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October 20, 2025 18 mins

What if the difference between stuck and steady is simply refusing to stop? We dig into the messy middle of consistency—the days you don’t feel inspired, the moments your work feels small, and the temptation to quit before anything compounds. A tender listener message arrives right as doubt creeps in, and it hits like a sign: stories matter when they help someone feel less alone. 

That reminder sets the tone for a candid look at motivation, discipline, and the quiet power of micro actions that stack into visible change.

We talk through the nuance: when showing up is the bravest choice—and when it becomes a performance that costs more than it gives. 

If your feelings shift like weather, let them inform you, not drive the car. 

Consistency isn’t glamorous, but it’s honest—and it’s how you earn a life you don’t want to escape. Listen for practical strategies, relatable stories, and a straight-talking push to keep showing up, especially when no one’s watching. 

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SPEAKER_00 (00:07):
Welcome to the Unbreakable Mind and Body
Podcast.
I am your host, Tiana Gonzalez,a multi-passionate creative,
storyteller, and entrepreneurwith a fierce love for movement.
This is our space for powerfulstories and actionable
strategies to help you buildmental resilience and elevate

(00:28):
your self-care practice.
Together, we will unlock thetools that you need to create an
unbreakable mind and body.
Welcome back to the show.

SPEAKER_01 (00:39):
I'm your host, Tiana, and on this episode, I'm
gonna keep reminding you to keepshowing up.
Listen, sometimes we're not inthe mood to do things.
Sometimes we're not inspired,we're not motivated, we don't
feel good about it.
And I'm here to remind you thateven on those days, you owe it

(01:02):
to yourself to keep showing up.
Now, much like a lot of mycreative pursuits, sometimes I
am at a loss for what to talkabout on this show.
Sometimes I just feel like, isthis gonna land?
Is this message too woo-woo inouter space?

(01:23):
Am I too much in my heart rightnow?
Is the message clear?
Are these topics relevant?
Am I going down memory lane toshare valuable stories or am I
living in my past traumas?
And I really do sit with myselfand I explore these questions.
And the truth of the matter is Ihave a list of emergency topics

(01:49):
that I can fall back on.
If I feel like I'm at a loss forsomething to talk about when I
hit record.
If you've listened to this show,you know a lot of what I talk
about and what we sit with hereis just about working through
some of the stuff we've beenthrough and reframing it to make

(02:12):
it helpful, to make it useful,to assign it some value so that
we can become better versions ofourselves.
My mission when I started thisshow earlier this year was to
get a lot of these things thatI've been carrying around out

(02:33):
somewhere.
And I was hesitant to write abook because one, it takes a
long time.
Two, when someone is readingyour words, they cannot
necessarily feel the vibrationor understand the energy that

(02:54):
you're speaking in or thatyou're sitting in when you're
expressing yourself.
But when you're listening, it'sa different ballgame.
And I thought, you know, I havea lot of cool experiences.
I have some not so coolexperiences too, and things that
have truly taught me and shapedme and helped me cultivate the

(03:14):
life that I have now.
And I am blessed in the sensethat I live a life that makes me
so happy.
I don't feel like I need to runaway from it.
I don't feel like I need to geton a plane and cross an ocean
and be away from work for threeweeks.

(03:35):
I I really love what I do.
I love the people I work with.
I love the people I serve.
I I love the friends and theloved ones that I have close to
me around me in my life.
And so for that, I don't feellike I have to escape, but I'm
lucky.
And I attribute that sensation,that feeling, that energy, that

(03:59):
vibration to the simple factthat I've really sat with a lot
of my shit and reframed it andlooked at it in a different way,
and looked at it in a way thatit could be helpful to me.
I've given a lot of these reallyhard lessons value, uh extreme
amounts of value because all ofthose things shaped me into the

(04:23):
person that stands before youtoday or that is speaking to you
today.
And I love her.
And I'd like to challenge you toask yourself, you know, do you
love yourself?
Do you love the life you live?
Do you love the people that youhave surrounding you, the
circumstances, the situations,the places and things?

(04:45):
I mean, listen, there's a lotgoing on out in the far world
that is scary.
And if you let headlines consumeyou, it will eat you alive.
But how can you make yourimmediate life experience a
little more golden, bring alittle more sunshine, and have a
better day?

(05:05):
And that's ultimately what I'dlove to accomplish here on this
show with you.
So on those days when I feellike, ugh, I've got nothing to
talk about, I don't know what tosay, I find something.
And ironically, earlier today, Iwas telling someone very special
to me.

