May 17, 2023 • 32 mins
Join us as we welcome a superhero mama that transformed her life and made it her business to help others transform theirs. Meet LaTasha Renee she’s the founder and owner of P2P – Pushups 2 Pinups Transformation center that is not only helping people transform their mental and physical but also helping them as they find their WHY to keep them motivated! She is not only an entrepreneur that launched it all while being a single mom, she is also now an author and starting her own non-profit. She takes us on her journey as she kicks off these new adventures, while she stays fit and helps others do the same!
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This Mama Got Drama. We're backfor another episode. So excited too,
because anytime we can bring the momstogether, you know it's gonna be a
good day. Your host, LadyRay, of course, my co host,
the amazing Drina Gonzalez with us today. How are you feeling, Drina?
I'm good. I feel like wehaven't done an episode in a while,
so I'm a little out of itright now. It's been a little
while, but I'm excited because wehave one of our amazing entrepreneur moms who
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like, every time I talk toher, she's like, oh, yeah,
I got this going on. Igot that going on, and I
got this going on, and it'samazing. Does not stop right I mean
so much so that we literally hadto ask her to stop right now so
she could be on the podcast.But we are here with the amazing Latasha
Renee, who uh man needs nointroduction because there's so much going on that
we're gonna get into. How areyou feeling today, Tash, I am
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so amazing. I'm good. I'mgood for having me, Thank you for
thank you for coming. Because thetitle for this episode is Mama, you
want to be fit and you wantto be an entrepreneur because you are out
here not only being fit yourself,but transforming thousands of lives. So for
those that may not know you,talk to him a little bit about how
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you're transforming lives. Yeah. So, um, I've been in the fitness
industry. Gosh, I'll be fiftytwo this year, So I've been in
She does not look like we needto make sure a photo of Latasha and
with this podcast just so you know, Okay, oh yeah, it's it's
it's the workout, it's the workout. No, but gosh, I started
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in the fitness industry at nineteen yearsold, and I started in it because
I love the energy that came fromit. And then of course as I
stayed in it, I love theenergy that came from the people that were
in it. And so I havefour gyms in the Bay Area and a
cycling studio. UM and we're calledP two P Transformation Center also known as
Push Ups to pin Ups, andit really is about I mean, it
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started with this like amazing space forwomen to come and collectively get their fitness
on and find like minded people forthis new kind of mindset of being being
fit for some people, right,Um, and then of course we've we've
grown and developed, and we gota lot of men who like to come.
Um. But yeah, it's justit's a group training centers. Um.
We do a lot of high intensityand able training and strength training,
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which is very different than some ofthe studios. There's a lot of cardio
going on, and I wanted tomake sure that women knew that being strong
is sexy, and so we doa little bit more resistance training and weights
than your than your average cardio studios. So yeah, we transformed through through
exercise and mental awareness too. That'sa lot of it is that. And
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what I really like is that,you know, during the workouts and during
all the training, the trainers don'tjust focus on you know, oh,
let's get fit, let's do this, let's do that. They say,
hey, why are you trying toget fit? What your why? And
they really try to help you figureout what that is, because that's what's
really going to motivate you and keepyou going. Yeah, and then everything
and I'm always going, but whydo you want that? But why do
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you want that? Right? Lookwhat it's going to feel like to you
when you get that, Because atthe end of the day, that's that's
what it's all about. If it'sgonna make you go out and own more
moments like get that. If it'sgonna go out, if it's gonna help
you go do more things to accomplishwhatever it is, go do that.
I really feel like fitness is afoundation, um, foundational piece of life
that helps you just feel good andbe in control. And a lot of
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us, sometimes women, we lackthe control. Right, We're pulled in
a million different directions, and andwe allow that to be our compass.
And I'm saying no, no,no, like you set your compass so
you can be strong in every direction, right, because that's that's really a
valuable part of what we do.And then, oh, sorry, I
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didn't mean to catch you off,right, go ahead. I was just
gonna say, let's not act likeyou did this. Just hey, I'm
out here. I want to starta bit like you did this while you
had babies. Right, Yeah,I did this. Um, actually I
did this on the tail end ofour really horrible divorce. That as the
whole other story. We'll get intothat later, but you know, with
a happy ending right now, notto spoil spoil it, but but yeah,
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so it was like, you know, it was our it was our
bad phase. Um. And sowe went through divorce. I'd filed bankruptcy
and lost my houses. I wasliving in my parents' house, barring their
car, um and just starting allover. And I started over and berthed
P two P transformation center at thattime, push ups to pin ups and
yeah, single mom. At thetime, my ex husband was in commercial
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construction in San Francisco, and sobeing able to be present and take them
to school in the morning or beable to pick them up from school in
the afternoons. There just was noway during the week U his schedule just
didn't permit such. So yes,I was building my brand, building my
gyms um and juggling young kids atthe time they were pretty young, um,
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and getting them to their sports andactors, school activities and tutoring and
that goes on and on right um. Yes, so yeah, that was
that was all at the same time. What a testament though too, you
know, going through hard times,because I think sometimes people just feel so
helpless in those moments. That's whyI think your story is just so it
resonates with so many women, inspireso many women. At people we should
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say there's a lot of them inlike you said, attending PTP now,
but um, it just it's soreal and raw and just like I said,
it resonates with so many people thatI mean, you being able to
share that story and you do itso openly is really what makes a difference
in coming to PTP and feeling likeyou have a family. You're not just
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following some program. You're not justlike going through it where people don't care.
Like everyone from you know, yourpeople at the front desk, to
the trainers, to your fellow peopleon the challenge and to you, you're
so involved and so motivating that Ithink that's truly what sets ptop apart.
And just having that story and beingso willing to share and inspires so many
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people because thank you. Yeah,yeah, that's awesome that you're able to
do that. I one percent peoplesay to me all the time, they're
like, oh, Lettasha, you'redoing this, You're doing that, You're
honestly, I attribute so much ofwhat I do. I mean, I'm
definitely a faithful person. And thenyou know next, and that is I
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really borrow the belief of other people, you know, and so being a
part of PTWOP and creating PTWOP atthat time in my life and watching people
find something in me that clicked forthem is really what motivated me. And
so for me, I community iseverything. I started from PTP from the
beginning. And like you said,yes, we do exercise together and we
work out together and all of thosethings, but we also have thirteen community
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groups outside of our walls. Andthe reason I created that is because I
think that iron sharpens iron, youknow, and to be around other significant
endivid duals that are doing better thingsin their life for themselves, their families,
their jobs, whatever it is,it's everything. And so I kind
of that's how I built it,with being around the community of people that
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are members at PTP and and stretchingmyself to be a better service to them.
So I'm I'm grateful that I wasable to birth and not atmosphere for
myself. I mean, that's that'ssomething you know, amazing, right that
you you know, you're it's it'syou're realizing that we all need each other,
right Like it's a give, it'sa take, it's a you know,
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I do for me, but Ido for others um and and it's
the only way that we can kindof push through is if we realize we
all need each other. And Ithink I think that, Um, you
know, it's it's it's you.You get your flowers all the time,
right because you see it in thosepeople whose lives are being transformed, they
see it in you because you're youknow, you're each replenishing each other.
