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Speaker 1: Hi guys, and welcome back to another new episode of

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Speaker 1: You Need Therapy Podcast. My name is Cat and I

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Speaker 1: am the host here. Now, before we get going, just

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Speaker 1: a quick reminder that although I'm a therapist, this podcast

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Speaker 1: is not therapy. It can't substitute for therapy. However, it

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Speaker 1: might encourage you to go to therapy, and it might

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Speaker 1: encourage you to talk about something specific in therapy if

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Speaker 1: you're already going. Now. This week's episode is all about

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Speaker 1: exercise and working out and movement and how to feel

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Speaker 1: safe and empowered and excited to engage in those things.

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Speaker 1: I know that when I began exercising on purpose, and

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Speaker 1: I grew up playing sports and so I never really

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Speaker 1: like a hobby. When I did that, it was very

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Speaker 1: weight loss and body focused. And because of this, I

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Speaker 1: ended up developing an exercise addiction, and that is definitely

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Speaker 1: weaved in with some eating disorder stuff I had going on,

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Speaker 1: and moving my body became something I had to do. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say I did enjoy parts

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Speaker 1: after a while, it was a never ending chort and

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Speaker 1: it became like almost a jail cell I was. I

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Speaker 1: was living in where this thing that I actually did

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Speaker 1: like became this thing that I almost despised, this love hate,

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Speaker 1: so that also wove into my inability to stop doing it,

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Speaker 1: whole hot mess in there. So later in my life,

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Speaker 1: after I found a place of recovery. And this for

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Speaker 1: teaching fitness classes because I wanted to create more spaces

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Speaker 1: that resembled what I needed when I didn't know I

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Speaker 1: needed them. I wanted to create more exposure to fitness

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Speaker 1: instructors and inclusion of all kinds of humans, no matter

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Speaker 1: their body type or their level or ability. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to create a space where everybody was welcome, because that's

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Speaker 1: kind of what I needed, which brings me to this

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Speaker 1: Instagram post I wrote a couple of weeks ago that

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Speaker 1: ended up being reposted like over two thousand times, which

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Speaker 1: literally blows my mind. Oh, three thousand times. That blows

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Speaker 1: my mind because most of my posts don't get re

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Speaker 1: posted near that much, So I want to read it

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Speaker 1: and then we're going to talk. It says, being a

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Speaker 1: great fitness instructor has very little to do with body

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Speaker 1: is about to give up, knowing who has been struggling

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Speaker 1: at work and who's in the midst of a breakup.

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Speaker 1: The best instructors are the ones who, on the days

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Speaker 1: when your body image sucks, reminds you how freaking important

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Speaker 1: It's about the opportunity their class has to impact the

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Speaker 1: way in which each human there feels. Being a great

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Speaker 1: a lot of work to do to get there because

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Speaker 1: most communities aren't like that, and we can all post

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Speaker 1: something like that doesn't mean we actually act that way

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Speaker 1: to the classes to seek something different, believe something different

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Speaker 1: because fitness communities are places that everybody should feel welcome in,

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Speaker 1: not just the elite. So I hope you enjoyed this conversation.

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Speaker 1: And here is my talk with my friends Shawna and Rose.

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Speaker 1: All Right, welcome everybody. I'm sitting here with my two

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Speaker 1: friends Rose and Shawna. You guys, say, HI was crack

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Speaker 1: alagons Ros, Oh, that's amazing. Okay, So what I've already

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Speaker 1: backstory of this episode and what I want to talk

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Speaker 1: again in healthy ways. I was actually listening to this

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Speaker 1: are two pillars, I would say, in the Nashville fitness community.

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Speaker 1: So before we get going, how about Rose you start

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Speaker 1: and you tell us a little bit about what got

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Speaker 1: you into teaching fitness and if that has changed, and

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Speaker 1: finness instructor. Keeping it short because I don't want to

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Speaker 1: talk to your ear off with my story. I come

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Speaker 1: close in age. Growing up, you know, always a part

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Speaker 1: you're with your friends, you're creating relationships. But for me,

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Speaker 1: me a package, a cycling package at Crank Fitness shout

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Speaker 1: out Cranky, and so it turned to one of those

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Speaker 1: all right, Rose, let's sunk this ship up. Or like Rose,

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Speaker 1: about right now is like I found a thing that

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Speaker 1: Fully you know that makes sense? No, no, it does. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Then you became an instructor. Why. I think a little

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Speaker 1: loved taking back at Crank, I just the music aspect

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Speaker 1: of it turned the lights low. I just I loved

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Speaker 1: every part of it. And I just had a thought

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Speaker 1: the front desk at the fit Wreck, I'm like, yo,

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Speaker 1: please hire me, hit me up I was a stub

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Speaker 1: for one semester and then the next I had my classes.

