I asked the universe for a sign that I was on the right path... and then came 11:11, Sharpshooter, and a freaking dragonfly. 😂

This week's RIFF goes everywhere in the best possible way. We're talking signs and synchronicities, food protocols, mindset, meditation, core values, goals, and the deeper WHY underneath my natural weight loss journey after 50.

I share how I'm using food protocols to make decisions ahead of time with my smart brain, while also paying attention to what happens when monkey mind wants something else. This isn't about another rigid diet or being perfect. It's about awareness, learning what works for your body, and making the next better choice. 

Then we get into something that's been rolling around in my brain: What if the goal you're chasing isn't actually connected to what you value most?

Weight loss was the quest I knew how to start. But underneath health, underneath losing weight, underneath all those whys, I found something much bigger for me: freedom.

Freedom to travel. Explore. Experience my life. Build my business. Listen to my soul. Do whatever the fuck I want to do.

And maybe THAT is why some goals pull us forward while others feel like we're dragging ourselves through the mud.

We're also talking about continuing to dream, plan, vision, meditate and take those tiny actions during the seasons when it feels like absolutely nothing is happening... because sometimes you've been doing the work for years before everybody else suddenly thinks your transformation happened overnight. 

Apparently no matter where I start these RIFFs, we eventually end up at the same place:

Woo + weight loss. 😂

Come get your woo on, bitches. ✨

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I just got out of a visioning workshop with a room full of badass women creating their lives intentionally — and I had to come share it with you.

I've lost 120 pounds. Regained 80. Now I'm losing 100 again, live, right here. Same techniques, every time. Some of it's mindset. Some of it's woo. All of it starts inside.

In this episode:

• 0:00 — Fresh out of my visioning workshop
• 1:24 — The fork in the road that started my first 120 lb weight loss
• 2:43 — Why my planner is called the MEfirst Guide
• 7:23 — Segment intention — the Abraham Hicks concept that changed how I move through my day
• 7:49 — The phone-call analogy that makes this click
• 13:59 — Why the regain isn't the failure (and my skinny b*tch video)
• 15:04 — Why the alter ego is genius
• 15:46 — This isn't willpower. This is planning from love.
• 18:01 — Come ride with me

Come along for the ride. I refuse to stop.

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Visioning is how I lost 120 pounds the first time. I did it every single day and I didn't even realize how much weight that one habit was pulling. So this time around, losing the 100 back (down about 30 so far, live, right here), I decided to go deeper with it instead of just winging it.

I read Visualize by Maya Raichoora so you don't have to (and also: get the book, it's GREAT)! Here are my top 10 takeaways: the brain science, the manifestation side, and exactly how I'm using it in my own weight loss right now.

If you're the woman who's tried the diets, read the books, and still finds herself starting over, this one's for you. And if you're into manifestation, law of assumption, or vision boards, stick around, because this is where the woo meets the whiteboard.

In this episode:
- Brain Fitness: why visualization is a trainable skill, not a personality trait
- RAS (Reticular Activating System): the brain science behind why you suddenly "see" what you're focused on
- Reducing negative thinking patterns
- The Emotional Triad: Aware, Identify, Process
- Mind Flex: the mental rep that builds the muscle
- The 5 types of visualization: Outcome, Process, Creative, Negative
- Manifestation: what it actually is once you strip the fluff
- The Why and the Who behind your vision
- Why overthinking kills the practice before it starts
- Releasing expectations without releasing the goal

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Come on the ride with me! I refuse to stop.

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You think you need another diet. But what if what you really need is a new identity to step into? In this episode of Midlife Badassery, I’m joined by Christie and Kathy—two women using alter egos to make weight loss, reinvention, and the messy middle of becoming her feel practical, powerful, and even fun.

Christie shares how Sovereign Phoenix helped her leave “golden footprints,” regulate her nervous system, interrupt old choices, and build evidence of the woman she is becoming—even while life was seriously life-ing.

Kathy shares her evolution from Phoenix to Queen, why the Queen doesn’t need to keep starting over, and how curiosity, ritual, community, and one more aligned decision helped her step into a bigger life.

This isn’t about pretending to be someone else. It’s about practicing being the woman you’re becoming.

In this conversation:

Why information and another diet are rarely the whole answer

How an alter ego creates a bridge between your current identity and your future self

Why weight loss becomes a byproduct of identity-aligned choices

How to use “What would she do next?” in real life

Nervous-system regulation, meditation, and changing automatic reactions

Why community matters when life knocks you off routine

What to do if alter ego work feels too woo, silly, or make-believe

How to stop waiting for the scale before living your life

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Ask yourself: What would she do next? Then take one small action that leaves evidence of who you’re becoming.

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Come for the weight loss. Come for the woo. Stay for the transformation—and for each other.

