In this final TPNx episode, Adam recaps past content and introduces Lashae Bacon from Mile High Health Club. Lashae shares her journey and the club's development, focusing on transitioning from military to civilian life. She discusses fitness and nutrition programs for pilots and the challenges of launching her health club. The conversation covers pilot lifestyle health challenges, including meal prep and accountability. Lashae provides motivation strategies and personal fitness insights, along with information on accessing her programs. The episode concludes with contact details and closing remarks on health management.
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Network, what is up?
It's Adam back again with you on the third andfinal installment of the TPNx episodes.
We had a great time chatting with our friendswho come to TPNx, especially this year,
recruiters.
We were just unable to get any of therecruiters on.
They were too busy, too slammed with talking toso many great attendees.
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We got some really neat vendors.
We did get a recruiter last episode, I guessyou could call that a recruiter.
They were a recruiter vendor, kind of acomplimentary group there from Metraya with
Slim Morgan.
And then before that, we had Lindsey from Arrison.
That was a really cool conversation, especiallyhaving daughters that really meant a lot to me.
This one was kind of an old friends, newfriends, right?
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Matt and I finally get to do another episodetogether, which is kind of rare.
And Lachey Bacon from Mile High Health Clubjoined us.
Lachey's background is combat pilot.
She, she flew the Kiowa and the Apache and thearmy before she made her transition and change
into civilian life, where she decided to focuson fitness and fitness for aviators.
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She has a wonderful website,milehihealthclub.life, that's her business
website.
It's transformative in the way it kind of looksat the model of health and fitness and overall
wellness approach that sometimes we aviatorsneed just a little bit of help on being on the
road with especially more food choices thannecessarily fitness options.
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I think a lot of us could use a little bit ofhelp in both categories.
I'm for one of those people.
But the reality is everybody's journey isdifferent.
Lachey's was incredibly different and astruggle to get to where she is today.
And now she's crushing it both in herprofessional and personal life.
And I think that we can take a lot from theword she says and go visit her at
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myleahealthclub.life to go get your kind of ownpersonal consultation and see what's out there
for you.
But you could listen to me talk about it or youcan listen to Matt Lachey and I have a
conversation live from TPNx twenty twenty five.
I hope you enjoyed the series and we're hopingto do a lot more of these.
So let me know if you have a certain request oryou think you have a guest that might be
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somebody who'd want to get together live, we'dlove to do that in person.
It's just so much more dynamic.
The digital ones are great, but the liveepisodes are the episodes we get to do face to
face and in person are really something specialand unique.
But enough from me, Let's get on with theepisode with Lachey and Matt.
I hope you enjoy.
Hey, network.
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It's Adam and Matt coming live from TPNx twentytwenty five one more time.
I guess it's not live, Matt.
It's recorded.
I mean, we're live right
now.
Yeah.
We're we are here, but they're not.
They're not here.
And if you're if you were here and you attendedTV Next twenty twenty five
You missed out.
You if
you didn't if you were here, you had a greattime and you met some awesome vendors.
You had probably some opportunities that younever thought you did before.
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And if you stayed for the socials, you may havewell, you probably did it responsibly, unlike
some of the other vendor types myself.
But we we all had a good time up till thispoint.
I'm I'm sure the rest of the conference isgoing well as we wrap up here.
But we're talking about these vendors.
There's a lot of unique different people thatcome to TBN X to kind of support the pilot.
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We have one.
Her name is Lashie, and she's a thing calledMile High Health Club.
And we're curious on your journey.
Thanks for joining us.
Of course.
So thanks for having me.
Yeah.
So how did it all start out with, like oh, MyoHigh Health Club.
It gives me it gives me some visions that
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's start with the name.
Yeah.
How'd you come up with the
You're never gonna forget it.
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No.
That's for sure.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's part of the marketing.
It was actually the very first name I eventhought of.
And I was just telling someone about, I like,have this kind of idea, this plan.
And I wanna name it something like good, ofcourse.
Like, I don't know.
Like, Maha Health Club or something like that.
I was like, that's pretty good.
And then I I actually tried to think of othernames.
I was like, no.
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That's it.
That's it.
So I mean, anyone in aviation, you say milehigh, they're like, they can identify with it
because they know they know that phrase.
And of course, health club because that's whatI do.
So what let's start.
One of the things we love at TPN is originstories.
Yeah.
It's about it all.
Where did it start in the like, here?
Do you like, I don't know.
You went on my my whole
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life story.
About it.
One.
Like, hey.
Where where did you grow up?
So how heavy were you when you were Hawaiian?
Yeah.
I think I was, like, seven pounds.
Heavy was beefy.
But yeah.
No.
So my my fitness journey itself started offpretty rough, actually.
Because I grew up in a family, in a region.
I'm from Kansas originally, so Midwest.
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Very much the stereotypical idea, especiallyfrom women that if a woman has muscle, it's not
attractive.
And I I kinda grew up around that for a longperiod of my life even even still now to be
honest.
And so one, I like, the only working out I didwas a sports.
I played volleyball into college, and I alsoplayed softball, did some track.
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And but I never lifted weights ever.
I had no knowledge on it whatsoever.
Like, that was with the guys.
And plus our school growing up didn't reallyhave a gym until I got to, like, halfway
through high school.
And once I got to college, I was with myfriends and she dragged me to this water
aerobics course for extra credit that she wasdoing.
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And I was like, you know what?
Yeah.
I'm not doing anything.
Let's go do this thing.
And so my niece kind of weird, like, heading toit.
I was like, this is interesting.
Like, they felt a little stiff.
I was like, never felt this before butwhatever.
You know, was like, I was 22 years old.
Didn't think anything of it really.
But we did the course and the second I leftthat pool, my knees felt like they exploded.
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And by the time I got to the locker room, theywere swamped like the size of each one, like
half of a softball.
And I couldn't walk.
And I was like, what just happened?
I was in agonizing pain.
I couldn't think.
I was in so much pain.
And at first, I didn't really say anything toher, but like, I obviously couldn't walk.
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And so she was like, what's going on?
I was like, I don't know.
I don't know.
Just get me home.
And luckily, we were only a few blocks from myapartment.
And I literally dragged myself by my arms up myapartment stairs just to get inside.
And my boyfriend at the time, I pounded on thedoor.
He opens it up, like, sees me on the ground intears.
He's like, what happened?
Almost like I got shot or something at the doorof our apartment.
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But I was like, I don't know.
I don't know.
Just get me inside.
And I was bedridden for a few days because Icouldn't walk.
But of course, as a very stubborn 20 year old,also having no knowledge of like health
insurance, I wasn't so afraid.
I was afraid to like go get checked out becauseI was like, oh my god, I don't know if I'll be
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able to do anything after this.
I don't know how much money is this gonna cost.
But to like wrap this up, like a two yearwindow, I I went through physical therapy.
I had x rays, MRIs.
I did got a cortisone shot in one of my kneesbecause they just wanted to test it out.
But that that made it even worse.
And I felt my knees explode again.
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And nobody could figure it out.
There was like, I don't know, good luckbasically.
I was like, I couldn't I couldn't walk for longperiods of time.
I couldn't stand for like longer than fiveminutes.
I couldn't even sit down because I was sittingdown, started getting achy.
And then like almost after two years, I waslike, I lived right behind a gym.
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And I was like, I need to solve it.
So my boyfriend at the time, he was like, whatif you went and like try to talk to a personal
trainer?
And of course, especially back then, stillpersonal trainers kind of got a bad rep a
little bit.
They got made fun of.
And so I was like, screw it.
I'm out of options.
So I did.
And I explained what happened to this dude, youknow, at the front desk.
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And he's like writing down notes.
He's like, you know what?
Let me actually go get our most experiencedtrainer.
He's been training for like thirty years.
I think he's the one that needs to deal withthis.
And I ended up working with him for about fourmonths.
And after three weeks of working with him, Ifelt 20%.
I was like, this is magic.
What is this exercise?
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And so I was hooked from there.
And after I got to a point where I couldactually exercise, I could run, then that was
pretty much the window of where I was in abouta year out of college.
And I hated the job that I had.
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I was in marketing, wasn't a fan.
And I was I was convinced that, you know, likethe army could could be it and that I could be
a pilot, Right?
So that was an option.
I was like, you know what?
Like, yeah, let me give it a go.
And so that's what I did.
