Episode 127

Special Edition: Jenn on Mind Over Macros

Published on: 5th January, 2022

Happy new year! To kick off 2022, here's a special episode for you. We're airing Jenn's interview from the Mind Over Macros podcast. Mike Millner, host of Mind Over Macros, asks Jenn not only about her story and experience going from side-hustle to full-time, self-employed health coach but all about stress and what we can do about it. Sure the year is just starting but it's so easy to lose those vacation vibes and shift into old habits or routines. This interview is likely exactly what you want to hear right now.
And a quick note from Jenn: Be sure to listen all the way through, Mike asks me the absolute BEST question I've ever been asked in an interview!

Outline:

  • Happy New Year & intro to today's episode
  • Mike's intro from Mind Over Macros
  • Jenn's story/background
  • The program that changed Jenn's life & she now teaches
  • What made Jenn turn her side hustle into her full-time life
  • The foundation we know - the diet & nutrition industries
  • Managing stress is a piece of the foundation
  • How do we talk about stress to truly understand it?
    • Emotional, cognitive & physical indicators
  • How we try to handle it...treating symptoms
  • Stress is needed for growth...balance?
  • Once we know signals, how can we address the root cause?
    • Take the emotion out of it
    • Shifting decisions from being emotional to intellectual
  • Eustress vs Distress
  • Understanding the stress response & the body's response to chronic stress
  • How to disrupt the cycle
    • Stress reducing foods
    • The Vagus Nerve
    • Breathing
    • Humming
    • Human connection
    • Using both sides of the brain at the same time
  • Food quality, removing body fat & a calorie deficit as stress on the body
  • Quality nutrition & finding balance..."Where do the fries come in?"
    • Commitment level
    • Self-awareness
    • Protein, fiber, quality fat
  • An impossible question: How do we change the landscape of the diet industry?

Quotes:
"Stress is the great disruptor when it comes to body transformations." – Jenn Trepeck
"If you're married to the scale, get a divorce!"  – Jenn Trepeck
"We don't need anyone telling us to minimize our stress or help us figure out what stresses us...we know that!"  – Jenn Trepeck
"Stress is needed for growth."– Mike Millner
"We're living in a state of trying to fight a tiger that doesn't actually exist."  – Jenn Trepeck
"We are a country of people who are overfed and undernourished."  – Jenn Trepeck   
"Food is everywhere, nutrition is not." – Jenn Trepeck

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About the Podcast

Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss
What to eat and when to cheat! Let's decipher between all the “diets” out there. You know what to do but it itsn't working. In fact, your diet could be making you fatter.

Ever wondered if cryo-freezing your fat cells would really work? Should you try acupuncture? A hypnotist? If you do, how do you know if someone’s good?

Salad with a Side of Fries is the podcast that will answer all these questions and more! Talking wellness and weight loss for real life, because most of us are going to drink, eat out, skip the grocery store and who wants a life without fries or dessert?! Host Jenn Trepeck’s expertise as an optimal health coach, in practice for over a decade, along with experts in various modalities will clear up the myths, mis-information, bad science and marketing to reveal the truth of HOW TO EAT and HOW TO CHEAT!*



*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This podcast, its content and guests are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Jennifer Trepeck

“My passion for nutrition and helping others stems from “kicking my food issues” with my own weight management saga.” ~ Jenn

I believe that the greatest accountability is paying it forward! That’s why I teach the nutrition education we are all supposed to know but no one ever taught us, along with the science behind food, fitness, and health.

After I graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, I founded Better Life Now LLC while working full-time in hedge funds. In 2019, I took my practice from side-hustle to full-time self-employment and launched my podcast, Salad With a Side of Fries. On the show, we offer science-based tips and tricks for how to achieve wellness and weight loss for real life – because who wants a life without fries or dessert?!

Topics we tackle on the podcast include debunking fad diets, food myths, misinformation in marketing, bad science, and general nutrition. I encourage guests whose expertise is different from my own focus on weight management to bring their unique, fact-based perspectives to talk about subjects they are educated in and passionate about.

Due to my decade-long experience of working with clients, I have gained insight into the health and food industry and the how-tos of building a business.

Some specific health and wellness topics I can speak to include debunking fad diets, exposing the BS we are fed by the food and diet industry, how the people around us can positively and negatively impact our health journey, and shifting mindsets in order to overcome inappropriate barometers of success to instead achieve happy, healthy, and meaningful change.

On the subject of business, I can help you by teaching my critical pieces every entrepreneur should know, how to make your side-hustle into your full-time job, ways to sustainably achieve success without burning out, contemporary networking, and how to prioritize wellness while pursuing your projects.

When I find some free time, I’m typically working out at Physique57, discovering hidden gem restaurants in NYC, or traveling to spend time with friends and family.

I’d love to have an in-depth conversation with you, whether it’s leveling up in business or debunking food myths!