226 💪 Ageless Strength: Jodi Harrison Bauer on Fitness, Mindset, and Weight Loss

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>> Jodi Harrison Bauer (00:00):
So if you feel like your exercise regimen, your
routine, whatever you're doing is boring the heck out of
you, change it up. Do something
different. Just keep the ball rolling because
you will be happy you did it. When you get to be 60,
70, 80 years old and your body will thank you,
your mind and body will thank you for it.

>> Wendy Valentine (00:19):
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Welcome back to another empowering episode of the
midlife makeover show. I'm Wendy Valentine, and
today we've got a guest who is the
epitome of, uh, strength, confidence, and
fearlessness. Meet Jodi Harrison

(02:32):
Bauer. With 35 years of experience as a
fitness coach, trainer, and mentor. Jodi
is all about helping women achieve their best
selves, hot, healthy, confident, and
fearless as they age. I don't know why I said it like that,
but she made waves. Listen to this. This
is so cool. As the oldest woman to audition
for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit

(02:55):
edition. You go, girl. Proving that
age is just a number when it comes to breaking
societal norms and pushing boundaries,
Jody is here to share her insights on healthy
eating, strength training, goal setting, and
cultivating a powerful mindset.
As the host of the podcast, fearlessly
authentic, and creator of the hot and healthy

(03:17):
accelerator, she is passionate about
educating, empowering, and inspiring others to live
their most authentic lives. At
63 years young, Jody, uh, is
just getting started, and she's here to show us all
that it's never too late to start something new. Um,
get ready for an uplifting conversation that will leave you feeling
motivated and ready to take on the world.

(03:39):
Booyah. Let's give a warm welcome to
Judy Harrison Bauer.

Thank you for that nice intro. I usually don't get to hear
intros. It's usually afterwards. I loved it. I
love your energy.

Yeah, that's someone, someone said the other day, they're like, you know, I should
just, like, take that recording and listen to it every morning, like
when I wake up and then.

Right. No, thank you. That was, that was
beautiful. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Well, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Wendy.

I mean, we took, like, at least 20 minutes to get started because we were,
like, chatting so much.

Yes, yes.

I knew. I knew we would come back.

I did, too.

Yeah, 60. Um, three.

Yeah, I know. When you said it, it's like,
wow, I do. I'm already
starting to write 64 because
I'm, like four months away from 64, and I'm
thinking, oh, my God, how is this happening so
fast? It's crazy. And I don't
feel old until I

(04:40):
say how old I am.

I know, right?

That's inspiring to people, you know, or. Yeah,
aspirational to some people.

I think it's like when my kids have birthdays is when I
feel I'm like, 32. I have a 32 year
old.

Like, I know my daughter turned 35
in June, and I'm like, oh, now that makes me feel
old.

So I'm sure you get this question a lot. What do
you think is the key for staying healthy and
young?

Um, well, healthy and young. I
think that it's a lot of things. Healthy is
having a healthy diethouse, including
regular exercise, including strength training, something I've
been doing since I was 20 years old. And
then just, like, mental wellbeing. And I
talk about this a lot. I know that sounds like

(05:29):
what everybody says. Um, but way
back when, when I was 20 years old,
back in
1980. Yeah, that would be
1980. M you know, I
was the only woman that I knew
that was lifting weights, that was going to
a gym. Uh, there were only gyms

(05:50):
for men, or they were, like, women
who didn't want to lift heavy weights. So it was really hard
to figure out where I belonged. But
I knew that there were few of me. And I think
that when I go back in time and I think of the tough
times that I've had, like, a divorce, for
example, that's a tough time for everybody.

(06:10):
That I realized then
that that's where I got my mental strength
from, was going to the gym, being
disciplined, being consistent about
what I was eating and what I was doing at the
gym gave me the mental
strength to carry on past a tough time.
And now, like, maybe in the past ten years, they've been

(06:33):
talking about how you can get mentally
Fitzhen. By going to the gym.

Yes. Yeah.

I could have told you that 40 years ago,
right? 43 years ago, I could have told you that was happening, but I
didn't really realize it until I started going through
some more struggles. That that was the thing that kept me
strong. So for staying healthy,
obviously the foundation of everybody's life should be
regular exercise healthy, eating healthy. Um, eating is.

(06:59):
Looks different for everybody because it depends on your
goals and your activity level
and feeling young. Those things
will help you feel young, and if you stay out of the sun. Something I
didn't do until I was in my mid fifties, so.

You and I are so similar.

Yeah. Like, I grew up in a time. I was born
in 1960. We didn't have sunscreen.
You know, it just. We didn't have sunscreen. I remember in
college, laying out on the roof of one of the
dorms with the baby oil and the
Peter Frampton comes alive album. It was a trifold
albumen with baby oil on my face, for
God's sake. You know, that certainly wasn't helping

(07:37):
me feel young.

I think there was an episode of Laverne and
Shirley where they're holding up, like, remember,
like, the foiled little trifle? Yeah. They would
hold those up just to get even more burnt. And I remember watching,
I was like, oh, that's a great idea.

I was, like, crazy.

Yeah, I was in the gym and in the sun. That was my thing.

Right. It was crazy. I remember in being in
Florida with my grandmother, and I would come in and she'd
say, what are you doing inside, Jody, go outside.
Get more sun. Like, there was no,
there was no real application of
sunscreen. It wasn't like, Jodi, do you have sunscreen? On. No.
And I ended up getting third degree burns on my face.

