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This is an episode that every high-performing woman needs to listen to.

As a high-performing, Type-A woman, there's an extremely high chance that you rely on your own will and actions to influence every outcome in your life.

This can be a great thing.

Everyone wants agency and the feeling of having a say in what happens in their external world.

However, in many cases, this emphasis on our own will and actions can become excessive. We end up trying to control everything and everyone around us, which creates a lot of unnecessary stress and unhappiness.

In today's episode, we talk about:

• The difference between being an empowered action-taker and being a stressed-out controller.
• How to release your death grip on control and find a level of surrender and trust that feels peaceful and safe.
• Three mindset reframes to help you become an empowered action-taker who lets go of the need for excessive control and certainty.

You've probably heard that willpower is a finite resource.

Willpower depletes over the course of the day.

The more you use willpower throughout the day, the less you have later.

And while these ideas might be true, I believe one of the biggest ways we limit and reduce our willpower is when we make our willpower conditional.

Our willpower only shows up in certain circumstances.

It's only possible to have willpower during these times, but not those ones.

This limits our power in our daily lives.

I believe you become unstoppable when you stop putting conditions on your willpower.

In this episode, we'll talk about:

• A more empowering view on willpower (versus simply seeing it as a finite resource).
• The three most-common conditions we put on our willpower.
• How to stop putting conditions on your willpower so you can become the most powerful, consistent version of yourself.

This episode title might have you scratching your head, but I mean it when I say I'm grateful for my recent weight regain.

I wasn't grateful for it a few months ago.

I felt so defeated and demoralized by my own behaviour and energy between the months of September to April.

I thought I had learned nothing after all these years.

I thought it meant I was doomed to failure and unhappiness and could only keep it at bay for so long.

However, that wasn't the case whatsoever.

With that period of time behind me, I'm able to realize why I had the setbacks I did with my health and weight.

I know realize they were for my highest good.

In this week's episode, I'm walking you through all the reasons why I'm grateful for the weight I gained back.

My intention is for this episode to serve as a case study for you so you can see how it's possible to take any setback or struggle, and use it as a force for growth and transformation.

Today, we are joined by Meadow Faith - a Human Design expert, entrepreneur, and spiritual teacher.

Meadow shares her wisdom and insights on how to use Human Design to master your own personal energetic field, make better decisions, and live your healthiest, most aligned life.

This conversation includes:

• An explanation of the 5 energy types (Aura) and how they best operate (Strategy).
• Using your emotional state to course correct your actions and approach (Not-Self-Theme & Signature).
• How to create your own personalized map to success, regardless of the goal you're pursuing or what energy type you are.

Get your free Human Design Chart here: https://www.jovianarchive.com/get_your_chart

Connect With Meadow: https://www.magicalbossbabe.com/

There is one powerful, surefire way to create a rapid transformation with your health or body - and it's to cultivate more consistent levels of peace in your life.

Peace is not just about managing or minimizing stress.

Peace is stress management on steroids.

Peace is a state that will make any health, fitness, or body transformation goal 100x easier.

In today's episode, you'll learn:

• Why cultivate peace if you want to make sustainable progress towards your health and fitness goals.
• How to break through your comfort zone while still honouring your body's need for peace and relaxation
• 5 strategies for cultivating inner peace in a way that supports and accelerates momentum and keeps you thriving on the journey.

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Today's episode is going to cover two powerful intentions to help you create your biggest glow up yet.

Dictionary.Com defines a glow up as "an informal term for a positive personal transformation, typically one involving significant changes in appearance and style and often also growth in confidence and maturity (and sometimes aspects of personal or professional life)."

In today's episode, you'll learn:

• Two powerful intentions to help you create an incredible glow up, and the breakdown of why they are SO powerful.
• How to customize these powerful intentions to your desires and preferences.
• A simple daily way to work with these intentions that takes less than 5 minutes in the morning.

Episode 71: The Most Important Skill You'll Ever Build: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10735901-071-the-most-important-skill-you-ll-ever-build

Consistency is one of the greatest superpowers you can ever possess.

It's a keystone part of what it takes to slay your goals and thrive along the way.

However, sometimes, we think we're chasing consistency when what we're truly chasing is perfectionism disguised as consistency.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why consistency is a superpower and why perfectionism is a fatal flaw.
• 5 Red Flags that you're chasing perfectionism instead of focusing on consistency.
• How to make the shift from trying to be perfect to building more consistency and stability into your daily life.

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” - Naomi Wolf

To celebrate the release of The Barbie Movie last month, we are doing a special episode on how you can simultaneously transform your body and slay the patriarchy.

In today's society, it sometimes feel likes there are two distinct camps:

1. The weight loss and body transformation camp, which can keep women spinning in a cycle of obsessing about how their body's look and how much they're eating. This can sometimes be approached in a way that is harmful and reinforces the patriarchy.

2. The body positivity/feminism camp, which strives to empower women and allow them to love themselves and their body's at every size. However, this camp can also make women feel shame if they do want to lose weight or transform their bodies in some way.

When these two camps go to war with each other, it's a losing game for any woman involved.

But what if you didn't have to choose?

What if you could love and accept your body, celebrate yourself as a women, use your actions and your approach to tell the patriarchy to stick it where the sun doesn't shine, AND create a physical transformation, if you desire to do so?

That is what this week's episode is all about.

Article From Ravishly.com: https://www.ravishly.com/2015/03/05/weight-loss-patriarchy-feminism-

3 Ways To Infuse Feminine Energy Into Your Wellness Journey: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/13008542-124-3-ways-to-infuse-feminine-energy-into-your-wellness-journey

Today's episode contains a short but powerful message to help you deal with frustration and impatience that comes when progress feels slow.

There are times on our journey towards our goals where it feels like things aren't happening. Progress either feels painfully slow or even nonexistent in certain seasons.

Tune in to this episode to learn:

• The deeper reasons we experience frustration and impatience, and what to do about it.
• How to reframe periods of slow progress and why they are actually a good thing.
• One way to accelerate your progress without pushing harder or burning yourself out.

The intention of this message is to leave you feeling comforted and peaceful, no matter how slow your progress has felt, and give you a dose of inspiration to keep moving towards your goals.

This episode was inspired by an interesting conversation I had with a friend on one of our hikes.

She was sharing something she'd heard from a big health coach in the industry. What she'd heard was this:

Running and other types of high-intensity cardio raise your cortisol levels and create a stress response in the body. This can cause people, especially women in menopause, to gain weight.

She asked what my thoughts were. I said I agreed and disagreed. I'm going to elaborate on the thoughts I had surrounding this topic. In this episode, you'll learn:

• The science behind stress-related weight gain from running and other intense forms of cardio.
• How our thoughts about movement and exercise impact our body's physiological response to them.
• When running or other high-intensity cardio would be beneficial, and when it might be more harmful than helpful in terms of building health and longevity.
• How to choose the most aligned exercise for you.
• How to tune into your own body's wisdom to make the best movement-related decisions possible.

Article On Cortisol & Exercise: https://www.runtothefinish.com/why-working-out-but-gaining-weight/