Chapters

00:00 You don’t need another diet
01:02 Why an alter ego changes behavior
02:22 Addie resurrects Slayer
04:00 Meet Christie and Kathy
05:06 Christie’s story: before Sovereign Phoenix
06:25 Golden footprints and Walking on Sunshine
08:08 Building Sovereign Phoenix
11:30 The first real-life identity shift
16:38 Making weight loss an adventure
19:28 Nervous-system regulation changes the choice
25:50 Santorini and the future-self bridge
28:00 Identity first; the body catches up
32:00 Staying in the room when life lives
34:18 What Christie would tell the skeptic
38:23 Kathy’s story: Phoenix rises
39:53 From Phoenix to Queen
42:20 The Queen doesn’t start over
45:52 Bringing the woo—and the science
48:50 Why the community changes everything
52:23 “Come in curious and play”
54:00 What would Queen do next?
56:47 Stop hiding behind the weight
57:05 Becoming her—starting now
59:06 Build your alter ego

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Perfectionism doesn’t always look like high standards and color-coded excellence.

Sometimes it looks like spinning, overthinking, procrastinating—and waiting for Monday to start again. Ask me how I know. 😂 

In this episode, I’m sharing how I interrupt the perfectionism-and-procrastination loop, take imperfect action, and use my MEfirst Guide to get moving again—even when overwhelm tells me I need the perfect plan. 

I’m talking through the three mindset shifts I use when perfectionism and overwhelm have me frozen:

• Why “imperfect” needs to become the new finish line
• How one small, imperfect action creates momentum
• Why I deliberately choose one thing to bomb every day 💣
• How I use the MEfirst Guide to stop carrying an impossible list in my head
• Why getting back up quickly matters more than never spiralling. 

The goal isn’t to become a woman who never gets overwhelmed, misses a habit, overeats, or has a weird day.

The goal is to become the woman who doesn’t abandon herself when she does.

We don’t stop. We adjust as we go.

SELF-REFLECTION

What are you willing to bomb today so the thing that matters most can actually move?

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I’m a skinny bitch.

Yep—I said it. At 262 pounds, after losing 120 pounds, regaining 80, and now being down 30 pounds this year.

And nobody can convince me otherwise.

Because being her doesn’t begin when the scale finally gives you permission. It begins when you decide who you are, practice believing her thoughts, and keep showing up long enough for the evidence to catch up.

In this episode, I’m riffing straight from our MEfirst 90 planning event about what it actually takes to believe in yourself again—especially when you’ve started over before, regained weight, or have people waiting to roll their eyes at your next attempt.

We’re talking about:

• Why I put on my detective hat instead of my judge’s robe
• The Obstacle Playbook that exposed what was really behind my afternoon overeating
• How commitment, courage, capability, and confidence build on one another
• Why self-trust matters whether you’re losing weight, using a GLP-1, building a business, or chasing any big goal
• How I practice new thoughts before I fully believe them
• The bridge thought that can carry you when “I’m already her” feels too far away
• Why your dreams have to get bigger than weight loss

YOUR 1% ACTION:

Choose one goal you want to reach in the next 90 days and ask yourself:

What would I need to believe to be the woman who makes this happen?

Then get honest about what you believe now. No judgment. Just curiosity.

You don’t have to jump straight to “I’m a skinny bitch.” Start with a thought you can practice:

I’m going to keep showing up, learning, and loving myself through this until I figure it out.

That’s how belief gets built.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — “Who’s a skinny bitch? That’s me.”
01:38 — What believing in yourself looked like at the beginning
03:42 — Put on your detective hat, not your judge’s robe
04:18 — Building an Obstacle Playbook
07:15 — What my overeating was actually helping me avoid
09:14 — Identity work and GLP-1 weight loss
10:30 — Commitment, courage, capability, and confidence
13:18 — Practicing the identity before the evidence arrives
16:51 — Finding a bridge thought you can believe
19:20 — Why goals start feeling possible
20:17 — Your 1% action for the week
21:54 — There is no shame in regain
23:21 — What if your dreams became bigger than weight loss?

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What if your biggest dreams aren't behind you...

What if they're just waiting for your permission?

In today's Future Self Diaries, I'm taking you behind the scenes as I dream out loud about the life I'm intentionally creating. No perfect plan. No pretending I've arrived. Just an honest conversation about the future I'm choosing to build—and why I think every midlife woman deserves to do the same.

Because here's what I've learned...

You don't accidentally become her.

You become her one tiny decision, one tiny habit, and one tiny act of courage at a time.

If you've been putting your dreams on hold while taking care of everyone else, this episode is your reminder that your next chapter doesn't have an expiration date.

It's time to dream bigger.

In this episode:

✨ Why dreaming is more practical than you think
 🧭 How your Future Self becomes your compass
 🌅 The power of visualizing an extraordinary life
 💗 Why becoming always comes before achieving
 🚀 One simple way to start becoming her today

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I lost 120 pounds. Regained 80. Losing it again, live, right here with you. 👇 Come build your ritual with us this week: [SKOOL LINK]

Diet culture has us believing the happy is at the skinny. Lose the weight, and then the happy shows up.

I did the opposite. I stopped chasing skinny and started chasing joy — and the weight came off anyway.

Then the opposite happened. Joy went out of my life, and the weight came back on. So it became a mission to create a life I loved again. And as I stepped into that, the weight started coming off again.

