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.
Speaker 1: Hey friends, welcome, Welcome back to the podcast. Today. We
Speaker 1: have another exciting because we have an exciting guests. We
Speaker 1: have your member here, Danielle.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done a podcast?
Speaker 3: I did one with my friend once, but not besides that,
Speaker 3: So we'll see how this goes.
Speaker 1: All right, So we're going to start off with a
Speaker 1: little bit about you. You are my breath Transformation Station. Maybe
Speaker 1: why you walk through the door.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was just time to walk through
Speaker 3: a door of a gym and like actually keep going.
Speaker 3: I think I grew up playing soccer and I was
Speaker 3: always like fairly fit for like doing minimal activities.
Speaker 2: I remember always joking, you know, I can.
Speaker 3: Just eat whatever and and stay you know, tiny, And
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden that just didn't happen anymore.
Speaker 3: And so I did some personal training before COVID for
Speaker 3: like a year, and I kind of got the forms
Speaker 3: down pretty well. And then through COVID tipped that scale
Speaker 3: over two hundred and kind of got like thirty off
Speaker 3: and then it came all right, right all back. And uh,
Speaker 3: my ex actually was a trainer recently and got me
Speaker 3: back into the gym. I was in an empty gym
Speaker 3: because she worked there, which was really nice in building
Speaker 3: my confidence. And then coming here it was just everyone
Speaker 3: was so welcoming. And I think also being in a
Speaker 3: queer owned space was very helpful to me being newly out,
Speaker 3: and I think that also was like very welcoming and
Speaker 3: everyone is so nice here and I just had a
Speaker 3: really fun time and kept coming back. And I know
Speaker 3: you watched me. I was out on a trip and
Speaker 3: you were sending me all like all of these like
Speaker 3: being like, oh wow, look at the mountains things like that,
Speaker 3: and I was like, I don't actually go to your
Speaker 3: gym yet, but I'm so excited to start going when
Speaker 3: I get back. And so I think we kind of
Speaker 3: had that banter before I even started here, and I
Speaker 3: loved it so far.
Speaker 1: It's interesting too, sometimes like I have never seen like Alberta.
Speaker 1: Calgary hasn't like any of those places. So every time
Speaker 1: I see like the mountains and I see like travel,
Speaker 1: different travel things. I'm like, see so great, And sometimes
Speaker 1: like I forget what account that I'm on, whether it's
Speaker 1: like the gym account or like my personal account, because
Speaker 1: it's just like a double click and then you're in
Speaker 1: the other account, and then when you comment or see things,
Speaker 1: it doesn't show you what account you're actually like, so
Speaker 1: like I at this point, I don't even almost care
Speaker 1: because most people know that I owned the gym if
Speaker 1: they look at the profile and says like my username.
Speaker 1: But my intention of when I bantered with people is
Speaker 1: it's never the intention of I want to talk with
Speaker 1: you because I want you to come to the gym.
Speaker 1: And it's really cool that you actually answered that back,
Speaker 1: because I was like, wait, I want to I'm probably
Speaker 1: when I come back, I was like, okay, I was like,
Speaker 1: did you know I know you said like it's you
Speaker 1: were excited to know, like it was a queer on space.
Speaker 1: Did you know that when you joined?
Speaker 3: No? I didn't.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I think you made a comment because I I think
Speaker 3: because I asked where could I fill up my water
Speaker 3: bottle somewhere and you made the comment of because I
Speaker 3: think you had filled Chris's water bottle up part way
Speaker 3: through class and you were like, oh, you can just
Speaker 3: hand me your water bottle. That's my spouse. And I
Speaker 3: was like nice. I was like, that makes me feel
Speaker 3: so much better too.
Speaker 2: So I loved that and that's fair.
Speaker 1: And I think that was because I drank. Yeah maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: I do that sometimes and I realized, like there's someone
Speaker 1: new in the class and I was like, oh, they
Speaker 1: just think that. I just like, yeah, I'll go, Philip,
Speaker 1: but there's a tax on it. Here you go. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I verbally will say that just because people are like, hey,
Speaker 1: like you like here, you feel this er do whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So a little
Speaker 1: bit about further into that. So what is your goal now,
Speaker 1: because like you just finished, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm still very sweaty and you're here, right, So how
Speaker 3: has your outlook on?
Speaker 1: Because you said like you're actually joining and you're gonna stick.
Speaker 1: So what's the difference.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think, like I said before, like I think
Speaker 3: it was just time and just being here. I'm already
Speaker 3: noticing so much difference.
Speaker 1: Moving the micro the first time, that's the first time
Speaker 1: that someone recording loud. Oh yeah, so if you're listening
Speaker 1: to turn your volume down back and watching did I
Speaker 1: was like, your your volume, things are going higher than one.
Speaker 1: I try to make it so it's balanced. But like
Speaker 1: anyone that's listened to the podcast prior, Hello listeners, you've
Speaker 1: noticed that we've had some technical difficulties with our mics
Speaker 1: and our sounds. So this is something that I'm really
Speaker 1: working on. Anyway, So how has thing? How have things
Speaker 1: changed now that you're you're here?
Speaker 3: Is your I was actually just talking to you, I
Speaker 3: think last night about maybe well, when I first joined
Speaker 3: the gym, I was like, I want to do High Rocks.
Speaker 3: We tried that we did not get or you got tickets.
Speaker 3: I guess I really wanted to try and get a
Speaker 3: team together to do a High Rocks.
Speaker 2: But we didn't get tickets.
Speaker 3: So I was kind of like, Okay, what is like
Speaker 3: something else that I can like? I really like goals
Speaker 3: and like working my way towards something. And so I
Speaker 3: think the Decca, which is kind of like a little
Speaker 3: maybe an easier version of Higher Rocks in October. That's
Speaker 3: kind of like my stretched out goal. Also, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to get a breast production, so that's another thing
Speaker 3: that I'm like working towards and so yeah, So I
Speaker 3: think both of those things like have kind of got
Speaker 3: me to stay here some sort of like fitness goal
Speaker 3: as well as the surgery and making sure I can
Speaker 3: lose enough wait, not necessarily because I have to, but
Speaker 3: because I want to and to come out of that
Speaker 3: surgery and feel like really good.
Speaker 2: In my body.
Speaker 3: And so far just being here, I've noticed like such
Speaker 3: a difference. I mean, just like energy wise, I've lost
Speaker 3: like a good amount so far that I'm happy with
Speaker 3: and to continue on with. But I think too noticing
Speaker 3: that the number on the scale doesn't necessarily matter, but
Speaker 3: my pants do not fit so so like the yeah,
Speaker 3: they're they're too big. And I was actually I was
Speaker 3: looking at a picture the other day of me at
Speaker 3: a concert where I was wearing like like baggy jeans,
Speaker 3: and I was like, Okay, they're not necessarily like cute
Speaker 3: baggy anymore.
Speaker 2: I thought they were still cute baggy. They're not. I
Speaker 2: just need a different.
Speaker 4: Size of genes, which is like, which is so great,
Speaker 4: Like I don't like I'm you know, started at the
Speaker 4: heaviest that I've ever been, and so I'm just like
Speaker 4: really excited to go back down a size or two.
Speaker 1: I haven't.
Speaker 2: I haven't really tried yet in pants. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, and then you can like healthfully recover. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I didn't know. There's so many people
Speaker 1: in these four walls that have had breast production or
Speaker 1: they're going through it as well. There's some people in
Speaker 1: these walls that have had breast and plants because they've
Speaker 1: gone through cancer. There's so many, like, so many different
Speaker 1: things I myself did have. We will call it a
Speaker 1: breast lugging. So I have breast and plants, which is
Speaker 1: not really secret. I had them done I don't know, twelve, twelve,
Speaker 1: thirteen years ago maybe, and I had it done when
Speaker 1: I was in my twenties. So I'm like, fast forward
Speaker 1: to today. I don't know if I would do it.
