The Weekly Riff with Louise Green
The Weekly Riff cuts through fitness culture’s noise with real talk from Louise Green — award-winning coach, author, and size-inclusive fitness trailblazer redefining what strength looks like. In a world where most fitness spaces still exclude, this podcast offers something rare: a space that honours all bodies and holds the belief that your body is fully capable of strength, power, and performance — through every season of life, including midlife and menopause.
Each 20-minute episode dives into strength training, body image, mindset, and the deeper layers of showing up for yourself — without the toxic pressure to shrink, conform, or apologize. Louise blends expert insight, lived experience, and raw honesty to explore how we can all train for strength and self-respect, not validation.
Expect conversations that challenge stereotypes, dismantle diet culture, and invite you to rise — as you are, right now.
🎧 Tune in weekly for unfiltered, empowering riffs on what it really means to be strong — in body, mind, and culture.
The Weekly Riff with Louise Green
Episode 22: The Identities We Outgrow: Who Are You Becoming?
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Who you are today is not who you'll be a year from now.
We are always evolving.
In this week's Riff, Louise explores one of the most powerful, and often uncomfortable, parts of personal growth: identity change. Inspired by the ideas in Atomic Habits by James Clear and her own experiences navigating major life transitions, Louise examines what happens when the identities we've carried no longer fit the lives we're trying to build.
Many of us become attached to old stories about who we are: the athlete, the people-pleaser, the caretaker, the "big person," the successful professional, the parent with a busy household. But life moves in seasons. Relationships change. Bodies change. Priorities shift. And sometimes growth requires us to release identities that once served us so we can step into new ones.
In this episode, Louise explores why lasting change isn't about setting better goals, it's about becoming the kind of person who naturally lives those behaviours. She discusses how habits reinforce identity, why confidence follows action, and how small daily choices become evidence for the person you're becoming.
Whether you're rebuilding after loss, navigating midlife, changing careers, strengthening your relationship with movement, or simply feeling the pull toward something new, this conversation is an invitation to stop asking, "Who am I?" and start asking, "Who am I becoming?"
In this episode:
- Why identity is the foundation of lasting behavior change
- How habits provide evidence for who we believe ourselves to be
- The identities we inherit versus the identities we intentionally choose
- Why growth often requires grieving former versions of ourselves
- How fear keeps us attached to familiar identities
- The connection between action, confidence, and self-belief
- Practical ways to begin building the identity you want to embody
Louise Green is an award-winning coach with 20 years invested in working with women of all body sizes. She has coached thousands of women from all over the world, if you're ready take the next step in your strength, check out her coaching program: https://www.louisegreeninc.com/size-strong