3 Client Stories That Prove You Don’t Need to Diet Harder in Midlife

[00:00:00] Emily Field: Welcome back to Macros Made Easy. I’m your host, Emily Field, registered dietician and personal trainer, and this is the first episode of 2026. Woo-hoo. Welcome. I love this time of year because it’s full of fresh energy, but it can also come with a lot of pressure, and today’s episode is meant to take some of that pressure off your shoulders.

[00:00:19] Emily Field: If you’re in midlife and you feel like your body is no longer responding to the things that used to work, this episode is gonna feel like a deep exhale. Because today I’m walking you through three real client stories, the stories of Karina, Kristen, and Suzanne, and the common thread is this. They didn’t need to diet harder.

[00:00:39] Emily Field: They needed a smarter plan. In this episode, I’m gonna do a few things for you. First, I’m gonna share the themes that you’re gonna hear across all three stories because once you hear the pattern, you start to see why Just try harder is almost never the answer in midlife. Then I’m gonna introduce you to each client, what they wanted, what they were navigating, and what they had in common, because I think you’re gonna recognize yourself and at least one of them.

[00:01:04] Emily Field: And after that I’ll break down each case study and walk you through what we did during coaching, why it worked and what the results were. Finally, I’ll close with the biggest lesson you can apply immediately, whether you track your macros or not. Welcome to Macros Made Easy, the podcast that takes the confusion out of tracking macros.

[00:01:23] Emily Field: I’m your host, Emily Field, a registered dietician that specializes in a macros approach. In each episode, I help you learn how to eat in a way that supports your health, body composition, and athletic performance goals. We’ll cover the basics of macronutrients, how to track for various goals, the role of macros in your health, and how to make sustainable changes to your habits.

[00:01:42] Emily Field: I’ve helped hundreds of people experience more food freedom and flexibility while navigating their nutrition. So whether you’ve tried macros and it just didn’t stick, or you just heard the word macros yesterday, I can’t wait to help you too. As you listen, there are a few themes that are gonna show up again and again.

[00:02:02] Emily Field: The first theme is that more discipline isn’t the answer. Better strategy is these women were not lazy. They were not unmotivated, they weren’t not trying hard enough, they were doing a lot of things right. They just needed a plan that matched their body, their season of life, and their goals. The second theme is macro phasing.

[00:02:19] Emily Field: You’re gonna hear about this idea and it’s gonna be woven throughout all three stories. You can’t chase peak performance, recovery, food freedom, and aggressive fat loss all at once. You don’t get to have every goal on max volume at the same time. Instead, you pick the right goal for the right season and you allow your nutrition to match that season.

[00:02:40] Emily Field: That’s what makes this all sustainable. The third theme is that body recomposition is real. The scale can stay the same or barely move while your body changes dramatically. Measurements change, strength changes, the way your clothes fit changes, energy changes. And if you don’t know how to track that kind of progress, you’ll miss it and assume nothing is happening.

[00:03:00] Emily Field: And the fourth theme is that the win is not just weight loss. The win is bigger than that. The win is confidence, consistency, strength, better recovery, a calmer relationship with food and flexibility without spiraling. These clients didn’t just walk away with results. They walked away with skills. Now, I want you to pay attention if you’ve ever thought any of these things, because if you have, you’re exactly who I made this episode for.

[00:03:26] Emily Field: Pay attention if you’ve ever said, I actually feel better eating more, but why didn’t I lose weight when I was eating less? Pay attention if you’ve ever thought, I want fat loss, but I also wanna feel strong and energized. Pay attention if you’ve ever felt like, I don’t wanna restrict during the season of life where I’m the most active, but I still wanna make fat loss progress.

[00:03:46] Emily Field: Pay attention if the scale messes with your head, but you’re not sure what to look at instead and pay attention if you feel exhausted by information overload, like everyone has an opinion, the messaging is conflicting and you’re just trying to figure out what actually applies to you. ’cause that is exactly the mental space these women came in with in different ways.

[00:04:08] Emily Field: So now let me introduce you to the three women in today’s episode because I really believe that you’re gonna hear pieces of yourself and at least one of them. Before we dive into each individual story, I wanna introduce you to the three women you’re gonna hear about today. Not just their stats, but the context of their lives, because that’s where most people start to nod their heads and think.

