March 31, 2022 • 33 mins
DaShaun specializes in standing sculpting abs & core, body sculpting training, senior Fitness, and training for kids with autism.
He sits in to tell us about his journey breaking into the fitness industry, how he built his fitness brand, the sacrifices needed to become a successful personal trainer, and how to stand out in the fitness industry.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:23):
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your mind and your body. Money Movers Today's Healthy Moves
guests specializes in standing sculpting, ABS, core body sculpting training,
senior fitness and training for autistic kids. Money Movers, Let's
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welcome DeShawn Johnson, a k a. The Guru of Abs
to the podcast today. DeShawn, it's a pleasure to have
you here. Well, the Guru of ABS is certainly an
intimidating name because all of us always could do a
little bit more work on our ABS, and every single
woman and man I know is always looking to obtain
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that six, eight or twelve pack of our dreams. Can
you briefly walk us through your story and how you
got that incredible name? Well, first off, guru is an
individual that obtains the knowledge and use it in a
certain area. So as the Google of as I teach
individuals how do quote their absent core the non traditional
way out getting that on the ground. So we have
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standing absent CORP. We have seated assing cord which is
for the seas. We also have big ass and cor.
We have apuera aps and cord. We have heated ass
and cord. We have so many dimensions of absent cord
and show the individuals how to score their apps without
getting on and down and doing crunches and see us
essay thing is the most effective way to get done.
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I love that, and I mean, so let's go back
to your story of how you really broke into this business,
because you've gained renowned fame both on the Internet and
your classes that you've applied for not just you know,
healthy young people, but seniors and autistic children. Can you
walk us through the beginning of your journey in this
fitness industry? So the beginning to my journey, It started
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off at l A Fitness back in I Want to
Stay twenty not two thousand nine ten. I started off
as a stales counseling in l in l A Fitness
and then it was at that point I realized that
selling training membership wasn't me because I was getting so
caught up in the person of training sessions that I
just decided to movie transition to get certified and become
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a personal trainer. And then being an Atlantic station, which
was a high profile area at the time, I met
a lot of great individuals, a lot of great opportunities
and I just took advantage of it. And at that point,
social media was just in the beginning of the space,
especially Instagram, and my first Instagram man was the fifty
Superman as Deal and at that point my friends was like, Yo,
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that's not gonna cut it. And then we at that point,
it's time to come up with the name that came
ravery with it what I want to do it in fitness,
and I came up with Google Apps. Was a lady
I was teaching free to a classes that as a
X stay. She said Google when it comes to apps,
and it just suck at my head. So I learned
what Google was. As I said earlier, it's an individual
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that I taste the knowledge is a certain area and
using to dialog, and so I took the name and
I lived up to it and learning the course of
my training career, I just came up with various ways
to show that I was a Google of apps. I
love this. And you know what I love about being
able to feature different entrepreneurs because you're incredibly successful entrepreneurs,
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is that we are able to connect with people like
yourself who are passionate about different things. So the fitness
industry in particular, I mean a lot of people who
are trying to break into the fitness industry who have taken,
you know, college courses or fitness classes. And here you
are having launched this incredibly successful brand. So do you
have a degree in fitness or you just sort of
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evolved into this and talk about when you realize you
can actually make some money doing this. So I actually
went to schools for criminal justice. Like most athletes in commeges,
you know, you want to take the most easiest course
just to give you most afflees to the criminal justice folks.
But you know, I don't have a degree in exercise science.
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When I did get the proper certifucacious along the course
of me becoming a person trainer as far as personal training,
group fishing, group, I'm sorry, group fitness, and nutrition and
what really made open up my eyes to the big picture.
I remember it like it was yesterday young teensy back
in the day, he had a bodyguard and worked out
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in the gym and somebody said, hey, man, you need
to meet this guy right here. When I was talking
to him, he said, hey, I want to give you
with him so we can work on his apps. And
it was at that point that I realized that as
a personal trainer you can be the next best claim
to a grabber or a professional athlete, because everybody, no
matter what you do, it's gonna value that health and
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with on this and now get compared to ten years
ago or let me years to go fitness at it
all time how I specially coming after the pandemic, and
for me after the pandemic is really it's when my
senior Figgess program really propelled to the next level. So
to really answer your question, it was when I got
this celebrity client and then I started in feature of
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new segments that was like, hey, this really can be
a big deal if you make yourself a household name.
That's what I was just sitting doing to this day,
is to make myself a household name. Might legendary Billy
Blake's showing team individuals upon those lines because I would
at fit. That's how the many people look at the
rap game. It's surrounder every night in the club or
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doing the show. So that means as a personal trainer,
one of us can be in the gym expos doing
the class. And in Atlanta we're overcrowded right now. No
personal trainer can train every person in allowing public book
and can do is to be sufficient to those in
our city if we sit. Didn't know if I ourself collectively,
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so you don't move me my odaity as to Google maps,
I want a personal train. I like to move virtually
hoofs classes because I want people to come to me
for apps, but you need to go to somebody else
for cardio the weight train. And see, that's what I
think is so interesting about this in general, there's niches
where you can find there's something for everyone, and you've
done a great job of being able to market that
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and sort of lay down the road map for others
to follow in your path. Can you talk in particular,
because I'm so curious about your seniors programs and also
your programs for children with autism. Okay, so to senior
program that was created and I don't know my grandparents
that I lost four years ago. And you know, after
the time, I just hid. I just hid rock Bob,
you know, because I was so closely raised on my
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grandparents and it was something that I wanted to do
and I've known to this day. Like yesterday, I went
into the Regulation Center Indicator, Georgia, which was a shange
park and I was trying to get back into groove
and doing bof veagas classes. When I was in there,
they never said, Hey, we have this healthful issue of
what can we do to pay you to offer free classes?
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And I kid you not. I looked at the gym
and I just say some seniors playing around. I said,
what if we do a senior program? And I kid
you not. In my first class, we had ten senior citizens.
