Speaker 1: Welcome to the Transformation Station Podcast. I'm Christina, owner, operator,
Speaker 1: and founder of the Transformation Station, and this is where
Speaker 1: we talk about getting stronger while navigating real life. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to stay consistent through the ups and the
Speaker 1: downs and everywhere else in between, this is for you. Hey, listeners,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the podcast, The Transformation Station Podcast.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: I am so excited because one of our own coach, Tina,
Speaker 1: has joined me today.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: We trying to do this for a while. I know
Speaker 1: the time has come.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm excited. We're both excited.
Speaker 1: I think the listeners are going to be excited here.
Speaker 2: They'll be like, it's staying out, Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 1: It's so cool though, like it's nice that we actually
Speaker 1: have this time to get together. And I know, like
Speaker 1: we're like ships sailing in the night sometimes and we
Speaker 1: don't always see each other because I'm usually here in
Speaker 1: the morning and you're here in the evening. But then
Speaker 1: when we do get to see each other, we're like, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is exciting. No, absolutely, And also the members like
Speaker 1: they'd love to know more about you. But if they
Speaker 1: are in between classes and you're coaching a class, they
Speaker 1: don't really have that opportunity. So I feel like I
Speaker 1: learned something new about people and you and like the
Speaker 1: other coaches and members, like something new every single day.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, when you think you know somebody?
Speaker 1: So I got a couple questions for you.
Speaker 2: I'm excited. Let's get into it all right.
Speaker 1: So the first question is what was your relationship with
Speaker 1: fitness growing up? Was this something that was always part
Speaker 1: of your life or what does that look like for
Speaker 1: you as you became Tina?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I mean, I'm Nigerian, love being Nigerian, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't really part of any conversations growing up, Like fitness.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think when I got into high school
Speaker 2: that's when I had more conversations about it. And even
Speaker 2: from the older people write what they're doing, what sports
Speaker 2: they're playing, and all that stuff. So growing up, it
Speaker 2: wasn't much of a conversation. I want to say nutrition
Speaker 2: was more than that was really like the core of it,
Speaker 2: like what are you eating at home? What are the
Speaker 2: ingredients that like that my mom is making? She just
Speaker 2: kind of talk about it here and there, But that
Speaker 2: was really just talking about food, not necessarily like aligning
Speaker 2: food at what you're doing outside of the house or
Speaker 2: just in terms of activities, right, But that was really it.
Speaker 2: In terms of growing up, It wasn't really a major topic.
Speaker 2: It would come up here and there, and I want
Speaker 2: to say it was through like my parents and my
Speaker 2: brother because my friend, my brother was like a fitness
Speaker 2: grew he was. He played basketball like in his like
Speaker 2: teen years and stuff like that. So I got to
Speaker 2: give him props definitely for adding that as a layer
Speaker 2: of conversation at home for sure.
Speaker 1: Well that's awesome. Yeah, So what what did a typical
Speaker 1: day look like for you growing up? Like when you
Speaker 1: went to school? Did you play any sports or did
Speaker 1: you did you do any extracurricular activities or were your
Speaker 1: theater kid?
Speaker 2: No, I wasn't a theater kid. I was a dance girl.
Speaker 2: So I did do dance. I was in a few
Speaker 2: competitions growing up, and that was literally my high school days.
Speaker 2: Middle school, I did like sports and Dad's classes as
Speaker 2: part of like some programs and stuff like that. Never
Speaker 2: I'm like competitive level. But I think when I went
Speaker 2: to high school is when I started to do dance competitions,
Speaker 2: take it more seriously and then do a couple of sports.
Speaker 2: I loved volleyball. It's been a while though since I
Speaker 2: played volleyball, so no one tests me on it, but
Speaker 2: I just love that sport. It was just one of
Speaker 2: those things. And then cheerleading. A lot of people know
Speaker 2: that I always wanted to be in the movie Bring
Speaker 2: It On. That was a thing for me. It's my
Speaker 2: favorite movie of all time, and I just yeah, so
Speaker 2: that is as far as it went, like from middle
Speaker 2: school and like early high school or halfway through high
Speaker 2: school of like the extra stuff that I would do,
Speaker 2: But cheerleading is a thing for me.
Speaker 1: Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the movie Bring It On. It's literally
Speaker 2: my favorite. And I remember a core memory growing up
Speaker 2: is after that movie, I was four of my friends
Speaker 2: and the movie cleared out as usual, and we went
Speaker 2: to the front and we started doing cartwheels, started to
Speaker 2: pretend like we were in the Bring It On movie
Speaker 2: at Woodbine Mall in Toronto, literally yes, Woodbine Mall, and
Speaker 2: it was just yeah. So I always tell that to
Speaker 2: members here and they're they'll laugh and I'd be like,
Speaker 2: so there some moves that we do with like y
Speaker 2: raise or whatever, and I'm just like this is channeling
Speaker 2: the inner cheerleader in me. And then people ask, oh,
Speaker 2: you did cheerleading, No, which is a wish of mine.
Speaker 1: So do you recognize this, I said, birt, it's code hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, that is a cheer like yeah,
Speaker 2: can you tell I love everything about that movie? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and the original. I love the original. I know they
Speaker 2: did a few more, but yeah, that one's But now.
Speaker 2: I loved cheerleading, and I loved I loved volleyball, like volleyball.
Speaker 2: I did do volleyball competitive and high school. And then dance.
Speaker 2: I love to dance.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite style of dance? Like, did you
Speaker 1: ever get intoel like jazz or hip hop or so?
Speaker 2: Growing up it was like hip hop and whether it
Speaker 2: was hip hop movies, I mean, bring it on too,
Speaker 2: But it was contemporary actually that I really liked because
Speaker 2: it was like a mixture of like all the different things. Right.
Speaker 2: And my teacher at the time, she had a background
Speaker 2: in hip hop, and when she said you want to
Speaker 2: do contemporary, I'm like, what's that. She's like, trust me,
Speaker 2: like you come from a hip hop background. We'll do
Speaker 2: different things. We'll do jazz, we'll do a little bit
Speaker 2: of this. And then she's open to getting like critique
Speaker 2: from like the team, right, like how do we spice
Speaker 2: this up or make it a little bit more unique
Speaker 2: which allows us to stand out. But I really like
Speaker 2: contemporary and I just kind of rolled with that for
Speaker 2: the longest time because I'm always interested in learning new
Speaker 2: things and trying things that maybe didn't work before. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that was my thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's super cool. Did you like the fast contemporary
Speaker 1: dance or like the slower.
Speaker 2: We did like because she was open to try and
Speaker 2: e merge it. So it was mainly contemporary and those
Speaker 2: are the competitions and stuff like that that we would
Speaker 2: go for, but she would have parts in it depending
Speaker 2: on the music that she chooses where we're doing like
Speaker 2: something fast, and then we would bring it back and
Speaker 2: like slow it down and so but yeah, I agree
Speaker 2: to love that, which I don't know. I literally thought
Speaker 2: I would just be like the hip hop girl. But
Speaker 2: I'm a contemporary girl now too, And probably why the
Speaker 2: reason why I like zumba because zoomba is just a
Speaker 2: mixture of different things, So I appreciate it for what
Speaker 2: it is because of my background, right.
Speaker 1: Anything like as long as I'm moving, Yeah.
Speaker 2: For sure, And then I look at other people, I like,
Speaker 2: I don't have to have to be songs that I'm
Speaker 2: always like I'm familiar with. I'm open to dancing to
Speaker 2: any type of music, right, And I have to thank
Speaker 2: my uh my dance culture at that time, right, because
Speaker 2: she kind of opened me to that too. Right, Just
Speaker 2: because you like a particular type of music, that's cool.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to dancing, you can add some
Speaker 2: of those moves and that flare into what we're doing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot of skill
Speaker 1: to develop to do that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and I was young, like I was in
Speaker 2: like high school. Right. Some people will say not that young,
Speaker 2: but I mean I was young. So yeah, that's really fun. Huh.
Speaker 1: I feel like in like the first five minutes. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so I already loved you so much, and now I
Speaker 1: have many others all.
Speaker 2: The things about Tina seriously, yes, yes, no, Yeah, moving.
Speaker 1: Into like the fitness, where did that start to transition
Speaker 1: from like doing like sports and dancing and always like
Speaker 1: moving essentially into strength training and doing cardio and everything
Speaker 1: else all mixed together and kickboxing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me it was like, as I
Speaker 2: just mentioned, I had like a little bit of a
Speaker 2: back background and like sports and dancing and being active
Speaker 2: here and there. But I will say I am I mean,
Speaker 2: most people will say I do come across as a
Speaker 2: very confident person, and she seemed like she's got all
Speaker 2: her shit together and all that stuff. But I think
Speaker 2: in my late like when I got into college, so
Speaker 2: I am a creative director. I studied graphic design and
Speaker 2: around those years of like me kind of figuring out
Speaker 2: what I wanted to do with my career, I was
Speaker 2: very confident there, but I wasn't really sure what. I
Speaker 2: didn't have an answer to what I'm doing everywhere else,
Speaker 2: like my body fitness, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: what are the things that I want to do outside
Speaker 2: of my career? And those were the years when I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, and I had a best and I
Speaker 2: have my best friend, Allison, who's awesome. She was like
Speaker 2: and I'd had these conversations with her. She's liked, well,
Speaker 2: how about we start something. Let's just do something together
Speaker 2: and we'll see if we like it. And I was like, okay, sure,
Speaker 2: and she's like, I know, you're all about your career
Speaker 2: and designing. And I also had like a side business
Speaker 2: at the time, so that was keeping me busy. And
Speaker 2: the side business was just like providing like design services
Speaker 2: to people. And I was like, what are you going
Speaker 2: to get me to do? And she's like, well, I
Speaker 2: don't really want to do the zoom Bus, she told me,
Speaker 2: because I used to be a Zoomba instructor many years ago,
Speaker 2: so there was that, but it was only for like
Speaker 2: a few years that I was a zoomber instructor. And
Speaker 2: that's because my career got in the way.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I'm very very passionate about what I do and she's like, well,
Speaker 2: we're not going to do the zoom Bus and I'm okay, fine,
Speaker 2: we won't do the zoom Bus, but let's do something
Speaker 2: else to show. That's when my love for kickboxing started
Speaker 2: because we tried, Yeah with Alison, we tried two gyms
Speaker 2: in Brampton, Ontario, and one of them I literally could
Speaker 2: not keep up, Like I couldn't keep up. She's like
Speaker 2: very good and like very focused when it comes to
Speaker 2: the gym, my friend, and for me, I was like dying.
