September 1, 2025 • 56 mins
At 41, Jodi chose to rewrite her story.
After navigating a divorce and transitioning from 11 years as a stay-at-home mom of three Jodi decided to change lanes into a full-time entrepreneur within the fitness industry.
Launching a Canadian kettlebell certification program in 2017, her business has evolved from a trainer certification program to studio classes, adapting through a pandemic with a hybrid model, and growing into our flagship training facility, hosting wellness retreats and rebranding KBStronger online.
Jodi has published her first memoir " I Don't Do Vanilla!" Every day, she chooses movement as a way to honor her body, mind and spirit.
Her passion to help others evolve to embrace life's journey!
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(00:00):
Welcome to The High Vibration Reset, the podcast for women who
are done with the struggle and ready for more energy, more
flow, and more freedom. I'm Kira Conlan, your host and
guide, and my goal with this podcast is to simplify
transformation and to help you step into your highest
(00:22):
potential. In this episode, I talked to
Jodie Barrett, the CEO of KB Stronger, an online fitness and
Wellness platform. After navigating a divorce and
transitioning from 11 years as astay at home mom of three, Jodie
decided to change lanes and become a full time entrepreneur.
(00:44):
She launched a Canadian kettlebell certification program
and her business evolved from trainer certification to studio
classes, hosting Wellness retreats and running KB Stronger
online. Her first book was a book called
I Don't Do Vanilla. Great title.
(01:07):
And everyday Jodie says she chooses movement as a way to
honor her body, her mind and spirit.
Now this conversation will make you think very differently about
fitness, about your body and mind, and really how you show up
for yourself. But before we dive into that
(01:29):
conversation, I want to remind you about what this community is
really about. The Life Low High Vibration
Community offers a space for podcast listeners or for any
woman who wants to let go of this struggle, to let go of any
overthinking, overworking, or even feeling sorry for yourself.
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I want you to finally embrace what it means to live in high
vibration, to upgrade your mindset, to lighten that
emotional load, and to create positive, sustainable habits for
life. The community is currently free,
but it won't be for much longer.So don't second guess this.
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Just come along and join us for a daily dose of positivity,
motivation, and high vibe energy.
I can't wait to meet you on the inside.
You'll find the link below in the show notes.
So welcome Jodi Barish. Thank you so much Jodi for
joining us on the high vibrationreset.
(02:35):
Jodi is tuning in from Calgary, AB and it is 8:30 in the
morning. Jodi, thank you for getting up
early, which I'm sure you do anyway most days.
Thank you so much for having me.Wonderful to have you here and
I'm going to let you tell the listeners who you are and give
(02:57):
us a little background, Jodi, about how you went from somebody
who was overwhelmed and burnt out to somebody who has an
amazing fitness platform with a huge community of people all
around the world. So I'll hand over to you.
Well, thank you so much. As as you said, my name's Jodi
(03:20):
and I always like to spin this alittle bit different kind of
characteristic wise because I got caught up in roles as I
transitioned through life. So when I introduced myself, I
like to say that I'm pretty determined, persistent, quirky,
funny and I've got a really big heart and, and some of my roles
(03:41):
would be CEO. I'm a mom, daughter, sister,
friend. So that's kind of, you know, I
always lead in with that becausemy journey started when I got so
consumed by who I thought I was and when I figured out that I
kind of lost who I was and it's landed me here today.
(04:06):
Brilliant, brilliant. So go into a little bit more of
where your journey into fitness even started.
You know, you do have a a slant on fitness and strength
training. That of course was really
interesting to me and that's whyI wanted to chat with you.
(04:26):
But you know, so just go from where that whole journey
started. Yeah, so I I did, I grew up in a
smaller community. So the benefit from that was we
were always, we got, you got to play everything, you know, as
far as sports and everything. I didn't realize the benefit of
that until I had kids of my own and realized how limiting it was
when you were in a bigger center.
(04:47):
So, you know, my love of movement started when I was a
kid and, you know, it just progressed over time and going
off into university and doing a kinesiology degree.
And then it was always. So I like, it's a it was a
foundation of me for sure, and apassion.
I was a dance teacher at one point in my life.
(05:08):
So that was a little bit of background.
Sometimes people don't know. And yeah, and I, you know, got
married. I had three kids and that's
where I kind of started to get alittle lost on who who I was
again, because you get so focused on what you think you
need to be doing all the time. And then it was just the
progression of, you know, that piece.
(05:32):
But then, you know, always pulling back into fitness and
health and movement and movementwas key for me.
And it actually, I think it saved me.
I know a lot of people you talk about with fitness and movement,
you know, you know, but interestingly enough, for me, it
was I was so keyed in on movement that it was the day
(05:56):
that I was like couldn't move. And not because I was physically
injured, but it was a moment in time where I was like just
hitting, hitting the weights hard, doing lots of running.
And I had a moment in looking atmy reflection in the mirror and
it was like I didn't want to lift anything.
Wow. So it was, and that's where the
(06:19):
mindset piece definitely comes in.
Yeah, yeah, that's, that's interesting because as you were
talking about movement, I just thought, you know, you can never
be stuck when you have movement in your life, can you?
No, right. And and that's such an important
key and we talked about that theother day about how we we become
(06:40):
so consumed by how many times a week do you work out right.
And then I had a really good friend of mine we were having a
conversation. She said kind of, let's look at
it differently as how long are you sedentary during the day?
And I was like, well, that's a great way to shift things.
Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah.
(07:00):
And it, it, it, you know, we start to think, oh, wow.
Yeah, maybe I can see. Right, You think about oh, I sat
down on the couch at 50. I didn't really move that much
till the next morning, right? And did nothing productive in
those hours. Yeah, right.
OK. OK.
We're hearing you. Right.
(07:23):
So when did this become your your life, your business?
So when I turned when I was 41, so I like went through a
transition when I was 38 where Ihad that moment looking in the
mirror and was terrifying because I always use movement
(07:43):
exercise as a way to cope. And I always think that like
that's a great thing. But there is a moment in time
where you have to really sit down with that coping mechanism
and make sure you're not over using it.
And that was for me that day. And I was like terrified because
(08:04):
I was like, this was my one go to thing that helped me like, I
don't know, maybe avoid some things.
And then I just in that moment Iwas like, OK, you have to own up
everything. Like, what's going on that you
need to take care of? And, you know, I was happy that
movement came back to me. It's not like it was just like,
(08:25):
done I, you know, quit. But I think it allowed me to
build up to that spot. So how did you own up?
Own up. Well, I ended up.
I owned up pretty big. I owned up that I wasn't happy
in my marriage anymore and that it was time to go down a
(08:48):
different path. So that was when I was 38, and I
didn't launch my first business until 41.
So I always feel in my brain it was really fast and furious
until then. But there were some really dark
times in there where I didn't like myself very much.
(09:09):
And I'm a pretty positive person, But I remember back to
those moments where I was like, yeah, not, not super happy with
just the outlook or my outlook on life.
But again, mindset kept me into play where I started a fuse
mindset and movement and intertwined them more.
And the kettlebell, which which is my training tool, it grounded
(09:37):
me. Amazing.
It was after that I started training that and that the idea
started to come about, you know,because I was fitness oriented
already, strength training, the running, and then that piece
came in and I wasn't sure where it was going to take.
Me. Yeah, yeah.
But yeah. But at 41, I decided I was going
(09:58):
to launch a company across Canada and start doing
kettlebell certifications. Fabulous, fabulous.
I always think it's, it's it's such a brave move because I
think so many people just settlein their lives.
Now, I'm not saying that everybody should, you know, get
divorced or do something radical, but I think a lot of
(10:22):
people avoid even the question. It's, it's too big, it's too
difficult. It's just easier to get on with
life, isn't it? So first of all,
congratulations. Kudos.
Thank you. You know, I think I think it's,
it's it's a really good move fora lot of people.
And you said like 3841, you know, it seemed like a
(10:44):
whirlwind, but your kids were probably teenagers at that
stage. Were they?
Yeah, my, my oldest was 13. My youngest was nine.
Wow. So, Oh, yeah, they were in the
not, not the best age for all ofthat.
But, you know, for me, 'cause I went through that transition
where I was like, you know, I made this decision and then I'm
(11:05):
not happy. And then I started to think,
Gee, I made this decision. Like, you got to own that.
You did it. And I'm like, if you made such a
huge decision, you better reallyturn things around.
So that's when my mindset started to change.
And I thought, I have these three amazing kids and I just
really wanted to show them that you, you know, I was 41 and I
(11:30):
was like, I wanted them to know that you can like, life is this,
this huge amazing thing and you can go after your dreams and
your goals. At any age.
At any age and I just I really, I, they, they needed to know
that it was going to be work, right?
They would see that. But you know, I, my mind shift
(11:53):
was I started to think, why not me instead of I can't.
I was like, well, you think about people that have done
extraordinary things and I'm like the end of the day they're.
They're humans, right? We're all human.
I. Right.
So then I just shifted that. And I think you mentioned a
really key thing there and you've said it a couple of
(12:15):
times, probably without even realizing it.
It's to own up, to own it. Yes.
You made a decision and you owned it, you know?
So it's, it's being that brave person.
It's, it's taken responsibility.These are my decisions.
Yes. I need to do something with.
Yeah. And I think because I, I
(12:37):
affected, I think sometimes whenwe walk through just like, and I
don't know, because I not like just no children, but I thought
I disrupted for people's lives and I thought I would catch
myself just being so mean to myself and so upset.
And I'd be like, man, you chose to do this.
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Like, I do not want to spend therest of my life being miserable.
