Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, Nicole talks with fitness coach, author, and podcast host Lindsey Mathews about what perimenopause actually is, the signs women may notice as they enter this season, and how shifts in estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone can affect the way women feel and respond to diet and exercise.

Lindsey explains why she considers strength training a form of “midlife medicine,...

In this episode, Nicole talks about why today’s body and weight-loss landscape feels eerily familiar to Millennial women who grew up in 90s and early-2000s diet culture; and why old beliefs about food, weight, discipline, and thinness can start feeling louder when everyone around you suddenly seems to be getting smaller.

Nicole breaks down how you can be “done with dieting” and still mentally follow the rules you l...

In this episode, Nicole unpacks the difference between pursuing thinness at all costs and pursuing fat loss in a way that actually supports your health. She shares her own experience of being at her smallest - and simultaneously her least healthy - as years of restriction and over-exercise cost her energy, strength, her menstrual cycle, bone health, and a healthy relationship with food.

Nicole also explores where our obsession with ...

If you grew up in the ’90s or early 2000s, there’s a good chance some of the diet rules you learned back then are still influencing the way you eat, exercise, and think about weight loss today.

In this episode, Nicole breaks down seven common diet-culture beliefs Millennial women may still be subscribing to without realizing it - from believing eating less is always better, to treating the scale like a report card, &ldqu...

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, Nicole explores why guilt, fear, and shame can create urgency, but rarely create the flexible, sustainable habits required for lasting fat loss.

Throughout this conversation you'll learn what research says about self-compassion, acceptance, weight stigma, and behavior change, plus how the diet-culture messages Millennial women learned in the ’90s and early 2000s conti...

In this episode of Health, Wellth & Wisdom, host and head coach, Nicole Hagen shares a conversation originally recorded for fellow nutrition coach Lisa Franz’s podcast, Nutrition Coaching & Life. Throughout the conversation you’ll hear about Nicole’s journey from restrictive eating and calorie-focused exercise to strength training, flexible consistency, and her healthiest relationship with food yet....

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, host Nicole Hagen unpacks the toxic diet culture that shaped an entire generation of millennial women and explains why so many of us are still trying to unlearn the messages we absorbed decades later.

Throughout this episode, you'll learn:

• Why growing up during the 90s and early 2000s created unique relationship with food, weight, and body image struggles for many millen...

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, host Nicole Hagen unpacks the concept of vanishing caloric density and explains why it's so easy to eat more than you realize - even when you genuinely don't feel like you're eating that much.

If you've ever wondered why a bag of chips seems to disappear in minutes while a balanced meal keeps you full for hours, this episode is for you. Nicole shares how understanding vanis...

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, host Nicole Hagen explores an important question: Can GLP-1 medications affect your mood?

While these medications are well known for reducing appetite, quieting food noise, and supporting weight loss, far less attention has been given to their potential psychological and emotional effects. Nicole takes an evidence-based, nuanced look at what researchers know so far, why exp...

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, host and head coach, Nicole Hagen answers four listener-submitted questions covering some of the most talked-about topics in nutrition and wellness right now: creatine, the viral "bean diet," GLP-1 medications and mood, and how to navigate the emotional ups and downs of measuring progress.

Throughout this episode, you'll learn:

• Whether creatine is only beneficial for hea...

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, host and head coach, Nicole Hagen shares 6 wellness industry trends that are wildly overrated and explains why complexity often distracts people from the foundational behaviors that actually move the needle when it comes to health and sustainable weight loss.

Throughout this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why adding trendy ingredients like beef tallow, collagen, or protein...

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, host and head coach Nicole Hagen is joined by Nutrition Coaching client, Ashley Hernley, for a powerful conversation about creating sustainable weight loss with ADHD, building body confidence, and creating habits that last.

Ashley shares how she lost over 40 pounds and 26 inches, transformed her body composition, and built realistic routines that supported both her physical...

In this episode of Health, Wellth & Wisdom, host and head coach, Nicole Hagen is joined by Liberation Psychotherapist and Body Justice Activist, Paula Atkinson for a powerful conversation about body justice, diet culture, weight stigma, and the complicated ways our society links thinness to health, morality, and personal worth.

Nicole and Paula explore what it means to pursue health while honoring body autonomy, how binary think...

In this episode of the Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast, host and head coach, Nicole Hagen breaks down why it’s so easy to eat more than you think (especially in today’s modern food environment) and why that doesn’t mean you’re lazy, broken, or “bad” at nutrition.

Throughout this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why restaurant meals are more calorie-dense than meals prepared at home

• How “he...

In this episode of Health, Wellth & Wisdom, host and head coach Nicole Hagen dives into one of the most overlooked parts of the weight loss journey: what happens after the weight comes off.

Because while many women know how to lose weight, very few have been taught how to maintain it in a sustainable, realistic way without constant worry about gaining it back.

Throughout this episode, you’ll learn:

• What happens physiolog...

In this episode of Health, Wellth & Wisdom, host and head coach, Nicole Hagen breaks down one of the most commonly overlooked barriers to sustainable weight loss: perfectionism. What often feels like discipline is actually the very mindset keeping so many women stuck in cycles of starting over. Through personal experience and practical insight, Nicole unpacks how all-or-nothing thinking shows up in eating and exercise habits, a...

In this episode of Health, Wellth & Wisdom, host and head coach, Nicole Hagen is joined by intimacy expert Susan Bratton for a powerful and unapologetic conversation about pleasure, connection, and the role orgasmic intimacy plays in health and longevity. 

Throughout this episode, you’ll learn: 

• About the connection between orgasms and longevity

• How orgasms impact physical and mental health

• Whether the benefits ...

After years of chasing a smaller body through restriction and overexercise, host and head coach, Nicole Hagen learned the hard way that “light and skinny” doesn’t always lead to being healthier and feeling better.

In today’s culture (where rapid weight loss is everywhere) it’s easy to feel the pull to get smaller, be stricter, and chase results faster. But what’s often left out is the cost of doin...

In this Health, Wellth & Wisdom Podcast episode, host and Nutrition Coach Nicole Hagen breaks down the growing trend of peptides: what they are, how they work, and whether they’re something you should be considering for weight loss, recovery, or overall health.

This episode provides a clear, evidence-based look at peptides, helping you understand the difference between clinically studied, regulated options and the unregula...