I'm still in it. I've still got work to do. And I'm doing it right here with you.

If you're a midlife woman who knows exactly what to do and still can't stay consistent, this one is for you. This isn't another video about discipline or willpower. Sustainable weight loss after 50 doesn't come from trying harder. It comes from building habits and rituals you actually want to wake up to.

In this episode I'm telling you the thing that finally made my habits stick. I was a 300-pound ball of misery in Phoenix, and the first habit I ever built was a 20-minute meditation I bribed myself into with a cup of coffee. That one small ritual started everything.

WHAT WE GET INTO:

→ Why your habits don't stick, and why it's not a discipline problem
 → The coffee bribe: why bribing yourself isn't cheating, it's the mechanism
 → Habit stacking (James Clear, Atomic Habits) and why a ritual is a habit stack with soul
 → How to build a morning routine you don't have to force yourself into
 → The beach house: I got everything on the vision board and I was still miserable
 → The candy jar, the meditation room, and quieting the food noise
 → Your primitive brain isn't broken, it's trying to keep you safe (nervous system regulation)
 → Weight regain: showing up through the sickness, the eczema, the gaining, and why I never stopped
 → Curiosity over judgment, and why awareness is your superpower

MY PROMISE EVERY EPISODE: one small thing you can actually do this week, or one idea that shifts something in your brain. Not more information. You've got plenty of that.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 The happy isn't at the skinny
 0:57 If you're new here
 1:38 My promise every episode
 2:37 Back in Phoenix, where it started
 3:00 The 300-pound ball of misery
 4:26 My very first habit stack
 4:57 I could just go walk five minutes
 5:22 Where does your ritual live?
 6:32 The coffee bribe
 7:12 James Clear and habit stacking
 8:53 Sick of doing it the same old way
 9:13 Pulling the card
 10:34 The beach house and the vision board
 13:37 The candy jar
 14:29 Your primitive brain is keeping you safe
 21:58 Showing up through the eczema and the flare-ups
 26:18 Curiosity over judgment
 26:34 The awareness is your superpower

This week inside Midlife Badassery we're building joy on purpose all week, leading into the Habits & Rituals workshop this Sunday. If you're done with diet culture and ready to build a life you love living, come walk with us.

 Get on the ride with me, because I'm not stopping. 

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Six months ago, I sat on this very mountain wondering what the next chapter of my life would look like.

Today, I'm back.

I'm 30 pounds lighter, my community has grown from an idea into 450 incredible women, and somewhere along the way... I stopped chasing a perfect life and learned to truly love the one I was living.

In this deeply personal reflection, I share what actually changed over the past six months—including the things I never saw coming.

We talk about:

✨ Why the biggest transformation wasn't the number on the scale (although, I'll take 30 pounds down)!

✨ Building an alter ego that changed everything

✨ Learning to love my life—even when it was confined to one room

✨ Healing, health challenges, and why progress isn't always linear

✨ Dreaming bigger than weight loss

✨ Why I'm planning to work from Scotland next year (yes... really!)

✨ What I hope the next six months will bring

If you've ever felt like your life is meant for something more than simply losing weight, being on the hamster wheel of life, same day in and out...

This episode is for you.

Because sometimes the greatest transformation isn't becoming someone new.

It's finally becoming yourself. 

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Have you ever known exactly what you wanted to do... and still couldn't make yourself do it?

You want to stretch.
 You want to meditate.
 You want to lose the weight.
 You want to build the business.

So why does your brain seem to hit the brakes?

In this episode, I'm sharing one of the biggest breakthroughs I've had in years of coaching midlife women. What started as research for my EFT tapping workshop turned into a completely new way of understanding motivation, procrastination, and why so many of us get stuck during life's transition moments.

You'll learn why I no longer believe motivation is the problem—and why your nervous system may be trying to protect you instead.

We explore:

✨ Why traditional morning routines aren't the whole answer

✨ How your nervous system influences motivation and procrastination

✨ The "Smoke Alarm" analogy for fight-or-flight

✨ The ancient Chariot story and what it teaches us about the mind, body, and soul

✨ Why I see our Arch Nemeses (like the Wine Wench and Fog Witch) as protective parts instead of enemies

✨ A new concept I'm calling The Transition Chamber—a simple way to move from survival mode back into alignment with your Highest Self

Plus, I end with a short EFT tapping exercise you can use the next time you find yourself stuck, overwhelmed, or unable to take the next step.

If you've ever asked yourself...

"What's wrong with me?"

I hope this episode helps you start asking a better question:

"What is this part of me trying to protect me from?"

Because I have a feeling that question might change everything.

Chapters (Approximate)

00:00 – Why I think I finally figured this out

02:15 – My client's morning routine struggle

06:00 – Why morning routines aren't the real answer

09:30 – The nervous system & the Smoke Alarm

15:00 – The Chariot: an ancient map for the modern mind

22:00 – Why your Arch Nemesis might be trying to protect you

28:00 – The Transition Chamber

34:00 – EFT tapping for motivation & overwhelm

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