Speaker 2: Like it was. We did like a it was like
Speaker 2: a boot camp kind of kickboxing. It wasn't anything like
Speaker 2: the kickboxing that I would say that we love Christina.
Speaker 2: It was like hardcore, do suicides and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: And I literally I remember halfway through the class, you guys,
Speaker 2: I stepped out and I was like, I'll be back
Speaker 2: and I just needed to gather myself. And I think
Speaker 2: that was one of the wake up calls that like, girl,
Speaker 2: we got to get this together. If this isn't your
Speaker 2: class for you, let's figure out something else. And then
Speaker 2: I went back into the class. I'm like Alison, like,
Speaker 2: I'm not enjoying this, and I gave her that look
Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm not enjoying this. It's okay,
Speaker 2: Let's do like five more minutes. And then we ended
Speaker 2: up leaving and we had a good conversation and we
Speaker 2: tried another gym and we ended up going to that
Speaker 2: gym for literally like four years. Like that gym that
Speaker 2: we switched to, and that's where my love for I
Speaker 2: want to say fitness, being mindful of what I'm eating
Speaker 2: and kickboxing literally came to life in the right way.
Speaker 2: And I was able to kind of not put a
Speaker 2: pause on my career but realize I can have my
Speaker 2: career be good at it, but then also focus on
Speaker 2: other things too, right, and that will give me long life.
Speaker 2: That's another thing. So that is really where my love
Speaker 2: for fitness and kickboxing really started. And it was literally
Speaker 2: right before the pandemic, where the pandemic was just like
Speaker 2: I think a couple of years before that, before we
Speaker 2: all didn't know what was happening with the world. And
Speaker 2: so I want to say I'm grateful because it came
Speaker 2: at the right time because when things shut down, Allis
Speaker 2: and I were still trying to figure out ways to
Speaker 2: connect but keep moving right in a time in the
Speaker 2: world where we just there was no gyms and like
Speaker 2: we just got to figure it out at home, and
Speaker 2: we did figure it out. So I really believe that
Speaker 2: timing is key. Things happened for a reason. And although
Speaker 2: I did, like you know, the dancing and the past,
Speaker 2: and I did the Zuma instructor like for a few years,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that was love Zuma as a student.
Speaker 2: As an instructor, not so much, but it is part
Speaker 2: of my journey for sure. But I was like, please, yeah.
Speaker 1: You're not teaching Zuma because people are gonna listen to.
Speaker 2: This and You're like, let's have t D Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love being a student. I love being a student
Speaker 2: when it comes to kickboxing. I love being an instructor.
Speaker 2: And that's how we met right where I moved to
Speaker 2: Berry and I was looking for a gym where I mean,
Speaker 2: I could teach a bunch of things I can learn.
Speaker 2: I'm always open to learning, but I wanted to do
Speaker 2: kickboxing really bad. And that's what I said to you
Speaker 2: when we first met and I reached out to you.
Speaker 2: I was like looking for someone where I could teach kickboxing.
Speaker 2: I taught kickboxing Mississauga for many years, and I did
Speaker 2: when I like when I fell when Alison and I
Speaker 2: both fell in love with the kickboxing gym in Mississauga.
Speaker 2: We ended up doing it for a few years and
Speaker 2: then we both taught. She became a teacher first, and
Speaker 2: then I did. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was part of like our journey together
Speaker 2: is just like, yeah, so she started, she took on
Speaker 2: the thing like being into meet into media and then
Speaker 2: becoming an instructor, and she's like, you know, you're just
Speaker 2: as good. You should too, and I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. But then I ended up doing it, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I taught a few years before I moved to Berry
Speaker 2: and then before the world shut down with the pandemic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: oh wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: That's interesting to see how like your journey like came
Speaker 1: because like I know you, and I know you right now,
Speaker 1: and I know the chapter that I walked into your life,
Speaker 1: and so like I know this and not even the
Speaker 1: whole chapter because I know a part of.
Speaker 2: It, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm like, that's cool. And I've also met
Speaker 1: Allison how many times, so now that makes sense because
Speaker 1: I don't see her coming for zoomo and else I
Speaker 1: see her come.
Speaker 2: For certain training training. Yeah, and then usually I know.
Speaker 1: Like, oh she's up visiting, and then okay, it's always
Speaker 1: work out food, working out food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's our thing. And literally it's from that
Speaker 2: conversation when I said I need to do stuff outside
Speaker 2: and worry about my health and what I'm doing and
Speaker 2: activities and stuff, and so that conversation that we had
Speaker 2: many many years ago, right is now where we're at.
Speaker 2: So she still does you know, she lives in Saint
Speaker 2: Catholics now she does her own gym, and I'm in Barrie,
Speaker 2: so we're far away from each other and we hate that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so every time. It's funny because people are like,
Speaker 2: your best friend's here to work out. I'm like, that's
Speaker 2: our thing. Like we'll work out and then we'll go
Speaker 2: eat or we'll try new spots and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And that's just one of the many things that we
Speaker 2: like to do together. Right, But there's just a deep
Speaker 2: meaning in that now that you know, like the history
Speaker 2: that it just like come and work out, But we
Speaker 2: remember where we were when we first started this and
Speaker 2: we had no idea where it was going to take us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. What made you want to transition as
Speaker 1: a student then into an instructor and then moving to
Speaker 1: bury and then wanting to instruct again? Look what's that drive?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, when we did kickboxing, it was all fun
Speaker 2: and like I said, we wanted to learn things. And
Speaker 2: one thing that we both realized, mainly me, is that
Speaker 2: we were in like toxic relationships around that time too,
Speaker 2: So kickboxing gave us our strength back. Okay, so even
Speaker 2: though she was my best friend, and I want to
Speaker 2: say through those years we became even like we became
Speaker 2: really close friends and then best friends. Like we were
Speaker 2: going through some hard times like in relationships around that time,
Speaker 2: and we would come and we would cry it out
Speaker 2: and then and we'd come and punch it out. And
Speaker 2: we weren't doing kickboxing where we didn't have bags, we'd
Speaker 2: be kicking each other. So a lot of times were
Speaker 2: putting that stressed out on each other and it was
Speaker 2: so fulfilling. It was so fulfilling, and I will always
Speaker 2: share that with people, Like even people who are coming
Speaker 2: new to TETUS and they're trying kickboxing or any other class,
Speaker 2: but mainly kickboxing here, Like I would tell them, I'm like,
Speaker 2: just everything in the bag, Like just put it all.
Speaker 2: If it's good thoughts, bad thoughts, whatever, everything, the bag
Speaker 2: can handle it. And there's deeper meaning when I say that,
Speaker 2: because I knew where I was when I first started kickboxing,
Speaker 2: and it made me feel like wonder woman, like you
Speaker 2: can't you can conquer anything, right, And I honestly that
Speaker 2: kickboxing and you know, Alice and I just having each
Speaker 2: other it got us out of those toxic relationships. And
Speaker 2: that was many, many years ago, but kickboxing helped us
Speaker 2: through it. And not even just kickboxing, but fitness helped
Speaker 2: us through those hard times. And I'm just so grateful
Speaker 2: to learn it. And like now the fact that I'm
Speaker 2: back to teaching it. And so when the pandemic happened
Speaker 2: and we're all like, what's happening with the world, and
Speaker 2: I moved here, I was missing that part. And Alison
Speaker 2: and I always joked that, like we really abandoned fitness.
Speaker 2: We both moved. You moved to Saint Catharine's. I moved
Speaker 2: to Barry and and we just went our separate ways.
Speaker 2: And it took us both a while on our own
Speaker 2: to figure out how to we get back to it.
Speaker 2: And now I can say, like, even when I told
Speaker 2: her I'm teaching, she's like, good for you. She's like,
Speaker 2: I know you love that so much to like teach
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. I'm like, yeah, And then I
Speaker 2: obviously invited her to come, But yeah, I really wanted
Speaker 2: to get back to it because I wanted to go
Speaker 2: back to feeling how I felt with just being in
Speaker 2: that environment and then also sharing that with other people,
Speaker 2: whether it's my story or even if they just don't
Speaker 2: want to know the full detail, just talking about kickboxing
Speaker 2: and what that did for my life. So I'm just
Speaker 2: so grateful to tt As for the opportunity to come
Speaker 2: and teach. But yeah, Cardio kick is that's my heart.
Speaker 2: I love that class.
Speaker 1: Yeah it makes sense. Yeah, I remember, like what you're
Speaker 1: like dead set, Like you're like Cardioka. This is awesome.
