With over 15 years of experience in running her own businesses in the brick/mortar, health/ wellness industry, DeDee married her love for living an optimal lifestyle, and business to create FTP. She believes that your self-worth is your net worth, and she’s on a mission to empower women to live up to their own potential unapologetically while changing the world.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
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- Full episode notes available on our website
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Did you know that there are almost 10 million women in the UK with some form of bladder problem and that an estimated 1in 4 women in the UK are regularly incontinent?
I’m joined by guest expert Nikki Scott to delve into the critical topic of pelvic floor health, discussing its importance for women of all ages. We discuss how the healthcare system often addresses symptoms rather than root causes, particularly in women's health issues like incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction.
This is an area of women’s health that is so important to be better educated about so that we can all build strong pelvic floor health to ensure we can live the full, healthy life we want for ourselves. To get your started, we’re exploring daily habits that can support pelvic health, focusing on the mind-body connection, pelvic floor health, and the importance of breath work. It’s time to reduce the stigma surrounding pelvic floor issues, and create much needed awareness.
In our conversation we talk about:
- Empowering women with knowledge and practical strategies to maintain their pelvic health throughout their lives.
- That women are suffering in silence due to the stigma associated with incontinence and other bladder problems.
- Future proofing your health versus reacting when something is wrong.
- How the healthcare system often addresses symptoms rather than root causes, particularly in women's health issues like incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction.
- That education on pelvic health is lacking in society.
- The impact of menopause on pelvic health and increase in pelvic floor dysfunction.
- The contrast between traditional Kegel exercises and the more holistic approach of Hypopressives.
- Poor posture negatively impacting pelvic floor health.
- How to get started building daily habits to significantly impact your pelvic health.
The massage support video reference in the episode: Watch it here
About Nikki:
Nikki has been a health and fitness coach since 2009., specialising in women’s health and rehab back to exercise using Hypopressives. She had twin boys in her early thirties and this led her on her own post natal recovery journey and ultimately to discover that women’s health services are inadequate and often leave women feeling desperate and alone.
Nikki ran her own bootcamp business as well as a successful buggy version for new Mums and in 2013 discovered the power of a holistic approach using Hypopressives. She struggled for over 10 years with “Leaking” and within just 3 months of doing Hypopressives her incontinence was gone. She now runs training and education courses in Hypopressive exercise through the company she Co- founded, UK Hypopressives.
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Future proof your foof FREE ebook
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Melissa Rose, an applied functional medicine practitioner specialising in autoimmune diseases joins today to share her personal journey of recovering from multiple sclerosis (MS) and how her experiences shaped her approach to health. Melissa dives into the importance of functional medicine, the mind-body connection, and practical tools for improving health, including mindfulness and nutrition.
One specific area of functional medicine that we highlight, which we can all tap into is the power of food as medicine. There is so much opportunity in using food to treat and recover from autoimmune disease and ill-health. I know after listening that you’re going to feel encouraged to take control of your health through self-care and self-connection.
In our conversation we explore:
Taking time for meditation can set a positive tone for the day. Understanding the root causes of health issues is crucial for recovery. Functional medicine looks at the whole person, not just symptoms. How food choices can significantly impact health and wellbeing. That mindfulness and self-awareness are key to recognising your health needs. How women are disproportionately affected by autoimmune diseases. Empowerment comes from knowing you are worth the effort to be well. Why building a supportive and accepting relationship with your body is essential for health and happiness. That health is a journey that requires ongoing attention and care.About Melissa:
Melissa Rose is an Applied Functional Medicine Practitioner specialising in autoimmune disease, complex illness, mystery illness, and rare autoimmune conditions. With thousands of clients served, Melissa has established herself as a high-level practitioner for advanced autoimmune clients at Autoimmune Recovery. She is also the Founder and CEO of Sagebrush Wellness and Autoimmune Recovery.org. Melissa is a published author, educator, and practitioner mentor.
As a double Board Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Melissa is a sought-after clinician. She is skilled in a variety of cutting-edge progressive testing. She uses symptoms, test results, and personal/family history to get to the root of the disease process for her clients. As a team, she and the client work synergistically to create a plan addressing imbalance in the body. She provides innovative care, coaching, education and encouragement, throughout their journey. Her goal for each client is sustainable wellness.
Connect with Melissa:
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Take Melissa's FREE functional health assessment
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence. Visit our website Follow on Instagram Follow on LinkedIn Watch the episodes on YouTube Full episode notes available on our websiteMake sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Do you struggle to fit in exercise? Are you telling yourself there’s never enough time to exercise? Not having time to go to the gym or get in a run is a common problem many women have when they think about wanting to improve their fitness. Doing it all and doing stuff for everybody else is much more important than you taking time for yourself to workout.
I’m joined by Lucy-Anne Carney who is sharing her personal story of transformation from a demanding corporate career to becoming a bodybuilder, and what it taught her about having a clear goal and prioritising making it happen. Lucy now uses what she learned to help other women balance motherhood and their wellbeing through regular exercise.
The conversation explores the societal pressures and responsibilities that hold women back from prioritising their own health and wellbeing, and offers tips on building habits and overcoming guilt. Lucy encourages you to prioritise movement for your future self and your children, and to do so by building healthy habits that are sustainable in the long term.
In our conversation today we talk about:
- Incorporating movement and exercise into our lives, even with demanding careers and family responsibilities.
- The societal pressures and responsibilities often hold women back from prioritising their own health and wellbeing.
- How building habits and overcoming guilt are key to making time for exercise.
- Movement is key to maintaining good health and longevity.
- Knowing that your habits will teach your children the value of taking care of themselves.
- Learning how to prioritise and delegate in your family to make time for exercise and self-care.
- Knowing your why and staying committed to your goals can help you resist temptations and stay on track.
- Lucy’s 3 tips to make time for exercise through meal prepping, planning family meals, and finding ways to move that you enjoy.
About Lucy-Anne:
Lucy-Anne is an online fitness and nutrition coach specialising in helping people lose weight and build muscle without sacrificing balance in their lives. After a career as a major incident manager for a high street bank, she transitioned into fitness following a personal journey of competing as a bodybuilder, all while managing arthritis and balancing a demanding corporate role. Her experience of thriving despite challenges inspired her to study nutrition and personal training. Now, as a mum and coach, she is dedicated to supporting others in achieving their fitness goals with practical, sustainable approaches and without feeling that they’re sacrificing other areas of their lives.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Kristy Bara-Novskis joins the podcast today to explore how to have a positive relationship with food and highlights the importance of modelling good eating habits and confidence in the kitchen to your children. She’s sharing her story of overcoming her fear of food and cooking to build strong health, and achieving what she describes as ‘a friendly relationship with food’.
We discuss the complexities of food and diet culture, emphasising the importance of realising that your relationship with food is often deep-rooted, and that focusing on achieving a certain weight, size or shape for health and happiness, is actually often leading to the opposite outcome. We explore Kristy's journey from emotional eating to clean eating, sharing practical tips for meal planning and cooking confidence.
Our conversation highlights the significance of role modelling healthy habits for children and the need for mindfulness in eating. Kristy provides lots of actionable advice for families to engage with food positively, to build a joyful and healthy approach to eating.
In our chat today we explore:
- Why so many women associate good health with weight and food restrictions.
- How a positive relationship with food leads to better health outcomes.
- Meal planning tips and how it can provide a sense of control over eating habits.
- Emotional eating often stems from childhood experiences.
- Mindfulness is key in recognising emotional triggers for eating.
- How diet culture can create a cycle of failure and restriction.
- Building cooking confidence can improve food relationships, and open up opportunities for your family to come together at meal times.
- Involving children in cooking fosters healthy habits for them as they grow up.
- Kristy’s approach to clean eating that focuses on whole foods and simplicity.
- 3 simple steps to being to confident in the kitchen and making food joyful and enjoyable for all your family.
About Kristy:
Kristy Bara-Novskis is a Kitchen Confidence Coach, helping women make confident food choices. Kristy once felt broken because she couldn't stick with a programme, but everything changed when she learned food is a friend, not something to fear. She transformed from feeling broken to confident, and now helps others do the same
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Access Kristy's FREE guide with 3 quick, easy recipes you can use to get in front of your food for the week.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
As we wrap-up 2024 I want to to help you to know why your health matters to prioritise building better habits around in 2025, and to make sure you’re set up to successful achieve these changes.
I’m diving into how to focus on setting health and personal goals for 2025, and why it’s all about goals as opposed to making resolutions. But there’s one unlock you might be missing that you need to know about to ensure you achieve your 2025 goals!
The episode includes a visioning exercise to help you connect with your desires so you can master the first two in my seven actionable steps to successfully achieve your goals.
In this episode I’m sharing:
- Why it’s important to reflect on 2024 and how my year was a year of mixed experiences, including personal milestones.
- Why setting health as a priority is crucial for a fulfilling life, and matters to women more than ever before.
- The reasons that resolutions often fail.
- Guiding you to create goals that are specific, actionable, and connected to personal values.
- A powerful visioning exercises that will help you to clarify what you want to achieve and anchor yourself to for momentum and motivation.
- The key is in building habits for long-term success in health.
- That the journey towards your goals is as important as the end result.
Supporting tools mentioned in the episode:
Podcast episode #65 with Wilma Edwards - Coaching for your 2024 health and happiness vision
Podcast episode #15 - To resolution or not to resolution
Podcast episode #1 - It’s all about the now
Blog: This is why the gym car park is so empty - and it isn’t even the end of January!
Blog: Resolutions - Help or hindrance?
Free Resources:
10 ways to feel good again: Your perimenopause Revival Guide
Win Your Worth 5-day challenge to help you get clear about what you want to feel like, what you’d like to change, and build the self-belief that you are worthy of making it happen. Lots of reflection, inspiration, guidance for working out what goals to set and move forward with in 2025.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Grief and loss will be part of all of our lives at some point. Having resilience and also self-compassion to support yourself when you lose a loved one is so important. But so is it important to help you stay healthy and well in every way.
I’m exploring this sensitive and very important topic with an incredible guest today - Lisa K. Boehm. Lisa is discussing the importance of resilience and sharing her personal journey after the tragic loss of her daughter, Katie, and how it transformed her understanding of grief.
We talk about the various forms of loss, the significance of self-care, and the necessity of community support. Lisa emphasises that resilience is a choice and can be cultivated through small, meaningful steps. Our conversation highlights the need for women to connect and support each other, especially during challenging times. Having a supportive network and community can be a challenge when our lives are fast-paced and midlife has perhaps thrown many curveballs at you. Lisa shares advice on how you can find and connect with a new community, even in midlife.
In this episode we share:
- That resilience is crucial for navigating any of life's challenges.
- The rising challenges women are facing to their health and the role of resilience to navigate this with strength and ease.
- Why community support is essential for building resilience.
- That grief can manifest in many forms beyond losing a loved one.
- It's important to allow yourself to feel and process grief.
- How self-care is foundational for mental health and healing.
- The way joy and grief can coexist; one does not negate the other.
- The importance of rediscovering yourself after loss and appreciating that this is a journey.
About Lisa:
Lisa K. Boehm’s life changed forever when her 17 year old daughter died suddenly in a car accident. She quickly discovered that our society struggles with death, loss, and grieving and has made it her mission to change that. In her book 'Journey to HEALING: A Mother’s Guide to Navigating Child Loss’ she shares her experience with grief and her way back to a meaningful life.
Now she focuses on gratitude and living intentionally as a way of honouring her daughter’s memory. Lisa is an author, speaker, and certified grief educator who shares the power of hope and human connection in her presentations, workshops, and book.
Connect with Lisa:
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3 Ways to Move Forward, Without Letting Go provides 3 helpful tips for grieving moms to help them manage their grief
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Today we’re exploring detoxification, stripping back what it is and providing simple actionable steps you can implement into your everyday life.
Toxins are everywhere - in our food, beauty products, personal care items, cleaning products, the air, plastics. And for women they can be especially disruptive to our hormonal balance. So, whether you want to manage or lose weight or not, this episode is one that will provide important information and simple ways to take action from for better overall health.
Harriet Hills joins me to discuss the critical role of detoxification in women's health, particularly in relation to weight loss and gut health. Harriet shares her personal journey into nutrition, emphasising the importance of a holistic approach that includes diet, exercise, and mental wellbeing. We explore the various toxins present in our environment and food, and how these can disrupt hormonal balance, especially during perimenopause.
In our conversation today we talk about:
- The common toxins in food and your environment, and how they can disrupt hormonal balance.
- Why detoxification is essential for overall health and weight loss.
- The importance of a diverse diet rich in whole foods to support strong gut health.
- The role of your gut in building strong health and wellbeing.
- How mindset plays a crucial role in nutrition and wellness.
- Practical tips for reducing toxin exposure and enhancing the body's natural detoxification processes.
- Detoxification myths and realities.
- Small lifestyle changes can lead to significant health improvements.
- Harriet’s 3 simple steps to take to reduce toxins in your body and life.
About Harriet:
Harriet Hills is a certified nutrition coach and undergrad naturopathic nutritional therapist (CNM). She began her wellness career as a fitness instructor eight years ago and quickly grew her passion for healthy eating and fuelling for performance. This led to launching transformational coaching programmes for both individuals and groups, as well as delivering workshops and workplace wellness for both adults and children, in the UK and Dubai.
She supports women to heal their gut, improve body confidence and re-claim control of their diet with her 6-step nutrition and mindset method. Her biggest mantra is teaching clients about additional nourishment, as opposed to focusing on what to remove so they feel their best.
Connect with Harriet:
Website
Get Harriet's FREE 3 day refresh nutrition and wellness guide
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Do you think about your relationship with food? Or maybe, like many women, food is something that is often in your thoughts!
In this episode I’m joined by Jane Pilger to delve into the complex relationship many women have with food, exploring themes of binge eating, emotional attachment, and the societal pressures that shape our eating habits. Jane shares her personal journey of struggling with binge eating for over 25 years, the impact of shame and judgment, and the importance of setting intentions and understanding your relationship with food.
Whatever your relationship with food, there is something for you to learn and think about to help you make positive changes to how you eat for improved health, wellbeing, and happiness. Our conversation highlights the eight reasons behind difficult food relationships and offers you practical steps to build healthier habits and improve your relationship with food.
In this conversation we talk about:
- Why so many women struggle with their relationship with food.
- How setting intentions can transform daily experiences with food and in other areas of your life.
- The eight reasons why you might be struggling with food.
- Understanding who you want to be as an eater is crucial to changing your behaviour and relationship with food.
- The power of shame and judgment and how they can perpetuate unhealthy eating behaviours.
- Why creating a sense of safety is essential for healing.
- The role of self-awareness in making lasting changes.
- That it is absolutely possible to have peace with food over time, and how living healthy is always a journey of progress and growth.
- Jane’s 3 simple steps to build a better relationship with food.
About Jane:
Jane empowers women who feel out of control around food to develop food freedom and body trust. She helps women who have been struggling, often for decades, to find the missing link to go from fighting with their bodies to working with them.
Whether you are a binge eater, someone who doesn't trust themselves with certain foods, or someone who just doesn't understand why they behave the way they do sometimes, she's got you. She will teach you how to understand your behavior, how to develop trust with yourself and how to cultivate the safety that you need to navigate life. Her approach is rooted in the science of the brain and body, trauma informed, and filled with compassion.
Jane's other passions include spending time with family and friends, triathlon training and racing, and planning the next adventure. She strives to make a difference in the lives of those around her while living a life of love, trust, adventure and growth.
Connect with Jane:
Website
Blog
Podcast
FREE Why Do I Binge quiz
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Have you ever wondered, or maybe even gotten frustrated, about why you always struggle to make lasting changes to your health and wellness habits?
Trying to make changes to improve your habits and lifestyle for better health can seem simple, except putting what you want into practice for many women is a big struggle. I’m exploring what might be holding you back from making sustainable changes to your habits with guest Sharon Donato. We’re discussing the role of trauma in shaping behaviour patterns and how trauma can impact your ability to implement new habits.
Our conversation explores the importance of awareness and the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit. We even touch on the Pixar film Inside Out 2 as a great representation of how our brains work, and that watching it is a fantastic way for adults to understand themselves and their mind better!
In our conversation we talk about:
- The reasons many people struggle to make lasting changes in their health and wellness habits.
- How trauma can play a significant role in shaping behaviour patterns and hindering the building of new habits.
- The importance and value of developing self-awareness.
- Understanding the root causes of your behaviours to help you create lasting change.
- Why the mind-body connection is so important, and how trauma can manifest in physical health issues.
- Why stress and overworking can have detrimental effects on your physical and mental health.
- Using brain spotting as a tool to help process trauma and release its hold on your emotions and behaviours.
- Three simple steps to begin the journey of healing and self-improvement: awareness, openness to change, and self-compassion.
About Sharon:
Sharon Donato is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach working with individuals somatically via a trauma informed approach. She has a passion for thoughtfully guiding clients to find their own paths to wellness, working together to create the optimum environment for healing and learning. With over 30 years of experience as a Certified Athletic Trainer and Strength and Conditioning Specialist, she’s assisted others to reconnect with their bodies, minds, and spirits, fostering a deep sense of healing from within.
Sharon’s approach is rooted in the understanding that trauma manifests not only in the mind but also in the body, often manifesting in unhealthy patterns. She assists clients in unlocking their potential by holding space to facilitate sustained lifestyle changes in a safe, supportive, and compassionate environment. Using a blend of modalities including breathwork, movement, mindfulness techniques, nervous system regulation and nutrition she meets the unique needs of her clients, honouring their individual paths to healing.
Connect with Sharon:
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Join Sharon's FREE Facebook group
If you would like to work with Sharon, she will be offering a free Brainspotting session with any purchase of 6 coaching sessions. Just mention that you found Sharon via the podcast.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Fed-up of not being able to get new habits to stick? Want to know the secret to building successful habits?
Join me as I chat with guest expert Mindi Huebner on the importance of habits and share key strategies to build new ones that last. We explore the concept of rewiring the brain and how to overcome the belief that you are just stuck in as you are. With the good news being that whatever age you are, or whatever beliefs you have about the type of person you are, you can rewire your brain and form new habits.
We discuss the technique of visioning and mental rehearsal, where you imagine yourself being the person who has already achieved the habit, and share why this is a proven strategy to use to help you make any change you want. We also get into the importance of clarity in creating the right habits and the role of mindset and identity in building and maintaining habits.
In this episode we share with you:
- How habits are essential for living a healthier and happier life.
- Empowering yourself through visioning and mental rehearsal to help make habits happen.
- The significant roles that mindset and identity play in building and maintaining habits.
- How negative self-talk can be damaging to mental and physical health and can sabotage your efforts to make positive changes.
- That the brain is capable of creating new neural pathways and rewiring itself, allowing for the formation of new habits at any age!
- The power of always celebrating small wins and practicing self-compassion for building self-confidence and sustaining new habits.
- How long it really takes to build a new habit.
- Mindi’s 3 simple steps to forming any new habit.
About Mindi:
Mindi Huebner is an Intuitive Mindset Mastery Coach, certified NLP practitioner and Clinical Hypnotherapist.
Mindi knows rewiring your brain is the key to creating a soul aligned business and extraordinary life. Her number one mission is helping high achieving women to release the limiting beliefs that keep them in the sneaky cycle of self sabotage so they can embody their favourite versions of themselves.
Connect with Mindi:
Website
Download Mindi's FREE Guided brain priming meditation
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Have you ever caught yourself looking at someone who is living their life the way you want to live yours, wondering how it’s so easy for them?
When it comes to healthy living it can often feel like there’s only one kind of person who can manage to live like that - someone disciplined with strong willpower, who naturally has a tonne of high energy to make it happen.
In this episode I’m sharing my secret to living the healthy life I live. I’m a real person, living a real and very normal life, so I’m providing you with insights on building a healthy life using your own superpower. We all have this superpower and it’s called the power of habits. Find out about my most powerful personal habits that contribute to my health, including movement, hydration, meal planning, and mindset practices.
In this episode I’m sharing:
- Why habits are your secret superpower to creating a healthier life.
- My journey to shifting the way I approached healthy living.
- My keystone habit that forms a core part of my identity.
- How habits are the foundation of a healthy life.
- Your habits shape your identity and future health.
- 40% of your daily actions are driven by your habits.
- Practical tips to start building your own healthy habits, highlighting the importance of starting small and being consistent.
- The key to starting small when building new habits for success.
- Focusing on becoming the person you want to be instead or forcing yourself to have to stick to things you think will lead to better health.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Do you prioritise self-care? Or perhaps you think of self-care as something to treat yourself to now and again - like having a bubble bath?
Today I’m joined by Sara McCready to discuss the importance of soul care versus self-care and the impact of energy on overall health and wellbeing. Sara learned through her own journey healing from toxic relationships the importance of prioritising self-care and approaching it from a place of caring for your soul - something that is such a beautiful approach to have.
We chat about the importance of nervous system regulation and the power of spending any time at all in nature, along with using tools like mindfulness and breathwork to help regulate the nervous system and find balance.
Sara shares why our energy is so important to every aspect of our wellbeing and happiness. We explore what our chakras are and how clearing them supports healing from different types of trauma and anxiety.
In our conversation we talk about:
- Building habits of soul care and intentional self-care for regulating the nervous system and supporting our energetic body.
- Why it’s important to give ourselves permission and time to prioritise our own wellbeing.
- The power of being outdoors to promote strong health and lift your energy.
- How having awareness of the mind-body connection shifts how you support your health and wellbeing.
- The concept of chakras and their connection to your physical and energetic bodies.
- The ways trauma and stress can impact your chakras, leading to imbalances in your energy and physical health.
- That emotional healing requires feeling and acknowledging emotions to release and heal them, rather than pushing them down or trying to simply move on from them.
- Sara’s 3 steps to get started with building habits to regulate your nervous system for better balance.
About Sara:
Sara McCready mentors high-achieving & intuitive Women to re-connect to their inner-knowing, to trust herself implicitly & fully connect to her energy & the parts of herself she lost on the way to the TOP!!
As an Intuitive Mentor & certified Reiki Master Teacher, Sara teaches Women how to build their confidence, feel powerful and become unstoppable, in her mind, body & soul, through 1:1 mentorship.
Sara has walked this path herself and knows the terrain well! It is through the lived-learning experience of the dark-night-of the soul & the over-coming to Be-coming the truest version of herself, she leads her clients from overwhelm, grief & confusion, into a life of peace, clarity & JOY!
When not with her clients, you’ll find Sara hiking on the trails, immersed in nature, and connecting into her higher-power, the universal source of unconditional love.
Connect with Sara:
Website
Get Sara's FREE 3 Easy Ways To Create Inner-calm During Stressful Times
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Is work a part of your life that promotes strong wellbeing, or is it perhaps a big contributor to you feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and even burnt out?
I’m joined today by Marilyne Whitty, a career wellness coach, to discuss the critical connection between work and wellness. Marilyne shares her journey of overcoming health challenges linked to her career, emphasising the importance of movement and self-care.
Work is often a huge part of our lives, so it’s important to recognise its impact on our overall health and happiness and consider how our lifestyle and habits can also help us perform better at work.
We explore the impact of workplace culture on individual health, the necessity for employees to advocate for their wellbeing, and practical steps to initiate a wellness journey.
In our conversation today we talk about:
- Why finding a balance between work and wellness is crucial.
- How your health impacts all areas of life, including work.
- The rising cases of burnout and stress we’re seeing in women that lead to significant health issues.
- The role of movement as a key component of health and wellbeing.
- How recognising the need for change is the first step.
- How individuals must take personal responsibility for their health.
- The vital role of employers in supporting employee wellness.
- Why it’s important to have open conversations about wellness in the workplace.
- The need for community support in creating sustainable health habits.
About Marilyne:
Marilyne Whitty is a Career Wellness Coach with over 20 years of experience in human resources and coaching. Her journey began with her own wellness transformation, where she overcame significant challenges, including losing over 90 pounds, managing chronic migraines, and resolving digestive issues. Through this experience, she discovered the power of movement and motivation in creating lasting change. Now, she is passionate about helping busy leaders and professionals incorporate wellness into their lives in a way that feels manageable and meaningful. Marilyne combines her HR expertise with a focus on fitness and wellness, guiding others to find harmony in their careers and personal well-being.
Connect with Marilyne:
Website
Join the waitlist for Marilyne's free 14 day career wellness kickstarter programme
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
I’m joined in this episode by Dr. Katie Ashcroft, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and lecturer, to share her extensive experience in mental health and the intersection of menopause and mental wellbeing.
