August 30, 2024 • 41 mins
Ever wondered how a simple corporate inquiry could ignite a life-changing career? Join us as we celebrate three transformative years with Coach Karli, who entered our gym unexpectedly and became a cornerstone of our community. Karli takes us through her high school years filled with an array of sports and how her initial dreams of a healthcare career shifted towards coaching, leaving a significant impact on both clients and colleagues. Hear firsthand the bittersweet emotions surrounding her upcoming departure as she prepares for the next stage of her journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is going on, friends?
Welcome to the next episode ofthe Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls
show.
And we are combing at you todaywith another coach and a little
bit of an interesting journey,as we talk about Coach Carly's
journey and we actually getready to send her off onto the
next part of her career path.
(00:20):
So I'm excited to dive in todaywith our gal, coach Carly.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
All right.
Well, hey, Carly, welcome tothe show.
My girl, we had you on I don'tknow a couple months back, A
while ago, yeah, talking aboutFit Body Forever, and I think
that was kind of it wasn't rightwhen you were taking it over.
I think it'd been almost like ayear, yeah, yeah a year or two
after it.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I think it'd been almost like a year.
Yeah, yeah, a year or two afterit.
Okay, yeah, it would have beena year, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So, and now here we are and my goodness, we've got
literally this episode comes outand we've got like two or three
days.
Yeah Is all.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Left with Coach Carly on the mic Big transitions.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, it'll be a very big change in my life and it's
been awesome working here forthe past few years.
So I mean, how long have youworked here?
It'll be three years, literallythe week before.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So you'll hit three years, Yep, and then the next
week and the next week.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, it hasbeen an awesome journey.
I still remember back to,honestly, we were at a time and
point this would have been likethree and a half years ago.
We were at a time and pointwhere we were looking for a
coach and I had owned SitBodyfor six years at that time and
(02:00):
never in the six years of owningthe gym had anybody reached out
to HQ or corporate asking if wewere hiring.
And it just so happened thatyou sent like a support message
through like our corporatewebsite.
And all of a sudden, here weare, we're looking for a coach
(02:20):
and I'm like, hey, do we knowthis Carly?
And like, oh yeah, she's juststarted here at the gym.
And I'm like, oh well, she likeapplied to be a coach, Like who
is she?
And just so wild to have thatbe where the journey started and
have it take us all the waythrough here.
So I'd love to really talk aboutwhere you're headed, why you're
(02:43):
headed there.
Really, I want to talk to youabout why you even wanted to be
a coach and before we startedrecording today, you were
talking to me about somedifferent desires and wants that
you've had and really I want tolet the audience know.
I mean, you've been an awesomecoach and I tell you what.
I've had clients letting meknow that they are so bummed to
(03:06):
see you go, but also so happy tosee you go in the way in which
you're going.
Right, that's very bittersweet.
Yeah, it's one of those things,too, where change happens and
it's all about how you navigateit.
And I think, man, you're 24, 25years old and we talked about
(03:31):
this even a couple of weeks agobut the way in which that you're
leaving is just such a good way, and I think that that's
important because I think thatthat is getting lost a lot.
Yeah, absolutely yeah.
So I know I just kind ofunpacked a lot.
That's okay, but you can takethis wherever you want to go.
But let's kind of talk aboutwhat kind of you graduated high
school.
And Well, first, what year didyou graduate high school?
(03:53):
2017.
2017.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, and what was your desired or want and where
did you think you'd head withthe career path?
Yeah, during high school mycareer path changed quite a bit.
I didn't necessarily know whatI wanted to do.
I knew that I kind of wanted tobe in some kind of healthcare,
but I also knew that I had areally big love for sports.
Sure, growing up I played eightsports.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh really, yeah, Okay , what eight.
I got five, six, I got eightfingers Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Basketball and dance were my main two.
Okay, did those all throughoutuntil I graduated.
Track Track, I ran, I did highjump.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
What did?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
you do in track Short distance, so I did like 100,
200, 400.
Okay, hated, hated.
Yeah, I did not like it Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I did it to stay in shape for basketball, to be
honest.
Okay, oh wait, did you say?
Did you say basketball?
Yet basketball, dance track?
Okay, high jump, so is thatokay?
So field track and field, yeah,okay, counted as two.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay, four more uh, cross country was worse than
track oh yeah yeah terrible,that's long, long ladder, yeah,
a lot.
I hate running, uh.
So again, I did it.
Uh, one of my best friends, itwas just in middle school.
I did it.
One of my best friends, it wasjust in middle school.
I did it for one year.
One of my best friends did it.
So I did it with her and youwould run your race and they
would hand out popsicles at theend, but I would run so slow
(05:13):
that they would literally runout of popsicles.
I wouldn't even get one.
Yeah, anyway, so I think that'sfive.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, we got three more.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Volleyball was okay.
Yeah, we got three more.
Volleyball was okay, Soccer didnot like.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
What's the last one you think?
I don't know Swimming.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
No, I got kicked out of swimming lessons, though.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, there's a lot Lacrosse, no.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
There's got to be the general one.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Competitive beanbags.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, that's got to be it.
It's gonna come to be later,let's go with that yeah that's
cool, though I don't knowbowling.
Yeah, did you bowl?
No, golf no, maybe, maybe Icounted that I did first t for a
little bit, oh yeah yeah, okay,that's crazy yeah that's a lot
of sports yeah, very cool.
So sports has always been kindof my passion yeah uh, but going
into college I had the idea ofdoing a biology and psychology
(06:05):
major with an art minor, whichwas so random.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Okay, yeah, that's a little.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, so wild.
I didn't really know where Iwas going to go with it, but the
idea was to do.
I was between two.
I didn't know if I wanted to dolike cardiothoracic surgery,
which is like heart and likeblood veins kind of in the torso
area.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And then all throughout the body with the
cardiovascular I guess.
But I realized I did not wantto do surgery at all and that
seemed like a very high stressjob and it wasn't revolved
around sports.
So then I kind of changed mypath to like orthopedics.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Orthopedic surgeon and I'm like, oh, that's still
surgery.
So then I kind of changed mypath to like orthopedics.
Okay, orthopedic surgeon, andI'm like, oh, that's still
surgery.
So then I kind of landed onorthopedic PA, so that's like
bones, hips, joints.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And then a physician's assistant, which is
usually the initial person thatyou see Like if you're going
into a clinic.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And you think that you broke your bone.
That's going to be kind of theinitial person that you see and
they kind of assess and evaluateyou and tell the orthopedic
doctor then kind of what theythink is going on, and then the
surgeon is who does theprocedure.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Then obviously Sure Okay.
So that was kind of where youinitially landed, yep, but then
you have to apply to get intothose programs.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yep.
So orthopedic PA was what Ikind of set on throughout
college.
Um and did.
I ended up doing a exercisescience major, so it was a
little bit more, um, sportsrelated rather than just biology
.
And then I had a biology andpsychology minor and then
actually got a coaching minor aswell.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Um, so a lot of schooling and I'm not done,
right, I just love school.
But then I was applying for PAschool, so 2017,.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
you graduated high school.
When did you start in college?
2017.
2017.
So like right away.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yep, okay.
I graduated in May 2017 of highschool at Lincoln, here in town
.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And then I went to Augustana.
Here in town, I've never left.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
In the fall of 2017.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, and then when you started working at Fit Body
in 21.
Yep Were you in.
You were in school.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yep, I did a bonus semester yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Okay, okay and so, but you have not been in school
now for Since January of 22.
So two solid years.
Two years out of school, yep,but in the interim of those two
years you were applying to getinto school, right?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes, PA school.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, Because I remember at one point in time we
had a conversation and you'relike hey, I'll let you know,
Love being here and definitelywant to be here, but I am
applying for PA school.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And if I get in, that may change my availability.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Right, and I think honestly, we had that
conversation like literallyright when I was hired.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I was like, hey, this is kind of my plan, just to be
kind of transparent with youguys, and I feel like that's
kind of like my MO.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah.
It's like your go-tos mo.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, it's like your go-to's.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Hey, this is where I'm thinking I'm heading.
Yeah, very, very big oncommunication for sure.
Yeah, that's good, and I thinkthat that's something that you
know you're.
You're 25 years old, as youcontinue throughout your journey
, and that's one thing that Ihave definitely learned in any
relationship.
Uh, communication is key,because we can't read right, you
know, and if you have thisthought of, hey, I wonder if
(09:27):
they're thinking X, y or Z likeyou should go have that
conversation.
And I think even too, overthese three years of you and I
working together, we've evenrealized that, man,
communication is the biggestthing, because a lot of times we
may be working or living underthis preconceived sense of
stress that we think someone isthinking, and then we have that
(09:52):
conversation and it's like Ididn't even know you're feeling
that way, I didn't even knowthat was a thing, and so I think
that that's huge.
But you then came to us andsaid hey, I am applying for PT
school.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, yeah.
So I had about.
I don't know.
I think the last time I appliedfor PA school was probably 2022
.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Because did you apply twice?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I did.
