Project Weight Loss
Your best life is just one project away. The Project Weight Loss Podcast is where you will learn the tools and skills to change what is weighing you down, lose weight and above all, improve your quality of life. This reinvention of your life could have a tremendous ripple effect in all you do and everyone you touch. To learn more and work with us visit https://projectweightloss.org.
Episodes
229 episodes
Practice Being a Super Ager
Hi my dears! This week I'm diving into one of my favorite topics: how to strive to have a great and long life. These are the amazing folks in their 80s and beyond whose memory is as sharp as someone 20 or 30 years younger. I share what research...
Heard - Not Agreed With
Ever notice the people who make you feel closest to you aren't necessarily the ones who agree with everything you say — they're the ones who actually hear you? This week I'm talking about what it really means to feel heard instead o...
5 Truths to Lift us Up
Hey friends, welcome!What if the weight we're really carrying isn't on our bodies at all? I walk through five things I've watched show up again and again in every real transformation I've witnessed — in my own life, with my coaching clie...
Eyes on Your Plate, Eyes on Your Lane
This week I want to talk about something I've been sitting with: eyes on your plate, eyes on your lane. I was actually writing these notes when I found out Dolly Parton had passed away, and it sent me into a whole reflection on boun...
The No-Willpower Guide to Ending Night Eating
Project Weight Loss, LLC · @fina.projectweightloss · projectweightloss.org Ever finish dinner, close the kitchen, and somehow still end up back at the fridge an hour later? In this...
Fear-Less: Braver Than the Fear
I've stood in front of a thousand people on a livestream and thought, what were you thinking, Fi? Sit yourself down. If you've ever felt that same drop in your stomach — before a flight, a hard conversation, a moment in the spotlight —...
Temperance: Homer Figured Out Self-Control 3,000 Years Before We Did
The One Virtue That Makes All the Others WorkDid you catch The Odyssey in theaters? I went with my daughter and my honey a couple weeks ago, and Christopher Nolan's version got me thinking about one scene in particular — Odysseu...
The #1 Predictor of Whether Your Relationship Survives
There's one small habit — noticed decades ago by researchers watching married couples through a one-way mirror — that predicts, with startling accuracy, whether a relationship lasts or falls apart. It's not about how often you fight. <...
Strength Maester: Cheryl Strayed
She hiked over a thousand miles alone with a backpack too heavy for her body, no real experience, and a grief she didn't know what else to do with — and somehow, that walk became one of the most honest books ever written about coming back to yo...
Maester Athletes — What Messi, Mbappé, and Yamal Can Teach Us
This week I'm breaking format for a special Maester Athletes episode, built around this year's World Cup 2026 of soccer. I tell the story behind the photo that went viral right before the match — Lionel Messi bathing a baby at a cha...
Updated: The World Cup, and a Thousand and One Places to See
This week, with the World Cup finals in full swing and my last team, France, still standing, I'm taking my podcast audience on a trip through 101 "so to speak" places I've loved and a few I'm still chasing — from watching monarch butterflies bl...
The 24-Hour Body Clock That Controls Your Weight, Sleep & Energy
In this episode, I am offering something that has genuinely changed the way I think about my body — the circadian rhythm. I share what this 24-hour internal clock actually is, why researchers say it runs everything from your metabol...
Finding Fun - A Life Well Lived
What if the fun you're chasing is actually working against you? This week I'm digging into why some fun fades the second it's over, while other fun sticks with you for years — and it comes down to a couple of things researchers can actually exp...
Real People: Why "Ordinary" vs. "Powerful" Is a Lie
We've all used the phrase "real people" — meaning the regular folks, the everyday ones, as opposed to the famous, the wealthy, the powerful. But what if that whole distinction is a lie? This week, I'm pulling apart the binary between "ordinary"...
This Unsexy Food Might Be the Secret to a Longer Life
The Quiet Power of Legumes.What if the secret to a longer, healthier life isn’t trendy, expensive, or Instagram-worthy — it’s sitting in a can in your pantry right now? Today, I break down why legumes show up again and again in the diets...
I Can’t Get No Satisfaction — Or Can I?
The Capacity to Have and Live “Whole” - ContentmentWhat if the word you’ve been underestimating your whole life is the very key to what you’ve been reaching for? In this episode, we explore contentment — not as a lesser versi...
The Missing Piece That Makes Exercise Actually Stick (Exercise Part 2)
I have been in your shoes — starting strong, riding the wave of motivation, and then one day, without warning, just... stopping. In this episode, I dig into why that happens, and I promise you, it is not a willpower problem. It is an e...
Stop Waiting to Feel Motivated: The Exercise System That Actually Works
Have you been "about to start exercising" for longer than you'd like to admit? You're not lazy — you're human. And that's exactly the problem this episode solves.In Part 1 of this two-part series, we're ditching the motivation myth and r...
Living Free from Food Obsession
In this episode, I'm sitting with something that has weighed on so many of us for far too long — the relentless mental noise around food, what I call food chatter, and what it actually takes to quiet it for good. I'm not talking about another m...
Maester Dr. Judson Brewer — Breaking the Habit Loop
What if everything you thought you knew about breaking a bad habit was wrong? In this episode of Project Weight Loss, we sit down — well, metaphorically — with one of the most brilliant scientific minds in the field of habit change and mindfuln...
The Gift of Curiosity — And the Place That's Been Giving It Away for Free
Curiosity, Habit Loops & the Hidden Treasure of Your Local LibraryWhat if the reason you can't stop eating had nothing to do with willpower — and everything to do with your brain running on autopilot?Th...
The Astonishing Light of Your Own Being
Life has a way of getting lifely — and this episode was born right in the middle of mine. In Episode 208, I get personal about a season that brought me to stillness, to my car, to my breath — and ultimately, to a word that changed everything fo...
The Space Between Impulse and Action
Episode 207The Practice of Not ReactingThis week, I’m sharing something that has been quietly shaping my life for years—and I don’t think we talk about it enough in a practical way.We spend so much time trying to “fix” our ...