August 2, 2023 • 34 mins
One theme from many Stronger U Coaches is that they started as members overcoming challenges – giving them a different perspective and making them relatable. This rings true for Coach Juli Young, who recently sat down with Branden during our Stronger U Radio Summer Series. A self-proclaimed life-long gym rat, Coach Juli has always loved exercise but spent years struggling with her weight despite her active lifestyle. Enter Stronger U, where she joined as a member of Coach Katie Leahy, and everything just clicked for her. The two hit it off immediately and connected personally. She walks us through her long journey of changing her relationship with food to get to where she is today.
Coach Juli and Branden dive into the impact of small, consistent steps that lead to a significant outcome and how she approaches this tactic with her members to help them gradually make changes in a way that doesn’t feel overwhelming.
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Listen all the way through to the end of this discussion to hear some incredibly inspiring, encouraging and wise parting words that reveal the difference in the school of thought between Stronger U Coaches and other programs. Then, head to the Stronger U Community to share your thoughts.
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Coach Juli and Branden dive into the impact of small, consistent steps that lead to a significant outcome and how she approaches this tactic with her members to help them gradually make changes in a way that doesn’t feel overwhelming.
Additional episode highlights include:
- Mindset and how coaching can play a role in shifting it for success.
- Some of the ways having a coach can help you when you’re struggling.
- Coach Julie’s profound advice for approaching vacation.
Listen all the way through to the end of this discussion to hear some incredibly inspiring, encouraging and wise parting words that reveal the difference in the school of thought between Stronger U Coaches and other programs. Then, head to the Stronger U Community to share your thoughts.
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Evening. I am Brandon Hazelwood,and I thank you for listening to the
Stronger You podcast, the summer serieswith amazing coaches from Stronger You, and
today I have the wonderful pleasure oftalking to Julie Young. I'm so happy.
One of the kindest souls that I'veever met in my whole entire life
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is Stronger You Radio. We're nutritionis fun, diet trends are overrated,
and we help you take the guesswork at Emedient. Help join us today
with Stronger You team coaches and friendsas they discuss what it takes to become
a Stronger You today. Are youready, Let's get to it. Always
smiling from ear to ear will immediatelyput a smile on your face. And
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I'm glad you guys get the opportunityto actually see her and hear from her
today as well. For those thatmaybe her members listening to this, and
people that are curious and have seenher in the community and so on and
so forth, you will definitely beseeing more of her as well too.
I can promise you that. Butthat's for another time. But I'm just
gonna give a little quick rundown ofsome of the information Julie shared with me
that I thought i'd share with youguys, and she's also gonna share an
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add on more if she'd absolutely likeonce, I share this with you guys.
But started with Stronger You in Augustof twenty nineteen. Had been a
certified nutrition coach since twenty twenty andworked with Stronger You since twenty twenty one.
Before Stronger You You were in marketingNPR NBA USC GO Trojans even though
I'm not a Trojan fan. Isfrom SoCal A mom of three, married
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for twenty two years and it's beenworking out since twelve. And I wanted
to share this part because it wasabsolutely hilarious and I could not not share
this with you. After she sharedthis with me, but her first membership,
her mom lied to get her herfirst membership to go to the gym.
So here we are, Here weare, Julie, thank you for
being here. Tell the people moreabout yourself if you absolutely love to.
(01:57):
Oh sure, so you hit allthe big ones. Southern California native married
to another Southern California native. Wejoke over unicorns. Three kids. Let's
see my oldest suppose my buy oneget one with my husband. He had
a son from his previous marriage,but I've raised him since he was four.
He's going to be twenty nine inSeptember. My girls are eighteen and
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sixteen. We're in changes of youknow, I'm about to send one off
to college, and that's just gonnahear change the dynamic of everything, fitness
and nutrition wise. I have beenin love with working out since I wasn't
since I could. My sister thirteenyears older than me, and she got
into the aerobics workout craze in lateseventies early eighties, and I would go
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stay with her for a weekend andshe would bring me to the gym with
her. This was long before theyever thought to put childcare in a gym
and I one of my earliest memoriesis doing hamstring curls on a Nautilus machine
when I was probably eight or nineyears old, and are telling me to
get off if an adult comes,because you know they're paying to be there.
Yea. And I loved working out. I did. I did,
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you know, all the things exerciseof any kind, although I wasn't a
team sport kind of person. Idabbed there too, but I always just
loved the gym and running and allof that. And I'm built like a
mactruck, so I can lift.I've always been strong. I've been you
know. I joke, I'm halfRussian, so that alone, you know
that hearty stock that likes to likesto be strong. So my mom lied
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about my age to get me.You had to be thirteen. I was
twelve. I was we budged bya little bit and I started working out
and just loved it. I alwaysdid. I have been a gym rat
since since then and never really stopped. I love that. I love that.
So with that said, you havethis and what it's it's made you
is that you was that your transitioninto becoming a coach just for your love
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for being within the gym or wasthere something else that kind of push huge
towards being a nutrition coach? There, I would say, there's something else.
So I did. I was apersonal trainer for a while. I
taught spin. Previous to having mygirls, I taught a bar and so
I've I've been on the fitness sideand even personally I have. I joked
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that I've died it. Since Iexited the room, I felt like I
was always fighting my weight. Iwas a teen of the eighties. My
mom was a dancer when she wasyoung. My sister, who I already
talked about, we couldn't have moredifferent body part body shapes if we tried.
She's she was five ten, nota whisp of fat, honor.
I maxed out at five six,and I am very broad, and so
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I was always trying to be smaller, thinner, and sometimes I would succeed,
but it was never in a goodhealthy way. It was always,
you know, not eating enough.I mean, I you know, it's
whether it was NutriSystem, weight watchers. I was always trying the next thing.
I joked that the only diet Idon't think I did was the cabbage
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soup diet. I am going tobe fifty two and I was still fighting
my weight when I joined Stronger Youas a member, and in fact,
at that time I think there waslike twenty percent of my closet that could
fit me. And mind you,I was working out, I was running
twenty miles a week or more.I was doing all the things. But
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I also loved to cook, andI have a sweet tooth, and I
have kids, and I was enjoyingand there were habitual things that I was
doing that I didn't even think about, like you know, always pouring myself
a little glass of wine when Istarted cooking dinner, regardless of whether I
wanted it or not. It wasjust a habit. Yea. So twenty
nineteen, I can barely fit intomost of my clothes. I'm not feeling
good. I'm feeling a sense offailure because I've lost and gained the same
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fifteen twenty pounds more times than Ican count. And I'm feeling like I'm
clinging to a life raft of youknow, this manic feeling of like do
I try keto? Which I diddo, and you want to talk about
that, you know, you know, cleanses and this and that. And
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I finally I had heard about StrongerYou. I'm a big Peloton person,
so I had heard about it.And I am one who will research something
up, down and sideways, sobetter Business Bureau, all the things.