And I still had a huge passion for fitness.
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And so, of course, COVID hits like right in themiddle of my contract.
So just like everyone else, we're not flying awhole lot.
And I was like, this is my time.
This is when I get my certificate.
So that's when I became a personal trainer,followed up by a nutrition specialist.
And I was just kinda training my friends,building programs for myself for some family.
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My buddy is working out with me every once in awhile.
And I knew that I knew I was gonna get out ofthe army And I knew I wanted to do something in
the like the health industry.
So about a year after I got out the army, Istarted flying again.
And I was flying with my CFI.
He knows he's a personal trainer andeverything.
So he'd always joke about his health, but likenot joke about his health.
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And I was like, this is it.
This is this is what I have to do.
I wanted to work for professionals.
I still wanna be in aviation.
I'm still flying obviously.
This is what I need to do.
I need to build programs for pilots, my people.
And that's exactly what I started doing.
Last year in July, I started putting all theseexercises that I've done for myself into actual
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programs.
And I launched in January.
And then I obviously needed to cover all thebases.
Right?
Because nutrition's a huge aspect of a pilot'slifestyle.
And it's arguably probably one of the mostdifficult aspects of it too, no matter what
kind of aviation industry you're in as a pilot.
So that's what I did as well.
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I I've got four fitness programs, fournutrition programs, and I've got few other
guides tagged in there as well and a lot morethan I'm gonna be coming out with this year.
But yeah, I just wanted to I wanted to workwith my people.
I wanted to be here for my people and just showthem that like, if you're in a hole, there's a
way out.
But there's also a way to never get into thathole too.
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Yeah.
Sure.
I think we've talked about this multiple times,not only just today, but on previous podcasts
is that the the sense of purpose that drives usbecause maybe you get into aviation and you get
passionate about it or or and love it.
You start doing it for a while and sometimes itbecomes a job.
Some days you I mean, there's some days where apilot doesn't wanna go flying.
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It it's it's rare.
I know it's hard to believe, but it actuallyhappens.
And when you hit that point, you may still loveyou may love it, but you have to find another
purpose.
And then if you do retire, you leave themilitary, retire, and you don't continue the
aviation cycle.
You lose that sense of purpose.
And it sounds like your sense of purpose beforeyou ever started flying was
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Yeah.
Was was was bringing fitness first to yourself,but then to others.
And then you had now you have a a networkthere.
I dropped it.
Absolutely.
You have a network of people.
Now you feel like I that need a specificallytailored idea of how to do this, and you kinda
have the ins now when you when you built outand you launched in January, was this, okay,
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I'm gonna build an app.
I'm gonna do this.
Like, how how did this what what's thestructure there?
How are the logistics of that?
Yeah.
So I I've been bouncing back and forth a lotbetween whether or not I want to actually build
an app.
And so I I knew that I was like, hey, okay,Workout programs and nutrition programs, those
those are the foundational pieces of what apilot is.
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But there's, I mean, there's tons of fitnessplatforms out there, right, like with their
apps and stuff like that.
Easily accessible.
If that's what pilots wanted, they wouldalready be doing that, of course.
So where The direction that I'm working on nowthat I've I'm pretty sure I've kinda figured it
out at this point with this being my thirdconference in less than two months, is that
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we're all smart people.
Right?
We wouldn't be pilots if we didn't have somesort
Some of
us are.
Some level of intelligence.
Some subjective.
Why are you smarter than others?
You know, I will give leeway to some.
Well, thank well, thank you.
You're very generous.
Yeah.
I it.
I'm a generous person.
But so those options are already there.
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Right?
We know that they're there.
But what is missing?
What's that missing link between all pilotscommitting to those options?
And I think one of the big things is education.
Having the knowledge to know like, emphasizingthe importance of why, like not just knowing
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that, hey, working out and eating good ishealthy for me.
Right?
More of the the why and actually understandinglike, this is the actual health risk you're
putting yourself, your co pilot, yourpassengers in because you're not taking care of
yourself.
Right?
The risk you're putting to your career becauseyou're not taking care of yourself.
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I've talked to actually quite a few peopletoday about their medicals and maybe some
things that they've seen across the board withmaybe their own medical or other people's that
they've heard about.
One of the things I'm gonna be doing more of isinterviews with medical professionals within
aviation.
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And I'm not calling anyone out.
But there there are things within every singleindustry where things just get swept under the
rug.
Just people are trying to make things a littlebit easier.
But that's not always the case.
You're not always doing someone a favor.
Right?
And so, but also the FAA standard for a pilot'sphysical health is actually pretty low, to be
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honest.
And that's something that I spoke about in mypresentation that I did at Verdicon a couple
months ago on pilot health.
And even though those standards are pretty low,there are so many pilots who are getting
deferred, not getting their medicals right.
I know a bunch.
Yeah.
Like a bunch.
Yeah.
They were yelled for not what we would considerold.
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Exactly.
You know, at all.
Yeah.
And so that's kinda like a scary.
Right?
And so it's like, hey, I'm here to educate you.
I can train you.
I can give you all the tools.
But ultimately, hey, you're a grown up.
Like, this is still your choice.
I could be there to guide you.
I could give you answers.
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You have to follow through.
You have to follow through for yourself, yourfamily, your career, your passengers, whoever
it is, whatever drives you, you have to findthe motivation as to why you actually wanna be
healthy.
Lead a horse to water.
Right.
So what do you do
you find there are any anything with theaviation career field or pilots in general?
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I mean, you're a military pilot yourself or aformer military pilot.
So so you kind of understand what that life islike, and and you're flying now mostly general
aviation.
Right?
I think is what you said.
So, even for airline pilots or military or whathave you, what are the challenges that you face
that you find are unique to that career field?
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Mhmm.
Or or is it all the same?
Is it does it matter if it's an office job orin the flight deck?
Is it kinda the same difference?
I wanna say yes, but no.
I actually had a very good conversation with apilot today.
Prior military pilot also transferred into theairlines.
And he said that he's like, I thought flying inthe military was difficult on my body.
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But then I got into the airlines and my god.
Because I'm like, yeah, you know, after likethree hours, you know you had to refuel.
Right?
Because I mean, we were helicopter pilots.
So like three hours, refuel, I can get out fora couple minutes, stretch, get back in if
that's what I'm doing.
If that's what the mission calls for.
But airlines, hours, hours on end.
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So your body is like a very specific stagnantcondition, hours.
And that can sometimes be harder on your bodythan the constant vibration you're getting from
a helicopter.
And so again, yes, but no.
Food wise, nutritionally wise, I would say thatthere's a slight difference too.
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Because being a like a corporate or likecommercial airliner or something like that, you
have access to food.
You have access to tons of food.
But usually it's not the right food.
And so, I mean, if you're working in moreaustere environment like military helicopter
pilots, a lot of the medevac guys or even likethe firefighters, stuff like that, they
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actually don't have much access to food.
So it's like, what are they bringing with them?
Yeah.
You know, what what situation are they goingto?
What are they coming back to?
And so those are the bases that I'm covering aswell.
I've got my nutrition programs, so you can mealprep from those nutrition programs.
My next step within that realm is to partnerwith an a meal prep company.
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Yes.
Because it's I do that now.
I well, I do both.
Because I still I really enjoy cooking.
I'm a good cook, not to be.
Fastest way to a pilot's
heart Yeah.
Or his stomach.
Oh, yeah.
Or her stomach for
the ride.
Absolutely.
I'm a foodie.
Same with my wife who's not a pilot.
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I find make a good meal.
Yes.
I'm in good graces for many, many, many hours.
Actually, all my all my nutrition programs arekinda themed in different types of foods from
around the world.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
So and also, they each have a different cover.
I'm I I feature on all my nutrition programs adifferent airframe.
So friends that I know, so like that, I ran acontest before I launched everything.
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I was like, hey, if you guys have a picture ofyour aircraft that you wanna send me, then I
will I'll choose which ones are the best, andI'll feature them on the front of the covers of
the nutrition programs.
Oh, nice.
I
like And then the the fitness programs arepilots that I've worked with that I I featured
on front of on the front of those programs.
Was like, hey, you guys get to pick whichprogram you want to do and I'll feature you in
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these programs too.
And I will continue to do that throughouteverything that I do because I mean, it's it's
a network.
A.
Two ten.
We're we're a community.
