Wellness for Real Life Podcast
Welcome to the Wellness for Real Life podcast!
Here we empower high achieving women to reach their goals in all areas by providing practical and straightforward advice that takes the overwhelm out of wellness.
Juggling work, family, and personal time can often feel like too much to manage, so we’ll provide simple tools and teach you how to set up routines that can seamlessly integrate into even the busiest season of life.
Tune in to hear us chat about everything from fitness, nutrition, mindset, time management, relationships, stress relief and self care, authentic communication, and more.
While sharing relatable lessons and takeaways from our own real life. You deserve to be and feel like the best version of yourself, and we’re here to help make that a reality.
Wellness for Real Life Podcast
When Doing Less Gets You More
In this conversation, Lauren and Marci flip the usual script. Instead of focusing on what to add — more workouts, more nutrition rules, more to-dos — they dive into what happens when you start removing. From cutting back on decisions and clutter to reducing snacking, alcohol, and even excess workouts, they explore how subtraction can free up energy, reduce overwhelm, and create space for real progress. With personal stories, client wins, and a few controversial takes, this episode is a refreshing reminder that sometimes, less truly is more.
Key Timestamps
- 10:01 – The power of removing instead of adding: Why cutting back often helps more than piling on
- 11:19 – Decision fatigue is real: We make 35,000 decisions a day — and how meal planning and routines cut the noise
- 16:09 – Talking to kids about food: Why avoiding the conversation does more harm than good
- 23:26 – Letting go of all-or-nothing thinking: How removing extremes creates more harmony in nutrition
- 26:49 – Don’t move the goalposts: A client story about resisting the urge to add more tasks when progress is already happening
- 33:14 – Supplements and systems: Why environment and setup matter more than willpower
- 38:44 – Doing less in the gym: How cutting back on excess cardio or volume can actually boost results
If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like you’re doing all the things but not seeing the payoff, maybe it’s time to try subtraction. Listen in, reflect on what you could remove from your plate, and start building space for progress that lasts.
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