80 | Unf*ck Your Brain with Kara Loewentheil

I’m thrilled to introduce you to Kara Loewentheil, Master Certified Life Coach and host of the podcast Unf*ck Your Brain.

Kara specializes in coupling her kickass mindset management with feminist theory, which makes her a total shoe-in for the She Thrives Squad.

In this episode we chat about sneaky ways the patriarchy is affecting your thinking, how to REALLY separate how you look from how you feel, how she shifted her own body image, and so much more.

Come hang with us and be sure to share it if you enjoy it!

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79 | Self Love + Acceptance: The Biggest Misconceptions About the Process

Self love: SO HOT RIGHT NOW. 

There’s a lot of talk about building self acceptance out there right now, and hey— I’m here for it.

However, with all this noise comes a few prevailing messages that are actually setting a lot of us up for confusion and/or disappointment with how this process works and what the “result” really is.

And since self love is kinda my line of work, I thought I’d shine a light on these pitfalls and misconceptions, to ultimately give YOU the best shot at actually getting the self love you deserve.

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78 | Labels: This is Your Brain on Identity

The most important words you can ever utter are the ones that follow the words: “I am”.

What are you identifying with, and what labels are you (or your ego) clinging to, with or without your knowledge?

This episode explores the benefits and drawbacks to identity and labels of all kinds.

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77 | Embrace Your Body + Own Your Power with Steph Gaudreau

You know her, you love her, and TODAY Steph Gaudreau is not only on the show, but her brand new book drops as well!

Steph is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, podcaster, author, blogger, coach, and all around badass human.

Listen in for a robust conversation around health + fitness and how we can learn to approach it in the BS and shame free style that Steph is so great at teaching.

Come hang with us and be sure to share it if you enjoy it!

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76 | Work Smarter: How to Move the Needle [Part 2]

After last week’s Part 1, we learned that blindly piling on more quantity of work, effort and BIZEEEEE is not the guaranteer to success that it is often promised.

So how do we leverage the quality of our efforts to ensure results?

This episode has strategies, how-to’s and pitfalls surrounding working towards goals of any kind.

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75 | Stop Working Harder: Why Sweat Doesn’t Equal Success [Part 1]

You can be whatever you want and achieve anything you dream of if you just… work really really hard. Right?

This trope, combined with our culture’s glorification of busy, has created a mindset in so many of us where we believe that if we’re working hard AF and not seeing the results we want, the answer is to just double down and work HARDER. Lather, rinse repeat, until the end of time.

From the gym, to food, to business, to growth of any kind— if you’re tempted to blindly work harder; if you feel guilt over not being productive; if you are measuring your worth via your output or ability to create “results”, this is an important listen.

So what’s a girl to do instead? Part 2 coming next week!

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74 | How to Improve Your Relationship to Fitness

Is hitting the gym still feeling like a punishment? Like a place to repent for your food choices? To hammer your body into shape?

Are you frustrated with where your progress is or how you’re perhaps not as strong or fit now as you once were? Struggling with taking your identify out of your physical body?

Are you looking for a quick mindset shift in how you think of or use exercise in general?

This one’s for you, girl.

P.S. These strategies work for more than just fitness.

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73 | Taking Up Space with Latoya Shauntay Snell

Latoya is a chef, photographer, runner, journalist, writer, and fitness fanatic. She is also an amazing story teller and describes herself as a mix between Cardi B and Maya Angelou, and a “recovering self defeatist”.

We are chatting all about her wild, fulfilling, and challenging experiences navigating the world of ultra running and fitness, and stepping into the public eye, including:

Losing 100 lbs

Body acceptance

Rampant fatphobia in the fitness world and beyond

Reclaiming the word “fat”

Finding running

Handling self doubt, fear, and excuses

Leanness vs health

The hierarchy of bodies

Body positivity and it’s marketing

Being an “inspiring” fat athlete 

Rewriting your own story

Finding motivation

How to own who you are and take up space

And much more.

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72 | How I Stopped Giving F*cks + Found Self Love

We’re back from a short hiatus with a little refresher! This episode takes you through the beginnings of my journey and some of the turning points I had on my path of self love, and how I learned how to give no f*cks.

A little bit story time, a little bit tips and tools and advice, this is a broad overview of my path and my strategies for becoming unfuckwithable.

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71 | How to Get Summer Ready in 10 Simple Steps

Today’s episode is a replay, but on purpose: it’s filled with important reminders about what “summer bodies” actually are.

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70 | The Price of “Health”: What is Healthy Living Costing You?

Is your version of health coming at the expense of your… well… health?

Are you chasing the LOOK of health instead of holistic, well rounded wellbeing?

Today’s episode is a direct look at some of the concepts we’ve been talking around on recent episodes, and it has more questions than answers.

I’m channeling my Carrie Bradshaw to give you some considerations on if your pursuit of healthy living is actually bringing you health.

