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#88 - How to Let Go of Perfectionism to Glow Again
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What if a refined, focused, and lower stress approach is the key to finally feeling, looking, and performing your best with lifelong sustainable success?
In this heartfelt solo episode, Louise, one of the world’s leading health, fitness, and performance experts, invites high-achieving active women to pause, reflect, and embrace a new kind of summer challenge, one rooted in calm, confidence, and letting go of perfectionism. If you’re someone who constantly pushes for more: more results, more control, more effort, but still feels something’s missing, this episode is for you!
Louise shares personal insights, lessons from coaching hundreds of women through hormone challenges and perimenopause changes, and how simplifying her own approach led to unexpected breakthroughs. From her simple science-backed methods to summer vacation vibes, this conversation is a powerful reminder: You don’t need to do more to be enough. Sometimes, less really is more.
Link to check out our free nutrition guide and join other fierce active ladies taking charge of their holistic health and fitness in our award-winning Badass Breakthrough Academy to thrive through perimenopause with less stress: https://www.breakingthroughwellness.com/
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Episode Highlights:
(0:00) Intro
(4:22) Type A women and the pressure to “do it all”
(6:08) Health gains but still not feeling satisfied
(7:55) Craving progress at the cost of peace
(9:13) The science behind simple nutrition swaps
(12:47) Mental overload and the myth of more
(14:00) When “everything is working”, stop overcomplicating
(16:50) How to create a summer vacation vibe daily
(20:04) A wellness retreat weekend at home
(22:03) Rewriting goals with community and joy
(24:55) New retreats focused on connection, not performance
(27:21) Simplicity over complexity in healing programs
(29:30) Rethinking happiness and slowing down
(31:21) A book recommendation: Maybe It's You: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life. by Lauren Handel Zander
(36:31) The invisible pressure to constantly optimize
(39:07) Owning your glow and dialing back the grind
(44:22) Daily joy: the new wellness must-have
(46:24) Outro
Tune in weekly to "Maximizing Fitness, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause" for a simple female-specific science-based revolution. Let's unlock our best with less stress!
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