Over the course of eight to ten months, we moved
from ten to two hundred, filling up an entire basketball
court Monday through Friday, and we were going strong. Within
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the pandemic came, which was a blessing. But you know,
rest in peace and say everybody and lost his loved
one because I lost his loved ones because COVID. But
COVID not only open all of our eyes for COVID
really made me read them and rebranding myself. So you know,
of course when COVID hit, we couldn't go to the gym,
we couldn't do nothing, So I had to rebound my
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virtual presentation. So I got back to doing free classes
and on Facebook we went from three hundred seniors to
two thousand every day. And now we've lunched to see
you're out. Yeah, we're partnered with a RP Hugh Mana,
We're partnered with a lot of healthcare providers. So right
now my focus is on special pay room, senior citizens,
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autistic kids, you know, people with phils, fal limitations, people
that are overlooked because I'm pretty sure you know in
that lane, everybody wants to randers, everybody wants to models,
team and reality stars. That's cool, but what about the
everyday people that can't do the tradition workouts, to people
that don't get a personal training that can modify exercises
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for that because a lot of trainers want the money,
but you gotta have the passion paces to get and
you know, more the autistic kids. That was just a
random idea of a friend of mine hid and he said, hey, Manny,
thought about working the specialty kids, I said, and all
so I did some research and I came up with
a program that was called Autistic Strong. And what made
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me even focus on that was we got featured on
CNN and now you I'll take the kids. That's one
of the most gifted existial kids you'll ever meet. But
all you have to do is find this thing you sasins.
You just gotta have a love for what you do.
And it's the emotional testing. Don't get me wrong, because
a lot of times it's going to test your patients.
But you have to focus on a big picture, you know.
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I tell the people when you plan to see you
have to water it. Where focus goes energy flows. So
if you plant us even water and focus on it,
the image is gonna fall in. The conversation may not
necessary to be money, but it may be people opportunities
such as this where others can find out about you
with what you're doing. But I also think too, like
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I love what you said, where focus goes energy flows
and it doesn't always manifest as money at first, but
it will eventually. And this is like testament to how
you've pivoted, how you've used like You've had a long
twenty years almost career, and look at all the iterations
you've come. But from this, you get pressed. You get this,
and the money comes after it if you really are
passionate and love what you do. Yeah. Us, you know
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I came from uh you know, I came from the hood.
And you know, a lot of times I think about,
you know, when I was in the the blood kid, when
I was downtown. When everybody wants to high end clientele,
I'm like, Okay, why would I want one client to
have to pay fifty times dollars a session when I
can have fifty clients they're paying five to Timber, I
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was a succession because now I have more people to
talk about my service they have one or two people.
Don't get me wrong, I clienteleer's great, But I focused
on impact, you know, the right versus a quick book,
because if you can servius and more people, you're gonna
get more people coming. And I've realized that once she
started writhing with the seniors and the autistic kids, and
to this day, that's why I you know a lot
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of times I do free I do free workouts because
you know, I'm blessed to be in a position that
I am. So you know, if I can continue to
give back. Now I can go out to these corporates,
these sponsors, they say, hey, how much are you willing
to sponsor to this program for us? So now, if
I can put this program I've met for free, now
I'm gonna get more people. So when I come back
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to other product to sell a T shirt, I will
make more than I would if I was said charge
for an individual tuning or for training your class. I
love this too, because obviously you've got a great business
head on yourselves, and I feel like there's lots of
folks out there that are looking to break through. They've
got their fitness license and they're looking to build clientele.
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Do you have any tips or tricks that you could
offer to, you know, the young aspiring fitness trainer. Ye, yes, yes,
I tell a lot of trainers go into a gym
and figure out your identity. Don't let some media press
you to become something so bad, because you're not gonna
get it overnight. Like you say, I've been I've been
fitnessed now one thirteen, fourteen years and I'm just now
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getting to the point of what I envisioned back in
two thousand and nine and a lot of you because
they need, Man, how did you get this when you
add the first off? You gotta broke, you gotta struggle,
you gotta sacrifice, you gotta lose some sweet You're not
gonna eat, You're gonna live a day to day week
by week. So they have to get out here in
the spears to struggle. So when you face it, you're
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not gonna be uncomfortable with it. So go into a gym,
l A Fitness, playing this, playing fitness Lifetime. There's so
many brands, chains, jamls are out here. Go in there
because they have the clientele. They just need trainers. And
in l A Fitness is where I involved into the
Google of Apps and respectively, I branched out away from them,
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and I felt it was comfortable for me to survive
in the real world as an independent trainer because you know,
now you have to market yourself in the world where
everybody's a person you're training, just like everybody's mom, rapp
or you know, find Advisor. There's so many people, were
so many hats. You have a focus on the presentation.
Somebody say, hey, you're a training you're a trainer, what's
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the difference because nobody in men flocks nobody in man
and ask for what we can event is a character
personality son to attract you because me, because there's something
you see you different than me, then you see somebody else.
And that's why I focused on giving back, making sure
my speech is correct and make sure my personality is warming,
welcome because there's a lot of great trains out here
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online and then you get in person like, oh wow,
they're not sociable approachable. So as a thing, as a
public picker, you have to be will rally you're gonna do,
You're gonna be a community provider. You have to be accessible,
hands on the community, you know, across tasks with you.
I love that and you know it's one of those
things too that people always say that, and I think
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the same goes through and you know, we're talking about
startups and technology on this show a lot. There's something
to be said for going in and putting in the groundwork,
working for somebody else for a little bit so that
you can grow and understand from that. You know, everyone
thinks they're gonna jump into entrepreneurship or being their own boss,
but there's a huge learning in having and working for
other people, understanding the nuances of an organization so that
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you can grow and find yourself in that. Yeah, it's
a partnership. It's like, now what I do, I can
turn somebody our tunis where say no, I want to
be one hundred sent Google of Apps. But I'll be
a fool to walk away from some of these court
races and say hey, how much are you willing to
take to come into this organization? And they might not
pay you what you want, but you have to look
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at it. You're walking into a corporational business or organization
with hundreds of houses of people in front of you,
and you can pull front that. And a lot of
times I tell people keep your money, let's focus on
an opportunity first, and after you see what I can do,
let's free the kid, because that you know, I have time.
But what I don't have is those partnerships and punshonships
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that will create that loung jail, the consistency of training,
because that's a trainer. You can have a popping month,
but then the following month all that money is going
out but nothing is coming in. But if you have
those partnerships, because sponsorships in place, everything would keep your
voting out of what Oh, I hope people are hearing
what you're seeing there. It's like oftentimes it's not about
the quick, but it's about building longevity and partnerships and
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relationships especially you know those people come back and they're like,
I like what you did, and they're coming back year
over year. Like that is really important in trying to
build a brand. And I tell I tell a lot
of trainers that don't be afraid of the word no. No.
That's to me, no no means next opportunity. You have
to shot. And see what I'm saying. If you got
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team businesses, I guarantee you two or three are gonna
take interest in you. Your opportunity. You have to use
your network, Facebook, Instagram, put something out there. Hey I'm
looking for five free clients. I'm looking for five this
and that, and I'm gear retuning. Know who doesn't like
a free workout? You say, and and honestly, when you
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ask me earlier, how did I gave one of being opportunities?
