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Speaker 1: Everything that you need to know is in yourself and

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Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, Emily A body here bringing you Episode one

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty of Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where

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Speaker 2: I sit down with inspiring individuals to talk about their

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Speaker 2: big wins, tough moments, and everything in between. On the show,

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Speaker 2: today's episode, which one fifty, let's just like take a

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Speaker 2: nice phone number. Today I am chatting with Meghan Roup.

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Speaker 2: She is the founder of the Skulp Society, which by

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Speaker 2: now you have certainly heard of. I'm sure because it

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Speaker 2: School of the Arts. In today's episode, we cover a lot.

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Speaker 2: We talk about the pressures that came hand in hand

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Speaker 2: the sculpt Society team want to give hurdlers a really

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Speaker 2: to the sculpt Society and use code Hurdle two five

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Speaker 3: You know I had never was interesting? Is I had never?

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Speaker 1: could stay in shape, and I can make my rent.

437
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: So for me, it was it was more just the

438
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: experience of teaching a dance based fitness class to other women,

439
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: not only for it to click with me physically that feeling,

440
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: but also to be able to share that with other

441
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 1: women and to feel that sense of joy and how

442
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: I could pass that sense of joy of movement and

443
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 1: exercise onto them and how that really could affect their

444
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: lives as well. So for me, it was just like

445
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,719
Speaker 1: this big culmination of all of it. It clicking for

446
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: me physically and then being able to share that gift

447
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: with other people.

448
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,919
Speaker 2: What does sharing that gift with other people look like

449
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 2: for you at first?

450
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: At first, you know, because it was in person, and

451
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: it was like getting to know you know, you'd see

452
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: the same clients every day and you'd have you know, classes,

453
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: and I think just seeing a shift in confidence and

454
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: other women from day to day from from them taking

455
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: your class was filling me up in such a bigger way.

456
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: I think at that point than dance was. And I

457
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,959
Speaker 1: think for me it was like it was witnessing that

458
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: and how I was really being called to do that.

459
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: It's not sounds a little booho, but I felt just

460
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: such a such an alignment and such a calling like this,

461
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: this was this was the next thing in my life

462
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: that I needed to be pursuing. And you know, at

463
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: that point, I had been dancing professionally for for a

464
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 1: number of years and it had been amazing, but it

465
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: just wasn't It wasn't filling me up like it used to.

466
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: And suddenly being able to share that with other women

467
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: and to see that, like I said, that that shift

468
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: in their lives was was just so much more impactful.

469
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Speaker 2: You know when you started out, did you think to yourself,

470
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,199
Speaker 2: I want to teach this on my own. Did you

471
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 2: think to yourself like, oh, I want to create my

472
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 2: own method, or did you like where were you at?

473
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 3: Yeah?

474
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: You know, I was teaching for about two years while

475
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: I was dancing professionally, and then I decided to really

476
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: commit to fitness. I was also side hustling in fashion,

477
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: so that was my third job, but we won't get

478
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 1: into that.

479
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 3: So it took me a while no.

480
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: At first, it was just something I knew I loved

481
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: and I wanted to do more of. And then as

482
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: I continue to really dive deep into fitness, I saw

483
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 1: I saw a real path for me there and I

484
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: really took it seriously. I took so many classes in

485
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: different modalities from you know, reformer pilates to yoga to

486
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: hit just figuring out what I enjoyed and what I

487
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: liked and how if I did my own thing one day,

488
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: what it would look like. So I started a toy

489
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: with that idea. But honestly, it took, you know, it

490
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: took a lot of faith and a lot of you know,

491
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,199
Speaker 1: time for me to realize, like I was ready to

492
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: depart and do my own thing. And that was six

493
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: and a half years after I started teaching fitness that

494
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: I launched the Scolp Society, and that just you know,

495
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: I just needed that time and I also needed to

496
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: figure out how I was going to support myself, and luckily,

497
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 1: working in fashion really gave me that financial stability and

498
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: really allowed me to actually pursue the Sculp Society and

499
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: what that would look like.

500
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: I can tell you about the exact moment that I

501
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: was sitting on my couch and had the thought to

502
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: myself like, this is what Hurdle's going to be, this

503
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: is who I'm going to talk to, this is where

504
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 2: I want to go with it. And of course you

505
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: know at first where you want to go with it

506
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 2: definitely changes versus years later where I am going with

507
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 2: it and what's happened and where it's going. But for you,

508
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 2: did you have a hurdle moment in Aha moment where

509
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 2: you were like, this is the jam.