Katie emphasises the importance of body awareness and emotional regulation in managing mental health issues, especially during menopause. We discuss the need for better information and research on menopause to support women's health decisions, highlighting the significant impact of hormonal changes on mental health.
Our discussion also covers innovative research projects being undertaken at Royal Holloway University of London aimed at understanding how practices like yoga and breathwork can support women's overall health during menopause.
In our conversation we talk about:
- How the connection between mind and body is crucial for mental health.
- The connection Katie has seen throughout her career between hormones and mental health.
- Menopause significantly impacts mental health and requires much more research.
- That women need more data-driven information about menopause.
- Why improving awareness of physical health can enhance mental health outcomes.
- That anxiety often manifests physically, affecting overall wellbeing.
- The way the pandemic highlighted the need for social support in mental health.
- Understanding your menstrual cycle to aid in mental health management.
- Practical tips for enhancing mind-body connection and managing anxiety through breathing techniques.
- The research projects that trainee clinical psychologists at Royal Holloway University of London are recruiting for to explore the impact of different modalities to support menopause and mental health.
About Katie:
Dr. Katie Ashcroft has over 20 years experience working with adults with mental health difficulties. Her experience ranges from working with severe and enduring mental health conditions, such as psychosis and schizophrenia, through to more commonly experienced problems such as anxiety and depression.
Her recent research focuses on body awareness and emotion regulation. Her role as a lecturer on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London enables her to conduct a range of research projects with trainee clinical psychologists. At the moment, her team is recruiting to a couple of menopause studies. The aim is to give people more information about what is useful in the management of symptoms in peri- and post-menopause.
Connect with Katie:
To find out more about joining one of the menopause research projects CLICK HERE
These projects are open for all women in the UK or Republic of Ireland, aged 40+, with an iPhone 6 or newer, experiencing perimenopause or menopause symptoms, period changes or no periods for 12 months, and not taking HRT.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
October is both Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Menopause Awareness Month and today’s conversation is going to bring both of these very important topics to you.
I’m chatting with the lovely Sarah Cawood about her personal journey through menopause, particularly in the context of being a breast cancer survivor. Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer 2 years ago and is navigating her recovery with the challenges of an array of menopause symptoms.
We discuss the challenges of navigating menopause without hormone replacement therapy (HRT), the importance of nutrition and exercise, and the impact of menopause on relationships and intimacy. Sarah shares her experiences with various supplements, the significance of self-care and skincare, and offers practical tips for women facing similar challenges.
We get pretty deep and intimate in this conversation, but do so for a reason - we need to get comfortable talking about menopause, our bodies, and how we’re feeling, so we can support one another and get the help we need to feel healthy and happy.
In our chat today we’re talking about:
- How nutrition and reducing alcohol intake can significantly impact health.
- Navigating menopause without HRT and finding what works for you through testing and learning.
- Recognising that menopause symptoms can persist even after periods stop, especially post-cancer.
- Why living healthy must be about finding balance between healthy habits and enjoying life.
- Being comfortable with having open and intimate discussions about vaginal health and sex to support your wellbeing.
- How self-care routines, including skincare, can enhance mental health and confidence during menopause.
- Movement being key to managing menopause symptoms and joint pain.
- Why women should always prioritise their health and seek support when needed.
- The importance of being kind to yourself during your menopause journey.
About Sarah:
Former telly bird, turned network marketeer.
Connect with Sarah:
Sarah's Scentsy shop
Sarah's FREE Simon Ourian MD AI facial analysis
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
In this special episode of the Women's Health Unwrapped podcast, I’m reflecting on two years of the podcast, sharing insights and highlights from past episodes. I want you to know why taking care of yourself really is the unlock to living a fulfilled and happy life.
The episode features six clips from various guests discussing topics such as manifesting a fulfilling life, navigating divorce, coping with grief, and overcoming self-doubt. I know you’re going to be inspired listening to these fantastic clips to take control of your health and wellbeing to live a strong, long and happy life!
In this special episode I’m sharing with you:
- How the podcast has connected me with incredible and inspiring people globally.
- Women’s health is about understanding what healthy living truly means.
- How the key is to curate your wellness toolkit based on your personal needs and use what connects with you most from individual podcast episodes.
- How taking control of your health helps navigate life's challenges when they arise.
- Manifesting a life you love is achievable with self-awareness.
- Self-love is essential for making decisions that align with your happiness.
- Divorce can be navigated with self-care and empowerment.
- Grief is a lifelong journey that requires resilience.
- Maintaining a healthy mind supports resilience during tough times.
- Overcoming self-doubt is crucial for pursuing dreams and goals.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Did you know that back pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting around 90% of the global population at some point in their lives? Here in the UK it’s estimated that some eight million UK adults suffer from chronic back pain, costing the economy around £10bn per year from the seven million lost working days.
This week is Back Care Awareness Week week, an event raising awareness of back pain, educating on prevention and management, and encouraging people to prioritise their spinal health. Charlotte Wood a workplace wellbeing specialist and pilates teacher is joining me to discuss the pervasive issue of back pain, its impact on daily life, and the importance of spinal health.
We’re sharing personal stories of recovery, emphasising the role of movement, posture, and the mind-body connection in healing. Charlotte highlights the benefits of Pilates for back health and encourages you to adopt a holistic approach to your wellbeing.
In our conversation today we talk about:
- The widespread problems many people are facing with chronic back pain.
- How chronic back pain can have a significant impact on mental health.
- Using pilates as a powerful tool for recovery and strength.
- How movement is essential for spinal health and overall wellbeing.
- Building core strength is essential for back health.
- Listening to your body is key to maintaining health.
- Mindset plays a crucial role in the healing process.
- Practical tips for maintaining a healthy back as women navigate menopause and midlife changes.
- The different types of everyday activities you can do that are great opportunities for back care.
- Why taking a holistic approach to your health is vital for long-term wellness.
About Charlotte:
Charlotte Wood is a Pilates Teacher and Workplace Wellbeing Specialist on a mission to banish back pain in the workplace by teaching posture for peak performance using her ‘Happy Back’ workshops.
Having worked on public health projects, for more than twenty years, Charlotte has extensive experience in designing impactful health interventions within the workplace. She has worked in the public and private sectors, including local government and the NHS. Also a personal trainer of over twenty-five years and a qualified Pilates teacher from 2018 after undergoing spinal fusion surgery.
Connect with Charlotte:
FREE Facebook group - The Happy Back Pilates Club
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
If you’ve ever struggled to make the health changes you knew you really wanted to make, did you work out why they didn’t happened? What if I told you that you might be the reason you keep failing to make the shifts you desire?
I'm joined in this episode by guest expert Terry Tateossian to discuss self-sabotage and how it can hinder women's health and personal growth. We explore the various forms of self-sabotaging behaviours, such as negative self-talk, perfectionism, and mindless eating. Terry shares her personal journey of overcoming self-sabotage and offers practical tips for building better habits.
Terry spent many years stuck in a cycle of yo-yo dieting and despite achieving much professional success, she struggled to achieve the goals she kept setting to improve her health. It was when she realised that it was her own thoughts and behaviours that were holding her back, that she stepped into changing her sabotaging actions to finally achieve strong health, wellbeing, and happiness.
In our conversation today we talk about:
- How self-sabotage can hinder women's health and personal growth.
- The power of negative self-talk and the ways it can show up to hinder progress and even reverse success you’ve achieved.
- Perfectionism, procrastination and mindless eating as common forms of self-sabotaging behaviours.
- Building strong health is an ongoing journey that requires self-awareness and intentional choices.
- The power of your habits and why when you build the positive habits you desire you find it easier to maintain momentum.
- Overcoming perfectionism and all-or-nothing thinking to build a portfolio of strong health to help you feel good now as well as living long and strong for life.
- The importance of setting achievable goals, observing thoughts and feelings, and flipping negative self-dialogue to positive and empowering thoughts.
- Terry’s 3 simple steps you can take to stop self-sabotage and make the changes you want to your health.
About Terry:
Terry Tateossian founded multiple businesses, coached and mentored dozens of employees, and helped Fortune 100 brands develop marketing strategies and campaigns. She won dozens of business awards and gave birth to 2 beautiful children. And she was hopelessly obese.
She tried every diet out there, but couldn’t figure out the secret to losing weight AND maintaining it. She couldn’t understand how someone who worked so hard, was fairly intelligent and resourceful, could not figure out her own body. Only when she realised that her problem wasn’t physical, did she finally break free from the weight gain/loss rollercoaster.
As the founder of The House of Rose, Terry spends her time coaching women to regain their confidence and find their true purpose. Her passion and love for fitness has propelled her to start THOR retreats as a place where individuals can kickstart their journey into wellbeing surrounded by the magnificent Cherokee National Forest and Smoky Mountains.
Connect with Terry:
Website
Podcast
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Do you ever wonder why you dream and whether your dreams are trying to tell you something?
Dream expert Bambi Corso-Steinmeyer is chatting with me to delve into the power of dreams and whether they are a tool to help you live a healthier life. Bambi is a published author on the topic and her work on dreams spans more than forty years. She shares how tracking and analysing your dreams, can help you gain insights into your subconscious mind and identify areas of imbalance in your physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
This is such a fascinating topic, and if like me you’re a frequent dreamer, thinking more about what your dreams mean and how they might be one of the tools you add into your wellness toolkit is an enlightening and interesting consideration.
In this episode today we share:
- Thoughts on why we dream and the role they play in our health.
- The possibility that dreams can provide insights into your physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
- Using journaling to help track recurring dream themes and symbols.
- The different ways tracking your dreams can benefit your wellbeing.
- Paying attention to the emotions and associations within your dreams and how this can reveal hidden desires or fears.
- Engaging with your dreams to lead to a deeper level of self-awareness and positive life changes.
- Bambi’s 3 simple steps to get started in building awareness of your dreams and connecting to what they might be telling you.
About Bambi:
Bambi Corso-Steinmeyer is the author of the book, ‘DreamTracking: Track Your Dreams and Transform Your Life’. Her passion and exploration of dreamwork spans more than forty years, and she has journaled over eight thousand of her own dreams. Working with her dreams for so many years has given her tremendous insight into every aspect of her life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Knowing the immense guidance and wisdom available through dreamwork, she is committed to teaching others how to work with and understand their dreams for personal transformation and growth.
Bambi, a certified Law of Attraction coach, serves on the Southern California Regional Committee of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and was a review editor for the Dream Network Journal for nine years. She is an avid lover of animals and nature and lives in southern California with her husband, Bill.
Connect with Bambi:
Website
FREE eBook with top 10 tips to help you remember your dreams
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Have you ever been on a diet? Are you still ‘on a diet’?
Given that the average woman spends up to 17 years of her life dieting, and that most only manage to stick to a diet for 4 days, it’s time to realise that you’ve wasted far to many days of your life thinking a diet is the answer to fixing your confidence, health and happiness!
Jenny McDonald, also known as The Food Freedom Fairy®, joins me in this powerful episode to discuss the impact of diets and our relationship with food on ourselves and our happiness. She shares her personal journey of struggling with food and how she built her career in the diet industry. But Jenny realised it was time to challenge the traditional narrative of diets after realising why so many women were stuck dieting, never reaching their goal of health and happiness.
We explore the impact of emotional eating, the influence of the food and diet industry, and the importance of self-worth and energy alignment in healing our relationship with food. Our conversation supports you to develop a healthy relationship with food, which we recognise for many women is incredibly hard when we’re part of a society that promotes dieting and unhealthy eating habits.
In our conversation we talk about:
- What the diet industry doesn’t want you to know!
- The impact that diets can have on your relationship with food and yourself.
- The role of healthy habits and self-care in achieving food freedom.
- Changing beliefs around what healthy living really means.
- Reframing your relationship with food for long-term release from dieting.
- The freedom that you get from changing your mindset around food, your body shape and size, and dieting.
- How deep-rooted beliefs and attachments to food can influence your eating habits.
- Creating your own version of healthy living and why shifting your mindset is key of success.
- Why self-worth and energy alignment play a crucial role in healing your relationship with food.
- Jenny’s 3 simple steps to get started with building a better relationship with food.
About Jenny:
Jenny McDonald, aka The Food Freedom Fairy®, empowers serial dieters and emotional eaters to eat cake without feeling guilty, release weight without dieting and most importantly heal their relationship with themselves.
An award-winning, best-selling author of ‘The Book the Diet Industry Doesn’t Want You to Read’, Jenny is a speaker, coach, and energy alignment mentor with over 18 years of experience in weight loss.
Connect with Jenny:
Website
Jenny's Book
FREE 3 Day Reconnect with Yourself and Food Challenge:
Daily training videos to help you reconnect with yourself and food
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
In this special 100th episode, I’m bringing my husband Kev back to the podcast to discuss the importance of talking about menopause within families. Kev was a hit on his appearance on episode 22, so I thought now was a great time to have him return as a guest to chat about the importance of opening up the conversation within families on perimenopause and menopause.
I’m exploring with Kev and my sixteen-year-old daughter Lois what menopause means to them and how the changes I’m navigating in perimenopause are affecting our family. I believe sharing our thoughts and experiences will help other women to get the support they need from their families and to help encourage others to make menopause something that feels comfortable to talk about at home and in other communities.
The episode ends with a bit of fun in a quick-fire round of questions for Kev, and wraps up with three simple steps for couples and families to break the taboo around menopause.
In this special episode we’re sharing with you:
- Our personal experiences and insights as a couple and family.
- The importance of open communication and support within families for navigating the challenges of menopause.
- How menopause can have a significant impact on mental health and careers, and it is important to address these issues.
- That there is still a lack of conversation around menopause in workplaces and society, and this needs to change.
- Feedback from my daughter Lois around her thoughts on menopause and what it means to her.
- Including menopause in conversations with children can help normalise the topic and empower them.
- Laughter, love, and compassion should be part of the conversation around menopause.
- Three simple steps for couples and families: communicate openly, provide support, and maintain a positive outlook.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Are you thinking of menopause as the beginning of the end of your life? Does it feel like it’s all doom and gloom? It’s just how it’s going to be.
Many women have been raised believing that menopause is a negative life experience and one that’s going to change them in ways that create fear, negativity and apprehension. I want to challenge this negative narrative around menopause and inspire you to know that it is not the end of life, but rather a new beginning.
The midlife crossroads that women see as being the beginning of it all going downhill can instead be a time to understand who you are and what matters to you - perhaps for the very first time - and to create your own new path to health and happiness.
Today I’m sharing with you:
- The realities of what menopause can lead to for some women.
- How important it is to acknowledge the changes menopause can bring and the challenges these can lead to for many women.
- Why it’s time to reframe menopause not as the end of life, but a new beginning and an opportunity for transformation.
- Why the negative narrative around menopause that is influenced by societal beliefs and statistics doesn’t have to define your experience.
- The power of shifting your mindset and reframing menopause as a time of renewal and rebirth to empower you to make positive changes.
- Practicing gratitude, using affirmations, and journaling can help in navigating menopause and creating a fulfilling second half of life.
- Taking small steps to build the life you want for yourself in your second half.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
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Do you struggle to make time to exercise? Or is it more about hating the gym and thinking that all kinds of exercise are just too hard?
Join me as I chat with guest Melanie Griffiths about her journey of healing from cancer and how it led her to prioritise her own health and realise the significant role moving your body plays in living long and strong. Melanie shares the importance of movement as a healthy habit and how it can be a powerful tool for mind-body connection, offering her own experience of using movement as a form of meditation and mindfulness.
Melanie also discusses the significance of menopause as a rite of passage and the need for women to embrace this stage of life with confidence and self-esteem. Doing this she believes, is massively supported through daily movement and exercise during menopause, highlighting the importance of embracing and enjoying your new body and finding joy in the way you move.
In this episode we explore:
- What shifted for Melanie when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer to realise the power of your health.
- How she navigated her healing journey with a holistic approach.
- The path menopause showed Melanie about caring for yourself and why we must shift away from how society often sidelines menopausal women.
- The power of movement as a key healthy habit to improve overall wellbeing and create a strong mind-body connection.
- Embracing your own menopausal season of life as part of your life journey and why you must prioritise self-care before you reach menopause.
- The need to focus on strength and confidence rather than trying to reverse physical changes as you enter perimenopause.
- The benefits of dancing, having fun, and connecting with the body for midlife women, including Carnival Dance.
- Melanie’s three simple steps to incorporate movement into your daily life: finding something you enjoy, keeping it simple, and making it a daily habit.
About Melanie:
Melanie Griffiths is a dancer, movement instructor, spiritual coach and healer helping mid life women feel great in body, mind, spirit and emotions. She does this through movement, dance, energy work, meditation and mindset shifting. Her work is all based around her own holistic healing from Cancer after being given 6 months to live 20 years ago. She is passionate about sharing what she’s learned and seeing other women thrive in life on their terms.
Connect with Melanie:
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Melanie's On Demand FREE Video Library - Movement, Meditation Sessions + Healing Words.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Imagine if you went into menopause right after having twins. And you’re only in your twenties. This is the story that guest Emily Courtney is sharing in today’s episode.
Emily is a health visitor and founder of ‘Mothering and the Menopause’, a support group for mothers of all ages who are juggling taking care of babies and children whilst navigating menopause. Emily was diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency when she was only 24 years old and despite having this diagnosis, endured a battle to get support and HRT when she realised she was experiencing menopausal symptoms and challenges.
This is a fantastic episode where we talk about the importance of better knowledge and understanding around menopause for all women, and why regardless of how old your children are and what demands this puts on you, putting your self first is the only way to build strong health and be the great parent you want to be.
In our conversation we talk about:
- What Premature Ovarian Insufficiency is and the differences between normal, early and premature menopause.
- How the focus on reproductive health and fertility misses the menopause support women really need.
- The mental health implications of being diagnosed with a premature menopause.
- The lack of awareness and understanding around menopause, especially for younger women and mothers.
- The challenges of experiencing menopause at a young age while raising young children.
- Why taking care of your self is the most important and impactful thing to do as a woman and a Mother.
- What to look out for that might indicate what you’re feeling isn’t a normal part of postpartum health and recovery.
- Advocating for yourself with knowledge and understanding.
- The risks of premature menopause and the role HRT can play in improving your short and long-term health.
- Emily’s 3 tips for building habits to support and care for yourself more.
About Emily:
Emily is a Mum of three young children, including twins, and had them following a diagnosis of Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI). Emily struggled immensely in the year following her twin's birth due to lack of hormones and an inability to get HRT.
Emily has used her years of experience as a Health Visitor and Nurse, to create Mothering and The Menopause, to ensure that no one else has to suffer like she did.
Connect with Emily:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
For many women who face a break up or divorce, their health takes a huge hit, causing mental and physical health challenges, some that take years to overcome, and some that change how you feel, how you live, and even who you are, forever.
Women lose confidence and put themselves so far down their list as the practical tasks that separation and divorce result in, and the emotional needs of their children if they have them, all take top priority.
Farhana Hussain is the UK’s only Divorce Doula and advocates for women navigating divorce with confidence and strong health. She emphasises the importance of taking care of yourself and finding inner calm and empowerment during the divorce process so that you can thrive and embrace the new chapter in your life.
With divorce rates among women over 50 increasing, we talk about the importance of self-awareness, acceptance, and taking small steps to build new habits that support your health. Our message is that divorce in midlife doesn’t have to mean sacrificing your own health and happiness.
In our conversation today we explore:
- What Farhana’s role as a Divorce Doula consists of and why she’s on a mission to modernise the divorce process and entire experience for women.
- Why there is so much focus on divorce being about the legal process, but how it is much more about the deeply personal and emotional process that impacts every area of your life.
- The common themes amongst women facing divorce, such as feeling not good enough and fear of the unknown.
- Implementing tools to help you calm your nervous system which is critical to support your health and overall divorce experience.
- The increase in divorce rates among women over 50 and why divorce in midlife doesn’t have to mean an end to a healthy and happy life.
- The importance of self-awareness, acceptance, and taking small steps to build new habits and rituals that support your health.
- Farhana’s 3 simple steps to get started building new habits for self-awareness and supporting your health.
About Farhana:
Meet Farhana, the UK's first Divorce Doula, revolutionising divorce support. As a British Bangladeshi, devoted mother to three teenagers, a former teacher and now a divorce expert, she combines practical advice with deep emotional and spiritual healing, streamlining the cost of divorce on your health and wealth. Farhana’s mission is to guide you to peace during your divorce, empowering you to thrive beyond it and become the CEO of your life. Called a 'real-life fairy godmother' by her clients, Farhana has been widely recognised as a divorce expert, with features in magazines, broadsheets, and national papers, including BBC radio and Good Housekeeping. She's dedicated to transforming the divorce experience, helping you rebuild a life of strength, wisdom, and joy.
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Website
Farhana's FREE Secret Soul Whispers guide - 30 days of gentle strength and clarity for your divorce journey
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
To celebrate the buzz of the Paris 2024 Olympics I’m joined in this episode by ex-professional athlete Danielle Reedy chatting all about her road to the Rio 2016 Olympics, and how her journey to get there was one of learning to overcome self-doubt and understanding your inner critic.
So many women lack belief in their ability and worth, resulting in them holding themselves, only to hold onto these regrets, often throughout their lifetime. Danielle shares her journey of building self-worth and confidence, culminating in her experience as an Olympian, where she competed as a synchronised swimmer. She discusses the importance of reframing challenges and choosing the hard path that aligns with your values, and why faking it until you make it isn’t such a bad thing!
The highlights of our conversation are:
- Hearing Danielle’s story from a little girl age 8 swimming in her local pool to elite athlete at the 2016 Olympics.
- How Danielle tackled the inner noise and self-doubt she had around her ability and right to be selected for the Australian swimming team.
- The importance of being true to yourself and why this approach will lead to greater confidence and fulfilment.
- Inspiring you to know that overcoming self-doubt and pursuing your dreams is possible for anyone.
- Reframe challenges and choosing the hard path that aligns with your values.
- How building self-worth is a daily practice that involves taking uncomfortable actions and engaging in self-reflection.
- Surrounding yourself with a supportive community that believes in you for your own growth journey.
- Focusing on the journey and personal growth rather than the outcome.
- Danielle’s 3 simple steps to get started with growing your self-worth and confidence.
About Danielle:
Danielle Reedy (she/her) is an Olympian, Speaker, Coach, Author and Podcast Host. The Canadian born athlete took the leap of her life in 2014 to go after an impossible dream of competing on the Australian National Synchronised Swimming Team and qualify for the Olympics. In 2016 she achieved that dream competing at the Rio Olympic Games and subsequently Danielle spent 5 years on the team, competed at 3 World Championships and made history in 2019 as being part of Australia’s First Mixed Duet before retiring from sport.
Danielle then set off on her next on her next dream of helping other realise what they can create in their life with the mindset and self belief tools. Now working with souls from around the world to help them liberate their body, mind & soul to live a life that they love through her podcast, programs and coaching.
Connect with Danielle:
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Podcast
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Do you get stressed over what to eat and all that goes into preparing meals? You’re not alone!
Meal planning, food shopping, meal prepping, and cooking can feel like massive, time-consuming chores and they’re something so many women feel overwhelmed and stressed by. Especially if you’re not the best home cook or simply don’t enjoy cooking! It’s often a huge barrier to improving your diet and eating healthier.
Our expert today helps you reduce all of this stress and overwhelm to help you gain control over what you eat from optimising your freezer. Kate Hall is the best-selling author of The Full Freezer Method book and a regular guest on TV shows including Lorraine, BBC Morning Live, and ITV Tonight.
In this episode Kate discusses the benefits of using the freezer to reduce food waste, save money, simplify meal prepping, and eat healthier. She provides so many valuable tips to help you reduce stress, save time and money, and build healthier eating habits for yourself and the entire family!
In our conversation we talk about:
- How the freezer can be a valuable tool for reducing food waste, saving money, and eating healthier.
- Incorporating more plants into your diet for a positive impact on your energy levels and overall wellbeing.
- The five steps in Kate’s ‘The Full Freezer Method’ that help you to optimise using your freezer.
- Tips for freezing ingredients individually and in small portions to make it easier to defrost and use them in meals.
- Overcoming negative beliefs and mindset around freezing food and using frozen food.
- The benefits of using the freezer for flexibility in meal planning and reducing the need for last-minute takeaways or convenience meals.
- Getting started organising the freezer and utilising different freezing techniques.
- Kate’s 3 simple steps to get started with freezing food and reducing your stress to eat healthier with more ease, and improve your overall health and wellbeing.