I graduated or I applied when Iwas still in school.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, and then I that's a hard program to get
into, right, yeah, huge.
I remember I think it was youor someone was telling me like,
like, so many apply and theyselect people that apply like
per school or something crazy,and then like they pick, like
one or two.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Uh, so it was a very like high, intense, um applying
situation.
Yeah, um, and I think that likemy application was strong, but
we have to like write essays oflike why do you want to be a PA?
And like it was very driven bylike helping athletes get back
(10:55):
to their sports, and it's likethat's not necessarily what a PA
does yeah.
It's definitely like in.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
The realm.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, it's in the realm of it, but that wasn't
like their key Sure Point.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, it's in the realm of it but that wasn't like
their key point, so I thinkthat was really not necessarily
what held me back, but I thinkyou know it wasn't God's plan
and that was his way of beinglike hey, I know what you're
supposed to do, but like you'renot there yet, so.
But it's always one of thosethings where, once you get
through the stress, through thestruggle, it's like ha, hmm,
okay, that was probably a betterplan.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, yeah, and it's super hard in the moment to
truly understand that.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I mean, you go through so much Well and not
getting accepted had to befeeling of failure.
Yeah, had to be feeling offailure.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Had to be feeling of not good enough.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And so you have to deal with those.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, I mean I've always been.
I always like to think I'vebeen a good student.
I've always, like, put a highpriority on my education and I'm
going to Augustana.
I mean they definitely expect alot out of you there.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Augustana's faith-based yes, yes, yep, yep
and, to be honest with you, liketo be completely vulnerable.
I didn't even get an interviewfor PN.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like, I applied and I didn't even get through the
past like the first.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Let's kind of unwrap that, if you will, absolutely.
How did that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Awful enough and I feel like that's kind of like a
core, not a core value, but likea core belief.
Yeah, and I have.
That is really hard for me tofight against.
But again, like over, I wouldsay over the past year, year and
a half, I've been like reallydiving back in, getting a little
bit deeper with my faith, yeah,um, and there's like no
explanation to like how thatchanges everything yeah um.
So I think once I, like you know, kind of dove back into my
faith, going back into that, um,you know, viewpoint of life in
(12:49):
the world and things like that,um, and just really living out
like through christ yeah um, itwas a lot easier to like accept
the things that I cannot change.
Yeah, like move forward.
I'm not saying that's not, it'snot hard, like it's definitely
100.
Yeah, um, but it's a lot easierto accept things and move
forward.
And'm not saying that's not,it's not hard, like it's
definitely 100, yeah, um, butit's a lot easier to accept
things and move forward and likeunderstand, like okay, this
(13:10):
might be hard in a moment, butlike I have to understand that
like I don't know everything,which is super hard yeah, yeah
um, and that my plan doesn'talways line up with his plan and
yeah, that's, you know,obviously, the the higher.
Yeah, there's things that I'mnot going to understand and I
think once you get that, itchanges everything, it makes it
easy.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It changes everything , you know.
I feel that this is it kind ofled us to a conversation that I
didn't expect.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It's good because I feel like a lot of people and
I'm actually going through thisright now I'm working with a
counselor and I think thatsometimes that even gets like a
negative yeah notion, yeah, likeoh, you're working with a
counselor yes up yeah, but yep,yep, messed up.
Yeah, we all, uh, we all are,you know, and the thing of it is
is like what I've reallyrealized is we're all messed up.
(14:00):
Humans, yeah, just messing upother humans, yeah, basically
doing our best to not, butthat's what we're doing, and one
of the things that I'm workingthrough right now, um, with my,
my counselor, is understandingthat you know, as it pertains to
faith, if you, if you have afaith in, in christ and you have
a relationship with god andthat is you know know how you're
(14:22):
trying to live Right, god hastruths that he has basically
said about us Yep, you know thatwe are valued, that we are
loved, that we are worthy, allthese things that are truths
about us as sons and daughtersof Christ.
But from the moment that we'reborn, the world has lies Yep,
and the world tells us lies Yep.
(14:43):
And from the moment we're born,we start to hear these lies.
And the world tells us lies.
And from the moment we're born,we start to hear these lies.
And then what happens is westart to believe them, and when
we start to believe them, theybecome our foundation.
And when we have a foundationthat is built on lies.
It doesn't matter how good wedo, it doesn't matter anything
(15:05):
that we do, we still come backto our foundation, which is
faulty, built on lies, and so Ikind of like what you said.
There is you feel that you havelike a core belief, not a core
value, but a core belief ofyou're not good enough, and
that's totally false, howevermuch easier said than understood
(15:25):
.
And now, though, you haveunderstood it, you have
recognized it and, and, to yourpoint, you've then been digging
in to, hey, what are the truthsthat god says about me?
Because those are true.
And then we have to set out onthis journey to replace that
faulty foundational belief ofI'm not good enough with I am
(15:48):
absolutely good enough, and itisn't overnight, but I've been
working on that too and, oh mygoodness, I've found so many.
I don't know if you want to callthem cracks in my foundation,
but I've found so many and Ididn't even realize.
But they're beliefs that I haveinstilled in me that are
totally not true.
Yeah, and I feel like a lot ofour audience probably watching,
(16:11):
listening, they have at leastone or two Right, right,
foundational beliefs in them.
That is absolutely not true,and it probably is something
holding them back, because youfound one that's holding you
back.
I've found several that areholding me back and now we work
on it, and so you recognize that, hey, pa wasn't the plan.
(16:33):
Yeah, you decided that you'regoing to.
Even through writing your essay, I think you already had some
light bulbs, like hey, wantingto help athletes get back to
their sport.
This and that kind of led youto where you're going now.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Right, Um, again, it kind of goes back to like a
faith story.
I mean, it wasn't really myintention of our podcast today,
but you got to do everythingthrough Christ.
That's right.
It goes where it goes, yeah, soit definitely makes sense.
But but I had kind of just Ididn't really know what I wanted
to do.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Last time that I applied for PA school, I didn't
get any interviews, didn't getin.
Yeah, I kind of had just likeaccepted okay, we're going to
rock with Fit Body, which Iabsolutely love, yeah, what
we're doing here.
I just never saw, like I alwaysthought that I'd be going back
to school.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Don't take that wrong .
I absolutely love everything.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, um you know me, I don't yeah
yeah, good, um, and my brotherwent to med school yeah um, and
so we were attending.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
He had graduated from med school um, so we were
attending his graduation um, andthis would have been a year
yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, like 20.
A year ago, yeah, yeah, yeah, ayear ago, yep.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And so I went to that and we were just sitting in the
auditorium in Vermillion andlike hearing all these people's
names, like get up and walkacross, and I'm like it was like
this push from behind me, yeah.
And it was like you're not donewith school.
Yeah, you thought PA, yeah theschool.
Yeah, you thought pa.
Yeah, you're going pt, yeah.
And so the whole ride home, thewhole 45 minutes yeah, I'm
(18:04):
looking up different pt schoolsand I'm like it's never really
crossed my mind.
I actually worked at a physicaltherapy place, uh, for about
three years before I even workedhere.
Okay, I don't know if you knewthat I think just recently.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, um, you had mentioned, because it's the one
that you're working at now.
Yeah, yeah, I'm actually backthere, so you're working there
and you have been working therepart-time for since about may
yeah, a couple days a week.
Four, four days a week.
Carly likes to fill herschedule.
Carly likes to work 40 hours aweek at fit body and then 40
hours, 20 hours, at other jobstoo so, but I love it.
(18:34):
I love what I do yeah, um, andwhat's that one that you're at
now, proactive, proactivephysical therapy and you said
that they at Proactive, it's onMinnesota Avenue, yep, and
they've been around for a while25 years.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, he just saw it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
That is so awesome.
Yeah, yeah, I'm excited forwhen Fit Body gets to be 25
years.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, but you said that their kind of target market
or average client is probably55 plus, which is this kind of
ironic that you run our 55 plusprogram at Fit Body and that is
their target demographic there,and so I do feel that you,
(19:16):
somewhere inside of you, youhave this desire of helping that
demographic, the 55 plusdemographic, stay active yeah, I
really think that you know andwe talked about this last time I
think that my parents kind ofplay a huge role in that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
yeah, um, and I just I see it feels like a generation
that just kind of gets lost,like we're always worried about
the next, the upcoming thing,and you and.
I were, and older generation,and it's just a huge target
(20:02):
market that's just not beingtaken care of.
And I think that is a corevalue of mine is to just like
take care of other people,especially when I feel like
they're not being taken care of.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, and I was talking with either one of our
clients in Fit Body Forever orjust someone else that I had met
.
I don't remember exactly who Iwas talking to, but we were
talking about it's so messed upand backwards how in life you
are young and vibrant and youhave all this energy and all
this desire and all this goal todo all these things and you
(20:35):
lack finances yeah, lackfinances.
And then, as you age, the goalis to hopefully accumulate
finances so that you can havethe money to go do all these
things.
But unfortunately, more oftenthan not, by the time you get
the finances to go do all thesethings, you then lack the health
and it's like, hey, that'smessed up.
