Root Cause Healing, Mindset, and Why Slowing Down Feels So Hard with Marissa Chong Episode Summary

About this episode

Kim Schaper and Marissa Chong discuss the challenges women face with mindset, burnout, and the importance of slowing down for healing.

In this episode of the Radiant Revolution Podcast, Kim sits down with her friend and special guest, Marissa Chong, CEO of Permanent Change Coaching. With a background in neuroscience, fitness, and root cause healing, Marissa shares how mindset, behavior patterns, and nervous system regulation often sit at the center of women’s hormone struggles. Together, they unpack the hidden cost of hustle culture, perfectionism, people pleasing, and the “all or nothing” mindset that keeps so many high-achieving women stuck in burnout. They discuss why slowing down can feel harder than pushing harder, how identity gets tied to achievement, and why true healing requires learning how to live in the gray area instead of extremes. This conversation is honest, powerful, and deeply relatable for any woman who feels like she’s been running on stress, discipline, and survival mode for far too long. What You’ll Learn Why mindset is often the missing piece in root cause healing How perfectionism and all-or-nothing thinking create burnout Why high-achieving women struggle so much with slowing down The connection between self-worth and overworking How identity gets tied to fitness, business, and…

People in this episode

Host: Kim Schaper

Guest: Marissa Chong

Topics covered

• root cause healing
• mindset
• hormone struggles
• burnout
• hustle culture
• self-worth
• fitness

Keywords

• mindset
• burnout
• hormones
• perfectionism
• self-worth
• fitness
• stress resilience
• healing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Permanent Change Coaching

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