Surviving the Side Hustle

From Spartan Races to Entrepreneurial Success: Clare's Journey to Building an Adventure-Focused Fitness Community

• Coach Rob • Season 1 • Episode 51

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Prepare to be inspired as fitness entrepreneur Clare, the powerhouse behind Practical Power, shares her incredible journey from a childhood dream to a thriving online business. In this episode, Clare opens up about the challenges she faced running in-person training sessions and the transformative move to Pennsylvania that reignited her passion. Hear how her experience with the Spartan race and her love for outdoor adventures like hiking and mountain biking led her to pivot her business towards a community of like-minded, adventure-seeking clients.

Discover the essential balance between self-care and business success with practical strategies that Clare swears by. Learn how tools like Google Calendar and "to-done" lists can help you stay organized and celebrate daily wins. Clare emphasizes the importance of maintaining a gratitude mindset and personal development, offering actionable advice for anyone looking to enhance their well-being while achieving their professional goals.

Lastly, Clare delves into the integration of outdoor adventure activities into her fitness business and the joy of building personal connections with her clients. From mountain biking to the excitement of re-engaging with rock climbing, Clare's adventure-oriented approach fosters a sense of community and satisfaction among her clients. Wrapping up, she shares her long-term goals of motivational speaking, podcasting, and coaching entrepreneurs, highlighting the rewarding journey of personal and professional evolution.

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Speaker 1:

what's going on, guys? Today we've got claire on what's going on with you. I feel like I I don't think I've seen you since this spartan race that we've done, right, or? Yeah, that was almost coming up on two years ago about yeah, might be getting a team together to do another one this year, so, um, yeah, so what's going on with you?

Speaker 2:

so I feel like everything and nothing at the same time. Right, the reality of being a business owner.

Speaker 2:

You're trying to get so much done, but you're also you know, just caught up in the day-to-day, uh yeah, so I run a personal training business and that has nutrition coaching kind of a wellness side to it, and I've been in business since about 2017. So I went to college. I went for athletic training, which is actually sports medicine, and I always had this love for fitness. I don't really know where it came from. To be honest, I feel like it was just part of me. I remember I was in middle school I don't know which grade it was, but I took my parents' basement, I measured the whole thing out and I was like let's make this into a gym. So I have the drawing still, which is the best part and I took half the basement and I'm like, okay, we can do this. This is where, like, we'll put the core section next to the furnace because it will be worn, and then we'll put the squat rack here, we'll have free weights here.

Speaker 2:

And my parents are like we don't have the money to build an entire gym. And then I was sad, but it was always stuck with me and at the time in school they taught us what alliteration meant. So I was, I loved it and I was like okay, I named the business practical power, and the goal is to enable people to be as powerful as possible in a way that's practical for their lifestyle. So fast forward 10 years. I'm in college. Okay, I became a personal trainer and I still was loving it, but I didn't necessarily love the gym setting of being surrounded by people. So I started a business. I named it Practical Power, spelt it right. I didn't spell it right when I was in middle school.

Speaker 2:

So I think I was I don't even know how old I was like early 20s and I'm like I'm going to start a business. So I just did it because I loved it and it was a way to make extra money. It was something I was good at and something I liked, and I didn't have much of a vision for that business initially, other than just the core content of it. So at the time I was living in a very congested area and I graduated college. I stayed there, I worked there and at some point I was like this is just not the lifestyle I want to live, and my business throughout that time was all in-person, one-on-one training in people's homes, so I'd go to their house. This is for folks who often didn't feel comfortable going to a gym or they didn't know where to start.

Speaker 1:

So, and what year is this around?

Speaker 2:

That was between 2017 and 2022. Okay, so for a good chunk of time I was just functioning one-on-one clients and it was great and I loved it, but it was exhausting to travel to every single client. It definitely took a toll, but it was worth it, uh. And then I was like, okay, I don't want to live here anymore. It's not my lifestyle, it's not what I want. It was actually kind of holding me back because I wasn't as happy and I, uh, was always working as an athletic trainer. That was my main job the entire time. Personal Personal training was always that side hustle and I was like, okay, I'm going to look for a job, I'm going to start over.

