August 15, 2024 • 55 mins
What if transforming your body could completely change your life? Join us as we sit down with Coach Vicky, a trailblazer from the very first Fit Body Workout session almost a decade ago. Vicky opens up about her incredible journey from a client to a coach, sharing how fitness has boosted her confidence and enriched her relationships. Vicky’s story is a testament to the power of perseverance and community support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is going on everyone?
Welcome to the next episode ofthe Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls
Show.
We have an amazing episode instore for you today, because
today we get to reconnect withone of my favorite ladies, who
has been with me since literallyday one and she is now our
integrator and just an amazingrock star human being.
(00:24):
So help me, welcome to the showtoday, miss Coach Vicky.
Let's going on, my dear.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Not much, just hanging out here with you.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I love it.
I know I was just talking toyou before we got all set up.
Yeah.
And I was like do you rememberhow we did this last time?
Ironically, last time you and Ishot an episode, we didn't have
even the studio set up yet, andso we did it virtually and so
we did it over Zoom.
So this is the first time thatyou and I actually get to sit in
studio back at kind of ourjourney and where this all
(01:28):
started.
And for any of those that don'tmaybe know, when was the first
time that Fit Body kind ofentered your life?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh goodness, many, many years ago.
It's kind of weird because it'salmost been a decade, isn't
that crazy?
That's nuts, that's wild.
So I was working and I wantedto get into health and fitness.
I wasn't really sure how to doit.
Wanted to do this awesome eventand say I want to be one of
those like badass chicks andlet's just like been letting
(01:57):
things go, and then got in touchwith your mom.
Yeah.
And she told me my son's openingup a gym.
You should try this, and sothat's where the rest is history
.
With your mom, yeah, and shetold me my son's opening up a
gym.
You should try this, and sothat's where the rest is history
.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, and that was yeah, 2015.
Yep, yeah, so like almost adecade, which is just wild, yeah
.
And I tell you what opening FitBody was definitely nerve
wracking for me About a bit.
Many people ask me they're likeso did you have like a list or
a clientele base that youbrought with you to start
FitBody?
And the answer is no, had noone that was going to be a
(02:34):
client.
I just decided that hey, we'regoing to do this, and so we ran
a basically mock session forfriends and family before we
were even open to the public yet, and my mom had invited you to
come try out this mock session,yep, and so what I think is so
cool about this is here we arealmost 10 years later and you
(02:58):
were at the very first Fit BodyWorkout, yep, and so I don't
have other than my wife and myparents.
I don't have any businesspartners, and so to think that
you were with me and have beenwith me since day one, I very
much consider you a businesspartner and someone that has
(03:20):
helped me from day one, eventhough day one you totally came
in as a client.
I would say that you are now100% in this thing to help
everybody that you used to be,oh absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I think that was the biggest thing is I didn't
realize it at the time how muchimpact it had on my life, how
much change.
I'll never forget the time andI don't know if you remember it,
but I was at Target and I wastrying on clothes, wanted to buy
some new jeans because my jeanswere starting to get a little
too big.
And I walked in there thinking,oh, I just go one size down.
(03:58):
And I was like, oh my gosh,these are too big.
And I had to walk out thatdressing room two times like, oh
my gosh, these are too big.
And I had to walk out thatdressing room two times.
And I remember texting you onthe phone.
I was like, oh my gosh, oh mygosh, like what is happening
right now.
And so just those simplefeelings, just that level of
confidence that brought to mylife, I was like I have to make
(04:20):
others feel like this.
This is amazing.
If you don't feel like this,you need to.
So that just kind of dominoeffect, I had a snowball effect
in my life and, yeah, ever since, just blessed, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Hence my shirt, hence your shirt, blessed, and I
think that's the biggest thing,because, as a coach, you pour a
lot into other people, yes, butall for the reason to help who
you used to be.
Yeah, and to that point, Ithink that's why you and I align
so much on the mission thatwe're on is because that's
(04:59):
exactly why I opened FitBody,because for me and for you too,
I can specifically remembertalking to Bryce, who is our CEO
of Fit Body, and I said, bryce,you know that Vicky didn't used
to always be fit, and he's likeno, I'm like, yeah, dude, she
was one of my first clients,literally was at the first
(05:20):
workout I ever held and has hada life transformation, and he's
like no way.
And so I showed him yourpicture from and I know you love
that picture, oh goodness.
So I want to.
Actually, that brings me to apoint as we're talking right now
.
What does that picture do to you?
Because many people have thisimage of themselves.
(05:45):
Yeah, and it burns this thoughtof what you look like into your
brain, oh and, and it doesn'tjust go away.
But so what does that image doto you?
And has that been somethingthat's been able to help you
push through and forward in yourhealth and fitness journey?
(06:07):
Or has it been something that'slike had you stumble, or maybe
a combination of both?
I would say probably acombination of both.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I know at the beginning that's kind of how you
identify yourself as, like yousaid, you've been like this for
so long and now all of a sudden,like that target thing happens.
No-transcript, it wasn't justthe weight loss, it was like
(06:56):
everything.
Everything from myrelationships to my work
performance, everything changed,and it changed for the better,
and so I really kind of use thatas a driver, that that person
that I see, that may pop up onmy memories or I'll still take
pictures out of my kids andthere's kind of a different
(07:18):
version of their mom there.
I use that now as I was nothappy, I looked happy, I put on
this facade, but I wasn't reallyhappy so it's become.
it did defeat me for a while.
It does occasionally sneak upon me every now and then, but I
have a stronger mindset, moreconfidence that I can kind of
shove that back down and say,nope, not again.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, not again.
You know, I've went through ahealth transformation as well
and you do have that image burntinto you of what you, and that
image is with you longer thanthis new image of you, right.
So now you have this new image.
When you look in the mirror,the reflection that you
(08:01):
physically see is what you looklike now, but the reflection
that you maybe mentally oremotionally see is still the
image of who you used to be.
Yes, and sometimes impostersyndrome, yeah, can kind of like
slip in, yeah, and when it does, what do you do with that?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
um, oh, that is a good question.
It it takes a lot, a lot ofthought process to get through
it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Um because sometimes you look at it.
Yeah, and for me anyways, andmaybe not for you but sometimes
you look at that image andalmost you see you reflection
now, but that image of who youused to be is what actually pops
up in your brain and that cantrigger this thought that you're
(08:53):
right.
I don't deserve to look the waythat I do now because I looked
that way for so long.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And then what can happen is if you don't take
control and take captive thosenegative thoughts and squash
them right away like, oh my gosh, you're fat, and then, and then
I was like whoa, whoa, Um,that's kind of thing.
Now is I have the ability tostop it as soon as possible,
whereas before I wouldrepetitively tell myself that,
um, and so I do do a lot ofreading, I do do a lot of
self-care, not just fitness wise, but I mean simple things
(09:50):
massages, getting my nails done,stuff that makes me feel really
, really good about myself, andso those types of things kind of
help me be able to understandthat as soon as those words come
out of my mouth, I have tocombat them.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You have to Immediately, because it can also
be a very slow fade.
Yes, the second that a negativethought pops in your head,
that's like step one.
Then the second that youactually said, oh my gosh, I'm
fat, yeah, that is step two, yep, and from there it just
trickles, yes, and it slowlyfades into next thing.
(10:27):
You know you're not working out, yep, you're not eating healthy
, yep, and you're reverting backinto your old habit, right,
whereas every day you get up,you have to step into this new
belief system and I think that'sthe biggest thing, and I've
been really thinking about thisa lot like what do we do at Fit
(10:48):
Body?
And we have to help our clientsrebuild their foundational
belief system of who theybelieve they are.
Yes, because unfortunately,like you were and like I I was
and like we still battle with,our foundation is broken, yeah,
and who we believe we are isthese unhealthy, unfit,
(11:11):
undeserving people, and that'svery worldly, it's very common.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yep, and I've just talked to my clients too about I
call it the gap.
Yeah, we fall off, maybe if youstart a fitness routine or
maybe start eating right andstuff like that, and it happens,
yeah, with myself and this iskind of why I preach to my
clients too is my goal is to tryto close that gap, get it
(11:46):
shorter and shorter.
So for you at the beginning,for myself at the beginning,
that gap might've been years.
I'd start something new.
It could just be eating right,it could be just reading a book,
and then I kind of trickle off,and then it would probably be
until I get another greatexternal motivation to get me
back on.
All right, I'll do this again,and then I fall off.
(12:06):
So my goal is to try to figureout different techniques, ways
to close that gap and get itshorter and shorter.
Because, it's done if it's awhen, and so getting it from
those years down to months, fromthose months down to days, from
those days down to now hours,because I could start the
morning on point on fire.
(12:27):
Yeah.
Something gets in the middle ofmy day.
Maybe it was my kids got sick.
I got a check from the school.
Maybe it was I got in a caraccident.
My boss yelled at me at work.
Whatever that is your bossnever, yeah, but you get what
I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, but youget what I'm saying.
And then you just that defeatagain sets in.
What did I do wrong?
What's wrong about myself?
(12:48):
How could I have made thisbetter?
And you're starting to lose thecontrol and getting that up,
shortened up.
I mean I have this to try tohelp kind of close that window
on those beliefs.
Yeah, shorten that window.
Yeah, try to recognize it.
(13:11):
Yeah, I think that's probablythe biggest thing is just
recognizing it as soon as youcan.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, Controlling what you can, mm-hmm, coping
with what you can't Yep, andconcentrating on what counts.
Yeah Right.
Yeah.
Right, yeah.
So as a coach, actually what Iwant to do is kind of just walk
down a little bit of yourjourney as it pertains to
working at Fit Body, yeah.
(13:35):
So I don't know if this storyhas been shared.
I don't know if we talked aboutit last time we were on.
Yeah share it.
I don't know if we talked aboutit last time we were on, but
why don't you walk us down the30,000 foot view of kind of like
what your journey looked like.
Did you start as what and thenwhere were you in your career
(13:59):
with Fit Body?
To kind of what you do now andkind of walk us down that
journey.
So let's start off with thisWere you looking to be a coach?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, I always had this vision in my head.
Oh, that's really cool.
I did envy it a little bit.
I had that like that looks likefun.
However, again, belief systemand the way I remember you
putting an ad out as no, I can'tdo that, I'm not, I don't, I'm
not the person that does that.
Um, and it wasn't until youcalled, and so I immediately
(14:33):
wanted to say yes.
What did I do?
I called me and, while Iremember, I was driving in my
car.
So I'm 41st in Minnesota.
I know that burned in my head.
Those are the good ones, um,and you asked me you know, have
you ever thought about being acoach?
And I was like what in hell?
In my mind it was like hell,yeah.