And the fact that I, that was mydecision.
So I'm like, let's make it a good one.
And it certainly was Jody. It was.
So you say that you're fitness and Wellness platform is as much
about emotional health or emotional strength, isn't it, as
(13:24):
physical strength? So is that because of what
you've been through, of how muchfitness gave you?
Can you explain that a little bit more please?
Yeah. Like I think for me, I want
like, I mean, like I talked withmy kids, I want them to, I don't
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want to be just somebody who talks, right.
So I'm really big on, I'm going to show you every day that I'm
showing up. And I hope that you can either
be motivated from that, you can be inspired by that, you can
take something away from that. And I just think that the what I
built on the platform and I likeI've talked about like I have
the 12 week program and it's movement, it's a connecting with
(14:11):
me every other week. But there's the there's a 12
week calm strength workbook in there.
And yeah, it's like the, I always say it's the brand that's
been built from the inside out. Lovely.
Yeah. So it's it's using exercise or
(14:32):
movement to better yourself. Yeah.
And just, and be just becoming aware, like becoming aware that
you have a relationship with yourself that you probably
haven't even explored yet and coming back to yourself.
And the bell my my tool of choice is because you can
(14:56):
create. It's a rhythm.
The swing is a rhythm, Not all of it.
You're not always swinging the bell, but it's, you know, when I
go back to when I started, I picked up the bell in a very
hard time in my life. And it was the first time I felt
grounded in a really long time. So a lot of my clients will be
like, they'll be having a rough day and they'll even send a
(15:16):
message and I'll be like, go pick your bell up.
You're going to do 30 seconds ofswings.
I do it with my daughter. She'll she'll call me and she'll
be like, I'll let her share what's upsetting to her, but
I'll only let her do it for a certain time line.
And then if she spiraled out of control, I'm like, OK, go, go
swing your bell. This is what you're going to do.
(15:37):
You're going to do a ladder because I want you to think
about what you're doing. So you pull yourself out of your
thoughts. So you have to focus and say,
call me back in 10 minutes. So she'll go away.
She'll come back and the conversation's so different in
10 minutes. Amazing.
Amazing. Yeah.
So did you previously work with weights?
(15:58):
Yes. Before finding the bell.
Yeah, like the day I was in the gym and I saw my reflection, it
was conventional. I was conventional weight
training. And I've I actually, I tried
going back because I had a coach.
He's like, I want to coach you, let's do conventional.
And I was like, OK, I'll try it.And I love that I tried it
because when I went back I was like, oh, I wouldn't do this
(16:20):
again. Wow.
Yeah, yeah. So was it that shift then what
you explained that with the the kettlebell it is much more a
presence activity. Are you much more mindful while
using it? Right, yes, I was 'cause you
have to think like you can swingand feel the rhythm and that's
(16:43):
really good. But when you build stuff
together, the movements, you have to be present.
Now, there's so much beauty in that because, number one, you
are creating a mind body connection.
We need to use our brains. We sometimes forget that this is
also supposed to be used, right?To be healthy.
And yeah, it's just like the weight of the bell.
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And then when you're present in what you're doing, it also takes
you away from the day, right? So if you've had stress in your
day, something's going on, but you need to be there, have a lot
of clients when they train, they're like, wow, like that
just flew by, right? And that's always my goal.
I'm like, I want you to be so present.
You know, when you're so presentwith another human being that
(17:27):
they bring such joy in life to you that you look at your watch,
you look at the clock and you'relike, Oh my gosh, we've been
sitting for two hours, right? So that's kind of the idea with
the training that you just be sopresent.
Just in case anybody out there doesn't know what a kettlebell
is, can you describe what it is for us?
(17:48):
Yes, I was like if I I have one to the right of me.
Go on, pick it up. Can I get it?
I feel like a visual is always avisual is a good.
I'm a visual person, so it's like this.
OK, so those of you listening and not watching.
Right. Yeah.
So if you're not, if you're not watching, it's a round weight
(18:10):
with a handle. So somebody said I should get a
purse that looks like that. But right.
So the nice thing about that, I have to set it back down because
I'm paranoid about setting it ontop of things because it will
fall. But yeah, so it's a, it's a
round weight with a handle. So you're always dealing with
(18:35):
different ways to hold it because of the balance of it or
where the scent of gravity is. OK, so you're balancing your
body? And core, everybody's like off
ladies, we always like our core,right?
But it's such a great everythingyou do is such a.
It's such a good core exercise and functional.
(18:56):
Different in in that way as well, that when you're using a
weight, it's more around the local area rather than the
cattle bell. You're using your whole body
with each weight. Wow.
I've never I've never used it. Yet yet, right?
There's a yet. I was telling Jody before we hit
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record about my my sore arm and hand and and other little things
going on with me. As soon as I get that sorted
out, I think yes, I'll be swinging them bells, right?
You'll love it. So tell me girl, the it's it's
women you work with. Mostly women, probably 90%.
(19:40):
Yeah, yeah. So let's say in that 12 week
program you, you mentioned, you know, do you see not just a
change? I know, I know, I know the
answer to this question, but do you see a change not just in the
physical aspects of the people you know?
So. So tell us about what else
(20:01):
changes. Right.
I love that question. I, you know, I, you know, I've
been doing this for 8 1/2 years.So you know, you always try to
find that thing that you build that you're like, this is it,
this is a thing that I want to share with people.
And like, so really May was the first time I launched the 12
(20:21):
week program and it's been so incredible and not like, yes,
incredible that you're going to like, I had one lady, she's
like, I'm down 4 pants sizes. I'm gaining muscle, but my most
favorite thing about that is she's like, it's changed my
mental health. She goes, it's changed my life.
(20:41):
She goes, I I can go hang out and do stuff with my kids.
She started running again, running again.
And she's like, I just look at things differently.
And she did it with a, a girlfriend of hers.
And she's like, she's a different, like she's like, it's
like, it's a different person, like mentally show up
differently. And she's like, when I, she
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goes, I hear you in my head, youknow, throughout the day when I
think I can't do something. And then I'm like, I hear you,
you can do it. Keep showing up, you know, do
what you can today. And that's, that's the, that's
the key, right? Like I want people to move, but
that's why I want to help peoplefigure out how to put the two of
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them together. Because when you put them
together, you will have a lifestyle change because it
changes how you feel during the day, how you navigate, how you
look at things, right? And I love that.
Like when they start the programand we connect quite quickly in
the program is like it's a 30 minute start and it's body
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weight. They do body weight to start and
then it goes into the bells, butit's like 30 minutes.
I don't care if you do the 30 minutes to start, like you have
to find your start spot. And it's starting to teach
people that just because it says30 minutes on the on the, you
know, the program, if you get 15minutes done, that's awesome.
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So now you know your start, right?
So that's the mindset behind it all.
It's like you need to figure outhow to fit it into your life so
it works for you. So it's three times a week, you
know, as it gets a little progressive, there's a little
bit more gets added on near the end, but it's like I wanted to
build something that was manageable that you could be
(22:28):
successful at. Yeah.
So you feel like you a success because we all, we should all
feel like a success at the end of the day.
Absolutely. And that's what I was going to
say to you. So not only is it a mental
health benefit from doing it, but surely it it increases
confidence massively. Oh, absolutely right.
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Like the one girl who finished, she's like, I've never finished
anything. And we, and we had the
conversation cuz when she started, she's like, I always
quit. And the nice thing is every two
weeks you get like there's this calendar you go in and you book
a session with me and we go overform, we go over.
How is it fitting in? Because that's so important
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because I know as women, like I only speak because I speak for
myself, that we are really good at taking things on, right?
And that's somehow how we get overwhelmed.
And we, we don't finish our fitness because we've taken
stuff on. So a big part of it is sitting
with someone and saying, where are you going to fit it in,
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right? Do the first week, second week,
we come back and we adjust. Maybe it's better at morning,
maybe it's better at afternoon, but it's time management.
But it's habit formation, isn't it?
And it, it has to work and it has to work.
Yeah, yeah, it has to work and and blend in with what's already
there in your life. Yes, and I think permission,
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right? We sometimes need permission to
know. I had a mom that trained with me
in studio when I was in studio once and she's online with me
now and she's got 2 little boys and she's like, I'm really
struggling to get in the 45 minutes.
And I said, well, there's five minute ones on there.
And she's like, Oh yeah, she goes.
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But she said to me, she texted me later and she said you gave
me permission today that it was OK.
And I'm like, you moved your body today.
That's the beauty of it. Absolutely.
And that's it. Make it so easy that she kind of
say no. Yeah.
And the and the snowball effect of that is you might get in for
(24:40):
5 minutes, that might be it. But you might feel so good.
You'll be like, well, I'm going to do this other.
Three days, a little bit more, right?
So that's how I wrote my first book was I said to myself, I can
do 10 minutes a day. Nice.
And of course, 10 minutes sometimes spills over and
sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you do.
It but. It, it gives you that sense of
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achievement, of success. Success.
Yeah, Yeah. So even if you promise yourself
I'm going to do 5 minutes of movement today, yes.
By the end of the week, you've done how many minutes is that?
My 35 minutes? Yeah.
Yeah. But as you say, you know, very
often it becomes more and more and more.
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And it's teaching you right to show up for you and you're true
to your word, right? Because that's a huge thing is
when you start saying things, I'm going to do this.
And then you check it off and you're like, yeah, I did it.
I did it. So now when I say something, I
have to be very conscious because I want to do it right.
Exactly. Exactly.