Speaker 1: So it makes sense because it provided you with something
Speaker 1: to your soul. Yeah, your whole self one percent. Yeah
Speaker 1: Yeahow I'm here trying not to cry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: It's just like the things that we go through. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right. When we first met, I was like Cardiokik, Cardiokik,
Speaker 2: Cardio creaky. Thank God for Christina, right because now I've
Speaker 2: been teaching for over a year and I'm teaching other things.
Speaker 2: But like you know, I was very set on that
Speaker 2: and you're like okay, and you entertain that for a
Speaker 2: little bit. Then you're like, I love your personality. We
Speaker 2: get along so well, like can are you open to
Speaker 2: doing other things? And I'm like okay, because I like
Speaker 2: you too, Christina, let's talk about it and so and
Speaker 2: back to the whole thing about in life, you just
Speaker 2: have to be open to trying new things. And just
Speaker 2: because you're set on one thing like I was with
Speaker 2: Cardio Kick. Yeah, years later or a year later, I'm
Speaker 2: still teaching other things and I love it. Just as much, right,
Speaker 2: cardiokick is it's a deeper meaning. But you can't you know,
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with trying other things. And I know
Speaker 2: at any point if I didn't like to teach any
Speaker 2: of them, you would have been welcome to that conversation.
Speaker 2: And have we had that conversation yet No. So I'm grateful,
Speaker 2: right because it's been so long and I'm still teaching
Speaker 2: the other things. So you just got to open your
Speaker 2: mind to try, like I said, try new things and
Speaker 2: opportunities that come your way.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, that's another thing where're like when you
Speaker 1: think you know somebody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: I dodn't think they're secrets or just like having the
Speaker 1: time to actually have a conversation. Yeah, like that's not
Speaker 1: about the gym. That's not about business or not about
Speaker 1: like this person needs this or we need to do.
Speaker 2: This or what's going on right now right? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's true. I like that so.
Speaker 1: Insane all of that. This is a nice question for this.
Speaker 1: What's something that people assume about you that is completely wrong?
Speaker 1: Like do you think that people do?
Speaker 2: I think people do. I'm a very moody person, so
Speaker 2: I think because I'm moody, people immediately think that she's
Speaker 2: not that nice. But then when I open my mouth,
Speaker 2: when I hop out of that mood or I don't
Speaker 2: really am in my moment where maybe I don't really
Speaker 2: feel like talking right now, and I start talking, they're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I was completely wrong about you, and
Speaker 2: it just really and I get that honesty everywhere I go. Like,
Speaker 2: if you don't know it to you will want to know.
Speaker 2: People say, you'll want to know Tina, Like just she's
Speaker 2: a moody person, and I'm also not a mourning person,
Speaker 2: so there's that as well. That's what I was. But
Speaker 2: once people like and it's not doesn't take long to
Speaker 2: get to know me. But once you kind of hear
Speaker 2: my little laugh and you kind of hear me make
Speaker 2: a couple of conversations, you're like, Okay, Like she's she's normal,
Speaker 2: She's she's totally fine. Right. But I do have like moods,
Speaker 2: and it's not necessarily I don't even know if mood
Speaker 2: is the right way, where like I can be the
Speaker 2: loudest person in the room and then a second later,
Speaker 2: or if for another class that can be the quietest person.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just my annoying aura sometimes, but that's
Speaker 2: just me being completely transparent like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the ebb and flow of the personality. Yes,
Speaker 1: Sels is like that too, which is not as secret
Speaker 1: as everyone knows when we talked about it and we
Speaker 1: laugh about it. It is Nikki and the morning. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: not really a morning person at all.
Speaker 2: And I think that's why Nicky and I relate so
Speaker 2: much because she'd be like having a moment, Okay, I'll
Speaker 2: be back, Like I'll be back right, or I'll do
Speaker 2: the same. You can give her I'll be back because
Speaker 2: you know, we get it. It's just yeah, it's just
Speaker 2: how we are totally.
Speaker 1: Like when you learn someone and you know them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like okay, that's a nod and now time okay bye, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you do.
Speaker 1: You have a second to give me an opinion or no,
Speaker 1: let me read. Okay, I respect it. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be mad about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all just like you know, like learning about
Speaker 2: people and then just accepting people for who they are. Right.
Speaker 2: But that's one thing that people always bring up. And
Speaker 2: it's like when I first met you, I thought you
Speaker 2: were very moody. I'm like, no, I still am. It's
Speaker 2: just now you know me for who I am. There's
Speaker 2: way more to me than just my little ups and
Speaker 2: what do we call it, Tina up and down or whatever?
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, I'm still Tina for sure.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, So what's your favorite part about coaching
Speaker 1: and what's the hardest thing about being in front of
Speaker 1: the room.
Speaker 2: I I will say, when you're in front of the
Speaker 2: room as an instructor, I'm trying to think what's the
Speaker 2: hardest thing. So I kind of want to pivot and say,
Speaker 2: you gotta deal with the the ex the expectation, if
Speaker 2: that's the right word that everyone thinks that you're because
Speaker 2: you're an instructor, you're perfect and you're a ten out
Speaker 2: of ten for all of these different movements. And I'm
Speaker 2: very transparent and I make fun of myself here and there,
Speaker 2: just like I'm going to show you how to do
Speaker 2: this and you're going to conquer it. And this is
Speaker 2: not my most favorite workout or I'm not the strongest
Speaker 2: at this, and that's okay. So I think a lot
Speaker 2: of time going in the front of the room, people
Speaker 2: have that perception that like, oh, she's a beast or
Speaker 2: he's a beast and he knows what he's doing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe five out of ten times that we're here to
Speaker 2: coach you through it, right, And Christina use the word
Speaker 2: coach a lot. You know, you'll hear her say instructor
Speaker 2: here and there. But we're coaching you through it. And
Speaker 2: at the same time, just as much as we're giving
Speaker 2: to the class and members, I'm feeding off of you
Speaker 2: guys just as much. Right, I'm here for a good time.
Speaker 2: I know you guys are sweating and we have this
Speaker 2: term and tts where things are feeling spicy. I know,
Speaker 2: impress me. I know because I'm either going to do
Speaker 2: this work out tomorrow I did it at home, or
Speaker 2: I did it this morning or for lunch, right, So
Speaker 2: I totally get it. So I think the most important
Speaker 2: thing is to be relatable. But I will say that's
Speaker 2: my favorite part is the fact that you have these conversations,
Speaker 2: and I always want to come across as relatable. Whether
Speaker 2: I'm doing front raises with five pounds or twenty pounds,
Speaker 2: who cares. At the end of the day, when we're
Speaker 2: in the room, we are all in this together. We're
Speaker 2: working through it, and we're sweating as well. Like trying
Speaker 2: to power through this workout. And so that's my favorite
Speaker 2: part talking being relatable. But I will say that the
Speaker 2: hardest part is just trying to get people to understand
Speaker 2: that I'm not perfect just because I'm at the front
Speaker 2: of this room and I might look at the screen
Speaker 2: and say something else and that's not what's on the screen.
Speaker 2: Like we're all human and you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: We're just kind of making our way through life. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's how I would answer that question.
Speaker 1: I honestly I agree with that, Like there's so much
Speaker 1: when people think like you're going to be perfect and
Speaker 1: you're always going to be on and like there's so
Speaker 1: much that goes into coaching as well, because not only
Speaker 1: are you coaching everyone else to have a good time, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like like for myself, I'm like, I'm just here
Speaker 1: to have a good time. If it's not a good time,
Speaker 1: I don't want it. And it also I had this
Speaker 1: conversation with a couple members this morning on jim floor
Speaker 1: between classes, and I was like, the coolest thing is
Speaker 1: is that we can leave our expectation at the door
Speaker 1: and what we do we actually have room to excel
Speaker 1: because then we're not afraid to try new things. We're
Speaker 1: not afraid to have those vulnerable conversations. And when you're
Speaker 1: at the front of the room, we as instructors, we
Speaker 1: leave our shit on the other side of that door.
Speaker 1: So it's like we we also halt our own emotions
Speaker 1: on our own things, and we make it here. We
Speaker 1: don't cancel classes, like we show up. We're here, and
Speaker 1: then we give the best that we can to everybody
Speaker 1: because a they deserve it. And one of the silver
Speaker 1: linings of that is, yes, I get to leave my
Speaker 1: own crap on the outside of the doors. Such a
Speaker 1: silver lining. And I would say, like, the instructor is
Speaker 1: not just the thermometer. The instructor is the thermostat. So
Speaker 1: it's like, I want to have a good time. I
Speaker 1: want you to have a good time, and I want
Speaker 1: you to leave here feeling proud and happy and capable
Speaker 1: because we are not holier than now. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people, like even as the owner of the gym,
Speaker 1: people will look at me and they assume that I
Speaker 1: don't make any mistakes. They know I make mistakes. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I write the programming and the spelling.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: We're looking at the screen, We're saying it's front rais
Speaker 2: and it's not like you know what I mean, We're
Speaker 2: just human, right, It's true. And I think it goes
Speaker 2: both ways. To to your point is like I am
Speaker 2: in that same mindset even when I'm here as a
Speaker 2: mem like being a student in one of the classes,
Speaker 2: right because I'm not always obviously at the front of
Speaker 2: the room, but when I'm in the class too, I
Speaker 2: feel even more relatable because you see me, like she's
Speaker 2: struggling with the front raises or she's killing it with
Speaker 2: the overhead press. Like I love that, right, Like just
Speaker 2: being complete transparent. This is our space. We're gonna make
Speaker 2: the most out of it, and we're gonna have good workouts,
Speaker 2: We're gonna have mediocre workouts, we're gonna have bad workouts,
Speaker 2: but we're still gonna show up for ourselves. And I
Speaker 2: think that's what's important. So I love instructing, but I
Speaker 2: also love and you know, putting the instructing slash coachat
Speaker 2: down and you know, be in the environment with another
Speaker 2: one of our amazing coaches and then just being a
Speaker 2: student and just kind of going with the flow, right,
Speaker 2: So I think it goes both ways.
