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Speaker 3: Today. I am chatting with Kia Stokes.

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Speaker 1: nurture versus nature. Right. My stick, for example, has never

436
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,439
Speaker 1: set foot in the gym ever in her life and

437
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 1: has no desire Like I remember bringing her to the

438
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: gym in Boston where I was working at the time,

439
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 1: and she said, I wanted can you just give me

440
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: a basic like arm routine. I just want an arm routine.

441
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: And I remember being so excited because I was like,

442
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, she's finally I like, she finally.

443
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 4: Wants my guidance.

444
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 1: I look over, I'm getting everything set up.

445
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 4: I look over.

446
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: She's literally napping on a bench laying there and I'm like,

447
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: are you ready, and she's like, you know what, I'm good,

448
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,479
Speaker 1: and like that was it. So it wasn't like we

449
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: both grew up in the same household, right, So it

450
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 1: wasn't something that was necessarily.

451
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 4: Now I lot more attention, for sure.

452
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 1: To like my dad's habits. Then I think my sister

453
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: really really did and met with my father. That is

454
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,200
Speaker 1: where I get my love of the gym, my mother,

455
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: My sister and my mother very much alike. My mother's

456
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: never seen me inside of a gym, God bless her.

457
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: Like she does her walk every day and does what

458
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,199
Speaker 1: I you know, the the little bits I've given her,

459
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: but it's always She's always made it very clear, I

460
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 1: am not doing this for vanity. I'm doing it for osteoporosis.

461
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, that's you know what that's and that's

462
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: her thing, and that's great. My dad, he's eighty two now.

463
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 1: I mean before pre COVID, he'd be in the gym

464
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: three hours a day, two hours a day. You know,

465
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: a lot of it was him just cleaning off the

466
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: machines because.

467
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 4: He's meticulous, but like it was a lot of working

468
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 4: out too. My whole life.

469
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Speaker 1: He'd come home from work, like come in the door

470
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: and I'd watch him and he'd give us a wave,

471
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: and then he'd put his running gear on and he'd

472
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: be back out the door running within ten minutes of

473
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 1: getting home. I've never been one able to sit still.

474
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,879
Speaker 1: It's just what's in me. So walking in that gym

475
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,239
Speaker 1: and seeing feeling this energy, Like I remember walking in

476
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: and literally being like I literally just found my people,

477
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: like just kind of looking around and you know, mind

478
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: you at that point, that was nineteen I'd save my

479
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: first time stepping in a gym like that was nineteen

480
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: eight nine, nineteen ninety. There weren't a lot of women

481
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: in there, hardly any. I'd say two or three, two

482
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: or three, and they were just on the stare master,

483
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: like they weren't in the weight room. They were in

484
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: the staremaster. And I'll tell you, Emily, like I just

485
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: and again, I've just had it in me, like I

486
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: didn't even think about like, oh this is intimidating. There's

487
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys around, I don't know if I

488
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: want to do. I would just walk up to it

489
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: and say how do I use this? Like this lap

490
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: pull down machine?

491
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 4: Like what is this?

492
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:31,239
Speaker 1: And why do I want to you know, how do

493
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 1: I use it? I just barged right in and was like,

494
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: just teach me how.

495
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 4: Do I do it?

496
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 3: Do you ever have a negative experience asking for help?

497
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 1: Not? That sticks out in my head, so I can't

498
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 1: imagine there was ever. Yeah, I can't imagine there. I

499
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,439
Speaker 1: would have remembered that, But no, I think because I

500
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 1: was so It might have been because I was small

501
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, this little blond thing.

502
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,400
Speaker 1: Right away, I was like, I'd be like, sure, she's

503
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: you know, I'll help her out, Like she looks like

504
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 1: she could use some muscles, like she had some strength.

505
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: Let me help this girl up. I just had no

506
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 1: you know, my parents always taught me, if you want something,

507
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: you asked for it, and if you don't ask for it,

508
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't ask, you're never going to

509
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: know the answer, right, So, and that kind of holds

510
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: true throughout life. It's like, if you want something, you

511
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: simply ask for it. The only the worst that can

512
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: happen is someone says no, and then you find a

513
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,439
Speaker 1: way to make it happen anyway, you know, like you

514
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: find your way around and that's it. It's like, never

515
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: be afraid to ask like it's I think that's a

516
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,719
Speaker 1: really important lesson is that I've never been afraid.

517
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 4: I just haven't.

518
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 1: It's like so someone says no, ideally, you move on,

519
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, learn from it another way. You just find

520
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 1: another route.

521
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 4: That's it.

522
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: Well, you weren't afraid to ask your girlfriends to do

523
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 2: butt workouts with you before you went out in college?

524
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 2: When does the we should do a butt workout situation

525
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 2: turn into maybe I should actually do something with this

526
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 2: whole I love to do the fitness.

527
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. I think what happened was.

528
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: I my parents, you know, they paid for Boston College,

529
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: and they were very by the book, like we paid

530
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 1: for your education, we are not paying for an extra

531
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: gym membership. And I felt like I needed to see

532
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: what else was out there. Like here I had Boston College,

533
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: it was great. I needed to get off campus and see,

534
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 1: like what other gyms were out there besides what I

535
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 1: was just experiencing. So I remember getting on the tee

536
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: and going down. I'd heard of this place called the

537
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,479
Speaker 1: Squash Club, and I know it sounds really weird, like

538
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: the squash club is just for squash, but I.

539
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 4: Can't tell you this place was.

540
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: Anybody who became anybody in fitness that you may not

541
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 1: know or have heard of now because they didn't jump

542
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: on the social media bandwagon, right, They actually gave a

543
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: heard to that, which is which was quite frankly a mistake, right,

544
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: because they are incredibly talented. They all started at this

545
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: one place, Squash Club, Alston, Massachusetts, and it was I

546
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: have never seen classes back then, aerobics like step, multi impact,

547
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: all that like this in my life and I don't

548
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: think I ever will again. It was I'm talking to

549
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: one hundred people in a class. They're doing it in

550
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: the hallway. If they can't fit in the gym, Yeah,

551
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 1: like you can't. I can't express the energy that you felt.

552
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: So I took myself down to this gym and I

553
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: was like, I got to check this place out. I

554
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: walked in and again I was like, my people, like

555
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: what is this place?

556
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 4: Like this is insane.

557
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: And there was a physical therapy place attached to it.

558
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 4: It was before it's time.

559
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: It was squash, physical therapy, aerobics, strength training, it was everything.

560
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: It was like a big It was the first like

561
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: big box gym in Boston ever, and I just knew,

562
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: like you know, you know, and in your brain. You

563
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: walk in a place in your or you need a person,

564
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: right and you say, like there's an instant connection that's

565
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,239
Speaker 1: kind of like the love up there I had with gyms. Right,

566
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: I'd walk in and just be like, oh, I just

567
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: want to be around this energy more.

568
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 4: I just want to be around this energy more. Everybody's

569
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 4: trying to.

570
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: Do the right thing, you know, hopefully for their body

571
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: on the you know, from the outside looking in, you know,

572
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: there's a common theme. There's a community. People were talking

573
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: to each other, they were you know, having a blast,

574
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: like moving in this studio together. So I took a

575
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: job at the front desk, and I was like, I'll

576
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: work the front desk. It got me free membership. I'm

577
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: just gonna soak everything in while I'm here. And you know,

578
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: I only worked like you know, my parents were like,

579
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: your your job is college, Like this is not what

580
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: are you doing? Like this is not okay? Like only

581
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: one day week. So I worked enough just to get

582
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: the membership. But what I did every second I could

583
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: get when someone wasn't there to check in my look.