510
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 3: I don't think I had a clear moment.

511
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: I think I had been daydreaming about it for a

512
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: couple of years. So the daydream finally hit a point

513
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: where I think I just built up enough trust in

514
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: my abilities to want to leave. And then once I left,

515
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: then the clear vision happened and I got really excited

516
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: about putting the Skull Society together and what that method

517
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: would look like, and what the flow of the class

518
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: would feel like, and the environment that I would create

519
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: and the feeling I would invoke in the woman that

520
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: would be in the class. So once that happened, it

521
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: was like boom, the vision was super clear.

522
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: I think it's two things. The first thing, I'm sure

523
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 2: you get plenty of messages from individuals who are asking

524
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 2: you for your advice about this specific moment, about the

525
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 2: moment when you took the leap of faith, you left

526
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 2: the other thing behind, and you start to put all

527
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 2: of your eggs in one basket. For someone who can

528
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: relate to this story, who wants to start their own thing,

529
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 2: and they're scared to put the eggs there, what advice

530
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 2: do you give them?

531
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Speaker 1: I think there's a couple of things. I think, you know,

532
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: just making sure you have enough experience under your belt,

533
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: you know, you know, making sure you have taught for

534
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: a couple of years and you are certified and you've

535
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: done that work. I also think, my side, I think

536
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: a side hustle is so important initially when you are

537
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: taking that leap of faith in another business, so that

538
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: you are not financially financially strained from your creative endeavor.

539
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: Because if I had completely relied on the sculpt Society

540
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: in those initial in that initial year year and a half,

541
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: I would have completely failed because I couldn't have supported

542
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: myself from it. And I think for me, I really

543
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: needed to take that stress off so that I could

544
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: really cultivate.

545
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 3: The community what I was doing.

546
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: And really build that before the financial stress of paying

547
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: rent with teaching classes came into play. So I'm really

548
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: grateful that I had my job in fashion and was

549
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: still able to rely on that, because I think it

550
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: really just allowed me to play around with Sculp society,

551
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: enjoy it, and build it to a point where two

552
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: years into the business, I could completely quit my job

553
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: in fashion and go full time.

554
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 2: I love that piece of advice, and I also am

555
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: very mindful, and I'm noticing that you speak about your

556
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 2: consumer more specifically her, with so much passion. And when

557
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 2: you are creating your programming, when you are designing what

558
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 2: it is that you're so passionate about, do you think

559
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 2: about the young woman, the girl that you were, the

560
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 2: girl that was struggling and creating something that can help

561
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 2: her every time.

562
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: You're going to be really emotional every time I'm talking

563
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: to her.

564
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like emotional too, because well because that's like

565
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 4: literally what I think about with her all the time

566
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 4: is just like, how can we make someone feel less alone?

567
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my gosh, I didn't expect a cry. Yeah,

568
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: I really am. I really am. You know, what did

569
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: she need to hear? You know, she needed to feel

570
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: really strong in her body. She didn't need to feel intimidated,

571
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: She needed encouragement, She needed to know that she wasn't alone.

572
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 2: I also think something that's really special that you highlighted

573
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 2: when talking about the advice that you wanted to give

574
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 2: someone who may be thinking about hopping out into their

575
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 2: own thing, was you mentioned the importance of certifications. And

576
00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 2: I think combined here your passion or her, your passion

577
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 2: for helping her get to where she wants to be,

578
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 2: not only in a physical sense, but in an emotional sense.

579
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: That combined with the stress that you have personally on

580
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 2: wanting to validate your craft and wanting to give her

581
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 2: something that's safe, is really important and definitely something that

582
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: is really necessary in the world of fitness.

583
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, No, you can't come into it without that

584
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: knowledge and that experience, and that just comes with time,

585
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: you know. I think I think a lot of people

586
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: just think this happened, this was like an overnight thing

587
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: for me, and it's me being in the fitness industry

588
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: for over ten years and really putting in the work

589
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: and the dedication and the education into the craft.

590
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: I think we need a quick exhaleing. Okay, all right,

591
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 2: so we're moving on here you said, ten years in

592
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 2: the fitness industry, you have been grinding and building. Talk

593
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 2: to me about one of the maybe first moments that

594
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 2: you really felt as though you were onto something with

595
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: the Scolpe Society in its early stages.

