Talking with Emma: Stop fighting food & weight

Why do so many smart, capable women feel like failures when it comes to money? In this episode, I talk with therapist and Hi Money co-author Rachel Davies about the hidden beliefs, shame, and socialisation that shape how women relate to money — and how the patterns are almost identical to diet culture.

Rachel Davies is a therapist, and co-author of *Money Money Money* with Angela Meyer. After realising at 49 that she had n...

Weight loss drugs are everywhere right now — in ads, in conversations, even being trialled on children as young as six. So what does that mean for how we talk to our kids about food, bodies, and weight?

In this episode I'm joined by Oona Hanson, parent coach and educator based in Los Angeles, who helps families raise kids with a healthy relationship to food, exercise, and their bodies — including families navigating ...

If you keep going around and around on a decision — and no amount of Googling or talking it through is helping — this episode will help.

Confusion feels like an information problem. It isn't. It's a protective strategy your brain uses to keep you from feeling something uncomfortable. And once you understand that, you can actually get out of it.

In this episode, Emma walks you through a four-question tool to get yourself o...

You know what you're supposed to do. Protein. Sleep. Movement. Stress. Fun. Relationships. And yet — underneath all of that knowledge — there is a persistent, grinding feeling that you are behind. That you haven't arrived yet. That you'll get there when the routine is sorted, when you lose a few kilos, when you finally feel on top of it.

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In this episode, I unpack ...

If you've yo-yo'd down and up more than once, this episode is for you.

Emma Wright shares what she learned after 65 (or more) weight loss cycles and what you can do to address it.

She introduces her free upcoming workshop — THE YO-YO SOLUTION THAT ISN'T WELLNESS HOGWASH — where she walks you through the steps to solve yo-yo cycle in way that's specific to your own dieting history.

This episode covers:

— Why weight...

The marketing around Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound is relentless — and is only telling you one very small part of the story.

Louise Adams is a clinical psychologist, author, podcaster and founder of Untrapped. She has spent more than 20 years in the non-diet and Health at Every Size field. She recently co-authored a peer-reviewed paper — GLP-1 Medication for Weight Loss: A Triumph of Marketing Over Patient Care...

In this rerelease I dive into one of the most pervasive and exhausting beliefs I see in my coaching practice: the idea that your body is a problem that needs to be fixed. 

Even for those of us who reject diet culture or adopt intuitive eating, this belief often runs deep and unconsciously influences how we perceive ourselves. 

I explore the systems of belief that reinforce the "fix-it" mentality—from diet culture and ...

Why do women stay in bad relationships — even when they know, in their heart of hearts, that the situation doesn't suit them? This week I'm joined by Sallyanne Hartnell, a divorce coach who helps women navigate every stage of relationship breakdown — from the first quiet question to coming home to themselves on the other side.

We talk about good girl conditioning: the deeply ingrained belief that belonging depends on...

Have you ever set a goal, genuinely wanted it, done all the right things and still found yourself not following through? You're not lazy. You're not lacking willpower. And you are not the problem.

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In this episode of Talking with Emma, cognitive behavioural coach and Intuitive Eating coach Emma Wright shares the real reason most women struggle to stick to health and wellness goals, and why the usual a...

What happens when life-saving medication changes your weight, but the medical system keeps focusing on it?

Katie Rickson lives with bipolar. She has been hospitalised. She has been through the years of misdiagnosis - depression, anxiety, ADHD - before finally getting an answer that made sense of her life. 

And having been to the doctor, seriously unwell, a psychiatrist noted in a report that she was a "slim young woman."

So we ta...

What does it look like to leave diet culture behind — to truly walk away from it?

Lotta Dann did it with alcohol. Then, a few years into sobriety, she found herself deep in a diet hole — losing weight, receiving praise, feeling like she was "floating on a cloud of thin." Inevitably, it all fell apart.

In this conversation, Lotta and I talk about what happened next: how she found anti-diet content, what helped her see the ...

You have done everything right. You have been eating well, making good choices, feeling in control. And then something happens — a birthday dinner, a celebration, a moment of genuine pleasure around food — and suddenly the noise is back. Loud, familiar, exhausting.

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In this episode, I talk about the emotion that almost nobody names in the wellness space —...

If you have ever had the experience of eating well all day and then finding yourself in the kitchen cupboards, wondering what just happened — this episode is for you.

Most of us have been taught that food noise, cravings, and loss of control around food are willpower problems. They are not. They are hunger problems. And specifically, they are a type of hunger that almost nobody in the wellness space talks about.

In this episode...

If the first thing you think about when you wake up is food and you'd like that to end, I'm hosting a free workshop to help — End Food Noise Without Weight Loss Jabs.

You'll learn:

• where your unique food noise came from, 
• a tool to start reducing it straight away, 
• a clear picture of what will make it stop without compromising your health.

Workshop details: Date: April 10, lunchtime. Free to attend. Register her...

When Jennifer Heuett was body-shamed in a LinkedIn comment, she didn't scroll past. She tracked down the commenter's employer, contacted the CEO directly — and days later, that employee lost his job. In this episode, Jennifer shares that story and the practical tools that helped her find the courage to act.

You'll learn:

• Why staying silent is actually the riskier choice
• How to give yourself a "permission slip" to speak up
• The...

This week I'm re-releasing one of my most popular episodes. Given the state of the world at the moment, the tools you'll learn in this episode have never been more useful or needed.

In the episode, I walk you through a simple, three-step process for bringing self-compassion into any big emotion. 

You’ll learn:

• Why emotions like anxiety are not a personal flaw, but your body’s way of keeping you safe
• The fas...

Have you ever cancelled plans because getting dressed felt too hard?

Did standing in front of the mirror, trying things on, and seeing your body from every angle suddenly make the whole evening feel overwhelming?

In this episode of the Talking with Emma Podcast, Emma Wright explores the hidden emotional pattern behind why so many women struggle with body image, confidence, and getting dressed for social situations.

Many women believe ...

In this episode, Emma shares a powerful insight from a recent talk where not a single woman in a room of 90 had never tried to lose weight.

That moment reveals something bigger than personal struggle.

It reveals a culture.

If nearly every woman has tried to shrink herself — and most still feel dissatisfied — the problem is not individual failure. It’s the system we’ve been trained to participate in.

Emma unpacks...

In this powerful episode, I talk with Jane Guy, about how women are socialized to think about money and success. 

Jane brings a unique perspective on what keeps women stuck around money - their internal stories, cultural narratives and black and white thinking.

We looked at how similar our money stories are to our body image stories and how both keep us playing small in smiliar ways. 

Jane helps women rewrite their relations...