I was like absolutely, um, butI was like you know, I have this
(14:58):
other career, I'm doing theseother things, you know, doing
what adulting folks do, and Ididn't know that I could be that
person that inspires otherpeople, that motivates other
people, that could push otherpeople.
And so I remember I said I'dhave to talk about it with my
husband and kind of figure outwhat that would look like.
(15:20):
And so I did it.
We chatted and I said I reallywant to do this.
I don't know if I can but, Iwant to try.
I was like I never stepped thatfar out of my comfort zone.
Um, as far as, like you know,the the whole journey and
transformation thing definitelyhard, but this was a whole
(15:41):
nother ball game that I wasright into and I had no idea
what that looked like.
Yeah.
I'm a history major, okay, so Iwanted to be a teacher, yeah,
and kind of.
I guess in so many respects I'mliving up to that dream, that's
right.
But so it just was like allright, you know, all in, do it,
(16:02):
and if you fail, I had to getreally I think that's what kind
of helped me as a client is knowthat failure is going to happen
.
I've learned to not look at itnegatively and more as life
lessons and if I fail, what'sthe worst that can happen?
I tried, I know, and so that'swhere I started and came in as a
(16:24):
full-time coach.
Did you start full-time rightaway?
Yeah, yeah, I left my other joband talked to my husband and
you were working as like anadmin.
Yep, yep, I did administrativework, project management yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So not in any sort of similar field.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Not even close, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
At the time?
Who I know?
Obviously me.
Who else was my mom?
Yeah, she was, and Jess.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah and Jess.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Is that it?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Maybe some part-time, me Nope.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, laura, gillian was part-time Yep, and Michelle
was part-time Sure, okay.
So yeah, I stepped into thatrole.
Jess was kind of the one toshow me the ropes and I was like
I don't know, I can't be likeRed, she's got, she's got some
fire, and I think, too, ithelped watching you.
Sure.
A lot and I remember it was Ithink it was our four year
(17:23):
anniversary, and that's I thinkwhere I really just you know
what anniversary, and that's Ithink where I really just you
know what this is going to befun.
I'm going to have the time ofmy life, and that's where I saw
my alter ego come.
Yeah, that performance.
I get stage fright likenobody's business.
So for me to go in front ofmassive groups of people was
just like oh, my gosh and I justlet it go and it was just, it
(17:44):
was the best feeling.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
yeah, it was nerve wracking, nerve wracking so at
that point in time we had ourfour-year party.
How long had you been workinghere?
Um, I think only a few monthsokay yeah, I think yeah or maybe
it was yeah, yeah, I think soyeah, a few months, yeah, yep so
and.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yep so, and I remember I had yellow tank tops.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
That was the one where Tang, yes, tang made us
Yep, and at that point in time,tang was just a client.
Yeah, tang was just a client,and I don't say just a, but like
now he's a part-time coach,he's a coach?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah to see the clients and the teamwork
together and everybody's and youfeed off that energy and I
didn't know that was possible.
I was like it's like the moreeverybody was doing these things
and, led by you, I was justlike you couldn't help but just
to stop caring what other peopleyeah and do what you like to do
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and or what you love to dohonestly.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And it helps to surround yourself by people that
believe in you, because theproblem is, as it pertains to
health and fitness and reallystepping into who you were born
to be.
We don't believe it right away,absolutely not.
If I would have told you whenyou first started working out
here that you'd have had thetransformation that you have
(19:05):
over 60 pounds down, which inpictures looks like over 100 or
more.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I stopped counting at a certain point.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You definitely lost a lot of fat but gained a lot of
muscle and so just a hugetransformation.
But if I would have told youthat that was going to happen,
if I had told you from day onehey, one day you're going to be
helping me run this business?
No way, your belief, there'sabsolutely no way that you would
(19:37):
have believed that.
But in the beginning you weresurrounded by me, mainly as your
coach, believing that you hadthe potential to do it.
And all I ask, Vicki, show up,Keep showing up.
I can't do it for you, but Iwill be here to root you on,
(19:57):
cheer you on and believe in you.
And as a coach, what we do is,while our clients temporarily
don't have the belief system inthem yet, we just ask that they
lean on our belief system.
Yes, Because every singleperson has the potential to
reach the goals that they desire.
(20:18):
They have to be their goals.
They can't be goals that anyoneelse has, they have to be
theirs.
And so long as they have thegoal, you know what?
I know that in the beginningyou're not going to believe that
you can achieve it Exactly.
And so that's where lean on ourbelief system though they have
to work on building their beliefsystem, because you can't
(20:40):
continually lean on our beliefsystem forever, and
unfortunately that's wherepeople fail.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, a ton, and it does.
It depends on if you have theright person, the right coach,
in your corner.
Yeah, I often tell my clientsI'm not here to be your best
friend, I'm here to be yourcoach.
I'm going to give you the hardtruths, be real with you, and
then tell them that as soon assomething comes out as I can't
(21:06):
or I don't think I and I'm like,hold on a second.
Why not, what, what, what isthat wall holding you?
Yeah, and when you start askingthose questions and you take a
little deeper and a littledeeper, you find out some real
answers yeah, and then nowyou've given me something I can
work with, yep.
So here's what I can tell youyou can achieve this.
(21:28):
This is just the areas that weneed to work, yep, you and me as
a team, and so as long as youconstantly are able to pour that
support into them, yeah.
It's to the moon.
Yeah, and it's success.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, speaking of that and seeing kind of to the
moon, and we kind of got alittle off track because we were
going through your journey, butcame on full time right away,
yes, and then from there, youliterally just we didn't have
roles Like you're either a coachor you're nothing.
Yeah, as it pertains to likeFull time coach or part time
(22:02):
coach.
Yeah, full time coach, parttime coach, or it didn't work
here.
Yeah, that was it.
We now have definitely definedmore accountability brackets,
yeah, and who's going to leadwhat and how it's going to roll
out, which has been huge.
And from that, though, you sitas it pertains to what our
(22:22):
organization is.
You sit as our integrator,which we run on a operating
system called theEntrepreneurial Operating System
, which really just helps giveus structure, because someone
like me, I'm like let's doeverything all the time and do
it yesterday.
Yep.
And so really my role as itpertains to what we do is hey,
(22:45):
think big, what's possible, howcan we go out there and make it
happen?
And then your job is to I lovethat and we're going to do it.
What's realistic?
Yep.
Yes, we really have that yin andthe yang kind of work together
to make it happen, and it's beenawesome.
Yes, and, as you were justsaying, though, as it pertains
(23:08):
to your clients and helping themunderstand that they can build
that belief system.
What are some of your favoriteclient success stories?
And maybe they're not even alljust weight related, and maybe
you know and are comfortableenough to share their names.
Maybe you're not and maybe theydon't want them shared, so I'll
leave that up to you.
But over the last now obviouslyalmost 10 years of being at
(23:30):
FitBody not all 10 did you workhere?
Yeah, but what are some of yourmost favorite transformations
or success stories that you haveseen throughout Fit Body?
Oh, I have a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Give me top three, top three, yeah, one comes
particularly to mind.
It's this gal how I hope I cansay her name Mickey.
Yeah, just amazing.
Have been her coach for threeyears yeah, or a little over
three years, and I saw her gothrough not just the weight loss
(24:06):
side of things but building upconfidence in herself as far as
just being able to handle likestresses and what to do with it.
She's done amazing.
She's a very strong, veryindependent woman.
I think a lot of peopleunderestimate a lot of clients
that come through our doors.
They often, obviously we targetmostly females.
(24:29):
However, some people think, oh,because they can't lose weight,
they're down on themselves,they're not very good at lifing
and all this.
Actually, quite the opposite.
Some of these females andMickey being one of them very
strong, independent woman.
That girl knows how to handleher own.
Now it's just getting thatbelief system into her and I've
(24:53):
seen her just conquer so manythings, from being on the mats,
workout wise, to behind thescenes and keeping herself
nutritionally engaged andfocused and then to being really
self-aware of where she's at.
Um, that was a huge one for me.
Yeah, very big victory for me.
Yeah, um, another one that Ican think of off, and um was
(25:18):
well my girl Brenna oh geez, sheis.
She is awesome, um.
She puts her own little magnetson the board.
She does, she does Um againvery independent, very, very
driven, and so with her she hassome other things that are going
on as well.
(25:39):
So she's had to and I won'tspeak to that more medical
issues, but she has to workagainst that, and so she's seen
defeat.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I feel like, as you're talking right now and I
think that is just one of thethings I love about what we do
the world tends to look atpeople and doesn't even give
them a time of day to get toknow them at all.
Instantly, you're judged, butthat's all of us, that's you,
that's me, that's you guyswatching and listening.
(26:11):
The second that someone sees uswithout even knowing anything
about us, they're going to judgeus, yeah, and the problem with
that is we know we're gettingjudged.
Yeah, we know it.
Yeah, and people don't need totell us that they're judging us.
Thanks, we can feel it.
Yep, we can see it.
They're judging us.
(26:32):
Thanks, we can feel it.
Yep, we can see it.
And what happens, though, isthat, a lot of times, people
will look at certain individuals, and I'll even look at myself.
I remember, for an example forme, I used to always tell myself
as a little kid, and my buddy,we'd get out of the car and we'd
go to the grocery store or goto the store or whatever.
Right, he's like you want torace?
And I'd tell my buddy, I waslike I don't run, and I then
(26:56):
identified myself as I don't run.
Why can't I?
Well, I was, like, afraid oflosing.
I was afraid of what I lookedlike.
I was a little overweight andmore chubby, and so I was afraid
of what fat was going to jiggleon me while I did run, like
these are the stupid things thatplay in your head.
Right, yeah, and it was allbecause, at one point in time,
somebody made fun of me forbeing overweight or out of shape
(27:19):
or non-athletic, or whatever itis, but then we have these
things that are in our head, andwe can come in here to Fit Body
, and the two individuals thatyou just said are just crushing
it in ways that people have noidea, and so they're still out
there being judged you and I aswell, out there being judged,
(27:43):
and the problem is, though, isthat we let those outside
influences, or can let, dictatewho we are?
And the truth is, is thatdoesn't define us?
Nope, there isn't like.
When, when God created us, he'snot like.
Okay, this is the exact imageof what the absolute rockstar
(28:06):
woman should look like.
This is the exact image of whatthe absolute rock star man
should look like, but yet we seecelebrities, stars or other
individuals.
Oh, yeah, that it's like.
Well, I'll never look like that, so maybe I shouldn't even try
and.
And that is such a false beliefsystem, huge and it's all over,
(28:31):
everywhere, everywhere,everywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You look, yeah, and it does.
It puts kind of this damperdarkness in your head and then
you start to have those beliefsin yourself and then you start
to see them come true and it'syeah, it's really tough as far
as trying to get through thathurdle and cancel out the noise.