596
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, initially, and I really am truthful about this,

597
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: I would be lucky if I got two people to

598
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: show up, you know. I think I was in the

599
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: early stages of New York. This new concept of incubator

600
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: space that had incubator studios had arrived, where a lot

601
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: of studios were you know, you could go in and

602
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: you could teach your own method and kind of own

603
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: your own business within the studio. So I was really

604
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: lucky to kind of find two homes to launch the

605
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: Sculp Society there. But I mean talk about no one

606
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: showing up a lot of the time, or two people

607
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: showing up. So where I always went into teaching the

608
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: Sculp Society with one hundred percent confidence because I really

609
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: believed in what I was delivering and the mode and

610
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: like the structure of the class and all that. I

611
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: just knew I needed bodies in the room to experience

612
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: what I could deliver. So really always brought one hundred

613
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: and ten percent even if there were one or two

614
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: people there. And I just really also believed in word

615
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: of mouth, so knowing that if those two people were

616
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 1: having the best experience, that they would tell their friends

617
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 1: and that word would spread. And it probably took about

618
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: nine months for those two people in the class to

619
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: suddenly have like a full a full class going and

620
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: that was a really you know, nine months into building

621
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: the community, that was really an exciting moment for me

622
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: where I was like, Okay, I knew I believed in myself,

623
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: but I also like, this is this is I do

624
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: have something special here with people continuing to show up

625
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: in classes, starting to sell out, and that was really excited,

626
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: citing in the early days when you know, you go

627
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: from from two people to thirty people in a room.

628
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: Oh totally, I can totally. Really, I mean, and I

629
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 2: think it's really special that you have the exact same

630
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: stress on your product and what you're providing, whether it's

631
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 2: two people in a room or I mean, now, obviously

632
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 2: life is so different. We're talking to, at least on

633
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 2: Instagram two hundred and forty thousand plus people having access

634
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: to what you're doing on the regular.

635
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is as my husband likes to remind me,

636
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: I started I trust me. I started out also with

637
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: zero social media following too, so you know, there's also

638
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: just I think, just believing in what you're doing and

639
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: that you know, I was quote unquote late to the

640
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: Instagram game as well, but knowing the importance of cultivating

641
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: that community online which would help you know, the overall

642
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: business as well.

643
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, so then let's segue and talk about the last

644
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 2: year and a half of growing the Scolp Society, because

645
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 2: I'm curious in your opinion as a founder, would you

646
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 2: say that the last year and a half has probably

647
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 2: been the biggest year and a half for your business?

648
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 3: Yeah?

649
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know, it's it's it's been wild. I

650
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: had taken the leap of you know, the next leap

651
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: of faith, and the next you know, Scolp Society two

652
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: point zero was you know, the classes and the in

653
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: real life classes were really going well and it was

654
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: so exciting to witness. But I kept on having people

655
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: come in and out of classes who didn't live in

656
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: New York and the overall message message, which is like

657
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: I wish I could take you wherever I was going.

658
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 1: So I already was seeing the digital side of fitness

659
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: starting to grow. Peloton was out there. There were already

660
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: there had been, you know, the digital side for a while,

661
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: but that started to spark, you know, the idea of Okay,

662
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: well maybe I should dive into into coming out with

663
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: my own platform. And so in November of twenty nineteen,

664
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: I launched the SCOLP Society app, which is available on

665
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: the web and on app form as well. And so

666
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: that was that was a really big leap of faith.

667
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: I had saved a bunch of money to put into

668
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: the app, and that concept was told by a lot

669
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: of people that I was crazy to do it. But

670
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: I just saw the digital aspect of fitness as a

671
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: new way to reach more people and to expand the community.

672
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: And feel so grateful that that was in place before

673
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: everything happens in March of twenty twenty.

674
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: So what happens in March for you and the scope

675
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 2: of society.

676
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: Gosh, you know, everyone who never believed in at home

677
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: fitness was suddenly you know, at home looking for an

678
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: at home fitness program, and the business just it explodes,

679
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: and you know, we grew, We grew seven hundred percent

680
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: in the course of eight weeks, and it was.

681
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 3: It was.

682
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: Such a silver lining for the business and for me,

683
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: and and and just obviously so many more eyeballs and

684
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: so many more people to connect with, and you know,

685
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: I just I really saw it as an opportunity, like

686
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,720
Speaker 1: I said in the beginning, to hold space for people

687
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: who were really stressed out and anxious, and really holding

688
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: space for them to feel good in that thirty minutes

689
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: where they showed up to choose to move their bodies

690
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: with me and the School of Society, and really, you know,

691
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: hoping that that resonated with them and that they moved

692
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: on in their day feeling a little bit lighter and

693
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: more empowered.

