Broads: The Bold & Badass Fitness Podcast for Women

Okay, real question: how do you want to feel at 70? Not look but feel. Because the second you start training through that lens, everything about fitness shifts, and suddenly the goal isn't a smaller body anymore. It's a body that actually works.

Here's the thing nobody in the fitness industry wants to say out loud: you were sold the wrong goal. For years! And if you've been working your ass off and still feel like nothing is landing, it's not because your body stopped responding. It's because you were handed a game that was never built to serve the woman you're becoming.

In this week podcast episode, I will talk to the 70-year old in you and share what longevity training actually means (and no, it's not cold plunges at 5am), why strength is hands-down your best insurance policy, and the non-negotiables if you want to still be strong, capable, and independent decades from now. This is your permission slip to change the goal.

What's Discussed:


(2:34) The question nobody in fitness is asking, and why it changes everything.


(3:43) Why women are tired, and the shift that's already happening today.


(5:40) The real number one predictor of quality of life as you age. 


(6:20) What longevity training actually means and what’s not.


(8:36) Why women get nearly three times the cardiovascular benefit from strength training than men do.


(10:37) The silent thing happening to your bones after 30 that nobody warned you about.


(12:15) Walking: the most underrated longevity tool, and why you're probably skipping it.


(14:54) Why under-fuelling is quietly working against the women training the hardest.


(17:21) The recovery signals you should never push through.


(18:58) The one question to sit with this week that changes everything.

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Resources Mentioned:

Macronutrient Guide: Want a simple place to start fuelling for the body you're building? Grab Broad’s FREE Macronutrient Guide: The Balanced Plate Blueprint at https://www.broads.app/macronutrient-guide.

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Did you know that emotional eating is one of the hardest types of addiction that’s difficult to overcome? Many women are unaware that they’re an emotional eater because we simply call it cravings or food noise when in reality, we are using food to numb the things out.  

If food became a central part of your life to make you feel better but it is also starting to affect your health, derails your fitness goals, and makes you further beat yourself for “not getting it right”, the problem might be not your willpower but the structure around it. 

We go deeper into this in the latest episode of Broads about emotional eating. We also discuss when to know if you are an emotional eater, why you tend to crave food and eat more at night, and why willpower, meal plans and another diet style is not the solution for an emotional problem.

Tricia Nelson is an Emotional Eating Expert and founder of Heal Your Hunger programs designed for people who want to break free from the food that was once a source of their comfort but took over their lives. 

After decades of battling her own emotional eating, binge eating shame, and deep isolation, Tricia has turned her healing journey into a roadmap for women who are ready to stop fighting food and start understanding it.

What's Discussed:

(5:06) The biggest misconception about emotional eating.

(6:16) The #1 mistake women make when trying to stop binge eating.

(8:31) True or false: If you just eat clean, emotional eating goes away.

(9:29) The wellness trend that's actually a trap for emotional eaters.

(11:03) How to slowly break free from scale dependency.

(14:30) How to know if you're an emotional eater.

(18:15) Why 75% of emotional eaters lose control at night.

(22:24) The PEP Test: food as a Painkiller, Escape, and Punishment.

(26:55) Three Meal Magic: The structure that helps you tell hunger from emotion.

(32:20) Food noise: The three root causes driving the compulsion to eat.

(35:11) The anatomy of the emotional eater and why people pleasing is the #1 trait.

(40:30) The four things you actually need to heal from emotional eating.

(49:37) What real healing from emotional eating looks like on the other side.

Broads Giveaway: To celebrate hitting 1 million listens we are giving away two free Broads Club memberships. Head to the pinned post on @broads.podcast and @broads.app on Instagram, make sure you’re following both accounts and tag three friends in the comments with the episode you think they need to hear first.

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Head to https://www.broads.app/broadscoach and apply for BroadsCOACH.
 

Check out more from Tara LaFerrara:

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Check out more from Tricia Nelson:
Website: https://healyourhunger.com/
Facebook: Heal Your Hunger

Instagram: @tricianelson_       

TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVSe2vaxXXM

Book: Heal Your Hunger: 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now

Confessions of a Binge Eater Podcast:  Spotify / Apple

Heal your Hunger Quiz: https://healyourhunger.com/heal-your-hunger-quiz/

Your brain has two completely separate systems for knowing what to do and actually doing it, and no amount of motivation bridges that gap. The women who stay consistent aren't more disciplined than you. They just stopped relying on motivation and started building structure.