Speaker 2:

And I moved out to Pennsylvania and it was the best decision I ever made by far. I love it out here. I love being near the woods, mountains. That's the goal. That's who I am Now. My mindset is I can do anything and I, whatever I'm gonna do, I'm gonna do it. Nothing's gonna stand in my way. But apparently I realized this after the fact that uprooting your entire life, moving to an area where you don't really is overwhelming and it was a lot.

Speaker 2:

So how did I keep the business going during this? I switched it to online. So I had some clients that stuck with me online for personal training and for nutrition coaching and I loved it. But I was so drained during that move. And this is the point when I met you and we did the Spartan race and I'm like you guys are nice, you guys are relaxed this is so weird. I'm not used to people who are happy. I was like caught off guard by it and as time has gone on, I've had some more hurdles since moving here, but the past six months I really made progress. So what I want to do with it?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I remember speaking with you recently. You were saying how you. It's kind of I mean, I might just be making words in your mouth, but it sounded like you had fresh breath, air. You were feeling excited about business, you were making moves, you were amped up for it.

Speaker 2:

I saw what I wanted in the long run finally. So originally it was just an individual client. It was like I want to do this, someone else wanted to do this and I was like, okay, but what do I want to like? Narrow in on Not necessarily a demographic, but more of a personality, because I want it to pair with who I am to a certain extent. And I said, okay, I've been thinking, I listened to all these podcasts and I want to work with clients who are adventurers, meaning they're gonna go out and they're gonna like part of their program is hiking, part of their program is kayaking, paddleboarding by like mountain biking or cycling, road cycling, it doesn't matter. But I think I've never truly been happy with a program for fitness that doesn't include some sort of fun adventure. So a lot of my clients like, okay, here, here are your programs that are going to help you in your overall body, your injury prevention, prepare you for the, the fun workouts that you're gonna have. Uh, and depending on the adventure the adventure workout okay no, it's the adventure workout.

Speaker 2:

That's the whole point. It's supporting the fun in life, because the only thing that ever brought me back to life, like emotionally and physically, was going into the woods, being in nature, and for some people it all depends Each is their own but any outdoor activity that's really where I started feeling like this is what I want to do. This is what I want to zone out on. So I think the past six months, I started to really develop that One of the hiccups that I ran into in 2023 was, uh, I fractured my right wrist, so I was I couldn't use it for three months fully broke it rock climbing and then, in the fall of 2023, I sprained my left wrist and I tore a few ligaments. That required me. I couldn't put any pressure on my hand in this position, so you couldn't hold a plank, you couldn't do a push-up. There was nothing for over six, for about six months.

Speaker 1:

So how did you adapt everything, adapt the programming.

Speaker 2:

I struggled to be creative for the programming when I couldn't physically do a lot, so what I could. I struggled to be creative for the programming when I couldn't physically do a lot, so what I could. I found that I got stuck. I was truly stuck. I would look at a piece of paper, I'd write it out. I tried to think about things in a different format, because I'm a very visual person when I create programs. I was just hitting a wall. It wasn't going anywhere, nothing was flowing. It was so frustrating, yeah.

Speaker 2:

And once I kind of got back into a little bit better health and I could use my hand again, I started to. Those ideas started to come through. But in the meantime so even though I couldn't really kind of come up with programs, I wanted to. I focused on the mindset aspect of that listening to different podcasts about business, about perspective, about, you know, just getting through your day-to-day when you can't really want to, and I'm like I don't know if I was depressed or not, but I was sure as heck stuck and I just switched my focus to what I could control versus what I couldn't love that.

