In today’s episode, JJ breaks down a topic that confuses so many people—why yoga can feel amazing but still not deliver the body results you’re looking for.

After 25+ years in the fitness and health industry, JJ shares the truth about exercise, body composition, and the biggest mistake people make when choosing how to move their bodies.

If you’ve ever thought, “I’m doing all the right things… so why isn’t anything changing?”—this episode is for you.

• Why yoga can feel like a “magic fix” (and when it actually works)
• The real reason some people lose weight doing yoga—and others don’t
• The difference between nervous system regulation vs. body transformation
• Why most exercise routines fail to change body composition
• How your body adapts—and why that leads to plateaus
• The importance of choosing the right exercise for your specific goal
• Why time spent exercising doesn’t always equal results

JJ breaks down the most common styles of yoga and what they’re actually good for, including:

• Hatha
• Vinyasa
• Ashtanga
• Power Yoga
• Bikram / Hot Yoga
• Yin
• Restorative
• Kundalini
• Iyengar
• Chair Yoga

Each serves a purpose—but not all of them are designed for fat loss, muscle building, or metabolic change.

• Feeling better ≠ changing your body
• Your body responds to stimulus, not preference
• Most people plateau because they don’t change the strategy
• Yoga is powerful for stress relief, recovery, and nervous system balance
• But it is not a primary tool for body composition change

👉 “It’s not that your body isn’t working—it’s that you’re not giving it the right instructions.”

If you’re tired of doing “all the right things” and not getting results…

Join JJ for the 3-Day Body Breakthrough Challenge

📅 April 15–17 (replays available)

You’ll uncover the 7 factors of weight loss resistance and finally understand:

• Why your body isn’t changing
• What to focus on instead
• How to move the needle—efficiently

👉 Join here: http://jjflizanes.com/3day

Yoga has value. Movement has value. But results come from alignment between your goals and your strategy.

What if everything you’ve been told about cholesterol, statins, and hormones isn’t the full picture?

In this eye-opening conversation, I sit down with Elizabeth Plourde, who brings decades of research and firsthand experience inside the medical system. We explore how “normal” ranges have changed over time, why so many people are prescribed medications without deeper investigation, and what your body actually needs to function optimally.

This episode is about empowerment—understanding your body, asking better questions, and not blindly outsourcing your health decisions.

• Why “healthy ranges” for cholesterol have shifted over time
• The role of cholesterol in hormone production and brain function
• Why lowering cholesterol may not always equal better health

• Common side effects (including muscle pain and fatigue)
• Why many people are prescribed statins without full context
• The importance of understanding risks vs. benefits for YOU

• Why hormone decline impacts nearly every system in the body
• The difference between synthetic vs. bioidentical hormones
• How hormone imbalance can affect mood, energy, bones, and more

• Why most people don’t question their doctors—and the risk of that
• How fear-based recommendations influence decision-making
• The importance of becoming your own health advocate

• Your body is not broken—it’s responding to imbalances
• “Normal” lab ranges don’t always mean optimal health
• Cholesterol is essential for hormone production and brain function
• Medications are not always the root-cause solution
• You have more power than you think when you ask questions and explore options

This episode is personal.

After navigating my own health challenges and being pressured into solutions that didn’t feel aligned, I realized how important it is to trust yourself, get educated, and advocate for your body.

Most people don’t realize how much pressure exists inside the medical system until they’re in it.

You don’t have to accept the first answer you’re given.

• Learn more about Dr. Plourde’s work on EMF and health:
• https://www.emffreedom.com/
• The Great Cholesterol Myth by Jonny Bowden & Stephen Sinatra
• EMF Freedom: Solutions for the 21st Century Pollution by Elizabeth Plourde
• Hysterectomy, Ovary Removal, and Hormone Replacement by Elizabeth Plourde
• CoQ10 for heart health and energy support
• Vision Alive Max (eye health support mentioned in episode)

If this episode resonated with you, it’s time to go deeper.

Join me for the 14-Day Manifestation Challenge where we apply this same level of awareness and empowerment to your thoughts, emotions, and outcomes.

👉 http://jjflizanes.com/14day

Healing isn’t about blindly following instructions.

It’s about becoming aware enough to choose what’s right for you.

What happens when you’ve achieved everything you thought you wanted… and it still doesn’t feel right?

