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A Chef's System for Spending Less on Groceries with Eimear Brazil Sep 16, 2026

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Most of us don't need more recipes. We need a plan that fits the life we're actually living.

Gina sits down with Eimear Brazil to talk about cooking from scratch without the overwhelm. Eimear is a trained chef from Waterford, Ireland, and the creator of The Kitchen Shift. She's worked as a head chef, an operations chef and a food stylist, and she shares the simple systems she uses at home to eat well, waste less and spend less on groceries. She also explains why she doesn't meal prep, why flashy packaging and prime shelf space don't mean a better product, and why "healthy" and "nutritious" aren't always the same thing.

Where to Find Eimear:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekitchenshift_/

TikTok & YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thekitchenshift

This podcast aligns with Day 3 of our Fall Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Livy Method Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethod

There is still time to join the Fall Program and there are two ways to join you can purchase the Fall Session for $99, or become a member for $20/month for year-round support, access to every session, Livy AI, member perks and more. The program is meant to fit into your life, not make your life the program. So start when you’re ready, make it work for you, and visit livymethod.com to join us.

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Everyone's Talking About Protein. Most of Them Are Wrong. Sep 15, 2026

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Everyone is telling you to eat more protein. Almost nobody is telling you how much you actually need or why the number you keep reading online was never written for your body.

Gina Livy breaks down the protein conversation that's taken over midlife weight loss: where the 20-to-30-gram rule really came from, what protein has to do with protecting muscle through perimenopause and menopause, why the GLP-1 boom changed the whole conversation, and why chewing your food beats drinking it.

This podcast aligns with Day 2 of our Fall Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Livy Method Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethod

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Rewiring Got You Here. Reprogramming Keeps You Going. Sep 14, 2026

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Most people treat goal weight like a finish line. Gina Livy and Odette explain why it's actually the start of a different job, and why so many people regain. They break down the three reasons weight comes back and why the "why" that got you through weight loss isn't the same as what helps you to maintain.

Welcome to Day 1 of our Fall Maintenance and Mindfulness Group!

This podcast aligns with Day 1 of our Fall Maintenance Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Maintenance and Mindfulness Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ginalivymaintenanceandmindfulness

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"Eat Less, Exercise More" Is Why the Weight Came Back Sep 14, 2026

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Eating less and exercising more works. That's the problem.

You force your body to burn fat because there isn't enough fuel coming in and in doing that, you teach it that it needed the fat in the first place. Then it comes back, and somewhere along the way you decided that was a discipline problem.

Welcome to the first live of the Fall! Today Gina Livy breaks down the difference between weight loss and fat loss, why calorie math falls apart for women in perimenopause and menopause, and the three reasons weight comes back after you've lost it. She also gets into where GLP-1 medications genuinely help, where they don't, and why food noise and appetite are only part of the picture.

This podcast aligns with Day 1 of our Fall Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Livy Method Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethod

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There is not one fix. But this Fall can be a start. Sep 09, 2026

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You can eat in a calorie deficit and still not lose weight. If your sleep is wrecked, your stress has been chronic for years and you've quietly lost muscle, the deficit isn't fixing what's underneath it all.

Gina Livy brings five experts to the table to cut through the noise on hormones, sleep, stress and weight loss: Dr. Olinca Trejo on why insulin resistance is a symptom and not a diagnosis, Dr. Paul Hrkal on rebuilding trust with a body you've stopped believing in, clinical psychologist Dr. Beverley David on replacing judgment with curiosity, sleep and stress educator Alanna McGinn on why rest and sleep are not the same thing, and learning strategist Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer on the smallest possible first step.

Looking to make change this Fall, start here.

Where to Find Them:

Dr. Beverley David

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdrbeverley/

Website: https://www.yourpsychologycentre.ca/

Dr. Olinca Trejo

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.olinca/

Email: info@drolinca.com

Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awakenedlearning/

Website: https://www.awakenedlearning.ca/

Dr. Paul Hrkal

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drpaulhrkal/

Website: http://www.paulhrkalnd.com

Alanna McGinn

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alanna.mcginn/

Website: https://alannamcginn.com/

Podcast: https://www.thebedtimeedit.com

This podcast aligns with Sep 9th of our Fall Program, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Livy Method Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethod

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Baking Is Not the Enemy with Colin Asuncion Sep 08, 2026

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Food is not the enemy. Baking is not the enemy. Our relationship with food is usually the problem.