Somebody committed me with a news anger and I said, Hey,
if I train you feed for burthdays, can you get
me a segment highlighting what I do and it's opportunities
like that, so I can't bother for exposure. I would definitely,
I would definitely do that, like when it comes to
radio TV because right now, if what's the um, what's
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the big time show? Let's say Overstead had television and
me and you go on over right now, now, once
we come off that show, our value just went up
because we're we're profiled on the platform that everything that
cost to can't you know? And I realized that in
this game, it's about connections and that's one thing that
I focusing on there. It's more connections and partnerships because
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it's so many people chasing that same end goal to
see a high end trainer to make you know, money,
which is what we all want to do. But what's
going to separate you from the rest is what you're
doing and how you presenting yourselves. I love that, And
you know it's again it's like it's not about just
one or two flashy clients. It's like you're touching so
many people, whether they're seniors or children or this. And
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then you know those seniors, their kids are like, hey,
this guy's training you, and so it just it tends
to grow so much more significantly that way. That's career. Okay,
So one thing I'm super fascinated in is the fact
that you do a lot of different workouts, so not
your traditional crunches on the floor, get up? What was
it that was special about offering something different to people
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in terms of how they can tone their abs, helping
them understanding the three planes of emotions with their body
which they use it everyday. Emotions sagial, frontal, and transverse.
So right now you know you've been boarding back those
an upper apps you rosate left the right, those are rotations.
Once you go right to left, those to five be
it's on helping them understand how does strategically and properly
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use everybody to engage their course promising I'm in the
sea life, So my seniors, you come to the interest
the scene all right, sitting on the edge of the sea.
It helps you engage your core. Now everything is about
range of emotions. So you have on the drinks so
you're not gone you been, so we can do an
easy rotation. You bring your hands up right here in
all your postion. You see your hips can't move because
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you're sitting down. But what you can do is you
can rotate left and then you can rotate right in
a controlled manner, which would help you engage your robliefs.
So I help people understand the science and anatomy of
their body because you have a lot of trains down
here and taking up here there, hanging upside down and
doing leave to touches, And my thing is okay, it's
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cool and all, but what if that everything person at
home that has a bad need back back, back shoulder
that can't do that? So what I do is im
I showcasing the most symable range promotional workouts when we
put advanced movements in it, but we do it in
a certain amount when people are comfortable with the workhouse,
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so like my classes of all fitness notes, but I
do tell them that monifocations are provided we needed. So
if you have a bad back back, show the bad need,
I will show you how not to make it excuses
both work around it so you can be to continue
to work out. Oh you got me right there, Because
oftentimes I feel like look at a lot of facings
online and they're super super all these steps and routines
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to it, and so they count themselves out before they
even try it, you know, or they're worried about hurting
themselves and the average person just needs to you know,
put in a little bit of time, do some a
couple of reps every day to really see progress and growth.
But they don't start if they are afraid. Well, they
got thinking about it. It's something you said than people
here to google baths. They are not resign. Whoa let
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we're about to do. So they goes that to what
I said earlier. Presentation and personality. So when you come
me in, you know, I'm gonna be smiling. I'm gonna
ease that that nervousness down. So now I coached you
from aid to see you're actually it wasn't that bad.
Then the next day when you get known be like, wait,
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I love that feeling. It's I call it a restive workout.
So I'm not going to afflict too much pain because
it wants to be in the focus is technique, range, emotion,
and breathe. And once we have done that for a
couple of days a couple of weeks, then we can
start doing apps from the kneeling position, apps on the
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ground because we can do the crazy size. But if
you don't have to breathe or properly engage your court.
You know you're not gonna know what to be alb
but not to feel because you can do a hundred
sit ups all they're like, oh, all right, I did
I feel like that is I think, But it's more
to it than that. Yeah, absolutely listen. As soon as
you started talking and you said set up straight, I
was like, oh, gotta remember my car, and I'm already going,
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you know, trying to sit cord and hold it in
better posture already, So every little bit counts. But I
tell people, just like right now, what you do. You
can do an interview everything, but while you're sitting there,
you sent me any hell that through you know, it's
helling through your mouth. That's gonna naturally engage your court
through about the day. That's one of the best app exercises,
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which is called poor country interest because you're you tightly relaxing.
You do that all date me you're breathing. People don't
realize that you don't have a necessarily work you cool
to work your core when you're sitting up straight your course,
engage when you're saying the course engage and you're traveling
your course gage, and you're breathing your course gage, so
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let's just learn how to finally breathe. You should buy
and arrange emotions to keep your core in age to
have an ame Sean. I wish we had more time
to actually get a workout in today, but hopefully we
can bring you back to the Money Moves podcast and
you can show us some of these great exercises in
real life. But coming now, I have a scenario from
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one of our viewers that would like to ask of
your expertise on helping him get that six pack of
his dreams about Our viewer wrote in I'm trying to
rapidly lose fat for a costume party, So pretty much,
I'm trying to lose fat urgently in a period of
five weeks, specifically the first two to three weeks. I'm
a twenty one year old male eleven fifty five pounds. Also,
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in this case, I don't care so much about muscle.
I just want to lose fat and have great apps.
I want to be able to lose fat in the
first half but not mess myself up and still be
able to lose fat at a decent rate for the
second half of that time period. This is a very
specific question. Gosh, this is like a genie and a
bottle type answer. But anyways, suppose I eat a low
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amount of calories daily and exercise to make a calorie
deficit of around one thousand. How long can I eat
like this and lose fat at a rapid rate? What
will be told? It's about a want. I have parted
on the hosted here in my house this weekend. So
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this week I'm doing no cards, so my calories is
gonna be between seven five week So for one of
your diets for the week, pretty much at a file rice, houlifier,
mash of fish, shrimp, chicken, ko and salads. So I
don't have no cars, so I don't eat. I'm still
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even three or five times a day, but I don't
have no cars and spots and sugars. I'm cut to
a minute. So and that's a question is the diet
first and four months? So I would say, brain those
calories and I don't know about seven hundred. But then
also you want to get a good detox team because
a lot of people are realizing if you have detox
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of what's your coat in the well, you may be
sitting on about five to ten pounds of waste down.
You're not gonna detox your entire coating right away. It's
gonna take you know, of course, of a couple of months.
But if you do it within that time frame, you
will see a significant difference on your diet. Detox and
you workout, and you put those three together, you should
see a significant difference if you missed everything together the
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right way. First of all, I just want to say
I started crying because I was at Chief Factor the
other day and I looked at like one item on
the menu and it was litter really like five thousand calories.
So seventy for a week is pretty good. But obviously
it's cheesecake factory they're giving you because on the weekends
when I'm taking my kids and my fat man, oh,
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I don't eat it all hot weeks and we just have.
