November 13, 2023 • 44 mins
Ana Reyes-Ouzts shares her story of a successful weight-loss journey and how her choices business and networking have led her to inspire and help others. This is a story of a mom, a paralegal turned spin instructor, turned entrepreneur and image consultant, make-up artist and she also runs a women's networking group called Bold Ladies in Business of Flagler County.
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This is Angela Grayson fromthe Loving Life Fitness Podcast.
To help others in their fitnessjourney.
It's All Possible! It’s timeto wake up.
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Here we go.
Hello, everyone.
This is Angela Grayson from theLoving Life Fitness Podcast,
where we talk to professionalsand everyday people just like
you and me about their healthand fitness and their journey
in life to get to where theyare today.
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And today we have with usAna Reyes-Ouzts.
And we are going to betalking about her journey.
Hi Ana, how are you today?
I'm doing awesome. Angela.
Thank you for having me.
I'm super excited to shareand spend some time with you.
Yes, me too.
You're a wonderful personand I see you doing so much
and I can't wait to hear moreabout your interesting life.
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Start with your journey in lifethat relates to health
and fitness.
Maybe people who have inspiredyou.
So go ahead and talka little bit about yourself.
Thank you for this opportunitybecause like you said, everybody
has a journey and somehowwe end up here.
I am short of almost 64.
I'll be 64 next year.
So I have a lot ofchapters, right?
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As you get older, you have morechapters in your book.
But my journey really withhealth started as a young
person.
I got married young.
I had my daughtersin my twenties and, you know,
life was just it was good.
But I kept gaining weightand gaining weight and gaining
weight.
And in my thirties, my earlythirties, I really picked out,
I believe, my heaviest weightthat I could ever imagine.
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And I get super emotionalbecause it's something that
Is that a good part of your lifeis sort of a sad part.
My mom, God bless her,she would always try and say,
you know, you should reallytry to lose weight.
So she kept giving methese diets and popping up.
And there was a diet, actually,it happened with Publix.
So Publix got together with theAmerican Heart Association
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and there was a doctorand the book is still in
existence because I chapterthat was called The
Rotation Diet.
And every week they wouldgive you the little sheet
with the food that you would buyand you would eat.
And it was a cycle of 21 days.
That's why it was calledthe rotation Diet.
Mind you, I was a young momand had little kids and life
was super busy.
So diet and exercise was not inmy agenda.
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I looked at it and I said,You know, this kind of
looks like the food I could eat.
And I brought my, you know,the father of my children,
which was not I'm not marriedto him anymore.
And my two little girls,which now are grown women.
And I said, look at this weight,because I'm never going to
weigh this again.
That was that decision thatyou have to make.
Nobody else can really do itfor you.
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And I always say that it's yourown journey when you're
ready, however that may look,whatever diet you do
and I don't like to use the worddiet, it's a lifestyle change.
And whatever exercise you'regoing to do, it has to work
for you and you can never do itfor anybody else.
So I shamefullygot on the scale.
And I can say thatI weighed £197 when I
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weighed myself that day.
And that was harsh.
34 years ago.
I've never weight that again.
One of the journeysthat I did was it took me
a whole year to lose the weight.
There is no magic pill to loseweight instantly.
It has to be a healthy journey.
I always tell people that that'sthe way that you should.
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And the most important thingis that take your time
to lose it.
It took you a minute to gainall that weight.
Why would you want to lose itin one second?
You can't.
You have to be patientwith yourself.
And one of my best fitnessstories and I have so many
to still share.
I didn't really go into the gymand my ex was really
into fitness.
And he did bodybuildingin weight.
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So I was around all thatatmosphere, but
I wasn't into it.
So I decided to go to the gymand at first said, You know, I'm
going to date myself so bad.
Richard Simmons had the best gymand I loved doing the step
and stuff.
And so I started to go there.
But then I said, You know what?
And now I'm going to go,You know, when I was still super
chubby, I started to go tonow I believe it's L.A.
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Fitness used to be calledVic Tanni, completely
dating myself.
Again, it went to like 300different kinds of names.
And I would go thereand do my stuff.
And then a year later,I was still going there
and somebody was comingup to me.
A gentleman is now.
Do you come here often?
I go, Actually, I've been herefor a year.
I was that chubby girlthat was in the corner.
And now you're talking to mebecause I weigh X amount of
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pounds less.
So it goes to show you thatthis stigma of being
overweight or notbeing overweight for me was like
and I do want to say thateven though I was
that overweight, I was alwayssuper confident.
I need to share that becauseif I don't, I'd be
cheating myself of who Ireally am.
Being overweightnever defined who I was.
I was always a positive person.
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I always, you know,took super good care of myself,
always into the makeupand my clothing.
And I held my weight really wellbecause people didn't imagine
that I had lostthat much weight.
I lost £50 immediately.
Probably took me like six,seven months, eight months
to lose it.
And then I did go to a doctorthat had been an
OBGYN specialist and nowhad realized how many women
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as they've had children and gothrough hormones and all that
stuff, have a hard timelosing weight.
So he basically coached mehow to lose weight.
I really got into like a lot ofless calories, probably
like less than athousand calories a day.
So it was very regimented dietbecause my body had gotten
into a super plateauand I had it lost any weight.
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So that doctor helped me with mylast journey and I lost like £30
with him.
So it came out to be like75 to £80.
And he passed away because Ichecked to see.
And one of the thingsthat he said was, you're one of
the few people that lostthat much weight and kind of
bounced back into your own skinbecause sometimes your body
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looks weird or or does doesn'tfeel good or you or you're
not healthy.
But I was healthybecause I did it slowly again,
that magic were too slowly.
So I came into my own,of course, a new journey.
I had lost all this weightand is also confident
with myself.
Fast forward, I always wasin the gym trying to exercise
and find my best selfand I loved spinning.
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Spinning was my thing,my addiction, my everything
and my husband.
Now, Henry said, You know,you should really become
an instructor.
I'm like, Me, an instructor?
Like, No, no, no.
I like I like being hereand enjoyed myself and having
that fun ride.
And I was workingout at Bally's, which was
Big Tanny Now it's Bally's,the best corporate story ever?
Yeah, right.
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So the regional managerwas spending a lot of time
in that particular clubbecause it needed
to be revamped.
So you know how corporate works.
Mysterious ways.
Her name was Donna and she said,you know, I really like how you
you do your class at spinning.
I'd like for you to becomean instructor.
And I said, you know,that's so weird.
Did you asking me this becauselike my then boyfriend,
my husband, he saidI should do it.
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She said, Well, you know,we will pay for you to become
an instructor.
And back then it was spinningand it was Johnny G.
Which came.
If anybody knows the storyfrom spinning, it's from
California.
He was a real California dudeand he loved to train
cycling outdoors but realizessometimes it was raining.
People got run over by a carand it's dangerous, right?
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So his way of training was thathe created the spin program.
So I said that I would do it.
And it was a rigorous training.
If you know you're an instructorand you understand training
takes time and effort.
And so then I fastforward got hired and of course
they gave me that wonderful slot
at 6 (08:01):
00 in the morning on a Thursday because I was
a paralegal.
So every time that my classwould come up, I wouldn't
sleep the night that wholenight thinking I wasn't going
to get up.
Why would I not get up like,oh my gosh.
But it was actually somethingthat I didn't realize that I was
called to do was to coach peopleto their own successes.
I became the queen of Mondaynight, Thursday morning,
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and then Saturday morning.
So I really found my lovefor fitness and helping
other people find their journeyand feeling good
about themselves.
And again, I loveall exercises, so I feel like
if you find your guru,it's going to be amazing.
I know that you're yoga.
I am completely obsessedwith you.
I love to do weights.
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I was running a lot, butI injured my back.
So now I walk.
It's whatever that fitnessjourney looks like for you.
Yeah, I strugglewith five or £10, but everybody
does.
I know what I do wrongand then I go right back to
I got to get back to my littleregimen of, you know,
eating healthy, knowing whatthis body needs to do.
Yeah, we have to give ourselvesgrace and be human.
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Yes. Yes.
And then come back to wherewe were before.
Same thing when the holidayscome, when you go to space,
you need to give yourself grace,give yourself the time.
And as long as you know thatwhen you get back,
you'll be able to get rightback into it.
Not everybody has that passionfor fitness, so that's
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what makes it hard forso many others.
But the way you try to reach outand help other people
by becoming a spin instructor,and I'm sure that takes you into
different realms too,because then people start
coming to you after classand talking to you
about different things.
Then it and it does feel goodto help others because it's
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not always so simplewhen you don't have the drive
and the stamina to do itall on your own.
But the fat also that youare able to get on a program.
When you realized that youhad to make a turnaround
in your life and you didn't yoyo back and forth though,
that happens to so many people.
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And that's the hardest thingfor me to train into people's
minds.
The psychologicalaspect of trying to stay healthy
and into shape and readyfor life.
Because not only doesour fitness level help us
with our bodies and our health,but also our minds.
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What has your fitnessjourney done for your mind?
Great point.
And I believe that it's not justlike you said, it's not just the
physical sense and the medicalpart of, oh, you're going to
be living a healthier life,but your head is the healthiest.
I would say thatthose six inches between your
two ears can really mess you upyour brain.
But when you are in a positivespace in your self, that's what
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you portray, That'swhat you have.
You sleep better, you havebetter energy.