Speaker 1: In my famous last words, I went to like one
Speaker 1: of the top five surgeons in Canada or Ontario or whatever,
Speaker 1: like a sleepover nurse, like a sleepover anyway. It was
Speaker 1: like a private practice that I went to, and my
Speaker 1: famous last words were, well, just filled them up so
Speaker 1: I can get my money's worth. So I ended up
Speaker 1: being man made from like a B cut with like
Speaker 1: a fifty band. Is the thing. A lot of people
Speaker 1: like when you like shop for like plus sized clothes
Speaker 1: and stuff, there's so many people that they just assume
Speaker 1: that if you're like four hundred pounds that you have
Speaker 1: gigantic melons, which is totally not the case for myself.
Speaker 1: So I remember like losing weight and likes my dresses
Speaker 1: and everything would just like fall open. And I remember
Speaker 1: I was in There's a store in Toronto and I
Speaker 1: was with my mom and it's like all Italians for
Speaker 1: the most part, and I tried on this dress and
Speaker 1: I kept going down in sidees from down, insides down
Speaker 1: in size. It just hit my watch that wasn't fun.
Speaker 1: And I went down size and this Italian woman watched
Speaker 1: was oh, no, no, you can't wear that dress. You
Speaker 1: have no booze. I was like, okay, anyway, my mom
Speaker 1: bought the dress, never wore it. And then after I
Speaker 1: had my bood job, I was like, remember remember that
Speaker 1: dress from a long time ago that you got Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm like, yes,
Speaker 1: you do, it's in your closet. It's still stay. I'll
Speaker 1: take it now. Literally that she did like, here, take it,
Speaker 1: I'll never wear it. I'm like, I know it's been
Speaker 1: in here for years now actually, so I actually wore
Speaker 1: that so in my second yeah, yeah, my third competition
Speaker 1: that I did. So when I play second at a
Speaker 1: twin end competitors with the w BFF at Worlds in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, we had different we had different athletes meetings
Speaker 1: that we had to go to leading up to that event,
Speaker 1: and actually wore that dress for one of the events events.
Speaker 1: So to me, that was like yay, gold check mark contained.
Speaker 1: But I ended up being man made to be an
Speaker 1: at Cup and now that I'm not a small quotation mark,
Speaker 1: I'm much stronger than when I was in my mid twenties.
Speaker 1: Now I'm a g so like this sucks and no
Speaker 1: matter what I wear, I'm like, I always look like
Speaker 1: I'm bigger than what I am and it's so uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Like that's something the one warned me about is when
Speaker 1: you go from being like small chested to gigantic, like
Speaker 1: you're like floating, like trying to do stuff on your
Speaker 1: chest and stuff like that. I'm like, all my shorts
Speaker 1: are too short, too short, my shirts that look like
Speaker 1: when the boo, I'm like, oh no, I have to
Speaker 1: wear undershirts to cover all my ship. But anyway, long
Speaker 1: story short, it's interesting because everyone has their own yea
Speaker 1: and some people don't talk out loud, like on the
Speaker 1: gym floor, we hear, but like I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: in more protein, I'm trying to get in less stress.
Speaker 1: I come here because it's the mental health. But you
Speaker 1: know I'm saying like, oh I got a boot job,
Speaker 1: it feels good, or oh I'm working towards getting a
Speaker 1: breast direction, like there's not a whole lot of that.
Speaker 3: Yeahsation, Yeah no, that's definitely like my main reason for
Speaker 3: being here other than like mental health and helping my anxiety.
Speaker 2: Which has also been like crazy help for me as well.
Speaker 1: So so, so what do you find, Like I always
Speaker 1: go into the wheel of emotion because a lot of
Speaker 1: people think that the wheel of emotions just like anger, sadness, excitedness,
Speaker 1: and like humor or whatever. I don't think that's like
Speaker 1: those things. But there's so much more different feelings in
Speaker 1: the wheel of emotion. So like when I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask what it's like, what do you want to feel?
Speaker 1: And I actually did this with a life coach years ago,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, I want to feel the word radiant.
Speaker 1: Feel what makes me feel radiant? Like I want to
Speaker 1: feel like it's beyond even just saying I just want
Speaker 1: to feel like we hear that so much, Like I
Speaker 1: just want to feel good. What is good to you? Like,
Speaker 1: how do you want to feel I want to feel radiant?
Speaker 1: Like super Mario when he hits like the do and
Speaker 1: he hits a flashing star, then he can go and
Speaker 1: take over the entire world, not necessarily world, but you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like he goes into like the
Speaker 1: evil plants that are throwing things at him, they just
Speaker 1: die when he touches them, like nothing is holy the
Speaker 1: super Mario flashing thing back. And I know that's a stretch.
Speaker 1: I hope some of you are audio and visual burners
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about right now. And if you
Speaker 1: didn't play video games, then me neither. But like radiance, radiance,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, well, working out makes me feel radiant?
Speaker 1: Kind of well kind of workouts making it feel radiant?
Speaker 1: Is it the strength training? Is it? Cardio? What style?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, step step work for workouts And
Speaker 1: then at the time I wasn't taking zoom and I
Speaker 1: never had done maybe once in my life. I did
Speaker 1: the zoo way, so like dancing specifically, but now I'm
Speaker 1: too old to go out dancing. Some people are still
Speaker 1: that's fine, no shame, that's just not for me. So
Speaker 1: I love dancing to feel radiant, and I love like
Speaker 1: step class was my answer. And then she's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like and music. She said, well what style of music?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I love all music. When I
Speaker 1: want to feel radiant, I love like Latin music. Then
Speaker 1: that's how we left it. So she was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: when you want to feel this way, when you don't
Speaker 1: feel that way, these are the things that you can
Speaker 1: choose to grab a step. You can grab a step class.
Speaker 1: Well there's not a lot of places anymore that are
Speaker 1: teaching step, but grab a step class. And I was
Speaker 1: teaching stuff at the time. And then she said, or
Speaker 1: dance it out. So when I was coming back from Cuba,
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the airport and I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: sign up to teach you zoomba. I was so anti Zooma.
Speaker 1: I kid you not like as a zoom instructor for
Speaker 1: like I think four years now, I'm like, I've never
Speaker 1: I came from like the more of the CrossFit, bodybuilding
Speaker 1: style background, and I love I loved like taking step
Speaker 1: and like those things within reason because I like I
Speaker 1: wanted to have like my harder exterior, Like you don't.
Speaker 1: Those worlds don't make They can, but they can't. Two
Speaker 1: things can be true at the same time. You can
Speaker 1: love zuoma, you can love strength training, you can love
Speaker 1: bar bell work, and you can love doing step class.
Speaker 1: So I was like, Okay, so these are the things.
Speaker 1: So that's a whole long winded bunny trail that brings
Speaker 1: me back to when you feel good? What is it
Speaker 1: that you love to do that makes you feel good?
Speaker 1: Like so far, you've been doing quite a few different
Speaker 1: styles of classes here, which one ultimately when you leave here,
Speaker 1: makes you feel the most best.
Speaker 3: The most goodest, the goodest that I feel when I
Speaker 3: leave here. Honestly, I love the cardio kick. Yeah, well
Speaker 3: so I think the like the strong fit, definitely like
Speaker 3: doing the super sets. I do really like that, But
Speaker 3: the cardio kick is very It's just different than anything
Speaker 3: that I've like tried before. And I remember doing the
Speaker 3: first class using the whatever the rental ones that are
Speaker 3: here for your versus the boxing gloves. Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: being like I need to purchase my own, and I
Speaker 3: like post it on the app, being like I need
Speaker 3: recommendations because I want to keep hitting something. So I
Speaker 3: feel like, yeah, the cardio kick cardio on the Wednesday mornings,
Speaker 3: I love that one for sure. But other than that,
Speaker 3: like the strong the Strong Fit doing the super sets.
Speaker 3: I was that's the one that I was doing this
Speaker 3: morning and my legs were just yellow by the end
Speaker 3: from like the different squads that.
Speaker 2: We did, squads on squats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so fun. So then are you here tomorrow? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think it's Strong Fit again.
