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Welcome to Fit to Be Real and a little extra.

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And we have a very special guest today.

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Yes.

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A few actually.

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So many.

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Yeah.

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It's you.

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What?

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We asked and you delivered.

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Yes.

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You definitely did.

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Or no.

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We received.

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Yes.

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And you delivered.

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And we also told you about it so it shouldn't be a surprise.

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Surprise.

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We like surprises.

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We're surprise people.

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We are.

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We're big surprise people.

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Some people aren't and we can surprise you on a Tuesday.

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Oh yeah.

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It doesn't matter.

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No.

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We don't discriminate.

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And we're hard.

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I'm a hard.

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I don't know if hard's the right word.

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Gift giver.

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Like I it's really hard.

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The anticipation to give a gift.

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I'm like can I just give it to you now?

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You're a hard core gift giver.

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Heart.

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No you're not.

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Hard core.

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Unless you live hardcore.

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And the legend of the rent.

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And my hardcore.

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Direct back.

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School of Rock.

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Love Jack Black.

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Stop it.

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You said don't talk a lot in the beginning.

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I know.

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I'm talking to myself when I say stop it.

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We have a lot to do.

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So we're getting right into it.

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We are reading the letters or the notes or the pieces of advice that you all wrote into

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our brand new email address.

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And she's so proud.

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I'm so proud of it.

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You know it was really hard to do Gmail.

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And we're just going to share and we're going to see what you all have to say about your

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health wellness fitness journeys.

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And maybe it will resonate for some of you and make you feel like you are not alone in

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this whole thing.

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And maybe it's some good advice where it'll help you in the long run.

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I like that.

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Let's read them off.

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I'm Victoria.

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Hey guys.

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I'm Carly.

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I feel like you all know that by now.

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I know, but we're just going to keep saying it because there might be a day where somebody

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turns this on and has no idea where we are, who we are.

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And if that, we don't know where we are, we don't know where we are either.

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But if that happens, turn it off, go back to episode one.

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Don't start at 74.

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You understand Carly.

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This episode would be a really good one.

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74, this episode would be a really great one to start with if you're starting out in your

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If you want to get to know us, go back to one.

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All right.

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We're starting everything off with our girl Gail.

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What up Gail?

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We love you.

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You've known Gail for a very long time.

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Yes.

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She was at an OG C-fitter at Old Old C-fit.

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She's going to tell us that.

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Oh, sorry.

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So let's listen to the words of Gail.

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Yeah, not me.

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Flashback to 2021, specifically Vanessa's kindergarten graduation.

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This is Gail's daughter.

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I remember looking at pictures that were taken that day and asking myself, what happened?

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I was so heavy and uncomfortable in my clothes.

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I knew that I needed to make some changes and I knew that I had let COVID affect me,

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not only physically but mentally.

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I comforted myself with food, snacks, alcohol, parentheses, lops, and special trips to Chick-fil-A,

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whatever made us happy.

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I feel like we all get that.

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Oh my God, we all get that.

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We all did that in our own ways.

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During that time, I had just joined Instagram and C-fit started popping up.

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What's up?

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Thanks, Gail.

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I followed the account and flashback to 2010, I had taken Zumba classes at the studio.

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That's when we did Zumba, like strict Zumba.

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After I had Nikki, which is her son, and had loved it, I was going three or four nights

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a week and I remember that I loved the feeling of working out through dance and breaking a

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Unfortunately, back then, I started smoking cigarettes again after I had Nikki and that

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ended my Zumba trips.

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in 2021 and nothing has changed.

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We all did that.

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I mean, we had a whole episode on all of the diets and feds that we have done as well.

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We are in the same boat.

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I took a chance and I sent you both a message.

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I told Nick that I was going to invest in myself, Nick is her husband.

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The money would be worth it in the long run and I was in the mindset that I was ready

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to commit to whatever program, whatever the program looked like.

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I really did not know what I was doing, but I signed up.

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I will never forget the day the program came through and I looked it over at work and I

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cried.

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Gail, you didn't tell us that.

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I had never eaten eggplant.

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I had a thousand questions about how to make my own oatmeal and I was not crazy about mushrooms.

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Wait, just to preface this, she's talking about our Fit Coaching program, which is our

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Weight Loss and Accountability program that she signed up for and crushed.

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But I did it and I followed your advice that you had given me each day to a T.

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I started to realize that by fueling my body with good foods, getting in a workout and

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sleeping better also drastically improved my mental health.

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I'm someone who suffered with mental health my entire life.

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Trigger warning for people out there with mental health moments here.

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I attempted suicide at 15 and have found myself in and out of therapy throughout the years.

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I suffered terrible postpartum with both of my children, but more so Vanessa.

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To feel my best self mentally, I needed to feel my best self physically.

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Gail, that is some serious stuff.

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And I know that by you sharing that, it is helping some other people that have gone through it or are going through it right now.

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And it is very helpful.

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So we really appreciate you for sharing that part of your story.

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That is vulnerable.

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And I'm sure a lot of people can kind of find comfort that there are people out there that go through the same things and have mental health struggles.

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Mental health is so, so important.

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So if you are someone that is triggered by this and seek help, talk to a therapist, get professional guidance.

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And my God, thank you, Gail.

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We love you.

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Love you.

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So I joined back to basics, which is our accountability program and the VOD, the video on demand, which is what we offer at Seafit.

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So you can work out at home and love looking forward to new workouts.

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It did not feel like a chore to me.

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I thoroughly enjoyed getting up each day and seeing what new video there was going to be.

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And I pushed myself to step outside my comfort zone and bought a set of weights.

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Fives to start.

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I bought bands, a Pilates ball, a five pound ball and two and three pound hand weights.

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You were amazing.

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Yeah, I remember her saying like, I want to do band buster at home.

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And so she bought herself a five pound medicine ball so she could do it at home.

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This is amazing progress.

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I love challenging myself and trying new workouts in my basement.

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I love the daily check ins and it helped me stay motivated and on track.

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My favorite videos are hip hop ads.

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Get a girl.

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Garlies being serious too.

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I am.

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Oh my gosh, we're still in COVID time.

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So we weren't even open.

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I started to make it a point to make it there once a week.

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Life is crazy and after school commitments take up most of my time.

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to have not only a break, but to feel a part of a community.

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Starting my health journey also helped me start a journey of setting boundaries.

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What?

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Learning to say no, listen to my body and not engage with people or places that no longer

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serve a purpose to my soul.

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Holy moly gal.

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I mean, how much do we owe you?

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Do we, you're going to get a check in the mail gal.

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It's amazing.

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50 cents.

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Throughout these three years, I have grown to love walking into class and meeting new

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people, sharing stories about our families, talking about a good book that we just read

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or just being able to listen to someone else who needs to talk.

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This is so true and this is all what Seafit is about.

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I mean, that's what we hope it's about.

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So I'm glad that it's coming through to somebody.

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I've been in mark my three years since I joined Seafit.

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Gail.

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Party.

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I have successfully maintained 30 of the 40 pound weight loss that I initially dropped.

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That is so incredible.

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I mean, that's incredible and incredibly hard.

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So that is go you, Gail.

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As I approached 41, I realized that I needed to up my protein and start walking and lifting

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My current struggles are that I'm in pre-menopause and I'm realizing that what worked three years

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ago, food wise, is not necessarily working now.

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I'm learning to adjust and to not focus on the number on the scale, but more how my clothes

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are feeling and how I'm feeling about myself.

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Oh my gosh, Gail, you are a rock star.

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Life is hard.

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And life brings challenges.

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Oh my God.

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Trying to navigate teenage years, volunteer work, work environments, marriage and time

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is generally is hard.

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But like you say, you must pick your hard and you must work at it.