In this powerful conversation, JJ Flizanes joins Allison Lane to unpack the hidden experience so many high-achieving women face—but rarely talk about: outgrowing the very life they worked so hard to build.

From anxiety and burnout to the quiet feeling of “this can’t be it,” this episode dives into why success can start to feel empty—and what’s actually underneath it.

Together, JJ and Allison explore the deeper emotional, psychological, and subconscious patterns that keep brilliant women stuck, invisible, or second-guessing their next move—even when they know they’re meant for more.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected, restless, or unsure of your next chapter… this conversation will help you understand why—and what becomes possible when you finally listen to that inner call.

1. Why high-achieving women often feel unfulfilled after reaching success
2. The difference between burnout vs. outgrowing your current life
3. How subconscious beliefs and core wounds drive overachievement
4. Why “mindset work” alone isn’t enough—and what actually creates change
5. The hidden role of addiction to achievement, control, and validation
6. Signs you’re repressing your true purpose (and how it shows up physically and emotionally)
7. Why visibility feels so hard—and how fear of judgment keeps you playing small
8. The truth about needing more certifications, degrees, or “permission”
9. What happens when you finally align with your purpose, passion, and dharma
10. How to move from confusion and stagnation into clarity, energy, and momentum

1. Success built on external validation or compensation will eventually feel empty
2. Anxiety, burnout, and even physical symptoms can be signs of misalignment
3. You don’t need more credentials—you need clarity and alignment
4. You are not for everyone—and hiding keeps the right people from finding you
5. Growth requires stepping through discomfort, not avoiding it
6. When you align with your truth, life becomes lighter, more energized, and more supported

When you stop ignoring that inner knowing and start listening:

1. You feel lighter and more energized
2. Your nervous system begins to calm
3. Opportunities and alignment start showing up
4. You gain clarity on your purpose and next steps
5. You move from performing… to truly living your truth

If this episode resonated with you, you are not alone—and you are not stuck.

JJ and Allison are hosting a live masterclass to go deeper into this conversation:

📅 April 10

🔗 Register: jjflizanes.com/brilliantwomen

🎟️ Use the free VIP code JJFREE

Allison Lane helps accomplished women expand their visibility, authority, and impact—guiding them from industry experts to recognized thought leaders through books, media, and strategic positioning.

JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist, author, and podcast host who helps people heal emotional patterns, uncover core wounds, and align with their purpose to create lasting transformation.

If you’ve been quietly wondering, “Is this all there is?”

That question isn’t a problem.

It’s the beginning of your next evolution.

Have you ever felt like you're doing all the right things—vision boards, appreciation lists, meditation, inner work—and yet nothing seems to be moving?

In this solo episode, JJ shares a deeply personal reflection on the space between where you are and the next version of who you're becoming.

Sometimes feeling stuck isn't a sign that something is wrong.

Sometimes it means your container is expanding.

Drawing from her background in fitness, manifestation work, and recent personal experiences—including a powerful birthday medicine journey—JJ explores why growth often feels uncomfortable and why contrast is actually necessary for transformation.

If you've ever wondered why the Law of Attraction seems to stop working when you need it most, this episode will help you understand the deeper shift that may be happening within you.

This conversation explores the moment when the old version of you is dissolving, but the new version hasn't fully arrived yet—and how learning to trust that process is one of the most important skills in manifestation.

• Why people feel stuck even when they're doing all the personal growth work • The stage of transformation where the old identity dissolves • Why contrast is necessary for growth and expansion • The resistance training analogy for emotional and spiritual development • The real reason manifestation sometimes feels blocked • Why your container must expand before your desires can manifest • The hardest part of the Law of Attraction: feeling aligned before the evidence shows up • How collective energy and world events can affect personal growth • Why you may be in a "caterpillar to butterfly" phase of transformation • What it means to recognize yourself as an extension of Source energy

We don't attract what we want.

We attract where we are.

If the life you're calling in is bigger than what you've experienced before, you must become the energetic and emotional container capable of holding it.

That expansion often feels uncomfortable—but it's a sign that growth is happening.

If you resonate with this conversation, JJ invites you to join the next 14-Day Manifestation Challenge starting April 1st.

