Grace & Grit Podcast

Episode 649: Do You Have Enough to Look Forward To?

My husband and I were talking recently about how full and heavy midlife feels right now. The parents to care for, the teenager still at home, the business to run, the rel

Episode 648: The Health Cost of Being in a Hurry

You can eat well, exercise consistently, and sleep seven hours a night. And still spend your entire day physiologically rushing. In this episode I make the case that ch

Episode 647: Your Social Life Might Need Progressive Overload

In strength training, if you never increase the challenge, you stop getting stronger. The body adapts and then plateaus. The same thing happens in your social life. I

Episode 646: Boring Works

After thirty years in the wellness industry and hundreds of conversations with extraordinary health experts, I keep arriving at the same conclusion. Not a revolutionary o

Episode 645: The Envy You Are Not Admitting To

There is a feeling most of us were taught to be ashamed of. We call it a sin. We hide it. We dress it up as something more acceptable. But what if envy, honestly exam

Episode 644: Alone but Not Lonely

I have been alone but not lonely. And I have been surrounded by people and felt profoundly alone. Those are two completely different experiences. And understanding th

Episode 643: The Art of Receiving

I am very good at giving. I spent a long time being terrible at receiving. And I have come to understand that the inability to receive is not humility. It is a wall.

Episode 642: The Inner Critic at Midlife

There is a voice that most of us know intimately. The one that says you are not doing enough, not being enough, not achieving enough. At midlife, that voice often get

Episode 641: How to Make Your Journaling Practice Richer

Journaling is not about filling pages. It is about going somewhere you have not been before. And the quality of where you end up is almost entirely determined by the

Episode 640: Rest or Story? How to Tell the Difference

Do you actually need rest right now? Or is rest the story you are telling yourself to avoid doing the thing? These are two very different situations. And knowing the

Episode 639: Woman of Grace & Grit: Lindsey Sills

Lindsey Sills is living proof that consistency isn't about perfection—it's about practice. In this episode, we talk about redefining health beyond weight loss, building

Episode 638: Learning to Love the Hallway

There is a space between who you have been and who you are becoming. It is not comfortable. It is not certain. And it is not optional. I call it the hallway. In thi

Episode 637: Your Relationship with Capacity

A lot of women tell me they have a healthy relationship with their capacity. And then I look at their schedule. Those two things do not always match. In this episod

Episode 636: Things Putting Life in My Life Right Now

I often say that health is answering the question: how much life do you have in your life? Today I want to get personal and answer that question myself. In this episo

Episode 635: New Level, New Devil

Every time you elevate your life in some way, the problems do not go away. They change form. My mom used to say it to me when my son was small: little kids, little pr

Episode 634: Close the Chapter

Not every chapter of your life is supposed to run on forever. And the chapters that have ended are not asking you to grieve them indefinitely. They are asking you to

Episode 633: The Courage to Be Disliked

I have recommended the book The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga to almost every woman I have ever worked with. Because so many of the women I

Episode 632: Stewardship: The Deeper Frame for Self-Leadership

What if the way you think about your health and your life shifted from self-improvement to stewardship? From fixing what is broken to honoring what you have been given?

Episode 631: Optimization Is Not the Answer

Bryan Johnson has spent an estimated two million dollars a year trying to reverse his biological age. He tracks everything. Optimizes everything. Submits to more medica

Episode 630: Both/And: Making Peace with the Complexity of Being Human

We love a clean answer. We love to know exactly how we feel and exactly what something means. But life is almost never that simple. And insisting that it should be is