(25:45):
Yeah. And I think there's so many of
us that have, you know, spent somany years setting goals and not
doing it, setting intentions, but not quite committing because
we failed so many times before that we don't even want to voice
it. So that's a really good tip for
people who are struggling or feeling stuck.
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It's like set a really small goal, something that you can
achieve, and then each one of them adds up and all of a sudden
you've started a business, you've lost the weight or you've
transformed some part of your life that needs needs a shift.
(26:29):
So your book. So I love the title of your
book, Jody. I don't do vanilla.
Right. What's that all about?
Oh, well, I've been, I've been in my business long enough for
the to know that I kind of needed a little bit of a
marketing behind it. So I was like, if I was in a if
(26:52):
I was in a bookstore, what wouldcatch my attention?
I don't the idea behind the title is I, I believe I don't do
things the normal average way. I look at things differently.
I storm ahead and try to figure it out as I go.
(27:12):
So that was the title of my bookand it was I was one of my best
friends. She's an also does some
photography and graphic design and she actually took that photo
of the book. There's on the title on the
book, there's like I'm holding ice cream and it's like pink and
blue. And we did it for actually an
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Instagram post is where it happened.
And then when I wrote the book, the lady who was helping me
publish, she said, Jodie, I envisioned this and I stopped
her and I said, no, I'm like, I know exactly what picture I
want. And I said it was the, it was
the ice cream photo. And she was so awesome.
And she's like, I love it. She goes, she goes, it's so
(27:56):
cool. She goes, the photo was born
before the book and it was all there and it would just, you
know, everything was just waiting to tie in.
So, yeah, so that was the that was.
Started the book. How has that served you through
your life? This concept of not doing things
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the way everybody else shows them.
Carving your own path, your own way.
I think it, it's been really, it's served me well.
It's taught me so many things. It's taught me, you know, not to
because I do. I, I, I know I am an
overthinker, but it's allowed meto go, OK, just start because
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we'll figure it out. And it's allowed me to do be in
that space because you could, I could get so stuck in my head
with ideas that things would never come to fruition.
And it has really served me wellin that sense that I'm like, OK,
let's go for it and why not? Yeah, yeah, we get one life
(29:05):
right. Like when you really sit like I,
I sit with that a lot. And whenever I'm making a
decision about something, peoplemight think it sounds morbid,
but I really my question how I Idecide is if I was taking my
last breath, would I be OK passing up this opportunity?
And my answer comes fast and. Furious.
(29:26):
Yeah. Yeah.
So to the women or the people who are sitting on the couch
feeling heavy, maybe stuck in what I call low vibration, where
things in life are, you know, not going so well, how do you
(29:48):
inspire those people to move? Yes, that's a fabulous question.
First of all, I know what that feels like heavy.
I work with people that walk into my space to lift a weight,
and I could tell you how the dayis going by how they lift a
weight overhead because they won't build a lift or they'll
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struggle with a lighter weight when their life is heavy.
But I'm going to say start to move.
And maybe movement isn't a kettlebell.
Maybe it's a walk that's three minutes, but you need to move
that energy because when you're stuck, your energy's stuck.
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And that's why I always pair movement with the mindset, the
mindset with the movement, because one will start to flow
the other because it's so important to move your body
because you start getting that positive energy moving and then
you'll it allow yourself to go, OK, what's next?
Now I can start to think a little bit clearer because
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that's starting to move. It's not all good.
You're not going to figure it all out at once.
It is, it is a journey. And it's like I always look at
it as a tear, right? So I feel sluggish.
I don't feel good in my head space.
Sometimes it's hard to motivate your head when you're there, but
if I start to move in a positiveway, then I can clear my head a
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little bit. Then I can focus on the head
stuff. This is when you'll probably go
into, I got to train every day. I got to do this because it's
clear in my head. Then you have to recognize that,
OK, there is a harmony between those movements.
And when you can figure that out, then you hit the top of the
tier where you're like, you know, your mindset and movement
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go together and to understand that they'll fluctuate.
One will you'll need to spend more time here, need to spend
more time here, but it it's a journey.
In your experience then to go from stuckness, it's more about
making this decision in advance to move rather than relying on
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your mind too make that decision.
Would that be correct? Yeah, well, they they kind of go
together because you mind has todecide to walk through the like
or push play on the button like you got to decide to do it.
But I wouldn't overthink it. And that's why I say I always
think walking is always the best.
And if you can get outside because being outdoors is a
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beautiful thing. So just starting there.
But you, you do, you have to also make that biggest decision
is in your head. So it's kind of a challenge to
have even that conversation because which comes first,
right? But I think it's a lot about
that, you know, when we're talking about habit creation or
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even, I know at this stage somebody might not have the
habit, but it's saying I want todo this in advance rather than
waiting. Because you know, in the if you
say I'm going to go for a walk tomorrow, yes, then you don't
feel like it. No.
Whereas if you say tomorrow at 3:00 PM, I'm meeting Jody for a
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walk or I'm meeting Kira, that'sa decision made.
It's a decision made. And most often, unfortunately,
our pain has to outweigh it. Like our pain has to be it's
huge. I've had clients come to me
before and they're like, I want to do this, this, this.
And then they'll do it for a little bit and then they're not
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really doing it. And then they come back to me
and I, I ask the question, I'm like, how bad do you want it?
And they're like, well, I don't like this anymore.
And I'm like, OK, so then your, your, your pains got intolerable
to you. So now you do.
You've made that decision that I'm not there.
And I always say, yeah, your start spot is the most beautiful
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spot because there is so much inthat start spot #1 when you
start exercising, I'm brutally honest.
It's gonna suck. Like you're gonna be like, this
is feels hard. Everything's hard.
But I'm, there's so much beauty in that.
Because A, you've started, right?
You said you were. You're gonna be true to your
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word. You've started BI.
Always say remember your start spot so you don't go back to it.
Yeah. Right.
I've had people that have trouble getting up and down off
the ground and they look at me and they're like, that was the
worst moment of my life. And I was like, good.
Yeah. Now you know where you're at, so
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let's work on that. Get better so that you don't
have to feel that way. Right.
So what kind of mindset tips do you give your clients?
So obviously, you know, you start something new, it's tough,
you're tired, your body doesn't quite have the strength or the
energy. You know, while people are doing
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that, surely there's things thatwe should be putting into our
head rather than saying things like this is so hard, I hate
this. Right, Yeah, We start talking
about internal dialogue. What's that conversation on the
inside light? I always like you're best to be
your better, your best cheerleader than your worst
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critic, 'cause I'm like, if you're gonna go through life,
let's let's, you know, pick ourselves up before beating
ourselves down. So just starting to understand,
you know, when you move through motions, what is your
conversation in your head, right?
And again, first of all, it's just some of us don't even
realize that we're having those thoughts, right?
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So it's just creating an awareness of like you did a week
of training and you kind of start to think journal a little
bit on what that felt like before your workout.
How did you feel like after workout?
I've never had anyone. And mark my words, I should I
always say never say never, but never had someone say to me, Oh
my God, I'm so, so upset that I showed up today, right?
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Even if it was a tough workout where you're like, I'm
exhausted, you're like, I did it.
And it's just the power of like showed up.
I move my body, right? So those are the little things
you start to weave in, you know,and recognize.
And again, showing up for a period of time without having
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huge expectations, you got to start and it's going to take
time. Yeah, right.
But that's a good trick as well.I think for people it's to play
it forward. You know, how am I going to feel
when I've done this rather than focus on the, the pain of the
not that it's not that it's painful, I'm over exaggerating,
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but the, the difficulty in changing your routine or the
challenge, it's how am I going to feel exactly?
Can I do this? I'm going to be so proud of
myself. I'm going to have more energy.
I'm going to have endorphins. There are so many benefits and
you just have to get over that first moment of the, the
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thoughts that drag you down. I call Jodie your Bull.
That was the title of my book, Rise before the last book, Rise
Before You're Bull. So it's to move, to take action
before you give that internal rhetoric time.
Yes. To tell you not to do it.
To convince you. Otherwise, and you can set
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yourself up like the night before instead of going, Oh, I
got to work out tomorrow. You're like, you get to work out
tomorrow. I get to work out tomorrow.
And even if it doesn't feel right in your head, you know,
you just, but you're, you're getting your subconscious like I
get to do it, you know, in the morning, you get up.
And I always say I do gratitude every day before I get out of
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bed. And it's just starting to set
the tone for your day where it'sgoing to be.
And you have just like, I mean, it's like you just have to start
and it'll start to snowball. So do you work out in the
morning? Right off the hop I get up, I do
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50 push ups before while my coffee is brewing and I move and
I move throughout the day. So my I kind of spread my
workouts throughout the day, different parts of it.
And then I have a main set workout that I do like a Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, so. Do you recommend a time of the
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day? Does it matter?
Does it depend on the person? You work out when it fits you
the best. Like we could get into like
scientifically where where does,but I'm like, we just need to
get people moving, right? And if you're like, I have a
client, she just moved to doing early mornings and she loves it.
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And I'm like, if I could do my early mornings myself, probably
the best because a, you've set the tone for your day.
You feel good already and you don't get pulled into the cycle
of, oh, I don't have time at tonight because I got to run
here, got to take the kids here.So then it's there.
So I mean, maybe that's, you know, you just have to figure
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out where where it fits best so you can fit your fitness into
your lifestyle. Yeah, exactly.
In my experience, you know, I'vealways found it really difficult
to create habits all my life, and that's why I ended up, you
know, studying it so much. But it was always that get it
done in the morning. Even now with my dogs, if I ever
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say I'll walk them later, I never walk them later, Right,
because you put it off. I never do because I'm always
too busy doing something else oryou know doing other chores.