Who is around you as wellis important because then
you're around peoplethat are also taking care
of themselves and they'rein that positive space.
So the whole journey is amazing.
It's a transformationthat it does start with you,
but if you find a communityof other people that are
into what you do, then you'recheering each other on as well.
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So it all becomessuper positive.
And I love the point you makebecause as an instructor, people
look up to you and you know,you can really make a difference
in how somebody's going to feelabout themselves.
You have a choice every dayto wake up and do the
right thing for yourself, oryou can make the choice not to
against you.
But when you surround yourselfwith people that if you don't
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show up for a minute,you're going to show up.
Hey, you haven't been to class.
And I mean, there's everything,okay, AB, I miss you there.
And you find that communityof people that love what you're
doing as well.
Then there's accountability,there's positivity and there's a
sense of you're feeling goodabout yourself and you're
helping other people.
It goes full circle,in my opinion.
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You don't have to bean instructor to feel
good about it.
You just have to be willingto work on you to help
other people.
And if they see you changing,they can say, Wow, if
she did it, I could do it too.
Does it matter how old you arewhere you came from, what your
background is?
You just have to make thatdecision to do it.
The fact that you hadto go through so much
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to finally become that spininstructor.
Yeah.
You had a journey to talk about.
Yeah.
You know, sometimesI look at myself and I've always
been into health and fitness.
That's just me.
Some words exercise all my life,so I don't have that
kind of a story to tell people.
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I can tell people otherpeople's stories, but try
to help them in that way.
Yeah.
So no matter how much I try,I really of course, that hasn't
happened to me,so I don't really understand it.
But that's my journey.
So it is what it is.
But I'm still trying to helpother people with theirs.
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So just the fact that you'reputting this together,
I could say something toone person that could trigger
their feelings and say,You know what, I can do it too,
because they see meand they think I've always
looked like this because maybepeople don't know me from 30
plus years ago and don't knowthat.
You know, I used to bethat chubby girl that didn't
really do anything to loseweight at that point.
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But I feel like, yes,I can do this.
And I did, and I madethat decision.
So if I can help one person.
So when people are overweightand I'll say, you know what,
I can relate to you,they don't know that I can until
I open up and you kind of sharewith them where I've been that's
so beautiful.
And that is the reason why Istarted doing these podcasts,
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because I could only give peopleso much information.
I'm only one person.
I can't be an experton everything.
So by talking to other peopleabout their journey,
somebody might say, Oh,that's me, you know?
Yeah, look at look at her.
You know, I canif she can do it, I can do it,
you know, and I need to get upevery morning and do things
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just a little bit differently.
You said earlierlifestyle changes making my
style changes.
And you know, we can all dothat.
Change is hard.
Most people do not like changein their life, but that's
the only way that thingsare going to happen and things
are going to get better.
We need to make little changesat a time to make our
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lives better.
I agree.
I agree.
I think that I comefrom a generation where, like
my mom never went to the gymand I see that the effects
of what's happening to her now,her health, I always said, gosh,
I don't want to be that person.
I want to be active.
I want to live a healthy lifefor myself, for my kids, for my
grandkids, and, you know,just have some sort of
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quality of life.
And not that it'sgoing to change, but it's
going to make it betterif you're active and, you know,
for arthritis purposes,for your joints.
Yoga has opened so manymore doors for health
and feeling good about myselfand my body because I needed
that.
I wasn't always doingyo that would do hot yoga
like once in a while and I wouldincorporate it with my spinning.
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And I did CrossFit and I wassuper intense, but
I got injured.
So being injured I had topull back and say,
What's working for me or what'sworked for me in the past?
It was my eluga and so thathelps me physically
and mentally stay in that zoneof health.
And I still do the weightsand I still walk.
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And if I can incorporate aspin class here and there
now, then kind of like findingthat balance of my fitness.
So you're right, it needsto be a decision that you make.
I can't explain itto the person.
It's just when you wake upand they say, I'm tired of
of looking like this oror feeling unhealthy or not
feeling my best, Youyou can do it.
Nobody can tell you.
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You wake up that dayand it's like the light
bulb went off and then you haveto stick to it.
Is it going to be easy?
Not going to be easy.
If it was easy, then everybodywould look like a rock star.
But it's not going to be easybecause you have to make
tough decisionsof eating healthy and making
those choices and planningahead and planning for,
you know, a vacationor planning out.
And not that you're goingto never eat any of those things
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again.
That's not life is findinga balance.
You ate a lot during don'tdo peaceful don't be so hard
on yourself then justbounce back and start up again.
But you can't let it go.
Percentage just escalatesand keeps going and keeps going.
Before you know it, you're backwhere you started.
Let's talk a little bitabout the doctor that you had
in your life that reallyhelped you a lot and got to
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your plateau.
That is a big problem for alot of women hitting the plateau
and not knowing what to doto make changes, to keep
on going forward and sometimesgive up.
So talk a little bit about whatthat doctor specifically did
for you.
If you can remember, that wasa million years ago.
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But the most importantthing is that terrible word
accountability.
So it was based oncalorie intake, it was
low calorie.
You really were not supposedto exercise as much because when
you had that little amountof calories and he you know,
he has to test you, make surethat you're healthy for it.
He would give meamino acid shots, which helps
you to burn fat and B12 shots,which is also very healthy
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as well.
And then going into talk with him once a week
and weighing yourself, well,kind of like, okay, I have to
stay with this specificallyto get on a scale every week.
So I really feltlike that was it.
Another thing that Icut completely and don't hate?
The haters want to hate me.
Diet Coke.
Diet Coke.
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I was so addicted to Diet Coke.
I made the decision not to drinkDiet Coke, not to
drink caffeine.
I'm one cup of coffee personand the rest of it is wah
wah with lemon water.
With coconut water like I do notdrink coffee.
That's not my friend.
Those are one of the things thathe took away and is
probably the bestthing that he did for me because
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diet Coke, I feel like thoseartificial sweeteners
kind of kick in your desireto even eat more.
I don't know what it is.
I can't explain it,but it really did help.
And once he realizedthat I had lost all my weight,
he says, You're done.
You just now need to findyour maintenance program.
So you just had to kind ofslowly incorporate
a balanced diet.
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And I never really likeI never really gained it back.
Yet ten or £15, always, alwaysand forever.
By ten or £15.
I battled them always,but that's just me.
It's my metabolism.
I think that one of the thingsthat if you hit a plateau,
go and talk with your doctor,get your get your bloodwork.
I'm not a doctor, but the doctorcan see if there's hormones
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involved.
If it's your thyroid,there might be something
then that's not allowing youto lose a weight, because if
you're doing everything thatyou're doing, you've cut
the calories, you've cut,you know, whatever you're doing,
you're exercisingwith moderation, You're you're
drinking your waterand you're not seeing anything.
There might be something else.
So you can't be your own doctor.
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You have to find seekat that point.
If you you know,you need to lose
a lot of weight.
If you need a little bitof weight, go the healthy route.
That's the most important thingthese days.
When you exercise, what isyour routine look like
and do you do it on your ownwith others requests?
All right.
So my yoga is my staple.
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I pretty much go to yogabetween four and five
times a week.
The days that I don't do yoga.
Like yesterday, I didn't yoga,but I did weights.
I go to the gym.
I do 30 minutes of wait,30 to 45 minutes.
And if I don't find the timeto go to the gym, I put a
YouTube video that's a 30minute workout with weights
and that's what I do.
And it's not heavy weights, it'sjust repetition.
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Something to get that bodyinto a weight bearing role.
From my route, my pulse.
I feel like I need that.
Even my doctor said,just got to keep incorporating
those weights.
Sometimes I just doa really nice walk,
three mile walk, brisk walk.
I feel like it's so goodfor your heart and then
you're outdoors.
The weather's amazing.
I love a brisk walk.
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At least once a weekand that's it.
I haven't really founda spinning gym here.
There's one in Saint Augustineand one in Daytona of the state
that I like.
I like to incorporate that backinto my repertoire of
exercise in.
If I can get that, I'm happy.
I'm happy with how I feel.
I think that I founda great balance again
of commitment at leastsix times a week.
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I'm exercising, I'll take offone day, but less than that,
then you're justnot really doing anything.
You're just kind of likeriding the wave, but not
really making an impacton your health.
It's so important to keepthe body moving.
Yes.
And as we get older, so good forthe bones.
You all that weightbearing exercise, the doctors
will tell you that wedefinitely need that our bodies
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start going backwardsafter the age of 30.
If we don't find some kindof exercise with weight
bearing exercise, our bodiesare going to start
going backwards,going to have all kinds of
problems, especially if it's inyour genes.
Biology to be very proneto arthritis, osteoporosis,
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heart problems.
Why not get on top of it?
Get a jumpstart on that. Yeah.
And then for for peoplewho don't have the drive
to get out there and work outon their own, what do you advise
for them?
That's a super good question.
So I think I go backto community because I feel like
if they find a community,there's a million groups
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in our community that are free.
Find something.
There's moms that walk.
There's groups that walkat sunrise.
Sunrise, not my thing.
I don't want to work at sunrise.
Life, but if I work forsomebody else, you know,
I woke up foreverat sunrise, but somebody out
there might that might bethat perfect time.
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But then again, there'saccountability.
There's great gyms here.
When I first came here,I joined a gym and there was
a community.
I have found amazing friendsfrom that gym from going there.
And then you're excited to takethose group classes.