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One thing that I do know is that Seafit is there when I need it.

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It's a place for me to go to make for myself.

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Time to work out, time to try new things.

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Whether I make one class a week or surprise you both and show up three days in a row.

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I mean, that happened recently and I was like, Gail, it's the best.

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What a gift.

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It's the best.

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I'm always greeted the same and I make time to tell my family that I'm going to work

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out and they have come to realize that this is mom's time and do not bother me.

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Exclamation point.

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Biggest piece of advice I would say is that you need to invest in yourself because you

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cannot pour from an empty cup.

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It's never too late to start and it's never too late to get back on track.

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Believe in yourself and others will believe in you.

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Gail, you, that was absolutely amazing.

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Thank you so much for sharing.

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No prize.

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But if there were, you'd get a price.

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And guess what?

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The prize is your life back.

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You're getting your life back and we are there to help, but you really, and we tell you this

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all the time, we tell everybody this all the time, you are the one doing the hard work.

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And first is realizing, the second is investing.

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The third is following through and now it's just living.

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Now it's part of your life.

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It's not no longer as hard anymore because it's life.

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I love reading the actual progression.

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Like yes, quite literally from like five pound weights to 15s and 20s and all that stuff.

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But the progression of where your mindset was, especially in the heart of COVID, which

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I think was such a collective mindset and everybody felt that down in the dumps at some

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point where you were like, Oh my God, what have I done this past year?

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Like how did I get here?

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I also want to recognize that she said she started in 2010 and it's 2024.

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And she lost a lot of weight and it was hills and valleys, peaks and you know, no, no, no,

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what is it?

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Hills and valleys, peaks and peaks and ebbs and flows.

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No, what's the bottom of peaks and ebbs and flows?

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What's the peak?

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What's the bottom of a peak?

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Peaks and valleys, hills and valleys.

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One thing.

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Anyway, Gail, you know, you know what I'm talking about, but it did not happen overnight.

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Garly's talking the valley.

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Everyone thinks you snap your fingers and it just happens and that's a 14 year journey.

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And it's hard, but you stick to it and now you're now, you know, and your family knows

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that you need to take care of you first.

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You put on your air mask on the airplane first so you can help somebody else.

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And that is really, really important and awesome.

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Air mask or oxygen mask?

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God damn it, Victoria.

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I mean, I love an air mask.

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I really love air masks.

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Gail, tell her to stop.

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No, I'm serious.

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When we look on the list, which we always do, Victoria does it a lot less than I do.

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Sure do.

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I am, you know, glued to that sign in list and see who signs in.

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I always love it when I see Gail on the list because I know your personal struggles.

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I know you're more about your life, you know, than some other people.

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She's a creep.

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Yeah.

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So I know it was hard.

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It's hard for you to get there.

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And I know it's hard for you to sign in and make the time.

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So when I see your name on the list, I'm like, yes, Gail's coming.

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That's awesome.

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And that's a good genuine reaction.

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And I don't feel that this episode is to like pat ourselves on the back.

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Oh, my God.

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At all.

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So I just want you all to know that reading these is not like, look how great our community

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is.

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But I'm going to say, look how great our community is because it really, really is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Community is such a strong thing.

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Last thing I want to say about Gail's amazing story is that if you are also in the premenopausal

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stage of your life, there, we're not there yet, but we know and hear how confusing it

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can be because what you used to be able to eat and do and for your routine starts to

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change or it just feels like it's not working anymore.

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So Gail, the fact that you have kind of noticed that and have gone with the flow of changing

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things or just shifting, if that's a better word for it, your food or the way you work

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out and the frequency and stuff like that, that's such a hard part of the game is to

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realize is to be like, this doesn't work anymore.

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Something I got to change it.

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So it does work for me.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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It's those peaks and valleys and hills and elbs and highs and lows and then hires.

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I will say that I have been looking this up a little more because people have been asking

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questions about that specifically.

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And it is, you are absolutely right, Gail, in saying that you need to switch to not switch

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completely cardio.

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Everybody needs a healthy heart, but to add, add addition.

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Yeah.

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Weights into your workout for premenopause and menopause is the best thing you can do

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for your body and your hormone levels.

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So you're doing the right thing.

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Add those weights in, in addition to the cardio and then, you know, and nutrition is a big

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part of it.

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But yeah.

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Well, thank you, Gail.

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That was amazing.

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I'm going to switch to some of you listening.

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I, there is something in there for everybody.

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It resonates with me.

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All right.

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Up next is our good friend, Liz Preston.

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She is also one of our OGC fitters.

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And let's hear what she has to say.

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Hello, friends.

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Love that.

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I love starting with friends.

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I know you weren't surprised to hear from me.

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I started Cfit when it was still Cfit at Carmela's at the start when we were putting checks

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in the boxes.

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My God.

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Oh my gosh.

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Just remembering those days when I would collect checks or cash and there was a line down the

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steps at mom's studio.

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And we never knew if one person was coming or 30.

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So we just had to be prepared.

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And we thought it was so stressful.

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It was so stressful because I'd be like, oh my gosh, I just taught two tonight and then

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30 the next night.

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Because you just never knew.

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We didn't have a sign in like system.

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So that's funny that you said that.

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I struggled for years to find a good, healthy physical activity.

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All growing up, I was told I shouldn't be active because of my heart condition.

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But modern medicine and science progress.

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That was a very dumb thing to tell patients and quite the opposite.

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Even though I have some limitations in how I jump, Cfit is the perfect place to modify

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but also challenge myself.

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Right around the time Cfit was established, I had some wacky heart rates and scary trips

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where they had to shock me in the ER.

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Oh my God.

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I didn't know that.

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I knew that.

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I knew about her heart condition but I didn't know.

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I didn't know the scary.

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I knew it was time to figure out how to be healthy and see if it came in.

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Since I started, my annual cardio appointment has been really healthy and it has awesome

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test results.

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That is awesome.

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That's like huge.

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I mean, it's beyond huge.

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So Liz was born and she had to have heart surgery when she was a little girl.

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Think it's CHD, right?

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Yes.

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So when we did our heart episode, she was the one that had suggested that.

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She was like, hey guys, it's February.

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So every year she posts about it because it's really important and it's really important

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to know that you can overcome things like that.

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Now of course you always have to listen to your doctor but she was told she couldn't

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do it and if you saw Liz, she works out with us almost six to seven days a week and when

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she's not with us in person, she's at home doing the workouts.

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I was just going to say, she did it at home with her little cat all over her on the floor.

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She would send pictures and be like doing this with a partner today.

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And she even did a bucket list, which was she worked out with Victoria.

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She did a V fit.

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Oh my God.

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She did personal training and she crushed it.

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Absolutely crushed it.

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I'm currently watching her lift a barbell above her head and just like crushed squat

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thrusters, which I'm sure her doctors never thought she could ever do in a million years.

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Now I will say, I hope things have changed in the medical industry when it comes, industry

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is a medical industry.

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Yeah, it's an industry.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, love that.

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I hope like that has changed in terms of heart conditions and heart patients even as you

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know, as babies and stuff and they have a little bit more positive like here's all the

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things that you can do.

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You just have to do it this way.

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So maybe back then it was just like a little bit different.

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But Liz would be the one to be able to tell us if that's true.

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You know, and also just know that Liz is doing it.

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There are no excuses for you.

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You get up, you do it.

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Liz is not always easy.

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But just like she said, she modifies the jumping because maybe she can't jump as much as we

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can or as somebody else can.

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We still yell at her the same.

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Oh, sorry, Liz.

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A million percent.

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She doesn't get out of anything.

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Like, let's go.

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She just looks at us.

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She's like, yes, she does.

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She goes, no, she'll go, I'm taking a break.