Speaker 1:

yeah, I feel a lot of times for me personally when I kind of get into some whatever rut, shifting my focus on what I'm consuming. I talk a lot about like dietary and digital as well, for like things that you're consuming and sometimes it is just, you know, as cheesy as it might be, it's just like the YouTube motivational clips. Sometimes that helps kind of kickstart my whole drive for sitting down to write programs out or crunching some numbers for some other clients and stuff like that. And then other times it's like, hey, maybe I need to just chill out and listen to some Jimmy Buffett or something.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I actually started planning relaxation time. I would put it in my calendar and I was like, claire, you need to relax and I'd get there and I'm like I don't want it, I want to do better. I'm not doing good enough, but that relaxation time or that Jimmy Buffett time really allowed me to get some distance and it actually made me become more creative. But what you're saying is the digital content that we're taking in.

Speaker 2:

When I moved here, I had no community and I was always kind of a lone wolf. But you don't know anyone, you don't work out with anyone, you are not surrounded by anyone and you don't know anyone with a similar mindset or, if you do, and they're further away and connected. Right, I use social media to create that online community. So every day, I was getting the content that was going to push me to do my best version of myself and challenge my mindset. So that was a that was a key to the success was faking my community or building my community with social media, which is talking to me, because I'm not a social media person overall yes, it's.

Speaker 1:

I mean that right there ensures a level of creativity for yourself, because I believe you moved out there too right Around COVID time, so a lot of people are hesitant to making new friends and connecting, so that just adds a whole other obstacle for you to try to overcome there. But yeah, you got to do what you got to do. You got to figure out what feels good, what does help, and then just kind of consume more of that.

Speaker 1:

I was in a similar sort of a similar situation once where I had flipped the dial all the way to the far end. So I was like I'm not watching any tv, I'm not listening to any kind of music, I'm listening only listening to books and, uh, business podcasts, and I'm only only consuming like digital content to help build my business. And I was in a rut where I was just consuming, consuming, consuming too much information, but I was never actually doing anything with it. So then I was getting frustrated that my business wasn't growing. Meanwhile I'm spending like four hours a day like consuming more stuff instead of like actually taking action. So it's that it's that step there where it's like, yeah, you can learn and do and like kick in as much as you can, but until you start doing something like connecting or kicking that step out of your comfort zone, um kind of gets stuck.

Speaker 2:

And on top of that, right so, depending on who you listen to, one of the individuals that I loved was Andy Priscilla. He has a harsh exterior to him. He screams. His natural state of being is like screaming, and just ambling. You'd think this man took a free workout all day, every day.

Speaker 1:

He's the first form guy, though isn't all day, every day. He's the first form guy, though, isn't he?

Speaker 2:

yeah, he's the first form guy, um, and I love that energy and the determination. He's like you have to work hard, you have to wake up, you have to like compromise on your sleep and some of this stuff that he was saying. Mentally I wanted to do it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I have that intensity in me but part of, I guess, getting older and moving and starting over and the emotional aspect of dealing with a lot of stuff in the past that I could now deal with because I was kind of away from it right. So there's so many components where I'm like I didn't physically have the energy to run at the pace of what, uh, for solo mindset would, and that was my old mindset. So I was trying to I was kind of fighting my old mindset and the mindset I needed to have now. That would make me productive. And I think one of the things that's key is, as we grow and you know, take in more time, more age, more responsibilities things change. We might need to change the way we function within our business and the way we run it for our own health and wellness.

Speaker 1:

So true.

Speaker 2:

Your eyes like blew up there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, well, because I'm in a situation now where I just I can't do it all myself, I can't do everything, I can't run myself to the bone like I used to, and so now I'm learning to kind of create some systems and processes. So hiring a team of like assistants and such to kind of help grow and continue to expand is kind of where I'm at now, and back my old me would have been just like nope, I can do this all by myself. I don't need coaches, I don't need anybody else, I'm just going to like barrel my head into it. But that's not it. You got to learn to collaborate, you got to learn to delegate at some point and you got to just keep growing and moving and creating more impact.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and for personal trainers we're always very independent. That's the nature of that business. So it's a hard shift to make and I'm not at that range where I'm going to make that shift yet. But I'm glad to see that you have. And tell me if you, if you've experienced this, but if you are not in your own best self, does the quality of your coaching ever change? Do you feel like you don't have the same energy to give right? Have you noticed that before?

