Grace & Grit Podcast: Helping Women Everywhere Live Happier, Healthier And More Fit Lives

Habit change is no small task. They take a lot of GRIT and time to change. In this episode, Courtney gives you strategies for making REAL habit change. Loving this podcast? Head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Writing a review will enter you in a drawing to win free access to the Grace & Grit 21-Day Challenge. Drawings will be held at the end of every month. Notes: 1:30: Why changing a habit in 21-days in unrealistic. 2:40: The consequence of short cuts. 6:00: How taking on too much too soon causes failure. 8:40: The power of taking on ONE THING at a time. 10:15: Get specific. 13:50: Make a plan for success. 14:40: Join habits. 17:20: Make it easy to change your habits. 19:15: Track your behavior. 20:45: Focus on WHY more than how you FEEL. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

Your gut health has been referred to as the second brain! In this interview with holistic nutritionist, Laini Gray, we discuss how important gut health is, and how you can fortify yours. Notes: About Laini Gray: Laini Gray has been in the business of fitness, food and fun for over 20 years. She began her career with a focus on FUN and earned a Bachelor’s of Science in the field of recreation, where she whole heartedly adopted the concepts of play and recreation as vitally important to creating a happy and healthy life. With these ideals, she turned her attention to learning how to further improve the quality of life and health through fitness. Her passion for helping others achieve health and well-being continued to grow, as did her interest in learning all she could about FOOD, optimal nutrition, digestion, detoxification, immunity, hormone balance, disease prevention and stress management. This desire to continue her education inspired her to become a certified Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Functional Diagnosti

Getting clear on what the metabolism even is and how you can train it to work for you rather than against you. Loving this podcast? Head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Writing a review will enter you in a drawing to win free access to the Grace & Grit 21-Day Challenge. Drawings will be held at the end of every month. Notes: 1:40: Changing the conversation around the metabolism. 2:15: The metabolism defined. 3:00: What your cells actually do. 4:15: What happens when cellular health is subpar. 5:00: What affects cellular health? 7:00: The top five things you can do to increase your metabolic power. 11:00: How "undereating" kills your metabolic fire. 13:00: How dehydration negatively impacts your metabolism 16:15: "Exercise" isn’t the only movement that will impact your metabolism. 18:50: The impact sleep has on your metabolism. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

Stress plays a much bigger role in reclaiming health than most women realize. Loving this podcast? Head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Writing a review will enter you in a drawing to win free access to the Grace & Grit 21-Day Challenge. Drawings will be held at the end of every month. Notes: 2:30: Why I suggest most women do the opposite of what the diet and fitness industry has told them to do in the initial stages of a health transformation. 4:00: Why health is a much bigger equation than calories in/calories out. 5:00: How hormonal chaos can disrupt everything! 6:20: Optimizing health really comes down to this. 7:00: Stress redefined. 8:00: How stress can be a really good thing! 9:40: When good stress goes bad. 13:00: What you MUST do before you ask your body to handle something like aggressive exercise or calorie cutting. 13:50: Tips for controlling your total stress load. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGr

You will have to "trim the fat" in your life to make room to practice healthy living regularly. Loving this podcast? Head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Writing a review will enter you in a drawing to win free access to the Grace & Grit 21-Day Challenge. Drawings will be held at the end of every month. Notes: 1:20: Why change feels so hard. 1:55: Success boils down to these two things with ANY goal. 2:50: Why good intentions aren’t enough. 4:50: Why it doesn’t really matter about how you feel about doing the work. 7:00: The necessity of “trimming the fat” in your life. 8:20: Improving your health is a privilege, not a sacrifice. 13:00: How to make room for change more easily. 15:10: One of the best ways to carve out more time in your schedule. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

The superpower most women are under utilizing when it comes to improving their health. Loving this podcast? Head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Writing a review will enter you in a drawing to win free access to the Grace & Grit 21-Day Challenge. Drawings will be held at the end of every month. Notes: 00:45: The linchpin to success with ANY goal. 1:45: The mistake women are making when they set out to improve their health. 4:00: Why we tend to think of people we admire as having traits we do not possess. 4:40: Carol Dweck’s theory on fixed and growth mindsets. 5:45: How a fixed mindset prevents you from getting healthier. 8:40: How a growth mindset can help set you free and achieve anything. 12:50: How to cultivate more of a growth mindset. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

The real reasons women are struggling to get healthy for the long term has more to do with mindset than strategy. Loving this podcast? Head over to iTunes and leave a review so the Grace and Grit message can spread to more women who need to hear it. Writing a review will enter you in a drawing to win free access to the Grace & Grit 21-Day Challenge. Drawings will be held at the end of every month. Notes: 1:00: How “thinking small” sabotages long-term health goals. 1:35: The role the diet industry plays in “thinking small” 2:45: Examples of what “thinking small” looks like. 3:55: The ONE THING everyone needs for deep health. 4:25: Self-respect is really a process of expansion. 6:10: Health is not an either/or conversation between self-love & self- discipline. 7:20: What you really need to be happy and healthy. 8:10: What discipline means to your health transformation. 9:25: The real reason you aren’t “doing the work” 10:15: The third obstacle to being successful with your health. 11:30: Anything in lif

Welcome to the Grace & Grit Podcast! I am so excited you are here. In this episode, you will discover what compelled me to start the Grace & Grit Podcast and how the mission and message have evolved over 7 years of production. I even give you tips for how to get the most value from this show in the least amount of time, so you can start applying the tools to your own life immediately. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-001 **** It's time to make MIDLIFE Magic! Grab your Midlife Magic Quickstart Guide - six episodes of the Grace & Grit Podcast, hand-picked by me to help you consider how you want to show up in the second half of your life. And most importantly, tools, systems, and strategies to help you show up in that way. Learn how to ROCK your second act with Grace & Grit™. **** Are you loving the Grace & Grit Podcast? Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Ready to Rumble? Join me in the Rumble & Rise Arena at https://graceandgrit.com/readytorumble Looking for mor