June 17, 2024 • 47 mins
Unlock your true potential with unwavering determination! Witness how this inspiring fitness expert, driven by a relentless passion for holistic well-being, has overcome immense challenges to become a beacon of hope for those seeking peak health and performance.
With extensive accreditations and a Bachelor's degree in Human Nutrition, she has dedicated over a decade to helping clients from all walks of life – elite athletes, busy professionals, and stay-at-home moms – achieve their fitness goals through personalized training and balanced nutrition.
Her journey is a testament to the power of perseverance. Despite two devastating ACL injuries that ended her professional soccer career, she refused to surrender. Instead, she channeled her energy into rehabilitation and helping others conquer their own obstacles, whether physical, mental, or time-related.
Prepare to be uplifted by her contagious enthusiasm and humility as she shares her vision for Ausletics CrossFit, a community-driven sanctuary where positivity, happiness, and health reign supreme. Let her unwavering spirit ignite your own fire, inspiring you to believe in your greatness and embrace the struggles that pave the way to success.
With extensive accreditations and a Bachelor's degree in Human Nutrition, she has dedicated over a decade to helping clients from all walks of life – elite athletes, busy professionals, and stay-at-home moms – achieve their fitness goals through personalized training and balanced nutrition.
Her journey is a testament to the power of perseverance. Despite two devastating ACL injuries that ended her professional soccer career, she refused to surrender. Instead, she channeled her energy into rehabilitation and helping others conquer their own obstacles, whether physical, mental, or time-related.
Prepare to be uplifted by her contagious enthusiasm and humility as she shares her vision for Ausletics CrossFit, a community-driven sanctuary where positivity, happiness, and health reign supreme. Let her unwavering spirit ignite your own fire, inspiring you to believe in your greatness and embrace the struggles that pave the way to success.
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This episode is brought to you by Tina's vodka.
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Hey, I'm Snedge V from Osletics. You can find me at snedgev.com and on Instagram
S and E Z V and this is her table now you see her
Welcome to her table the podcast that shines a spotlight on the badass women who are redefining the game join host
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Kate Foley and Megan Martinez has paid on lock the secrets of success in the brightest female pioneers in the industry
Welcome back to another episode of her table. I'm so excited. We're celebrating another amazing woman on this show
Today we have snedgev
She is the owner of Osletics across Vitt gym located right here in sunny California
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Snedge also played professional soccer for seven years and played for
Canberra United, Adelaide United and Melbourne victory in the W league, which is so cool
She has been a professional in the fitness industry for over a decade with experience in aquatraining strength and conditioning and
CrossFit we can't wait to learn more about Snedge's story and how she went from being a professional soccer player over in Australia to opening her own gym right here
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Let's welcome snedgev to her table
We're so excited you're here today. Thanks for joining us. I am so pumped to be here
Are you are you gonna make us work out? I mean
She's trying to put it I don't know what your shoes. I'm gonna I'll let you know
Well, thank you so much for coming on
I have seen some of your own shows some of your own
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Social media that you put out there and it honestly is so powerful
Have you always been that striking and that powerful or is it something you had to learn how to do?
I think I think everyone has
Probably that innocence and I had it, but I never showed it so once I understood it once I you know tapped into it
It's always been there, but I really had to learn how to dive deep to actually bring it out
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Yeah, what was there like a moment that made it was there like a pivotal moment for you that was like okay
This is it buckle up buttercup or it just kind of like came with it. She loved it. Yes already. She'd um
I definitely hit I don't give a fuck moment. Yes
We just talked about this was it an age thing or a moment in time thing
I think it was a moment in time where I had lost everything right I hit rock bottom and when someone has
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Nothing to lose they're probably the most powerful person out there. That's when they're dangerous, right?
Because there's really nothing you can take from them, but then they have like you're literally at a place where you can kind of grow
Okay, can you share what happened that you lost everything? Are you comfortable to share that? Absolutely, okay
So I I mean I have a long story, but that moment in particular I had just finished my professional career, right?
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And eight second ACL had actually done that to me and I had moved everything so I completely left my life came over to the states
I had a relationship and a job both of them failed so I knew no one I had no no people around me no relationships
I had no money and I basically like left everyone behind. I was just completely isolated and so I
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Fell into a massive like depression anxiety panic attacks were wild
And I just kind of like thought like this the has to be more right like you get to that moment. You're sitting there just like
I don't feel safe anymore and so how do I create safety? I have to become safety like how do I create security?
I have to become it so whatever it is that I needed I knew I knew it needed to become it
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That was that moment for me
Wow and so like okay, so you're second ACL from playing soccer, right?
Walk us through kind of how you became an athlete and then continued on in sport because I think we see a lot now with athletes
Who don't know who they are beyond sport and I think that's what you're speaking to and it's so important because we lose track
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Sometimes of who we are as a person and we become the athlete when in theory
We're just a person who happens to be athletic or talented, right? Yeah, absolutely and I mean I started playing
Soko when I was six and all I wanted to do was be like my brother
He was his amazing athlete. He traveled around Europe. He was very elite and I just want to be anything like him
So I started playing I didn't know if it was really right for me. So you know you're six years old. You don't know
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You think you do like at eight. I'm like this is it for me. I'm tapped in
So at eight I was like I'm gonna play this sport forever. I'll play other sports, but I want to play this and so
I stayed playing it for as long as I could and at 18 I turned pro and so that's really young like now, right?
Like it's young at the time. It was kind of a bit more normal because like as you're around the sport and as you're around like the
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Representation of it you think it's normal to go into it so young
so
I played pro for seven years and I was very fortunate that was over in Australia and I played for multiple different teams and that's actually what brought me to the states
and I was very fortunate to be able to come over here play for teams play against teams, you know and just really expand myself
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But I knew that when you're gonna be an athlete you really have to be in that mindset. It's a mindset
Like that's it and I think people forget that
Like they think that there's this massive divide
If you want to think of that as a divide there's really just this space and it's the mindset of someone that has drive
Dedication and like they're not gonna let anyone get in their way, you know, so
Yeah, I was 20 years total. I played but seven of those were pro and then how did you take that soccer experience?
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And then now in your career you started a whole entire gym crossfit and you're coaching people your coaching coaches
Can you kind of tap into that? Yeah, so after I my second ACL at this point it was actually my
fourth surgery overall and
You know ACLs teach you a lot about yourself, right? You know, it's gonna be a long process
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You know there's you're gonna be a different person at the end of it everyone talks about this
But only when you actually go through it do you understand but what's cool about being an athlete is you know that you have something to strive for
Maybe it's going back to the sport. Maybe it's just trying to get back on the field whatever it is
But how that carries over into business is that you constantly get knocked down in business
Like people are gonna like try to ruin you people gonna try and get in your way
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What's the difference between that and being in your sport people are trying to get on the way people are trying to win
Right, so businesses you're always playing this game that you're trying to win
It's just there's never really a winner
You know, you can just get as far ahead as you can and so once I stopped I started going well
I can apply this this passion this dedication
That I have for this sport and I can now apply it into helping change people's lives
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So that's how I got into opening my own space opening my own gym
And now going online
So now I help people around the world and I love doing it because it gives me an opportunity
To now take everything I've learned because as an athlete you have to be somewhat selfish
But now I can be selfless
No, I love that
That's powerful. Thank you. That's so bad. No, it's it's funny because until you get to a point in your life
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You don't realize those things if you have to have a failure you have to have a success
You have to have hard ache you have to have like just real struggle
Because that's what makes you relatable right because I think there's so many people that
You know, they haven't had those moments in life because they're young and they're big influencers
But they're not actually don't have the life experiences to back sometimes
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What story they're trying to get you to attach to and I think for you coming you know all the way over here losing everything starting over
You're building something you're proud of your passion about but you also protect
How do you manage a work-life balance for you because I feel like you as a coach is a really invested person
Right any I am correct me I'm wrong, but I feel like you're really invested in making sure you see success in others
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How do you make sure you have enough in your cop to be able to pour into others
Well, I think you have to know yourself, right?
And there's not a magical formula
So some people do well with mixing the two some people do well with actually separating the two
For me like when I help someone and I truly can kind of give to them it fills my cup
So I see that as a benefit now if I'm constantly giving giving giving and I don't give back to myself
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I'm not really going to serve anyone so I need to know how to create space
For me it's about creating space that feels safe that can kind of like give me what I need
And I get a lot of energy off people just as much as I give it
Right so it's like energy exchange
But if I'm always exchanging too much of my own energy and not getting anything back
Well, yeah, I'm gonna get pretty depleted
But I think that's where people get it wrong
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They're like they think that they have to go hard Monday to Friday and then on the Saturday completely detached
Like it doesn't have to be that way
You just got to know yourself and what really drains you
Yeah
And then create space
Yeah, I heard a saying the other day that said
I'm not going to match your energy. I'm just going to protect mine
And it really spoke to me because sometimes you feel like you got a tip for tat
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This for that and it's like that's just not for me
I'm going to protect mine and not give it to you or lend it in a space that's not healthy or safe for me
How have you seen for you as you've gone on this journey from athlete to now professional executive leadership owning your own business?
How have you seen the industry embrace you or have you had a challenge that you've been up against to be accepted?
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Well, I think I think as females it's really nice to see females in
in leadership roles
And I think that
When females speak up in particular and just people in general when they feel like I'm gonna put myself out there
And I'm gonna see if people like it like they may hate it and I have had it like everyone's get some hate
If you don't like you probably not doing it right yeah
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If you don't find a leader you haven't made it yet. Okay, exactly
And so I think for me like putting myself out there
I got people that are like oh my gosh finally someone that's just says it how it is
Someone that just shows up and like one of the the best pieces of I guess feedback
I ever got was someone said to me you are probably the most consistent and reliable person I've ever met
And I'm like okay, that's probably one of the best compliments I can get right because that's not speaking about me on a physical level
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That's talking about my character. Mm-hmm. My character is my destiny
Right, and so if I can carry that and I can embrace and change people through my character
They'll see it. They'll see it in how I speak. They'll see it in how I present
They'll see it in how I show up every day
That's probably what I think I can add value to this world in
Well, when it's your authentic like you say on the show too sometimes it's so intimidating to be authentically yourself
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And when you're fine with it you get she's looking at me in my all-pink crystal suit laughing at me
I don't need I for anyone not watching you can just envision this
I'm blinded it's fine. Listen, we all need a little sparkle in our life. Okay. I don't know. I'm gonna marry again
We need some sparkle
Anyways, like I was saying authentically being yourself
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But also being okay with it because I think you know, we all work predominantly in male dominated industries
And sometimes it's hard to break that ceiling and to get that credibility. Have you had to have that at all?