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Speaker 1: And I will say this because I think that's cool.

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Speaker 1: you don't give a ship what you look like. I

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00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 1: don't want perfection in this room. This is the place

432
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 1: to funk up. This is the place to try new ship.

433
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 1: This is the place to grow and strengthen that inner

434
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,400
Speaker 1: voice that you got going on in your head right now,

435
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,760
Speaker 1: the being in shape, I can totally relate to that.

436
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,480
Speaker 1: Like before I found cycling, I truly remember, like the

437
00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,719
Speaker 1: feelings are coming up right now. I can remember it

438
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 1: when the homies wanted to go to the gym and

439
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 1: I said, like, you know, fine, I'll go walking up

440
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 1: to the doors, Like I literally felt like my skin

441
00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 1: getting hot, my heart beating so fast because I didn't

442
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 1: feel like I looked good enough to go to the gym.

443
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: And I felt like everybody would be looking at me

444
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 1: like why like look at her trying to go to

445
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 1: the gym, like and it's just so fucked up, Like

446
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: that's and and it just blows my mind. And like

447
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm bummed out for for that rose, the old rose,

448
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: you know, but like that's I think that the environment,

449
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 1: the culture that we're trying to to to really build

450
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 1: and to really emphasize that, you know, that's not what

451
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,199
Speaker 1: it's about. And if you think that it is, I

452
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: promise you there's other homies me. You guys that got

453
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: your back, be comfortable, come through, be uncomfortable. Yeah, and

454
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 1: you carry you you know, I'm thinking when you're saying that.

455
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,399
Speaker 1: As I talked about this a lot in class about

456
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: like I remember, it was so hard for me. If

457
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 1: you don't do cycling, this might not make sense, but

458
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: it was so hard for me to grasp the idea

459
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: of like a slow press or even when I started

460
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 1: working out and going to full ride from the last

461
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: studio that I was at, I couldn't do half of

462
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 1: the stuff They're like. It was so challenging for me,

463
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: and at the same time, I I felt permission to

464
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: keep going and keep trying. I think that people like

465
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: they come into a gym, walk into a gym, and

466
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 1: they see all the people that have been going for years,

467
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 1: and they don't put in their head that like oh,

468
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 1: they at one point had a first day. They had

469
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 1: at one point a first class, Like if we think

470
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: about all of our first classes teaching, like, oh my god,

471
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 1: I wish I had video footage at it of it

472
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: because I think that would change so many people's perspective.

473
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: Like I didn't wake up and was like I could

474
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 1: do this. But it's like I wish people knew that

475
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: because we go in and we see like this, like

476
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: almost we think it's a finished product and I'm not

477
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: that so I can't come but like, you can never

478
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,479
Speaker 1: get to the thing. This is everything. I'm like, you

479
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: can't get to the thing you want to do if

480
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 1: you don't start. And like me being a therapist, I

481
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: didn't wake up and like know how to be a therapist,

482
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 1: how to go to school, how to be an intern.

483
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 1: I had said this in class the third day. They

484
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: do when I'm like, sometimes I'm like why do I

485
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: say these things? But I was telling people how Like

486
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: when I started as a therapist, one of my first

487
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 1: clients gave me a journal all about how she hated

488
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: me and thought I was bad at my job. Like, yeah,

489
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 1: it happened, and you know what, She's probably right. I

490
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 1: was probably bad, but I had to be bad so

491
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: then I could get better. And that's just so frustrating

492
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: that I feel like people don't like lead with that,

493
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: Like I feel like we should lead with that, like

494
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: we weren't always here and so because of that, we

495
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: should welcome people that are at the starting point. Like

496
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 1: that's such a talk about, like I want to help people.