If you're not the kind of personthat has that commitment
to yourself or hasthe discipline to go do
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weights on your own,find a class and go with
the group class.
I believe that there's somuch energy and you feed off
each person's energyand then you find
your commitment.
And if you're not there, they'regoing to say, Oh my gosh,
Angela didn't show up to classtoday.
I wonder what's going on.
She hasn't been here fora couple of days.
So they're going tocheck up on you because now
you're friends.
There's commitment, there'saccountability.
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I love CrossFit prospectsfor everybody.
When I was at my best,I was turning 50 and I wanted
to be my best version of me.
I was like on it.
It was at the beach.
Was it hard? Yes.
Was it awesome?
Yes.
But I was committed.
It was a group of usto this day.
We're all friendsand I felt like, Yeah,
I can do this.
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So there's so manydifferent stages of different
opportunities that you can find.
I think it has to be in a group.
If you don't have discipline,find your way.
Very good.
Yeah.
There's a new little placewe have here on Flagler
Beach called BeachfrontNutrition.
Mean.
I know it's so cute, butI love the people there
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that are awesome.
Raymond and his littlefamily there and they do their
beach workouts and it'sjust amazing how many people
are attending his beachworkouts and they do the bridge
walks, you know, one in theyou know, another one
in the evenings.
They're also going tobe starting a men's
group on Sunday.
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Sleepy Sadie Yeah.
So and it's all free.
Like you said somethingfor everybody there's just have
to find your way.
I mean you need people who havelived here that a long time.
But because of the new businessthat's opened, you know
they found a way to roundpeople up nice amounts
and oh, great.
So if anybody's looking anybodythat's looking for something
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like that, they do allkinds of workouts
where people can get involved.
I'll love going tosee all levels of people
out there on the agreed.
Yeah, love that.
So in talking about community,you are an amazing individual
when it comes to bringingwomen together.
So tell us aboutthe other things that you do
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in your life to help women,to support women, to become
more successful.
Tell us.
Yeah, I'm from Fort Lauderdaleand I had always been networking
and was, you know,in a community where I had to
get out there and do whatI needed to do.
I was a a director,a catalog sales director with
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Mary Kay.
And so I met so many womenand did a lot of networking.
And I always, always feltlike, gosh, if I can do this
a different way, I would alwayswant to do it differently were
making connections.
And so I started to havelike little groups at my house
back in Fort Lauderdale andmaking friends and just making
breaking relationshipswith women that would help
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each other out.
Fast forward, we retired hereto Palm Coast.
My husband is a retiredfirefighter there, and I kind of
kept doing my thing.
I became a stylist with Kabi,which was clothing.
And I can if I can find my nicheand I didn't.
So I started to do the samething again.
I started to do it at my houseand, you know, meeting
business women and tryto invite them and trying
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to do that.
And I was always into my makeupand I was working with Dior
and some other things.
And so COVID hit, and that wasthe end of that.
And almost like ten monthsinto COVID, my sister was like,
oh, you know, I moved here,I really need some help.
And I said, I don't know,I'm done with all this.
I'm shutting everything down.
I stepped down from everything.
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I was still doing my makeup.
And, you know, I you know,I represent a line and I
did my lashes and stufflike that.
And so she said, Well, let'stry it and see what happened.
Then I said, Okay, well, we'llvery reluctantly, I wasn't ready
to do anything else,so I'm not going to tell you
anything different.
In June, three plus years ago,we met at Hooligans over at the
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parking lot and it was like nineor ten girls that were there.
And I call them the OGs ofof our group, and the rest
is history.
You know, we really foundthat this was a sense that women
wanted to have a community wherethey could meet and build
relationships and get to knoweach other better and help
each other and their businesses.
And it's grown so much,both ladies and business sort
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of a movement.
We help other women succeed intheir own business.
So when you do that, thengreat things happen.
You know, I just I still havean online business
with my clothing and my makeup,and that's my fun stuff.
I, you know, I enjoyhelping women feel good
about themselves.
I feel like that's my lovelanguage, My calling card
(26:59):
is to help women succeed.
And my sister is my honestly,my everything.
She helps everything run it.
We have an incrediblegroup of women in all
our different chapters already,and we officially became
a nonprofit, which I thinkwas everything for me to help
the community and give back.
If you have a platform that youcould help a business
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woman, help the communitywith their charities and help
a local restaurant or anorganization that we
can give back to them as well,then we're helping a lot
of people move forward.
So it really has been a blessingand I'm very excited that we've
been able to make a differencein our community and moving
forward, growing.
(27:41):
It's expanding and the blessingshave been unbelievable
and I'm glad that the womenthat are there are really
to empower each other and makea difference.
And it brings me an immenseamount of joy to see the growth
that that it has brought.
And that's kind of how we metthrough one of one of
our friends.
And so, you know, I always saythat there's room for everybody
(28:02):
at the table.
There's no competition.
We really want to help eachother out and make sure
that everybody is winning.
I've been to some ofyour meetings that you
have once a month with bothladies and business,
and every time I'm there, it'sjust so exciting.
And to hear people talk aboutwhat they do.
So many women in differentareas of business all trying to
(28:26):
get out there and makenew friends and new
acquaintances and network,it's really a great thing
and it's always so much fun.
I wish I could come more oftenand unfortunately, my life
and my businesses keep mecrazy busy and but I come
when I can and I end up makingnew acquaintances.
I love that.
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Yeah.
The last time I came,three people have have
booked with me for my podcast.
You know, I love it.
Everybody's got such aninteresting story so that we can
get you on the airand try to help other people
in their life to expandit even further.
I love it.
Yeah, that's I'm fascinatedwith how we can connect
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with different people, differentbackgrounds, and make
a difference and networkwith each other and help
our businesses.
And maybe support that businesssomehow.
And it's just wonderful.
You're also an image consultant.
Yeah, tell us about that.
So an image consultantexactly what it is.
So I have an onlineclothing line.
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It's Copper and Rose and Irepresent Farmacy, which is
a beautiful makeup line.
So if somebody like strugglingand says, you know,
I need a little pick me up orgo through my closet and see
what's going on and, you know,just giving you a couple of tips
and how do you look your best?
You know, not thateverything has to be
about makeup and clothing,but if you feel I always say
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if you feel goodabout yourselves and you
bring your best face forward,then everything kind of
comes together.
So I give them tips onhow to look their best.
And, you know, I loveI love helping a woman feel good
about yourself.
I also I freelance for Chanel,like in November.
I have an eventand I'll be there doing their
makeup.
And I love the transformationwhen I do their makeup
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and they see themselveswith the product finished.
And it's such a such a joybecause it really is like,
Oh my gosh, like I lookso beautiful.
You did that for me,but I kind of teach them step by
step, like, how do you putyour makeup on and what's
your best look?
And I feel like as I've aged,I feel like less is more
for me now.
Like I used to wearmore makeup, now we're less
makeup.
(30:33):
I like to see just radiatewhat is the best for me,
which is now it's lessonand enjoying that that process.
I think it's awesome.
So little tips to help uslook our best.
So that's why not if it'sbecause something
is about to read, I mean,it seems like these days women
don't wear as much makeup now.
It's more of a beautifulnatural.
(30:56):
Yes.
That glow and to highlightwhat what is already there.
Yeah I love that.
I really do.
I'm enjoying that process.
I never thought I'd be that one.
But here I am saying lessis more and and your
clothes that you wear, it'ssuch a reflection on what you do
because you always lookso feminine and so beautiful.
(31:17):
Very nice.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, there's somethingfor everybody.
Although I'm too old for that.
No, you're not too old.
You have to own it.
There is a stage for everythingbut you.
Just as long as you'rewearing things that don't make
you look ridiculous, it'sjust aging gracefully.
I always say that I'm notgoing down without a fight.
I'm just going to keep going.
(31:38):
I think if you find your style,whether it's boho, whether it's
traditional, what was classic,there's pieces that you can add
to your wardrobe that will makeyou look beautiful and not
look overdone.
Trendy is is tricky.
You can add a couple of piecesto the clothes that you already
have.
And I think that you canmodernizing a little bit
and be so pretty and you don'thave to spend a lot of money.
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You just have to have a coupleof great pieces.
And before you knowit, you're like, Wow,
I just revamped my littlewardrobe with a maybe
a nice jacket, a nice pairof jeans, some jewelry,
and I'm ready to go.
And then you can find fouror five different looks
within those little pieces.
So that's kind of the magicof image consulting.
So you talked a little bitabout your mother earlier,
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how she was an inspirationfor you to help you turn around
and get in the right direction.
Yeah, and I'm sure that nowshe looks at you and she's
so proud of you in so many ways.
It's interesting.
I come from her background ismy parents are pubic.
And, you know, in our lifetime,you know, our foods
(32:42):
were different.
And even when I was little,I remember that my mom,
you know, I was I was alittle bit chubby.
And my mom put me on a dietand I was like,
I was so miserable.
And she would give methose vegetables and I
would be crying.
I want to eat them.
And, you know, but she helped menot to be that chubby girl,
you know, into adolescent andgetting myself together
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when I was a teenager, which isso important to be healthy
even as a teenager, becausethere's so much obesity
out there.
And so she she did itfrom a place of kindness.
She knew that I neededto lose weight.
But, you know, as a mom,you try to give advice.
I have daughters,too, you know, So sometimes
they listen.
Sometimes they do.
