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  Emotionally Intelligent or Just Emotionally Reactive: Why Knowing What You Feel Is Not the Same as Managing It | Ep. 122 11.08.2026 19min

  Do you consider yourself emotionally intelligent?Most people would say yes. And most of those same people have sent an email they immediately regretted. Have made a decision that felt crystal clear in the moment and looked completely different three days later. Have repeated a relationship pattern they could see clearly from the outside and still could not stop from the inside.Here is what nobody told you. Being aware of your emotions and being intelligent about them are not the same thing. Knowing what you feel is step one. What you do with that knowledge is the actual skill. And most people have never been taught that part.In This Episode:What emotional intelligence actually is and why the wellness space has been teaching an incomplete version of it. The difference between emotional awareness and emotional regulation and why you can have one without the other. Why high achievers often have the lowest emotional intelligence despite the highest self-awareness. What emotional reactivity actually looks like in sophisticated high-functioning people and why it passes as strategy. Why managing emotions is not the same as suppressing them. The name it to tame it practice and the neuroscience behind why it works. And the single most powerful emotional intelligence skill you can develop starting today.This episode connects directly to the nervous system conversation from Episode 119. The regulation work and the emotional intelligence work are the same project approached from two different angles. And understanding both changes everything about how you move through your own life.Stay Connected:Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. And if this episode named something you have been experiencing but did not have language for come find me on Instagram and TikTok at ginamariefit. I want to hear what resonated.
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  Nothing Is What It Appears | Unfiltered Bookshelf Vol. 3 | Thriller Book Reviews | Ep.121 04.08.2026 13min

  Every book in this volume is hiding something.A body with a story underneath it nobody was supposed to find. A woman inside an institution where the people meant to protect her are the ones she should fear. A neighborhood full of people who knew exactly what happened to a missing woman and said nothing. And a killer who narrates their own story directly to you from the very first page.Four books. Four completely different setups. One obsession with the gap between what people present and what is actually true.Volume 3 of The Unfiltered Bookshelf introduces two brand new authors to the shelf, delivers the biggest rating jump in this series so far, and has the most honest conversation yet about what happens when a beloved author does not land the same way every time.In This Volume:Dead in the Water by John Marrs: 4 out of 5. A new author earns his place immediately with a morally complex thriller that prioritizes character over plot mechanics. The Inmate by Freida McFadden: 3.5 out of 5. The honest conversation about catalog consistency and what to do when an author you love does not deliver in the same way. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica: 4.5 out of 5. The biggest surprise of the volume and the most significant rating jump in the series so far. When I Kill You by BA Paris: 3.5 out of 5. The most structurally unusual book in this volume and the one that asks the most of its reader.Shop every book mentioned:Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/ginamariefitShopMy Unfiltered Bookshelf: https://shopmy.us/ginamariefit/the-unfiltered-bookshelfStay Connected:Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/New Unfiltered Bookshelf volumes drop monthly. Subscribe so you never miss one. And if you have read any of these books come find me on Instagram and TikTok @theunfilteredbookshelf and tell me your rating. No spoilers. Just the number.
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  Finances, Money Mindset, and Building Stability Without Starting From Wealth | Built Different | Amy Powell of AimWell Financial | Ep.120 28.07.2026 1u 7min

