Podcasts about stupid easy paleo

Do you remember when I used to be ‘Stupid Easy Paleo’? A lot of you are curious as to why I am no longer paleo and the complete rebranding I did in 2018. So, I decided to share my real, truthful, nitty-gritty story with you all for this week's episode. Key Takeaways If You Are Starting To See The Cracks In Your Own Relationship With Food and Diets You Should: Be honest with yourself about your disordered eating habits and how diet culture perpetuates them Be gentle with yourself when unlearning what you have been taught by diet culture and discovering what foods you actually enjoy Get rid of the all or nothing mentality when it comes to food and stop restricting yourself How I Got Here In 2018 I had a realization. I realized that I had been carrying my disordered eating and relationship with my body through the various stages of my life, masking it with different diets and exercise regimes.  When I first heard about paleo in 2010, my most significant thought was ‘will this help me get smaller?’. While I did learn some good things from paleo, over time, the rules, restrictions, and arguments I had with people about whether or not something ‘is’ or ‘isn't paleo was making me exhausted. That’s when I realized something had to change. Restriction Isn’t Helping Anybody The more I learned about the origins of diet culture and the harm that comes from approaching ‘taking care of our health’ in a way that is restrictive and an all-or-nothing mentality, I knew I had to burn what I thought I knew down to the ground.  When you are able to take the guilt and shame out of your relationship with food and stop thinking about food 24/7, you can come back to yourself. You are always and have always been worthy no matter your body size or appearance, and my mission is to help you get back to being the intuitive eater that you were born as. Do you see yourself reflected in my story? How is your story different than mine? Share your thoughts with me in the comments on the episode page.   In This Episode Why I do what I do and care about the work that I am doing (12:29) Acknowledging the positive things I learned from paleo (19:10) How to stop letting your relationship with food keep you scared and complacent (28:40) The signs that made me realize that paleo was not for me and something had to change (32:02) Why I decided to rebrand myself and my company and embrace another way (35:55)   Quotes “We always have a choice. We are faced with new information all day, every day, and we get to decide how and if we want to incorporate that information into our new viewpoint of the world and our perspective.” (3:32) “I feel like I wasn't living my life because I was so invested in dieting, and shrinking myself, and making myself smaller.” (12:41) “This is when I started to become aware of the fact that my thinking around food was occupying a lot of my time. Prior to that, it was just something that happened, I didn't have that outside looking in awareness of ‘this is kind of fucked up’.” (23:53) “I started to learn about bigger issues, things like diet culture. And then it all started to make sense.” (33:38) “I think that is my biggest point to you today, is learning to find the wiggle room, removing the guilt and the shame, recognizing that some of these smaller dietary choices are not going to cause you some kind of crazy significant harm.” (44:42)   Featured on the Show Join the Tune In Membership Here Instead of Weight Loss, Focus on This Blog Post Mindful Eating Tool Emotional Eating Workshop 1-1 Intuitive Eating Coaching Jamie Scott P3 Athletica Website Join the Listen To Your Body Newsletter Steph Gaudreau Website Check out the full show notes here! Follow Steph on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Pinterest I'd really love it if you would take 1 min and leave us a rating and review on iTunes!   Related Episodes LTYB 321: Is Body Positivity for You?

In this episode, Jess sits down with Steph Gaudreau and we chat her new book, The Core 4 as well as deep dive into EVERYTHING. Literally everything. We chat change and the fear behind it, we chat mindset, feelings, and behaviors. We explore what we'd like to change about the health and wellness industry, Steph's biggest struggles, and what really lights her up. I loved getting to know more about this incredible woman and how she uses her voice for change in an industry that's rampant with misinformation. We hope you love it! Steph Gaudreau's mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. She's a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, strength coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph has written three books. Her newest book The Core 4, is a #1 Amazon best-seller. It shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne). Her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015) and the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner's Guide to Real Food for Performance (self-published, 2014). Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. She's also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women's Strength Summit. Steph's an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications. In addition, Steph's an international speaker on the subjects of nutrition and strength training, giving talks at PaleoFX, AHS, and AHS New Zealand. Steph's been recognized in the media by publications such as Outside Magazine, Triathlete and SELF, has appeared on ESPN Radio, and her blog was named by Greatist as one of its 15 Must-Read Health and Happiness blogs of 2016. She lives in San Diego with her Scottish husband Z and her cat Ellie. When she's not lifting heavy stuff, you can find her tending to her garden, standing on the dining room table to get the perfect food photo shot, getting her ass kicked at Brazilian jiu jitsu, and reading about how to be a better human. Follow along with all Steph shares on Instagram at @stephgaudreau Check out the Steph's website: https://www.stephgaudreau.com Purchase The Core 4 HERE. Thank you to our Sponsors! Shop 15% off Beekeeper's Naturals products with code: modernmamas Shop 15% off Four Sigmatic products with code: modernmamas --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-modern-mamas-podcast/support

Building a business online comes with a unique set of hurdles many coaches face, especially when it comes to sharing health and wellness advice. I’m joined by Steph Gaudreau, author of The Core 4, podcast host of Harder to Kill Radio, nutritional therapist, and founder of Stupid Easy Paleo, about navigating these waters with purpose, protecting your own health, and encouraging other women to live in alignment with their best health.   ABOUT STEPH GAUDREAU Steph and I have a very similar approach when it comes to health, nutrition, and coaching. We believe in asking the right questions, guiding our clients, and encouraging them to ask themselves the hard questions. Because let’s face it, there’s a very fine line between disordered eating and eating for true, balanced health and wellness. Losing weight is often a priority amongst our clients, but it’s usually not the first or only aspect you should focus on. If you want to lose weight, do it for yourself and your health, not for whatever expectations society has put on you. And ask yourself exactly why you want to lose weight, because your answer is actually so important. There’s a certain power that comes with logging your food, calories, and macros, but it can have both positive and negative impacts on your health. For some, knowing how much they have to eat and eating to these targets is incredibly healthy and helps them make sure they’re eating enough or not overeating. Yet, for others, it’s too restrictive and controlling, and this is where disordered eating is born. When you’re eating for your health and to improve certain aspects of your health and wellness, the scale might not move, and that’s perfectly okay. There are more important aspects of your health than what you weigh, and when you’re taking steps to improve your overall health, the scale should not be the be-all and end-all. Steph and I both offer so much free health and wellness advice through our Facebook groups, YouTube channels, Instagram, Website, and more. But there does come a point where the free stuff doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s a hard decision, but what is it worth to be free of this thing that you’re struggling with or have this transformation that you’ve been unable to do yourself? Sometimes, it’s just time to invest in coaching. Are you eating for your own health and wellness or society’s standards? Why do you want to lose weight? Have you, or do you, use a food tracker? Let us know on the comments on the episode page!   Got a question you’d love to hear me answer on the show? Leave me a voice message here!   In This Episode How you can move forward with your purpose while protecting your health Where the balance between healthy and disordered eating is Why you should lose weight for yourself and your health and not society’s expectations Why you need to consider why you want to lose weight How tracking your food, calories, and macros can be both a positive and negative tool  Why the scale doesn’t have to move for you to improve your health What the value of paying for coaching or nutritional help is   Quotes “Just because somebody is licensed or has education in a particular area does not guarantee their competence. We have to develop critical thinking.” (32:48) “Whatever it is that you want to achieve, you always have to think of the energetic and the financial change. You may be able to do it yourself, but what’s it going to cost you in time?” (59:08) “Information is an important piece of this thing that you want to achieve, but it’s really the action and application where you’re going to see the most results.” (59:37) “I know it’s hard, I know you might need resources, but at some point, what is it worth to be free of this thing that you’re struggling with or have this transformation that you’ve been unable to do yourself?” (1:06:18)   Links Join the Core 4 Club - Steph’s Free Facebook Group Find Steph Gaudreau Online Follow Steph Gaudreau on Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter | YouTube  Got a question you’d love to hear me answer on the show? Leave me a voice message here! Join the Fed and Fearless Society on Facebook Follow me on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Pinterest

I’m interviewing Steph Gaudreau, NTP, and author of The Core 4 about how diet culture impacts wellness, why Steph shifted her message to Intuitive Eating and how she experienced burnout as an entrepreneur. We chat about: - Steph’s story with how she got into health and fitness and how that evolved and adapted when she discovered Intuitive Eating, - How Steph treated paleo like a diet when she first adopted that way of eating, - How diet culture touches the wellness world and how “it became increasingly obvious that people were more confused about food than ever,” - How she started to learn more about social justice, health at every size and eating disorder recovery and how this influenced her decision to become a Certified Eating Disorder Counsellor, - Why we’re socialized to think that weight is our problem and how so many people don’t know how to think beyond that, - The impact on her audience when she moved away from “Stupid Easy Paleo,” - How Steph experienced burnout as an entrepreneur and the impact this had on her business and life, - Why there is a facade that entrepreneurs put up that we “have it all together” and how this is a harmful illusion, - How she is coming through the burnout and how this is changing where she focuses her energy, Plus, so much more!

