Coach Mo Cooper: Your Best Health Is Hiding in Your Calendar - Live from Podapalooza

Episode Summary

Recorded live in the Podatorium at Podapalooza, this episode brings Georgette together with Maureen “Coach Mo” Cooper, a Healthy Lifestyle and Nutrition Coach who lost more than 65 pounds and has kept it off for over 15 years. Georgette opens with honesty about her own lifelong struggle with weight and self-esteem, and Mo meets her there with warmth, humor, and hard-won wisdom.

Mo shares how years of putting herself last — raising three little ones in constant chaos — finally shifted with an unlikely gift: a Wii workout game that sat in its box for three weeks. That small, goofy start became a 5 AM habit, and that hour of “just me” time became the beginning of her transformation. She explains why her signature talk says your best health is hiding in your calendar: your calendar has no feelings and doesn’t judge what you look like in a bikini. It simply shows you where your time, energy, and thoughts are going.

Together they unpack why willpower isn’t the answer for women who have tried every diet, why restriction only adds pressure, and why lasting change is about building on rock instead of shifting sand. Mo tells the moving story behind the name Mo Mind Body Soul — born in a moment of making the sign of the cross on a drive home — and describes herself as a “backdoor preacher” who weaves faith into wellness because peace is critical to lowering stress. She also shares her morning routine, the SOAP journaling method (Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer), the books that shaped her, and a beautiful prayer: “Lord, empty me… fill me… use me.”

In This Episode

Why putting yourself last isn’t heroic — and why nobody hands out medals for it

The Wii workout game (and the awkward Christmas gift) that changed everything

The 5 AM hour: finding time when nobody wants a piece of you

What your calendar has to do with losing weight — and why it’s the neutral place to start

Why “we don’t need more discipline, we need less pressure”

How forbidden foods make us think about them all the more

The Holy Trinity story behind the name Mo Mind Body Soul