Oh, gosh.

I know, I know, I know.

But, you know, I think, and I'm sure you have this on your podcast,
too. You probably have a lot of health experts that come on, which is
great. I mean, it's amazing. There's so many.
There's so m so much out there that we can learn
from. Right. But it's. It's overwhelming, though, too.

It is, it is.

And I feel I love, like, when the blue zones came
out because it's like, yes, it
doesn't have to be that
difficult. Like, just the basics.
Yeah.

It doesn't have to be extreme. There is science
behind it, but it's not rocket science.
And I think you'll hear a lot of people say that. I've
been saying it for a long time when it comes to eating and
macronutrients, I would tell my clients,
this is not rocket science, but there is
a scientific thought behind

(09:07):
this. There is. This is scientific
based. No. You do need protein.
You do need your carbohydrates. You do need your
good fats. You do need to sleep. You do need to hydrate. You
do need to move your body again. Um, I've
been talking about this before. There was social media.
So what I hear, it's really. I feel
that your generation, the women,

(09:29):
Gen X, I think,
yeah, that generation is the
first generation to have a social
platform. Like, we have to
talk about menopause,
diet, exercise, eating
healthy. And that's why I think so much of it is
in our face also, because these, uh,

(09:51):
ladies are screaming from the rooftops. And I appreciate
it, but I, you know, I. I want to
prepare the younger women, like in their thirties,
to be prepared for menopause. And the women we
were talking before we got on the air, the post menopausal
women, um, specifically the women
over 60, that it's not too late. Like,

(10:11):
you don't have to give up. And I just went to my 45th
high school reunion, and, you
know, it was unfortunate to see what I saw.

I know, but, you know, that's the key. It's
like taking care of your body today is taking care
of your body tomorrow. Like taking care of your
90 year old self. Right. And that's
so important to be like, okay. And it's never too
late. It's never too late to, like, okay. If you
spent the last 30 years eating McDonald's,
okay, no problem. Like, the body is

(10:43):
amazing. And how it can repair itself, how it can
rejuvenate awesome. Like within 30
days, your whole body can be completely different. Maybe not
completely different, but your cells, your skin,
everything is turning over. Right?

Right. Everything is turning over and you'll feel
better mentally and physically, you'll sleep
better. Everything does change and it
can happen within 30 days if you stay
consistent. You know, consistency is really
important. We talk about discipline a lot.
I talk about discipline a lot. Um, but
discipline and consistency, they go together. If you,

(11:18):
ah, don't create that discipline and those healthy habits in
your life, then it's very hard to be
consistent. They go
hand in hand. They really do.

Um, have you changed how you work
out as you've gotten older?

I think so. I'm asked this question, question
often.
Um, you know, obviously it
changed a lot for the ten years I was competing in fitness
shows. So that was a very
regimented diet and
so many young girls. So when I was competing, I was
from 47 to 57, which was very

(11:56):
old, and everybody told me I was too old to
compete. What are you doing? Why are you going to get on
stage in a bikini? And at that time, that was
2006,
nobody my age was competing. I was, uh,
at 46, 47 years old,
considered old to the point that they
didn't even have a division for 45 and over.

So I was, that's nuts to me. I still
think that's so young.

It is, it is, yeah. And, but I was competing
against 35 year olds and I finally told the,
the organizer of all these fitness shows, hey,
listen, um, you know, you've got a bunch of women
over 45 backstage and you're putting us up against
the 35 year olds. Do you know the difference?
It was a man. Do you know the difference between a

(12:43):
35 and a 45 year old woman? It's
huge. I didn't get into the whole menopause thing.
Eventually he did switch it over to
45 and over. Um,
but going back to, I forgot what
you were asking me.

Oh, yes. Did you, do you find that, like,
have you changed how you work out as you've gotten
older?

Right. So during that time, I was lifting very, very
heavy with a very strict diet. And so I
would say that, yes, it's
changed from that point. So that was a big part of my
life, from 47 to 57. So after
I finished competing,
um, I went to
a more of a full body workout rather than breaking it

(13:27):
up in body parts for about five years.
And a lot of that had to do with that. I was teaching a
full body pump type, of course, at,
um, my studio and training women
who maybe only came to train with me two times a week.
So I was training them full body. So
then I decided, well, I don't have a lot of time because I'm in the studio

(13:47):
training clients all the time. Why don't I become more efficient?
So that changed from breaking down a body part
to full body workouts, which I really loved.
Yeah, it was nice. It was
more efficient. Um, less hit,
so less high intensity interval training. I was
like, fuck that. I don't want to feel
that. I don't want to. I don't want to do that anymore. Screw

(14:10):
that. So I went to, like, maybe
more like 20 to 30 minutes of cardio after my
workouts. Um, um,
like, three, four times a day. And now
at 63, um, um. For the last
couple of years, I have been going back to my
old school training of. Of m breaking it

(14:30):
down to body parts but not lifting as heavy.
So it has changed because you do have to listen to your
body. Luckily, nothing hurts. I I mean, I
had a slight tear in my rotator cuff, um, um, which is very
common for women over six. Uh, whether you've worked out
or not, it's just, you know, lack of
estrogen, so on.

Yeah. And I think that's key, just listening to your body. What
does your body want to do? And, like, I. It's good to push
yourself a bit, right. But you also
have to be like. Exactly.

