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Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody to SharkCast on today's episode I'm your host Elias
Speaker 3: And I'm your co-host Lydia.
Speaker 1: And today's topic of conversation is impact. Today we'll be exploring how our passions can truly shape the world around us.
Speaker 3: Welcome to our podcast, Pia, an honors college from the Kendall campus and the founder of Pialades. She has turned her passion into something more than just a workout.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned in, sharks. And welcome to our podcast, Pia. I'm so glad to have you here today with my co-host. And we are here today because we know about your Pilates business. It's skyrocketed in the past months. And my question for you is, did that whole discovery of Pilates come in? How did you even come to like it in the first place?
Speaker 2: Okay, so I first discovered Pilates during quarantine when I was just stuck in their houses. I started doing my research and I came upon a few YouTube videos of Pilates ab workouts. Instead of doing Chloe thing, I was doing the Pilates ab workouts. But then I kind of drifted away when we started going back to school in person and I started dancing again. But then my sophomore year of high school, I discovered that I had an extra bone. and overworking it and dancing a lot on it, inflamed it and even my bone, my bone itself was swollen, which I didn't know was possible. And I thought it was a temporary thing that I could just heal from it over the months, but nothing worked. And basically I can never dance like I used to again, because whenever I start dancing, it's just gonna hurt and I'm gonna have the same problem over and over. So I felt a little bit lost for a while, had to transfer schools because I went to. a very prestigious art school that was mainly focused on the arts. Arts over anything, even academics. So I lost, not lost all my friends, but I wasn't in school with my friends. I didn't have ballet. I was a little confused. But then, summer of my junior year, I discovered, rediscovered Pilates with ClassPass, the two week free trial with my cousin. And I fell in love with it all over again. I even took back to back classes. I really liked it that much and I became so inspired and so motivated that I found something else that I liked that I decided to become an instructor from them.
Speaker 3: Wow. Well, what was that push because you could have just kept attending classes and just paying for classes and stuff like that. But what really pushed you out of your comfort zone to start this business?
Speaker 2: Well, I've always loved teaching. I remember when I was younger, kids would play with dolls. I would play teacher with my little brother, with my friends. And I always thought I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher or any sort of teacher. But I was like, wait, why can't I just teach Pilates?
Speaker 3: And what were the requirements or the process like to be certified or to start promoting yourself out there?
Speaker 2: The certification process was four weeks long. The first week we learned a little bit about the body anatomy, what Pilates actually is, how it originated, what it works. And then we started moving into small groups, teaching in small groups. And then the final week was the final exam where you had to teach in front of the instructor, teach everyone.
Speaker 3: ⁓ wow. That's scary. Was that like really challenging for you?
Speaker 2: Yes, it was very challenging for me to find my voice. I feel like a lot of people think I'm very extroverted, but it actually takes me a while to get comfortable.
Speaker 3: So even though you had this passion for Pilates, you still had to go out of your comfort zone to get to where you are right now, right?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: No, of course. And that's a very beautiful thing that you rediscovered your passion. And I know one thing you do with your business is you every now and then you do an occasional donation. Would you like to tell me more about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually did a donation. Wait, can you just say that over?
Speaker 1: Sorry. problem. No, and that's a very good thing that you discovered your passion and you were able to find this love in Pilates. But I also know that with your business, you also try to give back to the community. you tell me more about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, in December I hosted an event called the Give and Flow Toy Drive with my friend. We had to reach out to brands, reach out to Alex's Place and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. And basically instead of a regular entry fee, we required guests to bring in a toy and those toys were donated to cancer patients over the holidays. I also hosted an event at the beach. It was a beach sunrise event. To reset for the new year, we journaled and we also collected clothes for homeless shelter Chapman Partnership. And over the month of February, I donated 75 % of my profits to a dog. Its stomach flipped and needed emergency surgery. Oh wow. Yeah. And I also have donated to a dance studio that lends me the space to teach.