This challenge is designed to help you strengthen your manifestation muscle and learn how to stay aligned, hopeful, and grounded—even before the results show up.

Because the real work of manifestation isn't controlling circumstances.

It's becoming the person who can hold the reality you're calling in.

Join here: jjflizanes.com/14-day

Register for the next free 14 Day Manifestation Challenge that starts on April 1st. http://jjflizanes.com/14day

In this episode, JJ sits down with returning guest Lori Shelley, a coach who helps women navigate the emotional and practical aftermath of betrayal. Lori shares her background—from 12 years in financial planning (including training leadership), to 13 years at home raising her kids, to 13 years in HR—and how her own life experience led her to coaching women in midlife who are rebuilding after major relationship disruption.

Lori opens up about discovering her husband's long-term deception through what's often called "drip disclosure"—learning the truth in pieces over time—and how that process created intense nervous-system dysregulation: depression, short temper, feeling worse as she approached home, and eventually rage that didn't match the partial information she had. She explains how a formal therapeutic disclosure helped bring alignment between what she felt and what was actually happening—creating clarity, validation, and a turning point for healing.

Together, JJ and Lori discuss why the right support matters. Lori describes the difference between approaches that frame partners as "co-addicts" versus betrayal trauma frameworks that recognize the impact of deception on safety, intuition, and identity. She shares how 12-step style groups (including COSA) can provide a safe starting place—especially when the group's structure and energy support growth instead of staying stuck in the story.

Lori also explains how she works with women today through groups and individual coaching, including:

• A group for women navigating separation/divorce after betrayal, and

• A deeper healing experience called The Spiral Path, a 6-month program exploring:

  1. what you want to leave behind,

  2. what you want to acknowledge, and

  3. what you want to walk away with.

  
  

JJ highlights Lori's unique zone of genius: blending emotional healing + financial and career support for women facing divorce—helping clients move from "I'm not okay" to regulated, grounded, and clear about what they will and won't accept moving forward. Lori shares one of her favorite group check-ins: noticing glimmers (small signs of hope) and naming what you're beating yourself up about—so you can begin to come back to yourself.

Connect with Lori: Website: LoriShelleyCoaching.com (Book a free 30-minute consultation) Facebook: Lori Shelley Coaching

In this solo episode, JJ breaks down how to move through the powerful momentum of the Fire Horse year without burnout by focusing on just three aligned priorities. Rather than getting swept up in urgency, overcommitment, or scattered action, she shares how to use this high-energy cycle for sustainable expansion through identity, intentional creation, and body-led balance. This conversation is your reminder that success this year comes from congruence, not doing more. If you're ready for guided support, join JJ's free 14-Day Manifestation Challenge starting April 1st at JJFlizanes.com/14day, and download her Metabolic Makeover program (a $500 value) completely free at JJFlizanes.com/mm using the code JJFREE.

In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Erin Hines, a Human Design business coach (and repeat guest from West Coast Women Rising), to kick off a new series-style conversation on Human Design—what it is, why it's gaining traction, and how it can help you better understand your energy, decision-making, and natural way of operating in life and work.

What You'll Learn

• What Human Design is and where it came from (a modern system developed in the late 1980s)
• How Human Design blends ancient and modern systems (astrology, I Ching, chakras + physics/biology concepts)
• The "science of differentiation": why your uniqueness matters and how it supports more ease in life
• The 5 Human Design types and what each one needs to manage energy well:
• • Generators & Manifesting Generators: consistent energy when doing what lights you up; built to respond
  • Projectors: here to guide; thrive by waiting for invitations and honoring rest
  • Manifestors: here to initiate; thrive by informing and allowing cycles of burst/rest
  • Reflectors: sensitive mirrors of environments; thrive with downtime and supportive spaces
• How type can reduce shame and friction (e.g., why open-ended questions can feel hard for "response-based" types)
• The basics of reading a Human Design chart: Type, Centers (defined vs open), and deeper layers like gates/channels

Mentioned in the Episode

• Erin's free Human Design chart option (available many places; Erin's includes helpful click-for-explanations)
• Erin's "Intro to Human Design" custom report for deeper insight
• Erin's podcast: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design (includes business strategy + HD education)

Connect with Erin Hines

Erin's website: DarnGoodBusinessCoach.com
Find Erin on: LinkedIn
Listen to: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design