Big Hair Walking

Stefanie Cabaniss
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The Big Hair Walking: Christian Health Podcast for Women Over 40 | Midlife Strength, Faith & Healthy Aging. Are you a Christian woman over 40 who's ever thought... "I didn't know it would be like this." Life has a way of asking more of us than we expected. Somewhere along the way, the years moved faster, the responsibilities grew heavier, your body changed, people you loved were gone, and the woman who used to dream so easily quietly wondered where she went. Big Hair Walking is a Christian podcast about becoming stronger—physically, emotionally and spiritually—for the life we're actually living in the second half - for women who've lived enough life to know that strength looks different now. The ones who remember hitting play on a Walkman, walking out the door with music in their ears, and not overthinking the next step. Back when life felt a little freer. When you trusted yourself more than you questioned everything. When you moved because you could—not because you had to. This isn't about going back. It's about moving forward with the wisdom you've earned. Living stronger. Growing steadier. Holding onto hope. Hosted by Stef Cabaniss, MA, MPH, a Christian health coach, public health professional, and fellow traveler, this podcast explores health, faith, grief, resilience, and the everyday strength to keep walking—whatever the second half of life brings. Together, we'll build strength, health, and hope—not through pressure or perfection, but through a way of living that's strong enough for real life. This is for women who've lived enough life to know that life rarely goes according to our plan... ...and who still believe there's more life ahead. No pressure. No striving. No pretending. Just honest conversations that help you grow stronger in your body, steadier in your life, and more anchored in your faith. Because if you're still here... You're not done. Not yet. Whether you're navigating midlife, menopause, healthy aging, or simply wondering what this next season holds, you'll find practical encouragement rooted in faith and evidence-based health coaching. Through walking, strength training, and honest conversations about faith, grief, resilience, and everyday life, Big Hair Walking encourages Christian women, women over 40 (and any woman who's lived enough life to know it rarely goes according to our plans) to build strength, health, and hope—one small step at a time. Because small steps have a way of changing everything.  :-) 

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    9.0 The Worship Music is So Loud! Why Busy Faith Leaves Us Spiritually Distracted.

    🎙 Show Notes Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com   Martha, Mary, and the Music Volume In this Big Hair Walking episode, Stef reflects on the familiar tension between doing and being—through the lens of the biblical story of Martha and Mary, modern worship preferences, and a deeply personal friendship. With humor, honesty, and compassion, she contrasts her own easy complaints about church worship with the extraordinary effort her best friend made to attend church while battling stage 4 melanoma. The story becomes a gentle mirror: how often do we miss the sacred by focusing on the secondary? This episode is an invitation to keep the main thing the main thing—to choose presence over preference, gratitude over critique, and attention over distraction. You don’t have to stop being capable. You just don’t have to let “busy” run the whole house.   What You’ll Hear in This Episode A relatable confession about worship music, preferences, and distraction A powerful story of faith, endurance, and reverence in suffering A fresh look at Martha vs. Mary—without guilt or comparison An invitation to steward what’s already in your hands Encouragement to choose presence before hardship forces perspective   Don’t wait for life to shrink before you notice how full it already is. You can choose Mary—right where you are.

  2. Aug 11

    8.0 Why Your First Step Through Gym Doors Matters More Than Any Workout.

    🎙️ Show Notes Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com   Sometimes the biggest victory has nothing to do with reps, routines, or the number on the scale. Sometimes it’s simply walking in the door. In this episode, Stef talks about the quiet courage of showing up — especially in midlife, when movement can feel emotional, vulnerable, and deeply personal. This is a conversation about perseverance, stewardship, and building a life your future self can still participate in. Not by focusing on what you can’t do… but by asking: “What can I do from where I am?” Because strength often begins long before the workout does. It begins in the decision to stop disappearing from your own life.   💛 Scripture: “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” — Hebrews 12:1

