014 The Uplift Podcast: Katie Collins - No body is coming to save you. You have to get back up

014 The Uplift Podcast: Katie Collins - No body is coming to save you. You have to get back up

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/fan_mail/new] Katie Collins on losing everything she'd built her identity around and choosing to rise anyway. Katie Collins used to live for the stage. Deep in the UK bodybuilding world, her whole life was built around it the training, the structure, the identity. Then life made a decision she didn't get a say in. She moved back to Ireland to care for her dad, leaving the gym, the equipment, and the community behind. What came next wasn't a montage. It was mould in the house. It was getting sick. It was mood that dropped through the floor and stayed there. It was waking up some mornings with nothing left to give. This episode is about the fork in the road we all hit eventually stay stuck, or rise. Katie walks me through what rising actually looked like: not one big moment, but the small, unglamorous, daily decisions that quietly turned everything around. If you're in a hard season right now and you don't know how you're going to move — this one's for you. No body is coming to save you. But you can still get up. Huge & special mention to Katie for taking the time to chat with me on the podcast, this lady helped me more than she will ever know & such a real talk!  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/support] Your host Scarlett Portues - Thanks for listening, You can find more information on the Uplift Project at - @theupliftproject1 on instagram  My personal page - Scarlett_portues on instagram  I'm more than proud to have worked with females for the last 6 years both in physique development, strength and real lifestyle change.

013 The Uplift Podcast: More Than Mum How Becky Built a Self She Could Believe In

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/fan_mail/new] Becky a mum of two and a nurse who spent her whole life looking after everyone but herself until she couldn't name a single thing in her day that was actually hers.  In this raw, honest conversation, she tells me how she walked into a gym looking for something she couldn't name, and walked out years later now a family business owner and an intermediate strongwoman competitor. But this isn't a story about trophies. It's about the self-belief Becky built underneath the barbell the kind that has nothing to do with the mirror and how it changed her happiness at home, her work, her motherhood, and the way she carries the hard things.  If you've ever felt like you've dissolved into being "the mum" and "the wife," this one is your permission slip. You're allowed to be more and it won't cost the people you love. It'll give them a whole person back. In this episode we get into: * The slow "disappearing act" how women dissolve into their roles without noticing * Why wanting something for yourself feels selfish, and why that belief is a lie * How the gym became a doorway to identity, not just fitness * Building self-belief as a skill not a personality trait you're born with * Why having something that's only yours makes you a better mum and partner, not a worse one This episode is for you if you can't remember the last thing you did purely for yourself and you want real, unfiltered proof that it's possible to be more. — Ready to build that self-belief for yourself? That's exactly what we do inside The Uplift Project. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/support] Your host Scarlett Portues - Thanks for listening, You can find more information on the Uplift Project at - @theupliftproject1 on instagram  My personal page - Scarlett_portues on instagram  I'm more than proud to have worked with females for the last 6 years both in physique development, strength and real lifestyle change.

012 The Uplift Podcast: You're Not Falling Apart. You're Changing. Perimenopause, Identity & the Woman You're Becoming with Jamie Granville

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/fan_mail/new] If you've started noticing that your body feels like it's playing by a different set of rules — the sleep that doesn't recover you the way it used to, the mood that swings for no obvious reason, the weight that shifts despite you doing everything 'right' — this episode is for you. Perimenopause can begin a full decade before your periods stop. And the conversation around it is almost always framed as loss. But what if this phase isn't about what's ending what if it's about who you're becoming? In this episode, Scarlett sits down with Jamie Granville — female health coach specialising in menopause, body recomposition and HRT coaching, based in Canada. Jamie is both personally navigating perimenopause and has walked dozens of women through it professionally. She brings the dual lens of lived experience and genuine clinical expertise and she's not here to commiserate. She's here to challenge the story you've been telling yourself about this phase. This is a conversation about identity, strength, and refusing to disappear. ABOUT JAMIE GRANVILLE Jamie Granville is a female health coach based in Canada, specialising in menopause, body recomposition, and HRT coaching. A former J3U female coach and Women's Physique competitor, Jamie combines deep scientific knowledge with the credibility of being in the trenches herself — both as an athlete and as a woman navigating perimenopause in real time. Her coaching goes beyond the physical. Jamie works with women who want to understand what's happening in their body, reclaim their identity through strength, and build a version of themselves that's stronger not in spite of this phase, but because of it. Instagram: @jamiegranville_ Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/support] Your host Scarlett Portues - Thanks for listening, You can find more information on the Uplift Project at - @theupliftproject1 on instagram  My personal page - Scarlett_portues on instagram  I'm more than proud to have worked with females for the last 6 years both in physique development, strength and real lifestyle change.

011 The Uplift Podcast: How Tracking, Comparing, and Perfecting Are Keeping You Stuck with Coach Scarlett

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/fan_mail/new] We're kicking off Season 2 with something that sits at the root of so much of what holds women back and it's not laziness, lack of motivation, or discipline. It's the quiet, cumulative damage of measuring too much, comparing too often, and waiting for perfect conditions that never actually arrive. In this solo episode, Scarlett breaks down the tracking trap why obsessively can erode your ability to trust yourself and how that naturally leads to comparison. With other women. With who you used to be. And how those comparisons stop being feelings and start becoming the story you tell yourself about what you're capable of. If you've ever said I'll never lose the weight, I'll never be as strong as I was, what's the point of starting this episode is for you. In This Episode * Why tracking stops being a tool and starts being a way of overriding your own body signals * How a measuring mindset makes comparison almost inevitable and why comparing to your past self is especially dangerous * The moment comparison stops being a feeling and becomes a story and what that story costs you * Why perfectionism isn't about high standards, it's about protection and how it keeps you in a permanent holding pattern * What actually shifts when you stop waiting to be ready and just show up in the form you're in If This Episode Resonated Screenshot this episode and share it to your stories tag @theupliftpodcast1 so Scarlett can see it. And if you've been listening for a while, leaving a review makes a huge difference in helping more women find the show. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/support] Your host Scarlett Portues - Thanks for listening, You can find more information on the Uplift Project at - @theupliftproject1 on instagram  My personal page - Scarlett_portues on instagram  I'm more than proud to have worked with females for the last 6 years both in physique development, strength and real lifestyle change.

010 - The Uplift Podcast: Do Hard Things. Get Addicted to Your Life with Erin Thompson

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/fan_mail/new] What if the most powerful thing you could do for your confidence had nothing to do with how you look? This week's guest has spent years mastering her body — first as an IFBB Figure Pro, then as an Ironman triathlete crossing finish lines that have nothing to do with a stage. Erin Thompson is also one of the most open advocates for ADHD in women, and what it really means to be a high-achieving woman who thinks, trains, and pushes differently. This conversation goes deep into something I feel strongly about: women are not pushed enough. We are not encouraged to discover what we are truly capable of. And that gap — between the woman you are now and the woman you'd be if you stopped playing it safe — is where this episode lives. What started as a conversation about sport became something much bigger — about dopamine, about doing hard things, about the carry-over from a brutal training session into the way you walk into a room, parent your children, run your business, and see yourself. If you've ever held yourself back from something because you didn't think you could do it, this episode is for you. Follow Erins journey - Erint.femmevo on Instagram Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2592832/support] Your host Scarlett Portues - Thanks for listening, You can find more information on the Uplift Project at - @theupliftproject1 on instagram  My personal page - Scarlett_portues on instagram  I'm more than proud to have worked with females for the last 6 years both in physique development, strength and real lifestyle change.