A strategic podcast where Amy Ledin talks about the main F’s that have influenced her life and have helped her in creating her best self. She covers areas in faith, family, forgiveness, food, fitness, and formula. She will deep dive into how placing her baby for adoption at 18, losing almost 100 pounds, facing her marriage-ending affair, and battling stage 4 cancer for almost 7 years, has only made her stronger. Join Amy as she takes you through her story, her life-changing struggles, and shares…
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What happens when you're finally in a great fitness groove—and one injury suddenly takes it away? In this Twisted Tuesday episode, Amy walks through an honest weekly self-audit that becomes a much bigger lesson about discipline, ego, setbacks, and staying aligned with the person you want to be. After experiencing significant back pain following a leg workout, Amy learns she'll be out of the gym…
If your goal has been fat loss for months, but the scale keeps landing in the exact same 5 pound range, this episode is about the gap between those two things. I call it accidental maintenance. Your intention is fat loss… but working hard all week and loose all weekend adds up to the exact same static outcome as an intentional maintenance phase, minus every benefit that phase is actually supposed…
It’s easy to tell yourself you’re doing fine. It’s harder to look in the accountability mirror and actually measure it. In this Twisted Tuesday, Amy breaks down the weekly audit she uses to assess whether her actions are aligned with the person she wants to be. She explains why tracking your behavior matters, how seemingly small broken promises can affect your confidence and “self-love meter,” and…
What would you do if the scale suddenly jumped nearly four pounds overnight? Years ago, Amy admits that a result like this could have sent her into a spiral of frustration, food sabotage, excessive exercise, and negative self-talk. Today, she understands that a single weigh-in is only one data point—and often a misleading one. In this episode: Amy delivers an important reality check about scale…
What happens when you're surrounded by cookies, donuts, coffee, and treats every month—but food no longer controls your thoughts? In this Twisted Tuesday episode, Amy reflects on nearly two years of volunteering at her church café and the surprising lessons it's taught her about dieting, food guilt, and emotional eating. She shares how years of restrictive dieting once made baking feel stressful…
Here's what actually happened. The food noise came back louder than I expected, even after twenty years of doing this work. By week three, the scale was climbing instead of dropping, and my own biofeedback tracking, sleep, hunger, digestion, was flashing signals right alongside it. In this episode I walk through exactly what happened, the mistake I made assuming my own formula was automatically…
Why do some people keep growing through hard seasons while others slowly lose momentum? In this candid, on-the-go episode, Amy shares the reality of training close to failure, why progressive overload means your workouts may never truly feel easy, and how learning to tolerate discomfort separates people who simply exercise from those who visibly build strength. Amy also reflects on completing a…
In This Episode: The Mistake Nobody Catches The single biggest training mistake Erik sees in women 40+, even the ones who think they're pushing hard. It comes down to one thing: not appreciating that your recovery ability has changed. Why Short Rest Intervals Are a Silent Killer HIIT, HYROX, boot camps, CrossFit-style metabolic conditioning. Erik explains why short rest interval training comes…
Are your habits truly part of your identity—or do they disappear as soon as the weekend begins? In this episode, Amy explains why Friday night through Sunday can either reinforce your progress or quietly erase the work you completed during the week. She shares how an unexpected change in her routine forced her to examine whether her meals, walking, and personal commitments were dependent on…
In this episode: Why “knowing what to do” is often just trivia, not real awareness, and what real awareness actually sounds like How perimenopause can interfere with your body's hunger and fullness signals (interoceptive awareness) Why this exact objection hits high-achieving, capable women the hardest, and why the LLYT lens explains why force of will doesn't work on a body run by cortisol and…
