Mind Over Muscles: How Your Mind Can Make or Break Your Progress with Daniel McKenna
Wellness Her Way with Gracie Norton
Dear Media
4.6 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Episode 101. In this episode, I’m joined by personal trainer Daniel McKenna, who helps women shift their mindset and celebrate their strength. We talk about why mindset should come before nutrition or exercise, the unique benefits of strength training for women, and the difference between weight-loss and fat-loss. Daniel also breaks down the power of progressive overload and why it’s the key to building sustainable results. This conversation will inspire you to rethink your fitness journey and focus on strengthening the mind and shift the way you speak to yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:07.5 | You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Norton, and I'm so excited |
| 0:12.8 | to provide you with the space where you get to shape what wellness feels like to you. |
| 0:16.8 | Wellness Her Way is where we make a home of our body, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on trends for short-term results. |
| 0:23.0 | We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it, respect it, and embrace it through all its forms. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way. |
| 0:38.8 | Today we have the Daniel McKenna with us, aka the Irish Yank. |
| 0:43.9 | What an intro. |
| 0:44.8 | What an intro. |
| 0:46.0 | Perfect. |
| 0:46.6 | And for the ladies listening, if you like a good Irish accent, this one's for you. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, hopefully I'll understand what I'm saying. |
| 0:53.1 | I really do. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm going to try my best. He just asked our producer, he's like, does this have a, is Mike have an Irish translator? Does this Mike translate Irish people? I'm dying, but he came over last night and you were hanging out with Joey. We actually met through Joey and we were like, we got to talk in. And he trains primarily women. He's a personal |
| 1:11.8 | trainer. And I was getting fired up about the convo. And I was like, let's just, let's just record |
| 1:17.3 | tomorrow. We got a chat about all the things. And I would say the biggest thing that I was |
| 1:22.5 | the most interested in when I heard you talking about the way you train and whatnot was just how |
| 1:27.0 | much you focus on mindset. So we're going to get into that. But first, I want to know how you got into |
| 1:32.8 | personal training. I know that you train primarily women. Was that something that you wanted? Or did it |
| 1:38.1 | kind of just like happen that way? This is, it's not the first time as somebody's asked me that. |
| 1:43.7 | Yeah. And my response is I just got very lucky in terms of, I live in Manhattan and I started working, training out of people in Chelsea, the West Village of Manhattan. I do love training women because they're just, they're so eager to learn, to wanting to get better. And their attitude towards training, I find is just, it is amazing. So it's always a |
| 2:02.0 | pleasure for training. Yeah, I love what you said last night and we were talking as well. And you're |
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