584
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: I mean, if I could tell you the out you know,

585
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: how this entire gym was like set up, I could

586
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: like peek through and watch the entire room like this

587
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: what was going on a string change gym. I sat

588
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: there with a notepad and was just like writing down

589
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: like how people were putting workouts together. I'd watch one

590
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,479
Speaker 1: trainer and I'd follow, like you know, there's certain trainers

591
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: that I would watch and other ones that I just

592
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: knew weren't my thing, Like I didn't, you know, it

593
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: was like okay, that's I don't really love what they're

594
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: doing with that. But like I'd watch and I write

595
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: things down, and then I'd go into the physical therapy

596
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: clinic anytime I had a break and literally follow this

597
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: one man around.

598
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 4: His name was Tim.

599
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: Brewster, who was the most incredible physical therapist slash strength

600
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: and conditioning coach slash trainer. The first person I'd ever

601
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: seen and to this day, like I still believe it

602
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: who was able to merge the two physical. I mean,

603
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that they were great physical therapists that

604
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: are also trainers. He had a way of not being

605
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: as pet based but taking his knowledge and really create

606
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you know how sometimes you

607
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: get you you physical therapist and again they're wonderful physical therapists,

608
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: but they keep creating a program for someone that's just

609
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: fitness based. It's a little different because their brain works

610
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: in one, you know, a certain direction. He I would

611
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: watch him and he would train people on the floor

612
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: and then you'd go back in the pet clinic. And

613
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: I remember asking him one day, I'm like, can I

614
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: just follow you around a little bit? And can you

615
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: like I won't say here I am again asking right,

616
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, I won't like bother you, but I would.

617
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 4: Like to just take some notes. He was amazing.

618
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: He was like, you can a like one d percent

619
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: follow me around like like a dog, like you know,

620
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: like anything you want, and ask me questions after.

621
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 4: And that's what I did.

622
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: I like spent any time that was like downtime from

623
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: the front desk in that pet clinic, watching him on

624
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: the floor and learning everything I could and asking him

625
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: like what's the first thing I should do?

626
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 4: You know?

627
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: In mind you remember this was nineteen ninety four, so

628
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: I was a junior going into my junior year at

629
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 1: Boston College. In the summers, friends were getting internships. I

630
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: worked full time with that Jim and I remember my parents,

631
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: you have to back then fitness wasn't a profession, right,

632
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: It was like a fun thing people did on the side.

633
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily it was I mean, I've seen it all.

634
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: I've been in this business for a quarter of a century.

635
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: Now when you think about it, it's been twenty five

636
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: years I've been doing this, so I've seen how the

637
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: industry has evolved. And back then it was like, oh,

638
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: that's a fun thing to do. It wasn't like you

639
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: can make a living doing this, right, So I remember

640
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: one of the heart one of the hardest lessons. It

641
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: took years for me to get across to my parents

642
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: that this was actually going to be my profession. Right.

643
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: So everybody's getting internships and my parents are like, h

644
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do when you graduate? Like what

645
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Like what are you working towards

646
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: this summer that?

647
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 4: And they were they're not they were not people to

648
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 4: put pressure on me at all, but like any parents,

649
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 4: they're like.

650
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: We're sent you here at Boston College, like your degree,

651
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: Like you're getting a degree, what is this really helping that?

652
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 4: Like, what's gonna what.

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Speaker 3: Were you studying at the time?

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Speaker 1: So I changed my ma I changed my major three

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Speaker 3: Okay, I started.

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Speaker 1: In arts and sciences, and I thought I was going

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Speaker 1: to a pre med thought I was going to go

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Speaker 1: like to medical school, like that was what I wanted

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Speaker 1: to do. And then you know, at the time, to me,

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Speaker 1: that road was so daunting. It was like I was like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's a lot, that's a lot of years down the

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Speaker 1: road just wasn't going to work for me.

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Speaker 4: I was like nope, So I started.

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Speaker 1: I had a lot a lot in the sciences obviously,

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Speaker 1: like I had a lot of credits in that.

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Speaker 4: Somehow in my brain was like, let's try political science.

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Speaker 1: Exactly. So started taking police. I was like, yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is interesting.

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Speaker 4: What the heck am I going to do with this?

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Speaker 1: Then met with an advisor who was like, Kira, if

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Speaker 1: you don't figure this out, like you're.

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Speaker 4: Not going to graduate on time.

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Speaker 1: You've got all these science credits and now you've got

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Speaker 1: Polly SI, like you're never going to be able to

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Speaker 1: get all that you need. I think I even switched

677
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Speaker 1: to economics at one point from Polly sci like one semester.

678
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Speaker 1: I was like, let me do this, and that's when

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Speaker 1: my advisor was literally like like you need to like

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Speaker 1: figure out like what is it that you want to do.

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Speaker 1: Quite frankly, Bostin College did not have an exercise physiology program.

682
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Speaker 4: I knew in my brain what I wanted.

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Speaker 1: To do, but I was like, it's not here for me,

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Speaker 1: but I freaking love it here, Like I don't want

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Speaker 1: to transfer, but like, how am I going to make

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Speaker 1: this work with what I really want to do. They

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Speaker 1: had a minor that was health science and that became

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Speaker 1: my minor, but my major ended up psychology And I

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Speaker 1: can't tell you how obviously that was is and was

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Speaker 1: super are you super useful? Like I'm so happy that's

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Speaker 1: what my degree was in, because you know, I almost

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Speaker 1: feel like as a trainer, it's like movement therapy, right,

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Speaker 1: And a lot of what I do is a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Listening and a lot and I love that. I love listening.

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Speaker 1: I love helping people figure out things they're going on

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Speaker 1: in their life. But it's not the pressure of like

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Speaker 1: you're sitting in a chair someone's taking notes on you,

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Speaker 1: or like a therapy session. It's a different kind of

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Speaker 1: therapy and using what I learned a lot of his

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Speaker 1: common sense in psychology, but a lot of it was

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Speaker 1: like really using what I learned to let them. People

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Speaker 1: open up more through movement when you're moving. Think about it,

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Speaker 1: when you're running or you're walking, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: if you're one of those people where you can organize

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Speaker 1: your thoughts or this is where like you almost wish

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Speaker 1: you had a notepad in your hand when you were

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Speaker 1: running because you're like, oh, gosh, I'm coming up with

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Speaker 1: such great stuff.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: That happens with the client, and when you're training them properly,

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Speaker 1: right when you're really listening and asking the right questions,

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Speaker 1: they figure out so much more than just what's going

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Speaker 1: on with their body during that time of your Your

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Speaker 1: goal as a trainer is to make them feel better

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Speaker 1: It's not about just fixing or working with the body.

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Speaker 1: It's getting into what's going on up here because that

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Speaker 1: My uh, going into my senior year at Boston College.