(20:59):
And so I think that that's evena desire of yours too, because
you see your parents and you'revery similar to me in the fact
that I love my parents and youhave a good relationship with
your parents.
Yeah, roommates, right, as aroommate, I love it.
I'm in the basement, yeah, butyou want to see them go do all
the things that they want to godo?
(21:19):
Yeah, but you like, you want tosee them go do all the things
that they want to go do yeah.
And you don't have your health,you ain't doing it.
Yeah, hey, yep, yep.
So so now you applied for PTschool.
Yep Got accepted, yep.
And you got accepted a whileago, was it?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, so on my drive home, just to like rewind.
Yeah, on different schools um,and augustana pops up yeah and I
went to argue for my undergradand I'm like whoa, how did I not
know?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
that they had a pt program.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yep, uh, because they had just started it literally.
When I looked it up, they werejust starting their first really
cohort, so I'll be in thesecond course.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
They call it a cohort okay, like a class second class
yeah, um, so that's a newprogram too.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
New program, new program yeah, okay, yeah, um,
and I they do like it's not anadvanced application.
I can't remember what.
It's all right now Sure.
But it's like when you applythey will get it right away and
then they'll send it back wherea lot of schools will do like.
Your application is due inNovember.
We're not looking atapplications until November, so
it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
When you send it to us.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
So I filled out the application to augie and that
was the only one I did and I gotin pretty quick right away.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, I mean it was a .
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was a pretty simple process to where, like, I
got the email back that I wasin an interview, and then we had
an interview on zoom and yeah,it was the interview was weird
too.
It was a weird process becausethe video, the questions were
recorded oh and so then it justlike pressed play, and then I
had like 20 seconds to likethink about it, and then I would
answer the question.
Oh, yeah.
Super weird, yeah, it workedout obviously.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
But you know, I think that's wild because, thinking
back, it was like nine monthsthat you yeah, like, you're like
, hey, in nine months from nowI'm going to be going to PT
school.
And you think about it and it'slike, okay, we'll deal with
that when it comes.
Here we are yeah.
And time just keeps flowing.
You know, that's one thing thatnever stops.
A lot of things in life we canput on pause.
(23:08):
We can't put time on pause.
No, it keeps going.
And so here we are now.
And, you know, to that pointwe're like, hey, all right, we
have to figure out a fit body.
Yeah, all right, we have tofigure out a fit body.
Yeah, who is going to kind oftake over fit body forever?
Yep, and how's that going tolook, and all that.
And we've been working on thatand getting that ready to rock.
And here we are now.
We're going to be, you know,celebrating your last day this
(23:30):
coming Saturday.
Yeah, and you're going to bemiking it up.
Yeah, better see you there Lasttime.
Yeah, better see you there whenyou're a client, past client,
future client never want to be aclient.
Come hang out, come hang outwith us.
It'll be a party.
It'll be a party.
And because that's August 31st,31st, this coming Saturday, and
(23:51):
yeah, it's going to be a greattime, yeah, I feel like, I think
we're even like West is goingto be close.
West is going to be closed.
West is closed, yeah, closingWest, inviting everyone over
here.
We're going to just open up thegarage doors.
Yeah, yeah, have a great time,but so when do you start school?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, so our first day of class is September 30th.
Okay, we have in-person, that'sa Monday.
Yep, we have in-personorientation on the Thursday,
friday before.
So I believe it's like the 26th, 27th of September.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
That's in-person orientation.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yep, but then we have three online courses to
complete before and, kind of,like you said, I've been working
60 hour weeks so I've been likekind of tapping into it but
like not super serious about it.
So between this upcomingSaturday, I guess the 31st and
the 26th.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You got to get those three.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I get those three things done.
Hopefully, by the time thiscomes out I'll have one of them
done, or?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
something.
Yeah, absolutely Absolutely,and so and I think that's good
too, that you gave yourself sometime to transition.
We had talked, and I believethe plan is that you're still
going to work out and causeyou're going to still be living
here in town, yeah, Going toschool, but it's like all online
, except for like two weeks.
Yeah, month or something.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, so they do a hybrid program.
So usually PT school is likethree or four years.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And Augie is doing it in two, so I don't really get
too many breaks.
We go right through the summeryeah, through the first year.
It's like six, seven weeksonline to where some of our
courses are on Zoom, so theycall it synchronous.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And then some of our courses are asynchronous, so
they just send us theinformation and we go through it
on our own, and so we do thatfor six, seven weeks, and then
we have a week to two weeks inBlaine, minnesota for what's in
Blaine?
It's the National Sports Center.
It's like the biggest youthsports center, I think it's just
like a facility that's closerto and so, augie partnered up
with them?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I think so, I would assume.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So, yeah, okay, I mean you'll learn more obviously
, yeah, I feel like I knownothing about my program, for it
starting in a couple of months,but, with that being said, I
think, like our main doctorslive in Blaine, minnesota.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Got it.
How far away is Blaine, do youknow?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It's 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes north of
Minneapolis.
Oh, okay, really like a solidfour hours.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, okay, very cool .
And then four hours yeah, okay,very cool and then you are,
where do you stay?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
do they have like dorms or something down there?
Uh, yes, it's kind of like it'sa room with like four bunk beds
so if you want to do that?
Uh, you can.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You gotta pay for it like every other thing yeah, um,
otherwise you can just staywherever you want.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, I just booked a hotel for my first one, because
the intention is, like you canstay with your friends or
whatever, but like we now, wedon't know anybody.
Everything's online.
I got no friends.
I ain't got no friends, whichis is funny.
Um, because it's an augieprogram, yep, and so being from
sioux falls, being an augustanagrad.
(26:53):
Um, working in sioux fall likeI've literally never left yeah I
kind of assumed that I wouldlike know a couple people
because the cohort, the class,is supposed to be a hundred
people.
I don't even know how big ourclass is Okay.
And I literally know one personand the ironic thing is that
she works at the PT place that Ido.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And I went to Costa.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Rica with her and she's in your cohort.
Yeah, she's the only person Iknow in my class.
That's wild, yeah, so, wild,yeah.
So how does she work full timeat?
No, she works morning and Iwork afternoon, so I never see
her.
But we communicate and text andstuff.
Yeah, very cool, okay, so, yeah.
So.
So big things coming, bigchange coming.
And change isn't easy and that'sone thing that Carly and I had
(27:32):
kind of talked about.
You know, as you go into thischange and that's one thing that
I do and I know you as well alot of our clients to fit body
becomes family, it becomescommunity, and so it's just so
important that as we go throughthese changes in life, that we
have that support, thatcommunity, and so it'll be a lot
of fun to still see you comingin and getting your workouts in
(27:55):
and then, who knows, whenever wemay need a guest coach on the
mic, carly's only a text orphone call away.
So I mean, I could definitelysee that as possibilities into
the future.
But let's just dive in.
We got a little bit of time here.
I want to dive into what hasbeen kind of and let's kind of
(28:17):
highlight the last three yearsof you being a coach.
What have been some likemoments that pop up in your mind
, that you haven't reallythought about, but they pop up
in your mind.
It's like man, these arehighlights yeah, these are
highlights of my three-yearcareer at Epic Body.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I think the first thing is so silly that pops up
into my mind when West opened,we did a dunk tank.
And I think that for me, isjust such a big highlight.
It was just so fun.
It was so different out thereand I remember we were raising
money I believe it was for theSpecial Olympics and we put all
these mason jars out and peoplehad put money in there and
whatever coach had the mostmoney in there got to go in the
(28:54):
dunk tank.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh, and Fit Body Forever.
They rocked it up, man, oh mygosh.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They literally took.
I think there was another coachthat was it was between me and
another coach and they took themoney out of the other coaches
and counted it and they madesure I had like two extra
dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Um, cause they were like the last session before we,
we pulled the Called it.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, so, but honestly, I think, like overall,
necessarily like a specificmoment, uh, but just like being
with Fit Body Forever has beensuch a blessing, honestly.
And, um, going to school andgetting an exercise science
degree I always said the lastthing I want to do is work at a
gym.
I don't know if I've ever saidthat to you, um, but it was just
(29:32):
like never in the plan and kindof like we were talking about
like when you plan things thatnever really works out, um, and
I think that this has been thebest thing for me.
You have taught me so much.
I think I've grown up a lot inthe past three years.
I'm getting teary-eyed, ithappens, yeah, but I would not
be the same person I am todaywithout working here and without
your support and your help, andworking here has been unlike
(29:54):
literally anything else.
You have been such a big supportand truly just like a mentor
for me yeah um, both in like abusiness aspect of things,
personal growth aspect of things, a faith aspect of things.
Yeah, whether you know it ornot, I think that you know you
have more people.
Yeah, of course you have morepeople looking up to you than
you know yeah um, and I don'treally think that like the age
(30:16):
matters.
You are, you know, just alittle bit older than I am.
Yeah, um got you by nine yearsyeah, come on now, uh, but I do
think like even people who areolder than you and working out
here, they can see kind of howyou're living and how you're
yeah um projecting like yourlife yeah um and living very
faith-based and very like peopleoriented.