About Kate:
Kate Hall is a TV Food Waste Expert and author of Amazon no.1 bestseller The Full Freezer Method.Kate helps busy households to reduce their food waste, save money and cook more easily by using their home freezers more effectively. Unlike batch cooking, The Full Freezer Method is completely flexible and allows families to easily enjoy a wide variety of meals.
Kate has been featured by copious media outlets including BBC Food, The Guardian and The Telegraph, and has appeared on Lorraine, BBC Morning Live, ITV Tonight and Steph's Packed Lunch.
With over 100,000 followers from around the world, The Full Freezer® is transforming attitudes towards food waste and empowering individuals to cut down on convenience foods and embrace home cooking.
Kate lives in Greater London with her husband and two young children.
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FREE Facebook group
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Your health really is the greatest asset you own, as without it the things you want for yourself and the great life you desire might just become out of reach. So why is it then that so many of us wait for something to go wrong with our health before realising this?
Our guest today is Kelly Phinn who is passionately sharing why she wants others to not make the same mistake that she made in neglecting her health, waiting until it came crumbling down around her to start prioritising herself and her health.
Diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) at just 26 years of age, Kelly was faced with a diagnosis of a lifetime taking medication to manage this autoimmune disease. However, Kelly found a different route and is now medication free, having identified the right pillars to build healthy habits in so she can thrive as opposed to just about survive.
In this episode we explore:
- Why valuing your health and prioritising it before something goes wrong is such an empowering thing to give yourself.
- The challenge with waiting for something to go wrong with your health and being pushed to overhaul it.
- Advocating for yourself with any health issue or problem you have.
- The key to building healthy habits slowly and gradually with consistency.
- Asking for and seeking support to help you in your health journey.
- The importance of managing stress and cultivating a positive mindset.
- How you should always reflect on the changes you’re making, even the small ones, and celebrate your health journey.
- Seeing that taking care of your health is a pleasure and privilege.
- Kelly’s 3 simple steps to get started valuing your own health and wellbeing.
About Kelly:
Kelly Phinn is a Certified Positive Psychology Coach, Holistic Coach, and Registered Healthcare Professional. She uses the science of wellbeing to help overwhelmed people and professionals to simply life so they can focus on what really matters - their health, wellbeing and happiness, while giving their productivity a much needed energy boost!
Connect with Kelly:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
If you’ve been putting off making changes to feel better then this episode is for you!
Join me on my own today as I explore the reasons why so many people struggle to take better care of themselves and make health changes. I dig into the most common barriers including lack of time, lack of knowledge, and fear of change. Along with the importance of mindset and how limiting beliefs can hold people back from making lasting changes.
I’m giving you a few powerful techniques to shift your mindset to one that is more positive and open to change with tools such as visualisation and positive affirmations. I also encourage you to set realistic goals, seek support, and dig deep to uncover the underlying reasons behind their resistance to change.
Today I’m sharing with you:
- Common barriers to taking better care of yourself including lack of time, lack of knowledge, and fear of change.
- What limiting beliefs are and how these are formed.
- The way fear can hold people back from making health changes and keep them stuck where they are.
- Why shifting your mindset is crucial for making lasting changes.
- Using techniques such as visualisation and positive affirmations to help shift your mindset.
- The importance of setting realistic goals, seeking support, and uncovering underlying reasons to help make health changes.
- A challenge to ask yourself what is really behind the reasons you’re using to not try and make positive changes to your health and wellbeing.
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
So many of us are carrying, often without knowing, trauma and hurt from our childhood experiences and events that have happened as we move into adulthood. Healing these emotional wounds can have a profound impact on our mind and support the positive changes we want to live a healthier and happier life.
Today we’re exploring the blend of science and spirituality to help women heal their hearts with guest Amber Harrison, a trauma therapist and psychotherapist. Amber shares her personal story of trauma and how she found healing through a combination of psychotherapy and spiritual practices to be the route to true health and happiness.
In our conversation we’re exploring:
- How healing the heart addresses emotional wounds and releases subconscious programming.
- The connection between the mind and the heart and how healing one can lead to positive change in the other.
- The importance of heart healing for women in midlife.
- The type of childhood experiences that lead to both big and small traumas, and how these can have a lasting impact on adult relationships and self-perception.
- Building better habits in emotional and spiritual health to positively impact overall wellbeing.
- Ambers 3 simple steps to begin your healing journey - Practicing 7-11 breathing, using flower remedies, and incorporating Oracle cards can support emotional and spiritual health.
About Amber:
Amber Harrison is a Toxic Relationship & Trauma Transformation Therapist. She empowers sensitive, spiritual women to safely own their boundaries by healing trauma from past toxic relationships, so they can reclaim their joy, unleash their wild, feminine nature and trust their intuition to lead a soul-aligned, fulfilling life.
Connect with Amber:
Website
Amber's FREE eBook - New to Woo: A Beginners Guide to Building a Spiritual Practice That Works For You
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Can good sex improve your health? We’re exploring this with guest expert Sarah Rose Bright, a love, sex, and intimacy coach. Sarah talks about the role of sex and self-love in overall health and wellness, and how sex and intimacy can promote overall better wellbeing.
We discuss common misconceptions about sex, the importance of communication and intimacy in relationships, and the impact of menopause on sexual desire. Sarah has worked with women of all ages and shares how you’re never too old to improve your own sexuality and start having great sex!
In our conversation we talk about:
- The benefits of sex and self-love in enhancing your overall health and wellness.
- How intimacy is different from sex and can be cultivated through closeness, vulnerability, and honesty.
- That menopause can be a time of positive transition and exploration in your sex life.
- Three simple steps to enhance pleasure and fulfillment from sex.
- Common misconceptions about sex including the belief that it must end with penetration and that it should be effortless and easy.
- Why the stigma and shame around sex can lead to feelings of guilt and holding back from sharing your desires.
- Having open and honest communications in a relationship about your desires and sexual needs.
About Sarah:
Sarah Rose Bright is a Love, Sex and Intimacy Coach, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, host of the Love, Sex and Intimacy Podcast and a Gene Keys Guide. She helps women and couples to reset their sex and intimate lives away from goal-based sex and to discover deep intimacy and expansive pleasure so that they feel confident in who they are and have relationships that are happy, loving, passionate and sustainable.
Sarah has been featured across a range of media outlets including The Sunday Time Style Magazine, Marie Claire, Woman & Home, Metro, iNews, Glamour Magazine, Huff Post, BBC Radio 5 and more.
Connect with Sarah:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
We know how much can change as we navigate perimenopause and transition into menopause and that these changes can cause major disruption to your life. It can seem like trying to fix a symptom is an impossible task, leaving you feeling low, frustrated, and lacking confidence.
Our guest expert today is Jessica Green, an Integrative Health Practitioner and Health Coach, empowering midlife women to rebalance their body and calm their nervous system so they can move through these challenges and beyond to feel vibrant. Jessica is sharing the benefits of a personalised approach that is tailored to your unique needs and helping you see why taking a helicopter view of what’s going inside of your body - and mind - is the way forward to optimise your health and happiness in perimenopause.
In our conversation we share:
- What Integrative Functional Medicine is and how it differs to traditional medicine.
- Why symptoms of perimenopause need to be addressed collectively versus individually.
- The approach of fire-fighting symptoms that leads many women to stay stuck experiencing their symptoms.
- What is meant by hormonal balance and why you need to think about all of your hormones to thrive in menopause.
- The value of eating protein and a whole food, nutrient dense diet.
- How vital stress management is in balancing hormones.
- A high-level explanatory picture of how your body is working collectively to better understand what approach to take to reduce perimenopausal symptoms and changes.
- The role of the gut in perimenopause and why it’s health is about more than simply what food you eat.
- Jessica’s 3 simple steps to naturally balancing your hormones to support your health at any season of your life.
About Jessica:
Jessica Green is an award winning Integrative Health Practitioner and Health Coach specialising in helping midlife women restore hormonal balance, revitalise energy and rekindle passion for their vibrant life.
After suffering through autoimmune conditions, digestive issues and hormone imbalances, Jessica went on to regain her health and vitality and become a sought after health coach for other midlife women. Her background in overcoming chronic health conditions has helped her hone her intuitive and investigative skills to help women regain their health and vitality.
Jessica is a big believer that when you take away the things that keep your body stuck (like toxins, pathogens and chronic stress) and fill on the things your body craves (like nutrients, love and safety) your body will flow back into balance naturally.
Jessica currently lives in Sevenoaks, UK with her husband and 7 year old daughter but coaches people around the globe.
Connect with Jessica:
Website
Download Jessica's FREE 3- Day Hormone Recovery Meal Plan
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Can you be ‘too young’ to be menopausal? Menopause has been positioned in society as something that means you’re ageing. It means you’re getting old, past it, and it’s led to so many women feeling inadequate and past their prime when they shift into the menopause season of life.
Thankfully this perception and stigma of menopause is shifting, however there’s still an attitude in younger women, and even women in their mid to late forties, that they’re too young to think about it, or make any shifts to their lifestyle and habits to better protect their health and prepare for their menopausal transition.
Suzie Martin is with me today to talk about how she started to experience perimenopausal symptoms in her thirties and how it’s affected her overall health, wellbeing and happiness. We explore why all women need the right knowledge around menopause to support themselves but also how every woman, regardless of their age, should be prioritising their health to support the changes menopause brings.
In our conversation we talk about:
- How perimenopause showed up for Suzie.
- The challenges in knowing if what you’re experiencing is menopause related or due to the stresses and strains of normal life, and why this can be even harder to identify when you’re younger.
- The importance of advocating for yourself when seeking help for your symptoms and changes.
- What early and premature menopause are.
- Lifestyle changes that can help support your health and wellbeing.
- The empowering effect menopause can offer many women.
- Suzie’s advice on what 3 simple steps you can take to build better habits for strong health for all women.
About Suzie:
I am an Independent Mortgage Adviser, providing a full mortgage solution. I am a huge advocate and supporter of female entrepreneurs and founded the Women of Steel group in the North-East of England to bring like-minded and ambitious women together.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Our guest today is sharing how her journey to better health was a far from conventional one and why this experience has led to her now helping other women to take an unconventional but very effective approach to weight loss.
Naomi Holbrook shares how she transformed her health from being clinically obese and pre-diabetic to being healthier and happier than ever before. She discusses the importance of movement and intentional exercise, as well as making simple changes to her diet. We explore why it’s important to address the internal emotional and mental aspects of health in addition to the physical.
Listen in to be encouraged to take action, embrace the messiness of change, and focus on what you are gaining rather than what you are giving up.
In our conversation we talk about:
- Addressing the emotional and mental aspects of health for sustainable transformation.
- Why you need to stop waiting for the perfect moment and take action now towards your health goals.
- Educating yourself about health and understanding the reasons behind your habits and behaviours.
- Focusing on what you are gaining rather than what you are giving up.
- The power of small steps and consistent progress for long-term results.
- The importance of any type of movement for strong physical and mental health.
- The impact of making simple changes to your diet on your overall well-being such as cooking homemade meals and staying hydrated.
- Naomi’s top 3 tips to improve your health and build sustainable habits to manage your weight.
About Naomi:
Helping women release the physical and metaphorical weight they've been carrying around for years to reclaim their life and confidence for good.
Naomi is a Nutrition and Weight Management Coach and writer. At the age of 39 she transformed her own life from clinically obese, pre diabetic, battling chronic pain and clinical depression to become the happiest and healthiest version of herself that she is now. Naomi has helped 100's of women to break free from a life of dieting, poor body image and low confidence to become the best version of themselves.
Connect with Naomi:
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Get Naomi's free guide: Steps to Revolutionise your Midlife
About Life Now Coaching:
We unwrap what healthy living really means to help you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits without overwhelm and confusion. We’re stripping back and laying out the truth about why taking better care of yourself is the answer to the happy vibrant life you’re striving so hard to create so that every woman knows the incredible value of her health.
Life Now Coaching supports women in midlife to build sustainable healthy habits using our success framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress
Resources:
- Get your FREE guide with 10 proven ways to navigate perimenopause with confidence.
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Make sure you subscribe and rate the podcast to help other women create their own healthy habits to thrive through every season of their life - including menopause!
Join me for a very special episode where I’m celebrating some big changes in my life following years of struggling with my health, happiness, and self-worth.
I want you to know the power of transforming your health by sharing my own personal story about how much I have transformed the way I feel and how I live since taking control of my physical and mental health.
I’m sharing with you today:
- What’s changed in my life over the past 3 years.
- How I’ve totally transformed the way I feel and the ripple effects this has had on every part of my life.
- The link between physical and mental health and why focusing only on one won’t have the impact you’re striving for.
- The power of knowing you are in control of your life through intentional living
- How building self-worth, self-belief, and confidence positively impacts your overall health and wellbeing.
- Why the changes I’ve experienced are at the core of my coaching framework.
- What’s next for Life Now Coaching and the podcast!
- Bonus: A sneaky look inside my recent Las Vegas wedding!
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
What does being healthy really mean? And perhaps more importantly, how can we each start to pursue our own version of wellness?
This is exactly what I’m getting into on today's special episode which is taken from Dr Kim Foster’s podcast - The Wellness Project. I am one of the coaches on Dr Kim’s team - working with her inside the Wellness Coach Academy, supporting all our students and new coaches as they're building their businesses - and before joining her team, I was actually a student inside this programme where I certified as a coach.
But before that, I was a corporate girl, working for Nike for 20 years. I learned a lot when I worked at Nike about the power of taking care of both your body and mind, and also why, as adults, we have a responsibility to normalise healthy living for the younger generation. Listen in as I chat with Dr Kim about how I’ve embodied what I learned at Nike to form my vision here at Life Now Coaching.
In this episode on Kim’s podcast I talk about:
- My transition from corporate to entrepreneurship and coaching.
- The difference between strategy and tactics when setting up a new business.
- Being the CEO of your life.
- What normalising healthy living means and why this is essential to protect the health of younger generations.
- How valuable taking care of yourself is.
- Why women’s health is critical to be better understood and valued.
- What I believe wellness is.
- My most powerful wellness tools in my toolkit.
- Why we need more iconic female role models for girls.
- The influence women can have on their children living a healthy lives.
Connect with Dr Kim here on Instagram
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Feeling a bit discouraged after falling off your diet plan?
Ever wondered why, despite strong motivation, it can be so tough to stick to a diet?
And why is reaching your health goals such a huge challenge?
Join me in this special episode which I recorded as a guest expert with Louise Digby for her fantastic podcast - The Thriving Metabolism. I share with Louise exactly how to break free from self-sabotage and finally achieve the healthy, vibrant life you deserve. I guide you through my success framework, covering the vital pillars of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep, and stress.
Say goodbye to diet misery and hello to lasting transformation. Tune into this special holiday episode now and discover the secrets to drastically improving your health beyond counting calories and overexercising.
In this episode on Louise’s podcast I talk about:
- The role of food in overall wellbeing.
- Rethinking calories and adopting nourishment and self-care.
- Adjusting habits for a sustainable wellness journey.
- Why you need to address your relationship with food.
- Examining childhood experiences influencing eating behaviours.
- Supporting mental health in weight loss.
- Incorporating sleep and stress for the weight loss results you want.
- The important role of accountability in lasting change.
The Thriving Metabolism: Weight Loss Beyond Diets with Louise Digby is the podcast where nutrition, education, science, metabolism, and hormones meet. Check it out on Apple, Spotify and all other podcast platforms.
Connect with Louise here
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Have you ever thought about hypnotherapy as a tool for personal growth and wellbeing? Or do you associate it only with entertainment and about controlling someone’s mind? Well if you do, this episode is for you!
Jill Whitehouse joins the podcast today to talk about using hypnotherapy to reduce stress, overwhelm, and anxiety and build resilience. Jill is a solution focused hypnotherapist working with adults and children and shares how hypnotherapy works, the role of the brain in stress, and the power of positive thinking.
We talk a lot about how much can be gained by understanding how your brain works and the win-win that happens when a parent and child use this type of therapy.
In our conversation we share:
- What hypnotherapy is and how it helps you understand how your brain works.
- What a trance is and how it’s used to access the subconscious part of the brain and come up with solutions for problems.
- The brains two main areas: the intellectual part and the emotional part.
- The power of being able to regulate your emotions.
- Jill’s 3 P’s Model: Positive thinking, positive action, and positive interaction.
- The effectiveness of using hypnotherapy for both adults and children in managing stress, anxiety, and building resilience.
- Understanding the role of adrenaline and cortisol in the body can help manage anxiety.
- Maintaining emotional balance and building resilience through rest and self-care.
- Three steps for building habits to strengthen your resilience: taking deep breaths, doing things that make you feel good each day, and recognising the importance of rest.
About Jill:
Jill Whitehouse is a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist with a background of Primary Teaching and Senior Leadership roles. She works with children and adults to support them to understand how the brain and body reacts to stress, anxiety and the events of daily life, and how we can use this knowledge to promote positive mental health strategies and behaviours.
Connect with Jill:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Has dieting ever made you get the happy life you want? What about sustaining the results long term?
The average woman is said to spend between 17 to 31 years of her life dieting. Diet culture is designed to keep us dieting because it’s creating a $1billion global business.
Kimberley Stacey joins the podcast today to talk about a topic that is so important in the world we live in. It's something that’s very aligned to my personal and business values following 30+ years stuck believing my self-worth and value were linked to the way I looked and how much I weighed on the scales.
Kim is the founder and head coach of Body Image Fitness in Newcastle and advocates non-diet fitness driving much needed change around diet culture and exercise, helping people to realise that anybody can workout and be fit, regardless of how their body looks.
In our conversation we talk about:
- What diet culture is and the impact it has on women to feel they need to look a certain way.
- Striving for happiness and self-worth with diets and exercise.
- The relationship you have with food and diets on your overall health and happiness.
- Re-focusing what we eat to be about the nourishment and overall health benefits it provides.
- How important exercise is beyond the perception of it being just a tool to lose weight.
- How the fitness industry likes diversity and representation.
- The value of functional fitness to live strong with full mobility.
- 3 tips to help you begin your journey to ditching the diet and exercising to feel strong.
About Kim:
Kim has a Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification which includes core training, Advanced Resistance Training, group exercise and exercise referral. This means she is able to help with health conditions such (but not limited to) Arthritis, Lower Back Pain, Hypertension, Join replacement and Osteoporosis. Kim is also a lower back pain exercise specialist, a Yoga instructor (specialising in yoga for bigger bodies and diverse communities) as well as a Burlesque Cardio, and Twerk After Work group exercise instructor!
Kim works hard building Body Image Fitness after a lifetime of feeling like her body was not good enough to teach fitness as a career – how wrong was she?!
Connect with Kim:
Website
3 day free trial to Kim's Body Image Fitness App
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Ask a woman what disease she’s most afraid of and the answer will most likely be breast cancer. Tell her that heart disease kills twice as many women as breast cancer does and she’s shocked. Why? Because women aren’t being informed about the risks they’re facing globally with cardiovascular disease.
It’s more important than ever to have the right knowledge about our health so that we can make decisions and choices to protect and improve it. For both a better life now but more importantly, a full and long life with strong health so we can live the way we want as we age.
Today our guest is Stevie Snow, a holistic pharmacist in the US with over 30 years of practice experience and now on a mission to help you understand how to protect your health. Stevie is breaking down what cardiovascular disease is and helping you to know what you can do to improve your total health to minimise your risk of not just this disease but other illnesses and diseases.
In our conversation we explore:
- The rising rates of cardiovascular disease and how it is currently the leading cause of death globally for men and women.
- What cardiovascular disease is and how it can show-up in women.
- Tips to get the right medical intervention if you think you might be having a heart attack, especially for women where symptoms are often different to those men experience.
- The role of lifestyle factors in heart disease.
- How blood sugar is the number one contributory factor to many diseases such as cardiovascular, and why for women in particular cutting sugar from your diet is key to building strong health.
- Tips to avoid ultra processed foods.
- Creating new habits through small gradual changes to shift your diet to one that protects your heart and brain health.
- Why snacking might be causing more problems than you realise!
- The impact of stress on your health.
About Stevie:
Stevie is a holistic pharmacist and practiced pharmacy in the US for over 30 years. She did Nuclear Pharmacy for almost 20 years - making radioactive drugs for cancer and cardiac imaging.
She had been healthy all her life so falling apart with a range of health issues at age 42 was a big shock. Stevie knew it had to do with stress but had no idea how to deal with it. After navigating her own and then her partner’s health struggles, Stevie knew her calling was in functional, holistic medicine and is now a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner and is currently enrolled at the School of Applied Functional Medicine.
Stevie helps women get well and stay well using every tool in the box. She has helped many of her client reverse a range of chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases including IBS, arthritis, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, blood clots, fatigue, low blood sugar, and gut infections.
Connect with Stevie:
Website
Free Resources Document
Watch her YouTube video on growing broccoli sprouts
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Anxiety is on the rise, especially amongst women. In the last three years we’ve seen a huge rise in the number of people struggling with anxiety, including in children, teenagers, and young adults.
When you’re trying to cope with anxiety it can feel like surviving is the only thing you’re able to focus on, not making changes to improve the way you feel.
In today’s episode I’m here to help you be inspired to know that it is possible to build new habits to improve your health and reduce your anxiety, even if your anxiety is telling you otherwise. I’m sharing some of the personal strategies I used to not only cope better with anxiety and panic attacks, but improve my overall health so that my anxiety is no longer something I feel is controlling me.
This episode talks about:
- The difference between ‘good’ and chronic anxiety.
- Why building strong health is so powerful at managing and reducing anxiety.
- Being aware of the lifestyle and choices you make on impacting how well you feel.
- The ripple effects of building strong health through your habits.
- How I used exercise as the catalyst to reduce and manage my anxiety.
- Six strategies to help you begin to make changes and build new healthier habits.
- The journey you are on when you’re navigating anxiety, depression, low mood or other mental health struggles.
- My ‘SCS’ approach to get started right now with shifting your habits and feeling better.
- Knowing you have the power to take control of your health and manage your anxiety.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Chronic illness is rising fast, especially amongst women, and as more people struggle with their health because of these long-term illnesses and disabilities, many of which take years to be correctly diagnosed, continuing to work can become a huge problem.
Sarah Berthon is here to share her story of navigating ill-health for many years and the toll it took on her physical and mental health as she tried to continue working as an employee. Sarah was finally diagnosed with ME, PoTS, and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and now runs her own business supporting people with chronic illnesses in the workplace through mentoring, workshops and online communities.
In our conversation today we talk about:
- Navigating a chronic illness and ill health whilst working as an employee.
- The pressure felt to continue working despite ill health and how this can further affect your wellbeing.
- Being body aware and creating a habit of knowing what your body is telling you it needs.
- Sarah’s personal journey to being correctly diagnosed with several chronic illnesses.
- Why the workplace needs to have better awareness and understanding of chronic illness and disability.
- The definition of disability and removing the fear of talking about disabilities.
- The importance of creating a culture of openness, acceptance and support in workplaces.
- The Lilac Review project being ran by the UK government and how Sarah is part of the steering board to support entrepreneurs with disability to start-up their own business and successfully run a business.
- Putting your health first to be able to live a full and strong life, and achieve the success you want.
About Sarah:
Sarah Berthon is the founder of Excel against the Odds and is passionate about supporting people with chronic illness in the workplace using her own experience of living with several chronic illnesses including PoTS, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, ME/CFS and Chronic Migraine.
Sarah supports business owners with chronic illnesses and organisations that want to better support employees with these conditions, as well as hosting the ‘Excel against the Odds’ podcast talking about the successes and challenges of working with a chronic illness.
She is also on the Steering Board of the Lilac Review, a government backed project looking at tackling the inequalities faced by disabled entrepreneurs.
Connect with Sarah:
Website
Get her FREE guide: Six Secrets to Success for business owners with chronic illness
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
With cases of Dementia rising and more awareness becoming known about the lifestyle and hormonal factors that can increase your risk, we want to help you to understand the importance of good brain health.
We’re joined by Dementia Prevention Consultant, Donna De Villiers, to explore the link between hormonal health and brain health, and why women are at a much greater risk from Dementia than men.
In our conversation we explore:
- The link between hormones and brain health.
- The importance of protecting your brain alongside your heart and bone health.
- Why women need to have more awareness of brain health and know the changes that menopause can have on your brain.
- The beliefs we have about Dementia being an inevitable part of ageing.
- The main lifestyle factors that can increase your Dementia risk.
- Three key habits to build to support better brain health.
- The mind body connection and the importance of checking in daily with what your body is telling you.