In today's podcast Mason chats to Steph Gaudreau. Steph is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, strength coach, blogger and podcast show host. Steph believes women have the right to be strong and take up space because the world needs their voices now more than ever, and we would have to agree! Steph and Mason discuss: Steph's Core 4 principals for health and happiness. Dogma in the areas of health and fitness. Embracing your bio individuality. Nutrition and food preparation. The importance of moving with intention. Aligning your activity with your life. Self worth, value and non attachment.   Who is Steph Gaudreau?  Steph Gaudreau’s is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, strength coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph's mission is to help women create bigger, bolder and fiercer lives by building health from the inside out. Steph has written three books. Her newest book The Core 4, is a #1 Amazon best-seller. Steph is the host of her own chart topping podcast; Harder to Kill Radio, here she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans.   Resources: Steph's Website Steph's Podcast Steph's Facebook Steph's Instagram Steph's YouTube Steph's Twitter Steph's Book: The Core 4  Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify! We got you covered on all bases ;P   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason Taylor:  Good day everybody. I've got Steph Gaudreau here with me. All right, Steph, I'm just go in and do my little brief introduction of you. Steph you [authored] a newly published book, The Core 4, which I got the opportunity to have a quick squeeze at when we were at Revitalizing in Arizona a couple of months ago. Steph believes women have the right to feel strong and take up space. Steph's a nutritional therapist consult, USA weight lifting strength coach, podcaster, which I really like your podcast, Harder to Kill, and blogger. Your blog's epic. We'll put the links to blogs in the show notes, basically leading a large community of women that are embracing their bodies and owning their innate power. You're a best selling author already, which is going to be awesome to talk about. You're an international speaker. You've been featured in SEKF, Outside, Elle and Greatest. Now, your favorite things, cold brewed [cats] and Liz Lemon. Tell me, what is it about Liz Lemon from 30 Rock that you love the most?   Steph Gaudreau:  I just love how irreverent she is and she's just perfectly awkward which is me. I relate to Liz Lemon so much.   Mason Taylor:  You know what one of my favorite memories of a show ever is watching Liz Lemon in that Muppet episode where she walks around like a Muppet. It's one of my favorite things ever.   Steph Gaudreau:  Oh my gosh, yeah. I just love her. I just love her so much.   Mason Taylor:  Hey, so tell me, where are you in the world? What's going on?   Steph Gaudreau:  I am in lovely San Diego, California. Not much is happening. It's been kind of quiet this week. It's only Monday but it's been pretty low key. I've been in post-book launch recovery mode, I would say, hermiting up a little bit more so than usually. Yeah, just getting out there and doing work as I always do and talking to people.   Mason Taylor:  You were saying it was about 2015 when you really started working on this book.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. The book is based on a program that I created in early 2015. At the time it was called, Healthy, Happy, Harder to Kill. Over the years, it's morphed into the Core 4 program. It's crazy, over 1,000 people have done the program and just had really amazing transformations in their lives and then a year and a half or so ago started working on the book. It took about 17 or 18 months to bring it to the final result that you see today.   Mason Taylor:  Tell me about it. Core 4 is in the evolution of it. You've had Harder to Kill as the name of your podcast and of the program. Is there a reason that it's evolved beyond that name? Has there been an inner morphology for yourself in that time?   Steph Gaudreau:  For sure. I've been blogging on what I would call the iteration of my website that exists today, and even that's changed over the nine years, eight years but I've been blogging for about 10 years. As often does, when you're out there in the world synthesizing your thoughts and sharing things with people and learning, you change and things change. It's interesting to me because we always expect other people to change so quickly, relationships in the world. We're like, "Why aren't people changing?" Then when we think of ourselves, we're like, "Oh my God, but I'm changing." It's almost like a bad thing.   Steph Gaudreau:  It's definitely changed over time. The name of the program initially came from a nutrition seminar that I was doing in San Diego at a gym. I was talking to everyday people. I think in that gym setting, there was a tendency for people to think that they have to act like the elite level athletes that they see on TV and be really hard on themselves and push themselves really, really hard. I said something to them like, "You know, I think you guys here just want to be healthy and happy and harder to kill." Everybody reacted and laughed and elbowed each other. It was a funny moment.   Steph Gaudreau:  Initially, that phrase was in my brain from Mark Rippetoe who's a strength coach here in the States who has a quote that's something like, "Strong people are more useful in general and harder to kill," or something like that, just stuck as a way to talk about being resilient and strong. That became the name of the podcast.   Steph Gaudreau:  Over time, things have really changed. I really wanted a name for the book and the program eventually that summed up the holistic nature of that and the fact that it's not the only thing. These aren't the only four things that matter when we're trying to work on health and wellness and resilience and our mental health and our physical health. They're just four really important things but not the only four things. That's why I called them the Core 4. I anticipate that soon the podcasting will be changing as well. I just don't know what to. I think it's time to shed that skin yet again and continue to evolve and change.   Mason Taylor:  I only got to hang out with you for those couple of days. We got to spend a good amount of time together. I had a good chat with you on your podcast, but I'm interested in this morphology especially when you've got a large following. With that Harder to Kill, I love the name by the way, but I really can appreciate where you explored a particular area of your work, and especially with Harder to Kill, did that bring your focus really heavily onto the movement, the strength, diet ... I don't know if I'm missing anything else in terms of maybe mindset.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. I think when you look out in the world, when you see the things that people are really passionate talking about and they're really sharing, it oftentimes mirrors their own experience, what they're going through, what's really prevalent for them in their life, what their values are. I think if you look back at 2013, '14, '15 Steph, I was strength training way more than I am now. I was really competing, training, really, really hard, building physical strength, certainly important. It still is important to me but maybe not so much in that type of intensity.   Steph Gaudreau:  Over time, I have drifted toward ... and it's become this really interesting evolution for me of really leaning into my own ... I don't know what you would call it. Some people might call it witchy. Some people might call it green. Some people might call it just very nature-loving. I've really come back around to a lot of the things that were really important to me as a kid and I was really interested in.   Steph Gaudreau:  My grandfather was really a hugely influential figure for me. I'm sure in a lot of ways I idolized him and put him on a pedestal. He was really like my father figure, but he died when I was eight. I feel like I lost a parent when I was so young. He really instilled in me this interest in nature and living things. It was something I was so interested in. When I went to high school and then eventually college, you do what most people do, when you're interested in that stuff, you study science. I have this really interesting duality to myself as a person where I feel so connected to nature as spirit and nature as wise and love, gardening ... I was gardening with my grandfather and my grandparents when I was really little, just experiencing that magic and then coming very steeped in science and scientific method and the coldness of science and the dogma of science.   Steph Gaudreau:  Only very recently have I started to explore those other parts of me again. I think you're seeing that reflected a lot in my work just with the idea that strength can be very hard but it can also be very soft. Strength can be holding on very tightly and persevering and never giving up. Strength can also be letting go and understanding that there is that duality to it. That's, I think, I'm really exploring that in my own work too and really coming home to this idea of myself as a very strong individual. While I am one of the most sensitive and pathic, highly sensitive person stimulized, everything is very amplified for me, my intuition and that really figuring out what is my role with all of that, what can I help people facilitate, what can I help women facilitate in their own ... this transformation, this journey that they're on. I think a lot of times when you see people who are talking about certain things, it is what's at top of mind for them. That's really why it's changed over the years, I think.   Mason Taylor:  I'm really interested, going forth, basically what interested me the most is a lot of women listening who follow along on this SuperFeast podcast, we talk a lot about the space between the stars. Before we get into the Core 4, I'm interested in what are space between the stars of the Core 4. Thanks for sharing all that because it clears it up a lot for me. I feel like it's one of these things that's difficult to communicate on paper. It's a living and breathing internal journey and it's something that needs to be felt and perceived almost by the body and the spirit rather than the mind just chewing it up.   Mason Taylor:  You already brought up the dogma of science, and then almost you can feel, and I can relate to this, especially you can feel when we start out our work especially with blogging or communicating with the world, we almost need a bit of a scientific method. It's got to be the coldness which in [Dower's] Theory is real foundation, physical yin. Yin is cold. It's cold energy. Although it does have a fluidity and leads onto that yang of expression and then in the middle of those two things, we get that middle part I think which we are talking about which doesn't have dogma. Dogma leads to us linking that primal essence of our yin and yang jing.   Mason Taylor:  The first time you showed me the book, one thing you really did bring up was wanting to bring forth a dynamic and non-dogmatic approach for women to embrace. I'm interested to hear exactly what you've been talking about with diet. I've enjoyed going through your blog. I think especially the cover of your book is you looking very strong, about to swing a kettlebell. It's something which I feel like for women to be able to go into something like strength training with a dogmatic approach or an identity approach or a justification or anything like that, that's the kind of space in between the stars I just want to talk a little bit about before we go into these Core 4, why you felt it was important to lead with that. I do that a lot as well when I talk about my approach to health and diet. As well, that breeds into things like the guilt and shame around food and body image and self-worth which become quite a huge thing.   Mason Taylor:  You seem to be hitting on a very unique point that I can tell your sensitivity is coming out, especially with women and strengthening themselves, not getting caught up in that strength means bulking. You had a recent post there, Instagram, where you really went on, really bled from your heart around that. Can you just tell me about that emotional fabric of the book that's weaving this all together, non-dogmatically?   Steph Gaudreau:  Oh my gosh, yeah. It's really hard to summarize and put all into one thing. I think it comes down to a few main points. The first is that we, and I say we as collective, we collectively, humans, in this modern space, are so distanced and divorced and separate from our bodies. What I mean by that is, for whatever reason, it's learned, it's power socialized, it is what we've been taught, it is what we've lost connection to with ourselves where we just don't even know how we feel. I'm not even necessarily talking about emotionally. I really mean in the body. What is our connection to our body? How does our body feel? What does our body need? What is our body telling us? What are our body's sensations.   Steph Gaudreau:  I'll give you a perfect example. I can tell you the very second I feel like I'm getting a cold. I don't get sick all that often, but I'm so tuned in to how my body feels that the second I feel that weird tickle, I'm like, uh-oh. You can feel it coming on. While I don't think everybody has that level of sensitivity, I also think that we, again collectively, make it seem like people are too stupid to pay attention to their own bodies. I think we're really busy as well, so I think some of that comes with slowing down, quieting down, turning inward. It's both an external and an internal. It's like a push-pull.   Steph Gaudreau:  I really think that we need to get back into connection with our bodies in that way. The perfect example, everybody knows when they have to use the bathroom. You're like, "All right, I've got to go." Yet if we think of something very simple like hunger, and I say simple in air quotes here, but this sensation of hunger of feeling full, that becomes extremely complicated for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons. We can sense that we have to use the bathroom but why is it so hard to sense hunger and fullness sometimes? A lot of that goes back to how we're told what to eat, when to eat, how much we should be eating. We're outsourcing that to somebody else. Maybe we learned it starting in childhood. We were told we had to clean our plate or we couldn't leave the table. We're overriding our own sensations of that, whatever the reason might be.   Steph Gaudreau:  The same thing goes for physical fitness or physical movement. A lot of people, myself included, in the past have really just pushed through really obvious signs and signals from the body that it's time to back off or it's time to rest.   Steph Gaudreau:  To bring it all back together, I think where we get mixed up is the dogma, there's only one right way to do things. There is only one way this can be accomplished. Here I'm going to bestow this knowledge upon you. Now you're beholden to me as the giver of that information. Your body's experience, your own personal experience is now taken away from you. You're just told listen to what I'm telling you.   Steph Gaudreau:  I could be the world's best nutritionist. I could be the world's best strength coach. I could put together a program that's going to make you ... say do these things exactly as I tell you, and you'll probably get stronger. However, you could be somebody for whom that's too much intensity, that's going too quickly, that food doesn't work for you. If you are convinced that I'm the expert and that you don't know anything about your own body, you may not catch those things and vice versa.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think that's where when people are coming to these things like I want to work on nourishing my body more, I want to perhaps improve my nutrition, I want to move more in my life, I want to introduce strength training, there is going to be a limit to which somebody can tell you what to do, and it's going to have a great outcome.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think that's really what I think about when I think about dogma and one right way to do things. Yes, people do get really hitched to that as part of their identity. When something happens in life where they can't keep doing that thing or they're presented with new information ... and the perfect example would be where somebody is really for either ethical reasons or health reasons or whatever the reasons would be, decides to not eat any animal products. Oftentimes, what happens is if there's a nutrient deficit or something happens and they then go back to eating animal products, there's a really huge dissidence between what is the identity versus what is making the body feel the best right now.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think taking a very bio individual approach is really important. In order to accomplish that, we have to be willing to develop, it's called inter-receptive awareness. You have to be willing to be back in touch with our body's signs and signals. How can we know what works for us if we're not paying attention? It becomes really tricky.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think ultimately, I would love for that space in between for people to be a very intuitive way of eating and a very intuitive way of moving and a fluid way of going about our lives where we're not beholden to the rules and the structure to the point that it degrades our life in some way. It causes us to have worse health outcomes or our enjoyment of life suffers. Oftentimes people will say, "I'm doing this thing because it's supposed to improve longevity," but they're not actually enjoying life because they're so worried about food or they're so worried about what they're eating when they go out, or they can't be in social situation and handle food. At that point, the benefit is now not outweighing the cost. The cost is outweighing the benefit.   Steph Gaudreau:  I really love the cost benefit analysis for people if they're not super in touch with their bodies yet is to think about what am I getting from this and what is it costing me. Everything has a cost. Ultimately, that's my goal is provide a framework, provide some structure for you to explore and experiment, but ultimately, you're the expert on that stuff.   Mason Taylor:  Yeah, it's interesting. I think it's the source of a lot of confusion yet it's also ultimately the source of a lot of clarity for people in learning that there is a bit of that yin-yang balance and a bit of dichotomy in the beginning between having a goal and having a framework. I was one of those people that was very obsessed with my diet back in the day when I was a raw foodist and very focused on longevity and on the particular supplementation and particular herbal protocols in order to give me an outcome, which in excess, I could see it was somewhat of a mental or egoic agenda. For me, I felt the time to tap out was I got bored with myself, and then I had to kick back in to try and develop a real intuitiveness, maybe an integration with my past and impulses that I did have that I'd label as bad that I wanted to integrate with. The pendulum swing was so large that in developing my perception of my inner world, I, at some point, lost and became resentful towards having goals or having a framework in any way.   Mason Taylor:  I really sympathize when women going through this process and men as well, going between those pendulums. I can imagine, maybe we can talk about this a little bit, what your experience was when you were getting your intra-perception really going. I think [Tonni] talks a lot about this on the podcast, my fiance. We do it together. She has a lot of yin yoga teacher training. The whole idea with that is to develop that intricate awareness of yourself and that intuitive awareness of yourself. How do you manage opening up that door to that tunnel of learning of how to go by your instincts and your unique body and then educating, you will come to the end of that tunnel where you would have gone through that first stage of learning what's you, what you need without dogma. Then you're going to have to close that door of ambiguity and move towards something where you've got a bit more of an integration between your impulses and your inter-perception and the framework that's going to work with you, and you're going to be able to use that cost benefit analysis.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think it's really tough. I think that the one biggest area of frustration that I observe with the people that I work with and with my community at large, with the people who do my program, is that they just want answers. They just want to know what to do. I totally understand that and yet the analogy that comes to me is that ... and I was talking about this earlier, so this is probably is why it's coming up, it's just on top at mind. People are always trying to find their voice. What's my voice? What do I stand for?   Mason Taylor:  What's my purpose?   Steph Gaudreau:  What am I here to do? The way that you find that out is not by just thinking about it. Thinking helps. I don't think being just impulsive into action all the time is a great thing. There's definitely a time to pause. I think if you were just to sit there and try to think this into existence, it's not as powerful as continuing to teach or whatever it is you do, create if you're a creator. Do the thing that you want to do and keep refining over and over and over again. There is part of it that is experiential. I think that's the tough part. I think where it becomes most elevated is where people don't feel good.   