497
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 1: That is such an opportunity. I don't know why this

498
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: makes me feel emotional. That is such an opportunity when

499
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: we see somebody who's new at something to like step in,

500
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: Like I'm all for helping everybody, but I want to

501
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: help the people at the beginning the most, not the

502
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to help everybody, but the girl

503
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: crushing it in the front row. You keep going girl,

504
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna help the girl back in the corner.

505
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: Like I'm so glad you're here, so glad that you

506
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,239
Speaker 1: showed up. You're nervous, Okay, you do such a good

507
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: job of that. You really do. One of my clients

508
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 1: I remember, like we do an exercise. She was like, oh, sorry,

509
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: looks so dumb, or like, oh I look so funny,

510
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: Like what do I say? I'm like, girl, quit that ship,

511
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 1: like this is like this is this is the work,

512
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, Like it's changed the narrative. Yeah, Like like

513
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: don't you can't expect to come in here and just

514
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: do everything perfect, just like you said cat, Like that's

515
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 1: not anybody's that's that's not the work, you know, like

516
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: anybody who goes to a class or a gym to

517
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: do everything perfect. I want to have a conversation with

518
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: those people because the goal is never that, like we

519
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: have to mess up so we can see where we

520
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,199
Speaker 1: need to grow, like progress to progress to progress, we

521
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: get something, then we get something else, Like I believe

522
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 1: that like a cycling class would never get easy because

523
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: once I master something that it's like okay, well then

524
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: now I might like add some resistance when I do this,

525
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: or I might like work on my posture. Why I

526
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: do this because I can hit the beat now, Like

527
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: it's all us finding space to grow. And this is

528
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things to ask people, specifically clients.

529
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,360
Speaker 1: So I heard this on an episode of Fun Therapy

530
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: and um the host had asked the guests. I think

531
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: it was the host to asked the guest that could

532
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: be wrong if you could do or if you were

533
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: only expected to be six good at something? What would

534
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: you do? And he said, as kids, you're allowed to

535
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: try whatever you want. I played every sport, every sport

536
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 1: literally everything, dance, cheerloading, soccer, basketball. I tried out for

537
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: the sixth grade basketball team and never playing basketball before,

538
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: I just felt like I could do it. I didn't

539
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: make it, but like I also tried out for the

540
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: bowling team in high school and I was the only

541
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: one ever in the history of our school to not

542
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: make the bowling team. Because it was fine, Like I

543
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 1: didn't feel any like, oh, I'm such like I'm a

544
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: loser because I didn't make these teams. Like there's but

545
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 1: as a kid, like we can just go out on

546
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,439
Speaker 1: a soccer field not knowing how to play soccer and

547
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: just like have fun. And so he was like, as

548
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: we get older, we get this expectation that as an adult,

549
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: if I start doing something or if I do something,

550
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: I have to be a hundred percent good, And I

551
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 1: just hate that because that's so limit And also as humans,

552
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,239
Speaker 1: we have the ability to grow. And so I like

553
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: asking people if you could do anything, literally anything, and

554
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,239
Speaker 1: you only had to be sixty good at it. That

555
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: was like the expectation that was like what was acceptable

556
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: in society? What would you do? And the things that

557
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: I hear people say, I'm like, oh my god, please

558
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: go do that. They probably could do it. Yes, please

559
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: go do that, and like you might start at six,

560
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: but you might get up to like pretty soon. I

561
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: like that, Well, damn should we should read it? What

562
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: would you do? Kind of snowboard? I'll take you snowboarding.

563
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: That's terrifying. Never tried it. I'm a little scared of it.

564
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: Performer Okay, bros can help you. Okay, you help me?

565
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: Bowling right again? But yeah, I think but that's actually

566
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: something that has helped like me do things because I

567
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: also do a lot of stuff that nobody sees. Like

568
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: I try a lot of things that don't work out

569
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: the no he sees, but I'm okay trying them. And

570
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: like when I started the podcast, if you listen to

571
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 1: the first episode, I haven't listened to it in two

572
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: and a half years. I'm sure it was like a

573
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: little weird, like a I know what I was doing,

574
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: and like sometimes now I don't know what I'm doing.

575
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 1: Like there's this expectation that like I'm just allowed to

576
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: do it and be a human, and I want that

577
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: to be gym's in fitness studios because this is a

578
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: thing that is good for everybody. But that's what we

579
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 1: take away, and that's what we can do as fitness professionals.