[00:04:29] Emily Field: Yep. Me, the first client I’m gonna share about is Carina. Carina is 45 years old. She’s about five two and around 135 pounds. When we started working together, and one of the first things I appreciated about Carina is that she didn’t come in chasing a specific number on the scale. Her goal wasn’t, I must weigh X.

[00:04:46] Emily Field: Her goal was, I want to feel comfortable in my clothes, I wanna feel strong, I wanna look like I work out. She was already lifting four days a week. She was active outdoors. She was mountain biking, walking, running, doing yoga. This wasn’t someone sitting on the couch wondering why nothing was working. Her biggest frustration was confusion.

[00:05:05] Emily Field: She had dieted down to around 1400 calories in the past and felt terrible on her own. She slowly increased her calories up to 1900 and suddenly felt better. She had a better mood, better sleep, better recovery, and yet the question that kept looping in her head was. If eating less didn’t work and eating more feels better, why am I not losing any weight on either of those goals on either of those calorie amounts?

[00:05:32] Emily Field: On top of that, Corina was carrying real life stress, high pressure work demands, helping her parents through a major transition, a mom with dementia. And that matters because stress changes how your body responds to food and training, especially in midlife. A lot of listeners are gonna resonate with the feeling of trying to do all the things while holding a lot of responsibility.

[00:05:53] Emily Field: Kristen is 48 years old. She’s five, one, and around 140 pounds. When she started, her goal was clear on paper. She wanted to get to about 125 pounds, but the deeper goal was really about body composition. She wanted to lose fat while keeping her muscle and strength. Kristen wasn’t new to exercise. She was lifting four days a week and walking consistently.

[00:06:14] Emily Field: She wasn’t lacking effort. Where she struggled was with consistency and confidence in the process, especially around tracking, managing cravings, and understanding how to move between phases without feeling like she was starting over every single time. If you’ve ever felt like you can be on for a few weeks, but then lose momentum, or you don’t trust what’s happening after a fat loss phase, or you’re afraid of gaining everything back, if you eat more, Kristen’s story is gonna feel very familiar.

[00:06:42] Emily Field: Her biggest win came from learning how to use a structured deficit followed by a reverse diet, not just to lose the weight, but to keep it off while eating more and training well in that maintenance period afterwards. Suzanne is 54 years old, about five, five and a half, and started coaching around 136 pounds.

[00:07:02] Emily Field: She’s about four years into menopause and came in with decades of diet culture behind her Weight Watchers, Octavia, chronic restriction, and a deep fear of weight gain. Her goals weren’t just physical. Yes, she wanted to reduce belly fat and wanted to feel more toned, but she also wanted food freedom. She wanted to stop obsessing.

[00:07:22] Emily Field: She wanted to stop feeling like she had to make things harder than they needed to be to earn results. Suzanne’s life was also very seasonal, busy retail work with long hours, periods of high activity, followed by quieter seasons, add in menopause, and years of dieting. And she felt unsure how to fuel herself without.

[00:07:41] Emily Field: Sabotaging her progress. Her biggest win wasn’t just physical recomposition, though that absolutely happened. It was the mindset shift. Less food noise, less comparison, more confidence, more trust in her body, and a quieter mental space around food and fitness. So what do these three women have in common?

[00:08:00] Emily Field: Even though Karina, Kristen, and Suzanne are in different life seasons, they share some really important similarities. And this is where I want you to listen closely. All three women were high effort women. None of them needed motivation. None of them needed to get serious. They were already showing up. All three wanted fat loss without sacrificing strength, energy, or their love for movement.

[00:08:24] Emily Field: They didn’t wanna shrink at the expense of feeling capable. All three had some version of diet culture wiring. Whether that looked like restriction, fear of eating, more scale, obsession, or the belief that progress should feel harder than it actually does. And all three needed a plan that worked in real life with stress, travel, social events, busy seasons, hormonal shifts, and imperfect weeks.

[00:08:47] Emily Field: Not a plan that only works in a bubble. And that’s why their stories are so powerful because the solution wasn’t more rules, it was better strategy, better timing, and much better support. Alright, let’s break down each story, because what we did matters and the why matters even more. So let’s start with Karina.

[00:09:07] Emily Field: Karina actually came into coaching doing a lot of things right, and I wanna start there because that matters. Before we ever worked together, she was already beginning to increase her calories from about 1400 up to 1600, and then eventually close to 1900 calories per day. And almost immediately, she noticed some really important changes.