But you know, as accountability to myself, I know my
angel with my body is gonna reflect when I pull
a certain things out of my dice and no alcohol water,
now juice cut out in the salt suitar and you
put that poop in there. And now I'm doing my
workhouse and I'm staying committed to my diet and a
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lot of people you can't look at yourself every day
and sad to say something in two three days. Once
you get yourself right now, I'll tell them the stuff
on scale because you cannot lose a pound of two,
but you can lose more body fat. I tell people
focus on the body fat versus weight loss. You focus
on that body fat. You can look leaner, but seea
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being more on the two pounds when you're rich. You wait,
you know what I'm saying. So I tell people to
focus on that and it wants to get and not
to repeat myself. Diet, detox, workout, you can't go over
a lot of people feel as though, oh I only
only eat once of twice today. You know, you still
don't have to eat three or four times today. You
know if you can't, I tell even eat at least
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a minimum three times a day. But in between you
two healthy snacks like a smoothing or a salad, something
that can hold you over, you know, throughout there without
but do not starve your stuff. And when you're working out,
don't just do cardio. Make sure you spring training because
they're you ever sitting a woman or a guy that
in doing a stirch trip and they just a cardio cardio,
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cardio cardio. And now they just started boos everywhere because
they're not doing any stript train people that waitious process
to guy and weight us. So you have to balance
out on your entire region. So the diet part is
so important. You know, you can't severybody because it knows
every single thing you put in. What I'm super fascinated
about is even how you talked about detox, saying, so
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what are some easy ways to detox? Are you talking
about just the juice clans? You know, what should we
be paying attention to? So I have a product called
an abstract. Abstract is a colon pleas in detox that
you can take over the course of seven days for
fourteen days. If you see, I think it's all only
tell me like nine nine if you take it seven
days and two deals one and two deals A nine.
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If you take you for fourteen days and there's two
deals that light before you go to bed, I promise
if you do I seven days. I won'tly recommend if
you work from home, but fourteen days, you know you
can take it A nice step about your name with
seven days I'm telling you now you might want to
be fine because it's gonna be it's gonna total. You know,
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maybe you know if you had it in there. Okay, okay,
well listen. I hope y'all are taking notes because we're
trying to give you the answer so that you can
get those apps that you want in a safe way
for your body. But at the end of the day,
you gotta incorporate signs on top of it. There's no
way around that. One thing about it I tell people
is you can't expect to lose a month of years
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worth of work in a short period. If it took
you to three months to put on five ti pounds,
then realistically, do you think it's safe to lose that
in one week? That average weight loss, that average weight
loss is two or four pounds a week. That's like
the average weight loss two to four pounds a week,
so it's four weeks to a month. So that gives
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you the eight to twelve pounds in a month. But
I always telling people, what you put in is what
you get out. If you diet and work out how
you supposed to, your body will reflect that. Don't try
to cut yourself the overnight results. Don't get caught up
in these social media before the apples, because guess what,
we don't know what else you're doing outside, but they're
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not telling us. They can say, hey, this person to
this product of where they may not can tell you
that is this person is also not eating and they're
working out three or four times to day. They're almost
a killing themselves. What it's good for you. You can't
compare yourself to the next person. Focus on you and
let you work, do what it's closed to do. Yeah,
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and I think there's a bigger lesson that in that
focus on you and leave everybody else, and like, you
will get the gains that you want. Just do the work.
You get the games that you want. So you have
your own products and stuff. Yeah, it's Kydie Abstract and
it's one of my best others, like the Cleanses. It's
one of my favorites. Wow. Okay, so this is really
fascinating to me. So not only have you built this
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brand based on the apps of Groo and your exercises,
you've now launched out into actually having your own product line. Yeah,
all the products of accommodating programs that we offer their
non student they're safe for the seniors, people with medications.
So we kind of create a stuffing that can be
sub and you know taking by everyone. Wow. So tell
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us about you mentioned the detox products. Which other products
you have, We have their detail. We have the crioscope
in jail, which is a it's a menthol you could
look to say. It's talkable that people can apply for
working alwas haves and avia score this civiness and pain,
but it also increases your blossed circulation that we have
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the permit genus coping that we put on after the
workout which helps ferns and tigers in but it also
has reduce socilty by the ladies if you do places
when you're on your legs or blood. We have what
we have here on an app man we do when
we do new floor exercises that advt helps with people
that have lower back strains. We have the app wheel. Uh.
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We have we have sweat Best that they were because
I don't promote waste trainers, so we have sweat Best
that they can put on the help and kind of
swipt you know a total body. We have stress balls
for the seniors. We have therapy NaNs. We have finger
resistant banks and they can be exercises. So we have
a great bit of the products that can accommodate the
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classes and programs that we offer. Wow, and that's great.
So at what point in the this is did you realize, Okay,
there's an opporunity here to launch, to increase my brand
and launch products. You know, you're now going from just
fitness offering to your manufacturing and creating all this stuff.
That's that's really impressive as well. It became the point
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when people started asking me what should I take this?
What can I do for that? What can I do
with your classes? Pros? I was just like, wait, moms,
people you see it bidm shop and I just you know,
make my own products and made lands for say profit.
So you know, I just got ties in English in
Biben shot which is raised those but I'm just like,
I don't know what that prodress you know is in there?
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I own, so they just create my own that I
know about. I can promote and I can advise you.
Oh wow, Well we can't wait to try it. And
we'll make sure that we check out those products as well.
And you have merged as well, T shirts everything. See,
it's the whole nine large. And this is the thing.
These are the messages that you know you started as
an individual, but you've now grown this brand that has
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to merge and products in this and this is like
one of those watch me do its type stories that
we love to share with so many people. Oh, Jean,
thank you so much for answering all our viewers questions.
And it was such a pleasure to have you on
here today and we will definitely have you back in
person where we can get some great app exercises in
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for people of all ages and capabilities. I think that
is really a wonderful, wonderful thing that you do. I
love it. I appreciation you guys. Going to be the
time to come on for the coming next time. Can
you tell everyone in our Money Moves audience where they
can find you on social media and where they can
find some of your classes and where you're working out
at social media is the Google as g U r
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U A B S all O words saying with Facebook,
you can also letlop by Google as apples I US
and your fire TV Roogle and you know we're lying
to let me do Fridays now all this does your class.
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That's incredible, so guys, make sure you subscribe and check
out his subscription classes. They will be worth it, worth it,
worth it. Get body and mind in shape. Alright, money Movers,
that is all we have time for in this episode.