Yeah, we were just talking.
(30:37):
What is it today?
Thursday, two days ago?
We were, yeah, we were talkingabout our bird profiles.
So our bird profiles are kindof like our personalities, yep,
and we are both big, hugeparrots, yep.
So we like to talk, we like toyap, we like to be loud.
We like to be center ofattention.
(30:57):
Yeah, and you do a good job ofjust something that I admire
about you so much.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, and again, like these arethings that I've probably never
told you, but things that I'vealways thought about you.
Yeah, and it's just.
It's been such an honor to work, you know, not underneath you,
but like beside you.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You never put yourself on a pedestal, even in
like a team aspect way of things.
Pedestal, even in like a teamaspect way of things, yeah, and
that has just been so freshcompared to literally anything
else out there.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Being kind of, you know, like a locally owned gym
you know you're running thingswith your people and you love to
tell kind of your story of whenyou started.
I mean you used to likeliterally sleep here yeah, hey,
it's a one man show and sleephere and get up coach some
morning sessions, take a nap,wake up coach the afternoon
sessions, sleep here, um, and soputting sit body at the
forefront of your life hasreally affected thousands of
(31:51):
people.
Um, and I know that it's notnecessarily been the the easiest
journey for you throughout thenine plus years that you've been
here, but having that effect onso many people and I mean
that's really the goal andyou're doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, I really appreciate that.
I think that our team and Iknow you know this, being part
of the team but like and I'veshared this with our team
multiple times and I think Iprobably even shared it with our
listeners but I always, when Istarted off, I always would pray
.
I was like God, if you're goingto bless me to keep this
business going, bless me with anamazing team, and I really feel
(32:29):
that our team is a dream team.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Do we have struggles in our team?
Of course we have friction, wehave points of contention, where
we have to chat and talk andwork through things, but I think
that's it right when the goinggets tough, we don't just part
ways with each other.
We dive deeper, have aconversation, let's work through
it, and I think that's why ourteam has been able to really
relate to so many of our clientsin the way that we do, because
(32:57):
every single one of our clientsand this is something we always
say we have no idea what they'regoing through.
They walk in and we get themfor 30 minutes, and so how can
we be the light in their lifefor 30 minutes?
To make sure that you knowwhatever darkness that you might
be going through in the world,you can turn it off for 30
minutes, focus on you, becomethe best version of yourself and
(33:20):
then go out there and deal withthe darkness.
Yeah, and I think to your pointyou had said like I never kind
of picture myself in a gym.
Sure, I resonate with that.
Yeah, why I do is because, man,when I graduated high school in
2008, went and got certified asa personal trainer in 2009,
moved back to Sioux Falls andworked at a gym, one-on-one
(33:41):
training, yep and same like itwasn't for me, right, and same
like it wasn't for me, right, Ididn't like it.
It was nothing to do with thegym, it was nothing to do with
that establishment.
It had everything to do with,like, I don't like gyms.
Yeah, Like I really don't.
Yeah, even to this day, when Iwalk into a traditional gym, I
get kind of like the imi jimis,like man, this is my profession
(34:06):
and I still feel, because, again, it's that foundational belief
of I don't fit in here.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
The gym's not, for me , like these beliefs that we're
working on reversing andredefining Right, but in Fit
Body.
It's like it's a gym, but it's.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
There's so much more than that and I think I you know
primarily work with Fit Body.
It's like it's a gym, but it's.
There's so much more than thatand I think I you know primarily
work with Fit Body Forever.
That's kind of been my baby.
Yep, yeah, for the past coupleof years and you know, even with
them.
I was having a conversationwith them the other day and,
like our, I've been making ourworkouts a little bit harder,
yeah, and um, I was, like youknow, at the end of the day, I
don't really care how much.
(34:46):
I mean, I do care, but I don'treally care how much you're like
working out, cause they like tochat quite a bit, um, I don't
care how much you're lifting, Idon't care how much you know
you're.
Yes, I want you to progress,yes, I want you to lift more.
Um, but like, the main goal islike we're building a community,
we're building a family andlike we're having this true
connection.
Because, like you said, ifyou're going into a traditional
(35:07):
gym, especially for that 55 andolder, like or what do you, what
do you?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
do, what do?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
you do, you just you're alone.
You kind of just feel out ofplace.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Um not saying you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah.
Um it just doesn't have thatcommunity feel like a lot of us
are just looking to do life withother people.
Oh, yeah, I feel that life is ateam sport.
It is, yeah, and so many peopleget stuck doing life alone.
Yeah, and you know, jacob Lewisand I this was probably four
(35:39):
months ago released an episodemaybe not four months, but
regardless released an episodejust about isolation and
loneliness and how, when you cando life with others, you can
get better results in yourhealth and fitness.
You can get better results justin your life, and so I don't
even know where I heard thatfirst, but I just love that
saying of I feel that life is ateam sport because you just need
(36:02):
other people to lean on.
And I feel like, even to thisday, you're now leaving and
transitioning into a new career,but we still have our
connections and ourrelationships that we've built
over these three years together,that we're going to still be
able to lean on into this nextchapter in your life.
And I love that because there'sso many things that you have
(36:26):
really become the expert onwithin FitBody from different
things with FitBody Forever tocommunity engagement to
organizing events and I knowwithout a question of a doubt
that if I a month, two months,three months on the road, I'm
like, hey, how did Carly do this?
What was the process?
Where is she keeping this stuff?
I know that you can just reachout right and I can ask and we
(36:48):
can get that info from you, andsame I know for you that it's
like hey, if all of a sudden I'mstruggling X, y or Z, I know
that my gym, my people got myback.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, I mean I see you guys more than I see my
friends, and I tell Fit BodyForever that a lot too.
Um, I mean, you're the peoplethat I'm surrounding myself with
constantly.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Um, and I think one of the first things that I heard
when I started working here islike, you are some of the five
people that you kind of likesurround yourself with Um and
again.
I think that's why I've likegrown so much in the past three
years is just because there's soso many like great people
around me, um with good solidfrom from staff to client to to
(37:33):
the community, things that weget involved with, Absolutely,
yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, I love it, Carly, this has been fun.
It's been fun to kind of take alittle uh different look right,
this is, uh, the first episodeof meet the coach that we're
launching, where it's like, hey,meet the coach and say goodbye
to the coach, but it's beenawesome.
If there's one piece of adviceand I kind of put you on the
spot here if there's one pieceof advice that you could give
(37:58):
our listeners, what would thatadvice be, Whether it's health
or fitness life career it'shealth or fitness.
Life, yeah, career, yeah, likewhat's what is our young, bright
, 25?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
year old.
Yeah, mine's advice, um, I feellike this has been coming up a
lot this past week.
Yeah, um, when you feel likeyou don't want to do the things,
like know that you're not alone.
Um, and I help with youth groupand we had a little bit of a
youth group night.
Uh, last night we had a worshipnight and a couple of the girls
came up to me and they werelike I just, you know, sometimes
I just don't feel like praying,like I don't feel like doing it
.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Um, or like I don't feel like connection that pull
on my heart and it's like, yeah,we all feel that sometimes,
whether it's you know, uh,within your faith, within going
to the gym, with going to work,like sometimes you just don't
feel like doing it.
You just kind of want to hangout, walk through the paces, yep
, um, and so here that everybodygoes through it, but also know
(38:51):
that, like you are called to getback on the horse and keep
going.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Um, and you know you have your people there to to
help you get there.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Um so know that you're not in it alone.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Even if you feel alone, you got Jesus there with
you, by your side.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Know that everybody else is going through.
You know something similar, Yep, and that you're going to get
through it.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Pick yourself back up .
Yeah, keep going, keep going.
I love it.
I love it.
Well, you guys, you spent sometime with us today.
I appreciate you guys forcoming in, you for taking the
time to jump on.
Again, this is a Thursday.
You're probably listening to itmaybe on a Friday, so if you're
listening to it anytime beforethe 31st, I'm calling you out.
(39:36):
August 31st, 2024, centrallocation.
Get your booty to the gym.
730, 815.
730 and 815, two opportunitiesto come and just have an amazing
workout.
And again, whether you're aclient, you're not a client, you
ever maybe think that you wouldbe a client, it doesn't matter.
Come to the gym, have a goodtime with us.
(39:57):
We're going to be there havinga blast and really just sending
you off with all the love.
It's going to be a really funday.
All the love, it's going to bea really fun day.
So, wherever you're at in yourhealth and fitness journey or in
your life, know that Fit Bodyis here for you.
We'd love to see you August31st.
And, other than that, carly,excited to kind of watch as you
continue on your journey.
Yeah, absolutely, thank you.
You know that we're here and wewill keep on rocking.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well, hey, you guys, have an awesome day.
I hope to see you on August31st, and know that.
Hey, how long is the program?
Two years.
You said Two years, yep, twoyears.
So know that in two years, whenyou are looking for your go-to
PT, we're going to have your gal, carly, ready to help you out
on that journey.
(40:40):
But, hey, have an awesome day.