But she did do itfrom a kid place.
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You would just likekind of throw the little diet
there.
Look, this is a really gooddiet for you.
I think you can enjoy it.
So, yeah, everybody wasproud of me.
And, you know, a lot ofmy friends and family said,
you know, you're one ofthose few people that really
never went back to, like yousaid, that yo yo effect
of losing £70 and then goingright back to it.
Why would you do that toyour body?
First of all, it's terriblefor your heart and then,
(33:49):
you know, you put allthat effort into losing
that weight.
Let's kind of stick to it,though.
Yeah.
I appreciate my mom.
She's definitely of thatold school of Cuban parents,
but they're you know,they're such good people.
And I appreciate that she didgive me that incentive to lose
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the weight.
So and my family, my friends,kind of stuck to me
and helped me because sometimes,you know, you have people,
you know, you're notgoing to lose a weight.
They don't really you're notsurrounded by people that are
encouraging you to do it.
So you have to keep your driveand just keep on going
and show them.
Tell them, tell yourselfI'm going to say, do them.
I can do this so much.
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Yes, I have done it.
I can do it, too.
Absolutely.
Totally.
100%.
Anybody can do it as a decision,whatever level it
is, whether it's£5, £10, £200.
There's so many people thatI've seen that have done it.
And that's a great decision.
You know, the and itwas amazing, though,
that you were ablepsychologically to keep
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your attitude about yourselfor the vibrant, positive
attitude, even when youwere overweight.
Because I've noticed that thepsychological part of it all
with people who are heavy and domanage to lose so many pounds,
still see themselvesas being heavy.
They still walk like they'reheavy, even though they're not.
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And it's so hard as a trainerto get people to drop
the psychologicalstigmas and start acting
differently.
That's a good point.
So I will share that.
Even though none of the clothesthat I had, I wish
I wish I could have done that.
Jenny Craig, where I hadthose pants that were like
the size 20 and nowof a size two, I still
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saw myself as overweight.
It's very, very, very hardon your mind.
It takes a very long time to seeyourself as a thin person,
not as an person.
It just it plays games on youand you're not there.
And even though people are.
Oh, my gosh, you look so great.
Oh, my God, you look so great.
But you're not there yet.
It really takes a minute.
(35:57):
I think that's why alsosometimes I didn't I didn't get
any therapy or anythinglike that.
I basically coached myselfinto that mentality
that you're good andyou've got this and you know
you are thin.
But it did.
Take me a minute.
That's a great point.
That's one of the thingsthat I see.
Why might sometimes peoplemight need to get
some counseling with theirweight loss because it is it's a
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transition.
I always say I had like alittle person living inside
of me that now is goneand you kind of have to weigh
that goodbye.
And some people don't know howto let it go.
I don't know.
I don't know all the psychologybehind it.
But for me, it didtake a minute.
It's a it's a thing.
It's a thing you don't seeyourself.
So, you know, you as coachingpeople to their success,
(36:41):
as you understand the strugglesthat they go through.
Yeah, it's not overwhen it's over.
Continual journey for sure.
Absolutely.
Sticking around positivelike minded people.
Yes, Definitely helps.
Yes. Yes.
You you know, there'sa lot of negative
Nellies out there that are goingto say, oh, you know, I've done
that diet and I'm not goingto lose it.
(37:01):
And well, maybe it's going towork for me, you know, like
you just have togive it a minute.
I can't let that negativityget into my head
because it could you know,you have to stay positive again
every morning.
You have a choice to livepositive or go the other route.
Choice is yours.
Absolutely.
So do you still plan your mealsor are you a little freer
(37:21):
with that?
Yeah, I'm not like that anymore.
When I want to get backon that regiment, then I have
to plan it.
You know, if I am on aspecific plan that I want
to keep, you know, I kind ofalready know what's going
to work for me and what's not.
You know, I you know, you know,you know, snacking is is big.
(37:42):
If I'm going to a snackand has to make good choices,
if not, I fall off the wagon.
That's always been kind ofmy downfall.
I love like I like snacks.
That's my thing.
I don't eat big meals.
I just like grace all day.
Right is good because thenyou get smaller meals.
I, I tend to do thethe fasting so I just literally
I go to your gottenan empty stomach.
(38:03):
I cannot eat anything.
It's just doesn't do mewell the heat just not not good
so I just have a cup of coffeeand when I get back 1030 11
technically when I havemy breakfast I'll have a snack
or mid-afternoonand then I try to
eat early dinner.
That's another thing.
I don't like to eatearly dinners.
That is your for me, I thinkthe biggest downfall in anybody
(38:26):
that's trying to lose weightor to even maintain a healthy
lifestyle.
I'm not a big drinker.
I don't drink a lot of alcohol.
I'll socially once in ablue moon, but it's not my thing
either.
Not because of anything.
It's just they don't.
I don't like it.
It's okay.
I do love sweets.
That's my thing.
But I try to stayaway from them.
I'll.
I'll have something sweetonce in a blue, but I know that
(38:46):
I'm not supposed to.
So those just makinghealthier choices with the stuff
that we have.
Why I like in whiteworked for me to have
the rotation diet was becauseit had things that I like to eat
and it was for 21 daysand you recycle and you start
over again.
It was a rotationmade by a doctor who had had
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a heart attack.
He has a great story.
I forget his nameand he basically, as a
cardiologist, said,I was going to die.
I was a doctor.
And he said, needs it.
If you don't lose weight, you'regoing to die.
So somebody tells youthat, gosh, you better
do something about this.
It could happen to you. Right?
So that was like so Iread his book and then I thought
(39:30):
I would do a little dietsall the time.
Have I done 1000 differentour diets?
Sure.
They haven't worked for me.
You have to find what worksfor you.
There's so manydifferent choices out there.
Again, you have to find thingsthat you like because if
it's going to give you stuffyou don't like, you're setting
yourself up for failure.
End of story.
You can't drink soup for 21 daysand think it's going to
(39:51):
be awesome.
Like those dietsdon't don't work.
I think it'll be a veryjust a quick fix to lose
a couple of pounds to put adress on.
But then you're right back.
You eat and you gain those £5back like this.
So you got to find what worksbest for you.
You know, maybe go towhen you get your annual
(40:12):
checkup, talk to your doctors.
Hey, what do you thinkwould be my best in my.
And sometimes your own doctorhas diets for you that you know
and I using the word dietit do hate it because it's
just a stigma.
It's a lifestyle change.
It's making healthy choicesand making that decision
that you want to live healthy,however that may be.
You don't want tolook like Barbie.
(40:33):
That's okay.
You want to look healthyand feel healthy
that when you're blood workcomes in every year,
you're like, I feel goodabout myself.
I'm good.
So that's that's the best advicethat I can give anybody.
Yes.
And you can still keep upwith those young grandchildren
of yours. Yes.
Yes, yes.
Yeah.
And so many of them.
How many do you love?
(40:53):
I have six.
I love them all.
They're all some of themlive here.
I'm close.
Some of the little Orlando.
So they're pretty close.
We close?
Yeah.
Not have close across thecountry. So.
No, no.
Normal. Yes.
I'm very, very blessed and veryfortunate to have my family
close by.
That makes me happy.
Nice. Yes.
Family is a lot.
Yeah, it is.
(41:13):
It is.
Hey, Anna.
So tell me if youwere to give our
listeners a goal to achieve intheir health and fitness
lifestyle changes, maybewhat would you like to tell
our listeners?
That's a good one.
Again, I think that don't setyourself up for failure,
(41:33):
set yourself up for yourown success.
And I always saythat you can eat an elephant
one bite in the time.
You can eat it all at once.
So it's little goals and rewardyourself with those
little goals.
Don't be so hard on yourself.
Weigh yourself every day.
That's just going to beat you upand you're just going
to be like, No, get a goal.
Whatever that goal is,if you find whatever exercise
(41:54):
you feel happy with,stick to that and stick
to small goals.
But you know what?
I want to lose £5.
That's perfect.
And you know, wow, this works.
And then you're like,okay, maybe I can lose ten now.
So just small goals and just go,Don't rush it.
It took you a long time to gainthat weight.
Is going to takea minute to lose and feel good
(42:16):
about whatever.
If it's just£1, it's £1that you lost, however that
may look.
And that is really ultimatelythe best all the way
to the new Year to the weight.
Why don't you start now?
Making healthier choices today,said of eating a piece of cake,
have a piece of fruit instead ofhaving a Diet Coke, have a water
with some limit Healthylittle choices that you make
(42:36):
and things that you cut outare going to start to make
a difference.
Before you know it, you'relike, Wow, this is
really awesome.
And you see the results already.
Your going to look better,you're going to feel better,
you're going to have betterenergy, and then you're going
to want to keep with thosegood goals because then
you're not sabotaging yourselfto feel bad.
That's my best advice.
(42:56):
Absolutely.
Yes.
Great advice.
Look, I love that.
I love it, Love it, Love it.
All right, Ana.
So if anybody wants toreach out to you bold ladies
in business or your imageconsulting or as a makeup
artist, we'll have thatthat information for people
in our show notes.
So you never know who mightreach out to you and seek
(43:20):
your way.
Their advice or them want toget involved in the bold ladies.
Absolutely.
Welcome.
More people, right? Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's been so much fun.
Thank you for coming on.
Believe me, you will bean inspiration to others
out there.
You are a great day.
This is Angela Grayson from theLoving Life Fitness Podcast.