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Speaker 1: So the summer of my junior year. I remember going

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Speaker 1: to Tim Brewster and I keep referring to him in

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Speaker 1: the in the past tense because he passed away five

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Speaker 1: years ago. He was my mentor at the age of

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Speaker 1: forty nine. And what happened happened. He had and this

774
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Speaker 1: is a tribute to like, this is a great example

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Speaker 1: of like you can look really healthy on the outside,

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Speaker 1: but you don't know necessarily what's internally going on with someone.

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Speaker 1: But he had a massive heart attack at the age

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Speaker 1: of forty nine, and they call it the widow Maker

779
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Speaker 1: because there's nothing you can do. And he was married

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Speaker 1: with a two year old and a four year old.

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Speaker 1: So and when I tell you this man with the

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Speaker 1: healthy like like incredible soccer player, unbelievable physique, crazy energy,

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Speaker 1: but genetically right, he was suffering, right, there was that

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Speaker 1: there was an issue there.

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Speaker 3: So I'm so sorry to hear about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean it was listen, it's but it

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Speaker 1: really I mean, I know we're going off topic here,

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Speaker 1: but it was a great reminder to me when it

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Speaker 1: happened of like just a shock obviously, but also like

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Speaker 1: a like man freaking enjoy every moment, but b like

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Speaker 1: you just it's it's not just about like the It

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Speaker 1: made me realize that what I love too about training

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Speaker 1: and movement, it's not it's not what. It's not how

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Speaker 1: you end up feeling or looking, it's I love the act.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: So it really brought me back to like, I am

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Speaker 1: really doing what I love because I love the act

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Speaker 1: of all of it. It's not the end results, it's

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Speaker 1: it's the whole process, right. So it's like the joy,

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Speaker 1: the joy is in the journey, not the destination, right

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Speaker 1: that it's truly like and it made me, you know,

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Speaker 1: because experiences like that can make you really rethink, right,

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Speaker 1: and it did make me realize like, wow, I really

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Speaker 1: am enjoying the journey, like it's.

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Speaker 4: Not I am. I am you know, embracing that.

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Speaker 1: So that was going into my senior year and I

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Speaker 1: remember asking him, like, what's the certification I should get

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00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: and he said start with NASAM. And I still tell

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Speaker 1: people to this day when when you know, talking to

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Speaker 1: trainers about what's the first certification I would get? You know,

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Speaker 1: that was mine and so I'd say like that and

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Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's a fantastic search. So that

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Speaker 1: was the first one. And I remember, you know, I

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Speaker 1: was using my roommates as guinea pigs, like just you know, trying,

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Speaker 1: trying everything. But it really again was tim when I

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Speaker 1: graduated from college and again my parents going where's your

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Speaker 1: nine to five? And I'm saying, I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: a trainer, like this is what I'm going to do

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Speaker 1: full time, And I remember them saying, like, we're not

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Speaker 1: giving you any money. So if you can't make a

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Speaker 1: living doing this, that's it. Like you need to figure

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Speaker 1: it out, like either you get as they would tell me,

823
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Speaker 1: a real job, or figure it out. And back then, man,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't make a lot of money as a trainer,

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Speaker 1: like you were not making you were not making you know,

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Speaker 1: I always say it's uh, you've got to earn your stripes.

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Speaker 1: You know. It was me at that time training anywhere

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Speaker 1: between eight and twelve people a day and then not

829
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Speaker 1: being able to pay my rent off of that, so

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Speaker 1: also bartending three nights a week, but also like bartending

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Speaker 1: bar's clothes it you know, it's early in Boston, thank god,

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Speaker 1: but going directly to the gym and falling asleep on

833
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Speaker 1: a massage in the gym because I had the keys

834
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Speaker 1: because I would open and sleeping for three hours and

835
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Speaker 1: just like jumping in the shower there before my first client.

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Speaker 1: But it's like I'm like I'm not giving up, Like

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Speaker 1: I know, this is what I wanted to do. But

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Speaker 1: it was a lot of years of just you know,

839
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Speaker 1: really grinding. And I'm such a firm believer and I'm

840
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Speaker 1: always telling trainers that you know, are starting out in

841
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Speaker 1: the business. I know it's really hard to hear because

842
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Speaker 1: you see so much of like especially with social media,

843
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: you know, like how do I, how am I going

844
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Speaker 1: to do? Why am I not doing this? How do

845
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Speaker 1: I get to this?

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Speaker 4: What do I?

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Speaker 1: And it's like you really, there's no excuse, there's no

848
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Speaker 1: shortcut for hard work. Like you the only way to

849
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Speaker 1: keep your flame burning is to is to progress slowly. Right.

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Speaker 1: You can't. You can't light up. You're going to burn

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Speaker 1: out as fast as you light up, right, It's a

852
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Speaker 1: slow burn. And it's and you learn every step of

853
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Speaker 1: the way. And it's like if you the amount of work,

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Speaker 1: like you know, for people that don't know and they

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Speaker 1: just see me on Instagram or whatever and they think, well,

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Speaker 1: how did this girl get this?

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Speaker 4: It's like twenty five years, twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: Of like earning my stripes, you know, and in the

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Speaker 1: slow progression, and it's like having patience to like not

860
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Speaker 1: not give up because you see what someone else is

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Speaker 1: doing or what they're getting. And I will say that

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: It's like when I look at young kids today and

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Speaker 1: like young kids day, but when I look at kids, say,

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Speaker 1: who are growing up? Like even my nieces and my nephew,

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Speaker 1: and I see, you know, they live in Bosa, Montana,

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Speaker 1: so they actually don't even have phones. But I see

869
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Speaker 1: the I see kids their age on a phone at

870
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: the age of twelve, and I'm like, how awful? Right, Like,

871
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful that I grew up in fitness in

872
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: a time where I didn't know what the person in

873
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: the gym next door was doing. I didn't know what

874
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: the person next to me was doing on their off time,

875
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: Like it wasn't there, so I could focus one hundred

876
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: percent on my path, right and being concerned about me

877
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: being I always say like the hardest worker in the room,

878
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: but I've kind of shifted that to like over the

879
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: years now, not being being the hardest work in the

880
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: room is one thing, but being the smartest worker, not

881
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: in terms of intelligence, but in terms of using your

882
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: time wisely, how are you budgeting your time? And it

883
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: doesn't mean doing more and more and more and more.

884
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: It means like, what is the best way right to

885
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: end with the result that I want to see using

886
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 1: my time in the wisest manner.

887
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 2: And now that you do have access to social media,

888
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 2: you do have an idea of maybe what the trainer

889
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 2: is doing next door. How have you seen that maybe

890
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 2: impact how you're working versus before when you were just

891
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 2: getting started and you were falling asleep on the massage

892
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: table and getting up every day and doing it again.

893
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: Social media is such a I mean, we could talk

894
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: about social media for five hours. I am so grateful

895
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: for it, Like I would be lying if I said

896
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: I didn't love industry.

897
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 4: I love it.

898
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: I really love it, and I love it for what

899
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: I use it for. I love it for the fact

900
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: that I'm able to offer people free information, right to

901
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: educate people, Like my ultimate goal is to make people

902
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:40,839
Speaker 1: feel better, be healthier, and inspire them through movement. Right,

903
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: So what I do on my page is an extension

904
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: of my business. It's a lens into my business, right,

905
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: so where I'm giving you something for free and then

906
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: if you want more right. Obviously there's my app, there's

907
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: you know you have that, but I kind of keep

908
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: you know, I don't say I shouldn't say blinders on.