I think all the time. Yeah, right especially in fitness. Yeah, it helps
But I don't see it as a competition for me like I'm not trying to compete. I'm just trying to change
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I'm trying to create change and if someone else can do it too
Awesome. Let's do it together. But yet like let's not compete with each other
It's actually work together to make a bigger impact
But yeah, of course you I'm gonna always come across people that don't share the same
Kind of perspective. That's what makes it difficult. Yeah, and do you work with a lot of men like do you coach a lot of men and if you do
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Have you found it difficult for them like do they have to like trust you or like rely on you like have you ever had that difficulty?
You have to overcome like having to prove yourself like or you just kind of like I am who I am if you want to learn from me learn from me
If not then oh well, I have such a great answer for this um
I think there's two types of men out there. There's the the men right and the baby boy the baby boy
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I'm stealing this from her because I feel whatever she's about to say I already feel
Um, I think the baby boy gets a little you know
But hurt right by a woman that has a little bit more of a leadership or a woman that's willing to speak up and the man
Know's how to respect a woman right he just shows respect
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And so when I speak to men and they go this girl knows what she's talking about
I'm not gonna try and overstep her. She clearly knows what she's gonna talk about. I'm gonna listen
I'm gonna shut up and listen
Just like I would go to them and be like hey, what's your expertise? What do you know about?
Teach me something. Mm-hmm right. I would listen to a man that said that but I'm not gonna listen to someone that carries ego and arrogance
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Um, and so to me baby boys carry that
I've worked with the field
Because I have a some that I know and I now know how to classify them. Yeah, it's interesting because I do feel like often times
It's um, but even for women too in this space, right? It's everybody's different and like we're especially at her table
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We're like everybody come as you are and we want to share your story and how to empower the next to you
Right because ultimately that's what we're leaving in this world
Not what we do, but what comes behind us right?
So it's for the one before me the one beside me the one behind me of how we're able to empower women and just
Celebrate women because I think we're trained. We talked about this earlier
Sometimes younger girls are trained to minimize themselves to be less of themselves
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Because they're afraid of judgment and they're not seeing anyone that's doing it
And so when you look at women, I'm like speak you know speak up. Yeah share your story be proud of yourself
A man would do the same thing
Yeah, and feels zero regret about it and then we're over here like well, you know
No, like we're bad-ass people too
But we're afraid to share it and I think for a lot of these younger women and younger girls especially on social media to be able to relate and
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Find connectivity in someone that gives them the authentic self is so so important
How do you deal with a haters on social media? We I don't deal well with them
I'm just gonna stay out loud like I can't watch this show sometimes because I'm so scared of what I'm gonna say or do really
I can't I don't have the mental strength to do it. I'm trying
But I don't so this is one one thing I'm probably getting known for is I have a little paid baby violin on my desk
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And so every time someone says something stupid
I will literally send them a violin because that's what they sound like
Little baby violin, you know the little yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, that's the thing
I you're just like oh you're just but hurt because I'm tapping a little cord in you or your trigger
What I'm saying is resonating with you
I think the thing for me that's so hard about social media too is it's like
Sometimes people just feel the need to be unkind
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And there's no reason for it and you have people come to you that want to
Improve their life change their life not only you know physically but mentally
How do you assess that like how do you go about it like someone comes in the gym?
How do you know if it's a good fit for you because
Some people might not be a good fit. Do you have to go down like kind of a checklist or is it trial and error?
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You know right off the bat. I mean, I'm really big at reading people
I think that understanding what someone wants is very important
But here's the thing there's two mindsets once fixed once gross
If someone comes in going I know what I need I know what works. I know what doesn't work. I'm like why are you here?
Yeah, yeah, what do you like do it if someone comes in going something's not working for me. I really need change
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I really want to understand I really want to learn I want to grow
All right, you're in the right place. I'm gonna help you because I'm growth mindset
I can provide you with what you need I can give you value. I can do that
You just have to be open-minded right you have to trust a process you have to know that this is not gonna be just a linear path
If you're open to all of that you're not gonna have any issues
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You just have to be willing yeah, and if someone's willing there's no reason why they can't change
Yeah, and they have to be willing to change them for everything to change for them. Yeah
We spoke about this earlier you have been in the fitness industry for over 20 years
And you were telling me that most people leave after 12 months what keeps you going and how are you still in this business?
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Well, hold on before you say why do people leave? They get burnt out
You know like like the train like trainers and fitness people leave because it's just too much repetitive
Like what is that? I think it's they definitely it's a burnout concept right like they give give given they think more is better
So they try and pack in as many people as possible whether it's whether it's in person
And I'm sure that if there's anyone out there that's even tried personal training
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They pack in as much as they can and then they're just like they don't even get time to work out themselves
And then they're depleted and so that'll happen if they're online they just get they get burnt out from trying so hard and not getting anything returned
It's the process
It's part of the process what keeps me going is that you have if in order for you to be successful
You have to show up and do the boring work every damn day. Mm-hmm. And if you're not okay with that
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You're never gonna make it. Yeah, it's in the boring work, right?
Like anyone can watch this show and be like whoa
But what about the boring work that had to take to build
The boring work. Yeah, the Friday calls where we're like okay, let's get it right
But it's it's interesting because I think that's for anybody's job, right?
Like it's it is not always the top of the mountain the bulk of your career the bulk of your job will be in the middle plateau of life
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And you'll have highs and you'll have lows, but the consistent is the middle
And so I think that's why like who you do it with where you spend your time and then what you actually are like
I think so many and we talked about this with our last guest like sometimes your path leads you to your purpose
And had you not had that path
You probably wouldn't have found your purpose and it's so easy to be like why is this happening for me?
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Why isn't it fast enough? Why am I not getting more?
Why is my business not growing fast enough?
So this you just got to step back and let God God because he's got it
But sometimes you got to help him too and you have to step up to the plate and be willing to change grow and continue to experience things
He's giving you definitely. Yeah, what's what's one of the things that you would advise somebody that wants to start in the sports industry?
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Um
They have to be athletic themselves. So I'm out. So there's that
I think also like well, you just got to understand that like
There's a lot of like discipline that needs to happen
And that's why I like fitness because fitness really shows you that you have to create discipline
And that's like doing things when you don't want to do them
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So when you can create that that carries over into your business that carries over into anything
And also helps you understand people because one of the things that people say is like I don't want to do it
I just I wake up some mornings and I don't want to do it. How can you connect with that person if you're like
Well, I don't know what that's like. Yeah, right?
They you got to know what that's like. So I think in in the any type of sport any type of fitness any type of health
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You have to know what it's like. So you have to experience it. Yeah, so that's where you start
You start by experiencing it and know hey, do you actually have like a true authentic love for this?
And can you then carry that over pay it forward?
Go do that. Yeah. What's one of the most rewarding aspects of your job?
Is that the for you? I mean, I can only imagine sometimes it's probably a physical change in someone
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But a lot of times physical change comes with emotional change and yeah
What's one of the most rewarding aspects of being a fitness trainer?
I think the biggest thing is seeing and hearing someone say I feel confident for the first time in since I was young
Right or something like I looked at myself and actually liked what I saw
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Like I loved it like I actually feel really good about myself
They'll take selfies where beforehand the camera would always be faced the other way right like that's what it was about like you
Even today like I spoke to one of my clients. She's like cries all the time and she's on the phone to me
She's like she's like I'm telling you like I'm a different mother. I'm a different wife
I'm a different human like I'm different and today I can safely say that after working with you you have changed my life
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And so for me I'm like
Damn tell your kids then like that's amazing. Yeah, welcome tell your husband
He's welcome, but you know like so that's that's so rewarding because I'm not just changing like a person
But I'm changing like how they are with others. Well, it's what you're impacting someone beyond the one person right
So when you get it really right you're actually impacting
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Down and down and down and then hopefully the people underneath see like they're making these changes
I want to too right so it's creating that like positive space for growth. Yeah beyond your direct impact
It's that indirect which is so cool that she shares it with you because I think sometimes we forget to
We always stay lean in or lean forward. So nobody lean back and thank the people
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Right that have leaned in on us right and I think it's so hard
In in industry fitness is sports is is just is a thankless job sometimes yeah because people don't
Understand what you have to sacrifice in order to give to them
And so sometimes I love that she did that of like leaning back and saying thank you, right like you're changing because now you're like
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Okay, this is why I do what I do right not because it's cool
Because all this it's like it makes this is what I'm supposed to be doing
If you weren't doing this, what would you be doing?
Um, that's a hard question
Because I think I've been doing this for so long. I can't envision myself doing anything else
I would be still serving in some regard. I would not be able to be
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You know behind a desk. I wouldn't be able to be in a closed room. I'd be out there serving in some way
I don't even care. I really just want to make sure I'm always serving. Yeah
That's I'm so important because Megan and I talk all the time about how like especially for this show everyone's like
Why did you guys do the show and it's like because I want to celebrate other people
It's not what she does or I do. It's like what are other people doing because so many people see you see Megan
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I want to be her. Well, who is that? What does she love? What is she about? How did she become this because there's not
It's it's not just one version. There's it's like the Phoenix right there's versions of yourself that you continue to evolve and develop
Yeah, what for you as at the company that you're at now
What is the culture like and what is imperative for you to have in that gem that like sanctum
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Integrity is huge. So and that's I've carried that over throughout my whole life
Even I just I can't sit well in a space or around people that I feel like the integrity is not there
So I created it and it's one of my core values. It's one of the values
I say if you don't have this and we're not a good fit straight off the bat
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Right, so what are you doing when no one's around? Yeah, who are you doing it for?
