The Reform Your Lifestyle Show
This show is about all things adding up to a lifestyle through the glasses of your host, Kata from Personal Training with Kata Pongracz and the ( mainly) ex-pat (mainly) women she has as guests on her show. Get your notebook out for thought provoking ideas, inspirations around food and nutrition, motivation to keep moving or just lean back to listen to "conversation over a coffee" style interviews.Lifestyle is complex, lifestyle is personal, lifestyle has many layers, but chances are big that what you face as a challenge now had already been faced before. Knowing that you are not alone and have the chance to learn from others makes life much easier and leads to a more enjoyable lifestyleDon't miss your chance, listen to The Reform Your Lifestyle Show!.
Episodes
30 episodes
Misunderstood Foods - Trailer
We all have prejudice when it comes to certain foods.And when we want to be at the top of our health, that brings in even more. But are those fears and judgments realistic? Is it true that some foods are just pure evil and we have to av...
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Episode 32
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4:22
Episode 31: Reset and Wellbeing at the Workplace
Today I had a nice conversation with Franchesca about her Reset Wellbeing cards. This led to exploring around work-balance, how to set tasks and how to stay on track by actually stopping from time to time. How productivity can dramatically incr...
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Episode 31
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22:43
episode 30 Q&A: Cardio
This time I explore questions around CARDIO:What is cardio? What does cardio training mean?Is doing cardio the best way to lose weight?What about HIIT ?Is all cardio high impact? What is high impact?What is the best card...
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Episode 30
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20:30
Episode 29: Resilience for expats ; Iterview with Betty Encinales
In this episode, we explore some ways to make a transition easier. A transition so big as a relocation, even more, an international relocation.During this super interesting chat, we touch down on how being open minded can be a game-chan...
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Episode 29
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29:25
Episode 28 The Holiday Paradoxes
The holiday trap is real!We go crazy about being prepared to relax by creating so much stress for ourselves that it is insane!I point out a few ironic paradoxes in this episode and then guess what, I promote a balance!Gi...
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23:35
Episode 27: The Power Of Monday
In today's very short episode I will talk about the power of Monday. As you can guess it is not just all the promises a Monday has, but all the opportunities of postponing something because it is not Monday, so no way we can start now.<...
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Episode 27
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8:21
Episode 26: The best way of exercising
Today I explore the best way of exercising. No surprise, I will not tell you one explicit way to move your body but talk you through the importance of the individual choice, and the goal as that ensures sustainability when it comes to exerc...
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Episode 26
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13:36
Time management and the art of planning
In this episode, I have Kati with me for a very nice chat about how to plan, how to find our priorities, how to time manage.We dive into how the different stages in life require more planning. How it could be an age-related thing, like who ...
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Episode 25
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26:00
Episode 24: The two most basic exercise for everything
In this episode, I talk about practical tips for a change.I mentioned before that consistency is the key for everything but having good basics won't hurt either. And if we talk about anything moving, the two most basic thing you have to...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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17:18
Episode 23: How to start exercising
Today I talk about how to start a new workout routine. What are the biggest challenges ( no instant result), what is the solution ( consistency), how to get started ( from your lowest level and with the basics), and why not the type of the exer...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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20:39
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Episode 22: Exercise and weightloss 101
Today I am sabotaging myself by uncovering the myth around weight loss and exercise. The truth is that exercising alone is not a great tool in our hands when it comes to weight loss. The extra energy expenditure we gain by moving a lo...
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Episode 22
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18:27
Episode 21: Practical 101 of weight loss: Calories and exercise
In this episode, I talk a bit about why calorie-counting works and why it doesn't. To understand this, I explain about that not all calories are created equal, the most prominent example being alcohol ( contains twice the amount per g as ca...
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Episode 21
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20:52
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Science behind weight-loss
Today I explore some of the science behind how our enviroment and genetic make up accounts for our strugle with weightloss.At the start I will introduce the concept of weight set point and how our body is actually figths to get our weig...
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Episode 18
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23:24
Episode 17: Mindset and weight-loss
Today I started off to talk about how complex weight loss is and ended up not even getting to the well-known aspects, namely nutrition or exercise. I explored, instead, the power of mindset and habits that can influence how successful y...
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Episode 17
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17:51
Episode 16: Building a community
I have Julie as a guest today from Our Happy Place. She is a local community builder here, in Thalwil, and around Switzerland for the last ( almost) two decades. She built up a network that supports entrepreneurs, small businesses, wome...
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Episode 16
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22:44
Episode 15: Weight managment, weight loss and the important why
Today I am talking about weight loss and why is it not as easy as just stopping eating so much.Why do we need to find our why!I believe that "only" losing weight won't really solve a person's problem, but if this person is clear...
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Episode 15
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16:18
Episode 14: Coffee chat with Mariem about balance in our life
I had a nice chat the other day with Mariem and decided that it was time to record as we always end up with the most "serious but always a laugh" conversation. Today, I tried to keep it around the topic of balance and how that means dif...
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25:27
Episode 13: The New Year's resolution and how to keep it
In this episode I talk about our deep desire to have some goals at the start of the year and how is it tricky to keep themWhere do we lose the motivation, where do we make the small mistakes to fall off the wagon and explore how to not ...
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Episode 13
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22:46
Episode 12: Money-talk with Ilana Why talking about money is important for personal growth
This episode is a unique one!I set out to break down some taboos and our talk with Ilana definitely does that. We talk about money! It is such an important topic often hidden away up until it is too late to do anything about o...
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Episode 12
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18:41
Episode 11: A little spark of luxury - chat with Kirri from Luxury Sparkle
Now that Christmas is at the door, I think more and more about some nice quiet evening, watching a candlelight dance on the wall, and just enjoying the love from my family. That is "luxury" for me.In this episode, I chat with Kirri abou...
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Episode 11
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24:03
Episode 10: Counting calories and the energy balance of the body
In this episode, I talk about the very ( very) basic science behind calorie counting.Where is it coming from, why is it good and why is it not so good. Who should do it, and why, who shouldn't, and why. Hopefully, the way I ...
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24:28
Episode 9: Diet culture - an oppinion
This episode is a briefing about diet culture: the maze of expectations, assumptions, and stereotypes built by media and marketing around foods and bodies.Why do I find it bad and what kind of solutions do I see on the horizon for...
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18:34
Episode 8: Forming our lives or ceramic class with Gabi
In this episode, I have a great chat about how to communicate our needs for things we want to do for ourselves. And when I say communicate, I not only mean to others, in general, but very specifically to the people close to us, and to top...
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25:01
Episode 7 : Age Backwards with Jodhi Woodford
In this episode we talk about how we, as adults, actually can decide what is good for us, and do what is good for us ( and I don't mean tubs of ice creams, that is not actually good for us, not even in the medium long run). It won't be super ea...
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27:07
Episode 6 : Keep moving with your busy life-Tips from Charlotte
In this episode, a mum, just like you will share her tips about how to fit in moving and exercise into your busy life. We also talk about the familiar (from the last episode) phase: every move counts. As the conversation progresses, we also dis...
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Episode 6
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22:46