(05:26):
We were sitting at the tabletalking, and I said, you know, I
don't know what I want to dowith this show.
It's feeling a little stale tome.
And don't you know, about anhour later, I was walking in my
own apartment door and I lookedat my phone.
I see a text message fromsomeone, and I read it to

(05:48):
myself, and it was very sweet,very tender fan mail.
I'm going to read a segment ofthis message.
Of course, I'm not sharing thewhole thing or the identity of
the person because that wouldn'tbe cool.
But here we go.
Hey T, I've been struggling abit lately.

(06:09):
With winter settling in, I'mfeeling it even more.
I'm not sure how to put thisinto words, but your podcast has
been hitting me in ways thatactually make me feel good about
how I've been feeling over thelast 10 years.
August marked my 10-yearanniversary of being divorced.
It's wild to think how fast thattime has gone and how much has

(06:32):
changed since.
I feel inspired and creative,yet somehow depleted in my faith
in humanity at the same time.
I know the season for me isabout shedding what no longer
serves, and I'm craving realconnection.
Thoughtful humans.
It's scary but exciting too.

(06:54):
I'm going to skip a little bitmore uh from this message and
then jump down where she saysthat she was sitting in a cafe
listening to the episode WhoDeserves Your Unfiltered Joy?
And it landed.
It landed hard.
I have to say, that messagereally struck me because she

(07:21):
sent it close to around the sametime where I was literally
saying out loud, I'm not reallysure what I want to do with the
podcast.
Maybe I want to take a littlebreak, maybe I want to wrap up
this part of the season and callit the end of season one.
I don't know.
And then I get this message, andit's just confirmation, it's

(07:41):
like a kiss from the universethat I have to keep going.
Because the show is making animpact because my stories do
mean something.
And when I set out on thismission, I didn't have a number
of people in mind.
I didn't have a monetary amountthat I wanted to make from the

(08:04):
show.
In fact, I don't make anythingdoing this show.
This is a passion project.
Maybe it'll make money one day,but right now it's a very small,
cute little thing, and I like itthat way.
But the message that I receivedtoday really got me thinking
about how important it is tokeep showing up, even when you

(08:27):
don't want to, even when you'retired, even when you're not
motivated, even when you don'thave the discipline.
Because it's what you do in thedark, it's what you do when no
one's watching you, it's whatyou do when no one's paying
attention.
Day after day after day, youmake these massive shifts

(08:50):
through the culmination of microchanges.
Similar to putting on muscle orbuilding strength or competing
in a bodybuilding show andgetting stage ready.
It's a very long, slow process.
And if you blink, it's like fromstart to end when you blink,

(09:16):
it's a huge change.
But the day to day it feels verymundane, routine, monotonous,
repetitive, and it's fuckingboring, especially bodybuilding
shows.
Bodybuilding shows are excitingfor some people, but for many of
us, it's like, oh, here we goagain.

(09:38):
And I'm sure for many people intheir own specific craft, they
have something similar whereit's not necessarily difficult
in the execution of what needsto get done, but it's the uh
pressure cooker or the strictdiet or the limited energy

(10:00):
stores that really make itchallenging.
And it is a slow, steadyprocess.
But consistency with anything isreally the key because that's
how you catalyze change.
Now, sometimes when you keepshowing up, it's a little extra.

(10:24):
And there's times when it's it'snot of value when it's actually
detrimental.
For example, during the lockdownin 2020, I was doing a live
complimentary workout on one ofthe social media platforms, and
I lost my sister-in-law inSeptember of 2020.

(10:47):
And I remember the day of herservice, it was the same day of
the week that I was hosting thelive.
And her service was during theday.
The family, you know, did alittle something after.
It was a really hard day for mybrother.
And I had my live that same dayat 6 p.m.

(11:07):
And I remember I still showed upand the workout was, I forgot
part of it.
The workout was a little bitmishmash.
I just wasn't on my A game.
And I still did it.
And I think I had maybe 15people show up and they did the
workout, and they said, youknow, thank you so much.