(28:53):
Get through that hurdle andcancel out the noise.
And again, that's another thingI talk to my clients a lot of,
even from like a nutritionalstandpoint.
I choked with one client theother day.
I was like you have the Hy-Veehealth market and I was like you
now went one little section ofprotein bars to all this and
everything's gluten-free or thisgood for you, and you gotta
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cancel out that noise.
Yeah, um, so, from whether it'syou know, body image things,
whether it's what you should,should not be eating, um, there
it's even down to workouts.
Yeah, like what's the newest ad?
Yeah, that's what's gonna getme there.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Nope, I can't do it because I don't look like that
person I can't do it because Ican't lift like that, right, I
think, as it pertains to likethe workouts and stuff, so many
people will hear bootcamp, yeah,no, I can't do that.
I can't do bootcamp.
I think you even had a littlebit of that I did.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, right, yep, it was a little intimidating.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah.
So what are we going to do inthere?
Yep, what are they gonna do tome?
Yep, but with that you, youmeet yourself where you're at,
and then you progress to getbetter, and, and better for you
is different than better for me,and and what's better for you
doesn't have anything to do withdefining what's better for me,
(30:11):
right?
But yet we think that, well,they can do a pushup on their
toes, they're a better humanthan me.
Yeah, not true, not true, not atall.
And I think you know, as you'veworked with your clients and
helping them break thoselimiting beliefs, because all
they are, yeah, like we all havebeliefs, absolutely.
(30:32):
And the hard part is is a lotof those beliefs were instilled
by us, or instilled into us, notby us, right?
And so I think one of thefavorite things that you and I
get to do is hey, what limitingbeliefs do you have that have
been placed there by otherpeople, and how can we work to
(30:52):
remove those?
Yeah, and install our ownbelief systems.
And I tell you what thatdoesn't happen out in the real
world and it takes some building, tell us, takes time.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
so I'm telling folks or recommending to folks Again,
it's that honesty part, thatthis we know it's not an
overnight process.
We've heard that before.
And I go a step further and sayit's going to get hard.
It's going to get really hard,and that's our goal as coaches
is to help you get through that.
(31:26):
So you don't give up onyourself, so you don't quit.
I'm going to remind you of whatyou told me back then.
I've got to remind you whatyou're trying to achieve so that
you can make it there, so thatwe can build up.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And it takes time, hearing it, and hearing it, and
hearing it.
Repetition Like you can do it,can I?
Do you really think so?
Yes, okay, well, I don't.
Okay, keep leaning on mybeliefs, but I want you to tell
yourself you can, and eventuallyyou start building that belief
and it happens so slow that youdon't even realize it's
happening, right.
So it's just absolutely amazingto see these changes in our
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clients and in the lives that weget to impact.
Vicki, have you ever been apart of any other gym or tried
weight loss any other time?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Can you list some of the thingsthat you've tried, without
speaking negatively of any otherprogram or any?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
other thing.
Well, the programs it'sactually programs worked well.
I did go to a gym for a littlewhile.
I think it was a woman's gym, Ican't remember what it was
called.
I think Trion used it Sure.
Did that a little while.
I think it was woman's gym, Ican't remember what it was
called.
I think try on use, sure, umdid that um.
But again, it was more of likea traditional gym where you
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walked in you kind of had to doyour own thing weights,
treadmills, all that stuff.
I didn't really know how towork any of that stuff, so I
ended up always kind of in thetreadmill a little bit more than
I did the weight machines and alittle scared of it, cause I
was like I don't know what I'mdoing.
Um, I did try the nutrition wiseLA weight loss Okay, um, while
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back again saw a massive successin it.
Uh, however, only was temporary, sure, um, and then I've tried
like different online fads, yeah, that type of thing.
Yeah, tried the pills, I think.
Gosh, this stuff has stemmedwith me since I was probably a
teenager sure, um, when did you?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
when did you?
When's the first time you canremember in your life that you
felt or thought to yourself Idon't look good or I'm
overweight.
Yeah.
I'm not who I wanted, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
You're around fifth grade.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Fifth grade, so it started when you were young.
Yeah, yeah.
And you started Fit Body whenyou were how old-ish 33.
Yeah, so that's with you for along time.
Oh yeah, a long time.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
And the funny part about it is like, even looking
back at some of my pictures andI mean I wasn't really
overquaint, sure, and obviouslyas life happened, I went through
those infixes quite a bit.
Yeah, you know I was a littlechubby or like kind of, like you
(34:15):
said, maybe in junior high acouple of years in high school
and then toward the end of highschool.
I just lost a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
But then again I kind of stopped eating because
that's the kind of the things wedid to lose weight, and it
worked for a time until and,unfortunately, what we know
about eating less or not eating,you can lose weight, but you're
mainly losing muscle and while,yes, the scale number goes down
(34:41):
, the fat on your body just getsmore and more and you're just
losing that muscle and yourmetabolism's messed up, yeah,
and so you had to fight andovercome all that.
Uh, if you're willing, since itsays, meet the coach, yeah, um,
what are some things that thatare like really unhealthy habits
(35:01):
that you had to break?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
oh goodness um diet coke, diet coke.
Diet coke was a big one.
Drink a lot of those.
Smoky was a big one for me, Iwas a big smoker.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I didn't know you were a smoker.
Yep, and you were a smokerwhile even at the body.
Yes, I didn't know this.
Yep, yeah, yep, I was a smoker.
And you found this out as I washelping coach you and working
you through.
I was like, hey, this issomething we got to stop.
Like you're, you're not able tokeep up your lung capacity.
Yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
That was yeah, that was probably.
I'd say that was probably hard.
Losing weight was hard, thatwas harder, yeah, yeah.
By that point I think I hadsmoked for probably 15 years.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah, so how did you quit that Cause?
I mean, that's, that's astruggle that we still even have
clients that struggle with that.
Yes, and no fault or judgmenton them.
Yeah, it's just something thatthey're addicted to struggling
with, but it does hold us backin achieving our health and
fitness goals.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
How did you get over that?
I tried a lot of differentapproaches.
I actually tried quittingseveral times throughout my life
.
Um, I did for a while even tooright, yep okay.
And so you know, tried patches,tried some pills, gum, all the
things.
I think it was just kind ofopening up my eyes.
My oldest son and I think thisis with any addictions like you
(36:32):
have to have, what do they callit?
Kind of like your rock bottommoments or some aha moments to
kind of get you to go.
So my dad passed away when Iwas 18, um, from lung cancer.
He was a smoker for most of hislife.
I think that would get me toquit, but it did.
Um, my oldest son at that time,I believe, was going into middle
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school and I don't know it waskind of when it happened, how it
happened, but I just rememberthinking to myself as he's
getting ready to go into middleschool he's probably roughly
about 13 at this time.
I was 18 when my dad passedaway and I had another child at
the time.
just I had an ep yeah, I did epand I thought to myself.
(37:20):
I was like, oh my gosh, here Iam with my oldest son, not that
far away from his 18th birthday,and that was the age my dad
passed away.
I didn't want to be that.
I did not want to leave my kidsin that position.
It was so hard when I was thatage and when you're going
(37:40):
through this massive transitionin your life.
You're leaving high school,you're getting ready to leave
the nest and now, because hepassed away shortly after my
graduation, and.
I was like I can't do that to mykids.
My graduation and I was like Ican't do that to my kids.
So that was probably my bigmoment and I think every
individual it's going to be alittle bit different.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
What year was that?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Oh yeah, it's a good question roughly 2018, maybe
yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
So just a hard, hard thing to go through that really
opened your eyes to.
If I want to be here for mykids and make sure that they
have a fit and healthy mom, Ineed to make some yeah.
And now you have made such achange.
You just went to like Denver,yeah, and went whitewater
(38:37):
rafting, yep, and hiking, yep,and all these things with your
boys Yep.
And you need to be fit andhealthy to do those things and
be able to enjoy them Absolutely.
You can maybe do them if you'renot fit, not healthy, right,
but you're not going to enjoy ita lot.
Yeah, you're going to feel thepain Struggle's real, yeah.
(38:58):
So explain that to me.
You hit this rock bottom point.
You're like, hey, I want to behere for my kids, I want to make
sure they have a fit andhealthy mom, mom, yeah.
And now your boys are I mean,your youngest is eight, yes, or
nine, eight, eight, and youroldest is 21 and they're active,
yeah, and they're going.
All my kids are, yeah, and, andnow you get to keep up with
(39:22):
them?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
yes, right, he's, except for my 21 year old he can
outrun me.
Well, yeah, but yeah, no, it's,it's been a major difference.
And even kind of with like,even with the smoking, like I
was starting to do this healthything, yeah, and that was one
thing.
It was like bite off littlebits, and that was one habit.
(39:42):
I wasn't ready to give up quiteyet.
Yeah, I was trying to get better.
Yeah, so I didn't try to changeeverything overnight trying to
get better.
So I didn't try to changeeverything overnight, but I did
see kind of that future self.
As in, if you really want tomake this full circle, this is
the last one.
It's going to be the hardestone, but from all the other
(40:03):
experiences I had, I knew I wasvery well capable of doing it.
And would I fall?
Yeah, absolutely, but it's justagain closing that gap and
trying to get back on it.
But, yeah, I can keep up withthe kids on those types of
events.
I don't dread them, I lookforward to them, I enjoy them.
(40:24):
So, yeah, it's been a blessing.
It's huge.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Going through that transformation and now being,
you know, obviously a coach forour clients, but being in the
role that you're at, reallybeing a leader to our team, yeah
, let's kind of hit this in twoparts.
One what is your favorite thingabout being a coach to our
clients?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I want to say seeing them smile.
Yeah, um.
There's so many times you walkinto a store, you get on a
flight, you go to your kids gameand people don't look happy
anymore.
Yeah, um, and it's like, likeyou I don't life is hard, yeah,
(41:10):
and it's life.
Life is hard, yeah.
The person sitting next to meon the bleachers what they're
going through, what's going on.
They're here showing up,they're present, but not at the
same time.
If that makes sense, yeah.
So seeing people smile again,have light, yeah, and not just
literal smile, but and theydon't smile at me all the time,
(41:34):
sometimes they frown, but it'stheir eye yeah the, the actions,
the way they looking at you andeven though they frown there,
they can still feel yeah they'rehappy.
Yeah, um, and I don't think wesee enough of that in the world
yeah so I think that's probablymy favorite yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
What would you say is one of your favorite parts
about now getting to lead a team?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
oh, lots of learning yeah lots of learning, um so,
and continue learning.
I think the best part isgetting a group together and
work, lots of learning andcontinued learning.
I think the best part is gettinga group together and getting
them to work well with eachother.
