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Welcome to Elevate Springfield, where we will dive into strategies and stories that help you rise to your full potential.
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Each episode, we'll talk about how you can take intentional steps to elevate your life and your business while making a meaningful impact on those around you.
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Along the way, we're gonna bring in the change makers from our community that are already elevating.
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Alright, let's go, Springfield.
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Time to 10X your life, your business, all of it.
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Time to crush those goals, time to get after it.
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You are listening to the Elevate Springfield Podcast.
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Robert Farrell here, certified 10x coach, speaker, and mentor, here to bring you actionable strategies.
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You bring the discipline and follow through.
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And together, we're gonna Elevate Springfield.
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We're coming to you again from beautiful downtown Springfield in the Big Dog Construction Studio.
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And we are back.
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Hey, joining me in the studio now, Bailey Sullivan from Pulse Pilates Studio.
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Bailey, thank you for joining us.
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How are we doing?
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Thanks for having me.
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I appreciate it.
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Forward to, well, quite frankly, learning a little bit about Pilates, but also learning about your studio that just opened up, what, like seven months ago?
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Right.
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But before we do all that, let's learn a little bit about Bailey.
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Tell us a little about your background.
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Well, I uh was born in Springfield.
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I moved to Park City, Utah when I was 12.
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And so that's where I consider where I grown up mostly because that's where I've lived the longest.
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Um from there, I lived in Los Angeles, went back to Utah, and then came back to LA and then came to Springfield.
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Okay.
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So what I went to LA for college, I have a background in uh fashion product development.
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I went to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
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And I also have a degree in English from a college in Salt Lake City.
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And then my mom was getting her training through a small studio in Salt Lake, and she was like, Hey, have you ever thought about teaching Pilates?
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Because I was in the fashion industry and I was looking for something with a little bit more depth.
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And she was like, I feel like you'd be really great at it.
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And she was teaching me because she needed teaching hours.
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And so I was doing it quite a bit.
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And I was like, Yeah, maybe I'll look into it.
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And so she ended up leaving the training that she was doing, and she and I went through the balanced body comprehensively trained program together.
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Okay.
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So you did work in the fashion industry for a year?
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Yeah.
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But when I graduated, it was during the recession.
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Right.
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Um, and so there were no jobs for new graduates.
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So there were people who had 30 years of experience that were taking entry-level jobs.
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I worked for a fashion magazine for a very short while selling advertising.
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Sure.
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And that was just not my jam.
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I was like, I want to do something creative.
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I was an intern for them first and was doing all the photo shoots and runway shows, all this stuff, and loved it.
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But once I got hired, it was doing something that was not my cup of tea.
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And so yeah, then I explored other avenues and did buying for a little bit.
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And then I did visual merchandising for different stores.
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And then Pilates just kind of fell into my lap.
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Yeah.
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But I've been doing Pilates for 20 years, I would say.
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My mom got me a DVD and I took that to college with me.
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And so I would make my roommates do it with me.
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I'm like, all right, guys, let's go do Pilates.
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And then who knew that this was going to be my career?
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Right.
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But yeah, it all obviously worked out the way that it was supposed to.
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So, no thoughts about that in high school that hey, maybe I'm gonna do this as a career.
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No, I always knew I wanted to go into the fashion industry.
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Um, I was dead set on that.
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And so I lived that dream and it was awesome.
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And part of me still sometimes misses just the fun side of the fashion degree.
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I just was wanting more depth and more meaningful everyday life.
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I feel like I get to genuinely help people in their everyday lives and help them feel great and make them feel stronger and improve their day-to-day life.
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And so it's just so rewarding.
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Not that there's not rewarding aspects to the fashion industry.
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It's just, I would say, not as rewarding as teaching Pilates.
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So Park City, you big skier?
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Yeah, I ski and I snowboard.
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Grew up skiing and then I switched to snowboarding.
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Uh, and then I did that for, I don't know, probably like 10 years.
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I worked for a skiing only resort.
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And my bosses, they were like, look, we love you, but you got to give up the snowboarding thing.
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We're gonna get you a free pair of boots.
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You're gonna be a skier.
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And I fought it for as long as I could.
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And then finally I was like, all right, I'll give it a shot.
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And now I'm much happier on two sets of boards under my feet than being attached to the one.
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But I still like snowboarding.
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I haven't gone in a while, but I don't know.
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I've been kind of toying with the idea of jumping back over and seeing what it feels like.
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But you do still ski quite a bit then?
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Yeah.
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So my parents still live out there.
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They live in here part-time, but they also live in Park City.
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So I try to go out.
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I try to ski like three or four times a year.
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Um, but with since opening the business, I knew going into this year that I was not going to be skiing.
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So yeah, this is the first winter I have not been in Utah since I was 12.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, I bet you Pilates probably helps a lot with the balance and everything.
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Yeah, and just like the core strength and the leg strength and just like your proprioception and just where you are in space, which is also very helpful when you have to be aware of all the people around you calling it vast you.
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So, or trailing in front of you.
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So, yeah, it's it's definitely beneficial for skiing, but really for all sports.
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Yeah, I bet.
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Well, any recommendations for any Springfield folks that are traveling and doing a little vacation out in Park City?
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Any recommendations for as far as like food or where to stay?
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Anywhere, anything since you've been out there so much.
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Anything you could tell them.
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So you got to hit up High West Distillery.
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Okay.
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They have the best whiskey battered Choshito peppers.
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It's a whiskey batter with fried and the sauce, the dipping sauce they have is so bomb.
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No name saloon has a phenomenal burger that's not like touristy, it's a local joint, but uh it's definitely on everyone's tourist list.
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But they have a great burger, it's just a great bar in general.
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You gotta hit up Main Street if you're there, doing all the shops and things.
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Butcher's is great, Boneyard.
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If you're gonna be up in Deer Valley, Stein Erickson Lodge always has great food.
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The Goldener Hirsch, there's so many great places.
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Yeah.
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That's like what when I go, I'm like, I gotta hit all the spots.
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Yeah.
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No, I've never actually been to Park City.
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I've been around, I've been to Salt Lake City, but I've never actually stayed in Park City.
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Park City's awesome, but Salt Lake's great too.
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It loves I lived in Salt Lake for a handful of years and loved it.
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I feel like there's so much to do down there, and it definitely has a different kind of a nightlife.
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I feel like if you are younger and moving out there, I would probably live in Salt Lake just because Park City is a, I mean, Salt Lake's so expensive too, but Park City is outrageously expensive now.
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But yeah, Salt Lake is a great place to live.
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Yeah.
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So what drew you to LA?
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Was it the fashion program at the college or something?
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It was a relationship.
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Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
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And we were doing long distance for about on and off for six years.
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And so it was just like, all right, one of us has to figure this out.
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So I sold my house, moved out there.
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I was already teaching at the time.
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Um, and it had kind of always been my plan to like, okay, I'm gonna get certified, I'll teach a little bit in Utah.
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And then I was always gonna move to LA.
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Um, and so I lived there for three and a half years, but I taught in Utah.
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I taught at the University of Utah and Go Youths, huge youth student football.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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Um, we don't have a major league football team.
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And so everyone's diehard youths fan or BYU, which don't get me started on that.
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But BYU and then definitely know BYU.
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No blue, it's all red.
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Um, so that's why I appreciate your red decor.
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But yeah, so from there, you University of Utah, I taught there, and then I taught at a a golf community at their clubhouse.
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And then from there moved to LA and taught at a couple different studios in West Hollywood, Hollywood, and then in Brentwood also.
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Awesome.
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Yeah, very cool places to be around.
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Awesome place.
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LA's awesome.
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I gets a bad rap, but it is one of the greatest places to live.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Just have you have everything at your fingertips and food and shopping, and there's just so much to do.
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And then just the culture.
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I remember just daily getting ready, and you can hear people speaking three to four different languages outside of your window.
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And I think that that's so cool.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Like you said, on the news, you might get might get a bad rap, especially for maybe Midwestern folks and things like that.
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But it has to be so cool.
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The culture and the vibe, just everything at your fingertips.
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Well, every big city is going to have its not awesome qualities.
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And I have not been to LA in a couple of years, but it's gotten rough for, I would say.
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But uh, if you can just like look past all that, it's really awesome.
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Like my dad came to visit one time and he was like, What are you doing?
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And I was like, What do you mean?
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He was like, This place is a dump.
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I go, No, this place is awesome.
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You gotta look past the trash, look past all the dirt and the broken windows in certain places.
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I was like, What about the dinner last night?
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Was that not the greatest posse you've ever had in your life?
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And he's like, Yeah, I'm like, see?
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So it's worth it.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Awesome.
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Well, after being at all those different places, you decided to open up your studio right here in Springfield.
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I know.
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I did it there, could have done it in Park City, but you did it here.