I'm like, I'm not giving mymoney to some fly by night. Yeah,
yeah, And I signed up andeverything. First of all, I
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actually engaged with Mike Dola just asI was starting, because I remember he
gave a discount code on the Pelotonpodcast. I was listening to him,
but I was set to go toNew York to go to Peloton Studios and
all that, and I didn't wantto start this whole thing. So I
said, can I get this promotionand then start when I come back?
And yeah, snow problem he waswas is a fantastic guy. So I
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started and it was magical. Probablya Katie Katie, right, I mean
I should we could just stop rightthere. She and I connected, you
know, It's like she she wasmy wise elder on some things. But
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she was also a mom with threeyoung ones under the age of five.
She had one that was months old, tiny months old. So I would
talk to her about parenting and shewould talk to me about everything else.
And if we just clicked, wejust clicked. And and I mean,
I remember, you know, learningabout macros. I had dabbled. I
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had, you know, as withevery other diet, I had tried that
and of course not done it well. I had been really good at like
tracking a meal too, and thenI wouldn't tracked dinner when I attract previously
tried to. Anyway, she madeit doable, she made me understand it.
I was getting educated. I canbe a bit of a routine person.
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I like some of my routines,So getting into that habit of like,
I was already making a protein shake, so it was just kind of
like, oh, I don't wantto put a quarter cup of peanut butter
in there, Okay, you know, learning those little tweaks to make it
work and to understand it and soit was a process. But the big
thing and what made me want tobecome a nutrition coach is that I'm in
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that phase of life where a lotof women are like, this is it
menopause. All the things are goingto start just imploding. My kids are
going away, I'm drinking I youknow, everybody's not everybody. A lot
of women of my age like toblame this on menopause and their metabolism and
that kind of thing instead of lookingat what is really happening. Yeah,
and my mantra from I don't knowhow long, I just wanted to eat
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like a normal person because I forso long had been starving myself or not,
you know, I'd go one wayor the other obviously based on what
my weight was doing. I justfelt like there were people out there who
ate normally, who maintained their weight, who could enjoy a milkshake every once
in a while, or you know, getting dessert at a restaurant or I
wanted to be that person, andthrough stronger view, with Katie's help,
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I got to be that person.I was learning, I was understanding portion
sizes. I was understanding that,you know, nuts are not a source
of protein. There are a factthat has a protein, you know,
that kind of thing, but alsojust that all are nothing, you know
where it's like that feast or faminefiguratively and literally which right. And man,
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Katie worked like like like crazy toget that out of me, because
you know, there's this level ofyou know, I was a straight A
student when I was young. Youknow, you want to do all the
things. You want to do itall right, and if you don't do
it all right, then you justkind of plode and come down. And
she really helped me work out ofthat. And so go ahead, I
(10:07):
have a question for you, becauseyou dropped some some wonderful gyms in here,
and it's it was the sole purposeof me wanting to have coaches on
like you to share exactly what youdid. You in sharing about yourself made
yourself relatable to every single one ofour members. And it's the point that
(10:30):
I like to share with people iswhen I say that the coaches here are
humans just like you. Julie justshared her experience of what it was like,
what she's battled with from a kidup until now, and how she's
learn from building a relationship with acoach and where she is to this point
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having tried multitude of diets, whichI know you've seen with members that you've
had that they've tried everything under thesun to get whatever their goal is,
which that differentiates between whichever member itis to giving up almost on yourself and
thinking that it's not possible, orthinking that you've plateaued right to a certain
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point, and just to hear yousay that, you know you you've felt
those type of things, but justbuilding a relationship and finding a coach,
which is why our intake form isso huge, and trying to pair somebody
that can relate to you working withanother mom and just building that relationship there.
I'm sure that connection meant everything toyou, and it sounds like it's
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just from what you've conveyed to me, that that connection alone, which now
transcends just being a nutrition coach.It's somebody that gets you, right,
It's somebody. It's it's not justthe person that you're paying, you're talking
to you, they're doing your macrosand it's whatever. By it's now somebody
I can talk to and have areal conversation and build from there. So
(11:56):
I love I love love, lovelove love that. So that being said,
because you've shared some of your values, right, so you you've also
shared some of your struggles as well. What do you do when you have
a member that you are coaching thatis struggling. I tend to think that
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if you're struggling, you've probably beenon more than you can chew, or
you're you're two, you're you're you'reover your pay grade. Right, So
I don't I dial things back.I take it and I take a lot
from James Claire and Atomic Habits,where it's like, if your goal is
(12:37):
to be a writer, write onesentence, start there and feel that confidence
of I did it. I wroteone sentence. Okay, great, maybe
tomorrow you write too. I takethat approach with my members. They know
whoever's listening that it's on my roster. I am the queen of eat your
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veggies, my mom, I'm trainedme well. I try to get members
to, you know, just canyou eat one serving of vegetables today?
And if you do it great,can we add like ten percent more tomorrow
or next week? It's I wantto dial it back to where wherever it
is that we need to start,wherever that person is right now, not
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where they aspire to be. Butlet's get real. What's what's really swirling
in your house and what's really happening, and what's really in your fridge,
and what can you do right now? Do that thing that's doable. And
it may be walking to the mailboxversus stopping your car in front of your
mailbox to get your mail. Youknow, maybe it's bringing your groceries in
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one bag at a time to justget a little bit of extra steps.
I tell my members about the laundrygame, where I put laundry away one
article of clothing at a time,just to get extra steps. If you're
training yourself, that's pretty yeah.I want to make it doable. You
know, if they are drinking acocktail every night, it's like, okay,
can you pour yourself a smaller glassor can you skip a day somewhere
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it's it's I'll literally take it tothat granular to make them get a level
of success and confidence that Okay,I did that. Now I'm going to
push it one notch a little harder, just a little. I love that.
So small steps and reward yourself onthose small steps, because it needs
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to be it needs to be sustainablebecause where I'm coming from and at this
point in my life, you know, I want everybody to live to be
ninety five or one hundred and three. I joke, I want to live
to be one hundred and three,me and Jimminy cricket. And so I'm
playing. I'm playing a really longgame, and I want my members to
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do what they're learning here at StrongerYou. I want them to do it
until their last breath. Not thetracking, not necessarily that, but the
good healthy behaviors that we're working.Okay, guys, what if I old
you you can finally reach your goalswithout fad, dieting, deprivation, or
unrealistic expectations, all while still enjoyingthe foods you love. Yes, it's
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so let's reach your goals together.Tracking is a tool that doesn't need to
be used all the time. It'slike when you start a new job,
you have to write notes for everysingle thing you do at your new job,
and in two or three months youknow what to do and you don't
need to read all the notes thatyou wrote those for a few weeks.