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I'll be like, no breaks for you.

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No breaks for you.

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No breaks for you.

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But thank you, Liz.

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You are one of our OGC fitters.

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And back in the day when written checks and cash were all that we accepted.

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And I remember she took a bar and tone class.

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That was her very first class.

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And now she's up to seven days a week doing everything under the sun.

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And you know, life gets in the way and life is who knows.

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But you still come in when you can get to class.

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She also commutes to work on 95.

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And if you know what that means, that means she has no control.

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Yeah.

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Liz, we pray for you for that 95 commute.

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And sometimes when you can't get him in, she'll do it at home.

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And she's like, I'm so going to work out.

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I'm going to do it.

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And I am so proud of you for being so resilient and pushing forward.

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And it's such a true testament for everybody to kind of perk their ears up to be like,

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I can do it.

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There's nothing in my way.

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I say it in class sometimes.

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I'm like, you can do this.

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You have the ability to do this.

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So do it.

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Do it.

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Keep going.

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Get to the end of class.

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You got this.

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Because there are a lot of people that cannot.

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Right.

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And we forget that.

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Yeah.

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We forget that.

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So, Liz, you're not one of them.

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You can do it.

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You're doing it.

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Ed Sheeran would be proud of you.

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We love you.

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Next up is our girl Bridget.

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Bee Claus.

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Wow.

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You're really good with the nicknames.

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I mean, it's also her Instagram handle.

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And now you guys can all look her up.

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Look her up.

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She's great.

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She's amazing.

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And we have known Bridget since she was a baby dancing at Carmel's Dance Studio.

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It's a wee little one.

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And then she taught for us.

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She taught yoga for us for a while.

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And now she comes as a sea fitter and she always gives us the best new music.

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Oh my gosh, she does.

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After a class, she'll DM us with like the best.

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She's like, listen, you want a good song?

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Here's a good song.

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Chapel Roan.

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I'm on the Chapel train.

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Okay.

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So Bridget's story is amazing and she's wonderful and she's incredible.

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But she has a piece of advice for sea fitters and I'm going to extend that to anybody in

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any type of fitness community or just the journey in general.

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She said, if I had any advice, it would be that it doesn't matter how many times you

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leave or you miss or anything, you can always come back.

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And this is short and sweet and so strong because it's so true.

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It's so important because I know, I know the Victorian knows too, how many times we've

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stopped and started things in our life.

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Oh my God, especially fitness.

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Had we not restarted again, we wouldn't be doing it.

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I say to people all the time, if we didn't do this as our career or to make a living

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and like what we will passion project, I'd be so one of the people that it's hard to

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get off the couch at the end of the work day to go work out.

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I need something to push me.

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And that's why we give you all so much credit, especially in those February, March months

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when it is cold and dark and it's 5.30 PM, 6.00 PM, 7.00 PM.

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The last thing you want to do is get out and go to a workout class.

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So we give you a lot of credit for that.

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And even long term, say you stopped because life got in the way and it's been years and

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you want to get back in, but it's just like, I don't know.

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I shouldn't.

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Like it's embarrassing because it's been so long.

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I gained weight.

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I don't want them to see me.

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No.

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Absolutely.

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And we're not just talking about us.

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We're not talking about Seafit as the community that we know and love so much.

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Any journey, anywhere in the world, any type of gym, doing it on your own, doing it in

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your own basement and you feel like you can't start up again, you can and you should.

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You're going to try again.

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Yeah.

507
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,280
And then guess what?

508
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:12,240
The moment you get over that little hump of trying, it's back there.

509
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,480
It's like getting bit by the bug, I think is the phrase, right?

510
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,520
So you get bit by the bug and then you're like, I don't want to miss.

511
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:18,520
Yeah, exactly.

512
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:19,520
And guess what?

513
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,880
If you fall off again, you can get back into it.

514
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,640
That's the cool thing about the peaks and valleys and ebbs and flows is that you just

515
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,800
keep on trucking.

516
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:29,800
Keep on keeping.

517
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:34,360
But I do want to say specifically about Seafit and I think what Bridget is talking about is

518
00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:39,040
sometimes when people stop coming to class and this could be for anywhere and then you

519
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:45,520
see your teachers in life and then you try and avoid them because you're embarrassed.

520
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:46,520
Don't be.

521
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:47,520
Oh my God.

522
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,760
We have other lives other than Seafit that we can talk about.

523
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,240
Don't run from us at the store.

524
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,240
We can do.

525
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,240
You have another life.

526
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,240
I mean, this is my life.

527
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,040
I come to your house once a week.

528
00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:02,880
But what I'm saying is it's okay to stop going to a specific place and try something else

529
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,120
or there's no judgment.

530
00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:06,120
There's no judgment.

531
00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:07,120
That's what I mean.

532
00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:11,280
Because some people have DMed or a message saying, I'm afraid it's been so long.

533
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,080
I haven't come to see you.

534
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,480
Like I know I'm so sorry.

535
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:15,480
You don't have to apologize.

536
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:16,480
Oh my God.

537
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:17,920
No, not at all.

538
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:23,840
I've run into people at the grocery store and they're like, don't look at my cart.

539
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:24,840
Don't look at my cart.

540
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:25,840
I know.

541
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,560
Don't look at mine.

542
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,680
I've got like ice cream pines and Oreos.

543
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,560
Like what are we doing here?

544
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,040
I think the good, it's exactly right.

545
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:40,240
And I think the good thing and the bad thing is when you come in, we know you.

546
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:41,640
And that's the best thing.

547
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,720
And we know, just like Gail said, we know your life and Liz said, we know what goes

548
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:46,720
on with her.

549
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,440
So Carly's a creep.

550
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,440
Somebody says, oh, that person's not here.

551
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,680
I'm like, oh no, no, no, they're down the shore for the weekend.

552
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,800
They have their sister's cousin's graduation party.

553
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:55,800
They'll be here on Tuesday.

554
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,800
They'll be on time for so.

555
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,480
But I mean, so when you stop coming, you're like, oh, I feel really bad starting again

556
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:03,880
because they know so much about me.

557
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,360
They're going to ask me questions.

558
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:07,440
We will not ask you questions.

559
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,040
And most likely, whatever gym you go to, they're not.

560
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,640
They're just happy to see that you're back and that you're trying again.

561
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,600
And we know how hard it is for that first classman.

562
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,200
You're looking around going, oh God, what did I get myself into?

563
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:22,560
People are talking to me.

564
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:23,560
People are looking at me.

565
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,160
People are asking, oh my gosh, how are you?

566
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,240
Where have you been?

567
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,720
And that can be overwhelming.

568
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:29,720
Yes, sure.

569
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,880
It can be absolutely overwhelming.

570
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:37,720
But know that if you're going to group fitness classes and you know the instructor enough

571
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:43,520
because you used to go all the time and now you're back, that instructor isn't judging

572
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:44,520
you.

573
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,880
They are holding you so high because you made it through the door.

574
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:53,200
You made it through the door and you held, you're already holding yourself accountable.

575
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,960
You signed up, you showed up.

576
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:55,960
Hardest part.

577
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:57,560
Anything after that is breeze.

578
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,720
I just told two new people and they were very nervous and they stood in the back and I

579
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,120
was like, just know, maybe I'm not the best person to say this.

580
00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:07,760
I was like, just know I can see you back here.

581
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,240
I know I'm horrible.

582
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,240
You really are.

583
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,280
But I wanted to make sure that they knew that I was aware that they were there.

584
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:14,280
I cared.

585
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,280
I was watching them.

586
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:16,280
They're good.

587
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,280
You guys are fine.

588
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,280
And I said, you already did the hardest part.

