Walking This Way

Hello Rockstars! Welcome to our very first Walking This Way Challenge, your fortnightly dose of tiny-but-mighty self-care.

Every two weeks, I’ll set you a small, totally achievable challenge designed to help midlife women build confidence, energy and wellbeing through tiny steps that add up. No marathon training, no Everest expeditions. Just simple wins we can all celebrate.

This week, we’re getting moving. Your challenge is to do one small piece of purposeful movement every day that stretches you just a little. Nothing epic. Nothing time-consuming. Just something you’ll feel quietly proud of.

If you already walk the dog, add five purposeful minutes. Try ten squats. One burpee (yes, one counts). A gentle jog around the block. Cleaning the windows if you really want to break a sweat! Anything that’s new, intentional, and feels like you’re showing up for yourself.

So have a go, keep it small, and please share your wins, wobbles and photos with me. The joy of this community is doing it together.

This week’s challenge recap:
  • Choose one small piece of purposeful movement each day
  • Make it something just a little bit hard
  • Keep it short and achievable
  • Share how you get on with the Walking This Way community
Share your success: Here's how to get in touch...
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Produced by The Good Studio


Creators and Guests

Host
Lise Thorne
Host of Walking This Way and champion of midlife women
Producer
Tim Beynon
Podcast producer and Founder of The Good Studio

What is Walking This Way?

Welcome to Walking This Way - the upfront, no-nonsense podcast about midlife for women who are done with pretending it’s all fine.

Join Lise Thorne for honest conversations, unfiltered stories and a good dose of humour as she explores what it really means to be a woman in midlife - from shifting priorities and changing bodies to rediscovering joy, purpose and self.

Real talk. Real women. Real midlife.

Because this isn’t about surviving midlife - it’s about walking it your way.

Walking This Way is produced by The Good Studio.

Lise Thorne:

Hello, Rockstars, and welcome to this, your very first Walking This Way Challenge. Every fortnight, I'm going set you a little personal challenge. Nothing to worry about. I'm not going to ask you to do a Sarah Cox and run several marathons or climb Everest. Not least, we do not need to trek in the death zone just to know our greatness.

Lise Thorne:

These challenges are going to be about achieving small triumphs when it comes to self care, wellness and well-being. And we can do them together. All of us. So here we go. This week's challenge is to do one small bit of purposeful movement every day that challenges you.

Lise Thorne:

What I mean by that is, if you walk the dog every day, I want you to do something in addition. It could be add five minutes onto the walk done with purposeful exertion. Maybe you can do ten push ups on your knees if that's what's right for you, or 15 burpees, or maybe just one. Use a chair if you need to. Maybe if you've ever thought about running, you'd just go for a gentle jog around the block.

Lise Thorne:

I'd just like it to be something, a small thing, every day that isn't long in time, but that you feel proud that you did. The list is endless. 10 squats and if you already move every day, is there something new that you could give a go? Swimming, if you really want to, it can even be cleaning the windows. I don't know if you have ever tried it, but it's actually really hard work and it feels satisfying at the end.

Lise Thorne:

The reason why I think this is so important is because it is the building of these incremental small habits that make us grow. And if it can be something just a little bit hard, the confidence that comes with it will compound. Confidence compounding is the best thing ever, ever, ever for building rock stars. So what do you think? Achievable?

Lise Thorne:

Absolutely it is. And I want you to share how you got on with me and the whole Walking This Way community. Please send me your messages, voice messages, photos and videos, and I'll share them here on the show and on my Instagram, so that we can take on the challenges as one. So good luck this week, enjoy it, take it slowly, and don't forget to share how you got on. All the links that you need to do so are in the show notes, and you can always email me at walkingthisway@hotmail.com.

Lise Thorne:

See you in a week's time for the main show when I'll be chatting to the irrepressible Vanessa McDade. Love you, rock stars.