  Money is one of the most avoided conversations in the wellness and empowerment space. Today we are going there completely.Amy Powell CFA is the founder of AimWell Financial with over 20 years of experience in the finance industry. She combines analytical expertise with a deeply personal client-centered approach built on the belief that financial planning should provide clarity, reduce stress, and support a meaningful life. She is not here to talk at you about numbers. She is here to talk with you about the life you actually want to build and what it takes financially to get there.This Built Different conversation goes deep on the money topics most people are carrying quietly. What your childhood money story is doing to your financial decisions right now. How to start building stability when you did not come from wealth and nobody taught you how. What the first real steps look like when you are currently living paycheck to paycheck. The difference between financial discipline and financial deprivation. And what financial peace actually feels like when you finally have a plan you trust.In This Episode:The most common money belief quietly destroying financial futures. What financial trauma actually looks like in adult decision making. How to build a financial foundation while also managing debt. What generational wealth actually means and whether it is realistic to build it from scratch. The biggest financial mistakes people are making right now in response to economic pressure. How to create a financial plan that accounts for real life including the trips, the dinners, and the things that make life worth living. And what being Built Different means to a woman who has spent 20 years helping people build something real from whatever they started with.Connect with Amy Powell:Website: https://www.aimwellfinancial.com/Email: info@aimwellfinancial.comPhone: (727) 335-1874Stay Connected:Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/
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  Wired for Survival: What Burnout Actually Does to Your Nervous System and How to Finally Reset | Ep.119 21.07.2026 21min

  Tell me if this sounds familiar.Your life is actually calmer than it has been in years. The acute crisis has passed. By any reasonable measure you should be able to exhale. And yet your body is still braced. Still scanning. Still finding it genuinely difficult to do nothing without your nervous system treating the silence like a problem to be solved.You are not broken. Your nervous system is just still running from a fire that already went out.This episode is not about burnout as a buzzword. It is about the actual physiological reality of what happens to your nervous system when you have been in survival mode for an extended period and why it does not automatically reset when the circumstances change.In This Episode:What the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems actually are and what each one feels like from the inside. What chronic activation does to the body over time and why you cannot think your way out of a nervous system response. How sustained pressure, health challenges, and years of high output wire the body for threat and why the body does not update when the circumstances change. What nervous system dysregulation actually looks like in high achievers including the version that gets rebranded as ambition. The difference between true regulation and distraction. One specific tool you can use right now with actual physiological evidence behind it. And what the longer work of building a regulated baseline actually looks like in a real life with real pressures.This one is personal. And it connects directly to everything covered in recent episodes about chronic illness, the quieter season, and building a life that finally sends consistent signals of safety to a body that spent years being told it was not safe.Stay Connected:Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. And if this episode named something you have been living with come find me on Instagram and TikTok at ginamariefit. I want to hear what resonated.
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  Rebranding Midlife: Who You Are When the Life You Built No Longer Fits | Ep. 118 14.07.2026 22min

  I want to tell you something I have not said out loud in quite this way before.I do not know who I am in this season of my life.Not in a crisis way. Not in a falling apart way. In the very honest, very quiet, very real way that happens when the life you spent years building is no longer available to you in the same form.For years the answer to who are you was immediate. Trainer. Healthcare worker. Event host. Always building something visible and measurable. My identity and my output were the same thing. And when my health shifted my path and my physical capacity without asking, the identity went with it.Now I am home by six. Dinner by seven. And then what.Some days the quiet feels like a gift. Genuine gratitude for downtime I have not had in five years. Other days that same quiet feels like wasting away. Both on the same Tuesday. That is what an honest in-between season actually looks like.This episode is not about having it figured out. It is a dispatch from the middle of something. And if you are in your own version of a season where the life you built is no longer available in the same form, you found the right episode today.In This Episode:What it looks like when the identity and the output were the same thing and one of them changes. The rollercoaster of gratitude and lostness living in the same body on the same day. The permission slip nobody gave you around rest, rediscovery, and not having a plan. What this quieter season is actually building even when it does not look like it from the outside. And an honest look at midlife not as a crisis but as a recalibration happening in real time.Stay Connected:Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode. Come me on Instagram and TikTok at ginamariefit where I'm sharing the real version of this season in real time.
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  The Author BookTok Loves That I Outgrew and the One Nobody Is Talking About Enough Yet | The Unfiltered Bookshelf Vol. 2 | Ep.117 07.07.2026 22min