580
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: When you see someone that's nervous or it's the first class,

581
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 1: you can go up to them and be like, oh

582
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: my gosh, just have fun, just try it. So glad repectations.

583
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're here. My name is so and so.

584
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: I mean, we do that, but I think that's how

585
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: it should be instead of coming off with like the

586
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: I'm better than here, like mantouchable, intouchable, intimidating, like okay,

587
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: let's just where the instructor is like a celebrity d

588
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: and like you're lucky to be in the presence. That's

589
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: what fitness has gotten to a lot in this world.

590
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: And I think that is so like, I mean, it's

591
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: fine if it works. Ring to me really really like that,

592
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: but also that leaves a lot of people behind because

593
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: I don't want to be afraid of my instructor. Super fact,

594
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be helping me. I can't be afraid

595
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: of you. And that also made me think like, as

596
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: a person in a class. If I'm going to the

597
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: studio a lot and I see somebody new, what would

598
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: it mean if you just said, like, hey have you

599
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: I haven't seen you here before? To me, that would

600
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: like make me feel comfortable in a new place. Keep

601
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: them coming back. I always movement, Like when new Rodgers

602
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: come through and I'm like talking to them at the

603
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: end and they're just like, oh my god. Like you know,

604
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: just a different array of reactions. But you know when

605
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: you get the reaction of like oh I look so bad,

606
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: or like I couldn't get it down, or like I

607
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: didn't know what I was doing but I did it.

608
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm just like, yo, you should have seen me in

609
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: Kab's class. The first time I came to full Ride,

610
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: I was humbled. I like, oh my god, the first

611
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: time that y'all stood up on that fast. Yeah, it's

612
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: just like and I just keep telling them like, yo,

613
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: just keep coming there. Like there's gonna be four or

614
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: five times you're gonna feel like what and then the

615
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,239
Speaker 1: fifth time and you'll be like rocking it. It's just

616
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things. It happens for everyone.

617
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: You gotta push through it. And I say this for

618
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: like like acting people and for the entertainment and just

619
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: like the music industry stuff, because you know, I interact

620
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: with a lot of artists and stuff that like everybody

621
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: has their own timeline and their own pace, and just

622
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: like to your point, catches that everyone's seeing the finished product,

623
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: but you're not thinking about the journey it took. It's

624
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,959
Speaker 1: like you got to remember that, like you're on your

625
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: own journey. You're on your own time. Get excited for

626
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: the end goal, but like get hyped about the steps

627
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: that it takes to get there and like what's it

628
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: gonna take and what's it gonna look like? You know,

629
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: the ride? Yeah, facts, So that also makes me think of,

630
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: like I say in class all the time, how you

631
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: want to give your one hundred and that might be

632
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: different than the person next to you. I also teach

633
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: at another gym in town that also gos with that too,

634
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: because it's more of a circuit and we are going

635
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: pretty quick on the days that I teach, and I

636
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: think that it's important to give your one, not the

637
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: person next to you or comparison or how it's your

638
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: one that day. So however you're feeling, so just remember

639
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: to take it at your own pace. Just like Rose

640
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: was just saying, like we're carrying different things every day.

641
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,959
Speaker 1: I like that you said that different things every day

642
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: because I think also, um, when we get into like

643
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: progress and all of that, we get down if we

644
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: have a bad day or we can't do what somebody

645
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: else next to us is doing. But you have no

646
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: idea what happened to that person that day and what happened,

647
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: and you're comparing that to what happened to you. So

648
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: I know, I've had a really freaking hard week, and

649
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: when I have worked out this week, it has just

650
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: been me trying to like get through it. I'm not

651
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: doing anything extra. I'm not trying to beat any goal.

652
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: But if I was thinking about how my workout for

653
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: it to be effective, I had to be as good

654
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: as the person next to me every time this week,

655
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been effective because I was just trying

656
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: to survive it. And I think it's important for us,

657
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: which leads me into this is like we've got to

658
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: find a way to make fitness and movement and exercise

659
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: about more than just meeting a weight laws goal or

660
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: a body type, because oh my god, it's so valuable

661
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: for so many reasons that have nothing to do with that.

662
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: And I feel like so many studios, it's like there's

663
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: this like the studio has to be like sexy and

664
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: appealing and cool and like, to be honest, I think

665
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: full Right is cool. Like I think it has like

666
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: a cool vibe whatever that means. But like that's not

667
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: actually what makes it what it is. What makes it

668
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: what it is is the people inside of it and

669
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: the experiences that we have like in the actual like

670
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: bike room, and the people that are leading the classes.

