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S9E210: Healthy Habits for Busy Project Professionals with Becky Holliday

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S9E210

S9E210: Healthy Habits for Busy Project Professionals with Becky Holliday

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Dale flies solo (briefly!) to close out 2025 and welcomes first-time podcast guest Becky Holliday - a project manager turned health coach. Becky shares how redundancy in October 2023 became the catalyst for a career pivot, and why she now helps busy professionals (especially women) build sustainable health habits. Val drops in mid-episode and the conversation expands into discipline vs motivation, managing workload pressure, eating well without weekend meal-prep marathons, and why small wins beat heroic last-minute sprints. In this episode, you’ll learn

Why Becky left project management and what she brought with her into health coaching

How to start improving health when you “don’t have time”

Why trying to change everything on Monday usually backfires

A simple way to reduce stress and decision fatigue: the “3-item to-do list”

Practical approaches to healthier eating that don’t require your Sunday afternoon How movement can support mental resilience when work pressure spikes

Discipline vs motivation—and why habit size matters

The role of identity, purpose, and values (and a thoughtful detour into spirituality)

To get your FREE 5-Step Guide to Creating Healthy Habits that Stick, click here: beckyholliday.com/free-guide Join 400+ women getting free health tools and advice every Wednesday by signing up for Becky's FREE newsletter here: beckyholliday.com/free-newsletter

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Becky Holliday

Women's Health Coach at Founder of BeckyHolliday.com

Project Manager turned Health Coach, Becky Holliday, helps kind, ambitious women feel happier, healthier, and more confident in themselves — so they can look and feel their best inside and out. She’s the founder of a life-changing, tailored-to-you wellness program and weekly wellbeing newsletter that’s helping over 400 women become the person they really want to be. Becky encourages you to put yourself and your health first through 3 simple pillars: Train your mind. Eat good food. Move your body. Her popular guide, 5 Simple Habits You Need to Feel Positive In Your Mind, Confident In Your Body & Full of Energy, is available for free at BeckyHolliday.com/free-guide.

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