See you on Saturday.
Other than that, know thatyou're awesome.
Go out, have a great day.
We'll catch you on the nextepisode of the Sioux Falls Fit
and Healthy Show.
All right, you guys, bye-bye.
What is going on, friends?
Welcome to the next episode ofthe Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls
show.
And we are combing at you todaywith another coach and a little
bit of an interesting journey,as we talk about Coach Carly's
journey and we actually getready to send her off onto the
next part of her career path.
(00:20):
So I'm excited to dive in todaywith our gal, coach Carly.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
All right.
Well, hey, Carly, welcome tothe show.
My girl, we had you on I don'tknow a couple months back, A
while ago, yeah, talking aboutFit Body Forever, and I think
that was kind of it wasn't rightwhen you were taking it over.
I think it'd been almost like ayear, yeah, yeah a year or two
after it.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I think it'd been almost like a year.
Yeah, yeah, a year or two afterit.
Okay, yeah, it would have beena year, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So, and now here we are and my goodness, we've got
literally this episode comes outand we've got like two or three
days.
Yeah Is all.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Left with Coach Carly on the mic Big transitions.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, it'll be a very big change in my life and it's
been awesome working here forthe past few years.
So I mean, how long have youworked here?
It'll be three years, literallythe week before.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So you'll hit three years, Yep, and then the next
week and the next week.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, it hasbeen an awesome journey.
I still remember back to,honestly, we were at a time and
point this would have been likethree and a half years ago.
We were at a time and pointwhere we were looking for a
coach and I had owned SitBodyfor six years at that time and
(02:00):
never in the six years of owningthe gym had anybody reached out
to HQ or corporate asking if wewere hiring.
And it just so happened thatyou sent like a support message
through like our corporatewebsite.
And all of a sudden, here weare, we're looking for a coach
(02:20):
and I'm like, hey, do we knowthis Carly?
And like, oh yeah, she's juststarted here at the gym.
And I'm like, oh well, she likeapplied to be a coach, Like who
is she?
And just so wild to have thatbe where the journey started and
have it take us all the waythrough here.
So I'd love to really talk aboutwhere you're headed, why you're
(02:43):
headed there.
Really, I want to talk to youabout why you even wanted to be
a coach and before we startedrecording today, you were
talking to me about somedifferent desires and wants that
you've had and really I want tolet the audience know.
I mean, you've been an awesomecoach and I tell you what.
I've had clients letting meknow that they are so bummed to
(03:06):
see you go, but also so happy tosee you go in the way in which
you're going.
Right, that's very bittersweet.
Yeah, it's one of those things,too, where change happens and
it's all about how you navigateit.
And I think, man, you're 24, 25years old and we talked about
(03:31):
this even a couple of weeks agobut the way in which that you're
leaving is just such a good way, and I think that that's
important because I think thatthat is getting lost a lot.
Yeah, absolutely yeah.
So I know I just kind ofunpacked a lot.
That's okay, but you can takethis wherever you want to go.
But let's kind of talk aboutwhat kind of you graduated high
school.
And Well, first, what year didyou graduate high school?
(03:53):
2017.
2017.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, and what was your desired or want and where
did you think you'd head withthe career path?
Yeah, during high school mycareer path changed quite a bit.
I didn't necessarily know whatI wanted to do.
I knew that I kind of wanted tobe in some kind of healthcare,
but I also knew that I had areally big love for sports.
Sure, growing up I played eightsports.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Oh really, yeah, Okay , what eight.
I got five, six, I got eightfingers Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Basketball and dance were my main two.
Okay, did those all throughoutuntil I graduated.
Track Track, I ran, I did highjump.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
What did?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
you do in track Short distance, so I did like 100,
200, 400.
Okay, hated, hated.
Yeah, I did not like it Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I did it to stay in shape for basketball, to be
honest.
Okay, oh wait, did you say?
Did you say basketball?
Yet basketball, dance track?
Okay, high jump, so is thatokay?
So field track and field, yeah,okay, counted as two.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Okay, four more uh, cross country was worse than
track oh yeah yeah terrible,that's long, long ladder, yeah,
a lot.
I hate running, uh.
So again, I did it.
Uh, one of my best friends, itwas just in middle school.
I did it.
One of my best friends, it wasjust in middle school.
I did it for one year.
One of my best friends did it.
So I did it with her and youwould run your race and they
would hand out popsicles at theend, but I would run so slow
(05:13):
that they would literally runout of popsicles.
I wouldn't even get one.
Yeah, anyway, so I think that'sfive.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, we got three more.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Volleyball was okay.
Yeah, we got three more.
Volleyball was okay, Soccer didnot like.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
What's the last one you think?
I don't know Swimming.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
No, I got kicked out of swimming lessons, though.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, there's a lot Lacrosse, no.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
There's got to be the general one.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Competitive beanbags.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, that's got to be it.
It's gonna come to be later,let's go with that yeah that's
cool, though I don't knowbowling.
Yeah, did you bowl?
No, golf no, maybe, maybe Icounted that I did first t for a
little bit, oh yeah yeah, okay,that's crazy yeah that's a lot
of sports yeah, very cool.
So sports has always been kindof my passion yeah uh, but going
into college I had the idea ofdoing a biology and psychology
(06:05):
major with an art minor, whichwas so random.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Okay, yeah, that's a little.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, so wild.
I didn't really know where Iwas going to go with it, but the
idea was to do.
I was between two.
I didn't know if I wanted to dolike cardiothoracic surgery,
which is like heart and likeblood veins kind of in the torso
area.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And then all throughout the body with the
cardiovascular I guess.
But I realized I did not wantto do surgery at all and that
seemed like a very high stressjob and it wasn't revolved
around sports.
So then I kind of changed mypath to like orthopedics.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Orthopedic surgeon and I'm like, oh, that's still
surgery.
So then I kind of changed mypath to like orthopedics.
Okay, orthopedic surgeon, andI'm like, oh, that's still
surgery.
So then I kind of landed onorthopedic PA, so that's like
bones, hips, joints.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And then a physician's assistant, which is
usually the initial person thatyou see Like if you're going
into a clinic.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And you think that you broke your bone.
That's going to be kind of theinitial person that you see and
they kind of assess and evaluateyou and tell the orthopedic
doctor then kind of what theythink is going on, and then the
surgeon is who does theprocedure.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Then obviously Sure Okay.
So that was kind of where youinitially landed, yep, but then
you have to apply to get intothose programs.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yep.
So orthopedic PA was what Ikind of set on throughout
college.
Um and did.
I ended up doing a exercisescience major, so it was a
little bit more, um, sportsrelated rather than just biology
.
And then I had a biology andpsychology minor and then
actually got a coaching minor aswell.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Um, so a lot of schooling and I'm not done,
right, I just love school.
But then I was applying for PAschool, so 2017,.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
you graduated high school.
When did you start in college?
2017.
2017.
So like right away.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yep, okay.
I graduated in May 2017 of highschool at Lincoln, here in town
.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And then I went to Augustana.
Here in town, I've never left.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
In the fall of 2017.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, and then when you started working at Fit Body
in 21.
Yep Were you in.
You were in school.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yep, I did a bonus semester yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Okay, okay and so, but you have not been in school
now for Since January of 22.
So two solid years.
Two years out of school, yep,but in the interim of those two
years you were applying to getinto school, right?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes, PA school.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, Because I remember at one point in time we
had a conversation and you'relike hey, I'll let you know,
Love being here and definitelywant to be here, but I am
applying for PA school.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And if I get in, that may change my availability.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Right, and I think honestly, we had that
conversation like literallyright when I was hired.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I was like, hey, this is kind of my plan, just to be
kind of transparent with youguys, and I feel like that's
kind of like my MO.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah.
It's like your go-tos mo.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, it's like your go-to's.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Hey, this is where I'm thinking I'm heading.
Yeah, very, very big oncommunication for sure.
Yeah, that's good, and I thinkthat that's something that you
know you're.
You're 25 years old, as youcontinue throughout your journey
, and that's one thing that Ihave definitely learned in any
relationship.
Uh, communication is key,because we can't read right, you
know, and if you have thisthought of, hey, I wonder if
(09:27):
they're thinking X, y or Z likeyou should go have that
conversation.
And I think even too, overthese three years of you and I
working together, we've evenrealized that, man,
communication is the biggestthing, because a lot of times we
may be working or living underthis preconceived sense of
stress that we think someone isthinking, and then we have that
(09:52):
conversation and it's like Ididn't even know you're feeling
that way, I didn't even knowthat was a thing, and so I think
that that's huge.
But you then came to us andsaid hey, I am applying for PT
school.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, yeah.
So I had about.
I don't know.
I think the last time I appliedfor PA school was probably 2022
.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Because did you apply twice?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I did.
I graduated or I applied when Iwas still in school.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Okay, and then I that's a hard program to get
into, right, yeah, huge.
I remember I think it was youor someone was telling me like,
like, so many apply and theyselect people that apply like
per school or something crazy,and then like they pick, like
one or two.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Uh, so it was a very like high, intense, um applying
situation.