589
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,280
You walked in the door and you didn't know me and you didn't know Victoria and you've never

590
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,920
been here before and you don't know one person in class because you found us on Google, which

591
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,400
is awesome by the way.

592
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:29,920
And I said, that's the hardest part.

593
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,720
And now after today, you know the drill.

594
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:39,800
You can try any class, go in anywhere and it will be already easier because you made

595
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:40,800
it through.

596
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,320
And I think that's awesome, Bridget, that you gave that piece of advice because it's

597
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,800
something that I think people forget.

598
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,600
It's always about diet or nutrition or the actual fitness class.

599
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,880
It's not about, hey, I stopped and I'm starting again and I'm going to stop and I'm going

600
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:56,880
to start again.

601
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:57,880
And that is okay.

602
00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:58,880
It's totally okay.

603
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:04,160
And totally a mind game.

604
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,080
It's all in your mind.

605
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,480
That fear of, oh no, I can't and I shouldn't.

606
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,560
And it's embarrassing and it's all in our minds.

607
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,240
And that thought process is so annoying.

608
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,000
That's the loudest thing ever.

609
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,600
Sarah, it's the Bruno.

610
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,840
If you watch the movie, Luca.

611
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:21,840
Oh my God.

612
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,840
Yeah, we were just talking about this today.

613
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:24,840
She told me to get my Bruno.

614
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:29,280
I have like a Bruno and it's when your mind is telling you like, you can't do this.

615
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,280
It's too scary.

616
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,960
You're not good enough for this and all that stuff.

617
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:32,960
I haven't watched the movie yet.

618
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,080
It's a cute little cartoon it looks like.

619
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,240
And he calls it like the Bruno.

620
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,240
That's Bruno.

621
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,160
Tell Bruno to shush.

622
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,920
And we all have that, especially when you haven't worked out in a while and you haven't

623
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:50,680
been to the place that you used to go and maybe things are different in your body and

624
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,400
your mind.

625
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,440
You gotta get past that Bruno.

626
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,040
We don't talk about Bruno.

627
00:26:58,040 --> 00:26:59,040
Different movie, but whatever.

628
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,040
Either way, Bruno's bad.

629
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,040
Yeah.

630
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,040
Bruno's bad.

631
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,640
But it's a great piece of advice.

632
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,240
And if that's where you are right now in your journey, where you're the in-between and you

633
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:15,240
are very apprehensive to get started again, this is the sign that it's okay.

634
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,800
Maybe you listen to us, but you just haven't come to a class because it's been so long.

635
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,040
Just know we are not judging.

636
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:27,580
You walk right through those doors and at any given moment, Bridget will be singing and

637
00:27:27,580 --> 00:27:32,640
rapping to Nicki Minaj word for freaking word.

638
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,040
So there's that.

639
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:35,040
She said freaking.

640
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,040
You know it's real.

641
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,040
Explicit.

642
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,360
We love her, Bridget.

643
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:41,720
Our next guest.

644
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,720
Her name is Donna.

645
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,360
Donna McNellan.

646
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,640
She actually does not come to see fit.

647
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:48,640
So this is great.

648
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:49,800
I love that she wrote in.

649
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:50,800
She does not.

650
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:51,800
I love you, Donna.

651
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,000
Donna is a Kundalini queen.

652
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,000
I'm sorry.

653
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,000
I'm sorry.

654
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,000
Is that appropriate?

655
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,000
Yes.

656
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,000
Oh.

657
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000
What was the word?

658
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,000
This is awkward.

659
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:07,800
Kundalini is breath work and she is like channeling so many things.

660
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:14,040
She was in my yoga teacher training group and Donna is like one of my spirit soul sisters.

661
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:15,560
I absolutely love you, Donna.

662
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:16,920
And I can't wait to hear what you have to say.

663
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:17,920
Me too.

664
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,880
And your husband's pretty cool too.

665
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:26,160
You are never too old to charter a new path to find yourself and your people to fall in

666
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:31,600
love with life and yourself to follow a new passion and jump into scary situations with

667
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,840
both feet and learn from the experience.

668
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,160
I was 55, but I still think I'm 37.

669
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:39,160
Yeah.

670
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,240
Honestly, she's like, she's 21 at best.

671
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,240
She's rocking it.

672
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,160
I think you're my spirit animal because that's where I am right now.

673
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,160
She's a party.

674
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,160
I'm sorry.

675
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:53,880
I was 55, but I still think I'm 37 when I decided to go through YTT.

676
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,360
Yoga teacher training.

677
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,440
And a whole new world opened up for me.

678
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,200
I'm just beginning to grow and flourish.

679
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,200
At 55.

680
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,200
At 55.

681
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:08,880
Which is just an age, but I feel like people think it's too late, which is exactly what

682
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:09,880
Donna is saying.

683
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,920
I mean, I know people think that.

684
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:16,480
I think I've thought that even in my 30s, I'm like, I can't.

685
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:17,480
It's too late for that.

686
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,480
It's too late for that.

687
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:19,480
Why do we do that?

688
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:26,240
I feel that way too, and then I put on some cropped booty jean shorts and I'm like, yeah,

689
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,160
I'm going to wear these just like the kids.

690
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,160
No, it's awkward again.

691
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,720
I'm just kidding.

692
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,360
But it's, but truly it's like, it's never too late.

693
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:41,000
If you ever see on, on Instagram, it's, I can't think of who, but like Oprah started

694
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,240
at this age and.

695
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,240
Oh, yes.

696
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,920
Harrison Ford was a carpenter or something until he was 40.

697
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,640
Yes, and then became who they became and it's not just like celebrity actors and stuff.

698
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,720
It's people that have invented things.

699
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,840
They did it later in life and look where they are now.

700
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:04,160
But we all think and we're all taught like the moment you get out of the age of college,

701
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,880
not that you have to go to college, but out of that age, you should know what the rest

702
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,120
of your life looks like.

703
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:15,200
And you should be on the pursuit for the end game of that specific pursuit and it can't

704
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:16,200
change.

705
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,560
And I don't, I don't know why that, that's a thing.

706
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,920
It just, it's a society thing.

707
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,440
I mean, I don't know who started it, but I listened to this, these podcasts and, you

708
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,680
know, they'll have celebrities on and they'll say, Oh, I didn't get my big break till I

709
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:31,680
was 23.

710
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:32,680
That's pretty late.

711
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,280
And I'm like, it's not wild.

712
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:35,280
Yeah.

713
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:36,280
It's horrible.

714
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,280
I'm like 23.

715
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,560
I'm like, turn it off just cause it's so disappointing.

716
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:44,840
Like you thought 23, 25, getting your big break as an actor was late.

717
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,600
You didn't even know how to like eat well or dress yourself yet.

718
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:49,600
Yeah.

719
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,840
You know, like maybe not dress yourself.

720
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,480
That's really kind of upsetting.

721
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:56,600
But, but you know what?

722
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,600
It could be true for some people.

723
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,280
But just shut up.

724
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,400
But Donna, you know what I'm saying.

725
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,400
All right.

726
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:11,560
You know, Donna, but I just appreciate this because we all feel this.

727
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:18,160
And while Donna doesn't feel her numerical age number of 55 and she shouldn't because

728
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,800
Donna is a star.

729
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,040
Yeah, she is.

730
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,400
She's a rock star.

731
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,840
And we all feel like even sometimes I'm 35.

732
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,320
Sometimes I feel 90.

733
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:29,320
I mean, yesterday.

734
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,320
You probably did.

735
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,320
Yesterday.

736
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,320
I felt 90 this morning.

737
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:33,320
I felt 90.

738
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:34,320
I'm back to 35.

739
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,320
Yeah.

740
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,320
Yeah.

741
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:37,320
Sometimes you just need to go to class to make you feel alive again.