Speaker 3: ⁓ that's amazing. I love how this isn't just about Pilates and working out, but you're literally giving back to the community and making other people's lives better.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very good because you were able to bridge the connection between not just helping people but also doing what you love, which is sometimes in this world it's a pretty hard thing to find, know, like, we're often not as capable of finding what we love and also, and also like connecting it with how we can help help the people. And I know you go to the Kendall campus in the Honors College and how do think that's affected the way you model your business or you do your business?
Speaker 2: Well, every honors college is very small. There's very few students and I feel like that builds a great community. Everyone has great friendships and bonds. And I bring that same energy to my Pilates classes. I try to make connections and become friends with my clients instead of just simply treating them and thinking they're my student. I try to actually get to know them.
Speaker 1: And why do you believe it's important for you to have this connection with the students? Why is that so important to your class? It was just exercise.
Speaker 2: Well, a workout can be intimidating. I remember when I first started going to the gym, I needed to go with somebody. It just felt embarrassing for me. So I know some people like to go by themselves to Pilates, but it doesn't mean it's not intimidating. So I want to create a comfortable space for everyone to get to work out and enjoy the workout.
Speaker 3: great and you were saying how you you've been to gym and I have a question for you what do you think about like the online course between Pilates and like gym rats and stuff like that and how people say ⁓ Pilates doesn't do anything for you but they've never tried it before what do you think about that?
Speaker 2: I definitely think Pilates does something for you. And you can't compare the gym with Pilates. It's like comparing oranges and apples, soccer and basketball. It's not the same thing at all. Pilates actually helps more than just your body. It builds your mind to body connection. It can actually make you smarter if you do it consistently, because you have to really think about when to breathe, how to move your body, engaging your core the whole time. It's a bunch of different aspects that you have to think about. And it even helps digestion and a lot of things.
Speaker 3: We just finished having a Pilates session by you and it was intense, but it was amazing. And as someone who goes to the gym very often, it definitely worked a different type of muscle and I had to have a lot of endurance and just tell myself, okay, keep going, keep going. ⁓ And how does it feel like? When you have to keep pushing people, like, have you naturally been like that? Or was it like, ⁓ I feel bad for this person? Or are you just like, no, I don't feel bad?
Speaker 2: I don't feel bad.
Speaker 1: I think you enjoy the thing you enjoy making people suffer
Speaker 2: I do it makes me happy when they keep going on like yes. Yeah, you can do this
Speaker 3: ⁓ my gosh, I was suffering out there.
Speaker 1: When she was looking I was doing something ⁓
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Every time I would look, he would start doing it.
Speaker 1: I've been to gym many times and I still go to the gym, but that's something else. I don't know it works out like it's like a workout inside of your body well I don't know I don't know I don't know how to explain it, but
Speaker 2: There's also those breaks in between sets, there's no breaks in body.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say that in the gym you can take as long as Cause no one's there like, you go ahead like no. And Pilates like, everybody's watching you.
Speaker 1: After he said in the gym, I like take five minutes to myself. Yeah you on your phone. Yeah
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's totally different. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: It will take those five minutes when I'm not looking.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think it's so great to have just any type of discipline, especially when it's working out. mean, working out just is good for you either way. And I just think that what you're doing, even at the end of the session, just actually thinking about what we just did and thanking ourselves for showing up and like being like, okay, wow, I did it. Like that's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's more mind than body. You just gotta tell yourself you can do it and you can do it.
Speaker 1: So how'd you come up with that connection that it's more about the mind than it is about the body?
Speaker 2: Because it just is like sometimes I'm like, ⁓ my God, I have to stop. And then I tell myself, no, keep going, keep going. And I keep going and I can do it. If you tell yourself you can do it, you can do it.
Speaker 1: Exactly guys, the power of perseverance. know, I felt like if you could like tell you something, do something, you could be anything you want in the world. You know what I mean? Like that's what I believe. I feel like if I, if I say could become an NBA superstar, I could do it. You know what I mean? Even though like people say not realistic, but I feel like we all have the power to say what we can do and we can do it. Yeah. Of action, of course. And then also in very interesting name, you named it P. A lot these, how'd you come up with that?