(11:28):
And it was only at the end whereI said, you know what, today was
a really hard day, and this is avulnerable share, but there was
a death in my family, and theservices were today, and I
probably should have taken todayoff.
So if I felt like I was off, Iapologize.
This is the reason why.
And it was afterwards that Irealized, you know, I didn't

(11:49):
have to do that.
And maybe if I had given myselfa little bit of space, it might
have been better the next week.
But you live and learn if you'relucky.
Another time where I probablydidn't need to show up, even
though I thought I did, wasafter having surgery in 2015,

(12:14):
the anesthesia really zapped mymemory for several weeks.
And I was studying for anadditional certification for my
job.
And I remember reading the samepage probably, I don't know,
five, ten times, getting to thebottom of the page and saying,

(12:34):
What did I just read?
Because I don't remember shit.
And it was only after a day orso when the doctor called to
check up on me and I asked him,Did anything we do, we did
affect my memory?
And he said, Well, theanesthesia.
And I said, Oh, good to know.

(12:54):
So maybe I didn't have to showup and continuously try to read
the same textbook page andstudy, study, study because I
wasn't retaining anything.
But again, I learned my lesson.
So I want to ask you what arethe things that you're doing in
your life that maybe are yourroutine, they don't excite you,

(13:18):
they don't fill your cup, butyou know that if you stick with
it, the end game, that's theimportant part, and that's what
you're focused on.
Like building muscle or gettingstronger.
One of the things that used todrive me nuts when I first

(13:41):
became a coach and I was workingwith athletes that compete in
bodybuilding shows, is howcommon it would be for people to
jump from coach to coach tocoach.
And I grew up in a differenttime.
I grew up in a time where youhad somebody in your corner and
you stuck with them for a fairamount of time.

(14:03):
In the bodybuilding world, ifyou work with someone and you
don't love the outcome, let'ssay you compete and you don't
love your results, so you firethat person, you get a new
coach.
The new coach is starting fromscratch and is getting the
benefit of what you've done withthe previous person, but they're
still trying to figure you out.
And so when you jump from thatperson to another person, it's

(14:26):
like you keep re-instarting fromthe beginning.
And it's hard to tell if thesecond coach is the one that
really got you that betterplacing or that better physique,
or was it the third coach?
Because everything is compoundedupon it upon each other.

(14:47):
I don't know if I'm saying thatright.
So even if you have a differentcoach right now, if you worked
with someone in the past, or ifyou worked with several people
in the past, the work you didwith those people is not lost.
It's still a value.
It gave you your foundation.
And I struggled heavy duty withthe notion of people switching

(15:09):
coaches all the time.
I really didn't understand that.
And I had a hard time graspingit because that's not the world
I came from.
You hired a coach and you stuckwith them long term.
You gave them the opportunity toshowcase you and get you to that
peak condition for your show.
And they took some credit in thewin if you got a win or in your

(15:33):
high placing.
And yet we live in a time nowwhere people will say, Well,
like, well, how'd you do it?
How'd you stick with it for solong?
Because you just did, as opposedto constantly changing your mind
or picking a new goal or jumpingfrom I want to do a powerlifting
meet, and then I also want torun a marathon and I want to do

(15:56):
them at the same time.
Whoa, we're gonna have a majorconflict here.
Because those are two verydifferent goals, two very
different ways to train forthose events and Godspeed.
But that's just an example.
So if you feel like, man, I keephaving to start over with

(16:18):
something, well, stop stopping.
That's another thing that'ssuper common in the gym is I'll
I'll meet people who have saidthey've done so many diets in
the past or they've lost theweight before, or they've had
this dream physique more thanone time in the past, but they
keep losing it.
So, what do we need to figureout as far as what's what's not

(16:42):
keeping you involved in theprogram?
What's preventing you fromshowing up?
And then let's dive into thatbecause that's what really needs
to be changed.
That's what needs modification,that's what needs to be examined
further as to why you are eitherchoosing not to or you're
incapable of sticking to thefucking plan.

(17:07):
I don't know if this episode isall over the place, but it makes
sense to me.
Keep showing up, keep doing thefucking thing.
And it doesn't have to be likerevamping your whole lifestyle,
it does not have to be moving tothe other side of the world, it
does not even have to bechanging your job, starting a

(17:28):
business, or entering abodybuilding show, none of those
things.
It could be something smaller orsomething of less pressure.
But if it's important to you,then you got to keep doing the
work, you got to keep showing upno matter how you feel about it
in the moment.
Because your feelings are notreal.

(17:49):
They come and they go.
They kind of come in with thebreeze and go out with the
breeze.
So you can trust your feelings,but you shouldn't necessarily
live by them all the timebecause it could be misleading.
I appreciate your time andattention.
Thank you so much for tuninginto the show.

(18:09):
Thanks for being here.
If you'd like to send me somefan mail, there's a way to do
that.
You can check the show notes andit'll say send me a text.
As always, I appreciate you.
And I'll catch you on the nextone.
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