909
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 4: I don't keep blinds on.

910
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 1: You need to be aware of what other people are doing,

911
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: and I think that's super helpful if you can compartmentalize

912
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: it where it's like you see what they're doing, but

913
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: you don't compare what you're doing to them, Like what

914
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: you're doing in the lane you're in is your lane,

915
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: and it doesn't mean what they're doing is wrong. It does,

916
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean change what you're doing. It may

917
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: help you evolve, Right, So you might see something or

918
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,720
Speaker 1: someone another trainer's doing or whatever and go.

919
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 4: Oh, that's oh is that what?

920
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: Like is that how I should be using this form

921
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: of social media or like doing that or even you know, listen,

922
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 1: it's a great looking at other trainers As a trainer,

923
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: it's a great way to like help you get creative, right,

924
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 1: use it for what it is. When you see someone

925
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: doing like an amazing move, it's like, oh, heck, yes,

926
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: like they just taught me something new and they didn't

927
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: realize it. Like that's what I hope people get from

928
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: my peach is that they go, oh wow, like this

929
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: is awesome. I just learned something new today. And I

930
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: think it's impossible not to compare. Like there's a difference

931
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: between comparing yourself and competing, comparing yourself to others and

932
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: competing with others. I don't believe it's a competition. I

933
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: truly believe there is room for everyone in this industry

934
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,919
Speaker 1: and not every trainer or for fitness professional is going

935
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: to resonate with every person. And that's a beautiful thing.

936
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 1: It's like the way I train and what I put out,

937
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: it's not going to work for everybody. It's not people aren't.

938
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: Not everybody gonna like it, and like you have to

939
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: be okay with that being the case, and being like

940
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: that's great if you don't like I'm not, and also

941
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: accepting like what you're good at and what you're not,

942
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: Like I am not a kettlebell like that.

943
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:56,959
Speaker 4: I don't, you know, I may have.

944
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: My I have one kettlebell sert. I don't pick up cattle,

945
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,280
Speaker 1: but it's just not my thing. It's not it doesn't

946
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: resonate with me. It never filled my heart. So I

947
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 1: will send you to someone amazing who does do it.

948
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: And it's like, don't don't be afraid to do that,

949
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:11,760
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, don't be afraid to share

950
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: the wealth with someone else. It's like, well, you know,

951
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: like even when it comes to all aspects of wellness,

952
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: I am not a nutritionist, I'm not a registered dietitian.

953
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to send you to someone awesome because they

954
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: have the schooling and they have the education, and they're

955
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: going to they will help you in ways I could

956
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: never help you, right, so, I think, and nothing makes

957
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: you feel better right in the end, you're helping people,

958
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: regardless whether it's your program or someone else's.

959
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,720
Speaker 2: It's that saying. It's that like comparison is the thief

960
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 2: of joy. Like when you're not willing to stay in

961
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 2: your own lane and you're starting to freak out, that's

962
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 2: when you're like completely losing focus of whatever it is

963
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 2: is your mission is your priority.

964
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: Because you can't do everything right. You can't, Like I

965
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: don't think there's anybody that can would.

966
00:49:58,520 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 4: Fight me on that.

967
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: It's like you absolutely cannot do everything. You have to

968
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: learn your strength and your weaknesses. Not be afraid of that. Like,

969
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:07,919
Speaker 1: I know what I'm good at, I know what I'm

970
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: not doesn't mean that you shouldn't work on your weaknesses,

971
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: but also like you can't relay that information to someone

972
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: until Like it's it's when I always say, like I

973
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: don't ever put a move out or and exercise out

974
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: that I don't do myself.

975
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 4: That's just how I work.

976
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: Like if I can't experience it and I can't do

977
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: it myself, how am I going to coach you through it?

978
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 2: Like?

979
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: How am I going to I can't give you the

980
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: proper cues. So if someone comes to me and they say,

981
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 1: can you teach me I own powerlifting.

982
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 4: Like that, I want to be. I want to be

983
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 4: like that.

984
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 1: I want to be able to do my max you know,

985
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: like that's a different situation. We can I'll do our

986
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: max bench or whatever it is. But like, I am

987
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: not a powerlifter, so I'm going to send you to

988
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: a coach who is fantastic at coaching powerlifting. It's like,

989
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 1: I think what's happening is people are getting really confused

990
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: by everything they see out there, even as training. It's like, no,

991
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,919
Speaker 1: I should be doing this now, No I should be. Oh,

992
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: maybe I should be. Maybe I should come up with

993
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: a dance fitness routine.

994
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 4: Maybe I should do.

995
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: And it's like, no, no, no, I mean what I've

996
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: always been consistent with is my method is my method.

997
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: It evolves, but I'm not looking at what's like. I'm

998
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: not doing what's popular. I'm doing what's right. And if

999
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: the two intersect, If the two intersect, awesome party time.

1000
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: If they don't like, stay with it because you're going

1001
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: to find your people no matter what, who support what

1002
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: you do and embrace what you do.

1003
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 2: When you're coaching between eight and twelve clients a day,

1004
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 2: how do you not burn out?

1005
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:41,399
Speaker 4: Well? I did.

1006
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing that not anymore.

1007
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 4: You will like this.

1008
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: This is where the growth has happened in this industry

1009
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: or within me? Is that realizing that I used to

1010
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: be so proud that I was training between eight and

1011
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,959
Speaker 1: two It's like, huh, I trained twelve people today? How

1012
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: is it possible to give twelve humans twelve hours the

1013
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: kind of attention they need and deserve. And I think

1014
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: back to some of my this was back when you know,

1015
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: at this point I was training at now the Squash

1016
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: Club then became Boston Sports Club, which at that time

1017
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: Town Sports International, that was the only gym in Boston.

1018
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: There was no Sports Club Ala, there was no Equinox,

1019
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: which I did end up working at, you know as

1020
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: well in Boston, but at the time, that was it.

1021
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: And I think back to some of the clients I

1022
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: trained there, and oh my gosh, you think that, like

1023
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: it's like I want to get my hands on them again,

1024
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, because like not only the growth in my program,

1025
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: but also the fact that that last person of the

1026
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: day as a trainer. I remember there were times where

1027
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: I would look at them and be like, what do

1028
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: you want to do?

1029
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:41,240
Speaker 4: What do you want to do today?

1030
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: It's not that my client's job to tell, like they're

1031
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: looking to be like what do I want?

1032
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 4: What do you what do you mean? What I mean?

1033
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,760
Speaker 1: You can't at twelve out You can't at twelve people

1034
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: a day give give what you need to give. So

1035
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 1: now I think, you know what happened for me is

1036
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: and I also, you know, I was proud of the

1037
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: fact that for five years straight, Poor Town Sports International

1038
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: out of it was like eight hundred trainers in the

1039
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: whole company, you know, because there's like New York, Boston, Washington.

1040
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: I was a number one trainer in the entire company

1041
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: for like five years, and it wasn't going to engage

1042
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: that how many sessions you do? So me being like numbers,

1043
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,919
Speaker 1: being like twelve a day. I was like, I don't

1044
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: competing with myself, not And it's always like about me.

1045
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: It wasn't about like I never asked who was the

1046
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: second person, but I was always like how many Like

1047
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 1: I'm still there, right, I'm still I'm still doing the

1048
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: most sessions, right, and like, hello, they were making so

1049
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: much money off me, It's like it wasn't my own business.