- Whether HRT can help prevent Dementia and what to do if you can’t or don’t want to take HRT.
About Donna:
Donna is a Dementia Prevention Consultant, helping women reduce their risk factors of Dementia, and build beautiful brain health habits for a lifetime.
Along her journey she worked in Health and Social Care in many roles, including for the NHS and saw dementia for the first time. Without any previous experience of Dementia, Donna initially feared the disease, but as her experience grew, she learned that Dementia is a lifestyle disease. This was when her passion for raising awareness and helping people have quality of life over a mere existence was born.
Connect with Donna:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Note: In our conversation we do briefly talk about Emma attempting to take her own life, so please decide if this episode might trigger you.
Is the desire for success actually trapping you and holding you back from happiness? Success is what so many people believe to be the route to happiness. So, they throw themselves and everything they can into carving a career that will bring them the financial rewards that equal success. But then happiness doesn’t come as part of the package.
Our guest today is passionately sharing her story of how her beliefs around success and happiness led her to a very unwell and dark place. Emma Hine thought that if she could build a successful business and reap the financial success of it, she’d be living a full and happy life. Except what she got was the exact opposite.
Join us as Emma shares the toll pushing to keep achieving success took on her health and happiness, and how she’s managed to begin turning her life around, putting health very much at the top of her list and new business strategy.
Today we chat about:
- The reasons why our understanding of success and happiness create beliefs that wealth is the key.
- Emma’s long journey striving for more and more success to find the happiness she was seeking.
- The downward spiral that took hold and pushed Emma deeper into poor mental health.
- How focusing only on the success you think will bring happiness leads to losing sight of what will really create this for you.
- The cost of not prioritising your health and realising that without health you have nothing.
- Knowing that there is no magic wand to making changes and instantly fixing how you feel.
- Taking one step at a time to move towards what you really want and know will help you to feel true happiness.
- Accepting that you are a work-in-progress and that this opens so many exciting opportunities for your future self.
- Why wealth is the most important thing you can do to take control of your life and live a happy life.
About Emma:
Emma Hine is a certified business strategist helping ambitious people to grow a business they love. She ran a successful million-pound e-commerce business, which ended up taking over her life which is why she is so passionate about helping others grow their business on their terms.
Now a celebrated Amazon bestselling author, she is helping others see that success comes from doing things your own way with passion at the heart of what you do. And the biggest lesson of all is you don’t need to sacrifice yourself to find what works best.
Beyond work Emma is a happily married mum of 3, nanny of 3. She loves spending time with her friends & family, combine that with a glass of wine and some glorious sunshine and she is in your happy place.
Connect with Emma:
Website
Emma's free guide: 40 Ways to Grow your Audience so you can make more sales
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Are you sleeping well? If not, you’re not alone. Sleep is one of the biggest problems many individuals give for not performing to their best.
In a recent study by Champion Health, boosting energy levels was the number one health area that employees said they wanted to improve.
Lack of sleep not only increases your risk of illness and disease but causes early death. So, in support of Sleep Awareness Day and Week, we’re sharing our top 10 tips to help you sleep better, have more energy, and invest in stronger health for a longer life.
In this episode we share:
- Our top 10 tips for improving the quality of your sleep.
- How our body’s love routine and the role of our body clock in sleeping well.
- The surprising routine you need to create to sleep better.
- The impact of modern society on our sleep.
- Taking a leaf out of the book on how we help babies and children go to sleep.
- Why alcohol is having the opposite effect on your sleep to what you think it does.
- The connection between sleep and your overall health and wellbeing.
- The power of gratitude for a peaceful nights sleep.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Start our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Get your FREE Daily Routine guide
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Your health is impacted by literally everything about how you live and this includes more than your lifestyle habits! The relationships you have, the job you do, the pressure you apply to yourself to achieve success. It all contributes to how well you feel, and your level of happiness.
Our guest today is Debbie Caudle, a therapist and coach who works with Christian women helping them to transform their relationships from the inside out. Debbie knows firsthand the real impact of being in a relationship and job that isn’t right for you, and guides other women to find the path that’s right for them.
This is a fantastic conversation where we go deep into how so many of us live by default rather than design, and realise the path we’re on isn’t right for us, often way down that path in later life.
In the episode we chat about:
- Why many of us find ourselves on paths that don't align with our true desires
- How it’s often in midlife that women realise they feel stuck with where they are.
- The risks of living a life by default and how this can impact your physical health.
- Breaking free from relationships and careers that aren't right for you and actionable advice on how to identify and navigate similar situations in your own life.
- How to take intentional steps towards creating a life of fulfilment and purpose.
- The impact of living with intention on your physical and emotional well-being.
- The power of taking small steps daily to create the change you want.
- Empowering yourself through living with intention and the huge ripples this creates across your life.
About Debbie:
Debbie Caudle has been a therapist and coach for over 30 years. She specialises in helping Christian women transform their relationships from the inside out, through both her expertise and her own personal journey of divorce and re-marriage. She's the author of The Path Less Traveled, the creator of two life-changing courses and the host of the podcast, High Ticket Woman.
Connect with Debbie:
Website
Her FREE resource: The 10 Step Relationship Rescue Roadmap
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
No International Women’s Day isn’t just another pointless awareness day; it is a pivotal moment to celebrate the achievements of women, promote gender equality, and drive meaningful change.
As we approach International Women’s Day 2024 this special solo episode with host Nicola is here to inspire you to know why you are a woman with power and impact.
Listen in as we inspire you to know your worth and power in impacting other women and girls to live healthy, happy and strong lives.
In this episode we open up about:
- What International Women’s Day is about and why you need to celebrate and recognise this important awareness day.
- The impact women in your life have had on you and taking a pause to think about who these women are for you.
- Nicola’s story of the impact her Mother has had on her and the difference we need to be more aware of today in the role models we are as women.
- The impact women have on their children and a personal story of Nicola’s daughter.
- How being a role model is the biggest legacy you’ll give your kids.
- Being part of a collective of women who are owning their power and the influence they have on others.
- The importance of inspiring other women and girls on not just International Women’s Day but every day.
- Knowing the power of even the smallest of your actions on others.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
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- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Our society and culture has instilled in us a mentality of being always on the go and that working hard, playing hard, living fast is the route to success and happiness! But what if our physiology wasn’t designed to live this way?
Today we’re exploring cyclical living and the importance of menstrual health in women and people with vulvas with guest Nour Kayali who is a holistic yoga teacher and menstrual cycle coach in training. Nour is passionate about helping everyone to understand that for anyone with a vulva, regardless of whether they have a menstrual bleed or not, there are hormonal changes happening in a cycle that will affect how you feel and therefore how you live your life.
This is such an interesting conversation and topic and one I’m excited to share on the podcast to support more understanding and openness around hormonal health and menstrual cycles.
In our conversation we talk about:
- What a menstrual cycle is and the four phases that occur each cycle.
- The link to the moon and the ancient wisdom that’s been guiding hormonal cycles for thousands of years.
- Why it’s important to have awareness of the changes that happen in each monthly cycle.
- How cyclical living can support strong health, and optimise energy and performance.
- The impact of understanding why you might feel differently throughout your menstrual cycle - and the risk of not understanding this.
- The connection between having better knowledge and understanding of menstrual cycles and menopause.
- Opening up the conversation in workplaces and with men to encourage more understanding and support.
- Tips to build habits into your wellness toolkit to better support yourself with your menstrual cycle.
About Nour:
Nour is a holistic yoga teacher, workshop facilitator and menstrual cycle coach in training, passionate about sharing tools for connecting to our sense of home. Through 8+ years of working in the field of Psychology and Mental Health, Nour saw first-hand the life-enhancing impact that regular wellbeing practices, and community, have on the quality of our lives.
Creating, dancing, journalling, to name a few, all support the human ability to experience long-term joy and contentment.
Connect with Nour:
Website
Nour's FREE guide - Unlocking Consistency: A Cyclical Living Toolkit
Maisie Hill Free Flow Chart shared by Nour in her wrap-up tip
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Do you only think about food if you need to lose a bit of weight? Does not having a weight problem mean that you’re okay to eat whatever food you like?
The beliefs we have about the role of food in our health are behind so many of us spending a huge proportion of our lifetime obsessing about which new diet to try and battling to lose weight. We’ve been conditioned to believe that a diet is the answer to losing weight. But is this true?
Today’s guest is a nutritional therapist who works with women over 40 to support them with losing weight the right way. Louise Digby is passionate about helping women to know the truth behind diets and food, and why the answer to your weight loss goals doesn’t just lie in the amount of food that you eat.
Join us in today’s episode as we talk about:
- What a diet really is and why it’s time to change how we use the word diet.
- The different factors that contribute to our weight and the results we have around weight loss.
- Why calories are not the route to losing weight, or building strong health.
- The role of the gut in weight management and your overall health.
- How to start taking steps to focus on having good gut health.
- The impact menopause has on women’s weight.
- Whether women can lose weight in the menopause stage of life.
- Why it’s time to change what we know and create different beliefs about the role of food in our lives and health.
About Louise:
Louise Digby is a registered nutritional therapist, women’s weight loss expert and founder of The Nourish Method to Lasting Fat Loss. Her clients come to her after struggling to lose weight despite eating well and working hard to burn the fat. Louise transforms her client’s health and wellbeing by identifying and addressing each individual’s unique needs and imbalances, so that they can lose weight, optimise their health and rediscover their sparkle, without restrictive dieting or the need for superhuman willpower.
Connect with Louise:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Have you ever felt like it’s too late to change? Is there a point in life where it’s simply not possible to change your health and habits?
Today’s guest firmly believes that it’s never too late to make any change that you might want to feel healthier and live a life without limits. Gayla Beyer is a health and wellness coach who in her early sixties decided it was time to pivot from her long career in healthcare as a nurse practitioner so that she could feel more fulfilled and look forward to an exciting new chapter in her life.
Gayla shares so much about her journey through life getting to know who she is on the inside, and why this is something that she’s now helping other women to do so that they too can embrace all that the retirement season of life offers and know it’s never too late to build better health.
In this episode we explore:
- The power of being self-aware.
- Why taking time to understand what you need is so important to your wellbeing.
- How normal it is to doubt your ability to change and how to not let this limiting belief hold you back.
- The mini-retreats that Gayla has used throughout her life to nurture herself.
- The different ways that you can begin to get clear on what it is you really need to feel your life is fulfilling you.
- What’s driving the shift away from the typical approach and perception of retirement.
- How valuable strong health is to open up limitless possibilities for living a full life.
- Tips for creating a life that you love, at any stage of your life.
About Gayla:
Gayla is a seasoned nurse practitioner who pivoted from her medical career in 2021 to embark on a new journey as a health and wellness coach. Specialising in guiding women through the stages of retirement, Gayla's passion is helping them embrace this life change.
At the heart of her coaching program, "Retire Your Limits," are three foundational and interconnected pillars and alongside this, she helps women plan and embark on personalised mini-retreats. These mini-retreats serve as a vital component of Gayla's holistic approach, providing a space for reflection, rejuvenation, and self-discovery.
Beyond coaching, Gayla shares her transformative message through her podcast - Retire Your Limits. With expert guests and stories of women moving into the next chapter on their terms, it’s a perfect source of empowerment and transformation.
Connect with Gayla:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Is self-care really selfish? What even is self-care?
Are you ready to revolutionise your wellbeing? In our latest episode, we dismantle the stereotypes around self-care and reveal its true essence as a powerful tool for personal health, fulfilment, and happiness. From challenging misconceptions to sharing impactful habits, this episode is your gateway to clarity and permission to put self-care top of your list!
Join us as we explore the five key elements of self-care, share personal practices, and inspire you to make self-care a non-negotiable part of your daily life. Unravel the myths surrounding self-care and discover why it's not just a luxury, or something kept for Sundays, but a vital investment in your happiness - now and for your future self.
In this episode we’re sharing:
- What self-care is and what self-care is not!
- How commercialisation has created an unobtainable perception of self-care.
- The importance of self-care as the cornerstone for a healthy, happy life.
- Introducing the five key elements (Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, Social) and their interconnectedness.
- Why prioritising self-care enables you to be the best version of yourself for others.
- The awareness of adapting self-care practices based on individual needs and life changes.
- Our hosts most impactful self-care habits and practices that transformed her mental and physical wellbeing.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Today we’re joined by Laura Pearman who wants to share a tale of caution, and joy. Laura is an entrepreneur who found herself caught up in the hustle mentality of being self-employed: trying to prove yourself and building a sustainable business. She was passionate and enthusiastic, living life fast to make the most of everything she had and wanted to achieve.
Until Laura hit a health crisis. Not just once but several times. Only when she was diagnosed with Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a disorder related to high pressure in the brain, did Laura start to realise the way she was living wasn’t optimising her happiness. But it took more ill-health before the big shifts really started to happen.
In our conversation we share:
- How the beliefs you hold dictate the way you push yourself and strive for success.
- The risks of not tuning in with how you are feeling.
- How burnout showed up and why Laura kept moving on despite hitting it several times.
- The shift that talk therapy had and the key penny-drop moment it gave.
- Why you need solid foundations with the right building blocks for you.
- The power of understanding your own values and building blocks for good health.
- Making changes and building new habits that become a part of who you are.
- The role play and fun have on your wellbeing and happiness.
- Taking a holistic approach to strong health and wellbeing.
About Laura:
Laura works with experts who want to build their authority so that they can create impact, legacy and leave an indelible mark in their industry.
Connect with Laura:
Website
YouTube
Get Laura's free entrepreneur tool: What's your secret brand ownership style?
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
What would you say if we told you that resting is one of the hardest things to do to improve your health and wellbeing?
In a world where life is busy and the most common reason given for not being able to build new healthy habits is a lack of time, it’s a bit of a surprise to know that rest isn’t something that’s being excitedly embraced and used to improve your health and happiness.
Today we’re joined by the fabulous Nikki St Paul who is a rest advocate. Nikki helps busy professionals to understand the importance and power of rest. She passionately wants you to switch your beliefs away from rest only being about the sleep you get in bed, to understanding what true rest is and why it’s essential to your overall wellbeing.
This is a fantastic conversation and one where we share so much valuable information and tips to get started with new habits to build stronger health.
In today’s episode we share:
- What rest is and the importance of building habits for rest.
- The reasons for and risks of the rest deficit we’re seeing.
- How doing less may be the answer to getting more from life.
- Overcoming mindset barriers around taking time to rest.
- Understanding what works for you and knowing that everyone can create habits for impactful rest.
- Getting started with micro-mindful moments.
- The benefits of being present more often across your total life.
- Using mindfulness and why it’s about ‘non-doing’.
- What meditation really is and why most people struggle because they’re doing it wrong.
- The importance of being self-aware to know what it is you need to feel well.
About Nikki:
Nikki is a Mind, Body, and Breath Coach and the Founder of Breathing Mindful Coaching. She combines her expertise in breathwork, coaching, and mindfulness meditation to provide holistic support to her clients.
Nikki empowers ambitious women in midlife to reclaim the power of rest. She is on a mission to help her clients rest so they can rise, through her 12-week online 1:1 program. Rest & Rise™ is here to redefine success.
Connect with Nikki:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Do you ever wonder if there is a deeper reason for your energy being depleted or feeling stuck? As a homeopath with over 25 years’ experience and a Business Abundance Coach©, our guest today, Wendy Molyneux, is an expert at seeing the “Issues in Your Tissues” and helping you to clear these root-cause energetic blocks, so you can enjoy a life of abundance.
Wendy believes that energy is your most valuable asset and the key to unlocking abundance. She believes that building strong health requires a whole person approach where your habits include ones that connect with your heart and feel into what you already know inside of you.
During our chat together we share:
- What energy is and how it is the source and key to feeling the way you want to feel.
- How making intentional changes to your habits can impact your overall energy in so many different ways.
- What homeopathy is and how Eastern medicine is used and applied.
- The way homeopathy works to help you deeply heal.
- How conventional medicine takes a suppressive approach and is often solving symptoms rather than fixing the root cause.
- The approach Wendy has to turning lemons into (healthy!) lemon ENERGY drink.
- Leaning into more feminine and ‘Heartful’ energy.
- Tips to start connecting more with your own energy and using it to support your health and happiness.
About Wendy:
Business Abundance Coach and Homeopath, Wendy has an unusual skillset: a creative marketing communications professional turned homeopath and natural health advocate. She has done the London Agency thing and the backpacking the world thing and is now happily settled near the New Forest with two grown-up kids and Monty the dog. She says “My energy and positivity are high when I am listening to my heart and doing what I love. Helped by daily yoga, forest walk-and-talks with friends, and weekly Aqua Chat, and not helped by my sweet tooth and too much weight – my next mission!”
Wendy is also a Heartfulness Coach©; Mindfulness & Law of Attraction Teacher; Author
Ex-Marketing Agency Owner and Ex Natural Health Clinic Marketing Manager.
Connect with Wendy:
Website
Linktree
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Today we’re exploring the connection between women, sport, and the pursuit of a healthier, more confident future.
Our guest is the inspiring Becky MacDermid, a dedicated netball player and CrossFit enthusiast. We delve into the transformative power of sport for women, focusing on resilience, confidence, and the crucial role women play in driving equality and diversity in the sports arena.
As we see reduced activity in kids and a rapid decline in adult activity levels, this is a very relevant conversation that we hope inspires you to think about how impactful sport might be for your own health and that of your children.
In our conversation we chat about:
- What sport actually is, and why it’s probably not what you think it is!
- How sport has shaped Becky’s confidence and resilience.
- The connection between women growing up playing sport and those in senior leadership roles.
- The ripple effects that are experienced when you are active
- The importance of being active and participating in sports as a form of positive role modelling
- The need for female role models in sports to inspire and encourage the younger generation.
- Concerning statistics from the 2022 Sport England report, particularly the gender gap in activity levels among children and young people.
- Beliefs women have with sport and strength training that holds them back from taking part in these activities.
- Why we need to shift away from focusing on body shape, size, and aesthetics to knowing the value of feeling strong.
About Becky:
Becky works as an investment manager at Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s leading alternative asset managers, providing a range of funding options to dynamic quoted and unquoted SMEs. She is a keen supporter of female founders in the North East.
Becky loves playing netball and is a keen CrossFit particpant, loving the community spirit and supportive group she trains with. gym early last year.
She is passionate about the fantastic developmental opportunities that sport can provide, especially for women which has been proven to translate into important skills including leadership, resilience and ambition.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
The beginning of a new year often brings with it thoughts of change and of course, resolution. There’s the common theme of it being a “New Year New You”. But, how many times have you set out at the beginning of a brand new year resolving to make this year the one you get healthier, fitter, or perhaps lose that weight you’ve been struggling with for so long, only to reach December and realise it didn’t happen?
It’s reported that only 8% of people who set resolutions achieve them and that even by the end of January, as few as 25% of people are still sticking to their resolutions.
I want you to have a different result in 2024. I want you to make the changes you want for yourself so that you live with stronger health and feel happier, more fulfilled. I don’t want you to end up a statistic in the people who start a new year determined to make the changes they want and land up on the scrap heap by February because they just couldn’t create those new habits.
So in today’s episode we’re bringing something very different and very special. Today we’re giving you an insight into what a coaching session is like, to inspire you to create an action plan to build your own healthy habits in 2024.
Join me as I coach Wilma Edwards, a passionate and very real person who kindly volunteered to be coached. I’m taking you behind the scenes of what coaching looks like and helping Wilma get clear about how she wants to feel in 2024, and most importantly, how to make it happen for her.
In Wilma’s coaching session we explore:
- How Wilma would like to feel at the end of 2024.
- Getting super clear about how she would feel if she achieves what she wants for her health and happiness this year.
- Exploring Wilma’s ‘WHY?’ for wanting to feel this way, and explaining why this is so important to dig into and have clarity on.
- What is standing in her way of feeling this way right now.
- Some of the limiting beliefs that are impacting how Wilma feels and that might stand in the way of her creating the change she wants.
- The power of small steps and getting taking fast action.
- Why you need to create a plan that has smaller goals to help create motivation and momentum.
- What steps she will start out with to begin moving towards her 2024 goal.
About Wilma:
Wilma is a mum of two kids under five, embarking on a new career as a Financial Planning Consultant, with some really exciting opportunities ahead but worries that her body image will get in the way of her success.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
It’s pitched to be the most wonderful time of the year, so why then do so many of us battle through it and end up feeling totally frazzled, wishing we could take a holiday?!
Christmas in the movies is all about family, special memories, enjoying all of the festive frivolities that come only once a year making you feel warm and cosy, and of course with snow falling gently outside your window! But Christmas in the real world is often anything but this picture perfect postcard!
If you struggle with overwhelm and stress at this time of the year, or always start January wishing it was summer, then this episode is for you. We’re sharing our top 12 tips to protect your health over the holiday season and helping you to perhaps think a little differently about what Christmas really means to you.
In this episode we’re sharing:
- Our 12 tips to have a healthy holiday season and start the new year with energy and focus.
- Why Christmas puts so much pressure onto you and how to approach it differently this year.
- The reasons so many people end up feeling stress and overwhelm at Christmas.
- How to navigate the challenges Christmas can bring by being more present.
- Giving yourself what you need to make Christmas 2023 better, happier, and healthier!
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Head down, staying quiet, feeling embarrassed because it’s that time of the month when you have to sneak into the bathroom and check whether you’ve leaked and change your pad?
This is real life - still - for so many girls and women. With the average age that girls starting their periods now being only 12, but can be as young as 8, we’re still lacking so much around education and support of women’s menstrual health.
Today’s guest is here to talk to us about how this lack of understanding means she thought her periods were completely normal, only to realise after years of suffering, that she actually had PCOS - Polycystic ovary syndrome. Emily Cook wants to help normalise talking about your periods and problems that so many females encounter with their menstrual cycle and reproductive system throughout the different seasons of their life.
In our conversation today we share:
- The lack of understanding that girls and women have because of the way women’s health is talked about in education and beyond.
- How we can create shifts in this to normalise conversation and support all women to get the help they need.
- Why there is so much stigma and shame attached to "women’s troubles”.
- How Emily put up with her heavy and irregular bleeding thinking this was just how periods were meant to be.
- The challenges faced when seeking medical support and having the right knowledge about what you’re feeling to help take the right course of action.
- Understanding your body and mind and listening to what it is you need.
- The power of focusing on the foundations of good, strong health.
- Taking one step at a time to build the right healthy habits for you.
- Recognising your progress and knowing you don’t have to ‘do it all’ to be healthy.
About Emily:
Emily is your friendly neighbourhood marketeer with a serious passion for female entrepreneurship. She has spent the last 3 years spearheading multiple marketing projects with a shared value of women empowerment. From launching a global digital magazine to running a content club for founders called Girl Brand. She lives and breathes community and collaboration, and believes in the power of storytelling.
Connect with Emily:
Website
To join Emily's Girl Brand Content Club on January 8th for FREE, signup here using promo code: LIVEHEALTHYNOW
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
In this special solo episode, we tackle the common thought of "I might as well wait until January" that often creeps in as we enter December and start the festive season. As the holiday hustle ensues, it's easy to put off health goals, but this episode aims to change that narrative.
You don’t have to let the final few weeks of the year feel like they’re controlling you - it’s possible to take steps to get in control and make the festive season and the end of 2023 a one you make your own.
Enjoy the festivities, take small steps towards your goals, and make this holiday season one that aligns with your wellbeing journey!
In this episode we’re sharing:
- The societal pressures placed on us to make the festive season perfect and how this leads to overwhelm and exhaustion.
- Our three tips for why now is the time to start a new habit you’ve been meaning to kick-off in 2023 but never quite got around to.
- How you can enjoy the season without it meaning you have to trade off your health.
- Making deliberate choices for a more aligned and fulfilling holiday experience.
- Why it all comes down to balance.
- Practical ways to take steps to better care for yourself and show yourself you matter.
- Making the festive season and Christmas a more joyful one by feeling in control of how you spend it.
As a special offer you are invited to join our 2023 holiday health workshop for more tips on self-care during the busy season so you can enjoy all the holiday season has to offer and kick-start the new year with energy and focus.
The link to book your place for the workshop taking place at 7pm GMT on Thursday the 7th December is right here: www.lifenowcoaching.uk/holidayhealth
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Do you regularly take a pause and just check-in with yourself, to breathe and notice how you’re feeling? You’re not alone.
As we see rising cases of burnout and stress related illnesses, we can see the impact that living busy, non-stop lives is having on us. It’s easy to be caught up in everything that you have to do and only just keep yourself from sinking below the surface.