You know, what does that look like? That's what I want people to know and and same me being goes for my clients
I'm like hey having integrity be honest. Yeah, what would be the point of not being honest of not having integrity?
I'm gonna see it. Yeah, I already know
So like you might as well just fast up
Right, what we're doing should be working and it's not so when you leave here, what are you doing?
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Yeah, that's not allowing it to work. Yeah, I think integrity is a huge and intention
Right, if you can have an intention
both from
Like outside being a coach into like them actually pouring into us like there needs to be an intention
Yeah, otherwise you just kind of like going through the motions
What how have you seen one the fitness industry grow from when you first started out and to where it is today and like where do you kind of see it going
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This because it like the cool thing about the last few years is that it has gone digital and people are able to
Be coach remotely that's like more accessible exactly like coach you are coaching people who are in Europe and like that's so cool
So wherever you kind of seen it like the growth and where it is today. Yeah, definitely like it's expanded so much online
There's good and bad to that because everyone's now apparently an influencer and especially in the world of fitness
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I get fit in three months and all of a sudden they have all the answers
Right
So there's that that which is like I said it's good because they're motivating people to start
But sometimes it's not the right way. No, it has really transformed right
So people are definitely
Expanding what they do and understanding that like they work with a specific person which I think has been great
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Like people understanding that you can't just work with everybody. Mm-hmm
That is where it has shifted because it used to be like just get fit. Yeah, now it's like well hold on a second
There's these different sports and there's these different ways of getting fit and there's this method
And this method and so there's much more variety out there
Way more like methods to how you want to do your training how you want to do your nutrition all of this stuff
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So it has definitely expanded
Um, and I can see it continuing to expand. I don't know how much further
You can expand because at the end of the day there's only so many new fads that you can bring out right
There's only so many new different like methods of training that you can bring out
But ultimately it always comes back to the basics and the basics always win. Mm-hmm
It doesn't matter. So I think it's really good because more and more people are coming into the space and trying to grow the space and trying to grow
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themselves but ultimately it's always going to be the OGs that are doing the basics that are always going to win. Yeah
So it seems like you have like a holistic approach to training right?
It's not just check a box
Can you walk us through a little bit of like you get a new client? Mm-hmm. What is that holistic
Assessments a good word look like for them because some of them says hey, I want to work out. What does that then turn to you?
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Yeah, so I like to see what they've done in the past
I need to see where their level is at right?
So a lot of the time people have typically started somewhere with someone else or doing something else
And so when they come to me they're typically stalled their plateaued a little bit and so changes are quite
So I'll say to them okay like let's see where your strength is at and your conditioning right so strengthen conditioning
Everyone sees that and they attach that to an athlete but really it's a way of training
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It's a way of actually doing the method that can actually help you with your own fitness level
So I'll kind of look at that and I'll look at well if they want to get stronger
What do they want to get stronger in is it one specific thing because we got to get sometimes we've got to like really understand it
You kind of say I want to get stronger because that could mean anything
So once we want to do that it might be a conditioning piece where they have a goal in mind
They want to run a 10k they want to run a marathon whatever so once I know truly what they want
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Then I can build out the right system for them
And a lot of it is through functional training
I love functional training
I think it's the best method that's out there. I think it's going to always overpower bodybuilding
It's always going to overpower power lifting. It's just going to overpower it all because
We can apply it to every single aspect of our life
So I like the putting people through functional training and then when they come in and I look at their as it like their nutrition
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What do they eat like have they tried something before
Most of the time people aren't eating right they think they are like I eat well and like then they lay it out and like you eat like shit
I don't know what you were thinking but you know and it like
You look how you live so it obviously shows up with that right so
I'll usually kind of like assess their nutrition and see what's missing and then a lot of the time
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I like to see what the people are at with their body composition
So I'll ask them like hey, where's your body fat at?
How much muscle do you have on your body? How much water are you carrying and let's actually let's start there
Yeah, and see how it's like a lot more like okay, it's a bit more intrinsic
It's a bit more detailed
I don't like scales because I think people can easily get so caught up in their mind on the scale
And then they attach their own value to that scale which is so external and so stupid at the same time
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So we'll do that and then I give them breath work
And the breath work is absolutely amazing for those of us that don't know that's going to help you with your stress
So yeah, massive come on. We need a quick bottle class
So everybody lives in final flight right and their survival mode
So that's your sympathetic nervous system when you tap into parasympathetic which is your rest and digest
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That's where you can down regulate decompress chill out
That's the breath work. That's anything you can go from like box breathing
You could do so many different types of breath work that's out there
I like box breathing and it's just like inhaling holding exhaling holding okay, it's like meditation
It's like a meditation, but you're focused solely on your breath and when you do this what happens is you actually transfer energy
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Okay, and you're actually transfer energy to be released and that's what actually makes you feel good
Because people hold tension and they're like I just feel really tense. You're like did you know you could breathe that out?
You have the capacity, but you don't give yourself three to five minutes a day to do this
That's what gets people out of that stress state
So cortisol levels are going to drop
They're not going to feel like they have to reach for the closest candy to fix their cortisol levels
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Right because that's what everyone stress eats because of that so I give a lot of people the breath work
And I think everyone should always be asking themselves anywhere between one and three thought provoking questions a day
So that they can learn about themselves
Right, what is it about me that I can change like who is my highest self?
Right you tap into a better version of you and you'll probably start to become that
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But if you keep thinking about who you were yesterday and last year and last month you're never going to move forward
You're just going to basically walk on a treadmill. Yeah, you're just hamster willing. Yeah doing the same thing
I think one of the things that's so interesting is
I mean, I have young kids, but they only got a PE like once or twice a week
Right, they aren't taught nutrition anymore in school. Yeah
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And PE becomes optional as they get older and so I don't feel like we're giving them the tools to
Even understand their bodies as their bodies are changing and then you wonder why when you're older
your life's in a complete
dumpster fire
Because you don't have the tools
Do you feel like that's a hindrance towards people as they grow up now with that change because obviously you were an athlete
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So you probably didn't have that to that extreme, but yeah
Nowadays, like kids aren't taking PE they aren't having nutrition class. They don't understand mental health
What do you want to see change
Hopefully for this younger generation that continues to have anxiety younger and younger and stress younger and younger
As we see the world continue. Okay, so it's two parts of this number one. Oh my clients
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I say hey the breath what can you do with your kid? I say can you breathe like and I'm like you just go to teach your kids to breathe
They don't even realize that it's literally the essence of life
It's like and it's crazy to do that every day. Yeah, I didn't hoard it. It's crazy
So that and then understanding like the thoughts it's the thoughts right when you can get kids to understand their thought patterns
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Why they think the way that they think and where it's coming from they'll understand and the other part
Is I'm trying to create change. I started a kids class at my gym. It's absolutely amazing. I have a kids coach
It's literally her passion for her life
And so we have like up to 25 kids in a class and she teaches them in meditation
She teaches them nutrition. She teaches them how to get confident and to get strong new skills
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coordination and she's like all right
You're gonna take this out and you're gonna go and tell your parents about it and you're gonna go and apply this just to your life
These kids aren't even playing sport. They just want to like be part of something. Kids just need to be part of something
Like like this is why they start to kind of come together. Yeah, he's like let's do something together
That's the first thing they say when they're growing and it's funny like even like young like I say like the tween years right like their bodies
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They're growing they're changing their goofy their awkward. They don't know what to do with it and then they don't get PE
So it's like yeah, hey, here's a body. I don't know anything to do with and then I'm gonna do nothing with it
And then I'm insecure about it like we're not setting them up for success and the positive talk and self talk is
So important and I say this even like my athletes every day is like you have to
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Don't say something to yourself. You wouldn't say to someone else. Like if you would not say that to someone else because it would be unkind
Why is it okay for you to say that to yourself?
And then when you think about it, you're like holy shit. You're right
But it's like until you actually sit and say to yourself
Why am I being so down on myself with someone said that I wouldn't say that someone else it would make me uncomfortable
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You should be uncomfortable saying that to yourself
Because even just to the highest levels of of athletes right that I deal with at the highest level
They struggle with self-talk because they still doubt they still are not confident
Now there's some that are like the opposite and you're like bro relax
Relax
But in the majority of them all because we're all human at the end of the day
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Some of us just happen to be more athletic or more talented than the other
And I love that you talked about breathwork because I think that something that is so easy for anyone at any fitness level
To do yeah, and it can be done anywhere anytime any situation
You don't need anything to do it. Yes, so you can actually have healthier habits
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By just doing something you do every and even know the numbers
They don't come for me, but probably like 45 seconds you breathe
I don't know maybe you know the answer but like you're doing it constantly you you'll die if you don't
But be intentional about it. It's it is probably one of the most transformative concepts out there
That are is not spoken about yeah
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I've honestly never hear about it
And I work at my fitness all the time. I'm just playing sports and you just don't even think about
How big that is and how big of a fact that has on your life
Yeah
What about like when you are working with different men and different women are you
Targeting and like when you're coming up with plans for coaching are you doing different exercises for each person?
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Or you kind of like seeing oh categorizing all women the same way all men the same way or how exactly do you go about that?
Yeah, so I think everyone is different so they should be treated differently right right like some could come from similar backgrounds
But they everyone's different right they've had a different upbringing they've had a different way of eating maybe
Yeah, and it might be they've had a different way of training up until the point that they came to me
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Even the ones that are somewhat similar they still have differences
So I think everyone should be very much treated for what they need and how they are
So I definitely I'd like I like to be a bit more on the individualized approach. Yeah, yeah, great
Well, I think it's so important because what someone comes in needing might not be what they need three months from now
Six months from now and they can go backwards or they can go forwards. Yeah, what do you think is the number one reason people
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Don't get into fitness more
Um, I think they they know that it requires work. There's a lot of lazy people out there
like
I'm raising my hand
As we said here, it's different between you and busy, I guess yeah, yeah, or excuse us. I don't know
Whatever
I'm gonna go back now. I can go to the gym tonight and be like dying and be like I'm not doing this. I'm not guilty
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I think I really think that people know that it requires work. Yeah, what would you choose the couch?