Speaker 1: And it's cool because like as a as a team,
Speaker 1: like when I'm teaching step and I see you roll
Speaker 1: it on Sunday morning, and yes, I know.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not a morning person. It's like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Like it's cool, Like we don't have like that thing
Speaker 1: of oh, there's another instructor in class, like oh no,
Speaker 1: like we have that thing that's like, oh my.
Speaker 2: Gosh, you're here.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, it's like, right, your best friend. I love that. Yeah, Like, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love when I see another instructor. I'm like, okay, good, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's just power through it. No, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I like that. It also removes hierarchy like
Speaker 1: like being in like I would come to more evening classes,
Speaker 1: but I would come about four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, for sure for me.
Speaker 1: So I like now that I can actually physically work
Speaker 1: out and teach classes. But when I'm teaching, it's not
Speaker 1: for me. I read the room. I feel like sweating
Speaker 1: and dying and yelling and like all those things. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I love that I can work out
Speaker 1: too in the morning and then by five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight o'clock at night, I'm like, Okay, if I don't
Speaker 1: have meetings or a lot of people that when they
Speaker 1: contact the transformation station Monday to Friday, generally they're working
Speaker 1: nine to five, so they're either calling me on the
Speaker 1: lunch break or they're calling me after. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: if I got to put out fires or if I
Speaker 1: need to have conversations, it's generally around those times, So
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay. Also my dips.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but say that's in your body. Yeah. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: some people that come alive might be ready to call
Speaker 2: it the day and conquer and very ready to conquer
Speaker 2: the next day. Yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But being in the community and seeing everybody, like
Speaker 1: I just love it so much. Like when I come
Speaker 1: here and I see people that I don't normally see
Speaker 1: because of their schedule in my schedule, I'm like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it's so nice to see you. And the same thing.
Speaker 1: I know, like when you walk in at lunchtime, Kim's like, yes,
Speaker 1: I love Tina.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Every class year, I was like, I just love Kim.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you say it just like that. I just love
Speaker 2: the Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that we have that as a team that
Speaker 1: we can actually come in and like support each other
Speaker 1: but also.
Speaker 2: Get what it is to Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that that to me is amazing. What do
Speaker 1: you think as an instructor, What do you think there
Speaker 1: is one thing that a constructor a constructor Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that an instructor can have that makes them good, like
Speaker 1: got instructed?
Speaker 2: I would say listening. Yeah, listening skills, because when you
Speaker 2: come in I think listening members because I mean, they
Speaker 2: feel like we have obvious so much on our mind
Speaker 2: and so many members. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I think when you listen, and even if it's like
Speaker 2: small stories like whether I hurt my elbow last week
Speaker 2: or about new shoes, just listening and then coming back
Speaker 2: to a member, who anybody right? I mean I think
Speaker 2: that's good in instructing, but in life listening because then
Speaker 2: next time you see them like how are those shoes?
Speaker 2: It kind of and I feel the same way too.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh my god, I told you about that.
Speaker 2: It's like you remembered. It makes for me, it makes
Speaker 2: me feel special, and I know that'll make somebody else
Speaker 2: feel special too. That like conversation that you had, whether
Speaker 2: it was weeks ago or even yesterday that you kind
Speaker 2: of bring it up before the person even mentions it
Speaker 2: to you, right, And I think when it comes to instructing,
Speaker 2: you're going to hear things that like, oh, I prefer
Speaker 2: to use a kettlebell than a dumb bell, right, and
Speaker 2: you kind of like remind them of that stuff or
Speaker 2: whatever it is. Obviously we can't be ten out of
Speaker 2: ten in terms of listening, but just even the smaller things, right,
Speaker 2: just remembering what this person said the other or you know,
Speaker 2: maybe they have a joke when it comes to like
Speaker 2: I don't know, overhead press, and you just kind of
Speaker 2: remind them of that joke. Right, Like, if I'm instructing
Speaker 2: Christina right now, I'll just sorry, you know, I know
Speaker 2: you don't love those ones, but we're gonna do them.
Speaker 2: And then just give that little like that little giggle.
Speaker 2: It goes back to what I said earlier. It makes
Speaker 2: you relatable. It just makes it like just very chill
Speaker 2: vibes because some of us whatever. You could be an
Speaker 2: expert at the gym, but we have to all understand
Speaker 2: that we're not all on the same level when it
Speaker 2: comes to fitness. Sometimes it's nerve wracking for people or
Speaker 2: maybe I'm just not having the greatest day. So even
Speaker 2: though I come in and I love the gym, it's
Speaker 2: just not my day today. So we have to understand
Speaker 2: that everybody's coming up with different mindsets on different days
Speaker 2: and different times of the day. So anything that we
Speaker 2: could do, if whether it's listening, whether it's being relatable
Speaker 2: and as always having fun, we'll definitely make the environment
Speaker 2: a lot better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I didn't expect you to say listening. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's actually really good. And I think too, like I've
Speaker 1: hired instructors, I've let instructors go. I've had instructors for
Speaker 1: a long time. I've been really good friends with instructors
Speaker 1: and they've moved away and I'm still crying about it,
Speaker 1: so like we're still friends, but I'm here actually yeah,
Speaker 1: but like that's something that can't be taught. You cannot
Speaker 1: teach an instructor to care about other people. And that
Speaker 1: to me, the listening and the caring, like it meets
Speaker 1: together in the middle. If you pretend that you want
Speaker 1: to listen and you want to care, people can see
Speaker 1: right right, yeah, Like what's your agenda? Why are you
Speaker 1: here like as an instructor, and then what stems out
Speaker 1: of that, because if it's just to come teach a class,
Speaker 1: have everyone swear and like, to me, I'll always say,
Speaker 1: like coaching, instructing, it's a good side gig. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: There's room for different things of growth. But if you
Speaker 1: don't genuinely love people and if you don't care about others,
Speaker 1: someone who's a coach will not actually keep coaching, or
Speaker 1: people aren't going to come to their classes. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: saying that because I'm like, we had to cancel five
Speaker 1: forty five on Tuesday. That's because of summer. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that's the time slot, that's because of summer. And right
Speaker 1: now a lot of instructors are feeling the heat of
Speaker 1: how come people aren't coming to classes, especially in the
Speaker 1: evening it's hot. They got things to do, they got
Speaker 1: families mostly, Like like that's kind of like the summer thing.
Speaker 1: They have barbecues and they're like camping out by a pool.
Speaker 2: Yeah I mean, yeah, yeah, I hear that. Other people
Speaker 2: are Yeah, me too, So like.
Speaker 1: It's really interesting, like, yeah, not teach caring about people
Speaker 1: from a textbook you cannot you cannot, you can cultivate.
Speaker 1: So I've talked about this before, and like you can
Speaker 1: cultivate a memory, but like I usually remember a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. So when I go grocery shopping, ironically,
Speaker 1: the story that I told you about being in Metro specifically,
Speaker 1: remember it was on Thursday and I went to go
Speaker 1: talk to the woman in the fish department. And I've
Speaker 1: talked about this before, so I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: listened to it, if the listeners have heard this before.
Speaker 1: I actually have a note section in my phone, so
Speaker 1: when I go shopping, it says the grocery store, and
Speaker 1: it's not what I mean, it's about who works in
Speaker 1: what department because I'll remember them. I'm like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: you're Sue. You prefer Sue, not Susan from fish. You're
Speaker 1: a Peter that works.
Speaker 2: And you're really good at that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So like when I go, I'm like, oh, yes, the
Speaker 1: guy that made a dresser around a milk crate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna ask him, how's your milk creak?
Speaker 2: And this is exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I remember the stories based on the name,
Speaker 1: but I want to make sure I get their names right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, that matters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So and that is something that I have to
Speaker 1: write down, but the story is attached to it, and
Speaker 1: I'm like I love this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is And even since meeting you, I'm like
Speaker 2: better in that area because if you like just really
Speaker 2: trying to like get the name, get the name, and
Speaker 2: and so I I definitely in terms of like just
Speaker 2: learning more about people and connecting things that you've heard
Speaker 2: from them, like I do, I will say You've definitely
Speaker 2: helped me in that area to be better at that
Speaker 2: because it makes a huge difference. It really does, and
Speaker 2: it's appreciated. It really is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, thank you, Christina.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cool to like when I'm like, hey, like
Speaker 1: I love nor one people's names because a I'm nosy
Speaker 1: as anything, and I do want to know why I
Speaker 1: started to do that. So this happened like more than
Speaker 1: a handful of years ago my first instinct, and I
Speaker 1: was the bottleneck of the transformation station before we started
Speaker 1: to see growth because I was actually very insecure as
Speaker 1: a gym owner, being someone that exists in a bigger body,
Speaker 1: if that's how I want to call it, what I
Speaker 1: want to say it. So when I would have new
Speaker 1: people come in, I wasn't one hundred percent confident in
Speaker 1: who the gym was, who we wanted to serve. I
Speaker 1: knew who I wanted to help personally got it, but
Speaker 1: I didn't understand the vision of the gym as much.