Speaker 1:

oh yeah, I mean, I'm pretty good at like masking it. So when, when my dad passed, I didn't tell anybody essentially like didn't even tell any of my clients I just kind of carried on and kept it going and, um, for the most part they people could kind of understand something was going wrong, but for me it was just killing me to try to just like, okay, let me just separate this and just keep moving. But no, obviously my coaching totally took a hit with that. I wasn't showing up the same person. So if you're not doing the best for yourself, everybody else is going to suffer too. I'm always saying personal development for professional success.

Speaker 2:

The more you work on yourself on your own time, better that other people don't see you and then there's that, that fight between I want to work for the product and the service, and you start to neglect yourself a little bit because you're so focused on those desired outcomes, the financial outcomes and the goals that you said, that you forget to take care of yourself, and that is really been the past. To me, the past two years was finding that balance as it continued to shift.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so how do you keep yourself in check?

Speaker 2:

Google calendar.

Speaker 1:

Nice.

Speaker 2:

I schedule almost everything and sometimes I just I don't schedule everything I need to do, but I'll write down everything I did, um to remind myself as to how much I'm doing in a day, because I'll forget I didn't do anything.

Speaker 1:

yeah, I don't feel productive do you color code your google calendar? What'd you say? You color code your google calendar? Oh, I have three calend. Do you color code your Google Calendar?

Speaker 2:

Oh, I have three calendars and they're all color coded.

Speaker 1:

Oh, nice yeah.

Speaker 2:

Because I have one for my main job, I have one for personal things and then I have one for the business.

Speaker 2:

And they're all different colors. But I need to. It needs to go on Google Calendar. It doesn't have. If it's not on the calendar, it needs to go on Google calendar. It doesn't have. If it's not on the calendar, it's not happening. Yeah, you can be like Claire, you're just, I don't even have a sister, but, like your sister's weddings on this day, it's not on the Google calendar. I'll forget. So, uh, that was my biggest strategy and I'll put on relaxation, uh, on on there, and I'll take time and I'll make sure that I go out and do fun things. I go mountain biking or road cycling.

Speaker 2:

But the other thing on a day-to-day that really helped me and maybe I saw this somewhere, I don't really recall, I might've made it up, but I have two to-do lists, right, stuff that I want to get done in the week, stuff I want to get done that day, and then I have a to-done list, which was everything that I did that was not on my list.

Speaker 2:

All those things, those little things that take your time, that make you think that you know you didn't get your to-do list done. You didn't do it, you only got three things done, but on the to-done list you have 12 things. Okay, I put time and effort in. If I didn't do it, you like you only got three things done, but on the to-done list you have 12 things. Okay, I put time and effort in. If I didn't do you know the six things on the to-done list, I never would have gotten to the one thing on the to-do list. So having those multiple lists really kind of helped me change my mindset to be more positive towards myself and also forgiving and kind for the fact that you know you're doing your maximum, whatever it is, that day I did my maximum.

Speaker 1:

So calendars and lists all day, every day I love that, um, because that gives you, like, the visual representation of what you're doing and because it's easy in business is, you know, you just go, go, go, go go. And if you don't have something where you can kind of reflect on, show a little bit of gratitude towards what the things you're doing, um, it's easy to just always feel like you're not doing enough and then that's when you can slip into one of those situations where you're now working yourself to the bone instead of enjoying life and kind of breathing and things like that. And yeah, I love those list ideas.

Speaker 2:

Great, I actually separated a different calendar. I have a paper calendar. It is on my wall and it is simply a happiness gratitude calendar on my wall and it is simply a like happiness gratitude calendar. So every day I try to write down something that made me smile, something that made my day better, something that made my day worth living, and it is very fun to finish a month and to see all the stuff that brought you happiness in one collected sheet. That was a really great thing that I just kind of made up.

Speaker 1:

I made it up out of weed that was really the reality.