Yes, something else. Yeah, and that's why they created the couch to 5k
Yeah, right or whatever it's called like that they created that because they need to get the person off it
They need to get the person that's too busy
You know to actually just be able to do 20 30 minutes if that's all they got
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You know, there is everybody gets the same amount of time every single day
Why is it though that the people that are the most successful make the time?
Because they want longevity
They want sustainability. They want to actually have something for themselves
It's also everyone's talking about it being a form of self-care. It is
Because you make yourself better. So I think ultimately the people that aren't going into it are the ones that one
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They don't believe in themselves. They think if they start it
They're probably not going to continue and then people are going to be like, oh what happened to that thing that you started that you didn't continue to do and like
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so then they're going to like people are going to give them a hard time
And they know like I don't believe myself. I don't have the self-worth. I don't even know how to do it. Yeah, I kind of fought it
Yeah, so they'll they'll then do that. They'll talk themselves out of it
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And they'll go well, I'm better off just sitting here. Yeah
Well, I think it's like product of environment too, right? So if you don't come from a household that practices physical and mental health
You're not likely to carry that on into your household and so it's funny like even with with my kids
It's trying to find the balance like they actually go to training. It's funny. They probably don't like training every week
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But they just go to it where they're learning agility coordination things that are just helping them in life
But giving them also that self-confidence
Because they need that and it's good for them
But also it's something I can't do for them. I can't do that for them
And so I love that other people are able to pour into
Kids in youth outside of their household because it might be something that in fact changes their household
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Yeah, which is uncommon, but it's not unheard of
And so when you look at like underserved communities, especially
It's so important to give them the tools to do it
But then also the access to do it. Yeah, and that's what I'm saying like in schools. It's so interesting to me how much it's fallen off
Right like we can take AP calculus, but you know
Health and wellness is looked at as like an option
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Where it should be something that is a requirement because if you're really giving them tools
Beyond school you're giving them life tools. I think everyone's just afraid to like what are life tools who gets to define them
Is that good for my kid or not my kid when
Ultimately overall physical and mental health is so important. I saw
The other day as a celebrity said, you know, I trained actually it was Carrie Washington said she said I have a trainer for my body
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Why wouldn't I have a trainer for my mind? Yeah, she's like I have been in and out of therapy
And people say was why do you start and stop and she goes well because sometimes I have a lot of times sometimes
I don't but I'm what I need constantly is changing and evolving
But I've never stopped. I've just evolved how I've done it
And so I feel like that's so true for physical training too because you might not be able to go to the gym every day
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But there's something you can do. Yep. It's just finding the time to do it and also the commitment to do it
What do you think about these apps? I see you're wearing is it a Fitbit?
No, yeah, yeah, it's a wolf. Oh, oh, okay
What do you feel about that because I have seen like my best friends where Apple watches and they all like
Just talk shit about who's walking the most
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And it's because they can see each other's steps
But then I'm like there's no way you walked that far like what'd you do put it on your dog and running around the backyard
Like what happened? You can't shake it. Yeah, you can
Listen, then it becomes just like are you sure because like there's no way or you're like trying to beat it
But on the other hand, I love it seeing a community where people get to kind of like push and challenge each other
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remotely
What do you think about the fad of kind of like the world the way the world is so ingrained in analytics?
We can call it fitness analytics and how we're sharing that information
Um, I think ultimately your body is going to be the best that you should listen to and I think it doesn't help that people promote it
Right people you get the right person to wear it
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Mm-hmm. I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm gonna become that
If I wear that and I listen to it, I'm gonna become that person
I think that that's definitely what's happening and it's a shame, right?
But here's the thing it's a business. Yeah everything. It's a business fit bit is a business
Whoop is a business and so I like using it as a tool to tool though
I'll take it off and I'll go to sleep and I will not care, right?
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But I don't have an attachment. Mm-hmm people become attached to it
It's just like anything you create any cells or any sense of attachment to anything that you do
You're gonna probably have a hard time. You're gonna struggle and then you're gonna create the killer of comparison
Because your friend out there is doing 10,000 steps. You're doing on the two. Yeah, that's gonna kill you. Yeah
I definitely have a watch
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I don't actually take it as often as like I would want to but it is nice just for accountability
But I will ask a question before we head out. I want to ask you like how did you take that leap from being a professional athlete
But then wanting to start your own gym and be an entrepreneur in your own self because that is scary
Like I can't imagine taking that leap. So what kind of like gave you that motivation?
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So I kept on out growing everywhere I went, right and I ended up knowing more than the people I worked with and for
Right, that's a massive massive kind of like lesson, right? And it's a it's a huge sign
And if you don't listen to it, it's gonna keep like slapping you over the face
So you're just bounced from business to business because you're always gonna outgrow it
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At some point I just got to this point going
I think I got to stop having a boss and stop being a boss, right?
I'm gonna shut it down like that. Yeah, yeah
And so I think once I started listening to that going you know
I'm I go to these places. I end up knowing more than them
Yeah
Like and I enjoy them but then they get envious of how much I know
So the relationship changes yeah, and then you're just like come on like I want to be good
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But you need to step up. Yeah, like they're afraid for me to outgrow you
Yeah, and so then they get all but hurt because you're doing better than they in their own business
And so I started listening to that
Way more and everywhere I went and by the time I hit like the third or fourth place I was like you know what
I mean do my thing. Yeah, and that is I think it was less scary to do that than it was to just keep bouncing from place to base
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I don't want I don't want to be those that person either. Yeah
There's that saying there's one of my office that actually says stop shrinking yourself to fit in places
You've already outgrown exactly and like when you can look at it through that lens like I joke
But it's like God keeps giving you these same scenarios
He's asking yourself are you still stupid? Yeah, like yeah, you're not getting it. Well just keep playing this game until you get it
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And then once you get it you're like
huh
But then once you realize that in yourself that you want more or you can be more you see it more clearly in other people
When you can allow yourself to be more you can see it in other people because you're not afraid of what they bring
You're like I don't want to see you do what I did. Yeah, I don't want to see you keep doing that
I want to help you not make those
Challenges or mistakes. So it's it's definitely it's so impactful and important for young women to hear
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But also just young people to hear keep growing keep being curious
Right and keep pushing yourself to evolve and grow like I call it these people that just
Same job 30 years never change. I can't do that. I wasn't given that like gene
So it's like when you have to grow and change it's scary, but do it
It's being put in front of you to do because somebody behind you is watching you do it
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And waiting for you to do it. Yeah, and that's what you've done
When you went from soccer star to now you're changing people's lives. Yeah
That's so cool. It is cool. You have to wake up every morning and be like I'm a badass
Let's get this day going. Yeah, like can you just send me a video every morning?
Be like you're a badass get to it. Yeah, and make sure you're breathwork. I will. Yes
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I think any of that one of the biggest things I always say to people is like if
If you don't have anything to get up for you're gonna have a hard time. Oh, yeah
So if you do have something, you know, all you're gonna have to say to yourself is like let me just put my feet to the floor and I'm gonna start winning
Yeah, yeah, that's it just show up just keep showing up loran for dance
I'd that one of our very first shows was just keep showing up. Yeah, it might not change
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You're gonna get better just keep showing and it's not easy
No, it's so hard. It's so hard and I think that that's where it's on the days though
When you're truly tested that it matters the most. That's like your performance days. Yeah, right like but you've been in practice the whole time
So when the pressure hits you got to start performing. Yeah, hmm amazing. You're so amazing and inspiring
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I love it. I love it. Thank you. She made me feel better about myself. I know. I'm like taking
Stuff I'm like let me learn it out. It's just like energy. I love it good. I'm glad. Well, thanks so much for coming on. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Oh my gosh so fun
So Nez is such an inspiration. Oh my gosh. I know right. I was like super intimidated at first because I was like
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Are we gonna have to work out in this episode? Yeah, but I think I like calm her down
I think I made everything kind of relax you guys get excited and I was like no no no no no no hold on. Wait a minute. Yeah
No, she honestly it was so cool to hear her talk about how she has taken. I love hearing athlete perspective right she's taken
What she learned as an athlete right she had so many surgeries she said yeah
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To then she was able to take her love for sport and turn it into being able to share that love with other people
That might not be athletic, but are just trying to have a healthier lifestyle right
And so that's so cool to see an athlete find something beyond their sport and it's something that just resonates so deeply with me
Yeah, and I think it's cool too because being an athlete you have to be selfish at times and the fact that she
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Said that she could be selfish when she was an athlete playing professional soccer now she can be selfless and help other people
Feel better about themselves become more confident be a better mom be better dad be you know
Hope their family. That's not just about one person
She's impacting a whole family and I just I think that's such a special you know things
Quality to have and she was such an inspiration. I truly mean that and even how she spoke about the differences between working with men and women and how she
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Individualizes everything that she teaches them. I think that's so crucial and health and fitness these days and I just think she'd be such an amazing coach
And I loved having her on the show. Yeah, I think she could probably put us to a really hard workout. Yeah
Absolutely, but I think it had to be like a 360 what are we eating?
We're doing are we sleeping well? You know for me
I listen to her and I just get so inspired yeah, but then the simplest thing one of the things that stuck out to me is
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She was like breath work. She made all of her clients work on breath work and that helps reduce stress
It helps reduce anxiety, but like at the same time like we're really giving people tools everyone breathes everyone on this earth
Breathe, but she's like no I get to teach my clients how to do breath work to reduce stress anxiety center themselves almost like meditation
Yeah, but then it's good for kids. It's good for older people
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So she has that holistic approach. Yeah, that ain't so cool because a lot of administrators are like oh workout
And she's like no, no, no, no, I need to evaluate you as a whole
So that I can get the best out of you because that's really what she wants she wants to help you be the best version of yourself
The other crazy thing is listening to her talk about how
You know as a woman as a fitness trainer. She trains men and women and some men look at her like how do you know what you're doing?