Speaker 1: When we moved, I rebranded and I'm like, no, this
Speaker 1: is who we're serving, this is what it is, this
Speaker 1: is what our general market is, but our whole umbrella
Speaker 1: is kindness, and this is who I would like to
Speaker 1: have in the gym. So I know the personality type
Speaker 1: that I would like in the transformation station, and so
Speaker 1: do you because you see it every day and it
Speaker 1: never comes here. They know when they walk in. They're like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, two people today came up to me and
Speaker 1: they're like, I just love the community, Like everyone here
Speaker 1: is amazing. Thank you for creating a space like this.
Speaker 1: But I created that space, and I rebranded and really
Speaker 1: leaned into that because of my own insecurities, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: when I come to work, I want to know everybody
Speaker 1: because what makes it more enjoyable is being around friends.
Speaker 1: So as soon as I started to really learn people,
Speaker 1: and there's some people that would come in and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a really pretty person or oh, like she's already fit.
Speaker 1: She came from a different gym, and then I would
Speaker 1: like rewinding. Before I would get insecure about that, but
Speaker 1: now I'm like, hey, where did you work out before?
Speaker 1: What do you love to do? What brought you through
Speaker 1: these doors? And I really appreciate when people come from
Speaker 1: other gyms or if they've moved and they say really
Speaker 1: nice things about that other gym, like oh, you were
Speaker 1: of my people. It's very rarely do we have the
Speaker 1: market of the people that come in and talk poorly
Speaker 1: about another gym. And if or when that ever happens,
Speaker 1: I read flag that in my brain because I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't really love that someone comes in and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: well I went to this gym, but it didn't work
Speaker 1: for every reason. It's a fact, and it makes sense
Speaker 1: than one hundred percent. If people start like like picking apart,
Speaker 1: like personality types.
Speaker 2: And stuff like that, I'm like, yeah, the past, no
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: Because there's all different personalities. Yeah, but that's why I
Speaker 1: decided to really go all the way in the other
Speaker 1: direction that I'm nosy. I'm like, you have a dog?
Speaker 1: Can I see you puture of your dog? I want
Speaker 1: to know everything, like you have kids. You don't have kids,
Speaker 1: do you want kids?
Speaker 2: You want kids?
Speaker 1: Like even sometimes things are even like really personal, but
Speaker 1: I'm like I want to know everything. Like there was
Speaker 1: a couple that came in for an inbody not too
Speaker 1: long ago, and I was talking with them and it
Speaker 1: was just some real personal stuff got brought up, which
Speaker 1: is fine to share, but I had similar journeys. And
Speaker 1: I sat there and I talked with them like they
Speaker 1: were my best friends, and like I was crying and
Speaker 1: the people they were just like looking at me and
Speaker 1: like telling me like their their stuff. And I wasn't
Speaker 1: afraid to ask questions. But I also I'm very open
Speaker 1: that if I know that someone is like no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it. Like I can read
Speaker 1: people really well for sure, and I've learned to do
Speaker 1: that just based on like psychology and reading like what
Speaker 1: it is that they're saying. But I switched so now
Speaker 1: I used I used to be like, oh, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be my friend. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: your friend. I don't want to be your friend because
Speaker 1: you might not want to be my friend. Whereas now
Speaker 1: my personality as an instructor and as a gym owner.
Speaker 1: But everything kind of that's just always My personality is
Speaker 1: I don't care if you don't want to be my friend.
Speaker 1: I'm your friend. What are you talking about? Like, I'm
Speaker 1: your friend first, and I believe in you first you
Speaker 1: are yeah, so then if if then it gets reciprocated,
Speaker 1: I'm like, we just became best friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go best friends? Yeah yeah, like the class
Speaker 2: you yeah.
Speaker 1: Christina, I was on vacation. Why are you answering me
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Go by? And I think that's even too, like
Speaker 2: it shows growth, right, and it also showed that like
Speaker 2: probably before you would just immediately just kind of make
Speaker 2: the assumption that like that to know. But I feel
Speaker 2: like now, you know, with your accomplishments that Jim and
Speaker 2: just getting to know people in this community, it's like
Speaker 2: I'll try a little bit more to say, Okay, you
Speaker 2: know what I did, pour in what I can, right,
Speaker 2: and probably a lot of times you get it's appreciated, right,
Speaker 2: But before you're probably like maybe kind of a little
Speaker 2: bit closed off. And I think that's why sometimes you
Speaker 2: just like when you said you when and you rebranded
Speaker 2: and all that stuff that took reflection, right, you had
Speaker 2: to sit there and reflect a little bit and then
Speaker 2: good things come up. And sometimes the reflection can get
Speaker 2: ugly and it can.
Speaker 1: Be tears and divorced to get through that reflect.
Speaker 2: Right and at the end of the day, you got
Speaker 2: to look at it like you know why you're doing
Speaker 2: the reflection because you want it to only go up
Speaker 2: from here. But then you also want to bet it yourself.
Speaker 2: And I will say that you definitely did that. So
Speaker 2: reflections are not always bad. It's really good to just
Speaker 2: and even if you just want to do it by yourself,
Speaker 2: or you want to bring one or two people that
Speaker 2: you trust and that you know, we'll be honest with
Speaker 2: your reflections with you by all means. I've been really
Speaker 2: big with that the past couple of years because I
Speaker 2: know even with my reflections good and the bad, something
Speaker 2: good has always come out of it. And when I
Speaker 2: say the bad, I mean like me crying and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, and then my husband coming like you, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm fine and reflecting like just leave me alone or whatever.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just it's it's all. It's just how
Speaker 2: it works. Yeah, in terms of my opinion, my opinion, So.
Speaker 1: What do you think is one of the biggest things
Speaker 1: that you've changed. I want to say in the last year,
Speaker 1: but I want to say maybe in the last six months,
Speaker 1: Like have you noticed that you've changed, like your opinion
Speaker 1: on something. I just actually yesterday's podcast or maybe this
Speaker 1: morning's podcast I talked to. This morning's I think was
Speaker 1: about like this is how I've changed as a person
Speaker 1: in the last five years, ten years. What can you say,
Speaker 1: whether it's an opinion on fitness or an opinion on lifestyle,
Speaker 1: or friendships or anything for that matter, what is one
Speaker 1: thing that your opinion has changed.
Speaker 2: I would say that, I mean, I moved to Barry
Speaker 2: and I don't have any family here, and I didn't
Speaker 2: have any friends, so I had to create a community
Speaker 2: for myself here. And I will say that meeting a
Speaker 2: lot of people and being a lot of like friend groups,
Speaker 2: I how I would answer that question is there will
Speaker 2: be obviously a lot of situations and scenarios that will
Speaker 2: happen in friend groups and in communities. And I have
Speaker 2: noticed that just because even like when there's conflict and
Speaker 2: two people are not resolving it, or one person that
Speaker 2: I would say is my friend is not resolving it
Speaker 2: the way that I would it is okay too, And
Speaker 2: maybe and a lot of times I've noticed that, like,
Speaker 2: because I'm very outspoken and I say my mind, and
Speaker 2: so because they're not handling the way that I am
Speaker 2: handling it, I have realized that that doesn't mean that
Speaker 2: they're handling it incorrectly. Sometimes they're nervous, or they're scared,
Speaker 2: or they don't want to offend people. And so what
Speaker 2: I found myself doing, I want to say, as of
Speaker 2: the past year, is stepping in in an appropriate way
Speaker 2: and being like, hey, like, do you need help solving
Speaker 2: this situation? Do you want my thoughts on it or whatever?
Speaker 2: And a lot of times it's been well received because
Speaker 2: people are like, well, Tina, I'm not like you. I'm
Speaker 2: not like but I appreciate that you're like kind of
Speaker 2: coming to me and just sharing how you would handle
Speaker 2: the situation and not like, oh, oh, this is how
Speaker 2: you should do it, just like, well, if you handle
Speaker 2: it this way, it might be well received or the
Speaker 2: person might look at the situation differently. And there have
Speaker 2: been a few situations where I have done that and
Speaker 2: people are like, oh my gosh, thank you, because I
Speaker 2: probably would have not addressed it at all, right, I
Speaker 2: would have just left that it is. But because I
Speaker 2: went back to the person and handled it this way
Speaker 2: or added obviously my flare because it's that person's situation.
Speaker 2: They added their flare in a little bit of my
Speaker 2: thinking to the situation. The situation either died or the
Speaker 2: relationship with that person and whoever they were dealing with
Speaker 2: it got better. And it was just like me saying okay,
Speaker 2: because they're not handling it the way you would handle it, Tina.
Speaker 2: That doesn't make the person like whack, or it doesn't
Speaker 2: make the person like just not know how to be
Speaker 2: a conflict manager or just deal with the situation. Everybody's different, right,
Speaker 2: and now everybody is that like blunt like U, Tina,
Speaker 2: Because I am for people who know me. I just
Speaker 2: like to say what's on my mind. I try to
Speaker 2: be nice about it. And so yeah, I will say
Speaker 2: just being in a new community because I have lived
Speaker 2: in Berry for five years, but fitness in Barry is
Speaker 2: my community. I have met a lot of people, I
Speaker 2: have a lot of friends because this is just my life.
Speaker 2: In terms of fitness, I'm at the gym all the
Speaker 2: time and so I meet new people and so it's exciting.