Speaker 2: with action. My mom. My mom's the brain behind that.
Speaker 3: promote.
Speaker 1: Wow, I know moms always know the best. Yeah, that's that's a really good name because I think it's right. It mixes your name and then the actual activity that you're doing. Yeah, it's very clever. Yeah, it's very clever.
Speaker 3: And what is your favorite, like, I don't know what you call it, like your circuit. What's your favorite circuit to do?
Speaker 2: My favorite circuit, I love doing abs. It's just like a different type of burn. I love it. It makes me feel so fulfilled after or even a good glute series. Abs and glutes are my favorite for sure.
Speaker 3: And what have you taken, I don't know if you mentioned it yet, about ballet, what have you taken from ballet that you've taken into Pilates?
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I loved about Pilates. That's why I fell in love with it. It has the same exact technique as ballet. That's why I grasp it like this. Because people are like, wait, you just started in the summer? It's the same thing. So I feel like I know my body. Like I know how to move it exactly how I need to because of ballet. And also the discipline. Like in ballet class, it's kind of like in Pilates. Like no, you can't stop. Keep on going. And it's memorization.
Speaker 3: great. I love that even though you had that setback that you were still able to bridge the gap and find something else that you're passionate about and even something else that maybe would help other people even more like helping them to move their body and giving back to the community. So I love that you weren't you weren't you didn't let yourself be in that dark place but you just kept moving forward and finding other things. So I guess
Speaker 2: Yeah, that just comes to show that everything happens for a reason. Yeah. Even if you might not see it in the moment.
Speaker 1: And what do you think push you to like just go ahead and start the business because I know a lot of times one of the hardest part is really hard starting a business So what do you think push you to do it?
Speaker 2: Myself, I just told myself, I'm never gonna be fully ready, so why wait? There's not gonna be a perfect moment to just go and do it.
Speaker 1: So your advice for the people out there is to just do it no matter even if they say they have obstacles, just do it. Go ahead and do it, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna be obstacles regardless. Just go for it.
Speaker 1: And I know talking about obstacles, I know one of the hardest things in business is not just starting it, but staying in business. So how do you think you meet and how do you know challenges of finding your space or finding your clients? How do you think that? How do you come overcome those challenges over time?
Speaker 2: Well, I first started with spreading the word by mouth to people I knew and then they just started telling other people and my social media has grown a lot. Obviously, I'm not an influencer or anything, but it has grown a lot and I've gotten a lot of strangers come to my classes, which I think it's so cool. Like a stranger out there saw my reel and they were like, wait, I want to go. I think that's... Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really good. What is something really unexpected that has happened or that you've learned about yourself ⁓ since you started the business?
Speaker 2: that I'm not as shy. Like, I am shy, but in the right space, can not be nice. You know what? I mean, I can be the opposite of nice. I don't feel pity because I'm a very empathetic person, but when it comes to Pilates, I'm like, no, keep on going. Do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: And I know going back to the fundraisers, you've done a pretty consistent amount of time. How have you kept that consistency throughout doing your business? How have you kept that consistency throughout?
Speaker 2: Well, just seeing, just remembering the feeling I get and how happy people get that I'm helping them just makes me want to keep on giving back. There's no feeling, there's no feeling that matches that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: No, of course. And I know we're looking into the future. How do you think you see yourself in this business in the next five years? Do think you can do this for a whole lifetime or do you think it's just something temporary that you're just at phase that people go through?
Speaker 2: I see my 80 year old self doing some yogi ladi's on my beach house in the sand for sunrise. So yeah, I see it forever.
Speaker 3: We have quick question. Yeah, we just had a discussion with someone about yoga. Can you explain the difference between yoga and Pilates?
Speaker 2: Yoga is more of a mental reset while Pilates is made to make you stronger. Obviously it also works your mind but not as much as yoga.