Steph Gaudreau:  If we don't feel good in our bodies, what do we do? I think that's where coming in with some basics, looking at those key things that you can incorporate that will bring you back some energy, that will make your digestive system feel better, that will perhaps help you sleep better. Those can go such a very long way, but at some point there's going to be some tinkering but tinkering forever. Not everybody's a bio hacker and not everybody has the money nor the time or the brain space to devote to that literal just constant self-experimentation, so finding the place for you that's that maintenance mode and being okay being there and dipping in and out of that mode from time to time.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think my friend Pat Flynn talks about it very well in terms of being a generalist. Sometimes you'll have an area you really want to learn about and totally nerding out on that and getting heavy into that and then doing those things that feel right. I would also say from a place of self-compassion and self-respect and self-care instead of a place of I hate myself and I just need to fix myself so I'll be happy. I think that [crosstalk 00:21:20].   Mason Taylor:  Yeah, super important, get that clear from the beginning. Rolling on from that, with one of the Core 4, I'm assuming is nutrition. Let's go into that. I really appreciate you having that conversation with me. I feel like sometimes I get the comment a lot that people really appreciate it and sometimes I like to reframe why I focus on these things before jumping into a topic where we need some structure is because I like to know that fabric of reality that these recommendations are coming from so that it can have more of that long burn, slow burn rollout of what's going to be right for our unique body. You put that as one of the things that's like eating the foods for your unique body, moving with intention. It's like, "Oh great. Okay, what are the steps that I take to do that," which there are steps, but we need to know the fabric of intention, I feel, behind it.   Mason Taylor:  With the food, let's look a couple of things. Let's look at the practical. What are the changes that you are generally going to be recommending if we're going to be a generalist? I do agree that that's nice, areas for people to explore to see if it works for their body in terms of core recommendations for women, if you could cast a wide blanket, what you're talking about, and then balance that out with eating. One of the things that comes up a lot is everyone's got their three square meals a day. I don't know if you talk about that or in terms of portions, what you eat when and allowing yourself to crack out of any kind of dogma that possibly we got from growing up, possibly from previous dieting, from magazines. I feel like that's a good balancing and practical and then bringing your intuition into that. Could you cover those both?   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah, for sure. I think you're absolutely right. There's definitely going to be a time and a place for giving people some ... the way I describe it is if I just sat you at the edge of a forest without a map and there were no paths at all, you would just be wandering around and getting lost. I love the idea of a rough path to follow where you can always come back to that path. You can dip in and out but you still have that path to keep you from getting lost in all the information.   Steph Gaudreau:  You're right, there's a lot of misinformation that we're up against when it comes to nutrition. Unfortunately, when I talk about weight loss and dieting, and I'm talking about ... I don't know if this is a thing in Australia, but the Slim Fast, Jenny Craig dieting systems of the '80s and '90s that everybody thinks is hogwash. They're like, "Oh, that stuff's so silly." Yet, there are echoes of that that still-   Mason Taylor:  Absolutely. There's modern rendition.   Steph Gaudreau:  There are modern renditions of that. I think we need to be really clear, at least I need to be really clear that when I'm talking about nutrition, this is talking about nourishing your body and giving it everything it needs to thrive and not doing the thing where we're withholding food and punishing ourselves by withholding food and playing the game with how little can we eat.   Steph Gaudreau:  I say all this because this is all stuff that I've done. Certainly, I always like to mention that if people are having problems with disorder eating and eating disorders that professional help is really important with that stuff. We can't always just self-treat, especially if that stuff's really serious. I just always like to make that recommendation and tell people that there's no shame in getting help.   Steph Gaudreau:  With all that being said, I think that we're still facing a situation of chronic undernourishment with people, whether it's just food that's not super high-quality making up a lot of the diet or quantity of food. This is where it gets complicated too because not everybody has the same access to food and high-quality food. That's just a whole other just part of the discussion.   Steph Gaudreau:  Just in practical terms, I think people are always like, "Well, just tell me how much to eat." I get to that point where I'm like, "Yeah, but I don't know how much food you need. I don't know how hungry you are."   Mason Taylor:  Have you changed that progression from recommending portion sizes to now recommending something a little bit different?   Steph Gaudreau:  If I look back at the earlier work that I've done, sometimes I would provide some ballpark range for people or what does a standard serving look like. Yet, that has shifted over time as well. I really like a visual plate if people are really just like, "I don't even know where to start." Okay, let's just start with one meal a day. Can we start with one meal a day instead of saying I need to eat perfect for seven ... seven times three is 21. You need to eat 21 perfect plates this week. Let's just start with one meal. I would love to see that half that plate or a little bit more is plants, is vegetables, is something that you want to try, a new thing.   Steph Gaudreau:  I always am a really big advocate for adding things when we're talking about nourishment. Again, when we get into this mentality of this being diet and a diet, not diet in terms of what we eat but a diet which is not what this is but one of the things that comes up is removal, restriction, taking everything away. How would you feel, Mason, if I was like, "You can't have this, this, this, this, this, this and this." You'd be like, "This is my favorite stuff."   Mason Taylor:  For my particular archetype it works when I think egoically Little Mason, when I think that I'm somehow superior because I've found the thing that's better than what the rest of the people are doing. This is a little vain little thing that I've identified in myself. It is easy for me to follow it but then once ... that doesn't last so long. My rat bag kicks in after a while and then I rebel against that thing that I've given myself.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yes, which is what happens with most people. It's either it's too restrictive. It bring up in some people out of control or loss of control eating or rebellion. There's some part that's like, "I'm not doing this anymore." I really like to think about adding things to the plate whenever possible. Can you try a new vegetable this week? Make it fun and colorful. Okay, let's start with red. Everybody loves colors. I think it sounds so elementary and so little kid, but I promise you, okay, this week I'm going to try something new from the grocery store from the produce area that's red or orange. Just go through the colors. I'd like to challenge people to do half the plate or a little bit more of vegetables.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think no matter what you believe in terms of nutrition, whether you're like we include animal protein, we don't include animal protein, we're high carb, low carb, blah-blah-blah, whatever it is, everybody can agree except the carnivores, that vegetables are awesome.   Mason Taylor:  It's except for the carnivores and the people diving into the lectin theory.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah, that one's a little bit tough. I think for the most part most people agree getting some more vegetables really [crosstalk 00:27:58].   Mason Taylor:  I like to bring it up because I that you study it so extensively, and I do myself, but that exasperation that can come about when you do look at all of a sudden carnivore is huge and the lectin theory that plants are trying to basically kill us but they're just defending themselves and have anti nutrients, and that's quite often why cooking of it, which was hard for me to come to terms with as a raw foodist in terms of why cooking and preparation was important.   Mason Taylor:  I feel like where you're going with this especially is out of that diet mentality and into having, what I call anyway, a living kitchen where it's more about what's going to fit into your lifestyle and your flow. Inside of that, what are some of the preparation methods? What are some of the core ... principles are really a cold way to put it in that scientific model but to put it in your living and breathing culture of your diet, what are the aspects of food preparation and consistency in your choices that are really shining bright and you see working in your clients at this-   Steph Gaudreau:  That's a really good question. I think definitely properly preparing, like you said, especially grains and legumes, really, really important and even for something people nuts and seeds. They don't do so well with un-sprouted or un-soaked nuts, seeds, legumes, things like that. Actually my nutritional therapy training is very similar to a [inaudible] approach in terms of food preparation. We talk about properly prepared. If we're going to do beans or lentils or whatever, we're going to soak those. We're going to make sure that they're ready to cook, grains oftentimes sprouted.   Steph Gaudreau:  I've made the switch to I'll buy quinoa, but I'm buying sprouted or I'm buying something that's just had a little bit more preparation. You can do these things at home too. You don't always have to buy them. Nuts and seeds, too, a lot of people do really well with soaking those first.   Steph Gaudreau:  I would say that's a good practice to get into if you have that bandwidth. Yeah, cooking vegetables and cooking foods does make them easier to digest for a lot of people. I personally recommend a mixture of raw and cooked if you can handle the raw stuff.   Mason Taylor:  What do you mean by handling it? With your clients, what do you see as handling a raw food?   Steph Gaudreau:  I think some people don't do really well with FODMAPS which are some different types of essentially carbohydrates that are in certain foods, certain plant foods. Two that always come to top of mind because I don't do super well with are things like garlic and onions. For me, if I were to eat raw onions and raw garlic, my digestive system is not going to be happy. Cooking those things or slow roasting them oftentimes I do a little bit better. Some people just don't tolerate that stuff very well at all. This is where the bio individual stuff really comes in.   Steph Gaudreau:  For a lot of people that eat a lot of raw food, it's a lot of fiber. They're not used to it. It's too much too quickly. They'll oftentimes have bloating or it's possible for people who aren't used to eating a higher fiber diet, they eat a lot of fiber and then they get constipated, so just not used to that bulk of fiber, and so making sure we're really well-hydrated. Pooping every day is really important. I talk about poop quite a bit because it's so important to help move stuff out of the body in a timely manner. Certainly, we don't want to be pooping too much in a day, but going three, four, or five plus days is actually common for a lot of women. That can lead to things like recycling estrogens in the body and all sorts of stuff. We want to make sure we're moving stuff out.   Steph Gaudreau:  Again, if you notice that your gut is so sore or you're burping a lot or you're really bloated after you eat or you have excessive amount of gas, those are signs that your body's telling you that that might not be working. Maybe back off on the raw stuff and integrate more cooked foods for a while. It really depends on the person. I would say-   Mason Taylor:  That's so common as well. I've got to bring that up, the bloating and the connection. I feel like it's going to get to the point where we get to maybe stop talking about it soon and it really permeates through the community. It is actually amazing how many people write to me in that ... You know it. When you're dogmatic in the beginning and that diet really works with you in levels of energy and maybe your skin health or something like that. It happens a lot with veganism and raw food. It definitely was for me.   Mason Taylor:  Then there's these other symptoms like bloating that are occurring and the fear. It's well and good for us to say don't go with dogma, but I really understand that fear cycle. If I let go of this system that's healed me and this dietary protocol that's healed me even though I'm getting those signs my poo's runny and I'm bloating, even though that's occurring, if I move on to something like well-cooked foods for a while and nourishing spleen and gut diet, and this is just one pattern, it's not for everybody, but what if everything else goes away. What if my skin problems come back? What if my energy levels go down again? It's a difficult one sometimes or just something that we need to put out there as a possibility and there is a next step.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think that's a really important point that you bring up because it's not always just about removing more foods. We have to always have that opposing or a complimentary idea that their function's really important. Might the food affect the function? Sure, but it's possible to have ... and this where I see people get into trouble because they think, "Well, I've removed some foods from my diet. I'm doing an elimination protocol. I'm still not feeling better, so I need to remove more and more and more and more and more things."   Steph Gaudreau:  Then we get into a cycle where we have a lot of stress, we have a lot of fear and anxiety. That in and of itself psychologically feeds back into our digestive system and our digestive ability, so we're more sympathetic, we're sympathetic dominant. That's inhibiting things like our stomach acid production, digestive juices, that digestive fire, we don't quite have it. It becomes this really interesting feedback loop.   Steph Gaudreau:  For example, if somebody has an H-pylori infection, they need to get that taken care of. There's an overgrowth of bacteria that's an infection that they need to get cleared, or if they have overgrowth of bacteria in their small intestine, we really shouldn't have a preponderance of bacteria in our small intestine. It should be in our large intestine. That small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, you need to get that taken ...   Steph Gaudreau:  It's not just about removing more foods to try to improve that function. You get to a point where you're like, "I need to attack this directly," or they could have a parasitic infection. There's all sorts of stuff that could be going on in the gut. That then influences so many other things. We know there's a gut-brain connection. We know there's a gut-mood connection. We know there's a gut-skin connection. It's so incredibly important.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think it's important to mention that yes, what we eat and how we eat it matter but then come to a point where if you're still experiencing discomfort and dysfunction, just continuing to remove more and more and more foods might not be the answer for you.   Mason Taylor:  Yeah, it's interesting. I think it's something I've definitely bumped up against, what can I add in, what can I take out. That's a necessary surface conversation because it's easy to do and wrap your head around. Just for example, and whether you're eating animal products or not, just when you start going into depth rather than staying in that surface level, something like food preparation could be ... You just need to go deeper. You've gotten all these great take-outs, and you've added all these great things in and it's not working for you, maybe you just need to go a little bit deeper into your food preparation or a little bit deeper into your intuitive nature in and around when you ate, experimenting with what you're eating for breakfast and what you're not eating for breakfast.   Mason Taylor:  Before we move on to movement, have you got any good, real surface ... just throw out some lines for people in terms of basic what you think might be beneficial for people in terms of what they'll have for breakfast, what particular macro nutrients would be beneficial for people at different times?   Steph Gaudreau:  Again, I think there's going to come a point where you have to honor what tastes good to you, what feels good in your body, et cetera. Caveat, I see a lot of people who are struggling with blood sugar regulation. Myself, I dealt with this for many, many years where I essentially had reactive hypoglycemia which would be my blood sugar would crash out and I would feel ... Again, how are you feeling in your body? My palms would get sweaty. My heart would get racing. I would feel super lightheaded. Sometimes I would come close to passing out. My vision would narrow. I would eat something with sugar in it, and I'd feel better, which is what happens with that stuff.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think for a lot of people that are having this blood sugar dysregulation going on, and I'm not even talking about anything with diabetes, but we're just not in a great blood sugar place. We're getting headaches, nausea, claminess. Our body feels really wacky. We're getting just hungry, angry. All those things are happening. I really like to recommend for people that they just try to keep the sweets out of breakfast. I don't mean fruit or sweet potato. In America, we eat dessert for breakfast as a culture. It's muffins and pastries. Again, I don't want to make those foods bad.   Mason Taylor:  I feel like most people listening to this podcast are probably not doing the pastries and those kinds of things. What about even, I'm sure for some people it might be good, in your experience though, having the full fruit breakfast and having the full smoothie bowl for breakfast? Is that something you see work generally or do you prefer something a little bit lower on the glycemic index?   Steph Gaudreau:  I like to recommend that if people are really specifically coming to you for recommendations for breakfast, I talk about including enough protein in breakfast. That's one of the places where, again, eating fruits and vegetables, wonderful. Not super dense in protein. Protein is the most satiating macro nutrient. Whether you're going to eat a denser plant-based protein or it's going to be eggs or it's going to be whatever you decide, is getting a decent whack of protein first thing in the morning because as the day goes on, it's harder and harder to make up a protein deficiency. There's just that. If you don't eat protein all day and then you get to dinner, you're not going to be able to make up generally a days' worth of protein for you in one meal. It's so satiating, you're going to get to a point where you tap out, especially if that protein is very lean.   Steph Gaudreau:  There that. I think getting enough nourishing fats in your breakfast is super important as well, so protein there obviously for the satiety but getting enough nourishing fats. Again, fat is really awesome because it helps us to absorb fat soluble vitamins. If you're eating that smoothie bowl, then you want to make sure that all those vitamins are in those fruits and vegetables. You want to be able to absorb those and the fat soluble vitamins that are in there. Very important.   Mason Taylor:  You just reminded me, when I was in my real sugar head perspective, I never went down the route of acai bowls. Although I respect them, I always just have a little bit of a joke about acai bowls. When I was doing my sugary and colder bowls in the morning, what I eventually started doing is pouring olive oil all over it. I know that might seem disgusting for some people, but when you mix it in, it can mix quite well and doesn't congeal quite as much or, of course, just the coconut fat even though that's cooling in its own right. I just thought I'd bring that up, just a little bit of a fat.   Mason Taylor:  I'm someone that's just always ... Sorry, I'll let you go. I'm sorry to hijack here. I'm generally just doing a tonic with my mushrooms and some fats in the morning. A couple of times a year, especially as I've become more and more comfortable with eating meat, I was vegetarian, pretty much vegan for so many years, it's been hard for me to wrap my head around getting back into it, whereas, I'm at the point now where I'm really diving in. This is what I want you hear, your people, a layperson would see as extreme of what you're doing. I'm at that point where I'm order a whole deer that is going to be hunted out in the Byron Bay hinterland for myself. Eventually I'll get there out and do it myself so I can prove that I'm not soft.   