Starting is sexy, but staying when it gets boring, hard, or uncomfortable is the real skill we need to practice.

So many women believe they struggle with consistency in their health and fitness because they lack discipline or willpower. In reality, most of us have just never learned how to stay committed when things don’t go as planned.

In today’s episode, Joan talks about why starting is the easy part - and why staying, especially in midlife, requires a different skill set altogether.

We explore:

• Why falling off doesn’t mean you’re failing
• How perfectionism quietly sabotages consistency
• What to focus on when motivation fades
• Why learning how to come back matters more than never slipping

This episode is especially for you if you’ve been stuck in the start-stop cycle for years, and you're finally ready to feel in control. This episode will help you reframe what consistency really is and remind you that you’re not broken - you just need a longer runway and better systems to create real lasting sustainable change.

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And if you know another woman in midlife who’s tired of starting over, please share this episode with her. Sometimes hearing “you’re not failing - you’re learning” is exactly what someone needs.

Here's how we can stay connected:

Follow @joansfitzone on Instagram → for simple, sustainable fitness and nutrition tips for women in midlife to create lasting change.

Join the The Midlife Glow Up Collective FREE Facebook community → a supportive space for women 40+ who want accountability, encouragement, and realistic ways to stay consistent with health and self-care.

Apply for 1:1 coaching with Joan → Ready to take your fitness, nutrition, and healthy habits to the next level with a customized plan and one-on-one support + accountability? Apply here!

Most people assume that if fitness comes easily to you now, it always has.

That you’ve always had it figured out.
That you’re just “a fitness person.”
That motivation must come naturally.

But that’s rarely the truth.

In this deeply personal episode, Joan pulls back the curtain on her 30-year fitness journey and shares the lessons she’s learned across every season - from childhood asthma and sitting out in PE class, to endurance races, bodybuilding, motherhood, imposter syndrome, and ultimately redefining what it means to “train for life.”

This isn’t a highlight reel or a how-to episode. It’s an honest look at how movement, identity, mindset, and self-trust evolve over time, and why fitness doesn’t have to look one way to last a lifetime.

In this episode, Joan shares:

• Why fitness has never been a straight path - and why that matters
• How community changed everything at multiple points in her journey
• What imposter syndrome taught her about self-trust and resilience
• Why strength isn’t about being the best - it’s about staying in the process
• How motherhood, aging, and changing seasons reshaped her definition of health
• What it really means to train for life instead of for a specific outcome like a goal, a race, or a stage

If fitness has ever felt complicated, intimidating, or frustrating… this episode will remind you that you’re not behind and that your fitness story is still unfolding.

Here's how we can stay connected:

Follow @joansfitzone on Instagram → for simple, sustainable fitness and nutrition tips for women in midlife to create lasting change.

Join the The Midlife Glow Up Collective FREE Facebook community → a supportive space for women 40+ who want accountability, encouragement, and realistic ways to stay consistent with health and self-care.

Apply for 1:1 coaching with Joan → Ready to take your fitness, nutrition, and healthy habits to the next level with a customized plan and one-on-one support + accountability? Apply here!

Somewhere along the way, many women were fed the story that midlife is the beginning of decline. But what if that story is wrong?

In this episode of The Midlife Glow Up Podcast, Joan challenges the outdated narrative around midlife as a crisis, and reframes it as a powerful crossroads instead. Drawing inspiration from cultural shifts, her own life, and her work with women across decades of life, Joan explores why midlife may actually be one of the most meaningful and intentional seasons.

Joan reflects on how shows like The Golden Girls shaped our perception of aging, why mindset matters more than age, and what changes when women stop living on autopilot and start choosing intentionally. And she shares five reasons midlife can be a season of clarity, strength, growth and empowerment.

This conversation is especially for the woman who knows taking care of herself matters - but struggles to actually prioritize it.

👉 Press play to reframe the way you see midlife - and what’s possible next.
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Here's how we can stay connected:

Follow @joansfitzone on Instagram → for simple, sustainable fitness and nutrition tips for women in midlife to create lasting change.

Join the The Midlife Glow Up Collective FREE Facebook community → a supportive space for women 40+ who want accountability, encouragement, and realistic ways to stay consistent with health and self-care.

Apply for 1:1 coaching with Joan → Ready to take your fitness, nutrition, and healthy habits to the next level with a customized plan and one-on-one support + accountability? Apply here!