Speaker 1: Different. The nice thing is that we don't repeat exact Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the cardio, yeah, how often? How often do we
Speaker 1: actually get to hold things? Never?
Speaker 2: That's what I mean. That's why it's so fun.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know, you do like the the
Speaker 3: up and down movement and like the just the different Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love all the movements.
Speaker 2: It feels so good.
Speaker 3: It feels like I've just you know, like it's it's
Speaker 3: one thing to be like, you know, throwing a weight around,
Speaker 3: but another thing to like actually be hitting something and being.
Speaker 2: Like this feels so good.
Speaker 3: I'm not an angry person, but like, sometimes it's fun
Speaker 3: to hit since.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny, I remember when you first joined.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you're a little bit more like
Speaker 1: the quieter or so. So usually this is just something
Speaker 1: because we've taught cardio kick for these four years now,
Speaker 1: and the friend the trend is that the people that
Speaker 1: love it the very very most are always the more
Speaker 1: quieter people. It's so shocking to me when someone is
Speaker 1: like so like kind, like kind and like soft spoken.
Speaker 1: I'm everything, I'm so kind, but like I am complete
Speaker 1: opposite personality of that. So when I hear someone say
Speaker 1: like that's my favorite and they didn't even think they
Speaker 1: wanted to try it in the first place, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: we have one member. This was going back when I
Speaker 1: first bought the bags and I went up to her, am,
Speaker 1: I do you think you're gonna do this class? And
Speaker 1: she was like no. I'm like, well, she's like I
Speaker 1: don't want like I don't kick in punish things. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, she's super like to put together and
Speaker 1: she's so pretty and she's so kind, and like I
Speaker 1: couldn't I couldn't imagine her punching or kicking anything, even myself,
Speaker 1: to be honest, but like still has bad ass bove so.
Speaker 1: But I actually dragged the bag over to her spot,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, just just try it. Like
Speaker 1: here's some gloves. Their mind, they're new, just try it,
Speaker 1: just try it. She's like okay, she did, and she did,
Speaker 1: and she like punched it once and she like looked
Speaker 1: at the bag and then she punched it twice. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: what else you got? Like all right, all right, and
Speaker 1: she's I'm like, what do you think. She's like, not bad,
Speaker 1: not bad. And then the next time she came in
Speaker 1: it was cardio kit coss. She comes in with these
Speaker 1: brand new gloves and likes by her own glass. She's like, yes,
Speaker 1: like I love that so much. She hasn't unless she's
Speaker 1: been out of the country. She has not missed a
Speaker 1: cardio Okay, yeah, yeah, And it's so phenomenal to see
Speaker 1: it because it was like, no, I don't do those
Speaker 1: things to like I see her in class now and
Speaker 1: she's a freaking weapon. Yeah yeah. And then like chakes
Speaker 1: off her gloves and cleansing, puts her bag back and
Speaker 1: then she like she like floats when she watched like floats, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Nobody would know during the day that
Speaker 1: you went to a six am plastic ship from your bag.
Speaker 1: I think that's one of my favorite things. So it's
Speaker 1: interesting how that works. And the bags are neat to
Speaker 1: So the bags are the Century Fight simulator bags actually,
Speaker 1: so they're actually in Did you ever watch Copra Kai?
Speaker 1: So there's the show Copra Kai. It was remade like
Speaker 1: from the Karate Kid and it had some of the
Speaker 1: original kid actors that are not adults in the show,
Speaker 1: but it's all like karate and stuff. And they have
Speaker 1: those in almost like every episode at least once or
Speaker 1: twice because they're like sponsoreds something through Central. So those bags,
Speaker 1: they don't make them anymore, but some places do have
Speaker 1: them that you can order them. There was a place
Speaker 1: in Barry that had a bunch of them as well.
Speaker 1: It's it's like a specific martial arts gym. When they're
Speaker 1: used with the proper technique, those bags can last a
Speaker 1: long time. But they're meant to be like wavering bags,
Speaker 1: like they're not meant to ever be heavy bags. And
Speaker 1: I'm saying that on the podcast because there's a few
Speaker 1: people that have said, like, the bags move a lot,
Speaker 1: so it's time to replace the bags. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you have like two cardio kay classes a week because
Speaker 1: of some of the other classes like strong fit, Circuit
Speaker 1: power burn, tempo steps as those are also very popular.
Speaker 1: So those bags are what they cost because they moved,
Speaker 1: are not going to be replaced anytime soon. And at
Speaker 1: least four of those bags are breds, so when they move,
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, the bag just keeps moving and
Speaker 1: it goes to the one side. I'm like their fight
Speaker 1: simulator bags. It's meant to be like an opponent, so
Speaker 1: it's meant to be like you know those those bags
Speaker 1: can get them for like twenty dollars, have homart and
Speaker 1: they're blow up, yeah, like those like tip over clown things.
Speaker 1: So essentially that's how those bags were made in mind,
Speaker 1: but more sturdy, so they're meant to go side to side.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm like, practice your footwork, walk around
Speaker 1: the bag, because some times I see the same people
Speaker 1: that just beat the ship out of a bag for
Speaker 1: forty minutes just in the one spot. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we need new bags. The bags are falling apart, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, they're new bags. They're meant to be They're
Speaker 1: meant to do that. You got to go to the
Speaker 1: other side. So yeah, yeah, and I'm like, if if
Speaker 1: you me in the same spot for so I always
Speaker 1: try to be kind, but like try to remind people
Speaker 1: like move around the bag. It's a fight simulator because
Speaker 1: like you know, like when you like box with somebody,
Speaker 1: like you go back and forth and you duck. So
Speaker 1: that's how those bags are designed.
Speaker 3: I will move around it more now, I do know you, no,
Speaker 3: I do sometimes, but sometimes I'm just like no, I
Speaker 3: just want to like sit here or stand here and
Speaker 3: just like punch the crap out of it. So but
Speaker 3: I hear you say, like move around the bag, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: I guess yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Some people will start move around the bag, so we'll
Speaker 1: just they won't. But like those bags, when they're done,
Speaker 1: they're done. So like I'm trying to really uphold those bags.
Speaker 1: But we have different stuff coming in in the gym
Speaker 1: now as well. So it was funny that you messaged
Speaker 1: me last night about the skier and I'm like, actually,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw my stories, like the
Speaker 1: trip to Better the gym, the Bucks, that's where I went.
Speaker 1: That's where I went. So I went to there's a
Speaker 1: fitness store in Marco so I drove there to pick
Speaker 1: up the skier and I was told they had some
Speaker 1: in stock and they didn't. And they didn't. I had
Speaker 1: to order them. But I said to the guy I
Speaker 1: want like I want X amount and he's like, we
Speaker 1: don't have that. I'm like, well you can also include
Speaker 1: He's like, I have X amount of boxes in the back, Like, well,
Speaker 1: then you can also include the floor model. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I'm like I'll pay the full price. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I just want it, and I want it today, Like
Speaker 1: I drove here from Barry and he's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: and then he goes to the back. He comes out
Speaker 1: because he's like, no, we can't sell the floor model.
Speaker 1: Then he comes back out he's like we don't have
Speaker 1: It's like we don't have any in the back. Like
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving here without at least one skier. Like
Speaker 1: this was my to do list. I'm using that fin
Speaker 1: Chat or you have like check Mark to buy your
Speaker 1: little guy clothes. I'm like, I'm not going to have
Speaker 1: to say that I didn't do that, Like I need
Speaker 1: to get a new shoes, new shoes from my little
Speaker 1: fish on my app. But anyway, so I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: like I really need that skier. He's like, okay, we
Speaker 1: will sell it to you, and then he's like, I'll
Speaker 1: just no text. I'm like, okay, whatever. At this point,
Speaker 1: I don't even care what it is. So I packed
Speaker 1: it up and we took it apart, and then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: now I'm going to see how people like it. If
Speaker 1: people like the skier, then I'm going to order more.