Speaker 1: Of course, and by any chance, do know where Pilates even came from?
Speaker 2: from Joseph Pilates. It was actually originally called Contrology. ⁓ wow. Because it's not about fast paced movements, running and stuff. You have to be very slow and controlled, which is why it plays with your mind. And then they transitioned the name into Pilates because of Joseph Pilates. Wow. It actually started for during the war, World War I, believe. ⁓ wow. Yeah, for patients. And there's mat pilates and there's reformer pilates. Reformer pilates started with the hospital beds. And they attached a springside hospital.
Speaker 3: and that's what talking about. They had me doing that in physical therapy. was like, mm-mm, no.
Speaker 2: But it's so crazy how like it transitions from from war to like
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: ⁓ I think it's a really big part of this new gen culture we have of exercise because I feel like one thing about exercise is that you can find your identity and what you actually like doing. So I think it's very beautiful that you are over here helping people find that within themselves and that motivation because like you said, you push them in class, you don't let them give up. So that's something that's very, very good and probably entices more people to come every time, more strangers, because people like that when they get pushed, when they get outside their comfortable zone because that will make someone truly comfortable. It's when you're able to step outside and still feel safe in a way and know that you did it.
Speaker 2: Or when they realize they can do it, they feel accomplished. And it's addicting. They're like, I wanna do more. I wanna do more.
Speaker 1: No, of course. And I know you've overcome a lot of challenges and you've done this business for how many months now? Since October. So you've been working on this for pretty much almost, I guess, six months. We're almost there. We're already almost halfway through the year. What piece of advice can you give to the viewer out there, the MDC students out there that it could take to not only start a business like this, but have it scale this fast and this good?
Speaker 2: since October. Just believe in yourself, even when you don't. Just tell yourself you can do it. Look at yourself in the mirror and be like, I can do it. And I hate when people copy people. Think of your own ideas. Be original, yes.
Speaker 1: No, of course guys and down below I hope you know before we wrap this episode down below We'll have all her Instagram her so you can find her flyers for the Pilates class and you can sign up, you know You have it what every Sunday? No, that's good. That's good. You know, it's a good class guys. I'm being serious. So you guys take it It's a good workout in
Speaker 2: Every Sunday at 10.
Speaker 3: Take it. I don't care if you're like, Pilate, no, take it. I need six months and take it with Pia.
Speaker 1: And to the guys out there, I know a lot of guys are like, oh, don't look Pilates, but just do it, know, try it out. You never know. say in life, try everything out. See what you like, you don't like. You know, of course. And just to wrap it up here, I have three quick fire questions for you. So the whole point is that I'm going say them to you and then you try to answer them with like a quick, it's a quick response. Okay. One, two words, something quick. It doesn't have to be like a word because that's a little hard, but like a tiny phrase maybe. Number one, what's your favorite Pilates exercise or position?
Speaker 2: Like a one word version.
Speaker 1: What is a teaser, kinda? Can you kinda explain?
Speaker 2: teaser. Yeah, your body's basically shaped like a V. That's what we in the picture.
Speaker 3: Bro I can even hold that-
Speaker 1: No, of course of course ⁓ what is What what is what is one thing in Pilates that you probably don't like there's one thing you don't
Speaker 2: One thing. Yeah. Nothing.
Speaker 1: Exactly trick question I was hoping for that answer. I was hoping for that answer. I was gonna say yeah, I you were gonna say nothing and then before we go just um Is there anything you want to say to the guests out here today any special message you have?
Speaker 3: That's the
Speaker 2: just go for it. Don't wait for the right moment. There's no right moment. Just do
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. And then I'm doing this thing where the next person on the episode leaves a question for the next person. So my question is, what question do you leave for somebody else to come on here?
Speaker 2: If you could pick a superpower you could have, what would it be?
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll ask on the next episode for whoever the next guest is and well, our episode is coming to an end sharks and let's keep on swimming and welcome back to shark after everybody.
