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Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Welcome to Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Ledbetter, a podcast where I empower you to just be you. My hope for you is to stop hating your body, picking a part every flaw, questioning your worth, doubting your strength, making excuses, and constantly starting over. I get it, I"ve been there. I know it feels like an impossible cycle to break, but let me tell you: I"ve successfully broken the decade long struggle, and over the last 8 years I have helped thousands of other woman do the same. I know

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38:27

661: Should You Train Legs Multiple Times a Week If...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/07/27

If you want stronger legs, more glute growth, or that lean, defined look, it makes sense to wonder if one leg day is really enough. And if you are already putting in the work, it can be frustrating when your lower body still does not look as defined as you want it to. So naturally, your brain goes to the next question: do I need more leg days? In this episode of Embrace Your Real, we are answering a question from the Movement With Julie community about training legs multiple times a week, repeating

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09:33

660: How I Am Getting My Fitness In This Summer While...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/07/23

Summer can make it feel like fitness has to wait. The schedule is looser, the kids are home, trips are happening, weekends are fuller, and suddenly your normal routine feels harder to hold onto. So you tell yourself you are being flexible, you are enjoying the season, you will get back to it later. But then later keeps getting pushed back. And instead of feeling free, you start feeling off, tired, frustrated, and disconnected from yourself. In this bonus episode of Embrace Your Real, I'm sharing the

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21:36

659: How What You Eat Affects How You Feel

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2026/07/20

Hey hey beautiful human! Most women are taught to think about food in terms of what it will do to their body. Will this make me gain weight? Will this set me back? Did I stay on track? Did I mess it up? But, what if that is the question keeping you stuck? In this episode of Embrace Your Real, we are talking about food in a completely different way. Not from a place of rules, guilt, or restriction, but from the question so many women forget to ask: how do I actually want to feel? Because the way you

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658: Pros and Cons of Volume Eating

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/07/16

Hey hey beautiful human! If you have been on social media lately, you have probably seen the giant bowls, the huge salads, the low calorie snack plates, and the "look how much food you can eat for 300 calories" videos. And at first, it sounds like the perfect solution. You get a full plate. You feel like you are eating a lot. You stay within your goals. So of course it feels like the smarter way to lose fat without feeling miserable. But girl, a bigger plate does not automatically mean a better

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23:21

657: My Postpartum Fitness Journey Part 2

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/07/13

Postpartum fitness can feel confusing when you are trying to heal, feed a baby, sleep when you can, and somehow feel like yourself again. You may be wondering what workouts make sense, how often you should move, what to do with nutrition, how breastfeeding affects progress, and how to stay patient when the scale is not moving. In this episode of Embrace Your Real, we are continuing the postpartum fitness Q&A to answer the questions so many new moms are quietly asking. We are talking workouts,

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11:07

656: Should You Eat Before Your Workouts? Let's Talk...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/07/09

Hey hey beautiful human! Let's settle this once and for all: Do you need to eat before a workout? You've probably heard all kinds of answers, some people swear by fasted training, others won't touch a dumbbell without a snack first. So what's the truth? I'm giving you real-world tips you can use starting today, plus snack ideas that are quick, effective, and easy to digest. Bottom line? Fueling is personal, but there's also a strategy behind it. And I'm walking you through both. Want to feel better

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28:41

655: My Postpartum Fitness Journey Part 1

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/07/06

Hey hey beautiful human! If you are postpartum and wondering whether you will ever feel strong, confident, and comfortable in your body again, I want you to know that you are not alone. Having a baby can make your body, routine, energy, and identity feel completely different, and wanting to feel like yourself again does not make you selfish. In this episode of Embrace Your Real, I'm answering your questions about my postpartum fitness journey and what it actually looked like behind the

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654: Is your life centered around your body?

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/07/02

Hey hey beautiful human! So many women think confidence comes after the body changes. After the weight is lost. After the jeans fit differently. After the arms look smaller. After the stomach feels flatter. After they finally feel "ready" to wear the swimsuit, take the photo, book the trip, go to the event, or show up without hiding. But what if waiting for your body to change is the exact thing keeping you from becoming the woman you want to be? In this bonus episode of Embrace Your Real, I'm

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23:11

653: Why You Need People: Community as Medicine

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2026/06/29

Hey hey beautiful human! Have you ever noticed how much harder it is to show up for yourself when you feel like you are doing it alone? You can have the workout plan. You can know what to eat. You can have the best intentions. But when life gets heavy, motivation drops, shame creeps in, or you fall out of rhythm, doing everything by yourself can make the whole thing feel ten times harder. And that is what we are talking about today: community. Not the surface-level kind where you scroll through

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11:51

652: 3 Quick Wins to Get You Back on Track

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/06/25

Hey hey beautiful human! By the end of June, summer can already feel a little loose. Maybe you've had a vacation, a few BBQs, later nights, pool days, skipped workouts, more snacks in the house, and meals that looked nothing like your usual routine. And you know how fast that can turn into, "Well, I already messed it up, so I'll just start again Monday." But sister, you do not need Monday. You do not need a perfect routine. You do not need to make some huge plan to fix everything. Sometimes you just