Speaker 1: I think it's more inclusive because a lot of people
Speaker 1: want like a rower, and I looked at the rowers
Speaker 1: and actually I was going to get a rower as
Speaker 1: well while I was there. And then the air bikes,
Speaker 1: which we used to have two or three of them,
Speaker 1: but I sold them because they were inclusive. So the
Speaker 1: rower and the air bike is called it himself bike
Speaker 1: as well. Air bike just sounds much more pounder totally.
Speaker 1: I sold them because those three, and I had one
Speaker 1: or two rowers as well, they all have a weight
Speaker 1: limit of three hundred and fifty pounds. Yeah, yeah like that,
Speaker 1: so I don't like that either. So that's why. And
Speaker 1: a lot of people with the air bike because the
Speaker 1: handles come in.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's different than a regular bike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because you use your power from your entire body.
Speaker 1: It's a lot more challenging than a standard bike. But
Speaker 1: they're mostly used in spaces that are more like CrossFit, right,
Speaker 1: so like rare. It's very rare in CrossFit that you
Speaker 1: would have someone that's like four hundred pounds or someone
Speaker 1: who's a bigger body. Person like that still exists in
Speaker 1: that space. So I'm not saying that it doesn't and
Speaker 1: they don't say like, hey, you're not welcome. However, that
Speaker 1: equipment the weight limit, especially for insurance purposes, you have
Speaker 1: to go buy what the weight limits. I would hate
Speaker 1: for someone to come in here and be like, well,
Speaker 1: you can't use the roller and you can't use the
Speaker 1: bike because you're six foot five and four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty pounds, Like you know what I mean, Like, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. So the skiers are very inclusive. So
Speaker 1: that's why we maybe instead of getting like one or
Speaker 1: two of each, maybe you'll just get like three or
Speaker 1: four skiers and then not have to worry about the
Speaker 1: weight house. But I'm still debating if I should get
Speaker 1: a roller in a bike just for like the back
Speaker 1: of people that do want to practice deca that they
Speaker 1: can come in and do that yeah, so we'll see
Speaker 1: how that goes. I'm going to see how people enjoy
Speaker 1: this skier because I know I love it and I
Speaker 1: know Chris loves it as well. The shoe fiasco that
Speaker 1: we've been going through, did you have the memos? What
Speaker 1: I actually came across yesterday one of the videos that
Speaker 1: I also shared and someone, uh, there's boxing gloves got
Speaker 1: moved to another puppy and I shared a video please
Speaker 1: make sure you label your cuppies and labeled them at
Speaker 1: the top, like this has been an ongoing thing. Right
Speaker 1: now we're not. So now we're not. We're not quartering
Speaker 1: everybody's shoes. I was like, we're not storing anyone's shoes
Speaker 1: or boxing gloves or puppies anymore because there's like I
Speaker 1: think there's two or three hundred slots for people's stuff.
Speaker 1: That's a mess. That's a mess. So when you have
Speaker 1: like a few hundred people and everyone's my shoes or shoes,
Speaker 1: my shoes are gone, I kid you not. Actually someone
Speaker 1: just said, like I heard someone say, like, what's what's
Speaker 1: up with the shoes talking? We can't store a stuff?
Speaker 1: Like has there been a problem there's at least I
Speaker 1: kid you not a problem every single week. So on
Speaker 1: top of trying to manage everything, I'm also managing people's shoes,
Speaker 1: which at first I didn't mind, but it's excessive. Now.
Speaker 1: I actually had an extra camera installed right above or
Speaker 1: the pop fridge is just so I could have an
Speaker 1: entire view up close of the shoe puppies. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is beyond running a gym at this point. So
Speaker 1: now it's like, wait, everyone takes your phone, but when
Speaker 1: I sell those cuppies, I'm just going to reinvest it
Speaker 1: into our equipment. So yeah, that's the idea, And I'm
Speaker 1: saying that on the podcast. When people hear it, they're like, oh, yes, great,
Speaker 1: because now it's like I don't like to just take
Speaker 1: things away, right, Like that's not me as a person.
Speaker 1: So now if we reinvested, you're like, oh, now there's
Speaker 1: some more cool, fun things that I can use as
Speaker 1: an option here. It'll make people feel better rather than
Speaker 1: I can't store my shoes.
Speaker 2: Happy shopping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone said them like using that tag, we're talking
Speaker 1: and then we're talking in the morning, and someone was like,
Speaker 1: should should have posted that, Like, oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: these are this is the gym bag. I recommend post
Speaker 1: your affiliate. I'm like, you know what, that would have
Speaker 1: been a great idea. However, everyone would come in with
Speaker 1: the same bag and like someone took my gym bags
Speaker 1: would change the situation that it would be like it
Speaker 1: was like in the winter sometimes where it's like other
Speaker 1: houle jackets hole or boots or shoes or and it
Speaker 1: happens everyere like I like, I even followed the brilliant
Speaker 1: roller rings and like through the gym's Facebook and they
Speaker 1: were posting for like two weeks.
Speaker 2: Someone wore these shoes home.
Speaker 1: Someone with the wrong shoes home, these your shoes. They
Speaker 1: were ugs to me, and to me it sounded like
Speaker 1: they never got that as me whereas me, if I
Speaker 1: don't saw the part and this is part of me
Speaker 1: because I was going to part this is the part
Speaker 1: that I really love is if I don't saw that
Speaker 1: issue and have it resolved within five minutes, I'm very
Speaker 1: disalloyed to get.
Speaker 2: Myself five minutes five minutes.
Speaker 1: I got so many cameras in this place. I can
Speaker 1: see people walking up with the with them own shoes on.
Speaker 1: They're changing the wrong shoes when they come in. I
Speaker 1: can see when they've taken their shoes off and it's
Speaker 1: saying that I don't. However, this is why we have
Speaker 1: for incidents. So I'm like, okay, if this person with
Speaker 1: those shoes, I could check our staff app to see
Speaker 1: what class was in there. Usually I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 1: bet it was this person because they have similar styles.
Speaker 1: But I can literally see someone like leaving in a
Speaker 1: hurry and just slipping on someone else's shoes and walking
Speaker 1: out the door. Thankfully, we haven't had anyone really get
Speaker 1: like we really angry about that because they know. I
Speaker 1: put my detective hat on and I'm like, okay, I
Speaker 1: got five minutes to solve this case.
Speaker 3: See I I just when everyone started getting blendstones, I
Speaker 3: just put my initials in the tongue. I actually don't
Speaker 3: know if I if I did that to my shoes
Speaker 3: here I did, so my initials are in the tongue
Speaker 3: on my shoe, just in case anyone had the same ones.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: The in the in the winter, it's ugs that are
Speaker 1: very popular. No one has ever worn my ugs home
Speaker 1: because at first I was nervous liking the front door
Speaker 1: because this winter this winter they got a new like
Speaker 1: snow contract person and they in front of my emergency door.
Speaker 1: They put like a tile foot tile of the entire
Speaker 1: parking lots and no in front of it, and I
Speaker 1: was like, are you kidding? Like I thought they were
Speaker 1: going to move it. They never just kept growing, so
Speaker 1: I stopped. So I stopped coming through the back door
Speaker 1: and go through the front. I was going through the
Speaker 1: front door, so I would take out my boots there.
Speaker 1: I hope no one steals them. But no one ever
Speaker 1: not steals the hope everyone accidentally wears these out. And
Speaker 1: we've never having steel coming on steel things on purpose,
Speaker 1: just to clarify, but I was like, oh, my ugs,
Speaker 1: are men person the only person that's going to wear
Speaker 1: these matter like the tail but like yeah, but like
Speaker 1: in the falls bloodstones and then and then in the
Speaker 1: summer all the different stocks and crocs as well, but
Speaker 1: not like but not like the ones with like some
Speaker 1: we'll have like the big fuzzy like time hitting things
Speaker 1: that you shove charms, widgets, wichets, fidgets. Yeah. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: always like those style of shoes because everyone in here
Speaker 1: has a good taste for the most part. Another style
Speaker 1: of shoe that's really surfaced in here is the sketchers
Speaker 1: slip ons y. Yeah, they don't even need a shoehorn
Speaker 1: in the back stays intact. So for anyone who loves
Speaker 1: shoving their foot and their shoes without untying their laces,
Speaker 1: freaking fantastic. So many people have them, I should get
Speaker 1: them breaking and they're breaking my fingers trying to not
Speaker 1: tie my.