So it's like, I'm building these for for every,not just myself.
So I can't throw myself on the front ofeverything, right?
I don't I don't look like every single pilotthat exists out there.
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So everyone needs to know like, hey, I canidentify with this.
Right?
This is something that I can do.
I see this other person that's like me that'sdoing it, I can do it too.
Yeah.
So I think about myself when I go out of theroad, even when I'm not on the road, even just
at home.
I've established myself in a gym where there'sa lot of accountability.
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Yep.
Accountability.
My wife, we work up.
She's more And after you develop that callous
Yes.
Working out all the time to the point wheretoday when I today was a rest for me, like
complete rest, like off, like nothing.
It is killing me.
Yeah.
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Like yesterday morning, it was 05:15.
I go for at least a run because I know I wasn'tgonna be able to do any resistance.
Your body's craving it.
Yeah.
Like, the point where you can't help it.
Yep.
That is challenging.
Especially at first.
And I'm not gonna say it takes a month or sixmonths.
It takes I'd say a good solid year.
Absolutely.
So the accountability piece.
That's what I'll get.
Right?
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Because, like Yes.
You can tell yourself, I'm gonna go.
Yeah.
Okay.
You're gonna go.
Yeah.
Cool.
You're gonna go for two weeks and then you'regonna quit because you don't see anything.
It's impossible to see.
You actually will feel worse at first becauseyou're putting your body under strain that it's
not been through before.
So how do you tackle that accountability piece?
Like you said, you lead a horse to water.
Now how do Yeah.
Now how do we stand on the other side of thecreek and go, drink horsey, drink?
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How do we how do we how do we do thataccountability?
Yeah.
Fear, sarcasm, risk.
Yeah.
Fear, because identify, document, eliminate.
That's the other
Yes.
I mean, Matt kinda asked asked me a similarquestion last night.
He asked me he's like, how do you staymotivated?
And, I mean, sarcastically, I initially gavehim an answer.
I was like, I just look at myself in the mirrorand just insult myself.
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Which we which we Matt was like, talk aboutthat.
This is
a hit to me a little bit, please.
That, I may have talked about that thismorning.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But let's talk about accountability first Yes.
And then
we'll go into motivation.
So accountability wise, like, that is one ofthe biggest things.
One of the biggest things.
Because you you you can be an individual,right?
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And then you can maybe start a program, bedoing a really well program, slam to the gym,
whatever, like being in at home, working out,and do that for a while.
But then maybe you start getting bored or Busymaybe you start getting busy or discouraged in
some way.
And you have no one being like, hey, we're notdoing this?
Like, I have this on my schedule already.
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Where are you?
You know, someone else in the back of your headbesides just yourself.
And so accountability is huge.
And that's I've been thinking about that a lotlately and how to integrate it.
Because my platform is online, of course.
And anyone can always book a one on one virtualsession with me, but I'm like, there needs to
be more.
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There needs It needs to be e more easilyaccessed by the masses of pilots.
So my next phase with Mile High Health Club isthat I'm actually building a aviator health
course.
And throughout the first two months of thatcourse, like the course will all be always be
yours.
It'll You'll always have access to it.
But for the first two months, you're gonna haveaccess to the weekly calls that we're gonna do.
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And you'll also have access to everything elseI've built.
So on these weekly calls, if you you come on,you have questions about the course, questions
about any of the programs, additional questionsoutside any of that stuff, I can answer it.
Other pilots in the community, maybe they'veexperienced the same thing and they found a
solution.
They can answer those questions.
Yeah.
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And But you won't be able to You don't have towait until like that weekly call because
there'll be like a chat a chat in there toothat you can ask questions on.
And that's gonna be a huge source ofaccountability for a lot of people because not
only are people in their access to the courseand also the fitness and nutrition programs,
because they're gonna see people like, hey, I'masking about week like four of this course.
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And like, oh, we start at the same time.
I'll week two.
I better I better I'm trying not to curse rightnow.
No.
It's okay.
It's
It's happened.
It's happened.
I'm like, holding it in.
Look at my shit together.
I'm behind.
There's there's a couple episodes with the elabel it.
So I wouldn't Yeah.
Okay.
Totally fine.
Good.
Because I mean, like, I talked to a couplepeople.
I'm like, I hope they have an editing system.
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They do.
We do, but we don't use it.
That's good.
Fucking sweet.
So I'm like like, but you'll hold yourself I Igotta get my shit together.
Like, I I am way behind this other personthat's doing this.
Like, oh, someone's already started thisworkout program.
Like, I've been sitting here for a month nowinto this course thinking about starting a
program.
And they're giving feedback on how well they'redoing with it or how glad they are that they
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started doing.
I What am I doing?
I better just start now.
So that's gonna be a huge accountability piecefor everyone.
Also though, going into all that, I'm gonnacontinue doing the interviews with the medical
professionals like I said earlier.
They're gonna have access to that too.
And in those weekly calls, I want to have someof those AMEs, those flight docs and stuff like
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that on there too so that, hey, I'm getting mymedical next month.
I have some very targeted questions that maybeI don't wanna ask my own AME.
Mhmm.
They can hop on those calls during those weeksthat I have them as a guest, and they can ask
the AME there because it's like, they canremain anonymous, like whatever.
And it's just like no judgment, know?
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Hey, ask your questions because there's a lotof stuff changing in the FAA right now
medically wise.
I was actually just talking to someone elsetoday.
He was like, everything's at a standstill rightnow because no one really knows what direction
to pivot.
And and so I think it'll give a lot of pilotsthe opportunity to just be less in the dark
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about where they stand medically with the FAA,but also in their overall health and maybe with
their own AMEs.
Let's jump into into the motivation piecebecause that's kind of part of accountability
too.
Right?
The reason people fall off so many programs isbecause they become demotivated for one reason
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or another.
And like, not joking though.
Like, I'll be going through a workoutsometimes.
I'm like, don't be a bitch.
Like, let's go.
Yeah.
One more.
You got one more.
There you
go.
More circuit or something, you know.
So I Like I said earlier, this is my thirdconference in less than two months.
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Before I started traveling for theseconferences, I was not following even one of my
own programs.
Like, I was all over the place because I was Iwas still trying to build this up.
I was doing a lot of marketing, a lot ofpromoting, all the freaking social media.
Don't you hate yourself when you take your ownadvice?
When you know when you know, but you just dothe opposite.
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Research for
the lifestyle.
It's right.
I mean, you did you've been on the road livingout of hotels.
Tested the theory.
You know what it's like.
Absolutely.
You you tested the theory of, no.
I can do this without having disciplineddirection Yeah.
Motivation, accountability, or in a plan, andit failed.
Failed.
So guess what?
You gotta have a plan.
Why?
You gotta have directions.
In my own brain, I might have said it out loudto myself even.
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I was like, just do one of your own programs,duh.
And because I was like, alright, where am Igoing?
I was like, I'm staying at a hotel for everysingle conference.
And I was like, there's hotel gyms.
Hotel gyms have dumbbells.
And so my dumbbell program is the one I'mrunning right now.
I've got two weeks left of it.
And I am just I am so I again, all my programsare workouts that I've done throughout my
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entire aviation career.
So they're all workouts that I know work.
But because I'm running my dumbbell programright now, I'm just, I'm so proud of it.
I'm so proud of it.
In three weeks, I because I measure myself onthis, this fancy scale that we have at a studio
that I train at.
And so it measures like BMI, which meh or BMI.
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Whatever.
It's
it's an in body.
Okay.
Yeah.
Bodybuilder bodybuilders are always a sequin.
Yeah.
No.
Exactly.
Muscle mass, your your fat fat mass, all thosethings.
And so I actually forgot to weigh my I didn'tthink about this until a week and a half after
I was into the program.
And I was like, oh wait, I should do this forlike my own but also, you know, like the my
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social media stuff.
But I wanted I wanted people to be able tofollow me through this program.
So I've I've put my updates on my YouTubechannel, just my health club on YouTube.
And so I've been getting updates throughoutthis program.
And in the three weeks from where I firstmeasured myself, two and a half weeks later, I
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measured myself again.
And I had lost two pounds of fat and gained 1.1pound of muscle.
And that's exactly what you want from aprogram.
You want that even offset Mhmm.
From like, hey, about half the fat that I'velost, I want half of that to be like muscle
mass.
You know that's a good program.
