After six years and hundreds of episodes as Diet Disruptors, I'm making a change that's been building in me for a long time. This isn't a rebrand for the sake of a rebrand. It's a shift in the lens we use to look at food, weight, and worth. In this episode, I walk you through why "Diet Disruptors" no longer fits where I want to take you.

I share the story behind my new book, the metaphor of the corset and the crown, and the life experiences that led me to this message. From clients who found strength through unimaginable hardship to my own experience losing my wedding rings in the ocean, I explain why hope, self-worth, and alignment are the true foundation of lasting health.

My goal now is to help you uncover the healthiest, freest version of who you've always been. If you've ever felt like you have to earn your worth through productivity, appearance, or how much you can handle, let’s explore this new chapter together.

Conclusion:

With the From Corset to Crown podcast, I am embracing a necessary evolution that shifts our focus from food and weight to the deeper foundations of self-worth and alignment. I invite you to join me in this new chapter as we work together to uncover the freest, healthiest version of who you have always been.

In This Episode:

00:00 Origins of Diet Disruptors Podcast

03:38 Moving women beyond food and diets 

07:40 Why the rebrand was necessary

09:23 “From Corset to Crown” metaphor explained

14:15 How your brain filters what you believe

18:51 The story of lost wedding rings 

25:07 How to access Carrie’s new book

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Carrie’s Live Event in Nashville in October (2026):  https://www.disruptivenutrition.com/liveevent2026

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[00:00:00] Carrie Lupoli: Carrie Lupoli, and for six years, I ran a podcast called Diet Disruptors. But today, that all changes. Because after more than 30 years, thousands of women, and one very real moment of losing all four of my wedding rings in the ocean, I realized something I couldn't unsee. Us women, we're not broken. We don't need to be fixed.

[00:00:26] Carrie Lupoli: We're buried, buried under a corset we didn't put on ourselves, and pressure we've been wearing for so long it just feels like who we are. And so this podcast is now about taking off that corset and replacing it with the crown. Welcome to From Corset to Crown. Let's dig.

[00:00:56] Carrie Lupoli: Well, hey there. Get this. For the last [00:01:00] six years, I have started off every podcast, hundreds of episodes, with, "Hey there, diet disruptors." And today, that all changes. For years, this show was called Diet Disruptors, and I remember the day that I came up with the name for this show. It was like, you know, like when, like when, uh, like y- i- in a movie and like the clouds just separate and the sun comes shining down, and you hear like angels calling and singing?

[00:01:34] Carrie Lupoli: That's what it was like for me when I figured out the name for my podcast. And it wasn't just a name for my podcast, it was also just centered around all the branding I was doing when I was starting out in my private practice, Disruptive Nutrition. So, years before I started my podcast, I had my private practice called Disruptive Nutrition, which I still have and love.

[00:01:59] Carrie Lupoli: [00:02:00] And we are truly, truly the last first date with any nutritional approach any woman would ever need. And it, it's just been transformational. Thousands of women that we've worked with. And my followers were diet disruptors. So when I started my podcast, it was so just seamless that this would be the Diet Disruptor podcast.

[00:02:25] Carrie Lupoli: And it has served us so incredibly well for six years. And today, that all changes. This is a hard decision, and it's still one that I'm feeling a little emotional about, but my book, From Corset to Crown, I have it in my hot little hands. I just recently was able to get it, and I'm just so proud of it. It's so, it's so beautiful.

[00:02:51] Carrie Lupoli: Can you see it there? And I've realized that this message resonates. So many women [00:03:00] are looking for the next diet. And I really loved the phrase diet disruptors, and it was because I was truly disrupting the diet industry and still am. I'm a full-on conspiracy theorist. I don't believe that the diet industry, the weight loss industry, the pharmaceutical industry, our healthcare system, our food industry is out for our best interests.

[00:03:20] Carrie Lupoli: And I think women have been bamboozled, as well as men and kids and all of that, for way too long. It's a whole bunch of BS. You've heard me say that before. And the BS that we really need is truly understanding our body's love language, blood sugar, but also behavioral science and belief systems. After more than a decade of teaching women how to balance their blood sugar through food and how to-- they can truly learn the last nutritional advice they will ever need, I have also learned that the meal plan, the food, that solution that truly does work for everyone doesn't matter at [00:04:00] all if we aren't understanding what we want, why we want it, who we are, not just looking for something that we do.

[00:04:09] Carrie Lupoli: And the message continues to get deeper and deeper into identity, into the pressures that us as women are constantly under, and how to get out from them. What I have realized in my more than a decade of working with women to become the healthiest versions of themselves, it is so much more than food.

