What if the diet, the discipline, and the drive to be "good enough" were never the problem — and the real answer was already inside you?
In this episode, we meet Gosia — coach, competitor, mother, and founder of GLOW Online Coaching — for a conversation that is as raw as it is liberating. Gosia shares her journey from a girl told she'd never be athletic, to a bodybuilding competitor who achieved the "perfect" body and still hated herself, to a coach now helping women break free from the exhausting cycle of starting over. This isn't another episode about dieting. This is about identity, self-trust, and finally learning to listen to yourself.
Gosia opens up about the real cost of chasing perfection — the years of sacrifice, the stage day she'd worked so hard for, and the devastating anticlimax that followed. She shares what it was like to lose her period for nine months, to binge after months of restriction, and to realise that looking healthy and actually being healthy are two very different things. It was pregnancy, that finally taught her what it felt like to eat intuitively and trust her own body.
Gosia goes deep into the "stop-and-start" pattern — the all-or-nothing mindset that keeps so many women stuck, where one biscuit feels like failure and failure feels like the end. She explains why this cycle has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with the beliefs we formed about ourselves long before we ever started a diet. She also breaks down the philosophy behind her coaching brand GLOW — Growth, Love, Ownership, Wellness — and why real, lasting change has to start from the inside out.
Contact Gosia at glowonlinecoaching.com or on Instagram at @gosia_mumscoach.
"There is always a way. Better, worse — but there is a way." If this episode stirred something in you, that's not an accident. You might not have all the answers yet — but you're already on your way.
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