671
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: And so I get really frustrated when like certain studios

672
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: it's all about like sex cells and you said earlier

673
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: about like the intimidating instructor, and like it's not about that.

674
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: Like exercise has so many exciting and important benefits that

675
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: we are not talking about because we're like, come to

676
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,479
Speaker 1: our challenge, will help you meet your goal. We're going

677
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: to do this like burn this much. Oh my god.

678
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: I recently in the last year canceled membership when I

679
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: got an email about a weight loss challenge they were doing.

680
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: Granted they have no actual dietitians on their payroll, and

681
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: they're doing this weight loss challenge for money for money,

682
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: and it's like we're gonna help change your life by

683
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: like changing your body composition. And I'm like, oh my gosh.

684
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: Immediately was like cancel my membership because I'm like this studio,

685
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: every studio has an opportunity to change people's lives in

686
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: so many ways, and we boil it down to what

687
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: they look like every single time. Well, fitness is overall health, yes,

688
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: your mental health, yes, your physical health, the spiritual health,

689
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: overall health. It's all encompassing. It's a huge umbrella, which

690
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: is like goes back to that Instagram host that I

691
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: put out and like how so many people were grabbing

692
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: onto that. Well, how I guess for you guys, like

693
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: what are ways that like you try to promote that

694
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 1: idea because we're going against the grain. And I say

695
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: this like all the time with like clients where I

696
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: get kind of like almost blindsided because I only immerse

697
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 1: myself in like following certain accounts and going to certain

698
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: gyms that do what I align with, so I don't

699
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: get hit with a lot of the stuff anymore that

700
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: is damaging. And so that's great, but at the same time,

701
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: we're still fighting an upheld battle. Most gyms do do

702
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: the weight loss challenge and think nothing of it, and

703
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: then I get them as clients. I've had to write

704
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: a couple of letters to gym's about some of their contests,

705
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: and boy, when they see my letter, you better believe,

706
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: of course we will cancel the membership. You just let

707
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: us know. And I'm like, yes, like this is a problem.

708
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: If you're scared of like me saying this is a problem,

709
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: then you already know that it's a problem. So I

710
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: guess my question is my question is like, how do

711
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: you want to encourage people who align with what we're

712
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: talking about to create that change, even if it feels

713
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 1: small and your little studio in your little hometown. One.

714
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: As an instructor, one of the things that you have

715
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: to work well at is being able to read the

716
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: room and read people and read their energies, and you

717
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: can tell, you know, who's not enjoying it, who's having

718
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: a good time, who's scared things like that. So I

719
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: think I try really hard to connect with everybody on

720
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 1: every level and kind of show them that I am

721
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: just like them, or I'm not trying to be some

722
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, fit model or just like, yeah, I do

723
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: like to buy some cute sits. And she's like, but

724
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: like but you're different moment, and I think the moment

725
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: we break that wall down of like the whole like

726
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: you know, untouchable instructor and I'm coming right up to

727
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: them and kind of just showed them like, yeah, I struggled,

728
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: or like today in my class, like there was one

729
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: part I was like in between song, I was like

730
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I'm dying. Like man, the last

731
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: song just kicked my ass, you know, like I almost

732
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: wanted to sit down, you know, like I let them

733
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: know that, like yo, Like we're all in the same

734
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: room doing the same thing. Like you're being human. You're saying,

735
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: just be a human. There's this performative aspect of being

736
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 1: a fitness instructor where we have to be these people

737
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: where this is what I felt before I got into it,

738
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 1: and one of the reasons I wanted to get into

739
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: it is like you have to be this person with

740
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: a specific body that can do these specific things and

741
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: you don't struggle with it, and you don't have bad days,

742
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: and like you don't take days off, and you that

743
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: you are very strict with your diet and you only

744
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: care about like that's not it, Like you can be

745
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 1: a fitness instructor and have a very full, exuberant life

746
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: that has plenty of imperfection in it, and that I

747
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: think is what draws the people that are scared to

748
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: go to the gym, and because they're like, oh, I'm

749
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: not scared of her, or oh I can do that.

