The FitZen Project
The FitZen Project is a podcast about self-leadership, authenticity, purpose, and personal transformation.
Hosted by Rachel Fitzpatrick, each episode explores how to trust yourself, navigate life transitions, set healthy boundaries, overcome self-doubt, and create a life that feels aligned with who you truly are.
Through honest conversations, inspiring guest stories, and practical reflections on mindset, energy management, relationships, grief, purpose, and conscious living, you'll discover what happens when you stop outsourcing your happiness and start leading yourself from the inside out.
Whether you're rebuilding after loss, questioning what's next, healing old patterns, or stepping into a new chapter, The FitZen Project offers encouragement, perspective, and tools for meaningful change.
Alignment is the new hustle. You are your most important project.
Episodes
78 episodes
Why You Trust Yourself at Work—but Second-Guess Everything in Your Relationship
You keep your commitments at work. You make decisions. You deliver. People trust you.So why does all that confidence seem to disappear when your partner is unhappy with a decision you've made?THE SQUEEZEHow many promises ha...
Successful at Everything—So Why Are You Losing Yourself in Your Relationship?
What happens when keeping the peace becomes how you measure your worth—and you realize the life you're working so hard to hold together might not even be the life you want?THE JUICEIn this episode, you'll discover:How ...
Can You Let Them Be Mad? The Yoga of Letting Go For Your Relationship
What if the thing exhausting you in your relationship isn't just the conflict?What if it's your grip on how the conflict needs to end?I need them to understand me.I need them to stop being mad.I need them ...
Doing All the Work in Your Relationship? RACI That Shit.
Are you doing all the emotional work in your relationship—and calling it partnership?You remember everything. Initiate the hard conversations. Repair the fights. Manage the tension. Keep track of what needs to happen. Anticipate problems...
What Happens to Your Relationship When You Stop Holding It Together?
What if the only reason your relationship is “okay” is because you’re working overtime to keep it that way?You bring up the hard conversations. You choose your words carefully. You apologize first. You smooth over the tension. You explai...
How to Break Old Patterns and Actually Change Your Life
You know which pattern needs to change.You know the people-pleasing is making you resentful. You know perfectionism is keeping you stuck. You know being the strong one has made it nearly impossible to ask for help.So why do you ke...
How to Stop People-Pleasing, Perfecting, and Overfunctioning| A Guided Self-Study Practice
You keep calling it your personality:“I’m just a perfectionist.”“I’ve always been the responsible one.”“I’m not good at asking for help.”But what if people-pleasing, perfecting, and overfunctioning aren’t simply who you ar...
You Built a Successful Life—So Why Doesn’t It Feel Like Yours? | Christopher Wesley
You built a successful life—so why doesn’t it feel like yours?You’re capable, responsible, and probably the person everyone relies on. Your life may even look exactly how you once hoped it would.But underneath all that success, yo...
Your Child Is Growing Up—Now What? Finding Yourself in Motherhood’s Next Chapter
You built the beautiful life. You love your family. You’re proud of the person your child is becoming. So why does watching them enter their next chapter hurt so much—and who are you when they begin needing you differently?As Theo starts...
Successful but Exhausted? Here's What You're Missing
What if stress isn't proof that you're successful?We've been taught to wear busy like a badge of honor. A packed calendar means you're important. Exhaustion means you're working hard. And somehow, being overwhelmed became part of what su...
Your Next Step Is More Important Than Your Next Goal | Mikael Avatar
The biggest breakthroughs in life rarely come from setting a bigger goal. They come from taking the next step. In this episode of The FitZen Project, Rachel Fitzpatrick sits down with Paralympic world record holder, coach, an...
Why You Feel Lost After Achieving a Big Goal | The Mountain After the Mountain
You finally reached the goal.The wedding.The promotion.The degree.The business.The weight loss.So why do you suddenly feel... lost?In this solo episode of The FitZen Project, Rachel Fitzpa...
Alignment Is the New Hustle
What if you're not burned out because you're doing too much... but because you've been trying to earn your worth?For years, I believed the answer was simple: work harder.Another degree.Another promotion.Another side...
From Fire Dancing to Butterfly Trails: Creating a Life That Feels Like Your Own with Cherie Dawn
What happens when you stop living by expectations and start trusting yourself?In this episode of The FitZen Project, Rachel sits down with author, yoga teacher, and creative spirit Cherie Dawn for a heartfelt conversation about authentic...
Stop Outsourcing Your Life: How to Trust Yourself and Make Better Decisions
Have you ever felt like everyone else was more qualified to live your life than you were?In this solo episode, Rachel shares the powerful realization that changed everything: she had spent years outsourcing her decisions to friends, fami...
Dementia Care, Alzheimer's Education and the Power of Community | Alex Jones
What happens when education, compassion, and community come together to support people living with dementia?In this episode of The FitZen Project, I sit down with my longtime friend Alex Jones, whom I met during the Disney College Progra...
The Lesson Was Never the Wedding
A couple of weeks ago, I married the love of my life.But this episode isn't really about the wedding.It's about what happened in the weeks leading up to it.Between my son's graduation, teaching at Kentucky Yoga Festival, a ...
Rise to the Role: Leadership, Purpose & the Power Within with Randall Thames
What if the life you’re meant to live is already inside of you — waiting to be activated?In this powerful conversation, Rachel sits down with executive coach, speaker, and author Randall Thames to explore purpose, identity, leadership, f...
The Energy Behind High Performance | Chris Ryan on Strength, Leadership & Longevity
What does real performance actually look like as you get older?In this episode of The FitZen Project, Rachel sits down with nationally recognized performance coach, entrepreneur, and founder of the Chris Ryan Fitness app, Chris Ryan, for...
How to Stop Chasing More: Self-Awareness, Peace, and the Power of Subtraction
What if the thing keeping you stuck… is everything you keep trying to add?In this powerful conversation, Rachel sits down with author, inventor, Ironman athlete, military veteran, and storyteller Scott Lackey to unpack what it
You’re Not Broken. You’re Patterned. | Dr. Meher Chahal
What if the problem isn’t that you’re broken… but that you’ve been living inside inherited patterns you never consciously chose?In this powerful conversation, I sit down with psychiatrist and author Dr. Meher Chahal, author of Unlice...
Self-Leadership Starts Where Victimhood Ends
Functioning isn’t freedom.That line? It changed everything for me.In this raw solo episode, I’m taking you into one of the most personal frameworks that completely shifted how I see self-leadership, energy management, relat...
You Don’t Pass the Test—You Become the Person Who Does
Lucy passed.And no—it wasn’t luck.Somewhere along the way, she stopped studying for a test… and started becoming the kind of person who doesn’t miss.This episode is about that shift.Because this isn’t just about pass...
How to Reinvent Yourself After Losing Everything | Mindset, Identity & Future Self with Scott Proposki
What happens when the life you built… disappears?In this episode of The FitZen Project, I sit down with Scott Proposki—a former White House photographer who built an eight-figure photography business working with brands like HBO...
Feral, Intentional, and Finally Me 🔥
I thought I was celebrating a bachelorette party…what actually happened was a full identity shift.In this episode, I’m sharing what it looked like to come face-to-face with every version of myself—the soft one, the wild one, the ...