  The shelf is growing. And this volume gets completely unfiltered.Volume 1 of The Unfiltered Bookshelf started with a TBI that took reading from me for two years and the author who gave it back. If you have not listened to that one yet go find it first because it is the foundation of everything this series is built on.Volume 2 is where things get honest.I have read every Colleen Hoover book. I kept exactly two of them. And I am going to tell you which two, why those two earned a permanent place on the shelf behind me, and why everything else did not. Not as a pile-on. As someone whose reading taste has evolved and who is not apologizing for it.And then I am going to introduce you to Alice Feeney. The author who has been quietly sitting in BookTok's shadow while Beautiful Ugly finally starts getting the attention her entire catalog deserves. She is a slow burn author who delivers twists that do not stop. And she earned her place on my shelf faster than almost any author I have read this year.Plus two more Freida McFadden additions that pushed deeper into what she is capable of. One that is so completely unhinged it has to be experienced. One that gets mixed reviews because of its content but hit until the absolute final page with a final twist that is going to be devastating when it gets adapted.In This Volume:The Colleen Hoover conversation nobody is having without making it bigger than it needs to be. Why Confess and Verity are the only two five star reads in her catalog for me and what makes Verity the most interesting outlier she has ever written. The honest three out of five on Woman Down. Introducing Alice Feeney and why she deserves more attention than she is getting. The full style comparison between Alice Feeney and Freida McFadden so you know which one to reach for and when. Reviews of His and Hers, My Husband's Wife, Rock Paper Scissors, and Beautiful Ugly. Dear Debbie rated four out of five and absolutely unhinged in the best possible way. The Teacher rated four point five out of five and the twist that will haunt you. Plus Lucy Foley and Mary Kubica join the stack for the first time.The shelf is growing. Come see what earned its place.Shop every book mentioned in this episode:Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/ginamariefitShopMy Unfiltered Bookshelf: https://shopmy.us/ginamariefit/the-unfiltered-bookshelfFollow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitListen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Website and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/New Unfiltered Bookshelf volumes drop monthly. Subscribe so you never miss one.
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  Built Different | Bianca of Discolates: From Disability and Self-Doubt to Building a Movement on Her Own Terms | Ep.116 30.06.2026 48min

  What happens when the very things that made life hardest become the foundation of everything you build? That is exactly the story Bianca, founder of Discolates, tells in this raw and unfiltered Built Different series episode.Bianca was diagnosed with epilepsy, later uncovering ADHD and dyscalculia, a number-based processing condition that nearly kept her from graduating high school. She spent years feeling misunderstood, minimizing who she was to make others comfortable, and questioning whether there was a place in this world for someone who thought and moved differently.Then she built Discolates.What started as a creative outlet during COVID has grown into a full movement rooted in liberation, intentional fitness, and radical acceptance. But the path to get there included trademark infringement battles, burnout, building a business while holding down a full-time job in the nonprofit space, and learning to trust her intuition when everything around her said slow down.In this episode we go deep on:The late diagnosis journey and what it taught her about identity and resilience. How her disability shaped the very DNA of the Discolates experience. Why she almost quit more times than people know. The trademark battle that nearly cost her everything she built. What it really means to build a brand rooted in your personal story. The fine line between community and business and why boundaries matter. And why her brain, once her greatest source of pain, is now her greatest superpower.This one will stay with you. Bianca is the definition of Built Different.New Built Different episodes drop the last Tuesday of every month. Subscribe, leave a review, and let Bianca know in the comments what resonated with you most.Connect with Bianca: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discolatesTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@discolatesSweatpals: https://sweatpals.com/host/DiscolatesConnect with the podcast: Mindset Health and Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer Podcast by subscribing. Episodes drop every Tuesday.
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  The When I Get There Trap: Why the Life You Are Waiting For Is Costing You the Life You Already Have | Ep. 115 23.06.2026 20min