I couldn’t help but wonder… are we fucking up this whole “health” thing?

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69 | Building a Badass Life with Diane Sanfilippo

You may know Diane Sanfilippo as the New York Time’s bestselling author of Practical Paleo, the 21 Day Sugar Detox, and Keto Quick Start. You may also know her from her 8 year, 400 episode podcast Balanced Bites, or her amazing spice blends (I’m obsessed with these!) or new frozen meals by the same name.

Diane is well versed in nutrition, but as an entrepreneur, she is also very well versed in personal development and self growth. And that’s exactly what we’re talking all about today.

We cover:

What are some of her favorite personality tests?

How can personality tests work against you?

How is people pleasing hurting you?

How can you be more honest with yourself and the world?

How does Diane deal with fear and self doubt?

What’s her advice to anyone learning to live a more authentic life?

And so much more.

Listen in for our fun and insightful conversation on how to life your fullest, biggest, most badass life.

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68 | 5 Simple Swaps to Live Healthier + Happier Right Now

This episode is adapted from a popular Instagram post I made recently, and to be clear: we’re not talking about swapping out brussel sprouts for your french fries, k?

But you knew that already. ;-)

Enjoy!

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67 | Emotional Fitness: What it is, Why it Matters + How to Create it

Do you think of the gym as your “therapy”

There’s nothing wrong with that. But I have a few thoughts for you that may help you build more awareness around what you’re doing and more importantly, WHY you’re doing it.

Because the more awareness we have, the more power we have to create the life we truly want.

Your emotional fitness is a VITAL part of this process, so tune in to learn what it is, why it’s so powerful, how you might be dodging the work, and how you can learn to give your emotional fitness the same respect and effort that you may be giving your physical fitness.

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66 | Moderation: Is it Really Attainable? Or Healthy?

Where are my ALL-OR-NOTHING- people at?

Isn’t "moderation" one of those really fucking annoying words?

 A word that gets thrown around so often and so effortlessly, by people who seem to have all their shit together, as if it's the simplest, easiest solution to all your healthy lifestyle challenges?

"Of course you can eat cake and cookies, just do it 'in moderation'". "Everything in moderation!". Insert eye roll here.

I feel you. I thought I was destined to live in the all or nothing approach to food and health forever, because it’s all I knew, and kind of who I was.

In this episode I’m sharing what is actually happening when we are trying desperately to CONTROL our choices and when we live in a pass/fail mindset with our health choices, and I’m giving you some food for thought on how you can change your story.

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BONUS 6 | Introducing… She Thrives Academy!

Y’all I’ve been BUSY around these parts. What have I been up to? Well, this episode has alllllll the deets.

Listen in to learn how you can go from a LISTENER of this show, to someone who actually IMPLEMENTS the concepts, with me as your coach, helping you every step of the way.

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65 | Dear Taylor: Is There a Limit to Our Growth?

So excited to bring you the second installment of our Dear Taylor series, where I’m offering my answers, thoughts or advice to the questions YOU ask. And today’s topic is a great one:

How do we balance personal growth with self acceptance? Do we have to keep growing all the time? Is there a limit to what we can achieve? How do you deal with the pressure to constantly be improving? When are you done growing?

I love EVERY part of this conversation, and if you’re into self development podcasts like this one, chances are, you will love this one too.

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64 | Changing How You Look vs Changing How You Feel

There is nothing (NOTH. ING.) wrong with changing how your body looks. But be honest with me— if I really pressed you to tell me WHY you are dead-set on changing how you look, would the answer be it’s because deep down, you want to change how you FEEL?

If you are on what feels like a lifelong quest in search of confidence, self-love, and inner peace with your body or yourself at large, but haven’t been able to actually get there yet, with those feelings just always seeming just a touch beyond your reach, this episode is for you.

We are discussing how changing your body has become messily intertwined with the expectation that it will result in changing how you FEEL about your body. Meaning: we believe the external appearance has to change first in order for our internal mindset to change.

This episode explains why that is 100% backwards, and how we can actually create what we REALLY want most for ourselves, right now.

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63 | Dealing with an Injury: How to Have a Setback Not Suck

Whether you’re injured or have some other unexpected life event pop up that is interfering with your training, these seasons can be tough.

How do you feel like you’re not losing all your progress? How do you adjust to a new normal? How do you not get defeated and dejected over being on the bench for a while?

This episode is all about how I’ve personally dealt with 8 months of being out of training, and what I recommend for anyone who is feeling their progress slow or stop for any reason at all.

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62 | 5 Sneaky Things That Are Stunting Your Growth

One of my missions for you here at She Thrives is to live BIG. But how can you do that if you are surrounded by things that are keeping you small? Things you might not even be aware of?

If you are serious about your growth— in anything from body image, to personal development, to goal chasing to business to beyond— listen in to be sure that these 5 things aren’t sneakily holding you back.

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