Grace & Grit Podcast: Helping Women Everywhere Live Happier, Healthier And More Fit Lives

I met today’s guest on the Grace & Grit podcast, Diann Wingert, at a conference I was invited to speak at called Forty Thrive. Diann was also a speaker at the event and I was so riveted by what she had to say about the gifts of the aging process, that I invited her to be a guest because I knew her message would resonate with the Grace & Grit audience. In this interview, Diann and I have a great conversation about: Learning to be grateful and graceful as you age. Breaking the mold of cultural conditioning to go after your dreams at any age. What it means to display active courage to take full possession of your life. …and so much more Click here to learn more and LISTEN NOW. >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com  

In this episode of the Grace & Grit podcast, I had the awesome privilege of interviewing a woman I have admired from afar for years, Julie Angel. Julie has lived a very textured life as an artist, author and now movement teacher. She was inspired to start practicing Parkour at 35, which opened up an entire new way of living for her. Just to give you a small taste of her wisdom, Julie has this to say on her own website, www.see-do.com: “I believe we can age positively by investing time in how we move, what communities we connect with, challenging our self-limiting beliefs, spending time in nature, becoming more minimalist and taking control of our health” For more wisdom from Julie on movement, bravery, and aging gracefully tune into this episode. Click here to learn more and LISTEN NOW. >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace &

There are certainly a lot of challenges that can present themselves as we age AND we also have a lot of choice in how much hardship we experience as we move through those challenges. In this episode of the Grace & Grit podcast, Dr. Anna Cabeca and I cover a tremendous amount of territory on aging gracefully as a woman, including: How hormones affect our physiology and how they change as we age. How physiology drives behavior, and what we can do to improve our physiology. The anti-aging benefits of relationships and community. How trauma can impact the severity of menopause. The power cortisol has to disrupt hormones. The role gut health plays in hormone balance. Sexual health and so much more! Click here to learn more and LISTEN NOW! >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

Aging… it is inevitable. The good news is… We have a choice in how it goes down: we can fight it (despite knowing we can never win) or we can learn how to embrace it. For the majority of my 20-year career, helping women to improve their health, I have largely worked with the population 40+ and in this episode of the Grace & Grit podcast, I discuss three things that I believe are essential to be a woman who ages gracefully. Click here to LISTEN NOW! >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

The statistics showing the impact of “inactivity” are staggering, sad and oh so unnecessary. We MUST find ways to move our body more often throughout the day and inspire our children to do the same. And there is no better way to do that, than to get outside! There are so many benefits to moving, playing, training and exploring outdoors and in this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, I do a deep dive into those benefits and suggest a myriad of ways that you can use the outdoors to enhance your physiology and even your psychology. Click here to LISTEN NOW! >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

I adore Sara Bradford SO much that I invited her back to the podcast for a third time! Sara is registered holistic nutritionist, real food chef and facilitator of the wildly poplar Community Dumps, which help people to return to real food without doing crazy detoxes, taking supplements or any other extreme measures. In this episode Sara and I talk about: The sensibility of seasonal eating Some of Sara’s favorite simple but delicious spring recipes How to simplify planning and prepping meals How to become more consistent with nutritious choices Click here to learn more about Sara and listen now! >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

In this episode of the Grace & Grit podcast my guest Jennifer Knoetgen, who runs a business called Mountain Meat Shares, and I discuss: The challenges with commercial farming The value of knowing where your food is coming from Tips for making “sourcing your food” less overwhelming How to get the most out of your farmers market experience Basic strategies for home gardening Interested? Listen in!!! Click here to learn more about Jennifer and LISTEN NOW! >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

This month’s theme is SPRING INTO WELLNESS and we are starting in the kitchen! The kitchen is the sacred space when it comes to your health. You’re doing a lot of (hopefully) good work in your kitchen. When the kitchen is a space that you enjoy being in and it is conducive to healthy eating it just makes everything so much easier. I realize, kitchens can be a little bit complicated, in that, you may not be living alone. That can get a little tricky to navigate. In today’s podcast, we talk about this and lots more things to consider when setting yourself up for success in the kitchen. Click here to learn more and LISTEN NOW! >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

What an awesome month it has been on the Grace & Grit podcast! We did a deep dive into the science behind why diets don’t work, how to bust out of diet prison and so much more. In this episode of the podcast, I summarize the ground we have covered over the past 3 weeks during the “Death of Dieting” theme and dish out some tried and true strategiesyou can implement to greatly improve your health in a sane and, most importantly, sustainable fashion. Click here to learn more and listen now! >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

This week, I am super honored to be hosting Rebecca Scritchfield, a registered dietitian nutritionist and exercise physiologist on the show, for the second time. I adore this woman’s energy, philosophy, and fierce passion for helping rescue women from “diet prison”. Rebecca appropriately refers to herself as the anti-diet dietitian. She is the author of Body Kindness, which I have gifted to MANY of my clients and she is just an all-around awesome human who is doing important work in the world in the realm of women’s health. So if you are someone who is tired of buying into fad diets and are ready for an alternative path to wellness, sit back and enjoy this interview I did with Rebecca. Click here to learn more and listen now. >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

This month’s deep dive on the podcast is into the wild and seriously misinformed world of dieting. I appropriately titled the theme of this month’s podcast: The Death of Dieting. Dieting sucks and more importantly it doesn’t work for the long haul and to better help us understand why that is the case, I have invited Traci Mann to be a guest on the show. Traci is a professor of psychology, founder of the Health and Eating Lab at the University of Minnesota and author of Secrets from the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower and Why You Should Never Diet Again. We cover a tremendous amount of ground in today’s interview including: Why diets don’t work. Why you should focus on living on the low end of your set weight range The Myth of willpower Strategies for what will improve your relationship with food Why “obesity will not kill you” The incredible health benefits of exercise and why weight loss should not be the primary goal of exercise Click here to learn more about Traci and listen

The theme for the month of April on the Grace & Grit Podcast is going to be: The Death of Dieting because diets make us miserable...