Mason Taylor:  Every now and then I do experiment with a big hunk of meat in the morning for breakfast, just every now and then. I remember when I started doing that, that cracked me out of my dogma. I can't do it a lot. Is that something you gravitate towards yourself? Do you do much meat? I don't know if I just assumed with that?   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. I feel pretty good when I am including some kind of meat-based protein in the morning for me personally. I think the one thing I would say there is there's an interesting connection between certain types of protein. Certainly there are plant-based proteins that are higher in tryptophan as well. I think walnuts is one of them for a plant-based source of tryptophan. Tryptophan is an amino acid that is important in the production of serotonin.   Mason Taylor:  I think a cow as well. I always use it as a justification for my hot chocolate.   Steph Gaudreau:  Exactly. Tryptophan important in producing serotonin. Most of the serotonin in our body is made in our gut, which by the way is really important to mention because if you don't have great gut health, then we may not be making ... There's that gut-mood connection yet again.   Steph Gaudreau:  There serotonin that we make also then goes on later to some of it to be made into melatonin which helps us sleep. I like to just mention that to people. Get enough tryptophan-based protein or protein with tryptophan in the morning especially so you can go on through the day and make that serotonin which then in the evening makes melatonin that helps you to sleep.   Steph Gaudreau:  Quickly going back to fats, and I had one more thing that I wanted to add. Fats also help the stomach contents to empty slower. Oftentimes when people are eating a more fruit-based breakfast or a smoothie or an acai bowl or something like that, it's already partially digested because it's liquified. Without the fats in there, it just goes out of your stomach so quickly. I just like people to check in. Are you hungry within an hour or two of eating? It could be the volume of food that you're eating but maybe chewing your food. Maybe chop up all that fruit and put it in a bowl and chomp on it will slow things down a little bit as well as adding the fat.   Steph Gaudreau:  For people that do have a more liquidy breakfast, if they are feeling super hungry within an hour or two, take something solid and sprinkle it over the top. It could be coconut flakes. It could be chopped up nuts. It could be cacao nibs. It could be whatever.   Mason Taylor:  Bee pollen.   Steph Gaudreau:  You have to chew it a little bit. That chewing, there's that connection between your mouth and your brain that's saying, "Okay, I'm chewing. I'm more satisfied," and also helps your body to up-regulate your digestive juices.   Steph Gaudreau:  I just mention those things because I think those are easy things that people can tweak if they're like, "Oh, I just ate an hour ago or I just had a smoothie an hour ago, and I'm ..." Check the protein content. Make sure you have enough fats in there and then add something you have to chew. Even on the top, slow yourself down a little bit and get that signaling going.   Mason Taylor:  Yeah. That's the bread and butter. That the chopped wood, carry water that you're never going to be able to come back, go away from.   Mason Taylor:  In terms of your diet, what are you working on at the moment. Maybe to a layperson with the same quite fringe, on your extremities, what are you working on?   Steph Gaudreau:  It's going to sound really silly probably. I've been going through the process of becoming a certified intuitive eating counselor. I'm almost done with that. I'm really interested in how these two things inform each other. How does intuitive eating as that framework and a process inform nutrition? There is nutrition. Nutrition is a principle of intuitive eating. When somebody has a really dysfunctional relationship with food, it's typically not the first thing you would do is give people nutrition guidelines because then they'll turn them into strict rules that cause problems.   Steph Gaudreau:  One of the things I've been working on for myself and just paying attention, not so much of an actual food although this does play into that, one of the things I've been doing is paying a little bit more attention to when I'm actually done eating. I did come from a family where it was like eat everything on your plate. I'm pretty good at gauging how hungry I am, but I've been trying to pay attention to that.   Steph Gaudreau:  Also, about six or eight months ago, I just had a download from the universe that I was supposed to figure out how to make sourdough bread. I cannot explain it. Bread is not something that has been really in my diet since 2010. Occasionally here and there I would eat it. I don't have celiac disease. I thought at one point I might have some intolerance to gluten. Over the years if I went out to eat and there was a good-looking bread ... that's a good-looking bread in that bread basket. Not Wonder bread but something that looked homemade or that looked really rustic, I'd think, "Okay, I'm going to have some of that." Over time, I realized that though I don't crave bread as part of my every single day foods, I really wanted to play around with making it.   Mason Taylor:  You want to be hard enough to kill that a piece of bread won't kill you.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. I think a challenge is the dogma. I came from a very standard American diet way of eating and then a very diet, diet way of eating, very low calorie and low fat. Eventually it went more to paleo and then, of course, wasn't eating any gluten really or any grains. That was very challenging to remember that is this dogma or is this just what feels better in my body?   Steph Gaudreau:  I'm sure there were some people that lost their minds when they saw an Instagram that I had made sourdough bread. I got sourdough starter from my friend. In the winter, it was nice to heat up the house and stuff. I was just making bread in the kitchen. Gosh, that was so cool. I've been bringing back more of that.   Steph Gaudreau:  Again, sometimes we'll go for weeks and I'm like, "It doesn't sound good to me." Then I'll be at the store and I'll see they have a sourdough bread from a company that's local. I'm like, "Yeah, that sounds good to me. I want to have that right now." It's been part of that challenging that am I following some rule from 10 years ago or whatever or am I listening to my body and thinking what sounds good to me right now?   Steph Gaudreau:  I think paleo was a necessary step for me to get away from low-fat, low-calorie, starve yourself dietland and really helped me so much. At the beginning, it was quite dogmatic how I approached it and then over the years became less and less so. Now I'm looking at bringing things back in. Here's the thing. Nutrition is important but it's only a small part of our health and how we feel.   Mason Taylor:  Yeah. We better step into our movement, but I'm allowing this conversation. That was the space between the stars here, being able to know that on your path, you might have frameworks that can very easily become dogma, but don't be scared of going through ... As you said, you had your low-fat more plant-based was it towards the beginning? No?   Steph Gaudreau:  No. It was just typical diet food.   Mason Taylor:  Oh, just typical diet. [crosstalk] You went straight into the paleo or a real common is just into the vegan and then of course we've got, it think it was about six months ago when it was really huge that vegan YouTubers were pouring their guts out about how they've actually been cheating and they've had to listen to their bodies and move on and then moving into something that's a little bit more paleo or primal. That's when everyone goes, right, okay, maybe this is the place. As you're saying, it's like, no, it's never the place. Stay there as long as you need but then move on and then you're going to have to burst that bubble again. Then you'll arrive at this point with enough experience. It's good to go and get that experience for yourself. It's not something you shouldn't do. Then you get to that point and you go, right.   Mason Taylor:  This is where I start looking at it. I'm like, where are all these cushy, a lot of us Westerners, not living off the land, living in a time when we're lucky enough to have some scientific and nutritional and ancient medicine inquiry that's going on for thousands of years. We've been able to amalgamate them to try and find what's optimal for our body. We are living in a time when we're quite cushioned. It's like, what's traditional but is traditional the best? Is all this new data showing us that something is more optimal. We're all just experimenting right now. It can be seemingly like there's infinite amount of choices. You want to try and find what's right, but you might need a little bit of experience in the arena.   Mason Taylor:  My advice there, and I don't know if you want to just give two cents before we move on, is to never ever proclaim that you've found it, especially if you're in the limelight and you're a professional and getting the vegan tattoo or getting the caveman tattoo or something like that. You will over-identify with that external persona that you've created and that dogma. When the bubble bursts, you're either going to have to hold on with rigidity and not evolve or it hits your psyche at that point.   Steph Gaudreau:  Can I give you a funny example that has nothing to do with what you're talking about but everything to do with what you're talking about?   Mason Taylor:  Yes.   Steph Gaudreau:  The car that I drive today I bought 15 years ago. At the time, I was super, super into racing downhill mountain bikes. That was my life. I loved it. I was going out and putting on the full-face helmet and the pads and going down a steep hill. That was my thing.   Steph Gaudreau:  At the time, I got a license plate that made reference to downhill mountain bikes. I feel like that was eight lifetimes ago. I haven't raced bikes for years. Because I still have my car, I still have that license plate. Every time I think, "Wow, okay, that was an interesting choice." It was something I was super into at the time and then life changes. Fifteen years is a long time. I'm reminded of that every time somebody asks what does your license plate mean. I'm like, "I used to be really into downhill mountain bikes when I got this car 15 years ago.   Mason Taylor:  At the same time, there's something nice and nostalgic about it. These little memories from our past I think are really sweet and nice that you have for identification, of course, [inaudible 00:49:58]. I feel like we've covered one of the Core 4.   Steph Gaudreau:  We don't have to cover them all. It's fine.   Mason Taylor:  I'm interested in at least hearing about them or maybe we've touched on some of the others. Moving body with intention, and I feel as well as that will bring in building strength. You do have a lot of practical workouts that are short, fun. You've traditionally had that focus there on strength which I can see is really evolved out.   Mason Taylor:  Let's talk about first moving with intention and what that means for you, and then because I feel a lot of the women and men listening to this, we talk a lot about herbalism. There is a lot of that moving with intention that we talk about, developing interperception, but we haven't really touched on so much the importance of strength training and the practicality of that if we are going to build this really powerful foundation for ourself to ideally just be able to live life the way that we intend to with our virtues coming forth. Could you touch on those things?   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. I think there's many different meanings of move with intention, which is why I really liked that term a lot. I think on a really mental level, you can meditate while you're moving. Having right moving meditation, having a mind-body connection while you're moving and being very intentional in that, I think that's one way to see it.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think another way to see it is really, again, looking for that way in which movement fits into your life. I'm always caveating what I say, not from a place of I don't want anybody to get angry, but because I really think that this stuff is so ... when you apply it to your life, it's going to look different from when I apply it to my life.   Steph Gaudreau:  I'm really interested in having people, again, walk that path, get that framework but then looking for ways to incorporate movement in their life that's very intentional, that aligns with their life instead of trying to make it the other way around. Instead of trying to cram your life into this little box, how can we have this thing work in with our life right now?   Steph Gaudreau:  A perfect example would be let's say you are a mom and you have two kids, and you want to start moving again. You are driving, and this is real examples from my community, maybe you're driving 45 each minutes each way to a gym before work or even after work. You're spending an hour, an hour and a half in the car. It's a long class. You get home, you're really tired. Maybe you don't have a lot of time to be with the kids or you have to get up super early, so you're not getting very much sleep.   Steph Gaudreau:  I just would ask that person, is that really an intentional way of moving in your life? Is that really working for you? Is there something else you could do where you're still getting that benefit of movement, of strength training perhaps even, which is why in the book that whole level one program people can do in their house. I do it on my front porch.   Mason Taylor:  What does it entail, the level one?   Steph Gaudreau:  Getting some dumbbells and moving in a very small area is really what it is; functional movements. You don't need a gym. You can just do it with some very, very minimal equipment and get it done. Would that be more beneficial? Would that be more intentional for that particular woman's life? Would that buy her more time with her kids? Would that buy her more sleep while still getting that benefit?   Steph Gaudreau:  You could make the argument, what if community and connection is really important to her? It's a way to get out of the house and connect with other adults, which is why I don't have one single answer that works for everybody. I think that the more we can think about am I using movement as a way to enhance my life, to make my body feel better, to get the mental benefit, to get the mood benefit. I think all that stuff's really important rather than seeing exercise as a transactional relationship with how much energy I ate today, how much of it can I get rid of, which is where a lot of people do come at movement from.   Steph Gaudreau:  Because in our culture, and I can't speak for Australia, but I can speak for America and the United States, if you're exercising it's like, "Okay, great, we're going to praise you. This is really awesome," but a lot of people also have a dysfunctional relationship with movement.   Steph Gaudreau:  That's part of what I mean by move with intention on all of those different levels. Then also, can you just move more in your day? I hear people a lot, they're like, "Walking doesn't count." What?   Mason Taylor:  Of course it does. Yeah.   Steph Gaudreau:  Sometimes if that's what you can do because you've just had a baby and you're going to walk five minutes because that's literally all your body can handle, great. If your autoimmunity is clearing up and your RA is going crazy and walking is literally all you can do, that's wonderful. Please, let's not dump on that stuff. I think sometimes we get into that mode where if it's not the most extreme and the most intense and the most I-want-to-hurl-after-I'm-done, then it didn't count. That's not productive either.   Steph Gaudreau:  It's intentional to move in such a way that it works with your body. Again, that's a very intuitive process over time. I would hope that people can get to the point where they start to build that awareness of their body so that if they set out to do a workout that day and they do a little bit of a warm-up and everything in their body is like, "Please don't do this to me today. I am not into it. I'm not feeling it," we just respect that. We realize that it's okay to take a day off. It's okay to rest if that's what we're really needing or if we need to make it easier, if we need to take the intensity down because we had a really stressful day. That's all great.   Steph Gaudreau:  On the second part of your question about strength training and why it's really important, and this is just from a physiological, scientific level, a lot of us are not physical laboring anymore. We sit and ... I do the same thing, I sit at a computer all day. I'm not building camp. I'm not hauling water. I'm not child-carrying or any of that stuff. A lot of us are quite sedentary. When the human condition is biological being preserve energy as well, but we're not getting any of that other stimulus.   Steph Gaudreau:  When we turn around 30, we start to lose muscle mass. We start to lose bone density. All these things are really, really important especially as we get older. If you're past 30 and you're like, "I haven't started," that's okay. It's not too late.   Steph Gaudreau:  I love on Facebook, this is one of the great things about Facebook, I always see these senior citizens who are doing stuff. They're out running races or they're lifting something or they're carrying something heavy. I'm just like, "Damn, that's awesome. I want to be able to do that." It proves the point that it's never too late. Muscle is really important. It's like an important reserve for our bodies. If we're sick, if we're injured, we hopefully can draw on that source of amino acids to actually get us through, which is really important, balance, coordination.   Steph Gaudreau:  I'll be honest, for a lot of women, there's something very freeing about doing very simple things that they couldn't do before. I'm not somebody who's like, "We should never ask for help. We should be able to do everything ..." Asking for help is totally fine, but there's something really powerful about, hey, I couldn't lift this thing, and I lifted it on my own, or I could put the suitcase in the overhead bin and I did it myself and I couldn't do it before, or I can carry my kids without back pain, stuff like that. It's very functional type movement.   Steph Gaudreau:  That's really what I teach in the book. Bicep curls are wonderful if you want to look like you have guns. That's great. That's fine. I don't take that away from anybody. I'm really interested in helping people build better functional ranges of motion so they can just live an easier life with moving things and getting things, carrying things around, carry all the groceries in one trip, whatever it is you want to do, but feeling better in your body, less pain, feeling more capable [crosstalk 00:57:53].   Mason Taylor:  There's a couple of things there. I just want to make sure we don't go too far past them. I feel like it's so core to this conversation. The reason we get swept up, what I've observed in ambiguous goals when it comes to strength, movement and of course with diet, weight loss, bulking, whatever it is is because the goals are based externally over them within that system.   Mason Taylor:  Now, this is, of course, a very obvious one, but I feel in our Western society and especially with modern women and men and everyone in between and beyond, that if you can have 20% in that external goal and then 80% based in observing these little things like you've just watched: am in pain less, am I able to get down on the ground and off the ground with a little bit more ease and a little less pain, can I pick that thing up myself or without that stress on my shoulder girdle or with less tension through my shoulder.   Mason Taylor:  These things, it's because they're not as, in an identity based way, they're not quite as gratifying as being able to hit 20 curls versus 10, yet exponentially the benefits multiply in 10 years, 20 years, 30, 40, 50 years. That level of basically how do I do all these things without the dogma? How do I get out of this mindset of I've been focused on my body image or shaming myself or whatever these kinds of things. We all have it.   Mason Taylor:  That, what you were just saying, I feel like it's so simple and it's always in front of our face and seemingly too easy. The potency in just focusing on those little things that matter, it's a skill to develop the noticing of that. It's something we need to continue to develop and observe in ourselves, but it is a gateway towards creating that liberation from our mental constructs on body imaging and being dominated by our seemingly vain goals or having some of them there is fun. [crosstalk]   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah, for sure. I think for a lot of women, again, exercise is seen as very either transitional; I need to burn X many calories because I ate this thing or a very aesthetic based pursuit, which again, if you're somebody who love bodybuilding and that's your thing, that's cool. I think the majority of people that are listening to this and that I'm talking to are not in that camp. This was my thing too was I had to make my body look a very specific way by just trying to shape everything or try to lose a s