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And some don't and I loved her little analogy of like men and baby boys
So I'm taking that with me because I know a couple baby boys
Yeah, I would be all do
But I loved her analogy and how to place them because that will then
um
In why am I thinking of the word infiltrate. It's not infiltrate. It will um
Influence
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It will influence you of how you react respond and interact with people when you can understand what level they're on
And it gives you the opportunity to put energy and time into that person or to know if they're just not a place their journey that they're gonna benefit from you
So her energy exchange
I mean, I just I feel like we made a new friend. Yeah
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Also like she's she's I love that she is from Australia. I know here in the states living her best life
Yeah, and seeing another woman thrive in an industry that is so male dominated as well
Love so so cool. She's such an inspiration
We touched on that but like the fact that she can take a leap and leave her career that she was doing and start her own gym and be an entrepreneur is such a
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Inspiring thing for young women young people to see so I think
Here in her whole story her whole whole journey turning from athlete to coach now was
So great and I loved having her in the studio. So thank you all so much for joining her table
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Welcome back to another episode of her table. I'm so excited. We're celebrating another amazing woman on this show
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She is the owner of Osletics across Vitt gym located right here in sunny California
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Snedge also played professional soccer for seven years and played for
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She has been a professional in the fitness industry for over a decade with experience in aquatraining strength and conditioning and
CrossFit we can't wait to learn more about Snedge's story and how she went from being a professional soccer player over in Australia to opening her own gym right here
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Let's welcome snedgev to her table
We're so excited you're here today. Thanks for joining us. I am so pumped to be here
Are you are you gonna make us work out? I mean
She's trying to put it I don't know what your shoes. I'm gonna I'll let you know
Well, thank you so much for coming on
I have seen some of your own shows some of your own
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Social media that you put out there and it honestly is so powerful
Have you always been that striking and that powerful or is it something you had to learn how to do?
I think I think everyone has
Probably that innocence and I had it, but I never showed it so once I understood it once I you know tapped into it
It's always been there, but I really had to learn how to dive deep to actually bring it out
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Yeah, what was there like a moment that made it was there like a pivotal moment for you that was like okay
This is it buckle up buttercup or it just kind of like came with it. She loved it. Yes already. She'd um
I definitely hit I don't give a fuck moment. Yes
We just talked about this was it an age thing or a moment in time thing
I think it was a moment in time where I had lost everything right I hit rock bottom and when someone has
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Nothing to lose they're probably the most powerful person out there. That's when they're dangerous, right?
Because there's really nothing you can take from them, but then they have like you're literally at a place where you can kind of grow
Okay, can you share what happened that you lost everything? Are you comfortable to share that? Absolutely, okay
So I I mean I have a long story, but that moment in particular I had just finished my professional career, right?
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And eight second ACL had actually done that to me and I had moved everything so I completely left my life came over to the states
I had a relationship and a job both of them failed so I knew no one I had no no people around me no relationships
I had no money and I basically like left everyone behind. I was just completely isolated and so I
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Fell into a massive like depression anxiety panic attacks were wild
And I just kind of like thought like this the has to be more right like you get to that moment. You're sitting there just like
I don't feel safe anymore and so how do I create safety? I have to become safety like how do I create security?
I have to become it so whatever it is that I needed I knew I knew it needed to become it
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That was that moment for me
Wow and so like okay, so you're second ACL from playing soccer, right?
Walk us through kind of how you became an athlete and then continued on in sport because I think we see a lot now with athletes
Who don't know who they are beyond sport and I think that's what you're speaking to and it's so important because we lose track
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Sometimes of who we are as a person and we become the athlete when in theory
We're just a person who happens to be athletic or talented, right? Yeah, absolutely and I mean I started playing
Soko when I was six and all I wanted to do was be like my brother
He was his amazing athlete. He traveled around Europe. He was very elite and I just want to be anything like him
So I started playing I didn't know if it was really right for me. So you know you're six years old. You don't know
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You think you do like at eight. I'm like this is it for me. I'm tapped in
So at eight I was like I'm gonna play this sport forever. I'll play other sports, but I want to play this and so
I stayed playing it for as long as I could and at 18 I turned pro and so that's really young like now, right?
Like it's young at the time. It was kind of a bit more normal because like as you're around the sport and as you're around like the
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Representation of it you think it's normal to go into it so young
so
I played pro for seven years and I was very fortunate that was over in Australia and I played for multiple different teams and that's actually what brought me to the states
and I was very fortunate to be able to come over here play for teams play against teams, you know and just really expand myself
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But I knew that when you're gonna be an athlete you really have to be in that mindset. It's a mindset
Like that's it and I think people forget that
Like they think that there's this massive divide
If you want to think of that as a divide there's really just this space and it's the mindset of someone that has drive
Dedication and like they're not gonna let anyone get in their way, you know, so
Yeah, I was 20 years total. I played but seven of those were pro and then how did you take that soccer experience?
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And then now in your career you started a whole entire gym crossfit and you're coaching people your coaching coaches
Can you kind of tap into that? Yeah, so after I my second ACL at this point it was actually my
fourth surgery overall and
You know ACLs teach you a lot about yourself, right? You know, it's gonna be a long process
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You know there's you're gonna be a different person at the end of it everyone talks about this
But only when you actually go through it do you understand but what's cool about being an athlete is you know that you have something to strive for
Maybe it's going back to the sport. Maybe it's just trying to get back on the field whatever it is
But how that carries over into business is that you constantly get knocked down in business
Like people are gonna like try to ruin you people gonna try and get in your way
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What's the difference between that and being in your sport people are trying to get on the way people are trying to win
Right, so businesses you're always playing this game that you're trying to win
It's just there's never really a winner
You know, you can just get as far ahead as you can and so once I stopped I started going well
I can apply this this passion this dedication
That I have for this sport and I can now apply it into helping change people's lives
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So that's how I got into opening my own space opening my own gym
And now going online
So now I help people around the world and I love doing it because it gives me an opportunity
To now take everything I've learned because as an athlete you have to be somewhat selfish
But now I can be selfless
No, I love that
That's powerful. Thank you. That's so bad. No, it's it's funny because until you get to a point in your life
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You don't realize those things if you have to have a failure you have to have a success
You have to have hard ache you have to have like just real struggle
Because that's what makes you relatable right because I think there's so many people that
You know, they haven't had those moments in life because they're young and they're big influencers
But they're not actually don't have the life experiences to back sometimes
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What story they're trying to get you to attach to and I think for you coming you know all the way over here losing everything starting over
You're building something you're proud of your passion about but you also protect
How do you manage a work-life balance for you because I feel like you as a coach is a really invested person
Right any I am correct me I'm wrong, but I feel like you're really invested in making sure you see success in others
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How do you make sure you have enough in your cop to be able to pour into others
Well, I think you have to know yourself, right?
And there's not a magical formula
So some people do well with mixing the two some people do well with actually separating the two
For me like when I help someone and I truly can kind of give to them it fills my cup
So I see that as a benefit now if I'm constantly giving giving giving and I don't give back to myself
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I'm not really going to serve anyone so I need to know how to create space
For me it's about creating space that feels safe that can kind of like give me what I need
And I get a lot of energy off people just as much as I give it
Right so it's like energy exchange
But if I'm always exchanging too much of my own energy and not getting anything back
Well, yeah, I'm gonna get pretty depleted
But I think that's where people get it wrong
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They're like they think that they have to go hard Monday to Friday and then on the Saturday completely detached
Like it doesn't have to be that way
You just got to know yourself and what really drains you
Yeah
And then create space
Yeah, I heard a saying the other day that said
I'm not going to match your energy. I'm just going to protect mine
And it really spoke to me because sometimes you feel like you got a tip for tat
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This for that and it's like that's just not for me
I'm going to protect mine and not give it to you or lend it in a space that's not healthy or safe for me
How have you seen for you as you've gone on this journey from athlete to now professional executive leadership owning your own business?
How have you seen the industry embrace you or have you had a challenge that you've been up against to be accepted?
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Well, I think I think as females it's really nice to see females in
in leadership roles
And I think that
When females speak up in particular and just people in general when they feel like I'm gonna put myself out there
And I'm gonna see if people like it like they may hate it and I have had it like everyone's get some hate
If you don't like you probably not doing it right yeah
(09:43):
If you don't find a leader you haven't made it yet. Okay, exactly
And so I think for me like putting myself out there
I got people that are like oh my gosh finally someone that's just says it how it is
Someone that just shows up and like one of the the best pieces of I guess feedback
I ever got was someone said to me you are probably the most consistent and reliable person I've ever met
And I'm like okay, that's probably one of the best compliments I can get right because that's not speaking about me on a physical level
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That's talking about my character. Mm-hmm. My character is my destiny
Right, and so if I can carry that and I can embrace and change people through my character
They'll see it. They'll see it in how I speak. They'll see it in how I present
They'll see it in how I show up every day
That's probably what I think I can add value to this world in
Well, when it's your authentic like you say on the show too sometimes it's so intimidating to be authentically yourself
(10:33):
And when you're fine with it you get she's looking at me in my all-pink crystal suit laughing at me
I don't need I for anyone not watching you can just envision this
I'm blinded it's fine. Listen, we all need a little sparkle in our life. Okay. I don't know. I'm gonna marry again
We need some sparkle
Anyways, like I was saying authentically being yourself
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But also being okay with it because I think you know, we all work predominantly in male dominated industries
And sometimes it's hard to break that ceiling and to get that credibility. Have you had to have that at all?
I think all the time. Yeah, right especially in fitness. Yeah, it helps
But I don't see it as a competition for me like I'm not trying to compete. I'm just trying to change
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I'm trying to create change and if someone else can do it too
Awesome. Let's do it together. But yet like let's not compete with each other
It's actually work together to make a bigger impact
But yeah, of course you I'm gonna always come across people that don't share the same
Kind of perspective. That's what makes it difficult. Yeah, and do you work with a lot of men like do you coach a lot of men and if you do
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Have you found it difficult for them like do they have to like trust you or like rely on you like have you ever had that difficulty?