[00:04:33] Carrie Lupoli: Food and me working with women through their bodies and through food is a catalyst towards true lifestyle transformation. I have women that, y- just as early as this week, have messaged me and said, "If it wasn't for Disruptive Nutrition, if it wasn't for your podcast, if it wasn't for your morning times on Instagram, I would not have been able to get through blank."

[00:04:58] Carrie Lupoli: One example was a [00:05:00] client whose daughter, at 24 years old, had a stroke, and she already takes care of her other child who has cerebral palsy and in a wheelchair, and now is dealing with her typically functioning daughter who had a stroke and is now a full-time caregiver for her as well. And she said, "Yes, I came to you looking for help with my weight.

[00:05:21] Carrie Lupoli: And while w- I, I, I know that and I figured that out now, I've realized that it was really what I was looking for is freedom. Freedom from the pressures of doing it all, of being over-functioning." And if I had had this happen to me before I really knew who I was, what I wanted, what the healthiest version of me did, said, thought, and believed, I never would've been able to handle this part of my life.

[00:05:50] Carrie Lupoli: I have another woman, and I wrote about her in my book, Diane, whose husband died very suddenly b- uh, by a stroke while she was working with us. And she has said it is [00:06:00] her... the freedom that she has, the understanding of how to fly her own plane, truly knowing who she is, what she is all about, and setting a life up around this freedom is how she was able to move beyond the grief.

[00:06:20] Carrie Lupoli: I also talk about Donna in my book, who learned how to eat in the way that I still teach women now, years and years before, by celebrity nutritionist Mark MacDonald, who wrote the forward in my book. And she learned technically how to balance her blood sugar But when COVID hit and her mother died, she went right back to her habits and her behaviors that were sabotaging all of her growth, and she had no idea why.

[00:06:49] Carrie Lupoli: And it wasn't just about food at that point. She knew what to do, she just wasn't doing it. And so as I've evolved in being able to, [00:07:00] yes, continue to show women how to fuel their bodies, families, children, men, other health professionals, I've realized that knowledge and application are two different things.

[00:07:11] Carrie Lupoli: And as a behavior specialist, I mean, I know the science behind true behavior change, and it starts with the foundational piece of who we are. And what's so amazing about our brains is that the neuroplasticity of them, meaning the ability for them to change, our ability to grow and evolve is proven. And we are not stuck.

[00:07:37] Carrie Lupoli: And we don't need to be fixed. We need to be freed. Diet disruptors for two reasons no longer seems to fit exactly in the space that I want to evolve to. One is because I feel like it's negative. I get it that we're disrupting the diet industry, and I am proud of that, and I will continue to do that. [00:08:00] But one of the reasons why I love, love bringing up politics when there's a lesson to be learned from it, and I don't want anybody to think that I, I, I never talk about politics and not to assume one side or the other when I'm speaking, because I actually don't like either side.

[00:08:19] Carrie Lupoli: But when I think about politics and we think about the Democrats ran on Never Trump. Like, and it was valid. A lot of people were like, "No way, Never Trump." But what won was Make America Great Again. Yes, people, many of them, wanted Never Trump. But what resonated, what actually gives people hope was Make America Great Again.

[00:08:46] Carrie Lupoli: It was forward-facing. It was positive in a lot of people's eyes. And that's the type of messaging that I want to be Focus on, not make a miracle crate again. [00:09:00] But the idea of moving forward, not the negativity or the past. And so Diet Disruptors, while I love how disruptive it is, and I'm gonna keep that. I mean, we're disruptive nutrition, like all of that matters.

[00:09:15] Carrie Lupoli: I want to evolve into a new realm of possibility, aligning everything with my messaging. When my book came out, From Corset to Crown, it doesn't matter who I speak to. Right away, people are like, "Oh, I love that." Because all of us, men and women, we have been wearing this metaphorical corset that I will argue was put on us likely by someone who loves us and laced from behind when we were probably about seven or eight years old.

[00:09:47] Carrie Lupoli: At-- That's when we started realizing that we have to do certain things or belie- start believing that we have to do certain things in order to be valuable. That we have to look a certain way in order to be [00:10:00] accepted. And I believe that prior to seven years old, and I think everybody has a different story about this, we would look at ourselves in the mirror and just love who we were.

[00:10:10] Carrie Lupoli: We never thought that we had to earn our love or trust or value And something shifts and about that time period, and all of us can tell a story about that. For me, I remember I was about seven years old and my mother tried brushing my hair straight, and I just remember saying, "Mommy, it hurts." And she said, "Beauty hurts, baby.