Speaker 2: But I will say in terms of conflict, I have
Speaker 2: tried to step in in an appropriate way to help
Speaker 2: people on the other side of it, and some people
Speaker 2: are just like not ety friends. It can be people
Speaker 2: in a class that I'm just standing beside and they're
Speaker 2: just talking to me about what they're doing it at work,
Speaker 2: and I just kind of chime in here on how
Speaker 2: I would deal with the situation. Right. So, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: one thing that I have improved on and it makes
Speaker 2: me be a better person too, to realize that, hey,
Speaker 2: you know what, even though they didn't solve it the
Speaker 2: way I would have me being the blunt person, I'm
Speaker 2: going to learn. I'm going to take that and maybe
Speaker 2: deal with another conflict that comes my way in a different,
Speaker 2: you know, a different light, or handle it better. And
Speaker 2: so yeah, it's giving and then also learning on the
Speaker 2: other hand too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've similarly done something like the same, like the enneagram,
Speaker 1: studying people's enneagrams and seeing how they want to approach things.
Speaker 1: Like I would consider myself a blunt person, but I
Speaker 1: have learned over the years that when bluntness sometimes isn't
Speaker 1: kind and sometimes it's asked. I'll always ask people like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want my opinion or okay, and I think
Speaker 1: of these things, and I think, like everyone has different
Speaker 1: personality types, fitness, everyone has different things that they love,
Speaker 1: Like the fans that we've talked about for a while.
Speaker 1: So many people love these new white fans. They love them,
Speaker 1: but there's well, there's less than a handful of people
Speaker 1: that are like, we don't like the white fans.
Speaker 2: We want the black fans.
Speaker 1: But it's up to me to address the situation as
Speaker 1: a whole, not just based on the loudest voices in
Speaker 1: the room.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting when you have to deal with different things.
Speaker 1: And this is funny because Nicky and I had this
Speaker 1: conversation like maybe two or three days ago, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: not everyone again has the same personality, but not everyone
Speaker 1: has oh, right, Because we're talking about something and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I really like that idea. And then it was like well,
Speaker 1: and she said something like I don't really like to
Speaker 1: give you my opinions, and like, girl, I ask for
Speaker 1: your opinion. It's like I want to know you're a
Speaker 1: very trusted friend. You also know the business very well,
Speaker 1: whether it's in life or business or whatever, because it's
Speaker 1: in it. I'm like I know that there's sometimes that
Speaker 1: we may not have the exact same perspective because our
Speaker 1: life experiences are different. But that's why why also am
Speaker 1: asking you Because I want a different perspective. And there's
Speaker 1: sometimes when you talk to somebody, they can open up
Speaker 1: your eyes or either going to make you pissed off
Speaker 1: or they're going to make you see differently. And I'm
Speaker 1: always open to suggestion. I would say, I'm always open
Speaker 1: to suggestion. I'm always open to a different perspective.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, perspective is the word right now,
Speaker 2: Like that's what it is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like if it like I spoke to a
Speaker 1: member of her email today actually because I saw on
Speaker 1: the Jim Happy review, not on like the Google review,
Speaker 1: but on the gym Happy review. How like he says, hey,
Speaker 1: how is class today? And the specific person said like, oh,
Speaker 1: I love the classes. I enjoy the vera. I have
Speaker 1: a hard time with the schedule because I would like
Speaker 1: if there was some more later times on the weekends specifically.
Speaker 1: And I looked at that and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I read reviews, right. I appreciate if someone comes to
Speaker 1: me and there constructive about what they need. And she's saying, like,
Speaker 1: I really like the classes. That's a really good problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: If it's constructive, not unconstructive criticism of who your favorite
Speaker 1: coaches are and what personalities and what temperature you want
Speaker 1: the room. I can't do anything about that. I can
Speaker 1: take that into consideration for much more that I can
Speaker 1: do about that. But when it was that, I was like,
Speaker 1: I really I emailed her. I was like, I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you about this.
Speaker 2: Is it cool?
Speaker 1: So I said what, okay? So we used to have
Speaker 1: ten am classes. It was often canceled because of low fill,
Speaker 1: so it was either a pound with Annie, Jackie with
Speaker 1: zoomba zoomba with Jackie. I remember that, and it was
Speaker 1: like nine times out of ten the class was canceled
Speaker 1: or there was maybe one or two people that showed up.
Speaker 1: So I did share that with her, But I also said, however,
Speaker 1: in this new season of the Transformation Station, I respect
Speaker 1: that we have had a membership growth, so that might
Speaker 1: be something. So if it were up to you, what
Speaker 1: style of class would you like there? I'm thinking ten
Speaker 1: o'clock And she said, well, I like the cardio styles,
Speaker 1: so zoomba or step or tempo would be really fabulous.
Speaker 1: In that time slot. I was like, okay, cool, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put that in my brain bank. But she
Speaker 1: also said, what about a later time, because eight and
Speaker 1: nine for some people on the weekend is still early.
Speaker 1: And I can respect that. If someone as like like
Speaker 1: a graduation, or they have like a birthday party or
Speaker 1: a wedding they go to, sometimes it's nice to have
Speaker 1: an eleven o'clock class or twelve. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I can work with this, like I'll do pop ups first,
Speaker 1: and I'll run it maybe for four weeks, because I
Speaker 1: hate to give something and people think it's permanent and
Speaker 1: then I have to take it away all up in
Speaker 1: arms about it, even though it's the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: But I like to avoid that as much as possible.
Speaker 1: And I do make changes, and you've seen the data
Speaker 1: that I pull up. I make it based on data.
Speaker 1: So I looked at it again, and I looked at
Speaker 1: the membership base, and I looked at who likes what
Speaker 1: and how those classes are attended. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: this could be something that we try. And I thanked
Speaker 1: her for that. Thank you. That to me is a
Speaker 1: perfect style of a review, because it was it's a
Speaker 1: critique sandwich. Yeah, I always like to give you a
Speaker 1: critique sandwich, and that's something I pried myself. But sometimes
Speaker 1: when people bring me their stuff, there's not a critique sandwich.
Speaker 1: It's just I want this. I like this, this is
Speaker 1: how it should be, this is what you should do for.
Speaker 2: Me, and well, and that's not like well received, right,
Speaker 2: what about the five hundred things? For sure?
Speaker 1: When someone gives me that style of feedback, like, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense to thank you, And I respect that
Speaker 1: person so much because that if I don't know what
Speaker 1: we want, like I can still look at data trends,
Speaker 1: of course, but if people want something like I know
Speaker 1: that the cardio style classes are highly attended. I know
Speaker 1: that traditional step is very highly attended. I know that
Speaker 1: we also have one traditional style of step during the week,
Speaker 1: so based on that, and like, can we incorporate another
Speaker 1: step style, maybe a step in lift? Because I don't
Speaker 1: have other instructors that can teach traditional step. I've been looking.
Speaker 1: They don't fit our vision and our core values of
Speaker 1: the transformation station. And to me, having a good instructor
Speaker 1: means fitting the core values. It doesn't mean a professional
Speaker 1: instructor that teaches to textbook, but then they don't understand
Speaker 1: the people that are standing in front of them, like
Speaker 1: the listening portion. Yeah, yeah, so I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I respect that. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: And you by like you calling to get her feedback too,
Speaker 2: like it's just learning a different Like it's back to
Speaker 2: the word that we were talking about, perspective, right, because Okay,
Speaker 2: that's interesting. We I don't have that right now on
Speaker 2: the schedule, but I'm open to like listening to you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, your feedback and even you saying
Speaker 2: the gym like we've gotten more members, right and with
Speaker 2: that sometimes what was a thing, you know six months ago,
Speaker 2: it might change now it might shift because we have
Speaker 2: new members and all that stuff. So no, I'm it
Speaker 2: makes total sense to me. But I think you just
Speaker 2: got to be open to listening, which we've already kind
Speaker 2: of talked about before, and then just knowing when to
Speaker 2: kind of ask and when to give your perspective. So
Speaker 2: for me, it's like always asking like do you want
Speaker 2: to hear how I would approach it, or you know,
Speaker 2: what are your thoughts and just kind of coming together
Speaker 2: and figuring something out that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I like that about you, like every time
Speaker 1: we have a conversation, like you come from a good spot,
Speaker 1: Like it's not.
Speaker 2: Like you're.
Speaker 1: What is it called, like they call it a certain thing. Oh,
Speaker 1: a pick me girl?
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 1: Like I just learned this term like maybe six or
Speaker 1: seven months ago. There's like the pick me girls. So
Speaker 1: that's someone who's very like self absorbed and like I
Speaker 1: want to be me and this is my alwa should
Speaker 1: be you, but like I only care about myself and
Speaker 1: this is what I want. It's like being like I
Speaker 1: think the term might be haughty, like I just want
Speaker 1: everything here and everything revolves just around me. But then
Speaker 1: there's like the Girl's girl that it's like I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for you though, like I think you can do that.
Speaker 1: This is amazing, And it's not like the pickmy girls, Like, well,
Speaker 1: this is my friend and whatever they say is right
Speaker 1: and that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you're not all bad. Yeah, like life
Speaker 2: does not work that way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then there's like the girls. Hold Yeah, it's like, well, actually,
Speaker 1: like I'm your true friend and I care about this,
Speaker 1: So I think that's a part of being emotionally intelligent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is I think of it? And we're sitting at the
Speaker 1: table here but I'm like, if there's something, this is
Speaker 1: what it is, let's put it on the table. Let's
Speaker 1: have a conversation about it. It's not a hey, I'm
Speaker 1: attacking you. I'm gonna throw this brick at you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hey, this has come to my attention. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to the source because you're my You're my
Speaker 1: first priority.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to go.
Speaker 1: And bleed it into everybody else. So I think that,
Speaker 1: to me is very important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1: Have that conversation. And that's a part of being emotionally mature.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and having to do things. Yeah stuff, No, it's
Speaker 2: not true, so true.