And so I'm like, yes, it works.
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So I'm just I'm so proud of it.
I'm very happy with it.
I'm excited for these these final two weeksbecause I all my programs, you start with the
first two weeks as foundational weeks.
But because I was like, I've already got afitness foundation established.
I was like, I use a RPE scale, so rate ofperceived exertion on so it's a one to 10
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scale.
Weeks one and two, you're starting at a six.
I started at like seven.
And so at this point, I'm like at a nine, but Istill have two weeks to go in this program.
And there's some days I feel like I was likemurdering myself.
It's been tough.
And so definitely stick with the program.
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Stick with stick with that space.
Guests coming through.
Yeah.
Make your way.
Make your way.
Yeah.
You guys are fine.
Just some just some of our fine folks over fromAmerican Airlines.
No.
You guys are alright.
Thanks for coming by.
Sorry.
Didn't mean to interrupt.
You're good.
So yes, stick with stick with the program.
Stick with how I programmed it.
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But I mean, you can also check up those checkout those updates and get some more insight
into the actual dumbbell program.
I'm gonna run my kettlebell program next justbecause I've I've thoroughly enjoyed running
this dumbbell program.
And I don't have any more conferences coming upfor a little bit.
So I'm gonna be at home.
I'm gonna have access to dumbbells at my gym.
Or sorry, kettlebells at my gym.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna run that.
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But yeah, whenever you again, we're stilltalking about motivation.
Yep.
There has been points while I'm running thisprogram, I'm like, I am exhausted.
Yeah.
I'm just like, I don't feel like driving theseven minutes down the street to my gym.
But I'm like, you know what?
I only have four days a week in this program.
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That's nothing super crazy.
The way all my programs are built, it's fourworkouts a week.
Two days are full body, one day is upper body,one day is lower body.
And so I know, I'm like, of these seven days,if I can't fit in at least like two workouts,
I'm not being real with myself.
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Right?
And so there's been There was one week where Ihad to travel a lot back to back.
It was the week of WAI a couple weeks ago.
I was like, I know I could fit in threeworkouts this week.
Great.
I'm gonna do the two full body days.
And you know what?
I wanna hit legs that week.
So that's what I did.
I was like, okay, this week I'm getting threeweeks in, but that's okay.
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But the rest of the time, I'm like, I only havefour days.
Go to the gym, look at the program, and just doit.
Just you know exactly how long it's gonna takeyou.
Every single circuit in all of my programs,because they're built into circuits, are seven
to ten minutes long.
Okay?
So if you're like, hey, today I have time for Ihave I have twenty minutes.
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Great.
You're gonna knock out two circuits, you'redone.
Like, you know what?
I can make it through There's two of myprograms, the resistance bands and the
dumbbell.
It's broken down into twenty, fifteen, ten, andfive reps.
So if there's a day where you're like, I needto save a little bit of time, then knock off
that that five rep, right?
That's gonna save you about five minutes.
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So these programs are super, right?
For And that's why I built them
that so key for what we
Exactly.
It really is.
And it's key for people to understand thatmotivation piece, right?
Yep.
It's like, you're at a stay at a hotel Yep.
And you have a you have forty minutes beforeit's time to go meet everybody for or whatever
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or or the bus in the morning and you wanna getAnd if you walk in the gym, if you just walk in
the gym, you're gonna be like, oh, I'm alreadyhere.
Yep.
And then there's your motivation to get inthere.
And then if you have a plan and you cancondense that plan where you can do twenty
minutes because by the way, for all of you,don't think it's important twenty minutes and
zero.
Huge.
Yeah.
And it for instance, my wife just told me,she's like, I don't really feel like doing much
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today.
So I I did four sets of 10 push ups.
I go, that's four more sets than I did.
Yes.
Mhmm.
They go, good on you, and that's the way itshould be.
And that's why I think we need to encourageYes.
That peace puzzle to a lot
of Yeah.
Folks out there who just don't understand thatif you don't take care of your health in this
career field, all the wealth that you incurwill be for naught.
For naught.
And you You will not enjoy it.
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You will not enjoy it.
You know?
So your family won't be able to enjoy it eitherbecause you won't be around.
Guess what?
That money's gonna go towards your bills.
Yeah.
Right.
I think even even worse.
So I think where where you said it's how do weget plans set up?
Yeah.
Obviously, website so we can do all that stufftoo.
(33:26):
But, like, if we wanted to if we're interestedin in starting working with you and and going
from there, how do you Yeah.
Go about it?
Everything is on my website.
It's like I think part of my blurb on mywebsite is, like, your one stop shop.
Like, you made it to my website,myhealthclub.life.
You made it there.
Great.
That's where everything's at.
All my programs are in there.
You can book my one on one sessions with methere.
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I updated every one to two months based off myschedule.
I'm like because like, I've got pretty much allof me.
I'm like, I'm open.
Sure.
And so you could book one on one sessionsthere.
If an aviation company or flight school isinterested in doing a workshop, like a a pilot
held workshop for their staff, their students,I've got consultations available in there too
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with free consultation.
Great idea.
Yeah.
I'm working on building the first workshop fora a local flight school where I'm at in South
Florida to do one of our first work workshopswith them.
And so one of the things that we're talkingabout is like, do we wanna do a a short workout
for this workshop?
Do we wanna be fully educational based?
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And so it's pretty much just kinda up to whatyou're looking for for your actual company or
your business.
So super flexible with that.
And again, that's that's on my website.
You can always shoot me an email too.
My email's on there.
I look at it religiously because I get soexcited.
I get so excited when people send me an email,like, questions or inquiries, you know?
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Yeah.
Is that the best way for people to get in touchwith
you?
Absolutely.
So wait.
No.
Social is just My High Health.
My High Health Club.
Yeah.
No one else had the domain.
It's all mine.
Nice.
Way to go.
It's all mine.
Good job.
Yeah.
That's the best kinda name when you can get thedomain
name and do all
the things.
Yeah.
We we're familiar.
Yeah.
It
is a little different.
Yeah.
And I went with dot life because, I mean, like,it's a lifestyle.
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Right.
Right?
Your your health is your life.
It's not I have talked to a lot of people.
Like, they're like, I've done really good atthis point, and then I drop off.
I'm like, that's your that's a roller coasterlifestyle.
Your body hates it.
And you consistency is key.
I know everyone's heard it, but consistency iskey.
And even if you drop off slightly, that'sbetter than just sending yourself again to the
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bottom of that roller coaster.
So, yeah, I'm here for it.
I'm here for you.
That's great.
Well, Lashay, thanks so much for joining ushere at TPNx.
But even on the podcast, I think this issomething both Adam and I have flown with a lot
of pilots that you see you know, if you're inthe right seat, you look across in the left
(35:58):
seat, and and there's there's two kinds ofguys, gals sitting over there.
They're the ones who, I don't know, have kindof let this go too far and then those who are
just really focused on it and it's intentional.
Do not accident your way into health andlongevity.
You have to focus on it.
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That's for sure.
Or or you're blessed with great genetics, andyou're my grandma, and she's a 100%
there.
The bed's Genetics is a thing, but that's awhole topic.
That's a whole different story.
That's whole That's a whole different story.
Lashay, thank you again for joining us again.
Like Matt said, I I did chime in.
Thanks for having a purpose driven Yes.
Company.
Well, of course, make a little money foryourself.
(36:41):
Like, help out the community that means so muchto you.
Yes.
Because that's what Matt and I are all about.
That's that that is truly a pay it forwardmentality right there.
So Yeah.
That's awesome.
Guess, you know what?
You get to do two in a row because you younever get so go ahead.
Alright.
Take us out of here.
And, Boa, it's hey, guys.
It's the pilotnetwork.com if you wanna giveMatt and I any complaints, critique.
Otherwise, go to the pilotnetwork.com that youcan follow all our socials.
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Do anything else that you wanna do there.
But go ahead.
Come see us again.
Keep trying to set up or set down.
Why say it for everybody.
Bye bye.
Network, what is up?
It's Adam back again with you on the third andfinal installment of the TPNx episodes.
We had a great time chatting with our friendswho come to TPNx, especially this year,
recruiters.
We were just unable to get any of therecruiters on.
They were too busy, too slammed with talking toso many great attendees.
(00:28):
We got some really neat vendors.
We did get a recruiter last episode, I guessyou could call that a recruiter.
