A Constantly Varied Life

It has been quite some time since you've heard from me and while so many things have happened worth talking about in the life of Nikki, today I am going to go over a recent social media hiatus that I decided to take! In todays episode we will discuss:What led me to taking a social media hiatusHow the hiatus wentWhat brought me back to social media How I hope to come back AND at the end of the episode I am going to share 5 tips to help you set boundaries around social media which will hopefully help to give you some peace of time, positivity and hope when it comes to spending time on social media but not getting the feeling that you are wasting away in the abyss that is social media!I hope you enjoy and please be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a comment below!Thank you for listening,Nikki <3

If you follow me on social media, you know that I spent about 8 months leaning more into the hybrid athlete training space to prepare for my first Hyrox Race in Miami this past April! Well, just as fast as I feel it came, it has also gone and in today's episode I am going to tell you alllll about it, in classic, leave no stone unturned when it comes to details Nikki fashion!We're going to talk through the whole race from the great spectator ticket fiasco of 2025 all the way through the finish!I am going to give you 5 hot tips (learned from 5 epic fails) that I will be bringing with me into my future races and that maybe will help you should this episode inspire you to sign up for the next Hyrox race! Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

Hey guys! It’s been a while, huh? This episode was recorded all the way back in MARCH (yeah you read that right) which I think is a solid example of how wild life has been these past few months. But nonetheless, I am excited to have her FINALLY edited and ready for your listening (maybe even viewing) pleasure and I hope you enjoy it!In this episode I go over a plethora of thoughts surrounding happiness, social media, mental health, hashtags and so much more!Full disclosure, when I started this podcast I certainly did not think that  this was the direction that the podcast would go, specifically leaning so much into mental health coming from personal experiences but to no surprise, life sure does enjoy a good pivot and here we are! But it feels right so we are going with it. Thank you for your support, thank you for your patience and I hope all is well with you! I promise it won’t be so long until you hear from me again! <3 Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

Hey guys! It feels like it's been 10 years since we've chatted last! In the last episode, I let you know I was walking into a crazy season and that I would be giving grace in the form of not setting expectations of releasing a new episode every week and as you can see I have been honoring that grace and man, does that feel good!Anyways, in this weeks episode I talk about the time change, how it effected me (spoiler alert: it was not a positive effect lol), get a bit vulnerable when it comes to depression and give you guys some tips & tools that have helped me to add to your tool belt should you find yourself in a bit of a funk whether it be from a time change or life just life'n! Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

In this episode, Nikki has a classic case of the zoomies which results in a nice little sprinkle of runs into left field while she talks life, what the plan is with the podcast (yep, she hits ya with another pivot) and at the end she leaves you with a minisode topic about doing your best and how that can, will and should look different every day! I hope you enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

If you are a real life, living, breathing human than the chances that you have found yourself in a season of feeling overwhelmed is pretty high.In this episode, I give four hot tips to help you as you are making your way through said season of overwhelm. They are not here to solve your problems or take you out of the season but hopefully they can help to make things feel a little less heavy!Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

In this episode we dive into why having a morning and evening routine is important. I give you some examples of things you can use to build your perfect morning and evening routine along with breaking down what my personal morning and evening routine looks like!Of course there is rambling and we are far from a perfectly structured podcast but my hope is not to be the beautifully articulated podcast, rather the podcast that is real, raw and can maybe help you out with a tip or trick to make your life just a little more beautiful!Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

This topic has been on my heart since long before the podcast even came to fruition and I am so tickled that it is finally her time to shine! Today we are talking all things pie charts and maybe in a way that you have never thought about pie charts but if you want your piece of the pie (pun absolutely intended) you are just going to have to give this bite size minisode a listen! Shoutout to Alex Parker and Meredith Root for not only making an incredible podcast (The Afternoon Snack) but in regards to this episode specifically, to Alex for mentioning pie charts many moons ago and creating a metaphor that has and will continue to stick with me! Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening! Nikki <3  Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word!  Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available! ⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

In this episode we dive deep into what a beautiful thing evolution can be, how sometimes an evolution can bring out some not so comfy growing pains and of course a detailed story telling of how this episode came to fruition. Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

I am not here to give away the SECRET. For that you will have to tune into this weeks MINISODE, yeah you read right, we are introducing bi-weekly minisodes that will take turns with your regularly scheduled episodes. What to expect with these lovely little editions to the world of A Constantly Varied Life: We will be sipping on some yummy bevvie of sorts, talkin on topics that may not be big enough for their very own episode but are worthy of some air time and as per usual keeping it real and yes, there will still be rambling. That comes with the territory of anything involving Nikki! Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening! Nikki <3  Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word!  Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available! ⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

