Lifestyle School Podcast

Lifestyle School Podcast

Hosted by: Hope Plack

The Lifestyle School Podcast was created to help you design a life you love while achieving the health results you’ve always wanted. We focus on how small, sustainable changes to your lifestyle can lead to...

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Failure Isn’t the Problem—Your Interpretation Is

SHOW NOTES Failure Isn’t the Problem—Your Interpretation Is Failure isn’t what’s keeping you stuck—it’s how you’re interpreting it. In this episode, we break down the difference between real failure and the kind that...
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Episode 62: Saying Goodbye to the All-or-Nothing Mindset

Have you ever felt like you’re either doing everything perfectly… or you’ve completely fallen off the wagon? This episode explores the all-or-nothing mindset—a pattern that keeps many people stuck in cycles of extreme...
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Episode 61: The Good, The Hard & The Honest – My Pregnancy & Postpartum Experience

Episode Summary In this episode, I’m sharing my real pregnancy and early postpartum experience — the good moments, the hard stretches, and the honest lessons I’m still learning. Pregnancy and postpartum are some of...
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Episode 60: What Should You Eat? Real Food That Loves You Back

Food shouldn’t feel confusing, restrictive, or exhausting—but for a lot of people, it does. In this episode of the Lifestyle School Podcast, Hope cuts through diet culture noise and brings the conversation back to...
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Episode 59: Why You’re Not Addicted to Food—Your Brain Is Searching for Relief

If cravings feel loud, emotional eating feels automatic, or food feels harder to control than it should—this episode explains why. You’re not addicted to food. Your brain is searching for relief. In this episode, we...
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Episode 58: Why Bodybuilding Competitions Don’t Fix Weight-Loss

Mid-February is often when frustration peaks and extreme ideas start to sound tempting. In this episode, we unpack why using a bodybuilding competition as a weight-loss tool almost always backfires for women. We...
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Episode 57: If This Feels Uncomfortable, You’re Doing It Right

By the first week of February, many people who set New Year’s resolutions are already questioning themselves—or have quietly given up. Motivation has faded, progress feels slower, and discomfort has set in. In this...
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Episode 56: Estrogen Dominance

In this episode, we break down what estrogen dominance actually is, why it’s so common today, and what truly helps—without fear-based food rules or extreme detoxes. We talk about estrogen dominance as a signaling and...
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Episode 55: Why Calorie Counting Fails

For decades, calorie counting has been positioned as the gold standard for weight loss. Eat less. Move more. Track harder. Try again. But if calorie counting truly worked long-term, we wouldn’t be facing the metabolic...
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Episode 54: Boundaries

In today’s episode, Hope breaks down one of the most overlooked foundations of metabolic health: boundaries — what they are, why they matter, and how boundaryless living silently sabotages your hormones, hunger,...
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Episode 53: Getting Your Hunger Under Control

If you’ve ever felt like your hunger is louder than your goals, this episode will change everything. Today we break down why hunger feels so intense in our modern world and how to finally get your appetite working...
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Episode 52: Your 5-Step Reset

Episode Summary In this powerful episode, Hope walks you through the 5-step strategy to finally step into your healthiest, most grounded, most resilient self in 2026. These steps aren’t hacks or quick fixes — they’re...
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