Purfect Sunday

Summer is rough on a body, and September is when you find out. The hair that feels like straw, the legs that go dry two minutes out of the shower, the congestion and breakouts showing up on a face that was fine in June. That's not you falling apart. That's three or four months of sun, chlorine, salt water, and air conditioning finally adding up to something visible, and right now is the window to deal with it before dry cold air pi...

Playing small is one of the most expensive habits a woman can have, and almost nobody can see themselves doing it — because every single instance of it comes with a perfectly good reason attached. You weren't being cowardly; you were being polite. You weren't hiding; you were being realistic. This episode is about learning to spot the habit in real time, and about what it has quietly been charging you for.

In this episode, Mon...

The great lock-in challenge is what's replacing New Year's resolutions this year, and the timing is the entire point: there are 117 days left in 2026, which is a lot more runway than "the year got away from me" makes it sound. September first through December thirty-first, head down, no waiting for January. In this episode, Monti breaks down what the trend actually is, how to set yours up so it survives past week two, and how it's ...

A September reset for women usually looks like the same thing every year: a list of thirty new rules and a quiet promise to become somebody else by Tuesday. Then week two arrives with a sick kid and a work thing, one morning gets skipped, and the whole month gets filed under "didn't work." So try a different question this year: what would still be running in November? In this episode, Monti makes the case that fall is the better st...

Every fall reset starts the same way — a new routine, a new planner, a fresh list of goals stacked on top of a life that's already completely full. And by mid-October, it's gone, every time. So try a different question this year: what would you have to take away before any of that could actually fit? In this episode, Monti makes the case that fall, not January, is the real window to lock in for the rest of the year — an...

Feeling behind in life is almost universal among women, and yet nobody can ever say who set the deadline they think they missed. Ask the question out loud — who decided you were supposed to have the house, the relationship, the career, the savings number by a specific age? — and the whole thing starts to dissolve. In this episode, Monti makes the case that there's nothing wrong with your pace. You're just reading your l...

When you imagine ending a summer with no regrets, what do you picture first — a calendar packed with trips and plans, or something a lot quieter than that? In this episode Monti is talking about why the busiest summers are so often the ones that leave you feeling like you missed it, and why end-of-summer regret has almost nothing to do with how much you actually did.

You'll walk away with a ten-minute exercise for getting hone...

When you picture a "glow up," what comes to mind first — a smaller body, or a smaller version of the life you're actually living right now? This week's episode makes the case that weight loss has been getting credit for something it was never actually doing, and breaks down what a glow up is really built from.

You'll walk away with six specific, doable-today habits that build real presence and confidence — the kind peopl...

Mornings sound simple in theory. Wake up, get ready, get on with it. So why does the first hour so often start with the phone, scrolling, and a version of you that's already behind before you've even said good morning to yourself?

This week, Monti is bringing back the slow morning. Not the 5 a.m. wake-up, not the soft girl, Pinterest-worthy aesthetic kind that makes half of us feel like we're failing before 7 a.m. — just six t...

How many things have you skipped — not because you couldn't do them alone, but because some part of you felt embarrassed to be seen out doing them by yourself? That restaurant, that movie, that class, that trip — the ones you keep waiting to do "when someone can come with." 

In this episode, you'll learn why that mindset is quietly costing you experiences, people, and pieces of your own life, and why the solo date i...

Think about the last time you were really, genuinely excited about something coming up — not a big life event, just something on the calendar you kept thinking about. Notice how much lighter that whole stretch of time felt? That's not a coincidence — that's anticipation doing exactly what it's built to do. In this episode, you'll learn why having something to look forward to is one of the most overlooked ingredients of ...

Think about the best things that have ever happened to you — the trips, the nights you still tell stories about, the leaps that changed your life. I'd bet they all have one thing in common: you didn't overthink them. Now think about the flip side — the dinner you didn't go to, the trip you didn't book, the message you never sent. This week, we're talking about a quieter kind of independence: becoming the woman who stops...

Ever bought something you didn't really need, felt amazing for about an hour, and then watched that good feeling quietly turn into guilt? The buy, the high, the crash — and then the little speech you give yourself: why did I do that? This week is about the emotional side of money. Not budgeting or spreadsheets — the feelings underneath what we buy.

I'm sharing my own story, starting with the most important twenty-seven d...

Not every dad was a good dad. Mine wasn't great— and this Father's Day episode is about what you can still carry forward when the man who raised you got a lot of it wrong. I'm sharing seven lessons that shaped the woman I am today: some I learned from what my dad did right, and some I learned the hard way, from what he did wrong.

It's an honest, warm conversation about holding two things at once — the truth about who you...

Have you ever caught a glimpse of yourself in a window and thought, just for a second — where did she go? Not because you didn't recognize her. Because you barely did — like the woman in the glass was a slightly more tired, slightly more careful, slightly more muted version of someone you used to know really well.

If that's ever happened to you, this episode is for you.

This is not another wellness episode about becoming ...

On this episode of The Purfect Sunday Podcast, Monti is talking about main character energy: what it actually means, the quiet supporting-character patterns we all slip into without noticing, and the small but deliberate moves that hand the lead back to you.

This isn't about narcissism, or pretending your life is a movie, or becoming a louder kind of woman. It's about taking up the rightful amount of space in your own life — n...

If you've quietly outgrown a friend — felt that flicker of relief when a plan gets cancelled, noticed you're always the one initiating, or carried a friendship you can't quite name for years — this episode is for you. We're talking about outgrowing friendships, the four categories every friend lives in, the real red flags that mean it's time to leave, and how to end a friendship without a dramatic, confrontational scene...

Every June, I promise myself I'll finally slow down. Every August I wonder where the summer went. Not this year. I'm not doing hot girl summer — and I'm not doing soft girl summer either. I'm doing my own summer: selective, intentional, mine.

The thing that actually makes that possible isn't a manifesto or a vision board. It's a short, boring, completely non-negotiable list of things I do every day, no matter what. This week I...

If you've spent the last few summers feeling tired, puffy, foggy, and dreading being in your own body — this episode is for you. Today, we're breaking down what was actually going on (hello, chronic cortisol and a fried nervous system) and the eight tiny, free, no-coach-required habits that finally moved the needle for me after years of feeling stuck.

This isn't a crash diet, a cleanse, or a 30-day program. It's a real-life pl...