[00:10:30] Carrie Lupoli: Beauty hurts." And it was her truth, and that was the first moment I remember the corset being put on me, and literally she was behind me brushing my hair and at the same time tightening the corset. The corset that she had on, that she did not realize she had on. And it's that metaphor, it's that, that visual that we can all resonate with.

[00:10:53] Carrie Lupoli: And it's so much more than food. So from corset to crown feels positive to me. It feels full of hope, but it's [00:11:00] also bigger than the concept of dieting. It's bigger than food. It's bigger than nutrition. Because like I said, like Gana knew how to eat. And it's not to say I'm going to abandon any of that. 100%, we are going to continue to unpack and teach the concepts of health and weight and all of those pieces, but with a bigger context, right?

[00:11:25] Carrie Lupoli: The, the women that I've been coaching for years, we... More conversations about food. I think you're all exhausted by what you see in your feed, like five things to lose the belly fat. Like, no. I, I write this in my book. I, I'm talking, I talk about a woman named Jenn in the book and how when she came to me, she had dieted her way to more than 300 pounds.

[00:11:46] Carrie Lupoli: It's on page 20 of my book. And metabolic disease up the yahoo, had dieted her entire life. And she really, it w- the issues that she [00:12:00] had with her weight, with her disease, wasn't because of, of a lack of trying. She was trying a whole lot of things. It was a lack of not knowing herself And the way that we respond to the different things that life throws at us.

[00:12:15] Carrie Lupoli: We have often learned a certain way of responding, of reacting, that doesn't serve our overall health. And when she started realizing that, her physical transformation is obvious and it's amazing, and it's a byproduct of truly being healthy from the inside out. And I write in the book, "I don't want to fix her.

[00:12:37] Carrie Lupoli: I want to free her." And that's what From Corset to Crown, the book, is all about. We are doing a live event in Nashville in October called From Corset to Crown, and that's what that event is all about. If you have not already considered or bought your tickets or considered going to Nashville October 2nd through 4th, we [00:13:00] are going to fill the room with a girls' trip, a Nashville girls' trip of a very different kind, truly understanding how to go from corset to crown.

[00:13:12] Carrie Lupoli: And so we'll put a link in this episode to that event. We have special rates for you and your girlfriends if you go together, because I believe being in the room together with the people in your tribe is going to allow you to be able to speak the same language, to straighten each other's crowns, to be able to support each other well beyond that weekend.

[00:13:34] Carrie Lupoli: But if you are coming by yourself, we have lots of women that are coming alone and will leave together. And so Nashville is a must. It's a must. I can't overstate that enough. So we're changing the name of the podcast. It's now called From Corset to Crown, and it's not to say everything else we did didn't matter.

[00:13:56] Carrie Lupoli: It mattered. It was important. It's still there. It's still important. [00:14:00] But I know that framing, language, the, the filter we put in front of our face matters in every way. When my daughter was 16 years old, both of our kids had to buy their own cars, and when Grace was 16, she had decided she wanted to buy a Subaru Crosstrek.

[00:14:23] Carrie Lupoli: I had never seen a Subaru Crosstrek before, and my daughter Grace was like, "Yes you have. You've totally seen one." And then my other daughter Ellie was like, "Mom, you've definitely seen one." And so my husband pulls up a picture of a Subaru Crosstrek and I'm like, "Super cute car. I've definitely never seen one before."

[00:14:40] Carrie Lupoli: And so everyone rolled their eyes at me like, you know, I was lying. I wasn't. I had never seen one before. And I remember leaving that day and I went to the grocery store and I was shocked because I, I literally called my husband and I'm like, "Holy cow, everybody bought a Subaru Crosstrek today. [00:15:00] Like, they are everywhere.

[00:15:01] Carrie Lupoli: I have never seen one before and now suddenly I see Subaru Crosstreks everywhere." And everybody I tell that story to, they nod in agreement, they nod in understanding, not because they had the same experience with the Subaru Crosstrek, but something similar has happened. And this is how I know it is true that what you tell yourself matters.

[00:15:22] Carrie Lupoli: What you put in front of your brain matters. I put Subaru Crosstrek in front of my brain, and my brain was like, "Oh, we're doing Subaru Crosstreks today? Great. Thanks for letting me know." And then you're... We have to filter out millions and millions and millions of pieces of information every day, and so we can't possibly resonate with everything that's in front of us.

[00:15:45] Carrie Lupoli: Clearly, Subaru Crosstreks have been in my path before that day, but my brain did not know that that was something important to us. My brain did not know that that was something we were focusing on, therefore [00:16:00] it threw that information out and put in front whatever else I needed to see. And it, it's like the car example's a perfect one because I think all of us can resonate with that.