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It's so awesome.
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I love it so much.
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Um, during COVID, I was out in LA and I had flown back a couple, because my parents were here, my sister was here.
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So I had gone down to my brother's in San Diego a few times and flown back here a few times.
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And my dad was like, why don't you just come and stay for a month?
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And I was like, All right.
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So I was here for four weeks, and there was just something in deep down that was like, you need to move here.
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And I usually ignore that voice.
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But I had never lived in Springfield as an adult.
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I was having so much fun.
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I know the world was shut down, it was not an okay time.
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But my sister's a teacher, and during the school year, I don't really get to see her.
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And when I did not live here, I would come home for like a week during the summer.
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And so I got that week with her and my nieces and stuff, and it was so fun.
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But having a month with them and riding bikes, and we had our inflatable pool out on the driveway.
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And I was like, this is pretty awesome.
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Right.
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So I don't know.
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I was like, I feel like maybe I should move back.
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And so I told my aunt first.
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I was like, don't tell anybody because everyone's gonna freak out.
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But I'm thinking about moving home.
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And she was like, What?
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I was like, I know.
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Even when I say it out loud, I can't believe it.
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But I went back to LA because work opened back up.
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So I flew back out and I was so sad to leave.
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And I think that's when I knew, all right, I think LA's not gonna be LA, the LA that I love for a while.
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Right.
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It's gonna take a while for things to open back up and for people to feel safe going outside and everything.
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And so I was like, I think I'm gonna move back to Springfield.
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I can't work in LA because Pilates studies were at the bottom of the totem pole.
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So it was just like, I don't know, I feel like I should just move back here.
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And so I was like, I'm gonna get a house, I'm gonna flip it, live in it for two years, and then I'm gonna move somewhere.
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Is it gonna be back to LA?
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Is it gonna be back to Park City?
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Is it going to be in my head?
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I was maybe thinking Nashville, but then I got set up on a blind date and we're married now.
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Okay.
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And so obviously I'm staying, but I've been back for it'll be six years in October, right?
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Okay, all right.
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Well, you you're seven months into the business here.
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So the the whole startup is is very fresh.
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Is this the very first full business you've ever done?
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Yes, yeah.
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So I always I think every Pilates instructor is like, I want to have my own studio one day.
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Um, and that was always in the back of my brain as far as something that I wanted, whether that was on by myself or if I was going to partner with somebody.
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But I just got to a point in my life and in my career where I was like, I know that I will regret this if I don't do this.
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And I was even talking to my dad before I signed the lease.
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And he was like, Do you really want to do this?
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And I said, I, if I try this and fail, I will be happy that I tried it.
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I will regret not giving this a shot, probably for forever.
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And so I need to just do this.
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It's gonna be really hard.
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I'm not gonna be able to ski.
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Right.
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And uh, I'm gonna have to work every single day, all day long, and I'm ready for it.
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And so he was like, All right, Godspeed.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Right.
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And so I signed my lease, did a full remodel, did a full gut.
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I got new floors from staff carpet.
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Kim's staff helped me do so much there.
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Um, between her and my husband, I don't know if I could have done it without them.
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Just because Kim was working overtime behind the scenes, and my husband working his full manual labor job all day long was then coming to the studio when he got home and helping me do all the things after hours.
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Um, it's completely morphed into everything that I could have wanted.
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I love it.
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Yeah.
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So walk us through the your thought process on well, picking the location, and then you had you have a blank slate from there.
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How do I want this to feel?
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How do I want this to look?
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Yeah.
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I I mean, there was a couple of different spots that I've been looking at, and they were all gonna be so much work to try to make the best of it and to try to figure out whether it was like a random poll in the middle of the design.
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The lease was crazy, or just like, I don't know, just walking it, just like never, it just didn't feel right until I went into the space that I'm in right now.
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And as soon as I walked in, I was like, this is it.
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It's like when you find the house that you want or the person that you want to date with, you know what I mean?
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It's like, okay, like this is it.
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And that's how I felt when I walked into this space.
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And I just I had a vision for it.
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Uh I had a Pinterest board that I had been like saving things on for years and years.
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And so I just circled back to that.
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I wanted it to be light and airy, but warm and cozy at the same time, which completely contradicts each other.
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But I feel like I accomplished that.
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I just wanted a place that was calming for people to look forward to coming to every day.
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Life is crazy.
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And so to be able to leave everything at the door and be able to come into a space and just give yourself 50 minutes, or if you're in a 30-minute session, to just solely focus on yourself is just so important.
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And I just wanted to create a place that people look forward to coming to every day.
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Love it.
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Well, tell us a little bit about the space.
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What does it look like?
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Somebody goes in there.
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So you walk in and it's our entryway lobby area.
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We have retail, grip socks for sale.
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Then we have a little sitting area.
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Um, and then to your right, there's the reformer room, and there are private sessions and group classes in the reformer room.
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I'm comprehensively certified, which means that I am certified on all the different apparatuses or equipment.
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And so we have reformers, there's a chair, we have a barrel and a trapeze tower or Cadillac.
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And then you can enter in the next room behind the reformer room, and that's the mat room.
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So there's mat group classes back there.
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And then I have two private rooms in the back from the mat room.
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One is for private sessions, and then the other room, um, there is a woman named Stacy who rents it out from Revive.
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So she does like all the IV hydration drips and everything back there.
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Yeah.
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Um, so if you're ever in need of anything like that, or she has all the vitamin infusions.
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Um I've been wanting to try some of those.
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Maybe I'll come out of your place and do that.
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Yeah, she does like NAD and like all the all the stuff all the slubs are doing right now.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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It's awesome.
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Very cool.
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Well, let's do a little Pilates 101.
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Okay.
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But they it was just a one or two time thing.
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Bring us back to the basics of Pilates.
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What is it and what's the intent?
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Well, it's not stretching, which everyone thinks that it is.
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Everybody thinks stretching.
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It is, it's a very challenging but very rewarding workout.
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It strengthens you from the inside out.
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Like when you go to the gym, like you're thinking biceps, quads, like all of your large outer muscles that you can see pretty instantly once you start working out.
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Pilates works those muscles, but it also works all of your little stabilizer muscles and the smaller muscles that you need to develop those larger muscles so that you don't get injured.
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Pilates was started as a form of rehab and exercise.
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And so it does have so many rehab qualities to it.
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People get it confused with yoga.
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It's more of a like, not like I shouldn't say it's more of a workout, but it's just different.
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We're doing reps and sets of things as opposed to flowing through a movement, which we do sometimes, but or holding a movement, which we also do sometimes.
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But I would say, like, more so we're gonna do two sets of something and we're gonna do it 10 times or something like that.
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So it's it's a little different than what everyone I feel like thinks that it is.
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Even all my friends, even though I've been teaching for it's gonna be 10 years in the fall, they're like, oh, how's yoga going?
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I'm like, Pilates.
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Not yoga, not yoga.
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It's such a great form of exercise and it's great on its own, but it's also even better when you incorporate it into your already existing workout regimen, whether you're an athlete, you know, it's great for any sport that has any kind of rotation in it or any physical power sports like running and things like that.
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It's great for that.
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Lifting, it's a great complement to that as well.
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And it's great for everyone.
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My youngest client's 10 and my oldest client's 99 years old.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah.
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So it's literally for everybody and it makes you feel great.
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And it's things that you don't realize until you start doing it.
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And then you're like, oh my gosh, like I'm driving in my car and I'm sitting up taller, or I just turn back to reach back and grab something out of the back seat, and I could rotate more, or I could get in and out of the car more easily, or when you wake up, you're not in pain.
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It has so many benefits to it outside of the physical, like looking good.
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Right.
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Um, there's just so many awesome benefits to it and for everybody.
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And do you use resistance as part of your bodies at all?
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The equipment has springs that are attached to it.
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And so the different springs are different tensions.
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So some of them are heavier than others.
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And depending on what we're doing, we will want to add more spring.
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And then sometimes we take springs away to make it more challenging.
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But then sometimes adding more springs on certain moves makes it more challenging.
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All of the equipment was created to make the mat work more accessible.
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So you're technically supposed to start on the mat and build a foundation and then graduate to each piece of equipment.
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Okay.
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And then go back to the mat because it's you against gravity and you don't have that support from the springs to help you do certain things.
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With that said, I think there are still some things that are still more challenging to do on the reformer or on the Cadillac, but um than there than it is on the mat.
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But otherwise, it's it's all hard.
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Right.
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And everyone's like, when does it get easier?
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And it might feel like you can flow through something easier or you can hold things for longer, but that doesn't make it necessarily easier.
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You're just getting stronger.
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And the stronger you get, the deeper your mind-body connection becomes.
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From there, you can hold that pose for longer, or you can find that breath to help you connect to the core a little bit deeper.