Speaker 1: You know. I will tell you having those types of conversations,
Speaker 1: and I've had to have at least five of them
Speaker 1: this week with various different avenues, not just in business
Speaker 1: but also in family and stuff like that. I literally like,
Speaker 1: and Chris knows, Chris, Chris can quote me on this,
Speaker 1: because I literally be like, I hate this.
Speaker 2: I know, it's just like for me, it's like a cringe,
Speaker 2: but it's got to get done, it does.
Speaker 1: I'm like, do I need to deal with this? I
Speaker 1: know that's is Nikki yesterday, because Nikki is like one
Speaker 1: of like eight my best friends, but she's like my
Speaker 1: closest confidant.
Speaker 2: I guess that is what you say. Yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't want.
Speaker 1: To deal with this. Do you need to deal with this?
Speaker 1: You have my permission not to deal with this? Thank you?
Speaker 2: Yes, And I'm like moving along.
Speaker 1: Like if I don't, I'm going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit upset. Yeah, I don't want to make assumptions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm like, and then if it's like eating
Speaker 2: you alive, and you know, the right thing after evaluating
Speaker 2: it in your head and the right thing is to
Speaker 2: address it. But a lot of us don't like that.
Speaker 2: But I know it sucks. Yeah, it's sucks. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's many famous things about tough lines, but
Speaker 2: sometimes tough conversations have to happen. They do, and we
Speaker 2: all don't love it. A majority of us don't love it.
Speaker 1: But I think that's the nice thing about it.
Speaker 2: And hey, if you do, that's on you. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: What I love about that is like the community that
Speaker 1: we have here, Like it's good, Like you know how
Speaker 1: you said like I have mood swings right like said that,
Speaker 1: but people know, like, oh, it's it's Tina, It's okay
Speaker 1: because we accept you and love you for who you are,
Speaker 1: what you bring to the table, and like that to
Speaker 1: me is a true value, having a having the value
Speaker 1: of somebody. So that, to me is it. I know
Speaker 1: that if I'm having a conversation with somebody and I
Speaker 1: know that it might be hard for some people or
Speaker 1: some there might be I have to approach something and
Speaker 1: they might be mad at me, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got to tread lightly. Then I see that they're cool.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you're cool. I'm cool, Okay, cool because
Speaker 1: I was always cool. But this has to be done.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a sign of respect is giving
Speaker 1: someone the benefit of the doubt to say what they
Speaker 1: have to say, rather than holding it and bottling it
Speaker 1: and being upset. So like the whole shoe the shoe
Speaker 1: fiasco of everyone wearing people's shoes home and I know
Speaker 1: someone wore your shoes, like there's so many no one's
Speaker 1: ever wear my shoes, Oh yeah, because I throw them
Speaker 1: everywhere and they know that if it's all unsorted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't do that, but keep that up, Like
Speaker 2: I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Keep being in my musty sauce. Yeah right, But like
Speaker 1: there's sometimes like someone had a brand new pair of
Speaker 1: ugs go missing and they're like three hundred dollars boots.
Speaker 1: I wear ugs too, but I wear the men's ugs
Speaker 1: and no one else is wearing those. Chris has the
Speaker 1: exact same pair, but we are different colors. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: wear both of ours. And yeah, so like when that happened,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I have to reach out to this person.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want to, but I'm the only
Speaker 1: one that can fix it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm like looking at the cameras and seeing who's who,
Speaker 1: and then trying to catch people around their workouts and
Speaker 1: people are going back to work or whatever. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I got to reach out. And then as soon as
Speaker 1: someone's like, no, no, it's good, it's cool. I just
Speaker 1: want my shoes back, I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: so many conversations that I have to link together. That's
Speaker 1: just like if I'm adding a class to the schedule
Speaker 1: or changing a class of the schedule. Right now Wednesdays,
Speaker 1: people are screaming excited, and I had even last night
Speaker 1: text messages. People are excited. There might be one or
Speaker 1: two people that are still coming to other classes that
Speaker 1: might not like the Wednesday line up, and we all
Speaker 1: know who that is without saying any names because we've
Speaker 1: heard it all over the gym. My neighbors know. But like,
Speaker 1: that's one person and I'm sorry that sucks, but also
Speaker 1: see you next class. Like I love you, I value
Speaker 1: what you want, but I also value with the other
Speaker 1: fifty thousand. The thing is is people in the morning,
Speaker 1: we have Tempo, we have step, we have those style
Speaker 1: of more inclusive fun fitness, cardio fitness. We still have
Speaker 1: a lot of strong fit and power, burn butts and guts,
Speaker 1: all of those things. But what I was hearing was,
Speaker 1: how come the evening people they get all the fun.
Speaker 1: They have Zoomba, they have cardio kick, they have step
Speaker 1: class without the time we had step in the evening.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know what, you're right because I
Speaker 1: know you guys want to have fun too. You don't
Speaker 1: have to waits every single day. So that's when I
Speaker 1: implemented those things. And then people at night are like, well,
Speaker 1: we want more inclusive stuff that's not necessarily just booty shaking.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, we have booty shaking three times a weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like to do. Yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 1: Like that doesn't make sense. So when there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people doing the same thing, and I'm studying with
Speaker 1: the trends are and they have a lot of people
Speaker 1: asking me for stretch and flow, and right now we
Speaker 1: have Friday Stretch and Flow and it's summer. We steve
Speaker 1: it on Sundays. We'll bring it back in the fall.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that we will bring it back in
Speaker 1: the fall. But in the summertime it started to get
Speaker 1: low low numbers or it was going to get canceled.
Speaker 1: So people don't love that. They want to look at
Speaker 1: their week and they want to adjust it. So we
Speaker 1: ended up bringing back a six forty five PM stretch
Speaker 1: and Flow. People wanted something different because if you look
Speaker 1: at the schedule, Monday six forty five, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: the last pass the day on Friday, it's all fun, cardio, fun, fun, fun.
Speaker 1: But then there's not one stretch and flow. So if
Speaker 1: someone's coming five days a week, they're just doing booty shaking.
Speaker 1: So it's nice to have that stretch and flow. And
Speaker 1: people were so happy and receptive. Like I knew I
Speaker 1: had I made the right call, and in doing that,
Speaker 1: you're not going to make everybody happy, no for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So okay, back to Tina, I want to know more
Speaker 1: about you.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I always default to that because that's like the only.
Speaker 2: Thing I had when on that conversation.
Speaker 1: I love that you said about your work and when
Speaker 1: you were talking when you're like just like we're talking
Speaker 1: about it, I was like, oh my gosh, because that's
Speaker 1: something i've right now in the last I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: three weeks I've been trying to do. Is how you said,
Speaker 1: like you're all work, work, work, work, and you take
Speaker 1: pride in your work, and you're good at your work,
Speaker 1: but you learn, like, Okay, I can two things can
Speaker 1: exist at the same time, and I can also have
Speaker 1: fun and friends and fitness. And that's one thing I
Speaker 1: love about fitness. There's people in here too, Like there's
Speaker 1: all different gyms and avenues and all diff friend groups,
Speaker 1: and I know that about you and so many other people.
Speaker 1: I have friend groups at other locations and here as well.
Speaker 1: And that's something that I do love is that when
Speaker 1: you have fitness, like you're meeting so many types of
Speaker 1: people and they're usually more emotionally intelligent is the word
Speaker 1: I like to yes, and it's like, oh, we're thriving.
Speaker 1: We're both just trying to have a good time and
Speaker 1: better ourselves. So I've seen so many friendships and different
Speaker 1: things built inside of the four walls of fitness. But
Speaker 1: I also know that I took my hobby and created
Speaker 1: it my business. I took something that changed my life,
Speaker 1: which was fitness, and created into work. So lately I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is something? Did you see my kayak? Did you
Speaker 1: see my car?
Speaker 2: I did? I did. I was like, Christina is here.
Speaker 2: I saw that It's been there since Sunday. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: I posted it on socials.
Speaker 1: Right the two acts I took, I said it.
Speaker 2: I turned right. I'm like, Christina is here.
Speaker 1: And I bought it to match the car because I
Speaker 1: knew that it would match the brandy for the final
Speaker 1: proof for the car. It has been ongoing for a while.
Speaker 2: As a branding group. I appreciate that the facts that
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That's the same person that did the windows out front.
Speaker 2: Okay, like flow really well yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I'm gonna take Chris's kayak off.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep mine I'm like, I don't have to
Speaker 1: because at first I'm like I should get a kayaking
Speaker 1: group together for the gym. I'm like it would be
Speaker 1: cool to have that different opportunities. Yeah, Like Christina, just
Speaker 1: because you love doing something, you don't have to make
Speaker 1: it about the business. I'm like, yes, I do have
Speaker 1: to make everything about the business. So I'm like I
Speaker 1: said to Chris, Chris is like, you're gonna keep your
Speaker 1: kayak on your car. I'm like yeah, And I actually
Speaker 1: instacarted a lock so I could get at like nine
Speaker 1: o'clock at night so I could lock the kayak because
Speaker 1: then I got weird about maybe someone taking it.
Speaker 2: Ye taking it. Yeah, I like cameras and yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But I was like, I'm used to get a lock,
Speaker 1: so I locked it and it's been there since Sunday.