You have to overcome like having to prove yourself like or you just kind of like I am who I am if you want to learn from me learn from me
If not then oh well, I have such a great answer for this um
I think there's two types of men out there. There's the the men right and the baby boy the baby boy
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I'm stealing this from her because I feel whatever she's about to say I already feel
Um, I think the baby boy gets a little you know
But hurt right by a woman that has a little bit more of a leadership or a woman that's willing to speak up and the man
Know's how to respect a woman right he just shows respect
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And so when I speak to men and they go this girl knows what she's talking about
I'm not gonna try and overstep her. She clearly knows what she's gonna talk about. I'm gonna listen
I'm gonna shut up and listen
Just like I would go to them and be like hey, what's your expertise? What do you know about?
Teach me something. Mm-hmm right. I would listen to a man that said that but I'm not gonna listen to someone that carries ego and arrogance
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Um, and so to me baby boys carry that
I've worked with the field
Because I have a some that I know and I now know how to classify them. Yeah, it's interesting because I do feel like often times
It's um, but even for women too in this space, right? It's everybody's different and like we're especially at her table
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We're like everybody come as you are and we want to share your story and how to empower the next to you
Right because ultimately that's what we're leaving in this world
Not what we do, but what comes behind us right?
So it's for the one before me the one beside me the one behind me of how we're able to empower women and just
Celebrate women because I think we're trained. We talked about this earlier
Sometimes younger girls are trained to minimize themselves to be less of themselves
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Because they're afraid of judgment and they're not seeing anyone that's doing it
And so when you look at women, I'm like speak you know speak up. Yeah share your story be proud of yourself
A man would do the same thing
Yeah, and feels zero regret about it and then we're over here like well, you know
No, like we're bad-ass people too
But we're afraid to share it and I think for a lot of these younger women and younger girls especially on social media to be able to relate and
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Find connectivity in someone that gives them the authentic self is so so important
How do you deal with a haters on social media? We I don't deal well with them
I'm just gonna stay out loud like I can't watch this show sometimes because I'm so scared of what I'm gonna say or do really
I can't I don't have the mental strength to do it. I'm trying
But I don't so this is one one thing I'm probably getting known for is I have a little paid baby violin on my desk
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And so every time someone says something stupid
I will literally send them a violin because that's what they sound like
Little baby violin, you know the little yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, that's the thing
I you're just like oh you're just but hurt because I'm tapping a little cord in you or your trigger
What I'm saying is resonating with you
I think the thing for me that's so hard about social media too is it's like
Sometimes people just feel the need to be unkind
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And there's no reason for it and you have people come to you that want to
Improve their life change their life not only you know physically but mentally
How do you assess that like how do you go about it like someone comes in the gym?
How do you know if it's a good fit for you because
Some people might not be a good fit. Do you have to go down like kind of a checklist or is it trial and error?
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You know right off the bat. I mean, I'm really big at reading people
I think that understanding what someone wants is very important
But here's the thing there's two mindsets once fixed once gross
If someone comes in going I know what I need I know what works. I know what doesn't work. I'm like why are you here?
Yeah, yeah, what do you like do it if someone comes in going something's not working for me. I really need change
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I really want to understand I really want to learn I want to grow
All right, you're in the right place. I'm gonna help you because I'm growth mindset
I can provide you with what you need I can give you value. I can do that
You just have to be open-minded right you have to trust a process you have to know that this is not gonna be just a linear path
If you're open to all of that you're not gonna have any issues
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You just have to be willing yeah, and if someone's willing there's no reason why they can't change
Yeah, and they have to be willing to change them for everything to change for them. Yeah
We spoke about this earlier you have been in the fitness industry for over 20 years
And you were telling me that most people leave after 12 months what keeps you going and how are you still in this business?
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Well, hold on before you say why do people leave? They get burnt out
You know like like the train like trainers and fitness people leave because it's just too much repetitive
Like what is that? I think it's they definitely it's a burnout concept right like they give give given they think more is better
So they try and pack in as many people as possible whether it's whether it's in person
And I'm sure that if there's anyone out there that's even tried personal training
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They pack in as much as they can and then they're just like they don't even get time to work out themselves
And then they're depleted and so that'll happen if they're online they just get they get burnt out from trying so hard and not getting anything returned
It's the process
It's part of the process what keeps me going is that you have if in order for you to be successful
You have to show up and do the boring work every damn day. Mm-hmm. And if you're not okay with that
(16:52):
You're never gonna make it. Yeah, it's in the boring work, right?
Like anyone can watch this show and be like whoa
But what about the boring work that had to take to build
The boring work. Yeah, the Friday calls where we're like okay, let's get it right
But it's it's interesting because I think that's for anybody's job, right?
Like it's it is not always the top of the mountain the bulk of your career the bulk of your job will be in the middle plateau of life
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And you'll have highs and you'll have lows, but the consistent is the middle
And so I think that's why like who you do it with where you spend your time and then what you actually are like
I think so many and we talked about this with our last guest like sometimes your path leads you to your purpose
And had you not had that path
You probably wouldn't have found your purpose and it's so easy to be like why is this happening for me?
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Why isn't it fast enough? Why am I not getting more?
Why is my business not growing fast enough?
So this you just got to step back and let God God because he's got it
But sometimes you got to help him too and you have to step up to the plate and be willing to change grow and continue to experience things
He's giving you definitely. Yeah, what's what's one of the things that you would advise somebody that wants to start in the sports industry?
(18:00):
Um
They have to be athletic themselves. So I'm out. So there's that
I think also like well, you just got to understand that like
There's a lot of like discipline that needs to happen
And that's why I like fitness because fitness really shows you that you have to create discipline
And that's like doing things when you don't want to do them
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So when you can create that that carries over into your business that carries over into anything
And also helps you understand people because one of the things that people say is like I don't want to do it
I just I wake up some mornings and I don't want to do it. How can you connect with that person if you're like
Well, I don't know what that's like. Yeah, right?
They you got to know what that's like. So I think in in the any type of sport any type of fitness any type of health
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You have to know what it's like. So you have to experience it. Yeah, so that's where you start
You start by experiencing it and know hey, do you actually have like a true authentic love for this?
And can you then carry that over pay it forward?
Go do that. Yeah. What's one of the most rewarding aspects of your job?
Is that the for you? I mean, I can only imagine sometimes it's probably a physical change in someone
(19:05):
But a lot of times physical change comes with emotional change and yeah
What's one of the most rewarding aspects of being a fitness trainer?
I think the biggest thing is seeing and hearing someone say I feel confident for the first time in since I was young
Right or something like I looked at myself and actually liked what I saw
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Like I loved it like I actually feel really good about myself
They'll take selfies where beforehand the camera would always be faced the other way right like that's what it was about like you
Even today like I spoke to one of my clients. She's like cries all the time and she's on the phone to me
She's like she's like I'm telling you like I'm a different mother. I'm a different wife
I'm a different human like I'm different and today I can safely say that after working with you you have changed my life
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And so for me I'm like
Damn tell your kids then like that's amazing. Yeah, welcome tell your husband
He's welcome, but you know like so that's that's so rewarding because I'm not just changing like a person
But I'm changing like how they are with others. Well, it's what you're impacting someone beyond the one person right
So when you get it really right you're actually impacting
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Down and down and down and then hopefully the people underneath see like they're making these changes
I want to too right so it's creating that like positive space for growth. Yeah beyond your direct impact
It's that indirect which is so cool that she shares it with you because I think sometimes we forget to
We always stay lean in or lean forward. So nobody lean back and thank the people
(20:33):
Right that have leaned in on us right and I think it's so hard
In in industry fitness is sports is is just is a thankless job sometimes yeah because people don't
Understand what you have to sacrifice in order to give to them
And so sometimes I love that she did that of like leaning back and saying thank you, right like you're changing because now you're like
(20:55):
Okay, this is why I do what I do right not because it's cool
Because all this it's like it makes this is what I'm supposed to be doing
If you weren't doing this, what would you be doing?
Um, that's a hard question
Because I think I've been doing this for so long. I can't envision myself doing anything else
I would be still serving in some regard. I would not be able to be
(21:16):
You know behind a desk. I wouldn't be able to be in a closed room. I'd be out there serving in some way
I don't even care. I really just want to make sure I'm always serving. Yeah
That's I'm so important because Megan and I talk all the time about how like especially for this show everyone's like
Why did you guys do the show and it's like because I want to celebrate other people
It's not what she does or I do. It's like what are other people doing because so many people see you see Megan
(21:40):
I want to be her. Well, who is that? What does she love? What is she about? How did she become this because there's not
It's it's not just one version. There's it's like the Phoenix right there's versions of yourself that you continue to evolve and develop
Yeah, what for you as at the company that you're at now
What is the culture like and what is imperative for you to have in that gem that like sanctum
(22:03):
Integrity is huge. So and that's I've carried that over throughout my whole life
Even I just I can't sit well in a space or around people that I feel like the integrity is not there
So I created it and it's one of my core values. It's one of the values
I say if you don't have this and we're not a good fit straight off the bat
(22:24):
Right, so what are you doing when no one's around? Yeah, who are you doing it for?
You know, what does that look like? That's what I want people to know and and same me being goes for my clients
I'm like hey having integrity be honest. Yeah, what would be the point of not being honest of not having integrity?
I'm gonna see it. Yeah, I already know
So like you might as well just fast up
Right, what we're doing should be working and it's not so when you leave here, what are you doing?
