The Built To Grow Podcast

Santo Chiappetta
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Built to Grow explores the transformative power of resilience and growth. Join Santo as he interviews experts and thought leaders, uncovering stories of overcoming setbacks, mastering habits, and breaking through barriers. Inspiring insights to help you evolve and thrive, because growth is never finished.

  1. 1d ago

    60 & Go: The Psychology of Knowing When Enough Is Enough

    What if the reason you’re constantly overwhelmed isn’t how much you have to do, but how well you expect yourself to do everything? In this episode of Built To Grow, I explore the psychology of perfectionism, the hidden cost of unrealistic expectations, and why learning to recognize “good enough” can help you reclaim your time and energy. We also explore my university philosophy of “60 & Go” and how to apply it to exercise, work, and everyday responsibilities. Want more insights on strength, health, and mindset? Join The Rep Report, my free newsletter:www.strengthbysanto.com/friends #Perfectionism #Mindset #PersonalGrowth

  2. Oct 28

    What If You’re Not Actually the Problem?

    You know what you should be doing, so why is staying consistent with your health so difficult? In this episode, we explore why missed workouts, imperfect meals, and abandoned routines can make you question your discipline, and how to break the cycle of all-or-nothing thinking. Learn how to identify what’s actually holding you back and build healthier habits that work with your life. 📩 Subscribe to The Rep Report, my weekly newsletter. Sign up at www.strengthbysanto.com/friends #HealthyHabits #FitnessMotivation #Mindset #BuiltToGrow

  3. Oct 21

    When Caring Too Much Gets in Your Way | The Fear of Failure

    Why do we sometimes avoid the very things we want most? Whether it’s getting back into shape, starting a business, changing careers, or pursuing a personal goal, we can spend months or even years thinking about something without actually taking the steps required to accomplish it. And while it’s easy to blame procrastination, laziness, or a lack of discipline, there may be something deeper influencing our behaviour. What if we’re not avoiding the work, but what the work might reveal about us? In this episode of Built To Grow, Santo Chiappetta explores the psychology behind self-sabotage, fear of failure, and why caring deeply about an outcome can sometimes make it more difficult to pursue. Drawing on psychological concepts including self-handicapping and contingent self-worth, Santo examines how our identities become connected to achievement and why the possibility of disappointment can prevent us from taking meaningful action. We explore why believing in our unrealized potential can feel safer than testing it, how perfectionism and unrealistic expectations influence our willingness to participate, and why developing confidence doesn’t necessarily mean believing everything will work out. Sometimes it means becoming comfortable with the possibility that it won’t. In this episode: Why we procrastinate on goals that genuinely matterHow fear of failure influences motivation and behaviourThe relationship between achievement, identity, and self-worthWhy we sometimes protect our potential instead of developing itThe psychology of self-handicappingHow to overcome avoidance and take meaningful actionWhy uncertainty is an unavoidable part of personal growth The takeaway: You don’t need to know whether you’ll succeed before you begin. You need to be willing to find out. Subscribe to The Rep Report, my free weekly newsletter exploring health, psychology, strength, and personal growth. Health is a means, not an end.

  4. Oct 14

    Are You Waiting for Your Life to Begin? | Burnout, Guilt & Self-Care

    Are you spending so much time taking care of everyone else that you’ve started putting your own life on hold? Between raising children, building a career, managing responsibilities, and trying to stay healthy, it’s easy to convince yourself that you’ll finally have time to enjoy life when things settle down. When the kids are older. When work slows down. When you retire. But what happens when that time never seems to arrive? In this episode of Built To Grow, strength and nutrition coach Santo Chiappetta explores the relationship between burnout, control, guilt, and the pressure to constantly be productive. We discuss why health and fitness can become a way to regain control when life feels overwhelming, why taking time for yourself can feel selfish, and how postponing enjoyment until some future milestone can quietly change your relationship with the life you’re living today. You’ll discover why having free time doesn’t always mean feeling free to use it, how to recognize when self-improvement becomes another obligation, and why taking care of yourself should help you participate more fully in your life rather than simply prepare you for retirement. Because the goal isn’t to become healthier just so you can handle more responsibilities. It’s to build enough strength, health, and capacity to enjoy the life you’re already living. In this episode: Why busy parents and professionals struggle to prioritize themselvesThe relationship between burnout, control, and fitnessWhy we feel guilty taking time for ourselvesHow productivity culture influences our relationship with healthThe danger of waiting until retirement to enjoy lifeHow to reclaim personal time without abandoning your responsibilitiesWhy health should support your life, not become your entire life Read The Rep Report:Weekly reflections on strength, health, and personal growth. www.strengthbysanto.com/friends About Built To Grow Hosted by Santo Chiappetta, Built To Grow explores the intersection of physical strength, personal development, behavioural change, and the human experience. Because health is a means, not an end. #BuiltToGrow #BurnoutRecovery #WorkLifeBalance #SelfCare #PersonalGrowth