Speaker 1: Welcome back everybody to SharkCast on today's episode I'm your host Elias
Speaker 3: And I'm your co-host Lydia.
Speaker 1: And today's topic of conversation is impact. Today we'll be exploring how our passions can truly shape the world around us.
Speaker 3: Welcome to our podcast, Pia, an honors college from the Kendall campus and the founder of Pialades. She has turned her passion into something more than just a workout.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned in, sharks. And welcome to our podcast, Pia. I'm so glad to have you here today with my co-host. And we are here today because we know about your Pilates business. It's skyrocketed in the past months. And my question for you is, did that whole discovery of Pilates come in? How did you even come to like it in the first place?
Speaker 2: Okay, so I first discovered Pilates during quarantine when I was just stuck in their houses. I started doing my research and I came upon a few YouTube videos of Pilates ab workouts. Instead of doing Chloe thing, I was doing the Pilates ab workouts. But then I kind of drifted away when we started going back to school in person and I started dancing again. But then my sophomore year of high school, I discovered that I had an extra bone. and overworking it and dancing a lot on it, inflamed it and even my bone, my bone itself was swollen, which I didn't know was possible. And I thought it was a temporary thing that I could just heal from it over the months, but nothing worked. And basically I can never dance like I used to again, because whenever I start dancing, it's just gonna hurt and I'm gonna have the same problem over and over. So I felt a little bit lost for a while, had to transfer schools because I went to. a very prestigious art school that was mainly focused on the arts. Arts over anything, even academics. So I lost, not lost all my friends, but I wasn't in school with my friends. I didn't have ballet. I was a little confused. But then, summer of my junior year, I discovered, rediscovered Pilates with ClassPass, the two week free trial with my cousin. And I fell in love with it all over again. I even took back to back classes. I really liked it that much and I became so inspired and so motivated that I found something else that I liked that I decided to become an instructor from them.
Speaker 3: Wow. Well, what was that push because you could have just kept attending classes and just paying for classes and stuff like that. But what really pushed you out of your comfort zone to start this business?
Speaker 2: Well, I've always loved teaching. I remember when I was younger, kids would play with dolls. I would play teacher with my little brother, with my friends. And I always thought I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher or any sort of teacher. But I was like, wait, why can't I just teach Pilates?
Speaker 3: And what were the requirements or the process like to be certified or to start promoting yourself out there?
Speaker 2: The certification process was four weeks long. The first week we learned a little bit about the body anatomy, what Pilates actually is, how it originated, what it works. And then we started moving into small groups, teaching in small groups. And then the final week was the final exam where you had to teach in front of the instructor, teach everyone.
Speaker 3: ⁓ wow. That's scary. Was that like really challenging for you?
Speaker 2: Yes, it was very challenging for me to find my voice. I feel like a lot of people think I'm very extroverted, but it actually takes me a while to get comfortable.
Speaker 3: So even though you had this passion for Pilates, you still had to go out of your comfort zone to get to where you are right now, right?
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: No, of course. And that's a very beautiful thing that you rediscovered your passion. And I know one thing you do with your business is you every now and then you do an occasional donation. Would you like to tell me more about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually did a donation. Wait, can you just say that over?
Speaker 1: Sorry. problem. No, and that's a very good thing that you discovered your passion and you were able to find this love in Pilates. But I also know that with your business, you also try to give back to the community. you tell me more about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, in December I hosted an event called the Give and Flow Toy Drive with my friend. We had to reach out to brands, reach out to Alex's Place and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. And basically instead of a regular entry fee, we required guests to bring in a toy and those toys were donated to cancer patients over the holidays. I also hosted an event at the beach. It was a beach sunrise event. To reset for the new year, we journaled and we also collected clothes for homeless shelter Chapman Partnership. And over the month of February, I donated 75 % of my profits to a dog. Its stomach flipped and needed emergency surgery. Oh wow. Yeah. And I also have donated to a dance studio that lends me the space to teach.