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To help others in theirfitness journey.
It’s all possible! It's timeto wake up.
Here we go.
This is Angela Grayson fromthe Loving Life Fitness Podcast.
To help others in their fitnessjourney.
It's All Possible! It’s timeto wake up.
(00:35):
Here we go.
Hello, everyone.
This is Angela Grayson from theLoving Life Fitness Podcast,
where we talk to professionalsand everyday people just like
you and me about their healthand fitness and their journey
in life to get to where theyare today.
(00:55):
And today we have with usAna Reyes-Ouzts.
And we are going to betalking about her journey.
Hi Ana, how are you today?
I'm doing awesome. Angela.
Thank you for having me.
I'm super excited to shareand spend some time with you.
Yes, me too.
You're a wonderful personand I see you doing so much
and I can't wait to hear moreabout your interesting life.
(01:18):
Start with your journey in lifethat relates to health
and fitness.
Maybe people who have inspiredyou.
So go ahead and talka little bit about yourself.
Thank you for this opportunitybecause like you said, everybody
has a journey and somehowwe end up here.
I am short of almost 64.
I'll be 64 next year.
So I have a lot ofchapters, right?
(01:39):
As you get older, you have morechapters in your book.
But my journey really withhealth started as a young
person.
I got married young.
I had my daughtersin my twenties and, you know,
life was just it was good.
But I kept gaining weightand gaining weight and gaining
weight.
And in my thirties, my earlythirties, I really picked out,
I believe, my heaviest weightthat I could ever imagine.
(02:03):
And I get super emotionalbecause it's something that
Is that a good part of your lifeis sort of a sad part.
My mom, God bless her,she would always try and say,
you know, you should reallytry to lose weight.
So she kept giving methese diets and popping up.
And there was a diet, actually,it happened with Publix.
So Publix got together with theAmerican Heart Association
(02:24):
and there was a doctorand the book is still in
existence because I chapterthat was called The
Rotation Diet.
And every week they wouldgive you the little sheet
with the food that you would buyand you would eat.
And it was a cycle of 21 days.
That's why it was calledthe rotation Diet.
Mind you, I was a young momand had little kids and life
was super busy.
So diet and exercise was not inmy agenda.
(02:46):
I looked at it and I said,You know, this kind of
looks like the food I could eat.
And I brought my, you know,the father of my children,
which was not I'm not marriedto him anymore.
And my two little girls,which now are grown women.
And I said, look at this weight,because I'm never going to
weigh this again.
That was that decision thatyou have to make.
Nobody else can really do itfor you.
(03:08):
And I always say that it's yourown journey when you're
ready, however that may look,whatever diet you do
and I don't like to use the worddiet, it's a lifestyle change.
And whatever exercise you'regoing to do, it has to work
for you and you can never do itfor anybody else.
So I shamefullygot on the scale.
And I can say thatI weighed £197 when I
(03:29):
weighed myself that day.
And that was harsh.
34 years ago.
I've never weight that again.
One of the journeysthat I did was it took me
a whole year to lose the weight.
There is no magic pill to loseweight instantly.
It has to be a healthy journey.
I always tell people that that'sthe way that you should.
(03:51):
And the most important thingis that take your time
to lose it.
It took you a minute to gainall that weight.
Why would you want to lose itin one second?
You can't.
You have to be patientwith yourself.
And one of my best fitnessstories and I have so many
to still share.
I didn't really go into the gymand my ex was really
into fitness.
And he did bodybuildingin weight.
(04:12):
So I was around all thatatmosphere, but
I wasn't into it.
So I decided to go to the gymand at first said, You know, I'm
going to date myself so bad.
Richard Simmons had the best gymand I loved doing the step
and stuff.
And so I started to go there.
But then I said, You know what?
And now I'm going to go,You know, when I was still super
chubby, I started to go tonow I believe it's L.A.
(04:34):
Fitness used to be calledVic Tanni, completely
dating myself.
Again, it went to like 300different kinds of names.
And I would go thereand do my stuff.
And then a year later,I was still going there
and somebody was comingup to me.
A gentleman is now.
Do you come here often?
I go, Actually, I've been herefor a year.
I was that chubby girlthat was in the corner.
And now you're talking to mebecause I weigh X amount of
(04:57):
pounds less.
So it goes to show you thatthis stigma of being
overweight or notbeing overweight for me was like
and I do want to say thateven though I was
that overweight, I was alwayssuper confident.
I need to share that becauseif I don't, I'd be
cheating myself of who Ireally am.
Being overweightnever defined who I was.
I was always a positive person.
(05:17):
I always, you know,took super good care of myself,
always into the makeupand my clothing.
And I held my weight really wellbecause people didn't imagine
that I had lostthat much weight.
I lost £50 immediately.
Probably took me like six,seven months, eight months
to lose it.
And then I did go to a doctorthat had been an
OBGYN specialist and nowhad realized how many women
(05:38):
as they've had children and gothrough hormones and all that
stuff, have a hard timelosing weight.
So he basically coached mehow to lose weight.
I really got into like a lot ofless calories, probably
like less than athousand calories a day.
So it was very regimented dietbecause my body had gotten
into a super plateauand I had it lost any weight.
(06:00):
So that doctor helped me with mylast journey and I lost like £30
with him.
So it came out to be like75 to £80.
And he passed away because Ichecked to see.
And one of the thingsthat he said was, you're one of
the few people that lostthat much weight and kind of
bounced back into your own skinbecause sometimes your body
(06:20):
looks weird or or does doesn'tfeel good or you or you're
not healthy.
But I was healthybecause I did it slowly again,
that magic were too slowly.
So I came into my own,of course, a new journey.
I had lost all this weightand is also confident
with myself.
Fast forward, I always wasin the gym trying to exercise
and find my best selfand I loved spinning.
(06:41):
Spinning was my thing,my addiction, my everything
and my husband.
Now, Henry said, You know,you should really become
an instructor.
I'm like, Me, an instructor?
Like, No, no, no.
I like I like being hereand enjoyed myself and having
that fun ride.
And I was workingout at Bally's, which was
Big Tanny Now it's Bally's,the best corporate story ever?
Yeah, right.
(07:01):
So the regional managerwas spending a lot of time
in that particular clubbecause it needed
to be revamped.
So you know how corporate works.
Mysterious ways.
Her name was Donna and she said,you know, I really like how you
you do your class at spinning.
I'd like for you to becomean instructor.
And I said, you know,that's so weird.
Did you asking me this becauselike my then boyfriend,
my husband, he saidI should do it.
(07:23):
She said, Well, you know,we will pay for you to become
an instructor.
And back then it was spinningand it was Johnny G.
Which came.
If anybody knows the storyfrom spinning, it's from
California.
He was a real California dudeand he loved to train
cycling outdoors but realizessometimes it was raining.
People got run over by a carand it's dangerous, right?
(07:43):
So his way of training was thathe created the spin program.
So I said that I would do it.
And it was a rigorous training.
If you know you're an instructorand you understand training
takes time and effort.
And so then I fastforward got hired and of course
they gave me that wonderful slot
at 6 (08:01):
00 in the morning on a Thursday because I was
a paralegal.
So every time that my classwould come up, I wouldn't
sleep the night that wholenight thinking I wasn't going
to get up.
Why would I not get up like,oh my gosh.
But it was actually somethingthat I didn't realize that I was
called to do was to coach peopleto their own successes.
I became the queen of Mondaynight, Thursday morning,
(08:23):
and then Saturday morning.
So I really found my lovefor fitness and helping
other people find their journeyand feeling good
about themselves.
And again, I loveall exercises, so I feel like
if you find your guru,it's going to be amazing.
I know that you're yoga.
I am completely obsessedwith you.
I love to do weights.
(08:43):
I was running a lot, butI injured my back.
So now I walk.
It's whatever that fitnessjourney looks like for you.
Yeah, I strugglewith five or £10, but everybody
does.
I know what I do wrongand then I go right back to
I got to get back to my littleregimen of, you know,
eating healthy, knowing whatthis body needs to do.
Yeah, we have to give ourselvesgrace and be human.
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Yes. Yes.
And then come back to wherewe were before.
Same thing when the holidayscome, when you go to space,
you need to give yourself grace,give yourself the time.
And as long as you know thatwhen you get back,
you'll be able to get rightback into it.
Not everybody has that passionfor fitness, so that's
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what makes it hard forso many others.
But the way you try to reach outand help other people
by becoming a spin instructor,and I'm sure that takes you into
different realms too,because then people start
coming to you after classand talking to you
about different things.
Then it and it does feel goodto help others because it's
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not always so simplewhen you don't have the drive
and the stamina to do itall on your own.
But the fat also that youare able to get on a program.
When you realized that youhad to make a turnaround
in your life and you didn't yoyo back and forth though,
that happens to so many people.
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And that's the hardest thingfor me to train into people's
minds.
The psychologicalaspect of trying to stay healthy
and into shape and readyfor life.
Because not only doesour fitness level help us
with our bodies and our health,but also our minds.
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What has your fitnessjourney done for your mind?
Great point.
And I believe that it's not justlike you said, it's not just the
physical sense and the medicalpart of, oh, you're going to
be living a healthier life,but your head is the healthiest.
I would say thatthose six inches between your
two ears can really mess you upyour brain.
But when you are in a positivespace in your self, that's what
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you portray, That'swhat you have.
