Welcome to Style Your Mind, a podcast for women who want to design their thoughts, empower themselves, and build a beautiful life.

I'm your host, Kara Al-Waleba, best-selling author and master life coach.

I am obsessed with women on the edge of change, and I've worked with hundreds of those women all around the world to help them unlock the best

version of themselves and fulfill their potential. If you're ready to style your mind and transform

your life, then you're in the right place. Let's do this. Hello, hello, and welcome

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Check out her special programs and offers that she created just for our listeners at deseratew.com slash sleigh. All right, guys. So this episode is going to be all about health,

wellness, fitness, how to get it done, how to make it a part of your life, how to stop hating

it, how to stop hating your body.

And I'm going to share really my own personal journey with you guys about how I kind of made peace with the idea of eating healthy and working out and really reprogrammed my mind

to stop dreading it, to stop looking at it as a chore, to stop looking at it as something that

controls me, and start understanding the power in being healthy. And specifically,

the power in being healthy and how that affects me in terms of my business, my creativity, my success, and all of that stuff. So I'm going to back up the bus here a little bit. You guys probably know this. If you've followed me for a little bit, a little while, oh my God, why can't I talk to you guys? This is what happens when I work out too much. But if you guys have been listening and reading my books and kind of hanging

around for a while, you know my story, right? So I'm going to put it out there. I am not an expert in this area. I am not like any kind of fitness guru. I am not super fit. I am not skinny. I'm not any of those things. I am a curvy girl. I'm a girl who has gained and lost the same 15, 20 pounds, her whole damn life.

I've been on Weight Watchers a thousand times. I have been on Jenny Craig a thousand times.

I have done keto. I have done low carb. I've done everything. I have done so much psychological

damage to myself from going on and off a diet, from hating my body, from being

okay with my body, from obsessing over food, obsessing over working out or not working out.

And I got to a point a couple of years ago where I was just done.

And I was looking for something to get into, something to kind of motivate me, something to, I thought, changed my body, which it did, but at the time I was really, I thought I was looking for a change to my body. I thought I was looking for like just a workout program. And I got so much more out of it. And that was SoulCycle. And again, if you followed me for a while, you know all about my journey. I've been riding SoulCycle for like two and a half years, which is kind of insane

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