They were a recruiter vendor, kind of acomplimentary group there from Metraya with
Slim Morgan.
And then before that, we had Lindsey from Arrison.
That was a really cool conversation, especiallyhaving daughters that really meant a lot to me.
This one was kind of an old friends, newfriends, right?
(00:50):
Matt and I finally get to do another episodetogether, which is kind of rare.
And Lachey Bacon from Mile High Health Clubjoined us.
Lachey's background is combat pilot.
She, she flew the Kiowa and the Apache and thearmy before she made her transition and change
into civilian life, where she decided to focuson fitness and fitness for aviators.
(01:11):
She has a wonderful website,milehihealthclub.life, that's her business
website.
It's transformative in the way it kind of looksat the model of health and fitness and overall
wellness approach that sometimes we aviatorsneed just a little bit of help on being on the
road with especially more food choices thannecessarily fitness options.
(01:35):
I think a lot of us could use a little bit ofhelp in both categories.
I'm for one of those people.
But the reality is everybody's journey isdifferent.
Lachey's was incredibly different and astruggle to get to where she is today.
And now she's crushing it both in herprofessional and personal life.
And I think that we can take a lot from theword she says and go visit her at
(02:01):
myleahealthclub.life to go get your kind of ownpersonal consultation and see what's out there
for you.
But you could listen to me talk about it or youcan listen to Matt Lachey and I have a
conversation live from TPNx twenty twenty five.
I hope you enjoyed the series and we're hopingto do a lot more of these.
So let me know if you have a certain request oryou think you have a guest that might be
(02:24):
somebody who'd want to get together live, we'dlove to do that in person.
It's just so much more dynamic.
The digital ones are great, but the liveepisodes are the episodes we get to do face to
face and in person are really something specialand unique.
But enough from me, Let's get on with theepisode with Lachey and Matt.
I hope you enjoy.
Hey, network.
(02:45):
It's Adam and Matt coming live from TPNx twentytwenty five one more time.
I guess it's not live, Matt.
It's recorded.
I mean, we're live right
now.
Yeah.
We're we are here, but they're not.
They're not here.
And if you're if you were here and you attendedTV Next twenty twenty five
You missed out.
You if
you didn't if you were here, you had a greattime and you met some awesome vendors.
You had probably some opportunities that younever thought you did before.
(03:07):
And if you stayed for the socials, you may havewell, you probably did it responsibly, unlike
some of the other vendor types myself.
But we we all had a good time up till thispoint.
I'm I'm sure the rest of the conference isgoing well as we wrap up here.
But we're talking about these vendors.
There's a lot of unique different people thatcome to TBN X to kind of support the pilot.
(03:28):
We have one.
Her name is Lashie, and she's a thing calledMile High Health Club.
And we're curious on your journey.
Thanks for joining us.
Of course.
So thanks for having me.
Yeah.
So how did it all start out with, like oh, MyoHigh Health Club.
It gives me it gives me some visions that
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's start with the name.
Yeah.
How'd you come up with the
You're never gonna forget it.
(03:49):
No.
That's for sure.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's part of the marketing.
It was actually the very first name I eventhought of.
And I was just telling someone about, I like,have this kind of idea, this plan.
And I wanna name it something like good, ofcourse.
Like, I don't know.
Like, Maha Health Club or something like that.
I was like, that's pretty good.
And then I I actually tried to think of othernames.
I was like, no.
(04:11):
That's it.
That's it.
So I mean, anyone in aviation, you say milehigh, they're like, they can identify with it
because they know they know that phrase.
And of course, health club because that's whatI do.
So what let's start.
One of the things we love at TPN is originstories.
Yeah.
It's about it all.
Where did it start in the like, here?
Do you like, I don't know.
You went on my my whole
(04:31):
life story.
About it.
One.
Like, hey.
Where where did you grow up?
So how heavy were you when you were Hawaiian?
Yeah.
I think I was, like, seven pounds.
Heavy was beefy.
But yeah.
No.
So my my fitness journey itself started offpretty rough, actually.
Because I grew up in a family, in a region.
I'm from Kansas originally, so Midwest.
(04:54):
Very much the stereotypical idea, especiallyfrom women that if a woman has muscle, it's not
attractive.
And I I kinda grew up around that for a longperiod of my life even even still now to be
honest.
And so one, I like, the only working out I didwas a sports.
I played volleyball into college, and I alsoplayed softball, did some track.
(05:18):
And but I never lifted weights ever.
I had no knowledge on it whatsoever.
Like, that was with the guys.
And plus our school growing up didn't reallyhave a gym until I got to, like, halfway
through high school.
And once I got to college, I was with myfriends and she dragged me to this water
aerobics course for extra credit that she wasdoing.
(05:39):
And I was like, you know what?
Yeah.
I'm not doing anything.
Let's go do this thing.
And so my niece kind of weird, like, heading toit.
I was like, this is interesting.
Like, they felt a little stiff.
I was like, never felt this before butwhatever.
You know, was like, I was 22 years old.
Didn't think anything of it really.
But we did the course and the second I leftthat pool, my knees felt like they exploded.
(06:03):
And by the time I got to the locker room, theywere swamped like the size of each one, like
half of a softball.
And I couldn't walk.
And I was like, what just happened?
I was in agonizing pain.
I couldn't think.
I was in so much pain.
And at first, I didn't really say anything toher, but like, I obviously couldn't walk.
(06:23):
And so she was like, what's going on?
I was like, I don't know.
I don't know.
Just get me home.
And luckily, we were only a few blocks from myapartment.
And I literally dragged myself by my arms up myapartment stairs just to get inside.
And my boyfriend at the time, I pounded on thedoor.
He opens it up, like, sees me on the ground intears.
He's like, what happened?
Almost like I got shot or something at the doorof our apartment.
(06:47):
But I was like, I don't know.
I don't know.
Just get me inside.
And I was bedridden for a few days because Icouldn't walk.
But of course, as a very stubborn 20 year old,also having no knowledge of like health
insurance, I wasn't so afraid.
I was afraid to like go get checked out becauseI was like, oh my god, I don't know if I'll be
(07:07):
able to do anything after this.
I don't know how much money is this gonna cost.
But to like wrap this up, like a two yearwindow, I I went through physical therapy.
I had x rays, MRIs.
I did got a cortisone shot in one of my kneesbecause they just wanted to test it out.
But that that made it even worse.
And I felt my knees explode again.
(07:29):
And nobody could figure it out.
There was like, I don't know, good luckbasically.
I was like, I couldn't I couldn't walk for longperiods of time.
I couldn't stand for like longer than fiveminutes.
I couldn't even sit down because I was sittingdown, started getting achy.
And then like almost after two years, I waslike, I lived right behind a gym.
(07:50):
And I was like, I need to solve it.
So my boyfriend at the time, he was like, whatif you went and like try to talk to a personal
trainer?
And of course, especially back then, stillpersonal trainers kind of got a bad rep a
little bit.
They got made fun of.
And so I was like, screw it.
I'm out of options.
So I did.
And I explained what happened to this dude, youknow, at the front desk.
(08:14):
And he's like writing down notes.
He's like, you know what?
Let me actually go get our most experiencedtrainer.
He's been training for like thirty years.
I think he's the one that needs to deal withthis.
And I ended up working with him for about fourmonths.
And after three weeks of working with him, Ifelt 20%.
I was like, this is magic.
What is this exercise?
(08:36):
And so I was hooked from there.
And after I got to a point where I couldactually exercise, I could run, then that was
pretty much the window of where I was in abouta year out of college.
And I hated the job that I had.
(08:57):
I was in marketing, wasn't a fan.
And I was I was convinced that, you know, likethe army could could be it and that I could be
a pilot, Right?
So that was an option.
I was like, you know what?
Like, yeah, let me give it a go.
And so that's what I did.
And I still had a huge passion for fitness.
(09:20):
And so, of course, COVID hits like right in themiddle of my contract.
So just like everyone else, we're not flying awhole lot.
And I was like, this is my time.
This is when I get my certificate.
So that's when I became a personal trainer,followed up by a nutrition specialist.
And I was just kinda training my friends,building programs for myself for some family.
(09:41):
My buddy is working out with me every once in awhile.
And I knew that I knew I was gonna get out ofthe army And I knew I wanted to do something in
the like the health industry.
So about a year after I got out the army, Istarted flying again.