Steph Gaudreau is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, author, strength coach, athlete, podcaster and creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph and I have an extremely open & vulnerable conversation about our own personal journeys in finding "health". We discuss diet culture (including paleo diet culture), intuitive eating, "diet fundamentalism", discovering the emotional root of many physical health & food issues, the never-ending journey of identifying ones own personal version of health plus our first-hand experiences of dealing with the complexities of being an "influencer" in the health & wellness world. Steph's book recommendations: Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole Find Steph at StephGaudreau.com Song featured: "The Good that Won't Come Out" by Rilo Kiley How to support the show: Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Support my work on Patreon and get access to bonus episodes & more! Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

This week's guest is Steph Gaudreau: author of Paleo Performance Cookbook, Stupid Easy Paleo blog, The Core 4 & host of Harder To Kill Radio! This episode is all about women and the importance of strength training, loving your body for what it's capable of and not just how it looks, and how "strong is the new STRONG." Website: https://www.stephgaudreau.com/ Instagram: @steph_gaudreau

Today's episode is with Steph Gaudreau on four ways to embrace your body and own your power. Steph Gaudreau, a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, speaker, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph Gaudreau's mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. In this episode, you will learn about: Steph's personal journey in embracing and loving her own body What led Steph to leave her full-time job for 12 years as a teacher to starting her own online blog, podcast, and business to help other women transform their nutrition and fitness without shame tactics or crash diets. The why behind Steph shifting from an athlete and paleo-recipe based blog to coaching women in their nutrition, fitness, and mindset How Steph using her Core4 pillars of health to help women get stronger and embrace their bodies All the details on Steph's amazing new book, the Core 4 which includes education, client testimonials, personal stories, and a 30-day program filled with recipes, workouts, inspiration, encouragement and more Quotes: "For the first time in a very long time, I realized I wasn't micromanaging how my body looked." "Weight loss may be apart of the equation of you feeling better and being healthier, but it's not always guaranteed." "How can we use a framework (not a strict set of rules) to understanding how to nourish our bodies with food, move our bodies with intention, recharge our energy and get our mindset right to embrace our body and own our power?" Resources Mentioned: Steph's Resources Website Core 4 Book Facebook Page Instagram Facebook Group Podcast Brianna's Resources Whole30 Made Easy Program (Enrollment closes 08/28!) Discovery Call for 1:1 Coaching 7 Day Healthy Body Challenge (Free, available on demand) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/madewell345/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/madewell345/support

This week Olga is talking to Steph Gaudreau, a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, speaker, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. Steph knows what it feels like to feel the complete opposite, as she has been battling with negative beliefs and shameful feelings around herself, her body and looks for over 3 decades. She would weigh herself every single day, pinch the fat on her inner thighs and let it dictate how her day would go. Steph had this one magic number in her mind where she thought „If I can just get to this weight, I’m going to be good!“ But Steph has learned that she has worth and value regardless of what her body looks like or what it can do. Learn how you too, can create a loving relationship with your body, develop unshakable confidence and regain ownership of your life.

Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. She’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo

When you’ve seen that you don’t want to play the diet culture games with your health anymore, it can feel overwhelming or confusing on how to take care of yourself and step farther away from diet culture. Steph Gaudreau is back on the show to talk about a holistic, compassionate and approachable way to do that with her new book, The Core 4.   About Steph Gaudreau Steph Gaudreau’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Her mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne).   Small Steps in the Show:  Fill half your plate with vegetables for your meals, consider starting with one meal Try doing 10 air squats, 10 push ups and/or 10 sec plank hold Walk to the end of your block and back Take your work break outside and go for a walk or have a movement break. Find a calm space (inside or outside) at work and sit without distraction. Pick one specific thing you’re grateful for in that day and write it down   Mentioned in the Show: Buy my Enamel Pin Preorder The Core 4 Meet Steph to celebrate the launch of The Core 4 Get the Preorder Bonuses for The Core 4 Small Steps Podcast #6 with Steph Gaudreau The Core 4 Program Performance Paleo Taylor Gage of She Thrives Pat Flynn The Pat Flynn Show Harder to Kill Radio with Aimée Harder to Kill Club Facebook Group Steph Gaudreau’s Website Follow Steph on Instagram | Twitter Sign up for Steph’s Newsletter Get the full show notes here! Follow Aimee on Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest Sign up for the Wellness Wednesdays Newsletter Interested in working with Aimee? Find out information here.

 Today we interview Steph Gaudreau, health influencer, author, powerhouse and all-around bad-ass woman. Steph has been in the health and wellness space for a long time and has built a solid brand that has both grown and changed steadily over time.  You may recognize her name from the previous incarnation of her brand, Stupid Easy Paleo.  Steph found that as she matured as a health professional and as a woman the connection to paleo specifically seemed more distant, while the connection to people became more real.  As a result, she successfully pivoted her brand to become Steph Gaudreau.  In this episode we discuss this rebranding, book writing, hiring staff and determining when to outsource those tasks that you, quite simply, don't like doing.  Whether you are a new health professional or one that has been around the block, there are nuggets of gold in this episode that you won't want to miss.    To learn how to become a health coach or to up-level your skills and credentials as a health coach, visit primalhealthcoach.com. 

Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. She’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne). Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. To date, it’s had over 1.5 million downloads. She’s also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women’s Strength Summit. Steph’s an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications. She lives in San Diego with the loves of her life, her Scottish husband Z and her cat Ellie. When she’s not lifting heavy stuff, you can find her tending to her garden, standing on the dining room table to get the perfect food photo shot, getting her ass kicked at Brazilian jiu jitsu, and reading about how to be a better human. Head over to her website and pick up your free eBook: stephgaureau.com/foodcravings Are you enjoying the podcast? Would you like a FREE copy of my 12 Week Core Program, ABS ON FIRE? All you need to do are 2 simple steps: To claim, simply leave a review on iTunes or Google Play Email me directly amanda@fitnchips.com to grab your free workout plan. Much Love, Amanda x

Are you tired of the fitness and nutrition industries telling you what you should look like or what you should eat? Isn't it true that we're constantly bombarded with billboard images, Google images, and messages all around us showing us how a fit woman look like? Does it really have to be all about that aesthetic looks or is there more to it than outside looks? Join my guest today, Steph Gaudreau who is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author of The Core 4, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out.  In today's episode, we discussed the following topics: how to appreciate and love your body. what does it mean with mind your own plate? ways to enjoy eating outside without the guilt and shame feelings around weight. The Core 4 Program and much more! To learn more about Steph's programs and stay connected with her, please visit her at https://www.stephgaudreau.com/ and to pre-order her book, you can visit https://www.stephgaudreau.com/core-4-preorder If you have any questions about your fitness journey or goals, you can also reach Coach Ola at www.befit4akhirah.com or stay connected on social media @BeFit4Akhirah Don't forget to screenshot this episode and tag Steph and Coach Ola on your social media sharing one biggest takeaway from this episode. Be Strong. Be Fit. BeFit4Akhirah.