[00:16:11] Carrie Lupoli: My husband's family owned a used car dealership, and we have gone through many, many, many cars. It's like we, we get a car from the dealership, and then we would drive it for a little while, and then we'd... His, Peter's father would say, "Oh, I got another car that could be great for you." We'd sell that one, get...

[00:16:27] Carrie Lupoli: And it was like every time I got another car, it was that car that I would see everywhere. And so, "From Corset to Crown" as a new podcast title is important to me because that's the vision I want your brain to look at. That's what I want your brain to start filtering. How you go from the corset and recognizing it.

[00:16:48] Carrie Lupoli: Like, you can actually... I invite you to wrap your arms around your stomach where that corset would fit when you are feeling restricted, when [00:17:00] you are feeling stress, when you are feeling pressure, the over-functioning, the burned-out feeling, the actual belief that your value is in a number and a scale and what you look like.

[00:17:14] Carrie Lupoli: All of those things that the corset has told us, we have to recognize. We can't change what we can't see. So I invite people to be like, "Okay, here it is." Right? And then in order to actually replace that corset with the crown, the crown that we were born with, the crown that before the corset was put on us, we all were wearing and wearing proudly.

[00:17:38] Carrie Lupoli: It's there. The crown never left. You've never had to earn your worth. You've never had to look a certain way in order to be valuable. You just need to find it somewhere in, in the midst of the hairspray and, and your tangles, and realize it's there, and we just have to straighten it. [00:18:00] So we need to go from corset, in through our heart, know who we are, and straighten our crown.

[00:18:07] Carrie Lupoli: And that metaphor resonates. And if this podcast, and if you're listening to me on a regular basis, and we talk from corset to crown, now your brain has something to filter. Your s- your brain has a Subaru Crosstrek to be able to recognize. And, and, and your brain will say, "Oh, we're doing that now? We're looking into the positive."

[00:18:26] Carrie Lupoli: We're not just disrupting the diet industry. We're not looking at diets in such a negative light where we're sitting with negative energy. We're looking at positive, high vibration, high energy, hope. And that, to me, is such an important reason why this branding change will happen. In the very beginning of my book, I talk about how...

[00:18:50] Carrie Lupoli: I, I mean, this is, like, literally the first sentence. I lost all of my wedding rings in the ocean, and it happened in June 2025 [00:19:00] And it happened. I literally lost all of my rings in the bottom of the ocean, and I remember being in the ocean fully, fully clothed after I had realized it had been about two hours.

[00:19:12] Carrie Lupoli: You'll have to read the book to know exactly how and why. It, it's a crazy story. I remember sitting in the ocean thinking, "I don't deserve nice things." And I was feeling so guilty and so ashamed, so hopeless, just defeated, frustrated, angry, angry at myself, angry at God, angry at the world, because those four rings signify 25 years of marriage, 25 years of love, of heartache, of births, of miscarriages, of adoptions, of moves across the world, of death, of life, of so many symbols.

[00:19:53] Carrie Lupoli: And I just felt like I was lost. And without sharing all of what actually [00:20:00] happened, I found, after prayer and lots and lots of frustration, I did find my wedding band. It was right there, peeking out from the sand while I was fully immersed in water. And in that moment, something snapped in me, and I suddenly had hope, hope that the others had to be around.

[00:20:22] Carrie Lupoli: And even if they weren't, finding that wedding band, it, it gave me that sense of a tangible item to tell me all is not lost. Hope keeps you going. Hope gives you freedom to continue to look, and hope changes everything. You just need to know where to dig, and that's what my book is all about, giving you not just the tools to dig, but knowing where to dig right within yourself by taking off the corset and straightening the crown.

[00:20:54] Carrie Lupoli: You gotta read the book to be able to know what actually happens to the rings 'cause it is... Like, I still think [00:21:00] back on it and I'm like, "How the heck did that happen?" I just remember thinking that was a disruptive event in my life that was there for a reason, was there for me to be able to share with you as you continue to go through this journey of self-discovery.

[00:21:18] Carrie Lupoli: And the podcast, now that the book is here can truly align with this message that's so dear to my heart. We're in the process of writing a Bible study for women's churches. We're in the process of publishing a children's series that starts off with them understanding food and continues to grow and evolve and move throughout different books in the series towards self-worth and confidence and balance, all the things that us as adults really needed to be told filtered out the Subaru Crosstrek from an early age.

