Lori Harder: Transforming Anxiety Into Action and Elevation
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
How does a fearful kid from the midwest with severe social anxiety and a struggling self-image end up on the cover of magazines and teaching women how to love themselves?
That's the story in today's episode of Good Life Project, featuring Lori Harder. Growing up in Michigan, Lori found herself increasingly anxious about more and more things, from the size of her body to her ability to fit in. Not surprising for a young teen. But, add to that being born into a faith with an ethos of separation from outsiders, and you've got a perfect recipe for amplified struggle.
In her early teens, though, something changed that began to bring Harder out of her shell. And, that was just the beginning. She eventually transformed herself into not just a fit and confident woman, but a cover model and an advocate not just for fitness, but for a more complete approach to wellbeing. She now teaches and speaks on this in her workshops and keynotes and retreats.
As she writes in her manifesto, "Beauty is a way of being. Strength means showing up. Fierce self-love is our only choice."
In today's episode, we dive into this journey, especially the early years and explore how family, faith and culture mixed together to create an experience that, looking back, she's grateful for as she emerges into her own path.
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| 0:00.0 | I think I was just surrounding myself with so much inspiration that all of a sudden |
| 0:08.1 | it was like I was staring at these people and staring at these covers and I thought that's |
| 0:12.2 | what I want to do. |
| 0:13.4 | I want to be this inspiration for other people. |
| 0:20.0 | Today's guest, Lori Harder, spends pretty much most of her days building businesses and |
| 0:24.7 | helping women stand in a place of health and vibrance and vitality. |
| 0:30.0 | She also has graced the cover of a number of different health and fitness magazines as |
| 0:34.8 | a cover model. |
| 0:36.8 | This really sounds odd for somebody who actually knew who she was as a kid because Lori grew |
| 0:42.5 | up in a town in Michigan where she was part of a faith-based community where she was largely |
| 0:47.7 | isolated from the entire outside world. |
| 0:51.7 | And in her early teens, she developed a pretty severe anxiety disorder and also struggled |
| 0:56.7 | with weight as did her entire family. |
| 0:59.6 | And she was the person that you would think would be the last one to end up doing what |
| 1:03.7 | she's doing yet. |
| 1:05.3 | Somehow something happened, a switch flipped and all of a sudden everything came pouring |
| 1:11.4 | out with Lori and led to years of transformation and healing and now her standing in a place |
| 1:16.7 | being able to turn around and do that for other people. |
| 1:20.3 | We dive into this really powerful journey in today's conversation. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm Jonathan Fields. |
| 1:26.3 | This is Good Life Project. |
| 1:32.0 | Really kind of fascinated by your story, by your journey. |
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