Tracking is almost that same idea.You need to learn what a serving size
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looks like. I mean, myhusband and I still track our food and
you'll hear a whoop out of thekitchen when one of us gets the exact
right amount of protein that we wereshooting for. It's like the simple games
we play. Yeah, if Ican put that serving first try and I
was like, oh yeah, lookat that, you know, which means
my mind's eye im portion sizes arealigned, which is a great thing to
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be able to do, To beable to eyeball one hundred grams of a
fruit, a vegetable, roasted potatoes, whatever, learn that. Track to
learn that, to get your mind'seye right to what servings are and how
much tracking, and you know whatyou need to achieve as far as I
need to get thirty grams of proteinfor meal thirty forty And you learn that
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and then fine, after a timeyou let go of tracking, but you're
still walking. You're still getting sleepand water and movement and all of those
things. You can't unlearn those things. So do those things and do it
until the day you die. Sothat sounds like to me that this is
unless I'm wrong, and you canobviously correct me. But this sounds like
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this is what nutrition coaching means toyou is being able to not be in
front of the scale all the time, not track all the time, but
live your life in a healthy manner. Would would you say that is correct?
That? I absolutely I want.I want when I when I have
grandkids someday, I want them toknow me as the weightlifting granny. That's
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awesome, that's awesome. That's awesome. I've I say it every every year.
It's kind of my goal, nota not a New Year's resolution,
it's just my goal every year.I want to be whatever age I am
so right now thirty five, Iwant to be the best in shape thirty
five year old that I possibly canbe. So in September it'll be thirty
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six. So I'll say I wantto be the best in shape thirty six
version of myself. And it's achallenge to myself every year because your body,
as you as you know, yourbody changes every year. There's new
things that you like, there's newthings you want to try, there's new
experiences that you you now indulgent thatyou didn't want indulgent, and you're ever,
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ever changing, ever evolving human being. I like to think that we
as humans are artwork. And ifyou talk to any real artist, they
will always tell you that their artis never complete, and I think as
as humans, we are never complete. We're always working on ourselves no matter
no matter if it's nutrition or orjust learning to love or building a relationship.
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You're always evolving and working on yourselfas you go. So that's kind
of how I look at it,and I'm very very thankful that I had
stronger you as well, because Iwasn't tracking my nutrition before. I was
just going to the gym, workingout, not stop, and just like
where's the results, and not reallyseeking that at that point in time.
And then now it's to the pointthat I can just look and see my
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food and almost eyeball it and knowthat, Okay, well, I know
if I'm doing this much, I'mI know how much fat I'm consuming,
Like, I just just know atthat point. And I was, I
mean the same type of thing.I was a cardio bunny, you know,
eighties, nineties and all that cardiobunny, thinking well, if I'm
running so much, why can't Ieat what I want? You know,
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maybe it worked when I was runningfour miles a day when I was in
high school, but it doesn't workas you know an adult. It there's
a there's a disconnect between you know, how much you exercise and what you
think that a forwards you and whatnot. And I looked back to what you
were saying about being a better versionof yourself every year. My husband said
he actually actually won the lottery becausehis wife, after twenty two years of
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marriage, is actually looking better thanevery year. I'm like, oh,
well, it's a great compliment.He's like, oh man, he goes
every husband wants to be me.So shout out to my guy. Shout
out to him. For sure.That's it. I was sly. That
was sly. I like that.With that said, so, I mean
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it's this is kind of leaning intomy next question because this is all about
mindset here, right, So whenyou're interacting with a member, you get
a new member, had a memberwith you for a while that may have
plateaued or is self motivating, andcontinue to go like what how how long
do you feel that it takes fora member to change their mindset when working
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with them? Because I know everybody'sdifferent, and I know it's it's a
very broad question, but in yourexperience of seeing, like, how long
do you think it takes for amember to really truly commit to something like
this? God, that's a reallyit's an interesting question, and it's a
challenging question because no two are thesame. I've had I've had members kind
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of spin their wheels a bit fora good four weeks plus, and all
of a sudden they'll send me acheck in where where everything was kind of
not quite consistent for those first foursix weeks, you know, all of
a sudden, they essentially deliver afully loaded check in with every box filled
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in and contained, and you're like, what happened? Yeah, what did
you say to yourself? You know? And so something will just click.
But that's not to say that itcan't go backwards again. So it's like
my first, my first. WhatI wanted to say to you first and
foremost is that mindset work doesn't stopand doesn't It's not linear. Even even
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you know, with my members,I've seen some people do great and then
they get fatigued, and so thenthey need a break. And then sometimes
it can be a challenge to ifthey are in a maintenance spot to kind
of come back if they want toreturn to a cut after having a break.
It's so individualized to who they are. And I would say, even
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in my own journey, there aretimes when I am, you know,
all about I'm going to get stronger, or I don't care what the scale
reads, it doesn't matter, etcetera, et cetera. But that old
soundtrack that had a you know,a five decade hold on my brain will
come roaring back in it's really hardto change those soundtracks that you've had for
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you know, decades, So itreally depends how how much I can work
on. Just like Katie did withme. It's not about that perfection and
all or nothing. You just haveto say, okay, that that I
hear what you're saying, and you'reyou're letting that negativity come back in.
Those old soundtracks are coming back in, and we need to let's let's hog
tire and put her in the closetand come back to that new stuff that
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you want to talk, you know, say to yourself, so it can
change on a dime. They canbe doing great and it'll shift. They
can be doing you know, kindof messing and trying to figure out all
the pieces and then it just clicksinstantly and you just don't know what you're
going to get. But I alwaystell them I'm here and I'm going to
hold your hand either direction. AndI tell them, you know, if
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I said, I'm going to bethere to cheer you. If you want
to send me the picture of thescale with your feet on it, and
I can comment on your pedicure andthe number on the scale. But I
said, if you're going sideways,don't wait until check in to message me
I'm here, and I will.I will dust off your tosh and get
you up off the floor and wewill start all over again, one more
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foot in front of the other.So yeah, I'm always working on that
because it's never just about the macrosand the food. There's always other things
happening. Thank you for continuing tohumanize it, because that is the struggles
of who you are and what you'veexperienced, and ever go away. It's
it's just a constant thing for me. I love food. It's just something
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that is never going to change.And I I've told my coaches, hey,
listen, if I'm going here,I'm telling you right now, if
it's a place that I really reallylove, I'm going to eat. I'm
going to eat what I want toeat at this point in time. Will
I plan around it, Yes,if i'm if I'm working towards a goal,
I absolutely will plan around it.But if i'm if I'm now to
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the point of maintaining my own macros, understanding what I need to do,
I will indulge if I if Iwant to, I understand it's You're not
burning the house down in one day, right, And I know that's kind
of some people's mindset when they firstcome on. It's because of their experience,
right, it's it's at all ornothing. Well, if I didn't
do it today, it's over right, And oh yeah, it's not that.