  5. Oct 7

    Getting Back on Track Is a Skill

    We talk about consistency as if the goal is to find the perfect routine and never let anything interrupt it. But that isn’t how life works. You travel. You get sick. Work gets busy. Your schedule changes. Sometimes the routine that used to fit your life simply doesn’t anymore. So maybe consistency isn’t about avoiding disruption. Maybe it’s about becoming someone who knows how to come back from it. In this episode of Built To Grow, I explore what “getting back on track” actually means, why we tend to restart too aggressively after time away, how to rebuild healthy habits without trying to fix everything at once, and why sometimes you shouldn’t return to your old routine at all. We also get into the difference between being inconsistent and being interrupted, how to recognize the habits that never actually disappeared, and why repeatedly finding your way back can eventually build something more valuable than a perfect routine: trust that you know what to do when life changes. You’re probably not starting over. You’re getting another rep at coming back. Join The Rep Report, my weekly newsletter: www.strengthbysanto.com/friends

  6. Sep 30

    Your Health Is Requiring Too Much Thinking

    What if the problem isn’t that you need more discipline? What if you simply have too much to manage? After 17 coaching calls this week, I noticed the same idea showing up in conversations about nutrition, workouts, recovery, health data, relationships and stress. Taking care of yourself requires more than time. It requires attention, decisions and mental bandwidth. Eventually, adding another workout, another metric or another habit can make health feel like one more thing you’re trying to keep up with. In this episode, I explore how to make health require less thought, why your minimum matters, what 130 workouts over 31 months can actually become, and why sometimes the problem you’re trying to fix started several decisions earlier. Health should give you more capacity to participate in your life, not consume all of your attention trying to perfect it. Subscribe to The Rep Report: www.strengthbysanto.com/friends

  7. Sep 23

    Your Health Should Make Life Feel Easier

    What if the best sign that your health is improving isn’t the number on the scale—but how much easier your actual life feels? In this episode of Built To Grow, I explore an idea that came out of a conversation with a client: the things in her life hadn’t gotten easier—she had become more capable of handling them. We talk about strength, energy, stress, recovery, consistency, motherhood, mental load, and why “I know what I need to do” doesn’t always mean you need more discipline. I also get into why the same workout can represent completely different levels of progress depending on what else you’re carrying, how to recognize when you need to push versus recover, and why some of the most meaningful signs of progress are the ones we rarely track. Because health isn’t supposed to become another full-time job. It’s supposed to give you more capacity to participate in the life you’re building. In this episode: Why getting stronger should make everyday life easierThe difference between having time and having capacityWhy “I just don’t care today” isn’t always a motivation problemStrength training for real life, not just the gymHow stress, sleep and recovery affect consistencyWhy doing the same workout can sometimes still be progressMaking health habits easier to repeatA better way to measure whether your health is actually improvingFor more of my writing and ideas on strength, health, behaviour and living a more participatory life, join my free newsletter, The Rep Report: www.strengthbysanto.com/friends More participation. Less perfection.

  8. Sep 15

    You Don’t Need to Pull Every Lever

    “I only got two workouts in.” Why do we say that like we’re admitting we failed? In this episode of Built To Grow, Santo explores what happens when taking care of yourself becomes another thing you’re behind on—and why knowing what to do doesn’t always mean having the capacity to do it. We talk about the invisible health scorecard, the mental load of being everyone’s default person, why old routines stop fitting, and how to tell the difference between needing more discipline and needing more support. If you keep telling yourself, “I know I should be doing more,” this conversation offers somewhere else to start. Health should give you more room to live. More participation. Less perfection. Want help putting this into practice? Join the Glow Challenge to work on building more room and capacity by fitting a new habit into the day you already have, without carving out another block of time. Join the Glow Challenge:https://www.strengthbysanto.com/glow-challenge

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Built to Grow explores the transformative power of resilience and growth. Join Santo as he interviews experts and thought leaders, uncovering stories of overcoming setbacks, mastering habits, and breaking through barriers. Inspiring insights to help you evolve and thrive, because growth is never finished.

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  • Creator
    Santo Chiappetta
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Santo Chiappetta
  • Show Website
    The Built To Grow Podcast

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