Speaker 2:

How long have you been doing that for? Well, I did it throughout 2023. I continued it on this year. You know it's a calendar of dogs and every day I walk past it it's a dog.

Speaker 1:

I can't get much better than that.

Speaker 2:

But it definitely pauses your day and forces you to focus on gratitude a little more than we would otherwise.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I love that you said that too, because I'm huge on gratitude. I should really spend a little bit of time doing a little research onto it, because I'm sure that some people are doing something out there, but pretty much from the extent of my knowledge is I just do it because it makes me feel better, and when I'm consistently following a gratitude practice, it just feels like everything else just happens to go my way all the time. It's like the weirdest thing, like I'll just be like walking down the street and someone will be like oh hey, are you a speaker, you interested in speaking at this organization? Like yeah, let's do it, yeah.

Speaker 2:

That sounds about right. You know, you start focusing more positively, you start to see the potential positive outcomes of each situation and you go into a simple interaction with a smile and a demeanor that's slightly changed and people pick up on that. They perceive that. So whether you're public speaking or you're in a grocery store, it makes you more approachable grocery store uh makes you more approachable, just is, is that?

Speaker 1:

does that help you? When you first started uh branching out and making new friends in in your uh new area over here in pa what was the question when? No, so I'm just saying was that something that you were kind of working towards to kind of start to build? Because when, when you first moved there, you didn't have any friends or anybody that you really knew of?

Speaker 2:

I was like I'm just going to stop here now and start fresh. For the first three months I didn't go anywhere and I didn't try to meet anyone. I was like work is plenty, I'll just go to work and come home and I just needed to be in my own little space. And then that's when I started rock climbing. I've noticed that the rock climbing community is very just laid back, friendly. It's an independent activity that you can do. People will help you out. So I started doing that. I still love it.

Speaker 2:

And then I wanted to get into mountain biking and luckily the area I'm in is a very heavy mountain biking population, to the point where the valley that I live in has a mountain biking group for women. So I was like I don't really want to go into the woods alone with people. It's about us. So I started to get into it that way and mountain biking had the same personality, for just you know, we're here to bike and it's a good time. And I went to a group ride last weekend and it had a little over 20 people and everyone just did their best.

Speaker 2:

You know, 95 degrees out, we took breaks, we really pushed the limit, um, but that my way of getting to meet people was through outdoor activities and that is exactly what was right for me and that's also why my business was kind of inspired to head towards that adventure personality, because it just it brought me so much joy, comfort, community inspiration all at the same time. That's awesome.

Speaker 1:

It reminds me of when I got back into playing rugby over years Great community, great guys, awesome team and it just really helped with pretty much anything and everything. So I wanted to ask you I want to bring it back towards your business really helped with like pretty much anything and everything, um. But so I wanted to ask you I want to bring it back towards your business um, are you solely online now, or are you still training people in person?

Speaker 2:

I am solely online right now. I'm not opposed to doing in person, but I wouldn't say more than one or two, mainly. Mainly because time and energy and I think if I go beyond that I'll lose that range to really put my energy into the online business and create more new content and programming. But it's very important to still be in person. There's a lot that develops from being in person, so I'm thinking like carry one to two clients a week and only in person.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't think. As I kind of continue to grow and evolve as a human, so too does my coaching, and as I've been kind of shifting away from just the fitness and nutrition into the more of the entrepreneurial lifestyle, performance kind of stuff, um, I'm never gonna not be doing something in the gym. So, like, I'm probably always gonna have one or two clients that I'm gonna continue seeing and lifting, because for me it's kind of like, kind of like hanging out with good friends, just chilling in the gym and just connecting a good guy time, I guess for me, um, but I wanted to ask you what? So? What is, what is your? What does your business look like? Working with you? Um, are you only working with people who are doing these like adventure type sports, or are you still working with, um, different kinds of athletes, general population kind of people? And what does it look like working with?