If you've ever crushed it at work, managed a full household, and still couldn't figure out why your fitness keeps falling apart, it's not a YOU problem. It's a system problem. And that's exactly what this episode is about.

Tune into this week's solo episode of Broads where we answer the real questions around consistency: the ones nobody has actually answered for you yet.

What's Discussed:

(3:52) Why knowing what to do and still not doing it is not a character flaw.

(6:26) The Monday reset isn't a fresh start — it's the problem.

(8:50) Why motivation was never supposed to be the engine.

(11:07) What to do when life gets busy and your plan falls apart.

(15:10) The difference between trying more programs and getting real support.

(17:55) The neuroscience behind why you keep breaking promises to yourself.

(20:52) How to know if you're actually ready for a coach.

Find more from Broads:

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Instagram: @broads.podcast @broads.app

Head to https://www.broads.app/broadscoach and apply for BroadsCOACH.

Check out more from Tara LaFerrara:

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Instagram: @taralaferrara
Youtube: @TaraLaferrara
Tiktok: @taralaferrara

The average woman in the United States attempts to lose weight at least five times per year. Most of those attempts follow the same pattern: cut calories as low as possible, add as much exercise as possible, push until burnout, and start over.

The pattern does not fail because of a lack of willpower. It fails because the strategy itself is not designed to build women to success.

We go deeper into this in the latest episode of Broads. We also discuss what the 80/20 rule of nutrition versus exercise actually means in practice, how the lifestyle gap affects fat storage more than most women account for, and why the first three months of a real fat loss journey often look like nothing is happening.

Gen Coco is a Certified Nutrition Coach and founder of Gen's Gym. After a decade of cycling through every quick fix in the diet industry, she lost 50 pounds through walking and nutrition alone, no gym, no intense cardio, no restriction. 

Her framework is built around what is actually sustainable, not what looks most impressive on a program. What she learned applies well beyond fat loss. It is a way of thinking about effort, consistency, and what it actually takes to change something by loving yourself more.

What's Discussed:

(01:17) Why keto, cheat meals, and extreme restriction fail most women

(02:29) The all-or-nothing mindset and why high-achieving women are most vulnerable to it

(08:57) Minimum baseline standards: how to set a floor instead of an impossible ceiling

(09:03) The lifestyle gap: sleep, stress, and emotional health as fat loss variables

(11:26) What learning to cook from scratch changed about her relationship with food

(17:07) Meal prep, food tracking, and why portion education matters more than calorie restriction

(20:28) How to navigate social eating, alcohol, and going out without derailing progress

(30:38) The GLP-1 conversation: when peptides are appropriate

(31:42) The difference between weight loss and fat loss

(41:48) Why weight loss is a side effect of self-love, not the other way around

(44:29) How to rebuild self-trust after years of broken promises to yourself

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Check out more from Tara LaFerrara:
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Instagram: @taralaferrara
Youtube: @TaraLaferrara
Tiktok: @taralaferrara
Check out more from Gen Coco:
Instagram: @gensgym
Facebook: Gen’s Gym

Tiktok: @gensgym

Website: https://www.gensgym.com/

Business Instagram: @happybodsquad

Struggling with motivation, confused about how much cardio you need, or wondering if lifting weights will make you bulky? A lot of women are told the answer is more cardio, stricter dieting, and more discipline, but those are often the exact things keeping them stuck.

In this Broads episode, we talk about why motivation isn’t the thing that keeps you consistent, why protein is the nutrient most women are missing in their diet, and how much cardio you really need when it comes to building strength and improving body composition. 

If you’re training hard but still feel unsure what actually works or worried you’re doing the wrong things in the gym, tune in.

What's Discussed:

(03:33) What to do when you get injured and how to keep training instead of quitting

(08:35) How much cardio women actually need

(09:26) Daily walking as one of the most underrated tools for fat loss and stress

(11:30) Why low protein leads to cravings, fatigue, and muscle loss

(15:06) Motivation vs self trust and what actually keeps you consistent

(21:17) Why belly fat shows up in your 40s and the hormone shifts behind it

(24:32) The truth about “toning” and why women don’t accidentally get bulky

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