Mindset, Health, Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer

GinaMarieFit (Gina Caracci)
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Mindset, health and personal growth podcast for people who are ready to level up and who want more out of life. Hosted by coach, speaker, and author Gina Caracci (GinaMarieFit). Mindset, Health Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer podcast blends fitness, mental health and honest conversations to help you build confidence, resilience, and sustainable success without burnout. Real talk. Practical tools. Powerful shifts. For anyone ready to stop overthinking and start executing. New episodes drop weekly on Tuesdays. Subscribe & let's crush this together! Follow me @ginamariefit on all social media

  1. 17h ago

    The Unfiltered Bookshelf Vol. 4 | 5 Thriller Reviews, 2 Five-Star Reads & One That Shocked Me | Episode 125

    Welcome back to Mindset, Health, Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer and another volume of The Unfiltered Bookshelf 📚 Five thrillers. Five completely unfiltered opinions. And a couple of books that had me questioning everything. This month I'm breaking down: 📖 The Divorce by Freida McFadden — 4/5 ⭐A domestic thriller where literally nobody makes good decisions… and somehow that's exactly why it works. 📖 Ward D by Freida McFadden — 4.5/5 ⭐A locked psychiatric ward, disappearing patients, secrets, and one very long night where absolutely nothing feels safe. 📖 The Only One Left by Riley Sager — 5/5 ⭐My first Riley Sager book and an instant favorite. A gothic mansion, a decades-old family murder, and a twist I absolutely did not see coming. 📖 Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah — 4/5 ⭐A devastating premise that turns into a complicated courtroom thriller about family, blame, secrets, and one decision that changes everything. 📖 Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney — 5/5 ⭐A remote island, a missing wife, questionable residents, and the kind of ending that made me sit there and process what I had just read. Throughout the episode, I'm putting each book through The Unfiltered Bookshelf Rating System — the Green Flag, Red Flag, WTF Moment, Twist Test, and who should actually read it. No sugarcoating. No "everything was amazing." Just real reads, real reactions, and real ratings. Which book would you pick up first? And if you've already read one of these, did you agree with my rating? Follow The Unfiltered Bookshelf for more thriller reviews, book recommendations, TBRs, book hunts, and unfiltered bookish opinions. Drop a comment and tell me if the twist worked for you or lost you completely! 👇 📱 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefit📚 BookTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theunfilteredbookshelf📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefit▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefit🛒 Amazon Storefront: amazon.com/shop/ginamariefit📖 ShopMy Unfiltered Bookshelf: https://shopmy.us/ginamariefit/the-unfiltered-bookshelf

  2. Aug 25

    The Fitness Industry Doesn't Have a Sisterhood Problem, It Has a Scarcity Problem | Ep.124

    A leggings company is suing another leggings company over a seam, and that's not really a lawsuit story. It's a female competition story, and I've watched it play out in gyms and studios for thirteen years. In this episode I'm using that lawsuit as the entry point into something much bigger: what happens when women in a competitive industry stop seeing each other as community and start seeing each other as threats. I'm sharing what it was like being in leadership and having to hold other women accountable, what happened when someone I fired rewrote the story instead of taking accountability, and the pattern I've watched over and over of trainers taking other people's work and calling it their own. This industry markets itself as sisterhood. I'm talking about why it doesn't always feel that way, and what I think is actually driving it. Message me and let me know which part of this one hit home for you. Stay Connected: Listen on all podcast platforms: ⁠https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/⁠ Follow on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefit⁠ Follow on TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefit⁠ Watch on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefit⁠ Website and Blog: ⁠https://ginamariefit.com/

  3. Aug 18

    The Lies Nobody Tells You About Being a UGC Creator | Ep. 123

    Everyone sees the aesthetic. The bookshelves. The brand partnerships. The content that looks effortless from the outside. Nobody tells you the truth about what it actually costs — or why the lies you believe before you start are the exact things that will slow you down once you do. In Episode 123 of Mindset, Health, Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer I am breaking down the three biggest lies about building a BookTok presence and a UGC creator business at the same time and the unfiltered truth behind each one. In this episode we cover: Why you do not need a huge following to land brand deals and what actually matters to brands when they hire a UGC creatorThe real ninety percent of the creator life that nobody posts about: including what building looks like when your health does not cooperateWhy choosing one niche might actually be the thing holding you back and how a thriller reading brain makes a better UGC creator than you would expectThe most unfiltered truth about building something online when nobody fully understands what you are doing yet This episode is for anyone building something in public who has ever felt like they are doing it wrong. You are not. Keep going. Watch the YouTube video version of this episode: youtube.com/@ginamariefit Follow on Instagram: @ginamariefit Follow on TikTok: @ginamariefit Book a UGC partnership: ginamariefit.com Get The Badass Blueprint on Amazon New podcast episodes every Tuesday. Book reviews every Friday on YouTube. Subscribe so you never miss either. 🎙📚 #MindsetHealthEmpowerment #TheUnfilteredTrainer #BookTokCreator #UGCCreator #CreatorLife #UnfilteredTruth #GinaMarieFit #ThrillerBooks #BuildingInPublic #ContentCreatorLife

