Coffee with Carly
Coffee with Carly
Podcast Description
Welcome to Coffee with Carly—your weekly wake-up call to a life that’s happy, healthy, and truly alive.Most of us are living far below our potential, stuck in stories that keep us safe but stagnant. What if there was another way? What if you could feel more alive, fulfilled, and connected than ever before?Join Carly Schade—a business activator, life coach, and adventure-seeker—as she bridges the gap between science and magic, business and passion, and the ordinary and extraordinary. Through heartfelt conversations, practical tools, and inspiring stories, Carly and her guests explore health, mindset, relationships, energetics, and the science behind feeling your best.This is not your average podcast—it’s a place where woo meets wisdom, and growth feels exciting, not overwhelming. We’re here to laugh, learn, and embrace the messiness of creating a life that lights you up.If you’re ready to step out of fear, rewrite old patterns, and explore all the ways to feel good, this is your space. There’s no one-size-fits-all formula to happiness—only the one you create.So grab your coffee, settle in, and let’s uncover what makes you come alive.Follow Carly:📷 Instagram: @carlyschade🎥 TikTok: @carlyschade_✨ Tipsy Tuesday: Subscribe to get health and happiness tips delivered weekly to your inbox! https://carly-schade.mykajabi.com/freebieIf this podcast inspires you, don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and share it with your community!
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The podcast covers a variety of topics including health, mindset, relationships, and personal growth. Specific episodes delve into themes such as handling disappointment, understanding burnout, and the power of community support during motherhood, providing listeners with actionable takeaways and insights.
Most women have no idea how good they’re supposed to feel — and it’s not for lack of trying.
We’re waking up at 6am for workouts, optimizing our nutrition, crushing it at work, holding everyone else together. We’re doing everything we’re “supposed” to do. Following all the wellness advice. Checking every box.
And yet… so many of us feel off. Burned out. Bloated. Anxious. Exhausted but wired. Brain fog that won’t lift. Hormonal symptoms we’re told are “normal.” Running on cortisol and guilt more than actual energy.
Something isn’t adding up.
I’m Carly, a registered dietitian & holistic health coach who spent my early career watching women be fed the same cookie-cutter version of ‘wellness’ — advice built on male biology, packaged for female bodies. Then I hit my own rock bottom: burned out (even while working my dream job), and became completely disconnected from my body.
That’s when I realized the problem wasn’t effort or discipline. It was the system itself. The hustle culture mentality. The way we’ve been taught to live, work, and achieve simply doesn’t support how women actually function.
So I went searching for what actually makes women feel good. What happens when you work with your menstrual cycle instead of against it? When you prioritize nervous system regulation over productivity? When you tune into your intuition instead of drowning it out? When you understand your hormones, your energy, and your body’s wisdom — and use that as your compass?
Coffee with Carly was born from that question.
Like a strong cup of coffee, this podcast is a wake-up call. Through personal riffs, honest storytelling, and conversations with women who are living differently, we explore what it really looks like to build a life that feels good — not just one that looks good. I blend science-backed women’s health research with real-life application, mindset work, intuition, and embodied wisdom.
We talk about cycle syncing and hormone balance. Burnout recovery and nervous system regulation. Metabolic health and gut healing. Anti-hustle achievement and female entrepreneurship. Intuition, energetics, and human design. Brain fog, cortisol, adrenal health. Life transitions, identity shifts, and coming home to yourself.
This podcast is for high-achieving women who are tired of being tired. Who are ready to challenge hustle culture, listen to their bodies, trust their intuition, work with their cycle, balance their hormones, and create lives that actually feel like theirs.
You can be anti-hustle without being anti-achievement. Let me show you how.
Stay bold. Stay balanced.
I’m Carly, and I’m so glad you’re here.
What if you could stop working top-down on your to-do list and actually get more done in less time?
If you've ever:
- Finished a workday exhausted and realized you didn't do the thing that actually mattered
- Felt like you're doing a million things but nothing is moving the needle
- Powered through administrative tasks during your most creative week
- Called yourself a lunatic during the week before your period
- Wondered why some weeks you're a focused machine and others you can barely concentrate
In this episode, the finale of The POWR Method mini-series, I'm breaking down the W in POWR: Work. This is your luteal phase. The ”get sh*t done” phase.
Here's what I want you to know: This isn't about doing more. It's about doing the right things at the right time. Your luteal phase gets a bad rap because this is where PMS shows up. But in my world, there are no bad phases — just under-supported and misunderstood ones.
And when you understand how your body actually works, you learn to leverage it.
In this episode:
- The science behind why luteal is your ”execute and wrap up” phase (hint: progesterone)
- How I used my last luteal phase to build an entire accounting system (and crushed it)
- The full 4-phase breakdown using one project: my website (from menstrual intention to luteal execution)
- Tasks your body is primed for during luteal: admin work, deep focus, reviewing contracts, meeting deadlines
- Why the ”I can't control everything” objection is valid — and how to be 1% better instead
- The difference between time management and energy management (this is the shift)
- How pausing before you ”do” creates strategic discipline, not laziness
This episode is for you if:
- You're an entrepreneur, business owner, or busy woman who's tired of doing everything and getting nowhere
- You've been working top-down on your to-do list and wondering why it's not working
- You want to stop guessing what to do every day and start trusting a system
- You're ready to work WITH your body instead of forcing it to keep up
- You need permission to be 1% better instead of perfect
”This isn't just feminine. This is a beautiful form of discipline. Strategic, intentional discipline. You made your monthly plan when your mind was clear and your body felt good. Now you get to trust it.”
Series wrap-up note: This is the final episode of The POWR Method mini-series. I'm taking a summer break from the podcast to focus on my next live cohort of In Sync – a group program where women learn how their bodies actually work, how to balance their hormones and feel like themselves again.
Don't worry, I will be back.
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