(24:30):
It's it's just you have to liveat the same time, right,
and you have to. I don'twant to say have to because it sounds
like I'm forcing people and I don'twant to do that. But enjoy your
life to the point that you madethat. I think it's absolutely a gold
standard here. That is that shouldbe a plaque in a in an office
or on every membership is We're notexpecting you to be perfect, because nobody's
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perfect. No, it doesn't exist. Yeah, it does not. It
does not. And I think thatonce they talk to a coach and have
that and build that report like youdid with Katie, like I did with
a Drew a Martin, or justbuilding rapport with coaches like you that I've
met at our company's events, andthat I cherish those interactions. It's just
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it lets you see again that it'severybody's been through their own journey and you
can learn from each person that youcome in contact, whether it's with your
coach or somebody on the administrative teamand the member experienced team, or somebody
else in the community that's another memberthat's been exactly where you were. What
that said, It's summertime, okay, So I asked Jack this last episode,
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I'll ask you this as well.What I've seen over my time here
is in talking with some of ouramazing members is vacation time and members are
requesting to go on vacation, leavingto go on vacation and wondering how to
track. What is your approach toyour remember that is going away that is
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looking at track, or just amember that is traveling with your child for
travel, sports, or or justin general going you know, on just
a road trip or two to andfrom work during this time of year.
What is kind of some methods thatyou employ if someone wants to go on
a vacation and track, I obviouslymuzzle top and have at it. But
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yes, I'd rather them go andenjoy the vacation, and I'd rather them
connect with family or friends or whateverit is they're doing, if whatever that
may be. I the methods thatI like to employ with the idea of
Okay, let's say you're not goingto track great? Now, what can
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you do to tip your hat toyour goals? So I'll tell people if
there's a gym at the hotel,if you're staying at a hotel, can
you go work out once or twice? Like get up, get up a
bit before the kids, or youknow, I don't know if your kids
are like my kids, they're watchingsomething on TV and they don't notice you
even leave the room, So youknow, can you go work out for
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a little bit? Can you goeverybody take a walk? Can you delay
breakfast or you know, just likehave a I'm a huge fan of iced
coffee. Can you have an icedcoffee and have your first meal be lunch.
My husband and I have finally learnedthat sometimes our girls used to over
order what they could, so we'dkind of let them eat whatever they wanted
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and maybe we'd share a chunk ofthat, and maybe he and I would
share an entree, so we'd kindof have the room to eat, you
know, what they eat enough,but not over stuff. Walking, enjoying
where you're at and what you're seeing, think about what is important and nourishing
for your body through veggies, andlean protein. Okay, great, can
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one meal be veg and a leanprotein. You know, maybe maybe you
ditch a starchy carb. If you'regoing to have some prize off the kid's
plate, maybe you ditch the starchycarb or the alcohol if you want to
have a dessert with the whole table. It's like make trade offs. For
sure, you can if that's whatyou want to do. But I can
guarantee that you know a year pluswhen you're thinking about that vacation, it's
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not going to be how you howyou ate, maybe what you ate if
you ate something wonderful. Yes,And and if I'd wanted so much more
to be about the connection with what'shappening versus you know what your body is
doing, because a one week vacationsomewhere is not going to undo everything.
And again, we're on a longterm journey for everlasting health. So one
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week out of the fifty years thatyou God willing you know, or more
depending how old you are, haveleft that one week, even if you
gain a couple of vacation pounds,does a souvenir. It'll be off when
you come home and go back toyour normal. So just enjoying that's that's
yeah, that's beautifully said. It'sit's it's it's it needs to be heard,
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and it's a question that I'm askingevery coach and and thus far and
just my communication with coaches, it'sit's been the same. It's it's we
want you to enjoy your time.For members that are listening to this,
people that are on the fence there, you're you're contemplating at this point in
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time, should I do this orshould I not? You've if you've heard
the first episode with Jack, youyou've now heard this episode with Julie.
It's the same tone. They wantyou to do what's best for you and
to enjoy life. Right this thisis what it's all about. It's it's
to me as I've I've said andwill continue to say, it's about loving
yourself. It's about really enjoying what'sgoing on around you because life is very
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valuable. This is not a dressrehearsal. Enjoy it absolutely, absolutely.
You don't know your time, andI want to enjoy it to the fullest
and be able to do what Ican when I can, however I can
to have those memories. With thatbeing said, we're going to wrap this
podcast up, but before we getout of here, I want to give
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the floor to you to share anything, any words of encouragement with those that
are listening on this podcast before wehead on out. So the floor is
yours. I was always someone wholived and died by the scale. And
I kid you not when I saymy husband knew what the scale said,
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and I didn't have to say aword. I could be in the shower
and he could be getting ready forthe day and he could tell because it
was that palpable. I mean thatthat's stupid. Twelve by twelve had its
clause and meat but good. Andas I'm getting older and as I'm seeing
people who are the healthy versions thatI would like to be, there are
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seventy women, seventy year old womenout there who post on Instagram and I
was like, oh god, Iwant to be like that when I grow
up. And then there's people whoare my age who look like they're twenty
years older. And I'm very muchnow playing the long game and I'm changing.
I am not looking to shrink myself. Nobody should look to shrink themselves.
I am trying to fight the conceptof women's value being inversely proportional to
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what the scale says. I amfinally owning how strong I am and being
proud of it. And I amrealizing as the mom of two teenage girls,
that they watch me every minute ofevery day. They are in eye
rolls in the whole shebang that theyare watching. And I want to model
someone who is owning her strength andher value and who she is and what
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she can accomplish, not what thatnumber says between her toes. So that's
one of the things that I'm reallyworking with the women on my roster.
I am trying to have them hearwhat I am still learning and grappling with,
which is that they are so muchmore than that number, and that
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they are so there's so much moreto give and to learn and to aspire
and absorb of this life other thanthat little nugget. So that's, you
know, there's there's nothing wrong withvanity and all of that and feeling awesome
naked and wanting to stroll around ana bathing suit. But I want them
to have more than that. Iwish them so much more than that.
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Such a beautiful soul. As Isaid at the beginning of this, it's
it's It's so refreshing to speak toyou, and I know I need to
speak to you more because every timewe do, we have since I met
you, has been very fruitful forme to continue to see people such as
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yourself that share their message and areunapologetic about it, and that are willing
to share and help everybody on theirjourney that they come in contact with.
