The Chase Life Podcast

Do you actually want to play a bigger game or do you just like the idea of it?

Join Rachel Godfrey and Mark Coles for an unfiltered conversation about building a body, business and life you're proud of and taking responsibility for what that requires.

With over two decades each in coaching and consulting, Rachel and Mark discuss why people invest in support but still resist doing the work, how your identity influences your results, and why another strategy won't fix weak foundations.

They also get honest about their own blind spots, the skills they're developing, and why being successful doesn't mean you've finished learning.

In this episode:

• The pursuit of mastery: Why there's no finish line and how to find fulfilment in getting better.
• Identity before strategy: Why your habits, business systems and training plans need solid foundations.
• The humility to admit a skills gap: How Rachel and Mark identify where they're holding their own businesses back.
• Perfectionism versus high standards: Why an impossible standard can keep you stuck and undermine your leadership.
• Emotional stability and growth: Handling setbacks, making decisions from data, and dropping the expectation that success will finally make you feel enough.
• Messaging that attracts the right clients: Being direct without becoming another angry coach shouting at strangers online.
• Knowing which game you're playing: The difference between pursuing money, status, reputation and a life you actually enjoy.
• Ambition within a relationship: Creating space for your vision, your partner's vision and the life you're building together.
• Belief backed by action: Why optimism needs consistent work, patience and a willingness to fail.

If you keep saying you're ready for the next level, this conversation asks you to look honestly at whether your actions reflect that decision.

"If you want your game to change, you have to change."

CONNECT WITH US!

Connect with Rachel: Instagram: @therachelgodfrey

JOIN - ONYX Performance Our fat loss membership platform for high-achieving women 35+. Where health, identity, and feminine power find their home. www.thehouseofonyx.com

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

Do you actually want to play a bigger game or do you just like the idea of it?

Join Rachel Godfrey and Mark Coles for an unfiltered conversation about building a body, business and life you're proud of and taking responsibility for what that requires.

With over two decades each in coaching and consulting, Rachel and Mark discuss why people invest in support but still resist doing the work, how your identity influences your results, and why another strategy won't fix weak foundations.

They also get honest about their own blind spots, the skills they're developing, and why being successful doesn't mean you've finished learning.

In this episode:

• The pursuit of mastery: Why there's no finish line and how to find fulfilment in getting better.
• Identity before strategy: Why your habits, business systems and training plans need solid foundations.
• The humility to admit a skills gap: How Rachel and Mark identify where they're holding their own businesses back.
• Perfectionism versus high standards: Why an impossible standard can keep you stuck and undermine your leadership.
• Emotional stability and growth: Handling setbacks, making decisions from data, and dropping the expectation that success will finally make you feel enough.
• Messaging that attracts the right clients: Being direct without becoming another angry coach shouting at strangers online.
• Knowing which game you're playing: The difference between pursuing money, status, reputation and a life you actually enjoy.
• Ambition within a relationship: Creating space for your vision, your partner's vision and the life you're building together.
• Belief backed by action: Why optimism needs consistent work, patience and a willingness to fail.

If you keep saying you're ready for the next level, this conversation asks you to look honestly at whether your actions reflect that decision.

"If you want your game to change, you have to change."

CONNECT WITH US!

Connect with Rachel: Instagram: @therachelgodfrey

JOIN - ONYX Performance Our fat loss membership platform for high-achieving women 35+. Where health, identity, and feminine power find their home. www.thehouseofonyx.com

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

You train consistently. You eat "healthy." You work hard.

So why doesn't your body actually look like you train?

This is one of the most frustrating places to be especially when you're a high-achieving woman who is used to putting in the work and getting results.

And the answer usually isn't another fitness class, more cardio, cutting your food harder or adding another workout.

In this episode of The Chase Life Podcast, Rachel and David break down the real reasons your physique may not reflect the amount of effort you're putting in and why the problem often goes far beyond your training programme.

We cover:

• Why simply going to the gym consistently isn't enough and the importance of progressive overload.
• Why constantly changing exercises, rep ranges and programmes can keep you spinning your wheels.
• Why women need to stop being afraid of lifting heavy and what "heavy" actually means.
• Why lifting MORE weight isn't always the answer, particularly if your biomechanics and exercise selection are building a physique you don't actually want.
• The role of periodisation and why your training should have a longer-term progression rather than being a collection of random workouts.
• Why "I eat healthy" tells us almost nothing about whether your nutrition actually supports your goals.
• The bites, licks, tastes, grazing, weekend eating and "fuck it" moments that can quietly erase the deficit you think you're creating.
• Why emotional eating, stress eating and binge behaviours are not simply failures of discipline or willpower.
• The difference between functional hunger and using food to meet an emotional need.
• Why high achievers can become trapped in perfectionism, overthinking, completion addiction and the need to constantly be productive.
• Why we sometimes deliberately REMOVE cardio during a fat-loss phase rather than prescribing more of it.
• How sleep, stress and recovery influence your ability to build the physique you want.

