Speaker 1: In a world where social media criticism can make or
Speaker 1: break a brand, how do you stay true to your
Speaker 1: vision and maintain your mental toughness. Kayla its Cenis is
Speaker 1: a fitness mogul with over sixteen million Instagram followers and
Speaker 1: is the co founder of the wildly successful Sweat app.
Speaker 1: But it hasn't been all smooth sailing for Kayla, and
Speaker 1: she has received her fair share of criticism, both personally
Speaker 1: and professionally. So how has Kayla learnt to silence the
Speaker 1: noise of the critics and focus on what truly matters?
Speaker 1: Welcome to How I Work, a show about habits, rituals,
Speaker 1: and strategies for optimizing your day. I'm your host, doctor
Speaker 1: Amantha Imber. On today's Quick Win episode, we go back
Speaker 1: to an interview from the past and I pick out
Speaker 1: a quick win that you can apply today. In today's show,
Speaker 1: I speak with Kayla it Cenis about how she dealt
Speaker 1: with backlash early on in her journey with the Sweat app.
Speaker 1: When I've heard you talk in other interviews around just
Speaker 1: how much you care so deeply for Sweat and what
Speaker 1: you've created, and that's absolutely no surprise, Like it is
Speaker 1: you You put everything into it, and I was hearing
Speaker 1: you talk about how in the early days where you
Speaker 1: started charging a subscription fee, which of course now is
Speaker 1: really normal, that's a really common business model. When you
Speaker 1: did it, it was really uncommon, and you've got some backlash,
Speaker 1: And I was wondering, as a business owner, how do
Speaker 1: you decide which battles to fight and which ones not
Speaker 1: to when business is really personal for you?
Speaker 2: It is really personal. What I've learned is stop catering
Speaker 2: to the minority of people that are complaining about something
Speaker 2: that they're never going to download, they're never going to research,
Speaker 2: they're never going to understand. However, you are reacting to
Speaker 2: these one percent of people instead of appreciating the ninety
Speaker 2: nine percent of people who have got something positive to
Speaker 2: say about this situation. So in the early days, when
Speaker 2: you first start business, you see a thousand amazing comments,
Speaker 2: You're amazing, you're the best, I love you, And then
Speaker 2: you see one comment being like I heard you're a liar,
Speaker 2: and you're like, wait what, I'm not a lie of
Speaker 2: my life. Then you freak out and you're like what
Speaker 2: did that? Why did that one person say that? Like
Speaker 2: I'm definitely not, And it's like you're ignoring the amazing
Speaker 2: people that support you, and you're catering to that one person.
Speaker 2: So when the subscription came out and everyone lost their minds.
Speaker 2: It wasn't everyone. It was maybe one hundred people. The
Speaker 2: rest were like, oh my god, sweat is an app
Speaker 2: incredible A hundred people like that's too expensive. I don't
Speaker 2: want to do that. It's not worth it. I've never
Speaker 2: paid that much in my life. And I'm like everyone,
Speaker 2: I blank that everyone is freaking out. They weren't. So
Speaker 2: if you're listening to this and you run a business,
Speaker 2: do not cater to the minority. Listen to the majority
Speaker 2: of people and what they want and what they appreciate,
Speaker 2: because you'll make you feel so much better. And journal gratitude.
Speaker 2: Journal write down you're grateful for those peop write down
Speaker 2: the things that they say because it really matters. When
Speaker 2: you read it in front of me, you're like, that's
Speaker 2: actually beautiful.
Speaker 1: What strategies have you used to be at peace that
Speaker 1: there are going to be a small percentage of people
Speaker 1: that you're just not going to win over and assume
Speaker 1: the worst.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's really hard if you're starting out,
Speaker 2: because if you know exactly who you are and you
Speaker 2: have a certain set of morals that you stick to.
Speaker 2: It's very hard when someone questions that because you know
Speaker 2: you're not that person. But I think in the same sense,
Speaker 2: if you know who you are and you have a
Speaker 2: certain set of morals that you stick to, you know
Speaker 2: you're not that person. Therefore, nothing that someone can say
Speaker 2: that doesn't know you can affect you because they don't
Speaker 2: know you, they don't know who you are. And I
Speaker 2: think it's important having things that you love and your
Speaker 2: non negotiables like for example, mine and my family and
Speaker 2: spending time with my kids and spending time with my husband,
Speaker 2: and I know that these people love me. So when
Speaker 2: someone doesn't love me, then I don't know. I just
Speaker 2: don't care, like I just don't care. And I think
Speaker 2: it's really hard when you feel so alone and you
Speaker 2: don't have things that you love and you don't have hobbies.
Speaker 2: It's very easy to take someone else's opinion of you
Speaker 2: and take that as gospel, and take that offense and
Speaker 2: take that you know to heart, whereas on the flip side,
Speaker 2: lots of love, let's care about what if someone else
Speaker 2: thinks about you.
Speaker 1: I love that Kayla, such great advice. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed today's Quick Win episode. If you would like to
Speaker 1: hear the full chat with Kayla, you can find a
Speaker 1: link to that in the show notes. If you're looking
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Speaker 1: big thank you to my editor Rowena Murray and Martin
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