You want to get stronger, but... you're busy. You don't know where to start, but it's never worked for you before. Sound familiar? In this episode, you'll learn why that one little word, "but," keeps you stuck. It quietly cancels everything you just said you wanted. Casey walks you through a simple mindset shift she calls the And + So method. It doesn't pretend your challenges aren't real. It just stops them from getting the last word. In this episode: Why "but" shuts down your goals before y...
Oct 6
14 min
You can lose weight on a GLP-1 and still lose the strength you've worked so hard to build. Or you can do it differently. Whether you're taking a GLP-1, thinking about it, or watching someone you love go through it, this conversation is for you. This week I'm joined by fellow Registered Dietitian Ana Reisdorf, MS, RD, founder of GLP-1 Hub. Ana shares her own GLP-1 story, including the mistakes she made early on, like running on iced coffee until her blood sugar crashed at 2pm, & how that e...
Sep 29
44 min
It's 6am and you're standing on the same scale you've stood on for twenty years. The number moves half a pound and somehow it still gets to decide how your whole day feels. Here's what that number has never once told you: how much of you is bone. How much is muscle. Whether the "progress" you're chasing is actually costing you strength you'll need in ten years. Most women don't find out their bone density is a problem until there's already a fracture, because insurance won't screen for it bef...
Sep 22
50 min
Cutting. Bulking. You've heard the terms - but chances are, no one's ever explained them for your body, in this season of life. In this episode, Casey breaks down what these two phases actually mean, why almost everything you've heard about them was built for 25-year-old men, and how to know whether you're in a fat-loss season or a muscle-building one (spoiler: most of us are exactly where we're supposed to be). Plus - why you literally cannot build new muscle in a calorie deficit, and ...
Sep 15
21 min
What happens when you take a break from alcohol-especially as a woman in perimenopause/menopause working toward health and fat loss goals? In this episode, I’m sharing my personal experience of going alcohol-free, why I’m committing to a “Sober September,” and the surprising benefits I’ve already noticed just two weeks in. This episode is a replay of one I dropped last year when I was doing a 6 week "Sober October" but it is timely and I hope you find it helpful! We’ll talk about ...
Sep 8
23 min
You could be losing bone right now and never know it. No pain, no symptoms, no warning... until the day you fracture something and your whole life changes.* In this episode, I'm getting personal about a topic that's close to home for me: bone health. Two generations of women in my family didn't find out their bones were weakening until it was already happening. My mom's diagnosis age, 50, is 4 years from where I am right now. That's a countdown I'm not willing to ignore. You'll learn: Why ost...
Sep 1
32 min
You want to be consistent. So you download the app, save the workout plan, and try to overhaul everything at once, meals, movement, sleep, water, all of it, starting Monday. By week two, it's gone. You're back to square one, wondering why other women seem to make this look so easy. Here's the truth: the women who are the most successful stay consistent longest - and they didn't fix everything at once. They didn't rely on willpower. They built their consistency around three specific, non-negot...
Aug 25
16 min
If your workouts are exactly the same as they were six months ago, that's probably exactly why your results have stalled. In this episode, Casey breaks down progressive overload in plain terms, the tool she uses to actually teach it to her clients (RPE, or rate of perceived exertion), and why so many women unknowingly train the same way for months or years without ever building in real progression. In this episode, you'll learn: What progressive overload actually meansWhy RPE (rate of perceiv...
Aug 18
23 min
Your neighbor just dropped another bag of zucchini on your porch, and somewhere between the stuffed boats and the noodle spirals, you started telling yourself you were finally getting your fiber handled. You've been doing the right things, eating the vegetables, filling the plate. And yet the bloating hasn't budged, the energy crashes are still showing up mid-afternoon, and you can't quite figure out why. Here's the truth almost nobody tells you: most late summer garden vegetables, the zucchi...
Aug 11
16 min
A stranger told me, to my face, that I wasn't going to be able to lift it. I didn't get the chance to prove him wrong in the moment, but the story stuck with me for a completely different reason than you'd expect. In this episode I'm telling you exactly what happened on a bike path on Mackinac Island, and why my reaction says more about eight years of strength training than it does about that one moment. Then we get into the part that surprised me most: what's actually happening in your body ...
Aug 4
20 min
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