Yeah, um, and I think that likemy application was strong, but
we have to like write essays oflike why do you want to be a PA?
And like it was very driven bylike helping athletes get back
(10:55):
to their sports, and it's likethat's not necessarily what a PA
does yeah.
It's definitely like in.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
The realm.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, it's in the realm of it, but that wasn't
like their key Sure Point.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, it's in the realm of it but that wasn't like
their key point, so I thinkthat was really not necessarily
what held me back, but I thinkyou know it wasn't God's plan
and that was his way of beinglike hey, I know what you're
supposed to do, but like you'renot there yet, so.
But it's always one of thosethings where, once you get
through the stress, through thestruggle, it's like ha, hmm,
okay, that was probably a betterplan.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, yeah, and it's super hard in the moment to
truly understand that.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I mean, you go through so much Well and not
getting accepted had to befeeling of failure.
Yeah, had to be feeling offailure.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Had to be feeling of not good enough.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
And so you have to deal with those.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, I mean I've always been.
I always like to think I'vebeen a good student.
I've always, like, put a highpriority on my education and I'm
going to Augustana.
I mean they definitely expect alot out of you there.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Augustana's faith-based yes, yes, yep, yep
and, to be honest with you, liketo be completely vulnerable.
I didn't even get an interviewfor PN.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like, I applied and I didn't even get through the
past like the first.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Let's kind of unwrap that, if you will, absolutely.
How did that make you feel?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Awful enough and I feel like that's kind of like a
core, not a core value, but likea core belief.
Yeah, and I have.
That is really hard for me tofight against.
But again, like over, I wouldsay over the past year, year and
a half, I've been like reallydiving back in, getting a little
bit deeper with my faith, yeah,um, and there's like no
explanation to like how thatchanges everything yeah um.
So I think once I, like you know, kind of dove back into my
faith, going back into that, um,you know, viewpoint of life in
(12:49):
the world and things like that,um, and just really living out
like through christ yeah um, itwas a lot easier to like accept
the things that I cannot change.
Yeah, like move forward.
I'm not saying that's not, it'snot hard, like it's definitely
100.
Yeah, um, but it's a lot easierto accept things and move
forward.
And'm not saying that's not,it's not hard, like it's
definitely 100, yeah, um, butit's a lot easier to accept
things and move forward and likeunderstand, like okay, this
(13:10):
might be hard in a moment, butlike I have to understand that
like I don't know everything,which is super hard yeah, yeah
um, and that my plan doesn'talways line up with his plan and
yeah, that's, you know,obviously, the the higher.
Yeah, there's things that I'mnot going to understand and I
think once you get that, itchanges everything, it makes it
easy.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It changes everything , you know.
I feel that this is it kind ofled us to a conversation that I
didn't expect.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
It's good because I feel like a lot of people and
I'm actually going through thisright now I'm working with a
counselor and I think thatsometimes that even gets like a
negative yeah notion, yeah, likeoh, you're working with a
counselor yes up yeah, but yep,yep, messed up.
Yeah, we all, uh, we all are,you know, and the thing of it is
is like what I've reallyrealized is we're all messed up.
(14:00):
Humans, yeah, just messing upother humans, yeah, basically
doing our best to not, butthat's what we're doing, and one
of the things that I'm workingthrough right now, um, with my,
my counselor, is understandingthat you know, as it pertains to
faith, if you, if you have afaith in, in christ and you have
a relationship with god andthat is you know know how you're
(14:22):
trying to live Right, god hastruths that he has basically
said about us Yep, you know thatwe are valued, that we are
loved, that we are worthy, allthese things that are truths
about us as sons and daughtersof Christ.
But from the moment that we'reborn, the world has lies Yep,
and the world tells us lies Yep.
(14:43):
And from the moment we're born,we start to hear these lies.
And the world tells us lies.
And from the moment we're born,we start to hear these lies.
And then what happens is westart to believe them, and when
we start to believe them, theybecome our foundation.
And when we have a foundationthat is built on lies.
It doesn't matter how good wedo, it doesn't matter anything
(15:05):
that we do, we still come backto our foundation, which is
faulty, built on lies, and so Ikind of like what you said.
There is you feel that you havelike a core belief, not a core
value, but a core belief ofyou're not good enough, and
that's totally false, howevermuch easier said than understood
(15:25):
.
And now, though, you haveunderstood it, you have
recognized it and, and, to yourpoint, you've then been digging
in to, hey, what are the truthsthat god says about me?
Because those are true.
And then we have to set out onthis journey to replace that
faulty foundational belief ofI'm not good enough with I am
(15:48):
absolutely good enough, and itisn't overnight, but I've been
working on that too and, oh mygoodness, I've found so many.
I don't know if you want to callthem cracks in my foundation,
but I've found so many and Ididn't even realize.
But they're beliefs that I haveinstilled in me that are
totally not true.
Yeah, and I feel like a lot ofour audience probably watching,
(16:11):
listening, they have at leastone or two Right, right,
foundational beliefs in them.
That is absolutely not true,and it probably is something
holding them back, because youfound one that's holding you
back.
I've found several that areholding me back and now we work
on it, and so you recognize that, hey, pa wasn't the plan.
(16:33):
Yeah, you decided that you'regoing to.
Even through writing your essay, I think you already had some
light bulbs, like hey, wantingto help athletes get back to
their sport.
This and that kind of led youto where you're going now.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Right, Um, again, it kind of goes back to like a
faith story.
I mean, it wasn't really myintention of our podcast today,
but you got to do everythingthrough Christ.
That's right.
It goes where it goes, yeah, soit definitely makes sense.
But but I had kind of just Ididn't really know what I wanted
to do.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Last time that I applied for PA school, I didn't
get any interviews, didn't getin.
Yeah, I kind of had just likeaccepted okay, we're going to
rock with Fit Body, which Iabsolutely love, yeah, what
we're doing here.
I just never saw, like I alwaysthought that I'd be going back
to school.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Don't take that wrong .
I absolutely love everything.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, um you know me, I don't yeah
yeah, good, um, and my brotherwent to med school yeah um, and
so we were attending.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
He had graduated from med school um, so we were
attending his graduation um, andthis would have been a year
yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, like 20.
A year ago, yeah, yeah, yeah, ayear ago, yep.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And so I went to that and we were just sitting in the
auditorium in Vermillion andlike hearing all these people's
names, like get up and walkacross, and I'm like it was like
this push from behind me, yeah.
And it was like you're not donewith school.
Yeah, you thought PA, yeah theschool.
Yeah, you thought pa.
Yeah, you're going pt, yeah.
And so the whole ride home, thewhole 45 minutes yeah, I'm
(18:04):
looking up different pt schoolsand I'm like it's never really
crossed my mind.
I actually worked at a physicaltherapy place, uh, for about
three years before I even workedhere.
Okay, I don't know if you knewthat I think just recently.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, um, you had mentioned, because it's the one
that you're working at now.
Yeah, yeah, I'm actually backthere, so you're working there
and you have been working therepart-time for since about may
yeah, a couple days a week.
Four, four days a week.
Carly likes to fill herschedule.
Carly likes to work 40 hours aweek at fit body and then 40
hours, 20 hours, at other jobstoo so, but I love it.
(18:34):
I love what I do yeah, um, andwhat's that one that you're at
now, proactive, proactivephysical therapy and you said
that they at Proactive, it's onMinnesota Avenue, yep, and
they've been around for a while25 years.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, he just saw it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
That is so awesome.
Yeah, yeah, I'm excited forwhen Fit Body gets to be 25
years.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, but you said that their kind of target market
or average client is probably55 plus, which is this kind of
ironic that you run our 55 plusprogram at Fit Body and that is
their target demographic there,and so I do feel that you,
(19:16):
somewhere inside of you, youhave this desire of helping that
demographic, the 55 plusdemographic, stay active yeah, I
really think that you know andwe talked about this last time I
think that my parents kind ofplay a huge role in that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
yeah, um, and I just I see it feels like a generation
that just kind of gets lost,like we're always worried about
the next, the upcoming thing,and you and.
I were, and older generation,and it's just a huge target
(20:02):
market that's just not beingtaken care of.
And I think that is a corevalue of mine is to just like
take care of other people,especially when I feel like
they're not being taken care of.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, and I was talking with either one of our
clients in Fit Body Forever orjust someone else that I had met
.
I don't remember exactly who Iwas talking to, but we were
talking about it's so messed upand backwards how in life you
are young and vibrant and youhave all this energy and all
this desire and all this goal todo all these things and you
(20:35):
lack finances yeah, lackfinances.
And then, as you age, the goalis to hopefully accumulate
finances so that you can havethe money to go do all these
things.
But unfortunately, more oftenthan not, by the time you get
the finances to go do all thesethings, you then lack the health
and it's like, hey, that'smessed up.
(20:59):
And so I think that that's evena desire of yours too, because
you see your parents and you'revery similar to me in the fact
that I love my parents and youhave a good relationship with
your parents.
Yeah, roommates, right, as aroommate, I love it.