You have to be smart. You have to be really, really smart.
And it's so important to listen to your body, and that's why
that mind body connection is m so
huge. And, you know, when I would train women in the studio and I
would a woman come in for the first two weeks, they would
just train without weights until I felt like they can take
them, um, depending on the client. But I would see if they
had that mind body connection.

Right.

Because some women don't. Some people don't. Not just
women. And. But once you do start working
out, that connection gets closer and closer. And
I love that. I love to see that.

Yeah, I've changed quite a bit. And what I do, like, I
love cycling, spinning, indoor spinning.

Yep.

Love that. Like, that does what? I have three
to four, uh, ruptured discs in my
spine, so I have to be really careful. And I
love running, but I can't.

You can't run? I can't
for you.

Yes, exactly. So I don't have the
impact. Um, as a matter of fact, last time I was here
in Portugal, my oldest son was
like, hey, mom, you want to, you know, do a marathon? You know, back in
LA, and I was like,
uh, like, three weeks later, starting in my
training, and I slipped a disc and ended up in the
ER. So I was like, damn it. But

(16:15):
listening to my body. So, yeah, the cycling
does very well for me. Yoga does very well for
me. Weights I do very good with, like,
but I've had, it's taken a while, kind of
learning what my body likes and what my body
doesn't like. I mean, you
don't have to. It just going back to the blue zones,
right. Just moving your body.

(16:37):
If that's all you do, then just
take a walk around the neighborhood. Like, you don't have
to do all the things to be healthy.

Right. You.

Depends on your goals. I think you said that earlier. Yeah. Right.

It always depends on your activity level and your goal.
So if you're somebody who wants to drop
20 pounds and lose
10% body fat, then
we're really going to have a different conversation. And the person
that just says, I feel like I need to move more.

Right.

And that's. That's the person who I'll say, get up and walk around your
house for ten days. For ten minutes. Not ten
days. Ten minutes. Ten days would be hard.

She is serious about.

Yes, I am serious. Uh, and so it
really depends on what they want and where they come to me
from. You know, somebody comes to me and they're
sedentary. Well, we got to get you to move. Someone's
active, and they just want to get tighter and tighter and leaner and fitter
and stronger, then that's a different workout.
So, like you, um, you know, I
listen to my body. I know that because

(17:40):
I have been depositing muscle in
my body since I was 20 years old. And I danced
for ten years and was a cheerleader. So all of
those years. But at 20, lifting weights,
I've been depositing muscle, and that muscle
is going to help me live longer. So for somebody
like me that has very

(18:00):
muscular legs, I don't need to
do a lot to maintain that muscle. How much am I going
to build at this age?

Right?

Not much, to be honest. Can I
still build? Sure.

Right?

Sure I can. But if
you've made the deposits, like, if you've made the deposits for
your retirement fund starting at 20, by
the time you're 63, you will have a lot of money
in your retirement fund. If you start lifting weights in your
20, by the time you're 63, you will have
gained a fuck ton of muscle mass

(18:34):
on your body. And the more muscle mass you have
on your body, the less body fat you have on
your body.

Yes. So.

And that's what's beautiful about having muscle.

Yeah. And I always say, like, it's easier to
prevent rather than repair. Right.
Being proactive rather than reactive. And even
just starting today, by doing more things for
your body in a positive way. And, like,
once you get to that point of whatever your goals are,
then you can sit back. Maybe not sit back, but
relax a little bit more. Maintain, maintain.

(19:07):
Right. So it's not like you're always having to go, go,
go with the exercise and the, you know,
I mean, there's been times in my life where I've had
inflammation or I've had things going on. I had,
like, lyme disease, mold toxicity, where I had to
be super strict on what I
ate. Right.

Um.

Um. And. But then, like, once I
got over that, and then I could maintain, and then
I don't have to worry about that anymore. So, definitely
temporary things that you have to do.

Exactly. And you know what the biggest
misconception amongst women is
that women who want to lose weight, or when I say lose
weight, they want to transform their body,
they. They want to become stronger, fitter.
Yeah. Um, you know, just healthier. And
they think the way is to do lots of
cardio. And that's such a big misconception. Then

(19:59):
they don't eat enough food. They might eat two eggs a day and
think, well, I got my protein in, and, uh, no,
all you're doing is losing muscle by
doing tons, extreme cardio and not eating. You're
starving yourself. And it's the biggest
revelation for women to understand is the
more you eat of all the good

(20:19):
stuff, the right stuff in the right portion size
for you at the right time, you
will see bigger gains in the long run,
because all you see when you're not
eating is you're not firing up your
metabolism. Every time you eat, you fire up your
metabolism. M. Every time you exercise, you're firing up your
metabolism. If you're fueling your body

(20:41):
to reach your goals, to match your
exercise goals and.
And look and feel the way you want, then it all
comes together beautifully. But doing extreme
cardio and not eating enough food is
just going to be disastrous. It's unhealthy.

So, do you, uh. Do you work with, uh, people
remotely, too?

I do.

Oh, nice.

Yeah. My. Right now, my website is down. It's under
construction. So if anybody wants to work with me, reach out to
me on Instagram. Dm meredith. Um, but I do offer one
on one coaching, and I will have another hot and healthy
accelerator program coming up, like, in
October.

Oh, nice.

Working on all that. But I do work with clients
to create their meal plans for them and
their workout programs for them based on their
goals and everybody's meal
plan nutrition, uh, guide is
different. And even though I can come
up with a template, I have a meal plan already.
It just differs for each person

(21:43):
because we're all different sizes.