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And you're just gonna get more out of it.
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It doesn't necessarily become easier.
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You're just able to connect to different muscles differently.
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Right.
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So that mind-body connection, how important is that?
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That's everything.
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That's the whole kit and cabood of Pilates.
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Yeah.
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It's like breath, mind-body connection, concentration, control, balance, all of the things that you need in your everyday life to live your life, you know, being as pain-free as you can, you know, that's also our goal, too, is to help you do all of the things that you're doing in your everyday life and but help you do them better.
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Okay.
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How do you, as the instructor, facilitate that in a class?
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How to get them that mind-body connection?
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How do you help?
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There's a lot of arm movements, there's a lot of emphasis in your words and like if you're squeezing something, or you know, you try to have your words reflect the what they're feeling or what the move is.
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But, you know, it's, you know, what Pilates is great for the clients because, like I said earlier, you have to leave whatever it is that you have going on during your day or life, you technically really need to leave it at the door because you're not going to get as much out of it if you're thinking about all what you need to get at the grocery store.
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You have to be in that full mind-body connection to get everything out of it and all of the amazing benefits.
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But same thing as an instructor, if you are having a bad day, you have to leave that at the door because you have to show up for the one to however many people are in front of you.
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And so it's as much of a therapy session for an instructor as it is for the client because I just took 50 minutes to focus on you.
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And I can't think about what happened before I walked in the studio or what I need to do afterwards.
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I am 100% focused on you.
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And my mind-body connection to you is the break that I get.
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And then the mind-body connection to yourself when you're on the reformer.
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It's a break from your everyday life too.
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So it's just, it's the best.
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But that's why I wanted to open up my own business.
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Cause like I said, I just wanted to help people feel their best and live their life pain-free and feel happy and accomplished about themselves.
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Love it.
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Now you're talking about the stabilizer muscles.
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That's no joke there.
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I've even when I was in phenomenal shape lifting all the time, I tried some Pilates and I really, I really felt that.
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Yeah, it is a humbling form of exercise.
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It is humbling for the beginner, for the advanced mover, for the athlete.
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You get people in here.
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That can deadlift however many pounds or do a leg press.
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And it's like, and then you have them try to do any kind of core work and they're like, wait a second, I didn't know my muscles could do that.
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And so, like I said, it's just, it's humbling and then makes you want to keep coming back because you're like, that was really hard, but you feel so awesome and proud of yourself afterwards that you can't wait to come back.
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So it's the best.
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Love it.
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How long's a typical session, either group or it depends.
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So I have some clients that do 30 minutes once a week, 30 minutes twice a week.
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And then a group class is 50 minutes long, though.
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Okay.
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Do you have certain times throughout the week where it's just standard for groups?
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Yeah.
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So we have group classes depending on the day, but usually 6 and 7 a.m., 9 a.m.
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noon, uh 4 30, 5, or 5 30.
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Okay.
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And then Saturdays we have 8, 9, and 10.
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Okay.
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Do you have any drop-in type stuff if people want to try it out or is it all Yeah?
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So Matt class, uh, Matt or my studio mat class, you can come and go as you please.
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The reformer, if you have not done reformer before, I do require three private sessions before you get on the reformer, just so you are aware of how it works because it is a moving piece of equipment and there is room for injury.
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Um, and there's just a lot of different lingo and things that you need to have like a little bit of exposure to before you go into a group class, just so you're not completely lost.
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Um, it helps you get the most out of your group class and out of your exercise.
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You don't feel like you just wasted 50 minutes.
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So that one-on-one attention for those first three sessions is just very beneficial.
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I have found out.
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Cause I've taught in studios that don't require it and then do require it.
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And then some classes have different levels and some don't.
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But, you know, having someone that's never done Pilates come into a level two, that's not fair to all the other people that have signed up that are actual level twos.
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And um it helps too for the instructor to get to know the new person before they come in because maybe those three sessions aren't enough and maybe you need to do another five, or maybe you realize, hey, I love this one-on-one attention.
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I don't really want to go in a group.
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I want to just want to stay in the private sessions or reformers, great, but I want to actually maybe stick with just Matt.
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So, you know, it just gives you a little bit of a learning experience as far as what it is that you're wanting and it helps us get to know each other before you're in a room with seven other people.
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Absolutely.
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Um, because I have eight reformers, so it's more like a boutique space.
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Um, that way with the eight reformers, it allows our instructors to actually give you that attention so we can each keep an eye on everybody, make sure everyone's holding the right form.
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And if there is anyone having an issue, we can kind of get to you quickly and also keep an eye on everybody else too.
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Right.
00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:44.160
So still shy of a year in business, and this is your first business.
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What are some lessons you've learned so far along the way?
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The lessons that I've learned.
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Well, the first thing that's just been probably the most like wow is just the amount of talking that I had to do.
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Um, when I first started, I was teaching probably 56 hours a week, sometimes more, sometimes a little less, but it was definitely 52 plus hours a week.
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And it was just so much talking, so much talking.
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And so in between sessions and classes, I'm still talking to clients, chit-chatting about other stuff.
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And even when I would get home, I would tell my husband, I'm like, I need 10 to 20 minutes of not talking and hearing myself talk.
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Like you can maybe talk to me, but um, I just need a little bit of silence right now.
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Cause in a Pilates session, if you've never taken one, you are pretty much talking about the side.
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Yes, I am talking the whole thing.
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Cause your mind, it's so easy to just stray and like I said, start thinking about what you're doing later or something that happened earlier that week or the day.
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And so I find that the constant verbiage of things and just reminders of things to think about is important to just keep you into your body.
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There are little pockets of time where I allow you to feel that.
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But then, you know, there's just there's just so many things that you need to be thinking about and trying to connect to when you're doing the moves.
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So I find that it's helpful to just have that reiteration and the reminders throughout the class.
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:07.759
Yeah, absolutely.
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I'll throw out a congrats to you.
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For the 40 under 40.
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Yes.
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Yeah, just nominated for that.
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That's cool, right?
00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.960
Very, very happy, very grateful that I got nominated for that.
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Yeah, when I moved here, I told my family, I said, I don't know what it's gonna be for, but I want that before I'm 40.
00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:25.680
Oh, yeah.
00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:30.160
And I told them, I was like, if I'm 39 and have not been nominated, so one of you guys needs to do it.
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Nominated.
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Yeah.
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Um, and they were like, I don't think that's how it works.
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But anyway, so I'm glad that it happened.
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But um called it then, yeah.
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So I'm so grateful to have been nominated and especially alongside like all the other awesome people.
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And yeah, it's it's a cool, it's a cool accomplishment.
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Yeah.
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But as far as like light lessons go and things that I've learned, I mean, running a business by yourself is not for the faint heart, especially when it's a full remodel and starting from scratch, there's no one there to hold your hand or really help guide you.
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I remember I had some questions about something, and so I had to call a number like for through the state of Illinois, and they're like, Oh, we don't know, you're calling the wrong place, like call this number.
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So then I called that number.
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And then they're like, No, you gotta call this other office, which is who I just called, who told me to call these people.
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And they're like, Well, try this.
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And I'm like, what is going on right now?
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It was like, there's just no guidebook on it.
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And so it's really just a learning experience.
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:28.240
And I know within this first year, I'm probably gonna make several mistakes.
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And I probably know that I already have.
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And I think that's just all part of the learning process.
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Being a beginner at anything is hard and it's humbling, and it's such a learning experience.
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And so I think just knowing that I'm gonna make those mistakes and just learn from them and do better next go around is all that I can really ask for.
00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:51.519
I feel like my clients that come in, they're beginners, they're like, I'm nervous, I've never done this before.
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.759
I'm not very flexible, I'm not this.
00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:55.359
It's like, I know that's why you're here.
00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:59.599
Let me help you become stronger, become more mobile, become more flexible.
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:01.359
So it's the same thing about running a business.
00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:07.599
You might not know how to do things, and there's no true guidebook and lesson plan on how you're supposed to do this.
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:09.359
Cause also every state's different too.
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.240
And so it's just everything has been a learning experience.
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.599
And it'll continue to be that way.
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:14.559
Yeah, 100%.
00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:28.720
But I would say, like, if you do not have the hustle and the passion to start your own business, I just would maybe wait because you won't get paid and you everything else comes before you.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:29.200
Right.
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:36.079
And so it's a lot of late nights and a lot of early mornings, which I am not a morning person and I teach 6 a.m.
00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.519
classes three days a week.
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:38.960
So you have to kind of be one.
00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:39.839
You have to turn yourself into.
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.559
I'm like, all right, everybody, let's go.
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:45.440
Like, you know, we're gonna start, you know, it's like grab your weights, grab your ball.
00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:46.640
We're doing all the things.
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:56.799
But had you told me that this would be my life, A, that I would be living in Springfield and owning a business here, and also just having my dream studio, I would be like, you're crazy.