By the end of Monday, I had not yet recorded a podcast for this week and with full transparency, I will say that I had zero motivation or creative juices flowing to record one and with Wednesday fast approaching, I was considering maybe A Constantly Varied Life should become a bi-weekly gig (which, further full transparency, could still be a possibility) but by the grace of God I was sitting in my bed, journaling about my really good, really jam packed day that was had and BOOM, it came to me! And here we are, episode 15! Highlights:-We are going to talk about 5 things that I learned from a "Casual Monday" -The weekly episode will live to see another week (for now)-I ramble and run into left field a handful of times and attempt to NOT talk about my day in full detail but failI hope that maybe you can get a nugget or two to use moving forward because that is really what it's all about! Enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

We are 1 week into 2025 and I am sure some of ya’ll are in the trenches of your new year, new me era and while I am here for it when it comes to becoming the best version of yourselves I am also here for you doing so in a fashion that will help you to build a solid foundation and create habits that are sustainable and lifelong. That being said, give this episode a listen if you want to hear about my journey so far with 75 Hard and my thoughts around why I think it isor maybe is not a great program for you!I hope you enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!⁠www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com⁠

We've all been there. We come into a new year and have a laundry list of goals and resolutions that we've typed up on our phone. We're feeling good!Enter the new year and add a few months. It is likely we have fallen off track, haven't even looked at that list and are feeling like we are right back where we started (or maybe even worse off) just a few months back.This year I decided to approach it a little different and rather than set audacious goals without much of a plan to get me there, I am going to talk about 24 (technically 25) things that I will or will not be bringing into the new year with me! These are things that I am already doing for the most but could afford to be doing better or moreso habits that I plan too put in place to help me move the needle in the areas of my life that I am hoping to thrive in. Hopefully this can help to give you a different perspective on walking into a new year so that we can walk into 2025 feeling confident in the year ahead that we will be able to do incredible things!I am sure that I say it every year but I have a feeling that this year is going to be a bright one. Happy New Year, everyone! Let's make some magic happenI hope you enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com

We all know what I am talking about. The 7 days that feel more like 37 where you don’t really know what to do. Where you still have to go to work because you are an adult but you we all know that there likely won’t be very much work being done. The week where you don’t know what to do with your life, yeah, that week. Today I will do my best to maybe not solve the problem of the weird week but to give you permission to make it whatever you feel it should be. Wanna be super productive and get a jump start to the new year? Do it!Wanna lay in bed with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s binge watching Netflix? Also acceptable!It is all about making the decision of what you want it to look like and doing the thing and that, my friends, is what we dive into in this fast paced, squirrel brained Nikki on a Tuesday before Christmas! I hope you enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com 

3 months ago I participated in a DekaFit race for funsies with some of the members from my gym. Said race for funsies qualified me for the DekaFit World Championships (something I didn’t even know existed). To hear the story behind that be sure to check out Episode 3! In today’s episode we discuss race day in full detail! It has been a wild 3 months leading up to a day filled with excitement, a lot of food, mild shin splits and some of the best memories that will remain in my heart indefinitely. This episode will give you a front row seat to all the things race day from the eyes of yours truly! I hope you enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com 

Life is filled with what may feel like never ending pivots and I think the sooner you can come to terms with the fact that these pivots are inevitable, the sooner life gets a little more tolerable. With pivots can come a change of season in the form of sport, career, relationships, etc and if you live and die by what you identify with, it could be pretty devastating when life decides that identity is no longer for you. In this episode we have our standard Nikki rambling about her day and life with a lovely little segue into our topic of the day, identity and why it should be worn more as a sticker than a tattoo.I hope you enjoy and as always, thank you for listening!Nikki <3 Be sure to like, share, subscribe and leave a 5 star review to help spread the word! Shameless Plug: If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com

I think the title says it all but this was an out of left field episode that wasn’t particularly planned but was deemed necessary on a fine November Sunday afternoon by yours truly. It is kind of hard to sum up what was covered, so I guess you’ll just have to give it a listen if you're curious to find out more! If you enjoyed this episode, the best way to say “thanks!” is with a share! While you are at it be sure to like, subscribe and leave a solid 5 star rating to help spread the word!Thank you for listening,Nikki <3 

Today is Thanksgiving Eve, which means we are waist deep in the holiday trenches and that can come with a lot of stress around food, fitness & family. In this episode, I give some hot tips and thoughts around all the things that we may have to face as we walk into this holiday season! If you enjoyed this episode, the best way to say “thanks!” is with a share! While you are at it be sure to like, subscribe and leave a solid 5 star rating to help spread the word!Thank you for listening,Nikki <3 If you want to work with me on your nutrition goals and overall lifestyle to create habits and routines that will result in you living your best life, head on over to my website to find out more info on the 1:1 coaching options available!www.mindovermacrosnutrition.com 