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So it's such a beautiful thing.But I mean it doesn't stop there.
You mentioned you know a lot ofpeople coming to you and saying you're doing
this, you're doing that, Andthat's exactly what we're going to dive into
today because you know, you startedthis amazing business, right and it ends
up turning into this amazing community thatkeeps overflowing with more people that are trying
to get healthy. But now you'relike, I'm writing a book, I'm
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starting a profit. I'm you know, what are some of the new things
that you've got coming up? Yeah, So, as I'm going through P
two P and evolving as the companyevolves, and like you said, we've
got amazing team members. I absolutelylove our team of csrs and the customer
service representatives are at our welcome tous, and our coaches and I really
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years ago I started recognizing, wow, like, I love training, I've
been in the fitness industry forever,but at the end of the day,
my trainers are bad us and somy community doesn't need me to teach them
how to do squats anymore. Andso as I kind of pulled myself out
of being that person and doing allof the nutrition and doing all of the
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programming and being the coach on thefloor, I started diving a little deeper
into the mindset of really what ittakes to be great, And like I
said, fitness is just the foundationof that. But as you know,
I'm in my groups and I'm talkingabout mindset. I'm talking about what did
you show up for. I'm talkingabout why you are doing this, even
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deeper than I just want to loseweight, Like, what does this do
for you? What do you seeyourself doing with this new found power?
What do you see yourself doing inthe next thirty days, sixty days?
And so that became kind of myspace that I really found comfort in for
myself and found that I could movethe needle because burpies don't move the needle,
right, It's so much deeper thanthat. And so I wanted to
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settle there. And so as Istarted to do that, and I said,
you know what, they don't needme to do the squats anymore.
I got it. It really iswhere my heart is most aligned at this
chapter in my life. And sothat's my next chapter is to take that
a little bit further. And again, fitness is a foundational piece of it,
but let's get them all. Let'slet's let's get all of our foundations
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right. Community leadership, um,you know, self care, mental health,
Let's get all of that right sowe can go out and do great
things. And so that's kind ofmy next chapter. Um, and yes,
I'm writing a book. Super excited. I just got from sitting with
the photographer and picking out the bookcover. So we think we're not sure,
but yeah, it really is.There's fifteen different chapters and I don't
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want to give too much of itaway, but it really is just,
man, this is what I've beenthrough my most organic form, Like,
let's rip it off because I there'sthere's nothing about my journey that I'm going,
Oh man, I wish that hadn'thave happened. You know, there's
so many aspects of it that Iliterally in the middle of it, sat
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in it and said, Okay,what am I supposed to be getting from
this? Like something I know thatI'm not going through this for in Vain,
there there is a I don't carewhat's happening to me. Whatever that
ending story is is for greatness.And so walking through those chapters and really
being able to sit in that.So many people are like, oh that
hurts, let me walk away fromit, and I'm saying no, no,
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no, sit in it for aminute, like it's birthing something great.
The flower will come but I andI might not know know what that
is. But I had to ownit. And there's a different perspective when
you come through challenges like that,um, which is really what allowed me
to birth the next chapter. Itwas it was kind of sitting in the
crap or shit? Can I sayshit? Everyone but it? But it
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really was sitting in it and notrunning from it and taking that that that
pain and kind of agitating it enoughto deliver something great from it. And
so my approach was a little different, and I didn't have the avoidance behavior
in those moments. I had thewhat I'm sitting here for a reason,
let's figure it out. Let's diga little deeper. And how many countless
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stories do you have? I meanstories for days or people like go through
your ch challenges or go through youknow, different I guess challenges. We'll
just say that, but um withyou, and like just coming out on
the other side and realizing, like, yes, I've just been living in
this like this, I don't knowthis numbness, numbness, thank you,
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yes this numbness, and like Ifeel alive, and then realize like reevaluate,
reevaluating like not only you know theirhealth, but also like relationships and
when when are they happy with wherethey're working, like just happiness in life.
Like I feel like it brings outfitness and then just also your guidance,
you know, and through the program, like it brings out just a
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whole other side of people. AndI'm sure you've seen that so so many
times. And I think that that'swhat I love about it. I Mean,
the physical transformation is great, right, um, but but the emotional
and mental transformation is that is likethe most beautiful part of all of this.
And watching someone I remember I hada member and I'd actually known her
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prior to coming to P two P. She was involved. She worked at
a local high school that my daughterhad attended, so I'd known her prior,
very quiet lady. And she joinedP two P and she did a
couple of challenges and and and Idon't even remember exactly what she lost,
but I remember watching her over timestart talking to more people and talking to
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more people and talking to more people. And I remember, you know,
we were very driven on Facebook.We have community pages on Facebook, and
her her profile picture for Edver wasnever of her. It was just never
of her. And over the yearsI watched her developed these amazing friendships.
And I remember one day looking onFacebook and I still get emotional, like
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her picture was there, like shehad changed her profile picture and that that
was like significant in so many andshe knew it. And I remember seeing
her that day and I walked upto it. I'm like, oh,
my goodness, and she's like Ifeel good and I just was like,
oh, like that simple as that, right. We alter how we move
and how we step when we're notlike owning our space. This isn't about
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being skinny. This isn't about beingthe best shape of your life. I've
had many chapters of my life whereI was absolutely not in that chapter.
But but reality is, it's justto be comfortable in your own skin enough
to own your moment and even assmall as changing your profile picture and making
more friends in an atmosphere where you'reusually quiet, Like those are the moments
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that for me are everything. Watchingthat transformation and watching people own their space
and do great things like I lovethat part. And the stories never get
old to me. Like sometimes Igo to the grocery store or run into
people so I could find those peoplewho have the stories because I love hearing
them. It's it's it's definitely thatthose are my flowers a thousand times over.