Colin Asuncion, Great Canadian Baking Show finalist and judge on the new Halloween Bakeshop, joins Gina for an honest conversation about baking without the guilt. His advice for anyone who loves to bake but doesn't want to eat the whole tray: make the batch, have one, give the rest away. They also cover the ingredient swaps that genuinely work and the ones that ruin a bake, why almond-flour desserts beat most gluten-free flour substitutes, how to freeze baked goods so they actually keep and the pantry staples that let you make almost anything.

Halloween Bake Shop premieres September 13 on Flavor Network and Stack TV.

Where to find Colin:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colinasuncion

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@colinasuncion

This podcast aligns with Sep 8th of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

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Your House Shouldn't Be Something You Recover From Sep 02, 2026

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You keep meaning to deal with it. The closet, the freezer, the room you close the door on. And you keep not doing it, then wondering what's wrong with you.

Professional organizer and certified KonMari consultant Effy Terry joins Gina to talk about why nothing is wrong with you, why clutter in midlife is really just catch-up, and why the clothes in the back of your closet are keeping you stuck at a size and a stage you've already left. They get into aspirational buying, sunken cost, body doubling, sharing a home with someone whose system isn't yours, and why an organized pantry has more to do with weight loss after 40 than anyone tells you.

One thing you can change today: open one drawer and get rid of the past versions of yourself.

Because your home should be the place you recover in, not the place you recover from.

Where to Find Effy:

Website: https://organizethat.ca/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/organizethatwitheffyterry/

Effy appears on the Netflix series, Hoarders (Season 15, Episodes 9 & 11)

This podcast aligns with Sep 2nd of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

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You Inherited More Than Recipes Sep 01, 2026

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Food is one of the last places culture still lives. It's how your family said I love you, how traditions crossed oceans, how a recipe outlived the person who wrote it down. Gina sits down with Capri Cafaro, radio host, TV personality, creator of the Emmy-nominated PBS series America the Bountiful and author of United We Eat, who has spent years travelling North America collecting the stories behind what people grow, make and pass down. Why food is the strongest keeper of cultural memory we have. What Indigenous food sovereignty teaches everyone about eating well. Why knowing who grew your food changes how you eat it. And what gets lost when a meal becomes a calorie count instead of a story. Plus the reason slowing down at the table might matter more than anything on it.

Where to Find Capri and her new show Post Cards Across Canada:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BountifulTellsStories

Website: https://www.capriscafaro.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capriscafaro/

Bountiful Media: https://bountifulmediabrands.com

This podcast aligns with Sep 1st of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

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You Didn't Fall Off. You Took a Break. Aug 31, 2026

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If the weight crept back on this summer, nothing is broken, your routine changed, and your body followed.

Gina unpacks why weight regain after 40 has less to do with willpower than with the things that quietly shifted: longer days, later dinners, less water, less sleep and old habits that never fully left. She gets into set point range and why your weight was always meant to move within a 5–10 pound window, why "A-type" people crush weight loss and then struggle in maintenance, and what food noise actually is, including what GLP-1 medications do to it and what they still can't do for you.

This podcast aligns with Aug 31st of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

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Strong for Too Damn Long Aug 27, 2026

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You look like you have it all together. Inside, you're wondering how much longer you can keep this up.

Mental health professional, award-winning speaker and author Calissa Ngozi joins Gina to talk about burnout in midlife and why exhaustion became a badge of honour, why rest comes wrapped in guilt, and why so many women only recognize burnout in everyone else.

One thing you can change today: give yourself permission to pause.

Because you can't take care of anyone else if you're not taking care of yourself.

Where to Find Calissa:

Website: https://www.calissangozi.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calissangozi/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calissa.ngozi

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/calissangozi

Her book, The Oxygen Mask Mindset is available on Amazon.

This podcast aligns with Aug 27th of our Summer Club, members can find video in our Livy Method app or Summer Club Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodspring20

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