Speaker 3: ⁓ that's amazing. I love how this isn't just about Pilates and working out, but you're literally giving back to the community and making other people's lives better.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very good because you were able to bridge the connection between not just helping people but also doing what you love, which is sometimes in this world it's a pretty hard thing to find, know, like, we're often not as capable of finding what we love and also, and also like connecting it with how we can help help the people. And I know you go to the Kendall campus in the Honors College and how do think that's affected the way you model your business or you do your business?
Speaker 2: Well, every honors college is very small. There's very few students and I feel like that builds a great community. Everyone has great friendships and bonds. And I bring that same energy to my Pilates classes. I try to make connections and become friends with my clients instead of just simply treating them and thinking they're my student. I try to actually get to know them.
Speaker 1: And why do you believe it's important for you to have this connection with the students? Why is that so important to your class? It was just exercise.
Speaker 2: Well, a workout can be intimidating. I remember when I first started going to the gym, I needed to go with somebody. It just felt embarrassing for me. So I know some people like to go by themselves to Pilates, but it doesn't mean it's not intimidating. So I want to create a comfortable space for everyone to get to work out and enjoy the workout.
Speaker 3: great and you were saying how you you've been to gym and I have a question for you what do you think about like the online course between Pilates and like gym rats and stuff like that and how people say ⁓ Pilates doesn't do anything for you but they've never tried it before what do you think about that?
Speaker 2: I definitely think Pilates does something for you. And you can't compare the gym with Pilates. It's like comparing oranges and apples, soccer and basketball. It's not the same thing at all. Pilates actually helps more than just your body. It builds your mind to body connection. It can actually make you smarter if you do it consistently, because you have to really think about when to breathe, how to move your body, engaging your core the whole time. It's a bunch of different aspects that you have to think about. And it even helps digestion and a lot of things.
Speaker 3: We just finished having a Pilates session by you and it was intense, but it was amazing. And as someone who goes to the gym very often, it definitely worked a different type of muscle and I had to have a lot of endurance and just tell myself, okay, keep going, keep going. ⁓ And how does it feel like? When you have to keep pushing people, like, have you naturally been like that? Or was it like, ⁓ I feel bad for this person? Or are you just like, no, I don't feel bad?
Speaker 2: I don't feel bad.
Speaker 1: I think you enjoy the thing you enjoy making people suffer
Speaker 2: I do it makes me happy when they keep going on like yes. Yeah, you can do this
Speaker 3: ⁓ my gosh, I was suffering out there.
Speaker 1: When she was looking I was doing something ⁓
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. Every time I would look, he would start doing it.
Speaker 1: I've been to gym many times and I still go to the gym, but that's something else. I don't know it works out like it's like a workout inside of your body well I don't know I don't know I don't know how to explain it, but
Speaker 2: There's also those breaks in between sets, there's no breaks in body.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say that in the gym you can take as long as Cause no one's there like, you go ahead like no. And Pilates like, everybody's watching you.
Speaker 1: After he said in the gym, I like take five minutes to myself. Yeah you on your phone. Yeah
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's totally different. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: It will take those five minutes when I'm not looking.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think it's so great to have just any type of discipline, especially when it's working out. mean, working out just is good for you either way. And I just think that what you're doing, even at the end of the session, just actually thinking about what we just did and thanking ourselves for showing up and like being like, okay, wow, I did it. Like that's an amazing feeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's more mind than body. You just gotta tell yourself you can do it and you can do it.
Speaker 1: So how'd you come up with that connection that it's more about the mind than it is about the body?
Speaker 2: Because it just is like sometimes I'm like, ⁓ my God, I have to stop. And then I tell myself, no, keep going, keep going. And I keep going and I can do it. If you tell yourself you can do it, you can do it.
Speaker 1: Exactly guys, the power of perseverance. know, I felt like if you could like tell you something, do something, you could be anything you want in the world. You know what I mean? Like that's what I believe. I feel like if I, if I say could become an NBA superstar, I could do it. You know what I mean? Even though like people say not realistic, but I feel like we all have the power to say what we can do and we can do it. Yeah. Of action, of course. And then also in very interesting name, you named it P. A lot these, how'd you come up with that?
