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  • Ep 328 BOLD TRUTH: The diet you're on isn't why you can't lose weight

    Ep 328 BOLD TRUTH: The diet you're on isn't why you can't lose weight
    Jan 19 2026

    Feeling frustrated that no matter how strictly you follow your diet, the weight just isn't coming off? You eat the right foods, follow the rules, and even stick to strategies that worked in the past, but still, the scale doesn't budge. It's not your diet, your body, or your willpower that's holding you back; it's your energy.

    When your energetic state is low, restriction and discipline alone won't work. Most of us were never taught how to master our daily energy, and without that, no plan sticks. This episode dives into why mastering your energetic state is the missing key to effortless weight loss, consistent healthy habits, and long-term transformation.

    By shifting your focus to your state first, then your story, and finally your strategy, you can finally experience food freedom and sustainable results without obsession, restriction, or stress.

    "All you have to do is identify whether you've ever learned how to master your energetic state, change your story, and have the tools to sustain it. Once you do that, the strategy becomes automatic." – Leslie M Thornton

    What you will learn from this episode:

    00:00 – The bold truth: It's not your diet, it's your energy problem
    01:15 – Why low energy prevents sustainable weight loss
    03:07 – How mastering your energetic state changes everything
    05:05 – Tony Robbins' "Three S's" approach: Strategy, Story, and State
    07:18 – Why starting with strategy alone doesn't work
    09:49 – How your story and beliefs influence your results
    11:00 – The connection between positive state and empowerment
    13:23 – Client success story: Angela's 10-pound weight loss and clearing years of trauma
    15:00 – How mastering your state makes food and exercise natural and effortless
    16:05 – What happens on a Food Freedom call: Assessing state, story, and strategy
    17:57 – The simple sequence for lasting weight loss: State → Story → Strategy

    Valuable Resources:

    • Join my next LIVE masterclass
    • Join the 8-week Fastrack to Food Freedom Program -Guaranteed mental and emotional freedom from food

    Connect With Leslie Thornton:

    • Book A Clarity Call
    • Website
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Email: Leslie@hpwl.co

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    20 min
  • Ep 327 Menopause: Healing, Hypnosis, and the Call of the Camino

    Ep 327 Menopause: Healing, Hypnosis, and the Call of the Camino
    Jan 12 2026
    1 ora e 5 min
  • Ep 326 How to PERMANENTLY get back on track?

    Ep 326 How to PERMANENTLY get back on track?
    Jan 5 2026
    Getting "back on track" with food and weight can feel exhausting especially when you know what to do, but can't seem to stay consistent. The food noise is loud, self-criticism creeps in, and the harder you try, the worse you feel. For many women, this cycle repeats again and again, leaving them frustrated and disconnected from themselves. In this episode, Leslie explains why lasting change doesn't come from forcing yourself back into a plan, but from examining who you are being. She shares how identity, emotional safety, self-relationship, and fear-based patterns silently shape eating behaviors, weight struggles, and self-trust. When you stay stuck in perfectionism, isolation, people-pleasing, or avoidance, getting back on track becomes impossible no matter how much willpower you use. You'll hear Leslie's personal journey through food addiction, bingeing, weight gain, and emotional rock bottom and how she discovered that food was never the real problem. Through emotional work, hypnosis, and identity shifts, she learned that permanent change begins when you stop fighting yourself and start creating an unconditionally supportive relationship with who you are becoming. When that shifts, food, weight, and consistency naturally follow. "Who you are being determines how you eat, how you feel, and whether lasting change is even possible. You don't get back on track by trying harder you get back on track by becoming someone new." – Leslie Thornton What you will learn from this episode: 00:05 – Why asking "Who are you being?" is the key to permanent change 01:11 – How identity directly impacts food noise, weight struggles, and self-trust 02:18 – Reflecting on past success: who you were being when things felt easy 03:44 – Why passion, obsession, and mission often fade and what that means 04:10 – Why desperation and forcing yourself back on track doesn't work 05:45 – How knowing what to do is different from being able to do it 06:48 – Signs that you're being asked to evolve instead of repeating the past 07:27 – Discovering that food addiction and food drama are not permanent 08:35 – Letting go of the belief that you'll always struggle with food 09:51 – A powerful moment that challenged the identity of being "addicted." 10:36 – The painful in-between phase: binging, weight gain, and confusion 11:45 – Why rock-bottom moments often lead to the biggest breakthroughs 13:27 – Uncovering harsh self-talk and how it fuels bingeing and shame 15:46 – Realizing the problem isn't food it's the relationship with yourself 16:44 – How conditional self-love keeps you stuck in perfectionism 17:53 – Why healing emotionally changes food, weight, and relationships 18:30 – How hypnosis supports rebuilding safety and self-trust 19:13 – Taking inventory of how you're being during stressful seasons 20:15 – Fear-based ways of being that block freedom and peace with food 22:14 – Why isolation, people-pleasing, and overthinking don't work 24:59 – Asking better questions to identify what's really keeping you stuck 26:48 – How awareness creates change only when followed by action 28:27 – Doing the opposite of the pattern that keeps you in the ditch 29:59 – Why action is required to meet the universe halfway 31:55 – The importance of being mission-driven, passionate, and supported 34:27 – How life transitions affect food and weight more than willpower 36:15 – Choosing hard conversations over a lifetime of feeling bad 38:18 – Why food and weight are symptoms, not the root problem 40:00 – Expecting success and believing you're meant to feel good 41:02 – Identifying the life area that's asking for your attention 42:55 – Final invitation: pick up your mat and take action todayValuable Resources: Join my next LIVE masterclassJoin the 8-week Fastrack to Food Freedom Program -Guaranteed mental and emotional freedom from food Connect With Leslie Thornton: Book A Clarity CallWebsiteFacebookLinkedInEmail: Leslie@hpwl.co If you enjoy the podcast, Would you please consider leaving a quick review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes in under 60 seconds? It brightens our day and helps us bring you incredible guests for top-notch content. Plus, I cherish reading every review! Click here to make a difference!
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    45 min
  • Ep 325 Will hypnosis work for me?