750
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: Like there are certain places and people that I've seen

751
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: in my past where I'm like, I'll never be able

752
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: to do that. I'll never be able to fit in,

753
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: Like I'm not even going to go so I'm not

754
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: going to go there. If every gym was like that,

755
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 1: most of America would not go to a gym. Yeah. Yeah,

756
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: It's okay to be tired. Yeah, it's honestly, it's okay

757
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: to be What I heard you say is it's okay

758
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: to be tired in a workout class because I'm working hard.

759
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: Like I feel like so many people like try to

760
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: hold their breath, you know, like after like a really

761
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: hard set. Yeah, Like just it's okay. If we hear

762
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: you breathing heavy, that just means you're working hard. There's

763
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: that's not something to be shameful of. Should I love

764
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: to say in classes, like if you're out of breath,

765
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: if your legs feel heavy, if you're sweating your ass off,

766
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 1: if you're thinking about breakfast or like dinner right now,

767
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: or like getting the funk out of this ride, you

768
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: better be smiling because you know you're pushing yourself, like

769
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: you know, like you've got to be mad uncomfortable to

770
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: make the changes. So, like all those thoughts, everything that's

771
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: creeping up in its kind of to a point that

772
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: you said a little earlier about the days where like

773
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: you feel like you're just kind of like suck or whatnot,

774
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 1: you're not riding well or like you know, this is like,

775
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: oh man, like today's like one of the days. I say, like,

776
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: those are probably the best days for you. It's like

777
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: when you feel like ship or just like when it's

778
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: the hardest ride, or like things like that you might

779
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: not think you're doing it right or something like those

780
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: are the days that make the biggest change for you.

781
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,240
Speaker 1: I do feel like we are put in this role

782
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: because we want to change the game and we want

783
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: to help others. So if you revisit why you are

784
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: in this role, then I think that you're reminded of that.

785
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: So like when I see someone that's nervous, or when

786
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: I see someone that it's their first time, Like go up,

787
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: nothing is hurting you to be kind and like introducing

788
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 1: yourself and like acknowledgement. Acknowledgement, it's so important. So that's

789
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,479
Speaker 1: kind of like if if you're put in this role

790
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: and that's what your reason is, like if you want

791
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: to create a community, if you want to change the

792
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: game for people, if you want people to fall in

793
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: love with movement, then I think that just stuff will

794
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: come natural to you. But if you're not put in

795
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: this role for those reasons, then I mean we're all

796
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: around our own trajectory. Like if you want to be

797
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: the sexy fitness and structor that people are kind of

798
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: fearful of, Like that's fine, that is your path you're

799
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: going to walk on. But you know, I just think

800
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: it's if we're changing the game, we can we can

801
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: do more. You can start with the people that are

802
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,720
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and make them feel loved and make them feel

803
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: seen and remember their name, but not just their name,

804
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: remember their husband's name or their dog's name, or their

805
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: story or what they do or you know, like that

806
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: means a lot of stuff is important. That means a

807
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: lot And what I really believe is that like with power,

808
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: which as if you're the leader of something you have

809
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: power comes responsibility, And a question I would ask continuously

810
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: is how what part of me is doing this for

811
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: me and what part of me is doing this for

812
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: other people? How do I tap in because it's okay

813
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: to do It's okay, I teach because I like it,

814
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: like it. Part of me does it for me. So

815
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: that's there, and there's this other part that I do

816
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: this for other people. How do I tap into that

817
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: part before I walk into the room, because that is

818
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 1: my responsibility. I have power, You can have a responsibility. Yeah,

819
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: you're putting a role that like not a lot of

820
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: people get. We can cause a lot of damage and

821
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: we can also do a lot of good your words, yes,

822
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: And so I would say to the people who are

823
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: like I want to be that sexyed, I want to

824
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: be that intimidating person, that's okay. If that's the part

825
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: of that's doing it for you, okay, how can you

826
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 1: tap in a little bit more to the part that's

827
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: doing this for other people? And if that's zero percent,

828
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: I would really think about how much harm am I

829
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: doing and how much like joy and goodness of my

830
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: causing and is this fair. Now we're gonna get to

831
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: this last part, which is for you guys who maybe

832
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: you are scared to go to finish studios, Like Okay,

833
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: well you might be like those people sound great. I

834
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: want to go to their class, but I hate cycling

835
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: and I don't live in Nashville. So that's fine. We're

836
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: going to talk and yeah, we can't still love on you, um,

837
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: but also we can help give you like ideas of

838
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: green flags to look for that might lead you into

839
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: into the direction of a studio that feels similar to

840
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 1: like what we're accustomed to and what we're talking about.