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32:50

651: Perimenopause: What's Actually Happening, What...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/06/22

Hey hey beautiful human! Perimenopause is one of those things every woman will experience, yet so many of us are completely unprepared for it. Maybe you are in your 30s and starting to notice that your body feels different. Maybe you are in your 40s and quietly wondering why the workouts, meals, and routines that used to work suddenly are not working the same way anymore. And sister, this is not a discipline problem. Perimenopause is a hormonal transition, and it can affect your muscle, metabolism,

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10:33

650: How to Work Out in the Heat Without It Wrecking...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/06/18

Hey hey beautiful human! Summer workouts can humble you fast. You go to do the same workout you have been doing for months, and suddenly your heart rate is higher, you are sweating within five minutes, everything feels harder, and you start wondering if you somehow lost your fitness overnight. You did not lose your fitness. Your body is just working in a much more demanding environment. When it is hot, your body has to keep your muscles working and cool you down at the same time, which means your

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23:12

5 Fitness Rules Then vs. Now: What We Got Wrong and...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/06/15

Hey hey beautiful human! Let me ask you something. Were you ever taught that more cardio means better results, soreness means your workout counts, eating less is the fastest way to change your body, pain means progress, or you need a gym to get a real workout? If so, you are definitely not alone. A lot of us built our early fitness routines around these rules because they sounded disciplined, serious, and like the "right" way to get results. And when they did not work, we usually blamed ourselves

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11:20

+9 Ways to Pick Out the Perfect Bathing Suit That You...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/06/11

Bathing suit shopping can bring up a lot more feelings than it should. You walk in looking for something cute for summer, and suddenly one tiny piece of fabric has you questioning your body, your confidence, and whether you even want to go to the pool anymore. But please hear this: your body is not the problem. Bathing suits are just hard to find sometimes. They have to fit your chest, hips, butt, torso, thighs, waist, rib cage, and everything in between, so of course the process can feel

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18:53

The Comparison That's Actually Worth Making

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/06/08

Hey hey beautiful human! Most of us have been told to stop comparing ourselves to other people, and honestly, that advice sounds good until you remember that your brain does not really work that way. You can tell yourself to stay in your own lane, but then you open your phone, see someone else's body, progress, or routine, and suddenly your brain is already measuring before you even meant to. So maybe the goal is not to stop comparing completely. Maybe the goal is to stop comparing yourself to

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09:22

3 Things I Want You to Remember This Summer

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/06/04

Hey hey beautiful human! Summer has a way of making us feel a little more aware of our bodies than usual. The swimsuits, the pool days, the photos, the warmer weather, and being around other bodies can bring up thoughts you may not have been dealing with the rest of the year. And even if you have been showing up for yourself, working on your relationship with your body, and trying to feel more confident, summer can still catch you off guard. In this episode of Embrace Your Real, I'm sharing three

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18:17

The Minimal Effective Dose for Your...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/06/01

Summer always sounds fun until your routine suddenly disappears. The kids are home more, weekends fill up fast, vacations happen, BBQs are on the calendar, pool days run long, and somehow your workouts, protein, steps, water, and goals start feeling like way too much to keep up with. And when life gets busy like that, it is so easy to think, "Well, I guess I'll just start over when things calm down." But I do not want summer to become the season where you feel like you are either doing everything

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11:23

5 Ways to Make Your Health Feel Like Self-Care Again

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/05/28

Hey hey beautiful human! Have you ever noticed how something that started as taking care of yourself slowly turned into something that feels heavy? You still want to work out, you still want to eat well and you still care about your health. But somewhere along the way, it stopped feeling good and started feeling like pressure. Like something you have to keep up with, something you are constantly falling behind on, something that quietly makes you feel like you are not doing enough. And when it

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24:10

What Is the Mind-Muscle Connection (And Why It...

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/05/25

Hey hey beautiful human! There is nothing more frustrating than doing the workout, checking off every set, and still wondering if the right muscles even got the message. You feel tired, you know you worked hard, but your glutes are quiet after glute day, your arms take over on back day, and suddenly the issue is not whether you are consistent. It is whether the effort you are putting in is actually going where you think it is. What most women do in that moment is assume they need to do more. More

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11:48

Are You Actually Resting - Or Just Not Moving?

Embrace Your Real ·

2026/05/21

Hey hey beautiful human! Most women know they need rest days, but a lot of them have never been taught what a rest day is actually supposed to do. So they skip the workout, sit on the couch, scroll for hours, stay up too late, maybe eat less because they "did not earn it," and then come back to training still tired, still flat, and confused about why they do not feel recovered. That is the difference between simply not working out and actually recovering. One gives your body a break from training,

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