    Ep 325 Will hypnosis work for me?
    Dec 29 2025
    28 min
  • Ep 324 How to Stop Comparing Yourself With Others!

    Ep 324 How to Stop Comparing Yourself With Others!
    Dec 22 2025

    Why does comparison sneak in the moment you scroll, look around, or notice someone else's success? Why does jealousy feel uncomfortable, shameful, or like proof that you're behind? And why does it seem to hit hardest around food, body, confidence, and the life you wish you were living?
    Most people try to shut the comparison down, telling themselves they should just be more grateful or confident already. But pushing it away only deepens the frustration, because comparison isn't the real problem—it's a signal you don't know how to read yet. Appearances lie, social media edits reality, and without a stable sense of identity, it's easy to believe everyone else has figured it out. That belief quietly keeps you stuck, chasing quick fixes instead of lasting change.
    In this episode, you'll learn how to stop comparing yourself with others by understanding what jealousy is actually trying to show you. You'll discover how identity—not willpower or shortcuts—is the foundation of permanent freedom with food, body, and self-trust. Through coaching, Hypnosis, and the HEAL Method, you'll see how real transformation comes from rewiring who you believe yourself to be. When your identity shifts, comparison loses its grip—and you begin creating a life by your own design.

    "The great news is that we can actually learn to build a new identity and live an entirely different life by your design, as the result of you embarking upon coaching and rewiring through Hypnosis." - Leslie Thornton

    What you will learn from this episode:

    02:15 - The importance of identity shifts for achieving permanent weight loss and that there is no quick fixes, just a long game

    07:31 - The reality behind appearances [how they're indeed deceiving]

    08:54 - Reframing jealousy and comparison as indicators of personal desires and potential for growth

    10:15 - Coaching, Hypnosis, and becoming "Sally": Leslie's journey from food addiction to freedom

    13:51 - The HEAL Method and the steps required for a complete identity shift

    15:22 - Using Taylor Swift as an example of someone who has worked hard on herself to achieve freedom and happiness.

    20:30 - The value of investing in coaching and education for personal growth

    25:48 - How family upbringing shapes beliefs about food, body, and weight, and the need to question those beliefs

    28:22 - How to create a new identity and life by your own design through coaching and Hypnosis and the importance of belief before results, consistent, positive choices and community support in achieving lasting change

    32:34 - Freedom around food: Real-life example

    35:03 - Taking action toward your goals and setting up for a transformative year

    Valuable Resources:

    • Join my next LIVE masterclass
    • Join the 8-week Fastrack to Food Freedom Program -Guaranteed mental and emotional freedom from food

    Connect With Leslie Thornton:

    • Book A Clarity Call
    • Website
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Email: Leslie@hpwl.co

    If you enjoy the podcast, Would you please consider leaving a quick review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes in under 60 seconds? It brightens our day and helps us bring you incredible guests for top-notch content. Plus, I cherish reading every review! Click here to make a difference!
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    36 min
  • Ep 323 End the Food Noise Naturally: A Loving Wake-Up Call

    Ep 323 End the Food Noise Naturally: A Loving Wake-Up Call
    Dec 15 2025

    Food and weight quietly become the place where everything gets blamed—stress, loneliness, exhaustion, and disappointment. During the holidays especially, it can feel like if your body would just change, your life would finally feel lighter. The problem is, weight becomes the focus while happiness slowly disappears.