694
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Speaker 2: I would imagine that at times that can definitely start

736
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 2: to feel a little heavy, especially in the wake of

737
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: the pandemic and the heaviness that comes with that. How

738
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: were you taking care of you so that you could

739
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: take care of others?

740
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 3: Oh?

741
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 1: You know, to be honest, I wasn't. I just felt

742
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: so called to show up, and you know, I immediately

743
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: started going live on the Sculpt Society app when the

744
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 1: pandemic hit. I luckily had that in place. I had

745
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: been working on it with my developers before like COVID happened,

746
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: so I had that in place. I immediately start to

747
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: go Live. I went live seven days a week for months,

748
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 1: I was doing lives on Instagram. I don't know, there

749
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: was just something in me that just felt like it

750
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: was my duty in the fitness space to hold space,

751
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: to show up and to help people through this time.

752
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: So I would say, to be honest, I got really

753
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: burnt out by summer. And it wasn't until summer that

754
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: I actually felt like I was experiencing the true effects

755
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: of COVID and the pandemic and staying at home because

756
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:24,280
Speaker 1: I had just been so focused for those first couple

757
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: of months on just continuing to show up for everyone.

758
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: So I got burnt out in the summer. I had

759
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: to take a little time off and just check in,

760
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: do some self check ins. And I think in implementing

761
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: small things in my own day was really helpful, like

762
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: getting outside of my apartment and doing just little small

763
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: things of self care, acts of self care for myself,

764
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 1: having a morning routine, meditating for five minutes in the morning,

765
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: just you know, everything I'm telling my community to community

766
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: to do, but actually doing it for myself, you know,

767
00:43:58,400 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: was very impact.

768
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can relate with that the sentence everything I'm

769
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 2: telling my community to do, then right, I should be

770
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 2: taking the time to do for myself. I think for

771
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: a while I did hit like a really excellent self

772
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 2: care stride in COVID. But as with all habits, I

773
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 2: do feel like some of them ebb and flow and so. Yeah.

774
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 2: I also heard you say on another podcast that you

775
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 2: were on recently, you talked about the fact that you

776
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 2: are editing your own videos. So I would imagine that

777
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 2: taking that responsibility on working on that can be both

778
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 2: rewarding because it's like, look, I can do this all

779
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 2: of myself, I'm so self sufficient, but it can also

780
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 2: be a huge contributing factor to that draining sensation.

781
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean it is probably my biggest flaw

782
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: is that I take on too much. So I think

783
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: the other thing that was contributing to my overall burnout

784
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: was you know, not only was I showing up, coming

785
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: up with new content teaching in the morning, but then

786
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: all day I was spending answering support emails, dealing with

787
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes of the financial the business, you know,

788
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: the accounting, I mean everything that goes into it, editing

789
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: the video, like literally every single role I was doing it,

790
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: the fulfillment center, my equipment, working with factories, overseats, like

791
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 1: every single thing, and so it. You know, Luckily, I

792
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: have a partner who was like, listen, Megan, you you're

793
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: burnt out. We need to start allocating some help for you.

794
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: And so he really spearheaded that for me, and and

795
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: you know, we started to work.

796
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 3: We have a great.

797
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: Small team who helps me with support and just small

798
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: things that can take things off my plate. However, I

799
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: will say I'm still editing videos and still doing small

800
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: things like that that I hope eventually I can allocate

801
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 1: workout too. But I will say, as a small business owner,

802
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: it is really important that you know kind of how

803
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: to do all of the roles because I think that

804
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: just helps you understand when you are hiring that role

805
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: what is needed. And you know, if I am in

806
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: a bind, I know how to go into final final

807
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: cut pro and edit my own videos and that that

808
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: is empowering in its own way.

809
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Speaker 2: You're preaching to the choir. You are preaching to the choir.

810
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:32,359
Speaker 2: I'm so so guilty of this as well. I'm sure

811
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Speaker 2: something for you over the past year that was a highlight, however,

812
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 2: was you getting married?

813
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, October Yah.

814
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 2: Let's just reflect on that beautiful moment.

815
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Speaker 3: It was. It was.

816
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: It was really great. It was not what we imagined

817
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: it would be. Obviously getting married during COVID, which was

818
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 1: slightly another probably another reason why I was burnt out

819
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: midsummer was trying to plan that wedding. But it was

820
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: very small. It was immediate family, only fourteen of us,

821
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: and we did it in my hometown of Santa Barbara

822
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: and incredibly intimate. You know, I'm an I'm a natural introvert,

823
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: so I think for someone like me, it was actually

824
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: really good that it was a smaller wedding.