Yeah, that is probably.
And watch, it's just kind oflike that bird's eye view.
You get to see You're in themix of it, but you can step out
(42:24):
every once in a while and justwatch all these guys do their
thing.
It's really cool.
Yeah, and enjoy again, smilingand enjoying what they're doing.
Yeah, um, and feeding off ofeach other.
And yeah, just the way you know, things can shift in a matter
of seconds and they're so goodabout quickly making that happen
maneuvering, oh, workingtogether as a team, yes.
(42:47):
So I think that's my favoritepart, and then, too, just
helping watch their personalgrowth.
Yeah.
A lot of our coaches.
Again, they're going throughall these things, whether it be
professionally, personallywrestling with stuff and then
watching them, or being therefor them, for them to lean on
and saying you know what?
Let's put our heads together,let's try to figure this out and
(43:10):
having their trust.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's been definitely a blessing to have
our team grow, yeah, and thenjust to, like you said, being
able to kind of step back and Iremember for me, with our team
as we grow.
This gym is so meaningful to me, impacting these clients' lives
(43:34):
, pouring everything we haveplus even more that we don't
have, into them just to helpthem believe that they're worth
it.
But, like you said, being ableto step back and see the energy
on the floor, to see themhigh-fiving, fist bumping,
getting down, helping ourclients just one more rep, grab
one more heavier weight, doingone more, whatever it is, and
(43:58):
being able to know that that ishappening while maybe we're not
there, it means the world to meand we just had a team meeting
just before we shot this and Iwas away for five, six days and
knowing that I have you and theteam continuing to do what we're
(44:20):
doing and allow me to live alife where I don't always need
to be at the gym, that's amazing, it's a game changer.
To be at the gym, that'samazing, it's a game changer,
yeah, it's amazing.
And to know that we are herefor each other as a team, I mean
, we've been through a lottogether, lots of ups, lots of
downs.
Yeah, because while lifedoesn't stop for any of you
(44:41):
watching or listening, it alsodoesn't stop for us coaches and
having each other.
There have been times whereVicki and I have been going
through whatever we've beengoing through.
We'd literally be in my officeor her office trying about
whatever it is that we're goingthrough, because life can be
hard, yep.
And all of a sudden we lookedout at the watch like, oh, we
got to get out there, we got togo the door's open Like clients
are coming.
Yep, we look at each other Like, no, you look great.
(45:05):
I'm like am I still crying?
No, you're good, all right,let's go do it.
And then you pull yourself backup, you get on that floor and
you give everything you got.
And it isn't about what's goingon in our life For that 30
minutes.
It's about us making sure thatwe give everything we've got to
our clients.
And I have seen that in you andI don't think that there's a
(45:31):
mistake or a chance that you'vegotten to where you've gotten
within what we do at Fit Body,because I can see that and I
have clients tell me that youknow, vicky goes over and above
to make sure that I'm cared forand, like I said, life doesn't
stop for us, yeah, but weunderstand that our clients need
us and a lot of times, like youeven said, the world isn't a
(45:54):
happy place, and so, if we canbe that happy place, that makes
what we do worth it, and so Ijust love it.
Vicki, if there's a piece ofadvice that you could give
anybody watching or listening,what would that advice be?
Uh, as we sit here today, whatwould the advice be that you'd
give them?
Uh, as maybe they're thinkingabout starting a health and
(46:15):
fitness journey, or maybethey're on one, they're at a
plateau, wherever it is, whatadvice would you kind of give
them?
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Um, first thing that comes to mind is just take care
of yourself.
Um, I know it sounds a littleweird.
Be selfish.
Yeah, don't look at that as anegative thing.
I used to think for so longthat I gave all everywhere else
and I needed to sit down hereand thinking that I was giving
100% to my kids, to my family,to my work, when in actuality I
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probably was barely giving 50%.
It wasn't until I started tohonestly be a little selfish.
Take care of myself, and maybeit is a 30-minute workout, maybe
it's a five-minute meditation,wherever that sits right now for
you, make that work, becausethat goes such a long way and
(47:07):
that 100% you can't actuallygive attention to.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yeah, I think the world does a very good job on
trying to tell us what fit andhealthy looks like, what fit and
healthy does, what fit andhealthy should be, when, in all
reality, fit and healthy to youis different than fit and
healthy to me is different thanfit and healthy to you.
(47:33):
Watching or listening Becausealso, too, wherever we're at,
we're fighting different battlesthat the person next to us
isn't, and so for you, you hadto fight the battle of giving up
smoking.
I, thankfully, have never hadto fight that battle.
But obviously, if we're at thesame spot and we're starting an
element fitness journey, yeah,well, now you have a whole
(47:53):
different curveball to deal with, and I do.
But while we're in a workouttogether or maybe watching
someone else work out or seeingwhat someone does in a workout,
yeah, we don't tend to rememberthat we're all at different
starting points.
Yeah, or all at differentpoints along the journey, yeah,
we don't tend to remember thatwe're all at different starting
points, yeah, or all atdifferent points along the
journey.
Yeah, I love that you said thatyour advice would be to be
(48:15):
selfish, because that'ssomething that Jason and I
talked about as well.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Oh really.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah, yeah, because the world says that being
selfish is bad yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
I was going to say I was a very negative and same
with failure.
Failure is bad.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Yes, not very negative and same with failure.
Failure is bad.
Yes, I seen a post on one ofthe 17 million social media
platforms we have now, but itsaid a person was holding.
I'm going to get it wrong, butit had a picture of a person
holding a cup and the person hadspilt it.
And it said why did you spillthe tea?
And it said because someone raninto me.
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And then it said, no, you spiltthe.
And it said why did you spillthe tea?
And it said because someone raninto me.
And then it said, no, you spiltthe tea because tea was in your
cup.
Had you had coffee in your cup,you would have spilled coffee.
And so the whole point of thislittle meme was that whatever's
in your cup, whatever you fillyour cup with, is what's going
to come out when you get bumped.
And so if you're not beingselfish and filling your cup
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with love, with compassion, withunderstanding, with belief in
yourself, when you get bumped,something negative is going to
come out Absolutely.
And so that's why it's soimportant to be selfish in a way
that, when life does bump you,you can have who you truly are
and who you truly want.
To be selfish in a way thatwhen life does bump you, you can
have who you truly are and whoyou truly want to be.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Fall out, oh onto those around you and so I did
that with my kids.
Um, I think the reason why Isaid that too is, uh, I remember
my kids would come home fromschool and then all of a sudden,
they would say they would starttalking to me about their day
and I thought I was listening, Ithought I was present.
Yeah.
In all actuality I wasn't yeahBecause I had given up so much
(49:56):
energy.
Yeah, and now I find that'schanged.
I'll ask them questions back.
I'll get excited about theirday for them.
Yeah.
Way different than it wasbefore.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yeah, and you understand it, because that's
something that fills you up iswhen people listen and
instilling confidence in ourclients and us, and we're doing
(50:34):
it together because we can goout into our day and go through
a whole day of yuck, but then wemeet together for 30 minutes
and we smile and laugh and wehigh five and we fist bump and
it's like you know what I can dothat, yeah, and then go home
and conquer the rest of my day,and so I just love that our
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clients have this as an outletFor anyone watching or listening
.
If you don't have that outlet,or maybe you're looking for an
outlet, and anything that Vickihad talked about maybe resonates
with you I would encourage youso much to just come give Fit
Body a try.
I don't know that it's going tobe right for you, it might not
be, but I do know that if younever try, you'll never know.
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Yes, and the thing also, too,that I just love about what we
do and I know that our wholeteam shares this belief that if
Fit Body isn't the right fit foryou, we will still be here
cheering you on, encouraging you.
We've been doing this foralmost 10 years now.
We obviously lose clients thatis a natural part of business
(51:41):
and we have clients that havebeen with us that are now doing
other things, and I still getexcited when I see them posting
their wins, posting what theirworkouts are, and I'll still
cheer them on and congratulatethem, because it isn't about
where you're doing it.
There's hundreds of thousands ofpeople in Sioux Falls.
(52:02):
We have two locations, we can'tfit everybody in, and so if we
can just be there to encourageone more person, and maybe
that's for whatever period oftime, but I know that the period
of time that we get to be withour clients, hey, if we can just
make a little bit of an impact,exactly that's what it's all
about.
That's what it's all about.
Well, vicki, this has beenawesome.
(52:23):
I feel that it's just beenreally fun.
To kind of shoot.
The Meet the Coach episodesgives our clients, and even
those that maybe don't know usat all, a little more my voice.
Yeah, oh, I know we didn'ttouch that.
Vicki's like could we have donethis a different?
I just lost my voice and I waslike you know what that's part
of being a coach.
Yeah, you know, we have mics.
We have mics and we try to usethe mic when we're coaching, but
(52:45):
a lot of times we just like toyell yep, and it's something
about, you know, bringing theintensity and making sure that
people like we want to have funwhile we're working out.
Oh, I know and when we'reyelling and screaming and oh man
, it's just great.
It is just great and it mightsound intimidating maybe to
those that have never tried itright, but it is.
It is done in such a way that'sencouraging motivating, not
(53:07):
drill sergeant.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
We're just more or less having fun at it loud.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Yeah, take it up a little bit.
Yeah, take it up a little bit.
There's something about whensomething is so loud you can't
even comprehend what you'regoing through.
Yeah, maybe that's why.
So if we have the music thisloud and we're also yelling this
loud, you can't tell how soreyour muscles are from getting
more pushups.
Just got to get through it.
Get through it, and we justmake it fun, and so it's every
(53:33):
fitness level, wherever you'reat.
But if you are looking forsomeone to believe in you, to be
there for you, to surroundyourself with a group of people
that just want to see you win inlife, I tell you what Vicki and
I our team and our clientswould love to be that person for
you.
There's a link down below whereyou can click on it.
You can grab a free week, tryit out, because heck, if it's
(53:54):
not right for you.
The last thing we'd want is foryou to pay for something that
is not right for you.
So grab that free week, try itout, and you can find Vicki
normally hanging out at thecentral location, at the C-side,
that's right.
Sometimes you'll see her atWestside, but she currently is
our facility leader at thecentral location.
She's also our integrator andman.
(54:15):
It's just been awesome.
Thank you, vicki, for takingthe time.
Friends go out there and beselfish in the best way possible
, knowing that when you'reselfish and you are filling your
cup with that, that when youget bumped, positivity and love
can overflow to others, that youwill be doing better in this
world and leaving a morepositive impact.
(54:37):
But, hey, thank you for joiningus, thank you for taking time
out of your day and, so that wecan do this, make sure that you
like, subscribe and share thisepisode and, like I said, if
you're looking to get a freeworkout in, find that link down
below and we cannot wait to meetyou in the gym.