    Obsession creates a loop of stress, shame, and control that keeps food noise alive and well. Dieting from anxiety, resentment, or self-judgment only fuels cortisol, making weight loss feel harder the more you try. Even "healthy" habits can mask deep self-criticism, turning wellness into another way to prove you're not enough. Over time, the pursuit of control replaces the real desire—to feel alive, free, and at peace in your own body.

    This episode is a loving wake-up call to end food noise naturally by shifting the focus from weight to emotional and spiritual well-being. Leslie explains why happiness isn't the reward after weight loss—it's the requirement for it. Through personal stories, client experiences, and universal law perspectives, you'll see how acceptance, unconscious work, and repetition create lasting change. When you stop fighting yourself and start choosing joy, the noise fades, control loosens, and freedom becomes possible.

    "Weight loss is easy when you're happy. Weight loss is impossible when you're miserable. If you're depressed, if you're anxious, if you're angry, if you're resentful. If you have other stress going on. If you have other things in your life that aren't being handled, stop trying to make that what's going to happen, it doesn't happen from that energy. Got to get yourself happy first." - Leslie Thornton

    What you will learn from this episode:

    01:26 - Emotional reflections on how everything is unconsciously blamed on weight, especially during the holidays

    04:30 - Challenging the belief that weight is life's main problem and the impact of weight obsession

    08:15 - Sharing personal experiences and client stories and making sense of the real cost of obsession

    13:55 - The goal is to feel alive over control

    22:56 - Stress, cortisol, the dieting loop, the shame and motivation myths

    32:19 - Happiness and how it relates to weight loss

    35:15 - Revealing how health-consciousness can mask underlying shame and self-judgment and the need for deeper questions

    39:13 - Sharing of spiritual and universal law perspectives on acceptance, shame, and transformation

    43:48 - Describes the fun and fulfillment that come after overcoming food and weight obsession

    45:04 - Taking the leap of faith

    46:16 - The importance of unconscious work and repetition, the true cost of obsession

    48:38 - Spiritual awakening and the call for change

    Valuable Resources:

    • Join my next LIVE masterclass
    • Join the 8-week Fastrack to Food Freedom Program -Guaranteed mental and emotional freedom from food

    Connect With Leslie Thornton:

    • Book A Clarity Call
    • Website
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Email: Leslie@hpwl.co

    If you enjoy the podcast, Would you please consider leaving a quick review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes in under 60 seconds? It brightens our day and helps us bring you incredible guests for top-notch content. Plus, I cherish reading every review! Click here to make a difference!
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    53 min
  • Ep 322 Why confidence feels so hard (and what the Universe has to do with it)

    Ep 322 Why confidence feels so hard (and what the Universe has to do with it)
    Dec 8 2025

    Confidence can feel incredibly hard, even when you're successful, disciplined, and doing "all the right things." Food still feels charged, your body feels unsafe, and self-trust remains just out of reach. Trying harder only seems to make everything feel worse instead of better.
    High-achieving women are taught that confidence comes from control, discipline, and perfection, so they keep fighting cravings, emotions, and exhaustion. But the more you resist, the louder the struggle becomes, because your nervous system stays in survival mode. Chronic stress, limiting beliefs, and black-and-white thinking quietly shape your reality, keeping you stuck in cycles that feel personal—but aren't. This is why weight loss, confidence, and peace with food can feel impossibly hard, no matter how much willpower you have.

    In this episode, you'll discover how universal laws, the nervous system, and the unconscious mind explain why confidence really feels so difficult—and how to change it. You'll learn why true confidence doesn't come from discipline or perfection, but from emotional mastery, safety, and identity-level shifts. Through hypnosis, NLP, and understanding laws like belief, vibration, and non-resistance, you can reprogram the inner blueprint that's been running the show. When that changes, confidence, food freedom, and self-trust stop being something you chase—and start becoming who you are.