And perhaps most importantly, why your body, business, career and psychology cannot be neatly separated from one another. The patterns follow you everywhere.

If you're perfectionistic at work, unable to switch off, constantly trying to control outcomes and running your life in survival mode, those same patterns will eventually show up in your relationship with food, training and your body.

The version of you who can stay in shape year-round isn't the version who sacrifices her career to prioritise fitness.

She's the version who performs better across everything because she has learned how to achieve more without permanently operating from stress, urgency and exhaustion.

If you're putting serious effort into your body but still feel like your results don't reflect the work you're doing, this episode will help you identify where the real gap might be.

CONNECT WITH US!

Connect with Rachel: Instagram: @therachelgodfrey

Apply for Black Label Codes: https://blacklabelcodes.com

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

JOIN - ONYX Performance The exclusive education, luxury wellness and membership platform for high-achieving women 35+. Where health, identity, and feminine power find their home. www.thehouseofonyx.com

Private Consulting: www.chaselifeconsulting.com

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

In this episode, Rachel sits down with private client Alyssa Shaw, CEO and Co-Founder of Manor Aesthetics & Wellness, to unpack the incredible transformation she's experienced over the past 18 months.

Alyssa wasn't lacking discipline. She wasn't lacking knowledge.

She'd spent years counting calories, tracking macros, training consistently and building a hugely successful business while raising three boys as a single mother.

From the outside, she looked like she had it all together.

Behind the scenes, she was living in a constant state of overdrive.

Every day was fuelled by anxiety, perfectionism and the need to stay in control. No matter how hard she trained, how perfectly she ate or how successful she became, her nervous system never switched off. The result? Sugar binges, chronic back pain, exhaustion and a body that simply wouldn't respond.

This conversation isn't about another fat loss strategy.

It's about what happens when you stop trying to fix your body... and finally address the identity that's driving every behaviour underneath it.

Together, Rachel and Alyssa explore:

• Why high-achieving women often feel trapped in chronic stress despite outward success.
• The hidden connection between perfectionism, over-achievement and emotional eating.
• How shame - not willpower - was driving Alyssa's nightly sugar binges.
• The identity shift that eliminated years of food obsession almost overnight.
• Why counting calories wasn't the solution.
• Recovering from chronic back pain after years of failed treatments.
• Why strengthening - not stretching - completely changed her body.
• The importance of regulating your nervous system before chasing more success.
• How building boundaries actually accelerated business growth.
• Why doing less often allows you to achieve significantly more.
• How to travel constantly while maintaining your physique without calorie counting.
• The surprising relationship between peace, productivity and financial success.
• Why high performers don't need more motivation - they need a new operating system.

This episode is a masterclass in what happens when you stop living in constant overdrive and start leading your life from a place of calm, confidence and clarity.

If you've built the career, achieved the success and ticked all the boxes... but still feel anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted or trapped in self-sabotaging patterns, this conversation will challenge everything you think is keeping you stuck.

Because your greatest transformation doesn't start with your body.

It starts with who you believe you are.

Connect with Alyssa

Instagram: @manoraesthetics Website: https://thisismanor.com

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Connect with Rachel: Instagram: @therachelgodfrey

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At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

Success isn't built on motivation.

It's built on what you do after you've been disappointed.

After the setback. After the plateau. After the day you wanted to quit.

In this episode, Rachel and David unpack one of the most important skills you'll ever develop: grit.

Not the unhealthy kind that keeps you burnt out and running on stress.

The kind that allows you to keep showing up, trust yourself, and follow through long after everyone else has given up.

If you've ever found yourself saying...

"I've tried everything."

"Why can I succeed in my career but not with my body?"

"Maybe I just don't have enough discipline."

...this episode will completely change your perspective.

Inside this episode, we discuss:

• Why grit is a skill - not a personality trait.
• The difference between purpose-driven resilience and unhealthy hustle.
• Why high-achieving women excel professionally but often struggle with their body.
• How years of failed diets slowly destroy your confidence and self-belief.
• Why fat loss is an emotional problem before it's a nutrition problem.
• The hidden "f**k it" moments that sabotage even the best nutrition plans.
• Why emotional cravings - not physical hunger - keep so many women stuck.
• The importance of becoming coachable if you want extraordinary results.
• Why trusting yourself is one of the greatest skills you can develop.
• How your internal dialogue shapes your identity and your future.
• The Daily 1% philosophy and why small, consistent actions outperform perfection every time.
• Why your only two options are simple: Quit... or go again.