We'll catch you on the nextepisode of the Fit and Healthy
Sioux Falls Show.
Bye, guys.
What is going on everyone?
Welcome to the next episode ofthe Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls
Show.
We have an amazing episode instore for you today, because
today we get to reconnect withone of my favorite ladies, who
has been with me since literallyday one and she is now our
integrator and just an amazingrock star human being.
(00:24):
So help me, welcome to the showtoday, miss Coach Vicky.
Let's going on, my dear.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Not much, just hanging out here with you.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I love it.
I know I was just talking toyou before we got all set up.
Yeah.
And I was like do you rememberhow we did this last time?
Ironically, last time you and Ishot an episode, we didn't have
even the studio set up yet, andso we did it virtually and so
we did it over Zoom.
So this is the first time thatyou and I actually get to sit in
studio back at kind of ourjourney and where this all
(01:28):
started.
And for any of those that don'tmaybe know, when was the first
time that Fit Body kind ofentered your life?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh goodness, many, many years ago.
It's kind of weird because it'salmost been a decade, isn't
that crazy?
That's nuts, that's wild.
So I was working and I wantedto get into health and fitness.
I wasn't really sure how to doit.
Wanted to do this awesome eventand say I want to be one of
those like badass chicks andlet's just like been letting
(01:57):
things go, and then got in touchwith your mom.
Yeah.
And she told me my son's openingup a gym.
You should try this, and sothat's where the rest is history
.
With your mom, yeah, and shetold me my son's opening up a
gym.
You should try this, and sothat's where the rest is history
.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, and that was yeah, 2015.
Yep, yeah, so like almost adecade, which is just wild, yeah
.
And I tell you what opening FitBody was definitely nerve
wracking for me About a bit.
Many people ask me they're likeso did you have like a list or
a clientele base that youbrought with you to start
FitBody?
And the answer is no, had noone that was going to be a
(02:34):
client.
I just decided that hey, we'regoing to do this, and so we ran
a basically mock session forfriends and family before we
were even open to the public yet, and my mom had invited you to
come try out this mock session,yep, and so what I think is so
cool about this is here we arealmost 10 years later and you
(02:58):
were at the very first Fit BodyWorkout, yep, and so I don't
have other than my wife and myparents.
I don't have any businesspartners, and so to think that
you were with me and have beenwith me since day one, I very
much consider you a businesspartner and someone that has
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helped me from day one, eventhough day one you totally came
in as a client.
I would say that you are now100% in this thing to help
everybody that you used to be,oh absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I think that was the biggest thing is I didn't
realize it at the time how muchimpact it had on my life, how
much change.
I'll never forget the time andI don't know if you remember it,
but I was at Target and I wastrying on clothes, wanted to buy
some new jeans because my jeanswere starting to get a little
too big.
And I walked in there thinking,oh, I just go one size down.
(03:58):
And I was like, oh my gosh,these are too big.
And I had to walk out thatdressing room two times like, oh
my gosh, these are too big.
And I had to walk out thatdressing room two times.
And I remember texting you onthe phone.
I was like, oh my gosh, oh mygosh, like what is happening
right now.
And so just those simplefeelings, just that level of
confidence that brought to mylife, I was like I have to make
(04:20):
others feel like this.
This is amazing.
If you don't feel like this,you need to.
So that just kind of dominoeffect, I had a snowball effect
in my life and, yeah, ever since, just blessed, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Hence my shirt, hence your shirt, blessed, and I
think that's the biggest thing,because, as a coach, you pour a
lot into other people, yes, butall for the reason to help who
you used to be.
Yeah, and to that point, Ithink that's why you and I align
so much on the mission thatwe're on is because that's
(04:59):
exactly why I opened FitBody,because for me and for you too,
I can specifically remembertalking to Bryce, who is our CEO
of Fit Body, and I said, bryce,you know that Vicky didn't used
to always be fit, and he's likeno, I'm like, yeah, dude, she
was one of my first clients,literally was at the first
(05:20):
workout I ever held and has hada life transformation, and he's
like no way.
And so I showed him yourpicture from and I know you love
that picture, oh goodness.
So I want to.
Actually, that brings me to apoint as we're talking right now
.
What does that picture do to you?
Because many people have thisimage of themselves.
(05:45):
Yeah, and it burns this thoughtof what you look like into your
brain, oh and, and it doesn'tjust go away.
But so what does that image doto you?
And has that been somethingthat's been able to help you
push through and forward in yourhealth and fitness journey?
(06:07):
Or has it been something that'slike had you stumble, or maybe
a combination of both?
I would say probably acombination of both.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I know at the beginning that's kind of how you
identify yourself as, like yousaid, you've been like this for
so long and now all of a sudden,like that target thing happens.
No-transcript, it wasn't justthe weight loss, it was like
(06:56):
everything.
Everything from myrelationships to my work
performance, everything changed,and it changed for the better,
and so I really kind of use thatas a driver, that that person
that I see, that may pop up onmy memories or I'll still take
pictures out of my kids andthere's kind of a different
(07:18):
version of their mom there.
I use that now as I was nothappy, I looked happy, I put on
this facade, but I wasn't reallyhappy so it's become.
it did defeat me for a while.
It does occasionally sneak upon me every now and then, but I
have a stronger mindset, moreconfidence that I can kind of
shove that back down and say,nope, not again.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, not again.
You know, I've went through ahealth transformation as well
and you do have that image burntinto you of what you, and that
image is with you longer thanthis new image of you, right.
So now you have this new image.
When you look in the mirror,the reflection that you
(08:01):
physically see is what you looklike now, but the reflection
that you maybe mentally oremotionally see is still the
image of who you used to be.
Yes, and sometimes impostersyndrome, yeah, can kind of like
slip in, yeah, and when it does, what do you do with that?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
um, oh, that is a good question.
It it takes a lot, a lot ofthought process to get through
it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Um because sometimes you look at it.
Yeah, and for me anyways, andmaybe not for you but sometimes
you look at that image andalmost you see you reflection
now, but that image of who youused to be is what actually pops
up in your brain and that cantrigger this thought that you're
(08:53):
right.
I don't deserve to look the waythat I do now because I looked
that way for so long.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And then what can happen is if you don't take
control and take captive thosenegative thoughts and squash
them right away like, oh my gosh, you're fat, and then, and then
I was like whoa, whoa, Um,that's kind of thing.
Now is I have the ability tostop it as soon as possible,
whereas before I wouldrepetitively tell myself that,
um, and so I do do a lot ofreading, I do do a lot of
self-care, not just fitness wise, but I mean simple things
(09:50):
massages, getting my nails done,stuff that makes me feel really
, really good about myself, andso those types of things kind of
help me be able to understandthat as soon as those words come
out of my mouth, I have tocombat them.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You have to Immediately, because it can also
be a very slow fade.
Yes, the second that a negativethought pops in your head,
that's like step one.
Then the second that youactually said, oh my gosh, I'm
fat, yeah, that is step two, yep, and from there it just
trickles, yes, and it slowlyfades into next thing.
(10:27):
You know you're not working out, yep, you're not eating healthy
, yep, and you're reverting backinto your old habit, right,
whereas every day you get up,you have to step into this new
belief system and I think that'sthe biggest thing, and I've
been really thinking about thisa lot like what do we do at Fit
(10:48):
Body?
And we have to help our clientsrebuild their foundational
belief system of who theybelieve they are.
Yes, because unfortunately,like you were and like I I was
and like we still battle with,our foundation is broken, yeah,
and who we believe we are isthese unhealthy, unfit,
(11:11):
undeserving people, and that'svery worldly, it's very common.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yep, and I've just talked to my clients too about I
call it the gap.
Yeah, we fall off, maybe if youstart a fitness routine or
maybe start eating right andstuff like that, and it happens,
yeah, with myself and this iskind of why I preach to my
clients too is my goal is to tryto close that gap, get it
(11:46):
shorter and shorter.
So for you at the beginning,for myself at the beginning,
that gap might've been years.
I'd start something new.
It could just be eating right,it could be just reading a book,
and then I kind of trickle off,and then it would probably be
until I get another greatexternal motivation to get me
back on.
All right, I'll do this again,and then I fall off.
(12:06):
So my goal is to try to figureout different techniques, ways
to close that gap and get itshorter and shorter.
Because, it's done if it's awhen, and so getting it from
those years down to months, fromthose months down to days, from
those days down to now hours,because I could start the
morning on point on fire.
(12:27):
Yeah.
Something gets in the middle ofmy day.
Maybe it was my kids got sick.
I got a check from the school.
Maybe it was I got in a caraccident.
My boss yelled at me at work.
Whatever that is your bossnever, yeah, but you get what
I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, but youget what I'm saying.
And then you just that defeatagain sets in.
What did I do wrong?
What's wrong about myself?
(12:48):
How could I have made thisbetter?
And you're starting to lose thecontrol and getting that up,
shortened up.
I mean I have this to try tohelp kind of close that window
on those beliefs.
Yeah, shorten that window.
Yeah, try to recognize it.
(13:11):
Yeah, I think that's probablythe biggest thing is just
recognizing it as soon as youcan.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, Controlling what you can, mm-hmm, coping
with what you can't Yep, andconcentrating on what counts.
Yeah Right.
Yeah.
Right, yeah.
So as a coach, actually what Iwant to do is kind of just walk
down a little bit of yourjourney as it pertains to
working at Fit Body, yeah.
(13:35):
So I don't know if this storyhas been shared.
I don't know if we talked aboutit last time we were on.
Yeah share it.
I don't know if we talked aboutit last time we were on, but
why don't you walk us down the30,000 foot view of kind of like
what your journey looked like.
Did you start as what and thenwhere were you in your career
(13:59):
with Fit Body?
To kind of what you do now andkind of walk us down that
journey.
So let's start off with thisWere you looking to be a coach?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, I always had this vision in my head.
Oh, that's really cool.
I did envy it a little bit.
I had that like that looks likefun.
However, again, belief systemand the way I remember you
putting an ad out as no, I can'tdo that, I'm not, I don't, I'm
not the person that does that.
Um, and it wasn't until youcalled, and so I immediately
(14:33):
wanted to say yes.
What did I do?
I called me and, while Iremember, I was driving in my
car.
So I'm 41st in Minnesota.
I know that burned in my head.
Those are the good ones, um,and you asked me you know, have
you ever thought about being acoach?
And I was like what in hell?
In my mind it was like hell,yeah.
I was like absolutely, um, butI was like you know, I have this
(14:58):
other career, I'm doing theseother things, you know, doing
what adulting folks do, and Ididn't know that I could be that
person that inspires otherpeople, that motivates other
people, that could push otherpeople.
And so I remember I said I'dhave to talk about it with my
husband and kind of figure outwhat that would look like.