You sleep better, you havebetter energy.
Who is around you as wellis important because then
you're around peoplethat are also taking care
of themselves and they'rein that positive space.
So the whole journey is amazing.
It's a transformationthat it does start with you,
but if you find a communityof other people that are
into what you do, then you'recheering each other on as well.
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So it all becomessuper positive.
And I love the point you makebecause as an instructor, people
look up to you and you know,you can really make a difference
in how somebody's going to feelabout themselves.
You have a choice every dayto wake up and do the
right thing for yourself, oryou can make the choice not to
against you.
But when you surround yourselfwith people that if you don't
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show up for a minute,you're going to show up.
Hey, you haven't been to class.
And I mean, there's everything,okay, AB, I miss you there.
And you find that communityof people that love what you're
doing as well.
Then there's accountability,there's positivity and there's a
sense of you're feeling goodabout yourself and you're
helping other people.
It goes full circle,in my opinion.
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You don't have to bean instructor to feel
good about it.
You just have to be willingto work on you to help
other people.
And if they see you changing,they can say, Wow, if
she did it, I could do it too.
Does it matter how old you arewhere you came from, what your
background is?
You just have to make thatdecision to do it.
The fact that you hadto go through so much
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to finally become that spininstructor.
Yeah.
You had a journey to talk about.
Yeah.
You know, sometimesI look at myself and I've always
been into health and fitness.
That's just me.
Some words exercise all my life,so I don't have that
kind of a story to tell people.
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I can tell people otherpeople's stories, but try
to help them in that way.
Yeah.
So no matter how much I try,I really of course, that hasn't
happened to me,so I don't really understand it.
But that's my journey.
So it is what it is.
But I'm still trying to helpother people with theirs.
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So just the fact that you'reputting this together,
I could say something toone person that could trigger
their feelings and say,You know what, I can do it too,
because they see meand they think I've always
looked like this because maybepeople don't know me from 30
plus years ago and don't knowthat.
You know, I used to bethat chubby girl that didn't
really do anything to loseweight at that point.
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But I feel like, yes,I can do this.
And I did, and I madethat decision.
So if I can help one person.
So when people are overweightand I'll say, you know what,
I can relate to you,they don't know that I can until
I open up and you kind of sharewith them where I've been that's
so beautiful.
And that is the reason why Istarted doing these podcasts,
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because I could only give peopleso much information.
I'm only one person.
I can't be an experton everything.
So by talking to other peopleabout their journey,
somebody might say, Oh,that's me, you know?
Yeah, look at look at her.
You know, I canif she can do it, I can do it,
you know, and I need to get upevery morning and do things
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just a little bit differently.
You said earlierlifestyle changes making my
style changes.
And you know, we can all dothat.
Change is hard.
Most people do not like changein their life, but that's
the only way that thingsare going to happen and things
are going to get better.
We need to make little changesat a time to make our
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lives better.
I agree.
I agree.
I think that I comefrom a generation where, like
my mom never went to the gymand I see that the effects
of what's happening to her now,her health, I always said, gosh,
I don't want to be that person.
I want to be active.
I want to live a healthy lifefor myself, for my kids, for my
grandkids, and, you know,just have some sort of
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quality of life.
And not that it'sgoing to change, but it's
going to make it betterif you're active and, you know,
for arthritis purposes,for your joints.
Yoga has opened so manymore doors for health
and feeling good about myselfand my body because I needed
that.
I wasn't always doingyo that would do hot yoga
like once in a while and I wouldincorporate it with my spinning.
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And I did CrossFit and I wassuper intense, but
I got injured.
So being injured I had topull back and say,
What's working for me or what'sworked for me in the past?
It was my eluga and so thathelps me physically
and mentally stay in that zoneof health.
And I still do the weightsand I still walk.
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And if I can incorporate aspin class here and there
now, then kind of like findingthat balance of my fitness.
So you're right, it needsto be a decision that you make.
I can't explain itto the person.
It's just when you wake upand they say, I'm tired of
of looking like this oror feeling unhealthy or not
feeling my best, Youyou can do it.
Nobody can tell you.
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You wake up that dayand it's like the light
bulb went off and then you haveto stick to it.
Is it going to be easy?
Not going to be easy.
If it was easy, then everybodywould look like a rock star.
But it's not going to be easybecause you have to make
tough decisionsof eating healthy and making
those choices and planningahead and planning for,
you know, a vacationor planning out.
And not that you're goingto never eat any of those things
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again.
That's not life is findinga balance.
You ate a lot during don'tdo peaceful don't be so hard
on yourself then justbounce back and start up again.
But you can't let it go.
Percentage just escalatesand keeps going and keeps going.
Before you know it, you're backwhere you started.
Let's talk a little bitabout the doctor that you had
in your life that reallyhelped you a lot and got to
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your plateau.
That is a big problem for alot of women hitting the plateau
and not knowing what to doto make changes, to keep
on going forward and sometimesgive up.
So talk a little bit about whatthat doctor specifically did
for you.
If you can remember, that wasa million years ago.
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But the most importantthing is that terrible word
accountability.
So it was based oncalorie intake, it was
low calorie.
You really were not supposedto exercise as much because when
you had that little amountof calories and he you know,
he has to test you, make surethat you're healthy for it.
He would give meamino acid shots, which helps
you to burn fat and B12 shots,which is also very healthy
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as well.
And then going into talk with him once a week
and weighing yourself, well,kind of like, okay, I have to
stay with this specificallyto get on a scale every week.
So I really feltlike that was it.
Another thing that Icut completely and don't hate?
The haters want to hate me.
Diet Coke.
Diet Coke.
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I was so addicted to Diet Coke.
I made the decision not to drinkDiet Coke, not to
drink caffeine.
I'm one cup of coffee personand the rest of it is wah
wah with lemon water.
With coconut water like I do notdrink coffee.
That's not my friend.
Those are one of the things thathe took away and is
probably the bestthing that he did for me because
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diet Coke, I feel like thoseartificial sweeteners
kind of kick in your desireto even eat more.
I don't know what it is.
I can't explain it,but it really did help.
And once he realizedthat I had lost all my weight,
he says, You're done.
You just now need to findyour maintenance program.
So you just had to kind ofslowly incorporate
a balanced diet.
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And I never really likeI never really gained it back.
Yet ten or £15, always, alwaysand forever.
By ten or £15.
I battled them always,but that's just me.
It's my metabolism.
I think that one of the thingsthat if you hit a plateau,
go and talk with your doctor,get your get your bloodwork.
I'm not a doctor, but the doctorcan see if there's hormones
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involved.
If it's your thyroid,there might be something
then that's not allowing youto lose a weight, because if
you're doing everything thatyou're doing, you've cut
the calories, you've cut,you know, whatever you're doing,
you're exercisingwith moderation, You're you're
drinking your waterand you're not seeing anything.
There might be something else.
So you can't be your own doctor.
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You have to find seekat that point.
If you you know,you need to lose
a lot of weight.
If you need a little bitof weight, go the healthy route.
That's the most important thingthese days.
When you exercise, what isyour routine look like
and do you do it on your ownwith others requests?
All right.
So my yoga is my staple.
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I pretty much go to yogabetween four and five
times a week.
The days that I don't do yoga.
Like yesterday, I didn't yoga,but I did weights.
I go to the gym.
I do 30 minutes of wait,30 to 45 minutes.
And if I don't find the timeto go to the gym, I put a
YouTube video that's a 30minute workout with weights
and that's what I do.
And it's not heavy weights, it'sjust repetition.
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Something to get that bodyinto a weight bearing role.
From my route, my pulse.
I feel like I need that.
Even my doctor said,just got to keep incorporating
those weights.
Sometimes I just doa really nice walk,
three mile walk, brisk walk.
I feel like it's so goodfor your heart and then
you're outdoors.
The weather's amazing.
I love a brisk walk.
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At least once a weekand that's it.
I haven't really founda spinning gym here.
There's one in Saint Augustineand one in Daytona of the state
that I like.
I like to incorporate that backinto my repertoire of
exercise in.
If I can get that, I'm happy.
I'm happy with how I feel.
I think that I founda great balance again
of commitment at leastsix times a week.
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I'm exercising, I'll take offone day, but less than that,
then you're justnot really doing anything.
You're just kind of likeriding the wave, but not
really making an impacton your health.
It's so important to keepthe body moving.
Yes.
And as we get older, so good forthe bones.
You all that weightbearing exercise, the doctors
will tell you that wedefinitely need that our bodies
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start going backwardsafter the age of 30.
If we don't find some kindof exercise with weight
bearing exercise, our bodiesare going to start
going backwards,going to have all kinds of
problems, especially if it's inyour genes.
Biology to be very proneto arthritis, osteoporosis,
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heart problems.
Why not get on top of it?
Get a jumpstart on that. Yeah.
And then for for peoplewho don't have the drive
to get out there and work outon their own, what do you advise
for them?
That's a super good question.
So I think I go backto community because I feel like
if they find a community,there's a million groups
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in our community that are free.
Find something.
There's moms that walk.
There's groups that walkat sunrise.
Sunrise, not my thing.
I don't want to work at sunrise.
Life, but if I work forsomebody else, you know,
I woke up foreverat sunrise, but somebody out
there might that might bethat perfect time.
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But then again, there'saccountability.
There's great gyms here.
When I first came here,I joined a gym and there was
a community.
I have found amazing friendsfrom that gym from going there.