  3. Aug 4

    7.0 Over 40: What Strength Training Means and Why You Need to Start Now!

    🎙 SHOW NOTES Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com   Over 50: What Strength Training Means—and Why You Need to Start If you’ve made peace with the scale but still feel unsure about strength training, this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, we talk honestly—and with a little humor—about what strength training really means in midlife, menopause, and beyond. Not as punishment. Not as reinvention. But as a practical, steady way to make everyday life easier. We unpack why muscle loss accelerates after 50, how strength supports balance, bones, and injury prevention, and why lifting isn’t about getting bulky—it’s about staying capable. We also name a gentle truth-in-love moment: intimidation can’t be the reason we avoid strength forever, and learning from a qualified trainer can change everything. This episode pushes back on social media urgency and reminds us that real strength is built slowly, on purpose. Consistent effort. Trusting the process. And discovering—often to our surprise—that we actually enjoy it. You’ll hear why strength training supports bone density, helps with osteopenia and osteoporosis, improves confidence, and quietly reshapes the parts of life that matter most in the first year. We anchor the conversation with Galatians 6:9, a reminder that the work worth doing takes time—and that steady things grow.   God is still at work in your life. You’re not done. Not yet.

  4. Jul 28

    6.0 What the Scale! Why Muscle, Metabolism and Strength Matter More Than a Single Number.

    🎙Show Notes Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com   The scale can tell you what you weigh - It cannot tell you what you’re made of. In this episode, Stef unpacks why the number on the scale has been given far too much authority — especially for women in midlife. From years of crash dieting and muscle loss to the moment she realized her body didn’t have the strength it once did, this conversation reframes weight, metabolism, and what “healthy” really means now. You’ll hear why: All weight is not equal Muscle matters more than the number Rapid weight loss often costs strength The scale measures gravity — not capability, confidence, or resilience This episode is an invitation to stop letting a square box define your worth and start paying attention to what actually supports your life. Strength can be rebuilt. Your body is not done!

  5. Jul 21

    5.0 Step Away from the Scale: Why the Number Affects Your Mood and How to Break Free.

    🎙 SHOW NOTES Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com   It’s Not About Weight — It’s About Identity We’ve given a lot of power to a small rectangle on the bathroom floor. In this episode, Stef takes a light, honest, and sometimes absurd look at how the scale has been allowed to shape our moods, our choices, and even how we see ourselves. With humor and clarity, she reminds us that weight is information — not a verdict — and that identity comes before improvement. This is an invitation to reclaim dignity, loosen shame, and stop letting numbers speak louder than truth. In This Episode Why we’ve treated the scale like it has opinions (and authority) How normal body fluctuation became a personal judgment The difference between data and definition Why identity must come before behavior change How dignity changes the way we move, eat, and care for ourselves A better question than “What do I weigh today?”   Listener Invitation Next time you step on the scale — or decide not to — pause and ask: “What story am I telling myself right now?” Then choose the one rooted in truth, not fear.

  6. Jul 14

    4.0 Tired of Starting Over? How to Find Joy in Your Current Life.

    🎙 SHOW NOTES Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com Where You Stand Is Enough Feeling “stuck” doesn’t always mean you are. In this episode, we explore why so many women aren’t stuck at all — they’re exhausted from being strong for a long time, and their body is asking for steadiness before speed. This conversation is for the woman who has adapted, adjusted, and kept going — and is now learning that standing still can be an act of courage, not failure. You’ll hear about: Why slowing down doesn’t mean you’re behind The difference between fixing your life and tending to what’s in your care How walking rebuilds trust in your body, not just fitness Why God meets us where we are, not where we think we should be   Scripture Anchor: “The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.” — Psalm 145:14   You don’t have to rush. You don’t have to explain. Where you stand is enough to begin.

  7. Jul 7

    3.0 Walk On! Why Your Brain Needs This to Stop Overthinking Today.

    🎙 Show Notes Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com A Walk Is Where I Start Again This episode is a quiet beginning. Not a plan. Not a challenge. Not a promise of outcomes. Stef reflects on how walking has become a way to practice attention — to the body, faith, and the life already in front of us. Starting over doesn’t require momentum. It requires noticing what’s already here. This is how real change occurs! This podcast is meant to feel like a kitchen table with the radio on — a place to listen, linger, and leave encouraged. Take what you need. Leave the rest.   Your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’ — Isaiah 30:21