I'm in the basement, yeah, butyou want to see them go do all
the things that they want to godo?
(21:19):
Yeah, but you like, you want tosee them go do all the things
that they want to go do yeah.
And you don't have your health,you ain't doing it.
Yeah, hey, yep, yep.
So so now you applied for PTschool.
Yep Got accepted, yep.
And you got accepted a whileago, was it?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, so on my drive home, just to like rewind.
Yeah, on different schools um,and augustana pops up yeah and I
went to argue for my undergradand I'm like whoa, how did I not
know?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
that they had a pt program.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yep, uh, because they had just started it literally.
When I looked it up, they werejust starting their first really
cohort, so I'll be in thesecond course.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
They call it a cohort okay, like a class second class
yeah, um, so that's a newprogram too.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
New program, new program yeah, okay, yeah, um,
and I they do like it's not anadvanced application.
I can't remember what.
It's all right now Sure.
But it's like when you applythey will get it right away and
then they'll send it back wherea lot of schools will do like.
Your application is due inNovember.
We're not looking atapplications until November, so
it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
When you send it to us.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
So I filled out the application to augie and that
was the only one I did and I gotin pretty quick right away.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, I mean it was a .
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It was a pretty simple process to where, like, I
got the email back that I wasin an interview, and then we had
an interview on zoom and yeah,it was the interview was weird
too.
It was a weird process becausethe video, the questions were
recorded oh and so then it justlike pressed play, and then I
had like 20 seconds to likethink about it, and then I would
answer the question.
Oh, yeah.
Super weird, yeah, it workedout obviously.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
But you know, I think that's wild because, thinking
back, it was like nine monthsthat you yeah, like, you're like
, hey, in nine months from nowI'm going to be going to PT
school.
And you think about it and it'slike, okay, we'll deal with
that when it comes.
Here we are yeah.
And time just keeps flowing.
You know, that's one thing thatnever stops.
A lot of things in life we canput on pause.
(23:08):
We can't put time on pause.
No, it keeps going.
And so here we are now.
And, you know, to that pointwe're like, hey, all right, we
have to figure out a fit body.
Yeah, all right, we have tofigure out a fit body.
Yeah, who is going to kind oftake over fit body forever?
Yep, and how's that going tolook, and all that.
And we've been working on thatand getting that ready to rock.
And here we are now.
We're going to be, you know,celebrating your last day this
(23:30):
coming Saturday.
Yeah, and you're going to bemiking it up.
Yeah, better see you there Lasttime.
Yeah, better see you there whenyou're a client, past client,
future client never want to be aclient.
Come hang out, come hang outwith us.
It'll be a party.
It'll be a party.
And because that's August 31st,31st, this coming Saturday, and
(23:51):
yeah, it's going to be a greattime, yeah, I feel like, I think
we're even like West is goingto be close.
West is going to be closed.
West is closed, yeah, closingWest, inviting everyone over
here.
We're going to just open up thegarage doors.
Yeah, yeah, have a great time,but so when do you start school?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, so our first day of class is September 30th.
Okay, we have in-person, that'sa Monday.
Yep, we have in-personorientation on the Thursday,
friday before.
So I believe it's like the 26th, 27th of September.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
That's in-person orientation.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yep, but then we have three online courses to
complete before and, kind of,like you said, I've been working
60 hour weeks so I've been likekind of tapping into it but
like not super serious about it.
So between this upcomingSaturday, I guess the 31st and
the 26th.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You got to get those three.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I get those three things done.
Hopefully, by the time thiscomes out I'll have one of them
done, or?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
something.
Yeah, absolutely Absolutely,and so and I think that's good
too, that you gave yourself sometime to transition.
We had talked, and I believethe plan is that you're still
going to work out and causeyou're going to still be living
here in town, yeah, Going toschool, but it's like all online
, except for like two weeks.
Yeah, month or something.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Yeah, so they do a hybrid program.
So usually PT school is likethree or four years.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And Augie is doing it in two, so I don't really get
too many breaks.
We go right through the summeryeah, through the first year.
It's like six, seven weeksonline to where some of our
courses are on Zoom, so theycall it synchronous.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And then some of our courses are asynchronous, so
they just send us theinformation and we go through it
on our own, and so we do thatfor six, seven weeks, and then
we have a week to two weeks inBlaine, minnesota for what's in
Blaine?
It's the National Sports Center.
It's like the biggest youthsports center, I think it's just
like a facility that's closerto and so, augie partnered up
with them?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
I think so, I would assume.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So, yeah, okay, I mean you'll learn more obviously
, yeah, I feel like I knownothing about my program, for it
starting in a couple of months,but, with that being said, I
think, like our main doctorslive in Blaine, minnesota.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Got it.
How far away is Blaine, do youknow?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It's 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes north of
Minneapolis.
Oh, okay, really like a solidfour hours.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yeah, okay, very cool .
And then four hours yeah, okay,very cool and then you are,
where do you stay?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
do they have like dorms or something down there?
Uh, yes, it's kind of like it'sa room with like four bunk beds
so if you want to do that?
Uh, you can.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You gotta pay for it like every other thing yeah, um,
otherwise you can just staywherever you want.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, I just booked a hotel for my first one, because
the intention is, like you canstay with your friends or
whatever, but like we now, wedon't know anybody.
Everything's online.
I got no friends.
I ain't got no friends, whichis is funny.
Um, because it's an augieprogram, yep, and so being from
sioux falls, being an augustanagrad.
(26:53):
Um, working in sioux fall likeI've literally never left yeah I
kind of assumed that I wouldlike know a couple people
because the cohort, the class,is supposed to be a hundred
people.
I don't even know how big ourclass is Okay.
And I literally know one personand the ironic thing is that
she works at the PT place that Ido.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Oh crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
And I went to Costa.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Rica with her and she's in your cohort.
Yeah, she's the only person Iknow in my class.
That's wild, yeah, so, wild,yeah.
So how does she work full timeat?
No, she works morning and Iwork afternoon, so I never see
her.
But we communicate and text andstuff.
Yeah, very cool, okay, so, yeah.
So.
So big things coming, bigchange coming.
And change isn't easy and that'sone thing that Carly and I had
(27:32):
kind of talked about.
You know, as you go into thischange and that's one thing that
I do and I know you as well alot of our clients to fit body
becomes family, it becomescommunity, and so it's just so
important that as we go throughthese changes in life, that we
have that support, thatcommunity, and so it'll be a lot
of fun to still see you comingin and getting your workouts in
(27:55):
and then, who knows, whenever wemay need a guest coach on the
mic, carly's only a text orphone call away.
So I mean, I could definitelysee that as possibilities into
the future.
But let's just dive in.
We got a little bit of time here.
I want to dive into what hasbeen kind of and let's kind of
(28:17):
highlight the last three yearsof you being a coach.
What have been some likemoments that pop up in your mind
, that you haven't reallythought about, but they pop up
in your mind.
It's like man, these arehighlights yeah, these are
highlights of my three-yearcareer at Epic Body.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I think the first thing is so silly that pops up
into my mind when West opened,we did a dunk tank.
And I think that for me, isjust such a big highlight.
It was just so fun.
It was so different out thereand I remember we were raising
money I believe it was for theSpecial Olympics and we put all
these mason jars out and peoplehad put money in there and
whatever coach had the mostmoney in there got to go in the
(28:54):
dunk tank.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh, and Fit Body Forever.
They rocked it up, man, oh mygosh.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
They literally took.
I think there was another coachthat was it was between me and
another coach and they took themoney out of the other coaches
and counted it and they madesure I had like two extra
dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Um, cause they were like the last session before we,
we pulled the Called it.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, so, but honestly, I think, like overall,
necessarily like a specificmoment, uh, but just like being
with Fit Body Forever has beensuch a blessing, honestly.
And, um, going to school andgetting an exercise science
degree I always said the lastthing I want to do is work at a
gym.
I don't know if I've ever saidthat to you, um, but it was just
(29:32):
like never in the plan and kindof like we were talking about
like when you plan things thatnever really works out, um, and
I think that this has been thebest thing for me.
You have taught me so much.
I think I've grown up a lot inthe past three years.
I'm getting teary-eyed, ithappens, yeah, but I would not
be the same person I am todaywithout working here and without
your support and your help, andworking here has been unlike
(29:54):
literally anything else.
You have been such a big supportand truly just like a mentor
for me yeah um, both in like abusiness aspect of things,
personal growth aspect of things, a faith aspect of things.
Yeah, whether you know it ornot, I think that you know you
have more people.
Yeah, of course you have morepeople looking up to you than
you know yeah um, and I don'treally think that like the age
(30:16):
matters.
You are, you know, just alittle bit older than I am.
Yeah, um got you by nine yearsyeah, come on now, uh, but I do
think like even people who areolder than you and working out
here, they can see kind of howyou're living and how you're
yeah um projecting like yourlife yeah um and living very
faith-based and very like peopleoriented.
Yeah, we were just talking.
(30:37):
What is it today?
Thursday, two days ago?
We were, yeah, we were talkingabout our bird profiles.