  4. Aug 11

    Emotionally Intelligent or Just Emotionally Reactive: Why Knowing What You Feel Is Not the Same as Managing It | Ep. 122

    Do you consider yourself emotionally intelligent? Most people would say yes. And most of those same people have sent an email they immediately regretted. Have made a decision that felt crystal clear in the moment and looked completely different three days later. Have repeated a relationship pattern they could see clearly from the outside and still could not stop from the inside. Here is what nobody told you. Being aware of your emotions and being intelligent about them are not the same thing. Knowing what you feel is step one. What you do with that knowledge is the actual skill. And most people have never been taught that part. In This Episode: What emotional intelligence actually is and why the wellness space has been teaching an incomplete version of it. The difference between emotional awareness and emotional regulation and why you can have one without the other. Why high achievers often have the lowest emotional intelligence despite the highest self-awareness. What emotional reactivity actually looks like in sophisticated high-functioning people and why it passes as strategy. Why managing emotions is not the same as suppressing them. The name it to tame it practice and the neuroscience behind why it works. And the single most powerful emotional intelligence skill you can develop starting today. This episode connects directly to the nervous system conversation from Episode 119. The regulation work and the emotional intelligence work are the same project approached from two different angles. And understanding both changes everything about how you move through your own life. Stay Connected: Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/ New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. And if this episode named something you have been experiencing but did not have language for come find me on Instagram and TikTok at ginamariefit. I want to hear what resonated.

  5. Aug 4

    Nothing Is What It Appears | Unfiltered Bookshelf Vol. 3 | Thriller Book Reviews | Ep.121

    Every book in this volume is hiding something. A body with a story underneath it nobody was supposed to find. A woman inside an institution where the people meant to protect her are the ones she should fear. A neighborhood full of people who knew exactly what happened to a missing woman and said nothing. And a killer who narrates their own story directly to you from the very first page. Four books. Four completely different setups. One obsession with the gap between what people present and what is actually true. Volume 3 of The Unfiltered Bookshelf introduces two brand new authors to the shelf, delivers the biggest rating jump in this series so far, and has the most honest conversation yet about what happens when a beloved author does not land the same way every time. In This Volume: Dead in the Water by John Marrs: 4 out of 5. A new author earns his place immediately with a morally complex thriller that prioritizes character over plot mechanics. The Inmate by Freida McFadden: 3.5 out of 5. The honest conversation about catalog consistency and what to do when an author you love does not deliver in the same way. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica: 4.5 out of 5. The biggest surprise of the volume and the most significant rating jump in the series so far. When I Kill You by BA Paris: 3.5 out of 5. The most structurally unusual book in this volume and the one that asks the most of its reader. Shop every book mentioned: Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/ginamariefit ShopMy Unfiltered Bookshelf: https://shopmy.us/ginamariefit/the-unfiltered-bookshelf Stay Connected: Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/ Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefit Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefit Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefit Website and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/ New Unfiltered Bookshelf volumes drop monthly. Subscribe so you never miss one. And if you have read any of these books come find me on Instagram and TikTok @theunfilteredbookshelf and tell me your rating. No spoilers. Just the number.

  6. Jul 28

    Finances, Money Mindset, and Building Stability Without Starting From Wealth | Built Different | Amy Powell of AimWell Financial | Ep.120

