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The Kelly Roach Show

1112. From Personal Health Crisis to 500K+ Lives Changed: Amanda Tress on Building Faster Way to Fat Loss

The Kelly Roach Show

Kelly Roach

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What does it really take to build a global movement without sacrificing your health, faith, or family in the process?

In this powerful guest episode, Kelly sits down with Amanda Tress, founder of Faster Way to Fat Loss, to unpack how a personal health crisis turned into one of the most impactful fitness and nutrition movements in the world, serving hundreds of thousands of women globally.

Amanda shares the story behind Faster Way's growth, from her early struggles with blood pressure, insulin resistance, and PCOS to pioneering a science-backed approach to fat loss that challenges the "eat less, move more" narrative.

Kelly and Amanda dive into what it means to stay mission-driven while navigating massive shifts in the marketplace, including GLP-1s, peptides, perimenopause, and the growing confusion women face around health and fitness.

This conversation goes far beyond just fitness. Amanda opens up about:

  • Leading with faith in business

  • Building an affiliate-powered movement instead of relying on ads

  • Creating economic opportunity for women

  • Raising five kids while scaling a global brand

  • Why relevance, timing, and conviction matter more than hustle

If you're an entrepreneur, leader, or woman navigating growth in a noisy, rapidly changing world, this episode will ground you, challenge you, and inspire you to lead courageously.

Timestamps:

01:30 – 05:00: Amanda's personal health journey: blood pressure meds, insulin resistance, and a turning point

05:00 – 07:45: Why traditional diet and exercise fail fat-loss-resistant women

07:45 – 11:30: GLP-1s, peptides, perimenopause (and why the market is more confused than ever)

11:30 – 14:30: Strength training, carb cycling, and the science behind Faster Way

14:30 – 17:30: Personalized nutrition, intermittent fasting, and the role of AI

17:30 – 19:15: How to get started with Faster Way to Fat Loss

19:15 – 23:45: Moving to Costa Rica, family integration, and redefining freedom as a CEO

23:45 – 27:30: The Faster Way business model: affiliates, timing, and building a movement

27:30 – 30:30: Faith, generosity, and trusting God with growth

30:30 – 33:45: Launching a church and witnessing exponential, unexplainable growth

33:45 – 36:45: Loneliness at the top, mentorship, and leading as a values-driven woman:

36:45 – 39:30: Advice for entrepreneurs: focus, prayer, community, and staying on mission

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Transcript

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0:00.0

First of all, I always say that the most important predictor of success for any business is not the team working hard behind the scenes, not the idea, not how much the founder hustles or how charismatic he or she is.

0:14.0

It's actually just timing in the marketplace. It is timing in the marketplace.

0:29.2

Yeah. timing in the marketplace. Oh my gosh, you guys.

0:31.1

So I have Amanda Trust with me here today, who I have known for years now.

0:35.7

And we met actually back in the day in one of Allie Brown's

0:40.2

programs. And I watched Amanda build one of the craziest movements globally that I think anyone

0:50.7

has ever witnessed. So if you have been under a rock and you don't know Amanda Truss, she is the founder of the

0:55.7

faster way to Fat Law.

0:57.6

So Amanda, I am so excited to have you here on the show today.

1:01.5

I am thrilled to be here.

1:02.9

And it is so interesting to think back, gosh, so many years to when we first met.

1:08.1

And it's been such an inspiration to watch you as well, build your empire

1:12.3

and impact so many people. And you spoke at my conference for my coaches once. It's just been so fun

1:18.0

to continue to connect with you through the years. Yeah. And one of the things that I just admire

1:23.4

so much about you, Amanda. And so for some people that don't know, like, Amanda is like in it

1:29.1

with her family. Her kids are like with her all the time. She's like at the track meets.

1:34.5

And she, I mean, you guys are like, I love how you have been able to truly integrate faith and

1:42.7

family and fitness and freedom into this movement that you've

1:47.3

thought. And just so that everybody understands when I'm saying movement, we're talking hundreds

1:51.0

of thousands of clients around the globe. I'm not like, I know a lot of people think they're

1:55.4

building a movement and it's like, you know, a few people. We're talking hundreds of thousands

1:59.3

of lives change with a faster way of fat loss. So, so, I mean, let's skip everybody, because there might be some people here that don't know, like, what the faster way is all about. Like, let's start by giving a snapshot of that. I know it started with you with your own health, right? Like, you had some health things, and you had to figure some stuff out for yourself. So maybe you can share a

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