[00:21:53] Carrie Lupoli: Instead of undoing and rewiring, I'm really committed to wiring from the start. [00:22:00] So there are so many things that we're going to unpack in this podcast. Again, it's not so much a different topic, but it's a different lens to see all of this through. A positive one that's going to allow you to see that you're not broken, you're not lost.

[00:22:19] Carrie Lupoli: You don't have to feel guilt or shame. You don't have to earn your worthiness through productivity, through what you look like, through how busy you can be. I think so many of us have so much pressure, we don't even realize we're wearing the corset. It just feels normal. And so we are going to look at it through the lens of recognizing that you are not lost.

[00:22:43] Carrie Lupoli: We enter into every episode believing and knowing that you are not lost, and you are learning where to dig. And one by one, we are going to find your lost rings so that you can truly become the healthiest version of yourself so [00:23:00] that you can serve your purpose for as long as possible Some people think that I'm, like, all around the body positivity movement, and I will be honest with you, I am not.

[00:23:11] Carrie Lupoli: I do not believe that the body positivity movement helped us as women. I believe it gave us an excuse to not take care of ourselves, to not understand, believe, or respect what the healthiest version of us does, says, thinks, and believes. I don't believe that our value is in a number and a scale, and I believe that a woman who weighs more than is optimal has just as much value as a woman who is at an optimal weight.

[00:23:41] Carrie Lupoli: My concern is that because of her health, that she will not be around as long as she could be living as strongly and as powerfully as she could be if she is not the healthiest version of herself from the inside and the out. It's a very different [00:24:00] way of looking at yourself, your life, your health, and your weight.

[00:24:05] Carrie Lupoli: And that's why we have to change the branding, because we're going forward. We're not looking backwards. And there's nothing we need to earn. We just simply need to believe and know our value. That's what it says back here, in case you're not sure. It says, "Know your value." I've had this up for years and years and years and years.

[00:24:27] Carrie Lupoli: I actually printed it on my printer, and it's, like, turning a little bit yellow. I think I've had this for, like, eight years probably. But I never wanna take it down because it's a part of my messaging. Everything in my Diet Disruptors private practice, we have lots of merch that actually is about empowering women, empowering us.

[00:24:51] Carrie Lupoli: I'm wearing a pair of pants right now that says, "Unapologetically me," as part of our merch. And everything that we're doing is centered around [00:25:00] truly straightening your crown. So we are fully embracing it here. We are moving from diet disruptors to from corset to crown. I ask that you share this podcast with others.

[00:25:13] Carrie Lupoli: Share the book with others. Now, you can get access to the book even though it is not officially out until October. You can go to carrielupoli.com and pre-order the book. Wherever you order books, we link you right over to Barnes & Noble. You can pre-order the book, and then immediately all you have to do is enter in your receipt into the website.

[00:25:36] Carrie Lupoli: You'll just see it there when you go to carrielupoli.com, and you will get it immediately for free, the e-book, so you could start reading right away, a discussion guide so that you can take deeper moments and reflect on different chapters. You will also get access to a private podcast call, literally all about how I, [00:26:00], behind the scenes of the book, deeper stories behind the book.

[00:26:03] Carrie Lupoli: It's the rise before the crown, and it's... You could go to my YouTube channel, and you won't be able to access it because only people that have this special code are going to be able to access this podcast, and you get that code by pre-ordering the book and entering in your receipt information. In addition, I have a private WhatsApp group, just me and the founding queens, and that's gonna be a limited group.

[00:26:27] Carrie Lupoli: So you enter in your receipt. If there's still room available, you will have access to the WhatsApp group where I give regular messages. People are sharing their reflections after the chapters, their reflections after the podcast. And after you listen to all 10 episodes of the private podcast, we send you something very special and very exciting in the mail, not digitally, but in your actual mailbox.

[00:26:53] Carrie Lupoli: So that is to me all aligned, and, and alignment allows [00:27:00] you to do more, but not feel the pressure because one thing leads to another, and that's what it means to be free. That's what it means to replace the corset with the crown, truly knowing what you're doing, why you're doing it, because you understand with the freed version of you, the healthiest version of you does, says, thinks, and believes, and you learn how to say no to the things that don't align, say yes to the things that do.

[00:27:26] Carrie Lupoli: And when you're working in alignment, the pressure comes off. So I'm excited about our new revamped podcast. Please put in the comments what you're thinking about this, what you would like to hear with this new framework as you're thinking about, okay, Subaru Crosstrek from corset to crown. Put it in the comment.

[00:27:44] Carrie Lupoli: Share this with a friend. Make sure you subscribe. We are starting a movement here to become the healthiest version of yourself, to truly become free. We'll see you next [00:28:00] time.