And that's how I try to carrymyself and put a smile on people's face
and know that somebody's going through somethingworse than me. Even though what I'm
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going through and what each of usare going through is impactful to us,
there's always somebody out there going throughsomething worse. And just hearing that you're
observing what your daughters are observing ofyou and the example that you want to
set, and understanding what's going onwith the archetypes of society as well,
and not conforming and just being comfortablewithin your own skin. That is super
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encouraging. And I appreciate you forbeing so vulnerable and sharing that with me
and with the audience today. SoI thank you again and continue to be
who you are. Keep that smile. I love it. Thank you,
Thank you so much, and thankyou everybody for listening again. Today,
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we will be back with another episodeto continue the summer series. Look forward
to speaking to you all once again. This has been the Stronger You podcast.
We will see you next time.Bye. Thank you for listening to
Stronger You Radio. For more information, please visit www dot strongeru dot com.
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Don't forget to tune in next weekfor more health and nutrition conversations with Stronger You
Evening. I am Brandon Hazelwood,and I thank you for listening to the
Stronger You podcast, the summer serieswith amazing coaches from Stronger You, and
today I have the wonderful pleasure oftalking to Julie Young. I'm so happy.
One of the kindest souls that I'veever met in my whole entire life
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is Stronger You Radio. We're nutritionis fun, diet trends are overrated,
and we help you take the guesswork at Emedient. Help join us today
with Stronger You team coaches and friendsas they discuss what it takes to become
a Stronger You today. Are youready, Let's get to it. Always
smiling from ear to ear will immediatelyput a smile on your face. And
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I'm glad you guys get the opportunityto actually see her and hear from her
today as well. For those thatmaybe her members listening to this, and
people that are curious and have seenher in the community and so on and
so forth, you will definitely beseeing more of her as well too.
I can promise you that. Butthat's for another time. But I'm just
gonna give a little quick rundown ofsome of the information Julie shared with me
that I thought i'd share with youguys, and she's also gonna share an
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add on more if she'd absolutely likeonce, I share this with you guys.
But started with Stronger You in Augustof twenty nineteen. Had been a
certified nutrition coach since twenty twenty andworked with Stronger You since twenty twenty one.
Before Stronger You You were in marketingNPR NBA USC GO Trojans even though
I'm not a Trojan fan. Isfrom SoCal A mom of three, married
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for twenty two years and it's beenworking out since twelve. And I wanted
to share this part because it wasabsolutely hilarious and I could not not share
this with you. After she sharedthis with me, but her first membership,
her mom lied to get her herfirst membership to go to the gym.
So here we are, Here weare, Julie, thank you for
being here. Tell the people moreabout yourself if you absolutely love to.
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Oh sure, so you hit allthe big ones. Southern California native married
to another Southern California native. Wejoke over unicorns. Three kids. Let's
see my oldest suppose my buy oneget one with my husband. He had
a son from his previous marriage,but I've raised him since he was four.
He's going to be twenty nine inSeptember. My girls are eighteen and
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sixteen. We're in changes of youknow, I'm about to send one off
to college, and that's just gonnahear change the dynamic of everything, fitness
and nutrition wise. I have beenin love with working out since I wasn't
since I could. My sister thirteenyears older than me, and she got
into the aerobics workout craze in lateseventies early eighties, and I would go
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stay with her for a weekend andshe would bring me to the gym with
her. This was long before theyever thought to put childcare in a gym
and I one of my earliest memoriesis doing hamstring curls on a Nautilus machine
when I was probably eight or nineyears old, and are telling me to
get off if an adult comes,because you know they're paying to be there.
Yea. And I loved working out. I did. I did,
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you know, all the things exerciseof any kind, although I wasn't a
team sport kind of person. Idabbed there too, but I always just
loved the gym and running and allof that. And I'm built like a
mactruck, so I can lift.I've always been strong. I've been you
know. I joke, I'm halfRussian, so that alone, you know
that hearty stock that likes to likesto be strong. So my mom lied
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about my age to get me.You had to be thirteen. I was
twelve. I was we budged bya little bit and I started working out
and just loved it. I alwaysdid. I have been a gym rat
since since then and never really stopped. I love that. I love that.
So with that said, you havethis and what it's it's made you
is that you was that your transitioninto becoming a coach just for your love
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for being within the gym or wasthere something else that kind of push huge
towards being a nutrition coach? There, I would say, there's something else.
So I did. I was apersonal trainer for a while. I
taught spin. Previous to having mygirls, I taught a bar and so
I've I've been on the fitness sideand even personally I have. I joked
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that I've died it. Since Iexited the room, I felt like I
was always fighting my weight. Iwas a teen of the eighties. My
mom was a dancer when she wasyoung. My sister, who I already
talked about, we couldn't have moredifferent body part body shapes if we tried.
She's she was five ten, nota whisp of fat, honor.
I maxed out at five six,and I am very broad, and so
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I was always trying to be smaller, thinner, and sometimes I would succeed,
but it was never in a goodhealthy way. It was always,
you know, not eating enough.I mean, I you know, it's
whether it was NutriSystem, weight watchers. I was always trying the next thing.
I joked that the only diet Idon't think I did was the cabbage
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soup diet. I am going tobe fifty two and I was still fighting
my weight when I joined Stronger Youas a member, and in fact,
at that time I think there waslike twenty percent of my closet that could
fit me. And mind you,I was working out, I was running
twenty miles a week or more.I was doing all the things. But
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I also loved to cook, andI have a sweet tooth, and I
have kids, and I was enjoyingand there were habitual things that I was
doing that I didn't even think about, like you know, always pouring myself
a little glass of wine when Istarted cooking dinner, regardless of whether I
wanted it or not. It wasjust a habit. Yea. So twenty
nineteen, I can barely fit intomost of my clothes. I'm not feeling
good. I'm feeling a sense offailure because I've lost and gained the same
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fifteen twenty pounds more times than Ican count. And I'm feeling like I'm
clinging to a life raft of youknow, this manic feeling of like do
I try keto? Which I diddo, and you want to talk about
that, you know, you know, cleanses and this and that. And
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I finally I had heard about StrongerYou. I'm a big Peloton person,
so I had heard about it.And I am one who will research something
up, down and sideways, sobetter Business Bureau, all the things.
I'm like, I'm not giving mymoney to some fly by night. Yeah,
yeah, And I signed up andeverything. First of all, I
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actually engaged with Mike Dola just asI was starting, because I remember he
gave a discount code on the Pelotonpodcast. I was listening to him,
but I was set to go toNew York to go to Peloton Studios and
all that, and I didn't wantto start this whole thing. So I
said, can I get this promotionand then start when I come back?