So I know myself that I need to do things in the morning.
Now if I have a class like Pilates or I'm going to play
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tennis or have something pre arranged, well then I'll show
up. Yes.
And that's key too, right. So that's why I always say have
a, you know, a lot of people that go through the program,
they have a friend that joins with them.
So then it's on the day where you're kind of like, and they
send you a text because I know this has happened with them.
They're like, I did it and they're like, oh, you did it
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already. I gotta get it done now, right?
So it's be accountable, you know, signing in saying you're
gonna be there. Also accountability.
Those are all little tricks thatyou know you do to show up.
Yeah, and we have to trick ourselves.
Sometimes we do, sometimes we do, and I always say life gets
busy. So if you miss a workout, you
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miss a workout. Don't miss 2 workouts because if
you miss the second one, chancesare you're going to miss a third
one. And now you are creating a habit
of missing. Yes, yeah.
And then you have the emotional negative impact of that, Yes.
And then the mindset starts the negative.
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Failed, Yeah. Here I go again.
I knew I wouldn't do this. So yeah, that's, that's a good
tip, you know, not, not let it go too far, right.
In your experience as a businessowner, how important has it been
to have this physical strength to carry you through?
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Do you think you would have achieved what you've achieved
without your strength training? Hey, believe.
Not she's shaking her head, by the way.
Shaking my head no because it's taught me grit like it's taught
me when I do something hard and people always say why are you
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always going and doing somethingso hard like you you know you're
strong why do you have to go andswing a bell for an hour twice a
year? Because I, it takes you through
a mental journey and when I do something hard physically, it
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reminds me I'm so capable. So then I correlate, you know,
this project's hard, but I know my body can show up.
I know I can show up because I've shown myself that you teach
yourself what you're capable of when physical training so that
you can apply that to you. Apply it to, you know, your
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business, your personal life, all those keys of elements of
that is like, I know if I am true to my word that I can show
up. Well, now I can ply that too.
I can show that up in business. I can show in my personal life,
you know, but it's, it's like that's the I that's what I get
so excited about because it's just that I'm like, Can you
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imagine that? Just not just training, but
training and doing the mindset together that gives you such a
big component for your life to help you navigate.
My kids laugh at me all the timebecause they're always like, you
can relate everything to training.
Well, it's, yeah, it's very relevant.
I mean, you know, again, we're talking about vibration, high
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vibration. It's when we align our mindset,
our emotions and our actions andwe feel bloody good.
Right. And I think.
We take more action and we move through life in a happier and
stronger way. So yeah, I think strength
training is a very good analogy,a very good tool in order to
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facilitate that. One of the things that I always
say is that high performers havehigh performing habits.
And I see that time and time again with the people that I
coach. You know, not everybody, but
we're probably talking the Pareto principle, 80% of high
performers, you know, that they are out there doing the right
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things. They're they all have some kind
of exercise habit because it gives them energy, it gives them
that clarity, the focus. Yeah.
Pull from it. Yeah, yeah.
And in your experience, as well as you know, being ACEO, being a
single mom, what other things has this lifestyle taught you?
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Are there any other lessons thatyou've taken from you know, this
daily activity that you've been able to bring through?
Yeah, that's a good question. I think kind of what teaches me
so much always right, You know, the teaches me the relationship
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with yourself, right, Because I've had, I had to like the
last, oh gosh, well, since I was38, I'm 50 now, it's like it's
been quite a ride in understanding, You know, how I
show up for me, how I show up for my kids, my family, all of
that. It's taught me the importance of
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it and really the importance of we all.
I think it's easy to talk, right?
We can have conversations, we can throw words around that the
not so easy is the actual doing right.
And we talk about self love a lot and that being such a big
component. And like, I think, and I think
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it's supposed to be this way. I think you're supposed to, you
know, I always hope that my kids, I got a son and two
daughters. My wish for them and hope for
them is that they learn to love themselves earlier because that
will just transcend into everything they do.
Yeah, right. When they love themselves more,
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they'll create a healthy boundary.
They'll know how to navigate that in the business world, in
the personal world, right. And I think creating that
relationship yourself through physical, I've talked tell a
really quick story about my daughter.
She when I had the studio in when I was in Saskatchewan, she
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biked down to my studio once with some friends.
She got there and they're so tired and she's like, mom, can
you drive me home right now? And I was like, well, I would,
but I, and I said I can, but I got two more hours here.
I'll take you back then. Well, what?
What teenage kid wants to wait for two hours?
Right. So she biked back home and she
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called me that night and it was the most incredible conversation
I had. And she's like, she just
couldn't get over how proud she was of herself.
Wow. She goes, I did it.
She goes, I, I bike there and I bike back.
And I was like, I was thinking in my head, I'm like, if I would
have drove her back, I would have robbed her of that moment.
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And she got to learn that momenthow that felt by finishing
something amazing, amazing. And that's what it's all about.
It's about creating these thingslike when you do the 12 week,
it's about finishing. So you can say you finished
because you'll feel and it's everything comes down to how you
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feel. And I say when you start to, you
know, you have a goal of I want to lose 20 lbs, ten pounds, 5
lbs, I always say, and what willthat bring you?
Because then if you attach something and a lot of people
are like, like my one mom, she'slike I get to go play with my
kids. I get to hike and not feel like
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I'm going to die because I can'tcatch my breath.
So now you've attached, you know, you have a goal.
Now you have a feeling component, right?
A real lie. So.
So yeah. So I think, you know, that's
kind of what the last, I don't like 810 years of doing this has
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brought me just understanding that, you know.
Amazing. Self love is a real thing you
and it's not just a word, but it's the work to do it.
And I can feel your vibe, Jodi. I can feel it, you know, But all
of those things, as you say, teaching your your kids, that
is, you know, it's and it's teaching through doing not.
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Yeah. You've taken responsibility for
your life. You've given yourself
permission, you've owned it, andyou follow through every day.
Yeah. So it's an amazing role model.
You do a lot of social media andI'm, I'm awestruck, you know,
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maybe a little jealous when I see you show up every day
online, which are cool videos onInstagram and LinkedIn.
Are you on Tiktok as well? I am not as much though.
Yeah, yeah. Where do you find the time to
create? Content yeah well I try to shoot
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as much as I can in in sections and then I you know just kind of
pull it apart that's become I'm grateful that I it's a creative
part of me cuz if you didn't if I didn't like doing it would
become a chore but I have a lot of fun with it yeah you know
and. That's key, isn't it?
You know, because I know a lot of people list, a lot of my
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listeners have small businesses and I know that's a wait for a
lot of them. Is this social media?
We have to show up, we have to advertise, you know, but your
Instagram is it KB. Be stronger under score.
Yeah, yeah, check her out. Maybe get some inspiration from
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both from what she's telling youto do with your body, but also
maybe for your own social media.Yeah.
And Jodie, what's next for you? So you spoke about your 12 week
program. Yes.
So does that can people start that anytime or is there a start
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date for that? Yeah, no, it's any time again
because it takes away the excuseof you have to I'm waiting,
right. And you just got to get started.
So it's anytime and yeah, like then we connect right away and I
always say connect, reach out like that's.
I know sometimes it's, you know,sometimes just a random stranger
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that you don't really know that well, but I'm very, very eager
and personable and no question is ever a silly question, so.
Yeah, people are sometimes shy when they start.
I'm like, whatever, if you just knew that, and if you follow me
along enough, you'll see so muchkind of goofiness that comes out
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of me. You're like, yeah.
It's. OK, it's OK.
Yes, yes. Brilliant.
And what else, what else is in the plan for you moving forward?
Any new projects or just more ofhow you help people?
More of the same? Yeah, actually.
So the launching 2 apps come September, so wow, sorting that
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out. So that'll be fantastic.
Again, bringing just a little bit more things to my clients to
navigate that platform a little bit more retreat.
I have the retreat coming up in Costa Rica.
So it is a movement mindset. So if you know, don't, I always
say don't be concerned about everyone's like, well,
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kettlebell for seven days. We do some kettle, I call it
kettlebell therapy. And that's when we talk a little
bit more of finding the rhythm of the bell, being grounded,
anxious energy needs to be moved.
I learned this the hard way because people when I was going
through some of my hardest times, they would be like, sit,
be still. And I'd be like, Oh my God, that
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terrifies me. Don't make me sit.
But the bell allowed me to move the energy.
So I'll do that on a day even ifbefore a big meeting, I'll like
go swing up a bell 30 times levels me out.
But so my retreat. So I just shared that because we
don't spend 7 days, it's really about becoming a present, aware.
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Sometimes it's really good to step out of your space because
you'll see things differently when you have a moment to pause
and breathe. So that's coming February 2nd in
2026. I guess that won't be.
And yeah, and I have a product that's coming in September that
I have not released what it is yet, but it is something brand
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new and I'm super excited about it.
So yeah. So you'll have to follow along
and see what's very good. That's good you'll.
Tease us along. Tease you a little bit, yeah.
You reminded me there of the Wayne Dyer quote when you say
get out of your environment and change your perspective.
But do you remember the change the way you look at things and
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the things you look at change? So that might be a good way to
maybe change the way you look atstrength training anybody
listening, or change the way youlook at, you know, how you're
currently doing your fitness or looking after your body.
So we want to look at it in a much more positive, lighter,
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brighter, exciting way. Like be curious.
Again, I always think be curious.
You know, my biggest take away that I got from my divorce was
it allowed me to, when I shiftedmy mindset, I always said I
began looking at life through the eyes of a child again.
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So I stood back and I like the things that would amaze me.
And I was people would be like, that's kind of ridiculous.
