Redefining Strength Podcast

I resisted every single one of these for way too long. These are the 10 hard doses of reality I had to face to get leaner and stronger, protect my metabolic health, and actually feel my best while looking my most fabulous.

Body recomp is real, but it's slower and more nuanced than "calories in vs calories out." It means losing fat while building muscle (or building muscle while losing fat), and that takes a primary focus, sm...

Ever finished a challenge only to slide right back into old habits? You're not lazy, and you don't lack willpower...you've just been repeating a pattern no one taught you how to break.

In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on the five mistakes that kept me restarting every 21 or 30 days: going in without an exit strategy, blindly following a plan instead of understanding why it works, ignoring the mind-body connectio...

Struggling to lose fat and actually keep it off? It's not a magic macro ratio or the perfect workout plan that gets you lasting results...it's finding the weird variations of habits that fit who YOU are. In this episode, I'm breaking down the 7 weird habits and mindset shifts that helped me lose fat, build lean muscle, and maintain my body recomposition results long term.

You'll learn why I said "eff it" to clean eating and started ...

You're allowed to want to look good. Full stop.

But somewhere along the way, aesthetic goals got villainized...like wanting to lose those last few pounds or finally see some definition means you're choosing vanity over health. That ends today.

In this video, I'm sharing the 5 shifts that helped me finally look AND feel my most fabulous without sacrificing the lifestyle I love...and why owning your aesthetic goals might actually be th...

The scale has been lying to you and it's costing you your progress. If you've ever done everything right all week, stepped on the scale, and felt like your hard work meant nothing, this episode is for you.The truth is, the scale measures one thing: gravity's pull on your total body weight. 

It cannot tell you whether you're losing fat, building muscle, retaining water, or genuinely making progress. And if it's the only ...

Struggling to lose fat even though you’re eating well, doing cardio, or trying to stay consistent with your workouts?

The missing piece may not be more restriction or more cardio. It may be building muscle.

In this episode, I’m breaking down why weight training is one of the most important tools for fat loss, especially if you want results that last. We’ll talk about how strength training helps you b...

If your goal is fat loss, should you be doing cardio, lifting weights, or Pilates?

The answer is not as simple as picking one and ditching the others.

In this video, I’m breaking down the real fat loss training hierarchy: what to prioritize first, why weight training is the foundation, where cardio actually fits, why walking is more powerful than most people realize, and how Pilates or activation work can make y...

Most women working on body recomp are making at least 3 of these 9 mistakes without even knowing it — and fixing them changes everything. In this episode, I'm breaking down the exact mistakes that were holding me back (yes, I made all 9) and what to do instead so your body can actually respond.

From how you think about cravings, to your macro strategy, to how much you're relying on caffeine to get through the day — these...

Why Eating More Is the Secret to Losing Fat (And Why It Feels Wrong at First)
If you've been eating less, training harder, and still not seeing results this episode is for you.

The truth is, chronic under-eating slows your metabolism, disrupts your hormones, and actually makes fat loss harder over time. And for most women, eating MORE is the missing piece...but getting there isn't easy.

In this episode we'll cover:

I spent years thinking losing fat while building muscle was impossible...and that belief was completely sabotaging me. I was eating less, training harder, and wondering why I never looked as defined as I felt I should. The answer? I was optimizing for weight loss, not recomp. And the scale was lying to me the entire time.

In this episode, I'm breaking down exactly why the scale isn't the measure of progress you think it is, what sig...

JUST. LIFT. HEAVY. We see that all the time on social media. But is that advice actually holding you back?

In this episode, we're pushing back on the one-size-fits-all approach to strength training. While heavy compound lifts are absolutely valuable, obsessing over low reps and maximal loads means leaving serious gains on the table. We break down the three real drivers of muscle growth — mechanical tension, metabolic stress, a...

Every Woman Should Be Able To Do A Pull Up. I made that statement knowing it was going to be controversial but I was genuinely surprised by how much pushback it got. So I wanted to break down what I actually meant, because the pull-up was never really the point.

In this episode, I'm talking about why so many of us have been conditioned to write ourselves off from hard things before we ever truly try. Whether it was a gym cla...

You think you're being smart by eating less during the week to "save room" for the weekend. But this strategy — called calorie banking — may actually be training your body to store more fat over time.

In this video, Cori breaks down the concept of collateral fattening: why extreme weekday deficits cause muscle loss, slow your metabolism, and amplify hunger cues — so that by the time the weekend hits, you're eating ...

What if strength isn't about pushing harder — but about how much you can hold? In this episode, I'm joined by mindset coach Charlotte Grimmel, and honestly, this conversation stopped me in my tracks more than once.

We dig into what it really means to be strong — not in the grind-through-it, grit-your-teeth kind of way, but in the intentional, self-aware, capacity-building kind of way. Charlotte breaks down why saying no ...

There Are No Bad Exercises!

I'm coming in hot today because I am tired of hearing that exercises are bad. Lunges hurt your knees? Deadlifts wreck your back? No. Moves are not bad you just haven't earned them yet, and I'm going to tell you exactly what I mean by that.

In this episode I'm breaking down why demonizing exercises is actually what's holding you back, the difference between movement patterns and recruitment patterns (yes, y...

Most of us are told the answer is inside us. Trust your gut. Believe in yourself. Look inward. But what if that's only getting you halfway there? NYU professor, bestselling author, and host of the Becoming You podcast Suzy Welch reveals why real self-awareness requires more than internal reflection — and why the gap between who you think you are and how the world actually experiences you could be the hidden force behind your ...

Think "abs are made in the kitchen" and "muscle is built in the gym" are the keys to your dream body? These popular fitness mantras might actually be the reason you're stuck in a frustrating cycle of yo-yo dieting, rebound weight gain, and zero progress.In this episode, I'm breaking down why obsessing over just nutrition OR just training is secretly sabotaging your results...and what to focus on instead to finally achieve the body ...

Most women are tracking everything...their sleep, their stress, their steps, their food...and still feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and like their body is working against them. Yale-trained MD and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Aviva Romm says the problem isn't your data. It's that you've stopped trusting yourself.

In this episode, Dr. Romm breaks down why metabolic flexibility —not more optimization — is the...

There’s a moment almost everyone hits in their fat-loss journey...

and if you’re here, I’m willing to bet you’ve hit it too. It’s that moment where you’re doing the workouts…

eating healthy…
trying to be consistent…
trying SO hard to “do everything right”…
And then you catch your reflection in a window…and your stomach just dro...