So our bird profiles are kindof like our personalities, yep,
and we are both big, hugeparrots, yep.
So we like to talk, we like toyap, we like to be loud.
We like to be center ofattention.
(30:57):
Yeah, and you do a good job ofjust something that I admire
about you so much.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, and again, like these arethings that I've probably never
told you, but things that I'vealways thought about you.
Yeah, and it's just.
It's been such an honor to work, you know, not underneath you,
but like beside you.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
You never put yourself on a pedestal, even in
like a team aspect way of things.
Pedestal, even in like a teamaspect way of things, yeah, and
that has just been so freshcompared to literally anything
else out there.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Being kind of, you know, like a locally owned gym
you know you're running thingswith your people and you love to
tell kind of your story of whenyou started.
I mean you used to likeliterally sleep here yeah, hey,
it's a one man show and sleephere and get up coach some
morning sessions, take a nap,wake up coach the afternoon
sessions, sleep here, um, and soputting sit body at the
forefront of your life hasreally affected thousands of
(31:51):
people.
Um, and I know that it's notnecessarily been the the easiest
journey for you throughout thenine plus years that you've been
here, but having that effect onso many people and I mean
that's really the goal andyou're doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, I really appreciate that.
I think that our team and Iknow you know this, being part
of the team but like and I'veshared this with our team
multiple times and I think Iprobably even shared it with our
listeners but I always, when Istarted off, I always would pray
.
I was like God, if you're goingto bless me to keep this
business going, bless me with anamazing team, and I really feel
(32:29):
that our team is a dream team.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Do we have struggles in our team?
Of course we have friction, wehave points of contention, where
we have to chat and talk andwork through things, but I think
that's it right when the goinggets tough, we don't just part
ways with each other.
We dive deeper, have aconversation, let's work through
it, and I think that's why ourteam has been able to really
relate to so many of our clientsin the way that we do, because
(32:57):
every single one of our clientsand this is something we always
say we have no idea what they'regoing through.
They walk in and we get themfor 30 minutes, and so how can
we be the light in their lifefor 30 minutes?
To make sure that you knowwhatever darkness that you might
be going through in the world,you can turn it off for 30
minutes, focus on you, becomethe best version of yourself and
(33:20):
then go out there and deal withthe darkness.
Yeah, and I think to your pointyou had said like I never kind
of picture myself in a gym.
Sure, I resonate with that.
Yeah, why I do is because, man,when I graduated high school in
2008, went and got certified asa personal trainer in 2009,
moved back to Sioux Falls andworked at a gym, one-on-one
(33:41):
training, yep and same like itwasn't for me, right, and same
like it wasn't for me, right, Ididn't like it.
It was nothing to do with thegym, it was nothing to do with
that establishment.
It had everything to do with,like, I don't like gyms.
Yeah, Like I really don't.
Yeah, even to this day, when Iwalk into a traditional gym, I
get kind of like the imi jimis,like man, this is my profession
(34:06):
and I still feel, because, again, it's that foundational belief
of I don't fit in here.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
The gym's not, for me , like these beliefs that we're
working on reversing andredefining Right, but in Fit
Body.
It's like it's a gym, but it's.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
There's so much more than that and I think I you know
primarily work with Fit Body.
It's like it's a gym, but it's.
There's so much more than thatand I think I you know primarily
work with Fit Body Forever.
That's kind of been my baby.
Yep, yeah, for the past coupleof years and you know, even with
them.
I was having a conversationwith them the other day and,
like our, I've been making ourworkouts a little bit harder,
yeah, and um, I was, like youknow, at the end of the day, I
don't really care how much.
(34:46):
I mean, I do care, but I don'treally care how much you're like
working out, cause they like tochat quite a bit, um, I don't
care how much you're lifting, Idon't care how much you know
you're.
Yes, I want you to progress,yes, I want you to lift more.
Um, but like, the main goal islike we're building a community,
we're building a family andlike we're having this true
connection.
Because, like you said, ifyou're going into a traditional
(35:07):
gym, especially for that 55 andolder, like or what do you, what
do you?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
do, what do?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
you do, you just you're alone.
You kind of just feel out ofplace.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Um not saying you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah.
Um it just doesn't have thatcommunity feel like a lot of us
are just looking to do life withother people.
Oh, yeah, I feel that life is ateam sport.
It is, yeah, and so many peopleget stuck doing life alone.
Yeah, and you know, jacob Lewisand I this was probably four
(35:39):
months ago released an episodemaybe not four months, but
regardless released an episodejust about isolation and
loneliness and how, when you cando life with others, you can
get better results in yourhealth and fitness.
You can get better results justin your life, and so I don't
even know where I heard thatfirst, but I just love that
saying of I feel that life is ateam sport because you just need
(36:02):
other people to lean on.
And I feel like, even to thisday, you're now leaving and
transitioning into a new career,but we still have our
connections and ourrelationships that we've built
over these three years together,that we're going to still be
able to lean on into this nextchapter in your life.
And I love that because there'sso many things that you have
(36:26):
really become the expert onwithin FitBody from different
things with FitBody Forever tocommunity engagement to
organizing events and I knowwithout a question of a doubt
that if I a month, two months,three months on the road, I'm
like, hey, how did Carly do this?
What was the process?
Where is she keeping this stuff?
I know that you can just reachout right and I can ask and we
(36:48):
can get that info from you, andsame I know for you that it's
like hey, if all of a sudden I'mstruggling X, y or Z, I know
that my gym, my people got myback.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, I mean I see you guys more than I see my
friends, and I tell Fit BodyForever that a lot too.
Um, I mean, you're the peoplethat I'm surrounding myself with
constantly.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Um, and I think one of the first things that I heard
when I started working here islike, you are some of the five
people that you kind of likesurround yourself with Um and
again.
I think that's why I've likegrown so much in the past three
years is just because there's soso many like great people
around me, um with good solidfrom from staff to client to to
(37:33):
the community, things that weget involved with, Absolutely,
yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, I love it, Carly, this has been fun.
It's been fun to kind of take alittle uh different look right,
this is, uh, the first episodeof meet the coach that we're
launching, where it's like, hey,meet the coach and say goodbye
to the coach, but it's beenawesome.
If there's one piece of adviceand I kind of put you on the
spot here if there's one pieceof advice that you could give
(37:58):
our listeners, what would thatadvice be, Whether it's health
or fitness life career it'shealth or fitness.
Life, yeah, career, yeah, likewhat's what is our young, bright
, 25?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
year old.
Yeah, mine's advice, um, I feellike this has been coming up a
lot this past week.
Yeah, um, when you feel likeyou don't want to do the things,
like know that you're not alone.
Um, and I help with youth groupand we had a little bit of a
youth group night.
Uh, last night we had a worshipnight and a couple of the girls
came up to me and they werelike I just, you know, sometimes
I just don't feel like praying,like I don't feel like doing it
.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Um, or like I don't feel like connection that pull
on my heart and it's like, yeah,we all feel that sometimes,
whether it's you know, uh,within your faith, within going
to the gym, with going to work,like sometimes you just don't
feel like doing it.
You just kind of want to hangout, walk through the paces, yep
, um, and so here that everybodygoes through it, but also know
(38:51):
that, like you are called to getback on the horse and keep
going.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Um, and you know you have your people there to to
help you get there.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Um so know that you're not in it alone.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Even if you feel alone, you got Jesus there with
you, by your side.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Know that everybody else is going through.
You know something similar, Yep, and that you're going to get
through it.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Pick yourself back up .
Yeah, keep going, keep going.
I love it.
I love it.
Well, you guys, you spent sometime with us today.
I appreciate you guys forcoming in, you for taking the
time to jump on.
Again, this is a Thursday.
You're probably listening to itmaybe on a Friday, so if you're
listening to it anytime beforethe 31st, I'm calling you out.
(39:36):
August 31st, 2024, centrallocation.
Get your booty to the gym.
730, 815.
730 and 815, two opportunitiesto come and just have an amazing
workout.
And again, whether you're aclient, you're not a client, you
ever maybe think that you wouldbe a client, it doesn't matter.
Come to the gym, have a goodtime with us.
(39:57):
We're going to be there havinga blast and really just sending
you off with all the love.
It's going to be a really funday.
All the love, it's going to bea really fun day.
So, wherever you're at in yourhealth and fitness journey or in
your life, know that Fit Bodyis here for you.
We'd love to see you August31st.
And, other than that, carly,excited to kind of watch as you
continue on your journey.
Yeah, absolutely, thank you.
You know that we're here and wewill keep on rocking.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well, hey, you guys, have an awesome day.
I hope to see you on August31st, and know that.
Hey, how long is the program?
Two years.
You said Two years, yep, twoyears.
So know that in two years, whenyou are looking for your go-to
PT, we're going to have your gal, carly, ready to help you out
on that journey.
(40:40):
But, hey, have an awesome day.
See you on Saturday.
Other than that, know thatyou're awesome.
Go out, have a great day.
We'll catch you on the nextepisode of the Sioux Falls Fit
and Healthy Show.
All right, you guys, bye-bye.
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