And yeah, snow problem he waswas is a fantastic guy. So I
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started and it was magical. Probablya Katie Katie, right, I mean
I should we could just stop rightthere. She and I connected, you
know, It's like she she wasmy wise elder on some things. But
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she was also a mom with threeyoung ones under the age of five.
She had one that was months old, tiny months old. So I would
talk to her about parenting and shewould talk to me about everything else.
And if we just clicked, wejust clicked. And and I mean,
I remember, you know, learningabout macros. I had dabbled. I
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had, you know, as withevery other diet, I had tried that
and of course not done it well. I had been really good at like
tracking a meal too, and thenI wouldn't tracked dinner when I attract previously
tried to. Anyway, she madeit doable, she made me understand it.
I was getting educated. I canbe a bit of a routine person.
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I like some of my routines,So getting into that habit of like,
I was already making a protein shake, so it was just kind of
like, oh, I don't wantto put a quarter cup of peanut butter
in there, Okay, you know, learning those little tweaks to make it
work and to understand it and soit was a process. But the big
thing and what made me want tobecome a nutrition coach is that I'm in
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that phase of life where a lotof women are like, this is it
menopause. All the things are goingto start just imploding. My kids are
going away, I'm drinking I youknow, everybody's not everybody. A lot
of women of my age like toblame this on menopause and their metabolism and
that kind of thing instead of lookingat what is really happening. Yeah,
and my mantra from I don't knowhow long, I just wanted to eat
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like a normal person because I forso long had been starving myself or not,
you know, I'd go one wayor the other obviously based on what
my weight was doing. I justfelt like there were people out there who
ate normally, who maintained their weight, who could enjoy a milkshake every once
in a while, or you know, getting dessert at a restaurant or I
wanted to be that person, andthrough stronger view, with Katie's help,
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I got to be that person.I was learning, I was understanding portion
sizes. I was understanding that,you know, nuts are not a source
of protein. There are a factthat has a protein, you know,
that kind of thing, but alsojust that all are nothing, you know
where it's like that feast or faminefiguratively and literally which right. And man,
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Katie worked like like like crazy toget that out of me, because
you know, there's this level ofyou know, I was a straight A
student when I was young. Youknow, you want to do all the
things. You want to do itall right, and if you don't do
it all right, then you justkind of plode and come down. And
she really helped me work out ofthat. And so go ahead, I
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have a question for you, becauseyou dropped some some wonderful gyms in here,
and it's it was the sole purposeof me wanting to have coaches on
like you to share exactly what youdid. You in sharing about yourself made
yourself relatable to every single one ofour members. And it's the point that
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I like to share with people iswhen I say that the coaches here are
humans just like you. Julie justshared her experience of what it was like,
what she's battled with from a kidup until now, and how she's
learn from building a relationship with acoach and where she is to this point
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having tried multitude of diets, whichI know you've seen with members that you've
had that they've tried everything under thesun to get whatever their goal is,
which that differentiates between whichever member itis to giving up almost on yourself and
thinking that it's not possible, orthinking that you've plateaued right to a certain
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point, and just to hear yousay that, you know you you've felt
those type of things, but justbuilding a relationship and finding a coach,
which is why our intake form isso huge, and trying to pair somebody
that can relate to you working withanother mom and just building that relationship there.
I'm sure that connection meant everything toyou, and it sounds like it's
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just from what you've conveyed to me, that that connection alone, which now
transcends just being a nutrition coach.It's somebody that gets you, right,
It's somebody. It's it's not justthe person that you're paying, you're talking
to you, they're doing your macrosand it's whatever. By it's now somebody
I can talk to and have areal conversation and build from there. So
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I love I love love, lovelove love that. So that being said,
because you've shared some of your values, right, so you you've also
shared some of your struggles as well. What do you do when you have
a member that you are coaching thatis struggling. I tend to think that
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if you're struggling, you've probably beenon more than you can chew, or
you're you're two, you're you're you'reover your pay grade. Right, So
I don't I dial things back.I take it and I take a lot
from James Claire and Atomic Habits,where it's like, if your goal is
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to be a writer, write onesentence, start there and feel that confidence
of I did it. I wroteone sentence. Okay, great, maybe
tomorrow you write too. I takethat approach with my members. They know
whoever's listening that it's on my roster. I am the queen of eat your
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veggies, my mom, I'm trainedme well. I try to get members
to, you know, just canyou eat one serving of vegetables today?
And if you do it great,can we add like ten percent more tomorrow
or next week? It's I wantto dial it back to where wherever it
is that we need to start,wherever that person is right now, not
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where they aspire to be. Butlet's get real. What's what's really swirling
in your house and what's really happening, and what's really in your fridge,
and what can you do right now? Do that thing that's doable. And
it may be walking to the mailboxversus stopping your car in front of your
mailbox to get your mail. Youknow, maybe it's bringing your groceries in
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one bag at a time to justget a little bit of extra steps.
I tell my members about the laundrygame, where I put laundry away one
article of clothing at a time,just to get extra steps. If you're
training yourself, that's pretty yeah.I want to make it doable. You
know, if they are drinking acocktail every night, it's like, okay,
can you pour yourself a smaller glassor can you skip a day somewhere
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it's it's I'll literally take it tothat granular to make them get a level
of success and confidence that Okay,I did that. Now I'm going to
push it one notch a little harder, just a little. I love that.
So small steps and reward yourself onthose small steps, because it needs
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to be it needs to be sustainablebecause where I'm coming from and at this
point in my life, you know, I want everybody to live to be
ninety five or one hundred and three. I joke, I want to live
to be one hundred and three,me and Jimminy cricket. And so I'm
playing. I'm playing a really longgame, and I want my members to
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do what they're learning here at StrongerYou. I want them to do it
until their last breath. Not thetracking, not necessarily that, but the
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so let's reach your goals together.Tracking is a tool that doesn't need to
be used all the time. It'slike when you start a new job,
you have to write notes for everysingle thing you do at your new job,
and in two or three months youknow what to do and you don't
need to read all the notes thatyou wrote those for a few weeks.
Tracking is almost that same idea.You need to learn what a serving size
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looks like. I mean, myhusband and I still track our food and
you'll hear a whoop out of thekitchen when one of us gets the exact
right amount of protein that we wereshooting for. It's like the simple games
we play. Yeah, if Ican put that serving first try and I
was like, oh yeah, lookat that, you know, which means
my mind's eye im portion sizes arealigned, which is a great thing to
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be able to do, To beable to eyeball one hundred grams of a
fruit, a vegetable, roasted potatoes, whatever, learn that. Track to
learn that, to get your mind'seye right to what servings are and how
much tracking, and you know whatyou need to achieve as far as I
need to get thirty grams of proteinfor meal thirty forty And you learn that
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and then fine, after a timeyou let go of tracking, but you're
still walking. You're still getting sleepand water and movement and all of those
things. You can't unlearn those things. So do those things and do it
until the day you die. Sothat sounds like to me that this is
unless I'm wrong, and you canobviously correct me. But this sounds like
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this is what nutrition coaching means toyou is being able to not be in
front of the scale all the time, not track all the time, but
live your life in a healthy manner. Would would you say that is correct?