1050
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: Which again, like you, I totally encourage everybody as a

1051
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: train of like go to work for a big box gym,

1052
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,720
Speaker 1: to start out and get your education and learn those ropes,

1053
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: like it's so invaluable what you learn, like working in

1054
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,280
Speaker 1: a in a in a situation like that. But also

1055
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,240
Speaker 1: be smart enough to you know, and this is maybe

1056
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: taboo to say, but be smart enough to walk away

1057
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 1: from it to when you suddenly when you've got what

1058
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: you need and you understand what you're doing and you

1059
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: feel like give the experience and you're ready to to

1060
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: spread your wings. Don't be afraid to spread your wings

1061
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: because you know you are really an independent trainer versus

1062
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: working for a big box it's safe working for that company,

1063
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: right because you get your benef and some people have

1064
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: to like you are freed. You're freed to like go

1065
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: off on your own and and have to you know,

1066
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: pay for your insurance and all that comes along with that.

1067
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,760
Speaker 1: But you're also never going to grow beyond a certain level.

1068
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:41,279
Speaker 4: You know.

1069
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 1: It's like how many years, like five years top trainer,

1070
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: Like what did that do? Like what what did that

1071
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: really do? Besides fatigue me never to the point where

1072
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to jump ship on the industry, but it

1073
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: but it made me realize like there's got to be

1074
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,359
Speaker 1: another way, Like there's I was getting I was too

1075
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: comfortable doing that, yes, but at the same time exhausted

1076
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: doing it, and it was like, well, why am I

1077
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: Why am I giving sixty percent or seventy percent of

1078
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: every session to this gym? Like it doesn't make any sense, right,

1079
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: So that caused me to start even in Boston, and

1080
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: you know, doing in home training group fitness was frightening

1081
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: to me as a trainer because I was like, oh,

1082
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: there's how many people that are going to be in

1083
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: this room, Like there's no way I can control how

1084
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 1: the form of this. At that point, there was big

1085
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: sixty people. I used to teach just sixty people and

1086
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: I freaking loved it. But man, it took me like

1087
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:42,719
Speaker 1: a year or so to be able to let go

1088
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: like the fact that someone's foot might be slightly in

1089
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: birded or their knee might be adducting just a little bit.

1090
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 1: It's like you have to, like, as long as they're

1091
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: not going to really hurt themselves some of those little things,

1092
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: you have to like let it go and just briefe

1093
00:55:57,640 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: and be like they're going to be okay, Like you.

1094
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:01,800
Speaker 4: Can only do what you can do, right.

1095
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:04,959
Speaker 3: They're gonna be okay. They're gonna be okay.

1096
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: They're gonna be okay, Like as long as they're not

1097
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: gonna you know, blowing the out or whatever. Like it

1098
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:12,800
Speaker 1: was like you have to And I think that prepared

1099
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,240
Speaker 1: me for quite frankly, like the launch of my app.

1100
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 4: The fact that I.

1101
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: Mean I waited probably three years longer than when I

1102
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: think back, like everything happens for a reason, But I

1103
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: spent a good two or three years not being able

1104
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: to get over in my head again the same scenario

1105
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:37,840
Speaker 1: that I that happened to me in like ninety eight

1106
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 1: with diving into group fitness, a few years after just training.

1107
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: The fact that no matter how specific I am with

1108
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: my queuing, and you know that is that is my thing, right,

1109
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: I'm known for like expert queuing, there's gonna be someone

1110
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 1: in their house somewhere who doesn't have fantastic body awareness

1111
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: and when I'm saying is not connecting and they're not

1112
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:06,839
Speaker 1: going to be doing it like absolutely perfectly, which no

1113
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 1: one is perfect, right, But like I couldn't in my

1114
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: head get over the fact that I can't see them,

1115
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: and I can't like what the what ifs were like

1116
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,919
Speaker 1: a huge thing to me, Like what if I can't

1117
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: see them? And like, ultimately I'm not making them healthier?

1118
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: They're what if they hurt? You know, they I could

1119
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: end up like smoking to get hurt. And it was

1120
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:28,479
Speaker 1: like I finally had to let go and say, like.

1121
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 4: You again, you can only do what you can do, and.

1122
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 1: If you know in your heart you're putting out the

1123
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: best quality information that you possibly can and people are

1124
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: going to have fun while they're doing it, that's all

1125
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: you can do.

1126
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 4: And that's all I could hope that how do you.

1127
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 3: How do you get to that point? Though? For someone

1128
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 3: who's struggling to get there, yeah.

1129
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 4: I mean I think it was more. It wasn't just me.

1130
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: It was like two clients that I have who one

1131
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: of them is Brendan Fallis, who ended up like he

1132
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: was I have to give him so much credit, both

1133
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: he and Hannah Brothman.

1134
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 4: They were so.

1135
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: Adamant that he was like, You've got to share You're

1136
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: so he was like, you have to share this with

1137
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: the world, Like the way you train and put movement

1138
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: together is so different, Like people deserve to experience this.

1139
00:58:16,520 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: And it was also I would say it was also

1140
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: Canvas as well, Candice Cameron Beret, who was like, you know,

1141
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: my method just clicked with her immediately, and She's like,

1142
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: I've never done anything like this. I've never felt this good,

1143
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: I've never felt this strong, I've never felt disconnected. People

1144
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: need to experience this, and so my first what I

1145
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: did first, Emily, was I signed an LOI to open

1146
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: a studio in New York City and I was like, Okay,

1147
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: that's how I'm going to do because I can watch it.

1148
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 4: I can you know, I can.

1149
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 1: See And then I remember for about a month, I

1150
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 1: couldn't sleep and I was coming up with every reason.

1151
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 4: Like why this is going to be so hard.

1152
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: And my husband looks at me and he's like, this

1153
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: is a time where you should be so excited about

1154
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: what you're about to embark on, and you're not. You're anxious,

1155
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: Like you're anxious about it. He goes, So you got

1156
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: to step back and are you doing this because you

1157
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: want to do it? Or are you doing it because

1158
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: everybody thinks this is your next step in your career,

1159
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: Because you've got to figure out, like you have to

1160
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: really want to do this, he goes, and you're also

1161
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: he's like, you think you're going to be able to

1162
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: control every person. You're not going to teach every class.

1163
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: You have to hire people to teach the client. And

1164
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: what are you going to do when somebody else is

1165
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: teaching and you don't know that they care as much

1166
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: as you care, And they don't because it's not their business, right,

1167
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 1: so they're not going to care as much as you care.

1168
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: No one will care as much as you can you

1169
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: get over that, and I couldn't, and I was like,

1170
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: this is not what I want. This is I woke

1171
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 1: up and I was like I've never felt so good

1172
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: as the day that I was like, I am not

1173
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: doing this, Like I made a decision I do not

1174
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: want brick and mortar, and but I'm going to do

1175
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: a virtual studio. I was like in my head, I

1176
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: was like, I know, and I have so many people

1177
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: that are also like, you know, so supportive of what

1178
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: I do. And I think that was the first time

1179
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: as someone who like you know, admittedly some a perfectionist

1180
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,919
Speaker 1: for sure, like I'll never apologize for being when people

1181
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 1: say like, oh, recovering perfectionists like this this whole thing

1182
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: out there that I feel like the word perfectionist has

1183
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: become like a buzzword, that it's a bad thing. I

1184
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 1: think if you're a perfectionist who can accept that the

1185
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: goal of doing something really well, that's the goal, but

1186
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: being able to accept the fact that no one is perfect,

1187
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: right if you it's one thing to like have that

1188
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 1: goal of wanting to do really well and wanting to

1189
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: do your best, but also you know, as I said,

1190
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: being able to step back and say, like, no one's perfect.