  When the debt is paid I will finally feel okay.When the revenue hits I will be able to breathe.When life calms down I will start taking care of myself.How many of those sentences did you just recognize? Because every single one of them makes your happiness conditional. Every single one of them places joy somewhere in the future past a milestone, past a financial number, past a version of your life that the world told you was the acceptable place to finally exhale.And while you are waiting to get there the actual life you are living right now is passing by.This episode is about the when I get there trap. The pattern of postponing your own joy until the conditions are approved by a checklist you did not write for yourself. Where it comes from. What it is costing you in real specific measurable terms. Why high achievers are the most vulnerable to it. And what it actually looks like to start building joy into the life you have right now. Not the one that is coming. This one.In This Episode:What the societal checklist actually is and why it was never yours to begin with. Why the goalposts keep moving even after you hit the milestone. The specific cost of postponing joy until the conditions are right. What your life is missing while you wait. Why ambition and the inability to rest in a win are deeply connected. The difference between drive that builds you and drive that depletes you. What joy actually looks like in an imperfect life that is still under construction. And what Gina is doing differently right now in real time.When you keep striving for life to be a to-do list or a societally approved checklist you lose the joy in building the life you actually have right now. This episode is about burning the checklist.Stay Connected:Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode.
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  How a TBI Stole Reading From Me for Two Years and the Author Who Gave It Back | The Unfiltered Bookshelf Ep. 1 | Freida McFadden Reviews 16.06.2026 16min

  After my car accident and the TBI that came with it I could not read.Not would not. Could not.Letters came out backwards. Reading went right to left when the page went left to right. What my brain was thinking and what came out on the page did not match. Retention was gone. Concentration was fractured. Eye tracking was completely off.For two years I could not finish a book. And for someone who grew up using intelligence as the one level playing field in an unstable world, losing access to reading was one of the most disorienting and frightening things I have ever experienced.And then in January I picked up The Tenant by Freida McFadden.And I finished it.For the first time since my accident I finished a full book without struggling. Without the letters betraying me. Without breaking down. I read four books that month. And what I did not know when I picked up the first one was who Freida McFadden actually is.She is a physician who specializes in brain injuries and disorders.That is not a coincidence I know how to explain. I just know what it meant.This is the first episode of The Unfiltered Bookshelf, a brand new monthly series on Mindset, Health, Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer. Every month I will share what I am reading, my unfiltered ratings and reactions, what you should pick up, and what you should skip. No literary pretension. No book report. Just honest opinions from someone who loves stories and wants to share them with the people who come here for exactly this kind of real conversation.In This Episode:The full story of my TBI and what it took from me cognitively. What two years without reading actually felt like when intelligence had always been my foundation. The moment I finished The Tenant and what that meant. Who Freida McFadden is and why that detail stopped me completely. And unfiltered reviews of all four books I read in January including The Tenant, The Crash, Never Lie, and The Housemaid.Book Ratings:The Tenant by Freida McFadden: 4 out of 5The Crash by Freida McFadden: 3.75 out of 5Never Lie by Freida McFadden: 4.5 out of 5The Housemaid by Freida McFadden: 4.5 out of 5CONNECT AND SHOPListen on all podcast platforms:  https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch full video reviews on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitShop all books on my Amazon Storefront:  https://www.amazon.com/shop/ginamariefitWebsite and Blog:  https://ginamariefit.com/Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode or a monthly Unfiltered Bookshelf drop. And if you pick up any of these Freida McFadden books after listening DM me on Instagram and tell her what you thought.
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  Why the Wellness Industry Will Celebrate Your Botox and Filler But Shame Your GLP-1 Injections | Ep. 113 09.06.2026 21min

