EMBody Radio

Welcome to EMBody Radio - a podcast devoted to educating and empowering listeners on all things training, nutrition, wellness, and growth. Host Emily Duncan is an exercise science major, bikini competitor, coach, and sports nutrition specialist devoted to bringing you nothing but the best in educational and uplifting content. This is THE show to teach you how to improve your body, expand your mind, and live your fullest life.

EMBody Radio is a health podcast hosted by Emily Duncan, with 320 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Emily Duncan hosts EMBody Radio, a health show with 320 episodes published.

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  Episode #321

  Ambition Isn't the Enemy: Rethinking Drive, Trauma, and Growth | Part 1 with Ekaterina Amirkhanova and Emily Duncan

  Oct 6, 202644 min

  I'm so excited to share part one of my conversation with psychologist Ekaterina Amirkhanova, who specializes in working with high achievers and ambitious founders. We dig into why so much psychology content treats ambitious women as something to fix, how growing up in an entrepreneurial family in Siberia shaped her work, and whether ambition is really a trauma response. Ekaterina shares her take on what the research does and doesn't say, and offers a simple but powerful question to ask yourself: what is my ambition actually running on? Fear, guilt, and proving yourself can look a lot like drive, but they're different fuel sources, and the good news is you can rewrite them. We also talk about owning what you want without tacking on a "because of my kids/family" explanation, why organization and decision-making are skills instead of masculine traits, why women can be harder on ambitious women than anyone else, and why manifestation and affirmations aren't enough without action and honest self-talk. If you've ever felt guilty for wanting more, this episode is for you. Part two drops [day], where we get into emotions, resistance, and burnout. Connect with Ekaterina and learn more about her 12-week program, The Expansion, in the links below. - Ekaterina's Instagram Ekaterina's Website Ekaterina's 12-week program for ambitious founders/leaders - For the high-achieving hot girls that want to recover better, support glowier skin, and promote longevity through better cellular health, get up to 39% off Mitopure Gummies with code EMDUNC and make wellness easier than ever. Fitness, health, and holistic wellness for $22/month Interested in a luxury 1:1 online health coaching experience? Look no further than FENIX ATHLETICA, where we fuse science and soul for life-long transformation (inside AND out). Follow me on Instagram Follow EMBody Radio on Instagram

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  Episode #320

  Rock Bottom Isn't a Waiting Room, it's a Workshop | with host Emily Duncan

  Sep 22, 202641 min

  I've been talking a lot lately about the winning season I'm in right now, and it's easy to look at that and assume it's always been this way. And GWORL… it hasn't. This episode is the chapter before the chapter. The years I got sick from breast implant illness and gained 70+ pounds, the 2022-2024 stretch where our business had months bringing in less than $30K and I wasn't paying myself so I could pay my team. These weren't single bad days, they were sustained seasons where nothing seemed to move in a positive direction, and what felt like TRUE rock bottom moments. When you're an ambitious woman who's used to winning, that specific kind of stuck is uniquely destabilizing because it breaks the unspoken contract you've built your whole identity on: effort in, result out, on a predictable timeline. In this episode I'm breaking down exactly what happens when that contract breaks, why it tricks you into treating a temporary season as a permanent verdict on who you are, and the four reframes that turned my own rock bottoms into springboards instead of the new normal. If you're in a season right now that feels like a waiting room, I want to give you a different way to see it: it was never a waiting room. It's a workshop. — For the high-achieving hot girls that want to recover better, support glowier skin, and promote longevity through better cellular health, get up to 39% off Mitopure Gummies with code EMDUNC and make wellness easier than ever. Fitness, health, and holistic wellness for $22/month Interested in a luxury 1:1 online health coaching experience? Look no further than FENIX ATHLETICA, where we fuse science and soul for life-long transformation (inside AND out). Follow me on Instagram Follow EMBody Radio on Instagram

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  Episode #319

  We Bought a Gym (And Other Chaos): A Break Room Episode | with host Emily Duncan and Chris Beal