841
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: So what are for you guys screen flags that you

842
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:08,919
Speaker 1: would say to look for in a gym our studio? Safety? Um,

843
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:14,240
Speaker 1: I think it's very important, emotional or physical emotion emotional safety,

844
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: hell fucking yeah, but also physical safety because you know,

845
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we are, like it's

846
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: movement of our bodies. You need to be safe and

847
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 1: for a lot of people it's their first time trying it.

848
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: And the same thing with the gym you know, like

849
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: that there should be people like working at the desk

850
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: that should be able to like help you understand the equipment.

851
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: But like safety is so key because that's gonna you

852
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: know the next day, how you feel, like for soreness

853
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: versus injury. You know, that's gonna tell Like, are people

854
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: paying attention to you what you're doing if it's a

855
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: cycling class, as somebody helping you make sure that you

856
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: feel okay on your bike the first time or the

857
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: first couple of times you're there. Another mechanics are people

858
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: like I know, sometimes it's scari You're like I don't

859
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: want the instructor to look at me, but like the

860
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: people should feel safe enough where like you can say hey,

861
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: am I doing this? For if you're afraid to say

862
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: am I doing this? Right? That is a red flag. Yeah,

863
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: we have to tap into is that about me or

864
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: the instructor because it can be both. So I guess

865
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: combine that in there. You want to be in a

866
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: place where you're able to feel safe, ask questions about

867
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: safety and that they're paying attention to safety because damn

868
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,919
Speaker 1: that is so important especially as you grow older. Like

869
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: safety is key, baby, I agree, green flag. I would

870
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: say welcoming movement is for everybody and everybody bodies are

871
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: good bodies have the day you need to have what Yeah,

872
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: so it is the place you're at all types of

873
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: when I show up to somebody look at me in

874
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: the eyes. And then also I'm a big believer in like,

875
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: are there different kinds of people here whereas everybody look

876
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: the same, And if everybody looks the same, I wonder why. Yeah,

877
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: I do agree with Rose when it comes to like

878
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: form and body, the mechanics and all that kind of stuff.

879
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: You want to make sure that, of course that the

880
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: instructor is taken care of you, but also do you

881
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: feel comfortable, do you feel welcome? Those two should go

882
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: hand in hand, you know. And I going back to

883
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: your post, I think that that was just hit the

884
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: nail on the head, you know, when it comes to

885
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: like what you should look for that yeah, yeah, you're

886
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: making me think of something. Never be afraid, though, to

887
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: be the change, you know, not in a rude way,

888
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 1: but sometimes I in my life I've come up in

889
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: instances where I'd liked to challenge something. So if I like,

890
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: you know, I so want thousand percent agree with what

891
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: you said, but also like you know what you want

892
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: if you're like say, like say they're not welcoming, you're

893
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: looking in the eye, then you go up to them,

894
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 1: you know, at least yeah, just gonna say, hey, did

895
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: you see me? Yeah? Can you help me on? So

896
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: I just because and this goes with everything in life.

897
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: I love this like little saying thing, but like you

898
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 1: never to know the power that you get to somebody

899
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: else when you show up for yourself. So I don't know,

900
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: I just want to also give you guys the power to, like,

901
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: if you're feeling something you want to, like you want

902
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: to greet that person, like do it, man, fucking show

903
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: them how it's supposed to be, you know. And I

904
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: think that makes me think about like I didn't know

905
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: what I needed until I found it. So I didn't

906
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,280
Speaker 1: know that I needed a place that it feels welcoming,

907
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: the sense that there's different types of people there. I

908
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: didn't know I needed a place that that didn't talk

909
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: about calories or didn't talk about like working. I didn't

910
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: know I needed those things until I found it. And

911
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, So I think I like what

912
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: you're saying that, like a lot of people don't know

913
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: the like shifts they might need to make as instructors,

914
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: as uh studio managers or like the people at the

915
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: front desk or us as like Jim goers, we don't

916
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: know what we we need until we until we see it,

917
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: and sometimes to see it, somebody has to show us.