[00:09:26] Emily Field: Her mood improved, she was sleeping better, her recovery felt better, cravings settled down, and she didn’t feel run down all the time. She was also strength training four days per week and staying active with walking and outdoor sports like mountain biking, running, and yoga. This was not a woman avoiding effort or movement, but despite feeling better, she was stuck in a really frustrating mental loop, and I know a lot of you will recognize this.

[00:09:51] Emily Field: She kept asking herself if eating 1400 calories didn’t work and made me feel terrible, why would eating 1900 calories work and how do I lose fat without giving up feeling strong? Her goal wasn’t to be as small as possible. She wanted to feel comfortable in her clothes. She wanted to look like she worked out, especially in her lower body where she felt like the effort didn’t always show up.

[00:10:15] Emily Field: On top of all of that, Karina was carrying real life weight, work pressure, helping her parents through a major transition, a mother with dementia. And when we talk about metabolism and the body composition in midlife, this context really matters. Stress is not a side note. It’s part of the equation. The first thing we did in coaching was stop chasing that quick fix and build confidence in maintenance, her maintenance sweet spot, as we call it.

[00:10:41] Emily Field: We kept Corina’s calories around 1900 throughout the coaching cycle. Instead of forcing her into a deficit during a season when she was highly active and already under stress, we used that intake to support her training, performance, recovery, consistency, and long-term sustainability. The goal wasn’t to see how little she could eat.

[00:11:00] Emily Field: The goal was to see how well her body could function when it was actually supported. One of the biggest turning points for Karina was learning about macro phasing in a way that truly landed. She realized that you can’t have everything all at once. You can’t chase peak performance, high activity levels, food freedom, and aggressive fat loss at the same time, especially in midlife.

[00:11:22] Emily Field: Instead, you choose the right goal for the season you’re in. And once that clicked, a lot of her internal conflict makes sense. You could hear this play out in her check-ins. She would go back and forth between wanting a deficit and then wanting to stay in maintenance. Not because she was inconsistent, but because she was genuinely loving, being active, and didn’t want restriction to steal that joy.

[00:11:44] Emily Field: And once we framed that as a strategic decision instead of a personal flaw, things really started to shift. We also focused on structure with flexibility instead of perfection. Corina learned how to navigate meals out without spiraling or labeling days as off track. She stopped letting the scale be the boss and shifted towards weekly or trend-based tracking, and she learned how to plan around her real life.

[00:12:07] Emily Field: Those work events, travel, family visits, and the natural rhythm of summer versus winter activity. From a training and recovery standpoint, we paid close attention to the signals her body was giving us. She took deload weeks when recovery was off. She noticed HRV trends, sleep quality and stress load, and instead of pushing harder, we just adjusted.

[00:12:28] Emily Field: The plan was always supportive and never punishing. This approach worked because Karina was never a try harder case. She was a pick the right phase case. When you pair maintenance calories with consistent strength training, especially in a body that’s coming out of chronic undereating, you often open a window for body recomposition, and that effect is even stronger when stress and recovery are respected instead of ignored.

[00:12:53] Emily Field: Corina’s stress load was real and pretending it didn’t exist would’ve backfired. So the strategy was simple but powerful. Support the body first, then decide if a deficit is even necessary, even without spending the entire coaching cycle, which is four months long. In a formal deficit, Karina saw meaningful changes from a scale perspective.

[00:13:14] Emily Field: Her weight moved down from the mid to upper one thirties to just over one 30 by about two or three months into coaching, and that was all without extreme restriction or white knuckling her intake. But the real story showed up in her measurements and body composition. She lost noticeable inches throughout her waist and lower body, including several centimeters off her thighs, and a significant reduction around both the largest and smallest part of her waist.

[00:13:41] Emily Field: Visually, her progress photos showed clearer definition through her back, midsection and chest, her shoulders, clavicles, and upper back became more prominent. Exactly what we would expect when fat loss happens alongside muscle maintenance. And then there were the subjective wins, which mattered just as much.

[00:13:58] Emily Field: She slept better, her mood improved. She felt strong and capable during activities like mountain biking and running. She gained confidence in how to choose nutrition phases moving forward, and she developed a more relaxed relationship with food and social events, even joking at one point that she’d rather eat a cookie than waste carbs on alcohol.