If you're wanting to lose weight or gain more muscle
or get more lean.

And tone, all those things will help you with
energy levels. Yeah, more muscle you have, the more
energetic you will be.

It's, yeah, totally.
I was just going to say, like, I'll admit since I've been
here in Portugal, I've been wanting to do more
weights because I know my body needs that.

Yeah, do it.

But I've been so intimidated.
First of all, I have to calculate out
the kilograms and I'm like, oh, my God, I don't even
know.

I would not know either.

Yeah, I know. So I'm like, I don't even know. But, but
I have been wanting, like, a new
routine, a new, like, for weight training,
because what I used to do before is kind of, I don't think it's,
like, doing much. I feel like my body's
wanting to change it up. Right, right.

So your body gets accustomed to what you're doing.
It's like eating the same foods. Eventually you're not going to want to eat
them anymore. And, you know, we were kind of talking about
sex before we got on here. It's like sex. If you keep doing,
if your partner's going to keep doing the same things, you're like, uh,
uh, okay, I don't care anymore. Right. Like,
can we, can we bring in something fresh and new here? And

(22:59):
it's the same thing with your body. It's going to want
a variety of foods to eat, a variety of
cardio to do a variety of weightlifting. And
that's why I like breaking it out into different parts.
But one day I might just get to the gym and I'm like,
I feel like doing a full body workout and I'll just do it, you know, because
my body wants that. So again, going back to your point

(23:19):
of, you know, like, lean
into what your body wants, you know, if it wants ice cream every
single day, um, what's going
to happen is eventually you're going to start
feeling sick from eating that ice cream every single day.

Yeah.

Your body is incredibly smart and will let
you know that it's going to make you feel
sick eventually, and you won't want to eat it. The problem
is, is that like in life, we don't, we don't
ignore the red flags so that somebody who's going to get ice
cream every day and then eventually starts feeling
sick after they eat the ice cream, but they keep

(23:53):
going and eating it.

Yes. Oh, exactly. I know.

Yeah, eventually. So your body is smart, it gets a
accustomed to things. So, yes, you gotta change up that
workout.

Are there foods that can help you lose weight
quicker? Like to certain foods that burn
fat?

Yeah. Lean protein. Lean protein. If you're
not incorporating enough lean protein,
your body will never, ever
transform.

Yeah.

Lean protein is what moves the needle.
Without lean protein, nothing
changes. Nothing changes.

Nothing.

Nothing, uh, it does, it doesn't, uh, it doesn't.
You need. And the amount of lean protein you need,
again, depends on your activity level and your goals.
But also what is your ideal
body weight? So if you were to take your
ideal body weight.

Mhm.

That is how much protein you need. So if I have a
300 pound client,
obviously she doesn't want to weigh
300 pounds.

Mhm.

So I would take her to, okay,
200, 2180 depending on
everything else.

Right.

So I would try to get her to consume
180 grams of protein. It's
very hard to take somebody
who is not eating enough food because
99.9% of my clients that come to me are not
eating enough of the right food.

Yes.

And when I throw all this food at them, they're like, whoa, I
can't eat that. Yeah, you can, but we need to do it
slowly. So if you think about it, 180, I'm taking out my
little calculator. If you took 180
and you divide it by four,
that's 45 grams of protein per meal, which
is. Which is about
8oz. Six to 8oz of a lean

(25:43):
protein.

Mhm. Yeah, I was just thinking like, salmon.

Mhm. And salmon's a good fat. Wild
salmon, you're in Portugal, so you probably get
wild caught fish.
Wild caught fish is the best fish to have. If
you get farm raised salmon, that's like eating a
steak. Yeah. So you're not getting the good fat from
it.

Yeah. And plus, it's icky.

It's disgusting. Like what I think about those fish
swimming around in a little swimming pool, it's
eating other feces. It's just disgusting.
And that's what you're putting in your body, so.

Yeah, exactly. Beware, be careful
about what you buy. Yeah, yeah.

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I'm sure so many people just do not get enough protein
in their diethyde.

It's carbon. I see it with women,
too. And then they fear
carbohydrates. And I just for your audience, I want to explain
that carbohydrates are just not. It's not
just pasta, bread, rice,
beans. That's not it. It's also fruits and
vegetables, and we need fruits and vegetables, and we
need starches, but in the

(27:59):
right portion, based on your activity levels and your
goals. So for somebody like me, when I was
competing, my goals are different than what
I had now. Like, when I was competing,
I was taking in in the like,
eight week range about, I would
cycle with my carbohydrates,
but, uh, we would, sometimes they would be putting me on like

(28:22):
145 grams of
protein. And, you
know, I only weighed 105.

Wow.

Yeah.

But I know there's so many women, uh, especially
will think if you're eating more than they're going to gain weight.

No, that is completely false. If you're eating the right
foods and the right portions.

Mhm.

I'll say one more time, goals and activity levels.
Um, then you will get the results you want. It's
that pushback. And I see it with men, too. It's not just women. I see
it with men who are really hypersentic,
sensitive about what they eat, what they look like. And that's
great, um, because, you know, if you want to
look aesthetically pleasing, there's. I

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get it. You know, we all want to look great, but
we're working for our insides first. If we work from the inside,
you know, inside out, it all works. But I see it
with men, too. I remember sitting down with somebody, a big guy,
like six foot three, and I was, we were talking about
food and he was telling me how much he ate. And I'm like, you're not
eating enough food. He goes, yeah, I am. Um, like, m you're not,

(29:24):
but you go ahead, you do it. You go listen to your trainer.
Yeah. So, yeah. Uh, and
that is the biggest hurdle for women. That's the biggest question
I get is what do you eat? When, when everything happened with Sports
Illustrated, the biggest question I got was, what do you
eat?

