The Standards Audit: How High-Performing Women Identify and Close the Gap Between Who They Are and Who They Want to Be | with host Emily Duncan
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Last week we made the case for why you're not only allowed, but encouraged, to raise your standards for yourself, especially when it comes to your body. This week we build the practice. Because a philosophy you can't live isn't a philosophy, it's just a nice idea or a cute Instagram pist. In this episode, we're getting into what low standards actually look like in daily life. Not the obvious version, but the subtle, sneaky ways they show up disguised as practicality, selflessness, or just being realistic. The patterns that feel completely normal from the inside until someone names them and suddenly you can't unsee them.
From there, I'm walking you through a four-step framework for actually raising your standards in real time. Not all at once, not through a dramatic overhaul, but in the specific, sustainable way that makes a new standard stick long enough to become identity. We're also getting into the concrete behaviors the high-standard woman actually lives by: how she trains, how she fuels herself, how she shows up, how she protects her non-negotiables when life gets hard. Not as inspiration, but as a blueprint.
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| 0:00.0 | What does how your body looks and feels like currently reflect about the standard that you're holding |
| 0:06.6 | for yourself? What does your morning routine reflect? What does your diet reflect? What does your |
| 0:13.3 | energy levels reflect? What about the way you talk about your body in private, the things that |
| 0:17.6 | you've been putting off? Do you rely more on your standards or your feelings to guide your actions? Do you feel like your standards are truly giving you what you want them to give? And are the results that you've gotten, proof of the standards that you have? Welcome to Embody Radio, the premiere podcast for ambitious women ready to elevate their body, mind, and life to the next level. On this show, we've used high performance, wellness |
| 0:38.1 | and aesthetics, and self-mastery into a real-world blueprint for personal excellence. Each |
| 0:43.0 | week, you'll get real, grounded strategies and unfiltered conversations with high performers who |
| 0:47.5 | walk the talk, no fluff and no fake hype. Because excellence isn't an accident. It's embodiment. |
| 0:53.9 | And this is Embody Radio. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome back to Embody Radio where excellence isn't an accident. |
| 0:59.3 | It's something you live. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm your host, Emily Duncan. |
| 1:01.2 | And we are back for part two of the mini series on standards. |
| 1:06.8 | So in episode one, I talked a lot about just women owning the fact that they want to look, feel, |
| 1:15.5 | perform, be their best. And I think there's a lot of women out there that really want to be |
| 1:21.8 | that quote unquote full package woman, the woman who is super fit, the woman who dresses well, has an amazing |
| 1:29.9 | career, amazing family, amazing partner, like all of the things. And for one, feels kind of |
| 1:35.6 | guilty about that, especially on the physical side. I talk to so many women that I've literally |
| 1:40.1 | had women be like, hey, don't judge me for this when I ask them what their goal is. And they're |
| 1:44.8 | like, I want to be a hot wife. And I'm like, girl, and this is not enemy territory. This is probably |
| 1:50.5 | the safest. This is ally territory. Like, say it. Like say it out loud. But are for one, women that are |
| 1:56.6 | ashamed of having those standards and those really big desires to want to be and have the full |
| 2:02.0 | package. And then two, the kind of lack of clarity on what it requires to get there and how to |
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