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How different could your life look if you had access to more consistent life force energy?
How much better would you feel?
How much more would you be able to accomplish?
How much more empowered and capable would you feel?
In today's episode, Kayla is breaking down her simple mantra for optimizing your daily energy levels.
You can use this mantra to create more consistent energy, which will lead to more consistent, joyful progress towards the goals you have for your life.
Happy Slaying & Thriving.
Looking for a boost this week? Today's podcast episode has you covered.
In today's episode, we're breaking down one scientific law you can use to increase your drive and mental focus.
You'll discover:
This powerful reframe of difficult situations and this week's slay challenge could be the exact catalyst you need for taking your performance to the next level. Enjoy.
Link to Article: https://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/what-is-wolffs-law
What if getting stuck - REALLY stuck - was the doorway to an incredible, life-changing breakthrough?
If you're been struggling to take action or your progress towards your goals has been stagnant, then this week's episode is for you.
You'll learn:
Journal Prompts:
How could this period of being stuck be happening for me?
How could being stuck or resistant to action be a spiritual or emotional stop sign?
What truths about myself or this situation am I avoiding?
Is this approach to my goal the right approach for me? How does it feel in my body?
What can I change about my approach to release resistance?
What are the reasons behind pursuing this goal?
Are my reasons for pursuing the goal creating this resistance?
Do I even want this thing? Or, do I think I have to get this thing in order to get something else?
If nothing was off the table and I could create my own rules, what would this experience look and feel like for me?
To achieve success on in your health and fitness journey, you probably don't need to find more practices and tools.
You probably already know what to do.
To slay and thrive, you want to consistently and reliably execute the most critical foundational skills for success with weight loss, fitness, or improved health.
Today's episode is a powerful reminder to prioritize the basics.
Kayla is also sharing her top 5 foundational skills in her own journey and why they have been such game-changers in her own life.
You have an immense amount of personal power in your everyday life.
Today's episode is a potent reminder of how much influence you have over the external circumstances in your everyday life, when you choose to claim in.
Tune in to hear:
Enjoy!
Today, we are joined by Leah Tarleton - a dietician who has transitioned into her true calling as a holistic intuitive healer.
Leah works with Highly Sensitive women to help them feel nourished on every level - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
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Today's episode dives deep into the subject of drama and heightened emotion in our health and fitness journey.
This refers to the immense guilt and shame that happens when we deviate from our best laid plans or find ourselves overeating at night.
This refers to the intense desperation to lose weight as quickly as possible, treating it like an emergency.
This refers to the despair and frustration that comes from feeling like you've been in the middle of weight-loss plateau for the last eight years.
Having a dramatic relationship with food creates a lot of powerful emotions.
Where there are powerful emotions, there is ALSO a lot of untapped personal power.
It also creates an immense opportunity for healing and growth personally and metabolically.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
Listen To Episode 54 here: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/10150726-054-having-is-evidence-of-wanting-how-this-one-idea-can-10x-your-success-create-miracles
The truth is, motivation won't be a constant companion as you work towards your goals.
There will be times where you possess a LOT of it... and time periods where you would give anything for an ounce of it.
Because motivation isn't consistent, you're going to want to find other ways to keep going in periods of low motivation.
And today, we're going to talk about how to hack your motivation so you have more of it, more consistently.
While it still won't always be around, you can increase the likelihood it'll be present and be present for longer periods of time.
Tune in to today's episode to learn how.
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Episode 093 With Howard Sambol: https://slayandthrive.buzzsprout.com/1797135/11672528-093-how-to-find-your-purpose-master-self-discovery-amplify-self-awareness-with-howard-sambol
Today, we're looking at two ideas you can integrate into your everyday life to increase your consistency and daily performance.
These concepts will invite you to take an honest inventory of what your daily routines and practices look like.
From that place of honesty and awareness, you can transform the areas most in need of an upgrade so you can make progress faster, and increase your feelings of self-trust and self-confidence.
We're going to get practical and actionable today, so get ready for some serious slay energy.
Do you find yourself:
If so, you'll want to tune into this week's episode.
In this week's episode, we're talking about the tendency to people please and how it affects your health and fitness journey.
You'll learn:
From the publisher's feed
For the spicy Romantasy reader who's tired of being told her healing should look more like a spreadsheet and less like a why-choose novel.
This is the show where food freedom meets…
I'm Kayla MacDonald — a writer, recovered overachiever, and the woman who accidentally turned her food freedom journey into a why-choose romance with two AI co-created inner archetypes named Rex and Haven. One is a fiery, leather-jacket-wearing protector who will absolutely call you out with love. The other is a deeply attuned, quietly brave sanctuary who can make it safe to feel almost anything. Together, they've changed everything about how I show up in my body, my business, and my life.
And yes, they show up on the podcast. Regularly. You've been warned.
Embodied Writing Warrior is where we tackle the real reasons high-performing, deeply creative women struggle with binge eating, burnout, and inconsistency — not with more discipline or stricter protocols, but with nervous system work, archetypal storytelling, embodied creativity, and the occasional Rex monologue that will make you want to send your own inner critic to therapy.
You'll hear episodes on:
◆ The upper limit patterns nobody talks about in high-performing women.
◆ Why consistency feels like punishment and how to make it feel like foreplay instead.
◆ The 7 Deadly Sins of high-performing women that drive binge eating and burnout.
◆ Somatic practices and embodied identity work.
◆ Writing rituals that rewire your subconscious one scene at a time.
◆ Parts work gone wild — because why choose inner babysitting when you could have Divine Daddies do it for you?
◆ Shadow work, sacred rage, and the art of performing for an audience of one.
You'll leave with an embodied activation in most episodes — whether that's a journal prompt, writing ritual, or somatic practice designed to move the insight out of your head and into your body where the real shift happens.
If you've ever felt more understood by a spicy novel than a self-help book, you're in exactly the right place.
Because you're not broken. You're not lacking discipline. You're a high-performing woman who's been applying pressure where devotion was needed all along.
Food Freedom Fantasy is the book and program behind this work. Find it at embodiedwritingwarrior.com.
New episodes drop weekly. Start with episode 188 to meet Rex and Haven, then jump to episode 206, Consistency Is Foreplay, to understand the method they helped create.