Speaker 2: Hands, breaking the back of your shoes literally literally.
Speaker 1: And actually last winter winter that just passed, I learned
Speaker 1: to shoehorn and that's why we have shoehorns in here.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I have like a little mini one
Speaker 1: for my my bag. So I just take it as
Speaker 1: long as long as they're at the time, my cheese.
Speaker 1: So back to the back to the fitness train. Where
Speaker 1: are you? So? Where are you in your journey now?
Speaker 1: And what does it look like in six months from now?
Speaker 2: Journey now?
Speaker 3: I think I still feel like I'm at the beginning,
Speaker 3: but I feel so much stronger already, and like I said,
Speaker 3: with like just like my pants not fitting already, like
Speaker 3: it's crazy. And this morning I switched to a forty
Speaker 3: pound kettlebell from like thirty thirty five. I was switching
Speaker 3: back and forth between those ones, and.
Speaker 2: My butt is all like I'm.
Speaker 3: Already starting to see I've never had like I've always
Speaker 3: like I've always had a flat butt, and so I'm
Speaker 3: like starting to see some definition in that and that
Speaker 3: is like I'm like, I'm going to do more squats.
Speaker 3: I'm like loving that. And I think just the change
Speaker 3: in my face as well. I think every time I've
Speaker 3: gotten like a little bit bit like to like my
Speaker 3: max wait, I've noticed like I just I don't smile
Speaker 3: as much because my my face is bigger, and.
Speaker 1: Does that make feel does that make you feel self
Speaker 1: conscious of how you look or it's uncomfortable in how it.
Speaker 3: Feels how I look in pictures, and so I smile
Speaker 3: like I just smile less or like not as strong,
Speaker 3: I think, And so like the last you know, like
Speaker 3: month or so, I'm like i feel like I like
Speaker 3: got my smile back a little bit, which is like
Speaker 3: so lame, but like also really good. I just like
Speaker 3: have noticed it in my face so much. And then yeah,
Speaker 3: like six months from now, like I'm hoping that I
Speaker 3: can do that deca thing and and get to that
Speaker 3: and just be stronger in like all aspects and just
Speaker 3: keep coming here like i'd like to.
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel.
Speaker 3: Like I also push myself to try and be like
Speaker 3: I need to attend all the classes every single morning,
Speaker 3: and I think to like doing like the overachieving doesn't
Speaker 3: necessarily help me actually like get to every class. You
Speaker 3: know that you asked me why I wasn't there not
Speaker 3: all last week, but like she's like.
Speaker 2: It's been a couple of days.
Speaker 1: Where have you been?
Speaker 2: And I'm like I was tired.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Sorry that's the truth, but I'm.
Speaker 1: Now you all know.
Speaker 3: But right, So like I'm like, okay, so what do
Speaker 3: I want like the schedule to be?
Speaker 2: And I think figuring that out.
Speaker 3: I mean my life kind of you know, I have
Speaker 3: a nine to five, but I also have rental property,
Speaker 3: so sometimes I'm like doing extra stuff at night, or
Speaker 3: you know, I get a text early in the morning
Speaker 3: to fix something.
Speaker 2: Things like that.
Speaker 3: So I think trying to make some sort of schedule
Speaker 3: of like Okay, I'm I'm gonna go Monday, Tuesday and
Speaker 3: Thursday and maybe Friday.
Speaker 2: So I don't.
Speaker 3: Get like down on myself for missing a day and
Speaker 3: not like trying to like go all out and just
Speaker 3: being sad that I didn't do it, because it's like
Speaker 3: you can't just go like zero to one hundred, right,
Speaker 3: Like it's progression. So I think work on some sort
Speaker 3: of schedule to feel better about like how often I'm going, yeah,
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 1: Like you said that. There's so many times when I
Speaker 1: put this high, high expectation on themselves and then they
Speaker 1: miss that expectation and then all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: creates shame or they're like, oh, I just can't do
Speaker 1: it right. So like getting to the gym for three
Speaker 1: classes a week is actually fantastic, and that's twelve workouts.
Speaker 1: That's three workouts in a week if you can get
Speaker 1: so if you can get to like the fourth or
Speaker 1: the fifth one, amazing, incredible. But having that that unseen
Speaker 1: pressure is normally like there's like maybe if we're gonna
Speaker 1: throw out fake facts here, maybe like two and ten
Speaker 1: people might be motivated by the extra pressure most but
Speaker 1: most realistically people are not. So Like when you go
Speaker 1: from zero or maybe like one workout randomly in a
Speaker 1: week or the next week to go to five or
Speaker 1: six classes in one week. That is such a high
Speaker 1: expectation that people have on themselves. There's some people that
Speaker 1: they come in hot and they sustain that for years,
Speaker 1: very very rare, usually in the trends, and I've been
Speaker 1: operating my own gym since twenty twelve and I see it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's two things that happen. There's either people don't
Speaker 1: trust themselves and they join on like a ten class
Speaker 1: pass and because they say like this, okay, well this
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to put too much pressure
Speaker 1: and get too excited, and then I don't stick to it.
Speaker 1: So they are like, okay, I'll just start with the
Speaker 1: ten classmen, and then they come in, they do two classes,
Speaker 1: three classes, and that ten month pass that has a
Speaker 1: six month expiring is done in a matter of three weeks,
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, wow, I surprised myself. I'm going
Speaker 1: to join on a membership. And then there's some people
Speaker 1: that are like, well, now I'm going to start as
Speaker 1: a twelve session membership. And then they're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't expect that. I was going to love it so much,
Speaker 1: but now I'm out of classes. So to me, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario is is that you over expect
Speaker 1: or under expect and over deliver like this. So, like
Speaker 1: there's different styles of how people get motivated. There's some
Speaker 1: people that are like, you know what, I'm motivated right now.
Speaker 1: I don't want the limitation to hold me back. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to jump in as unlimited because i want
Speaker 1: to do my inbody when I first start. I want
Speaker 1: to go unlimited. I want to keep track and do
Speaker 1: my embody every month. And then there's some people that
Speaker 1: are like, you know what I'm going I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm going to be doing for the next year,
Speaker 1: So I don't think. I'm like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing here the next year or
Speaker 1: six months. I don't want to make promises to myself.
Speaker 1: But then there's people that come in and they're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I spent more on less, So I'm
Speaker 1: going to prepay for the year I'm gonna start. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make a twelve month commitment to myself. And this
Speaker 1: is about me because where your money is is where
Speaker 1: your heart's going, your time, your money, like that's that's priorities, right,
Speaker 1: So like getting to the getting to the gym three
Speaker 1: times a week is such a feat because that's putting
Speaker 1: yourself first at least three times per month to say
Speaker 1: actually I'm actually getting through the door and actually coming
Speaker 1: here like moving my body. That's just your secluded time
Speaker 1: three times a weekly. There's actually we have quite a
Speaker 1: few members in here now, but in the outside world
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of people that do that.
Speaker 1: They're exhausted because they do everything for everybody else. So
Speaker 1: what if my time, I can't get to the gym
Speaker 1: because I have to drive this one or I have
Speaker 1: to do this, and to say no to everything else
Speaker 1: that is a priority to get through the door. And
Speaker 1: when you know like okay, well maybe I'm gonna come Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
Speaker 1: maybe the optional Friday. And you know that you're flexible.