(22:48):
Yeah, that's not allowing it to work. Yeah, I think integrity is a huge and intention
Right, if you can have an intention
both from
Like outside being a coach into like them actually pouring into us like there needs to be an intention
Yeah, otherwise you just kind of like going through the motions
What how have you seen one the fitness industry grow from when you first started out and to where it is today and like where do you kind of see it going
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This because it like the cool thing about the last few years is that it has gone digital and people are able to
Be coach remotely that's like more accessible exactly like coach you are coaching people who are in Europe and like that's so cool
So wherever you kind of seen it like the growth and where it is today. Yeah, definitely like it's expanded so much online
There's good and bad to that because everyone's now apparently an influencer and especially in the world of fitness
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I get fit in three months and all of a sudden they have all the answers
Right
So there's that that which is like I said it's good because they're motivating people to start
But sometimes it's not the right way. No, it has really transformed right
So people are definitely
Expanding what they do and understanding that like they work with a specific person which I think has been great
(24:02):
Like people understanding that you can't just work with everybody. Mm-hmm
That is where it has shifted because it used to be like just get fit. Yeah, now it's like well hold on a second
There's these different sports and there's these different ways of getting fit and there's this method
And this method and so there's much more variety out there
Way more like methods to how you want to do your training how you want to do your nutrition all of this stuff
(24:24):
So it has definitely expanded
Um, and I can see it continuing to expand. I don't know how much further
You can expand because at the end of the day there's only so many new fads that you can bring out right
There's only so many new different like methods of training that you can bring out
But ultimately it always comes back to the basics and the basics always win. Mm-hmm
It doesn't matter. So I think it's really good because more and more people are coming into the space and trying to grow the space and trying to grow
(24:49):
themselves but ultimately it's always going to be the OGs that are doing the basics that are always going to win. Yeah
So it seems like you have like a holistic approach to training right?
It's not just check a box
Can you walk us through a little bit of like you get a new client? Mm-hmm. What is that holistic
Assessments a good word look like for them because some of them says hey, I want to work out. What does that then turn to you?
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Yeah, so I like to see what they've done in the past
I need to see where their level is at right?
So a lot of the time people have typically started somewhere with someone else or doing something else
And so when they come to me they're typically stalled their plateaued a little bit and so changes are quite
So I'll say to them okay like let's see where your strength is at and your conditioning right so strengthen conditioning
Everyone sees that and they attach that to an athlete but really it's a way of training
(25:37):
It's a way of actually doing the method that can actually help you with your own fitness level
So I'll kind of look at that and I'll look at well if they want to get stronger
What do they want to get stronger in is it one specific thing because we got to get sometimes we've got to like really understand it
You kind of say I want to get stronger because that could mean anything
So once we want to do that it might be a conditioning piece where they have a goal in mind
They want to run a 10k they want to run a marathon whatever so once I know truly what they want
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Then I can build out the right system for them
And a lot of it is through functional training
I love functional training
I think it's the best method that's out there. I think it's going to always overpower bodybuilding
It's always going to overpower power lifting. It's just going to overpower it all because
We can apply it to every single aspect of our life
So I like the putting people through functional training and then when they come in and I look at their as it like their nutrition
(26:26):
What do they eat like have they tried something before
Most of the time people aren't eating right they think they are like I eat well and like then they lay it out and like you eat like shit
I don't know what you were thinking but you know and it like
You look how you live so it obviously shows up with that right so
I'll usually kind of like assess their nutrition and see what's missing and then a lot of the time
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I like to see what the people are at with their body composition
So I'll ask them like hey, where's your body fat at?
How much muscle do you have on your body? How much water are you carrying and let's actually let's start there
Yeah, and see how it's like a lot more like okay, it's a bit more intrinsic
It's a bit more detailed
I don't like scales because I think people can easily get so caught up in their mind on the scale
And then they attach their own value to that scale which is so external and so stupid at the same time
(27:12):
So we'll do that and then I give them breath work
And the breath work is absolutely amazing for those of us that don't know that's going to help you with your stress
So yeah, massive come on. We need a quick bottle class
So everybody lives in final flight right and their survival mode
So that's your sympathetic nervous system when you tap into parasympathetic which is your rest and digest
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That's where you can down regulate decompress chill out
That's the breath work. That's anything you can go from like box breathing
You could do so many different types of breath work that's out there
I like box breathing and it's just like inhaling holding exhaling holding okay, it's like meditation
It's like a meditation, but you're focused solely on your breath and when you do this what happens is you actually transfer energy
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Okay, and you're actually transfer energy to be released and that's what actually makes you feel good
Because people hold tension and they're like I just feel really tense. You're like did you know you could breathe that out?
You have the capacity, but you don't give yourself three to five minutes a day to do this
That's what gets people out of that stress state
So cortisol levels are going to drop
They're not going to feel like they have to reach for the closest candy to fix their cortisol levels
(28:20):
Right because that's what everyone stress eats because of that so I give a lot of people the breath work
And I think everyone should always be asking themselves anywhere between one and three thought provoking questions a day
So that they can learn about themselves
Right, what is it about me that I can change like who is my highest self?
Right you tap into a better version of you and you'll probably start to become that
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But if you keep thinking about who you were yesterday and last year and last month you're never going to move forward
You're just going to basically walk on a treadmill. Yeah, you're just hamster willing. Yeah doing the same thing
I think one of the things that's so interesting is
I mean, I have young kids, but they only got a PE like once or twice a week
Right, they aren't taught nutrition anymore in school. Yeah
(29:03):
And PE becomes optional as they get older and so I don't feel like we're giving them the tools to
Even understand their bodies as their bodies are changing and then you wonder why when you're older
your life's in a complete
dumpster fire
Because you don't have the tools
Do you feel like that's a hindrance towards people as they grow up now with that change because obviously you were an athlete
(29:28):
So you probably didn't have that to that extreme, but yeah
Nowadays, like kids aren't taking PE they aren't having nutrition class. They don't understand mental health
What do you want to see change
Hopefully for this younger generation that continues to have anxiety younger and younger and stress younger and younger
As we see the world continue. Okay, so it's two parts of this number one. Oh my clients
(29:51):
I say hey the breath what can you do with your kid? I say can you breathe like and I'm like you just go to teach your kids to breathe
They don't even realize that it's literally the essence of life
It's like and it's crazy to do that every day. Yeah, I didn't hoard it. It's crazy
So that and then understanding like the thoughts it's the thoughts right when you can get kids to understand their thought patterns
(30:12):
Why they think the way that they think and where it's coming from they'll understand and the other part
Is I'm trying to create change. I started a kids class at my gym. It's absolutely amazing. I have a kids coach
It's literally her passion for her life
And so we have like up to 25 kids in a class and she teaches them in meditation
She teaches them nutrition. She teaches them how to get confident and to get strong new skills
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coordination and she's like all right
You're gonna take this out and you're gonna go and tell your parents about it and you're gonna go and apply this just to your life
These kids aren't even playing sport. They just want to like be part of something. Kids just need to be part of something
Like like this is why they start to kind of come together. Yeah, he's like let's do something together
That's the first thing they say when they're growing and it's funny like even like young like I say like the tween years right like their bodies
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They're growing they're changing their goofy their awkward. They don't know what to do with it and then they don't get PE
So it's like yeah, hey, here's a body. I don't know anything to do with and then I'm gonna do nothing with it
And then I'm insecure about it like we're not setting them up for success and the positive talk and self talk is
So important and I say this even like my athletes every day is like you have to
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Don't say something to yourself. You wouldn't say to someone else. Like if you would not say that to someone else because it would be unkind
Why is it okay for you to say that to yourself?
And then when you think about it, you're like holy shit. You're right
But it's like until you actually sit and say to yourself
Why am I being so down on myself with someone said that I wouldn't say that someone else it would make me uncomfortable
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You should be uncomfortable saying that to yourself
Because even just to the highest levels of of athletes right that I deal with at the highest level
They struggle with self-talk because they still doubt they still are not confident
Now there's some that are like the opposite and you're like bro relax
Relax
But in the majority of them all because we're all human at the end of the day
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Some of us just happen to be more athletic or more talented than the other
And I love that you talked about breathwork because I think that something that is so easy for anyone at any fitness level
To do yeah, and it can be done anywhere anytime any situation
You don't need anything to do it. Yes, so you can actually have healthier habits
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By just doing something you do every and even know the numbers
They don't come for me, but probably like 45 seconds you breathe
I don't know maybe you know the answer but like you're doing it constantly you you'll die if you don't
But be intentional about it. It's it is probably one of the most transformative concepts out there
That are is not spoken about yeah
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I've honestly never hear about it
And I work at my fitness all the time. I'm just playing sports and you just don't even think about
How big that is and how big of a fact that has on your life
Yeah
What about like when you are working with different men and different women are you
Targeting and like when you're coming up with plans for coaching are you doing different exercises for each person?
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Or you kind of like seeing oh categorizing all women the same way all men the same way or how exactly do you go about that?
Yeah, so I think everyone is different so they should be treated differently right right like some could come from similar backgrounds
But they everyone's different right they've had a different upbringing they've had a different way of eating maybe
Yeah, and it might be they've had a different way of training up until the point that they came to me
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Even the ones that are somewhat similar they still have differences
So I think everyone should be very much treated for what they need and how they are
So I definitely I'd like I like to be a bit more on the individualized approach. Yeah, yeah, great
Well, I think it's so important because what someone comes in needing might not be what they need three months from now
Six months from now and they can go backwards or they can go forwards. Yeah, what do you think is the number one reason people
(33:57):
Don't get into fitness more
Um, I think they they know that it requires work. There's a lot of lazy people out there
like
I'm raising my hand
As we said here, it's different between you and busy, I guess yeah, yeah, or excuse us. I don't know
Whatever
I'm gonna go back now. I can go to the gym tonight and be like dying and be like I'm not doing this. I'm not guilty
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I think I really think that people know that it requires work. Yeah, what would you choose the couch?
Yes, something else. Yeah, and that's why they created the couch to 5k
Yeah, right or whatever it's called like that they created that because they need to get the person off it
They need to get the person that's too busy
You know to actually just be able to do 20 30 minutes if that's all they got
(34:44):
You know, there is everybody gets the same amount of time every single day
Why is it though that the people that are the most successful make the time?