This podcast is all about evolution: how scary, difficult, frustrating, and ultimately freeing empowering it can be to figure out how to let go of things that aren’t serving you anymore and allow yourself to grow, change, and move on. Whether in fitness, business, relationships, or life in general, the key to authenticity and happiness is being able to learn from your experiences, pick and choose what works for you, and sometimes, take a leap into the unknown. Today’s guest, nutritional therapy consultant, podcast host, author, and fitness and nutrition coach Steph Gaudreau talks about her own journey, including her recent significant rebranding and all the fear that comes with rebuilding after the painstaking process of building a brand and a following. Steph talks about shifting priorities, stepping out of a “scarcity mindset,” and how staying true to yourself, even when that truth changes, is the best way to live and build a business.     Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out She’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge. Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health. Steph hosts her Harder to Kill Radio podcast, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. She’s also the creator of the Core 4 health program, and the Women’s Strength Summit. Steph’s an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications.     Minute Breakdown:   0 - 17  Ashleigh starts the podcast by talking about her own health and fitness journey and evolution      17 –  27 Steph talks about what it’s like to have a busy online business, how she structures her day, and tips for how to stay focused and avoid distraction when working from home       27 –43  Ashleigh and Steph talk about stepping out of fitness-related comfort zones, including switching from CrossFit to Brazilian jiu jitsu, and how her background in CrossFit and Olympic lifting helps inform her current movement and exercise   43 – 49 Talking about her rebrand from her popular Stupid Easy Paleo platform to her new eponymous brand, with less of a focus on a specific diet protocol and more on helping women with nutrition, fitness, and mindset: helping women find their voices and feel empowered to take up space in their lives and careers     49 – 1:02 Learning about the pros and cons of labels and categories, whether it’s labeling your brand or your nutrition or your fitness approach; how it can be both helpful and limiting   1:02 – Discussing the evolution of her fitness and business and how she learned to worry less about making everyone happy and more about making herself happy, through supporting other women in their journeys. So often, women are expected to be “palatable” to everyone, says Steph: not too strong, not too outspoken, pleasing and cute and happy to fit in to the mold others set for them. But doing the hard work of staying true to ourselves, even when it’s hard, will reflect positively in our businesses, our relationships, and even our fitness.   Follow Steph on social media @steph_gaudreau, and learn more about her books, programs, podcast, and coaching at stephgaudreau.com   ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Show notes: http://www.shruggedcollective.com/mmr-gaudreau ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Support our Sponsor: @beekeeper: hwww.beekeepersnaturals.com/musclemaven for 15% off

No. 26 | Take Back Your Power. You are More than Your Body! with Steph Gaudreau Beth and Steph chat through their experiences surrounding body image and ditching the idea that our worth lies in our external appearance. We talk through what we see to be the differences in body positivity and body neutrality and share personal stories and turning points in our journey that helped shift our perspectives. In this Episode We Discuss: the importance of the non-measurable aspects of health changes letting go of the societal rules surrounding food, willpower and our choices embracing making choices from a different perspective the mental and emotional freedom that comes from taking up space, showing up big and focusing on strength vs. shrinking, being small and making choices to "fix" our body negativity as a motivator and why it doesn't work body neutrality is NOT giving up can you make changes when you aren't moving from a negative mindset? how acceptance can offer clarity and solution it's OK to not love all of your body!! it is NOT your job or responsibility to make anyone else comfortable when they look at your body!!! on wearing the damn shorts, understanding cellulite and SO MUCH MORE!!!   A Bit About Steph: To share a bit about Steph, She's a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo.  Steph Gaudreau's mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner's Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne). Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. To date, it's had over 1.5 million downloads. She's also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women's Strength Summit. Steph's an accomplished strength coach and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics.  I am so inspired by Steph, her message, her mission and how she shows up in the world and I am so excited to share her here with all of you, because I know you will be inspired too. >>> You can find Steph Gaudreau at stephgaudreau.com or follow her on Instagram @steph_gaudrea   Mentioned in this Episode:  Wear the Shorts - Harder to Kill podcast episode Cellulite Confidence - Harder to Kill podcast episode The Core 4 - Preorder the book and grab the pre-order bonuses

Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. She’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne). Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition, and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. To date, it’s had over 1.5 million downloads. She’s also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women’s Strength Summit. Steph’s an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications. In addition, Steph’s an international speaker on the subjects of nutrition and strength training, giving talks at PaleoFX, AHS, and AHS New Zealand. Steph’s been recognized in the media by publications such as Outside Magazine, Triathlete, and SELF, has appeared on ESPN Radio, and her blog was named by Greatist as one of its 15 Must-Read Health and Happiness blogs of 2016. Scroll down to see more media appearances. She lives in San Diego with the loves of her life, her Scottish husband Z and her cat Ellie. When she’s not lifting heavy stuff, you can find her tending to her garden, standing on the dining room table to get the perfect food photo shot, getting her ass kicked at Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and reading about how to be a better human.   Check out the Peru Adventure Retreat HERE

It's time to say goodbye to Stupid Easy Paleo! For the last seven years, it's been my website and brand. But just like most good things, it was time to move on and welcome a novel concept...being myself. StephGaudreau.com is my new home online (including this podcast), and I'm so frickin' pumped to show you. In this episode, I'm talking a little bit more about why some things must die to make way for new growth. Their parts must be added back to the soil to enrich it for new things to unfurl. Death need not be scary if we view it as a transformation. I'm acknowledging some sticking points and lessons I've learned, plus telling you all about why this birth is symbolic in all the best ways.  Remember to go check it out now: StephGaudreau.com Mentioned on this episode: My new site...StephGaudreau.com Join the Harder to Kill Club on Facebook Follow Steph on: Instagram| Facebook | Pinterest | YouTube | Twitter I'd really love it if you would take 1 min and leave me a rating and review on iTunes!

Strength has several facets; it can mean being quiet, surrendering, or letting go of things. Strength isn't always just this raw charge moving forward. Sometimes, strength is realizing that you need to give yourself a rest day. - Steph Gaudreau Whether you are a mother, entrepreneur, or athlete, how can you honor, respect, and uplift all of your layers? JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP | REVIEW THIS PODCAST  20% OFF ORGANIFI - USE CODE: WELLNESSFORCE On Wellness Force Radio episode 217, USA Weightlifting Level 1 and CrossFit Coach, Author of both The Paleo Athlete and The Performance Paleo Cookbook, and Host of the Harder to Kill Radio podcast, Steph Gaudreau, returns to uncover how you can give yourself the permission to accept your body as is, what you can do to support #MeToo in your own way, and how you can be both strong, confident and soft, emotional at the same time. Discover how you can give your mind and body the full attention they deserve by setting healthy boundaries with people, commitments, and technology. "People feel like they need permission to rest when they do not have a sense of their inner power. Society sees this as a sign of weakness but I think it's a sign of strength to say, 'I need help. Can I do this?'" - @steph_gaudreau on @WellnessForce Ep 217 http://bit.ly/wfpodcast The Performance Paleo Cookbook DELICIOUS, NUTRIENT-PACKED MEALS TO FUEL A BETTER PERFORMANCE Get your copy of The Performance Paleo Cookbook by Stephanie Gaudreau here You train hard to perform well; your food should fuel the process and taste good, too. The Performance Paleo Cookbook gives you all the information and recipes you need to prepare delicious food that will help you get stronger today. When you train, your body needs the right combination of nutrients-whether it's to support your workout or to aid in recovery. Following a Paleo-based diet with smart modifications for training is the best way to maximize your workout so that you can get stronger and raise your performance. In this book, you will get meal strategies based on your workout, meal combinations that pack a nutrient punch and recipes that will nourish you throughout your day-from pre-workout snacks to post-workout fuel and dozens of other carb-dense, nutrient-boosting meals to keep you at your best. And with 100 delicious recipes like Mocha-Rubbed Slow Cooker Pot Roast, Honey Garlic Lemon Chicken Wings, Baked Cinnamon Carrots, Savory Salt & Vinegar Coconut Chips and Banana Fudgesicles, who says healthy food has to taste bad? No matter how you choose to test the limits of your body, The Performance Paleo Cookbook has got your back with tasty, energizing food to help you train harder, recover faster and perform better.   Listen To Episode 217 As Steph Gaudreau Uncovers: The struggles and pressures she faced in the first years of starting Stupid Easy Paleo. What "Paleo" means to her today and how her views have changed. How she has worked through her fears of money and not knowing how to handle her personal narrative of wealth. Whether or not our interest in the people we look up to and our heroes is beneficial for ourselves. What "hate following" is and how we can stop giving our energy to it. Why strength has so many different faces and meanings. What steps we can take to reframe how we see and think about our bodies. The biggest limiting belief about women and lifting weights. How to find a gym where you will feel comfortable at. Why the narrative that women can't be strong is completely false. How we can support women who want to work on improving their physical fitness. How she honors both her strong, confident self and highly sensitive personality. Why we feel like we need permission to take a break and just rest our mind and body. How she balances her life working from home and her advice to people struggling to take their mind off of work and pressure. What to eat after a workout; especially if you're insulin sensitive and looking for gluten-free options. The downfall of following a diet that bans certain foods compared to adding in better, healthier options as a swap. Steps we can take for social justice with #MeToo and #WeToo through face to face discussion. How we can improve communication with the people in our lives by setting boundaries around cellphone and technology use. How we can set boundaries when it comes to helping people and allowing them to work through their own process. About her upcoming book and the possible title of it, "The Harder to Kill Handbook." Power Quotes From The Show "Food labels help us navigate but they can also be constricting and then they don't even necessarily serve the greater purpose of eating healthy. It doesn't matter if something is Paleo or not; it's about whether or not it works for you." - @steph_gaudreau http://bit.ly/wfpodcast "What's the difference between a leader and an influencer? Are you following somebody because you feel that you can trust them as a leader or are they just influencing you to buy something? Are they forcing you to follow their exact both or are they challenging you to follow your best path? Ultimately, it comes down to you asking yourself, 'Am I following this person because they've inspired me to follow my best self or because I feel like I'm lacking something and I just want to get to where they are and be like them?' " - Steph Gaudreau "Too much inward focus can be really stifling for people and serve to force where we are not at. This is one of the reasons why positive affirmations don't work for a lot of people because our subconscious brain knows we're not there yet in our journey. Positive affirmations work for some people and not others but I think the point is that if we're too focused on 'we' but we don't ever consider ourselves, then we start to lose ourselves. Perhaps we start to not take care of ourselves because we're only caring for others before we put energy back into our own system. I don't know the right answer but I think we need to be fluid, flexible, and surrender or take a stand when necessary. - Steph Gaudreau "The biggest limiting belief that I run across with my female athletes is that 'I will get hurt.' It's crazy to me because I never ever hear this when I hear people talking to men. No one ever says to men, 'Be careful because you might get hurt,' yet the number of times I've seen someone say this to a woman is countless. Being physically active does not automatically cause injury. We need to take the ego of that idea; the ego is the most dangerous thing in the gym. Working outside of your limits, knowing you're outside of your limits, and continuing to push yourself because you want to keep up with everyone else is dangerous." - Steph Gaudreau   Links From Today's Show Steph Gaudreau Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube WFR 016 Steph Gaudreau The Paleo Athlete by Steph Gaudreau The Performance Paleo Cookbook by Steph Gaudreau Harder to Kill Radio Podcast Harder To Kill Radio Episode 108 | Cellulite + Confidence: Fierce Love Friday Harder to Kill Club on Facebook Steph's post about cellulite on Instagram Angie Alt and Mickey Trescott of Autoimmune Wellness Stefi Cohen Gary Vaynerchuck Brené Brown Tim Ferriss Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek WFR 070 Tony Federico WFR 132 Christine Hassler About Steph Gaudreau Steph Gaudreau combines a formal education in biology / human physiology (BS Biology – Human Physiology), 12 years of science teaching experience (MA –Education and National Board Certification), holistic nutrition training (Certified Holistic Nutrition Practitioner), and an unabashed love of tasty Paleo food (human with taste buds). Steph’s mission is to spread the word about how to make simple, tasty recipes to help people in their quests to just eat real food. She wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Steph’s recently taken to the airwaves with her chart-topping podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she interviews experts in fitness, nutrition, and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans, and she’s the creator of the Women’s Strength Summit (coming March 1, 2016). In addition, Steph’s an international speaker on the subjects of nutrition and strength training, giving talks at PaleoFX, AHS, and AHS New Zealand. Steph’s been recognized in the media by publications such as Outside Magazine, Triathlete, and SELF, has appeared on ESPN Radio, and her blog was named by Greatist as one of its 60 Must-Read Health, Fitness and Happiness blogs of 2015. Scroll down to see more media appearances. Her dedication to learning the finer points of sport is evident in her numerous coaching certifications such as USA Weightlifting Level 1 and multiple CrossFit disciplines, including Level 1. She’s competed in everything from endurance mountain biking to CrossFit (competing on a team at the SoCal Regionals in 2013) and now weightlifting where she earned qualification to the American Open in 2014. In addition to competing, Steph coaches weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego and has coached CrossFit in gyms reaching from Scotland to SoCal. She lives in San Diego with the loves of her life, her Scottish husband Z, and her cat Ellie. When she’s not lifting heavy stuff, you can find her tending to her beehive, standing on the dining room table to get the perfect food photo shot, and reading nerdy science books.       Get More Wellness In Your Life Join the WFR Community on facebook Send Josh Trent a personal message Tweet me on Twitter: Send us a fun tweet (or a what's up) Comment on the Facebook page Sign up to get an email alert whenever we release a new episode Support This Podcast Leave a 5 star review on iTunes Share this episode with someone you care about Contact Wellness Force Radio for podcast sponsorship and partnership opportunities Rate & Review Wellness Force ---> REVIEW THE PODCAST Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode ---> Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on the air.  You May Also Like These Episodes Food Freedom Forever With Melissa Hartwig Nir Eyal: Breaking Bad Habits, Technology Addiction, & Emotional Triggers Healthy, Happy & Harder To Kill w/ Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo Beyond Meditation: How To Get A Better Brain With Ariel Garten Living A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World With Dan Pardi Creating A Life Worth Living With Michael Strasner   Join the Wellness Force Newsletter: www.wellnessforce.com/news Don't miss next week's show: Subscribe and stay updated Did you like this show on Ketosis? Rate and review Wellness Force on iTunes You read all the way to the bottom? 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What We’re Talking About In This Episode! Steph’s ‘Core 4’ Framework for finding your inner power How slowing down and being mindful can impact your digestive system in a positive way Connecting to your food on a close personal level Tuning the dial back into your inner intuition The role trust plays in moving forward in your health journey   Episode Summary:  Most people are drawn to the health and wellness space because they want to feel better. For a lot of us, the food we eat is probably the best place to start. Today’s guest, Steph Gaudreau took this idea and created her Core 4 Framework, a power based program designed to help women and men create a healthy mindset and stronger body. Steph is an expert on helping her clients remember who they are through a journey of self-reflection. A USA weightlifting strength coach, holistic nutrition practitioner, founder of Stupid Easy Paleo and host of Harder to Kill Radio, Steph helps her clients own their inner power by building stronger bodies and minds, and believes that by examining how we create habits, reviewing our goal setting process and how we see the world, we can being to reflect on our own self-compassion. We are uncovering the important truths about being a woman today and what it truly takes to take care of our bodies. Get ready to get real about loving our bodies, cultivating a healthy mindset and getting stronger in every aspect of our lives. What do you do to cultivate strength in your wellness practice? Please let me know in the comments on the show notes page!    Quotes: “When I finally learned how to really nourish my body with the foods that worked for me, when I learned how to incorporate movement in a way that was very nourishing for myself and work on mindset and all these other pieces, there became a sense of ease in my life.” (5:51) “For me, taking the time to deliberately slow down has been so important in this process.” (20:29) “I know what that feels like if you've just been told, ‘you're fine, nothing is wrong with you, its all in your head’. Its really difficult to come back to that place of starting to listen to yourself again and trusting yourself. So that's why for me, mindset became such a big piece of this, and it is one of the hardest parts to tackle.” (37:38)   Resources Mentioned: Join Steph's Free 5 Day Healthy Habits Challenge! Stupid Easy Paleo Harder to Kill Radio Podcast Follow Stupid Easy Paleo on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube   Check out the full show notes page Keep up with everything Dr. Mariza Follow Dr. Mariza on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Youtube