  8. Jul 1

    2.0 Big Hair Walking: Finding Health and Hope in Your Later Years.

    🎙 SHOW NOTES Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com Big Hair Walking — My Story, This Season, and Why I’m Here In this first full episode of the Big Hair Walking Podcast, Stef shares the heart behind Big Hair Walking — the years of striving, chasing outcomes, carrying responsibility, and quietly putting herself last. This isn’t a story about finally “getting it right.” It’s about learning to steward what’s already in your hands with more gratitude, presence, and grace. We talk about: letting go of perfection and performance the pressure of always “doing” why busy became a badge of honor walking as a way to notice life again faith, stewardship, and living awake in this season and the quiet realization that maybe there’s more life left than we thought If you’ve ever felt behind, burned out, overly responsible, or stuck waiting for a future version of yourself to finally arrive… this episode is for you. Scrunchie on. Sneakers laced. Faith intact. 💛

  9. Jun 26

    1.0 Welcome to the Big Hair Walking Podcast: Building Strength After 40.

    🎙️ Show Notes Email:  connect@bighairwalking.com   Welcome to the Big Hair Walking Podcast There was a time when movement didn’t need a plan. You moved because you could. You walked to your friend's house.  You walked to feel free. And somewhere along the way, life got heavier. In this trailer episode, host Stef Cabaniss introduces Big Hair Walking — not as a program, challenge, or fix — but as a rhythm. A reminder. A place to pause, breathe, and remember that if you’re still breathing, God’s not finished with you yet. Rooted in old-school joy, faith, honest reflection, and real-life experience, Big Hair Walking explores what it means to live awake in midlife — especially in the years before 60 and beyond. This podcast is for women who: carry responsibility quietly want to build strength — even now sense there’s more life here   want faith that’s lived, not performed are ready to exhale and let this season matter There’s nothing to keep up with here. No pressure. No pretending. No perfect plan. You’re welcome to listen, linger, and leave encouraged — then come back whenever you need to. This is Big Hair Walking. Strength doesn’t expire. Faith still matters. And this moment counts.   Philippians 1:6 “I am sure of this, that he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

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The Big Hair Walking: Christian Health Podcast for Women Over 40 | Midlife Strength, Faith & Healthy Aging. Are you a Christian woman over 40 who's ever thought... "I didn't know it would be like this." Life has a way of asking more of us than we expected. Somewhere along the way, the years moved faster, the responsibilities grew heavier, your body changed, people you loved were gone, and the woman who used to dream so easily quietly wondered where she went. Big Hair Walking is a Christian podcast about becoming stronger—physically, emotionally and spiritually—for the life we're actually living in the second half - for women who've lived enough life to know that strength looks different now. The ones who remember hitting play on a Walkman, walking out the door with music in their ears, and not overthinking the next step. Back when life felt a little freer. When you trusted yourself more than you questioned everything. When you moved because you could—not because you had to. This isn't about going back. It's about moving forward with the wisdom you've earned. Living stronger. Growing steadier. Holding onto hope. Hosted by Stef Cabaniss, MA, MPH, a Christian health coach, public health professional, and fellow traveler, this podcast explores health, faith, grief, resilience, and the everyday strength to keep walking—whatever the second half of life brings. Together, we'll build strength, health, and hope—not through pressure or perfection, but through a way of living that's strong enough for real life. This is for women who've lived enough life to know that life rarely goes according to our plan... ...and who still believe there's more life ahead. No pressure. No striving. No pretending. Just honest conversations that help you grow stronger in your body, steadier in your life, and more anchored in your faith. Because if you're still here... You're not done. Not yet. Whether you're navigating midlife, menopause, healthy aging, or simply wondering what this next season holds, you'll find practical encouragement rooted in faith and evidence-based health coaching. Through walking, strength training, and honest conversations about faith, grief, resilience, and everyday life, Big Hair Walking encourages Christian women, women over 40 (and any woman who's lived enough life to know it rarely goes according to our plans) to build strength, health, and hope—one small step at a time. Because small steps have a way of changing everything.  :-) 

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  • Creator
    Stefanie Cabaniss
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Big Hair Walking