Because they want longevity
They want sustainability. They want to actually have something for themselves
It's also everyone's talking about it being a form of self-care. It is
Because you make yourself better. So I think ultimately the people that aren't going into it are the ones that one
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They don't believe in themselves. They think if they start it
They're probably not going to continue and then people are going to be like, oh what happened to that thing that you started that you didn't continue to do and like
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so then they're going to like people are going to give them a hard time
And they know like I don't believe myself. I don't have the self-worth. I don't even know how to do it. Yeah, I kind of fought it
Yeah, so they'll they'll then do that. They'll talk themselves out of it
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And they'll go well, I'm better off just sitting here. Yeah
Well, I think it's like product of environment too, right? So if you don't come from a household that practices physical and mental health
You're not likely to carry that on into your household and so it's funny like even with with my kids
It's trying to find the balance like they actually go to training. It's funny. They probably don't like training every week
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But they just go to it where they're learning agility coordination things that are just helping them in life
But giving them also that self-confidence
Because they need that and it's good for them
But also it's something I can't do for them. I can't do that for them
And so I love that other people are able to pour into
Kids in youth outside of their household because it might be something that in fact changes their household
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Yeah, which is uncommon, but it's not unheard of
And so when you look at like underserved communities, especially
It's so important to give them the tools to do it
But then also the access to do it. Yeah, and that's what I'm saying like in schools. It's so interesting to me how much it's fallen off
Right like we can take AP calculus, but you know
Health and wellness is looked at as like an option
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Where it should be something that is a requirement because if you're really giving them tools
Beyond school you're giving them life tools. I think everyone's just afraid to like what are life tools who gets to define them
Is that good for my kid or not my kid when
Ultimately overall physical and mental health is so important. I saw
The other day as a celebrity said, you know, I trained actually it was Carrie Washington said she said I have a trainer for my body
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Why wouldn't I have a trainer for my mind? Yeah, she's like I have been in and out of therapy
And people say was why do you start and stop and she goes well because sometimes I have a lot of times sometimes
I don't but I'm what I need constantly is changing and evolving
But I've never stopped. I've just evolved how I've done it
And so I feel like that's so true for physical training too because you might not be able to go to the gym every day
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But there's something you can do. Yep. It's just finding the time to do it and also the commitment to do it
What do you think about these apps? I see you're wearing is it a Fitbit?
No, yeah, yeah, it's a wolf. Oh, oh, okay
What do you feel about that because I have seen like my best friends where Apple watches and they all like
Just talk shit about who's walking the most
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And it's because they can see each other's steps
But then I'm like there's no way you walked that far like what'd you do put it on your dog and running around the backyard
Like what happened? You can't shake it. Yeah, you can
Listen, then it becomes just like are you sure because like there's no way or you're like trying to beat it
But on the other hand, I love it seeing a community where people get to kind of like push and challenge each other
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remotely
What do you think about the fad of kind of like the world the way the world is so ingrained in analytics?
We can call it fitness analytics and how we're sharing that information
Um, I think ultimately your body is going to be the best that you should listen to and I think it doesn't help that people promote it
Right people you get the right person to wear it
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Mm-hmm. I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm gonna become that
If I wear that and I listen to it, I'm gonna become that person
I think that that's definitely what's happening and it's a shame, right?
But here's the thing it's a business. Yeah everything. It's a business fit bit is a business
Whoop is a business and so I like using it as a tool to tool though
I'll take it off and I'll go to sleep and I will not care, right?
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But I don't have an attachment. Mm-hmm people become attached to it
It's just like anything you create any cells or any sense of attachment to anything that you do
You're gonna probably have a hard time. You're gonna struggle and then you're gonna create the killer of comparison
Because your friend out there is doing 10,000 steps. You're doing on the two. Yeah, that's gonna kill you. Yeah
I definitely have a watch
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I don't actually take it as often as like I would want to but it is nice just for accountability
But I will ask a question before we head out. I want to ask you like how did you take that leap from being a professional athlete
But then wanting to start your own gym and be an entrepreneur in your own self because that is scary
Like I can't imagine taking that leap. So what kind of like gave you that motivation?
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So I kept on out growing everywhere I went, right and I ended up knowing more than the people I worked with and for
Right, that's a massive massive kind of like lesson, right? And it's a it's a huge sign
And if you don't listen to it, it's gonna keep like slapping you over the face
So you're just bounced from business to business because you're always gonna outgrow it
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At some point I just got to this point going
I think I got to stop having a boss and stop being a boss, right?
I'm gonna shut it down like that. Yeah, yeah
And so I think once I started listening to that going you know
I'm I go to these places. I end up knowing more than them
Yeah
Like and I enjoy them but then they get envious of how much I know
So the relationship changes yeah, and then you're just like come on like I want to be good
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But you need to step up. Yeah, like they're afraid for me to outgrow you
Yeah, and so then they get all but hurt because you're doing better than they in their own business
And so I started listening to that
Way more and everywhere I went and by the time I hit like the third or fourth place I was like you know what
I mean do my thing. Yeah, and that is I think it was less scary to do that than it was to just keep bouncing from place to base
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I don't want I don't want to be those that person either. Yeah
There's that saying there's one of my office that actually says stop shrinking yourself to fit in places
You've already outgrown exactly and like when you can look at it through that lens like I joke
But it's like God keeps giving you these same scenarios
He's asking yourself are you still stupid? Yeah, like yeah, you're not getting it. Well just keep playing this game until you get it
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And then once you get it you're like
huh
But then once you realize that in yourself that you want more or you can be more you see it more clearly in other people
When you can allow yourself to be more you can see it in other people because you're not afraid of what they bring
You're like I don't want to see you do what I did. Yeah, I don't want to see you keep doing that
I want to help you not make those
Challenges or mistakes. So it's it's definitely it's so impactful and important for young women to hear
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But also just young people to hear keep growing keep being curious
Right and keep pushing yourself to evolve and grow like I call it these people that just
Same job 30 years never change. I can't do that. I wasn't given that like gene
So it's like when you have to grow and change it's scary, but do it
It's being put in front of you to do because somebody behind you is watching you do it
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And waiting for you to do it. Yeah, and that's what you've done
When you went from soccer star to now you're changing people's lives. Yeah
That's so cool. It is cool. You have to wake up every morning and be like I'm a badass
Let's get this day going. Yeah, like can you just send me a video every morning?
Be like you're a badass get to it. Yeah, and make sure you're breathwork. I will. Yes
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I think any of that one of the biggest things I always say to people is like if
If you don't have anything to get up for you're gonna have a hard time. Oh, yeah
So if you do have something, you know, all you're gonna have to say to yourself is like let me just put my feet to the floor and I'm gonna start winning
Yeah, yeah, that's it just show up just keep showing up loran for dance
I'd that one of our very first shows was just keep showing up. Yeah, it might not change
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You're gonna get better just keep showing and it's not easy
No, it's so hard. It's so hard and I think that that's where it's on the days though
When you're truly tested that it matters the most. That's like your performance days. Yeah, right like but you've been in practice the whole time
So when the pressure hits you got to start performing. Yeah, hmm amazing. You're so amazing and inspiring
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I love it. I love it. Thank you. She made me feel better about myself. I know. I'm like taking
Stuff I'm like let me learn it out. It's just like energy. I love it good. I'm glad. Well, thanks so much for coming on. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Oh my gosh so fun
So Nez is such an inspiration. Oh my gosh. I know right. I was like super intimidated at first because I was like
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Are we gonna have to work out in this episode? Yeah, but I think I like calm her down
I think I made everything kind of relax you guys get excited and I was like no no no no no no hold on. Wait a minute. Yeah
No, she honestly it was so cool to hear her talk about how she has taken. I love hearing athlete perspective right she's taken
What she learned as an athlete right she had so many surgeries she said yeah
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To then she was able to take her love for sport and turn it into being able to share that love with other people
That might not be athletic, but are just trying to have a healthier lifestyle right
And so that's so cool to see an athlete find something beyond their sport and it's something that just resonates so deeply with me
Yeah, and I think it's cool too because being an athlete you have to be selfish at times and the fact that she
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Said that she could be selfish when she was an athlete playing professional soccer now she can be selfless and help other people
Feel better about themselves become more confident be a better mom be better dad be you know
Hope their family. That's not just about one person
She's impacting a whole family and I just I think that's such a special you know things
Quality to have and she was such an inspiration. I truly mean that and even how she spoke about the differences between working with men and women and how she
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Individualizes everything that she teaches them. I think that's so crucial and health and fitness these days and I just think she'd be such an amazing coach
And I loved having her on the show. Yeah, I think she could probably put us to a really hard workout. Yeah
Absolutely, but I think it had to be like a 360 what are we eating?
We're doing are we sleeping well? You know for me
I listen to her and I just get so inspired yeah, but then the simplest thing one of the things that stuck out to me is
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She was like breath work. She made all of her clients work on breath work and that helps reduce stress
It helps reduce anxiety, but like at the same time like we're really giving people tools everyone breathes everyone on this earth
Breathe, but she's like no I get to teach my clients how to do breath work to reduce stress anxiety center themselves almost like meditation
Yeah, but then it's good for kids. It's good for older people
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So she has that holistic approach. Yeah, that ain't so cool because a lot of administrators are like oh workout
And she's like no, no, no, no, I need to evaluate you as a whole
So that I can get the best out of you because that's really what she wants she wants to help you be the best version of yourself
The other crazy thing is listening to her talk about how
You know as a woman as a fitness trainer. She trains men and women and some men look at her like how do you know what you're doing?
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And some don't and I loved her little analogy of like men and baby boys
So I'm taking that with me because I know a couple baby boys
Yeah, I would be all do
But I loved her analogy and how to place them because that will then
um
In why am I thinking of the word infiltrate. It's not infiltrate. It will um
Influence
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It will influence you of how you react respond and interact with people when you can understand what level they're on
And it gives you the opportunity to put energy and time into that person or to know if they're just not a place their journey that they're gonna benefit from you
So her energy exchange
I mean, I just I feel like we made a new friend. Yeah
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Also like she's she's I love that she is from Australia. I know here in the states living her best life
Yeah, and seeing another woman thrive in an industry that is so male dominated as well
Love so so cool. She's such an inspiration
We touched on that but like the fact that she can take a leap and leave her career that she was doing and start her own gym and be an entrepreneur is such a
(46:46):
Inspiring thing for young women young people to see so I think
Here in her whole story her whole whole journey turning from athlete to coach now was
So great and I loved having her in the studio. So thank you all so much for joining her table
Make sure to like comment and subscribe and let us know who you'd like to have on the show next
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But that's it for us this time make sure to tune in next week
Maybe see the last part of it. Yeah, that's pretty good
So that's it for us today make sure to tune into her table next time
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