Speaker 2:

you. It's more general population, to be honest. Yeah, I'm not opposed to working with adult athletes. I've stayed away from the youth population. To be honest, it's another specialty and subset where it's a different mindset. They are youth athletes. They are so engulfed in their sport when a lot of what I really enjoy is that wellness and trying to problem solve for people.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you have three kids, you have to balance this stuff, you want to prevent the effects of aging and you want to do some strength training, but you have 20 minutes a day. You know what I mean. I like problem solving for people and that will bring me in clients who are mostly general pop and I don't just don't know where to go, don't want to go to a gym. So I'll work with anyone who's adult gen pop, but the individuals who just want to get back out there and do something, then my knees always hurt me, I can't hike the way I used to. Okay, that's, that's fixable, we can do that. You know what I mean? That that's really the clientele. So I'm open-minded to it, but I'm trying to transition it more into the adventure mindset. Nice.

Speaker 1:

I like it, and so what does it look like when bringing on new people? Is it just kind of programming? Is there sort of a check-in? Do you also do nutrition coaching still, or?

Speaker 2:

yeah, I still do nutrition coaching. So normally the client will have their main program, right. They'll tell me their story. I'm like, okay, this is what I recommend for you, this is what I think is realistic. And then I have all these add-on programs where it's like, okay, so let's say, let's do cycling, because I keep looking at my bike. We have someone who wants to get a little bit stronger, wants to get back into fitness, and they want to do cycling, but they don't want to do cycling all the time, they just want to do it once a week. So, problem solved after hearing their story, I'll figure out how to implement that into a program and then I'll add an add-on program that I have called cycling support, mobility, flexibility, strengthening of certain muscles that will be overworked, et cetera. And their month is planned out in advance and we can always move those workouts around. So it's very customizable.

Speaker 2:

But normally I check in weekly with clients. You know if you have any questions, always reach out. There's that two-way messaging system so they can just go on to the app. They open it up, they see their whole workout, they see their whole program for the month and if they have a question they just shoot me a message on the app and I always encourage them when they finish a workout to write a sassy little comment or something like that. You know we've gotten a funnel hit and uh, it's kind of up to the person. And then, if they want nutrition coaching as well, that's an add-on and it's all virtual based very cool, very cool, um love it.

Speaker 1:

You got any big uh, mountain biking, adventure, rock climbing stuff for you personally coming up I haven't been rock climbing as much.

Speaker 2:

I need to get back into it, not because I fell off my wrist but because it's it's a lot on your hands to rock climb, uh, do manual work with people, uh, for sports medicine, and then lift, yeah. So it's been a slow progression back to rock. Mountain biking is every week. My goal for this summer is to do a 50 mile bike ride on the road. I did 45 earlier in the year, so I want to do 50 midsummer and the goal is to see if I can handle even get over 50, get to 70 by the end of the season, which I am not an endurance athlete, that's very much endurance based. So it's new and it's very challenging for me. But I luckily have some friends who are far better than me at cycling and I've learned a lot from them and they push me and it's humbling. It's good to have that balance.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, oh yeah. I love that Finding different ways of challenging yourself to continue to grow personally, because then that also transfers over into business too. Regardless of what's going on, there's going to be ups and downs, and whenever something goes on, the downfall you've got to make sure you're resilient enough to kind of bounce back and learn that through challenges and different obstacles that you work on.

Speaker 1:

And I love that you're connecting with a lot of other people and using them as a source to kind of continue and grow too. Because I always put huge emphasis on coaches. I spend tons of money on my own coaches and um coaches need coaches too, whether that's a friend or um, like a high level pro or however you want to say it. But learning from other people, being humble enough to take in that advice and help you move forward too.

Speaker 2:

The only other component that I think is kind of worth mentioning is a couple of years back I got really sick, right, and I'm five foot three. I weigh about 130 pounds and I'm proud of my 130. I put that weight on on purpose and I'm proud of my 130. I put that weight on on purpose. But about three years ago I got really sick and I dropped down to 110 pounds and I lost all of my cardio conditioning. I lost about 20 pounds of muscle.