(15:20):
And so I did it.
We chatted and I said I reallywant to do this.
I don't know if I can but, Iwant to try.
I was like I never stepped thatfar out of my comfort zone.
Um, as far as, like you know,the the whole journey and
transformation thing definitelyhard, but this was a whole
(15:41):
nother ball game that I wasright into and I had no idea
what that looked like.
Yeah.
I'm a history major, okay, so Iwanted to be a teacher, yeah,
and kind of.
I guess in so many respects I'mliving up to that dream, that's
right.
But so it just was like allright, you know, all in, do it,
(16:02):
and if you fail, I had to getreally I think that's what kind
of helped me as a client is knowthat failure is going to happen
.
I've learned to not look at itnegatively and more as life
lessons and if I fail, what'sthe worst that can happen?
I tried, I know, and so that'swhere I started and came in as a
(16:24):
full-time coach.
Did you start full-time rightaway?
Yeah, yeah, I left my other joband talked to my husband and
you were working as like anadmin.
Yep, yep, I did administrativework, project management yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So not in any sort of similar field.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Not even close, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
At the time?
Who I know?
Obviously me.
Who else was my mom?
Yeah, she was, and Jess.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah and Jess.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Is that it?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Maybe some part-time, me Nope.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, laura, gillian was part-time Yep, and Michelle
was part-time Sure, okay.
So yeah, I stepped into thatrole.
Jess was kind of the one toshow me the ropes and I was like
I don't know, I can't be likeRed, she's got, she's got some
fire, and I think, too, ithelped watching you.
Sure.
A lot and I remember it was Ithink it was our four year
(17:23):
anniversary, and that's I thinkwhere I really just you know
what anniversary, and that's Ithink where I really just you
know what this is going to befun.
I'm going to have the time ofmy life, and that's where I saw
my alter ego come.
Yeah, that performance.
I get stage fright likenobody's business.
So for me to go in front ofmassive groups of people was
just like oh, my gosh and I justlet it go and it was just, it
(17:44):
was the best feeling.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
yeah, it was nerve wracking, nerve wracking so at
that point in time we had ourfour-year party.
How long had you been workinghere?
Um, I think only a few monthsokay yeah, I think yeah or maybe
it was yeah, yeah, I think soyeah, a few months, yeah, yep so
and.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yep so, and I remember I had yellow tank tops.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
That was the one where Tang, yes, tang made us
Yep, and at that point in time,tang was just a client.
Yeah, tang was just a client,and I don't say just a, but like
now he's a part-time coach,he's a coach?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah to see the clients and the teamwork
together and everybody's and youfeed off that energy and I
didn't know that was possible.
I was like it's like the moreeverybody was doing these things
and, led by you, I was justlike you couldn't help but just
to stop caring what other peopleyeah and do what you like to do
(18:40):
and or what you love to dohonestly.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And it helps to surround yourself by people that
believe in you, because theproblem is, as it pertains to
health and fitness and reallystepping into who you were born
to be.
We don't believe it right away,absolutely not.
If I would have told you whenyou first started working out
here that you'd have had thetransformation that you have
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over 60 pounds down, which inpictures looks like over 100 or
more.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I stopped counting at a certain point.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
You definitely lost a lot of fat but gained a lot of
muscle and so just a hugetransformation.
But if I would have told youthat that was going to happen,
if I had told you from day onehey, one day you're going to be
helping me run this business?
No way, your belief, there'sabsolutely no way that you would
(19:37):
have believed that.
But in the beginning you weresurrounded by me, mainly as your
coach, believing that you hadthe potential to do it.
And all I ask, Vicki, show up,Keep showing up.
I can't do it for you, but Iwill be here to root you on,
(19:57):
cheer you on and believe in you.
And as a coach, what we do is,while our clients temporarily
don't have the belief system inthem yet, we just ask that they
lean on our belief system.
Yes, Because every singleperson has the potential to
reach the goals that they desire.
(20:18):
They have to be their goals.
They can't be goals that anyoneelse has, they have to be
theirs.
And so long as they have thegoal, you know what?
I know that in the beginningyou're not going to believe that
you can achieve it Exactly.
And so that's where lean on ourbelief system though they have
to work on building their beliefsystem, because you can't
(20:40):
continually lean on our beliefsystem forever, and
unfortunately that's wherepeople fail.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, a ton, and it does.
It depends on if you have theright person, the right coach,
in your corner.
Yeah, I often tell my clientsI'm not here to be your best
friend, I'm here to be yourcoach.
I'm going to give you the hardtruths, be real with you, and
then tell them that as soon assomething comes out as I can't
(21:06):
or I don't think I and I'm like,hold on a second.
Why not, what, what, what isthat wall holding you?
Yeah, and when you start askingthose questions and you take a
little deeper and a littledeeper, you find out some real
answers yeah, and then nowyou've given me something I can
work with, yep.
So here's what I can tell youyou can achieve this.
(21:28):
This is just the areas that weneed to work, yep, you and me as
a team, and so as long as youconstantly are able to pour that
support into them, yeah.
It's to the moon.
Yeah, and it's success.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, speaking of that and seeing kind of to the
moon, and we kind of got alittle off track because we were
going through your journey, butcame on full time right away,
yes, and then from there, youliterally just we didn't have
roles Like you're either a coachor you're nothing.
Yeah, as it pertains to likeFull time coach or part time
(22:02):
coach.
Yeah, full time coach, parttime coach, or it didn't work
here.
Yeah, that was it.
We now have definitely definedmore accountability brackets,
yeah, and who's going to leadwhat and how it's going to roll
out, which has been huge.
And from that, though, you sitas it pertains to what our
(22:22):
organization is.
You sit as our integrator,which we run on a operating
system called theEntrepreneurial Operating System
, which really just helps giveus structure, because someone
like me, I'm like let's doeverything all the time and do
it yesterday.
Yep.
And so really my role as itpertains to what we do is hey,
(22:45):
think big, what's possible, howcan we go out there and make it
happen?
And then your job is to I lovethat and we're going to do it.
What's realistic?
Yep.
Yes, we really have that yin andthe yang kind of work together
to make it happen, and it's beenawesome.
Yes, and, as you were justsaying, though, as it pertains
(23:08):
to your clients and helping themunderstand that they can build
that belief system.
What are some of your favoriteclient success stories?
And maybe they're not even alljust weight related, and maybe
you know and are comfortableenough to share their names.
Maybe you're not and maybe theydon't want them shared, so I'll
leave that up to you.
But over the last now obviouslyalmost 10 years of being at
(23:30):
FitBody not all 10 did you workhere?
Yeah, but what are some of yourmost favorite transformations
or success stories that you haveseen throughout Fit Body?
Oh, I have a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Give me top three, top three, yeah, one comes
particularly to mind.
It's this gal how I hope I cansay her name Mickey.
Yeah, just amazing.
Have been her coach for threeyears yeah, or a little over
three years, and I saw her gothrough not just the weight loss
(24:06):
side of things but building upconfidence in herself as far as
just being able to handle likestresses and what to do with it.
She's done amazing.
She's a very strong, veryindependent woman.
I think a lot of peopleunderestimate a lot of clients
that come through our doors.
They often, obviously we targetmostly females.
(24:29):
However, some people think, oh,because they can't lose weight,
they're down on themselves,they're not very good at lifing
and all this.
Actually, quite the opposite.
Some of these females andMickey being one of them very
strong, independent woman.
That girl knows how to handleher own.
Now it's just getting thatbelief system into her and I've
(24:53):
seen her just conquer so manythings, from being on the mats,
workout wise, to behind thescenes and keeping herself
nutritionally engaged andfocused and then to being really
self-aware of where she's at.
Um, that was a huge one for me.
Yeah, very big victory for me.
Yeah, um, another one that Ican think of off, and um was
(25:18):
well my girl Brenna oh geez, sheis.
She is awesome, um.
She puts her own little magnetson the board.
She does, she does Um againvery independent, very, very
driven, and so with her she hassome other things that are going
on as well.
(25:39):
So she's had to and I won'tspeak to that more medical
issues, but she has to workagainst that, and so she's seen
defeat.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I feel like, as you're talking right now and I
think that is just one of thethings I love about what we do
the world tends to look atpeople and doesn't even give
them a time of day to get toknow them at all.
Instantly, you're judged, butthat's all of us, that's you,
that's me, that's you guyswatching and listening.
(26:11):
The second that someone sees uswithout even knowing anything
about us, they're going to judgeus, yeah, and the problem with
that is we know we're gettingjudged.
Yeah, we know it.
Yeah, and people don't need totell us that they're judging us.
Thanks, we can feel it.
Yep, we can see it.
They're judging us.
(26:32):
Thanks, we can feel it.
Yep, we can see it.
And what happens, though, isthat, a lot of times, people
will look at certain individuals, and I'll even look at myself.
I remember, for an example forme, I used to always tell myself
as a little kid, and my buddy,we'd get out of the car and we'd
go to the grocery store or goto the store or whatever.
Right, he's like you want torace?
And I'd tell my buddy, I waslike I don't run, and I then
(26:56):
identified myself as I don't run.
Why can't I?
Well, I was, like, afraid oflosing.
I was afraid of what I lookedlike.
I was a little overweight andmore chubby, and so I was afraid
of what fat was going to jiggleon me while I did run, like
these are the stupid things thatplay in your head.
Right, yeah, and it was allbecause, at one point in time,
somebody made fun of me forbeing overweight or out of shape
(27:19):
or non-athletic, or whatever itis, but then we have these
things that are in our head, andwe can come in here to Fit Body
, and the two individuals thatyou just said are just crushing
it in ways that people have noidea, and so they're still out
there being judged you and I aswell, out there being judged,
(27:43):
and the problem is, though, isthat we let those outside
influences, or can let, dictatewho we are?
And the truth is, is thatdoesn't define us?
Nope, there isn't like.
When, when God created us, he'snot like.
Okay, this is the exact imageof what the absolute rockstar
(28:06):
woman should look like.
This is the exact image of whatthe absolute rock star man
should look like, but yet we seecelebrities, stars or other
individuals.
Oh, yeah, that it's like.
Well, I'll never look like that, so maybe I shouldn't even try
and.
And that is such a false beliefsystem, huge and it's all over,
(28:31):
everywhere, everywhere,everywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You look, yeah, and it does.
It puts kind of this damperdarkness in your head and then
you start to have those beliefsin yourself and then you start
to see them come true and it'syeah, it's really tough as far
as trying to get through thathurdle and cancel out the noise.
(28:53):
Get through that hurdle andcancel out the noise.
And again, that's another thingI talk to my clients a lot of,
even from like a nutritionalstandpoint.
I choked with one client theother day.