918
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: And that's literally why I wanted to get into working

919
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 1: in fitnesses because I was like I want to be

920
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: and the example that like I wish that I had

921
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: that didn't exist back then, where like you don't have

922
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: to have this type of body, you don't have to

923
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: have this type of ability, You don't have to have

924
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: this kind of outfit or hair, whatever it is to

925
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: be able to move your body and enjoy it and

926
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: be good at it. So I like what you said, like,

927
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: don't be afraid to like mess up the system. That's

928
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 1: what we're doing. We're messing up the system. You're not

929
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: going to acknowledge you be like yeah, yeah, how you

930
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 1: doing Yeah? And that just goes with me saying like

931
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: other green flags like people that are the way that

932
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 1: they encourage you. So if they encourage through like shame,

933
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 1: like hey you better go a little faster because you

934
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: just bet you ate a cookie last night or something

935
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,479
Speaker 1: like that, Like that might not speak for a whole gym,

936
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: but that might be the not the instructor that's like

937
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: the most safe. You know, like if I will say,

938
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: if anybody ever said that in a class at four ride,

939
00:45:56,280 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: I would get on my bike and walk out. You

940
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: are having an experience in the moment. So if you

941
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: hear that kind of stuff, then like the intention of

942
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: that studio might be a little off. And I will

943
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,280
Speaker 1: say this, This isn't to bash any studios either, because

944
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: again I think a lot of times people do what

945
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: they have been taught. In fitness, we have been taught this,

946
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: and in health we've been taught this and a lot

947
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: of the things that we're trying to shift and change.

948
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: We're trying to shift and change because we have new

949
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: information and it's hard to change. Yeah, we're just trying

950
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 1: to spread that information. So if people are like those

951
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: people sound nice, I want to follow along with their lives.

952
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: Where can they find you? Rosebud body baby? Yeah, there's

953
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: no baby at the end. I just said that right now.

954
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: Wait Rose, but rosebud Body, what about your music stuff?

955
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: If you want to follow my music stuff, it's can

956
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: chet a baby? Okay, So we're going to put that

957
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: in the show notes. So um, you spell it correctly,

958
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: you can just click on it. I was telling um,

959
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: my friend Ann Marie, who I trained with this morning.

960
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 1: I was talking about you. I don't know why. I

961
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: was telling her how he went and ran the steps

962
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 1: because I was like, my body hurts, and she was

963
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: asking about you, and I said, Rose is such a

964
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: I remember when you came to my house and you're

965
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: saying that Thanksgiving thing and Alicia Keys song if I

966
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: got you. Oh my god. I used to listen to

967
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: that over and over and it's kind of copyright. Do it? Yeah?

968
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: Do you want to sing podcast? Are you kidding me?

969
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 1: She was playing the piano, it was it was yeah.

970
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: She's like, you're gonna pay me, but you really are good.

971
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: So if you want to follow along with her music,

972
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: then we'll put that in there as well. Okay, Shanna,

973
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna find you, Shanna. Next post needs to be

974
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: you singing, just saying yeah, you don't have any content

975
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: of you singing on Instagram. Well music is not out yet, Okay, okay,

976
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,879
Speaker 1: all right, we'll get you guys. We're just ready want

977
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: to be publicist your man here, we are just simple.

978
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: My name at Sean O'Neil. Great, it's nice here, I

979
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: am here. She is nice. Mind's cat de fata so

980
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: cat dot de fata makes it difficult, all right, Well,

981
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: thank you for being here, going through the class baby,

982
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: all right, come through jam, come through communities. Man. I'll

983
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 1: tell you that much. And if you have questions again,

984
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: remember you can send them to Catherine at You Need

985
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: Therapy podcast dot com if you have questions specifically about

986
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: this episode sentiment, because if we have enough of them,

987
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: we could do a whole Couch Talks on it. I

988
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: hope you guys are hanging in there. The last week

989
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: has been really hard. And I know I am a

990
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: big promoter and believer in feeling your feelings, and the

991
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: last week has been very hard for me to feel mine.

992
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: You might be able to tell if you listen to

993
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: the last Couch Talks episode. But I hope you guys

994
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: are taking care of yourself in that and having all

995
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: of the days that you need to have, because some

996
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 1: of these days have been very hard. So I love you, guys,

997
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: and I will talk to you guys on Wednesday. Bye

998
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: bye bye m