And I was flying with my CFI.
He knows he's a personal trainer andeverything.
So he'd always joke about his health, but likenot joke about his health.
(10:03):
And I was like, this is it.
This is this is what I have to do.
I wanted to work for professionals.
I still wanna be in aviation.
I'm still flying obviously.
This is what I need to do.
I need to build programs for pilots, my people.
And that's exactly what I started doing.
Last year in July, I started putting all theseexercises that I've done for myself into actual
(10:28):
programs.
And I launched in January.
And then I obviously needed to cover all thebases.
Right?
Because nutrition's a huge aspect of a pilot'slifestyle.
And it's arguably probably one of the mostdifficult aspects of it too, no matter what
kind of aviation industry you're in as a pilot.
So that's what I did as well.
(10:48):
I I've got four fitness programs, fournutrition programs, and I've got few other
guides tagged in there as well and a lot morethan I'm gonna be coming out with this year.
But yeah, I just wanted to I wanted to workwith my people.
I wanted to be here for my people and just showthem that like, if you're in a hole, there's a
way out.
But there's also a way to never get into thathole too.
(11:09):
Yeah.
Sure.
I think we've talked about this multiple times,not only just today, but on previous podcasts
is that the the sense of purpose that drives usbecause maybe you get into aviation and you get
passionate about it or or and love it.
You start doing it for a while and sometimes itbecomes a job.
Some days you I mean, there's some days where apilot doesn't wanna go flying.
(11:33):
It it's it's rare.
I know it's hard to believe, but it actuallyhappens.
And when you hit that point, you may still loveyou may love it, but you have to find another
purpose.
And then if you do retire, you leave themilitary, retire, and you don't continue the
aviation cycle.
You lose that sense of purpose.
And it sounds like your sense of purpose beforeyou ever started flying was
(11:56):
Yeah.
Was was was bringing fitness first to yourself,but then to others.
And then you had now you have a a networkthere.
I dropped it.
Absolutely.
You have a network of people.
Now you feel like I that need a specificallytailored idea of how to do this, and you kinda
have the ins now when you when you built outand you launched in January, was this, okay,
(12:17):
I'm gonna build an app.
I'm gonna do this.
Like, how how did this what what's thestructure there?
How are the logistics of that?
Yeah.
So I I've been bouncing back and forth a lotbetween whether or not I want to actually build
an app.
And so I I knew that I was like, hey, okay,Workout programs and nutrition programs, those
those are the foundational pieces of what apilot is.
(12:37):
But there's, I mean, there's tons of fitnessplatforms out there, right, like with their
apps and stuff like that.
Easily accessible.
If that's what pilots wanted, they wouldalready be doing that, of course.
So where The direction that I'm working on nowthat I've I'm pretty sure I've kinda figured it
out at this point with this being my thirdconference in less than two months, is that
(13:02):
we're all smart people.
Right?
We wouldn't be pilots if we didn't have somesort
Some of
us are.
Some level of intelligence.
Some subjective.
Why are you smarter than others?
You know, I will give leeway to some.
Well, thank well, thank you.
You're very generous.
Yeah.
I it.
I'm a generous person.
But so those options are already there.
(13:23):
Right?
We know that they're there.
But what is missing?
What's that missing link between all pilotscommitting to those options?
And I think one of the big things is education.
Having the knowledge to know like, emphasizingthe importance of why, like not just knowing
(13:43):
that, hey, working out and eating good ishealthy for me.
Right?
More of the the why and actually understandinglike, this is the actual health risk you're
putting yourself, your co pilot, yourpassengers in because you're not taking care of
yourself.
Right?
The risk you're putting to your career becauseyou're not taking care of yourself.
(14:06):
I've talked to actually quite a few peopletoday about their medicals and maybe some
things that they've seen across the board withmaybe their own medical or other people's that
they've heard about.
One of the things I'm gonna be doing more of isinterviews with medical professionals within
aviation.
(14:27):
And I'm not calling anyone out.
But there there are things within every singleindustry where things just get swept under the
rug.
Just people are trying to make things a littlebit easier.
But that's not always the case.
You're not always doing someone a favor.
Right?
And so, but also the FAA standard for a pilot'sphysical health is actually pretty low, to be
(14:53):
honest.
And that's something that I spoke about in mypresentation that I did at Verdicon a couple
months ago on pilot health.
And even though those standards are pretty low,there are so many pilots who are getting
deferred, not getting their medicals right.
I know a bunch.
Yeah.
Like a bunch.
Yeah.
They were yelled for not what we would considerold.
(15:16):
Exactly.
You know, at all.
Yeah.
And so that's kinda like a scary.
Right?
And so it's like, hey, I'm here to educate you.
I can train you.
I can give you all the tools.
But ultimately, hey, you're a grown up.
Like, this is still your choice.
I could be there to guide you.
I could give you answers.
(15:37):
You have to follow through.
You have to follow through for yourself, yourfamily, your career, your passengers, whoever
it is, whatever drives you, you have to findthe motivation as to why you actually wanna be
healthy.
Lead a horse to water.
Right.
So what do you do
you find there are any anything with theaviation career field or pilots in general?
(15:58):
I mean, you're a military pilot yourself or aformer military pilot.
So so you kind of understand what that life islike, and and you're flying now mostly general
aviation.
Right?
I think is what you said.
So, even for airline pilots or military or whathave you, what are the challenges that you face
that you find are unique to that career field?
(16:19):
Mhmm.
Or or is it all the same?
Is it does it matter if it's an office job orin the flight deck?
Is it kinda the same difference?
I wanna say yes, but no.
I actually had a very good conversation with apilot today.
Prior military pilot also transferred into theairlines.
And he said that he's like, I thought flying inthe military was difficult on my body.
(16:39):
But then I got into the airlines and my god.
Because I'm like, yeah, you know, after likethree hours, you know you had to refuel.
Right?
Because I mean, we were helicopter pilots.
So like three hours, refuel, I can get out fora couple minutes, stretch, get back in if
that's what I'm doing.
If that's what the mission calls for.
But airlines, hours, hours on end.
(16:59):
So your body is like a very specific stagnantcondition, hours.
And that can sometimes be harder on your bodythan the constant vibration you're getting from
a helicopter.
And so again, yes, but no.
Food wise, nutritionally wise, I would say thatthere's a slight difference too.
(17:21):
Because being a like a corporate or likecommercial airliner or something like that, you
have access to food.
You have access to tons of food.
But usually it's not the right food.
And so, I mean, if you're working in moreaustere environment like military helicopter
pilots, a lot of the medevac guys or even likethe firefighters, stuff like that, they
(17:47):
actually don't have much access to food.
So it's like, what are they bringing with them?
Yeah.
You know, what what situation are they goingto?
What are they coming back to?
And so those are the bases that I'm covering aswell.
I've got my nutrition programs, so you can mealprep from those nutrition programs.
My next step within that realm is to partnerwith an a meal prep company.
(18:08):
Yes.
Because it's I do that now.
I well, I do both.
Because I still I really enjoy cooking.
I'm a good cook, not to be.
Fastest way to a pilot's
heart Yeah.
Or his stomach.
Oh, yeah.
Or her stomach for
the ride.
Absolutely.
I'm a foodie.
Same with my wife who's not a pilot.
(18:28):
I find make a good meal.
Yes.
I'm in good graces for many, many, many hours.
Actually, all my all my nutrition programs arekinda themed in different types of foods from
around the world.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
So and also, they each have a different cover.
I'm I I feature on all my nutrition programs adifferent airframe.
So friends that I know, so like that, I ran acontest before I launched everything.
(18:52):
I was like, hey, if you guys have a picture ofyour aircraft that you wanna send me, then I
will I'll choose which ones are the best, andI'll feature them on the front of the covers of
the nutrition programs.
Oh, nice.
I
like And then the the fitness programs arepilots that I've worked with that I I featured
on front of on the front of those programs.
Was like, hey, you guys get to pick whichprogram you want to do and I'll feature you in
(19:17):
these programs too.
And I will continue to do that throughouteverything that I do because I mean, it's it's
a network.
A.
Two ten.
We're we're a community.
So it's like, I'm building these for for every,not just myself.
So I can't throw myself on the front ofeverything, right?
I don't I don't look like every single pilotthat exists out there.
(19:39):
So everyone needs to know like, hey, I canidentify with this.
