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The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy

Welcome to the Grit & Grace podcast! I"m Dr. Lori Doddy and we"re going to talk about topics that help you live life with a powerful combination of perseverance and resilience with a heavy dose of grace. Join me each week and expect straight from the heart, real talk that will leave you feeling more balanced, inspired, and empowered to live your best life possible. But make no mistake, I"m no woo woo guru so you won"t find fluff here. I"m all about applicable advice. Please subscribe and

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34:04

[Most popular] Struggling to keep the Weight off Even...

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/10/01

Talking with you about a couple of reason's you're struggling to lose weight and keep it off... even IF you have the right nutrition and exercise strategies in place. Listen in as I pull no punches and really break it down plainly. When you're ready, here's how I can help you for FREE: (Community + Support) Join my Lori Doddy's Total Wellness community to get research-backed tips, strategies, and free resources to lose weight and manage menopause like (Lose Fat) Steal my guide with exact 5

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37:51

Ep 178 You're Never Going to Find 30 Perfect Days

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/09/10

You're probably never going to find 30 consecutive days when life agrees to make weight loss easy. There will be dinners out, stressful days, disrupted sleep, weekends that look nothing like weekdays, and mornings when the scale makes absolutely no sense. Those aren't interruptions to the plan. They're the conditions under which the plan eventually has to work. In this episode, I'm talking about what a short protocol can help us notice, why a legitimate 30-day strategy requires much more than

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39:23

Ep 177 What Your Body Can Tell You in 5 Days

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/09/03

What can you actually learn about your body in five days? I'm currently doing a simple five-day metabolic protocol alongside nearly 100 women, and in this episode I'm sharing what I'm noticing by Day 3 - including a two-pound scale drop, less bloating, better digestion, improved satiety, and the places where I have definitely not followed the plan perfectly. But this episode isn't really about my results, and it's not only for the women doing the protocol. We're talking about what your hunger,

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33:35

Ep 176 What Do You Do When You Can Finally Choose?

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/08/27

What happens when the life you built is good, the work still matters to you, and you're still really damn good at it, but you finally have enough freedom to ask what you want the next version of it to look like? That's where I find myself at 57. I retired this year after almost 30 years in higher education. I'm still coaching. I still care deeply about women's health, weight, menopause, behavior change and all the work I've spent years doing. But I'm also realizing I don't have to keep doing any of

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36:38

Ep 175 What If Your Body Isn't as Stuck as You Think...

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/08/20

After enough failed attempts to lose weight, something starts to change. "I haven't figured out what works for me" becomes: "My body just doesn't respond anymore." But are those actually the same thing? In this episode, I'm digging into what women really mean when they say "nothing works," the feedback your body may be giving you that you're overlooking, and why a short period of consistency can sometimes tell us more than months of randomly changing one thing after another. We're talking about:

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35:31

Ep 174 Why Knowing How to Lose Weight Isn't Helping...

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/08/13

You probably already know protein matters. You know you should move your body, drink water, strength train, sleep better - and maybe stop raiding the kitchen at 9 p.m. So why isn't knowing all of that helping more women lose weight after 50? In this episode, I'm talking about the gap between knowing individual healthy behaviors and actually having a strategy that makes those behaviors work together in real life. We'll talk about why repeated attempts can make you trust yourself less, why the thing

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29:59

Ep 173 I'll Never Tell You Your Weight Doesn't Matter

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/08/06

The conversation around weight has become increasingly polarized. Some voices tell women their weight shouldn't matter at all. Others insist they simply need more discipline. In this episode, I explore why both messages miss the reality many women in midlife are living. I share why I'll never tell a woman her worth depends on the number on the scale, but I'll also never pretend her weight doesn't matter - if it matters to her. Along with that, I examine the outdated "scorecard" so many women still

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16:51

Ep 172 The First Explanation Isn't Always the Truth

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/07/30

How quickly do you decide what something means? A number on the scale. A season of exhaustion. A body that doesn't respond the way it used to. Most of us don't just experience those things. We immediately explain them. In this episode, I'm talking about why the first explanation we reach isn't always the right one... and how the stories we tell ourselves quietly shape the decisions we make next. When you're ready, here's how I can help you for FREE: (Community + Support) Join my Lori Doddy's Total

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27:05

Ep 171 The Brain LOVES A Closed Case

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/07/23

Your brain is constantly trying to make sense of the world. That's a good thing... until it starts confusing observations with conclusions. In this episode, I explore why our brains crave certainty, how confirmation bias quietly shapes the stories we tell ourselves, and why so many women build lasting identities from temporary moments. From the number on the scale to menopause, relationships, setbacks, and self-confidence, this conversation is about learning to recognize when your mind has reached a

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25:15

Ep 170 The Quiet Ways We Leave Ourselves: Why hard...