825
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:17,959
Speaker 3: I was really.

826
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: Present and in it, and you know, I think sometimes

827
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 1: when there's a large crowd, I can kind of get

828
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: outside of my body, if that makes sense. So just

829
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: to be really in my body and to be present

830
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: felt just so good.

831
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 3: And it was it was perfect.

832
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, for you when you look back on that wedding

833
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 2: and how it was different than you envisioned, but now

834
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,399
Speaker 2: in retrospect, you're saying that it was probably perfect. What

835
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 2: tipit of advice would you offer to the you in

836
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 2: planning mode looking back on it now?

837
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think you know, and I think

838
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: all brides do this. It's just like the small details

839
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: really don't mean anything. It's really what is the day about,

840
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: you know, and making sure that you know you're concentrating

841
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: on you and your future partner and the vows that

842
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: you're exchanging and the people that are with you, and

843
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 1: you know, just being in there, because I certainly don't

844
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: remember what I ate or what the place setting looked like.

845
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: I just remember all of how I felt, and how

846
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: it was with Morgan and what he said to me

847
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: and what I said to him, and the speeches at

848
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: the dinner.

849
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 3: You know.

850
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: I think those small details of the flowers and all

851
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: of that can feel really stressful and overwhelming, but no

852
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: one's going to remember that. And not to not to

853
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 1: spend too much time in that.

854
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 2: Great advice. Okay, so right now, what I would love

855
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 2: for you to do is share with me a big

856
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 2: scary goal that you have for the Scult Society. I'll

857
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 2: give you the no time limit here. I just want

858
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 2: a big scary goal.

859
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 3: A big scary goal. Gosh.

860
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: I think the goal for me has always been when

861
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: you think of dance based fitness, I want the Sculp

862
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: Society to be the first thing that you think of,

863
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: just like when you think of beat based cycling you

864
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: think of soul cycle, or at home cycling you think

865
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: of peloton. I want when people are like, oh, dance,

866
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: base fitness, Yeah, the Sculps, like the sculpt Society, I

867
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: want that and I want I want to I mean, big,

868
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: big goal I want to reach. I want this community

869
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: just to burst. I want it to just reach so

870
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: many more people.

871
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 2: I like this, So we mentioned obviously a big Instagram following. Now,

872
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 2: when those people come to your page, they see a

873
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 2: woman that's passionate about her craft. They see that you're

874
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: the founder of the Sculp Society. They see you working

875
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Speaker 2: out alongside your husband and prepping for your soon to

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Speaker 2: be babe. When you look in the mirror, what is

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Speaker 2: it that you see look back at you?

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I see someone who just has a lot

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Speaker 1: to give and wants to share her passion with the world,

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Speaker 1: and and who is kind and loyal and.

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Speaker 3: And just wants to share more.

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Speaker 2: What do you do when you feel I mean, you

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Speaker 2: talked about over the summer noticing that you really needed

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Speaker 2: to take like a hard stop and give back to you.

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Speaker 2: But in the moments that you do feel overwhelmed and

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Speaker 2: it's not you know, I need to like completely walk

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Speaker 2: away from two weeks overwhelmed, but just like small doses

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Speaker 2: of overwhelm, what do you do to manage that?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, by the way that happens to me

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Speaker 1: like on the on the daily, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: for me, it's like stepping away from the computer and

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Speaker 1: literally just taking a few deep breaths. I think sometimes

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Speaker 1: I can just like hold my breath and I'm like

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Speaker 1: on the computer for hours and editing and three emails.

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Speaker 3: And it's just especially New York.

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Speaker 1: It's like there's the cycle of work, work, work, and

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes just stepping away, obviously when it's not

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Speaker 1: snowing outside, getting outside has been really huge for me

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Speaker 1: just to breathe and not feel like that massive anxiety

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Speaker 1: of overwhelm. And I know that can be oh God,

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Speaker 1: you're telling me to breathe, like please, but really just

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Speaker 1: like sometimes you know, I'm not even breathing, like I'm

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Speaker 1: holding my breath the whole time. So I think just

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Speaker 1: stepping away for a couple of breaths is really important.

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Speaker 2: And I'm curious as someone who does have a stacked schedule,

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Speaker 2: because I get a lot of questions about this often myself.

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Speaker 2: Do you designate certain times during the day for different

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Speaker 2: things during your week, or how do you organize yourself.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting better with this.