  Let me paint you a picture.Someone walks into a room and they have clearly had work done. Botox. Filler. The room responds with you look amazing. Tell me your injector.Now that same person mentions they are using a GLP-1 medication prescribed by their doctor to manage a chronic weight condition that their body has been fighting for years.And suddenly the room has a completely different response. You are taking the easy way out. That is cheating. You have not earned it.Both are injections. Both modify the body. Both are personal medical decisions made with a healthcare provider. And yet one is a wellness flex and the other is a moral failure.That is a double standard. A glaring, hypocritical, industrywide double standard. And this episode is naming it directly.In This Episode:Why the specific comparison between botox, filler, and GLP-1s exposes a logic the wellness industry cannot defend. What the judgment is actually about and why it has nothing to do with the medication itself. The fitness industry's long history of selective standards around steroids, cosmetic surgery, and disordered eating repackaged as discipline. The weight stigma at the root of all of it and why the judgment followed the stigma not the science. And what bodily autonomy actually looks like when it is applied consistently across every personal medical decision a person makes about their own body.This is the most unfiltered thing I have said on this show in a long time. And it needed to be said.Stay Connected:Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode. Share this with every trainer and wellness professional who has ever had an opinion about what someone else does with their own body. And DM me on Instagram if this episode said something you needed to hear.
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  Resilience, Reinvention, and Raising a Family While Building a Global Business Empire | Isabella Honrado Rosal | Ep. 112 26.05.2026 1u 3min

  Some people are built by comfort. Isabella Honrado Rosal was built by something else entirely.She grew up on a sugar cane farm in the Philippines, watching her mother distill, learning from her earliest years what it means to create something from almost nothing. She did not wait for opportunity to find her. She became someone who built it, chased it, and refused to let her circumstances write the ending.Today Isabella is the founder of 7th Sky Ventures, an internationally recognized leader, a world traveler, a mother raising her family around the world and a woman who has survived more curve balls, pivots, and reinventions than most people face in a lifetime. Never once did she lose the human core that makes her one of the most compelling leaders in any room she enters.This Built Different conversation goes all the way in. We talk about growing up on that farm in the Philippines and the values that rural life embedded in her before she even had language for them. We talk about her mother, still distilling and what that lineage of grit and craft means to Isabella today. We talk about building 7th Sky Ventures across international markets, raising a family while living and traveling the world, and the hustler mentality she has carried since she was young enough to realize that ordinary was never going to be the life she wanted.But more than the accolades and the accomplishments, this conversation is about the person underneath all of it. The pivots that tested her. The changes that were not chosen. The reinventions that required her to let go of who she had been in order to become who she needed to be. And the way she has navigated all of it without losing the warmth, the humanity, and the genuine impact that define her leadership at every level.This is what the Built Different series was created for.Isabella Honrado Rosal is proof that where you start has nothing to do with where you are capable of going — and everything to do with what you choose to carry with you on the way.Listen now on Mindset, Health, Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer. Subscribe so you never miss a Built Different conversation and follow @ginamariefit and @theunfilteredtrainer for new episodes every Tuesday.Connect with Isabella:Website: https://7thskyventures.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beahonradorosal/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maisabellahrosal/
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  Visibility Is Not Vanity: Why Being Afraid to Be Seen Is Costing You Everything | Ep.111 19.05.2026 22min

  Visibility is not vanity.It is not arrogance. It is not self-promotion for the sake of ego. It is not bragging or oversharing or making everything about you. Those are the stories we tell ourselves to justify staying small. And they are some of the most convincing lies a person can believe because they come dressed up in humility.Every day you pull back, water it down, delete the draft, or talk yourself out of the ask, something real is lost. Not just for you. For the person who needed to hear exactly what you were about to say and did not get it because fear got there first.Episode 111 is about what it actually costs to keep choosing invisibility over being fully seen. Not in theory. In the specific, measurable, accumulating cost of staying hidden when you were built to be undeniable.In This Episode:What visibility actually is and why most people are performing it instead of practicing it. Why the content that stops people is never the most polished, it is always the most honest. The three internal barriers keeping you hidden, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and the approval addiction connection. The real cost of playing small across your income, your relationships, and your legacy. What choosing visibility actually looks like as a daily practice. And the personal story of what happened when Gina chose to stop editing herself in 2026.This is the conversation most people in this space are not willing to have. Because having it requires being seen. And that is exactly the point.Stay Connected:Listen to the podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode and share this with someone who is brilliant and hiding. They need to hear this one.
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  Debt, Survival, and the American Dream That Was Never Real | Ep. 110 12.05.2026 33min