[00:14:17] Emily Field: Corina’s story proves this, you can lose fat without dieting harder when your strategy matches your season of life. And that brings us perfectly into the next case study because Kristen’s story shows what happens when we do intentionally use a fat loss phase and a reverse diet, and how powerful that combination can be when it’s done correctly.

[00:14:39] Emily Field: Case study number two is Kristen. Kristen was 48 years old and about five one around 140 pounds. When we first started working together, her goal was clear and very common. She wanted to get leaner, specifically down to about 125 pounds, which is her comfortable weight without losing muscle or strength in the process.

[00:14:58] Emily Field: Like Carina, Kristen was not starting from zero. She was already strength training, lifting regularly and staying active with daily steps. Effort was not the issue where Kristen felt stuck was in the execution and trust side of the process. She needed help building consistency with her macro targets and confidence that what she was doing was actually working.

[00:15:20] Emily Field: She also struggled with managing hunger cravings, and energy dips, especially during fat loss, without letting those moments derail the entire plan. If you’ve ever thought I can follow a plan until I get tired, hungry, stressed, or busy, Kristen’s starting point will feel very familiar. The foundation of Kristen’s coaching was intentional macro phasing done on purpose and with a plan.

[00:15:44] Emily Field: We started by establishing a clear baseline intake around 1680 calories, and from there we moved into a structured fat loss phase, gradually lowering her intake to 1345 calories at the lowest point. This wasn’t extreme or rushed. We took a very stepwise approach to get down there. It was appropriate for her size, her training volume, and her goal.

[00:16:06] Emily Field: Just as importantly though, is that we didn’t stay there forever. Once she reached her body composition goal, her her fat loss goal, we transitioned into a reverse diet, steadily bringing calories back up toward the 1900 calorie range, while monitoring her weight, her measurements, and her athletic performance.

[00:16:26] Emily Field: That reverse diet is what allowed her to maintain her results instead of panicking or rebounding once the deficit was over. Another big focus during coaching was building the skill of normal days, not just perfect days, not just highly motivated days, but regular work days, busy weekends, travel days, hot summer days, vacation days, the kinds of days that usually cause people to fall off plan.

[00:16:51] Emily Field: Kristen learned how to execute well enough on those days to keep momentum moving forward instead of treating them like failures. We also made protecting muscle and non-negotiable. Her protein target stayed high throughout the entire process, and her training stayed consistent. That combination dramatically increased the likelihood that weight loss came from fat, not muscle.

[00:17:13] Emily Field: Especially important in midlife. Kristen’s results didn’t come from eating less and hoping for the best. Her deficit was structured, appropriate, and time bound. There was a clear beginning, middle, and end, which removed a lot of the mental stress. In second guessing the reverse diet mattered just as much as the fat loss phase.

[00:17:33] Emily Field: It prevented the dreaded I lost weight. Now what? Moment that so many women experience. Instead of being afraid to eat more, Kristen learned how to increase calories strategically and maintain her results with confidence. By the end of coaching, she didn’t just have a smaller body, she had a sustainable intake and a skillset that she could use long term.

[00:17:53] Emily Field: Kristen reached her goal weight of 125 pounds in just over five months. She lost just under 15 pounds total, moving from 140 down to about 1 25. But again, the scale wasn’t the most impressive part. Across her measurements, she lost over 68 centimeters, roughly 27 inches throughout her whole body. The biggest changes showed up through her midsection and hips.

[00:18:18] Emily Field: At the smallest part of her waist, uh, the measurement dropped by about 16 centimeters. The largest part of her waist measurement dropped by 15 centimeters, her hips by over 11 centimeters and her chest by 12 centimeters. And critically, she maintained those results at the higher calorie intake after completing her reverse diet, which is the piece that so many people miss.

[00:18:41] Emily Field: Kristen’s story proves this a well run deficit followed by a thoughtful reverse diet is how you get leaner without wrecking your energy, your training, or your metabolism. And now let’s talk about Suzanne, because her story might be one that hits you the hardest emotionally. Her results weren’t just physical, they were mental.

[00:19:00] Emily Field: Case study number three is Suzanne. Suzanne was 54 years old, about five, five and a half, and weighing about 136 pounds when we started. She’s about four years into menopause. Her goal wasn’t dramatic weight loss. She was aiming for a range somewhere around 1 28 to 1 32, but the deeper goal was how she wanted to feel in her body.