And then you're excited to takethose group classes.
If you're not the kind of personthat has that commitment
to yourself or hasthe discipline to go do
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weights on your own,find a class and go with
the group class.
I believe that there's somuch energy and you feed off
each person's energyand then you find
your commitment.
And if you're not there, they'regoing to say, Oh my gosh,
Angela didn't show up to classtoday.
I wonder what's going on.
She hasn't been here fora couple of days.
So they're going tocheck up on you because now
you're friends.
There's commitment, there'saccountability.
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I love CrossFit prospectsfor everybody.
When I was at my best,I was turning 50 and I wanted
to be my best version of me.
I was like on it.
It was at the beach.
Was it hard? Yes.
Was it awesome?
Yes.
But I was committed.
It was a group of usto this day.
We're all friendsand I felt like, Yeah,
I can do this.
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So there's so manydifferent stages of different
opportunities that you can find.
I think it has to be in a group.
If you don't have discipline,find your way.
Very good.
Yeah.
There's a new little placewe have here on Flagler
Beach called BeachfrontNutrition.
Mean.
I know it's so cute, butI love the people there
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that are awesome.
Raymond and his littlefamily there and they do their
beach workouts and it'sjust amazing how many people
are attending his beachworkouts and they do the bridge
walks, you know, one in theyou know, another one
in the evenings.
They're also going tobe starting a men's
group on Sunday.
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Sleepy Sadie Yeah.
So and it's all free.
Like you said somethingfor everybody there's just have
to find your way.
I mean you need people who havelived here that a long time.
But because of the new businessthat's opened, you know
they found a way to roundpeople up nice amounts
and oh, great.
So if anybody's looking anybodythat's looking for something
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like that, they do allkinds of workouts
where people can get involved.
I'll love going tosee all levels of people
out there on the agreed.
Yeah, love that.
So in talking about community,you are an amazing individual
when it comes to bringingwomen together.
So tell us aboutthe other things that you do
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in your life to help women,to support women, to become
more successful.
Tell us.
Yeah, I'm from Fort Lauderdaleand I had always been networking
and was, you know,in a community where I had to
get out there and do whatI needed to do.
I was a a director,a catalog sales director with
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Mary Kay.
And so I met so many womenand did a lot of networking.
And I always, always feltlike, gosh, if I can do this
a different way, I would alwayswant to do it differently were
making connections.
And so I started to havelike little groups at my house
back in Fort Lauderdale andmaking friends and just making
breaking relationshipswith women that would help
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each other out.
Fast forward, we retired hereto Palm Coast.
My husband is a retiredfirefighter there, and I kind of
kept doing my thing.
I became a stylist with Kabi,which was clothing.
And I can if I can find my nicheand I didn't.
So I started to do the samething again.
I started to do it at my houseand, you know, meeting
business women and tryto invite them and trying
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to do that.
And I was always into my makeupand I was working with Dior
and some other things.
And so COVID hit, and that wasthe end of that.
And almost like ten monthsinto COVID, my sister was like,
oh, you know, I moved here,I really need some help.
And I said, I don't know,I'm done with all this.
I'm shutting everything down.
I stepped down from everything.
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I was still doing my makeup.
And, you know, I you know,I represent a line and I
did my lashes and stufflike that.
And so she said, Well, let'stry it and see what happened.
Then I said, Okay, well, we'llvery reluctantly, I wasn't ready
to do anything else,so I'm not going to tell you
anything different.
In June, three plus years ago,we met at Hooligans over at the
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parking lot and it was like nineor ten girls that were there.
And I call them the OGs ofof our group, and the rest
is history.
You know, we really foundthat this was a sense that women
wanted to have a community wherethey could meet and build
relationships and get to knoweach other better and help
each other and their businesses.
And it's grown so much,both ladies and business sort
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of a movement.
We help other women succeed intheir own business.
So when you do that, thengreat things happen.
You know, I just I still havean online business
with my clothing and my makeup,and that's my fun stuff.
I, you know, I enjoyhelping women feel good
about themselves.
I feel like that's my lovelanguage, My calling card
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is to help women succeed.
And my sister is my honestly,my everything.
She helps everything run it.
We have an incrediblegroup of women in all
our different chapters already,and we officially became
a nonprofit, which I thinkwas everything for me to help
the community and give back.
If you have a platform that youcould help a business
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woman, help the communitywith their charities and help
a local restaurant or anorganization that we
can give back to them as well,then we're helping a lot
of people move forward.
So it really has been a blessingand I'm very excited that we've
been able to make a differencein our community and moving
forward, growing.
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It's expanding and the blessingshave been unbelievable
and I'm glad that the womenthat are there are really
to empower each other and makea difference.
And it brings me an immenseamount of joy to see the growth
that that it has brought.
And that's kind of how we metthrough one of one of
our friends.
And so, you know, I always saythat there's room for everybody
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at the table.
There's no competition.
We really want to help eachother out and make sure
that everybody is winning.
I've been to some ofyour meetings that you
have once a month with bothladies and business,
and every time I'm there, it'sjust so exciting.
And to hear people talk aboutwhat they do.
So many women in differentareas of business all trying to
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get out there and makenew friends and new
acquaintances and network,it's really a great thing
and it's always so much fun.
I wish I could come more oftenand unfortunately, my life
and my businesses keep mecrazy busy and but I come
when I can and I end up makingnew acquaintances.
I love that.
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Yeah.
The last time I came,three people have have
booked with me for my podcast.
You know, I love it.
Everybody's got such aninteresting story so that we can
get you on the airand try to help other people
in their life to expandit even further.
I love it.
Yeah, that's I'm fascinatedwith how we can connect
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with different people, differentbackgrounds, and make
a difference and networkwith each other and help
our businesses.
And maybe support that businesssomehow.
And it's just wonderful.
You're also an image consultant.
Yeah, tell us about that.
So an image consultantexactly what it is.
So I have an onlineclothing line.
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It's Copper and Rose and Irepresent Farmacy, which is
a beautiful makeup line.
So if somebody like strugglingand says, you know,
I need a little pick me up orgo through my closet and see
what's going on and, you know,just giving you a couple of tips
and how do you look your best?
You know, not thateverything has to be
about makeup and clothing,but if you feel I always say
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if you feel goodabout yourselves and you
bring your best face forward,then everything kind of
comes together.
So I give them tips onhow to look their best.
And, you know, I loveI love helping a woman feel good
about yourself.
I also I freelance for Chanel,like in November.
I have an eventand I'll be there doing their
makeup.
And I love the transformationwhen I do their makeup
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and they see themselveswith the product finished.
And it's such a such a joybecause it really is like,
Oh my gosh, like I lookso beautiful.
You did that for me,but I kind of teach them step by
step, like, how do you putyour makeup on and what's
your best look?
And I feel like as I've aged,I feel like less is more
for me now.
Like I used to wearmore makeup, now we're less
makeup.
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I like to see just radiatewhat is the best for me,
which is now it's lessonand enjoying that that process.
I think it's awesome.
So little tips to help uslook our best.
So that's why not if it'sbecause something
is about to read, I mean,it seems like these days women
don't wear as much makeup now.
It's more of a beautifulnatural.
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Yes.
That glow and to highlightwhat what is already there.
Yeah I love that.
I really do.
I'm enjoying that process.
I never thought I'd be that one.
But here I am saying lessis more and and your
clothes that you wear, it'ssuch a reflection on what you do
because you always lookso feminine and so beautiful.
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Very nice.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, there's somethingfor everybody.
Although I'm too old for that.
No, you're not too old.
You have to own it.
There is a stage for everythingbut you.
Just as long as you'rewearing things that don't make
you look ridiculous, it'sjust aging gracefully.
I always say that I'm notgoing down without a fight.
I'm just going to keep going.
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I think if you find your style,whether it's boho, whether it's
traditional, what was classic,there's pieces that you can add
to your wardrobe that will makeyou look beautiful and not
look overdone.
Trendy is is tricky.
You can add a couple of piecesto the clothes that you already
have.
And I think that you canmodernizing a little bit
and be so pretty and you don'thave to spend a lot of money.
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You just have to have a coupleof great pieces.
And before you knowit, you're like, Wow,
I just revamped my littlewardrobe with a maybe
a nice jacket, a nice pairof jeans, some jewelry,
and I'm ready to go.
And then you can find fouror five different looks
within those little pieces.
So that's kind of the magicof image consulting.
So you talked a little bitabout your mother earlier,
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how she was an inspirationfor you to help you turn around
and get in the right direction.
Yeah, and I'm sure that nowshe looks at you and she's
so proud of you in so many ways.
It's interesting.
I come from her background ismy parents are pubic.
And, you know, in our lifetime,you know, our foods
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were different.
And even when I was little,I remember that my mom,
you know, I was I was alittle bit chubby.
And my mom put me on a dietand I was like,
I was so miserable.
And she would give methose vegetables and I
would be crying.
I want to eat them.
And, you know, but she helped menot to be that chubby girl,
you know, into adolescent andgetting myself together
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when I was a teenager, which isso important to be healthy
even as a teenager, becausethere's so much obesity
out there.
And so she she did itfrom a place of kindness.
She knew that I neededto lose weight.
But, you know, as a mom,you try to give advice.
I have daughters,too, you know, So sometimes
they listen.
Sometimes they do.
But she did do itfrom a kid place.
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You would just likekind of throw the little diet
there.