This episode is a reminder that confidence isn't something you're born with.

It's something you earn every time you keep a promise to yourself.

Every challenge you overcome becomes proof that you're capable of overcoming the next one.

The question isn't whether you'll experience setbacks.

You will.

The question is what you'll do next.

Will you quit?

Or go again?

And if you're ready to stop starting over and finally build the mindset, habits and identity that create lasting results, visit blacklabelcodes.com to learn more about Black Label Codes

CONNECT WITH US!

Connect with Rachel: Instagram: @therachelgodfrey

Apply for Black Label Codes: https://blacklabelcodes.com

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

Everyone wants to blame hormones, perimenopause, age, a busy schedule, or lack of time.

But what if exhaustion isn't coming from your calendar?

What if the real problem is the mental and emotional patterns running in the background every single day?

In this episode, Rachel and David unpack the hidden drivers of burnout, why so many successful women feel bone-deep exhausted, and how the very traits that helped you build a successful career may now be sabotaging your health, energy, and body composition.

They explore the difference between being a high achiever and becoming a stress addict, why exhaustion has become a socially rewarded badge of honour, and how self-worth, boundaries, and identity influence everything from your productivity to your ability to lose fat.

You'll discover:

• Why exhaustion is not a flex
• The difference between normal tiredness and bone-deep exhaustion
• How hustle culture quietly destroys your health and performance
• The "Human Doing" trap and why high achievers struggle to switch off
• Why self-worth sits underneath almost every boundary issue
• The hidden emotional patterns keeping you overwhelmed
• Why your lack of time is rarely a time management problem
• How stress, burnout, hormones, and fat loss are connected
• Why successful women often feel guilty putting themselves first
• The surprising reason many high performers sabotage their own health
• How Rachel reduced her working hours and increased productivity
• Why getting in shape requires upgrading more than just your nutrition

If you've ever felt like you're carrying the weight of everyone else's expectations, struggling to switch off, or wondering why you're doing everything "right" but still feel exhausted, this episode will help you identify the blind spots keeping you stuck.

Resources Mentioned:

• Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
• Black Label Codes Identity Masterclass
• DM "MAGNETIC" on Instagram to access the free training

CONNECT WITH US!

Connect with Rachel: Instagram: @therachelgodfrey

Apply for Black Label Codes: https://blacklabelcodes.com

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

JOIN - ONYX Performance The exclusive education, luxury wellness and membership platform for high-achieving women 35+. Where health, identity, and feminine power find their home. www.thehouseofonyx.com

Private Consulting: www.chaselifeconsulting.com

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

"Nothing Works For Me!"

If you've ever said those four words, stop.

Because they might be the very belief keeping you stuck.

You've tracked calories. Counted macros. Started over every Monday. Downloaded the apps. Bought the programs. Promised yourself this time would be different.

And yet here you are.

Still frustrated. Still exhausted. Still carrying weight that feels harder than ever to lose. Still wondering why everyone else seems to have figured it out while you're working twice as hard for half the results.

Here's the truth:

The problem isn't that fat loss doesn't work. The problem is that you've been trying to solve a deeper issue with surface-level solutions.

Nobody ever taught you that your weight struggles have very little to do with food.

Nobody taught you that the woman who constantly craves sugar, wine, comfort food, validation, achievement, control, and perfection isn't suffering from a lack of discipline.

She's operating from an identity that's making success impossible.

In this episode, Rachel and David reveal the framework they've used to help thousands of high-achieving women finally break free from the cycle of dieting, emotional eating, self-sabotage, and starting over.

You'll discover:

• Why most women are trying to build fat loss from the roof down
• The hidden connection between self-worth and emotional eating
• Why perfectionism, people-pleasing, overthinking, and workaholism are silently sabotaging your body
• The real reason cravings feel impossible to control
• Why discipline is not your problem
• The one thing that must change before any nutrition plan will ever stick
• How successful women unknowingly create the exact conditions that keep them overweight
• Why the version of you that struggles with food is often the same version of you that's exhausted, overwhelmed, and stuck in survival mode

Most women spend years trying to change their body. Very few realise they need to change the identity driving it.

This isn't another conversation about calories, macros, meal plans, supplements, or motivation hacks. This is the conversation that explains why none of those things have worked long term.

And if you're a high-achieving woman who's sick of feeling like you're failing despite doing everything "right"...

You need to hear this.

Because the moment you understand what is really keeping you stuck, everything changes. Press play.

This episode could save you years of frustration.

CONNECT WITH US!