Right?
This is something that I can do.
I see this other person that's like me that'sdoing it, I can do it too.
Yeah.
So I think about myself when I go out of theroad, even when I'm not on the road, even just
at home.
I've established myself in a gym where there'sa lot of accountability.
(20:02):
Yep.
Accountability.
My wife, we work up.
She's more And after you develop that callous
Yes.
Working out all the time to the point wheretoday when I today was a rest for me, like
complete rest, like off, like nothing.
It is killing me.
Yeah.
(20:22):
Like yesterday morning, it was 05:15.
I go for at least a run because I know I wasn'tgonna be able to do any resistance.
Your body's craving it.
Yeah.
Like, the point where you can't help it.
Yep.
That is challenging.
Especially at first.
And I'm not gonna say it takes a month or sixmonths.
It takes I'd say a good solid year.
Absolutely.
So the accountability piece.
That's what I'll get.
Right?
(20:42):
Because, like Yes.
You can tell yourself, I'm gonna go.
Yeah.
Okay.
You're gonna go.
Yeah.
Cool.
You're gonna go for two weeks and then you'regonna quit because you don't see anything.
It's impossible to see.
You actually will feel worse at first becauseyou're putting your body under strain that it's
not been through before.
So how do you tackle that accountability piece?
Like you said, you lead a horse to water.
Now how do Yeah.
Now how do we stand on the other side of thecreek and go, drink horsey, drink?
(21:05):
How do we how do we how do we do thataccountability?
Yeah.
Fear, sarcasm, risk.
Yeah.
Fear, because identify, document, eliminate.
That's the other
Yes.
I mean, Matt kinda asked asked me a similarquestion last night.
He asked me he's like, how do you staymotivated?
And, I mean, sarcastically, I initially gavehim an answer.
I was like, I just look at myself in the mirrorand just insult myself.
(21:26):
Which we which we Matt was like, talk aboutthat.
This is
a hit to me a little bit, please.
That, I may have talked about that thismorning.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But let's talk about accountability first Yes.
And then
we'll go into motivation.
So accountability wise, like, that is one ofthe biggest things.
One of the biggest things.
Because you you you can be an individual,right?
(21:47):
And then you can maybe start a program, bedoing a really well program, slam to the gym,
whatever, like being in at home, working out,and do that for a while.
But then maybe you start getting bored or Busymaybe you start getting busy or discouraged in
some way.
And you have no one being like, hey, we're notdoing this?
Like, I have this on my schedule already.
(22:09):
Where are you?
You know, someone else in the back of your headbesides just yourself.
And so accountability is huge.
And that's I've been thinking about that a lotlately and how to integrate it.
Because my platform is online, of course.
And anyone can always book a one on one virtualsession with me, but I'm like, there needs to
be more.
(22:29):
There needs It needs to be e more easilyaccessed by the masses of pilots.
So my next phase with Mile High Health Club isthat I'm actually building a aviator health
course.
And throughout the first two months of thatcourse, like the course will all be always be
yours.
It'll You'll always have access to it.
But for the first two months, you're gonna haveaccess to the weekly calls that we're gonna do.
(22:52):
And you'll also have access to everything elseI've built.
So on these weekly calls, if you you come on,you have questions about the course, questions
about any of the programs, additional questionsoutside any of that stuff, I can answer it.
Other pilots in the community, maybe they'veexperienced the same thing and they found a
solution.
They can answer those questions.
Yeah.
(23:12):
And But you won't be able to You don't have towait until like that weekly call because
there'll be like a chat a chat in there toothat you can ask questions on.
And that's gonna be a huge source ofaccountability for a lot of people because not
only are people in their access to the courseand also the fitness and nutrition programs,
because they're gonna see people like, hey, I'masking about week like four of this course.
(23:35):
And like, oh, we start at the same time.
I'll week two.
I better I better I'm trying not to curse rightnow.
No.
It's okay.
It's
It's happened.
It's happened.
I'm like, holding it in.
Look at my shit together.
I'm behind.
There's there's a couple episodes with the elabel it.
So I wouldn't Yeah.
Okay.
Totally fine.
Good.
Because I mean, like, I talked to a couplepeople.
I'm like, I hope they have an editing system.
(23:58):
They do.
We do, but we don't use it.
That's good.
Fucking sweet.
So I'm like like, but you'll hold yourself I Igotta get my shit together.
Like, I I am way behind this other personthat's doing this.
Like, oh, someone's already started thisworkout program.
Like, I've been sitting here for a month nowinto this course thinking about starting a
program.
And they're giving feedback on how well they'redoing with it or how glad they are that they
(24:22):
started doing.
I What am I doing?
I better just start now.
So that's gonna be a huge accountability piecefor everyone.
Also though, going into all that, I'm gonnacontinue doing the interviews with the medical
professionals like I said earlier.
They're gonna have access to that too.
And in those weekly calls, I want to have someof those AMEs, those flight docs and stuff like
(24:45):
that on there too so that, hey, I'm getting mymedical next month.
I have some very targeted questions that maybeI don't wanna ask my own AME.
Mhmm.
They can hop on those calls during those weeksthat I have them as a guest, and they can ask
the AME there because it's like, they canremain anonymous, like whatever.
And it's just like no judgment, know?
(25:06):
Hey, ask your questions because there's a lotof stuff changing in the FAA right now
medically wise.
I was actually just talking to someone elsetoday.
He was like, everything's at a standstill rightnow because no one really knows what direction
to pivot.
And and so I think it'll give a lot of pilotsthe opportunity to just be less in the dark
(25:29):
about where they stand medically with the FAA,but also in their overall health and maybe with
their own AMEs.
Let's jump into into the motivation piecebecause that's kind of part of accountability
too.
Right?
The reason people fall off so many programs isbecause they become demotivated for one reason
(25:51):
or another.
And like, not joking though.
Like, I'll be going through a workoutsometimes.
I'm like, don't be a bitch.
Like, let's go.
Yeah.
One more.
You got one more.
There you
go.
More circuit or something, you know.
So I Like I said earlier, this is my thirdconference in less than two months.
(26:11):
Before I started traveling for theseconferences, I was not following even one of my
own programs.
Like, I was all over the place because I was Iwas still trying to build this up.
I was doing a lot of marketing, a lot ofpromoting, all the freaking social media.
Don't you hate yourself when you take your ownadvice?
When you know when you know, but you just dothe opposite.
(26:31):
Research for
the lifestyle.
It's right.
I mean, you did you've been on the road livingout of hotels.
Tested the theory.
You know what it's like.
Absolutely.
You you tested the theory of, no.
I can do this without having disciplineddirection Yeah.
Motivation, accountability, or in a plan, andit failed.
Failed.
So guess what?
You gotta have a plan.
Why?
You gotta have directions.
In my own brain, I might have said it out loudto myself even.
(26:53):
I was like, just do one of your own programs,duh.
And because I was like, alright, where am Igoing?
I was like, I'm staying at a hotel for everysingle conference.
And I was like, there's hotel gyms.
Hotel gyms have dumbbells.
And so my dumbbell program is the one I'mrunning right now.
I've got two weeks left of it.
And I am just I am so I again, all my programsare workouts that I've done throughout my
(27:18):
entire aviation career.
So they're all workouts that I know work.
But because I'm running my dumbbell programright now, I'm just, I'm so proud of it.
I'm so proud of it.
In three weeks, I because I measure myself onthis, this fancy scale that we have at a studio
that I train at.
And so it measures like BMI, which meh or BMI.
(27:42):
Whatever.
It's
it's an in body.
Okay.
Yeah.
Bodybuilder bodybuilders are always a sequin.
Yeah.
No.
Exactly.
Muscle mass, your your fat fat mass, all thosethings.
And so I actually forgot to weigh my I didn'tthink about this until a week and a half after
I was into the program.
And I was like, oh wait, I should do this forlike my own but also, you know, like the my
(28:05):
social media stuff.
But I wanted I wanted people to be able tofollow me through this program.
So I've I've put my updates on my YouTubechannel, just my health club on YouTube.
And so I've been getting updates throughoutthis program.
And in the three weeks from where I firstmeasured myself, two and a half weeks later, I
(28:26):
measured myself again.
And I had lost two pounds of fat and gained 1.1pound of muscle.
And that's exactly what you want from aprogram.
You want that even offset Mhmm.