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you can't be making big money moves and big financial
moves if you're not taking care of your most valuable assets,
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guests specializes in standing sculpting, ABS, core body sculpting training,
senior fitness and training for autistic kids. Money Movers, Let's
(00:44):
welcome DeShawn Johnson, a k a. The Guru of Abs
to the podcast today. DeShawn, it's a pleasure to have
you here. Well, the Guru of ABS is certainly an
intimidating name because all of us always could do a
little bit more work on our ABS, and every single
woman and man I know is always looking to obtain
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that six, eight or twelve pack of our dreams. Can
you briefly walk us through your story and how you
got that incredible name? Well, first off, guru is an
individual that obtains the knowledge and use it in a
certain area. So as the Google of as I teach
individuals how do quote their absent core the non traditional
way out getting that on the ground. So we have
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standing absent CORP. We have seated assing cord which is
for the seas. We also have big ass and cor.
We have apuera aps and cord. We have heated ass
and cord. We have so many dimensions of absent cord
and show the individuals how to score their apps without
getting on and down and doing crunches and see us
essay thing is the most effective way to get done.
(01:50):
I love that, and I mean, so let's go back
to your story of how you really broke into this business,
because you've gained renowned fame both on the Internet and
your classes that you've applied for not just you know,
healthy young people, but seniors and autistic children. Can you
walk us through the beginning of your journey in this
fitness industry? So the beginning to my journey, It started
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off at l A Fitness back in I Want to
Stay twenty not two thousand nine ten. I started off
as a stales counseling in l in l A Fitness
and then it was at that point I realized that
selling training membership wasn't me because I was getting so
caught up in the person of training sessions that I
just decided to movie transition to get certified and become
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a personal trainer. And then being an Atlantic station, which
was a high profile area at the time, I met
a lot of great individuals, a lot of great opportunities
and I just took advantage of it. And at that point,
social media was just in the beginning of the space,
especially Instagram, and my first Instagram man was the fifty
Superman as Deal and at that point my friends was like, Yo,
(02:54):
that's not gonna cut it. And then we at that point,
it's time to come up with the name that came
ravery with it what I want to do it in fitness,
and I came up with Google Apps. Was a lady
I was teaching free to a classes that as a
X stay. She said Google when it comes to apps,
and it just suck at my head. So I learned
what Google was. As I said earlier, it's an individual
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that I taste the knowledge is a certain area and
using to dialog, and so I took the name and
I lived up to it and learning the course of
my training career, I just came up with various ways
to show that I was a Google of apps. I
love this. And you know what I love about being
able to feature different entrepreneurs because you're incredibly successful entrepreneurs,
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is that we are able to connect with people like
yourself who are passionate about different things. So the fitness
industry in particular, I mean a lot of people who
are trying to break into the fitness industry who have taken,
you know, college courses or fitness classes. And here you
are having launched this incredibly successful brand. So do you
have a degree in fitness or you just sort of
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evolved into this and talk about when you realize you
can actually make some money doing this. So I actually
went to schools for criminal justice. Like most athletes in commeges,
you know, you want to take the most easiest course
just to give you most afflees to the criminal justice folks.
But you know, I don't have a degree in exercise science.
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When I did get the proper certifucacious along the course
of me becoming a person trainer as far as personal training,
group fishing, group, I'm sorry, group fitness, and nutrition and
what really made open up my eyes to the big picture.
I remember it like it was yesterday young teensy back
in the day, he had a bodyguard and worked out
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in the gym and somebody said, hey, man, you need
to meet this guy right here. When I was talking
to him, he said, hey, I want to give you
with him so we can work on his apps. And
it was at that point that I realized that as
a personal trainer you can be the next best claim
to a grabber or a professional athlete, because everybody, no
matter what you do, it's gonna value that health and
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with on this and now get compared to ten years
ago or let me years to go fitness at it
all time how I specially coming after the pandemic, and
for me after the pandemic is really it's when my
senior Figgess program really propelled to the next level. So
to really answer your question, it was when I got
this celebrity client and then I started in feature of
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new segments that was like, hey, this really can be
a big deal if you make yourself a household name.
That's what I was just sitting doing to this day,
is to make myself a household name. Might legendary Billy
Blake's showing team individuals upon those lines because I would
at fit. That's how the many people look at the
rap game. It's surrounder every night in the club or
(05:41):
doing the show. So that means as a personal trainer,
one of us can be in the gym expos doing
the class. And in Atlanta we're overcrowded right now. No
personal trainer can train every person in allowing public book
and can do is to be sufficient to those in
our city if we sit. Didn't know if I ourself collectively,
(06:02):
so you don't move me my odaity as to Google maps,
I want a personal train. I like to move virtually
hoofs classes because I want people to come to me
for apps, but you need to go to somebody else
for cardio the weight train. And see, that's what I
think is so interesting about this in general, there's niches
where you can find there's something for everyone, and you've
done a great job of being able to market that
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and sort of lay down the road map for others
to follow in your path. Can you talk in particular,
because I'm so curious about your seniors programs and also
your programs for children with autism. Okay, so to senior
program that was created and I don't know my grandparents
that I lost four years ago. And you know, after
the time, I just hid. I just hid rock Bob,
you know, because I was so closely raised on my
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grandparents and it was something that I wanted to do
and I've known to this day. Like yesterday, I went
into the Regulation Center Indicator, Georgia, which was a shange
park and I was trying to get back into groove
and doing bof veagas classes. When I was in there,
they never said, Hey, we have this healthful issue of
what can we do to pay you to offer free classes?
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And I kid you not. I looked at the gym
and I just say some seniors playing around. I said,
what if we do a senior program? And I kid
you not. In my first class, we had ten senior citizens.
Over the course of eight to ten months, we moved
from ten to two hundred, filling up an entire basketball
court Monday through Friday, and we were going strong. Within
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the pandemic came, which was a blessing. But you know,
rest in peace and say everybody and lost his loved
one because I lost his loved ones because COVID. But
COVID not only open all of our eyes for COVID
really made me read them and rebranding myself. So you know,
of course when COVID hit, we couldn't go to the gym,
we couldn't do nothing, So I had to rebound my
(07:50):
virtual presentation. So I got back to doing free classes
and on Facebook we went from three hundred seniors to
two thousand every day. And now we've lunched to see
you're out. Yeah, we're partnered with a RP Hugh Mana,
We're partnered with a lot of healthcare providers. So right
now my focus is on special pay room, senior citizens,
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autistic kids, you know, people with phils, fal limitations, people
that are overlooked because I'm pretty sure you know in
that lane, everybody wants to randers, everybody wants to models,
team and reality stars. That's cool, but what about the
everyday people that can't do the tradition workouts, to people
that don't get a personal training that can modify exercises
(08:33):
for that because a lot of trainers want the money,
but you gotta have the passion paces to get and
you know, more the autistic kids. That was just a
random idea of a friend of mine hid and he said, hey, Manny,
thought about working the specialty kids, I said, and all
so I did some research and I came up with
a program that was called Autistic Strong. And what made
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me even focus on that was we got featured on
CNN and now you I'll take the kids. That's one
of the most gifted existial kids you'll ever meet. But
all you have to do is find this thing you sasins.