Apply for Black Label Codes: https://blacklabelcodes.com

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

JOIN - ONYX Performance The exclusive education, luxury wellness and membership platform for high-achieving women 35+. Where health, identity, and feminine power find their home. www.thehouseofonyx.com

Private Consulting: www.chaselifeconsulting.com

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

IG - @therachelgodfrey

Most people don't fail because the plan doesn't work. They fail because they never made a real decision.

In this episode of The Chase Life Podcast, Rachel and David break down why "it would be nice" is keeping you stuck and what it actually takes to change your body, business, and life.

This is a conversation about standards, identity, and the moment you stop negotiating with yourself.

Inside:

• Why wanting it isn't enough
• The difference between interest vs commitment
• How "nothing works for me" becomes your identity
• Why most people quit when they're actually on track
• The power of a categorical decision (no plan B)
• Why you can't have the reward without the discomfort
• The real reason discipline feels hard

You don't need more motivation. You need to decide and remove every other option.

CONNECT WITH US!

Apply for Black Label Codes: https://blacklabelcodes.com

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

JOIN - ONYX Performance the exclusive education, luxury wellness and membership platform for high-achieving women 35+. Where health, identity, and feminine power find their home. www.thehouseofonyx.com

Private Consulting: www.chaselifeconsulting.com

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

IG - @therachelgodfrey

Most people don't have a discipline problem. They have a standards problem.

In this episode Rachel and David break down the uncomfortable truth behind why so many high-achieving women stay stuck in the same body, despite "doing everything right."

This is not another conversation about calories, macros, or quick fixes. It's about the gap between what you think it takes… and what it actually takes.

You'll hear why aiming to "lose a few kilos" keeps you looping forever, how unrealistic expectations sabotage motivation, and why most people are wildly off when it comes to how much fat they actually need to lose and how much muscle they need to build.

They also go deep on:

• Why standards, not goals, determine your results
• The real reason fat loss alone leaves you disappointed with your body
• The truth about muscle building (and why it takes years, not weeks)
• Why intensity in training is the missing piece for most women
• The difference between fat loss vs. body recomposition
• How to set expectations that actually keep you in the game long enough to win
• The danger of "good enough" thinking in fitness, business, and life
• Why excellence is built through graduated identity and skill development, not shortcuts

Rachel also shares her perspective on:

• Training intensity and why most people never go there
• The problem with modern coaching standards in the fitness industry
• How to approach your physique like a skill, not just an outcome
• Why your "dream body" is built in layers (not in 12 weeks)

David breaks down:

• The two levers that actually change your body: fat loss and muscle gain
• Why most people are delusional about how much muscle they have
• The myth of bulking and why overeating doesn't build more muscle
• How to think about long-term transformation without burning out

This episode will upgrade your expectations and your standards. If your standards stay the same, your results will too.

CONNECT WITH US!

Apply for Black Label Codes: https://blacklabelcodes.com

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤

JOIN - ONYX Performance the exclusive education, luxury wellness and membership platform for high-achieving women 35+. Where health, identity, and feminine power find their home. www.thehouseofonyx.com

Private Consulting: www.chaselifeconsulting.com

If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

IG - @therachelgodfrey

We're talking identity change, founder evolution, emotional mess, people pleasing, human-doing behaviour, and the hard truth that most high achievers don't want to hear…

… you will change eventually.

You can do it now through discipline and foresight. Or later through consequence and hindsight.

Rachel shares what the last few months have really looked like behind the scenes as she steps into a bigger role in business, while David breaks down the patterns they see constantly in women who are successful on paper but chaotic, exhausted, disconnected, and stuck in bodies and habits that no longer match who they want to become.

We also get into health optimisation, minimal effective dose, emotional eating, GLPs, HRT, and why no tool will save you if you refuse to do the real work.

This is the episode for the woman who knows she's meant for more, but keeps hitting the same wall.

CONNECT WITH US!

At Chase Life Consulting & ONYX Performance it's our mission is to empower female entrepreneurs and executives globally to embrace and fulfil their true potential, unapologetically.

We aim to inspire them to courageously pursue their passions, knowing who they are, what they stand for and where they are going in life.

To optimise their physical and cognitive health; elevate performance standards and ultimately become a better version of themselves.

Our commitment is to support their transformation into a physically fit, compassionate, resilient, influential leader.

Accelerating their journey toward an amazing body, improved health, wealth, fulfilment and impact while creating a deeply fulfilling and inspiring life for themselves and their family.

Welcome to the team 🖤 JOIN - ONYX Performance the exclusive education, luxury wellness and membership platform for high-achieving women 35+. Where health, identity, and feminine power find their home. www.thehouseofonyx.com

Private Consulting: www.chaselifeconsulting.com

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If you have any questions for the podcast or would like to discuss consulting options please contact: [email protected]

IG - @therachelgodfrey