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I need to get you a TVshow. I know that's on the
list. I'm here for it.Yeah, And I I just want to
keep taking that mentality of community withamongst especially women. I mean, I
love my guys. I love myboys, right, but honestly, like
you know, having a collective groupof women, I mean, whether it's
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business advice, it's parenting advice,it's marital advice, and knowing that they're
looking at it from a perspective ofyou and not their own tainted lenses,
and creating that culture amongst women.So you really have some backup. We
all need it, and so Ilove the idea of doing that. And
then I love the idea of usgoing and doing great shit together, which
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is one of the persons I'm startingmy nonprofit called Sheidah's Foundation, is doing
it together to cultivate change in ourcommunities, change in our culture. Like
I all of that resonates with mysoul so much, and so that's really
heavily where my focus is moving towards. For sure. Well, you're talking
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about, you know, doing itall these transformations and you know, just
actually confronting what it is that isarising in your life and creating some sort
of obstacle. Right, Um,you know, how how do you motivate
people or remind people that A lotof this has to do with carving out
that time for self care, Like, you can't battle these challenges, you
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can't confront these obstacles unless you're actuallytaking care of yourself too. And a
lot of what you're talking about ismaking that time for self care. Yes,
that's a that's a such a greatquestion comment, because motivation is one
of those words I'm not like thebiggest fan of it, And the reason
being is I mean, if I'mwaiting for motivation to follow this guy and
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hit me on the head to dosomething like I'm waiting for a lifetime,
you know, it doesn't it doesn'thappen that way. Are there moments where
you feel adrenaline and you feel motivated, Yes, but that usually comes from
some deeper kind of agitation of wantingto get away from the other thing,
you know. That's that's where themotivation to change comes in. And so
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I'm I want to focus on whatare we what are we trying to evolve
from that other space? I wantto focus on that. That's where the
mindset comes in. That's where likeyou, like you said, m Ray,
you talked about like knowing your why, like you, you have to
kind of fall in love with thatto be able. That's that's where it
comes from. Motivation is too generic. I want to dig a little bit
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deeper to understand why. Um andso, how do you keep people motivated?
Is exactly what I'm saying is yougot to keep talking about the emotional
aspect of this transformation, because otherwiseyou're never saying that I'm worthy to carve
out time and and and so oftenpeople are like you know, I hear
it all day long and talking topeople, Oh, you know, my
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children, my job, I don'thave time, you know, all of
those things. And I have togo in and remind people like you're the
queen of your throne and at theend of the day, you're in charge
of all the moving pieces of yourcastle, and that comes from you,
and so you've got to be solidup there on that throne to make sure
that you're making moves because you can't. You can't do it if you're not
in that space, right, Andso I really encourage them to to dig
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a little bit deeper and not justlook at the food that you got to
eat and the you know, thepurpoes you gotta do. You'll you'll never
you'll never ever fall in love withthe process if you don't fall in love
with the results. And it's notthe physical results that are going to keep
you interested in doing something great foryourself. It really is saying I am
worthy, because I am worthy becauseand I need to do this because and
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it sometimes it's outside of ourselves.Right, I'm a better mother. My
kids will tell you I am.I am a better mother when I when
I when I'm solid. I whenwhen I'm solid, and that doesn't mean
skinny, it just means my workoutsare in there. It's it's how I
set my day. It's it's howI feel in control and I'm I show
up better. It's mental. It'sall like that to me. I think
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like it used to be about gettingin shape and being skinny and you know,
but no, like now it's likeif I don't do it, I
suffermentally. And it's right. Iam a better mother because I'm more patient
with them and I'm just so Itotally get. I feel grounded. I
feel grounded, Yeah, and Ican. It's a lot easier to move
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when you're something else is in controlof every step that I feel grounded enough
to make decisions. I feel groundedenough to own that space. It's it's
grounding that I think comes from oneof those pillars. I think there's a
couple of them, but self care, you know, it's definitely up there
with that one workout will have yourwhole attitude change, right, It's it's
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crazy, and it's like you thinkof like how many times you know,
medication obviously is needed in certain circumstances, not you know, that's a whole.
I am a big believer in doingwhat you need to do to be
your best version of yourself. ButI do feel like, don't you feel
like sometimes like exercise is just sounderrated when it comes to like helping us
mentally. Absolutely absolutely, and Iand I and I can't even say that
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for myself. I mean sometimes Ishow up just for that aspect, that's
for that aspect because it does help. I mean, it releases adrenaline and
endorphins that that that physically make youfeel better, right, And so absolutely,
There's been lots of days where I'mlike, you know what, like
I just need a minute, andmy minute is my fifty minute workout,
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and then I walk out a newwoman, like right right, good morning,
exactly exactly. I mean, Ithink the other the other piece too
that we want you to kind oftalk about is, you know, there's
there's a mom listening right now who'sbeen putting her you know, new business
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idea, her book, her youknow website, whatever it is on the
bag burner, because like you said, it's always my kids, this,
oh, the current job I havethis, or I'm just I don't have
the time, Like what is somethingthat you want her to know, you
know, being an entrepreneur, beinga successful businesswoman, being someone who's actually
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taking her dreams and turning them intoreality. What's something you want her to
know. I'm gonna go back toencouraging them to dig a little bit deeper,
because those are all very surface objections, and I know they feel really
real. Not having time feels reallyreal, and it's really easy to hang
your hat on. But nine timesout of ten you talk to somebody,
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and there's so many other emotions thatare really layering their their paralyzation. Whether
it is men, I'm afraid ofrejection, I'm afraid of people laughing at
me. I'm it's fear, fear, fear, fear, fear. And
as a culture, we're taught ohthat hurts, don't do it again from
babies, right, Oh they're gonnalearn, they're gonna touch it. It's
tod they're not going to touch itagain. And so that's kind of a
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humanistic like behavior from us. Andso we've conditioned ourselves as females, especially
to say, oh, that doesn'tfeel good, I'm not going to go
in there. And I just havesuch a different approach to that and so.
And I say that to say thatwhen people are saying, oh I
don't have time, my kids mightwork, my family, I'm gonna say
stripped out down a little bit moreand say, Okay, those things are
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always gonna there. You can't sellyour kids, you're not leaving your husband,
and you need your job. Sothose things, those things are all
going to be there. And nowwhat's the next reason, like, really
dig in there? Is it?Because oh my gosh, I am so
afraid of putting myself out there.What if I fail? What if I
look stupid? What if my ideano one likes it? I want to
talk about that more because that's that'swhere the paralyzation is happening. Not lack
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of time. We can all createwhatever time we want to create. That's
just a fact. Priorities priorities.You shift things around, you move things
around, you block time out.That's not the problem. It usually is
some sort of emotional kind of likeWHOA, I'm going to stop right there
because it doesn't feel good. Youhave no time? Ye don't have time?
And so I like to sit downand say, like, let's dig
a little deeper, like what ifsomebody didn't like what you're about to do.
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What if you have this incredible dreamto launch and you told your top
ten friends and every single person toldyou it was a stupid idea? What
about what then? What are yousurviving that? Because if you are step
anyway, step anyway? And howdo we collectively band together as a community
of women to link arms with youwhile you do that? Because we need
it right back up? And soI encourage you to find a tribe,
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find it, an incredible group ofwomen that aren't that can be your like
sounding board of success when you're sayingI don't believe I can do this for
myself, like borrow the belief ofother people. I did. Yeah,
I did. I've done all kindsof things where I'm like, oh gosh,
I'm not sure. Are you sure? I might gonna write a book?