That? I absolutely I want.I want when I when I have
grandkids someday, I want them toknow me as the weightlifting granny. That's
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awesome, that's awesome. That's awesome. I've I say it every every year.
It's kind of my goal, nota not a New Year's resolution,
it's just my goal every year.I want to be whatever age I am
so right now thirty five, Iwant to be the best in shape thirty
five year old that I possibly canbe. So in September it'll be thirty
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six. So I'll say I wantto be the best in shape thirty six
version of myself. And it's achallenge to myself every year because your body,
as you as you know, yourbody changes every year. There's new
things that you like, there's newthings you want to try, there's new
experiences that you you now indulgent thatyou didn't want indulgent, and you're ever,
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ever changing, ever evolving human being. I like to think that we
as humans are artwork. And ifyou talk to any real artist, they
will always tell you that their artis never complete, and I think as
as humans, we are never complete. We're always working on ourselves no matter
no matter if it's nutrition or orjust learning to love or building a relationship.
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You're always evolving and working on yourselfas you go. So that's kind
of how I look at it,and I'm very very thankful that I had
stronger you as well, because Iwasn't tracking my nutrition before. I was
just going to the gym, workingout, not stop, and just like
where's the results, and not reallyseeking that at that point in time.
And then now it's to the pointthat I can just look and see my
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food and almost eyeball it and knowthat, Okay, well, I know
if I'm doing this much, I'mI know how much fat I'm consuming,
Like, I just just know atthat point. And I was, I
mean the same type of thing.I was a cardio bunny, you know,
eighties, nineties and all that cardiobunny, thinking well, if I'm
running so much, why can't Ieat what I want? You know,
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maybe it worked when I was runningfour miles a day when I was in
high school, but it doesn't workas you know an adult. It there's
a there's a disconnect between you know, how much you exercise and what you
think that a forwards you and whatnot. And I looked back to what you
were saying about being a better versionof yourself every year. My husband said
he actually actually won the lottery becausehis wife, after twenty two years of
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marriage, is actually looking better thanevery year. I'm like, oh,
well, it's a great compliment.He's like, oh man, he goes
every husband wants to be me.So shout out to my guy. Shout
out to him. For sure.That's it. I was sly. That
was sly. I like that.With that said, so, I mean
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it's this is kind of leaning intomy next question because this is all about
mindset here, right, So whenyou're interacting with a member, you get
a new member, had a memberwith you for a while that may have
plateaued or is self motivating, andcontinue to go like what how how long
do you feel that it takes fora member to change their mindset when working
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with them? Because I know everybody'sdifferent, and I know it's it's a
very broad question, but in yourexperience of seeing, like, how long
do you think it takes for amember to really truly commit to something like
this? God, that's a reallyit's an interesting question, and it's a
challenging question because no two are thesame. I've had I've had members kind
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of spin their wheels a bit fora good four weeks plus, and all
of a sudden they'll send me acheck in where where everything was kind of
not quite consistent for those first foursix weeks, you know, all of
a sudden, they essentially deliver afully loaded check in with every box filled
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in and contained, and you're like, what happened? Yeah, what did
you say to yourself? You know? And so something will just click.
But that's not to say that itcan't go backwards again. So it's like
my first, my first. WhatI wanted to say to you first and
foremost is that mindset work doesn't stopand doesn't It's not linear. Even even
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you know, with my members,I've seen some people do great and then
they get fatigued, and so thenthey need a break. And then sometimes
it can be a challenge to ifthey are in a maintenance spot to kind
of come back if they want toreturn to a cut after having a break.
It's so individualized to who they are. And I would say, even
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in my own journey, there aretimes when I am, you know,
all about I'm going to get stronger, or I don't care what the scale
reads, it doesn't matter, etcetera, et cetera. But that old
soundtrack that had a you know,a five decade hold on my brain will
come roaring back in it's really hardto change those soundtracks that you've had for
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you know, decades, So itreally depends how how much I can work
on. Just like Katie did withme. It's not about that perfection and
all or nothing. You just haveto say, okay, that that I
hear what you're saying, and you'reyou're letting that negativity come back in.
Those old soundtracks are coming back in, and we need to let's let's hog
tire and put her in the closetand come back to that new stuff that
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you want to talk, you know, say to yourself, so it can
change on a dime. They canbe doing great and it'll shift. They
can be doing you know, kindof messing and trying to figure out all
the pieces and then it just clicksinstantly and you just don't know what you're
going to get. But I alwaystell them I'm here and I'm going to
hold your hand either direction. AndI tell them, you know, if
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I said, I'm going to bethere to cheer you. If you want
to send me the picture of thescale with your feet on it, and
I can comment on your pedicure andthe number on the scale. But I
said, if you're going sideways,don't wait until check in to message me
I'm here, and I will.I will dust off your tosh and get
you up off the floor and wewill start all over again, one more
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foot in front of the other.So yeah, I'm always working on that
because it's never just about the macrosand the food. There's always other things
happening. Thank you for continuing tohumanize it, because that is the struggles
of who you are and what you'veexperienced, and ever go away. It's
it's just a constant thing for me. I love food. It's just something
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that is never going to change.And I I've told my coaches, hey,
listen, if I'm going here,I'm telling you right now, if
it's a place that I really reallylove, I'm going to eat. I'm
going to eat what I want toeat at this point in time. Will
I plan around it, Yes,if i'm if I'm working towards a goal,
I absolutely will plan around it.But if i'm if I'm now to
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the point of maintaining my own macros, understanding what I need to do,
I will indulge if I if Iwant to, I understand it's You're not
burning the house down in one day, right, And I know that's kind
of some people's mindset when they firstcome on. It's because of their experience,
right, it's it's at all ornothing. Well, if I didn't
do it today, it's over right, And oh yeah, it's not that.