And I'm like, but if you're going to look at something you
have to change, take the lens off and like, look.
Yeah, right, absolutely. What they call in mindfulness
the beginner's mind. But I love another way that it's
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described the traveler's mind because you know when you go on
holidays and everything, it's exciting.
Yes, I love that are beautiful and.
You know it. Really.
Yes. Differently.
So yeah, that's it. A great tip.
Thanks for reminding me of. That thank you for sharing
right. Absolutely.
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So listen Jodie, this was fantastic.
Thank you so much. I will share all of Jodie's
details below in the show notes,her social media, her website,
access to her 12 week program and her retreat and anything
else she mentioned. But do go check her out guys.
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You won't regret it. Get some high vibe strength
training into your life. And yeah, no, this has been so
good. Thank you so much.
I really appreciate your time and your wisdom, and we wish you
so much luck and joy in the future.
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Thank you and thank you so much for having me.
I love it. It was like when you reached out
and connected, I was like, yes, let's do it.
It was so awesome. Thank you so much.
Amazing. Thanks Jodi, thank you.
Bye. Thanks for listening in and I
hope you felt that energy and you now feel motivated to add
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more movement into your life. I'd love to get your comments
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Jodie Barrett, the CEO of KB Stronger, an online fitness and
Wellness platform. After navigating a divorce and
transitioning from 11 years as astay at home mom of three, Jodie
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and her business evolved from trainer certification to studio
classes, hosting Wellness retreats and running KB Stronger
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I Don't Do Vanilla. Great title.
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So welcome Jodi Barish. Thank you so much Jodi for
joining us on the high vibrationreset.
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Jodi is tuning in from Calgary, AB and it is 8:30 in the
morning. Jodi, thank you for getting up
early, which I'm sure you do anyway most days.
Thank you so much for having me.Wonderful to have you here and
I'm going to let you tell the listeners who you are and give
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us a little background, Jodi, about how you went from somebody
who was overwhelmed and burnt out to somebody who has an
amazing fitness platform with a huge community of people all
around the world. So I'll hand over to you.
Well, thank you so much. As as you said, my name's Jodi
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and I always like to spin this alittle bit different kind of
characteristic wise because I got caught up in roles as I
transitioned through life. So when I introduced myself, I
like to say that I'm pretty determined, persistent, quirky,
funny and I've got a really big heart and, and some of my roles
(03:41):
would be CEO. I'm a mom, daughter, sister,
friend. So that's kind of, you know, I
always lead in with that becausemy journey started when I got so
consumed by who I thought I was and when I figured out that I
kind of lost who I was and it's landed me here today.
(04:06):
Brilliant, brilliant. So go into a little bit more of
where your journey into fitness even started.
You know, you do have a a slant on fitness and strength
training. That of course was really
interesting to me and that's whyI wanted to chat with you.
(04:26):
But you know, so just go from where that whole journey
started. Yeah, so I I did, I grew up in a
smaller community. So the benefit from that was we
were always, we got, you got to play everything, you know, as
far as sports and everything. I didn't realize the benefit of
that until I had kids of my own and realized how limiting it was
when you were in a bigger center.
(04:47):
So, you know, my love of movement started when I was a
kid and, you know, it just progressed over time and going
off into university and doing a kinesiology degree.
And then it was always. So I like, it's a it was a
foundation of me for sure, and apassion.
I was a dance teacher at one point in my life.
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So that was a little bit of background.
Sometimes people don't know. And yeah, and I, you know, got
married. I had three kids and that's
where I kind of started to get alittle lost on who who I was
again, because you get so focused on what you think you
need to be doing all the time. And then it was just the
progression of, you know, that piece.
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But then, you know, always pulling back into fitness and
health and movement and movementwas key for me.
And it actually, I think it saved me.
I know a lot of people you talk about with fitness and movement,
you know, you know, but interestingly enough, for me, it
was I was so keyed in on movement that it was the day
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that I was like couldn't move. And not because I was physically
injured, but it was a moment in time where I was like just
hitting, hitting the weights hard, doing lots of running.
And I had a moment in looking atmy reflection in the mirror and
it was like I didn't want to lift anything.
Wow. So it was, and that's where the
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mindset piece definitely comes in.
Yeah, yeah, that's, that's interesting because as you were
talking about movement, I just thought, you know, you can never
be stuck when you have movement in your life, can you?
No, right. And and that's such an important
key and we talked about that theother day about how we we become
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so consumed by how many times a week do you work out right.
And then I had a really good friend of mine we were having a
conversation. She said kind of, let's look at
it differently as how long are you sedentary during the day?
And I was like, well, that's a great way to shift things.
Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah.
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And it, it, it, you know, we start to think, oh, wow.
Yeah, maybe I can see. Right, You think about oh, I sat
down on the couch at 50. I didn't really move that much
till the next morning, right? And did nothing productive in
those hours. Yeah, right.
OK. OK.
We're hearing you. Right.
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So when did this become your your life, your business?
So when I turned when I was 41, so I like went through a
transition when I was 38 where Ihad that moment looking in the
mirror and was terrifying because I always use movement
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exercise as a way to cope. And I always think that like
that's a great thing. But there is a moment in time
where you have to really sit down with that coping mechanism
and make sure you're not over using it.
And that was for me that day. And I was like terrified because
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I was like, this was my one go to thing that helped me like, I
don't know, maybe avoid some things.
And then I just in that moment Iwas like, OK, you have to own up
everything. Like, what's going on that you
need to take care of? And, you know, I was happy that
movement came back to me. It's not like it was just like,
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done I, you know, quit. But I think it allowed me to
build up to that spot. So how did you own up?
Own up. Well, I ended up.
I owned up pretty big. I owned up that I wasn't happy
in my marriage anymore and that it was time to go down a
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different path. So that was when I was 38, and I
didn't launch my first business until 41.
So I always feel in my brain it was really fast and furious
until then. But there were some really dark
times in there where I didn't like myself very much.
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And I'm a pretty positive person, But I remember back to
those moments where I was like, yeah, not, not super happy with
just the outlook or my outlook on life.
But again, mindset kept me into play where I started a fuse
mindset and movement and intertwined them more.
And the kettlebell, which which is my training tool, it grounded
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me. Amazing.
It was after that I started training that and that the idea
started to come about, you know,because I was fitness oriented
already, strength training, the running, and then that piece
came in and I wasn't sure where it was going to take.
Me. Yeah, yeah.
But yeah. But at 41, I decided I was going
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to launch a company across Canada and start doing
kettlebell certifications. Fabulous, fabulous.
I always think it's, it's it's such a brave move because I
think so many people just settlein their lives.
Now, I'm not saying that everybody should, you know, get
divorced or do something radical, but I think a lot of
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people avoid even the question. It's, it's too big, it's too
difficult. It's just easier to get on with
life, isn't it? So first of all,
congratulations. Kudos.
Thank you. You know, I think I think it's,
it's it's a really good move fora lot of people.
And you said like 3841, you know, it seemed like a
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whirlwind, but your kids were probably teenagers at that
stage. Were they?
Yeah, my, my oldest was 13. My youngest was nine.
Wow. So, Oh, yeah, they were in the
not, not the best age for all ofthat.
But, you know, for me, 'cause I went through that transition
where I was like, you know, I made this decision and then I'm
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not happy. And then I started to think,
Gee, I made this decision. Like, you got to own that.
You did it. And I'm like, if you made such a
huge decision, you better reallyturn things around.
So that's when my mindset started to change.
And I thought, I have these three amazing kids and I just
really wanted to show them that you, you know, I was 41 and I
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was like, I wanted them to know that you can like, life is this,
this huge amazing thing and you can go after your dreams and
your goals. At any age.
At any age and I just I really, I, they, they needed to know
that it was going to be work, right?
They would see that. But you know, I, my mind shift
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was I started to think, why not me instead of I can't.
I was like, well, you think about people that have done
extraordinary things and I'm like the end of the day they're.
They're humans, right? We're all human.
I. Right.
So then I just shifted that. And I think you mentioned a
really key thing there and you've said it a couple of
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times, probably without even realizing it.
It's to own up, to own it. Yes.
You made a decision and you owned it, you know?
So it's, it's being that brave person.
It's, it's taken responsibility.These are my decisions.
Yes. I need to do something with.
Yeah. And I think because I, I
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affected, I think sometimes whenwe walk through just like, and I
don't know, because I not like just no children, but I thought
I disrupted for people's lives and I thought I would catch
myself just being so mean to myself and so upset.
And I'd be like, man, you chose to do this.
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Like, I do not want to spend therest of my life being miserable.
And the fact that I, that was mydecision.
So I'm like, let's make it a good one.
And it certainly was Jody. It was.
So you say that you're fitness and Wellness platform is as much
about emotional health or emotional strength, isn't it, as
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physical strength? So is that because of what
you've been through, of how muchfitness gave you?
Can you explain that a little bit more please?
Yeah. Like I think for me, I want
like, I mean, like I talked withmy kids, I want them to, I don't
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want to be just somebody who talks, right.
So I'm really big on, I'm going to show you every day that I'm
showing up. And I hope that you can either
be motivated from that, you can be inspired by that, you can
take something away from that. And I just think that the what I
built on the platform and I likeI've talked about like I have
the 12 week program and it's movement, it's a connecting with
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me every other week. But there's the there's a 12
week calm strength workbook in there.
And yeah, it's like the, I always say it's the brand that's
been built from the inside out. Lovely.
Yeah. So it's it's using exercise or
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movement to better yourself. Yeah.
