Podcast | Mindset
Episode 41| July 20, 2024

How to Overcome Limiting Beliefs w/ Sarah Thomas

The Weeds She Has Been Pulling Her Whole Life

As a kid, Sarah Thomas was overweight. As a teen, she swung to anorexia. And the whole time, the people who loved her told her what she would never be.

Too big. Not college material. Better off working for someone else.

Hear something enough and it roots in you like a weed.

So she learned to pull the weeds, over and over, and plant what she actually wanted.

In this episode of the Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast, wellness coach Sarah Thomas shares how she became the first woman in her family to go to college, built Burn Fat and Feast, and still does the daily work of rewriting the beliefs she was handed.

Limiting beliefs are deeply rooted. You do not pull them once. You pull them for life.

If old voices are still writing your story, this conversation hands you the shovel.

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“Limiting beliefs are like weeds. You pull them, and they grow back, so you keep pulling.”

– Sarah Thomas

Fast Skim & Timestamps

0:00 Meet Sarah: Wellness and Burn Fat and Feast
1:38 Her Superpower: Uprooting Limiting Beliefs
3:03 The Beliefs She Was Handed as a Kid
4:49 First in Her Family to Go to College
6:42 Helping Others Is How She Heals
7:38 The What-If List That Started It
8:07 Therapy, Support, and the Inner Work
10:05 Sticky Notes and Showing Up Anyway

Key Takeaways

Your superpower is often the thing you do without thinking, the one you had to learn the hard way.
What you hear repeated becomes what you believe. Old voices can write a story you never chose.
Limiting beliefs are like weeds. You pull them once, and they grow back, so it becomes a practice.
Helping others do the work is how you keep doing your own.
Start with a what-if list. It is permission to imagine a different path.
Therapy, supportive people, and daily self-talk are the real tools. Show up as her before you feel like her.

Three Petite Practice® Questions

1. Which belief about myself did I inherit rather than choose?

2. What weed do I need to pull again this week?

3. What is one what-if I have been afraid to write down?

Transcript Chapters

0:00 Meet Sarah: Wellness and Burn Fat and Feast

[00:00:01] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Welcome back to the Happy Healthy Hustle podcast. We have a special guest today. Sarah, please introduce yourself. [00:00:25] Sarah Thomas: Thank you for having me. My name is Sarah Thomas. I am a wellness professional, fitness instructor, personal trainer, nutrition coach, and menopause specialist, and the creator of Burn Fat and Feast. It is a comprehensive wellness lifestyle for women, especially those going through perimenopause and menopause. In our online membership we help women build mental strength, lose the weight, balance their hormones, and finally stop the yo-yo dieting. [00:01:17] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: That fits the theme of the Happy Healthy Hustle perfectly.

1:38 Her Superpower: Uprooting Limiting Beliefs

[00:01:38] Sarah Thomas: My superpower is helping people overcome their limiting beliefs. I do it every single day, honestly without even thinking about it, which is why it was so hard to name. When women say I cannot do this, I have a real ability to help them talk better about themselves and let go of the beliefs they have carried their whole life about why they cannot do or be something.

3:03 The Beliefs She Was Handed as a Kid

[00:03:03] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Sometimes our superpower ties to something we struggled with ourselves. Is that the case? [00:03:03] Sarah Thomas: For sure. As a kid I was very overweight, an obese child, and through my teenage years I flipped the switch and became anorexic. During those years, people I loved, who said they cared about me most, told me I could not do things, that I was a big kid so I would never be certain things, that I should just go work for someone. Hear something over and over and you believe it as your reality. I believed that for many years.

4:49 First in Her Family to Go to College

[00:04:49] Sarah Thomas: I was the first woman in my family to go to college, even though I was told nobody had done that and I should not be the first. Walking through it built confidence at an early age. But limiting beliefs are like weeds in a garden. They are deeply rooted. You pull them out, and they come back. So it is a constant practice of pulling the weeds and replanting what I want, through self-talk, daily mantras, and showing up as the person I want to be. [00:05:30] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: On social media we see you fit and successful with three kids and a business, but the path there was not easy. Thank you for sharing that.

6:42 Helping Others Is How She Heals

[00:06:42] Sarah Thomas: Helping others is part of my own journey. I help women let go of their limiting beliefs every day, and by doing that I am constantly working on myself. That is the beauty of what I get to do. But it is the internal work, and it takes consistency.

7:38 The What-If List That Started It

[00:07:25] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: What or who helped you start pulling the weeds? [00:07:38] Sarah Thomas: For a long time I just did what I was told. But in my college years I thought, I have already done something people said I could not do. What else is there? So I started asking, what if. I made a whole list of what ifs. What if I owned my own business? What if I had a family and moved away? I did not start the business for years, but the list began there.

8:07 Therapy, Support, and the Inner Work

[00:08:07] Sarah Thomas: I knew I had limiting beliefs I needed to talk through, so I sought help from therapists. I firmly believe everyone could use therapy, even without a crisis. It is a good outlet to verbalize things and find clarity. My husband, whom I have been married to for twenty years, has been a great supporter. But a lot of it was the internal work, acknowledging that if I did not do it, no one else could. If everyone else was proud of me but I was not, the needle never moved.

10:05 Sticky Notes and Showing Up Anyway

[00:10:05] Sarah Thomas: The self-talk is huge. We say so many negative things to ourselves, so I turn them into positive I-am statements. I am a sticky-note girl, so I put my daily mantras on sticky notes in my bathroom. They change over time, but seeing them helps me keep pulling the weeds. I show up as the person I want to be every day, whether I feel it or not. And my Burn Fat and Feast community holds me accountable as I help them. [00:12:15] Sarah Thomas: You can find us at burnfatandfeast.com, and on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook as Burn Fat and Feast. I love Instagram Stories for showing the raw, real, messy side. [00:13:21] Dr. Christiane Schroeter: Thank you so much for sharing, Sarah.

Meet My Guest

Sarah Thomas

Wellness Coach & Founder of Burn Fat and Feast

Sarah Thomas is a wellness professional, personal trainer, nutrition coach, and menopause specialist, and the creator of Burn Fat and Feast, an online membership helping women through perimenopause and menopause.

The first woman in her family to go to college, Sarah helps women lose the weight, balance their hormones, and let go of the limiting beliefs holding them back. Find her on Instagram @burnfatandfeast.

Meet Your Host

Dr. Christiane Schroeter

TEDx Speaker & Leadership Strategist

I’m Dr. Christiane Schroeter, TEDx speaker, leadership strategist, and host of the Top 1% ranked Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast. I help leaders think clearly, speak with conviction, and take the next step during change.

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