You just gotta have a love for what you do.
And it's the emotional testing. Don't get me wrong, because
a lot of times it's going to test your patients.
But you have to focus on a big picture, you know.
(09:17):
I tell the people when you plan to see you
have to water it. Where focus goes energy flows. So
if you plant us even water and focus on it,
the image is gonna fall in. The conversation may not
necessary to be money, but it may be people opportunities
such as this where others can find out about you
with what you're doing. But I also think too, like
(09:37):
I love what you said, where focus goes energy flows
and it doesn't always manifest as money at first, but
it will eventually. And this is like testament to how
you've pivoted, how you've used like You've had a long
twenty years almost career, and look at all the iterations
you've come. But from this, you get pressed. You get this,
and the money comes after it if you really are
passionate and love what you do. Yeah. Us, you know
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I came from uh you know, I came from the hood.
And you know, a lot of times I think about,
you know, when I was in the the blood kid, when
I was downtown. When everybody wants to high end clientele,
I'm like, Okay, why would I want one client to
have to pay fifty times dollars a session when I
can have fifty clients they're paying five to Timber, I
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was a succession because now I have more people to
talk about my service they have one or two people.
Don't get me wrong, I clienteleer's great, But I focused
on impact, you know, the right versus a quick book,
because if you can servius and more people, you're gonna
get more people coming. And I've realized that once she
started writhing with the seniors and the autistic kids, and
to this day, that's why I you know a lot
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of times I do free I do free workouts because
you know, I'm blessed to be in a position that
I am. So you know, if I can continue to
give back. Now I can go out to these corporates,
these sponsors, they say, hey, how much are you willing
to sponsor to this program for us? So now, if
I can put this program I've met for free, now
I'm gonna get more people. So when I come back
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to other product to sell a T shirt, I will
make more than I would if I was said charge
for an individual tuning or for training your class. I
love this too, because obviously you've got a great business
head on yourselves, and I feel like there's lots of
folks out there that are looking to break through. They've
got their fitness license and they're looking to build clientele.
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Do you have any tips or tricks that you could
offer to, you know, the young aspiring fitness trainer. Ye, yes, yes,
I tell a lot of trainers go into a gym
and figure out your identity. Don't let some media press
you to become something so bad, because you're not gonna
get it overnight. Like you say, I've been I've been
fitnessed now one thirteen, fourteen years and I'm just now
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getting to the point of what I envisioned back in
two thousand and nine and a lot of you because
they need, Man, how did you get this when you
add the first off? You gotta broke, you gotta struggle,
you gotta sacrifice, you gotta lose some sweet You're not
gonna eat, You're gonna live a day to day week
by week. So they have to get out here in
the spears to struggle. So when you face it, you're
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not gonna be uncomfortable with it. So go into a gym,
l A Fitness, playing this, playing fitness Lifetime. There's so
many brands, chains, jamls are out here. Go in there
because they have the clientele. They just need trainers. And
in l A Fitness is where I involved into the
Google of Apps and respectively, I branched out away from them,
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and I felt it was comfortable for me to survive
in the real world as an independent trainer because you know,
now you have to market yourself in the world where
everybody's a person you're training, just like everybody's mom, rapp
or you know, find Advisor. There's so many people, were
so many hats. You have a focus on the presentation.
Somebody say, hey, you're a training you're a trainer, what's
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the difference because nobody in men flocks nobody in man
and ask for what we can event is a character
personality son to attract you because me, because there's something
you see you different than me, then you see somebody else.
And that's why I focused on giving back, making sure
my speech is correct and make sure my personality is warming,
welcome because there's a lot of great trains out here
(13:15):
online and then you get in person like, oh wow,
they're not sociable approachable. So as a thing, as a
public picker, you have to be will rally you're gonna do,
You're gonna be a community provider. You have to be accessible,
hands on the community, you know, across tasks with you.
I love that and you know it's one of those
things too that people always say that, and I think
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the same goes through and you know, we're talking about
startups and technology on this show a lot. There's something
to be said for going in and putting in the groundwork,
working for somebody else for a little bit so that
you can grow and understand from that. You know, everyone
thinks they're gonna jump into entrepreneurship or being their own boss,
but there's a huge learning in having and working for
other people, understanding the nuances of an organization so that
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you can grow and find yourself in that. Yeah, it's
a partnership. It's like, now what I do, I can
turn somebody our tunis where say no, I want to
be one hundred sent Google of Apps. But I'll be
a fool to walk away from some of these court
races and say hey, how much are you willing to
take to come into this organization? And they might not
pay you what you want, but you have to look
(14:18):
at it. You're walking into a corporational business or organization
with hundreds of houses of people in front of you,
and you can pull front that. And a lot of
times I tell people keep your money, let's focus on
an opportunity first, and after you see what I can do,
let's free the kid, because that you know, I have time.
But what I don't have is those partnerships and punshonships
(14:41):
that will create that loung jail, the consistency of training,
because that's a trainer. You can have a popping month,
but then the following month all that money is going
out but nothing is coming in. But if you have
those partnerships, because sponsorships in place, everything would keep your
voting out of what Oh, I hope people are hearing
what you're seeing there. It's like oftentimes it's not about
the quick, but it's about building longevity and partnerships and
(15:03):
relationships especially you know those people come back and they're like,
I like what you did, and they're coming back year
over year. Like that is really important in trying to
build a brand. And I tell I tell a lot
of trainers that don't be afraid of the word no. No.
That's to me, no no means next opportunity. You have
to shot. And see what I'm saying. If you got
(15:24):
team businesses, I guarantee you two or three are gonna
take interest in you. Your opportunity. You have to use
your network, Facebook, Instagram, put something out there. Hey I'm
looking for five free clients. I'm looking for five this
and that, and I'm gear retuning. Know who doesn't like
a free workout? You say, and and honestly, when you
(15:44):
ask me earlier, how did I gave one of being opportunities?