And just, and be just becoming aware, like becoming aware that
you have a relationship with yourself that you probably
haven't even explored yet and coming back to yourself.
And the bell my my tool of choice is because you can
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create. It's a rhythm.
The swing is a rhythm, Not all of it.
You're not always swinging the bell, but it's, you know, when I
go back to when I started, I picked up the bell in a very
hard time in my life. And it was the first time I felt
grounded in a really long time. So a lot of my clients will be
like, they'll be having a rough day and they'll even send a
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message and I'll be like, go pick your bell up.
You're going to do 30 seconds ofswings.
I do it with my daughter. She'll she'll call me and she'll
be like, I'll let her share what's upsetting to her, but
I'll only let her do it for a certain time line.
And then if she spiraled out of control, I'm like, OK, go, go
swing your bell. This is what you're going to do.
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You're going to do a ladder because I want you to think
about what you're doing. So you pull yourself out of your
thoughts. So you have to focus and say,
call me back in 10 minutes. So she'll go away.
She'll come back and the conversation's so different in
10 minutes. Amazing.
Amazing. Yeah.
So did you previously work with weights?
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Yes. Before finding the bell.
Yeah, like the day I was in the gym and I saw my reflection, it
was conventional. I was conventional weight
training. And I've I actually, I tried
going back because I had a coach.
He's like, I want to coach you, let's do conventional.
And I was like, OK, I'll try it.And I love that I tried it
because when I went back I was like, oh, I wouldn't do this
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again. Wow.
Yeah, yeah. So was it that shift then what
you explained that with the the kettlebell it is much more a
presence activity. Are you much more mindful while
using it? Right, yes, I was 'cause you
have to think like you can swingand feel the rhythm and that's
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really good. But when you build stuff
together, the movements, you have to be present.
Now, there's so much beauty in that because, number one, you
are creating a mind body connection.
We need to use our brains. We sometimes forget that this is
also supposed to be used, right?To be healthy.
And yeah, it's just like the weight of the bell.
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And then when you're present in what you're doing, it also takes
you away from the day, right? So if you've had stress in your
day, something's going on, but you need to be there, have a lot
of clients when they train, they're like, wow, like that
just flew by, right? And that's always my goal.
I'm like, I want you to be so present.
You know, when you're so presentwith another human being that
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they bring such joy in life to you that you look at your watch,
you look at the clock and you'relike, Oh my gosh, we've been
sitting for two hours, right? So that's kind of the idea with
the training that you just be sopresent.
Just in case anybody out there doesn't know what a kettlebell
is, can you describe what it is for us?
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Yes, I was like if I I have one to the right of me.
Go on, pick it up. Can I get it?
I feel like a visual is always avisual is a good.
I'm a visual person, so it's like this.
OK, so those of you listening and not watching.
Right. Yeah.
So if you're not, if you're not watching, it's a round weight
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with a handle. So somebody said I should get a
purse that looks like that. But right.
So the nice thing about that, I have to set it back down because
I'm paranoid about setting it ontop of things because it will
fall. But yeah, so it's a, it's a
round weight with a handle. So you're always dealing with
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different ways to hold it because of the balance of it or
where the scent of gravity is. OK, so you're balancing your
body? And core, everybody's like off
ladies, we always like our core,right?
But it's such a great everythingyou do is such a.
It's such a good core exercise and functional.
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Different in in that way as well, that when you're using a
weight, it's more around the local area rather than the
cattle bell. You're using your whole body
with each weight. Wow.
I've never I've never used it. Yet yet, right?
There's a yet. I was telling Jody before we hit
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record about my my sore arm and hand and and other little things
going on with me. As soon as I get that sorted
out, I think yes, I'll be swinging them bells, right?
You'll love it. So tell me girl, the it's it's
women you work with. Mostly women, probably 90%.
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Yeah, yeah. So let's say in that 12 week
program you, you mentioned, you know, do you see not just a
change? I know, I know, I know the
answer to this question, but do you see a change not just in the
physical aspects of the people you know?
So. So tell us about what else
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changes. Right.
I love that question. I, you know, I, you know, I've
been doing this for 8 1/2 years.So you know, you always try to
find that thing that you build that you're like, this is it,
this is a thing that I want to share with people.
And like, so really May was the first time I launched the 12
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week program and it's been so incredible and not like, yes,
incredible that you're going to like, I had one lady, she's
like, I'm down 4 pants sizes. I'm gaining muscle, but my most
favorite thing about that is she's like, it's changed my
mental health. She goes, it's changed my life.
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She goes, I I can go hang out and do stuff with my kids.
She started running again, running again.
And she's like, I just look at things differently.
And she did it with a, a girlfriend of hers.
And she's like, she's a different, like she's like, it's
like, it's a different person, like mentally show up
differently. And she's like, when I, she
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goes, I hear you in my head, youknow, throughout the day when I
think I can't do something. And then I'm like, I hear you,
you can do it. Keep showing up, you know, do
what you can today. And that's, that's the, that's
the key, right? Like I want people to move, but
that's why I want to help peoplefigure out how to put the two of
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them together. Because when you put them
together, you will have a lifestyle change because it
changes how you feel during the day, how you navigate, how you
look at things, right? And I love that.
Like when they start the programand we connect quite quickly in
the program is like it's a 30 minute start and it's body
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weight. They do body weight to start and
then it goes into the bells, butit's like 30 minutes.
I don't care if you do the 30 minutes to start, like you have
to find your start spot. And it's starting to teach
people that just because it says30 minutes on the on the, you
know, the program, if you get 15minutes done, that's awesome.
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So now you know your start, right?
So that's the mindset behind it all.
It's like you need to figure outhow to fit it into your life so
it works for you. So it's three times a week, you
know, as it gets a little progressive, there's a little
bit more gets added on near the end, but it's like I wanted to
build something that was manageable that you could be
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successful at. Yeah.
So you feel like you a success because we all, we should all
feel like a success at the end of the day.
Absolutely. And that's what I was going to
say to you. So not only is it a mental
health benefit from doing it, but surely it it increases
confidence massively. Oh, absolutely right.
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Like the one girl who finished, she's like, I've never finished
anything. And we, and we had the
conversation cuz when she started, she's like, I always
quit. And the nice thing is every two
weeks you get like there's this calendar you go in and you book
a session with me and we go overform, we go over.
How is it fitting in? Because that's so important
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because I know as women, like I only speak because I speak for
myself, that we are really good at taking things on, right?
And that's somehow how we get overwhelmed.
And we, we don't finish our fitness because we've taken
stuff on. So a big part of it is sitting
with someone and saying, where are you going to fit it in,
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right? Do the first week, second week,
we come back and we adjust. Maybe it's better at morning,
maybe it's better at afternoon, but it's time management.
But it's habit formation, isn't it?
And it, it has to work and it has to work.
Yeah, yeah, it has to work and and blend in with what's already
there in your life. Yes, and I think permission,
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right? We sometimes need permission to
know. I had a mom that trained with me
in studio when I was in studio once and she's online with me
now and she's got 2 little boys and she's like, I'm really
struggling to get in the 45 minutes.
And I said, well, there's five minute ones on there.
And she's like, Oh yeah, she goes.
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But she said to me, she texted me later and she said you gave
me permission today that it was OK.
And I'm like, you moved your body today.
That's the beauty of it. Absolutely.
And that's it. Make it so easy that she kind of
say no. Yeah.
And the and the snowball effect of that is you might get in for
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5 minutes, that might be it. But you might feel so good.
You'll be like, well, I'm going to do this other.
Three days, a little bit more, right?
So that's how I wrote my first book was I said to myself, I can
do 10 minutes a day. Nice.
And of course, 10 minutes sometimes spills over and
sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you do.
It but. It, it gives you that sense of
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achievement, of success. Success.
Yeah, Yeah. So even if you promise yourself
I'm going to do 5 minutes of movement today, yes.
By the end of the week, you've done how many minutes is that?
My 35 minutes? Yeah.
Yeah. But as you say, you know, very
often it becomes more and more and more.
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And it's teaching you right to show up for you and you're true
to your word, right? Because that's a huge thing is
when you start saying things, I'm going to do this.
And then you check it off and you're like, yeah, I did it.
I did it. So now when I say something, I
have to be very conscious because I want to do it right.
Exactly. Exactly.
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Yeah. And I think there's so many of
us that have, you know, spent somany years setting goals and not
doing it, setting intentions, but not quite committing because
we failed so many times before that we don't even want to voice
it. So that's a really good tip for
people who are struggling or feeling stuck.
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It's like set a really small goal, something that you can
achieve, and then each one of them adds up and all of a sudden
you've started a business, you've lost the weight or you've
transformed some part of your life that needs needs a shift.
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So your book. So I love the title of your
book, Jody. I don't do vanilla.
Right. What's that all about?
Oh, well, I've been, I've been in my business long enough for
the to know that I kind of needed a little bit of a
marketing behind it. So I was like, if I was in a if
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I was in a bookstore, what wouldcatch my attention?
I don't the idea behind the title is I, I believe I don't do
things the normal average way. I look at things differently.
I storm ahead and try to figure it out as I go.
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So that was the title of my bookand it was I was one of my best
friends. She's an also does some
photography and graphic design and she actually took that photo
of the book. There's on the title on the
book, there's like I'm holding ice cream and it's like pink and
blue. And we did it for actually an
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Instagram post is where it happened.
And then when I wrote the book, the lady who was helping me
publish, she said, Jodie, I envisioned this and I stopped
her and I said, no, I'm like, I know exactly what picture I
want. And I said it was the, it was
the ice cream photo. And she was so awesome.