Oh gosh, babe? What ifpeople don't read it? Oh my
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gosh, what if? What ifI'm telling people my deepest, darkest secrets
and all of a sudden they don'tlike me anymore? Those are all real
thoughts for me even now in mylife. I just show up and do
it anyway. Um and and andfinding that organic space for yourself and saying
I'm gonna be me and some willsome won't. Is imperative and that that
that takes you know, some somedeeper development past. I don't have time,
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right And speaking of time, howhow do you stay so organized with
your time? Like with you know, being a mom and a wife and
a business owner and like you're youhave your hands in so many different you
know what's so saying? Pots Idon't know, Yeah, but how do
you how do you stay so organized? Please share your secret because I can't
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even keep it together such a bigsecret. I am not organized. Oh
I don't believe it. I'm tellingyou I am. I am not organized.
I I hate paper, I losepaper. My notes are horrible,
Like I'm not I'm not organized.Um And honestly, I just I think
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that part of the process and allof these things are really digging down deep
enough to understand. I keep goingback to this was the why you make
anything possible when you're passionate about thebig picture and so and I don't get
caught up on the little small minutia. Shit, it's gonna happen, it's
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gonna come, it's gonna be hereto knock you off. Your throne,
okay, And I don't get toolike, like, you know, I
talk to some people and they're like, oh my gosh, this event happened,
and this event happened. And I'ma little bit more nonchalant about those
things because I'm so focused on theend feeling. And what i mean by
that is, I'm writing this bookand I'm like, oh my gosh,
I want to help people change theirlives. I want to be the catalyst
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for creating greatness for someone and encouragingpeople to find a tribe of people and
collectively attach themselves. That I'm sopassionate about that all the other crap that
comes along the way that a lotof people get distracted by right one little
thing. I mean, we've allhad it. You get a text message
that rex your day and you justwasted an hour and a half. I
am not so tied to all ofthe debris. I let it go.
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I let it, I let it, I let it go. And it's
my team. When we were buildingand we were one of the only women's
gym, and at the time whenwe started, you know, all that
was out there was was CrossFit,and so there wasn't a lot of you
know, training centers where women werelifting, and I remember I got kind
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of a lot of crop and theindustry. When I first came on,
Everyone's like, Oh, this jazzersize thing, and you know, people
were you mean, I got alot of crap. And so my team
members would come to me like furiousat the stuff that they had heard about
the company or what we did orme, and I literally am like okay,
like and they're like, oh,I don't even where You're gonna Tallatasha
anymore. She's not gonna care.And I'm like, I'm so focused on
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the the twenty people that I justlistened to their stories and made them change
their lives. I don't I don'tgive energy to the haters. It's just
and I don't mean even people.I just mean energetic shifts that get thrown
into your life to distract you.Like I just and that's a lot of
time. If you think about allthe things that get thrown your way that
become this like annoyance kind of distraction, and the time you put into that,
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it's probably a lot. So Iencourage people to stay focused, and
you can only do that if youreally know the bigger picture and what you're
fighting for. And that's the samething goes applies to everything, right when
you guys, when you're in thechallenge and you're doing the challenge, people
do well on it because they're solaser focused on how they're going to feel
at the end of that six weeks. Nothing is getting in your way,
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right, and so it's the samekind of process and concept for everyone.
So if you're looking to start abusiness, or you're looking to do whatever
great things that you feel you've puton the back burner because of all the
other things in your life, Iencourage you to dig a little deeper and
fall in love with the feeling ofthat and then the steps kind of like
just kind of unfold because you're laserfocused on end goal. M Yeah,
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it's it's it's it's like that,you know, making that vision board,
but not always having to have thattangible board, just having that in your
heart, in your brain and reallywholeheartedly going forward and pushing all the fear
aside, pushing all the negative energyaside, and just you know what,
taking that dive for it. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it takes
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it takes all the courage, right, it takes all the courage, all
the courage. And I love thatyou said that because I've heard people say
to me, oh, Latasha isfearless, and I I debunk that really
fast. That is that is farfrom the truth. I just have courage
and I create that by being passionateabout the end goal to walk through the
fear. And so that does notthat does not mean I am without fear.
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I just do it anyway. Um. And And so I think that
that that's a huge adaptation of likemental awareness, is to say, you
know, you're you're not stepping upto the plate and saying, oh,
hey, I don't feel fear,So now I can go that never happens.
Yeah, you step up to theplate and you say, I'm scared
shitless, but I'm so passionate aboutit what I'm about to obtain on the
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other end, that I'm doing itany right right. And And that's kind
of a mental switch that people Ifeel as necessary for people to realize because
that's what stops a lot of peopleto fear. Yeah. Yeah, I
mean, I think I think wecould talk about vice were a few more
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episodes, and I think there's alot more that we want to dive into
with you. So we definitely wantto have you back, Tosh, especially
when the book you're out, sowe want to hear all about that.
Yes, congratulations it's not here,but still all the work that you've put
in up until this point. Iknow it's been probably a lot for you.
Congratulation process, but yeah, buta great healing process for myself as
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well, so I'm grateful for it. So tell us all about the challenge
you offer for those in the Bayarea and how they can become part of
that challenge and next challenge that youhave, and how they can reach you
and follow you and yeah, yeah, absolutely, so definitely for the gyms.
We're at WWP twop Transformation Center dotcom. That's a P with the
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number two P Transformation Center dot comand we do offer weight loss challenges every
seven weeks in the year. It'sa twenty and six challenge. You get
a refund when you get your twentypound goal, which we love doing.
We've had thousands, oh my gosh, we've been doing it for years,
so we have thousands and thousands ofamazing transformations there and lots of people have
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chosen to call P two P homeand so we've got thousands of members who've
chosen to stay after that. We'rehaving a really fun challenge. I've got
a huge team of people, aphotographer, stylist who styled j Low and
he's a stylist for Harper Magazine,and they're all flying out here from Miami
and i have a huge photo shootand I'm like, gosh, I've I
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have not gotten here by myself,So how do I bring my community into
this chapter with me? And sowe're actually doing We're a glow Up Challenge.
It's a twenty eight day challenge foranybody that just wants to build confidence
and really be get themselves into astate of feeling comfortable enough to walk in
front of a camera. And fromthere, the four people will be chosen
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and get the exact same photoshoot thatthey're flying out here to do for me.
Wow. Yes, yes, soso super fun. It's not about
weight lost this one. I mean, I just want you to show up
and feel amazing about yourself after twentyeight days. And so there'll be a
lot of mindset and kind of preparingthat foundation for you to step into your
moment of greatness with lots and lotsof other women I've got some guys that
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have signed up for it, whichI love. I love it too.
That's so dope. That's so dope. Well, there it is, Ptpjanuwationida
dot com. And of course I'msure we're gonna get you back on once
the book drives. When we gotto talk about the nonprofit starting. I
mean, it's so much that youhave coming up, so we're definitely gonna
keep you. You know, justsend us a text, be like it's
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here, it's here, and we'regonna be like, come back on and
we can link Tasha's social handles aswell. Yes, for sure, for
sure. Well, we appreciate youtaking the time today. Yeah, I
mean it's it's so exciting just tohear you continue to expand and to continue
to grow and that the courage isNonStop. So we gotta give you your
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flowers again and just man keep transformingthese mama's lives. I love it absolutely,
Thank you, Latasha, Thank youguys so much
This Mama Got Drama. We're backfor another episode. So excited too,
because anytime we can bring the momstogether, you know it's gonna be a
good day. Your host, LadyRay, of course, my co host,
the amazing Drina Gonzalez with us today. How are you feeling, Drina?