Somebody committed me with a news anger and I said, Hey,
if I train you feed for burthdays, can you get
me a segment highlighting what I do and it's opportunities
like that, so I can't bother for exposure. I would definitely,
I would definitely do that, like when it comes to
radio TV because right now, if what's the um, what's
(16:09):
the big time show? Let's say Overstead had television and
me and you go on over right now, now, once
we come off that show, our value just went up
because we're we're profiled on the platform that everything that
cost to can't you know? And I realized that in
this game, it's about connections and that's one thing that
I focusing on there. It's more connections and partnerships because
(16:33):
it's so many people chasing that same end goal to
see a high end trainer to make you know, money,
which is what we all want to do. But what's
going to separate you from the rest is what you're
doing and how you presenting yourselves. I love that, And
you know it's again it's like it's not about just
one or two flashy clients. It's like you're touching so
many people, whether they're seniors or children or this. And
(16:56):
then you know those seniors, their kids are like, hey,
this guy's training you, and so it just it tends
to grow so much more significantly that way. That's career. Okay,
So one thing I'm super fascinated in is the fact
that you do a lot of different workouts, so not
your traditional crunches on the floor, get up? What was
it that was special about offering something different to people
(17:18):
in terms of how they can tone their abs, helping
them understanding the three planes of emotions with their body
which they use it everyday. Emotions sagial, frontal, and transverse.
So right now you know you've been boarding back those
an upper apps you rosate left the right, those are rotations.
Once you go right to left, those to five be
it's on helping them understand how does strategically and properly
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use everybody to engage their course promising I'm in the
sea life, So my seniors, you come to the interest
the scene all right, sitting on the edge of the sea.
It helps you engage your core. Now everything is about
range of emotions. So you have on the drinks so
you're not gone you been, so we can do an
easy rotation. You bring your hands up right here in
all your postion. You see your hips can't move because
(18:04):
you're sitting down. But what you can do is you
can rotate left and then you can rotate right in
a controlled manner, which would help you engage your robliefs.
So I help people understand the science and anatomy of
their body because you have a lot of trains down
here and taking up here there, hanging upside down and
doing leave to touches, And my thing is okay, it's
(18:26):
cool and all, but what if that everything person at
home that has a bad need back back, back shoulder
that can't do that? So what I do is im
I showcasing the most symable range promotional workouts when we
put advanced movements in it, but we do it in
a certain amount when people are comfortable with the workhouse,
(18:46):
so like my classes of all fitness notes, but I
do tell them that monifocations are provided we needed. So
if you have a bad back back, show the bad need,
I will show you how not to make it excuses
both work around it so you can be to continue
to work out. Oh you got me right there, Because
oftentimes I feel like look at a lot of facings
online and they're super super all these steps and routines
(19:10):
to it, and so they count themselves out before they
even try it, you know, or they're worried about hurting
themselves and the average person just needs to you know,
put in a little bit of time, do some a
couple of reps every day to really see progress and growth.
But they don't start if they are afraid. Well, they
got thinking about it. It's something you said than people
here to google baths. They are not resign. Whoa let
(19:33):
we're about to do. So they goes that to what
I said earlier. Presentation and personality. So when you come
me in, you know, I'm gonna be smiling. I'm gonna
ease that that nervousness down. So now I coached you
from aid to see you're actually it wasn't that bad.
Then the next day when you get known be like, wait,
(19:54):
I love that feeling. It's I call it a restive workout.
So I'm not going to afflict too much pain because
it wants to be in the focus is technique, range, emotion,
and breathe. And once we have done that for a
couple of days a couple of weeks, then we can
start doing apps from the kneeling position, apps on the
(20:15):
ground because we can do the crazy size. But if
you don't have to breathe or properly engage your court.
You know you're not gonna know what to be alb
but not to feel because you can do a hundred
sit ups all they're like, oh, all right, I did
I feel like that is I think, But it's more
to it than that. Yeah, absolutely listen. As soon as
you started talking and you said set up straight, I
was like, oh, gotta remember my car, and I'm already going,
(20:37):
you know, trying to sit cord and hold it in
better posture already, So every little bit counts. But I
tell people, just like right now, what you do. You
can do an interview everything, but while you're sitting there,
you sent me any hell that through you know, it's
helling through your mouth. That's gonna naturally engage your court
through about the day. That's one of the best app exercises,
(20:58):
which is called poor country interest because you're you tightly relaxing.
You do that all date me you're breathing. People don't
realize that you don't have a necessarily work you cool
to work your core when you're sitting up straight your course,
engage when you're saying the course engage and you're traveling
your course gage, and you're breathing your course gage, so
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let's just learn how to finally breathe. You should buy
and arrange emotions to keep your core in age to
have an ame Sean. I wish we had more time
to actually get a workout in today, but hopefully we
can bring you back to the Money Moves podcast and
you can show us some of these great exercises in
real life. But coming now, I have a scenario from
(21:42):
one of our viewers that would like to ask of
your expertise on helping him get that six pack of
his dreams about Our viewer wrote in I'm trying to
rapidly lose fat for a costume party, So pretty much,
I'm trying to lose fat urgently in a period of
five weeks, specifically the first two to three weeks. I'm
a twenty one year old male eleven fifty five pounds. Also,
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in this case, I don't care so much about muscle.
I just want to lose fat and have great apps.
I want to be able to lose fat in the
first half but not mess myself up and still be
able to lose fat at a decent rate for the
second half of that time period. This is a very
specific question. Gosh, this is like a genie and a
bottle type answer. But anyways, suppose I eat a low
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amount of calories daily and exercise to make a calorie
deficit of around one thousand. How long can I eat
like this and lose fat at a rapid rate? What
will be told? It's about a want. I have parted
on the hosted here in my house this weekend. So
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this week I'm doing no cards, so my calories is
gonna be between seven five week So for one of
your diets for the week, pretty much at a file rice, houlifier,
mash of fish, shrimp, chicken, ko and salads. So I
don't have no cars, so I don't eat. I'm still
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even three or five times a day, but I don't
have no cars and spots and sugars. I'm cut to
a minute. So and that's a question is the diet
first and four months? So I would say, brain those
calories and I don't know about seven hundred. But then
also you want to get a good detox team because
a lot of people are realizing if you have detox
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of what's your coat in the well, you may be
sitting on about five to ten pounds of waste down.
You're not gonna detox your entire coating right away. It's
gonna take you know, of course, of a couple of months.
But if you do it within that time frame, you
will see a significant difference on your diet. Detox and
you workout, and you put those three together, you should
see a significant difference if you missed everything together the
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right way. First of all, I just want to say
I started crying because I was at Chief Factor the
other day and I looked at like one item on
the menu and it was litter really like five thousand calories.
So seventy for a week is pretty good. But obviously
it's cheesecake factory they're giving you because on the weekends
when I'm taking my kids and my fat man, oh,
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I don't eat it all hot weeks and we just have.