And she's like, I love it. She goes, she goes, it's so
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cool. She goes, the photo was born
before the book and it was all there and it would just, you
know, everything was just waiting to tie in.
So, yeah, so that was the that was.
Started the book. How has that served you through
your life? This concept of not doing things
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the way everybody else shows them.
Carving your own path, your own way.
I think it, it's been really, it's served me well.
It's taught me so many things. It's taught me, you know, not to
because I do. I, I, I know I am an
overthinker, but it's allowed meto go, OK, just start because
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we'll figure it out. And it's allowed me to do be in
that space because you could, I could get so stuck in my head
with ideas that things would never come to fruition.
And it has really served me wellin that sense that I'm like, OK,
let's go for it and why not? Yeah, yeah, we get one life
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right. Like when you really sit like I,
I sit with that a lot. And whenever I'm making a
decision about something, peoplemight think it sounds morbid,
but I really my question how I Idecide is if I was taking my
last breath, would I be OK passing up this opportunity?
And my answer comes fast and. Furious.
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Yeah. Yeah.
So to the women or the people who are sitting on the couch
feeling heavy, maybe stuck in what I call low vibration, where
things in life are, you know, not going so well, how do you
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inspire those people to move? Yes, that's a fabulous question.
First of all, I know what that feels like heavy.
I work with people that walk into my space to lift a weight,
and I could tell you how the dayis going by how they lift a
weight overhead because they won't build a lift or they'll
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struggle with a lighter weight when their life is heavy.
But I'm going to say start to move.
And maybe movement isn't a kettlebell.
Maybe it's a walk that's three minutes, but you need to move
that energy because when you're stuck, your energy's stuck.
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And that's why I always pair movement with the mindset, the
mindset with the movement, because one will start to flow
the other because it's so important to move your body
because you start getting that positive energy moving and then
you'll it allow yourself to go, OK, what's next?
Now I can start to think a little bit clearer because
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that's starting to move. It's not all good.
You're not going to figure it all out at once.
It is, it is a journey. And it's like I always look at
it as a tear, right? So I feel sluggish.
I don't feel good in my head space.
Sometimes it's hard to motivate your head when you're there, but
if I start to move in a positiveway, then I can clear my head a
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little bit. Then I can focus on the head
stuff. This is when you'll probably go
into, I got to train every day. I got to do this because it's
clear in my head. Then you have to recognize that,
OK, there is a harmony between those movements.
And when you can figure that out, then you hit the top of the
tier where you're like, you know, your mindset and movement
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go together and to understand that they'll fluctuate.
One will you'll need to spend more time here, need to spend
more time here, but it it's a journey.
In your experience then to go from stuckness, it's more about
making this decision in advance to move rather than relying on
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your mind too make that decision.
Would that be correct? Yeah, well, they they kind of go
together because you mind has todecide to walk through the like
or push play on the button like you got to decide to do it.
But I wouldn't overthink it. And that's why I say I always
think walking is always the best.
And if you can get outside because being outdoors is a
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beautiful thing. So just starting there.
But you, you do, you have to also make that biggest decision
is in your head. So it's kind of a challenge to
have even that conversation because which comes first,
right? But I think it's a lot about
that, you know, when we're talking about habit creation or
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even, I know at this stage somebody might not have the
habit, but it's saying I want todo this in advance rather than
waiting. Because you know, in the if you
say I'm going to go for a walk tomorrow, yes, then you don't
feel like it. No.
Whereas if you say tomorrow at 3:00 PM, I'm meeting Jody for a
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walk or I'm meeting Kira, that'sa decision made.
It's a decision made. And most often, unfortunately,
our pain has to outweigh it. Like our pain has to be it's
huge. I've had clients come to me
before and they're like, I want to do this, this, this.
And then they'll do it for a little bit and then they're not
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really doing it. And then they come back to me
and I, I ask the question, I'm like, how bad do you want it?
And they're like, well, I don't like this anymore.
And I'm like, OK, so then your, your, your pains got intolerable
to you. So now you do.
You've made that decision that I'm not there.
And I always say, yeah, your start spot is the most beautiful
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spot because there is so much inthat start spot #1 when you
start exercising, I'm brutally honest.
It's gonna suck. Like you're gonna be like, this
is feels hard. Everything's hard.
But I'm, there's so much beauty in that.
Because A, you've started, right?
You said you were. You're gonna be true to your
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word. You've started BI.
Always say remember your start spot so you don't go back to it.
Yeah. Right.
I've had people that have trouble getting up and down off
the ground and they look at me and they're like, that was the
worst moment of my life. And I was like, good.
Yeah. Now you know where you're at, so
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let's work on that. Get better so that you don't
have to feel that way. Right.
So what kind of mindset tips do you give your clients?
So obviously, you know, you start something new, it's tough,
you're tired, your body doesn't quite have the strength or the
energy. You know, while people are doing
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that, surely there's things thatwe should be putting into our
head rather than saying things like this is so hard, I hate
this. Right, Yeah, We start talking
about internal dialogue. What's that conversation on the
inside light? I always like you're best to be
your better, your best cheerleader than your worst
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critic, 'cause I'm like, if you're gonna go through life,
let's let's, you know, pick ourselves up before beating
ourselves down. So just starting to understand,
you know, when you move through motions, what is your
conversation in your head, right?
And again, first of all, it's just some of us don't even
realize that we're having those thoughts, right?
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So it's just creating an awareness of like you did a week
of training and you kind of start to think journal a little
bit on what that felt like before your workout.
How did you feel like after workout?
I've never had anyone. And mark my words, I should I
always say never say never, but never had someone say to me, Oh
my God, I'm so, so upset that I showed up today, right?
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Even if it was a tough workout where you're like, I'm
exhausted, you're like, I did it.
And it's just the power of like showed up.
I move my body, right? So those are the little things
you start to weave in, you know,and recognize.
And again, showing up for a period of time without having
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huge expectations, you got to start and it's going to take
time. Yeah, right.
But that's a good trick as well.I think for people it's to play
it forward. You know, how am I going to feel
when I've done this rather than focus on the, the pain of the
not that it's not that it's painful, I'm over exaggerating,
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but the, the difficulty in changing your routine or the
challenge, it's how am I going to feel exactly?
Can I do this? I'm going to be so proud of
myself. I'm going to have more energy.
I'm going to have endorphins. There are so many benefits and
you just have to get over that first moment of the, the
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thoughts that drag you down. I call Jodie your Bull.
That was the title of my book, Rise before the last book, Rise
Before You're Bull. So it's to move, to take action
before you give that internal rhetoric time.
Yes. To tell you not to do it.
To convince you. Otherwise, and you can set
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yourself up like the night before instead of going, Oh, I
got to work out tomorrow. You're like, you get to work out
tomorrow. I get to work out tomorrow.
And even if it doesn't feel right in your head, you know,
you just, but you're, you're getting your subconscious like I
get to do it, you know, in the morning, you get up.
And I always say I do gratitude every day before I get out of
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bed. And it's just starting to set
the tone for your day where it'sgoing to be.
And you have just like, I mean, it's like you just have to start
and it'll start to snowball. So do you work out in the
morning? Right off the hop I get up, I do
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50 push ups before while my coffee is brewing and I move and
I move throughout the day. So my I kind of spread my
workouts throughout the day, different parts of it.
And then I have a main set workout that I do like a Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, so. Do you recommend a time of the
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day? Does it matter?
Does it depend on the person? You work out when it fits you
the best. Like we could get into like
scientifically where where does,but I'm like, we just need to
get people moving, right? And if you're like, I have a
client, she just moved to doing early mornings and she loves it.
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And I'm like, if I could do my early mornings myself, probably
the best because a, you've set the tone for your day.
You feel good already and you don't get pulled into the cycle
of, oh, I don't have time at tonight because I got to run
here, got to take the kids here.So then it's there.
So I mean, maybe that's, you know, you just have to figure
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out where where it fits best so you can fit your fitness into
your lifestyle. Yeah, exactly.
In my experience, you know, I'vealways found it really difficult
to create habits all my life, and that's why I ended up, you
know, studying it so much. But it was always that get it
done in the morning. Even now with my dogs, if I ever
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say I'll walk them later, I never walk them later, Right,
because you put it off. I never do because I'm always
too busy doing something else oryou know doing other chores.
So I know myself that I need to do things in the morning.
Now if I have a class like Pilates or I'm going to play
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tennis or have something pre arranged, well then I'll show
up. Yes.
And that's key too, right. So that's why I always say have
a, you know, a lot of people that go through the program,
they have a friend that joins with them.
So then it's on the day where you're kind of like, and they
send you a text because I know this has happened with them.
They're like, I did it and they're like, oh, you did it
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already. I gotta get it done now, right?
So it's be accountable, you know, signing in saying you're
gonna be there. Also accountability.
Those are all little tricks thatyou know you do to show up.
Yeah, and we have to trick ourselves.
Sometimes we do, sometimes we do, and I always say life gets
busy. So if you miss a workout, you
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miss a workout. Don't miss 2 workouts because if
you miss the second one, chancesare you're going to miss a third
one. And now you are creating a habit
of missing. Yes, yeah.
And then you have the emotional negative impact of that, Yes.
And then the mindset starts the negative.
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Failed, Yeah. Here I go again.
I knew I wouldn't do this. So yeah, that's, that's a good
tip, you know, not, not let it go too far, right.
In your experience as a businessowner, how important has it been
to have this physical strength to carry you through?
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Do you think you would have achieved what you've achieved
without your strength training? Hey, believe.
Not she's shaking her head, by the way.
