Raise The Bar

One Coach

Raise the Bar is a place for honest conversations about health, fitness, and high performance. It exists to give you the tools and mindset shifts to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. In a world of thirty-second reels and conflicting advice, this show filters out the noise and creates space for nuance in the health conversation. Hosts Ariel Comeau and Matt Duncan, coaches with 30 years of combined experience, sit down with world-class experts and everyday high performers to discuss the latest research, hard-won lessons, and the difficult realities of transformation.

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    Shona Vertue: The Psychology of Stress, Grief, and Staying Healthy Through Life's Hardest Seasons

    Shona Vertue has built one of Australia's strongest fitness brands - over 600,000 Instagram followers and 25,000 people inside her online training system. At the height of that success, she went back to university to study psychology, and in this episode she explains why understanding the mind became just as important as training the body. Drawing on her path through competitive gymnastics, ballet, and personal training, Shona breaks down the biopsychosocial model and why willpower alone rarely explains why people succeed or stall. The conversation moves through the mechanics of behaviour change: the difference between cognitive load and allostatic load, why self-efficacy predicts whether someone starts a health habit at all, and why a motivation problem is almost always a strategy problem in disguise. Shona introduces behavioural activation - acting before motivation arrives - and makes the case for values-based movement over rigid, aesthetics-driven programming. She also speaks candidly about her own transitions:, the physiological toll of a difficult break-up, losing her mother, and becoming a mother herself. Across each, her throughline is consistent - health isn't just physical. It's biological, psychological, and social, and real progress means training all three. In This Episode You Will Learn: (00:22:10) Why the biopsychosocial model changes how you coach  (00:34:42) Cognitive load vs. allostatic load, and why both matter  (01:17:10) Why self-efficacy predicts habit change more than willpower  (01:06:31) How behavioural activation builds consistency fast (01:43:15) Why motivation follows action, not the other way around  (01:28:53) When to hold space for a client, and when to refer out  (01:58:47) Why rest is part of progress, not the opposite of it Resources:Instagram: @shona_vertue YouTube: @shona_vertue Podcast: The Vertue Podcast (also on Spotify)

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    Health and fitness advice is everywhere right now — the problem is most of it contradicts itself. Raise the Bar is a new podcast powered by One Coach and hosted by Ariel Comeau and Matt Duncan, two coaches with a combined 30 years in the health and performance space, built for people who are tired of quick-fix answers and want to actually understand what works and why. Raise The Bar brings real conversations with coaches, experts, and high performers who've spent years in the trenches of their field. They dig into the research behind the trends, but they also want the human side — the mistakes, the setbacks, the things nobody puts in a caption. The goal isn't to hand you another rulebook; it's to give you enough context to make smarter calls for your own body and your own life. Meet the hosts and get a feel for what the show is all about: where the idea came from, what kind of guests to expect, and why they think most health content online is missing the point. Raise the Bar is a podcast from One Playground and One Coach. Subscribe to catch new episodes each week.

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Raise the Bar is a place for honest conversations about health, fitness, and high performance. It exists to give you the tools and mindset shifts to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. In a world of thirty-second reels and conflicting advice, this show filters out the noise and creates space for nuance in the health conversation. Hosts Ariel Comeau and Matt Duncan, coaches with 30 years of combined experience, sit down with world-class experts and everyday high performers to discuss the latest research, hard-won lessons, and the difficult realities of transformation.

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  • Skapad av
    One Coach
  • Aktiva år
    2026
  • Avsnitt
    2
  • Åldersgräns
    Barnvänligt
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    Raise The Bar