  Nobody is saying this out loud. So I will.Gas is almost five dollars. Groceries have doubled. Housing is out of reach for most working people. Interest rates are strangling people who did everything right. And somewhere in the middle of all of that you are supposed to be building a business, paying off debt, saving for a future, and performing like everything is fine.I am working seventy hours a week right now. Actively paying down debt. Building this podcast and this business in the middle of the same economic pressure that millions of people are drowning in. And I recorded this episode because the most powerful thing I can do for this community is tell the truth, not the highlight reel version, the real one.The American Dream as it was sold to us was built on economic conditions that no longer exist. And if you have been working as hard as you know how to work and you are still not getting ahead, I need you to hear this clearly. That is not a personal failure. That is a systemic reality.In This Episode:Where the money story starts — how growing up in financial instability installs a set of beliefs that quietly run every financial decision you make as an adult. The American Dream lie, why the formula stopped working and what it does to your self worth when the math no longer adds up. The scarcity loop, fear of charging what you are worth, fear of investing in yourself, and why more money does not automatically fix a broken money story. Your worth is not your net worth, permanently separating your value as a human being from your financial position. Building in the middle of the mess, what intention looks like when the pressure is real and the circumstances are not cooperating.This is the most honest episode I have recorded about money. And it is long overdue.Stay Connected:Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode. And share this with someone who is grinding themselves into the ground wondering what is wrong with them. Nothing is wrong with them.
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  Your Gut Is Talking. Are You Listening? What Living With a GI Condition Taught Me About Productivity, Mental Health, and Showing Up | Ep. 109 05.05.2026 33min

  There is a version of my story that looks clean from the outside. The podcast. The coaching. The content that drops every Tuesday without fail.And then there is the version nobody sees.I have been managing a chronic and progressive GI condition since I was twenty-five. I also have spinal damage that affects nerve function to my gut, which compounds everything. Over the last year the flares have gotten longer, more complicated, and harder to recover from. I stopped hosting events. I stepped back from in-person personal training. I lost muscle I spent years building because I was fatiguing too quickly to maintain the workouts that used to be non-negotiable for me. And I got quieter. More isolated. Not by choice, by necessity.Today I am telling the story. Because I think there are people listening right now who are managing something similar in silence. Who are pushing through symptoms and calling it discipline. Who are performing for everyone around them while their body is fighting a war nobody can see.This episode is for you.In This Episode:What the gut brain connection actually is and why your gut health is affecting your brain, your mood, and your emotional baseline at a physiological level. How chronic gut inflammation creates brain fog that has nothing to do with motivation or discipline. Why your gut is disrupting your sleep before you even close your eyes and what that loop is doing to your recovery. The mood and anxiety piece that nobody connects to gut health and the grief that comes with a progressive condition. What the last year of isolation, pulling back, and rebuilding has actually looked like. And what it means to build a life that works with your body instead of constantly fighting against it.Stay Connected:Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode. And if this conversation resonates with you DM Gina on Instagram — she reads every single message. Share this with someone who needs to know they are not alone in this.
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  191 Pounds Down and Off 25 Medications | The Truth About Mindset and Holistic Weight Loss with Mari Ayala 28.04.2026 46min

