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Kat talks with Allen Johnson who shares his tough love approach to breaking unhealthy cycles, making sustainable lifestyle changes and being a positive role model for children. He shares his personal story of overcoming family challenges and gives practical advice on movement, accountability and raising your standards as a parent.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Many parents neglect their own health while claiming to prioritise their children, missing the connection between self-care and effective parenting.
- Breaking large health goals into smaller, manageable steps is essential. Start with one meal improvement, one 10-minute workout per week or reducing alcohol consumption gradually, instead of attempting complete lifestyle overhauls.
- Tracking your habits creates awareness and accountability, many people overestimate their healthy behaviours until they actually document them.
- Practising gratitude and appreciating life itself can shift your perspective. Allen suggests comparing your life's value to material wealth: if you wouldn't trade tomorrow for a million pounds, why aren't you treating each day as the precious gift it is?
- Digital distractions, particularly phones and social media, are destroying quality time and relationships and stopping people from investing in their health. These "easy now, hard later" choices lead to long-term dissatisfaction.
- Movement is the foundational habit that creates positive ripple effects throughout your life so find physical activities you genuinely enjoy to build sustainable consistency, leading to better mood, energy, relationships, and self-image.
- Start with micro-commitments to overcome inaction; a 5-minute daily walk with your kids or 10 minutes at the gym can break the "all-or-nothing" mindset that prevents many people from beginning their health journey.
- Alan shares how growing up with an alcoholic father and challenging family dynamics fuelled his passion to help others transform their lives.
BEST MOMENTS
"If someone was to give you like a million pounds, would you be happy and excited? And of course you would be... Would you accept that million pounds if you couldn't wake up tomorrow? Of course answer is gonna be no. So then why aren't people treating their life like that?"
"There's a saying that hard now easier later or easy now, hard later and I think most people are choosing easy now, hard later. It feels easier in the moment... but in the medium to long term, you are only gonna be gaining more weight, feeling worse about yourself."
"Whenever I step into that gym and train my body hard, I always walk out of that gym feeling 10 times better than when I walk in. And that's why movement, exercise, workouts, whatever you wanna call it, is such a powerful habit to embed into your lifestyle."
"What did you come here for? Did you come here to just survive? Or did you come here to really, really live a great life, and I definitely know that I wasn't put on this earth to have an average life."
"Stay consistent for long enough, and that's how you get life changing results."
ABOUT THE GUEST
Allen Johnson, dad of two young boys based in Essex, who helps other parents work smarter with time & become an inspiring, energetic role model model for their children inside his transformation programme ‘Reach Your Peak’.
Follow Allen on instagram.
ABOUT THE HOST
Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.
She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.
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By Kat ThorneKat talks with Allen Johnson who shares his tough love approach to breaking unhealthy cycles, making sustainable lifestyle changes and being a positive role model for children. He shares his personal story of overcoming family challenges and gives practical advice on movement, accountability and raising your standards as a parent.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Many parents neglect their own health while claiming to prioritise their children, missing the connection between self-care and effective parenting.
- Breaking large health goals into smaller, manageable steps is essential. Start with one meal improvement, one 10-minute workout per week or reducing alcohol consumption gradually, instead of attempting complete lifestyle overhauls.
- Tracking your habits creates awareness and accountability, many people overestimate their healthy behaviours until they actually document them.
- Practising gratitude and appreciating life itself can shift your perspective. Allen suggests comparing your life's value to material wealth: if you wouldn't trade tomorrow for a million pounds, why aren't you treating each day as the precious gift it is?
- Digital distractions, particularly phones and social media, are destroying quality time and relationships and stopping people from investing in their health. These "easy now, hard later" choices lead to long-term dissatisfaction.
- Movement is the foundational habit that creates positive ripple effects throughout your life so find physical activities you genuinely enjoy to build sustainable consistency, leading to better mood, energy, relationships, and self-image.
- Start with micro-commitments to overcome inaction; a 5-minute daily walk with your kids or 10 minutes at the gym can break the "all-or-nothing" mindset that prevents many people from beginning their health journey.
- Alan shares how growing up with an alcoholic father and challenging family dynamics fuelled his passion to help others transform their lives.
BEST MOMENTS
"If someone was to give you like a million pounds, would you be happy and excited? And of course you would be... Would you accept that million pounds if you couldn't wake up tomorrow? Of course answer is gonna be no. So then why aren't people treating their life like that?"
"There's a saying that hard now easier later or easy now, hard later and I think most people are choosing easy now, hard later. It feels easier in the moment... but in the medium to long term, you are only gonna be gaining more weight, feeling worse about yourself."
"Whenever I step into that gym and train my body hard, I always walk out of that gym feeling 10 times better than when I walk in. And that's why movement, exercise, workouts, whatever you wanna call it, is such a powerful habit to embed into your lifestyle."
"What did you come here for? Did you come here to just survive? Or did you come here to really, really live a great life, and I definitely know that I wasn't put on this earth to have an average life."
"Stay consistent for long enough, and that's how you get life changing results."
ABOUT THE GUEST
Allen Johnson, dad of two young boys based in Essex, who helps other parents work smarter with time & become an inspiring, energetic role model model for their children inside his transformation programme ‘Reach Your Peak’.
Follow Allen on instagram.
ABOUT THE HOST
Kat started her career as a teacher, before moving into Tech where she worked in different executive roles within teaching and consulting working across the globe, both in the public and private sector. Despite appearing 'successful' on the outside, she paid a heavy ‘life’ price. In 2016, her whole world collapsed. The reason? The compound effect of years of unhealthy and toxic habits that destroyed her health, relationship and career. She suffered a severe breakdown and lost everything. In the middle of this she got headhunted for her first CEO role. She rebuilt herself by changing just one small habit, and built a series of positive habits which has transformed her professional and personal performance, resulting in becoming the healthiest and happiest version of herself.
She is a positive habits international keynote speaker and teacher, giving talks and delivering high impact programmes to organisations across the globe.