[00:19:21] Emily Field: Suzanne had been in diet culture since the early 1990s, weight Watchers, Octavia, years of rules, points, plans, and programs that taught her to fear weight gain, and to believe that eating less was always the safest option. Her life also had a very real rhythm to it. Long retail work hours, especially during busy seasons, paired with swings and activity throughout the year.

[00:19:44] Emily Field: Some weeks were physically demanding, others were draining in a different way, and she wanted a plan that could actually flex with that reality. What she wanted was simple and also very midlife specific. She wanted to reduce belly fat while supporting her hormones. She wanted strength training that felt manageable instead of punishing.

[00:20:01] Emily Field: She wanted food freedom and she wanted to rely less on the scale to tell her whether she was doing a good job. The first thing we did was establish baseline calories, not as a forever number, but as a starting point. We began around 1350 calories in coaching, but this was because her activity was fairly low and her estimated maintenance calories were closer to 1500 at the time, so a very shallow deficit.

[00:20:26] Emily Field: However, her activity increased pretty dramatically in the beginning, and her hunger became more persistent, so we moved up her intake to around 14 75, 1500, and this is important. The goal was never to see how little she could eat. The goal was to eat enough to support consistency, lifting and daily life without white knuckling it.

[00:20:46] Emily Field: A big part of Suzanne’s coaching focused on building protein, fat and carbohydrate balanced meals, and breaking away from snacky diet patterns. She learned to eat earlier in the day and to structure meals more intentionally, which had a ripple effect. Her energy improved her mood stabilized hunger cues became clearer, and that constant urge to save calories for later started to fade.

[00:21:09] Emily Field: From a training standpoint, we kept things straightforward and supportive. Strength training three times per week formed a foundation. She had optional short sprint sessions when appropriate and used core classes strategically. The goal was recomposition, not exhaustion, and the plan reflected that just as important was the real life flexibility and mindset work.

[00:21:30] Emily Field: Suzanne practiced making the next best decision at restaurants during holidays and at work conventions. Instead of expecting perfection out of herself, she intentionally reduced social media noise that fueled comparison and body dissatisfaction, and she worked through some really powerful body image reframes.

[00:21:48] Emily Field: Her belly became the place where she carried children, not a flaw to eliminate her legs. Became strong legs that carried her throughout her long work days, not something to shrink. She even caught herself at times wanting to snack less because diet culture told her it should feel harder, and then choosing differently.

[00:22:07] Emily Field: This worked because Suzanne stopped trying to win through restriction. Instead, she started winning through consistent fuel, consistent training and self-talk that didn’t sabotage her progress. Once the mental battle quieted down, the physical changes followed without forcing them. From a measurement standpoint, Suzanne saw clear recomposition her waist above the navel, dropped by over six centimeters, and her waist at the navel decreased by more than three centimeters.

[00:22:36] Emily Field: Her biceps and thighs also reduced slightly signaling fat loss alongside some muscle development, but the non-scale winds are even bigger for her. She told me she caught her reflection in the mirror and thought I look overall more tone, not smaller, just more fit. Her trainer noticed visible changes in her arms, biceps and overall physique.

[00:22:55] Emily Field: She slept better, had more stable moods, and experienced far less afternoon fatigue. She got stronger in the gym. She set better boundaries. She showed less obliger behavior, if you know, you know, and perhaps most importantly, she had a major identity shift. She wasn’t on a diet anymore, she was building a life.

[00:23:16] Emily Field: Suzanne’s story proves this. Food freedom and body composition can improve at the same time. When you stop treating your body like a problem to fix, and when you step back and look at all three of these women together, the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. When you step back and look at Corina, Kristen, and Suzanne together, a really clear through line emerges.

[00:23:40] Emily Field: Here’s the big lesson across all three stories. Midlife progress isn’t about pushing harder, it’s about choosing the right phase and building habits you can actually repeat and sustain. None of these women needed more willpower. None of them needed stricter rules. What they needed was a strategy that matched their season of life, their stress load, their activity level, their hormones, and their goals, and a way of eating and training they could maintain without burning out.

