Nourish, Move, Thrive | Holistic Weight loss & Wellness for Women

About Nourish, Move, Thrive | Holistic Weight loss & Wellness for Women

This Is Life is a podcast about strength, physical, mental, and emotional, and what it really looks like to step into your prime in midlife. Hosted by Jo Northwood, a strength coach and sports therapy graduate, this podcast blends real-life experience with evidence-based physiology to explore training, hormones, health, identity, and rebuilding yourself after life shifts. Some episodes are practical and educational, breaking down strength training, metabolism, and how the body actually adapts as we age. Others are personal, honest conversations about motherhood, losing yourself, finding your way back, and choosing to live bigger rather than shrink. No fads. No extremes. No pressure to “bounce back.” Just smart training, grounded nutrition, and real conversations for women who want to feel capable, strong, and in control of their bodies again.

Publisher

Jo Northwood

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Mar 2024

Latest episode

26 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Jan 2026

   Stop Performing Womanhood: Why Your Body Won’t Respond in Survival Mode

   Send us a text Society rewards a version of womanhood that looks like this: tired, pleasant, self-sacrificing… and quietly coping. But when you live there long enough, your body starts pushing back. Fat loss stalls. Hunger gets louder. Cravings hit at night. Training feels harder. Your mood gets shorter. And you end up blaming yourself — like you just need more willpower. In this episode, we’re calling it out: that’s not a discipline problem. That’s depletion. We’ll talk about: how women get ...

2. 

   19 Jan 2026

   You Don’t Need Your Old Self Back... You Need a New Strategy

   Send us a text If you’ve been thinking, “I just want to feel like me again,” this episode is for you, and I’m going to say something slightly annoying but very freeing: you might be chasing a version of you that had a completely different life load, recovery capacity, and hormonal context. This isn’t a fluffy mindset chat. It’s a practical shift: stop using old rules on a new body. We talk about why the “push harder / be stricter / do more” approach stops paying out in your 40s (hint: total l...

3. 

   2 Jan 2026

   Why Doing More Stopped Working (And What Your Body Is Actually Doing Instead)

   Send us a text For years, effort was enough, train harder, eat less, be more disciplined. And your body responded..... ...Until it didn’t. In this episode, I unpack why the strategies that once worked so reliably start to fail in your forties, not because your body is broken, but because the physiology has changed. We talk about stress, recovery, low energy availability, and why piling on cardio and restriction now often leads to fatigue, frustration, and stalled progress rather than results....

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,309

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

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Quality

17

Social presence

94

YouTube

65

Engagement

0