742
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,900
I mean, that's the truth.

743
00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:45,800
But we go through that thought process and we go through that feeling of it.

744
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,200
I've passed my prime.

745
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:52,520
I've passed my part of trying new things and discovering new things.

746
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,360
Or if I change now, I won't make the same money.

747
00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:00,560
And sometimes it is about financial things where I won't make the same money because

748
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:05,880
I need it to keep this house or I need it to feed my kids or whatever it is.

749
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,720
Or I can't, you know, I can't get divorced because.

750
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:09,720
Right.

751
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:10,720
I never find anybody else.

752
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,720
I'm in my 40s or 50s.

753
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,720
It's like, that's not true.

754
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,560
It's just not true.

755
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:22,200
There is an opportunity out there at every single stage of our lives if we open the door

756
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,200
to it.

757
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:29,000
If we allow it and if we allow ourselves to be open to trying something different and

758
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,040
seeing if that different door is the avenue that we will thrive in a little bit more.

759
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:39,280
I'm going to go with the impression that Donna, because you know her very well, does not

760
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,800
have the Bruno in her mind and she just goes for things.

761
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:44,800
I'm sure.

762
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,400
Well, Donna, I could talk to you, but I'm totally going to talk for you.

763
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:49,680
I'm sure she has.

764
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,760
Everybody has Bruno at some point and like random little moments, you know, yeah.

765
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,560
Bruno is basically insecurity and I have not watched this movie.

766
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:04,680
So I don't know if I should be talking about that, but she is a go getter and she just

767
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:09,000
to walk into a yoga teacher training knowing that probably the age range is probably going

768
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,680
to be 20 to 30 ish and she's 55.

769
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,400
Just to be able to do that and be like, I want to do this.

770
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:18,400
Go do it.

771
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,600
Like and she did it to not have that sort of maybe she did have hesitation.

772
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:26,360
She didn't say that she did, but I think everybody has hesitation and like all decisions to

773
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:27,360
some degree.

774
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,320
But I mean, we do even when we jump in, we still like, oh, sure.

775
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,040
Like I have a hard time.

776
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,160
I mean, I say this all the time.

777
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,600
I have a hard time doing anything without Victoria.

778
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:41,680
So if I try something new, it's most likely with Victoria and if Victoria is not around,

779
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:42,960
I make Andrew do it.

780
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:47,680
Well, like Carly and Andrew have a date to Ben Platt this weekend and I'm going.

781
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,480
So because I'm making Victoria go.

782
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:54,600
I love third wheeling, but you love Ben Platt, but when it comes to right, Andrew's the third

783
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:55,600
wheel.

784
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:56,600
Yeah.

785
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:02,360
So when it comes back to Donna, though, one of the things that our mentor Tyler would

786
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,720
tell everyone and he still celebrates this.

787
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,240
He says, fire it up.

788
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:12,520
We, Donna was the original fire it up because whenever fresh wasn't even open yet, she was

789
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:13,520
the first pre-sale.

790
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:14,520
Really?

791
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,920
She bought a package before the doors were open.

792
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:18,920
Wow.

793
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:19,920
She's a go getter.

794
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:20,920
She's a go getter.

795
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:21,920
Yeah.

796
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:22,920
She's a go getter.

797
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,400
And I look up to you for that so much because it's something in her and it's, it's this like,

798
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,720
I don't even if she's scared, she's going to, she's going to do it.

799
00:34:30,720 --> 00:34:35,520
And I think that's only gotten stronger since YTT and I can't really talk about.

800
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,760
Who Donna was before I met Donna.

801
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,920
But who I know as Donna and I hope you're listening and I hope you're smiling really

802
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:50,400
big and I hope she is someone that I strive to be in an outlook of life because she's,

803
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:51,400
it's bright.

804
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:59,720
It's bright and it's vibrant and it's, it's, she's a party and I don't just mean like she's

805
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:02,040
party girl, like whatever.

806
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,600
She has a very good energy.

807
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:10,280
If it, her energy is a party in the calm moments and in the exciting hip hop party.

808
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,440
Well, that's where I really met her.

809
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:17,360
I mean, I met her in yoga class, but I really met her and you can just tell from her talking

810
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:24,160
to her that she's a very warm and like bubbly energetic person.

811
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:25,160
And that's awesome.

812
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,160
Yeah.

813
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:33,440
Harry Krishna, Donna, Harry Krishna, Priyanka Chopra, all the things.

814
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:34,440
I'm a sleigh to you.

815
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,440
Oh my God, I don't.

816
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:39,440
I'm dying.

817
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:45,600
Donna, I didn't do it because I don't think I'd last a day, but that's probably why you

818
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:46,600
need to do it.

819
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:47,600
Pradi ahi.

820
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:48,600
Pradi ahi.

821
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:56,720
Listen, Donna, I really appreciate you writing in and, and telling us this lovely piece of

822
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:04,000
advice that we all need the reminder for because it is never too late to start anything.

823
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,120
This goes beyond fitness and health and wellness, even though that's probably the first seed

824
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,800
that you should always be trying something new with and going for it because it's never

825
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:19,240
too late because that will catapult you into lots of other opportunities in life.

826
00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:20,600
But this goes for anything.

827
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,040
If you are thinking that it is too late for you, we are here to tell you and Donna is

828
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,920
here to tell you that it absolutely is not.

829
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,360
So thank you, Donna.

830
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:30,840
We love you.

831
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,840
Drop Mike Donna.

832
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,840
Not Mike drop.

833
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,720
Oh yeah, Mike drop.

834
00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:37,720
Drop Mike that.

835
00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:38,720
That was more like a command.

836
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:41,560
It was more like, hey Donna, you dropped Mike.

837
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,320
No, Mike drop.

838
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:48,400
See that was me 38 thinking in my head that I'm still 25.

839
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,400
It's too late for you.

840
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:51,400
Okay.

841
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,400
Moving on.

842
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:53,400
All right, Barbara.

843
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,680
I think everyone's last name is whoop whoop.

844
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,840
We've done we've done a last name whoop whoop of her.

845
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,840
I think everyone's so far.

846
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,480
I'm a Neil crushing it.

847
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,480
We love you Barbara.

848
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,640
So Barbara says thank you for another fun and informative podcast today.

849
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:09,640
She's so cute.

850
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,280
Gee, I wonder which one that was.

851
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:13,280
I agree.

852
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,720
Massages can hurt, but there are so many benefits, especially for you two with how hard you work.

853
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:18,720
You're so sweet.

854
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:19,720
Thank you.

855
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:20,720
Barbara no massages.

856
00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:24,720
I'm just kidding.

857
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:29,560
If you feel like my MS story would be a good fit for an episode, I'm happy to share my

858
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:34,360
story from the surprising diagnosis at age 35 until now.

859
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,640
Barbara, you're amazing.

860
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,760
I knew about the MS.

861
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,280
I did not know it was a at that age.

862
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,720
She was diagnosed.

863
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:46,640
I'm not sure how many details you're looking for in the email, but I basically spent the

864
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:53,200
first year feeling lost and scared to death, totally in a funk, depressed mentally.

865
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,760
It's not super uncommon, but uncommon enough that I felt alone because nobody can really

866
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,480
understand what you're going through unless they are too.

867
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,560
And that is that's very true.

868
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:03,560
Yeah.

869
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:08,880
Today I still have bad scary days when something flares or feels off, but I'm so much stronger.

870
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,280
Diet and exercise play a big part and a positive mindset helps too.

871
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:18,080
I mean, Barbara is one of the most positive people that walk through our doors.

872
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,000
I don't think I've ever seen her not smile.

873
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,720
No, I think maybe just maybe in one of your classes like tone up or something.