    Money is one of the most avoided conversations in the wellness and empowerment space. Today we are going there completely. Amy Powell CFA is the founder of AimWell Financial with over 20 years of experience in the finance industry. She combines analytical expertise with a deeply personal client-centered approach built on the belief that financial planning should provide clarity, reduce stress, and support a meaningful life. She is not here to talk at you about numbers. She is here to talk with you about the life you actually want to build and what it takes financially to get there. This Built Different conversation goes deep on the money topics most people are carrying quietly. What your childhood money story is doing to your financial decisions right now. How to start building stability when you did not come from wealth and nobody taught you how. What the first real steps look like when you are currently living paycheck to paycheck. The difference between financial discipline and financial deprivation. And what financial peace actually feels like when you finally have a plan you trust. In This Episode: The most common money belief quietly destroying financial futures. What financial trauma actually looks like in adult decision making. How to build a financial foundation while also managing debt. What generational wealth actually means and whether it is realistic to build it from scratch. The biggest financial mistakes people are making right now in response to economic pressure. How to create a financial plan that accounts for real life including the trips, the dinners, and the things that make life worth living. And what being Built Different means to a woman who has spent 20 years helping people build something real from whatever they started with. Connect with Amy Powell: Website: https://www.aimwellfinancial.com/ Email: info@aimwellfinancial.comPhone: (727) 335-1874 Stay Connected: Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/

  7. Jul 21

    Wired for Survival: What Burnout Actually Does to Your Nervous System and How to Finally Reset | Ep.119

    Tell me if this sounds familiar. Your life is actually calmer than it has been in years. The acute crisis has passed. By any reasonable measure you should be able to exhale. And yet your body is still braced. Still scanning. Still finding it genuinely difficult to do nothing without your nervous system treating the silence like a problem to be solved. You are not broken. Your nervous system is just still running from a fire that already went out. This episode is not about burnout as a buzzword. It is about the actual physiological reality of what happens to your nervous system when you have been in survival mode for an extended period and why it does not automatically reset when the circumstances change. In This Episode: What the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems actually are and what each one feels like from the inside. What chronic activation does to the body over time and why you cannot think your way out of a nervous system response. How sustained pressure, health challenges, and years of high output wire the body for threat and why the body does not update when the circumstances change. What nervous system dysregulation actually looks like in high achievers including the version that gets rebranded as ambition. The difference between true regulation and distraction. One specific tool you can use right now with actual physiological evidence behind it. And what the longer work of building a regulated baseline actually looks like in a real life with real pressures. This one is personal. And it connects directly to everything covered in recent episodes about chronic illness, the quieter season, and building a life that finally sends consistent signals of safety to a body that spent years being told it was not safe. Stay Connected: Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/ New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. And if this episode named something you have been living with come find me on Instagram and TikTok at ginamariefit. I want to hear what resonated.

  8. Jul 14

    Rebranding Midlife: Who You Are When the Life You Built No Longer Fits | Ep. 118

    I want to tell you something I have not said out loud in quite this way before. I do not know who I am in this season of my life. Not in a crisis way. Not in a falling apart way. In the very honest, very quiet, very real way that happens when the life you spent years building is no longer available to you in the same form. For years the answer to who are you was immediate. Trainer. Healthcare worker. Event host. Always building something visible and measurable. My identity and my output were the same thing. And when my health shifted my path and my physical capacity without asking, the identity went with it. Now I am home by six. Dinner by seven. And then what. Some days the quiet feels like a gift. Genuine gratitude for downtime I have not had in five years. Other days that same quiet feels like wasting away. Both on the same Tuesday. That is what an honest in-between season actually looks like. This episode is not about having it figured out. It is a dispatch from the middle of something. And if you are in your own version of a season where the life you built is no longer available in the same form, you found the right episode today. In This Episode: What it looks like when the identity and the output were the same thing and one of them changes. The rollercoaster of gratitude and lostness living in the same body on the same day. The permission slip nobody gave you around rest, rediscovery, and not having a plan. What this quieter season is actually building even when it does not look like it from the outside. And an honest look at midlife not as a crisis but as a recalibration happening in real time. Stay Connected: Listen on all podcast platforms: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/createdbyginamarie/Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginamariefitFollow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ginamariefitWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ginamariefitWebsite and Blog: https://ginamariefit.com/ Subscribe so you never miss a Tuesday episode. Come me on Instagram and TikTok at ginamariefit where I'm sharing the real version of this season in real time.

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Mindset, health and personal growth podcast for people who are ready to level up and who want more out of life. Hosted by coach, speaker, and author Gina Caracci (GinaMarieFit). Mindset, Health Empowerment: The Unfiltered Trainer podcast blends fitness, mental health and honest conversations to help you build confidence, resilience, and sustainable success without burnout. Real talk. Practical tools. Powerful shifts. For anyone ready to stop overthinking and start executing. New episodes drop weekly on Tuesdays. Subscribe & let's crush this together! Follow me @ginamariefit on all social media

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