  Sep 15, 202643 min

  We needed a palate cleanser. After a stretch of some pretty intense, deep-diving episodes the last few months, I put Chris back on the mic for a lil break room energy. Rapid-fire questions, zombie apocalypse survival predictions, an impression battle, and a big life update we haven't formally announced anywhere else yet- Chris is officially the new owner-operator of Kollective's North Austin location - huge, and I'm so proud of him. We played "translate the other person," debated beige flags, ranked the most useless thing I own, and somehow ended up talking about Cheerios, grape jelly sandwiches, and why Chris's emotional world is a lot deeper than his deadpan delivery lets on. If you've been with me through the heavier identity and mindset episodes lately, this one's your breather. Fun, a little chaotic, genuinely funny, and a real look at the relationship dynamic I talk about on the show but rarely let you actually hear in real time. Stick around for the end… Chris drops a really sincere piece of perspective that hit harder than either of us expected. - Fitness, health, and holistic wellness for $22/month Interested in a luxury 1:1 online health coaching experience? Look no further than FENIX ATHLETICA, where we fuse science and soul for life-long transformation (inside AND out). LMNT is LMNT is a DELICIOUS, science-based electrolyte drink mix with everything you need and nothing you don't. No sugar. No coloring. No artificial ingredients. No gluten. No fillers. No BS. Head to drinklmnt.com/emdunc to get a FREE variety pack with your purchase! Follow me on Instagram Follow EMBody Radio on Instagram

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  Perfectionism is a Crutch | with host Emily Duncan

  Sep 8, 202642 min

  Perfectionism is one of the sneakiest traps I coach high-achieving, high-responsibility women through, and today I'm breaking down exactly why. We're going three levels deep: the top-level story and behavior, the mid-level symptoms, and then the deeper truth underneath all of it, which isn't actually "fear of failure" like a lot of us would say or think. It's that perfectionism is an unconscious permission slip to avoid mastering the gray area, because the ambiguity of the middle is scarier than the certainty of all-or-nothing ever will be. If you've ever lost and regained the same 20 pounds, made a hundred plans that never turned into real change, or told yourself "I'm just a perfectionist" like it's a personality trait instead of an avoidance strategy, this episode is for you. I'm sharing my own story of learning to win in the gray after years of all-or-nothing extremes in competitive bodybuilding, and how rebuilding self-trust, not stricter rules, is what actually gets you unstuck. — For the high-achieving hot girls that want to recover better, support glowier skin, and promote longevity through better cellular health, get up to 39% off Mitopure Gummies with code EMDUNC and make wellness easier than ever. Fitness, health, and holistic wellness for $22/month Interested in a luxury 1:1 online health coaching experience? Look no further than FENIX ATHLETICA, where we fuse science and soul for life-long transformation (inside AND out). Follow me on Instagram Follow EMBody Radio on Instagram

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  Episode #317

  How I Went From Burnout to My Most Successful + Capable Season | with host Emily Duncan

  Sep 1, 20261h 10m

  Four years ago, this pace of life would have flatlined me. Today I've doubled my coaching team since the start of the year, maintained the leanest and healthiest physique I've had in over five years, gotten married, healed a partial meniscus tear, and I'm handling more stress than ever. Not because I have less on my plate, but because I've fundamentally changed how I operate at a physical, mental/emotional, and relational level. In this episode I'm walking through the real, unglamorous shifts that got me here: the habit and routine changes (spending way less time in a deficit, training less but harder, radically simplifying my routines, learning the difference between willpower and real systems), the relationship shifts (my marriage, my faith, and getting brutally honest about which friendships were actually serving me), and the mental and emotional work that made all of it sustainable: somatic tools, learning to stop romanticizing my struggles, and building real emotional maturity instead of just muscling through. This one's long and it's dense, because this is genuinely the accumulation of years of work, not a quick fix. If you've been wondering what it actually takes to build a life and a body you're proud of without burning it all down again, this is the closest I can get to showing my work. — Fitness, health, and holistic wellness for $22/month Interested in a luxury 1:1 online health coaching experience? Look no further than FENIX ATHLETICA, where we fuse science and soul for life-long transformation (inside AND out). Follow me on Instagram Follow EMBody Radio on Instagram

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