Yes.

Like, I eat all of this.

And I'm sure they were. Yeah, they were probably so surprised you were eating that
much food. But it was good food.

It's good food. Yeah. And that, you know, overall,
that helps you build
muscle when you're in your prime. And when I
say prime, twenties, m thirties, forties before
you hit menopause.

Yes.

So those prime. So think of the prime baby
making time. The prime. Huh. Baby making time is twenties,
thirties, forties. Right. Because your hormones are balanced. When
your hormones are balanced, it's saying, give me
muscle, give me a baby, give
me all the good things that I can consume right
now because my body is ready to produce
babies and ready to create muscle.

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And, and that's what it is. So if you are in your
sixties or you are a post menopausal woman, it's
not too late. It's just going to be a little bit harder. But
don't give up because you will feel better. You will
feel better. Yeah.

Ah, I was going back to what you were saying earlier about, um,
how helpful it is to exercise and how it helps
you mentally. Right. And it's a, when we get
depressed or we're, you know, stressed and
frustrated, we have a tendency to not go
and work out or to go for that walk or to do
some yoga or whatever. Right. But it's actually

(30:54):
what you need the most to help you out of that
funky funk, so.

Well, Wendy. Yes, very. Yeah.
Really? You will never regret a
workout, but you will always regret not working out.

No, I know.

And it's that hit of dopamine that you
get after workout. It's the same hit of dopamine
when you laugh, when you smile, you know? Mhm. I
watched Love island. Do you watch that show at all?

No, I haven't seen that.

It's really good. And so with every
epic, with every season of Love island, they
do this heart, um, rate check. So the guys
and the girls come out and they, like, sexy,
and they try to get everybody's heart rate up.
But one kid just this last season came
out and he acted like a nerd,

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and he had the women laughing and
that he had the highest. He got them to their highest
heart rate. So that was that hit of dopamine. So it's not
just feeling sexy or alive or
hot, it's laughter. It's the smiling.
And you will feel better. Nobody ever leaves the
gym not feeling better or after a workout.

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If so many women dragged themselves, oh, I didn't feel like working
out together, and they're crying at the end thanking me.
So. Yeah, very good point. I appreciate you bringing that
up. Yeah.

I always feel good after spending class, especially, like, even though I'm,
like, drenched, I was like, yeah.

Uh, yeah, yeah. And you drag.

You plan your day around your
workout. Like, that should be like, you're now, okay, when am I gonna work
out? You know, tomorrow. What time am I gonna go? And then you
plan the rest of your day. Otherwise, you get to the end of the day
and you're like, shit, I didn't work out again.

Oh, yeah. And that's happened to me where I've said, okay, I'll book that
appointment. Okay, well, this is the only time I could get this
person on my podcast or whatever it is. And
then it's 536 o'clock, and there have
been times I drag my butt to the gym and I'm like, I'm doing
it, and I feel so much better. Um, but, yeah,
put it in your book and your phone as an appointment.

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What time do you work out? When's your favorite time?

It depends. Right now with writing the book.
It's been a. Look, when I start writing, I get, like, in
the zone, and I just don't even want to come out of my cave.
Um, so I'm usually. I'm usually,
like, twelve noon. So
here in Portugal, I'll get up, um, like, 05:00
a.m. i work, and then I'll go work out,

(33:15):
come back, shower.

Boop, boop, boop.

And then go on the rest of my day. But I
mean, I. And that's all changed, right? Like, I
mean, I used to be, like, I'd get up in the morning and
work out first, but. And sometimes if I'm
right here, then in. In the rv, I do
yoga inside the rv.

Like, I love that.

Yeah, I mean, that was actually the selling
point with that rv. I was like, okay, if I can do
yoga here, I'll take it.

Like, and I'm glad you brought up I'm glad you brought
up yoga, because besides strength
training, lifting weights, or any type
of exercise that you're doing, that
feels, let's just say it's worth masculine
energy. Right. Like being on a spin
bike, you know, it's that hard
energy, that aggressive energy.

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Um, and doing something peaceful like
yoga. Um, and
meditating and taking that time to get
centered and feeling that balance of.
That's very feminine energy.

Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. That is so. That's very
interesting. Um, and I think maybe that's
why I've kind of done that, like, over the last couple
of years while I have a little bit, you know? Cause, yeah. When you're in
spinning class, you're like, syringe.
It's very masculine energy, very
competitive in a way.

Right, right.

And then the yoga is very serene, very
feminine.

It is. And that was the thing that I loved
about competing also, was that it brought
together that masculine and feminine
energy. Because you'd be working out so hard at the
gym and eating
so specifically hard.

Yes.

Walk on. And you have your hair and your makeup and your
spray tan, and you're in these high heels and these beautiful
bedazzled bikinis, and you're in
your feminine energy. There's nothing
aggressive about this
beautifully fit woman that walks on stage.
And, you know, it's. I've often
thought about, why did I love it so much? And I

(35:20):
just. It goes back to that balance. I
felt that balance in my life. When everything
else was maybe falling apart. I felt I could
be. That's where I found my peace.

