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Summary:
In this episode of the Stamina Lab podcast Glen Lubbert is joined by Julie Bergfeld. Julie is a health, wellness, and life coach specializing in performance, stress relief, healthy habits, fitness, and weight loss, working primarily with 50 plus men and women. In this episode, they talk about navigating life’s inevitable changes, particularly as we age. Julie has some great insights on how to adapt to each decade of life, and why she no longer has the goal of living to 120 – in fact, you may be surprised by what she wants instead. There’s so much to get out of this episode.
Topics:
- The mindset shift that Julie has taken to look at change as an opportunity rather than something that causes anxiety
- How Julie coached herself (and her clients) through the fear that comes with change
- Why community is at the core of overcoming fear of failure or change
- Listening to your body to help you recognize and move through the feelings that present themselves during a period of change
- How practicing mindfulness can transform your relationship with your body and with other people
- The biggest transitions that Julie helps her clients, who are all 50+ years old, through
- The role that sleep plays in achieving restoration and why rest is one of the pillars of Julie’s coaching methodology
- Creating goal markers for each new decade of your life and Julie’s view on the desire to live to 120 years old
- How Julie’s view on data tracking and wearables has changed over time
- The most important change you can make, according to Julie, to improve your own longevity
Resources:
- Katherine Milkman’s Fresh Start Effect
- Tiny Habits
- Chatter by Ethan Cross
- Focusing by Eugene Gendlin
- Lifespan vs. Healthspan with Dr. Zain Hakeem
- Peter Attia on Centenarian Olympics
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones
About Julie:
Julie Bergfeld helps mid-life men and women feel younger by changing their relationship with food, movement and mindfulness. Through her signature SOAR methodology, Julie guides her clients to lasting success.
An accomplished marathon and ultra-marathon runner, she was once the USATF Women’s 50K Trail champion. The cumulative stress to both body and mind took its toll and she vowed to learn to heal herself. Although her degrees in French Literature and Journalism hadn’t prepared her for it, as an avid learner she became a Human Potential coach, Certified Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher, Nutritionist and Human Movement Specialist in addition to being a Certified Tiny Habits coach. Ultimately, she founded her own yoga studio Metro Power Yoga where she applied all her wisdom and which was considered THE place for athletes to chill out.
Julie has been a guest on the Mindful Money and Stories of Change and Creativity podcasts and a guest expert on several Tiny Habits Academy Panels. She is a sought-after teacher, workshop facilitator and speaker on topics related to sustenance, mindset, movement and sleep.
Julie has a passion for finely-crafted cars and fast motorcycles and would never refuse a ride on the back of a motorcycle