But you know, as accountability to myself, I know my
angel with my body is gonna reflect when I pull
a certain things out of my dice and no alcohol water,
now juice cut out in the salt suitar and you
put that poop in there. And now I'm doing my
workhouse and I'm staying committed to my diet and a
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lot of people you can't look at yourself every day
and sad to say something in two three days. Once
you get yourself right now, I'll tell them the stuff
on scale because you cannot lose a pound of two,
but you can lose more body fat. I tell people
focus on the body fat versus weight loss. You focus
on that body fat. You can look leaner, but seea
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being more on the two pounds when you're rich. You wait,
you know what I'm saying. So I tell people to
focus on that and it wants to get and not
to repeat myself. Diet, detox, workout, you can't go over
a lot of people feel as though, oh I only
only eat once of twice today. You know, you still
don't have to eat three or four times today. You
know if you can't, I tell even eat at least
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a minimum three times a day. But in between you
two healthy snacks like a smoothing or a salad, something
that can hold you over, you know, throughout there without
but do not starve your stuff. And when you're working out,
don't just do cardio. Make sure you spring training because
they're you ever sitting a woman or a guy that
in doing a stirch trip and they just a cardio cardio,
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cardio cardio. And now they just started boos everywhere because
they're not doing any stript train people that waitious process
to guy and weight us. So you have to balance
out on your entire region. So the diet part is
so important. You know, you can't severybody because it knows
every single thing you put in. What I'm super fascinated
about is even how you talked about detox, saying, so
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what are some easy ways to detox? Are you talking
about just the juice clans? You know, what should we
be paying attention to? So I have a product called
an abstract. Abstract is a colon pleas in detox that
you can take over the course of seven days for
fourteen days. If you see, I think it's all only
tell me like nine nine if you take it seven
days and two deals one and two deals A nine.
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If you take you for fourteen days and there's two
deals that light before you go to bed, I promise
if you do I seven days. I won'tly recommend if
you work from home, but fourteen days, you know you
can take it A nice step about your name with
seven days I'm telling you now you might want to
be fine because it's gonna be it's gonna total. You know,
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maybe you know if you had it in there. Okay, okay,
well listen. I hope y'all are taking notes because we're
trying to give you the answer so that you can
get those apps that you want in a safe way
for your body. But at the end of the day,
you gotta incorporate signs on top of it. There's no
way around that. One thing about it I tell people
is you can't expect to lose a month of years
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worth of work in a short period. If it took
you to three months to put on five ti pounds,
then realistically, do you think it's safe to lose that
in one week? That average weight loss, that average weight
loss is two or four pounds a week. That's like
the average weight loss two to four pounds a week,
so it's four weeks to a month. So that gives
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you the eight to twelve pounds in a month. But
I always telling people, what you put in is what
you get out. If you diet and work out how
you supposed to, your body will reflect that. Don't try
to cut yourself the overnight results. Don't get caught up
in these social media before the apples, because guess what,
we don't know what else you're doing outside, but they're
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not telling us. They can say, hey, this person to
this product of where they may not can tell you
that is this person is also not eating and they're
working out three or four times to day. They're almost
a killing themselves. What it's good for you. You can't
compare yourself to the next person. Focus on you and
let you work, do what it's closed to do. Yeah,
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and I think there's a bigger lesson that in that
focus on you and leave everybody else, and like, you
will get the gains that you want. Just do the work.
You get the games that you want. So you have
your own products and stuff. Yeah, it's Kydie Abstract and
it's one of my best others, like the Cleanses. It's
one of my favorites. Wow. Okay, so this is really
fascinating to me. So not only have you built this
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brand based on the apps of Groo and your exercises,
you've now launched out into actually having your own product line. Yeah,
all the products of accommodating programs that we offer their
non student they're safe for the seniors, people with medications.
So we kind of create a stuffing that can be
sub and you know taking by everyone. Wow. So tell
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us about you mentioned the detox products. Which other products
you have, We have their detail. We have the crioscope
in jail, which is a it's a menthol you could
look to say. It's talkable that people can apply for
working alwas haves and avia score this civiness and pain,
but it also increases your blossed circulation that we have
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the permit genus coping that we put on after the
workout which helps ferns and tigers in but it also
has reduce socilty by the ladies if you do places
when you're on your legs or blood. We have what
we have here on an app man we do when
we do new floor exercises that advt helps with people
that have lower back strains. We have the app wheel. Uh.
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We have we have sweat Best that they were because
I don't promote waste trainers, so we have sweat Best
that they can put on the help and kind of
swipt you know a total body. We have stress balls
for the seniors. We have therapy NaNs. We have finger
resistant banks and they can be exercises. So we have
a great bit of the products that can accommodate the
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classes and programs that we offer. Wow, and that's great.
So at what point in the this is did you realize, Okay,
there's an opporunity here to launch, to increase my brand
and launch products. You know, you're now going from just
fitness offering to your manufacturing and creating all this stuff.
That's that's really impressive as well. It became the point
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when people started asking me what should I take this?
What can I do for that? What can I do
with your classes? Pros? I was just like, wait, moms,
people you see it bidm shop and I just you know,
make my own products and made lands for say profit.
So you know, I just got ties in English in
Biben shot which is raised those but I'm just like,
I don't know what that prodress you know is in there?
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I own, so they just create my own that I
know about. I can promote and I can advise you.
Oh wow, Well we can't wait to try it. And
we'll make sure that we check out those products as well.
And you have merged as well, T shirts everything. See,
it's the whole nine large. And this is the thing.
These are the messages that you know you started as
an individual, but you've now grown this brand that has
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to merge and products in this and this is like
one of those watch me do its type stories that
we love to share with so many people. Oh, Jean,
thank you so much for answering all our viewers questions.
And it was such a pleasure to have you on
here today and we will definitely have you back in
person where we can get some great app exercises in
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for people of all ages and capabilities. I think that
is really a wonderful, wonderful thing that you do. I
love it. I appreciation you guys. Going to be the
time to come on for the coming next time. Can
you tell everyone in our Money Moves audience where they
can find you on social media and where they can
find some of your classes and where you're working out
at social media is the Google as g U r
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U A B S all O words saying with Facebook,
you can also letlop by Google as apples I US
and your fire TV Roogle and you know we're lying
to let me do Fridays now all this does your class.
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That's incredible, so guys, make sure you subscribe and check
out his subscription classes. They will be worth it, worth it,
worth it. Get body and mind in shape. Alright, money Movers,
that is all we have time for in this episode.
Thank you so much to our Healthy Moves expert, to
Shawn Johnson for coming and guiding us through those exercises.
Money Movers make sure to follow de Shawn and all
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