While some of you may think that I started this podcast because I enjoy sitting in my closet and talking about misc things by myself (which I guess is proven to not be total misinformation), I actually created this podcast to coincide with my newly started nutrition coaching business (Mind Over Macros Lifestyle & Nutrition Coaching) as a way to not only deliver free information to a broader audience but to also give you an idea of who exactly you would be working with should you decide that you are interested in hiring me as a nutrition coach!That being said, I guess being 7 episodes in that it is time to pull the metaphorical band aid and put it out there what exactly you will get while working with me in the form of Expectation vs Reality but before we get to that, you will get a bit of a back story on my nutrition journey and a very unrelated to the topic, detailed description of my Sunday morning (we can call that bonus content and you’re welcome.)If you or anyone you may know are interested in learning more, feel free to check out my website where you can sign up to work with me or shoot me over any questions you may have!www.mindovermacrosnutrition.comIf you enjoyed this episode, the best way to say “thanks!” is with a share! While you are at it be sure to like, subscribe and leave a solid 5 star rating to help spread the word!Thank you for listening,Nikki <3 

In this episode we are working to normalize sulky days and not being happy all the time. I will explain why I feel that social media, while it can be a truly incredible outlet and way to keep in touch with friends and loved ones, is probably not the best place to be when you are not in a great headspace. We also chat about learning to identify the negative emotions you are feeling and being intentional with allowing yourself to feel the feelings and sulk in a healthy manner along with giving a few ideas of things you can do to help to pull yourself out of the funk that you have found yourself in.I truly feel that we are experiencing a shift in people feeling comfortable being more vulnerable and sharing when things are not always rainbows and butterflies but this is just the beginning and hopefully this message can help shed some light and acceptance on it being okay to not be okay. If you enjoy this podcast, please be sure to like, share and subscribe to help spread the word! Thank you for listening,Nikki <3 

I have been in the sport of CrossFit for 7+ years now and in that time  as a coach and athlete, I have learned many things. But not just in the ways you might think! I truly believe that CrossFit and life can be correlated in so many ways and in today's episode I am going to share 10 correlations/life hacks that I have learned through the sport of CrossFit I hope you enjoy it and if you have any correlations that you have found through your sport, please feel free to share them in the comments!If you enjoyed this episode, the best way to say “thanks!” is with a share! While you are at it be sure to like, subscribe and leave a solid 5 star rating to help spread the word!Thank you for listening,Nikki <3

After an amazing Saturday morning I was in the middle of washing my car and feeling extra grateful for all the things but then, I was left feeling bad for wanting to share those feelings with the world and that is what inspired todays episode! We will be covering:-What is gratitude, why it is important to practice it daily and the difference between bragging and gratitude-Some reasons we may feel ashamed to share our gratitude and why we need to put those feelings to sleep -A few easy ways you can start practicing gratitude every day if you aren't already! Podcast referenced in writing 3 things to be grateful for:On Purpose w/ Jay Shetty: 7 Steps on How to Silence Your Inner Critic Especially When it Gets Too Loud and Becomes Overwhelming

In todays episode, we talk my first experience with a DekaFit race and how I qualified for the World Championships!We will cover the week that followed the race and my decision to ultimately change up my whole nutrition and training routine only to realize that due to a lack of being able to count to two that things might not be as smooth sailing as I thought they'd be...We are talking highs and lows and facing adversity and all the things, so tune in and enjoy episode 3 of A Constantly Varied Life!

There are a lot of things in our lives that are out of our control and when we find ourselves in a state of overwhelm from those things, we are left with two choices.Do you allow the things that are causing you stress and anxiety to consume you or do you take control of what you can control and get your power back?On this episode we talk about taking your power back and choosing to control the things that you can control. We also touch on how to switch your perspective when life throws you lemons and a few other hot tips on living your best life!I hope you enjoy! If you found this episode helpful in any way, the best way to say "thanks" in podcast is by sharing, subscribing, rating and reviewing to help spread the word!You can find me on Instagram @constantlyvariednikkiSee ya next week! -Nikki

I mean, I am sure you are wondering all about the life that is Nikki and this episode will be a 13ish-minute summary (which is pretty impressive, if you ask me) on just that!I am sure that I missed some things as summing up 33 years is relatively tough and said things will likely come up in a future episodes if they were that important but I think this is a solid gist of all the things!I hope you enjoy and don't forget to like, share, subscribe and help spread the word! It is so very appreciated! -Nikki

Who is Nikki Bruno? Where'd the name for this podcast come from? What exactly are we getting into? All these pressing questions are answered in this trailer of A Constantly Varied Life!  Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe to help support, spread the word and be sure that you won’t miss when new episodes drop!  You can find me on IG @constantlyvariednikki