1191
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: And so I finally had this moment where I was like,

1192
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: it's okay that people aren't going to be doing maybe perfectly.

1193
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: If your words to you are as good as they

1194
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: can be to convey a message, then again, that's all

1195
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: you can ask for.

1196
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 2: It's such an important lesson, like that idea of doing

1197
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 2: something because you feel it so deeply in your heart

1198
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 2: and you feel it's very purposeful for you versus like

1199
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:28,920
Speaker 2: doing whatever you feel like you're supposed to be doing.

1200
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:32,920
Speaker 1: And that the number of people, and I don't fault

1201
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: them for saying to me, like, this is your next step.

1202
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 1: Why don't you have your own studio? So many people

1203
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: are saying it to you, and you're going, yeah, why

1204
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: don't I, Why don't I? Like this is crazy, I

1205
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 1: should have my own studio.

1206
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 4: Whatever.

1207
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: But in my heart of hearts like knowing, like I

1208
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot I love. I like a wonderful life.

1209
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 1: I love to travel. I clients in LA that pre

1210
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:56,920
Speaker 1: COVID you know, every month I'm going to see them.

1211
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: And I freaking love having the ability to do that.

1212
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 1: You have a break and mortar studio, like you, you

1213
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:05,439
Speaker 1: are tied, that is it? Like you have to be there?

1214
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: You can't, you can't. In my mind, I made the

1215
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 1: decision that I knew I wouldn't be able to enjoy

1216
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: life the way I really love to enjoy it, like

1217
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,600
Speaker 1: the ability to like fly by the seat of my

1218
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: pants and go places and just do things. It's like,

1219
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: I don't you know at that point, I was forty

1220
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: three and I was like I should be doing less,

1221
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 1: not more.

1222
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 4: This is kind of caused me to be able to

1223
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 4: do more. I'm going to be right back.

1224
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: To where I was when I was one one right,

1225
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh no, no, no. And so the

1226
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: beauty of you know, the app, which it had its

1227
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: second birthday in the end of February, was that it's

1228
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: my It's one hundred percent mine, like I own it

1229
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. I can reach so many more people

1230
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 1: than I ever could have been brick and mortar, right,

1231
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: Like you can't like that's it, Like that's you're limited.

1232
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: The tens of thousands of people that are now subscribed

1233
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: to this app, who are from all over the world

1234
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: world not only are feeling their best, but they've made

1235
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: friendships with one another just virtually that are like through

1236
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: the Facebook group and whatnot. That it's so cool to see, right,

1237
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: It's like you've created this community that's taken on a

1238
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: it's taken on a life of its own even without me,

1239
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 1: where they're just talking back and forth and want to

1240
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: meet and it's like it's the coolest thing. And it's

1241
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: like that I sleep so well at night now, And

1242
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 1: it's part of it is also trusting myself, and I

1243
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: believe anybody who's embarking on something like this with like

1244
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: a virtual digital journey and fitness trusting, like you have

1245
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: to trust that what you do and what you put

1246
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 1: out is that good. Right that Now when I see

1247
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 1: people and they tag me on their stories, and of

1248
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 1: course the first thing I do is watch their form,

1249
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm so freaking proud when I see like I'm like

1250
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 1: I can't believe it, Like they're really.

1251
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 3: Doing this so well, right, So it's a beautiful thing.

1252
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful thing.

1253
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:09,360
Speaker 1: It's like it's it's I'm so grateful that my whole

1254
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: path totally shifted, right. It was like, oh, studio, here's

1255
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 1: the next rout and it was like, no, I'm going

1256
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 1: to go this way. And having that in place obviously

1257
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 1: a year before COVID was so huge, Like I have

1258
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 1: to say, like the timing of that I was.

1259
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 4: I was set up right.

1260
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: I was set up for for just like the perfect storm,

1261
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: you know, for when we all had to go digital.

1262
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 4: I was like, thank god, I have this right now, right,

1263
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 4: because yeah.

1264
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: You know, says I knew it, just as everyone knew

1265
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: it just came to a halt.

1266
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:50,640
Speaker 2: Five hundred and eighteen thousand plus people following you on

1267
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 2: Instagram when they come to your page, they see a

1268
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 2: woman that is looking pretty good and training a lot

1269
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 2: of humans and all the things. When you look in

1270
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:05,520
Speaker 2: the mirror, what is it that you see looking back

1271
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 2: at you?

1272
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 4: I am who I am?

1273
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: Like, there's nothing I know that my page and what

1274
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 1: you see on Instagram and you look at me, you think,

1275
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:17,840
Speaker 1: I think if you just came to the page, you

1276
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:20,400
Speaker 1: think it's like she's like a machine. All that's on

1277
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: here is like working out. It's one thing or the other.

1278
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes I look in the mirror and

1279
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: I giggle because I'm like, you get a sense of

1280
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 1: it in my stories, which is why my stories are

1281
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 1: so much more. It's why people love them. Right, It's

1282
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 1: like a little bit of me, a little bit of Gary.

1283
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 1: It's you hear me laugh, right, and laughter and humor

1284
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:52,160
Speaker 1: and really truly having gratitude for not just the ability

1285
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: to move, but just gratitude for life, just just the

1286
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 1: fact that I get to do what I do for

1287
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 1: a living. I get to have just amazing people in

1288
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: my life, my family. I guess I look in the

1289
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 1: mirror and just think, Wow, I'm really fortunate, you know,

1290
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: And I don't believe that. It's I hate to say,

1291
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 1: like I'm really lucky. I'm not someone I don't believe.

1292
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 4: It's not luck.

1293
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: It's choices, right, and consciously having made choices in my

1294
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: life that led me to a place where I'm just

1295
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Speaker 1: really content, content and still you know, grateful that I

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Speaker 1: know there's so much more to come. It's funny. Someone

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Speaker 1: asked me that day on Instagram. They said it was

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Speaker 1: a girl and she was thirty seven, and she said

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Speaker 1: to me, how do you not get upset about aging

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Speaker 1: and your age? I'm thirty seven and I'm already having

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Speaker 1: anxiety over it and can't sleep at night. And my

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Speaker 1: husband tells me just to enjoy the moment. And I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I.

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Speaker 4: Thought about it, and I was like, oh my gosh, it's

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Speaker 4: thirty seven to be like, I think everybody thinks about aging.

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Speaker 1: Everybody thinks of they're you know, there's you'd be lying

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Speaker 1: to say like, oh no, oh, you know, we know

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Speaker 1: age is just a number.

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Speaker 4: It is just a number. It's like it is.

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Speaker 1: It's a state of mind, right, And you can't choose.