00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:06.960
So I'm just I'm again like it all circles back just to being so grateful that I've had the opportunities to be able to do this and to have all the people that have helped me along the way to get here.
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:09.599
It's just been such a rewarding experience.
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:18.799
And I hope that, you know, I'm passing on, you know, joy and happiness to everyone else that comes through the doors and that they feel accomplished and awesome about themselves when they leave.
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:20.559
So it's just like my everyday goal.
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:21.200
Love it.
00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:21.440
Yeah.
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:27.920
Now we talk a lot in the 10x world about most people underestimate the amount of action it takes to reach a goal or to reach a target.
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:30.640
And that is very much the case with starting a business.
00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:36.880
People underestimate the amount of time, effort, and work, and everything that goes into a successful business.
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:37.359
Right.
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:39.920
And it's not even just the stuff that people see either.
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.440
It's everything that goes on behind.
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:42.960
It's like, yeah, it's wild.
00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:43.279
Yeah.
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:43.920
It is wild.
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:44.960
No doubt about it.
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.160
What are some ways you've marketed yourself throughout this first year?
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:49.279
Getting your name out there for folks.
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:57.599
Yeah, that's probably the thing that I have not had the time for so far, just because, again, I've been teaching so much and there's only so many hours in the day.
00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:59.519
But now I just hired my first instructor.
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:11.359
So I feel like that's a huge accomplishment because now I am able to do some things during the day, like during normal working business hours and contact people trying to get my name out there.
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.079
I hope that uh the, you know, the 40 for 40 thing kind of helps.
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:18.160
I've already had two people call me, three people to today call me to get set up for private sessions.
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:18.640
Oh, nice.
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:24.640
They haven't heard it from the 40 for 40, but I just through like word of mouth, fortunately did grow up here.
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:27.200
And so I know people, my sister, my family.
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.799
And so I feel like, you know, there's zero degree of separation in Springfield.
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:32.160
And so everyone knows everybody.
00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:42.400
And so that honestly has been very helpful in this case because I'm teaching people that work with my sister or that grew up with my parents or that I was friends with when I was little.
00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:46.160
So it's just cool to have that opportunity to teach all of these people.
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:50.799
Loved all my clients in Utah and in LA, but you know, they didn't go to grade school with my aunt.
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:55.200
And it's just it's fun to, I don't know, have it all just kind of like circle back to that.
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:55.759
I don't know.
00:30:55.839 --> 00:31:00.000
It's and then to be able to develop these relationships with these people just like on my own.
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:01.279
Yeah, it's been it's fun.
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:01.680
Yeah.
00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:03.039
No, and you're in a great location.
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:04.960
As we had mentioned, you're at the in the gables.
00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:06.000
Yes, gables, yeah.
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:09.359
So that's perfect location for pulling that west side right there for you.
00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:19.359
So right next to Wealthy Juice, which I feel like is a great neighbor to have just because they're health conscious and lots of people go next door and get a smoothie before or after class or a little snack.
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:22.000
I'm there every day eating and drinking smoothies.
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:22.640
There you go.
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:24.480
So I know I'm giving them business.
00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:24.720
Right.
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.880
There might be some collaboration you guys could do there.
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:27.680
I know.
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:29.920
So it's yeah, and they're and they're awesome.
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:31.279
So it's a great location.
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:34.079
It's there's the studio has so much natural light.
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:35.599
It's just such a happy place.
00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:36.799
I love being there.
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:44.880
Even when I was there 56 hours and I hired my instructor Courtney, I was like, I'm gonna be sad not being here all the time just because I love it so much.
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.119
And during a storm, it's my favorite place to be.
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.599
And then when it's snowing, it's like a reverse snow globe.
00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:51.200
It's yeah, I just I love it.
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:52.559
And when it's sunny, it's beautiful too.
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:57.440
No, I bet you do get some good natural light in there because you do have some nice big windows like all around on the side.
00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:00.960
But it's all worth it.
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:02.480
It's all for the vibe, right?
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:04.799
So is that what one of the reasons why you pick that place?
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:09.119
So it's the energy from the sun is very therapeutic.
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:14.720
And when you're on the reformer and you're looking out in an evening class, the sunset out there is just so gorgeous.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:19.920
I have a client who always has to have, she's like, I need this spot so that I can see the sunset during class.
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:21.440
Yeah, um, it's such a happy space.
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:21.920
I love it.
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:23.279
And I hope everyone else loves it too.
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:25.359
One of these days here, real soon, we're gonna do something.
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:26.400
You're gonna show me some of these moves.
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:33.920
Yes, would love to get you like mic'd up and on the reformer because everyone thinks like, oh, Pilates is for girls, but it was actually started by a man, four men.
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:34.240
Yeah.
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:44.000
Um, so it was started during the war and world war one, and it was meant to help rehab soldiers and prisoners who were injured.
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:44.960
I didn't realize that.
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:46.880
So it was started by Joseph Pilates.
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:48.400
Oh, I was I would have got that right.
00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:49.759
I was just about to ask you, was it Joseph?
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:51.519
Pilates.
00:32:51.759 --> 00:33:02.640
Um, so he was a German boxer and he fled Germany, was living in England, and was captured there as a foreign alien and put into an internment camp.
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:12.559
And that's where he developed most of the Pilates regimen, and where I would say the bulk of the moves were developed.
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:18.960
And there's a story which it can't be confirmed because the the records from then were not kept well.
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:19.359
Sure.
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:21.119
But most people agree that it's true.
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:23.359
So, you know, don't quote me, but you can quote me.
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:28.480
But uh influenza broke out in the camp, and everyone that was doing Pilates did not get sick.
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:28.880
Really?
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:33.279
And everyone else who was not doing his his daily exercises got influenza.
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:35.519
So I think that that's so interesting.
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:46.880
Um, and then after he was released from the camp, he went back to Germany and then he was getting recruited by the police force to train the police, and he was like, I don't want anything to do with this.
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:54.720
So then he left Germany, came to America, and was in the same building as what is now the New York Ballet Company.
00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:58.880
And so all the dancers that got injured were sent to him for rehab.
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:09.199
And so I think that's where it became this more for like ballet dancers and females, even though he had tons of male clients because they were also dancers, but all they were all sent to be rehabbed.
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:12.800
And from there, uh, then they would go back to their dance.
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:18.880
Some of them ended up retiring and getting trained by him and then going off and teaching Pilates for themselves.
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:21.280
Yeah, it's such a fascinating history.
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:22.239
That is, yeah.
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:25.119
With the influenza not getting that, that's right.
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:25.760
Right, I know.
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:32.000
Yeah, I mean, because like the breath and just like again, what it does to your organs and to your lungs and everything.
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:37.360
And like opera singers were big clients of his in the beginning, just because you need that lung capacity.
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:41.440
Um, and there he had all different kinds of crazy little breathing tools and stuff that he made.
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:44.880
But yeah, he was such like an inventor and funny looking guy.
00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:51.119
He was like absolutely jacked, yeah, but always wore this like little, these like little, very tiny shorts, very tiny shorts.
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:52.639
I don't even know if they would classify as shorts.
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:53.360
Right.
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:54.400
More speedo-esque.
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:55.599
Yes, very much so.
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:56.079
Yes.
00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:58.559
But yeah, he was way ahead of his time.
00:34:58.639 --> 00:34:58.719
Yeah.
00:34:58.880 --> 00:34:59.119
Way.
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:10.320
But I think now this whole pli's only for girls or the Pilates princess vibe, much at all, it's it is a very controlled exercise, but there's so much power and strength behind it.
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:18.159
And there's so many very serious athletes that love Pilates and actors like Sylvester Stallone's a big fan.
00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:21.119
There's not really too many feminine qualities about that man.
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:22.079
So you know what I mean?
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.079
So if Rocky's doing it, right?
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:24.639
Exactly.
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:25.440
Exactly.
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:26.480
So that's awesome.
00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:27.519
No, I'm looking forward to it.
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:29.360
Well, Bailey, so much great stuff today.
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:31.679
I always like to close with these last couple of things.
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:38.559
Let's give the audience a piece of advice, one on the personal side, one on the professional side to help them elevate their life or business.
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:45.679
I just think that not giving up on something just because it's hard or giving up on yourself because you're going through a hard time.
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.360
I think, you know, my mom got me this plaque that said not to spoil the ending, but everything's gonna be okay.
00:35:51.599 --> 00:36:03.920
And so I think that just keeping your head down and grinding through whatever it is that you're going through, whether it's that happy time that you're gonna get to enjoy or the hard times, you just gotta keep on powering through the storm and it's all gonna end up being okay.
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:04.719
Love it.
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.440
And a piece of professional advice from your first year?