Speaker 1: So usually you're here at six am. Today you're here
Speaker 1: at eight because we're also podcasting after class. But like
Speaker 1: there's wig there's wiggled rooms. So I remember one person saying, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just giving up on my fitness journey because I
Speaker 1: can't come five days a week at six am. I'm like, oh, girl,
Speaker 1: arranger schedule the She's like, it has to be this
Speaker 1: in my mind. And she comes from a competitive sports background,
Speaker 1: from herself, her family, everything. She's like, you know, if
Speaker 1: I can't do five days a week at six am,
Speaker 1: it's not good day. Like one day I might not
Speaker 1: feel good, like if she gets sick or if she's
Speaker 1: like I'm tired and she misses one class. She's like, well,
Speaker 1: now I ruined my five day a week streak. I
Speaker 1: got to start next week. And then she's like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't trust myself now because those promises weren't kept
Speaker 1: to herself. But they were also so incredibly high, like
Speaker 1: life has enough pasture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was interesting.
Speaker 3: We talked about this at one point too, that I
Speaker 3: had always thought that like working out in my brain,
Speaker 3: like I would do it after work, but I'm so
Speaker 3: tired after work.
Speaker 2: Not that I have a hard job.
Speaker 3: I'd sit at a desk, but I'm just like, my
Speaker 3: brain is exhausted, and I don't I didn't want to
Speaker 3: come here. So I was like, Okay, well, I've never
Speaker 3: been a morning person before.
Speaker 1: But like, let me try.
Speaker 2: So I'm like six am. And then I remember messaging you.
Speaker 3: I was up at the cottage on a weekend and
Speaker 3: it was like five thirty in the morning and I
Speaker 3: was awake, and I was like, oh, no, I've become
Speaker 3: a morning person. I'm not waking up to go to
Speaker 3: the gym, but I'm at the cottage and I'm not
Speaker 3: going to the gym. What do I do for another
Speaker 3: three hours before everyone else makes up? But it's like
Speaker 3: it's good to like have the schedule, and at least
Speaker 3: at least I never thought that I would be able
Speaker 3: to get onto a schedule like that, So I think
Speaker 3: that is even just like part of the feat for me.
Speaker 3: Like even if I don't go five days a week
Speaker 3: in the morning, I'm still like kind of like waking
Speaker 3: up at that time, so I can keep that schedule,
Speaker 3: and so I think it's it's good either either way.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, but you know, keeping with like the
Speaker 3: three to four I think five.
Speaker 1: I came in hot I was.
Speaker 3: Like, Hi, I'm new here. I'd like to do high rocks.
Speaker 3: And then it was like already part way through April
Speaker 3: and I was like five.
Speaker 2: Days a week, let's go. I want to get my sticker.
Speaker 2: And I didn't get my sticker in April, but I
Speaker 2: got it. Did I get it the next month?
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, May and May and June, so I've gotten it
Speaker 3: the other months, So I'm excited about that too.
Speaker 2: That's like also one of my favorite.
Speaker 3: Things about being here a stickers, like an adult gold Star.
Speaker 1: It's funny to see how it's changed because at first
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not I'm not getting a sticker. But
Speaker 1: I was like, because at first what I was doing
Speaker 1: was I would do like like I would like, I
Speaker 1: would do it a draw to pick like one person's name.
Speaker 1: And then and then I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: at one time, we only had like five or six
Speaker 1: people on our check and champions. It was called something else. Oh,
Speaker 1: the committed Club is what it was called back in
Speaker 1: the day. We didn't have like a crazy high like
Speaker 1: membership thing anyways, but we would get like five or
Speaker 1: six people were like, oh yeah, we have like oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we had ten people on the Committed Club
Speaker 1: this month. This is crazy. But then I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: always the same thing. It's always the same draw. No
Speaker 1: one needs a ten dollar gift card. It's important to
Speaker 1: say good job, Like there's it has to be something
Speaker 1: getting to the gym at least twelve times. Everyone should
Speaker 1: get something on that. And I'm not overly a fan
Speaker 1: of everybody gets a participant award, like I don't love that,
Speaker 1: But in this getting to the gym twelve times or more,
Speaker 1: that is a trophy that is like you deserve first
Speaker 1: place in your life because you did them or something.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, how can Yeah, So I'm like, how
Speaker 1: can I make it inclusive? How can I make it
Speaker 1: so then everyone is valued and gets something? Now I
Speaker 1: can't afford to give everybody on the check and Champion
Speaker 1: like this is a yetti congratulations and I got to
Speaker 1: give sixty people like a YETI you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not even worth the membership at that point.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, what what can I do? I would
Speaker 1: love to know? But like so I was like the stickers.
Speaker 1: So I started with like these little, these little paper
Speaker 1: cheapy type stickers, and I have designed every single one
Speaker 1: of the stickers, and people were people were like excited
Speaker 1: about them, and they're putting them on their water bottles
Speaker 1: and they were lasting until they started going into the dishwasher.
Speaker 1: So then after like a month or two, their beautiful
Speaker 1: crispy sticker now looked like someone tried to peel the
Speaker 1: sticker off of something. From the mean, I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, we need to change the stickers upgraded.
Speaker 1: So I upgraded them. So I had like a month
Speaker 1: after months of realizing this because I'm like, well, obviously,
Speaker 1: don't put yourself in the dishwasher. And then I see Chris.
Speaker 1: I had like this big like leader was two leaders
Speaker 1: yetty and all my stickers on it, and I see
Speaker 1: Chris started to use it from work and she's putting
Speaker 1: it in the dishwashers, and I was like, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so you can't just say don't put yourself in the dishwall.
Speaker 1: You're going to put your stuff wherever you want, right,
Speaker 1: So like okay. So then after a few months we
Speaker 1: upgraded to paper back papers plastic back sticker, and then
Speaker 1: now and then now we're doing like the die cut
Speaker 1: clear on that are ones that are like way more
Speaker 1: advance advanced than the stickers that we first started with.
Speaker 1: The reason why, but the reason why I kept upgrading
Speaker 1: them is because people wanted them and I'm not and
Speaker 1: I'm not someone people are like, oh, do you ever
Speaker 1: look at your competition? No, I don't give a ship
Speaker 1: what my competition is doing, unless like they want to
Speaker 1: high five, Like there's someone in Barrier that recently franchised
Speaker 1: or un licensed with a big brand and that was
Speaker 1: American as well, And they're like, no, we're just going
Speaker 1: to do our own thing now. And I actually sent
Speaker 1: them a message on Instagram. I'm like, hey, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this just popped up because a friend like had tagged
Speaker 1: it and another friend that I know, I'm like, congratulations,
Speaker 1: this is amazing, scary, amazing, amazing, and they're like, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. From another gym to another gym, Like
Speaker 1: that's really awesome. Like there's a community over competity. So
Speaker 1: the sticker thing, I'm like, I don't care if people
Speaker 1: don't believe in stickers or people do believe in stickers.
Speaker 1: All I know is under this umbrella the people that
Speaker 1: the people standing in front of me thrive on the stickers.
Speaker 2: Don't care about sticks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone cares about There's like maybe two or people
Speaker 1: to talk about, and they're like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: a crush around myself. I don't really care about stickers,
Speaker 1: but everybody else I celebrate those people the exact same way,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, hey, you're still giving here, like that's
Speaker 1: still consistency. So like the sticker thing just blew up.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, Okay, you guys want stickers out of
Speaker 1: the past and you want to make them cool and
Speaker 1: like seeing people get excited about it. I don't, like,
Speaker 1: I don't have kids, right, but I could imagine, like
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day after you bought stuff that your kids love, like,
Speaker 1: no wonder people are buying their kids eight hundred dollars
Speaker 1: pass come on now, but no wonder. Like like I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, Like we were talking about like cars
Speaker 1: and stuff. I'm like, who would This was like a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and I that us, like who
Speaker 1: would buy the kids bread? Are like, what the hell?