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/07/16

We often think of self-abandonment as something dramatic. I don't think it usually is. I think it happens quietly. Life gets heavy. Someone needs us. Work gets busy. A parent gets sick. Summer gets chaotic. Grief arrives. Stress piles up. And without ever making a conscious decision, we slowly stop checking in with ourselves. We stop asking what we need. We stop making ourselves part of the equation. This episode isn't about weight loss. It's about the psychology of what happens during hard seasons

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10:31

Ep 169 Things Success Taught Me That I Eventually...

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/07/09

We spend so much of our lives trying to learn more. Another book. Another course. Another degree. But what if wisdom isn't just about what we learn? What if it's also about what we outgrow? In this episode, I share three beliefs that helped me build a successful career I genuinely loved for many years - first as a teacher, then a professor, and eventually a college vice president - but that eventually became limiting as I entered the second half of my life. This isn't about rejecting the past. It's

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19:20

Ep 168 The Lie That Keeps Smart Women Stuck: Why...

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/07/02

Somewhere along the way, we've been sold the idea that transformation should eventually feel easy. Just find the right supplement. The right hormone expert. The right morning routine. The right mindset. The right strategy. The missing piece. But what if that's the lie that's keeping so many smart women stuck in a rut? In this episode, I unpack why we're so drawn to the promise of "the missing answer," why magical thinking is so appealing, and why more information isn't necessarily what you need

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Ep 167 You Finally Made Sense to Me

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/06/25

A woman told me recently, "You finally made sense to me." That comment stopped me in my tracks because it made me realize something important: Most women in midlife aren't struggling because they don't know enough. They're struggling because they're trying to make sense of years of conflicting advice, endless information, and too many voices telling them what they should do. In this episode, I share the conversation that sparked this realization, what 30 years in education taught me about learning

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Ep 166 The Women Who Never Fully Power Down

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/06/18

A lot of women walk around exhausted, but they don't fully realize their nervous system has never actually learned how to power down anymore. Their brain wakes up immediately carrying responsibilities, mental lists, future problems, health concerns, conversations, things they forgot, things they need to manage… Like opening 47 tabs all at once. And over time, many women stop recognizing this as stress. They start calling it personality. In this episode, I explore: • hypervigilance and chronic

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Ep 165 What Is Social Media Doing To Us?

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/06/11

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the way people speak to each other online. Not just trolls and "haters." But ordinary people saying things behind screens that they would likely never say face to face. This episode was sparked by watching another creator open up about the deeply personal comments she's received about her family, her parenting, and her life decisions… followed almost immediately by an interaction in my own inbox that stopped me in my tracks. And it made me start asking bigger

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21:50

Ep 164 When Everything Changed After "That Thing"

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/06/04

A lot of women can pinpoint a season of life where their body seemed to suddenly change. After the divorce. After caregiving. After burnout. After the surgery. After the illness. After the loss. After the years of chronic stress. Weight changed. Energy changed. Sleep changed. Blood sugar changed. Everything felt harder. And many women quietly say the same thing: "Everything changed after that." In this episode, I explore the connection between stress, survival, trauma, nervous system strain,

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19:03

Ep 163 Part 3 of a 3-part series: The Midlife...

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/05/28

In the final episode of this series, we zoom out and explore the larger cultural and emotional context surrounding menopause and midlife. Because many women were not only physically unprepared for this transition. They were psychologically unprepared too. For years, women were given an incredibly shallow understanding of menopause: hot flashes, periods stop, mood swings. But very few women were taught how deeply this transition could affect… stress tolerance emotional resilience identity

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19:28

Ep 162 part 2 of 3 episodes: Why So Many Women...

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/05/21

Part 2 of a 3-part series. In Part 1, I talked about losing the body's familiar warning signs and communication systems during the menopausal transition. In this episode, we go deeper into the psychological consequences of that disconnection. Because for many women, the struggle in midlife was never simply about weight gain. It was about unpredictability. Loss of familiarity. Loss of confidence. Loss of trust in the body that used to feel understandable and manageable. And when women don't fully

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Ep 161 The Women Who Lost the Warning Signs

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/05/14

This is part 1 of a 3 episode series. In this episode, I'm talking about something I've noticed more and more over the years working with women in midlife and something I personally experienced. A lot of women around my age had hysterectomies in their late 30s or early 40s. And while many of those surgeries genuinely improved quality of life - mine included - I've come to realize something else may have happened too: Many of us lost one of the body's biggest communication systems before we ever

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15:02

Ep 160 You Understand It… So Why Are You Still Doing It?

The Grit & Grace Podcast with Dr. Lori Doddy ·

2026/05/07

You can fully understand why you do something… and still be the reason it's not changing. In this episode, I'm breaking down a pattern I see in almost every woman I work with, and it has nothing to do with willpower, discipline, or knowing what to do. It's the subtle way we use awareness to explain our behavior… without actually changing it. I walk through what this looks like in real life from the "2pm it doesn't count" moment… to the deeper patterns shaped long before that. Because the

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