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Host Francesca Amiker sits down with directors Joe and Anthony Russo, producer Angela Russo-Otstot, stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and more to uncover how family was the key to building the emotional core of The Electric State . From the Russos’ own experiences growing up in a large Italian family to the film’s central relationship between Michelle and her robot brother Kid Cosmo, family relationships both on and off of the set were the key to bringing The Electric State to life. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . State Secrets: Inside the Making of The Electric State is produced by Netflix and Treefort Media.…

Busy Woman's Guide to Fitness and Wellness

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Are you a busy woman struggling to find time for fitness and wellness in your hectic life? Would you love to create more balance in your life between work, family life and time to focus on your own needs? Are you sick of the fitness and nutrition rollercoaster and would love to get unstuck, escape fad diets and quick fixes, and actually find a routine that works within your busy life? Sick of unrealistic body standards, of workout programmes and diets that ignore ‘real’ women with busy lives, and of feeling like you can never do enough? Then look no further than The Busy Woman's Guide to Fitness & Wellness, your weekly dose of inspiration and motivation. Hosted by Alix Hubble, Mum of 2, Fitness & Wellness Coach, founder of ChickFit, and lover of wine and chocolate, this podcast helps you discover a realistic and achievable way to stay active within a busy schedule. Say goodbye to guilt and the diet rollercoaster as we explore sustainable approaches to health and wellness. And say hello to getting ‘real’ about all things fitness, wellness and nutrition related. Join us each week to get answers to questions like: - How can I start a fitness routine at home? - What are the best exercises for toning up? - How often should I work out to see results? - Is cardio or strength training better for me? - What’s the best type of exercise for weight loss? - How can I fit exercise into a busy schedule? - How can I start a fitness routine as a beginner? - How can I get motivated to exercise? - How can I reduce my stress? - How can I practice self care with a busy schedule? - What are the symptoms of the perimenopause and menopause? - How can I manage hormonal changes during the menopause? - What lifestyle changes can help me with the perimenopause and menopause? - What’s the best type of exercise for the menopause? - How do I lose the extra tummy weight during the menopause? - How can I stop dieting? - How can I become more body confident? - Why is diet culture so bad? - Do diets work? And if not, what does? Find out more about ChickFit at https://www.chickfit.co.uk

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192 How to Stop Forcing Success and Start Attracting It Instead 32:21

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It’s normal when you set goals for yourself, that you get focused on the outcome. That the reason you work towards certain goals for yourself in the first place is because of that outcome that you want to achieve - an outcome which will have you feeling more confident, more balanced, more healthy or whatever it is that you want for yourself. But what if you’re finding yourself struggling to achieve those goals? And what if it’s because you’re clinging on so tightly to the desired outcome and the happiness and success that’s going to come with it, that you’re actually unknowingly pushing that outcome further away? Well this week we’ll be delving into this and talking about: -What happens when you hold on too tightly to an outcome (or more precisely, the meaning you’ve assigned to that outcome) -How that can actually push your goals further out of reach -The surprising thing you that you might just need to do to bring them much closer again and open up a world of possibilities Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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191 Why the Latest Fads Are Keeping You Stuck (And How to Break Free) 44:20

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Join the FREE Patreon community - especially for you! https://www.patreon.com/busywomansguide Ever find yourself dragged into shiny object syndrome? With every passing moment there seems to be something newer, better, more effective popping up. Whether it’s a brand new diet which is promising all the results for minimal effort, a new workout programme that can give you the body you desire in less time than it takes to have your shower in the morning, or the latest so called miracle cure to a problem you didn’t even know you had. It’s what I call the noise. The noise that is constantly being projected by the world, that tells you that the answers that you’re looking for are hidden in their awesome 3 step programme, or magical supplement. The noise that consistently tells you that what you think you know - well that doesn’t work any more and it’s time to move on. And it’s so distracting. It makes you second guess yourself, it can feel ridiculously confusing and it can keep you in this kind of state of paralysis where you either don’t know what to do for the best, or find yourself bouncing from one thing to the next in the vain hope that one day one of these things is going to start working. We’re diving into this today and we’re going to figure out: -what’s going on with the noise -why you’re trapped in shiny object syndrome -and how you can start to dial down the volume or even turn off the noise altogether to find consistency and balance in your life. Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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190 Living in Limbo: How to Stop Waiting and Start Reaching Your Goals 26:18