I'm good. I feel like wehaven't done an episode in a while,
so I'm a little out of itright now. It's been a little
while, but I'm excited because wehave one of our amazing entrepreneur moms who
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like, every time I talk toher, she's like, oh, yeah,
I got this going on. Igot that going on, and I
got this going on, and it'samazing. Does not stop right I mean
so much so that we literally hadto ask her to stop right now so
she could be on the podcast.But we are here with the amazing Latasha
Renee, who uh man needs nointroduction because there's so much going on that
we're gonna get into. How areyou feeling today, Tash, I am
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so amazing. I'm good. I'mgood for having me, Thank you for
thank you for coming. Because thetitle for this episode is Mama, you
want to be fit and you wantto be an entrepreneur because you are out
here not only being fit yourself,but transforming thousands of lives. So for
those that may not know you,talk to him a little bit about how
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you're transforming lives. Yeah. So, um, I've been in the fitness
industry. Gosh, I'll be fiftytwo this year, So I've been in
She does not look like we needto make sure a photo of Latasha and
with this podcast just so you know, Okay, oh yeah, it's it's
it's the workout, it's the workout. No, but gosh, I started
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in the fitness industry at nineteen yearsold, and I started in it because
I love the energy that came fromit. And then of course as I
stayed in it, I love theenergy that came from the people that were
in it. And so I havefour gyms in the Bay Area and a
cycling studio. UM and we're calledP two P Transformation Center also known as
Push Ups to pin Ups, andit really is about I mean, it
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started with this like amazing space forwomen to come and collectively get their fitness
on and find like minded people forthis new kind of mindset of being being
fit for some people, right,Um, and then of course we've we've
grown and developed, and we gota lot of men who like to come.
Um. But yeah, it's justit's a group training centers. Um.
We do a lot of high intensityand able training and strength training,
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which is very different than some ofthe studios. There's a lot of cardio
going on, and I wanted tomake sure that women knew that being strong
is sexy, and so we doa little bit more resistance training and weights
than your than your average cardio studios. So yeah, we transformed through through
exercise and mental awareness too. That'sa lot of it is that. And
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what I really like is that,you know, during the workouts and during
all the training, the trainers don'tjust focus on you know, oh,
let's get fit, let's do this, let's do that. They say,
hey, why are you trying toget fit? What your why? And
they really try to help you figureout what that is, because that's what's
really going to motivate you and keepyou going. Yeah, and then everything
and I'm always going, but whydo you want that? But why do
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you want that? Right? Lookwhat it's going to feel like to you
when you get that, Because atthe end of the day, that's that's
what it's all about. If it'sgonna make you go out and own more
moments like get that. If it'sgonna go out, if it's gonna help
you go do more things to accomplishwhatever it is, go do that.
I really feel like fitness is afoundation, um, foundational piece of life
that helps you just feel good andbe in control. And a lot of
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us, sometimes women, we lackthe control. Right, We're pulled in
a million different directions, and andwe allow that to be our compass.
And I'm saying no, no,no, like you set your compass so
you can be strong in every direction, right, because that's that's really a
valuable part of what we do.And then, oh, sorry, I
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didn't mean to catch you off,right, go ahead. I was just
gonna say, let's not act likeyou did this. Just hey, I'm
out here. I want to starta bit like you did this while you
had babies. Right, Yeah,I did this. Um, actually I
did this on the tail end ofour really horrible divorce. That as the
whole other story. We'll get intothat later, but you know, with
a happy ending right now, notto spoil spoil it, but but yeah,
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so it was like, you know, it was our it was our
bad phase. Um. And sowe went through divorce. I'd filed bankruptcy
and lost my houses. I wasliving in my parents' house, barring their
car, um and just starting allover. And I started over and berthed
P two P transformation center at thattime, push ups to pin ups and
yeah, single mom. At thetime, my ex husband was in commercial
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construction in San Francisco, and sobeing able to be present and take them
to school in the morning or beable to pick them up from school in
the afternoons. There just was noway during the week U his schedule just
didn't permit such. So yes,I was building my brand, building my
gyms um and juggling young kids atthe time they were pretty young, um,
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and getting them to their sports andactors, school activities and tutoring and
that goes on and on right um. Yes, so yeah, that was
that was all at the same time. What a testament though too, you
know, going through hard times,because I think sometimes people just feel so
helpless in those moments. That's whyI think your story is just so it
resonates with so many women, inspireso many women. At people we should
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say there's a lot of them inlike you said, attending PTP now,
but um, it just it's soreal and raw and just like I said,
it resonates with so many people thatI mean, you being able to
share that story and you do itso openly is really what makes a difference
in coming to PTP and feeling likeyou have a family. You're not just
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following some program. You're not justlike going through it where people don't care.
Like everyone from you know, yourpeople at the front desk, to
the trainers, to your fellow peopleon the challenge and to you, you're
so involved and so motivating that Ithink that's truly what sets ptop apart.
And just having that story and beingso willing to share and inspires so many
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people because thank you. Yeah,yeah, that's awesome that you're able to
do that. I one percent peoplesay to me all the time, they're
like, oh, Lettasha, you'redoing this, You're doing that, You're
honestly, I attribute so much ofwhat I do. I mean, I'm
definitely a faithful person. And thenyou know next, and that is I
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really borrow the belief of other people, you know, and so being a
part of PTWOP and creating PTWOP atthat time in my life and watching people
find something in me that clicked forthem is really what motivated me. And
so for me, I community iseverything. I started from PTP from the
beginning. And like you said,yes, we do exercise together and we
work out together and all of thosethings, but we also have thirteen community
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groups outside of our walls. Andthe reason I created that is because I
think that iron sharpens iron, youknow, and to be around other significant
endivid duals that are doing better thingsin their life for themselves, their families,
their jobs, whatever it is,it's everything. And so I kind
of that's how I built it,with being around the community of people that
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are members at PTP and and stretchingmyself to be a better service to them.
So I'm I'm grateful that I wasable to birth and not atmosphere for
myself. I mean, that's that'ssomething you know, amazing, right that
you you know, you're it's it'syou're realizing that we all need each other,
right Like it's a give, it'sa take, it's a you know,
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I do for me, but Ido for others um and and it's
the only way that we can kindof push through is if we realize we
all need each other. And Ithink I think that, Um, you
know, it's it's it's you.You get your flowers all the time,
right because you see it in thosepeople whose lives are being transformed, they
see it in you because you're youknow, you're each replenishing each other.
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So it's such a beautiful thing.But I mean it doesn't stop there.