Speaker 2:

I was remarkably thin and going up a flight of stairs was I had to break. I couldn't get up it. I was. My heart rate was 150 and I was. I was done. It was one flight of stairs.

Speaker 2:

So for those individuals out there who are leading by example, remember to be kind to yourself, because you can't build it back. It will take time, but last summer I got on the bike and my heart rate was 180 the whole time and I could hold 180 for an hour, which was alarming, um, but I couldn't get my heart rate to be lower and my resting heart rate went. Heart rate went up to about the 70s after this and part of it was because of a tick bite. So just took me such a long recovery and I didn't get my cardio conditioning back until I got on the bike. So and you saw me when we did that Spartan race, that was the biggest challenge for me.

Speaker 2:

When we did that Spartan race, that was the biggest challenge for me. And you saw me, you thought she's fit, she can do it, no problem. That was a huge challenge and I was nervous going into it, even though it was only a 5K and it's something that we used to do as a warm-up when we were early 20s. So I was like this is a lot. So since we did the Spart you know, since I've seen, since we did the Spartan Race I've gained almost 10 pounds. I've gotten a lot of strength back. I've had multiple injuries, but no matter what, if you stay focused on it, you can keep doing it and even if you can't be the example in the moment, you were the example in the past. That's when you become the example for mental resiliency, for yourself and for everyone else. So that was a big part of the purpose initially too.

Speaker 1:

Wow, so much value. Yeah, that was good stuff. You got the scheduling, the calendars. You're dropping so much knowledge and value on this. Appreciate it so much. I do want to be curious of our time, though, so I want to make sure that people are listening in. How do they find you? Just through social media, or how can they get in touch with you and follow along and reach out to you if you're available to take on some new clients?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, even if they have a question, they can always reach out as well. It doesn't have to be. You know you're a paying client, you can just connect. That's part of the goal as well. Social media is on Facebook and Instagram. I don't do TikTok or anything else. Two social media platforms is enough. My Instagram handle is practical underscore, power, underscore, pt, and Facebook you can just type in practical power, personal training. I do have a website as well, but Instagram just has a very nice format for business at this point. So I hope that people reach out and ask me questions and share their stories as well. I'll share any insight. What I've learned helped me. Maybe it will help someone else.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I know a couple of people who are going to love this episode just because they have that adventure spirit, so I definitely got to connect you with them. But again, thank you so much for taking the time to sit down and share a little bit about your story, some of the things you've gone through, and then a ton of your secrets that have been keeping you rolling forward in such a quick and fast pace. But before I let you go, I've got to ask you what would be your number one piece of advice. You've shared a lot of information today, but if you were to pull it down to one piece, what would it be?

Speaker 2:

Do what is most enticing to you in the moment Get the ball rolling. It doesn't have to be the biggest thing, just get moving and do maybe what's the easiest thing. The next day, do the hardest thing. It doesn't have to be consistent, just do something. Something's always better than nothing.

Speaker 1:

Cool, I love it. Thank you so much. I'll have to have you back on sometime soon and, uh, it's great to see you, thank you, thank you, thanks for having me on all right and peace guys, all right, all right. Does it still stop it? So what'd you think?

Speaker 2:

I love it. I love this stuff. I'm glad to share what I can. The past three to four years have been an entire lifestyle shift for me and it's just. It's been a lot, but I feel like I got over the film so excited.

Speaker 1:

Good, good, yeah, I feel like I got over the film so excited. Good, yeah, it's exciting once things kind of feel like they start to click. Yeah, for me it's been like a couple years now. I've been trying to figure out exactly what I'm trying to do, how to kind of do everything, but now it's kind of feeling like things are settling in and is this what you want to?

Speaker 2:

do in the long. Now it's kind of feeling like things are settling in and is this what you want to do in the long run? It's all like motivational speaking podcasts. Is that your long-term goal?

Speaker 1:

um, no, so long-term is uh still continuing with like one-on-one coaching, uh, one-on-one and group coaching, but it'd be more on like the personal development for entrepreneurs.