I was like you have the Hy-Veehealth market and I was like you
now went one little section ofprotein bars to all this and
everything's gluten-free or thisgood for you, and you gotta
(29:14):
cancel out that noise.
Yeah, um, so, from whether it'syou know, body image things,
whether it's what you should,should not be eating, um, there
it's even down to workouts.
Yeah, like what's the newest ad?
Yeah, that's what's gonna getme there.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Nope, I can't do it because I don't look like that
person I can't do it because Ican't lift like that, right, I
think, as it pertains to likethe workouts and stuff, so many
people will hear bootcamp, yeah,no, I can't do that.
I can't do bootcamp.
I think you even had a littlebit of that I did.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, right, yep, it was a little intimidating.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah.
So what are we going to do inthere?
Yep, what are they gonna do tome?
Yep, but with that you, youmeet yourself where you're at,
and then you progress to getbetter, and, and better for you
is different than better for me,and and what's better for you
doesn't have anything to do withdefining what's better for me,
(30:11):
right?
But yet we think that, well,they can do a pushup on their
toes, they're a better humanthan me.
Yeah, not true, not true, not atall.
And I think you know, as you'veworked with your clients and
helping them break thoselimiting beliefs, because all
they are, yeah, like we all havebeliefs, absolutely.
(30:32):
And the hard part is is a lotof those beliefs were instilled
by us, or instilled into us, notby us, right?
And so I think one of thefavorite things that you and I
get to do is hey, what limitingbeliefs do you have that have
been placed there by otherpeople, and how can we work to
(30:52):
remove those?
Yeah, and install our ownbelief systems.
And I tell you what thatdoesn't happen out in the real
world and it takes some building, tell us, takes time.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
so I'm telling folks or recommending to folks Again,
it's that honesty part, thatthis we know it's not an
overnight process.
We've heard that before.
And I go a step further and sayit's going to get hard.
It's going to get really hard,and that's our goal as coaches
is to help you get through that.
(31:26):
So you don't give up onyourself, so you don't quit.
I'm going to remind you of whatyou told me back then.
I've got to remind you whatyou're trying to achieve so that
you can make it there, so thatwe can build up.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And it takes time, hearing it, and hearing it, and
hearing it.
Repetition Like you can do it,can I?
Do you really think so?
Yes, okay, well, I don't.
Okay, keep leaning on mybeliefs, but I want you to tell
yourself you can, and eventuallyyou start building that belief
and it happens so slow that youdon't even realize it's
happening, right.
So it's just absolutely amazingto see these changes in our
(32:06):
clients and in the lives that weget to impact.
Vicki, have you ever been apart of any other gym or tried
weight loss any other time?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Can you list some of the thingsthat you've tried, without
speaking negatively of any otherprogram or any?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
other thing.
Well, the programs it'sactually programs worked well.
I did go to a gym for a littlewhile.
I think it was a woman's gym, Ican't remember what it was
called.
I think Trion used it Sure.
Did that a little while.
I think it was woman's gym, Ican't remember what it was
called.
I think try on use, sure, umdid that um.
But again, it was more of likea traditional gym where you
(32:42):
walked in you kind of had to doyour own thing weights,
treadmills, all that stuff.
I didn't really know how towork any of that stuff, so I
ended up always kind of in thetreadmill a little bit more than
I did the weight machines and alittle scared of it, cause I
was like I don't know what I'mdoing.
Um, I did try the nutrition wiseLA weight loss Okay, um, while
(33:05):
back again saw a massive successin it.
Uh, however, only was temporary, sure, um, and then I've tried
like different online fads, yeah, that type of thing.
Yeah, tried the pills, I think.
Gosh, this stuff has stemmedwith me since I was probably a
teenager sure, um, when did you?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
when did you?
When's the first time you canremember in your life that you
felt or thought to yourself Idon't look good or I'm
overweight.
Yeah.
I'm not who I wanted, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
You're around fifth grade.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Fifth grade, so it started when you were young.
Yeah, yeah.
And you started Fit Body whenyou were how old-ish 33.
Yeah, so that's with you for along time.
Oh yeah, a long time.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
And the funny part about it is like, even looking
back at some of my pictures andI mean I wasn't really
overquaint, sure, and obviouslyas life happened, I went through
those infixes quite a bit.
Yeah, you know I was a littlechubby or like kind of, like you
(34:15):
said, maybe in junior high acouple of years in high school
and then toward the end of highschool.
I just lost a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
But then again I kind of stopped eating because
that's the kind of the things wedid to lose weight, and it
worked for a time until and,unfortunately, what we know
about eating less or not eating,you can lose weight, but you're
mainly losing muscle and while,yes, the scale number goes down
(34:41):
, the fat on your body just getsmore and more and you're just
losing that muscle and yourmetabolism's messed up, yeah,
and so you had to fight andovercome all that.
Uh, if you're willing, since itsays, meet the coach, yeah, um,
what are some things that thatare like really unhealthy habits
(35:01):
that you had to break?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
oh goodness um diet coke, diet coke.
Diet coke was a big one.
Drink a lot of those.
Smoky was a big one for me, Iwas a big smoker.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I didn't know you were a smoker.
Yep, and you were a smokerwhile even at the body.
Yes, I didn't know this.
Yep, yeah, yep, I was a smoker.
And you found this out as I washelping coach you and working
you through.
I was like, hey, this issomething we got to stop.
Like you're, you're not able tokeep up your lung capacity.
Yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
That was yeah, that was probably.
I'd say that was probably hard.
Losing weight was hard, thatwas harder, yeah, yeah.
By that point I think I hadsmoked for probably 15 years.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah, so how did you quit that Cause?
I mean, that's, that's astruggle that we still even have
clients that struggle with that.
Yes, and no fault or judgmenton them.
Yeah, it's just something thatthey're addicted to struggling
with, but it does hold us backin achieving our health and
fitness goals.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
How did you get over that?
I tried a lot of differentapproaches.
I actually tried quittingseveral times throughout my life
.
Um, I did for a while even tooright, yep okay.
And so you know, tried patches,tried some pills, gum, all the
things.
I think it was just kind ofopening up my eyes.
My oldest son and I think thisis with any addictions like you
(36:32):
have to have, what do they callit?
Kind of like your rock bottommoments or some aha moments to
kind of get you to go.
So my dad passed away when Iwas 18, um, from lung cancer.
He was a smoker for most of hislife.
I think that would get me toquit, but it did.
Um, my oldest son at that time,I believe, was going into middle
(36:54):
school and I don't know it waskind of when it happened, how it
happened, but I just rememberthinking to myself as he's
getting ready to go into middleschool he's probably roughly
about 13 at this time.
I was 18 when my dad passedaway and I had another child at
the time.
just I had an ep yeah, I did epand I thought to myself.
(37:20):
I was like, oh my gosh, here Iam with my oldest son, not that
far away from his 18th birthday,and that was the age my dad
passed away.
I didn't want to be that.
I did not want to leave my kidsin that position.
It was so hard when I was thatage and when you're going
(37:40):
through this massive transitionin your life.
You're leaving high school,you're getting ready to leave
the nest and now, because hepassed away shortly after my
graduation, and.
I was like I can't do that to mykids.
My graduation and I was like Ican't do that to my kids.
So that was probably my bigmoment and I think every
individual it's going to be alittle bit different.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
What year was that?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Oh yeah, it's a good question roughly 2018, maybe
yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
So just a hard, hard thing to go through that really
opened your eyes to.
If I want to be here for mykids and make sure that they
have a fit and healthy mom, Ineed to make some yeah.
And now you have made such achange.
You just went to like Denver,yeah, and went whitewater
(38:37):
rafting, yep, and hiking, yep,and all these things with your
boys Yep.
And you need to be fit andhealthy to do those things and
be able to enjoy them Absolutely.
You can maybe do them if you'renot fit, not healthy, right,
but you're not going to enjoy ita lot.
Yeah, you're going to feel thepain Struggle's real, yeah.
(38:58):
So explain that to me.
You hit this rock bottom point.
You're like, hey, I want to behere for my kids, I want to make
sure they have a fit andhealthy mom, mom, yeah.
And now your boys are I mean,your youngest is eight, yes, or
nine, eight, eight, and youroldest is 21 and they're active,
yeah, and they're going.
All my kids are, yeah, and, andnow you get to keep up with
(39:22):
them?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
yes, right, he's, except for my 21 year old he can
outrun me.
Well, yeah, but yeah, no, it's,it's been a major difference.
And even kind of with like,even with the smoking, like I
was starting to do this healthything, yeah, and that was one
thing.
It was like bite off littlebits, and that was one habit.
(39:42):
I wasn't ready to give up quiteyet.
Yeah, I was trying to get better.
Yeah, so I didn't try to changeeverything overnight trying to
get better.
So I didn't try to changeeverything overnight, but I did
see kind of that future self.
As in, if you really want tomake this full circle, this is
the last one.
It's going to be the hardestone, but from all the other
(40:03):
experiences I had, I knew I wasvery well capable of doing it.
And would I fall?
Yeah, absolutely, but it's justagain closing that gap and
trying to get back on it.
But, yeah, I can keep up withthe kids on those types of
events.
I don't dread them, I lookforward to them, I enjoy them.
(40:24):
So, yeah, it's been a blessing.
It's huge.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Going through that transformation and now being,
you know, obviously a coach forour clients, but being in the
role that you're at, reallybeing a leader to our team, yeah
, let's kind of hit this in twoparts.
One what is your favorite thingabout being a coach to our
clients?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I want to say seeing them smile.
Yeah, um.
There's so many times you walkinto a store, you get on a
flight, you go to your kids gameand people don't look happy
anymore.
Yeah, um, and it's like, likeyou I don't life is hard, yeah,
(41:10):
and it's life.
Life is hard, yeah.
The person sitting next to meon the bleachers what they're
going through, what's going on.
They're here showing up,they're present, but not at the
same time.
If that makes sense, yeah.
So seeing people smile again,have light, yeah, and not just
literal smile, but and theydon't smile at me all the time,
(41:34):
sometimes they frown, but it'stheir eye yeah the, the actions,
the way they looking at you andeven though they frown there,
they can still feel yeah they'rehappy.
Yeah, um, and I don't think wesee enough of that in the world
yeah so I think that's probablymy favorite yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
What would you say is one of your favorite parts
about now getting to lead a team?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
oh, lots of learning yeah lots of learning, um so,
and continue learning.
I think the best part isgetting a group together and
work, lots of learning andcontinued learning.
I think the best part is gettinga group together and getting
them to work well with eachother.
Yeah, that is probably.
And watch, it's just kind oflike that bird's eye view.
You get to see You're in themix of it, but you can step out
(42:24):
every once in a while and justwatch all these guys do their
thing.