I was just thinking, too, that especially in midlife,
many of us have an empty nest.
And you really do have more time to
dedicate to yourself and to your health and to your body
and exercise. And there's so many cool new
things to do out there for ex. Like, um, pickleball.
Like, I just took a pickleball last year.

I love it.

It's so much fun and such a good
workout.

Well, right. And so, uh, you're moving your body and you're
socializing. So that's what happens a lot as we get
older. Is that a lot of women. Look, you
moved to a whole new country by yourself.

Yeah.

And some women will
self isolate as they get older.

I. Yep.

You know, empty nest. Maybe they're a single mom. Maybe
they're just all by themselves. Maybe they're in a new place
and then they start, or they don't feel good in their body,
they get unhealthy. Um, and they, they isolate.
Socialization is so important. It sounds so corny
because growing up, of course you have friends, right? Of
course we have friends. But then you get older

(36:32):
and you don't have those kids to like keep you connected to
those friends sometimes. And so
I love pickleball for that. Or tennis or
any type of.

Yeah, I was gonna say then you meet like minded people that
are doing the same thing. I even did pole dancing
classes, which was a blast.

I love that. I've never done it and I
wanted to do it cool.

Different classes you could do now,
dancing classes, zumba,
whatever, but it's everything. But it's so much
fun. Like, I mean, exercise can be fun,
right?

Exercise doesn't necessarily mean
lifting weights, but I do advise
doing resistance training. Resistance
training is the same thing as lifting weights,
right. If you're resisting your body,
your body weight, that's resistance training. If you're in a
pole dancing class, if you're, you know, pickleball, I

(37:27):
wouldn't say is resistance training, right? That's right. So that's
your cardio, that's your socialization. Your heart rate goes up
really fast, comes down fast, down fast, down. So it's almost like a
hIpaa workout, but maybe not as
severe. Um, but dancing,
dancing brings so much joy to so many people.
I did ballroom dancing. I competed in ballroom dancing for like
six months, of course it was, I

(37:49):
just wanted to win. Um, I'm very competitive like
you are, and uh, I just, I did it as
like, um, an uh, homage to my mom after she
passed away, because she had me
taking ballroom dancing at the age of
twelve because I was really shy and
I hated it. And uh, anyway,

(38:10):
I had, I was looking for another outlet also.
And so I did Latin dancing and it was
really scary. And I did win a couple of
times, so, but it takes a lot of time,
so you've got to be devoted to that. It's like competing
in fitness shows. Like you've got to choose a lane. And not that I
was going back to competing, but I just want to get back to just

(38:31):
doing whatever the hell I wanted to do and not just
spending 3 hours a day
practicing.

Mhm. So great just to change
it up too, because I think you mentioned about that
earlier, but like you can get bored. It's like doing the same thing, then
it's like, okay, then take a different class or whatever. Or
hire a trainer, hire you, like something just to
change it up. Like I've expressed earlier,
like, uh, right now I'm like, okay, I'm kind of getting a little bored

(38:58):
with what I'm doing. I need to change. Even if my body's okay with
it, I'm mentally bored with it.

Right, right. Well, sometimes I just want to take a
break. Yeah, you just want to take a break. I don't feel like
going to the gym for two weeks, but I feel like doing
pilates and bar. Okay,
but do something. Pilates has a big
resurgence lately, and, um, everybody's doing
pilates. It's like, okay, guys, it's been around for a
really long time. I know, and that's okay, but

(39:26):
I love it because it's really gentle on your
joints and you're doing resistance training. So
again, it's more of a feminine energy versus
hm. That masculine aggressive energy that maybe a lot
of women don't want to even experience. Maybe
it intimidates them. They don't want to go to a gym. You don't have
to go to a gym. You don't have to. In order for you
to live a long, healthy, happy life.

Mhm.

You don't have to ever join a gym. But
resistance training, using resistance bands,
using, um, a ball, a resist,
like a ball they use in bar. Pilates,
morin bar. Um, I can't think of what the ball is called,
but like a pilates ball, I think it is. It's a little bit
weighted and just using that as resistance.
Mhm. Right, right. Something

(40:11):
like that.

Yeah, demonstrating over.

Yeah, it's a little bit weighted. And I used it when I used to
teach bar at my studio. And, uh, you
know, any type of resistance. Rock
climbing. Yes, rock
climbing. I mean, it's, it's really
endless what you can do. But I always say, like I said to my
daughters, look,
eventually every job will become a job.

(40:36):
Right? But choose something you love to do,
because eventually, eventually something will become a job.
So if you feel like your exercise regimen,
your routine, whatever you're doing is boring the heck out
of you. Yeah, change it up. Do something
different. Just keep the ball rolling because
you will be happy you did it. When you get to be 60,

(40:56):
70, 80 years old, your body thank you.
Your mind and body will thank you for it.

My, uh, which I've talked about her before on
the show, my aunt Annie. She is
91 or 92, and
she has always, she has been active, like, her
whole life. Not like, and she hasn't been a
perfect eater, you know? But she's right. She's had
her protein, her carbs, her veggies. She has a little

(41:22):
glass of wine at night, you know, like. But
she. I mean, and she is the healthiest person
I know. 92 years old.

Look at people like that. Look at their, uh, habits. Look what she
does.

Look at her mindset.

Yeah. And look at how small her portions are. Right? If she's probably a
little person. So her. She's portioned.
She doesn't sit down to a huge meal.

