Episode 300: 9 Years, 300 Episodes & Everything I've Learned About Fitness, Identity & Showing Up | with host Chris Beal and Emily Duncan
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
300 episodes. 9 years. And for this one, we're flipping the script! Chris is hijacking the podcast and hosting, and I'm in the guest chair for the first time. This felt like the perfect way to mark a milestone of one of my favorite parts of my job. The podcast will turn nine years old this summer, and looking back at who I was when I recorded episode one versus who I am sitting here at episode 300 is… a lot. Chris asks me the questions I usually ask other people, and naturally, it gets deep fast (including some of the most honest thoughts I've probably ever shared about the fitness industry).
Here's what we get into:
- What I believed about my purpose 9 years ago that was completely wrong, and why I'm grateful it was
- The shadow side of being "10 toes down" and how bodybuilding taught me to recognize my edge before I fly over it
- How I transitioned from competitor identity to high-standard lifestyle fitness (and why it took 3 full years)
- Self-awareness: where it started, how social media criticism shaped it, and the difference between healthy self-questioning and keeping yourself small
- In-groups and why niche communities are powerful until they forget they overlap
- The body positivity over-correction that silenced great fat loss coaches and gave the microphone to terrible ones
- Why fitness professionals who use fat people as clickbait are bad at marketing (and bad at their jobs)
- The "skinny tok" trend and how over-correction in the fitness space helped it play out in our specific niche
- Do people actually want to change, or do they want to feel like the kind of person who wants to change?
- The "chocolate chip in the cookie of the world" and why you don't have to change the world to change lives
First and foremost: thank you. Whether you've been here since 2017 or you just found the show, thank you for making this possible. 300 episodes in nine years. I haven't been perfect, but I've been consistently consistent. And if there's one thing I can encourage you to do: if you have something you love, something you're passionate about, something you think you can make an impact doing, just go do it. It would be an insult to me and however many hours you've spent listening to this show if you didn't.
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| 0:00.0 | And honestly, I would go so far as to say that the whole skinny talk thing that we're seeing now is obviously it's largely cultural, but I think in our fitness niche is somewhat a byproduct of that. |
| 0:12.3 | Because now we've given the microphone to people that do not know shit about what they're talking about when it comes to fitness and fat loss in a healthy |
| 0:21.6 | and sustainable way. Welcome to Embody Radio, the premier podcast for ambitious women ready to |
| 0:27.1 | elevate their body, mind, and life to the next level. On this show, we've used high performance, |
| 0:32.2 | wellness and aesthetics, and self-mastery into a real world blueprint for personal excellence. Each |
| 0:37.3 | week, you'll get real, grounded strategies and unfiltered conversations with high performers |
| 0:41.5 | who walk the talk, no fluff, and no fake hype. |
| 0:44.3 | Because excellence isn't an accident. |
| 0:46.8 | It's embodiment. |
| 0:48.1 | And this is Embody Radio. |
| 0:50.4 | What is up and welcome back to Embody Radio where excellence isn't an accident. |
| 0:53.8 | It's something you live. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm your host, Emily Duncan, and we are here for the 300th episode of the show today, which is crazy. |
| 1:02.7 | You can't see it if you're listening, but Chris just gave us our clocket fingers. But episode 300, |
| 1:08.7 | the podcast will turn nine years old in the summer. So this is a special day. |
| 1:14.4 | This is a special day. And first and foremost, I just wanted to thank every single one of you that |
| 1:18.3 | listened to this show, whether you've been around since it started in 2017 or you're a new |
| 1:22.4 | listener to the show. This is one of my absolute favorite parts of my job. So just thank you for |
| 1:27.1 | making it possible for me and us to do this, |
| 1:29.6 | for making it so that we can continue to get incredible guests and partners on the show. |
| 1:33.3 | And just for being devoted to your own growth and development, |
| 1:36.1 | because that's what we're here to do on this show. |
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