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:17.920
Man, if you have a gut feeling that you are meant to do something and that you are destined to do something, even though it's terrifying and intimidating, I go for it.
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.920
Failure is very scary, but regret is even scarier.
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:23.039
Love that.
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:23.440
Yeah.
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:28.960
And is there anything we can do community-wide to help all of us here elevate Springfield or the surrounding communities?
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.679
Just continuing supporting local businesses.
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.199
Um, I'm been such a huge since I moved back here.
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:37.280
I'm like, we need to make Springfield great again.
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:38.960
There has so much potential.
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:43.519
And when I grew up here, there was so much to do and so much going on.
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:49.920
And I feel like every time I get on Facebook, you know, on 217, whatever, it's there's another business is closed and whatnot.
00:36:50.079 --> 00:37:06.960
So I think that I know life is expensive, but instead of, and I am guilty of this, but just because of the easy factor of getting on Amazon and ordering something, like go to local businesses and find a gift from somebody like District 23, Gypsy Soul, Kennedy Sue, Bella Boutique.
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.360
I mean, there's and uh better with Bubbly.
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:16.480
Like there's so many cute spaces and stores that you can shop at that have way better stuff than you're gonna find on Amazon.
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:17.119
Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:18.880
So I think just support local.
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:21.920
Um, and now that I'm a local business, I feel that way even more so.
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:30.079
I just think it's so important that we continue to do so so that more people then have the courage to open up a local business because they know their community is gonna support them.
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:30.559
Right.
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:31.119
Absolutely.
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:34.480
When we all work together, we grow together, absolutely create something great.
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:35.440
No doubt about it.
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.880
And we can all continue to make a conscious effort to support local.
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.039
I mean, just like these shoes here, these are ASICs.
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:44.719
I could have gone online and got them there, but I went down to Springfield Running Center and got them there and still.
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:45.440
Nice, very nice.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:45.760
Yes.
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:46.639
They're right there.
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:48.480
Why not support local when you can?
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:48.880
Right.
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:53.840
You know, there might not be everything you buy, you might not be able to get local, but when you can, let's make it local.
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:54.400
Absolutely.
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:58.639
I everyone laughs at me because I'm like one of the five people that still shop at the mall.
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:04.400
But even at American Eagle, it's like I know it's not a local store, but there are people there that are local that have jobs.
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:09.440
And if I see, like I will check stock and if they have it in store, I will go in and get it.
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:19.039
And then I will have them order what I want from the online so that they get the store gets credit for it, so that it's not just like drop shipping from their online store.
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:25.119
So even just little things like that, it's probably a lot more work, but um, the mall, don't even get me started on that.
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:26.320
It makes me so sad.
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:33.599
I'm like, I will be the person that like when they're cutting down like an old redwood tree that changed themselves to it, I will be changing myself to the white oath tree.
00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:35.440
Because I'm like, you cannot take it.
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:36.400
You cannot take it.
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:36.719
Right.
00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:38.000
It has to stay open.
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:39.760
So yeah, I mean, do what you can.
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:44.559
I know convenience is hard because we all have busy lives and life is expensive now.
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:46.880
And so you can always find everything cheaper on Amazon.
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:52.800
But also, if you take the time, you might be able to find something a little bit better too in your local community and local stores.
00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:53.519
Absolutely.
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:57.280
Yeah, my my older daughter said something very similar when she was on here.
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:02.800
She said, Yeah, just make an effort to shop in person at these places instead of instead of always going online for the show.
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.119
Right.
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:07.440
And you might come to a shop downtown that you're planning on going to and then see, like, oh, wait, I haven't been in there.
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:07.679
Right.
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:09.599
And then hop in there and then you find something great.
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:10.639
So you never know.
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:11.039
Yeah.
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:12.159
Support local folks.
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:15.360
In the meantime, we're gonna go ahead and start getting our what would it be?
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:18.400
Ms G A hats or make Springfield Great Again.
00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:19.360
Yes, yes hats.
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:20.559
We'll go ahead and start getting those.
00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:22.559
I was like, Madison Square Garden.
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:24.480
I was doing it in my head, make sure I get this right.
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:26.400
Yeah, M S G A, Make Springfield Great Again.
00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:27.599
Yeah, we'll go ahead and start getting those.
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:28.800
Yeah, that'll be fun.
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:29.199
Yeah.
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:34.639
We'll remind everybody if they want to come do some Pilates with you, take a class, whatever, hey, where do they go to learn more?
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:40.000
Go to Pulse Pilates Studio.com or you can reach out to me directly.
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:41.599
My number is on our website.
00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:44.719
You can message us through Instagram, Facebook if you have any questions.
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.880
Um, but you can also find us on the Mind Body app.
00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:53.199
So if you are already on that app through different studios in town, you are welcome to just go on there directly, sign up for class.
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.840
But just remember that Matt class, anyone can come to reformer classes.
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:01.440
I just need you to have that prior experience before coming to a group class.
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:10.079
And if you don't have that, then I will happily get that for you with those three private sessions so that you are ready to rock and ready to jump into group class after those sessions are up.
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:10.880
Let's go.
00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:12.800
Well, appreciate you spending some time with me today.
00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:14.079
Thank you so much for having me.
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:14.719
I appreciate it.
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:16.480
Looking forward to our follow-up here.
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:17.119
Absolutely, yes.
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:18.400
I'm excited to stabilize your muscles.
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:19.360
Can't wait, can't wait.
00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:21.360
Yeah, you'll have to do the Sylvester Stallone voice.
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:21.920
I'll do that.
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:22.480
That'll be fun.
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:22.960
That'll be fun.
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:23.760
I can I'll work on that.
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:25.039
I watched enough Rocky in the past.
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:25.519
There you go.
00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:26.800
I could do that pretty good.
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:28.079
So love it, love it.
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All right.
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When I first walked into Shudokong Karate Club, I was just looking for a way to get stronger.
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Along the way, we're gonna bring in the change makers from our community that are already elevating.
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And we are back.
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Hey, joining me in the studio now, Bailey Sullivan from Pulse Pilates Studio.
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Bailey, thank you for joining us.
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How are we doing?
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Thanks for having me.
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I appreciate it.
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Forward to, well, quite frankly, learning a little bit about Pilates, but also learning about your studio that just opened up, what, like seven months ago?
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Right.
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But before we do all that, let's learn a little bit about Bailey.
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Tell us a little about your background.
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Well, I uh was born in Springfield.
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I moved to Park City, Utah when I was 12.
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And so that's where I consider where I grown up mostly because that's where I've lived the longest.
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Um from there, I lived in Los Angeles, went back to Utah, and then came back to LA and then came to Springfield.
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Okay.
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So what I went to LA for college, I have a background in uh fashion product development.
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I went to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
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And I also have a degree in English from a college in Salt Lake City.
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And then my mom was getting her training through a small studio in Salt Lake, and she was like, Hey, have you ever thought about teaching Pilates?
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Because I was in the fashion industry and I was looking for something with a little bit more depth.
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And she was like, I feel like you'd be really great at it.
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And she was teaching me because she needed teaching hours.
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And so I was doing it quite a bit.
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And I was like, Yeah, maybe I'll look into it.
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And so she ended up leaving the training that she was doing, and she and I went through the balanced body comprehensively trained program together.
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Okay.
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So you did work in the fashion industry for a year?
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Yeah.
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But when I graduated, it was during the recession.
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Right.
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Um, and so there were no jobs for new graduates.
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So there were people who had 30 years of experience that were taking entry-level jobs.
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I worked for a fashion magazine for a very short while selling advertising.
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Sure.
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And that was just not my jam.
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I was like, I want to do something creative.
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I was an intern for them first and was doing all the photo shoots and runway shows, all this stuff, and loved it.
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But once I got hired, it was doing something that was not my cup of tea.
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And so yeah, then I explored other avenues and did buying for a little bit.
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And then I did visual merchandising for different stores.
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And then Pilates just kind of fell into my lap.
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Yeah.
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But I've been doing Pilates for 20 years, I would say.
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My mom got me a DVD and I took that to college with me.
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And so I would make my roommates do it with me.
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I'm like, all right, guys, let's go do Pilates.
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And then who knew that this was going to be my career?
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Right.
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But yeah, it all obviously worked out the way that it was supposed to.
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So, no thoughts about that in high school that hey, maybe I'm gonna do this as a career.
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No, I always knew I wanted to go into the fashion industry.
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Um, I was dead set on that.
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And so I lived that dream and it was awesome.
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And part of me still sometimes misses just the fun side of the fashion degree.
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I just was wanting more depth and more meaningful everyday life.
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I feel like I get to genuinely help people in their everyday lives and help them feel great and make them feel stronger and improve their day-to-day life.
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And so it's just so rewarding.
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Not that there's not rewarding aspects to the fashion industry.
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It's just, I would say, not as rewarding as teaching Pilates.