You mentioned you know a lot ofpeople coming to you and saying you're doing
this, you're doing that, Andthat's exactly what we're going to dive into
today because you know, you startedthis amazing business, right and it ends
up turning into this amazing community thatkeeps overflowing with more people that are trying
to get healthy. But now you'relike, I'm writing a book, I'm
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starting a profit. I'm you know, what are some of the new things
that you've got coming up? Yeah, So, as I'm going through P
two P and evolving as the companyevolves, and like you said, we've
got amazing team members. I absolutelylove our team of csrs and the customer
service representatives are at our welcome tous, and our coaches and I really
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years ago I started recognizing, wow, like, I love training, I've
been in the fitness industry forever,but at the end of the day,
my trainers are bad us and somy community doesn't need me to teach them
how to do squats anymore. Andso as I kind of pulled myself out
of being that person and doing allof the nutrition and doing all of the
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programming and being the coach on thefloor, I started diving a little deeper
into the mindset of really what ittakes to be great, And like I
said, fitness is just the foundationof that. But as you know,
I'm in my groups and I'm talkingabout mindset. I'm talking about what did
you show up for. I'm talkingabout why you are doing this, even
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deeper than I just want to loseweight, Like, what does this do
for you? What do you seeyourself doing with this new found power?
What do you see yourself doing inthe next thirty days, sixty days?
And so that became kind of myspace that I really found comfort in for
myself and found that I could movethe needle because burpies don't move the needle,
right, It's so much deeper thanthat. And so I wanted to
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settle there. And so as Istarted to do that, and I said,
you know what, they don't needme to do the squats anymore.
I got it. It really iswhere my heart is most aligned at this
chapter in my life. And sothat's my next chapter is to take that
a little bit further. And again, fitness is a foundational piece of it,
but let's get them all. Let'slet's let's get all of our foundations
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right. Community leadership, um,you know, self care, mental health,
Let's get all of that right sowe can go out and do great
things. And so that's kind ofmy next chapter. Um, and yes,
I'm writing a book. Super excited. I just got from sitting with
the photographer and picking out the bookcover. So we think we're not sure,
but yeah, it really is.There's fifteen different chapters and I don't
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want to give too much of itaway, but it really is just,
man, this is what I've beenthrough my most organic form, Like,
let's rip it off because I there'sthere's nothing about my journey that I'm going,
Oh man, I wish that hadn'thave happened. You know, there's
so many aspects of it that Iliterally in the middle of it, sat
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in it and said, Okay,what am I supposed to be getting from
this? Like something I know thatI'm not going through this for in Vain,
there there is a I don't carewhat's happening to me. Whatever that
ending story is is for greatness.And so walking through those chapters and really
being able to sit in that.So many people are like, oh that
hurts, let me walk away fromit, and I'm saying no, no,
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no, sit in it for aminute, like it's birthing something great.
The flower will come but I andI might not know know what that
is. But I had to ownit. And there's a different perspective when
you come through challenges like that,um, which is really what allowed me
to birth the next chapter. Itwas it was kind of sitting in the
crap or shit? Can I sayshit? Everyone but it? But it
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really was sitting in it and notrunning from it and taking that that that
pain and kind of agitating it enoughto deliver something great from it. And
so my approach was a little different, and I didn't have the avoidance behavior
in those moments. I had thewhat I'm sitting here for a reason,
let's figure it out. Let's diga little deeper. And how many countless
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stories do you have? I meanstories for days or people like go through
your ch challenges or go through youknow, different I guess challenges. We'll
just say that, but um withyou, and like just coming out on
the other side and realizing, like, yes, I've just been living in
this like this, I don't knowthis numbness, numbness, thank you,
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yes this numbness, and like Ifeel alive, and then realize like reevaluate,
reevaluating like not only you know theirhealth, but also like relationships and
when when are they happy with wherethey're working, like just happiness in life.
Like I feel like it brings outfitness and then just also your guidance,
you know, and through the program, like it brings out just a
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whole other side of people. AndI'm sure you've seen that so so many
times. And I think that that'swhat I love about it. I Mean,
the physical transformation is great, right, um, but but the emotional
and mental transformation is that is likethe most beautiful part of all of this.
And watching someone I remember I hada member and I'd actually known her
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prior to coming to P two P. She was involved. She worked at
a local high school that my daughterhad attended, so I'd known her prior,
very quiet lady. And she joinedP two P and she did a
couple of challenges and and and Idon't even remember exactly what she lost,
but I remember watching her over timestart talking to more people and talking to
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more people and talking to more people. And I remember, you know,
we were very driven on Facebook.We have community pages on Facebook, and
her her profile picture for Edver wasnever of her. It was just never
of her. And over the yearsI watched her developed these amazing friendships.
And I remember one day looking onFacebook and I still get emotional, like
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her picture was there, like shehad changed her profile picture and that that
was like significant in so many andshe knew it. And I remember seeing
her that day and I walked upto it. I'm like, oh,
my goodness, and she's like Ifeel good and I just was like,
oh, like that simple as that, right. We alter how we move
and how we step when we're notlike owning our space. This isn't about
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being skinny. This isn't about beingthe best shape of your life. I've
had many chapters of my life whereI was absolutely not in that chapter.
But but reality is, it's justto be comfortable in your own skin enough
to own your moment and even assmall as changing your profile picture and making
more friends in an atmosphere where you'reusually quiet, Like those are the moments
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that for me are everything. Watchingthat transformation and watching people own their space
and do great things like I lovethat part. And the stories never get
old to me. Like sometimes Igo to the grocery store or run into
people so I could find those peoplewho have the stories because I love hearing
them. It's it's it's definitely thatthose are my flowers a thousand times over.
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I need to get you a TVshow. I know that's on the
list. I'm here for it.Yeah, And I I just want to
keep taking that mentality of community withamongst especially women. I mean, I
love my guys. I love myboys, right, but honestly, like
you know, having a collective groupof women, I mean, whether it's
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business advice, it's parenting advice,it's marital advice, and knowing that they're
looking at it from a perspective ofyou and not their own tainted lenses,
and creating that culture amongst women.So you really have some backup. We
all need it, and so Ilove the idea of doing that. And
then I love the idea of usgoing and doing great shit together, which
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is one of the persons I'm startingmy nonprofit called Sheidah's Foundation, is doing
it together to cultivate change in ourcommunities, change in our culture. Like
I all of that resonates with mysoul so much, and so that's really
heavily where my focus is moving towards. For sure. Well, you're talking
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about, you know, doing itall these transformations and you know, just
actually confronting what it is that isarising in your life and creating some sort
of obstacle. Right, Um,you know, how how do you motivate
people or remind people that A lotof this has to do with carving out
that time for self care, Like, you can't battle these challenges, you
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can't confront these obstacles unless you're actuallytaking care of yourself too. And a
lot of what you're talking about ismaking that time for self care. Yes,
that's a that's a such a greatquestion comment, because motivation is one
of those words I'm not like thebiggest fan of it, And the reason
being is I mean, if I'mwaiting for motivation to follow this guy and
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hit me on the head to dosomething like I'm waiting for a lifetime,
you know, it doesn't it doesn'thappen that way. Are there moments where
you feel adrenaline and you feel motivated, Yes, but that usually comes from
some deeper kind of agitation of wantingto get away from the other thing,
you know. That's that's where themotivation to change comes in. And so
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I'm I want to focus on whatare we what are we trying to evolve
from that other space? I wantto focus on that. That's where the
mindset comes in. That's where likeyou, like you said, m Ray,
you talked about like knowing your why, like you, you have to
kind of fall in love with thatto be able. That's that's where it
comes from. Motivation is too generic. I want to dig a little bit
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deeper to understand why. Um andso, how do you keep people motivated?