  She lost 191 pounds, got off 25 prescriptions, and rebuilt her entire life from the inside out.  This is Mari's story and it will change how you think about health, healing, and what's possible.In this episode of Built Different, I sit down with Mari (MariWithThe411) a holistic wellness entrepreneur, community advocate, who is living proof that transformation starts with truth. What began as a personal health journey, has now impacted all aspects of her life, her health, and her purpose creating her own business.We go deep on: How Mari lost 191 lbs through a holistic wellness approach, no gimmicks, no shortcuts Getting off 25 prescription medications through lifestyle change Being misdiagnosed with a disability and what that journey taught her about self-advocacy Launching her own health and wellness business to guide others through their own transformations Her nonprofit work and the impact she's making directly in the Tampa Bay communityWhether you're at the beginning of your own journey or you're a wellness entrepreneur building something that matters, this episode is for you.Built Different is a monthly interview series featuring thought leaders, business owners, entrepreneurs, and impact makers who are rewriting the rules and showing up differently. New episode every month, subscribe so you never miss one. Listen and subscribe to Mindset, Health, Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer podcast episodes drop every TuesdayFollow Mari and start your own journey:Website: MariWithThe411.com Instagram: @MariWithThe411 Facebook: facebook.com/MariWithThe411 LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/marielaayala Links:linktr.ee/askmariwiththe411Non-Profits & Resources From This Episode: https://www.wheelsofsuccess.orghttps://www.200mwwc.org/https://redefinerswl.org/https://ermovement.com/https://thediamondintherough.love/https://www.mrbshowers.com/
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  The People Pleasing Tax: How Saying Yes to Everyone Is Bankrupting You | Ep.107 21.04.2026 31min

  Think about the last time someone asked you to do something and you said yes when every single part of you wanted to say no. Now think about how many times that happens in a week. In a month. In a year.That is the tax. And in this episode, we go completely unfiltered about what people pleasing is actually costing you, where it came from, what it is doing to your relationships, and what it looks like to finally choose yourself without the guilt that has been holding you hostage your entire life.People pleasing is not kindness. It is self-abandonment with a smile on its face. And it has been running your life for so long that you stopped seeing it as a choice and started seeing it as your personality. This episode changes that.In This Episode:What people pleasing actually is and why it is not kindness, generosity, or just the way you are wiredThe invisible energy drain of constantly managing everyone else's emotions before your ownThe approval addiction loop and why achievement never fills the hole it createsWhat it is doing to your closest relationships and the loneliness of being loved for a performanceHow to say no without guilt, without explanation, and without abandoning yourself to fix someone else's disappointmentHow to rebuild your voice after years of deferring to everyone else's needsThis one is for the person who says yes to everything and looks exhausted doing it. Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode and share this with someone who needs it today.Don't forget to drop a comment on this episode and let me know what part of the episode resonated with you the most.Follow on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog:  https://ginamariefit.com/
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  What Winning Is Actually Costing You | The Mental and Emotional Price of Ambition Nobody Talks About | Ep. 106 14.04.2026 33min

  You did everything right. You built the plan. You put in the work. You showed up when it was hard. And somewhere between grinding for the life you want and actually living it, you lost something. Something quiet. Something important. Something that used to make you feel like you.This episode is not another strategy to perform better. This is the conversation that lives underneath all of it.In Episode 106 of Mindset, Health, Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer, I go completely unfiltered about what ambition, hustle culture, and the relentless pursuit of success quietly takes from you. And, what it looks like to win differently going forward.This one is for the high performers, the builders, the entrepreneurs, the parents, the leaders, and anyone who has ever felt like they were winning on the outside and quietly falling apart on the inside.In This Episode You Will Learn:The hidden cost of unchecked ambition and why the body keeps score even when the mind refuses to. Why hustle culture redefined rest as failure and weaponized comparison against you. What happens to your identity when achievement is the only thing holding it together. The difference between imposter syndrome and actual growth. Why the fear of losing what you built can be more paralyzing than the hunger that created it. How to make peace with uncertainty as a permanent condition, not a problem to solve. What it means to win in a way that leaves you still recognizing yourself at the end of the day.This episode is for you if:You are high achieving and exhausted and ashamed of both at the same time. You have hit goals and felt empty instead of full. You have cancelled on the people you love because the work felt more urgent. You have wrapped your worth around your output and felt yourself disappearing when things slow down. You are done grinding and ready to build something sustainable, without starting over from scratch.Stay Connected:Follow Gina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow Gina on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode. If this conversation moved something in you, share it with one person who needs to hear it today. Drop a comment telling Gina which section hit hardest. She reads every single one.
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  Stop Being Scared of AI and Start Getting Paid By It | Ep.105 07.04.2026 32min