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Speaker 1: I certainly have a lot of work to do on it,

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Speaker 1: but I do think time blocking is really helpful. So

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Speaker 1: just time blocking out my day of when I'm answering emails,

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Speaker 1: when I'm creating partnership content, when am I creating sculpt

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Speaker 1: society content, like just knowing that setting me into a

915
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Speaker 1: schedule things I am terrible at and need to work

916
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Speaker 1: on and waste so much time doing is scrolling on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm certainly not perfect, but I do

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Speaker 1: think time blocking has been really helpful. I also just

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Speaker 1: started attempting to sort of batch out content for social media,

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Speaker 1: and that's been really helpful. I think the idea of

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Speaker 1: posting day of feels always feels very anxiety driven in

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Speaker 1: for my grid, So just batching out content ahead of

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Speaker 1: time has taken a little pressure off. And yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think again, just kind of scheduling out my day so

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Speaker 1: I know what I'm set up for and what I

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Speaker 1: need to achieve. And I'm a big list maker as well.

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Speaker 1: I love a good list.

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Speaker 2: Love a good list. Okay, so what excites you right now?

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Speaker 3: Oh, in fitness or in life?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: You tell me?

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Speaker 3: So, Okay, you know what excites me and what terrifies me.

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Speaker 1: As you know this next chapter, you know, we're looking

934
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Speaker 1: to potentially make a move to La.

935
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Speaker 3: I'm about to have a baby.

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Speaker 1: I you know, there's a lot of new things, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be interesting to watch the industry,

938
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Speaker 1: you know, continue to change and develop. As you know,

939
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Speaker 1: the vaccine starts to to run, you know, run its

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Speaker 1: course and we start to kind of go back to

941
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Speaker 1: quote unquote regular life. I'm excited to sort of see

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Speaker 1: that shift in fitness. I'm excited to go back to

943
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Speaker 1: teaching in real life a couple of times a week.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think I'll ever go back to

945
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Speaker 1: what I was doing before, because that was insane. I

946
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Speaker 1: was teaching almost every day, But just being able to

947
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Speaker 1: see people and connect with them in a studio setting

948
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Speaker 1: twice a week would be really, uh, you know, an

949
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Speaker 1: amazing feeling.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 1: So I think I'm just excited for all of the newness,

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Speaker 1: but also terrified of the change.

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Speaker 2: Best piece of advice you have been offered in your

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Speaker 2: time heading up the SCULP Society.

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Speaker 3: Oh, gosh. I think.

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Speaker 1: I think if you're in the room, you belong in

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Speaker 1: the room. I think for me, oftentimes self doubt can

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Speaker 1: get in the way and just feeling like I'm enough

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Speaker 1: as a business owner, as a female, whatever. It is

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Speaker 1: just kind of that self doubt and reminding yourself that

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Speaker 1: if you're in that room, like you're meant to be there,

962
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Speaker 1: and to own it a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Okay, winding down here, you mentioned before

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Speaker 2: that one of the pieces of advice you would have

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Speaker 2: offered your college age self was that so many times

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Speaker 2: you want to figure it out on our own, and

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Speaker 2: we just need to really be okay with asking for help.

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Speaker 2: If you look back on that time right now, one

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Speaker 2: of your biggest hurdle moments in life, and you had

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to offer your eighteen year old self some

971
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Speaker 2: more words of wisdom, what would those be?

972
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Speaker 1: That you don't need to look outside of yourself for

973
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Speaker 1: the answers. Everything that you need to know is in yourself,

974
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Speaker 1: and to lean into that and to trust it.

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Speaker 2: I love it, Megan, Thank you so much for your

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Speaker 2: time today. This was such a fun convo.

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Speaker 1: I loved it too. Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: How did the hurdlers keep up with you? Give me

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Speaker 2: the details.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, find me on social I'm at Megan Roup and

981
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Speaker 1: I'm at the Sculp Society. If you are interested in

982
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Speaker 1: the Sculp Society app, you can sign up on my website,

983
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: which is the Sculpsociety dot com.

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Speaker 3: We've got a two week.

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Speaker 1: Free trial and I go live multiple times a week,

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Speaker 1: plus a bunch of on demand content. So it's a

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Speaker 1: good time over there.

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Speaker 2: It's a good time over there. I'm ready to join in.

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Speaker 2: I'm over at Emily a Body and at Hurdle Podcast

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Speaker 2: Another Hurdle Conquered. Catch you guys next time.