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If you’re ready to get out of limbo and start getting results, it’s time to explore coaching opportunities with me! Check out what I can offer at https://chickfit.co.uk/therapeutic-coaching/ Do you ever feel like you’re living in a state of suspended animation? It’s that place where you feel like you’re kind of doing things to start progressing towards your goals - the research, the dreaming, the thinking, but in truth, you’re not taking concrete action yet. You’re caught between knowing what you want and actually starting that journey. It can be a really comfortable place to be sometimes - full of the possibility of what lies ahead. But what if we end up spending way too long there? And that waiting becomes too comfortable. So comfortable in fact, that we stay stuck and just can’t seem to move forwards. That’s what we’ll be tackling today. How to get you out of suspended animation and into action taking so you can finally start to realise your goals. Here’s how you can do it: -Utilise “the gap” to it’s full potential -Focusing on process rather than outcome related goals -Leaning into imperfection -Make the individual steps work for you -Stop searching for more information and instead turn inwards to what you already know! Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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189 The Guilt Trap: How to Stop Feeling Bad About Taking Time Out 38:10

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Ready to put words into action? Join me inside the FREE Patreon group for listeners - https://www.patreon.com/busywomansguide If you’ve ever felt guilty about taking time out for yourself, then I can confirm that you absolutely are not alone. For so many of us, it feels like to be a good mum, a good partner, a good employee, daughter, friend…or whatever other roles we might have in our lives, we have to give as much of ourselves as possible. Which means that when we’re not doing that - when we’re not hustling, achieving, being productive or putting other things and other people first, the guilt can start to creep in. So that even when we know that taking a bit of time out would be good for us, it can start to feel almost impossible to do that. So let’s get to the bottom of this today. Here’s what we’re talking about: -Nervous system regulation and why it’s the glue that holds us together! -Why we feel guilty for taking time out - and why it’s part of our conditioning and not ours to carry -How guilt ties into our sense of worth and our sense of identity, therefore making it hard to shift -3 ways to reduce the guilt and reframe the idea of rest Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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188 The Question You Need to Ask if You’re Stuck with Your Fitness Results Right Now 21:22

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Join me over in the brand new, totally FREE Patreon group - especially for podcast listeners - www.patreon.com/busywomansguide Sometimes it feels like you’re doing a lot of the things you need to get a result - but you’re not quite doing everything you could. And yet in spite of the fact you know this, there’s still a big part of you that’s just getting frustrated that you’re not getting the result that you truly want. And we can sometimes end up here for a long time - hoping that we can keep doing the same things and something is just going to magically shift or change, or that some super easy, effortless hack is going to pop up that means we’ll finally get where we want to. But we all know that’s not the way things work. So today, I’m talking about how to decide the best route to take when you’re in this situation, and how to decide what you’re truly willing to do to see the changes that you want. Takeaways include: -Why staying on “resistance road” is tempting - but unhelpful -Empowering yourself by choosing between “acceptance avenue” or the “commitment causeway” -Weighing up the compromises and pros and cons to each approach Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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187 Emotional Eating vs Diets vs YOU! 36:36

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Ready to take what we’ve talked about today and turn it into positive action? Join me over in the brand new, totally free Patreon group just for podcast listeners - www.patreon.com/busywomansguide Safe to say that we all engage in a bit of emotional eating from time to time. But if its something that we start to feel is sabotaging our efforts with healthier eating on a regular basis, then it can become really tempting to try and control it with diets, restriction and cutting out certain foods for periods of time. We feel like the more control we have over ourselves, the less likely we will be to react emotionally to food. But unfortunately, that strategy often falls on it’s face. Today we’ll be delving into what’s going on with emotional eating - whether what we’re experiencing is actually the result of something different, and then we’ll explore some practical strategies for tackling the self sabotage of emotional eating once and for all. Takeaways include: -How to find out if you’re really experiencing emotional eating, or if it could be something else -Why emotional eating isn’t necessarily a bad thing -The steps we can take to stop sabotaging with emotional eating Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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186 Want to Feel More in Control in Your Life? Here’s the Surprising Truth 32:16