Today we’re joined by hypnotherapy and breath work expert Helen Kelynack to explore the power of taking a pause. Helen is a breathwork advocate and coach who knows firsthand the power of using your breath as a tool to build strong health and wellbeing. Working in the NHS for sixteen years Helen treat hundreds of patients struggling with varying health problems and illnesses and realised that so much of what was difficult to diagnose was in fact stress related.
In our chat we dive into:
- The power of taking a pause to check-in with yourself and breathe.
- Why we’ve forgotten the right way to breathe and how this is impacting our health.
- The simple ways you can introduce a breathwork practice into your morning routine.
- Why creating a short, simple morning routine is so impactful to your health and happiness.
- The role of the nervous system and how important it is to support good regulation of it.
- Starting out with self-awareness and noticing how you’re feeling.
- Listening to what your body is telling you to notice when the alarm system is going off.
About Helen:
With over 16 years of experience working in the NHS in a variety of roles from working within a Health Visiting team to Practice Nurse, Helen has always championed and encouraged wellbeing for women. Having experienced mental health struggles herself, Helen used hypnotherapy and breathwork to regain her confidence and rediscover her true self and now shares this with women everywhere.
Helen founded Senara’s Sister to empower creative successful women who are lost or stuck in business or life. Specialising in working with stress and anxiety, using Solution Focused Hypnotherapy, coaching skills and breathwork, Helen is able to help women foster strength and self-compassion, approaching the next chapter of their lives with courage and embarking on new beginnings.
Helen lives in the beautiful countryside in the depths of Cornwall and spends her time with her family by the sea, soaking up the simplicity of life.
Connect with Helen:
Website
Download Helen's Free Box breathing guide here
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Have you ever wondered if running is really for you? Can anyone truly embrace the joy of running? Today, we're here to tell you that the answer is a resounding 'Yes!' Our guest Linda Meek is a passionate advocate for running, and she firmly believes that running is for everyone, regardless of their ability or experience level.
Join us as we explore the incredible world of running and how it can be a transformative journey for anyone, even if you've never laced up your running shoes before. Linda is here to share her enthusiasm for running and her mission to help individuals, many of whom have never run a step in their lives, discover the runner within.
Running isn't just about fitness; it's a powerful habit that can support strong health and overall wellbeing. Unfortunately, misconceptions often hold people back from trying it. Some fear injury, while others worry about judgment and embarrassment. Linda's insights will shatter these barriers and inspire you to take that first step on a path to health, happiness, and self-discovery.
In the episode we chat about:
- The power of running and why the gain is so much more than just physical fitness.
- Why anyone and everyone can start to run and make running a healthy habit.
- What holds so many people back from starting to run.
- Tips to start running even if you’re a complete beginner.
- The power of a running community and how to find your own running tribe.
- Breaking apart the myths and beliefs that you can’t run when you hit midlife and age.
- Whether women should run in menopause.
- The importance of starting with small steps to prevent injury and form a lasting habit.
- What running offers for your mental health and resilience.
About Linda:
Linda Meek formed Start Running Stay Running during the Covid lockdown after seeing so many people taking up running. Linda had herself found that running offers so many benefits for both physical and mental health. Knowing that running isn't as simple as putting on a pair of trainers and taking to the streets, Linda wanted to help others not just start running but stay running by helping to prevent injuries.
Linda is a Run Coach, Social Media Community Manager and Mental Health First Aider. Together with Graham McKenna , an Ultra Coach and Mental Health Champion, they have now established Start Running Stay Running as a Community Interest Company to make running accessible to all and to promote improved mental health through movement and getting outside.
Connect with Linda:
Website
Facebook Community
Free Guide to run 5k
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
In this special International Men's Day episode, we're diving into an essential topic that transcends gender boundaries – wellness. We're joined by a remarkable male guest, Andy Caine, to explore why men need equal space for wellness.
In a world where the conversation around wellbeing often leans towards one direction, we're shining a spotlight on the importance of ensuring that men have an equal opportunity to thrive and prioritise their health.
Andy is a huge advocate for men’s mental health and wellness and shares his story of finding himself lost and burned out, and how he sunk into depression, unsure of who he was and who he wanted to be. Andy's made huge shifts in his own personal development and is now driven to help other men find their true selves, supporting men to build resilience and high performance through coaching, experiences and retreats.
In our conversation we explore:
- The power of cold water exposure and building it into your morning routine.
- The challenges men are facing with their masculinity.
- Knowing it’s okay not to have it all together.
- Why men need to know it is safe for them to be open and share how they feel.
- Building mental resilience and different ways you can do this.
- The importance of stepping out of yourself and your normal life to find what you truly want and get clear on who you are.
- The limiting beliefs that form our habits and knowing we can change them when we choose to be curious and build new responses.
- How important it is for kids to be modelled self-awareness and to understand their emotions.
- The feminine and masculine energy poles we each have and how these impact how you communicate in personal and professional relationships.
About Andy:
Andy Caine is founder of In The Now How - Creating Experiences and Legacy For Human Optimisation and Connection. Andy has made huge shifts in his own personal development, awareness, presence and learning, and now has a mission to be of service to others.
Andy supports men on their own journeys with a holistic approach towards wellbeing and ultimately high performance. From mental resilience to boosting creativity and innovation, discovering purpose to maximising physical performance and everything in between. His workshops, seminars and programmes can be used to unlock personal or businesses highest potential.
Andy offers a range of corporate programmes, men’s retreats, and 1:1 coaching.
Connect with Andy:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
For so many working women life is full and they think it’s just the way it has to be. The way you feel you put down to normal tiredness and busyness; things that everyone has to put up with - right?
For our guest today she wasn’t someone who felt stress but she knew her life was super busy and demanding. As a deputy-headteacher in a primary school she carried a lot of responsibility, but she was doing a job she loved and had ambition to move up into a head role. So she kept going.
Lindsey Fekete missed the signs that the way she felt wasn’t simply because she worked in a demanding environment and carried responsibility in and out of the workplace. Lindsey joins us today to share her story of hitting burnout and what she’s learned about managing her health after overhauling her entire career and lifestyle to now feel she has a more balanced life.
During our chat today we share:
- The importance of self-awareness to help you know what you need to feel healthy and well.
- How burnout can show up and why the signals are often missed.
- The pressure women are putting on themselves to keep going.
- How Lindsey has made changes to have better balance across her life.
- What to do if you feel stuck in your life and are worried about hitting burnout.
- Understanding your health and menopause are key to have better awareness about what is changing and then give yourself the right support.
- Getting started with making changes if you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
- The power that comes when you have clarity in what matters to you and take steps to live intentionally.
- Why having self-compassion is absolutely key to happiness.
About Lindsey:
Having spent the last 23 years teaching in primary schools - and half of that in senior leadership roles - Lindsey now runs a successful online maths tuition business. Parents love to see the transformation in their children when they’re given support from a caring, confidence-boosting tutor like Lindsey.
The children Lindsey works with not only become relaxed and engaged learners, but they are left feeling ready and prepared for their next stage in maths. With Lindsey’s years of insight and teaching in preparation for Year 6 SATs, she knows exactly how to prepare children to tackle their tests. Lindsey is so passionate about stress-free exams, she was recently included as a guest expert in a book on the topic.
Lindsey lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and 11 year old twins, crazy cockapoo and grumpy cat.
Connect with Lindsey:
Website
Free Times Table guide here
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Do you ever wonder what's guiding you through your life journey? Is it ambition, the pursuit of professional success, or simply navigating each day to the best of your ability?
In this episode, we dive deep into the transformative power of living with purpose and how it provides direction and purpose to your life. Join us as guest Oriel Camp sheds light on how purpose can bring calm, clarity, and confidence, especially for busy working mothers.
Oriel shares her story of struggling with overwhelm and the challenges she faced living without purpose, leading to low confidence, a lack of motivation, and a sense of imbalance.
We’re helping you to think about your own values and purpose so you can get clear on your North Star and let this guide you through a fulfilled and happy life.
In our conversation we explore:
- What values are and why they matter to living a happy life.
- How missing values impact your life choices and the shifts that happen when you know them.
- Why so many women don’t know about values.
- The challenges of living without purpose, which often lead to a lack of confidence, motivation, and a sense of imbalance.
- How living without clarity on your values affects your overall happiness and wellbeing.
- The ripple effects that happen once you get intentional about living in alignment with your values.
- Why you don’t have to suddenly change everything in your life to feel better.
- Small steps to take to find your purpose and be guided by your North Star.
About Oriel:
Oriel helps busy manager mums to take calm and confident control of their life choices so they can live intentionally and get more out of life!
Oriel uses her warmth and positive energy to help parents enjoy a sense of balance rather than burnout and achieve life-changing goals, such as career change, relocation, new relationships, healthy boundaries, confidence, improved wellbeing and so much more. She brings lashings of light humour to her coaching and wellbeing workshops.
Behind the scenes, she’s a chocolate, cheese and wine lover. Oriel is blessed to be a mum of two, have a hubby Mike and can be found walking her gorgeous but mischievous mini-goldendoodle, Nala, by the river at home in Cheshire.
Connect with Oriel:
Website
Facebook Group
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
This month is breast cancer awareness month and sadly, we all know someone touched by breast cancer. Breast cancer occurs in every country in the world and the rate of breast cancer in women has doubled over the past 50 years. A woman born after 1960 and living in the UK has an estimated 1 in 7 lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and 1 woman every 10 minutes here in the UK is diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the most common type of cancer.
Thankfully we’ve seen many advancements in the treatment of breast cancer which has led to much improved survival rates. However, it is still a disease that nobody wants to have to face, so it is crucial that all women understand how to check their breasts and commit to regularly checking them, as well as understanding that seeking fast medical support is essential.
We’re joined by Amy Dave, a Physician Assistant who spent 10 years working in oncology roles and who is herself a two-time cancer survivor. Amy is here to share her story of being diagnosed with two very different cancers and how she supports herself to live a strong, healthy life. We hear from Amy exactly how to check your breasts and she gives so much valuable advice to help you know what to check for, when to check, and how to get the right medical support.
In our conversation we share:
- The impact that a cancer diagnosis has on you and your family.
- The learnings Amy had as a cancer patient and survivor that changed her approach as a health care provider.
- The changes to how Amy has approached her health post-cancer.
- The exact way to check your breasts and when you should do this.
- The signs to feel and look for to indicate whether you have a change that needs investigating.
- Why it is imperative that any changes are referred to your doctor or clinician without hesitation.
- What can impact your cancer risk and the importance of building healthy habits.
- Getting the right support as you navigate cancer treatment and when you rebuild your strength post-cancer.
Watch Amy’s free YouTube video where she guides you through a self-breast exam - watch here.
About Amy:
Amy Dave is a Physician Assistant with almost 10 years experience working in oncology. She is also a two-time cancer survivor. She currently works as a coach to those undergoing treatments for cancer.
Connect with Amy:
Website
YouTube channel
Amy's free guide - 10 Simple Way to Optimize Your Health While Coping With Cancer
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
We’re marking World Menopause Day 2023 by bringing you a very exciting and special coffee-style chat to help raise awareness and provide support.
This week we’re doing something completely new in bringing you not just one guest but three, and you get them all at the same time! Sam, Shakira and Helen join host Nicola to chat all things menopause.
It is more important than ever that menopause becomes a normal and safe conversation to have - whether with your loved ones, your friends, or your work colleagues and manager. There is still a lot of stigma and fear attached to menopause and it's time we transform the beliefs and conversations we have about it, starting right here today!
During our chat we share:
- What we learned about menopause growing up and how that’s affected our own beliefs about it.
- Changes we’re making in how we talk about and share our own menopause journeys and challenges.
- What we’ve experienced and learned navigating perimenopause and menopause.
- What to look out for and why it’s not a one size fits all list of symptoms.
- The importance of building mind body awareness.
- How your confidence can be affected and different ways to support yourself and not let menopause take over who you are.
- The huge impact making small habit changes has on how you feel.
- Embracing the second half of your life rather than fearing it.
- The importance of self-acceptance, compassion, and living intentionally.
Connect with our guests:
Helen's Instagram @senaras_sister
Sam's Instagram @_samjclark_
Shakira - @fitnesswithshakira
Link to the FREE Balance App to track your symptoms, changes, get support and be part of a like-minded community.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Today we’re celebrating one whole year of the Live Healthy Now podcast!
In this special episode with host Nicola Mercer we’re taking a little trip down memory lane. We're summarising what we’ve heard and learned over the past year, or 53 episodes.
There’s a common thread throughout just about every single episode, whether it’s been with one of our fantastic guest experts or with a friend sharing their real life story. And we’re going to share this with you and inspire you to get started on the next chapter of your own life story to live healthy, happy, and strong.
In today’s episode we share:
- The common takeaway we’ve had across the past twelve months of conversations.
- Why so many people stay where they are, even though life isn’t feeling the way they’d like it to.
- The thing that often gets you started on a journey to changing your habits and health.
- Some reminders of the real life guests who turned their lives around.
- The ripple effects that happen when you take better care of yourself.
- How life isn’t easy just because you’ve built strong health, but it becomes easier to manage the difficult or challenging times you face.
- That every birthday you get is an opportunity to celebrate the possibility and magic that is your life.
- Becoming the author of your own life story.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Disclaimer: We briefly talk about intimate partner violence in this episode around 12 minutes into the discussion, so please avoid this short part of the podcast if this may trigger you in any way.
Brain health isn’t just another fad thing you have to worry about to feel good. It’s absolutely critical for building strong health and wellbeing today, and more importantly, for your future self.
Did you know that the health of our brain is almost always the cause for dementia, currently the leading cause of death globally, and here in the UK, the biggest killer of women since 2011? Almost twice as many women will die of dementia than men. And the projections for people being diagnosed with dementia and dying from this chronic disease are rapidly increasing.
This is why we’ve asked expert Dr Laura Booi to join us today and share the reasons why our brain health matters so much and share the research work she’s leading on identifying causes of dementia. Laura is super passionate about protecting our brain and living a long, healthy life.
I truly believe that this episode is going to change the value you place on yours and your family’s health.
In our conversation we talk about:
- Why your brain health is so important.
- The difference between your brain and your mind, and why taking care of your brain impacts so much of your health and happiness.
- The risks of poor brain health.
- The alarming rise in dementia and forecasted growth in this incurable disease.
- Risks women are facing from dementia and why more women than men are being diagnosed and dying from it.
- The work Laura is leading to research societal influences on our brain health and dementia.
- Steps you can take to improve your brain health and lower your risk of dementia and Alzheimers disease.
- Why we must build awareness of brain health to protect our kids and future generations.
About Laura:
Dr Laura Booi is a social gerontologist, researcher, educator and consultant. Well-known for her work in dementia and brain health, she is highly respected for her knowledge and expertise in gerontology, which she uses to help individuals navigate life as they age.
Her interests in research and advocacy for brain health are born out of the desire to find solutions to both increase the quality of life of people living with dementia now and reduce the population’s risk of dementia in the future.
She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Dementia Research at Leeds Beckett University in the UK and a Global Atlantic Fellow with the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.
Connect with Laura:
Website
Twitter/X
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content to create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
There’s a common thread that runs through so many of the guest stories we bring to the podcast and today’s guest is sharing her story that completely pulls together what that thread is.
Sarah Jayne Adams felt lost, stuck, like she was on the wrong path. But as you may associate with, when you’re in a place like this, sometimes you think staying on that path is the only option. Changing it is not only scary but it can feel out of reach, so you stay where you are - comfortable, unhappy, putting up with it.
This is a real story of how when you know something isn’t right in life, you can and must build the strength and belief that you have it in you to make it different.
In this inspiring conversation we talk about:
- How easy it is to keep moving through life every day ignoring the signs that something isn’t right.
- The way unhappiness shows up and impacts your health and wellbeing.
- The pressure we put on ourselves to be in a certain place in life and why this can hold you back from what you really want.
- Managing resistance to making big changes.
- Finding a way to pause and check-in with yourself to ensure you’re on the right path in life.
- The power of being present and ways to build more mindfulness into your habits.
- The health benefits that come from you getting intentional about your life.
- Manifestation and the role of your mindset in having true self-belief and clarity.
About Sarah Jayne:
I'm a 30-something, Northern girl who's a content creator and social media marketer.
Connect with Sarah Jayne:
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
You’ve seen hypnosis as an act on a stage, done for entertainment. It’s hilarious seeing someone being put into a hypnotic state, barking like the dog they truly believe themselves to be. But how would you feel if you knew you were in a state of hypnosis every single day of your life?
This is the fascinating topic we’re exploring with our guest expert Jana Osta today. Jana is a hypnotist, kundalini yoga teacher, and TedX speaker. Jana is sharing how the beliefs we have instilled into us as children create behaviour patterns that mean we live so much of our life on auto-pilot - something that we hear so many people refer to when they feel as though they have no control over their life and how they feel.
The great news is that you have the power within you to change these programmes and create new pathways and behaviours so that you are living the life you wish for yourself.
In our conversation we talk about:
- The subconscious mind and the role it plays in how you live every day.
- What hypnosis is and why it’s so important to be aware of for your own life - and why isn’t what you think it is!
- How to begin noticing the behaviour patterns you have and identify what isn’t serving you.
- Why these automatic behaviours and thoughts can be so damaging to your overall health and wellbeing.
- How to get clear about what you want to change.
- The tools you can use to support making changes to your belief system and wellbeing.
- Empowering yourself with the knowledge that you are capable of change at any stage of your life.
- Self-awareness and creating clarity to create your desired self and life.
- Taking small steps and being consistent for lasting and powerful change.
About Jana:
Jana is a dynamic and multifaceted professional, serving as a hypnotherapist, holistic health & wellness coach, and Kundalini yoga & meditation teacher. With over a decade of experience in the corporate world, she embarked on a personal quest for deeper meaning and set out on a transformative journey of self-development and healing. Her comprehensive approach combines energy work, mindset transformation, and strategic action to empower individuals to embrace their true potential and fulfil their life's purpose.
Jana recently had the opportunity to share her insights as a TEDx speaker delivering a talk on the power of hypnosis, aiming to provide valuable perspectives.
Jana constantly seeks new experiences to push her boundaries. Whether she's launching her own business, conquering thrilling adventures like bungee jumping off the highest bridge in the world, or scaling the highest peak in Africa, she fearlessly embraces life's challenges and continuously reaches new heights.
Connect with Jana:
Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
In the words of Whitney Houston “Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.”
But can you really love yourself and why does it even matter?
We’re exploring self-love and self-worth with guest Melisa Dervisevic in today’s episode to uncover why loving yourself really is the greatest love of all. Melisa is a health and wellness coach who is passionate about helping women to be able to love themselves and know their worth because as she shares in her own story, it is only when you value yourself and believe in yourself with love and compassion that you can create a life you love.
In today’s conversation we discuss:
- What self-love is and why it matters.
- The struggle that so many people have loving and even liking themselves.
- Steps to take to begin building self-love.
- The ripple effects of working on knowing your worth and value on all areas of your health and wellbeing.
- The power in realising that happiness isn’t found in external things but when you are clear on your purpose.
- How social media affects our opinion and worth of ourselves and breaking free from comparison and perfectionism.
- The importance of practicing self-compassion and acceptance of yourself.
- Harnessing the power of positive self-talk to reinforce self-love and self-worth.
About Melisa:
Melisa worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner for 8 years but always felt like something was missing or that she needed to do more. After facing some challenges in her life, she went on a journey to find herself and to figure out her ‘purpose’ in the world. Working through therapy and life coaching she learned so much about herself. Melissa dug deep and was able to get clear on what she wanted from her life and know why this mattered to her.
With focus and consistency, Melisa built her self-worth so that she no longer chased it in the outside world. She’s now certified as a health and wellness coach helping women discover their self-worth so that they too can take control of their life and live the radiant life they dream of.
Melisa is a single Mom to her four year-old daughter and loves showing her the importance of putting yourself and your happiness first.
Connect with Melisa:
Website
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
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What we eat has such a huge part to play in not only our physical health but our mental health too. But knowing what to eat can be so complicated, and for many people they’re confused about how to eat better and improve their diet.
In today’s episode we explore food for health and the benefits of adding more plants into your diet. Our guest Sarah Mills shares her knowledge and experience about getting started with eating more plants and provides lots of great tips on how you can make changes to your diet to include more plant alternatives and thrive in life.
In this episode we discuss:
- The mind body connection and Sarah’s most impactful habit for this.
- The role food plays in so much more than how much we weigh.
- What plant foods are and why it’s something that many people turn their nose up to when they hear about it.
- The difference between veganism and plant-based eating.
- The benefits of eating more plants in your diet.
- Making small changes to gradually shift your eating habits.
- Three reasons why people make a choice to go full plant-based.
- Getting clear about why you want to change something to guarantee your success.
About Sarah:
Sarah Mills is an ex-marketing consultant turned vegan sales and leadership coach, who runs a sustainable, wellness and mindset business - The Art of Winning. Sarah has been a Global Brand Ambassador with one of the worlds' leading vegan B Corporations, reaching the top 2%, for 15 years, helping hundreds of people become conscious consumers with products and programmes to enhance mind, body and skin. She is a passionate advocate for helping people live their best lives and flourish through adversity to continue to grow with purpose.
Sarah was a 2020 Successful Women in Business Finalist in the Sustainability Category and the Winner of the 2023 NE Skill Up Business Awards. She is also the founder of WOW Women - empowering women everywhere in a fun and feisty way.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
The juggle of life is tough for many of us - work, family, home, friends, yourself! For Issy Howell who recently became a first time Mum, navigating this huge change and adjustment to her life was like most first-time parents, a challenging one! Add to this that she’s a business owner and very aware of how valuable her personal health and wellbeing are, she’s been finding it all just a little overwhelming!
We know that many people feel they don’t have enough time in their busy lives to add healthy habits into the mix - it’s the biggest reason we hear from our community and clients about what’s in their way to living healthier! So this is a great conversation with someone who found herself in this position and has been treading some choppy water with the challenges of adjusting to motherhood. But, Issy has such great awareness of how feeling strong with the right habits results in you being able to live the lifestyle you want, all whilst maintaining a successful business! This is such a great conversation emphasising the importance of health and work-life balance.
In our conversation we discuss:
- The importance of sleep in Issy’s wellbeing toolkit.
- How establishing routines has supported Issy’s transition to motherhood.
- The benefits of walking outside.
- The physical and mental adjustments that can be challenging post-pregnancy.
- Seeing your worth as more than your appearance and the value of knowing your inner strength.
- Shifting as a business owner to balance parental responsibilities and life changes.
- Why it’s important to be kind to yourself.
- Blending work and family life to model healthy habits and behaviours to your children.
About Issy:
Issy Roughan co-owns family business Howell Media, offering way more than just film. They produce top of the line content for business, be it on TV, on your website, across social media or live at your event. Issy uses her years of experience in the video marketing industry to consult, train, provide a focused strategy, create incredible content and make you stand out, regardless of your size or industry!
As a recent first-time Mum to baby daughter Esme, Issy is focusing on creating balance across running her business, caring for her daughter, and maintaining strong health for herself. She knows as an entrepreneur the importance of investing in your wellbeing and is passionate to help others live well so they can build thriving businesses, and enjoy their success out of work too!
Connect with Issy:
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
It’s estimated that the average person will spend around 3,507 days, or 90,000 hours of their lifetime working. That’s a huge proportion of your one life, so if you aren’t happy in your job or career, it’s going to take it’s toll.
Your health and wellbeing are impacted by everything in your life, so if work is the biggest thing you spend your time doing, it’s obvious that it’s going to contribute to your overall wellness and how happy you feel. So why do many of us spend years unhappy in our jobs and take the impact this has on our stress levels, our mood, our relationships, our mental and physical health?
Today we’re talking about the role your career plays on your overall health and wellbeing with Kerry Jones, an executive coach who helps people to work out their career path and navigate professional challenges so that their career isn’t what’s holding them back from living a happy life.
In our conversation we explore:
- Why the job you do has such an impact on your overall wellbeing and happiness.
- How easy it is to wrap your identity up in your job and career.
- The reasons so many people are unhappy in their jobs but don’t have the confidence to make a change.
- The hold fear has on you and how to tackle fear head-on.
- The changes Covid has brought to work and the job you do, and why we can’t let a return to the old normal take hold of you.
- Stepping back to look at the one life you have and creating a bigger plan for what you want to help you move forward with making a change in your career.
- The choice we all have but get caught up not seeing.
- Getting started with a simple tip from Kerry to look only at your next 6 months.