Speaker 2: with action. My mom. My mom's the brain behind that.
Speaker 3: promote.
Speaker 1: Wow, I know moms always know the best. Yeah, that's that's a really good name because I think it's right. It mixes your name and then the actual activity that you're doing. Yeah, it's very clever. Yeah, it's very clever.
Speaker 3: And what is your favorite, like, I don't know what you call it, like your circuit. What's your favorite circuit to do?
Speaker 2: My favorite circuit, I love doing abs. It's just like a different type of burn. I love it. It makes me feel so fulfilled after or even a good glute series. Abs and glutes are my favorite for sure.
Speaker 3: And what have you taken, I don't know if you mentioned it yet, about ballet, what have you taken from ballet that you've taken into Pilates?
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I loved about Pilates. That's why I fell in love with it. It has the same exact technique as ballet. That's why I grasp it like this. Because people are like, wait, you just started in the summer? It's the same thing. So I feel like I know my body. Like I know how to move it exactly how I need to because of ballet. And also the discipline. Like in ballet class, it's kind of like in Pilates. Like no, you can't stop. Keep on going. And it's memorization.
Speaker 3: great. I love that even though you had that setback that you were still able to bridge the gap and find something else that you're passionate about and even something else that maybe would help other people even more like helping them to move their body and giving back to the community. So I love that you weren't you weren't you didn't let yourself be in that dark place but you just kept moving forward and finding other things. So I guess
Speaker 2: Yeah, that just comes to show that everything happens for a reason. Yeah. Even if you might not see it in the moment.
Speaker 1: And what do you think push you to like just go ahead and start the business because I know a lot of times one of the hardest part is really hard starting a business So what do you think push you to do it?
Speaker 2: Myself, I just told myself, I'm never gonna be fully ready, so why wait? There's not gonna be a perfect moment to just go and do it.
Speaker 1: So your advice for the people out there is to just do it no matter even if they say they have obstacles, just do it. Go ahead and do it, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's gonna be obstacles regardless. Just go for it.
Speaker 1: And I know talking about obstacles, I know one of the hardest things in business is not just starting it, but staying in business. So how do you think you meet and how do you know challenges of finding your space or finding your clients? How do you think that? How do you come overcome those challenges over time?
Speaker 2: Well, I first started with spreading the word by mouth to people I knew and then they just started telling other people and my social media has grown a lot. Obviously, I'm not an influencer or anything, but it has grown a lot and I've gotten a lot of strangers come to my classes, which I think it's so cool. Like a stranger out there saw my reel and they were like, wait, I want to go. I think that's... Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really good. What is something really unexpected that has happened or that you've learned about yourself ⁓ since you started the business?
Speaker 2: that I'm not as shy. Like, I am shy, but in the right space, can not be nice. You know what? I mean, I can be the opposite of nice. I don't feel pity because I'm a very empathetic person, but when it comes to Pilates, I'm like, no, keep on going. Do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: And I know going back to the fundraisers, you've done a pretty consistent amount of time. How have you kept that consistency throughout doing your business? How have you kept that consistency throughout?
Speaker 2: Well, just seeing, just remembering the feeling I get and how happy people get that I'm helping them just makes me want to keep on giving back. There's no feeling, there's no feeling that matches that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: No, of course. And I know we're looking into the future. How do you think you see yourself in this business in the next five years? Do think you can do this for a whole lifetime or do you think it's just something temporary that you're just at phase that people go through?
Speaker 2: I see my 80 year old self doing some yogi ladi's on my beach house in the sand for sunrise. So yeah, I see it forever.
Speaker 3: We have quick question. Yeah, we just had a discussion with someone about yoga. Can you explain the difference between yoga and Pilates?
Speaker 2: Yoga is more of a mental reset while Pilates is made to make you stronger. Obviously it also works your mind but not as much as yoga.