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Join me over in the brand new, totally FREE Patreon group - especially for podcast listeners - www.patreon.com/busywomansguide We’d all love to feel more in control right - to be able to deal with all the day to day stuff that life throws at us, to be totally organised and to have the time to look after ourselves as well. And in that mythical land where we are the ones in control, everything suddenly feels easy, we can finally be exactly who we want to be, and we can have the life that we crave. Except what if all of this effort we’re putting into having control is actually having the opposite effect - making us feel more anxious and keeping us awake at 3 in the morning as we try to figure out how to keep it all together and manage life to the very best of our ability. Well today we’re going in. We’re talking about what we think we’re going to achieve and feel in our lives by having more control - and we’re maybe going to busy a myth or two around that which will have you thinking very differently by the end of this episode. Takeaways include: -What really happens when we try and exert more control in our lives -The dangers of super high personal expectations and all of those “should” -What happens when you finally let go of people pleasing Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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185 Confessions of a Personal Trainer: What I’ve Learnt from My Mistakes in the Last 11+ Years 39:40

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Book your Unstuck & Unstoppable session - and claim your free follow up session (only available until Wed 5th Feb 2025) - https://chickfit.co.uk/unstuck-unstoppable/ I’ve been a personal trainer for well over 11 years now - and in that time I’ve learnt so so much. But what I’ve particularly learnt from are some of those early experiences I had where I showed up full of the naivety of a newly qualified PT thinking that all I needed was to show up with a brilliantly designed programme and everyone was guaranteed to get the results they wanted. So you can imagine my disappointment when it didn’t always go to plan. But the great news for you is that it means I’ve learnt an awful lot about what women actually need - and I want to share that with you today - 5 of the key lessons I’ve learnt that you can apply to your own life to get so much closer to those fitness, wellbeing and lifestyle goals that you have right now. Takeaways include: -Why cultivating your own motivation is crucial for achieving fitness goals -How connecting to the deeper emotional reasons behind fitness goals can drive real change -What procrastination is REALLY about (it’s not what you think) Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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184 Feeling Stuck? Here’s How to Break through (and even Embrace) your Fitness Plateaus 23:15

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BOOK YOUR UNSTUCK & UNSTOPPABLE SESSION RIGHT HERE >>> https://chickfit.co.uk/unstuck-unstoppable/ *And receive a complimentary 45 minute follow up session (for a limited time only) Listen to episode 173: The 3 vital phases you need to know about to create consistency with your fitness - https://pod.fo/e/27d857 Plateaus in fitness (and motivation) can be super frustrating. BUT they are a natural and necessary part of the journey toward long-term health and wellness. So this week we’re diving into how you can approach, bust through and even embrace those plateaus rather than seeing them as a failure which can ruin your long term progress. In fact, fitness plateaus can be an amazing time to build resilience and mental strength - we just need to cultivate a few key skills and strategies in order to make that happen. Here’s what we’ll cover: -Plateaus are a normal part of any fitness journey, and learning to embrace them is essential. -The different ways in which we can measure our fitness, change our perspective, and therefore recognise the other ways we’re making progress. -Learning the skill of patience - and all that it brings with it Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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183 Body Positivity, Body Neutrality and How to Shift Your Relationship with Your Body in Midlife 43:19

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FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MIDLIFE REBOOT AND SECURE YOUR SPACE AT https://chickfit.co.uk/midlife-reboot/ Listen to Episode 153 - Body Image & Midlife - The NEW Impossible standard? Right here - https://pod.fo/e/248434 Our 40s and 50s can be a huge flashpoint when it comes to our relationship with our bodies. A flashpoint that can feel even harder to navigate when it feels like all the strategies that used to work for us are no longer working - when our bodies are changing in ways that we don’t feel comfortable about and yet it feels like there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Now of course, there are absolutely things we can do to hold back the tide - I’m sure you all know by now that things like more protein and strength training are the way to go - but I believe there’s more to it than that. That this is also an opportunity for us to really address our body image and how we feel about our bodies in a way that we might never have done before. So today I want to dive into body positivity and body neutrality, and how we can use them (especially the latter) to not just make friends with our bodies, but to improve our overall health and wellbeing too. Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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182 Stop Blaming Willpower: Why It’s Time to Change Your Approach! 26:41