Right.

She doesn't overeat. Right. It's.
It's the way to.

Yeah, I was going to say I've. I've tried the, uh, like, the
70%, you know, like, eating
slower. And then as soon as I feel like
from, you know, a one to ten, if I'm a
seven of, like, feeling full, I stop.
Because then it takes a while for your gut to
catch up with your brain or your brain to catch up with your gut. Right?

You're right the first time. Your gut.

Yeah. Um, and then you're like, oh,
my God, like, I'm really full, you know?

So.

But I try to, like, now that I'm
mindful of that, I'm more of a mindful eater to where
I'm like, okay, I'm getting full. I'm just gonna stop. Because then it's
like. It's always just, like, crappy feeling of when
you're bull.

It's like, ugh, God. Right? And I don't remember
how many, um, times you should chew. I think
it's something like 40 times to chew your
food up. Because eventually,
um. And I know all this only because I had a nutritionist
on my show last week, um, that when you see
the food, you start salivating and that. And

(42:50):
eventually what you want to do. So if you're mindful of
that, salivating like a dog does, but we're
not doing all that. It's to
liquefy the solid foods that we're
eating and to break it down and
swallow it. And so many of us are in such a hurry to
eat their food. I'm a fast eater,
um, but I'm very

(43:12):
mindful, like you're saying, I don't want to be
on the phone. I don't really want to talk to somebody while I'm
eating. Um, and just very
steady on what it is, how the food
tastes to me now, you know, when you're out with friends, it's,
excuse me, I'm just chewing my food here.
Can you be alone? No, that's not going to happen.

(43:33):
So, uh, you know, they're like, jody.

Enough with your 40 times per
bite.

My husband chews that, that many times. He's
really good at that. It's like, okay, you know what?
You're just getting an appetizer.

Oh, my God. I just want to hurry up and eat. One of the things I
love doing is veggie juicing.
Yeah. And plus, like, it gives my body, like, if I'm
feeling sluggish, I'll do just veggie juicing
with a little bit of fruit, like green apple, like low sugar
fruit. Um, because it gives my body a
break from digesting. And it's just like, uh,

(44:08):
and I actually have more energy when I do the veggie juicing.
So sometimes I'll do, like, breakfast,
lunch, and snacks as just veggie juicing. And
then, you know, my dinner with good
protein and things like that. If I'm feeling a little, like,
rundown or like, after I've been traveling or something like
that, then, like, that actually helps. But I think that's just
learning your body though, too. Like, what works and what doesn't

(44:31):
work.

Right. And your body is probably craving
greens.

Yes.

Because it's run down. Um, and you need
to build back your immune system. Right.

Yes.

The older we get, it's harder to fight
off diseases, um, because our immune
system isn't as strong. So that's another reason why it's
so important to get all the
foods that we need from the macronutrients, the
protein, the fruits, the vegetables, the leafy
greens, and the good fats, which so many women

(45:02):
and men don't get enough of it. Just
two serving sizes a day. But going back to your,
your green smoothie, do you put any protein in that?

Sometimes. Sometimes I'll put like, protein powder
in there.

Mhm. Yeah, yeah. Again, you know, if it's
just temporary, I say fine,
but if you were doing it every day, I would just check yourself to make sure you're getting
more protein. That's all.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

You know, it is almost a holistic approach of
just always listening to your body, but also understanding
the science behind why do we need to do
resistance training? Why do we need to get this food in our body? And
just like, talking about your aunt, like, she had
all the food groups on her
plate.

Yes.

In portion size. That was right for her. And that's
how she maintained her weight, her mind,
her energy, you know,
and she probably, and she flew through.

She flew through menopause, like, and
perimenopause like, so the better you take care of
your body, they're not going to.

Be as difficult to go through 100%.
And again, that's with, you know, I think you and I
are on the same page. It's about being proactive,
preventative, uh, whereas the old
school of thinking about medicine was, well, I'll wait until I
feel sick, then go see a doctor who's going to prescribe
medicine for me. That's going to have side effects in other

(46:24):
parts of my life, in my body. So the more
proactive we can be by being educated
and empowered with that education and then
living that life out and sharing it with other
people, spreading all the good news, like I hope we're doing
here, then, you know, more women will maybe say
to their daughters who are in their twenties or thirties, hey honey, you know

(46:44):
what, don't be like me or be like me
and start lifting. You know, both of my daughters have been
working out forever and I understand what a healthy
diet is and they also understand why they just
aren't doing it right now. You know, they might be away and then
they come back and they, they get back on the saddle and that's what I
want to see for people to do is to just understand

(47:06):
m what it is that they need in order to
put those deposits into longevity.
Right. And when, you know, maybe
you didn't make a deposit into your
retirement fund that month. So now you gotta
put in double work and
just go easy and be easy on yourself.
Know that you have a plan and that's where a trainer or coach

(47:28):
comes in who can educate you and help guide
you and hold you accountable.

Um, I need you as my coach, help me with
kilograms over here.

I am, I am tough, I am tough. I don't like
excuses but I'm very nurturing. So I think we would get
along great.

Um, just come here, just come here to
Portugal.

I will, I will, I'll come there. Let's do
it. Oh my God, I could never do the kilograms
thing. I had somebody on my show recently, oh, I think it was
the nutritionist, um, and she
was saying something about kilograms. I'm like, can you just, can you
convert it to pounds for me please? Like she's like, oh, I'm
sorry. Like I can figure it out but like can you just figure
it out here please?