What an awesome month it was on the Grace & Grit Podcast! The theme for this month was Permission to Pause: The Paradox of Doing Less in Order to Accomplish More. I hosted 3 outstanding guests, including: Chinese medicine expert, Brodie Welch (Episode 103) Author of The Power of Slow, Christine Hohlbaum (Episode 104) Intellectual powerhouse and master coach, Krista Scott Dixon (Episode 105) This episode rehashes the ground we covered and the biggest takeaways from the month. Enjoy! Click here to listen now. >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

I am beyond thrilled to have Krista Scott Dixon, the intellectual powerhouse behind Precision Nutrition’s curriculum, back on the show. I specifically invited Krista to come back to the show this month because the way Precision Nutrition goes about helping people return to health, in my opinion, is hugely on point with this month’s theme, “Permission to Pause”, because the PN methodology encourages people to slow down and become more aware of and self directed in their behaviors so they can better take care of themselves with more consistency. Click here to learn more and listen. >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

Last week, in episode 103, I had a great conversation with Brodie Welch, about our addiction to speed, hustle and always doing more and what it is costing us in terms of our health and happiness. Today’s guest, Christine Hohlbaum helps us expand that conversation by sharing a ton of great tips with us on practical things we can do to adjust the speed and overwhelm of our life and give ourselves more permission to pause. Click here to listen now. >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

Last week on the podcast I talked about this month’s theme with is “Permission to Pause” and I went into extensive detail about why I believe this topic is so important. If you missed that you might want to check it out. My guest today, Brodie Welch, has been on the podcast before and I value her opinion and wealth of knowledge so much that I have invited her back to the show. Brodie and I cover a lot of ground in today’s podcast, including: Addiction to speed and business and what it is costing us mentally and physically. How to grant yourself permission and space to slow down. Reworking your relationship with time. How to maintain energy integrity. Choosing to Opt-out of stressful living. Click here to listen now. >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

Many women I work with think that the #1 challenge they have to improve their health is with food or exercise. While eating more nutrient-rich foods and moving their body more may indeed be a part of the solution, the root of the problem is often the speed at which they are living their life. When we live our life at breakneck speed, piling more and more things on our ever growing to do list, we become mindless and very reactive, which is often what leads to misaligned relationships with food and exercise. Women MUST learn how to give themselves permission to slow down and recover in such a way that they are more conscious of the decisions that they are making, or not making, in regards to their health. Awareness is the linchpin to any kind of change we are trying to make in our lives and in this episode of the podcast, I dive deep into WHY I believe improving your health should START with considering the pace at which you live and what it is really costing you. Click here to listen now. >>Are you loving the

This day in age, there is no shortage of studies showing us how powerful strength training is for optimizing human health and performance. And, yet, many women still have fierce resistance to making it a regular part of their life. I get it. It can be overwhelming, intimidating and even a bit scary to step into an arena that you may not be all that familiar with or have had a bad experience in. If you are a woman who understands the importance of strength training but has some fear or resistance that is preventing you from engaging with it consistently, today’s episode of the Grace & Grit podcast is for YOU. *Disclaimer: I cover a lot of ground in this episode but there will likely be a part II because I didn’t want this podcast to be absurdly long. >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com  

Today I am celebrating and I’d love you to join me! I may not know you personally, but I am pretty certain that you have achieved a few things in your life that required focus, hard work, and a hefty dose of GRIT. Today the Grace & Grit Podcast is celebrating its 2 year anniversary AND the 100th episode! And, to be honest, what it took to make that happen is the exact same stuff to create ANY kind of success. Listen in to today’s episode and I will tell you more about how I dealt with doubt, failure, and frustration over the past couple of years to make this day possible. Click here to listen now! >>Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Then head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

As someone who has dedicated her life to helping women up-level their health, I am always on the lookout for people who understand female physiology and the unique training challenges that women face. Women, after all, are NOT little men, as my guest on the show today, Stacy Sims, PhD, so perfectly states. Stacy Sims, a nutrition scientist and exercise physiologist, understands female chemistry in a way that very few people do. Her book, “ROAR: How to match your food and fitness to your female physiology for optimum performance, great health and a strong lean body for life” is chock full of research and education to help women and anyone who trains women, optimize performance and recovery. I cannot emphasize how much I appreciate this book. It validates so many things I have long wrestled with as a female athlete and a health coach who works solely with women. This podcast is RICH with insight and tips to help optimize female physiology. Have a listen. You will not be disappointed that you did.  Click here to