    "Confidence comes from emotional mastery. It comes from understanding yourself. Self-Mastery: it comes from nervous system safety and knowing how to get your nervous system to feel safe more of the time. It comes from the belief in who you're becoming and choosing to become someone new. And knowing that you don't have to perform perfection." - Leslie Thornton

    What you will learn from this episode:

    01:25 - How universal laws relates to why high-achieving women struggle with food and sharing a client's experience applying universal laws to her food relationship

    05:01 - Levels of spirituality in relation to food, moving from chaos to intuitive, peaceful eating

    08:41- How life changes prompt shifts in food and body relationships, especially for women

    10:58 - Explaining how true confidence comes from nervous system safety, not willpower or discipline

    12:32 - How limiting beliefs and chronic stress keep women stuck and away from their true purpose

    17:31 - Breaking down how the law of vibration affects food relationships and results and describing how shifting vibration through Hypnosis leads to feeling safe and present around food

    19:32 - The law of cause and effect and how thoughts cause behaviors, and how Hypnosis addresses root causes, not just actions

    21:05 - Law of belief and law of non-resistance and how it shapes reality

    22:16 - Discussing the law of assumption and identity change with Hypnosis and how it leads to lasting change

    23:34 - Creating a new blueprint to achieve true alignment

    24:59 - Explaining how confidence comes from self-mastery and spiritual evolution, not weight loss

    26:02 - Invitation to join the Fast Track to Freedom program for lasting change

    Valuable Resources:

    • Join my next LIVE masterclass
    • Join the 8-week Fastrack to Food Freedom Program -Guaranteed mental and emotional freedom from food

    Connect With Leslie Thornton:

    • Book A Clarity Call
    • Website
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Email: Leslie@hpwl.co

    If you enjoy the podcast, Would you please consider leaving a quick review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes in under 60 seconds? It brightens our day and helps us bring you incredible guests for top-notch content. Plus, I cherish reading every review! Click here to make a difference!
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    29 min
  • Ep 321 How to Stop the Food Noise Masterclass

    Ep 321 How to Stop the Food Noise Masterclass
    Dec 1 2025

    Food can feel unbearably loud in your head, even when you're not physically hungry. Cravings, binge urges, and constant thoughts about weight keep showing up no matter how many plans you follow. It can feel like you're stuck in a battle you should be able to win by now.

    Food noise keeps you trapped on a merry-go-round of "good days" and "bad days," guilt and shame, control and collapse. Diets promise silence but only turn up the volume, driving stress higher and feeding a cortisol–dopamine loop that never truly resolves. Over time, you start believing you're broken, addicted, or lacking discipline, when the real issue was never food at all. This cycle drains your energy, confidence, and trust in yourself, making permanent weight loss feel impossible.

    In this masterclass episode, Leslie breaks down what food noise really is and why it can't be solved with more rules or willpower. You'll learn how stress, emotional coping, and unaddressed cortisol addiction are at the root of cravings and binge patterns. Through real stories, client breakthroughs, and the HEAL Method, you'll see how to step off the loop by addressing the cause—not the symptom. When food stops being the solution to stress, the noise quiets, weight loss becomes effortless, and freedom finally feels real.

    "One thing about permanent weight loss is that it will never happen when we're not doing it for ourselves and ourselves only. It will never last." - Leslie Thornton

    What you will learn from this episode:

    02:26 - Defining food noise and weight struggles

    04:48 - Participant sharing: binge eating and cravings and discussing feelings of shame, guilt, and the belief of being a food addict

    08:01 - The merry-go-round of food noise, having good and bad days, weight plateaus and other struggles

    10:44 - Why diets don't work: The real cause and the cortisol addiction explained

    18:43 - Understanding the cortisol-dopamine loop and coping behaviors

    27:42 - Addressing the root cause of stress and the impact of unaddressed cortisol addiction

    32:20 - How to break the cycle: Leslie's personal story

    36:19 - Life without food noise, anxiety, or black-and-white thinking, and the freedom to enjoy experiences

    42:36 - Leslie's breakthrough moment in India, realizing food issues were emotional, not about food itself

    45:38 - Steps to get out of the loop [with client testimonials]

    48:44 - Understanding triggers and taking responsibility, emotional mastery, and addressing relationships and boundaries

    54:00 - Internal and external environment reflection and the positive impacts of emotional work

    57:47 - The HEAL Method and the Fast Track to Freedom eight-week program [program structure, support, and how to join]

    01:07:00 - Client Testimonial on positive experience, highlighting effortless weight loss and life improvements

    01:08:00 - Q&A: Insomnia and cortisol

    01:13:51 - Q&A: Eating when happy and childhood conditioning

    01:19:00 - Q&A: Constant tension and family dynamics

    01:27:00 - Q&A: Program Cost and Duration

    Valuable Resources:

    • Join my next LIVE masterclass
    • Join the 8-week Fastrack to Food Freedom Program -Guaranteed mental and emotional freedom from food

    Connect With Leslie Thornton:

    • Book A Clarity Call
    • Website
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Email: Leslie@hpwl.co

    If you enjoy the podcast, Would you please consider leaving a quick review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes in under 60 seconds? It brightens our day and helps us bring you incredible guests for top-notch content. Plus, I cherish reading every review! Click here to make a difference!
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    1 ora e 30 min