Speaker 1: I've seen some of the parents their kids are driving
Speaker 1: nicer cars, and they would they do that? They don't
Speaker 1: care about themselves. And then and then we were talking recently,
Speaker 1: like about our nieces and stuff like that. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: when x amount turns x years old and years old
Speaker 1: and they do this and they achieve this, then we
Speaker 1: should get them a car. And then I was like, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: I'm not dreaming back because that's not my kid. But
Speaker 1: like I could see how that different in a different
Speaker 1: parallel with the stickers. So I'm like, you guys are
Speaker 1: so happy with the stickers, and it's not just about
Speaker 1: people being happy with the sticker, it's about them working
Speaker 1: towards something that is actually super healthy. So it's like
Speaker 1: they're getting here twelve times, they're getting stronger. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you got your smile back to me, That to me
Speaker 1: means forging everything goes. So it goes so much more
Speaker 1: deeper than just having that sticker because when people see it,
Speaker 1: it brings them pride. It tells them like, hey, this
Speaker 1: this is something you did. This isn't something your family did.
Speaker 1: This isn't something your kids did. Like one of our members,
Speaker 1: she had she actually participated in Decca and she had
Speaker 1: her her metal her very card and she looked at
Speaker 1: it and she's like, I won my own trophy, not
Speaker 1: just for being a dance mom and watching my kids
Speaker 1: earn their trophy. I got my home. She was like
Speaker 1: the first time, this is mine. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: was almost I was almost crying. I was so proud
Speaker 1: of her, and I was like, you are right. Because
Speaker 1: that's something I reference quite often is so many parents
Speaker 1: and people put their pride in It doesn't even need
Speaker 1: to be kids. It could be their job, their work.
Speaker 1: Like and I'm preaching to the wire when I say
Speaker 1: when you put your entire life into your job and
Speaker 1: your work, because it brings me the most joy. But
Speaker 1: something I've been doing recently is focusing on myself. Like
Speaker 1: since June, I've lost June first, I've lost like over
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds now and a fact, so we might e
Speaker 1: body at least once every two weeks actually, And I'm
Speaker 1: not just celebrating other people's wills. I'm also celebrating my
Speaker 1: own wins. Even if some people don't know that I'm
Speaker 1: having those wins, it's still very detrimental to me. So
Speaker 1: like now that I have other coaches that are stepping
Speaker 1: up into some of like my coaching, so like any
Speaker 1: coaching on Mondays phenomenal, not just for me and everybody
Speaker 1: else in the room, for her too, but like now
Speaker 1: it's allowing it's allowing me to have at least one
Speaker 1: day that I can work on stuff that's not just
Speaker 1: in the gym and not coaching. So now we're here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, it's Monday, I can do the nutrition
Speaker 1: thing all but also I don't have the stress of
Speaker 1: trying to solve everyone's problems in one morning when I
Speaker 1: can actually start to regulate my own nervousness absolutely, which I.
Speaker 2: Think is so important. And we've talked about that a
Speaker 2: little bit as well.
Speaker 3: As being entrepreneurs and also you know, just making sure
Speaker 3: that we take time for us. I remember when you
Speaker 3: posted something about starting therapy and I was like, yes,
Speaker 3: that's so good.
Speaker 2: It's important to take care of yourself too.
Speaker 3: But you know when you're spend all your time here
Speaker 3: taking time for yourself as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, yeah, totally and like thing with like my therapist.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because we just talked about that with
Speaker 1: Annie and you and myself before Annie left with eating's birthday,
Speaker 1: birthday every day, and I was like, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: like I said about like my therapist, like, I'm a
Speaker 1: very self aware person and I am very much so
Speaker 1: someone who is confident, and I am someone that I'm
Speaker 1: very confident in my decisions because I don't make decisions
Speaker 1: out of emotion, and when things are highly emotional, I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is not how I operate. And then sometimes I've
Speaker 1: learned like not to like react with emotion back because
Speaker 1: I can't stund it. So like if someone gets like
Speaker 1: over emotional and they fire off like a five six
Speaker 1: seven page text message, I literally will open it and
Speaker 1: be like I'm going to put that away, Like that's away,
Speaker 1: like totally and then there's sometimes people send it but
Speaker 1: it actually doesn't go through depending on what platform they
Speaker 1: because some of my stuff is actually how is it
Speaker 1: called like monitored through like a like AI essentially, so
Speaker 1: if I do get a long paragraph, it's email act,
Speaker 1: I actually don't even get the message. So, like a
Speaker 1: few like a year ago, someone was upset about something
Speaker 1: and they sent me a whole thing, and one of
Speaker 1: her friends were like, did you see this message from her?
Speaker 1: Because you didn't respond and you're posting on Instagram. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like what, I'm like, no, it didn't. That's like,
Speaker 1: but that's your phone number, Like, that's my phone umber. Look,
Speaker 1: this is my phone. Actually I actually literally didn't get that.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, because I haven't filtered that.
Speaker 1: If someone like overly sends like too many characters, I
Speaker 1: guess there's a character limit, it doesn't get sent, but
Speaker 1: in return I then realize that it doesn't tell them
Speaker 1: that it's not the limit any So anyway, part of
Speaker 1: that's part of like the thing about also regulating through
Speaker 1: therapy as well, because as an entre generial person, who
Speaker 1: do you go.
Speaker 3: To talk to someone else who's also super busy and
Speaker 3: maybe doesn't have time to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Like in the gym, like some of my
Speaker 1: coaches are kept in the loop about certain things or
Speaker 1: things that pertain to what they need to do, or
Speaker 1: different incidents or things that happen like with shoes or
Speaker 1: someone's looking for this, or like maybe like maybe like
Speaker 1: the in body has like an issue, which not one
Speaker 1: has never had an issue, but like they'll they'll be
Speaker 1: informed on things that matter to them. Before I used
Speaker 1: to like divulge information to the coaches, but now I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's not their place, it's not their business, it's not
Speaker 1: their burden to take on these things. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: this is where I see my therapists every two weeks,
Speaker 1: sometimes once a week, depending on if shit has not
Speaker 1: a fan or not. Because in the gym, people walk
Speaker 1: in and everything looks great, right Like there's no drama,
Speaker 1: there's no problems, there's no issue. Filter. I'm the filter
Speaker 1: and I'm the only filter. So I filter a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff that now it's up to me if
Speaker 1: I'm going to pass it into my team and into.
Speaker 2: This which is a lot to carry.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to carry. It's a lot to carry
Speaker 1: so when I can talk to a therapist about those things,
Speaker 1: sometimes sometimes she just listens. Sometimes sometimes there's no solution. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's because she's also a business owner and
Speaker 1: she owns her practice. You'll say okay, she'll say okay,
Speaker 1: so that was handled actually really well. Sometimes sometimes just
Speaker 1: having that high five validation validate validates because I've said
Speaker 1: to her before, like I've had to take care of
Speaker 1: this in this context. Is this a form of solutions?
Speaker 1: This is not direct because this person cannot have something
Speaker 1: said to them direct because it will hurt them their feelings,
Speaker 1: even though it's business and not personal. So I started
Speaker 1: now to their enneagram, their personality traits, trying to have
Speaker 1: a conversation through rue what I would consider passive aggressive,
Speaker 1: just tell me how it is.
Speaker 2: So I'm like okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, what is this because this doesn't
Speaker 1: fit for me. But it got the job done. It
Speaker 1: made them feel good and they understood. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that to me sounds like manipulation because that's not me
Speaker 1: as a person. And she's like, no, that's operating through
Speaker 1: someone else's lens and perspective. Okay. I'm like yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: because I have been doing that quite a bit in
Speaker 1: the last I'm going to say eighteen eighteen months or so.
Speaker 1: That's like how people knew my children eighteen months. It's
Speaker 1: eighteen last weeks. But in the last eighteen months, I've
Speaker 1: noticed it, and I've noticed a distinctive. Even though it's
Speaker 1: not genuine to my personality type, it's still considering other
Speaker 1: people's feelings. Yeah, wow, wow, was.
Speaker 2: Bearing out hearing out.
Speaker 1: But I think it's important to have a place, a
Speaker 1: place that you can just go and get out that so,
Speaker 1: and I know, like a lot of people come in
Speaker 1: to the gym and they have those burdens, but they
Speaker 1: come here as their safe place because now no one's
Speaker 1: asking them, no one cares. People care, but no one cares.
