Why Your Identity—Not Your Diet or Budget—May Be the Key to Lasting Change | 617

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Budget besties, this episode is about way more than food, fitness, or money. It’s about the beliefs underneath all of it.

We’re joined again by Carrie Lupoli, nutritionist, behavior specialist, and author of From Corset to Crown, for a conversation about becoming the healthiest version of ourselves — physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially.

Carrie shares a powerful idea: nutrition may be the doorway, but identity is the destination.

So many of us have spent years living inside what Carrie calls “the corset” — the pressure to look a certain way, earn a certain amount, keep up with everyone else, sacrifice everything for our families, or prove that we’re worthy.

And budget besties… that pressure absolutely shows up in our finances too.

Maybe we feel guilty spending money on ourselves but have no problem finding a way to pay for something our kids want. Maybe we’re afraid to talk to our spouse about money. Maybe we’re impulsively spending, putting things on credit cards, or avoiding our budget because chaos feels more familiar than change.

That’s why this conversation hit home for us.

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