I mean the good thing about spinning glass, I mean it's all
taught in Portuguese, literally.

Yeah. So I guess it doesn't make sense.

But I just watch them. Yeah, I just like watch that they are turning up
the dial on the resistance, you know, or turning it down
or something like, okay, I'll just watch you right.
Boys in the front row.

How's the music?

What's that?

Uh, how's the music?

It's actually, it's american music. It's all like
the top stuff, but they just do the whole
thing in Portuguese.

I would love that.

So funny. It's just like, mersh, mush, mush,
mersh. That's all I can understand. They're like, mersh, marsh, marsh. I'm like,
okay, I'll just keep spinning.

Like a pediatric over here. Oh, my God.
I used to spin all the time. I actually
started and, uh, I was in a relationship for like ten
years, and he was a spin instructor, and m that
was like his part time job. And he's like,
you gotta, you gotta spin. Like, I hate
cardio. For everybody listening, I hate cardio. I
will just tell you, I hate cardio. Um, um, yeah, so I

(49:09):
started coming to a spin classes, and it was
very empowering, but I really, literally hated
every minute of it
because I'll push myself really hard and then I want to feel like I vomit
because, you know, you're hitting your target heart rate and you're
just, oh, my God.

And then you're sweating for like hours. That, what's funny
is that when I, when I did spinning in back in
Virginia.

Mhm.

And I was in Toastmasters, where
I was always like doing speeches and stuff all the time,
but I would do spinning class in the morning. I'd
go home, shower, and then I'd go straight to
Toastmasters and give a speech, no joke,
even 2 hours later, and I'd tell them, I'm like,
y'all, I'm sweating, uh, because I was in
spinning class, not because I'm nervous about this speech.

Right, right. Well, that's a great sign that you.

Really put just like dripping.
She's so nervous.

So I'm like, no, no, no. And that I,
that is like, uh, the key to
other things. The other benefits about working out
is that you are burning those calories and
burning, burning, burning fat for the next
24 to 36 hours. So,
ladies and gents, you need to feed your body.

(50:22):
Your body is going like, I'm hungry.
Feed me, feed me.

Yeah, exactly.

You need to be fed. So you have like an hour.
And that's why that's so great that you keep sweating and sweating and sweating. I used to
do that all the time. It's like, oh, my God, could I stop? I can't even
imagine. Um, but that's
when your great window of opportunity to
eat and have the
smoothie. Have the smoothie with
lots of berries in it. That's when your body

(50:51):
with a scoop of peanut butter in it. Your body's
saying, I need this right now.
Feed me. Yes,
yes, yes. And you've got a good hour to
feed yourself. So when you come home and you're
sweaty, that's the time to eat. Interesting.

See, I've already learned something.

Yes, yes. And what I like about having a
shake after a workout is that it gets into your body right away.
Away. It's doing it work right away. Versus, I mean,
it's fine if you want to eat an omelet or eat whatever sandwich or something
like that. Um, um, but don't be shy about
eating, like, food.

Yeah.

Having your shake, it's important. Like, that's when your body
needs to be fed.

I'm hungry.

Yeah, I know.

It's dinner time in Portugal right now.

I know. What time is it? Yeah, it's like 06:00 right? Uh,
yeah, yeah. Oh, my God.

Thank you so much. This has been great.

Love you. I'm so glad we met, and this has been a lot of fun.
And I hope that I brought some value to your
podcast today and that, uh, you know, everybody listening could
walk away learning something that's important.

What's the best, um, place to find you?
Instagram.

I would say Instagram at Jodi Harrison Bauer. Like I said, my
website's under. Under, um,
construction right now.

Okay.

Yeah, and I answered the DM's myself. Um, I
don't really have time.

You've got, like, a kajillion followers.

You know what? I just. I just do it. I mean, not. Yeah,
I'll do it like every 48 hours, but I will
respond to it.

Good for you.

Yeah. Um, and, yeah, I'm really
not on TikTok anymore because a few people
have impersonated me on there and.
Yeah, and I can't get TikTok to get rid of them. So
it's just, I'm not so mean. I'm like,
no, it's not. I've reached out to the people who have
impersonated me and say, can you please take this profile

(52:40):
down?

Wow.

Yeah, so I just. Sticking with Instagram right
now. Yeah, yeah. Jodi Harrison Bauer. That's the best place
to reach out to me for any of your needs.

And then you've got your, um, you've got a course coming up
here soon. In October.

October. Hot and healthy accelerator. Um,
one on one coaching is always offered. And then,
um, coming soon, maybe retreats.
Maybe we'll meet Portugal.

I know.

People want to be connected. Like minded
women want to be connected.

Yep. I've actually already. I found a
place in Portugal where I want to teach retreats. You'll
have to look it up. It's called cocoon Portugal.
Amazing.

Wow.

It's gorgeous. Yeah. Um, but they have, like,
little cabins, and they do little
excursions, horseback riding on the beach, all sorts of cool
stuff. And they cook all the food there, like farm
to table.

I love that. No, that's so.

Yeah, that's in the works. We're good. Yeah. We'll have to do a
retreat together. That would be fun.

It would be really fun. Too much fun.
I know. I know. Oh, my God.
Thank you so much.

Yeah. Thank you, Jodi. Everyone, have a great day.
Did this podcast inspire you? Challenge
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