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So Park City, you big skier?
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Yeah, I ski and I snowboard.
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Grew up skiing and then I switched to snowboarding.
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Uh, and then I did that for, I don't know, probably like 10 years.
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I worked for a skiing only resort.
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And my bosses, they were like, look, we love you, but you got to give up the snowboarding thing.
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We're gonna get you a free pair of boots.
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You're gonna be a skier.
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And I fought it for as long as I could.
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And then finally I was like, all right, I'll give it a shot.
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And now I'm much happier on two sets of boards under my feet than being attached to the one.
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But I still like snowboarding.
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I haven't gone in a while, but I don't know.
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I've been kind of toying with the idea of jumping back over and seeing what it feels like.
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But you do still ski quite a bit then?
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Yeah.
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So my parents still live out there.
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They live in here part-time, but they also live in Park City.
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So I try to go out.
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I try to ski like three or four times a year.
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Um, but with since opening the business, I knew going into this year that I was not going to be skiing.
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So yeah, this is the first winter I have not been in Utah since I was 12.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, I bet you Pilates probably helps a lot with the balance and everything.
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Yeah, and just like the core strength and the leg strength and just like your proprioception and just where you are in space, which is also very helpful when you have to be aware of all the people around you calling it vast you.
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So, or trailing in front of you.
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So, yeah, it's it's definitely beneficial for skiing, but really for all sports.
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Yeah, I bet.
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Well, any recommendations for any Springfield folks that are traveling and doing a little vacation out in Park City?
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Any recommendations for as far as like food or where to stay?
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Anywhere, anything since you've been out there so much.
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Anything you could tell them.
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So you got to hit up High West Distillery.
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Okay.
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They have the best whiskey battered Choshito peppers.
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It's a whiskey batter with fried and the sauce, the dipping sauce they have is so bomb.
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No name saloon has a phenomenal burger that's not like touristy, it's a local joint, but uh it's definitely on everyone's tourist list.
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But they have a great burger, it's just a great bar in general.
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You gotta hit up Main Street if you're there, doing all the shops and things.
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Butcher's is great, Boneyard.
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If you're gonna be up in Deer Valley, Stein Erickson Lodge always has great food.
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The Goldener Hirsch, there's so many great places.
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Yeah.
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That's like what when I go, I'm like, I gotta hit all the spots.
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Yeah.
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No, I've never actually been to Park City.
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I've been around, I've been to Salt Lake City, but I've never actually stayed in Park City.
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Park City's awesome, but Salt Lake's great too.
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It loves I lived in Salt Lake for a handful of years and loved it.
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I feel like there's so much to do down there, and it definitely has a different kind of a nightlife.
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I feel like if you are younger and moving out there, I would probably live in Salt Lake just because Park City is a, I mean, Salt Lake's so expensive too, but Park City is outrageously expensive now.
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But yeah, Salt Lake is a great place to live.
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Yeah.
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So what drew you to LA?
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Was it the fashion program at the college or something?
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It was a relationship.
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Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
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And we were doing long distance for about on and off for six years.
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And so it was just like, all right, one of us has to figure this out.
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So I sold my house, moved out there.
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I was already teaching at the time.
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Um, and it had kind of always been my plan to like, okay, I'm gonna get certified, I'll teach a little bit in Utah.
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And then I was always gonna move to LA.
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Um, and so I lived there for three and a half years, but I taught in Utah.
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I taught at the University of Utah and Go Youths, huge youth student football.
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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Um, we don't have a major league football team.
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And so everyone's diehard youths fan or BYU, which don't get me started on that.
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But BYU and then definitely know BYU.
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No blue, it's all red.
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Um, so that's why I appreciate your red decor.
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But yeah, so from there, you University of Utah, I taught there, and then I taught at a a golf community at their clubhouse.
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And then from there moved to LA and taught at a couple different studios in West Hollywood, Hollywood, and then in Brentwood also.
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Awesome.
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Yeah, very cool places to be around.
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Awesome place.
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LA's awesome.
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I gets a bad rap, but it is one of the greatest places to live.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Just have you have everything at your fingertips and food and shopping, and there's just so much to do.
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And then just the culture.
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I remember just daily getting ready, and you can hear people speaking three to four different languages outside of your window.
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And I think that that's so cool.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Like you said, on the news, you might get might get a bad rap, especially for maybe Midwestern folks and things like that.
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But it has to be so cool.
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The culture and the vibe, just everything at your fingertips.
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Well, every big city is going to have its not awesome qualities.
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And I have not been to LA in a couple of years, but it's gotten rough for, I would say.
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But uh, if you can just like look past all that, it's really awesome.
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Like my dad came to visit one time and he was like, What are you doing?
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And I was like, What do you mean?
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He was like, This place is a dump.
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I go, No, this place is awesome.
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You gotta look past the trash, look past all the dirt and the broken windows in certain places.
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I was like, What about the dinner last night?
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Was that not the greatest posse you've ever had in your life?
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And he's like, Yeah, I'm like, see?
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So it's worth it.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Awesome.
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Well, after being at all those different places, you decided to open up your studio right here in Springfield.
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I know.
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I did it there, could have done it in Park City, but you did it here.
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It's so awesome.
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I love it so much.
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Um, during COVID, I was out in LA and I had flown back a couple, because my parents were here, my sister was here.
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So I had gone down to my brother's in San Diego a few times and flown back here a few times.
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And my dad was like, why don't you just come and stay for a month?
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And I was like, All right.
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So I was here for four weeks, and there was just something in deep down that was like, you need to move here.
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And I usually ignore that voice.
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But I had never lived in Springfield as an adult.
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I was having so much fun.
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I know the world was shut down, it was not an okay time.
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But my sister's a teacher, and during the school year, I don't really get to see her.
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And when I did not live here, I would come home for like a week during the summer.
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And so I got that week with her and my nieces and stuff, and it was so fun.
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But having a month with them and riding bikes, and we had our inflatable pool out on the driveway.
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And I was like, this is pretty awesome.
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Right.
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So I don't know.
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I was like, I feel like maybe I should move back.
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And so I told my aunt first.
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I was like, don't tell anybody because everyone's gonna freak out.
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But I'm thinking about moving home.
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And she was like, What?
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I was like, I know.
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Even when I say it out loud, I can't believe it.
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But I went back to LA because work opened back up.
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So I flew back out and I was so sad to leave.
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And I think that's when I knew, all right, I think LA's not gonna be LA, the LA that I love for a while.
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Right.
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It's gonna take a while for things to open back up and for people to feel safe going outside and everything.
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And so I was like, I think I'm gonna move back to Springfield.
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I can't work in LA because Pilates studies were at the bottom of the totem pole.
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So it was just like, I don't know, I feel like I should just move back here.
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And so I was like, I'm gonna get a house, I'm gonna flip it, live in it for two years, and then I'm gonna move somewhere.
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Is it gonna be back to LA?
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Is it gonna be back to Park City?
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Is it going to be in my head?
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I was maybe thinking Nashville, but then I got set up on a blind date and we're married now.
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Okay.
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And so obviously I'm staying, but I've been back for it'll be six years in October, right?
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Okay, all right.
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Well, you you're seven months into the business here.
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So the the whole startup is is very fresh.
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Is this the very first full business you've ever done?
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Yes, yeah.
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So I always I think every Pilates instructor is like, I want to have my own studio one day.
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Um, and that was always in the back of my brain as far as something that I wanted, whether that was on by myself or if I was going to partner with somebody.
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But I just got to a point in my life and in my career where I was like, I know that I will regret this if I don't do this.
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And I was even talking to my dad before I signed the lease.
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And he was like, Do you really want to do this?
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And I said, I, if I try this and fail, I will be happy that I tried it.
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I will regret not giving this a shot, probably for forever.
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And so I need to just do this.
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It's gonna be really hard.
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I'm not gonna be able to ski.
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Right.
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And uh, I'm gonna have to work every single day, all day long, and I'm ready for it.
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And so he was like, All right, Godspeed.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Right.
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And so I signed my lease, did a full remodel, did a full gut.
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I got new floors from staff carpet.
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Kim's staff helped me do so much there.
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Um, between her and my husband, I don't know if I could have done it without them.
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Just because Kim was working overtime behind the scenes, and my husband working his full manual labor job all day long was then coming to the studio when he got home and helping me do all the things after hours.
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Um, it's completely morphed into everything that I could have wanted.
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I love it.
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Yeah.
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So walk us through the your thought process on well, picking the location, and then you had you have a blank slate from there.
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How do I want this to feel?
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How do I want this to look?
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Yeah.
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I I mean, there was a couple of different spots that I've been looking at, and they were all gonna be so much work to try to make the best of it and to try to figure out whether it was like a random poll in the middle of the design.
