Show Notes
You’re intelligent. You’re independent. You work everything out, your career, your business, your household, the problems no one else can solve. So you’ve decided you can work out your body too.
You can’t, and this episode is about why, without it being a failure.
This is for women over 40 who’ve been trying to crack it alone for years and are still exactly where they started.
What Lou covers: • The ChatGPT meal plan her son couldn’t sense-check, and what it teaches you • Why AI gives you confident, wrong information you’ve got no way to catch • The habits of the information overloader • Why working everything out yourself is the exact thing preventing any progress • The difference between being intelligent and having a specialist skill, and why you’ve confused them • Be the CEO of your body, intelligent enough to use the experts • Why everything is synergistic, nutrition, training, sleep, hormones, one machine • Why generic information can’t know your numbers, your phase or your starting position • Why doing it alone has cost you years you don’t have to waste in midlife
This isn’t about being smarter. It’s about getting out of your own way.
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