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It's it's just you have to liveat the same time, right,
and you have to. I don'twant to say have to because it sounds
like I'm forcing people and I don'twant to do that. But enjoy your
life to the point that you madethat. I think it's absolutely a gold
standard here. That is that shouldbe a plaque in a in an office
or on every membership is We're notexpecting you to be perfect, because nobody's
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perfect. No, it doesn't exist. Yeah, it does not. It
does not. And I think thatonce they talk to a coach and have
that and build that report like youdid with Katie, like I did with
a Drew a Martin, or justbuilding rapport with coaches like you that I've
met at our company's events, andthat I cherish those interactions. It's just
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it lets you see again that it'severybody's been through their own journey and you
can learn from each person that youcome in contact, whether it's with your
coach or somebody on the administrative teamand the member experienced team, or somebody
else in the community that's another memberthat's been exactly where you were. What
that said, It's summertime, okay, So I asked Jack this last episode,
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I'll ask you this as well.What I've seen over my time here
is in talking with some of ouramazing members is vacation time and members are
requesting to go on vacation, leavingto go on vacation and wondering how to
track. What is your approach toyour remember that is going away that is
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looking at track, or just amember that is traveling with your child for
travel, sports, or or justin general going you know, on just
a road trip or two to andfrom work during this time of year.
What is kind of some methods thatyou employ if someone wants to go on
a vacation and track, I obviouslymuzzle top and have at it. But
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yes, I'd rather them go andenjoy the vacation, and I'd rather them
connect with family or friends or whateverit is they're doing, if whatever that
may be. I the methods thatI like to employ with the idea of
Okay, let's say you're not goingto track great? Now, what can
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you do to tip your hat toyour goals? So I'll tell people if
there's a gym at the hotel,if you're staying at a hotel, can
you go work out once or twice? Like get up, get up a
bit before the kids, or youknow, I don't know if your kids
are like my kids, they're watchingsomething on TV and they don't notice you
even leave the room, So youknow, can you go work out for
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a little bit? Can you goeverybody take a walk? Can you delay
breakfast or you know, just likehave a I'm a huge fan of iced
coffee. Can you have an icedcoffee and have your first meal be lunch.
My husband and I have finally learnedthat sometimes our girls used to over
order what they could, so we'dkind of let them eat whatever they wanted
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and maybe we'd share a chunk ofthat, and maybe he and I would
share an entree, so we'd kindof have the room to eat, you
know, what they eat enough,but not over stuff. Walking, enjoying
where you're at and what you're seeing, think about what is important and nourishing
for your body through veggies, andlean protein. Okay, great, can
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one meal be veg and a leanprotein. You know, maybe maybe you
ditch a starchy carb. If you'regoing to have some prize off the kid's
plate, maybe you ditch the starchycarb or the alcohol if you want to
have a dessert with the whole table. It's like make trade offs. For
sure, you can if that's whatyou want to do. But I can
guarantee that you know a year pluswhen you're thinking about that vacation, it's
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not going to be how you howyou ate, maybe what you ate if
you ate something wonderful. Yes,And and if I'd wanted so much more
to be about the connection with what'shappening versus you know what your body is
doing, because a one week vacationsomewhere is not going to undo everything.
And again, we're on a longterm journey for everlasting health. So one
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week out of the fifty years thatyou God willing you know, or more
depending how old you are, haveleft that one week, even if you
gain a couple of vacation pounds,does a souvenir. It'll be off when
you come home and go back toyour normal. So just enjoying that's that's
yeah, that's beautifully said. It'sit's it's it's it needs to be heard,
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and it's a question that I'm askingevery coach and and thus far and
just my communication with coaches, it'sit's been the same. It's it's we
want you to enjoy your time.For members that are listening to this,
people that are on the fence there, you're you're contemplating at this point in
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time, should I do this orshould I not? You've if you've heard
the first episode with Jack, youyou've now heard this episode with Julie.
It's the same tone. They wantyou to do what's best for you and
to enjoy life. Right this thisis what it's all about. It's it's
to me as I've I've said andwill continue to say, it's about loving
yourself. It's about really enjoying what'sgoing on around you because life is very
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valuable. This is not a dressrehearsal. Enjoy it absolutely, absolutely.
You don't know your time, andI want to enjoy it to the fullest
and be able to do what Ican when I can, however I can
to have those memories. With thatbeing said, we're going to wrap this
podcast up, but before we getout of here, I want to give
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the floor to you to share anything, any words of encouragement with those that
are listening on this podcast before wehead on out. So the floor is
yours. I was always someone wholived and died by the scale. And
I kid you not when I saymy husband knew what the scale said,
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and I didn't have to say aword. I could be in the shower
and he could be getting ready forthe day and he could tell because it
was that palpable. I mean thatthat's stupid. Twelve by twelve had its
clause and meat but good. Andas I'm getting older and as I'm seeing
people who are the healthy versions thatI would like to be, there are
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seventy women, seventy year old womenout there who post on Instagram and I
was like, oh god, Iwant to be like that when I grow
up. And then there's people whoare my age who look like they're twenty
years older. And I'm very muchnow playing the long game and I'm changing.
I am not looking to shrink myself. Nobody should look to shrink themselves.
I am trying to fight the conceptof women's value being inversely proportional to
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what the scale says. I amfinally owning how strong I am and being
proud of it. And I amrealizing as the mom of two teenage girls,
that they watch me every minute ofevery day. They are in eye
rolls in the whole shebang that theyare watching. And I want to model
someone who is owning her strength andher value and who she is and what
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she can accomplish, not what thatnumber says between her toes. So that's
one of the things that I'm reallyworking with the women on my roster.
I am trying to have them hearwhat I am still learning and grappling with,
which is that they are so muchmore than that number, and that
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they are so there's so much moreto give and to learn and to aspire
and absorb of this life other thanthat little nugget. So that's, you
know, there's there's nothing wrong withvanity and all of that and feeling awesome
naked and wanting to stroll around ana bathing suit. But I want them
to have more than that. Iwish them so much more than that.
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Such a beautiful soul. As Isaid at the beginning of this, it's
it's It's so refreshing to speak toyou, and I know I need to
speak to you more because every timewe do, we have since I met
you, has been very fruitful forme to continue to see people such as
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yourself that share their message and areunapologetic about it, and that are willing
to share and help everybody on theirjourney that they come in contact with.
And that's how I try to carrymyself and put a smile on people's face
and know that somebody's going through somethingworse than me. Even though what I'm
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going through and what each of usare going through is impactful to us,
there's always somebody out there going throughsomething worse. And just hearing that you're
observing what your daughters are observing ofyou and the example that you want to
set, and understanding what's going onwith the archetypes of society as well,
and not conforming and just being comfortablewithin your own skin. That is super
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encouraging. And I appreciate you forbeing so vulnerable and sharing that with me
and with the audience today. SoI thank you again and continue to be
who you are. Keep that smile. I love it. Thank you,
Thank you so much, and thankyou everybody for listening again. Today,
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we will be back with another episodeto continue the summer series. Look forward
to speaking to you all once again. This has been the Stronger You podcast.
We will see you next time.Bye. Thank you for listening to
Stronger You Radio. For more information, please visit www dot strongeru dot com.
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