Speaker 1: Because I'm like, people are gonna want to go out,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna want to have friends, not just at
Speaker 1: the gym. Have I gone out?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Because you know why I said. I'm like there's a
Speaker 1: commercial that's like listen and it's like crickets and then
Speaker 1: the guy goes too bad. IKEA doesn't sell friends. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's like everyone that I know works during the week
Speaker 1: for the part. Yeah, and then I'm like, I have
Speaker 1: meetings sporadically and then I actually Nikki's daughter, I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go to the beach.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what happened. It rained because she had asked
Speaker 1: me last week. I'm like, yeah, Wednesday, we're down. For
Speaker 1: my God, when that happens, I drove around with this kayak,
Speaker 1: but it did have stand on it from Sunday. So
Speaker 1: now it rained this morning too. It's been cleansed of
Speaker 1: the earth. Yes, But that's something that I I know
Speaker 1: that I do is that I make everything about work,
Speaker 1: and that's why when I talk to people, I'm like,
Speaker 1: even now, like I went off into like the work,
Speaker 1: the work mode, that's always my default because that's something
Speaker 1: that consumes my entire being. So now I'm learning to
Speaker 1: be like Christina, you can actually have a hobby and
Speaker 1: not turn it into a business and not implement just business.
Speaker 1: Even when I'm not coaching, I'm still.
Speaker 2: Here, yeah, because I'm like, it's a tough one, but
Speaker 2: I mean, if you can find that balance right, it
Speaker 2: will only benefit you. And I guess I've been there right.
Speaker 1: Though it's hard that it's hard because like when you
Speaker 1: love something and.
Speaker 2: That's gonna say, it's you love what you do, love it, Tina, like,
Speaker 2: and I love sharing that I love what I do.
Speaker 2: I love my job, I love my career, you love
Speaker 2: your business and stuff like that. So we can talk
Speaker 2: about it from morning till night, but we can still
Speaker 2: I think at some point we have to be open
Speaker 2: to other things outside of it, because, like you said
Speaker 2: a few minutes ago, like two things can be true
Speaker 2: and two things can exist at the same time, and
Speaker 2: I think that just makes things just a little bit
Speaker 2: more exciting, right, and then more to talk about as well, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and sometimes having to pause. Yeah, I feel like you
Speaker 2: can do that actually absolutely, Like.
Speaker 1: For Sunday, Oh, I was laughing so hard because like
Speaker 1: you knew that you were going away like next month,
Speaker 1: and then Christina posted because it's like the Monday after
Speaker 1: her wedding. Yeah, and then I realized that afterwards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I was.
Speaker 2: Like she went on vacation, yeah yeah, asking the group
Speaker 2: chah yeah ya yeah.
Speaker 1: Keep things very simple when it comes to the group.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, if it needs to be there, then
Speaker 1: I'll just post it. Yeah, trying not to be like
Speaker 1: what my brain. I'm like, oh, what is this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but like and then she asked and then it
Speaker 1: was like oh. And then Nikki also sent me a message.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, don't worry about it. Don't post it
Speaker 1: because I'll take your classes because Annie's going to teach
Speaker 1: in the morning.
Speaker 2: So stage yeah, so.
Speaker 1: It works out so well for all of us. And
Speaker 1: then like myself, like last week, I was like, uh, hey,
Speaker 1: I forgot, I didn't read. I forgot. I'm like, anyone
Speaker 1: available for this upcoming Sunday? And I was laughing. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I am so glad that everyone was so proactive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I said, I'm like, thank you, Like I appreciate
Speaker 1: that so much. It's not the last minute scrambled Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I looked at my schedule. I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, my course is this weekend. I posted it.
Speaker 2: Yeah you did.
Speaker 1: But I said to Chris, I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. But if there's not another instructor, do
Speaker 1: I just cancel the class on Sunday? And she's like
Speaker 1: you can do that. I'm like I'm like, I know,
Speaker 1: I'll teach you step at six am, Like do you
Speaker 1: think anyone's going to show up because I'm like, because
Speaker 1: I can teach six to six forty five. My course
Speaker 1: starts in Guildford at eight am. I can get home
Speaker 1: in time, shower, I'll pre make my food.
Speaker 2: If that was your plan. Yeah yeah, yeah, So you're.
Speaker 1: Thinking christ knows me so well. She's like, okay, so
Speaker 1: you're not going to stand around for an hour after
Speaker 1: class and talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true because I do the same thing. It's
Speaker 2: true totally. Yeah, not so much, but that you just
Speaker 2: wanted to show up for people and still wanted to
Speaker 2: have the class, right, but then you had another commitment,
Speaker 2: So no, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: And then and he's like, I can teach you, like.
Speaker 2: Sweet, yeah she came through. Yeah, she came through for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So okay, so I know that we've been talking for
Speaker 1: a while and I've been talking a lot. Last question,
Speaker 1: if you could tell an I'm gonna say specifically a beginner,
Speaker 1: if you could tell someone who was nervous, if you've
Speaker 1: if you fast forwarded fast forward noes, or if you're
Speaker 1: rewinded back to when you started with kickboxing and into fitness.
Speaker 1: Let's say you're talking to your past self. Try on
Speaker 1: this one. What would you tell your past self or
Speaker 1: someone who's just getting started.
Speaker 2: What would I tell them? Can you repeat the question?
Speaker 1: So? Oh yeah, like every if you were talking to
Speaker 1: your old self, praise different. Yes, if you're talking to
Speaker 1: your old self and they were thinking about getting into fitness,
Speaker 1: or maybe they were trying to escape something that was
Speaker 1: going on in their own life but they were nervous
Speaker 1: to walk through the doors, what would you tell them?
Speaker 2: I would say, I would first want to ask because
Speaker 2: some people start something and they're set on it. I
Speaker 2: love that. I love these conversations we're having because I like,
Speaker 2: we've talked about all the things today, right, We've talked
Speaker 2: about listening, we've talked about perspectives, and we've talked about
Speaker 2: just only wanting to be me and try this one thing.
Speaker 2: And I would tell them, like, are you open to
Speaker 2: because some people start fitness and they're open to different
Speaker 2: types of fitness, and then some people are only open
Speaker 2: to doing one thing. So if they're coming in and
Speaker 2: it's just kickboxing, I would literally say come in and
Speaker 2: keep an open mind, the like, keep an open mind
Speaker 2: and just know you might at the end of the class.
Speaker 2: I like to joke you might love it or you
Speaker 2: might hate it, but at least you came and you
Speaker 2: gave it all you've got in that forty five minutes
Speaker 2: to an hour whatever it is. That is exactly what
Speaker 2: I'll tell them. And I find that the cup of
Speaker 2: people that I've said that to at the end of it,
Speaker 2: they're like, oh my god, that was awesome. I literally
Speaker 2: came in thinking that I was going to be training
Speaker 2: to be like the next Mike Tyson. But I had
Speaker 2: fun at the end of it. At the end of it,
Speaker 2: that whole Mike Tyson and the whole kickboxing thing of like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I'm gonna be a pro kickboxer. It's
Speaker 2: just like, I didn't think that I would be like
Speaker 2: so exhausted at the end, but I had so much fun,
Speaker 2: right And that just makes me happy because you came in,
Speaker 2: whatever expectations you had outside, come in and just kind
Speaker 2: of drop it. Because you guys heard the story earlier
Speaker 2: where I tried my first kickboxing class and I didn't
Speaker 2: necessarily go into open minded. I think I went in
Speaker 2: thinking that I was going to be the next Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2: And how did that work for me? I like pit
Speaker 2: on myself halfway through because I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm just getting more like at the end of it,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be like it was just not for
Speaker 2: me though, and so I didn't necessarily love the class style,
Speaker 2: but I still love kickboxing, and so I still gave
Speaker 2: another shot. And when I tried the other gym that
Speaker 2: I ended up being an instructor at or whatever, that one,
Speaker 2: I definitely went and open minded. I'm okay, we're going
Speaker 2: to go in and we're just going to have a
Speaker 2: great workout. And at the end of it, man, we
Speaker 2: loved it and we had so much fun and we
Speaker 2: came again. So I just didn't come in with an
Speaker 2: open mind. And you're allowed to do that, you know why,
Speaker 2: because it's only an hour out of our day. How
Speaker 2: many hours are in one day like this an hour? Right,
Speaker 2: Like just come in and and so that would be
Speaker 2: my biggest advice.
Speaker 1: That's solid. Yeah, all right, So we're going to wrap up.
Speaker 1: I know you've got stuff and things to do, and
Speaker 1: you're listening. You probably have stuff and things to do.
Speaker 1: I don't have stuff and things to do because this
Speaker 1: was my stuff I got. I can I've all my
Speaker 1: meetings before this because I'm like I'm so excited. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do anything else. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go back to doomsday at my desk in my office.
Speaker 1: So I booked all my meetings first.
Speaker 2: Well, this was so much fun. Long overdue or whatever
Speaker 2: people say, but that was like so much fun. And
Speaker 2: thank you Christina for inviting me, Like, thank you so
Speaker 2: much to come and invite and chat with everybody. And
Speaker 2: I hope you guys enjoyed it and I had a
Speaker 2: mad fun. I thank you.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys listening to have just as much
Speaker 1: fun as I did.
Speaker 2: To right, And Tina Tuesday, I've been here and I
Speaker 2: had a great I know, members say Tina Tuesday so seriously,
Speaker 2: and they remind me that Tina Tuesday exists, and so
Speaker 2: I love you guys, and yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Yeah, and it's not Tuesday, I know. Right. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining. If you have any question, comments, or concerns,
Speaker 1: or you want to check out Tina's classes, she coaches
Speaker 1: every Tuesday at the Transformation Station here in Barry, Ontario. Also,
Speaker 1: if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or maybe you
Speaker 1: want to share your story on the podcast, feel free
Speaker 1: to reach out. You know how to find me Christina
Speaker 1: at the Transformation Station dot CA, call me, text me.
Speaker 1: I'm always around seven o five three zero zero zero
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