From like, hey, about half the fat that I'velost, I want half of that to be like muscle
mass.
You know that's a good program.
And so I'm like, yes, it works.
(28:47):
So I'm just I'm so proud of it.
I'm very happy with it.
I'm excited for these these final two weeksbecause I all my programs, you start with the
first two weeks as foundational weeks.
But because I was like, I've already got afitness foundation established.
I was like, I use a RPE scale, so rate ofperceived exertion on so it's a one to 10
(29:08):
scale.
Weeks one and two, you're starting at a six.
I started at like seven.
And so at this point, I'm like at a nine, but Istill have two weeks to go in this program.
And there's some days I feel like I was likemurdering myself.
It's been tough.
And so definitely stick with the program.
(29:31):
Stick with stick with that space.
Guests coming through.
Yeah.
Make your way.
Make your way.
Yeah.
You guys are fine.
Just some just some of our fine folks over fromAmerican Airlines.
No.
You guys are alright.
Thanks for coming by.
Sorry.
Didn't mean to interrupt.
You're good.
So yes, stick with stick with the program.
Stick with how I programmed it.
(29:52):
But I mean, you can also check up those checkout those updates and get some more insight
into the actual dumbbell program.
I'm gonna run my kettlebell program next justbecause I've I've thoroughly enjoyed running
this dumbbell program.
And I don't have any more conferences coming upfor a little bit.
So I'm gonna be at home.
I'm gonna have access to dumbbells at my gym.
Or sorry, kettlebells at my gym.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna run that.
(30:13):
But yeah, whenever you again, we're stilltalking about motivation.
Yep.
There has been points while I'm running thisprogram, I'm like, I am exhausted.
Yeah.
I'm just like, I don't feel like driving theseven minutes down the street to my gym.
But I'm like, you know what?
I only have four days a week in this program.
(30:35):
That's nothing super crazy.
The way all my programs are built, it's fourworkouts a week.
Two days are full body, one day is upper body,one day is lower body.
And so I know, I'm like, of these seven days,if I can't fit in at least like two workouts,
I'm not being real with myself.
(30:56):
Right?
And so there's been There was one week where Ihad to travel a lot back to back.
It was the week of WAI a couple weeks ago.
I was like, I know I could fit in threeworkouts this week.
Great.
I'm gonna do the two full body days.
And you know what?
I wanna hit legs that week.
So that's what I did.
I was like, okay, this week I'm getting threeweeks in, but that's okay.
(31:20):
But the rest of the time, I'm like, I only havefour days.
Go to the gym, look at the program, and just doit.
Just you know exactly how long it's gonna takeyou.
Every single circuit in all of my programs,because they're built into circuits, are seven
to ten minutes long.
Okay?
So if you're like, hey, today I have time for Ihave I have twenty minutes.
(31:42):
Great.
You're gonna knock out two circuits, you'redone.
Like, you know what?
I can make it through There's two of myprograms, the resistance bands and the
dumbbell.
It's broken down into twenty, fifteen, ten, andfive reps.
So if there's a day where you're like, I needto save a little bit of time, then knock off
that that five rep, right?
That's gonna save you about five minutes.
(32:02):
So these programs are super, right?
For And that's why I built them
that so key for what we
Exactly.
It really is.
And it's key for people to understand thatmotivation piece, right?
Yep.
It's like, you're at a stay at a hotel Yep.
And you have a you have forty minutes beforeit's time to go meet everybody for or whatever
(32:24):
or or the bus in the morning and you wanna getAnd if you walk in the gym, if you just walk in
the gym, you're gonna be like, oh, I'm alreadyhere.
Yep.
And then there's your motivation to get inthere.
And then if you have a plan and you cancondense that plan where you can do twenty
minutes because by the way, for all of you,don't think it's important twenty minutes and
zero.
Huge.
Yeah.
And it for instance, my wife just told me,she's like, I don't really feel like doing much
(32:45):
today.
So I I did four sets of 10 push ups.
I go, that's four more sets than I did.
Yes.
Mhmm.
They go, good on you, and that's the way itshould be.
And that's why I think we need to encourageYes.
That peace puzzle to a lot
of Yeah.
Folks out there who just don't understand thatif you don't take care of your health in this
career field, all the wealth that you incurwill be for naught.
For naught.
And you You will not enjoy it.
(33:06):
You will not enjoy it.
You know?
So your family won't be able to enjoy it eitherbecause you won't be around.
Guess what?
That money's gonna go towards your bills.
Yeah.
Right.
I think even even worse.
So I think where where you said it's how do weget plans set up?
Yeah.
Obviously, website so we can do all that stufftoo.
(33:26):
But, like, if we wanted to if we're interestedin in starting working with you and and going
from there, how do you Yeah.
Go about it?
Everything is on my website.
It's like I think part of my blurb on mywebsite is, like, your one stop shop.
Like, you made it to my website,myhealthclub.life.
You made it there.
Great.
That's where everything's at.
All my programs are in there.
You can book my one on one sessions with methere.
(33:49):
I updated every one to two months based off myschedule.
I'm like because like, I've got pretty much allof me.
I'm like, I'm open.
Sure.
And so you could book one on one sessionsthere.
If an aviation company or flight school isinterested in doing a workshop, like a a pilot
held workshop for their staff, their students,I've got consultations available in there too
(34:09):
with free consultation.
Great idea.
Yeah.
I'm working on building the first workshop fora a local flight school where I'm at in South
Florida to do one of our first work workshopswith them.
And so one of the things that we're talkingabout is like, do we wanna do a a short workout
for this workshop?
Do we wanna be fully educational based?
(34:29):
And so it's pretty much just kinda up to whatyou're looking for for your actual company or
your business.
So super flexible with that.
And again, that's that's on my website.
You can always shoot me an email too.
My email's on there.
I look at it religiously because I get soexcited.
I get so excited when people send me an email,like, questions or inquiries, you know?
(34:50):
Yeah.
Is that the best way for people to get in touchwith
you?
Absolutely.
So wait.
No.
Social is just My High Health.
My High Health Club.
Yeah.
No one else had the domain.
It's all mine.
Nice.
Way to go.
It's all mine.
Good job.
Yeah.
That's the best kinda name when you can get thedomain
name and do all
the things.
Yeah.
We we're familiar.
Yeah.
It
is a little different.
Yeah.
And I went with dot life because, I mean, like,it's a lifestyle.
(35:13):
Right.
Right?
Your your health is your life.
It's not I have talked to a lot of people.
Like, they're like, I've done really good atthis point, and then I drop off.
I'm like, that's your that's a roller coasterlifestyle.
Your body hates it.
And you consistency is key.
I know everyone's heard it, but consistency iskey.
And even if you drop off slightly, that'sbetter than just sending yourself again to the
(35:36):
bottom of that roller coaster.
So, yeah, I'm here for it.
I'm here for you.
That's great.
Well, Lashay, thanks so much for joining ushere at TPNx.
But even on the podcast, I think this issomething both Adam and I have flown with a lot
of pilots that you see you know, if you're inthe right seat, you look across in the left
(35:58):
seat, and and there's there's two kinds ofguys, gals sitting over there.
They're the ones who, I don't know, have kindof let this go too far and then those who are
just really focused on it and it's intentional.
Do not accident your way into health andlongevity.
You have to focus on it.
(36:18):
That's for sure.
Or or you're blessed with great genetics, andyou're my grandma, and she's a 100%
there.
The bed's Genetics is a thing, but that's awhole topic.
That's a whole different story.
That's whole That's a whole different story.
Lashay, thank you again for joining us again.
Like Matt said, I I did chime in.
Thanks for having a purpose driven Yes.
Company.
Well, of course, make a little money foryourself.
(36:41):
Like, help out the community that means so muchto you.
Yes.
Because that's what Matt and I are all about.
That's that that is truly a pay it forwardmentality right there.
So Yeah.
That's awesome.
Guess, you know what?
You get to do two in a row because you younever get so go ahead.
Alright.
Take us out of here.
And, Boa, it's hey, guys.
It's the pilotnetwork.com if you wanna giveMatt and I any complaints, critique.
Otherwise, go to the pilotnetwork.com that youcan follow all our socials.
(37:02):
Do anything else that you wanna do there.
But go ahead.
Come see us again.
Keep trying to set up or set down.
Why say it for everybody.
Bye bye.
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