It's really cool.
Yeah, and enjoy again, smilingand enjoying what they're doing.
Yeah, um, and feeding off ofeach other.
And yeah, just the way you know, things can shift in a matter
of seconds and they're so goodabout quickly making that happen
maneuvering, oh, workingtogether as a team, yes.
(42:47):
So I think that's my favoritepart, and then, too, just
helping watch their personalgrowth.
Yeah.
A lot of our coaches.
Again, they're going throughall these things, whether it be
professionally, personallywrestling with stuff and then
watching them, or being therefor them, for them to lean on
and saying you know what?
Let's put our heads together,let's try to figure this out and
(43:10):
having their trust.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's been definitely a blessing to have
our team grow, yeah, and thenjust to, like you said, being
able to kind of step back and Iremember for me, with our team
as we grow.
This gym is so meaningful to me, impacting these clients' lives
(43:34):
, pouring everything we haveplus even more that we don't
have, into them just to helpthem believe that they're worth
it.
But, like you said, being ableto step back and see the energy
on the floor, to see themhigh-fiving, fist bumping,
getting down, helping ourclients just one more rep, grab
one more heavier weight, doingone more, whatever it is, and
(43:58):
being able to know that that ishappening while maybe we're not
there, it means the world to meand we just had a team meeting
just before we shot this and Iwas away for five, six days and
knowing that I have you and theteam continuing to do what we're
(44:20):
doing and allow me to live alife where I don't always need
to be at the gym, that's amazing, it's a game changer.
To be at the gym, that'samazing, it's a game changer,
yeah, it's amazing.
And to know that we are herefor each other as a team, I mean
, we've been through a lottogether, lots of ups, lots of
downs.
Yeah, because while lifedoesn't stop for any of you
(44:41):
watching or listening, it alsodoesn't stop for us coaches and
having each other.
There have been times whereVicki and I have been going
through whatever we've beengoing through.
We'd literally be in my officeor her office trying about
whatever it is that we're goingthrough, because life can be
hard, yep.
And all of a sudden we lookedout at the watch like, oh, we
got to get out there, we got togo the door's open Like clients
are coming.
Yep, we look at each other Like, no, you look great.
(45:05):
I'm like am I still crying?
No, you're good, all right,let's go do it.
And then you pull yourself backup, you get on that floor and
you give everything you got.
And it isn't about what's goingon in our life For that 30
minutes.
It's about us making sure thatwe give everything we've got to
our clients.
And I have seen that in you andI don't think that there's a
(45:31):
mistake or a chance that you'vegotten to where you've gotten
within what we do at Fit Body,because I can see that and I
have clients tell me that youknow, vicky goes over and above
to make sure that I'm cared forand, like I said, life doesn't
stop for us, yeah, but weunderstand that our clients need
us and a lot of times, like youeven said, the world isn't a
(45:54):
happy place, and so, if we canbe that happy place, that makes
what we do worth it, and so Ijust love it.
Vicki, if there's a piece ofadvice that you could give
anybody watching or listening,what would that advice be?
Uh, as we sit here today, whatwould the advice be that you'd
give them?
Uh, as maybe they're thinkingabout starting a health and
(46:15):
fitness journey, or maybethey're on one, they're at a
plateau, wherever it is, whatadvice would you kind of give
them?
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Um, first thing that comes to mind is just take care
of yourself.
Um, I know it sounds a littleweird.
Be selfish.
Yeah, don't look at that as anegative thing.
I used to think for so longthat I gave all everywhere else
and I needed to sit down hereand thinking that I was giving
100% to my kids, to my family,to my work, when in actuality I
(46:46):
probably was barely giving 50%.
It wasn't until I started tohonestly be a little selfish.
Take care of myself, and maybeit is a 30-minute workout, maybe
it's a five-minute meditation,wherever that sits right now for
you, make that work, becausethat goes such a long way and
(47:07):
that 100% you can't actuallygive attention to.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yeah, I think the world does a very good job on
trying to tell us what fit andhealthy looks like, what fit and
healthy does, what fit andhealthy should be, when, in all
reality, fit and healthy to youis different than fit and
healthy to me is different thanfit and healthy to you.
(47:33):
Watching or listening Becausealso, too, wherever we're at,
we're fighting different battlesthat the person next to us
isn't, and so for you, you hadto fight the battle of giving up
smoking.
I, thankfully, have never hadto fight that battle.
But obviously, if we're at thesame spot and we're starting an
element fitness journey, yeah,well, now you have a whole
(47:53):
different curveball to deal with, and I do.
But while we're in a workouttogether or maybe watching
someone else work out or seeingwhat someone does in a workout,
yeah, we don't tend to rememberthat we're all at different
starting points.
Yeah, or all at differentpoints along the journey, yeah,
we don't tend to remember thatwe're all at different starting
points, yeah, or all atdifferent points along the
journey.
Yeah, I love that you said thatyour advice would be to be
(48:15):
selfish, because that'ssomething that Jason and I
talked about as well.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Oh really.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah, yeah, because the world says that being
selfish is bad yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
I was going to say I was a very negative and same
with failure.
Failure is bad.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Yes, not very negative and same with failure.
Failure is bad.
Yes, I seen a post on one ofthe 17 million social media
platforms we have now, but itsaid a person was holding.
I'm going to get it wrong, butit had a picture of a person
holding a cup and the person hadspilt it.
And it said why did you spillthe tea?
And it said because someone raninto me.
(48:49):
And then it said, no, you spiltthe.
And it said why did you spillthe tea?
And it said because someone raninto me.
And then it said, no, you spiltthe tea because tea was in your
cup.
Had you had coffee in your cup,you would have spilled coffee.
And so the whole point of thislittle meme was that whatever's
in your cup, whatever you fillyour cup with, is what's going
to come out when you get bumped.
And so if you're not beingselfish and filling your cup
(49:11):
with love, with compassion, withunderstanding, with belief in
yourself, when you get bumped,something negative is going to
come out Absolutely.
And so that's why it's soimportant to be selfish in a way
that, when life does bump you,you can have who you truly are
and who you truly want.
To be selfish in a way thatwhen life does bump you, you can
have who you truly are and whoyou truly want to be.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Fall out, oh onto those around you and so I did
that with my kids.
Um, I think the reason why Isaid that too is, uh, I remember
my kids would come home fromschool and then all of a sudden,
they would say they would starttalking to me about their day
and I thought I was listening, Ithought I was present.
Yeah.
In all actuality I wasn't yeahBecause I had given up so much
(49:56):
energy.
Yeah, and now I find that'schanged.
I'll ask them questions back.
I'll get excited about theirday for them.
Yeah.
Way different than it wasbefore.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yeah, and you understand it, because that's
something that fills you up iswhen people listen and
instilling confidence in ourclients and us, and we're doing
(50:34):
it together because we can goout into our day and go through
a whole day of yuck, but then wemeet together for 30 minutes
and we smile and laugh and wehigh five and we fist bump and
it's like you know what I can dothat, yeah, and then go home
and conquer the rest of my day,and so I just love that our
(50:56):
clients have this as an outletFor anyone watching or listening
.
If you don't have that outlet,or maybe you're looking for an
outlet, and anything that Vickihad talked about maybe resonates
with you I would encourage youso much to just come give Fit
Body a try.
I don't know that it's going tobe right for you, it might not
be, but I do know that if younever try, you'll never know.
(51:18):
Yes, and the thing also, too,that I just love about what we
do and I know that our wholeteam shares this belief that if
Fit Body isn't the right fit foryou, we will still be here
cheering you on, encouraging you.
We've been doing this foralmost 10 years now.
We obviously lose clients thatis a natural part of business
(51:41):
and we have clients that havebeen with us that are now doing
other things, and I still getexcited when I see them posting
their wins, posting what theirworkouts are, and I'll still
cheer them on and congratulatethem, because it isn't about
where you're doing it.
There's hundreds of thousands ofpeople in Sioux Falls.
(52:02):
We have two locations, we can'tfit everybody in, and so if we
can just be there to encourageone more person, and maybe
that's for whatever period oftime, but I know that the period
of time that we get to be withour clients, hey, if we can just
make a little bit of an impact,exactly that's what it's all
about.
That's what it's all about.
Well, vicki, this has beenawesome.
(52:23):
I feel that it's just beenreally fun.
To kind of shoot.
The Meet the Coach episodesgives our clients, and even
those that maybe don't know usat all, a little more my voice.
Yeah, oh, I know we didn'ttouch that.
Vicki's like could we have donethis a different?
I just lost my voice and I waslike you know what that's part
of being a coach.
Yeah, you know, we have mics.
We have mics and we try to usethe mic when we're coaching, but
(52:45):
a lot of times we just like toyell yep, and it's something
about, you know, bringing theintensity and making sure that
people like we want to have funwhile we're working out.
Oh, I know and when we'reyelling and screaming and oh man
, it's just great.
It is just great and it mightsound intimidating maybe to
those that have never tried itright, but it is.
It is done in such a way that'sencouraging motivating, not
(53:07):
drill sergeant.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
We're just more or less having fun at it loud.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Yeah, take it up a little bit.
Yeah, take it up a little bit.
There's something about whensomething is so loud you can't
even comprehend what you'regoing through.
Yeah, maybe that's why.
So if we have the music thisloud and we're also yelling this
loud, you can't tell how soreyour muscles are from getting
more pushups.
Just got to get through it.
Get through it, and we justmake it fun, and so it's every
(53:33):
fitness level, wherever you'reat.
But if you are looking forsomeone to believe in you, to be
there for you, to surroundyourself with a group of people
that just want to see you win inlife, I tell you what Vicki and
I our team and our clientswould love to be that person for
you.
There's a link down below whereyou can click on it.
You can grab a free week, tryit out, because heck, if it's
(53:54):
not right for you.
The last thing we'd want is foryou to pay for something that
is not right for you.
So grab that free week, try itout, and you can find Vicki
normally hanging out at thecentral location, at the C-side,
that's right.
Sometimes you'll see her atWestside, but she currently is
our facility leader at thecentral location.
She's also our integrator andman.
(54:15):
It's just been awesome.
Thank you, vicki, for takingthe time.
Friends go out there and beselfish in the best way possible
, knowing that when you'reselfish and you are filling your
cup with that, that when youget bumped, positivity and love
can overflow to others, that youwill be doing better in this
world and leaving a morepositive impact.
(54:37):
But, hey, thank you for joiningus, thank you for taking time
out of your day and, so that wecan do this, make sure that you
like, subscribe and share thisepisode and, like I said, if
you're looking to get a freeworkout in, find that link down
below and we cannot wait to meetyou in the gym.
We'll catch you on the nextepisode of the Fit and Healthy
Sioux Falls Show.
Bye, guys.
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