Speaker 1: Like in the podcast I know, I sent you the
Speaker 1: one with Olivia yesterday, and that's something Olivia said publicly
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and she said, you know what, after grief,
Speaker 1: during grief, during grief doesn't really like your leave, but
Speaker 1: like she can come in here and it's not oh,
Speaker 1: you should be sad, why are you shaking your booty
Speaker 1: in zoom, But like she can come in and still
Speaker 1: two things can be true at the same times, you
Speaker 1: could be shaking your booty in Zuma and you could
Speaker 1: be grieving in a lost relationship. There's like there's so
Speaker 1: many things can be true, So like when people have
Speaker 1: when people have a safe place that kind of validates
Speaker 1: how they feel, or they can just not think about anything.
Speaker 3: And I think too, like with the anxiety that I have,
Speaker 3: like I've noticed, like even sometimes like the rare occasion,
Speaker 3: I'll come to a night class and that's because I've
Speaker 3: got crazy anxiety going on. I'm like, I can't go
Speaker 3: home and just like sit there because I all spiral.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna come here and think
Speaker 3: about how much my arm hurts while lifting this weight instead,
Speaker 3: And I love that and it gets the the jitters
Speaker 3: of the anxiety out of my body and then I
Speaker 3: can go home and be like Okay, like I still
Speaker 3: feel some sort of way, but I don't feel that
Speaker 3: kind of like physicalness of the anxiety that I was having.
Speaker 2: So it's so much better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, that's interesting. There's someone in here.
Speaker 1: She said that sometimes she likes to finish the class
Speaker 1: in a plank because it's actually been proven that when
Speaker 1: you are shaking that it's actually like I think the
Speaker 1: term is somatic, Like it's actually like your nervous system
Speaker 1: starting to heal because it's getting stress relieved in like
Speaker 1: a different as I see that sitting and shaking you're
Speaker 1: in a plank or like that hip rotation thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've done.
Speaker 4: That with me.
Speaker 3: That's literally a muscle that I didn't know existed because
Speaker 3: I literally I just like squeezed the ball and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't really think I'm squeezing, but I'm really trying.
Speaker 2: So it's just I need to work on whatever muscle
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that's your hip because when you turn your
Speaker 1: I don't have those that there's internal and external rotation,
Speaker 1: so like in a nutshell, we're not censored. So that's
Speaker 1: your legs closed is your internal rotation and external external
Speaker 1: is when your hips are open. Yeah, So how often
Speaker 1: do you do a lot of things in that position
Speaker 1: and in that rotation as well? Like knees are close
Speaker 1: squeezing the ball, and then your feet are nice and wide,
Speaker 1: so it's like making a V shaped like with your
Speaker 1: knees to your feet. That's not never not And also
Speaker 1: that's such a nice way to not injure people's knees
Speaker 1: as well, because you're on your back and you have
Speaker 1: blody ball between your knees rather than being on your
Speaker 1: knees on your back and stuff like that. So, what
Speaker 1: is one thing if you could give anyone that's listening
Speaker 1: advice or or a quote or trick of the trade.
Speaker 1: What is actually those are two things. What is one
Speaker 1: thing that has made your fitness journey easier? And and too,
Speaker 1: what is one piece of advice that you would give
Speaker 1: to someone struggling to get through the door made it easier?
Speaker 3: Honestly coming here, it's not scary, and all the coaches
Speaker 3: and the people are so nice. Rather than going to
Speaker 3: I don't know, like a bigger gym and just working
Speaker 3: out on my own, there's people here that can keep
Speaker 3: you accountable as well in a non pressury way of
Speaker 3: being like, hey, I missed you at this class sort
Speaker 3: of thing. Is so nice to have such a warm
Speaker 3: welcome with people, and just it becomes like like a
Speaker 3: social activity as well, not just not just coming here
Speaker 3: working out and leaving. So many people are here way
Speaker 3: earlier than I am, and I feel like I'm still
Speaker 3: like seven minutes early, and people are here like fifteen
Speaker 3: minutes early and they're chatting with all the different people,
Speaker 3: and some people stay after and then people go to
Speaker 3: different sort of like we did the mud mud Girl whatever,
Speaker 3: and so I met some people from like different classes,
Speaker 3: like evening classes, and so it's just nice. It's a
Speaker 3: good community of people here and a good range of
Speaker 3: ages and all that.
Speaker 2: What was the second question?
Speaker 1: What is what is advice? What is on one advice
Speaker 1: that you would give someone who's struggling to get through
Speaker 1: the door, like a word of encouragement or quote.
Speaker 2: I don't know, just do it, because like what what
Speaker 2: do you have to lose?
Speaker 3: Like, you know, you could come and not like it,
Speaker 3: but at least you went and tried it, or you
Speaker 3: could come and love it and then you stay like
Speaker 3: I did, right, Like you have to get out there
Speaker 3: and and try it. Ori'll you know, think about well
Speaker 3: what if you know, like I I I feel like
Speaker 3: I'd been following the gym for probably like two months before,
Speaker 3: and I had been talking to my friends being like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, like I really want to try this gym
Speaker 3: because it's like actually close to my house. That's another
Speaker 3: thing that is like so nice. This is so close
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: Unless but like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: So I was like trying to convince my friends to go,
Speaker 3: and you know, they all have busy lives, and I
Speaker 3: was like, Okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, I can do it.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna I'm gonna go by myself. And now
Speaker 3: I come by myself every other day ish. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: just like, you know, what do you have to lose
Speaker 3: besides go be awkward and then and then leaving.
Speaker 1: The first class is always usually a little awkward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because if they don't know anybody, especially we have like
Speaker 1: quite a few introverted people that have joined the gym
Speaker 1: because they're looking to step out of their their shell
Speaker 1: a little bit. And how often do we get to
Speaker 1: make healthy out of friendships? And like a lot of
Speaker 1: like the friendship groups, what are they doing. They're going
Speaker 1: to the bar, They're going out for food all the time,
Speaker 1: They're doing all these things where women specifically who are
Speaker 1: a little more health cautious, conscious cautious. What is there
Speaker 1: that people have to offer, Like I mean, like there's
Speaker 1: pick a wall, which I tried to get into. It
Speaker 1: was okay, but it's super like don't sit on that court.
Speaker 1: That court has to be here, keep on moving, like
Speaker 1: you're losing ten seconds by not walking as fast as
Speaker 1: you can to that court, and there just people waiting
Speaker 1: to like I'm like, punt the brakes. And I don't
Speaker 1: like anything that's stressful, like everything to be easier to
Speaker 1: get into, Like I don't mind learning things, but I
Speaker 1: don't like it to be emotionally as stress like yes,
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, So I find this is like the
Speaker 1: healthy version of those things. So when people first join,
Speaker 1: is uncomfortable for maybe the first class, but there's usually
Speaker 1: an extroverted person in the room that's going to adopt you, like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's your first class. I mean the coaches are always
Speaker 1: it's your first class, like do you have any injuries? Like, okay,
Speaker 1: grab this, I'll help you get stuff. This is what
Speaker 1: it is that work. So like in that context, it's
Speaker 1: also populous, but it's also nice to have a friend
Speaker 1: in the class that's not just the coach. So people
Speaker 1: joined as singletons and they think that they never stuck
Speaker 1: to anything their entire life, and then before you know it,
Speaker 1: four years go by and they're like, this place helped me.
Speaker 3: Change my entire life, And I think too, I just
Speaker 3: I actually just got a tattoo that says yes and
Speaker 3: it streams from like a YouTube channel that I watch
Speaker 3: called Yes Theory, And it's just about stepping outside your
Speaker 3: comfort zone and just you know, just try just try
Speaker 3: things right, Like what's the worst.
Speaker 1: That can happen?
Speaker 3: And so just saying yes to things. And I think
Speaker 3: that's a big thing too. As to why, I was like,
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm just gonna get here and try
Speaker 3: it out, and so far, so good.
Speaker 1: Thing.
Speaker 2: I said, Yes, there we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I think we're gonna end with that because
Speaker 1: that was fabulous. Thank you for joining on this so
Speaker 1: much for having me. This is funny again. If anyone
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