Fit Minds
The Fit Minds podcast with your host: Coach Mariah Jean. Discussing all things health and fitness, nutrition, training, mental health, bodybuilding, competitions, sports performance, female specific health and debunking fitness/nutrition industry myths.
Coach Mariah has been training for 10+ years in the gym. She’s a full time online nutrition and fitness coach and a qualified, accredited, registered and insured sports nutritionist and personal trainer under the Mariah Jean fit brand.
Coaching clients and other coaches since launching her business in 2017. Mariah coaches clients nationally in Australia and internationally around the world. Mariah is not just a fitness/nutrition coach, but a business owner, life coach, business coach and mentor within her company: Mariah Jean Pty Ltd. She is a 2 x pro and national champion natural women’s bodybuilding figure athlete.
Mariah recovered from anorexia and bulimia nervosa plus severe depression and anxiety in 2015 and has been no stranger to mental health struggles since childhood. Post recovery she decided to pursue her passion in helping others to avoid the all too common mistakes she made herself along her fitness journey. Mariah’s aim is to help everyday people just like you, discover sustainable nutrition and fitness information and education to utilise for the rest of your lifetime.
To simplify the process once and for all by opening the doors on the fitness and nutrition industry. Peeling back the layers to discover the right mindset and mentality required to live your best, balanced and healthiest lifestyle. To finally remove the confusion, take back your power and establish a better relationship with yourself, your food and your exercise.
The Fit Minds Podcast will help you improve your attitude and approach towards tackling your life challenges, goals and success.
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Episodes
167 episodes
Are you lazy or just burnt out?
Busy mums, you're not lazy. You're burnt out.You're the cook.The taxi.The therapist.The financer.The one holding it all together.You're even mothering your husband.And underneath the surface? You're frazzled.
How to manage painful, heavy, missing or irregular periods
Mums, your period is trying to tell you something. 👀Late cycle? Heavy? Missing?It's not just "one of those things."It's a signal.Your body's check engine light.Before you reach to suppress it, ask: Am I eating...
Are you eating too much or not enough?
To the busy mum who finally gets the kids to bed, only to find herself raiding the pantry...You finish dinner, but you are still starving. 🤔Then the frustrating cycle starts: you snack, you binge, you snack, you binge.You p...
Are you exercising enough?
To the exhausted mum scrolling social media and feeling like you're failing because you aren't in the gym six days a week... take a deep breath.Stop trying to be the 5 AM "fitspo" who trains every single day just because you saw it onlin...
Using the school holidays to eat shit and not exercise
Busy mums, let's be honest.Every Easter. Every Christmas. Every school holiday.Same excuse."I'll get back into it once the kids are back at school."But here's the thing, your kids aren't stopping you.You are.<...
What to do if you ate too much chocolate over Easter
Mums, you do not need to flog yourself at the gym to fix your Easter weekend.You burn maybe 200 to 300 calories in a session. That's not even a whole Easter bunny.And dropping to 1200 calories? That's just setting yourself up to...
Is Perfectionism Ruining Your Progress?
You didn't fail. You just stopped.Missing a week of workouts isn't failure.Life getting in the way isn't failure.Giving up is the only thing that is.But here's the problem. Most of us are waiting for the perfect moment t...
Women Should Be Strong, Not Skinny
The fear of looking "too muscular" is literally stealing your future independence. 💪Imagine not being able to get out of your chair. Not being able to reach a cupboard. Not being able to make yourself a cup of tea.That's not just ...
Why Mums Need More Accountability Not More Motivation
You don't need more motivation. Your brain is just full. 🧠Trying to figure out what to eat, when to move, and how to lose weight on top of literally everything else you're already carrying?That's not a motivation problem. That's a...
Why Mums Who Skip Breakfast Can't Lose Weight
Skipping breakfast isn't discipline. It's a setup.If you've ever told yourself you "did really well today" because you ate under 700 calories... and then found yourself destroying a family bag of crisps after dinner... that's not a will...
Non-Scale Victories
The scale doesn’t tell the whole story, but your consistency does.If your answer to “have I been on track?” is “mostly” or “pretty good”... that’s not consistency. That’s where we need to get honest with ourselves.Tick the boxes...
Why Mums Need Personalised Nutrition & Training
Mums, you CAN’T eat and train like everyone else.Between the constant fatigue and running on little sleep, your body needs to prioritise recovery – not overexertion.That’s why a one-size-fits-all approach won’t work.You need mea...
The 4 (actually 5) worst eating habits busy mums fall into
Let’s be real — most mums aren’t “bad at dieting”…They’re just stuck in habits that make fat loss harder than it needs to be.In today’s episode of the Fit Minds Podcast, I break down the most common patterns I see every single day:<...
Mums Lacking Motivation
If you feel like you’re lacking motivation, it’s probably got nothing to do with motivation at all.It comes down to not having any support, accountability, or knowing exactly what to do to get the results you want.Then going aro...
Do you have to eat “clean” to be healthy and lose weight?
Short answer? No. And believing you do might actually be holding you back.In this episode I break down:• Why you don’t need to label foods as “good” or “bad”• How the 80/20 approach supports fat loss, health and sustainability
How to stick to your 2026 New Years Goals
If 2025 taught you anything, it’s that motivation isn’t the problem.Structure is.Here’s what actually moves the needle👇🏼Your nutrition has to be the priority.Not extremes. Not perfection. Just consistent, repeatable habi...
Why you cannot stick to your diet and it is not your fault
If you feel like you are constantly Starting again Falling off Binging at night Blaming your willpower And thinking something is wrong with youThis episode is going to be a massive lightbulb m...
Preventing weight gain over Christmas
If you are already stressing about“Christmas parties”“all the food”“starting again in January”This one is for youCoach Mariah and Coach Chloe chat about how to enjoy Christmas without treating December like a free fo...
How much weight should you be losing weekly?
How much weight can you lose per week?Before it’s considered to be unhealthy or risk losing muscle too?And why is weekly rate loss so different for men versus women?First of all — go ahead and follow us
Do You Really Need to Track Calories to Lose Weight?
In today’s episode, I’m in the kitchen making spaghetti Bolognese — because let’s be real, that’s mum life — and I’m breaking down one of the biggest misconceptions in weight loss: that you have to track calories to make progress....
Mums, this is why you're craving sugar
Sugar cravings aren’t about willpower — and mums get hit hardest. In this Fit Minds Podcast episode, Coach Mariah Jean (Registered Sports Nutritionist, insured in Australia) breaks down the real reasons you’re reaching for sweets and how to sto...
How to Avoid Mum Burnout
Mum life is demanding but burning out does not have to be part of the journey.In this episode of the Fit Minds Podcast we explore:💛 The early signs of burnout that most mums ignore🧘 Simple ways to protect your energy each da...