Look, this is a really gooddiet for you.
I think you can enjoy it.
So, yeah, everybody wasproud of me.
And, you know, a lot ofmy friends and family said,
you know, you're one ofthose few people that really
never went back to, like yousaid, that yo yo effect
of losing £70 and then goingright back to it.
Why would you do that toyour body?
First of all, it's terriblefor your heart and then,
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you know, you put allthat effort into losing
that weight.
Let's kind of stick to it,though.
Yeah.
I appreciate my mom.
She's definitely of thatold school of Cuban parents,
but they're you know,they're such good people.
And I appreciate that she didgive me that incentive to lose
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the weight.
So and my family, my friends,kind of stuck to me
and helped me because sometimes,you know, you have people,
you know, you're notgoing to lose a weight.
They don't really you're notsurrounded by people that are
encouraging you to do it.
So you have to keep your driveand just keep on going
and show them.
Tell them, tell yourselfI'm going to say, do them.
I can do this so much.
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Yes, I have done it.
I can do it, too.
Absolutely.
Totally.
100%.
Anybody can do it as a decision,whatever level it
is, whether it's£5, £10, £200.
There's so many people thatI've seen that have done it.
And that's a great decision.
You know, the and itwas amazing, though,
that you were ablepsychologically to keep
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your attitude about yourselfor the vibrant, positive
attitude, even when youwere overweight.
Because I've noticed that thepsychological part of it all
with people who are heavy and domanage to lose so many pounds,
still see themselvesas being heavy.
They still walk like they'reheavy, even though they're not.
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And it's so hard as a trainerto get people to drop
the psychologicalstigmas and start acting
differently.
That's a good point.
So I will share that.
Even though none of the clothesthat I had, I wish
I wish I could have done that.
Jenny Craig, where I hadthose pants that were like
the size 20 and nowof a size two, I still
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saw myself as overweight.
It's very, very, very hardon your mind.
It takes a very long time to seeyourself as a thin person,
not as an person.
It just it plays games on youand you're not there.
And even though people are.
Oh, my gosh, you look so great.
Oh, my God, you look so great.
But you're not there yet.
It really takes a minute.
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I think that's why alsosometimes I didn't I didn't get
any therapy or anythinglike that.
I basically coached myselfinto that mentality
that you're good andyou've got this and you know
you are thin.
But it did.
Take me a minute.
That's a great point.
That's one of the thingsthat I see.
Why might sometimes peoplemight need to get
some counseling with theirweight loss because it is it's a
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transition.
I always say I had like alittle person living inside
of me that now is goneand you kind of have to weigh
that goodbye.
And some people don't know howto let it go.
I don't know.
I don't know all the psychologybehind it.
But for me, it didtake a minute.
It's a it's a thing.
It's a thing you don't seeyourself.
So, you know, you as coachingpeople to their success,
(36:41):
as you understand the strugglesthat they go through.
Yeah, it's not overwhen it's over.
Continual journey for sure.
Absolutely.
Sticking around positivelike minded people.
Yes, Definitely helps.
Yes. Yes.
You you know, there'sa lot of negative
Nellies out there that are goingto say, oh, you know, I've done
that diet and I'm not goingto lose it.
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And well, maybe it's going towork for me, you know, like
you just have togive it a minute.
I can't let that negativityget into my head
because it could you know,you have to stay positive again
every morning.
You have a choice to livepositive or go the other route.
Choice is yours.
Absolutely.
So do you still plan your mealsor are you a little freer
(37:21):
with that?
Yeah, I'm not like that anymore.
When I want to get backon that regiment, then I have
to plan it.
You know, if I am on aspecific plan that I want
to keep, you know, I kind ofalready know what's going
to work for me and what's not.
You know, I you know, you know,you know, snacking is is big.
(37:42):
If I'm going to a snackand has to make good choices,
if not, I fall off the wagon.
That's always been kind ofmy downfall.
I love like I like snacks.
That's my thing.
I don't eat big meals.
I just like grace all day.
Right is good because thenyou get smaller meals.
I, I tend to do thethe fasting so I just literally
I go to your gottenan empty stomach.
(38:03):
I cannot eat anything.
It's just doesn't do mewell the heat just not not good
so I just have a cup of coffeeand when I get back 1030 11
technically when I havemy breakfast I'll have a snack
or mid-afternoonand then I try to
eat early dinner.
That's another thing.
I don't like to eatearly dinners.
That is your for me, I thinkthe biggest downfall in anybody
(38:26):
that's trying to lose weightor to even maintain a healthy
lifestyle.
I'm not a big drinker.
I don't drink a lot of alcohol.
I'll socially once in ablue moon, but it's not my thing
either.
Not because of anything.
It's just they don't.
I don't like it.
It's okay.
I do love sweets.
That's my thing.
But I try to stayaway from them.
I'll.
I'll have something sweetonce in a blue, but I know that
(38:46):
I'm not supposed to.
So those just makinghealthier choices with the stuff
that we have.
Why I like in whiteworked for me to have
the rotation diet was becauseit had things that I like to eat
and it was for 21 daysand you recycle and you start
over again.
It was a rotationmade by a doctor who had had
(39:08):
a heart attack.
He has a great story.
I forget his nameand he basically, as a
cardiologist, said,I was going to die.
I was a doctor.
And he said, needs it.
If you don't lose weight, you'regoing to die.
So somebody tells youthat, gosh, you better
do something about this.
It could happen to you. Right?
So that was like so Iread his book and then I thought
(39:30):
I would do a little dietsall the time.
Have I done 1000 differentour diets?
Sure.
They haven't worked for me.
You have to find what worksfor you.
There's so manydifferent choices out there.
Again, you have to find thingsthat you like because if
it's going to give you stuffyou don't like, you're setting
yourself up for failure.
End of story.
You can't drink soup for 21 daysand think it's going to
(39:51):
be awesome.
Like those dietsdon't don't work.
I think it'll be a veryjust a quick fix to lose
a couple of pounds to put adress on.
But then you're right back.
You eat and you gain those £5back like this.
So you got to find what worksbest for you.
You know, maybe go towhen you get your annual
(40:12):
checkup, talk to your doctors.
Hey, what do you thinkwould be my best in my.
And sometimes your own doctorhas diets for you that you know
and I using the word dietit do hate it because it's
just a stigma.
It's a lifestyle change.
It's making healthy choicesand making that decision
that you want to live healthy,however that may be.
You don't want tolook like Barbie.
(40:33):
That's okay.
You want to look healthyand feel healthy
that when you're blood workcomes in every year,
you're like, I feel goodabout myself.
I'm good.
So that's that's the best advicethat I can give anybody.
Yes.
And you can still keep upwith those young grandchildren
of yours. Yes.
Yes, yes.
Yeah.
And so many of them.
How many do you love?
(40:53):
I have six.
I love them all.
They're all some of themlive here.
I'm close.
Some of the little Orlando.
So they're pretty close.
We close?
Yeah.
Not have close across thecountry. So.
No, no.
Normal. Yes.
I'm very, very blessed and veryfortunate to have my family
close by.
That makes me happy.
Nice. Yes.
Family is a lot.
Yeah, it is.
(41:13):
It is.
Hey, Anna.
So tell me if youwere to give our
listeners a goal to achieve intheir health and fitness
lifestyle changes, maybewhat would you like to tell
our listeners?
That's a good one.
Again, I think that don't setyourself up for failure,
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set yourself up for yourown success.
And I always saythat you can eat an elephant
one bite in the time.
You can eat it all at once.
So it's little goals and rewardyourself with those
little goals.
Don't be so hard on yourself.
Weigh yourself every day.
That's just going to beat you upand you're just going
to be like, No, get a goal.
Whatever that goal is,if you find whatever exercise
(41:54):
you feel happy with,stick to that and stick
to small goals.
But you know what?
I want to lose £5.
That's perfect.
And you know, wow, this works.
And then you're like,okay, maybe I can lose ten now.
So just small goals and just go,Don't rush it.
It took you a long time to gainthat weight.
Is going to takea minute to lose and feel good
(42:16):
about whatever.
If it's just£1, it's £1that you lost, however that
may look.
And that is really ultimatelythe best all the way
to the new Year to the weight.
Why don't you start now?
Making healthier choices today,said of eating a piece of cake,
have a piece of fruit instead ofhaving a Diet Coke, have a water
with some limit Healthylittle choices that you make
(42:36):
and things that you cut outare going to start to make
a difference.
Before you know it, you'relike, Wow, this is
really awesome.
And you see the results already.
Your going to look better,you're going to feel better,
you're going to have betterenergy, and then you're going
to want to keep with thosegood goals because then
you're not sabotaging yourselfto feel bad.
That's my best advice.
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Absolutely.
Yes.
Great advice.
Look, I love that.
I love it, Love it, Love it.
All right, Ana.
So if anybody wants toreach out to you bold ladies
in business or your imageconsulting or as a makeup
artist, we'll have thatthat information for people
in our show notes.
So you never know who mightreach out to you and seek
(43:20):
your way.
Their advice or them want toget involved in the bold ladies.
Absolutely.
Welcome.
More people, right? Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's been so much fun.
Thank you for coming on.
Believe me, you will bean inspiration to others
out there.
You are a great day.
This is Angela Grayson from theLoving Life Fitness Podcast.
(43:50):
To help others in theirfitness journey.
It’s all possible! It's timeto wake up.
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