What if the secret to lasting change wasn't more discipline — but more pleasure?
In this episode of She's Leveling Up, Simone sits down with Catherine Roscoe Barr — neuroscience-based wellness coach, mindfulness expert, and best selling author of Feel Better Now, spent her entire 20s as a personal trainer, knowing everything there was to know about health and nutrition, and still struggling herself.

Catherine's story is one for the books. After spending her 20s as a personal trainer, knowing everything there was to know about exercise and nutrition — and still struggling herself — she walked away from the industry entirely. What she discovered through neuroscience, mindfulness, and her own rock-bottom moment completely changed the way she understood wellness. And it became the foundation for everything she teaches today.
In this episode we cover:

• Why knowing what to do and actually doing it are two completely different problems — and what neuroscience says about closing that gap
• The concept of neuroplasticity and why your brain is never too set in its ways to change
• Why pleasure — not punishment — is the most powerful motivator for lasting health
• The four pillars of Feel Better Now: The Rescue, The Revolution, The Rituals, and Reverence
• What a micro-manifesto is and why something so small creates such a big shift
• How community increases your chances of reaching your wellness goals by 90%
• The one thing Catherine would tell an exhausted, burnt-out woman to do today — and it's not what you'd expect

Catherine's closing answer will stop you in your tracks. If you've been pushing, grinding, and going, going, going — this episode is your permission slip.