{"podcast":{"title":"Grace & Grit Podcast","slug":"grace-grit-podcast-991716","podcast_index_feed_id":991716,"rss_url":"https://graceandgrit.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://graceandgrit.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/4/4/0/f4405a4688bbcbb088c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Grace_and_Grit_Podcast_3000px.png","author":"Courtney Townley","episode_count":608,"summary":"The Grace and Grit Podcast takes the health fairy tale you've heard all your life and turns it upside down and inside out, helping women rebuild their relationship with their body once and for all. Placing the focus on love and respect, rather than the aggressive demands and unrealistic expectations that have become the norm, Courtney Townley is determined to help women mend the fabric of what is driving the female health story.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T14:20:56.758135+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 550: The Story You Made Up About Why You Can't","slug":"episode-550-the-story-you-made-up-about-why-you-can-t","published_at":"2026-05-28T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episode-550-the-story-you-made-up-about-why-you-can-t","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716","url":"https://graceandgrit.libsyn.com/episode-550-the-story-you-made-up-about-why-you-cant","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/graceandgrit/May_28.mp3?dest-id=329309","summary":"Every woman I have ever worked with carries a story about why she can't — can't change, can't sustain it, can't trust herself, can't start over at this point. Those stories feel like facts. They are not facts. Our brains construct narratives around painful experiences and encode them as truth — running quietly in the background, limiting what we attempt and what we believe is possible. Drawing on Brené Brown's Rising Strong, Courtney teaches a three-step framework to name the story, examine how old it actually is, and replace it with one that's more accurate than it is positive. Get your free chapter of The Consistency Code at https://theconsistencycode.com/freechapter #limitingbeliefsmidlifewomen #brenebrownrisingstrong #storyitellmyself #thoughtmanagementwomenover40 #selflimitingbeliefshealth #identityandchangemidlife #thoughtpatternswomen #howtochangeyourmindset #beliefsystemsmidlife #innernarrativewomen #growthmindsetover40 #rewritingyourstorymidlife","meta_description":"Every woman I have ever worked with carries a story about why she can't — can't change, can't sustain it, can't trust herself, can't start over at this po…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":526,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episodes/episode-550-the-story-you-made-up-about-why-you-can-t/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episode-550-the-story-you-made-up-about-why-you-can-t.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}