About Kerry:
Kerry is an Executive and Career Development Coach who supports senior professionals to gain clarity and confidence so they can thrive.
Having worked for 16 years in high-level positions with global FTSE companies, Kerry has extensive experience managing teams to deliver organisational, leadership and cultural change.
As a trusted coach, she leverages her experience and established coaching frameworks and techniques to support, challenge and empower her clients.
Kerry holds accreditations as a Coach from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), The Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), and ABNLP.
In addition to offering 1:1 private coaching, she collaborates with organisations to provide coaching services for their employees. Kerry's services also include group coaching, speaking engagements, and webinars.
Kerry loves living near the beach in Brighton with her husband and two amazing kids!
Connect with Kerry:
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
How many diets have you tried, only to find yourself back where you started? Are you stuck in the constant cycle of Monday dieting and weekend indulgence?
In this episode, we're diving into the world of diets, their effectiveness, and the impact they have on our health and happiness. If you've ever felt trapped in the cycle of dieting, or if you've wondered why diets don't seem to deliver the promised results, you're not alone.
Listen in as we explore the reasons behind our obsession with diets and uncover a more sustainable approach to health and wellbeing. It’s time to stop going on a diet!
In the episode we’re sharing:
- Why you should stop going on a diet.
- The reasons why you’re obsessed with dieting and weight loss.
- The pursuit of thinness as an answer to finding happiness.
- The role of diet culture in linking health to body size.
- The link between food, mood and overall health.
- Detaching health from body size: recognising that size doesn't define health.
- Rejecting the diet mentality and pursuing lasting lifestyle changes.
- Taking a holistic approach to health for overall strong health and wellbeing.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Life is for living, isn’t it? We all want to enjoy our life, get the most from it, spending our time doing nice, fun things. For lots of people this outlook on life creates a belief that thinking about your health and taking care of yourself will hold you back from living your life to the full.
For our guest today she loved her life and wanted to make the most of it, so had the opinion that life was too short to worry about her health. Carol Deveney was a self-confessed workaholic who took so much from the work she did and the success she’d accomplished in her career. Striving to build two businesses she was looking for the unlock to the next level of success and was shocked to get the advice that she needed to prioritise her health if she wanted to achieve further business growth.
Carol shares her story of recently facing a very scary and high risk health issue that made her realise her beliefs and approach to how she lived weren’t ones that were actually designing the type of life she wanted to be able to live and enjoy.
During our conversation we explore:
- The risks you put yourself under when you ignore your health.
- How Carol was unaware of the silent issues she was facing in her health.
- Why you need to listen more to your body and regularly check-in with how you’re feeling.
- The dangers that come from neglecting yourself and why taking a long-term view of your life helps you to make changes to your self care.
- The importance of setting clear boundaries to prioritise your health and wellbeing.
- What Carol is doing to improve her health and the ripple effect her lifestyle changes have had on other areas of her life.
- Approaching your health as the biggest investment you can make for your future self and life.
About Carol:
I’m a business-to-business strategist and CEO of my consulting firm, See Change International Consulting Ltd. With over 20 years of experience in the corporate world and a vast network, I’m ready to help you build the financial security, lifestyle and freedom you started your business for, and break the cycle of feast and famine.
As a B2B strategist, I help small business owners learn how to navigate the corporate world, get in front of large organisations, win contracts and build long-term, sustainable work pipelines. And as CEO of See Change International Consulting Ltd, I also help my corporate clients access the skillsets they need from talented entrepreneurs like you.
Connect with Carol:
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
We all know how important our mental health is and the impact it can have when it’s not strong. Today we’re talking about depression and finding out how our guest Matthew Williams faced three different episodes of depression and what he’s taken from his own experiences to now help others.
Matthew is an advocate for mental health, working mainly with men, and he’s passionate about normalising conversations on our mental health so that we don’t have to wait until we’re at crisis point before reaching out for help.
In the episode we chat about:
- What depression is and why it’s often a term that’s misused and misunderstood.
- How Matthew supports his mental health now and why he hasn’t labelled himself as someone with depression.
- The challenges we still experience as a society opening up about our mental health.
- Evolving our understanding and approach to depression and mental illness so it becomes comfortable and easy to talk about it.
- Culture being key to normalise sharing our emotions and health challenges.
- The struggles men have sharing and the stigma that can be associated with mental illness.
- The power of boxing to help understand depression and build your health to feel better all round.
- The importance of community and sport together and how powerful they are when combined.
- Why it’s vital we model healthy habits and normalise talking about your emotions to our kids.
About Matthew:
Matthew always felt he had a charmed life, until he didn’t anymore. In 2006 severe depression knocked him off his feet. He almost didn’t get up.
Despite a beautiful family and a career in boxing, the sport he loved, depression wasn't finished with him, and in 2013 and again in 2019 it beat up on him some more.
But like his childhood hero Rocky Balboa, Matthew ‘didn’t hear no bell.’
He hit back, and has used his experiences to help others, by writing his book, ‘Something Changed: Stumbling Through Divorce, Dating and Depression’, published in 2017, by featuring in a number of major mental health campaigns, and by creating Knock Out Depression in 2021.
Matthew is a qualified life coach and boxing coach, and holds a degree in sports science. He spent 11 years working for the national governing body for boxing, England Boxing, where he created Box In Mind, a boxing-specific mental health awareness workshop, in partnership with Mind.
He has worked for a mental health charity, supporting individuals to improve their mental health, as well as featuring in a number of mental health awareness campaigns.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
What if it’s you standing in the way of what you want? The promotion, the fitness goal, losing weight, a healthy relationship, having more time for yourself. Maybe you’re the one sabotaging this happening for you. Interesting thought isn’t it?
We’re exploring the topic of self-sabotage today with special guest Erin Wooodruff, a coach who helps you to stop holding yourself back and to stop the self-sabotage from standing in the way of being your true self.
It’s so common to not realise that your beliefs and thoughts are holding you back from happiness, possibly making you feel lost and stuck. This is why it’s such a great subject to bring to you this week! Take a listen and get some impactful tips from Erin about how to recognise whether the sense of doubt and loss about who you are is coming from the limiting beliefs you have about your potential and worth.
In our conversation we explore:
- What exactly self-sabotage is and why it’s not something that is your fault.
- The different ways you might be sabotaging what you really want in your life.
- How this plays out for your health and wellbeing.
- Why this is predominately something women struggle most with.
- How to start shifting your belief systems to better support yourself using Erins ‘3 As’ technique.
- The power of radical accountability.
- The role your marriage may be playing on your wellbeing and happiness.
- How to take control of your own happiness and not depend on your partner to make you happy.
- Getting started with small steps to build new habits to reduce self-sabotage.
About Erin:
Erin is a mom, wife, and CEO. She is a certified life coach who helps high-achieving women stay happily married to introverts. As a life coach, Erin helps you reconnect with yourself so you can create the abundant life you’re excited about. She teaches you how to communicate with confidence, clarity, and curiosity, love unconditionally, and create time for yourself.
Erin helps you to uncover limiting beliefs, pitfalls, and other distractions you may not have noticed in your life. Her goal is to help you stop holding yourself back and to stop self-sabotage. Erin believes that you are the only one who can change you, that you are the only one in your own way, and that it’s time to be yourself again.
Connect with Erin:
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
While we’re on holiday and taking a very well deserved and much needed break, I’d love to share a few of our listeners, and watchers, favourite episodes. If you’ve not listened to these ones yet then please check them out!
We’ve had so many fantastic responses to all of our episodes and we love the diverse range of topics and conversations we’ve had with the most incredible guests. We know we have so much more to bring to you after our little holiday!
Our most favourite five episodes to check out are:
- Number 22 with my special partner Kev where he shared his story of as part a month long focus on real people and real lives. Kev spoke about his struggles with imposter syndrome and the self-doubt that led him to suffer with very low self-esteem, self-worth and depression. He shares how his overall lifestyle was contributing to all of this without him knowing it. Talking about men’s mental health is so important and being able to start this conversation with my own partner was a very important and special thing to be able to do.
- Number 21 with my lovely friend Victoria Himsworth. This is our second most played episode and I think I know why! This was also part of the February mini-series sharing real stories and Victoria’s story is one so many people could relate to. Victoria’s whole life was turned upside down overnight when her one year old daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Vic knew she was close to breaking but also knew how important taking care of herself was, so she chose to focus on only one aspect of her health to support her as she navigated months living in a hospital.
- Number 6 with Megan Price from Happy By Me helping you to get clear on what happiness means to you and how valuable a tool journalling is to build into your habit toolkit. We all want to be happy but so many of you struggle to feel happy and Meg is the expert at helping you find what happiness looks like for you.
- Number 2 where I actually talk about health and chocolates in the same sentence - yes really! I share why your wellness toolkit is like your very own curated box of chocolates, with all of the best types of chocolate in there for you. It helps you to see that there isn’t a one size fits all approach to health and that what you do do support your health and how you feel will change as you life changes
- Number 4 with Ashley Carlotta where we dive into the role your emotions plays in what you eat and your diet. We talked about how to ditch the diet culture and no longer deprive yourself of the things you enjoy in your life and how’s all about taking a balanced approach to support not just your health but the health of your children too.
If you have a personal favourite please let us know in the reviews here on your podcast platform! Enjoy checking out some of our favourites and we’ll be back next week with a new episode for you.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
Are stress and burnout just the same thing? Is stress inevitable because of our busy fast paced way of living?
This is the topic of today’s episode with guest expert Keir Wotherspoon. We’re diving deep into why burnout is on the rise and whether men and women experience it the same way for the same reasons, and how to build the right habits to protect yourself from burnout.
Keir is a performance coach helping stressed and exhausted men in business defeat burnout and develop unbreakable confidence. He has a long background working in health and fitness, and uses his own experience of navigating burnout to help you understand why working hard and constantly pushing yourself isn’t the only way to hit it.
In our conversation we talk about:
- What burnout is and why it’s on the rise.
- The difference between stress and burnout, and why stress should be a good thing.
- How to build a morning routine to better support your sleep and overall health.
- Why sleep is the king of healthy habits in building resilience and avoiding burnout.
- The importance of habits and having them become a part of your identity.
- Challenging the biggest obstacle we hear from people wanting to make changes - having no time to do it!
- Keir’s three rules for living a strong, happy life.
About Keir:
Keir Wootherspoon is a performance coach helping stressed and exhausted men in business defeat burnout, develop unbreakable confidence and win back 10-15 hours each week without sacrificing a single penny in revenue or profit.
Keir focuses on health as a lever to improve your performance and accelerate your energy. He’s passionate about the importance of sleep and why it’s key to better managing stress and avoiding burnout.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
The way we think and feel determines our actions, which becomes our reality. For many of us, we’re caught-up in the spin cycle of life, unaware of this, struggling with who we are and our lot in life. Christina Lord is here sharing her story of how she’d moved through life, doing what she’d been made to believe were the right next steps for her - job, relationship, home, marriage - only to have her world come crashing down at age thirty-five.
What Christina shares is a familiar story - one of significant life changes pushing you to the brink of the edge, only to realise that what’s happening to you is in fact meant as a wake-up call to work out who you are and finally get in control of your life. She now supports other people doing this through energy leadership and mindset coaching, and we dive into the role of energy in finding your authentic self in this fantastic episode.
During our chat today we share:
- How easy it is to fall into roles in your life and not be clear on your identity and true self.
- The importance of emotional, mental, and physical health, and why there is no end when it comes to building strength in any of these areas.
- The powerful habits Christina has which are continuing to support her own journey of growth and self-compassion.
- Christina’s experience of big life changes being a calling to take stock of where you are in your life, and embrace the opportunities these bring to get clear about who you are.
- How the elements of your wellbeing overlap and identifying which areas you need more support on - and how this changes throughout your life.
- Knowing your personal values and letting these guide the way you live.
About Christina:
As a COR.E Energy Specialist, ICF Certified Coach, Breathwork Facilitator & Master Practitioner in Energy Leadership, Christina helps people learn how to master their mindset & regulate their emotions through identifying what drives & drains them of their energy. Empowering them to harness their natural power to create their own unique success formula - reducing unnecessary stress, to create a sense of clarity, grounded confidence & inner peace.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Please remember to subscribe and rate the podcast to help others discover and enjoy our free content and create their own healthy habits for a healthy, happy, and strong life.
In our fourth and final episode as part of our June focus on menopause we’re chatting with nurse and business owner Anna Slater about what menopause actually is and the truth behind HRT.
Anna has been studying and training over the past eighteen months so that her business is now a registered clinic able to diagnose and treat things like menopause. Her experience and expertise working as a palliative care nurse for ten years, and seeing hundreds of women in her own practice suffer because of their symptoms, has propelled her to want to shift women’s understanding about menopause to know that they don’t need to battle on thinking there’s no other way.
We discuss the challenges many women face from a physical and psychological perspective, and how many women fear they’ll never feel good about themselves again. We dive into why women need to be informed about changes and advancements in HRT and know what options they have to build strong health.
I hope you enjoy this special episode an takeaway inspiration and knowledge to better support yourself or someone you love as they navigate this huge season in their life.
In this episode we discuss:
- What exactly perimenopause and menopause is.
- The myths around what happens to women during this season of their life.
- What HRT is and the challenge so many women continue to have accessing it.
- How HRT can support and reduce your menopausal symptoms but why it’s also critical for strong future health.
- The risks to women’s health due to lifestyle and changes in hormones during and after menopause.
- Why HRT isn’t the magic cure all.
- The importance of being informed about menopause to take the right approach for you.
- Next steps to take if you feel you might be perimenopausal or menopausal.
About Anna:
Anna has worked as a palliative care nurse in an emergency hospital for ten years and alongside this runs her own aesthetics business, Anna Aesthetics. Over her eight years building this business she’s worked with a wide range of women and learned firsthand the challenges many of them experience with their confidence and happiness because of their health. This propelled her to create a 360 approach to helping women feel and look good, and she recently became registered with the care quality commission so that she is now a regulated facility - aligning her ability to carry out medical treatments with cosmetic treatments.
Anna has been training to help women through perimenopause and menopause so that they can make informed decisions about the type of medical and lifestyle treatments that are right for them as they navigate this challenging season of their lives.
Anna is an advocate for menopause awareness and HRT, and empowers women to have choice over their health and take a holistic approach to live a great life.
Connect with Anna:
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
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What do you know about menopause? Is it something you think you’ll face when you absolutely have to, or maybe that it’s something you’re staying well and truly away from because you know it’s going to be a nightmare?
In June our podcast will focus on menopause, exploring the myths, fears, beliefs, experiences, and impact to real women. I know how crucial it is to help women of all ages understand what menopause is and how it will affect them, regardless of whether they experience symptoms like hot flushes or not.
Being informed so that you can have agency over the way you feel and any support you need is essential. Because menopause is going to happen to you if you’re a woman, and it’s going to - with or without any physical or mental symptoms - bring change that impacts the way you live. Having the right understanding and knowledge will give you the power to navigate this big season and change in your life in the best way possible so you can live the great life you want to live.
Our episode today is sharing such an insightful and real experience of perimenopause with Sarah Price. Sarah is a mental health nurse, and has been a nurse in the NHS for twenty four years. This didn’t mean she was equipped with all the knowledge about menopause, or that she got the right support when she herself sought help from the medical profession who she went to for help managing her unexpected mental symptoms she started to experience at age forty-two.
During our chat we talk about:
- The symptoms Sarah experienced that were very different to the physical ones she’d been expecting to indicate she was starting perimenopause.
- What some of the mental health symptoms and problems can be that are related to our changing hormones.
- Her struggle getting help from her GP and why so many GPs are still focusing on depression as a root cause of many hormone related symptoms.
- Why being informed with good knowledge on menopause is key to supporting yourself both with the medical help you want, and for your own control.
- How HRT can be a huge help and reduce risks to other illness and diseases, but is not the magic cure for menopause.
- Tracking your symptoms and the different tools to do this.
About Sarah:
Now 51, I took an interest in the symptoms of perimenopause 4 years ago when I started to notice changes in my physical and mental health. I had not considered hormonal changes and was experiencing this without any understanding of what was happening. I was not experiencing the classic symptoms people associate with perimenopause so I didn’t initially make the link. I was fortunate that I was able to learn from the growing online movement for women and their families in relation to this ‘change of ‘season’ which ensured I was able to eventually gain the right treatment for me as well as being able to identify symptoms and to support women I come into contact with experiencing similar symptoms and now hope I can use my own experience to make others more empowered to seek support. All opinions are personal and not professional.
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Were you taught about menopause in school? How about by your Mother or other family member? What about as a grown woman?
Our society has deemed menopause a taboo topic, until very recently. This has led to the majority of women having very limited understanding about what the menopause is and what to expect - except for hot flushes, the beginning of the end of your life, and loss of fertility.
During June our podcast will focus on menopause, exploring the myths, fears, beliefs, experiences, and impact to real women. I know how crucial it is to help women of all ages understand what menopause is and how it will affect them, regardless of whether they experience symptoms like hot flushes or not.
Today’s guest is an incredibly brave, passionate, and determined woman. Rebecca Catterall is sharing her experience and story of navigating perimenopause. Her vulnerability is both humbling and inspiring. We know you’re going to resonate with so much in Rebecca’s story, and truly hope it helps you to better support yourself as you journey through this huge and life-changing season of your life.
In our conversation we explore:
- What education has been like for women about menopause and perimenopause.
- The definition of menopause and the importance of women being 100% clear on this.
- Rebecca’s initial symptoms and triggers that prompted her to realise she was peri-menopausal.
- The challenges she faced visiting her medical practice for advice and support.
- How so many women are misdiagnosed and put onto a treatment path for other ailments, and the potential damage this can do physically and mentally.
- The wide range of symptoms possible and how so many of these can be missed or attributed to other life stresses.
- The mentality women have to “shut-up and put-up” leading to them suffering in silence with all aspects of their fertility and menstrual cycles.
- The importance of being in control and equipped with good knowledge about menopause.
- The impact to your mental health and why self-compassion and acceptance are key.
- Learning to be aware of your body, mind, and tracking how you feel.
About Rebecca:
Rebecca Catterall is the Business Wife - and she wants to help you sort your shit out. An experienced Operations Manager who works with some of the most complex and idiosyncratic service-based businesses in the industry, she combines a passion for problem-solving, a knack for facts and figures, and 20+ years of experience working in orgs of all sizes to help business owners streamline their systems, solve their stickiest problems, and create bullet-proof businesses that don't fall apart the second someone takes a day off.
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We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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One of the key challenges we’re facing with menopause is the lack of knowledge about the topic amongst women. We haven’t been brought up with education and clarity about menopause so that we truly understand what it is and how it’s going to affect us. So, this month we're bringing you four very special episodes focusing on menopause.
There’s a lot of unknown, fear, stigma, and even shame still associated with menopause and the changes it brings to a woman. We’re seeing this play out in so many parts of our culture and society with 1 in 10 women citing they’ve had to leave their job because of the struggles they faced with their physical or mental health due to menopause.
Equipping ourselves as women with the right insights and knowledge so that we can take control and put the power into our hands to help us live strong an healthy is key. My guest this week is a local business advisor here to share her personal menopause story as part of our June menopause focus and awareness month. Nickie Kilkenny is a vibrant, professional woman helping other women in business to build successful, sustainable businesses. But, when Nickie was in the depths of perimenopause with no support or personal knowledge about what she was experiencing and why, she felt lost and incredibly scared. She describes herself as being a total mess and even fearing that she had dementia.
Nickie shares her story on:
- Having no knowledge about perimenopause or menopause and how it was something her own mother had experienced in her thirties but never spoke about.
- Feeling isolated and lost because of her symptoms and their impact on her wellbeing.
- Struggling to get professional help and her symptoms being explained as depression.
- Fearing she was losing her mind when her memory completely failed her in the most unusual way.
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How arming yourself with information by taking control of your health and your life is key to supporting yourself through the menopause transition.
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Why all women need to understand this huge season of their life and what will happen to them regardless of what symptoms they encounter.
- Making lifestyle changes to support your health and most importantly to help you live a well and happy life.
- How at fifty-five she is totally back in her game smashing not only deadlifts but her career too!
About Nickie:
As the Local Enterprise Manager for the Northeast, it’s Nickie Kilkenny’s responsibility to support businesses in the community, regardless of who you bank with. Nickie is accredited in business growth by the Institute of Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship (IOEE) and also Women in Business accredited by Every Woman, designed to support the growth in female led businesses. Nickie looks to add value and growth to SMEs to stay ahead of the curve, whether it be through one-to-one mentoring or by attending a local event - she is here to boost your business.
Nickie proactively spends time supporting local businesses by sharing advice, creating networks, leveraging the local ecosystem, and hosting events to help boost business.
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We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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Are you in the camp of waiting until something goes wrong before having to give your health a thought? It often takes something drastic or even life-threatening for either yourself or someone you love to face before you appreciate how valuable your health is. Because without your health, you have no life, no you even. It’s the number one thing that stands in our way of being able to do and feel the things we want in our lives.
For Casey Kang Head she faced this when she was diagnosed with cancer; not just once but three times. Casey lived a pretty healthy life prior to her first cancer diagnosis at the age of thirty one, but quickly realised how many of her habits were not ones that were helping her to live the full and vibrant life she wanted to live.
Casey and our host Nicola are totally aligned in not waiting until you face something catastrophic to realise your health matters. They want to help you have your penny-drop moment on why taking care of yourself is an investment that must be made not just for right now, but more importantly for the future you.
In our conversation we explore:
- How Casey focused on just one thing to support her health through her first cancer diagnosis.
- The mind body connection and the power of yoga to help you build this understanding.
- Reducing anxiety through mind and body techniques.
- Building resilience through the way you take care of yourself.
- The power of moving your body and making this a part of who you are.
- Applying a solution focused approach and why this comes natural to Casey.
- Getting started with exercise and overcoming the mentality of not having enough time to build this into your life.
- Finding ways to exercise that tick lots of wellbeing boxes.
About Casey:
My name is Casey Kang Head. I am a 3x survivor of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
I am an Author of “Finding Your Way Back to Heart Center; Cancer Treatment Ended Now What?”
I am also a personal trainer, Yoga instructor, Yoga for oncology certified, Cancer Exercise Specialist, PN Level 1 Nutritionist, Restorative Yoga, Trauma Trained, Level 1 Reiki Healer and lifelong learner. I am dog mom to Lily.
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We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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Knowing what success looks like for you is something so few of us get clear on, yet we’re constantly striving for success because we believe it will make us feel the way we want to feel. Yet the irony is that we often don’t even know how it is we truly want to feel!
It’s easy to get caught up in your life, pushing to achieve your goals and achieve this success, doing and saying yes to more and more. The result is that you’re maxed out, juggling so many balls, stressing over having no time and not feeling the way you’re trying so hard to feel.
Our guest today is Amanda McKinney, a coach helping entrepreneurs to navigate self-doubt, which we all know is a big obstacle in building strong health and wellbeing. Amanda focuses on your personal definition of success and boundaries, so we couldn’t wait to have her share her expertise and give you some valuable tips on how to say no - and yes - to the things that matter most in achieving your own success.
In our conversation we explore:
- Tips to building new habits by focusing on your intention.
- The importance of accountability and how it’s possible to do this yourself.
- Why it’s essential to get clear on what your version of success looks like.
- The challenge many of us face with what we think success is, and why this often leads to feelings of failure, poor wellbeing, and unhappiness.
- How important boundaries are to achieving your success and feeling the way you want in your life.
- The way our conditioning of doing and having ‘things’ to feel successful is leading to overwhelm, stress and burnout.
- Getting started with putting boundaries in place to support your overall wellbeing.
About Amanda:
Amanda McKinney is a recognized thought leader and coach on Accidental Entrepreneurship, author of Why Not You? An Accidental Entrepreneur’s Guide To Success and host of The Unapologetic Entrepreneur Podcast. As a coach she can help any Accidental Entrepreneur navigate self-doubt so that they can take action and uncover their confidence through utilizing her Y.O.U. Promise framework.
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We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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Is it really possible for women to have it all? What even is ‘it all’?
These are just some of the questions we’re exploring in today’s episode with our guest May James. May runs two businesses and has had huge success in the accolades she has been awarded and in supporting other female entrepreneurs to build and scale thriving global businesses. All of which she has accomplished whilst managing her chronic illness and living her life on purpose.
May is passionate about helping women to create a business that works for them by being honest about how she balances her business with living a great life. Her openness and vulnerability are strengths that will help others to reflect on their own life to consider what might support them to feel better and get clear on their own values.