874
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:24,720
Nope.

875
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:25,720
She's still smiling.

876
00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:27,400
And I'm like, oh my God, if Barbara is not smiling.

877
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,480
No, because she's still smiling because I look out and I'm like, dammit, Barbara smile.

878
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:31,480
I got to keep it up.

879
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:32,480
I got to keep it up.

880
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:33,720
I have to smile too.

881
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:34,720
I'm okay.

882
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:35,720
Barbara's okay.

883
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:42,880
I have a distant cousin who also has it and was diagnosed 10 years before me.

884
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,720
And she told me that although I had to deal with this new normal, quote unquote new normal,

885
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:52,400
to not limit myself because of the disease, not to let it stop me.

886
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,400
So that's what I do.

887
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,080
I've learned to manage it while living the best life I can.

888
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,960
And now I know it's not a death sentence.

889
00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:06,280
Oh, autoimmune disorders in general tie into our gut episode and our eating healthy one

890
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,280
from a while ago.

891
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:08,760
So tune into those.

892
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,360
If you haven't listened to those yet.

893
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:13,360
She didn't say that.

894
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,360
I said that.

895
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,840
If this is too specific or something you're not interested in at the moment, no worries

896
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:19,840
at all.

897
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,400
I'm sure you're getting many great ideas sent to you.

898
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,480
I just thought if I can help in someone who may be struggling, I'd be happy to share.

899
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:27,480
See you soon, Amigas.

900
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:28,480
Oh my God.

901
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,080
She's a Spanish teacher.

902
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,480
Barbara, this is amazing.

903
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:37,720
Thank you for sharing that because that is sensitive to the individual person.

904
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:43,880
Some people I'm sure wouldn't want to share such vulnerable things about themselves.

905
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:51,240
But MS and getting diagnosed so young, it must have been nice to have that distant cousin

906
00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:55,400
as like a, what am I looking for?

907
00:39:55,400 --> 00:40:00,400
A confidant or like somebody that, you know, understands what you're going through.

908
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:07,400
And Barbara comes in and absolutely crushes whatever class she's taking.

909
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,840
I remember when she told us, because she also did our fit coaching program and she said,

910
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,120
I just want to, I don't tell people this.

911
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,560
So I don't want it out there.

912
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:23,200
But she's like, I have MS and our program, you have to work out every single day.

913
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:24,520
And she was like, I'm just letting you know.

914
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:29,720
And don't you know Barbara did not skip a day, not once.

915
00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:32,960
And she didn't push through like injury or, you know, she wasn't feeling well.

916
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:38,160
She did like a lighter day, but she did it because she could because she doesn't want

917
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,080
to not be able to.

918
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:45,440
And Barbara is here to tell you that you have to know your limits and you have to know when

919
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:54,160
you got to be strong and tell yourself and get through the classes and get through to

920
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,200
feeling better mentally, which will help you physically.

921
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,200
Yeah.

922
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,880
I'm sure when she got that diagnosis and you said you went into that like little dark negative

923
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,600
space, that's never a fun.

924
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,600
But I, that's not going to help the MS.

925
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:07,600
No.

926
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:08,600
Right.

927
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:15,880
And I will tell you that Barbara walks in with a smile, whether it's 536 AM or 530 PM.

928
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,840
And she's always comes in with a smile.

929
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,800
And the first thing she says is, how are you?

930
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:20,800
Yeah.

931
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,320
She's always asking, how are you?

932
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:23,320
Yeah.

933
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,640
You know, and you know, I'm always like, so good, so good, Barbara.

934
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,720
I said, you know, I'm always lying.

935
00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:31,040
I'm just kidding.

936
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,920
But she's, you know, that she's there.

937
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:35,240
She's working out.

938
00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:40,960
She's got her own, you know, baggage going on and she's there and she's doing it for

939
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:41,960
her.

940
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:42,960
And I think that's really important.

941
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,160
She also plays tennis like all the time.

942
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:46,160
Yeah.

943
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:47,160
She's a very active person.

944
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:48,720
She's not letting this stop her.

945
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:50,120
And I think that is great advice.

946
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,400
Just don't, it's not a depth sentence.

947
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,320
Nothing is and keep moving, keep going.

948
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:01,680
Your outlook, no matter what you're going through, because we all have baggage, right?

949
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,560
Everyone is holding baggage.

950
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:08,240
It just depends on whether it's something you got at TJ Maxx or you decided it's a

951
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:09,640
Louboutin bag.

952
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,360
Nicole, our friend Nicole used to say that.

953
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,600
She'd be like, it's make it a Louis.

954
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,120
Make it a Louboutin.

955
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:19,360
Everybody's got baggage.

956
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,360
It just matters if your baggage, your Louboutin matches their Gucci, right?

957
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,040
So make your baggage Gucci.

958
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,040
Oh my God.

959
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:27,040
Why not?

960
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,040
Yeah.

961
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,040
Right?

962
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,480
So you just basically means work with what you got.

963
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:36,520
And if you change your mindset to have more of the positive outlook, Barbara, I'm sure

964
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,560
you have days where you do not want to smile.

965
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:39,560
Oh, sure.

966
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,760
I am sure you have moments where you're like, I just don't, I'm not going.

967
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:43,760
I'm not going.

968
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:44,760
I'm not doing this.

969
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:45,760
I just want to stay home.

970
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:46,760
We all do that.

971
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:47,760
And I hope you have those days.

972
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:48,760
Yeah.

973
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,600
Everybody needs those days.

974
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:58,320
But if you can walk into what you're doing with a smile that will change everything.

975
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,640
She's doing absolutely everything because she can.

976
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,320
So thank you so much, Barbara.

977
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:04,320
You're so strong.

978
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:05,320
I love it.

979
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:06,320
I'm going to say adios.

980
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:07,320
Oh, man.

981
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:08,320
Oh, sorry.

982
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:09,320
Adios, Barbara.

983
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:10,320
Oh my gosh.

984
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:11,320
Adios, Barbara.

985
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,320
She's like, her ears are bleeding now.

986
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:16,320
Como esta?

987
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:17,320
Como va?

988
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:18,320
Puedo ir la baño.

989
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:19,320
Fiesta?

990
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,320
Margarita.

991
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:22,320
Suavamente.

992
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:23,320
Zumba?

993
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:24,320
Mi gente.

994
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:29,320
We're just saying any Zumba.

995
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:30,320
No, we know.

996
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,320
We'll be listening to a song.

997
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,320
We're like, Barbara, I hope they're not cursing or saying anything bad.

998
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:36,320
It's pit bull.

999
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:37,320
You never know.

1000
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,320
We love you, Barbara.

1001
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:40,320
All right.

1002
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:46,600
Our last guest of the day and she started her email in the way that everybody should

1003
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:47,600
have.

1004
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:48,600
Hey, guys, it's Maggie.

1005
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,640
Do you think she says it like that?

1006
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:53,640
I think she does.

1007
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:54,640
I, I, yes.

1008
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:55,640
It's Maggie.

1009
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:56,640
It's Maggie.

1010
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,640
She said, here goes.

1011
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:05,320
I had struggled with my weight my entire life.

1012
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,320
I had success with Weight Watchers until I didn't.

1013
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,560
And I couldn't figure out why I was having trouble losing and keeping the weight off

1014
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,480
despite tracking my food.

1015
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,640
We've all been there, Maggie, multiple times.

1016
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,640
I've learned that I've been diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which makes it

1017
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:22,000
really hard to lose weight.

1018
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:23,000
Wow.

1019
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,000
Did not know that, Maggie.

1020
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,000
That's news to us.

1021
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,000
Wow.

1022
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:31,200
Fast forward to IVF in order to have my two children and very stressful times in my life.