[00:24:06] Emily Field: And if you remember nothing else from this episode, I want you to remember these three midlife rules. The first rule is this. Maintenance isn’t a pause, it’s a strategy. Corina’s story is the perfect example. Eating at maintenance didn’t mean she wasn’t making progress. It created progress. It allowed her to recover, train well, reduce stress, and ultimately change her body composition without white knuckling a deficit.

[00:24:31] Emily Field: Maintenance is not wasted time. It’s often the foundation. The second rule is that a deficit should be intentional and time bound. Kristen shows us exactly how powerful this can be. Her fat loss didn’t come from bouncing between plans or staying in a deficit forever. It came from a clearly defined fat loss phase, followed by a reverse diet that taught her how to maintain her results.

[00:24:54] Emily Field: A good deficit has a plan for the exit, and that’s what protects your energy, your training, and your metabolism. And the third rule is this mindset is not fluff. It’s the foundation. Suzanne’s transformation didn’t start with eating less. It started with changing how she talked to herself, how she viewed her body, and how much mental noise she allowed into her life.

[00:25:17] Emily Field: When self-talk becomes supportive instead of punishing, consistency becomes possible, and consistency is what actually drives results. Now if you’re listening and thinking, okay, but what do I do with this? Here’s a simple practical way to apply what you heard today. Pick your phase for the next eight to 12 weeks.

[00:25:36] Emily Field: Just one, probably either maintenance or a fat loss phase, not both at the same time. Then align your behavior with that phase. Eat like someone in that face train, like someone in that face recover, like someone in that face. And when it comes to tracking progress, don’t rely on the scale alone. Use at least two non-scale metrics, maybe measurements, progress photos, strength improvements, energy levels, or how your clothes fit.

[00:26:04] Emily Field: That’s how you actually see what’s happening. Now, I also wanna say this very clearly. Everything that you heard in today’s episode happened over 16 weeks at the shortest, or 20 to 24 weeks at the longest. That doesn’t mean that these women are done or that they stopped applying what they learned. It means that they now have skills that they’ll use for months and years to come.

[00:26:26] Emily Field: And if you’re listening to this and thinking, I want that kind of clarity and support, we are currently accepting applications for ET lean coaching spots are limited, and once we’re full, we’re full. And you’ll know by seeing a wait list instead of an application in the show notes. Inside coaching, we do exactly what you heard today, A personalized macro strategy, strength focused training, support, mindset, work, and real life application.

[00:26:49] Emily Field: All designed for the midlife woman who wants results without extremes. Elene isn’t a short-term plan. It’s information that serves you for life, for any season, for any goal, and any phase you choose next. If that sounds like something you’ve been missing, you can apply now and I would love to support you.

[00:27:08] Emily Field: Before we wrap up, let’s quickly bring all three stories together. Corina’s story shows us what can happen when you stop fighting your body and find your maintenance sweet spot. By gaining clarity around her phase and supporting her training and recovery, she lost fat and gained visible definition without a hard cut or sacrificing the activities that she loves.

[00:27:28] Emily Field: Kristen’s story highlights the power of a well structured plan. A clear fat loss phase followed by a thoughtful reverse diet allowed her to reach her goal weight and lose a significant amount of inches, all while protecting muscle and maintaining strength. And Suzanne’s story reminds us that progress isn’t just physical.

[00:27:47] Emily Field: Through recomposition mindset shifts and food freedom, she built a stronger body and a much quieter mind. Which for many women is most meaningful result of all. If you’ve been walking around thinking you need to be stricter, more disciplined, or harder on yourself, I really hope this episode offered you a different option.

[00:28:05] Emily Field: Be strategic instead, because the goal isn’t to be your leanest at all cost. The goal is to be strong, capable, and confident while still living a big, full life, one where food doesn’t control you. Training supports you and progress doesn’t require suffering. And if you’re listening and thinking, I don’t actually know which phase I should be in or what my target should be right now, that’s exactly what we help you do inside of coaching and my other services, whether that’s full coaching or the custom macro calculation or macros made easy, our job is to remove the guessing, help you choose the right strategy for your season, and support you as you apply it in real life.

[00:28:44] Emily Field: You don’t have to figure this out alone, and you don’t have to keep starting over. Thank you so much for listening to the Macros Made Easy podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the one you’re listening to right now to share it on your Instagram stories and tag me at Emily Field Rd so that more people can find this podcast and learn how to use a macros approach in a stress-free way.

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