Shaking my head no because it's taught me grit like it's taught
me when I do something hard and people always say why are you
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always going and doing somethingso hard like you you know you're
strong why do you have to go andswing a bell for an hour twice a
year? Because I, it takes you through
a mental journey and when I do something hard physically, it
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reminds me I'm so capable. So then I correlate, you know,
this project's hard, but I know my body can show up.
I know I can show up because I've shown myself that you teach
yourself what you're capable of when physical training so that
you can apply that to you. Apply it to, you know, your
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business, your personal life, all those keys of elements of
that is like, I know if I am true to my word that I can show
up. Well, now I can ply that too.
I can show that up in business. I can show in my personal life,
you know, but it's, it's like that's the I that's what I get
so excited about because it's just that I'm like, Can you
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imagine that? Just not just training, but
training and doing the mindset together that gives you such a
big component for your life to help you navigate.
My kids laugh at me all the timebecause they're always like, you
can relate everything to training.
Well, it's, yeah, it's very relevant.
I mean, you know, again, we're talking about vibration, high
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vibration. It's when we align our mindset,
our emotions and our actions andwe feel bloody good.
Right. And I think.
We take more action and we move through life in a happier and
stronger way. So yeah, I think strength
training is a very good analogy,a very good tool in order to
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facilitate that. One of the things that I always
say is that high performers havehigh performing habits.
And I see that time and time again with the people that I
coach. You know, not everybody, but
we're probably talking the Pareto principle, 80% of high
performers, you know, that they are out there doing the right
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things. They're they all have some kind
of exercise habit because it gives them energy, it gives them
that clarity, the focus. Yeah.
Pull from it. Yeah, yeah.
And in your experience, as well as you know, being ACEO, being a
single mom, what other things has this lifestyle taught you?
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Are there any other lessons thatyou've taken from you know, this
daily activity that you've been able to bring through?
Yeah, that's a good question. I think kind of what teaches me
so much always right, You know, the teaches me the relationship
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with yourself, right, Because I've had, I had to like the
last, oh gosh, well, since I was38, I'm 50 now, it's like it's
been quite a ride in understanding, You know, how I
show up for me, how I show up for my kids, my family, all of
that. It's taught me the importance of
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it and really the importance of we all.
I think it's easy to talk, right?
We can have conversations, we can throw words around that the
not so easy is the actual doing right.
And we talk about self love a lot and that being such a big
component. And like, I think, and I think
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it's supposed to be this way. I think you're supposed to, you
know, I always hope that my kids, I got a son and two
daughters. My wish for them and hope for
them is that they learn to love themselves earlier because that
will just transcend into everything they do.
Yeah, right. When they love themselves more,
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they'll create a healthy boundary.
They'll know how to navigate that in the business world, in
the personal world, right. And I think creating that
relationship yourself through physical, I've talked tell a
really quick story about my daughter.
She when I had the studio in when I was in Saskatchewan, she
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biked down to my studio once with some friends.
She got there and they're so tired and she's like, mom, can
you drive me home right now? And I was like, well, I would,
but I, and I said I can, but I got two more hours here.
I'll take you back then. Well, what?
What teenage kid wants to wait for two hours?
Right. So she biked back home and she
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called me that night and it was the most incredible conversation
I had. And she's like, she just
couldn't get over how proud she was of herself.
Wow. She goes, I did it.
She goes, I, I bike there and I bike back.
And I was like, I was thinking in my head, I'm like, if I would
have drove her back, I would have robbed her of that moment.
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And she got to learn that momenthow that felt by finishing
something amazing, amazing. And that's what it's all about.
It's about creating these thingslike when you do the 12 week,
it's about finishing. So you can say you finished
because you'll feel and it's everything comes down to how you
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feel. And I say when you start to, you
know, you have a goal of I want to lose 20 lbs, ten pounds, 5
lbs, I always say, and what willthat bring you?
Because then if you attach something and a lot of people
are like, like my one mom, she'slike I get to go play with my
kids. I get to hike and not feel like
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I'm going to die because I can'tcatch my breath.
So now you've attached, you know, you have a goal.
Now you have a feeling component, right?
A real lie. So.
So yeah. So I think, you know, that's
kind of what the last, I don't like 810 years of doing this has
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brought me just understanding that, you know.
Amazing. Self love is a real thing you
and it's not just a word, but it's the work to do it.
And I can feel your vibe, Jodi. I can feel it, you know, But all
of those things, as you say, teaching your your kids, that
is, you know, it's and it's teaching through doing not.
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Yeah. You've taken responsibility for
your life. You've given yourself
permission, you've owned it, andyou follow through every day.
Yeah. So it's an amazing role model.
You do a lot of social media andI'm, I'm awestruck, you know,
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maybe a little jealous when I see you show up every day
online, which are cool videos onInstagram and LinkedIn.
Are you on Tiktok as well? I am not as much though.
Yeah, yeah. Where do you find the time to
create? Content yeah well I try to shoot
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as much as I can in in sections and then I you know just kind of
pull it apart that's become I'm grateful that I it's a creative
part of me cuz if you didn't if I didn't like doing it would
become a chore but I have a lot of fun with it yeah you know
and. That's key, isn't it?
You know, because I know a lot of people list, a lot of my
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listeners have small businesses and I know that's a wait for a
lot of them. Is this social media?
We have to show up, we have to advertise, you know, but your
Instagram is it KB. Be stronger under score.
Yeah, yeah, check her out. Maybe get some inspiration from
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both from what she's telling youto do with your body, but also
maybe for your own social media.Yeah.
And Jodie, what's next for you? So you spoke about your 12 week
program. Yes.
So does that can people start that anytime or is there a start
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date for that? Yeah, no, it's any time again
because it takes away the excuseof you have to I'm waiting,
right. And you just got to get started.
So it's anytime and yeah, like then we connect right away and I
always say connect, reach out like that's.
I know sometimes it's, you know,sometimes just a random stranger
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that you don't really know that well, but I'm very, very eager
and personable and no question is ever a silly question, so.
Yeah, people are sometimes shy when they start.
I'm like, whatever, if you just knew that, and if you follow me
along enough, you'll see so muchkind of goofiness that comes out
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of me. You're like, yeah.
It's. OK, it's OK.
Yes, yes. Brilliant.
And what else, what else is in the plan for you moving forward?
Any new projects or just more ofhow you help people?
More of the same? Yeah, actually.
So the launching 2 apps come September, so wow, sorting that
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out. So that'll be fantastic.
Again, bringing just a little bit more things to my clients to
navigate that platform a little bit more retreat.
I have the retreat coming up in Costa Rica.
So it is a movement mindset. So if you know, don't, I always
say don't be concerned about everyone's like, well,
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kettlebell for seven days. We do some kettle, I call it
kettlebell therapy. And that's when we talk a little
bit more of finding the rhythm of the bell, being grounded,
anxious energy needs to be moved.
I learned this the hard way because people when I was going
through some of my hardest times, they would be like, sit,
be still. And I'd be like, Oh my God, that
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terrifies me. Don't make me sit.
But the bell allowed me to move the energy.
So I'll do that on a day even ifbefore a big meeting, I'll like
go swing up a bell 30 times levels me out.
But so my retreat. So I just shared that because we
don't spend 7 days, it's really about becoming a present, aware.
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Sometimes it's really good to step out of your space because
you'll see things differently when you have a moment to pause
and breathe. So that's coming February 2nd in
2026. I guess that won't be.
And yeah, and I have a product that's coming in September that
I have not released what it is yet, but it is something brand
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new and I'm super excited about it.
So yeah. So you'll have to follow along
and see what's very good. That's good you'll.
Tease us along. Tease you a little bit, yeah.
You reminded me there of the Wayne Dyer quote when you say
get out of your environment and change your perspective.
But do you remember the change the way you look at things and
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the things you look at change? So that might be a good way to
maybe change the way you look atstrength training anybody
listening, or change the way youlook at, you know, how you're
currently doing your fitness or looking after your body.
So we want to look at it in a much more positive, lighter,
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brighter, exciting way. Like be curious.
Again, I always think be curious.
You know, my biggest take away that I got from my divorce was
it allowed me to, when I shiftedmy mindset, I always said I
began looking at life through the eyes of a child again.
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So I stood back and I like the things that would amaze me.
And I was people would be like, that's kind of ridiculous.
And I'm like, but if you're going to look at something you
have to change, take the lens off and like, look.
Yeah, right, absolutely. What they call in mindfulness
the beginner's mind. But I love another way that it's
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described the traveler's mind because you know when you go on
holidays and everything, it's exciting.
Yes, I love that are beautiful and.
You know it. Really.
Yes. Differently.
So yeah, that's it. A great tip.
Thanks for reminding me of. That thank you for sharing
right. Absolutely.
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So listen Jodie, this was fantastic.
Thank you so much. I will share all of Jodie's
details below in the show notes,her social media, her website,
access to her 12 week program and her retreat and anything
else she mentioned. But do go check her out guys.
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You won't regret it. Get some high vibe strength
training into your life. And yeah, no, this has been so
good. Thank you so much.
I really appreciate your time and your wisdom, and we wish you
so much luck and joy in the future.
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Thank you and thank you so much for having me.
I love it. It was like when you reached out
and connected, I was like, yes, let's do it.
It was so awesome. Thank you so much.
Amazing. Thanks Jodi, thank you.
Bye. Thanks for listening in and I
hope you felt that energy and you now feel motivated to add
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more movement into your life. I'd love to get your comments
and thoughts on this episode or any of the episodes.
And as always, if you're not already following on the
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your vibration, you rise into your true potential.
See you next time and have a great inner day.
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