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01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 1: You can't stop aging, right, you can't stop growing, but

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Speaker 1: you can choose how you do it. And that's what

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Speaker 1: I wrote back to her. I was like, you can't

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Speaker 1: control the number. The number is going to happen, and

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Speaker 1: be grateful that you're so blessed that you get to

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Speaker 1: keep adding to that, like that is it's a gift

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Speaker 1: that you get to increase the number, right, But you

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Speaker 1: can choose how you how you want to live and

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Speaker 1: how you choose to age, and that should not include

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Speaker 1: being worried about the next year. Like you we all know,

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Speaker 1: but I hope we all learned after this past year.

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Speaker 1: It's like, man, you don't know what's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: so you've got to like literally look at every day

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Speaker 1: and think every day is like not every day is

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Speaker 1: going to be a good not every is going to

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Speaker 1: be a good day, but every day has good in it.

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Speaker 1: Like as you add the years, you add the wisdom.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just planning on getting stronger and stronger every.

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Speaker 2: Year, stronger and stronger every year. And I love that

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Speaker 2: you were talking about answering your DMS.

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Speaker 3: That one a kind DM.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there are certainly many that pop into your

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Speaker 2: inbox that may not be so kind and are also

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01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 2: a little judgmental. I think as much as people online

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01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 2: struggle with bullying when it comes to their size, coming

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Speaker 2: hand in hand with the body positivity movement, I'm sure.

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Speaker 3: That you get a lot of people in your.

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Speaker 2: Dms that have something to say about your physique. So

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Speaker 2: how do you deal with that?

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Speaker 1: I you know, I'm not going to sit here and

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01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 1: say that it doesn't bother me. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: anybody that can read some of the really horrible things

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01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: that people say, like someone calling you look like a

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01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 1: starved dog, or yeah, that was one of the words,

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01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:00,799
Speaker 1: you look like a man. You know, you can imagine

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01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 1: they're abviously.

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Speaker 4: On your face. You're like, oh my god, but like

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01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 4: things where you're just like.

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Speaker 1: The first thing I do is I look at I go,

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Speaker 1: what human could actually say this to another human? And

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01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 1: what's going on with them that's causing them to have

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01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: to say this and feel good about like you can't like,

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01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 1: I just it blows it does blow my mind. I'm

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01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 1: not gonna lie that someone could, even through a screen,

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01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:31,600
Speaker 1: type such horrible things, right, And what's even worse is

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01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: than when sometimes I like, if you get it, and

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01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: I'll just happen to look at their profile, and many

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01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 1: times I'll say, like mom of three, and I think

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01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 1: to myself, oh gosh, how badly I want to write

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01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:45,720
Speaker 1: back to this person and say you know that the

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Speaker 1: sand my, you have children, you have like I really hope,

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01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 1: but I don't. I never write back, quite honestly, because

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01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:59,720
Speaker 1: it's just not it's not worth it, right, and it's

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01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 1: but usually these people are just looking to they're just

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01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: looking to engage with you. They're looking to get a

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01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: rise out of you. That's it. That's what they want.

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Speaker 1: And I have to say, like, one of the best

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Speaker 1: things I listened to it was Brene Brown and she's

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01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: so brilliant and she quoted the Teddy Roosevelt speech right

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Speaker 1: and it's the man in the Arena And I wish

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Speaker 1: I could remember the entire speech, but I can't. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's basically the way she sums it up

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01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 1: in her words too, or that you know, when you've

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01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: got people sitting in the cheap seats throwing stones, you

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01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 1: can't pay attention to those people. They're not even willing

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01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: to step into the arena, right, you can say all

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01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: you want, but if you're someone just from the you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're looking from the outside in and you're critiquing

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01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:55,280
Speaker 1: someone and yet you aren't putting yourself out there, how

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01:10:55,320 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 1: can you don't give those people the time of day?

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01:10:59,520 --> 01:10:59,760
Speaker 4: You know?

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01:10:59,840 --> 01:11:02,679
Speaker 1: And I think that's so true, and it's very hard.

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01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:04,639
Speaker 1: Like I'm not going to pretend that it's like an

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01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 1: easy thing to ignore these things, and you shouldn't ignore them.

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Speaker 4: I still think like you should. You have to, like.

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01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 1: You want to see what people are saying, you know,

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01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: like it's it's you have to be aware. You can't

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01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:21,680
Speaker 1: just like shut things down, but you can't let it.

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Speaker 1: You just can't let it affect it. You have to,

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01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 1: like you always, I always have to think of it

1391
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:29,599
Speaker 1: as like what must be going on with this person.

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Speaker 1: It's my husband that I sometimes have to like pull

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Speaker 1: off the off the rains, like he's he's also known

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01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 1: to go on clients pages of mind when someone's giving

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01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 1: a client of mine crap and just go to tell

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Speaker 1: like he's so protective, and I'm like, step away, step away,

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Speaker 1: don't do it.

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Speaker 4: It's worth and we both know it. But you know,

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Speaker 4: you have your moments.

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Speaker 1: I always say, like there's times when I also know,

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01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 1: like when i'm PMS, like I should not be answering

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01:11:57,360 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 1: DMS or.

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Speaker 4: Teaching a class, or it's like it's like very self aware.

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01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, gosh, She's like, just not not.

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01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 2: Not today, not today, not today, Like you got to

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01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 2: know that I care. So what else excites you right now?

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Speaker 4: What else excites me?

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Speaker 1: Well, first and foremost, I'm excited that we're somewhat opening

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01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:21,479
Speaker 1: up in the world and I get to see my

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01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 1: family that I get to see my I'm an auntie

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01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 1: and I'm such a proud aunt and I get to

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01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:30,680
Speaker 1: see my nieces and nephews that I haven't seen in

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01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:31,719
Speaker 1: you know.

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01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 4: Almost two years at this point coming through.

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Speaker 1: So those like and honestly going out to see clients

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01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 1: in LA, which I haven't been able to.

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Speaker 4: Do in fourteen months, Like that excites me. This weather

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01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:49,360
Speaker 4: excites me. But also just what I have a business.

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01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 1: Wise talking about in terms of business, what it's like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just the fact that I have the opportunity

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01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,720
Speaker 1: to keep building this app as you know, as it

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01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 1: is my own I mean, I think when you have

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01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 1: something and it's your own business, and you have put

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Speaker 1: your heart and soul into it, like to continue to

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01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:06,240
Speaker 1: build it and make it better for people so they

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01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:10,559
Speaker 1: can move better. Is there's not a day that goes

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Speaker 1: by that I'm not excited about that.

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01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 4: And there's so much more coming to.

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01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:17,599
Speaker 1: That app and a lot of collaborations that are happening

1430
01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 1: with the app, and you know the equipment too, Like

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01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 1: I've got some good stuff up my sleeve, just as

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01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:27,320
Speaker 1: far as it's not just the app, it's the band,

1433
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 1: the sliders, it's the ball, but then we've got a

1434
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,960
Speaker 1: jump rope and we've got four other pieces of equipment

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Speaker 1: that that I've been working on for a year now.