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BOOK YOUR UNSTUCK & UNSTOPPABLE SESSION RIGHT HERE >>> https://chickfit.co.uk/unstuck-unstoppable/ *And receive a complimentary 45 minute follow up session (for a limited time only) An honest hands up if you’ve ever blamed a lack of willpower or motivation for why you’re not fitter, or why you can’t seem to eat better, or why you’ve not lost weight yet? Well today, we’re going to tackle the concepts of willpower and motivation - and how basing our progress on these fleeting and unreliable resources could actually be holding you back from achieving your goals. Because the truth is that willpower and motivation get easily disrupted Today, we tackle the often-misunderstood concepts of willpower and motivation, revealing how these fleeting resources can hold us back from achieving our goals. Here’s what we’ll be covering: -Why willpower and motivation are unreliable resources and shouldn’t be viewed as prerequisites to going for your goals -Why you need to get clear on what really matters to you first -Why dumping the all-or-nothing mindset allows for realistic progress and eases motivation struggles -How to develop the art of patience, dump the cookie cutter approaches and find a strategy that feels good for you as an individual -Putting this all together to discover your own formula for lasting success. Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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181 Five Ways to More Energy in 2025 (in ways you haven’t even considered!) 28:58

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BOOK YOUR UNSTUCK & UNSTOPPABLE SESSION RIGHT HERE >>> https://chickfit.co.uk/unstuck-unstoppable/ *And receive a complimentary 45 minute follow up session (for a limited time only) One of the biggest complaints I get from women is that they’re knackered - exhausted, fatigued, burnt out - call it what you will, it feels like a bit of an epidemic. And the thing is I could sit here and give you 10 practical tips to increase your energy, but I’m fairly sure if you’re in the exhausted camp you don’t need yet another strategy or hack. In fact, what you probably need is to look at growing your energy in a completely different way. So, that’s exactly what we’re doing today - 5 ways to have more energy this year that you probably haven’t even considered. Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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180 The Truth About Self-Control: Why You Struggle and How to Fix It 31:00

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Discover how Unstuck & Unstoppable can help you and book your session here - https://pages.chickfit.co.uk/unstuck-unstoppable/ Struggling with self-control around food, exercise, and wellness is a common challenge, especially as the new year approaches. So this week we’re taking a deep dive to understanding the nature of self-control, exploring why it often feels elusive and how we can reclaim it in a way that feels liberating rather than restrictive. Here’s what you’re going to take away from this episode: -Self-control is often a learned behaviour influenced by our upbringing and experiences. -Understanding the roots of our lack of self-control can lead to effective solutions. -How calming the nervous system is crucial for improving self-regulation and decision-making. Get ready to transform your mindset and discover practical steps to achieve your fitness and wellness goals with ease and confidence. Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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179 Redefining Consistency: Your New Approach to Fitness Goals 16:35

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Discover how Unstuck & Unstoppable can help you and book your session here - https://pages.chickfit.co.uk/unstuck-unstoppable/ Consistency is often touted as the key to achieving our fitness and wellbeing goals, but in truth the rigid ideas we have about what this really means can actually hold us back. Because so many of us get stuck in a cycle of self-criticism when we can't maintain the perfect routine, leading to frustration and, ultimately, giving up. So this week, we’re diving into how we can redefine the concept of consistency in a way that will benefit our long term success in a life that ebbs and flows. This is about allowing more ease, rather than the relentless push for perfection that we often feel we need to sustain. We’re going to talk about: -How consistency is a long-term commitment rather than a rigid daily routine we must stick to. -Why it's important to adapt our fitness and nutrition goals according to life’s changing seasons. -Allowing ourselves flexibility in our routines so we can reduce the pressure to be perfect. Resources: -My website https://www.chickfit.co.uk/ -Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alixchickfit -Review and subscribe to my podcast https://www.podfollow.com/chickfit…

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178 When You’re Doing ALL the Things, but Nothing is Changing. How to Get Unstuck. 35:17

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