Is exactly what I'm saying is yougot to keep talking about the emotional
aspect of this transformation, because otherwiseyou're never saying that I'm worthy to carve
out time and and and so oftenpeople are like you know, I hear
it all day long and talking topeople, Oh, you know, my
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children, my job, I don'thave time, you know, all of
those things. And I have togo in and remind people like you're the
queen of your throne and at theend of the day, you're in charge
of all the moving pieces of yourcastle, and that comes from you,
and so you've got to be solidup there on that throne to make sure
that you're making moves because you can't. You can't do it if you're not
in that space, right, Andso I really encourage them to to dig
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a little bit deeper and not justlook at the food that you got to
eat and the you know, thepurpoes you gotta do. You'll you'll never
you'll never ever fall in love withthe process if you don't fall in love
with the results. And it's notthe physical results that are going to keep
you interested in doing something great foryourself. It really is saying I am
worthy, because I am worthy becauseand I need to do this because and
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it sometimes it's outside of ourselves.Right, I'm a better mother. My
kids will tell you I am.I am a better mother when I when
I when I'm solid. I whenwhen I'm solid, and that doesn't mean
skinny, it just means my workoutsare in there. It's it's how I
set my day. It's it's howI feel in control and I'm I show
up better. It's mental. It'sall like that to me. I think
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like it used to be about gettingin shape and being skinny and you know,
but no, like now it's likeif I don't do it, I
suffermentally. And it's right. Iam a better mother because I'm more patient
with them and I'm just so Itotally get. I feel grounded. I
feel grounded, Yeah, and Ican. It's a lot easier to move
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when you're something else is in controlof every step that I feel grounded enough
to make decisions. I feel groundedenough to own that space. It's it's
grounding that I think comes from oneof those pillars. I think there's a
couple of them, but self care, you know, it's definitely up there
with that one workout will have yourwhole attitude change, right, It's it's
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crazy, and it's like you thinkof like how many times you know,
medication obviously is needed in certain circumstances, not you know, that's a whole.
I am a big believer in doingwhat you need to do to be
your best version of yourself. ButI do feel like, don't you feel
like sometimes like exercise is just sounderrated when it comes to like helping us
mentally. Absolutely absolutely, and Iand I and I can't even say that
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for myself. I mean sometimes Ishow up just for that aspect, that's
for that aspect because it does help. I mean, it releases adrenaline and
endorphins that that that physically make youfeel better, right, And so absolutely,
There's been lots of days where I'mlike, you know what, like
I just need a minute, andmy minute is my fifty minute workout,
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and then I walk out a newwoman, like right right, good morning,
exactly exactly. I mean, Ithink the other the other piece too
that we want you to kind oftalk about is, you know, there's
there's a mom listening right now who'sbeen putting her you know, new business
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idea, her book, her youknow website, whatever it is on the
bag burner, because like you said, it's always my kids, this,
oh, the current job I havethis, or I'm just I don't have
the time, Like what is somethingthat you want her to know, you
know, being an entrepreneur, beinga successful businesswoman, being someone who's actually
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taking her dreams and turning them intoreality. What's something you want her to
know. I'm gonna go back toencouraging them to dig a little bit deeper,
because those are all very surface objections, and I know they feel really
real. Not having time feels reallyreal, and it's really easy to hang
your hat on. But nine timesout of ten you talk to somebody,
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and there's so many other emotions thatare really layering their their paralyzation. Whether
it is men, I'm afraid ofrejection, I'm afraid of people laughing at
me. I'm it's fear, fear, fear, fear, fear. And
as a culture, we're taught ohthat hurts, don't do it again from
babies, right, Oh they're gonnalearn, they're gonna touch it. It's
tod they're not going to touch itagain. And so that's kind of a
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humanistic like behavior from us. Andso we've conditioned ourselves as females, especially
to say, oh, that doesn'tfeel good, I'm not going to go
in there. And I just havesuch a different approach to that and so.
And I say that to say thatwhen people are saying, oh I
don't have time, my kids mightwork, my family, I'm gonna say
stripped out down a little bit moreand say, Okay, those things are
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always gonna there. You can't sellyour kids, you're not leaving your husband,
and you need your job. Sothose things, those things are all
going to be there. And nowwhat's the next reason, like, really
dig in there? Is it?Because oh my gosh, I am so
afraid of putting myself out there.What if I fail? What if I
look stupid? What if my ideano one likes it? I want to
talk about that more because that's that'swhere the paralyzation is happening. Not lack
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of time. We can all createwhatever time we want to create. That's
just a fact. Priorities priorities.You shift things around, you move things
around, you block time out.That's not the problem. It usually is
some sort of emotional kind of likeWHOA, I'm going to stop right there
because it doesn't feel good. Youhave no time? Ye don't have time?
And so I like to sit downand say, like, let's dig
a little deeper, like what ifsomebody didn't like what you're about to do.
(23:06):
What if you have this incredible dreamto launch and you told your top
ten friends and every single person toldyou it was a stupid idea? What
about what then? What are yousurviving that? Because if you are step
anyway, step anyway? And howdo we collectively band together as a community
of women to link arms with youwhile you do that? Because we need
it right back up? And soI encourage you to find a tribe,
(23:30):
find it, an incredible group ofwomen that aren't that can be your like
sounding board of success when you're sayingI don't believe I can do this for
myself, like borrow the belief ofother people. I did. Yeah,
I did. I've done all kindsof things where I'm like, oh gosh,
I'm not sure. Are you sure? I might gonna write a book?
Oh gosh, babe? What ifpeople don't read it? Oh my
(23:51):
gosh, what if? What ifI'm telling people my deepest, darkest secrets
and all of a sudden they don'tlike me anymore? Those are all real
thoughts for me even now in mylife. I just show up and do
it anyway. Um and and andfinding that organic space for yourself and saying
I'm gonna be me and some willsome won't. Is imperative and that that
that takes you know, some somedeeper development past. I don't have time,
(24:14):
right And speaking of time, howhow do you stay so organized with
your time? Like with you know, being a mom and a wife and
a business owner and like you're youhave your hands in so many different you
know what's so saying? Pots Idon't know, Yeah, but how do
you how do you stay so organized? Please share your secret because I can't
(24:36):
even keep it together such a bigsecret. I am not organized. Oh
I don't believe it. I'm tellingyou I am. I am not organized.