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The lease was crazy, or just like, I don't know, just walking it, just like never, it just didn't feel right until I went into the space that I'm in right now.
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And as soon as I walked in, I was like, this is it.
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It's like when you find the house that you want or the person that you want to date with, you know what I mean?
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It's like, okay, like this is it.
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And that's how I felt when I walked into this space.
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And I just I had a vision for it.
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Uh I had a Pinterest board that I had been like saving things on for years and years.
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And so I just circled back to that.
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I wanted it to be light and airy, but warm and cozy at the same time, which completely contradicts each other.
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But I feel like I accomplished that.
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I just wanted a place that was calming for people to look forward to coming to every day.
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Life is crazy.
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And so to be able to leave everything at the door and be able to come into a space and just give yourself 50 minutes, or if you're in a 30-minute session, to just solely focus on yourself is just so important.
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And I just wanted to create a place that people look forward to coming to every day.
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Love it.
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Well, tell us a little bit about the space.
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What does it look like?
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Somebody goes in there.
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So you walk in and it's our entryway lobby area.
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We have retail, grip socks for sale.
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Then we have a little sitting area.
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Um, and then to your right, there's the reformer room, and there are private sessions and group classes in the reformer room.
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I'm comprehensively certified, which means that I am certified on all the different apparatuses or equipment.
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And so we have reformers, there's a chair, we have a barrel and a trapeze tower or Cadillac.
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And then you can enter in the next room behind the reformer room, and that's the mat room.
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So there's mat group classes back there.
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And then I have two private rooms in the back from the mat room.
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One is for private sessions, and then the other room, um, there is a woman named Stacy who rents it out from Revive.
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So she does like all the IV hydration drips and everything back there.
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Yeah.
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Um, so if you're ever in need of anything like that, or she has all the vitamin infusions.
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Um I've been wanting to try some of those.
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Maybe I'll come out of your place and do that.
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Yeah, she does like NAD and like all the all the stuff all the slubs are doing right now.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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It's awesome.
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Very cool.
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Well, let's do a little Pilates 101.
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Okay.
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But they it was just a one or two time thing.
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Bring us back to the basics of Pilates.
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What is it and what's the intent?
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Well, it's not stretching, which everyone thinks that it is.
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Everybody thinks stretching.
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It is, it's a very challenging but very rewarding workout.
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It strengthens you from the inside out.
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Like when you go to the gym, like you're thinking biceps, quads, like all of your large outer muscles that you can see pretty instantly once you start working out.
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Pilates works those muscles, but it also works all of your little stabilizer muscles and the smaller muscles that you need to develop those larger muscles so that you don't get injured.
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Pilates was started as a form of rehab and exercise.
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And so it does have so many rehab qualities to it.
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People get it confused with yoga.
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It's more of a like, not like I shouldn't say it's more of a workout, but it's just different.
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We're doing reps and sets of things as opposed to flowing through a movement, which we do sometimes, but or holding a movement, which we also do sometimes.
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But I would say, like, more so we're gonna do two sets of something and we're gonna do it 10 times or something like that.
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So it's it's a little different than what everyone I feel like thinks that it is.
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Even all my friends, even though I've been teaching for it's gonna be 10 years in the fall, they're like, oh, how's yoga going?
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I'm like, Pilates.
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Not yoga, not yoga.
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It's such a great form of exercise and it's great on its own, but it's also even better when you incorporate it into your already existing workout regimen, whether you're an athlete, you know, it's great for any sport that has any kind of rotation in it or any physical power sports like running and things like that.
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It's great for that.
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Lifting, it's a great complement to that as well.
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And it's great for everyone.
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My youngest client's 10 and my oldest client's 99 years old.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah.
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So it's literally for everybody and it makes you feel great.
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And it's things that you don't realize until you start doing it.
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And then you're like, oh my gosh, like I'm driving in my car and I'm sitting up taller, or I just turn back to reach back and grab something out of the back seat, and I could rotate more, or I could get in and out of the car more easily, or when you wake up, you're not in pain.
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It has so many benefits to it outside of the physical, like looking good.
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Right.
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Um, there's just so many awesome benefits to it and for everybody.
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And do you use resistance as part of your bodies at all?
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The equipment has springs that are attached to it.
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And so the different springs are different tensions.
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So some of them are heavier than others.
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And depending on what we're doing, we will want to add more spring.
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And then sometimes we take springs away to make it more challenging.
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But then sometimes adding more springs on certain moves makes it more challenging.
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All of the equipment was created to make the mat work more accessible.
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So you're technically supposed to start on the mat and build a foundation and then graduate to each piece of equipment.
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Okay.
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And then go back to the mat because it's you against gravity and you don't have that support from the springs to help you do certain things.
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With that said, I think there are still some things that are still more challenging to do on the reformer or on the Cadillac, but um than there than it is on the mat.
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But otherwise, it's it's all hard.
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Right.
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And everyone's like, when does it get easier?
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And it might feel like you can flow through something easier or you can hold things for longer, but that doesn't make it necessarily easier.
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You're just getting stronger.
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And the stronger you get, the deeper your mind-body connection becomes.
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From there, you can hold that pose for longer, or you can find that breath to help you connect to the core a little bit deeper.
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And you're just gonna get more out of it.
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It doesn't necessarily become easier.
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You're just able to connect to different muscles differently.
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Right.
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So that mind-body connection, how important is that?
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That's everything.
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That's the whole kit and cabood of Pilates.
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Yeah.
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It's like breath, mind-body connection, concentration, control, balance, all of the things that you need in your everyday life to live your life, you know, being as pain-free as you can, you know, that's also our goal, too, is to help you do all of the things that you're doing in your everyday life and but help you do them better.
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Okay.
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How do you, as the instructor, facilitate that in a class?
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How to get them that mind-body connection?
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How do you help?
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There's a lot of arm movements, there's a lot of emphasis in your words and like if you're squeezing something, or you know, you try to have your words reflect the what they're feeling or what the move is.
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But, you know, it's, you know, what Pilates is great for the clients because, like I said earlier, you have to leave whatever it is that you have going on during your day or life, you technically really need to leave it at the door because you're not going to get as much out of it if you're thinking about all what you need to get at the grocery store.
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You have to be in that full mind-body connection to get everything out of it and all of the amazing benefits.
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But same thing as an instructor, if you are having a bad day, you have to leave that at the door because you have to show up for the one to however many people are in front of you.
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And so it's as much of a therapy session for an instructor as it is for the client because I just took 50 minutes to focus on you.
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And I can't think about what happened before I walked in the studio or what I need to do afterwards.
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I am 100% focused on you.
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And my mind-body connection to you is the break that I get.
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And then the mind-body connection to yourself when you're on the reformer.
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It's a break from your everyday life too.
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So it's just, it's the best.
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But that's why I wanted to open up my own business.
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Cause like I said, I just wanted to help people feel their best and live their life pain-free and feel happy and accomplished about themselves.
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Love it.
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Now you're talking about the stabilizer muscles.
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That's no joke there.
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I've even when I was in phenomenal shape lifting all the time, I tried some Pilates and I really, I really felt that.
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Yeah, it is a humbling form of exercise.
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It is humbling for the beginner, for the advanced mover, for the athlete.
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You get people in here.
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That can deadlift however many pounds or do a leg press.
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And it's like, and then you have them try to do any kind of core work and they're like, wait a second, I didn't know my muscles could do that.
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And so, like I said, it's just, it's humbling and then makes you want to keep coming back because you're like, that was really hard, but you feel so awesome and proud of yourself afterwards that you can't wait to come back.
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So it's the best.
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Love it.
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How long's a typical session, either group or it depends.
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So I have some clients that do 30 minutes once a week, 30 minutes twice a week.
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And then a group class is 50 minutes long, though.
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Okay.
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Do you have certain times throughout the week where it's just standard for groups?
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Yeah.
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So we have group classes depending on the day, but usually 6 and 7 a.m., 9 a.m.
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noon, uh 4 30, 5, or 5 30.
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Okay.
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And then Saturdays we have 8, 9, and 10.
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Okay.
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Do you have any drop-in type stuff if people want to try it out or is it all Yeah?
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So Matt class, uh, Matt or my studio mat class, you can come and go as you please.
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The reformer, if you have not done reformer before, I do require three private sessions before you get on the reformer, just so you are aware of how it works because it is a moving piece of equipment and there is room for injury.
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Um, and there's just a lot of different lingo and things that you need to have like a little bit of exposure to before you go into a group class, just so you're not completely lost.
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Um, it helps you get the most out of your group class and out of your exercise.
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You don't feel like you just wasted 50 minutes.
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So that one-on-one attention for those first three sessions is just very beneficial.
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I have found out.
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Cause I've taught in studios that don't require it and then do require it.
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And then some classes have different levels and some don't.