In our conversation we talk about:
- The blueprint May used to design her life and business.
- The different habits May has gradually built to enable her to manage her chronic illness.
- Whether women really can have it all.
- How a culture of comparing yourself to what you deem normal and success is crippling so many women.
- Why women need to be more open about the way they feel and the things they do to support them in their life.
- The different seasons we go through in our lives and the importance of being aware of these to know what you need.
- Why self-care is being given a bad name and what caring for yourself actually looks like.
- How people view coaching and therapy and making changes to help them feel better.
About May:
May James is a global business consultant, trusted strategic advisor and speaker that helps ambitious entrepreneurs to scale their businesses sustainably. She won North East Young Business Woman of the year award in 2022, and was listed on the Northern Power Awards Future List in 2023 which recognises the leaders and trailblazers who are raising the bar for gender equality at work. She is a business mentor for Virgin Start-up and is a recent delegate for UNWOMEN UK.
Her refreshing and honest approach to empowering ambitious women to feel more confident on their entrepreneurial journey is unrivalled. May has built a community of thriving women around the world who are armed with the tools to excel in business and live a fulfilling life. Her outstanding and consistent results are down to her distinctive, no-bs, proven approach of driving success and transformation.
May also runs a preloved fashion recycling business, is the host of the Honest Business Podcast which is listened to across 25 countries, battles daily with a chronic illness and champions living fully in the everyday.
May has over 8 years of sales experience, went to business school, consulted around the world and headed up the D&I function within a not-for-profit; responsible for over 8,000 individuals. She now spends the majority of her time at May James Ltd, helping small businesses to design rewarding business models, sustainably scale revenue and develop high performing teams.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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Is it a constant battle to stay healthy once you build a healthy lifestyle where you feel strong and well?
This was a fantastic question recently asked to our host and one that we thought was perfect to explore in this podcast episode. It’s an important topic to bring to you because being healthy isn’t a goal that you reach and then tick off because it’s complete. Healthy living is for life - there is no finish line!
So many people think that being healthy is a thing you achieve and then you can go back to ‘normal life’. Unfortunately this is why many people are failing to positively change their health and continue to struggle with their wellbeing. People often view a healthy lifestyle as one that results in you missing out on the things you really enjoy and that it must feel like you’re struggling to live like this. So, let’s unwrap the truth about living healthy!
In the episode you’re going to learn:
- That living healthy isn’t something that is a constant battle.
- How building the right habits for you is the secret to living healthy.
- The power of consistency for a sustainable healthy lifestyle.
- The truth about how easy it is to live an unhealthy life, and a healthy one.
- The reason you stay stuck with the habits you have - whether good or bad habits!
- How you should approach your own healthy lifestyle.
- Key unlocks to help you start building healthy habits that become a part of who you are.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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That voice you hear in your head is real and the most powerful voice you hear, yet for many of us, it’s the most critical voice we ever hear! The way you support yourself has such a role to play in your health and wellbeing but is very overlooked when it comes to building a healthy lifestyle.
This is why today we’re going deep into the topic of self-compassion for wellbeing with guest Tom Cleary. Tom has a wealth of expertise in mental health and personal development with a focus on self-compassion and social connection. Having awareness of the type of person you are and how you treat yourself is a fundamental piece of the wellbeing puzzle. Only with this awareness can you be more compassionate and supportive of yourself to reduce the impact, and potential damage, of the often very loud and intrusive internal voice you have.
In this conversation we explore:
- Why so many people struggle with self-compassion and are so hard on themselves.
- The damage your inner critic can inflict on every part of your life.
- The power that comes when you build self-compassion into your wellness toolbox.
- Developing self-awareness as a key tool to build self-kindness, self-compassion, and self-encouragement.
- Getting started with building stronger self-compassion and tips to become self-aware right now!
- The role of social and human connection in the relationship we have with ourselves.
- How the pandemic and changes coming out the other side are affecting our wellbeing.
- Personality types and how important it is to understand yours without having to put a label on it.
- Why introvert personality types can be so hard on themselves and the changing awareness of what being introvert means.
About Tom:
Tom Cleary is a Personal Development, Wellbeing and Mental Health Consultant, Trainer and Coach. Tom specialises in self-compassion, social wellbeing, human connection, and introversion. He is also qualified in clinical hypnotherapy and mindfulness.
After experiencing a significant burnout, Tom realised the importance of self-care and mental health and now facilitates wellbeing training, to help others avoid what he went through, or recover more quickly.
His biggest goal is helping people improve their lives by understanding their minds and the way we relate to each other, and his overall company mission is to help others live a happier and more meaningful life, in whatever way is right for them.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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Is it really that important to invest in your health before something goes wrong?
In today’s episode MD turned entrepreneur Dr Kim Foster is sharing her experience of working in the Canadian healthcare system as a family doctor for over twenty years and the challenges of reactive health care. Dr Kim is a huge advocate for proactive health and offers so much on why we should be building a culture of healthy living at the heart of our families, communities and who we are, to help us all feel well and love the life we live.
Taking better care of yourself before you face a challenge with your health that means you have no other option than to take action is so vital, especially when we’re all living such fast paced lives and want to achieve so much from the one life we each have.
In this episode we chat about:
- The challenges with the reactive health care approach taken by the health care systems in most countries around the world.
- Why so many people struggle to do anything other than put a fix over their health issues.
- The importance of being proactive with your health.
- Whether women really can have it ‘all’ and why they believe this is the answer for success.
- The common problems we see most women wanting to change in their lives.
- How a coach is able to get better clarity of what women really want to change in how they feel about themselves.
- Finding balance and acceptance for the season of your life you’re currently in.
- Acceptance that being healthy isn’t about being perfect or having to do it the way the media portrays healthy living.
- How to get started with small steps to building stronger health.
About Kim:
Dr. Kim Foster, M.D. is a compassionate entrepreneur and healthcare professional who inspires people around the world to live healthy, beautiful, vibrant lives by elevating whole-person wellness. After experiencing the frustrations and crushing limitations of the conventional healthcare system for many years, she began her journey into entrepreneurship as the founder of The Wellness Coach Academy. By training new health and wellness coaches through the Academy, she has helped others build their businesses, find freedom, and promote a healthy, balanced living across the globe.
Dr. Kim lives in beautiful Victoria, BC, Canada with her husband and their two boys. You can often find her practicing what she preaches: running by the North Pacific, spending family summers at her home in France, cooking up a pot of homemade soup, or curled up with a good book.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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Mindfulness is a bit of a buzz word right now as we hear it popping up in many different wellness and healthy living conversations. It’s a powerful tool and can offer so many mental, physical, and emotional health benefits. It’s also something that is free and simple to add into your wellness toolkit!
Today’s guest Alison Dee is a Mindset and Manifestation Coach certified in mindfulness training so was a brilliant fountain of knowledge to dig into what mindfulness is and how to go about building it into your lifestyle to reap the many rewards.
In the episode we explore:
- What mindfulness is and why so many people are talking about it.
- The benefits of practicing mindfulness.
- Why mindset is so crucial to implementing any change in your life.
- How to get started with mindfulness in your life using simple steps.
- Our own experiences of implementing mindfulness into our lives and the benefits we get from it.
- The different ways you can approach it in your life and still gain so much from i.
- The link between mindfulness, mindset and manifestation.
About Alison:
Alison Dee is a certified life coach, mindset mentor & NLP Master Practitioner. As an expert in positive mindset, manifestation and mindfulness she is absolutely passionate about helping others gain control of their lives and their business by getting control of their mindset to manifest their dreams! She helps her clients resolve both internal and external conflicts in their lives through science, spirituality and positive mindset.
Obsessed with crystals and personal development, she is also a registered biomedical scientist and so she puts the science and the ‘woo’ together to make understanding creating your dreams really easy and logical for everyone-because we all deserve to live our best life, right? Alison and her partner Jason have 2 furbabies called Poppet and Stripe, and she’s happiest when outdoors with a glass of wine!
Alison is an Amazon bestselling published author, as part of a book collaboration with 14 other women telling their stories about stepping into their power. You can order the book here.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
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There are two types of people - those who have a drink problem and those who don’t.
Is this really true? It’s been the way levels of alcohol dependancy have been categorised for many years, but things are slowly starting to shift when it comes to thinking about what we drink and whether we really do have a problem with it.
We’re exploring this topic today with guest expert Carol Urry, an alcohol free and habits coach. We dive into why so many people feel it’s normal to drink and why this stands in the way of many people choosing to limit or even no longer drink. We dive into the effects it has on your overall health and why pausing to think about your drinking might be something that you need to do to achieve the health and life goals you have.
In the episode we talk about:
- The role alcohol plays in society and the expectation there is to drink alcohol.
- Reasons why most people drink.
- How easy it is to move from occasional to dependant drinker.
- The role of habits in drinking and wanting more alcohol.
- The impact alcohol has on your health and why it’s so much more than a hangover the following day.
- The types of drinkers - liberated and fixated - and why this might indicate whether alcohol has become a problem for you.
- Alcohol becoming a bigger problem for women in the menopause phase of their life.
- How to take steps to reduce your alcohol intake or aim to go totally sober.
- The main reasons people choose to stop drinking and the biggest benefits it has on their lives.
About Carol:
Carol is an Alcohol Free and Accountability Coach helping Mum's to control their drinking habits. Having qualified through the ‘This Naked Mind Institute’ Carol uses her bespoke programmes to help clients through the toughest of times - from feeling unhappy and frustrated, to a position of control and choice around their drinking.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
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Health doesn’t have a start and end point. Neither is it about doing a prescriptive list of things and only then you’ll feel reap the rewards and feel great. And if you can’t do them all, why bother with anything?
Today we’re exploring the belief so many people hold onto that to be a healthy person means having to ‘do it all’; that you can only be healthy if you tick all the boxes and when you can’t, there’s no point in doing anything. So you stay exactly where you are, feeling stuck and struggling to balance your health and wellbeing.
In a world where the media portrays what health and healthy living is supposed to look like pressuring so many people to conform to this supposed ideal, we’re helping you to break free from the perfectionism trap you’re caught in pursuing healthy living.
In the episode you’re going to learn:
- The impact of holding a perfectionism approach to healthy living and what it means to your health in reality.
- How to ditch the all-or-nothing mentality to healthy living.
- Embracing imperfections and why this is key to building sustainable healthy habits.
- The power of consistency in health and wellness for real lives.
- The truth about health and wellness for real people like you.
- Tips for ditching the perfectionist mentality and starting your own unique approach to healthy living.
- Three key things to do right now to find balance in your health, wellbeing, and life.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
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As we see more people choosing to start their own businesses and explore the possibilities of entrepreneurship, today’s guest is the perfect person to share with you why at any stage of your life you need to be proactive about building good, strong health.
Lisa Johnson runs a hugely successful global online strategy company, which she founded only six years ago when she was a single Mum to twin sons and whilst working in a full-time job. But, as her business grew, her health deteriorated. Lisa has struggled with a chronic disease since 2020, and had further health complications after contracting Covid multiple times in close succession.
Navigating health problems that cause daily pain and restrictions to your lifestyle is challenging for anyone, and could very easily result in a downward spiral to your mental health. Lisa shares her story through her health journey and opens up about how she is successfully managing to run her business and team alongside learning more about protecting her health to feel stronger now and in her future.
In our conversation we explore:
- The impact your health can have on your business and overall life.
- How Lisa navigates her multi-million pound business with her chronic illnesses and regular pain.
- The importance of knowing the habits that will support your health and owning this to protect your energy and health.
- The impact stress can have on your body without your awareness.
- Why so many business owners are missing themselves off their strategy.
- The shift we need to make towards proactively taking care of your health.
- How to incorporate health and wellbeing into your team culture.
- The different ways you can build strong team wellbeing and not taking a cookie cutter approach to ticking the wellness box.
- Taking action to build a lifestyle where you are in control.
About Lisa:
Lisa Johnson is a global business strategist, entrepreneur, number one podcaster and speaker. Lisa recently launched her book ‘Make Money Online’ which was a Sunday Times Best seller. She uses her strategy and business training alongside her CASsH system to help people build sustainable businesses by focusing on passive and semi-passive income streams.
Connect with Lisa:
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
One area of wellbeing that is often overlooked, but is most definitely a part of every single person’s life is money. Your finances can have a huge negative impact on your life, with 71% of people in the UK currently reporting they are stressed about money.
What money means for women and the stigma many women hold about money is causing lots of challenges to mental health for them and their partners. It’s something we really need to get more comfortable talking about and sharing to help shift these long-standing beliefs of the role of money in the lives of women.
Our expert guest Philly Ponniah helps women to feel good about money with practical and psychological support. We delve into a lot of interesting topics around financial wellbeing that are relevant for everyone and will give you lots to reflect on for your own life and financial wellbeing.
In this episode about we talk about:
- How your mindset impacts your financial wellbeing and your overall health and wellbeing.
- Why money plays a huge role in the stress you experience, and how this isn’t always as a result of not having enough money.
- Tips to improve how you manage money now and for your future to improve your wellbeing.
- Having clarity on how you want to live to better and the role money plays in this.
- Why so many woman still don’t have control over their finances and are fearful of investing.
- How our relationship and mindset around money will impact the way our children understand and think about money.
- The challenges that still exist in female versus male roles towards finances and money and how this plays out into many areas of our wellbeing.
About Philly:
Philly Ponniah is a certified financial coach helping women feel good about money. She has worked in wealth management for 12 years and is passionate about financial well-being and building wealth so that we can live well now and in the future
Connect with Philly:
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
We spend so much of our lives working so why would we not think about the impact this has on our health and happiness? Today we’re chatting with guest Mike Cole about the importance of self-awareness in creating balance and good health. Mike is passionate about understanding how you operate and function as an individual - regardless of whether you are neurotypical or neurodivergent - to ensure you design a life that fits your unique personality.
As someone who is neurodivergent and works full-time from home with their wife and children in home education, Mike has vast experience helping individuals to get clear about what they need to be happy and productive in all areas of their life.
In this episode we talk about:
- The importance of self-awareness on building a healthy lifestyle.
- Building confidence around your skills and ways of working to lean into your uniqueness
- Struggling with acceptance of the different ways you work, and finding ways to navigate this so it doesn’t hold back your success.
- Building support tools into your life to create balance as a business owner and family.
- The value of community and why this is a must for your wellbeing toolkit.
- Why so many of us operate in our lives from a place of ‘should’.
- Health being anything but a one size fits all approach.
- Happiness being the input instead of the output for so much of what we want to achieve in our lives.
About Mike:
Mike Cole is a better-working-life coach. He helps you evolve a working-life that works for you, that fits your unique personality, and delivers the rewards you seek. Mike is an ICF-accredited coach and a chartered accountant.
Mike shares not just following someone else's dream, or squeezing yourself into their idea of what business 'should' look like. The world needs you in your uniqueness - so let's unlock it together.
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Doing the right work in the right way is key for living a happy, healthy life. But have you considered all the elements to do this? Find out how in Mike's free quiz for our podcast listeners.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
To support and celebrate International Women’s Day 2023 and the #EmbraceEquity focus for this year, we’re bringing you a special solo episode focusing on the power and impact women have when they take care of themselves.
Why women? Doesn’t everyone need to take care of their health?
Yes we should all be investing in our health, but there is urgency and a need for women because there is a huge and increasing risk to their health right now, with heart disease for females significantly on the rise and dementia and Alzheimers now being the biggest killer of women in the UK. Women continue to be under-represented in so many different ways and areas of our lives, world and society.
I know that by taking care of your health you’re going to feel strong, capable, confident and build resilience. When you feel all of these things, you’re willing to make changes, to believe that you can get after what you want, to create a life you love.
Women still hold the unlock to impacting kids and their attitude towards why they should take care of themselves and live a healthy life. This is why I want you to listen and take action today, to start a ripple effect that will grow and then change the lives of so many people in your world.
In the episode you’ll discover:
- Why International Women’s Day is here and why we still need to better support women globally.
- Some of the key challenges facing women today.
- That taking care of your health is for everyone, not just for women.
- How your health is linked to your self-belief and self-worth.
- The impact believing in yourself has on your confidence and happiness.
- Why you have the responsibility to show others what taking care of your health and wellbeing looks like.
- The impact that comes when women feel in control, capable, resilient and know their worth.
- That change always starts within community, groups and collectives.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
The final episode in our February mini-series bringing you real people and their stories about building a healthy lifestyle is with friend and food blogger Victoria Himsworth.
Victoria is sharing her journey of returning to taking care of herself following pregnancy and some big life changes. She realised that in order to be able to cope with the demands of new family life, she had to put herself into the mix of her busy daily routine. For any new parent, life with a baby is demanding and often exhausting. As Victoria gave birth on the night the very first Covid lockdown was announced, she was flung into maternity leave and the first few months with a newborn in a way she’d never imagined! This extreme pressure was a challenge for her in lots of ways, but then the subsequent diagnosis of a rare form of cancer for her then 13 month old baby, meant a return to normal life was put on hold yet again.
This story is one that shows how it’s easy to lose yourself when you’re hit with challenges, and that it’s very normal to let go of the healthy habits that now seem out of reach and irrelevant. But Victoria is testament to how step-by-step, you can begin to carve a new way forward, and build back habits that make you feel confident, strong and happy.
In the episode we talk about:
- The challenges Covid and lockdown brought as a new parent and to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
- How big changes in life quickly impact your overall health and wellbeing.
- Finding one thing that supports your health the most, rather than throwing the towel in when life feels overwhelming.
- Doing what works for you and how you want to feel to have balance over perfection.
- Accepting it’s a journey of adjustment and finding new ways to fit healthy habits into your new life.
- The importance of having something that drives and inspires you as part of your self-care.
- The value in showing your children how to live a healthy lifestyle and including them from a young age in what you are doing.
About Victoria:
Victoria is a part-time food blogger based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne sharing the delights of food on offer in local restaurants and takeaways, as well as how to eat well and enjoy delicious food at home. She advocates fuelling yourself to feel healthy and happy, and emphasises that you can do this even when you’re regularly eating out and enjoying great food!
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
The third episode in our February mini-series chatting with real people about their journeys to build a healthier lifestyle, is with our host Nicola's partner Kev Farndell.
Kev’s opening up about the self-doubt and imposter syndrome that held him back from happiness, and how he was an absolute beginner on his journey to building a healthy lifestyle only 18 months ago when he hit rock-bottom. Struggling with physical health challenges including high blood pressure, and mental health problems, Kev was not in a good place. He shares how he started by building movement and community through golf, and was then able to regain some confidence to allow him to take further small steps to improve his overall health and happiness.
Kev’s story is one to inspire you that even when you have no idea about how to live any other way, you really can begin to create significant change just one step at a time, and by doing this, the ripple effects create a momentum that lifts you up and inspires you to take even more!
In the episode we share insights on:
- The challenges men face opening up about their mental health.
- The worry many people feel about sharing their struggles with someone else for fear of burdening them.
- Imposter syndrome being very real for men too, and it not being limited to only your work or career.
- Living healthy isn’t the result of being perfect or following a recipe for success.
- The connection between the mind and body, and how this realisation has further driven Kev’s desire to feel healthier.
- How small steps to change create ripples across your life building your self-worth and self-belief so that you want to make further changes to feel better.
- The way your mindset shifts when you build habits that support your physical health.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
A little forewarning that in today’s episode we chat about death, loss and grief.
As part of our February mini-series focusing on how when life is hard or throws major challenges at you, the only way to move forward is to take better care of yourself, we bring you a truly incredible and inspiring guest, Cat O’Brien.
Cat’s sharing her story of the sudden loss of her much loved partner and soul mate, Jon. She explores her response to the trauma his loss triggered and explains why you have to move forward in a way that works for you. She emphasises that there is not a one size fits all approach to your health and for her this meant finding what worked for her to simply be able to keep going, and how it’s continuing to evolve as she builds back her strength and health.
Cat gives so much priceless advice for anyone who is struggling with grief or would like to understand better how to support themselves or others when grief comes into your life. She shows how it’s possible for anyone to find growth in grief and how this has enabled her to now be on a path she wouldn’t have chosen, but one she is filled with purpose to now follow.
You’ll learn about:
- The choice that lies in front of you when you experience a sudden loss.
- How grief invokes a trauma response and impacts your physiology.
- The different ways you can support yourself to work through grief and why this has to be individual to you.
- The role goal setting can play in helping you to navigate grief.
- Why we need to get comfortable with talking about death and grief.
- Basing your recovery on fundamentals like getting outside and having quality sleep.
- How Cat’s used community to support her strengthening her health and wellbeing.
- The different ways we can all build resilience to support ourselves and others for any traumatic life event we might experience.
About Cat:
Cat O'Brien is passionate about helping bereaved people integrate grief into their life and have the opportunity to thrive once more whilst still holding space for grief. Cat's partner Jon died suddenly in November 2020 at just 46 years old, and it set Cat on a journey she could not have predicted and wouldn't wish on anyone. Cat has learned that there are aspects of grief that make you feel like you don't have choices, but now knows that we always have a choice, we just have to find it. We can grieve in a healthy way that honours what we must do to continue, and the memory of who or what we have lost.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
In February we’re bringing you a very special mini-series of the Live Healthy Now podcast. Over the next four weeks we’re sharing real stories of real people who have hit rock bottom in their lives. They each have a very different story, but there’s one thing running parallel through each of them - they created a better life where they could thrive by believing they could change, and took very small steps, one at a time, to create the healthy, happy, strong life they are living now. Despite feeling so low and lost they thought there was no other way of living for them.
Our podcast is here to help you understand why taking care of your health will enable you to live with happiness. We’re showing you how to get started building your own healthy habits that will help you to live a healthy, happy and strong life. We want you to believe through the stories we share this month that anything is possible for you too. You’re going to learn how simple, small steps will lead to big, impactful changes int he way you feel.
We start the mini-series with our founder’s story. Nicola is sharing how she finally began to change her life from one of feeling anxious, stressed, broken, and unhappy, to one where she is in control, confident, calmer, and happy. She’s telling you why if she can change, then she knows it’s possible for you too.
In the episode you are going to learn:
- Why anyone is capable of changing their life.
- How taking care of yourself creates a ripple effect that makes it even easier to make the changes you want to make.
- What to do if you’ve already given up or lost your way with your 2023 goals.
- Why ‘WHY?’ is the biggest little question to ask yourself.
- That all change starts with building self-belief.
- Valuing yourself and knowing your purpose is what allows you to achieve the life you want and to start making it happen right now.
- That there is no finish line for happiness.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
Being pregnant can be a very special time of a woman’s life, however it can also bring with it lots of new and scary health challenges, both physical ones and mental too. For many pregnant women, there is fear and uncertainty around fitness during pregnancy and also in the post-natal period once they have their baby. Today’s guest Brittany Scott is helping to break down the fear and worry about exercising during pregnancy and what to do once your baby arrives.
We also explore some of the biggest challenges women face not just in the immediate post-natal stage, but that some experience for years and even decades after giving birth. Many women see and feel significant changes after having a baby and feel they have to just accept the impact of these, which for some can cause ongoing issues like low confidence, lack of libido, pain, low self-belief and many others that impact their overall health and wellness.
In the episode we talk openly about:
- The term peri-natal and the different stages pre and post pregnancy.
- The big shift in advice for working out and exercising when pregnant.
- How and why to exercise before, during and after pregnancy.
- The biggest struggles many women have post-pregnancy including weight gain and a weak pelvic floor.
- The avoidance of talking about your pelvic floor, and why we must encourage open conversation on this topic to better support females of all ages.
- The importance of strength training in every season of your life.
- Easy ways to make time and get started at home with exercise and fitness.
About Brittany:
Brittany Scott is a Perinatal Fitness Specialist based in the US supporting women to build confidence and love their bodies. She has her CSCS from the NSCA and further certification as a Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism Coach. Through her customised programmes she offers in person and virtual personal training alongside partnering with gyms and healthcare providers to provide moms with the best care possible at every stage of their life.
Her mission is to bust the myths around exercising during pregnancy.
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Listener Gift: Brittany is offering 10% off her programmes when you let her know that you found her through the Live Healthy Now podcast.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
If you often find yourself grabbing a chocolate bar or something else sugary at 3pm only to find yourself quickly crashing back down to feeling tired and ratty afterwards, this episode is for you!
Many of us aren’t aware of the impact the food we’re eating has on not just the way our body functions but also in how we feel. Food plays a huge role in our lives and has become a central thing that many of us have in our lives whether it’s for health, socialising or through our habits. For some food even rules their lives, making them feel in a constant state of restriction, denial and lack. It can create so many challenges and contribute massively to your happiness.