1023
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,760
I wasn't taking care of myself.

1024
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,640
I became morbidly obese.

1025
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,240
In turn, I learned to have my gallbladder out.

1026
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:38,240
Wow.

1027
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:39,240
Wow.

1028
00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:40,240
Did not know that either.

1029
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:44,400
So I decided to have a bariatric surgeon do a gastric sleep procedure and take my gall

1030
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:45,600
bladder out with it.

1031
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:46,600
Oh my goodness.

1032
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:47,600
Wow.

1033
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,520
The doctor told me if I don't exercise, I would gain all the weight back plus extra.

1034
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,040
So I knew I had to find a lifetime workout.

1035
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:55,040
Wow.

1036
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:59,720
I had lost 60 pounds and discovered Seafit thanks to a friend tagging herself on social

1037
00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:01,200
media.

1038
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,200
Sometimes social media is good.

1039
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:04,200
Yep.

1040
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,440
I said that, not Maggie.

1041
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:13,040
I went to one class and knew this was the workout I had been waiting for my whole life.

1042
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:17,080
Seafit was helping me keep the weight off for two years until the pandemic.

1043
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,800
From 2020 to 2022, I had gained 30 pounds back.

1044
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,640
Maggie, everybody did.

1045
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:23,640
Same girl.

1046
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:24,640
No problem.

1047
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:28,800
I'm still eating better than I ever have pre-surgery and making appointments with my assigned

1048
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,200
dietitian and therapist.

1049
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,440
I'm also working out more and added weight classes at Seafit.

1050
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:38,120
I'm not 100% happy with my reflection or eating habits, but it's still a success from where

1051
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:39,360
I started.

1052
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:40,760
Unbelievable essence.

1053
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:47,240
I mean, if that's not the most relatable sentence that I think everybody needs to hear, I don't

1054
00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:48,240
know what is.

1055
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:49,240
Say it again.

1056
00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:50,240
Okay.

1057
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:54,240
I'm not 100% happy with my reflection or eating habits, but it's still a success from where

1058
00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:55,240
I started.

1059
00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:56,240
Unbelievable.

1060
00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:57,960
Gold star.

1061
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,240
And one of the hardest things we tend to remember, right?

1062
00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:07,760
It's so hard to have that perspective when you're in it and you look in the mirror and

1063
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,120
you're not happy about it.

1064
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:15,080
It's so hard to look at the body type that you have in that moment and be like, but I

1065
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,680
wasn't like this 10 years ago.

1066
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:18,680
Right?

1067
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:19,680
Like we don't do that.

1068
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,560
We look and we're like, oh my God.

1069
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:22,560
Right.

1070
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,920
I didn't lose 20 pounds overnight.

1071
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:25,920
I'm a failure.

1072
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:26,920
Yeah.

1073
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,960
Like insane, insane Bruno's all over the place.

1074
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,320
And Maggie, really, you've gone through it.

1075
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:34,320
She has.

1076
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:41,080
You've gone through it and you have come out on the other side, a way stronger person,

1077
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,520
no matter what the scale says.

1078
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,920
And we always forget that too.

1079
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,640
We put so much weight on the scale.

1080
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:52,920
Like we, that is life, that is law, that is, that tells us everything we need to know

1081
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,080
about ourselves.

1082
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:55,840
And it's so not true.

1083
00:46:55,840 --> 00:47:00,280
The scale tells us a number that doesn't even know how much of that number is your head.

1084
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,480
And our heads weigh like eight to 10 pounds.

1085
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:03,480
Yeah.

1086
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:04,480
You know that?

1087
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:05,760
So you should just minus that every time you weigh yourself.

1088
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,760
Yeah, that is brilliant.

1089
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,000
Why have we never thought of that?

1090
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,000
But that's what I mean.

1091
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:19,280
Like we put so much into that number on a piece of metal on the bathroom floor and we

1092
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:24,280
lose that perspective of how great you're actually doing.

1093
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:29,000
I mean, Maggie, I'm going to be honest with you and everybody, Maggie and everybody.

1094
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:34,080
If the number wasn't what I wanted, it completely ruined my day.

1095
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:40,240
And I would get up at 4.45 a.m. and if the number is not what I expected from 4.45 a.m.

1096
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:43,640
until I went to bed, I was in a bad mood.

1097
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,800
And I'm not like that anymore, but there was a time where that number dictated my whole

1098
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,880
life and we need to stop doing that.

1099
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:51,880
Yeah.

1100
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,720
It's a very scary place to be.

1101
00:47:55,720 --> 00:48:01,160
But if you can have the perspective that Maggie has and look at yourself today and see where

1102
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:07,280
you are and then check out where you were before in this journey, that would just be

1103
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:13,320
so much healthier as a whole for mind and body.

1104
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,840
There's many people have said this online.

1105
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,560
I just watched one recently and it has to do with that reflection thing.

1106
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:20,560
And it was, you know what it was?

1107
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:25,280
It was a cosmetic surgeon talking on the gram.

1108
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:29,360
And she says she sees a lot of people come in and they want to change things, right?

1109
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,960
They want to cosmetically change the shape of their face or their nose or whatever else

1110
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,800
you do in those offices.

1111
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,960
I'm sure they actually span to places that we don't even know about.

1112
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:42,440
This doctor was like, I don't see what they see.

1113
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:47,720
Like I don't see the problem and this is my living.

1114
00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:48,720
Like I do this for a living.

1115
00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:53,440
I should just like want to do whatever they want me to do, but I don't see the problem.

1116
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:58,160
And so sometimes she has this conversation with them where she says, the picture, when

1117
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,800
we take pictures, which we are such a picture society.

1118
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:01,800
Yes.

1119
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:02,800
Nowadays.

1120
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:03,800
We don't ever like it.

1121
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,640
We don't ever like what we see.

1122
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,600
It's very rare that you take the picture and go, oh, great.

1123
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,320
Like you're happy about it right off the bat.

1124
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,160
I'm getting better at that, but that's a problem I have.

1125
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:14,160
I'm getting better though.

1126
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:15,720
No, I'm not getting better at that.

1127
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:17,080
But no, you're not.

1128
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:21,720
But I have to remember what I'm about to say because we see a reflection.

1129
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:23,480
We don't see what other people see in us.

1130
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:28,400
We see a mirrored reflection in a photo and we go off of that.

1131
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,920
But if you've ever tried, we've said this before, if you've ever tried to take a picture

1132
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:37,120
of a sunset or take a picture of the moon when it's full and it just looks not real,

1133
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,120
right?

1134
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,560
Look at those scenic moments where you're like, I got it.

1135
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,480
I got to capture this.

1136
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:48,600
And you take that picture and you're like, oh, God, that's not even doing half of justice

1137
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,600
of what I'm looking at right now.

1138
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,600
Put that into yourself.

1139
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:55,880
Look at yourself in that picture.

1140
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,480
It's the same thing.

1141
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:58,800
It's the exact same thing.

1142
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:04,120
That picture and that reflection that you see in the mirror is not doing you justice

1143
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:05,520
to the beauty that we have.

1144
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:12,200
I mean, it's just like every romantic comedy, every rom-com, the guy or girl is like, you're

1145
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:13,800
not seeing what I'm seeing.

1146
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,320
You don't see you the way I see you.

1147
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:17,400
And that's the truth.

1148
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,920
You don't see yourself the way other people see you.

1149
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:25,880
So while Maggie might be saying she's not 100% happy, she's a work in progress, sure,

1150
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:31,280
we all are a work in progress, but there are people out there not seeing any of the things

1151
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,600
that you're unhappy with.

1152
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:39,360
I do want to say something really important that Maggie said is I need to find a fitness

1153
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:44,880
routine or journey that I knew I could stick to for life.