  The fear of AI is already costing you, in time, in revenue, and in mental bandwidth. This episode is the full playbook for coaches, content creators and entrepreneurs who want to use AI strategically without losing the voice their audience trusts. I break down the exact tools, the weekly workflow, and the mindset shift that changes how you work permanently.IN THIS EPISODEYour 'only-me' statement — the three things you will never automateThe sous-chef framework — how to prompt AI so the output is actually usable7 tools that work — ChatGPT, Claude, Descript, Gling.AI, CapCut, Otter.ai, ElevenLabsThe sandwich method — AI draft + human edit + one real story = your voice, intactThe weekly workflow — Monday through Sunday, saving 5+ hours every weekMonetization moves — micro-products, discovery call triage, and evergreen funnelsAI RESOURCESChatGPT — Brainstorming and short-form drafts  https://chat.openai.comClaude — Long-context reasoning and content refinement  https://claude.aiDescript — Edit audio like a document, export audiograms  https://www.descript.comGling.AI — Auto-detect your best video moments  https://www.gling.aiCapCut — Fast vertical editing with brand templates  https://www.capcut.comOtter.ai — Transcription and show notes in minutes  https://otter.aiElevenLabs — Text-to-speech and multilingual audio  https://elevenlabs.ioENJOYED THIS EPISODE?Hit subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday drop and DM me on Instagram with one task you want to automate this week. She reads every message and will feature responses on the next episode. If this helped you, share it with one person who is building something right now.STAY CONNECTEDInstagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitTikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWebsite + Blog:  https://ginamariefit.com/
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  Built Different Featuring Dr. Aissa | Connecting the Body, Building a Business, Leading With Purpose | Ep. 104 31.03.2026 46min

  Built Different Featuring Dr. Aissa | From Physical Therapist to Founder and Author of Connect The Body DotsDr. Aissa didn’t just stay inside the traditional healthcare box. She rebuilt the model.In this episode of the Built Different Series on The Unfiltered Trainer, I sit down with holistic fitness expert, physical therapist, speaker, and author of Connect The Body Dots to talk about what it really takes to evolve from clinician to entrepreneur and educator.We dive into her journey through healthcare, the moment she realized rehab alone wasn’t enough, and how she built a purpose driven business that empowers people to truly understand and take ownership of their bodies. From writing a book to stepping into leadership and speaking, this conversation goes beyond fitness and into healing, mindset, and building a career that actually aligns with your mission.If you’ve ever felt called to do more, lead differently, or create impact beyond the traditional path, this episode will remind you that you don’t have to fit the mold to make a difference.You get to build different.Connect with Dr. Aissa: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.aissa_/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@connectthebodydotsWebsite: https://connectthebodydots.com/
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  Why You Keep Starting Over (It’s Not Discipline or Motivation) | Ep. 103 24.03.2026 14min

  Why do you keep starting over… even when you know what to do?In this episode of Mindset, Health, Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer Podcast, we’re breaking down the real reason you feel inconsistent—and it’s not lack of discipline, motivation, or willpower.👉 You’re living between two identities.If you’ve ever felt stuck in cycles of:Starting strong but losing momentumOverthinking and consuming endless self-improvement contentStruggling with consistency, habits, or follow-throughFeeling like you should be further ahead…This episode will shift everything.We dive into: ✨ Why information overload and “self-improvement addiction” are keeping you stuck ✨ The psychology behind identity-based habits and behavior change ✨ How your current identity is blocking your next level ✨ The hidden reason motivation fades (and what actually works instead) ✨ Why discipline can turn into self-sabotage and self-abandonment ✨ How to rewire your mindset, build self-trust, and become consistent—without burnoutThis isn’t surface-level advice.This is about rewiring who you believe you are so your actions finally align with your goals.Because real transformation doesn’t come from doing more… It comes from becoming someone different.🔗 STAY CONNECTED:Instagram: https://instagram.com/ginamariefitPodcast: https://bit.ly/unfilteredtrainerpodcastWebsite: https://ginamariefit.com/