That’s way today we’re exploring so much about the role food plays in our lives and the impact it has on our overall and happiness with guest expert Hillary Meisner. Whether you’re experiencing food related health problems, feeling sluggish, struggling with weight loss or worried about the menopause or even your child’s eating behaviours, you need to listen and take onboard our information in this episode.
You’re going to find out about:
- What the blood sugar rollercoaster is and how it’s impacting the way you feel every single day.
- The role food plays in creating a healthy lifestyle.
- Why managing your blood sugar and insulin levels are about so much more than the food you eat.
- How your body processes different foods and what they do to how you feel after you’ve eaten them.
- The role stress plays in the blood sugar rollercoaster.
- The rise in type 2 diabetes and the role food and your weight play in it’s diagnosis.
- The risk to kids from their modern diet and your role and responsibility to model healthy behaviour and habits.
- Navigating menopausal hormonal changes to create balance and tackle insulin resistance.
- How to get started creating balance and habits that provide you with strong health and wellbeing.
About Hillary:
Hillary is a nutrition coach who helps those with insulin resistance disorders and diseases such as prediabetes, diabetes, PCOS and menopause get to the root causes of their symptoms so they can finally see the results they crave.
Connect with Hillary:
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Free Healthy Eating Guide
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes available on our website
The food we eat is like the writer, director, producer and actor to the daily movie of how we feel and function in our lives. What we put into our bodies will determine how we go about our lives and how well we are now, and in the future. In this episode we’re discussing the rise of autoimmune diseases and the impact diet and lifestyle have on the likelihood of you being diagnosed with one.
It is possible to manage the symptoms and diagnosis of many autoimmune diseases through diet, and today’s guest Onelly Hernandez, is sharing her knowledge and personal journey of being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease and how she is now back to optimal health.
In our conversation we discuss:
- The risk to our health from eating highly processed and junk food.
- The rise of lifestyle and diet related disease and illnesses.
- What an autoimmune disease is and how to spot potential symptoms.
- Hashimoto’s and using diet to overcome ill health and reverse the symptoms.
- Advice on what to do if you are experiencing gut and digestion related symptoms.
- What the Autoimmune Protocol diet is and using it to build a healthier diet.
- How to support gut health and overall good wellbeing through the foods you eat.
About Onelly:
Onelly Hernandez is a certified holistic nutritionist, and health coach who specialises in helping Latinas with Hashimoto's to manage their symptoms and lose weight. She understands the importance of keeping cultural foods in your diet while managing symptoms and losing weight.
She is also a Hashimoto's warrior herself and knows first-hand how to overcome the challenges of this autoimmune condition. She is passionate about helping others achieve better health and loves to share her own story of living a healthy life with Hashimoto’s.
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About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
It’s estimated that in the UK one third of females, that’s around 13 million people, are currently peri or menopausal. Add onto this all of the people in these women’s lives who they spend their time with at home, work or socially and you have an enormous number of people who are coming into contact with menopause in some way. Then put this onto a global scale and you can see that there’s a massive proportion of the population who are affected in some way by the menopause right now.
That’s why this week we’re diving deep into all things menopause with expert Dr Lisa Kwapniowski. We’re exploring the myths and beliefs that mean so many women fear this part of their lives and dread the menopause, thinking it’s the beginning of the end of their lives.
This is an important subject for anyone of any age. It’s not only a necessity that the topic of menopause is better understood by females, but that males too have awareness of it, and that everybody has more knowledge to make conversation around it normal.
In our conversation we’re exploring:
- What perimenopause and menopause are.
- Why we need to clear-up the mystery and myths about them.
- The change in our bodies and the way we feel during the different stages of the menopause.
- The importance of optimising your hormones to minimise symptoms and manage the changes during this season of your life.
- The role of nutrition, exercise, sleep and stress at this stage of your life.
- Opening up the conversation on menopause across men and women and why it should be included in the wellbeing strategies of businesses.
- Taking a balanced approach to your health at every age and stage of your life.
About Lisa:
Dr. Lisa Kwapniowski is a pharmacist and Health and Wellbeing Coach, partnering with her clients to create sustainable lifestyle behaviour changes. She focuses on women in perimenopause and menopause to help them regain energy, decrease brain fog and loose stubborn weight through balancing hormones naturally.
After working over 25 years as a hospital pharmacist and administrator she uses her knowledge to combine her passion for health and wellness with evidence based lifestyle modifications to empower others to become the healthiest versions of themselves and live a life of optimal health.
Connect with Lisa:
- Website
- IG
- Freebie
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
How many times have you been stuck thinking about what to set as your New Year resolution?
How many times did you start out full of good intention with your resolution but failed before you’d even hit the end of January? Or maybe even the end of the first week?!
We’ve been conditioned to see the start of the year as a new beginning and therefore a time we can decide what to change and make it happen, pretty much when the clock strikes midnight on the 31st of December. The change in year does bring with it opportunity for focus, reset, clarity, and changes, but you need to get intentional to make sure this happens.
In the episode we’re sharing:
- What resolutions are and why we’re so stuck on setting them each year.
- Why so many resolutions fail before January is over.
- The difference between resolutions and goals.
- How to stay motivated to achieve what you want in 2023.
- Seven tips for making sure you achieve the things you want this year.
- Why change is part of life and should be relished.
If you're ready to take control of your life and know you're worthy of a fantastic life, it's time to take action!
Find out more about our 90-day group programme THE HEALTHY HAPPY WOMAN COLLECTIVE here
It's time for you to get clear on what matters to you and build the life you deserve right now and for your future self.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
How often do you recognise what you’ve achieved and celebrate yourself for all of the great things you’re doing in your life? I’d guess it’s not very often.
The relationship we have with ourself is the most important one in our life, yet we struggle to show ourselves support, gratitude, and thanks for all that we do and are.
So, in our last episode of 2022, we’re helping you to take a pause and reflect on what your year has been like, and to celebrate yourself so you can go into 2023 feeling proud of all you are.
This episode is for you to:
- Reflect on what you’ve achieved and feel proud of in 2022.
- Think about the impact you’re having on your own and others lives.
- Take time to be grateful for all that you do and are.
- Learn how to be your own cheerleader and why this is so important to feeling happy and strong.
- Understand why even the tough times and obstacles you’ve experienced this year are ones that can help you to move forward stronger and more resilient.
- Celebrate yourself and your 2022!
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
If you're ready to take control of your life and know you're worthy of a fantastic life, it's time to take action!
Find out more about our 90-day group programme THE HEALTHY HAPPY WOMAN COLLECTIVE here
It's time for you to get clear on what matters to you and build the life you deserve right now and for your future self.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
Have you ever stopped to think about how the relationships you have affect the way you feel?
We’re wired to need connection and so the relationships we have play a huge role in our overall health and wellbeing. You may be surprised to learn that the most important relationship of all we need to invest in and nurture is the one with ourselves.
If you have a partner or spouse, life isn’t always easy sharing it with them, and you may feel that the relationship is too much hard work or that it’s past it’s sell-by-date. But maybe there’s a way to fix this, to create a loving thriving relationship that means you’re both benefiting in more ways than receiving one another’s love.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Nurturing the most important relationship of them all - the one with yourself.
- Why self care is key to your wellbeing and building loving relationships with others.
- The three steps to having a thriving relationship.
- That love can be the foundation to rebuild a challenging relationship but doesn’t mean a relationship can work.
- Understanding what joy in a relationship means and how to cultivate this.
- Why it’s so crucial to model healthy relationships to our children.
- The value of compromise and negotiation in a relationship.
- How the value of our connections is the unlock to our happiness.
About Railey:
Love Educator & Relationship Coach, Railey Molinario is empowering individuals to create a better future by teaching them relationship intelligence. Our future is dependent on us mastering our emotions and interactions with ourselves and others. Relationship intelligence is vital for guiding our moral and social well-being. Railey's mission is to provide the world with this eduction that has been missing for way too long so that we may become more understanding, compassionate and connected.
Connect with Railey:
- Website
- IG
- Freebie
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
As a wife, mother, family CEO, alongside a full-time corporate career, Gabby was running on fumes all day, every day. Her life was hectic so there was never any time to think about the lifestyle choices she was making and what effect these might be having on her. This was until she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of breast cancer at only 44 years old.
Gabby began a new journey, walking a very different path to the one she expected to be on. The place she’s at though is far better than where she expected to be at this stage of her life, even though cancer is now a part of her story.
This is a powerful story of a very normal woman who lived life fast, thinking this was how it had to be. I know many of you will associate with this way of existing, believing you’re stuck. Gabby is proof it can be different, and she doesn’t want you to face a cancer diagnosis before realising this and being forced to take action to change. Taking control of your health and how you feel now is the key to living the long, happy life you desire.
In this episode we explore:
- Reflecting on your life after a cancer diagnosis.
- Navigating the next chapter of your cancer journey when your treatment is over.
- Why taking care of yourself is the ultimate form of self-care and far from about you being selfish.
- Dealing with the mental noise and feelings of guilt when life has to get back to normal.
- Taking responsibility for your health and wellbeing for prevention and preservation.
- The power of combining traditional medicine and treatments with functional medicine.
- Why the simple things like time with your family are the route to true pleasure and joy.
- Being done with cancer and finding a way to move forward with positivity and balance.
About Gabby:
Gabby Mottershead is from Manchester, England and is the founder of Confidence After Cancer, providing coaching and support for women after cancer treatment.
She was inspired to start this non-profit based support after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of inflammatory breast cancer in 2008 aged 44. Following chemotherapy, surgeries, and radiotherapy, she suffered with depression and lack of confidence. Gabby realised there’s lots of support for cancer patients during their treatment, but when that ends you are suddenly left on your own.
Gabby is an experienced business and life coach as well as a practitioner of NLP, master Reiki healer, and passionate about Nutritional Healing. Her mission is to inspire healthy minds and healthy bodies.
Connect with Gabby:
- Website
- IG
- Access her free book - 7 Steps to Confidence here
Life Now Coaching Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
This week we chat with guest expert Ashlee Hoelck about thriving after trauma. Ashlee is proof both the mental and physical symptoms that manifest in your mind and body after trauma can be managed, and she gives advice on how to get started on your own healing at home using free, simple tools and techniques.
In the episode we do chat about trauma from toxic relationships and the emotional suffering that many people endure from this type of trauma, as well as many other trauma types. Please consider this if it may be a trigger for you.
What’s great about this episode is that it raises how you might not even realise that some of what you’re struggling with in your life is because of even the smallest of traumas that you perhaps don’t remember ever happening to you.
As Ashlee shares when she talks about her favourite book - The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van Der Kolk - the body is often overlooked when managing the effects of trauma, yet it is a powerful machine that manifests the result of trauma through many different types of physical responses.
In this episode you’ll hear about:
- The power of starting your morning solo when you’re a parent!
- Understanding what trauma is and the different ways it can be affect you and your life.
- How trauma can show up in mental and physical ways in your mind and body.
- The hold trauma can continue to have after many years of trying to heal yourself.
- Healing physical pain using mindset work.
- Approaching recovery from trauma with a doing what feels good for yourself approach.
- Accepting that you can fully thrive after experiencing any type of trauma.
- How to start taking small steps right now to begin your recovery process.
About Ashlee:
Ashlee Hoelck is the founder of Phoenix Rize Coaching supporting women stuck living in the fear and anxiety of their trauma from toxic relationships. She teaches and inspires them that healing is possible so they can fully thrive in their lives.
Ashlee healed herself from 12 years of chronic debilitating back pain using mindset work, after realising that the root cause of her physical pain was the emotional trauma of a past abusive relationship.
She will soon be launching her new podcast - Thriving After Abuse to offer inspiration, tools, and modalities for abuse survivors.
Connect with Ashlee:
- Website
- IG
- Freebie
- The Body Keeps The Score book
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
How many times have you felt like you have to choose between being healthy and enjoying yourself?
This season is definitely one that has many people deciding whether to be naughty or nice! The myth that you can’t be social and enjoy yourself whilst also taking care of your health is the topic for today’s episode.
Is it really possible to be both social and healthy?
If you’re struggling with the overwhelm this time of the year brings, for so many different reasons, including an uplift in social activity, take a listen and find out how to better support yourself to have a fantastic and strong end of the year!
In the episode you’ll get clear about:
- Why you shouldn’t write off the last few weeks of the year!
- The stress the upcoming season can cause.
- Why there’s no such thing as naughty, cheat or off days.
- How to be mindful to better navigate your way to the end of the year.
- Enjoying yourself whilst supporting yourself to feel better.
- Building a life with balance so you can enjoy the festive period and your social life throughout the year!
- Three ways to prioritise your health and happiness to the end of the year.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
Being healthy is about so much more than you probably think it is! Who would think that laughter is something you can build a healthy habit around and feel so much better from?
Today’s guest, Clara Heimerdinger, is a comedy specialist and is sharing why comedy and laughter is a powerful thing to experience to improve your health and wellbeing.
Even in the most difficult times a laugh or a smile can go a long way to making you feel better. And laughter really is contagious, so experiencing it as part of a group has even more incredible benefits!
If you manage a team or run a business, you especially need to take a listen to this episode and hear from Clara why bringing comedy to your team is a great and unique way to help engage and enhance your team’s connectivity and productivity.
This is a brilliant episode that I guarantee will have you smiling along and feeling so much happier by the end!
In this episode we talk about:
- The role of comedy and laughter in building strong health and wellbeing.
- Why laughing has so many positive impacts on your physical and mental health.
- The importance of the social aspect and the benefits of laughing with others.
- How businesses are using comedy as a way to boost team wellbeing and culture.
- Different ways to access comedy.
- How enjoying comedy is a great mindfulness tool.
- Getting started with bringing more smiles, joy and laughter into your life right now!
About Clara:
Clara is a Comedy Producer, Booker and Promoter who's been producing for different venues and clients for almost 20 years, 17 of those as a side hustle, until she finally had the courage 3 years ago to leave her day job. After a career working behind the scenes in the media she hasn’t looked back since launching herself full time into Live Comedy. She focuses on bespoke events for private and corporate clients driving the message of the power of comedy for your wellbeing and community spirit.
Connect with Clara:
- Website
- IG
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
Do you struggle with your confidence or to feel happy most days?
Would you say you're successful?
How healthy do you feel right now?
In this episode Nicola is talking about what being healthy has to do with feeling confident, happy and successful. She dives into how your health and wellbeing are completely linked to how much you enjoy and feel satisfied in your life.
In the episode you’re going to find out:
- How your health is linked to your self-confidence, happiness and success.
- What’s holding you back from prioritising your health and the difference focusing on it would make to your life.
- The value of taking better care of yourself to your overall life satisfaction.
- Why being healthy propels you to live with intention and purpose.
- What success really is and how to stop waiting to get the things you want to feel you’ve achieved it.
- Why building your confidence and self-worth will help you to live a long, healthy life.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
What is stress and why is it something that can wreak havoc on your health and happiness?
I’m joined by April Likins, a stress management coach helping you to understand what stress is, how it shows up for you and how to step out of stress so you can live healthier and happier - which is what we are all about at Live Healthy Now!
In a world that is so busy for most of us, it’s easy to miss the signs of stress, and to shrug off the impact it can have on you. This is the perfect conversation to recognise International Stress Awareness Week, so take a listen and check-in with yourself on how stress might be showing up for you and how to start taking steps to manage it in the best way possible and avoid burnout.
In the episode you’ll learn:
- What stress is and how to spot signs in yourself.
- The difference between good and bad stress.
- The danger of wearing busyness as a badge of honour.
- Why there’s a global rise of burnout, what it is and how to avoid.
- Tools to respond to stress in a more controlled way.
- The value of listening to your body more.
- Setting healthy boundaries to work in a sustainable way.
- The power of knowing you can control your life and happiness.
About April:
April Likins is a board-certified health coach dual-trained at Duke Integrative Medicine and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Driven by her own previous experience of hitting burnout, which led to a health collapse, she's fiercely passionate about helping women thrive inside and out. April's specialty is helping professional women and female entrepreneurs reduce stress, find balance, and feel the joy and freedom to walk in their purpose, passions, and callings.
She lives in Virginia with her family, and when she's not working with clients, she enjoys writing and speaking on wellness topics, traveling, photography, and searching for the perfect matcha latte.
Connect with April:
Website
Free guide: 15 Ways to Say Goodbye to Chronic Stress for Good
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
What actually is happiness and why is it the thing we’re all trying to find? Can we only be happy when we achieve the success we’re striving for? Or is it that to have success we first need to be happy?
Today I chat with Meg Price from Happybyme about what happiness really is and how to build a happy, successful life. We dive into why journalling is such a powerful tool to have in your healthy habits toolkit. Meg shares her story to getting clear on what happiness means to her and how she now supports herself to live a healthy and happy life.
In this episode you’ll find out:
- What happiness really means - according to science and Meg!
- Why so many of us are not living in a way that is what we need to make us happy.
- Why we all talk about happiness and want it for those we care about.
- Getting clear on your values to live intentionally.
- About journalling and how to get started.
- The power of getting your thoughts and feelings out of your head.
- Learning to be curious to manage how you think and feel.
About Meg:
After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, ‘I’m not ‘unhappy’ – but there has to be more than this’ made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.
Connect with Meg:
- Freebie
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
Trigger warning: this episode has conversation about death, suicide, bereavement and tragedy. Please skip if this might trigger you.
I’m chatting with Sarah Miller to share her story of facing an unimaginable loss when her four-year-old daughter, Madeline, passed away in a tragic accident in 2021. Sarah wants her story to help others who face similar loss or tragedy in their lives. She is driven to share Madeleine's legacy and honour her energy through the support and guidance she provides.
What Sarah has experienced may not affect many of us, but her message of learning to live again when life feels impossible to continue with is a relevant and powerful one. At a time when so many of us are struggling to take care of our wellbeing, hearing how Sarah is lifting herself up and focusing on her wellbeing as she navigates and learns to live with her pain and grief is beyond inspiring.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- Facing and learning to cope with unexpected loss or trauma.
- Learning to love your life again when it’s dealt you the worst card possible.
- The value and role of self-compassion in everyone’s life.
- Taking small steps to build good wellbeing when just getting out of bed on a morning feels impossible.
- About Heartmath and how to use it to feel calm.
- Building habits that flow with ease and joy using habit stacking techniques.
- Being more accepting of what comes your way to create new energy and focus.
- Finding power in your tribe.
About Sarah:
Sarah has lived through the unthinkable. She has experienced the devastation, the crushed soul, and shattered heart that no parent ever wants to face. Yet despite facing this life-changing tragedy, Sarah has discovered that post-traumatic growth, is possible.
Sarah is a Royal Air Force veteran, qualified and practicing Physical Therapist Assistant, and now a Wellness Coach, providing much needed support to others who are seeking to accept and cope with tragedy and loss. Because of her loss and intense pain, Sarah can relate to your pain and wellbeing challenges, providing heartfelt and sensitive understanding and coaching to guide you through your own recovery to strong health and wellbeing.
Connect with Sarah:
Find out more about Sarah, WellShine Coaching and Project WellShine:
- Website
- YouTube
- Free Guide 'Stepping into Self-Care' to get you started on your healing journey available to download via the website.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
A quick trigger warning - This episode includes discussion on eating behaviours and disorders, so please skip this episode if this topic might affect you.
Have you ever struggled to control what you eat and drink?
Does it get to Friday evening and you find yourself automatically ordering in the pizza because you feel like it’s the least you deserve after a hectic week at work?
How about when you’re stressed, and you tell yourself eating the family size bar of chocolate all on your own is absolutely fine because it’s going to make you feel so much better?
Todays guest, Ashley Carlotta, helps women to dive into their eating behaviours and uncover the stories they’re holding onto about the role food plays in their lives. She advocates a balanced way of eating and helps you take back control to better manage your weight and relationship with food.
In this episode you’ll learn:
- What emotional eating is.
- Why so many people have strong emotional attachments with food.
- Taking the first step to changing your relationship with food.
- How to ditch the diet culture and no longer deprive yourself of the things you enjoy in your life.
- Why the key to being healthy is about creating a balance that can be a lifestyle for your whole family.
- How to use accountability methods to build lasting habits.
- The impact our eating behaviours have on children and how to be more aware and better navigate this.
About Ashley:
Ashley Carlotta resides in Mckinney, Texas with her husband and 3 kids. She believes it is absolutely possible to lose weight without being on a diet. As a Certified Health Coach and founder of Better Health by Accountability, Ashley coaches women all over the world, and believes daily accountability support is key to reaching your health and wellness goals. Her accountability coaching provides daily communication, check-ins, guidance and continuous reminders. One of her greatest passions is helping others succeed in finding confidence in their bodies because for so long, she hated her own. She knows all too well how awful it feels to be stuck in a vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting and how freeing it feels to be on the other side of that.
Connect with Ashley:
- Free Guide: 5 tips to living your life like a normal person (while still losing weight)
- Website
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
Welcome to the first episode of Live Healthy Now!
In our first full episode we're getting clear on why now is the time to live healthy and why being proactive with your health is so important to live the happy life you desire.
So many of us think we'll finally be happy when we have all of the 'stuff' we're pushing so hard to achieve and get. But it never seems to work out this way.
You'll learn how happiness and health are linked, so that you understand how each one affects the other - the healthier you feel and live, the happier you feel. The happier you feel, the healthier you become. It's a never-ending cycle, and one we can't wait for you to learn about and be inspired to put into play in your life.
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
It’s time to appreciate yourself, be inspired to take care of yourself, and know that your life is 100% for living right now!
The reality of life is we have one life. Yet this reality often brings fear and resistance. When we accept this and use it as a positive influence, instead of being scared to think about it, we can get clear on how we want our life to be and value ourselves enough to make this life happen for us.
Hustle mentality is driving us to believe this is the only way to achieve the type of life we want to live. But this way of living is pushing so many of us into overwhelm and burnout, leaving us constantly feeling we’re missing out on what we’re striving hard to achieve.
When you understand that to have the life you want you need to be fully primed and functional to make it happen, you’re going to understand why taking care of yourself is the route to success and happiness.
By living in alignment with your values and purpose you can create the high value, wealthy life you are dreaming of. Find out how to enjoy the journey and stop waiting to cross that finish line to finally feel happy!
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to how to live healthy. You can build your unique healthy lifestyle by getting clear on what matters to you and really connecting to this. You can find and choose what works for you based on your values and how you’d like to feel.
Once you know why living the way you want to matters to you, it makes getting started so much easier and feels possible.
For so long we’ve been made to think primarily about food and exercise as the things that equate to being healthy. It’s time to understand that health is about so much more than this, and it certainly isn’t about your size and shape.
Everything that comes into your life plays a role in your health and wellbeing - how you treat yourself, relationships, finances, environment, and social.
At Life Now we focus on our five pillars of wellness as our success framework to help you create the healthy, happy and strong life you’re striving for - mindset, movement, nutrition, sleep, and stress. We introduce these in this second episode and explain how they are connected and should be the foundation of building the healthy life you want to live.
Get ready to be inspired to start building healthy habits that flow in your life right now!
About Life Now Coaching:
We believe everyone would love to live a better life and we know that by putting the right healthy habits into your daily routines and lifestyle, you can truly create the type of life you'll love living every day. We want you to stop waiting for one day and make today the day you begin taking better care of yourself so you can feel healthy, happy and strong. Life Now Coaching supports you to build sustainable healthy habits using our successful framework of mindset, nutrition, sleep and stress.
Resources:
- Download our FREE Win Your Worth 5-day challenge
- Visit our website
- Follow on Instagram
- Follow on LinkedIn
- Watch the episodes on YouTube
- Full episode notes and transcript available on our website
- Link to Five Pillars Of Wellness shared in the episode
Welcome to the brand new Live Healthy Now podcast helping you get clear on the power of building sustainable healthy habits to live the happy, strong life you are craving. Now is the time to stop waiting until you have reached the goals you think will make you feel fulfilled and happy, and learn why taking care of yourself is the answer.
In our short introduction episode to the new weekly podcast, you'll get clear on why it's important to take care of your health, and how you can get started with building your own healthy lifestyle. We dive into happiness and how the podcast is here to help you get more present and enjoy your life right now, rather than waiting to be happy when you get all the things you think will bring it to you.
Meet the host Nicola Mercer, and find out why she founded Life Now Coaching and the Live Healthy Now podcast.
There's so much more to come in our future episodes and we look forward to unwrapping what health and wellness is really all about, and why every single one of us can build sustainable healthy habits that flow in our lives and become part of who we are.