I I hate paper, I losepaper. My notes are horrible,
Like I'm not I'm not organized.Um And honestly, I just I think
(24:57):
that part of the process and allof these things are really digging down deep
enough to understand. I keep goingback to this was the why you make
anything possible when you're passionate about thebig picture and so and I don't get
caught up on the little small minutia. Shit, it's gonna happen, it's
(25:18):
gonna come, it's gonna be hereto knock you off. Your throne,
okay, And I don't get toolike, like, you know, I
talk to some people and they're like, oh my gosh, this event happened,
and this event happened. And I'ma little bit more nonchalant about those
things because I'm so focused on theend feeling. And what i mean by
that is, I'm writing this bookand I'm like, oh my gosh,
I want to help people change theirlives. I want to be the catalyst
(25:40):
for creating greatness for someone and encouragingpeople to find a tribe of people and
collectively attach themselves. That I'm sopassionate about that all the other crap that
comes along the way that a lotof people get distracted by right one little
thing. I mean, we've allhad it. You get a text message
that rex your day and you justwasted an hour and a half. I
am not so tied to all ofthe debris. I let it go.
(26:04):
I let it, I let it, I let it go. And it's
my team. When we were buildingand we were one of the only women's
gym, and at the time whenwe started, you know, all that
was out there was was CrossFit,and so there wasn't a lot of you
know, training centers where women werelifting, and I remember I got kind
(26:25):
of a lot of crop and theindustry. When I first came on,
Everyone's like, Oh, this jazzersize thing, and you know, people
were you mean, I got alot of crap. And so my team
members would come to me like furiousat the stuff that they had heard about
the company or what we did orme, and I literally am like okay,
like and they're like, oh,I don't even where You're gonna Tallatasha
anymore. She's not gonna care.And I'm like, I'm so focused on
(26:48):
the the twenty people that I justlistened to their stories and made them change
their lives. I don't I don'tgive energy to the haters. It's just
and I don't mean even people.I just mean energetic shifts that get thrown
into your life to distract you.Like I just and that's a lot of
time. If you think about allthe things that get thrown your way that
become this like annoyance kind of distraction, and the time you put into that,
(27:14):
it's probably a lot. So Iencourage people to stay focused, and
you can only do that if youreally know the bigger picture and what you're
fighting for. And that's the samething goes applies to everything, right when
you guys, when you're in thechallenge and you're doing the challenge, people
do well on it because they're solaser focused on how they're going to feel
at the end of that six weeks. Nothing is getting in your way,
(27:37):
right, and so it's the samekind of process and concept for everyone.
So if you're looking to start abusiness, or you're looking to do whatever
great things that you feel you've puton the back burner because of all the
other things in your life, Iencourage you to dig a little deeper and
fall in love with the feeling ofthat and then the steps kind of like
just kind of unfold because you're laserfocused on end goal. M Yeah,
(28:03):
it's it's it's it's like that,you know, making that vision board,
but not always having to have thattangible board, just having that in your
heart, in your brain and reallywholeheartedly going forward and pushing all the fear
aside, pushing all the negative energyaside, and just you know what,
taking that dive for it. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it takes
(28:25):
it takes all the courage, right, it takes all the courage, all
the courage. And I love thatyou said that because I've heard people say
to me, oh, Latasha isfearless, and I I debunk that really
fast. That is that is farfrom the truth. I just have courage
and I create that by being passionateabout the end goal to walk through the
fear. And so that does notthat does not mean I am without fear.
(28:48):
I just do it anyway. Um. And And so I think that
that that's a huge adaptation of likemental awareness, is to say, you
know, you're you're not stepping upto the plate and saying, oh,
hey, I don't feel fear,So now I can go that never happens.
Yeah, you step up to theplate and you say, I'm scared
shitless, but I'm so passionate aboutit what I'm about to obtain on the
(29:11):
other end, that I'm doing itany right right. And And that's kind
of a mental switch that people Ifeel as necessary for people to realize because
that's what stops a lot of peopleto fear. Yeah. Yeah, I
mean, I think I think wecould talk about vice were a few more
(29:32):
episodes, and I think there's alot more that we want to dive into
with you. So we definitely wantto have you back, Tosh, especially
when the book you're out, sowe want to hear all about that.
Yes, congratulations it's not here,but still all the work that you've put
in up until this point. Iknow it's been probably a lot for you.
Congratulation process, but yeah, buta great healing process for myself as
(29:55):
well, so I'm grateful for it. So tell us all about the challenge
you offer for those in the Bayarea and how they can become part of
that challenge and next challenge that youhave, and how they can reach you
and follow you and yeah, yeah, absolutely, so definitely for the gyms.
We're at WWP twop Transformation Center dotcom. That's a P with the
(30:18):
number two P Transformation Center dot comand we do offer weight loss challenges every
seven weeks in the year. It'sa twenty and six challenge. You get
a refund when you get your twentypound goal, which we love doing.
We've had thousands, oh my gosh, we've been doing it for years,
so we have thousands and thousands ofamazing transformations there and lots of people have
(30:38):
chosen to call P two P homeand so we've got thousands of members who've
chosen to stay after that. We'rehaving a really fun challenge. I've got
a huge team of people, aphotographer, stylist who styled j Low and
he's a stylist for Harper Magazine,and they're all flying out here from Miami
and i have a huge photo shootand I'm like, gosh, I've I
(31:00):
have not gotten here by myself,So how do I bring my community into
this chapter with me? And sowe're actually doing We're a glow Up Challenge.
It's a twenty eight day challenge foranybody that just wants to build confidence
and really be get themselves into astate of feeling comfortable enough to walk in
front of a camera. And fromthere, the four people will be chosen
(31:22):
and get the exact same photoshoot thatthey're flying out here to do for me.
Wow. Yes, yes, soso super fun. It's not about
weight lost this one. I mean, I just want you to show up
and feel amazing about yourself after twentyeight days. And so there'll be a
lot of mindset and kind of preparingthat foundation for you to step into your
moment of greatness with lots and lotsof other women I've got some guys that
(31:48):
have signed up for it, whichI love. I love it too.
That's so dope. That's so dope. Well, there it is, Ptpjanuwationida
dot com. And of course I'msure we're gonna get you back on once
the book drives. When we gotto talk about the nonprofit starting. I
mean, it's so much that youhave coming up, so we're definitely gonna
keep you. You know, justsend us a text, be like it's
(32:09):
here, it's here, and we'regonna be like, come back on and
we can link Tasha's social handles aswell. Yes, for sure, for
sure. Well, we appreciate youtaking the time today. Yeah, I
mean it's it's so exciting just tohear you continue to expand and to continue
to grow and that the courage isNonStop. So we gotta give you your
(32:30):
flowers again and just man keep transformingthese mama's lives. I love it absolutely,
Thank you, Latasha, Thank youguys so much
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