Welcome to the Fitlandia Summer Series. Christa is prioritizing her self-care and taking a bit of a twist on the show by gathering the greatest insights and wisdom from her week in Fitlandia, delivering it to you as you continue your health, wellness and weight loss journey. Looking for some inspiration to keep on truckin’ with your quest to get healthy and make it stick? In this week’s episode, Christa continues her Summer Series with a week in review in Fitlandia. She’s announcing the next Mind Zoning®®® Academy topic, a special offer for the July 30 Days to Thriving program, and an update on her journey to get fitter by 46 than she was at 26. Everything you need to create a mindset toward fitness is in this episode!  Highlight’s from today’s show are below:   Christa King:                          00:00                       If you're new to the Mind Zoning® Academy I have a monthly membership where I do an online webinar / workshop where you're live with me and we pick a mental obstacle and I teach you the reason behind that obstacle, the source of it, if you will, as well as I lead you through a guided meditation to help you break through that obstacle. Christa King:                          01:13                       So July’s Mind Zoning® Academy is on setting healthy boundaries to put you first and if you're anything like me, you know, you give to others before you give to yourself. Christa King:                          02:09                       While I focus on fitness and nutrition, these mental tools can apply to any area of life. You also get a Q&A session with me in that webinar. Once we finish the meditation, then I help you break through any remaining obstacles. So that is on July 11th from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Pacific Time. Great for all time zones. But even if you can't make it, I want you to enroll in the Mind Zoning® Academy anyway because everyone gets a playback of the recorded webinar as well as a professionally mixed Mind Zoning® meditation. The one that I lead you through gets mixed with beautiful spa music so you can listen to it again and again and again, creating new neural pathways to make setting healthy boundaries stick. Christa King:                          03:07                       Okay. So that's the first update. The second update is the July 30 days to thriving is shaping up to be I, I would say the best session this year so far. And the reason why is because we already have 10 people signed up for the program that starts on July fifth. The best part about July is I'm also teaching you how to modify the protocol so that if you are going on vacation in the month of July, you’ll still want to join because I'm going to teach you how to enjoy your vacation without overindulging and without having a major, major setback. Christa King:                          04:30                       We want more MEN in Fitlandia so we’re inviting you to join and bring your male buddies along. You can save 50% by using YES50 at checkout. Christa King:                          05:36                       Now for the last update about the 30 Days to Thriving program for July. I am formally introducing accountability buddies, so on the first night when we get into first group coaching call, you will get partnered up with a buddy that you're going to do some easy accountability work between our sessions, so you're going to get meal plans, recipes, weekly group coaching with me. You get seven Mind Zoning® meditations that are specifically designed to go with the 30 Days to Thriving program. You're going to get daily inspiration and motivation from me and lifetime access to the Facebook group. Now here's the other thing, once you go through one round of the program, any future program is only $75, so we have a great repeat program as well. All right, enough about who I got to take a deep breath and tell you all why AJ is joining us here today. Christa King:                          06:54                       Hey there. So as you all know, I'm working on getting fitter by the time I turned 46 than I was at 26 years old when I ran my first marathon and I was at my healthiest weight, which yes, I weighed 135 pounds. I'm five six, but I ran my first marathon and weighed that much as a smoker so I certainly wasn't my healthiest. So I am working on being my fittest by 46, which is August 13th. And I'm sharing every week that journey with you and recording it for the Fitlandia and via podcast as well. So without. Oh, I love this. Thank you for that. Shout out. Hi. So what we're gonna do now is give you an update on better by 46,000. It was 26. So again, ha. Welcome to the Fitlandia podcast. Thank you. So one of the things that Ha and I sat out in the beginning of the year was to take our fitness to the next level, but one of the intentions that we wrote down, because as you all know when it comes to me, I'm all about goal setting, achievable goals, but we wanted to run three half marathons this year. Christa King:                          08:14                       So today we're talking about our half marathon number two. AJ, share with our listeners what was the half marathon that we did and why did we choose it? Christa King:                          09:34                       Yes, so that's what we did was an interval, which is great for recovery. It's great for endurance and certainly injury prevention, but it's also good if you're training hasn't been spot on. It's pro tip for you. So we would run a mile, walk a half mile, run a mile, walk a half mile, and we had the intention to do that pace the entire half marathon. And we were pretty damn close. Right? Christa King:                          10:26                       We got a little mentally derailed though, and I want to talk about that a little bit because I think that's really important. It's a great, um, example of what happened during our half marathon of what not to do in life, right. So I still have growth opportunities and my own fitness routine and it's really, it's also what inspired the July Mind Zoning® Academy, setting healthy boundaries. I broke a boundary on our run, but there's a reason for it… AJ Dexter:                               15:37                       Yeah. And I'll say, you know, one thing that's sticking out for me as Christa's really quick about processing her emotions and I take a lot longer to like dig into the fully experience them all. And so I think that was part of the reason why it took me the rest of the day, well beyond the run to just step into the mall and let them kind of unwind from me. Christa King:                          19:24                       You push yourself a little bit but not to this crazy place where you're going into injury or you just hate it. It's really about enjoying the process and I'm giving a shout out to Steph Gaudreau during our interview. She's the mastermind behind Stupid Easy Paleo and I interviewed her last week and she's like, it's about enjoying the process. If you can't find the joy in an elimination diet, don't do it, but there's a lot of abundance to be gained from it. Christa King:                          20:21                       If you don't get the joy and examining your thoughts and reframing them, then don't do it. Allow yourself that space to get to a place, step by step so that you can start to imagine that things that seem hard are actually really a lot of fun. AJ Dexter:                                23:40                       A pro tip is just keep on moving, Christa King:                          23:43                       Reframing negative thoughts. I can't stress this enough. I believe this. There's science behind it. The thought leaders are talking about it. Whatever you think that is your reality. So if you think you can't do it, if you think it's too hard, if you think I'll never, I don't have enough time, I should all those negatives than that is your reality and you are cementing that in every action that you do. Christa King:                          24:55                       So my invitation to you all's for the next week is to catch yourself in the negative thought pattern and reframe it…  

Steph Gaudreau is the founder of Stupid Easy Paleo and Harder to Kill Radio. As a respected holistic nutrition and fitness expert and host of the top-ranked Harder to Kill Radio Podcast, Steph brings a fierce love approach to everything she does. In 2015, Steph created the Harder to Kill Challenge, a 4-pillar philosophy that has guided over 1000 people in cultivating their own sustainable, healthy lifestyles. She’s a Certified Holistic Nutrition Practitioner (and nutritional therapist in training), USA Weightlifting Level 1 coach, best-selling author, pro food photographer, cold brew lover, terrible singer, and Lord of the Rings nerd. Steph and Stupid Easy Paleo have been featured in numerous mainstream publications such as SELF, Greatist, and Outside Online as well as receiving numerous awards from Paleo Magazine over the years. Steph gets super fired up about helping guide women on their health journeys because she’s been in their shoes…and she knows the incredible things that can happen when you start to feel better in your body. In her spare time, Steph lifts weights, plays Brazilian jiu jitsu, gardens, and hangs out with her husband Z and Ellie Hopkins the cat in San Diego, CA. Learn more about BEE - FEST 2018 Authentic Self Life Mastery Personal Paleo Lifestyle Coaching

Today's guest is Steph Gaudreau, founder of Stupid Easy Paleo, host of harder to kill radio. Steph is incredible – not the least because her mission statement is to help people unleash their inner badass so they can change the world. I first met Steph at the ancestral health symposium in New Zealand earlier this year. Her presentation on Unhustling struck a chord with me so thankfully for you guys I got uncomfortable and went up to chat with her afterwards. I got to go in depth with Steph on a whole lot of topics today, including +Body image +Shaping our story +Changing your life +Owning your health +Her 4 pillars of health +Being proactive rather than reactive +Her 3 part intervention to stop being reactive +Creating humans who are harder to kill +What the best exercise to do is +Unhustling +Why we should do things we know we are going to fail at +and of course, Getting Uncomfortable Guest: Steph Gaudreau Stupid Easy Paleo Stupid Easy Paleo Facebook Stupid Easy Paleo Instagram Harder to Kill Radio Amy Cuddy TED talk Support the show on Patreon Host: Chris Desmond UIOK Instagram UIOK Facebook Chris Desmond Twitter Jeremy Desmond Music

Ages ago, my good friend Melissa Palmer shared a link to these awesome Paleo Tortilla Wraps and introduced me to the world of Steph Gaudreau and Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph is a refreshing breath of fresh air, she does things heaps differently than most. Steph Gaudreau helps people unleash their inner badasses so they can Listen In The post PAP 19: STEPH GAUDREAU – STUPID EASY PALEO, INNER BADASS & BEING HARDER TO KILL appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode of Harder to Kill Radio, coach Karina Antonopoulos explains how she teaches others how to use the gift of empathy to change their world. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. Karina’s bio: Six years later Karina was invited to attend a weekend retreat read more... The post The Highly Sensitive Person with Karina Antonopoulos: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 078 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Dr. Stacy Sims knows that women are not small men. In this episode of Harder to Kill Radio, she’s explaining how to work with your female physiology instead of against it. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. Dr. Sims’s bio: Stacy T. Sims, PhD, served as read more... The post Women are Not Small Men with Dr. Stacy Sims: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 077 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

