How many of the things you believe about yourself are actually true and how many have simply been repeated for so long that you stopped questioning them?

In this bonus Monday Mindset episode, I'm looking at self-limiting beliefs, where they come from and how they quietly influence your health, confidence, work and the choices you make every day.

I also talk about stress, boundaries, people pleasing and why looking after yourself cannot continually come second to your job.

It’s time to question the stories you’ve been carrying and decide which ones you’re no longer willing to live by.

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You can have the right calories, training plan and step goal, but what are you telling yourself when things don’t go to plan?

In this bonus Monday Mindset episode, I’m sharing a simple mindset audit to help you notice the thoughts driving your actions, especially when a difficult day starts turning into “I’ve ruined it” or “I’ll start again Monday.”

We’ll look at how to catch the thoughts that are working against you, change the language you’re using and learn to adapt your plan without treating it as failure.

Remember to make sure you are following my instagram page @coachmarinahardiman for lots more teacher related content.

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If Instagram has reminded you there are “only four months left of the year” approximately fifty million times already, this episode is for you. Because if you're a teacher, your year isn't ending. It's just beginning. September has always been our January: a new class, new routines and another opportunity to tell ourselves, “This year will be different.” We'll meal prep, exercise, drink more water, lose the weight and finally stop putting ourselves last.

Then teaching gets busy and those promises slowly disappear.

In this episode, we're changing the September conversation. I'm talking about why putting yourself last is a habit you've probably spent years practising, why your routine needs to work for the exhausted version of you in November rather than the enthusiastic version of you in September, and the practical steps you can take now to make this school year genuinely different.

Because four months isn't your deadline. You have a whole school year ahead of you. Let's build something you're still doing next summer.

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Cake Fridays are often called “staff wellbeing” in schools, but are they really?

In this episode I’m talking about the culture we’ve created around food in staff rooms: Friday cakes as a reward for surviving the week, being told you’re “good” for saying no, the judgement that comes with bringing nutritious food from home, and why women in particular seem to have so much to say about what other women are eating.

I also share what people didn’t see when I was the teacher turning up with my Tupperware and salads. From the outside, it looked like I had nutrition figured out, while behind closed doors I was restricting, binge eating and constantly trying to get smaller.

This isn’t about taking away the fucking cake. It’s about questioning why food has become so connected to guilt, reward and comparison, and what teacher wellbeing could look like if we actually started talking about fuelling teachers instead.

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This week I’m joined by Ronan Kennedy, host of Both Sides of It, for a conversation about the things we keep saying we want to change, while another month, year or sometimes several years pass without us actually doing it.

Ronan and I have both lost significant amounts of weight, and we’ve both experienced the cycle of knowing what we should be doing, starting again, falling away from it and promising ourselves we’ll do better next time. Now, as coaches, we see the same patterns playing out with the people we work with every day.

We talk about what repeatedly breaking promises to yourself does to your confidence, when being busy becomes a reason to keep putting yourself off, why consuming more advice doesn’t necessarily lead to more action, the fear of trying again after previous attempts haven’t worked, and why waiting until life calms down can quietly turn into years of waiting.

But we don’t just talk about why it happens. For every topic, we share practical ways to start approaching it differently in your own life, so you finish this episode with something you can actually do rather than another hour of information you agree with and never use.

Ronan Kennedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronan_kennedy88?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Both Sides Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/033LWf4LMjGUiEiRL2pL3f?si=d32b6bd532744a24

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Every August, thousands of teachers promise themselves that September will be different. They’ll eat better, exercise more, drink more water and finally lose the weight. I used to make exactly the same promises.

In this episode, I share why I now believe I was trying to solve the wrong problem. Teaching is one of the most demanding professions there is, but I was also asking my body to get through those days on coffee, a light lunch and good intentions. I blamed myself for eating everything in sight after work, when in reality my body was simply asking for the fuel it had been missing all day.

This episode isn’t about another diet before school goes back. It’s about understanding why so many teachers feel exhausted, why evenings feel so difficult and why the goal this September shouldn’t just be losing weight, it should be having enough energy to enjoy both teaching and your life outside the classroom.

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Carbohydrates have become one of the most debated topics in nutrition. One coach tells you to eat more of them, another tells you to cut them out completely, and somewhere in the middle are the people who just want to know what will actually help them feel and perform better.

In this episode, I’m joined by performance nutritionist Callum Walker to cut through the noise. We discuss why nutrition has become so confusing on social media, whether carbohydrates could be holding some people back, what insulin actually does, and why there is no one-size-fits-all approach to fat loss.

Finally, we talk about the challenge most people face every day: how do you apply good nutrition when you’re busy, overwhelmed and surrounded by conflicting advice? If you’ve ever felt like nutrition is becoming more complicated instead of simpler, this conversation will help you understand what really matters and where to focus your attention.

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Everyone has heard the phrase “calorie deficit.”

Eat less. Move more.

But what does that actually mean?

In this episode, I’m breaking down calorie deficits in the simplest way I’ve ever explained them. We look at why so many women genuinely believe they’re in a calorie deficit when they’re not, why maintenance isn’t just a calorie number, and how your movement, exercise and lifestyle all change the amount of energy your body needs.

I also share exactly how I coach my clients. We don’t jump straight into changing everything overnight. We start by understanding what normal looks like, remove the guesswork and then build from there.

Because you can’t expect yourself to make confident decisions around food when nobody has ever taught you how your body actually works.

If you’ve spent years following calorie targets without really understanding them, this episode will make everything click.

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Calories have become one of the most misunderstood parts of nutrition. Mention the word and most people immediately think dieting, restriction or guilt. But a calorie is simply a unit of energy, and understanding that changes everything.

In the first episode of my new Fat Loss Fundamentals series, I’m stripping nutrition right back to basics. We cover what calories actually are, why we’ve attached so much emotion to them, why I compare calories to money, and how understanding them gives you confidence instead of confusion.

I also explain why tracking food doesn’t have to be complicated or obsessive. Used properly, it’s simply a way to learn about your eating habits rather than judge them. We finish by looking beyond the calorie number and into protein, carbohydrates, fats and fibre, because understanding where your calories come from is just as important as understanding how many you’re eating.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by nutrition or wondered where to start, this is the episode you’ve been waiting for.

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