Speaker 1: Of course, and by any chance, do know where Pilates even came from?
Speaker 2: from Joseph Pilates. It was actually originally called Contrology. ⁓ wow. Because it's not about fast paced movements, running and stuff. You have to be very slow and controlled, which is why it plays with your mind. And then they transitioned the name into Pilates because of Joseph Pilates. Wow. It actually started for during the war, World War I, believe. ⁓ wow. Yeah, for patients. And there's mat pilates and there's reformer pilates. Reformer pilates started with the hospital beds. And they attached a springside hospital.
Speaker 3: and that's what talking about. They had me doing that in physical therapy. was like, mm-mm, no.
Speaker 2: But it's so crazy how like it transitions from from war to like
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: ⁓ I think it's a really big part of this new gen culture we have of exercise because I feel like one thing about exercise is that you can find your identity and what you actually like doing. So I think it's very beautiful that you are over here helping people find that within themselves and that motivation because like you said, you push them in class, you don't let them give up. So that's something that's very, very good and probably entices more people to come every time, more strangers, because people like that when they get pushed, when they get outside their comfortable zone because that will make someone truly comfortable. It's when you're able to step outside and still feel safe in a way and know that you did it.
Speaker 2: Or when they realize they can do it, they feel accomplished. And it's addicting. They're like, I wanna do more. I wanna do more.
Speaker 1: No, of course. And I know you've overcome a lot of challenges and you've done this business for how many months now? Since October. So you've been working on this for pretty much almost, I guess, six months. We're almost there. We're already almost halfway through the year. What piece of advice can you give to the viewer out there, the MDC students out there that it could take to not only start a business like this, but have it scale this fast and this good?
Speaker 2: since October. Just believe in yourself, even when you don't. Just tell yourself you can do it. Look at yourself in the mirror and be like, I can do it. And I hate when people copy people. Think of your own ideas. Be original, yes.
Speaker 1: No, of course guys and down below I hope you know before we wrap this episode down below We'll have all her Instagram her so you can find her flyers for the Pilates class and you can sign up, you know You have it what every Sunday? No, that's good. That's good. You know, it's a good class guys. I'm being serious. So you guys take it It's a good workout in
Speaker 2: Every Sunday at 10.
Speaker 3: Take it. I don't care if you're like, Pilate, no, take it. I need six months and take it with Pia.
Speaker 1: And to the guys out there, I know a lot of guys are like, oh, don't look Pilates, but just do it, know, try it out. You never know. say in life, try everything out. See what you like, you don't like. You know, of course. And just to wrap it up here, I have three quick fire questions for you. So the whole point is that I'm going say them to you and then you try to answer them with like a quick, it's a quick response. Okay. One, two words, something quick. It doesn't have to be like a word because that's a little hard, but like a tiny phrase maybe. Number one, what's your favorite Pilates exercise or position?
Speaker 2: Like a one word version.
Speaker 1: What is a teaser, kinda? Can you kinda explain?
Speaker 2: teaser. Yeah, your body's basically shaped like a V. That's what we in the picture.
Speaker 3: Bro I can even hold that-
Speaker 1: No, of course of course ⁓ what is What what is what is one thing in Pilates that you probably don't like there's one thing you don't
Speaker 2: One thing. Yeah. Nothing.
Speaker 1: Exactly trick question I was hoping for that answer. I was hoping for that answer. I was gonna say yeah, I you were gonna say nothing and then before we go just um Is there anything you want to say to the guests out here today any special message you have?
Speaker 3: That's the
Speaker 2: just go for it. Don't wait for the right moment. There's no right moment. Just do
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. And then I'm doing this thing where the next person on the episode leaves a question for the next person. So my question is, what question do you leave for somebody else to come on here?
Speaker 2: If you could pick a superpower you could have, what would it be?
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll ask on the next episode for whoever the next guest is and well, our episode is coming to an end sharks and let's keep on swimming and welcome back to shark after everybody.