1154
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:46,200
And that's for everybody.

1155
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:52,680
If you don't like your workouts, if you don't like doing what you're doing to lose weight

1156
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,440
or get healthy, then it's not for you.

1157
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:01,360
If you can't stick to it for more than six weeks, it's not for you.

1158
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:03,160
And don't think, but everybody loves this.

1159
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,040
I should love this.

1160
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:06,040
That means nothing.

1161
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:07,040
Unless you're at Seafit.

1162
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:08,040
And then yeah, you should.

1163
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:09,040
God damn it.

1164
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:10,040
Love it.

1165
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:11,040
What's wrong with you?

1166
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:12,040
Drop Mike.

1167
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:13,040
Drop Mike.

1168
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,960
But Maggie loves to dance, she's my fellow in-syncer.

1169
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,800
Any in-sync song that comes on, we are jamming out.

1170
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,560
That's her jam.

1171
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:25,120
She loves that, but she's adding weights in because she knows how important it is.

1172
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:29,840
Now luckily, in-syncs also playing in the background of those weight classes as well.

1173
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:31,360
So that's why Maggie likes it too.

1174
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:32,360
So it makes it more bearable.

1175
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:33,680
But that's what you have to do.

1176
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:37,920
You have to find the good in whatever fitness journey you're on.

1177
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:42,040
If you're going into a class and you're like, I know this is going to be brutal.

1178
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,160
It's going to be brutal just because it's hard and doing squats are hard and doing pushups

1179
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,400
are hard and lifting weights are hard.

1180
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,080
But if it's the vibe that keeps you coming back.

1181
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,960
Just going to say that it's the atmosphere.

1182
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:52,960
Yes.

1183
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:57,000
That is what, because no workout, if it's easy, you're not working out.

1184
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:02,960
If it's easy, then it's not the, you're not going to find progress in that.

1185
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:03,960
There's got to be a challenge.

1186
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,480
In everything, there's always going to be a challenge, especially with fitness.

1187
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:11,200
So if you're walking in and you know it's going to be a workout, but you are excited

1188
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,120
to be there, that's where you need to stay.

1189
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,520
That's the atmosphere and the vibe that you need.

1190
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:20,840
I'm not sure anybody in this lifetime is saying, I can't wait to go to Victoria's tone up

1191
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:21,840
class.

1192
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,600
So, but guess what?

1193
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,720
Lots of people come and they do it and they're happy with themselves afterwards.

1194
00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:27,720
How dare you?

1195
00:52:27,720 --> 00:52:32,040
I mean, if you've been to her class, we all know, we all share the pain.

1196
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,000
I'm with you, but I'm looking at Barbara and she's smiling.

1197
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,000
So I have to smile.

1198
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:37,000
I told you.

1199
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:38,880
But that's what, yeah, that's what we mean.

1200
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,400
Like even if you're not like, oh man, I can't wait.

1201
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,240
Yeah, you don't, because if the community, it's the atmosphere.

1202
00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:45,240
That's not fair.

1203
00:52:45,240 --> 00:52:48,840
It's not fair to think that way because I don't think, I mean, we don't even do that

1204
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:49,840
some days.

1205
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,680
No, I meant more of the community like, oh, this person will be there.

1206
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:54,680
The music is good.

1207
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,520
I love the atmosphere.

1208
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:01,520
You know, and that's more what I mean when I say you need to, it needs to be sustainable.

1209
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:02,960
You need to want to go.

1210
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:07,640
When you walk out, as long as you feel happier and better in that moment than you did when

1211
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,680
you walked in, then that's the place for you.

1212
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:10,920
You just had to find it.

1213
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:17,760
Maggie, you are amazing and we are so happy that we get to see you so often and you just,

1214
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,360
you're such an inspiration.

1215
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:20,840
Thank you for sharing that.

1216
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,320
I think a lot of people can relate.

1217
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:23,320
I think more than a lot.

1218
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:28,640
I think every single person can relate to what you said.

1219
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,120
And my God, more power to you.

1220
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,440
You are, you are, you're doing great.

1221
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:34,920
Yes.

1222
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,160
More than great, Maggie.

1223
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:41,000
I'm going to one up her as usual.

1224
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:42,000
Drop Mike.

1225
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,840
Thanks, Maggie.

1226
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:50,640
We want to thank every single one of you for writing in and sharing your story.

1227
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,080
That's a vulnerable thing to do.

1228
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:58,480
Well, you have to be in a good headspace now to be able to reflect to when you were struggling

1229
00:53:58,480 --> 00:53:59,480
like Gail.

1230
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:04,040
I learned some new things about Gail today that, you know, she struggled and it, you

1231
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:08,000
have to be able to reflect and be okay talking about that kind of stuff.

1232
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,040
And so we really, really appreciate you.

1233
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:16,240
And I think anyone listening, hearing this and finding pieces that really speak to them,

1234
00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:17,240
they thank you as well.

1235
00:54:17,240 --> 00:54:18,640
I'm going to speak for them.

1236
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,080
And if you didn't write in, write in now.

1237
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,360
We're going to do these a lot.

1238
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,560
I think this is cathartic.

1239
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:32,040
I think I wrote in the Instagram today, I found a quote from a woman and she said, tell your

1240
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:39,000
story because your story will heal you and it will heal somebody else.

1241
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:44,360
And so I'm sure writing in felt really strong, really good to do.

1242
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,400
And that that's how we get past things.

1243
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:49,460
So thank you for sharing.

1244
00:54:49,460 --> 00:54:54,560
We hope that you found some really good and inspiring pieces in this.

1245
00:54:54,560 --> 00:55:01,400
And we just love all of you in our community at Seafit, in our community here at Fit2BeReal.

1246
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,160
This is what our story sharing is.

1247
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:08,320
This is our writing in every single solitary week and Carly's getting so much better.

1248
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:09,320
So thank you.

1249
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:15,760
I was going to say, we've shared our story and it's so nice to hear other people's stories

1250
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,200
and to see that they're similar to ours.

1251
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:19,720
That's what this whole thing is about.

1252
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:23,080
We are all in the same boat paddling without an ore.

1253
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:28,280
And the more people that we can find like that, the easier it is to get through some

1254
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days knowing that everybody is in the same boat.

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You know, one is like just, I mean, we're all trying to crush life in the best way possible,

1256
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but some days you just aren't.

1257
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Some years you aren't.

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And it's all about how you come out on the other side.

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So continue to write into us if you didn't tell us your story.

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And you can always be anonymous.

1261
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You do not have to even let us know.

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Don't, don't.

1263
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:53,760
We don't want to know.

1264
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We don't want to know, but we don't have to know.

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I'm doing great.

1266
00:55:57,760 --> 00:55:58,760
I'm doing great at this.

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I'm so good at this.

1268
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But you can be anonymous and you don't have to have your name out there.

1269
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Pradhyaha.

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All right.

1271
00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:10,040
On that note, literally.

1272
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Nope.

1273
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Nope.

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The note before.

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Well done.

1276
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Just like all of these amazing women who shared today, you are always fit to be real

1277
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,520
and always allowed to be a lot extra.

1278
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:24,520
Ha.

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00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:34,760
For legal reasons, we have to tell you that this podcast is meant for entertainment and

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00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:36,560
educational purposes only.

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00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,760
We are not healthcare professionals.

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00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,880
For all of your health, wellness, fitness and self-care needs, please refer to the medical

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00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,560
professional in your life.

1284
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:49,640
Your primary care physician, your therapist, a certified coach, whoever it may be.

1285
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:54,000
And then let us know what they say because I guarantee we need to know what to do.

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00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:55,000
Okay?

1287
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:56,000
Okay.

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Thank you.