What sets an outstanding coach from just a coach? Is it their ability to teach beyond just the technical skills? On this episode, we sit down with Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo and discuss how to become a masterful coach and teacher. Steph is a coach, former high school biology teacher, weightlifter, chef, author, mountain biker, soccer player, CrossFitter, podcaster, blogger, photographer, nutritionist, wife, cat lover, Twitter romancer, and Lord of the Rings fan. Steph is the creator of the critically acclaimed, widely popular, and OG paleo website Stupid Easy Paleo. Her podcast, Harder to Kill Radio – Forging Unbreakable Humans, brings together the best experts in fitness, nutrition, sleep, and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. She is the published author of The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance, and The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Training Harder, Getting Stronger and Gaining the Competitive Edge. Additionally, you can find her coaching Weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego, CA. We cover: Deciding what to call yourself and titles that are clear and authentic Why we should be asking people why they do what they do vs. what they do Why working from your why will keep you from being boxed in What sets outstanding coaches and mentors apart The difference between teaching and learning Why having a coach is so important, even when you are a coach Why strength can be letting go and saying no to something Why social media is preventing human connection and more! For references to everything mentioned in this episode, head over to www.behindthepodiumpodcast.com. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review and share with your friends and colleagues! (more…)

Chris Kresser’s on a mission to teach the world about the power of unconventional medicine, and he shares more with us on Harder to Kill Radio Episode 76. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. Chris’s bio: Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac is a globally recognized leader in read more... The post Unconventional Medicine with Chris Kresser: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 076 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

It’s time to learn about going gluten-free the healthy way with my special guest Jennifer Fugo on Episode 75 of Harder to Kill Radio. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. Jennifer’s bio: Jennifer Fugo MS, CHC is a functional nutritionist and the CEO of Gluten Free read more... The post Going Gluten Free with Jennifer Fugo: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 075 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Find out the six steps to optimize your hormonal health on episode 74 of Harder to Kill Radio with my guest Angelique Panagos. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. Angelique’s bio: Angelique Panagos is a nutritionist based in London. Her mission is to help you live read more... The post The Balance Plan with Angelique Panagos: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 074 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Feeling like you NEED to run forever to stay in shape. Finding your ideal weight. Eating for fun and not hunger. Strategies for breaking a negative mindset. Expectations and Agreements. Exercising because you hate your body. Importance of strength training for endurance athletes. Finding balance in training. How your period impacts your performance. Forever fixing your body. Keep up with Steph at her blog stupideasypaleo.com Instagram @StupidEasyPaleo Facebook: Stupid Easy Paleo Catch up with Kristin at thegirlwiththebutter.com or @TheGirlWithTheButter. Get more from Everett at paleofatkid.com or @PaleoFatKid This episode is brought to you by EQUIP FOODS! You can also use our coupon code to get your Keto needs met at perfectketo.com Don’t freak out! It’s still the same protein, carb, and greens that you love from what was PureWOD…just with a new name and fresh look. Equip Foods offers high quality, junk-free, additive-free, dairy-free protein, pre workout, and more. While I LOVE the Prime Protein (formerly BUILD), I’m really excited to try the new collagen and their BRAND new anti-inflammatory supplement , a blend of turmeric, ginger, and black pepper. As a special offer for our community, EQUIP and PERFECT KETO are both offering a 10% discount to our awesome listeners. Simply visit EQUIP and use the code PALEOPODCAST at checkout!  

Wondering what it takes to really thrive? Tune into Episode 73 with my guest Taylor Gage to find out. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. Taylor’s bio: Like almost any CrossFitter will tell you, beginning CrossFit changed Taylor’s life. Big time. It changed her life in countless ways, read more... The post She Thrives with Taylor Gage: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 073 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

We had a long chat with Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo, so we’re breaking it into two parts for the sake of your attention span.  This week it’s all about getting to know Steph. She’s telling us about how she transitioned (and why) from triathlons and the quest to be as small as possible, to CrossFit and weightlifting and taking up space. We also get into bee keeping and how that even happened (plus some resources for you if you have a hive of your own), and answer a few listener questions. Don’t miss part 2 next week where we get into even more Q & A! Keep up with Steph at her blog stupideasypaleo.com Instagram @StupidEasyPaleo Facebook: Stupid Easy Paleo Catch up with Kristin at thegirlwiththebutter.com or @TheGirlWithTheButter. Get more from Everett at paleofatkid.com or @PaleoFatKid This episode is brought to you by EQUIP FOODS! You can also use our coupon code to get your Keto needs met at perfectketo.com Don’t freak out! It’s still the same protein, carb, and greens that you love from what was PureWOD…just with a new name and fresh look. Equip Foods offers high quality, junk-free, additive-free, dairy-free protein, pre workout, and more. While I LOVE the Prime Protein (formerly BUILD), I’m really excited to try the new collagen and their BRAND new anti-inflammatory supplement , a blend of turmeric, ginger, and black pepper. As a special offer for our community, EQUIP and PERFECT KETO are both offering a 10% discount to our awesome listeners. Simply visit EQUIP and use the code PALEOPODCAST at checkout! Audio Player  

Steph Gaudreau, strength coach, owner of Stupid Easy Paleo, joins me to discuss all the ways she's made herself impervious to life's onslaught. From weight lifting, meditation, Jiu Jitsu, and entrepreneurship, Steph is a yet another fine example of an expert-generalist. She's great at everything she does, because she's committed herself to being in process. From high school chemistry teacher to online strength-empowerment phenom, Steph shares many of the steps (and stumbles) she's had along the way, and lessons learned therefrom.  Definitely listen to this episode.   

Fitness for all…It’s time to talk about this important topic with strength coach Chrissy King. Click here to leave a rating & review on iTunes. Chrissy King’s bio: Chrissy King is a Milwaukee-based ISSA certified personal trainer, lifestyle coach, and fitness blogger. After years of yo-yo dieting, trying extreme low read more... The post Fit for All with Chrissy King: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 072 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Need hormone help? Dr. Brooke Kalanick is coming to the rescue in Episode 71 of Harder to Kill Radio. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. Dr. Brooke Kalanick’s bio: A licensed Naturopathic Doctor (ND) and functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Brooke attended Seattle, Washington’s Bastyr University, where she read more... The post Hormone Help with Dr. Brooke Kalanick: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 071 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Time to dig into some real talk on performance nutrition with Nick Shaw of Renaissance Periodization. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. About Renaissance Periodization: When it comes to your goals and aspirations in the areas of physique alteration, sports performance, and health, it is very read more... The post Performance Nutrition with Nick Shaw: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 070 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Join me for this week’s episode of Harder to Kill Radio, Evolutionary Therapies with Allyson Chrystal. Show your love: Subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. Allyson Chrystal’s bio: Allyson Chrystal is an occupational therapist and clinical instructor specializing in pediatrics. In her clinical work and research, Allyson has focused read more... The post Evolutionary Therapies with Allyson Chrystal: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 069 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Thanks for tuning into Episode 68 of Harder to Kill Radio with my special guest, Guillermo Ruiz of 30/30 Strong. Show your love: Click here to subscribe & rate the show Guillermo Ruiz’s Bio: I am a first generation Mexican American, born in Brownsville, Texas. I spent my first 14 read more... The post Medicine’s Future with Guillermo Ruiz: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 068 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

In this episode, Clara and Kylee chat with Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo about body image, strength training, and finding your strength, especially as a woman. For more on Steph: www.stupideasypaleo.com @stupideasypaleo The best tortillas ever... https://stupideasypaleo.com/2013/08/23/simple-paleo-tortillas/

Season 3 of Harder to Kill Radio is here, and this episode is all about Grace & Grit with my guest, Courtney Townley.   Show your love: Click here to subscribe & rate the show. Courtney Townley’s Bio: Courtney Townley began working in the fitness industry over two decades ago read more... The post Grace & Grit with Courtney Townley: Harder to Kill Radio Ep 067 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Excited to welcome Steph Gaudreau into the Meatcast Den!  Many of you know Steph for her “Stupid Easy Paleo” fame, but I'm guessing many of you don't realize the journey she took to becoming one of the most influential leaders in the fitness and nutrition community.    Tune into the episode and.…. Find out why she left her job as a school teacher to start her own business Follow her athletic evolution from mountain bike racer → Crossfit Regional Athlete → Olympic Weightlifting Coach → Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Hear her thoughts on the evolution of the Paleo diet over the past few years Discover why her recent blog post on body shaming went viral Learn about The Women's Strength Summit Hear me butcher her last name, despite her plea   For this week's Inside EPIC, we honor the upcoming Father's Day with our office dad, Clint Clancy!  He'll explain why there's an EPIC t-shirt with his face on it and what's the most common consumer complaint we get on our customer hotline.

I am so deeply humbled by the caliber of women who have agreed to be on the Grace & Grit podcast over the past year, and today is certainly no exception. I have been following Stephanie Gaudreau’s career since early 2013 and have been cheering her on from afar ever since. I respect her as a business woman, a women’s health advocate and as a every day woman who isn’t shy about sharing her own personal struggles with food, exercise and body image to help and inspire others. Stephanie has a wildly popular website that I personally refer to and refer many of my clients to on a regular basis, called Stupid Easy Paleo. And while Stephanie provides amazing ideas for making healthy eating simple and sustainable via her recipes and cookbooks, what I admire about her extends far beyond her nutritional knowledge and artistry around food. I see Stephanie as a woman who is leading from the front the mission of helping women to mend their relationship with their body, mind and soul. Listen to this episode to discover why. Click here to learn more and grab Your Free Pass to the Women’s Strength Summit! If you have a woman in your life who could benefit from hearing this podcast, please share it with her. 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. Looking for more Grace & Grit? Visit GraceandGrit.com

Steph Gaudreau was a high school teacher for 12 years before she started her blog, Stupid Easy Paleo. It began as a way to share her recipes and soon took off as she taught people to modify their diets and implement strength training. Today, Steph goes by strength trainer, nutritionist and zombie slayer. She hosts the Harder to Kill Radio podcast and leads the Women's Strength Summit which runs this year from May 15-21. Steph shares what inspired her to create the Women's Strength Summit and what she wants for women around the world. We talk about finding your own way to health and happiness, body image, and how we show up in the world.

Steph combines a formal education in biology / human physiology (BS Biology—Human Physiology), 12 years of science teaching experience (MA—Education and National Board Certification), holistic nutrition training (Certified Holistic Nutrition Practitioner), and an unabashed love of tasty Paleo food (human with taste buds) on her blog, Stupid Easy Paleo. She wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner's Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Steph has a chart-topping podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans, and she's the creator of the wildly popular Women's Strength Summit. In addition, Steph's an international speaker on the subjects of nutrition and strength training, giving talks at PaleoFX, AHS, and AHS New Zealand. Steph's been recognized in the media by publications such as Outside Magazine, Triathlete and SELF, has appeared on ESPN Radio, and her blog was named by Greatist as one of its 15 Must-Read Health and Happiness blogs of 2016. Scroll down to see more media appearances. Steph's mission is to provide the most kickass, inspirational strategies for building a stronger body, mind, and spirit.

Steph Gaudreau was a high school teacher for 12 years before she started her blog, Stupid Easy Paleo. It began as a way to share her recipes and soon took off as she taught people to modify their diets and implement strength training. Today, Steph goes by strength trainer, nutritionist and zombie slayer. She hosts the Harder to Kill Radio podcast and leads the Women's Strength Summit which runs this year from May 15-21. Steph shares what inspired her to create the Women's Strength Summit and what she wants for women around the world. We talk about finding your own way to health and happiness, body image, and how we show up in the world.

If you’ve ever felt body shame, this episode is for you. Get new episodes auto-magically: Subscribe on iTunes. This past weekend, I wrote a blog post on body shame that’s absolutely been blowing up across social media relating to a comment that was left of my Instagram account. The point of read more... The post Body Shame: Harder to Kill Radio S2E10 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

When’s the last time you had an adventure? Get new episodes auto-magically: Subscribe on iTunes. In early 2014, I flew up to Northern California to speak at a camp for elite runners. When the wheels touched down in San Francisco, I got a voicemail from the event organizers. “One of our speakers read more... The post Adventure: Harder to Kill Radio S2E9 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

Sometimes you just need to pull the plug. Get new episodes auto-magically: Subscribe on iTunes. My co-host for this episode, strong dude Anders Varner, talks with me about leaving everything behind he’d known for the past ten years. He’d devoted his life to becoming super good at the sport of read more... The post Intensity Unplugged: Harder to Kill Radio S2E8 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

HEALTHY, HAPPY, & HARDER TO KILL. This week we are stoked to welcome Steph Gaudreau to the show. She is the creative culinary mind behind Stupid Easy Paleo, a blog turned brand dedicated to making paleo cooking accessible for the every man. Our conversation with her is like delicious a prime rib, meaty, satiating and…