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01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: That's all great, but really where I want to you know,

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01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:43,599
Speaker 1: what I see down the road that I really hope

1438
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:47,600
Speaker 1: can make happen. And I'm like, you know, I'm manifesting it,

1439
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:49,840
Speaker 1: but I know that to manifest you also have to,

1440
01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:52,760
Speaker 1: like there's more to manifesting than just thinking about it, right,

1441
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 1: It's like it's like that's the first step, but then

1442
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:58,880
Speaker 1: you have to actually really come up with a plan

1443
01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:03,320
Speaker 1: and what I really want to do. Man, I miss

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01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: teaching in person, Like I there's nothing I'm so grateful

1445
01:14:06,920 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: for the app and you know, having a virtual platform,

1446
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:13,640
Speaker 1: but nothing replaces that in person energy. So really what

1447
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 1: I want to do is find a way to marriage

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01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,679
Speaker 1: the two so when the world opens up a little

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01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:21,400
Speaker 1: more and my husband. I've been talking about this for

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01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:24,599
Speaker 1: a while but almost starting like a I just am

1451
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:29,680
Speaker 1: so I'm so like in love with the community that

1452
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: this app has, so to literally do a tour where

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01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: we've just got like a tricked out r V, which

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01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 1: I mean, if Gary and I can stay married after

1455
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 1: this situation, after trying this, this will be amazing because

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01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: he can't even back out of our driveway without hitting

1457
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:47,679
Speaker 1: the curve. So seeing Gary trying to drive an RV

1458
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:50,040
Speaker 1: is just going to be I get, like a reality

1459
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 1: show in itself, but doing like a tour across country

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01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 1: to get out to LA and literally stopping in like

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01:14:57,680 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: grocery store parking lots and doing up stoked events where

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01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: like I just you know, anybody, I just put it

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01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:06,800
Speaker 1: out there on social and it's like I'm going to

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01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: be in this spot and I just want everybody to

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01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 1: come and meet one another and you know, just feel

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01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 1: that in person energy, because I mean, this is the

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Speaker 1: first break I've taken from teaching live classes in twenty

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Speaker 1: years was COVID and I always I keep saying to Gary,

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Speaker 1: I was like, I, I that was one of the

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01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 1: hardest things about the pandemic. Was like, man, not only

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01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 1: you know it's shut down, but it was like, that's

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Speaker 1: not how I wanted to go out. That's not how

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01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: I wanted to hang up my sneakers from teaching. Like

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01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 1: I didn't want it to be my last class to

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01:15:39,240 --> 01:15:43,760
Speaker 1: be determined by a pandemic, not by my own my

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01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,559
Speaker 1: own lack of desire to teach live classes anymore, you know.

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01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 1: And because the studio that I taught out like closed forever,

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01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 1: you know, so that's not even an option. And quite frankly,

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01:15:56,320 --> 01:16:00,240
Speaker 1: to me, teaching live classes with a mask on, I

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01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:02,760
Speaker 1: would rather just do it outside where we can be

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01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 1: a part and you know, like enjoy the experience. Really,

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01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:10,640
Speaker 1: So that's really what man. I think about that, and

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01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,320
Speaker 1: like I get so pumped about it, just the thought

1484
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: of being able to hang with humans like that, you know, sweat,

1485
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: it's like sweat equity, you know, it's like this bond

1486
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:25,800
Speaker 1: that you forge in sweat that just there's nothing better.

1487
01:16:25,880 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: You know, you've taken classes and you know it's like, man,

1488
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 1: we all miss that feeling.

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01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 3: We miss coming feeling. Something's coming back.

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01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 2: It's coming, it's coming back, all right. Closing question here

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01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:39,840
Speaker 2: you ready.

1492
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,719
Speaker 4: I'm ready. You're freaking me out though.

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01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 2: Right right now, Kira, yep, you have an opportunity to

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01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:53,240
Speaker 2: offer the Kira that was sitting in with her mentor

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01:16:53,439 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 2: watching him whenever she could get away from the front desk,

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01:16:57,720 --> 01:17:01,600
Speaker 2: excited about a potential career in fitness. Yes, trying to

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01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 2: make her parents get on board. One piece of advice

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01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 2: looking back on it, right now, what do you tell her?

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Speaker 1: I think I would tell her first and foremost, give

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Speaker 1: yourself grace. So just you know, it took me a

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01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 1: long time, as I said, like find the joy in

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01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: the journey, right, it took me versus being so concerned

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01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: about how many people.

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Speaker 4: Are you training? Like how like.

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Speaker 1: Back then, like I think you know, this profession has

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Speaker 1: always been about serving others like I do believe I'm

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Speaker 1: in the service industry and I forever will be. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether you know you're starting in it right

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Speaker 1: now or you've been in the industry for twenty five years.

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Speaker 4: You are in the service industry. And I think.

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Speaker 1: Back then, being so concerned about the numbers and being

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Speaker 1: so concerned about, you know, quantity over quality that I

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Speaker 1: think telling myself, like, have patients, you know, have patience

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Speaker 1: with yourself and have patients, like flex your muscles of

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Speaker 1: patients and things will the universe will unfold as it should,

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Speaker 1: and like, you know, one step at a time. I

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Speaker 1: think it was and I think any fitness professional this

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Speaker 1: in this day and age should should take that advice.

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Speaker 1: It's like, don't be so concerned with what's happening next,

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Speaker 1: but appreciate what's directly in front of you and the

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Speaker 1: people that you are surrounding yourself with and the clients

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Speaker 1: that you're working with. Man, Like, each one of those

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Speaker 1: people deserves one hundred percent of your attention, whether the

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Speaker 1: first client or the last cent of the day. They

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Speaker 1: don't care whether they were first or last clients to them,

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Speaker 1: like this is this is their one hour with you,

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Speaker 1: So just remember, like how much that means to that

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Speaker 1: one person. Another thing I think I would have told

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Speaker 1: my younger self is that you know, I'm such I'm

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Speaker 1: like a huge smiler. I smile constantly, and I don't

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Speaker 1: remember doing that when I was younger as a trainer

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Speaker 1: because I was so intense with like where is this?

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Speaker 1: Where is this taking me? Like what's next? Like how

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Speaker 1: many people I training?

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Speaker 4: I didn't like Now I smile like all the time,

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Speaker 4: like I work out as man. I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I appreciated back then, and I don't

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Speaker 1: think you do it at a young age.

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Speaker 4: I think it's really hard.

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Speaker 1: To appreciate just the simple act of movement, just the

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Speaker 1: gratitude towards being able to move your body. I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, rather than being like always looking for the

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Speaker 1: challenge of moving your body, just appreciating the actual just

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Speaker 1: act of being able to do so. And I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's just that's I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: can be taught at a young age, but I definitely

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Speaker 1: would have told myself to just, you know, take more

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Speaker 1: walks and jump, do less box drumps, enjoy your moving

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Speaker 1: meditation of walking or running versus.

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Speaker 4: Like let me get on.

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Speaker 1: Like it's like okay, like there's a time and place

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Speaker 1: for that. But man, like, if I had taken more walks,

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Speaker 1: I probably would have figured a lot more out.

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Speaker 2: Kia, thanks so much for coming on the show today.

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Speaker 2: Talk to the hurdlers with you. How can they follow

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Speaker 2: along with you.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Curra Stokes Fit is my Instagram, the Cura Stokes

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Speaker 1: Fit app. It's my app, Curestokes dot Com. It's my website.

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Speaker 1: All the good places like just Google away people. I

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Speaker 1: always say, just like Dear due diligence Google. There's all

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Speaker 1: the places to be so I'd love to touch more lives,

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Speaker 1: so follow me.

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Speaker 2: I'm over at Hottle Podcast and at Emily A Body,

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Speaker 2: Another Heard, All Conquered.

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Speaker 3: Catch you guys next time