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But, you know, having someone that's never done Pilates come into a level two, that's not fair to all the other people that have signed up that are actual level twos.
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And um it helps too for the instructor to get to know the new person before they come in because maybe those three sessions aren't enough and maybe you need to do another five, or maybe you realize, hey, I love this one-on-one attention.
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I don't really want to go in a group.
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I want to just want to stay in the private sessions or reformers, great, but I want to actually maybe stick with just Matt.
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So, you know, it just gives you a little bit of a learning experience as far as what it is that you're wanting and it helps us get to know each other before you're in a room with seven other people.
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Absolutely.
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Um, because I have eight reformers, so it's more like a boutique space.
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Um, that way with the eight reformers, it allows our instructors to actually give you that attention so we can each keep an eye on everybody, make sure everyone's holding the right form.
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And if there is anyone having an issue, we can kind of get to you quickly and also keep an eye on everybody else too.
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Right.
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So still shy of a year in business, and this is your first business.
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What are some lessons you've learned so far along the way?
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The lessons that I've learned.
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Well, the first thing that's just been probably the most like wow is just the amount of talking that I had to do.
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Um, when I first started, I was teaching probably 56 hours a week, sometimes more, sometimes a little less, but it was definitely 52 plus hours a week.
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And it was just so much talking, so much talking.
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And so in between sessions and classes, I'm still talking to clients, chit-chatting about other stuff.
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And even when I would get home, I would tell my husband, I'm like, I need 10 to 20 minutes of not talking and hearing myself talk.
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Like you can maybe talk to me, but um, I just need a little bit of silence right now.
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Cause in a Pilates session, if you've never taken one, you are pretty much talking about the side.
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Yes, I am talking the whole thing.
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Cause your mind, it's so easy to just stray and like I said, start thinking about what you're doing later or something that happened earlier that week or the day.
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And so I find that the constant verbiage of things and just reminders of things to think about is important to just keep you into your body.
00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.000
There are little pockets of time where I allow you to feel that.
00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:59.440
But then, you know, there's just there's just so many things that you need to be thinking about and trying to connect to when you're doing the moves.
00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:06.400
So I find that it's helpful to just have that reiteration and the reminders throughout the class.
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:07.759
Yeah, absolutely.
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:09.440
I'll throw out a congrats to you.
00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:11.599
For the 40 under 40.
00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:11.920
Yes.
00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:13.599
Yeah, just nominated for that.
00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:14.559
That's cool, right?
00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.960
Very, very happy, very grateful that I got nominated for that.
00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:25.200
Yeah, when I moved here, I told my family, I said, I don't know what it's gonna be for, but I want that before I'm 40.
00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:25.680
Oh, yeah.
00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:30.160
And I told them, I was like, if I'm 39 and have not been nominated, so one of you guys needs to do it.
00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:30.799
Nominated.
00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:31.119
Yeah.
00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:32.799
Um, and they were like, I don't think that's how it works.
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:35.119
But anyway, so I'm glad that it happened.
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:36.880
But um called it then, yeah.
00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:43.200
So I'm so grateful to have been nominated and especially alongside like all the other awesome people.
00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:46.000
And yeah, it's it's a cool, it's a cool accomplishment.
00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:46.400
Yeah.
00:26:46.960 --> 00:27:01.279
But as far as like light lessons go and things that I've learned, I mean, running a business by yourself is not for the faint heart, especially when it's a full remodel and starting from scratch, there's no one there to hold your hand or really help guide you.
00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:09.599
I remember I had some questions about something, and so I had to call a number like for through the state of Illinois, and they're like, Oh, we don't know, you're calling the wrong place, like call this number.
00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:10.640
So then I called that number.
00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:15.920
And then they're like, No, you gotta call this other office, which is who I just called, who told me to call these people.
00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:17.440
And they're like, Well, try this.
00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:19.519
And I'm like, what is going on right now?
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:22.240
It was like, there's just no guidebook on it.
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:24.240
And so it's really just a learning experience.
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:28.240
And I know within this first year, I'm probably gonna make several mistakes.
00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:30.160
And I probably know that I already have.
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.720
And I think that's just all part of the learning process.
00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:38.480
Being a beginner at anything is hard and it's humbling, and it's such a learning experience.
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:46.559
And so I think just knowing that I'm gonna make those mistakes and just learn from them and do better next go around is all that I can really ask for.
00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:51.519
I feel like my clients that come in, they're beginners, they're like, I'm nervous, I've never done this before.
00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.759
I'm not very flexible, I'm not this.
00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:55.359
It's like, I know that's why you're here.
00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:59.599
Let me help you become stronger, become more mobile, become more flexible.
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:01.359
So it's the same thing about running a business.
00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:07.599
You might not know how to do things, and there's no true guidebook and lesson plan on how you're supposed to do this.
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:09.359
Cause also every state's different too.
00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.240
And so it's just everything has been a learning experience.
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.599
And it'll continue to be that way.
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:14.559
Yeah, 100%.
00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:28.720
But I would say, like, if you do not have the hustle and the passion to start your own business, I just would maybe wait because you won't get paid and you everything else comes before you.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:29.200
Right.
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:36.079
And so it's a lot of late nights and a lot of early mornings, which I am not a morning person and I teach 6 a.m.
00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.519
classes three days a week.
00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:38.960
So you have to kind of be one.
00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:39.839
You have to turn yourself into.
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.559
I'm like, all right, everybody, let's go.
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:45.440
Like, you know, we're gonna start, you know, it's like grab your weights, grab your ball.
00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:46.640
We're doing all the things.
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:56.799
But had you told me that this would be my life, A, that I would be living in Springfield and owning a business here, and also just having my dream studio, I would be like, you're crazy.
00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:06.960
So I'm just I'm again like it all circles back just to being so grateful that I've had the opportunities to be able to do this and to have all the people that have helped me along the way to get here.
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:09.599
It's just been such a rewarding experience.
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:18.799
And I hope that, you know, I'm passing on, you know, joy and happiness to everyone else that comes through the doors and that they feel accomplished and awesome about themselves when they leave.
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:20.559
So it's just like my everyday goal.
00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:21.200
Love it.
00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:21.440
Yeah.
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:27.920
Now we talk a lot in the 10x world about most people underestimate the amount of action it takes to reach a goal or to reach a target.
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:30.640
And that is very much the case with starting a business.
00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:36.880
People underestimate the amount of time, effort, and work, and everything that goes into a successful business.
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:37.359
Right.
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:39.920
And it's not even just the stuff that people see either.
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.440
It's everything that goes on behind.
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:42.960
It's like, yeah, it's wild.
00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:43.279
Yeah.
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:43.920
It is wild.
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:44.960
No doubt about it.
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.160
What are some ways you've marketed yourself throughout this first year?
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:49.279
Getting your name out there for folks.
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:57.599
Yeah, that's probably the thing that I have not had the time for so far, just because, again, I've been teaching so much and there's only so many hours in the day.
00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:59.519
But now I just hired my first instructor.
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:11.359
So I feel like that's a huge accomplishment because now I am able to do some things during the day, like during normal working business hours and contact people trying to get my name out there.
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.079
I hope that uh the, you know, the 40 for 40 thing kind of helps.
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:18.160
I've already had two people call me, three people to today call me to get set up for private sessions.
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:18.640
Oh, nice.
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:24.640
They haven't heard it from the 40 for 40, but I just through like word of mouth, fortunately did grow up here.
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:27.200
And so I know people, my sister, my family.
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.799
And so I feel like, you know, there's zero degree of separation in Springfield.
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:32.160
And so everyone knows everybody.
00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:42.400
And so that honestly has been very helpful in this case because I'm teaching people that work with my sister or that grew up with my parents or that I was friends with when I was little.
00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:46.160
So it's just cool to have that opportunity to teach all of these people.
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:50.799
Loved all my clients in Utah and in LA, but you know, they didn't go to grade school with my aunt.
00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:55.200
And it's just it's fun to, I don't know, have it all just kind of like circle back to that.
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:55.759
I don't know.
00:30:55.839 --> 00:31:00.000
It's and then to be able to develop these relationships with these people just like on my own.
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:01.279
Yeah, it's been it's fun.
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:01.680
Yeah.
00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:03.039
No, and you're in a great location.
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:04.960
As we had mentioned, you're at the in the gables.
00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:06.000
Yes, gables, yeah.
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:09.359
So that's perfect location for pulling that west side right there for you.
00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:19.359
So right next to Wealthy Juice, which I feel like is a great neighbor to have just because they're health conscious and lots of people go next door and get a smoothie before or after class or a little snack.
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:22.000
I'm there every day eating and drinking smoothies.
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:22.640
There you go.
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:24.480
So I know I'm giving them business.
00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:24.720
Right.
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.880
There might be some collaboration you guys could do there.
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:27.680
I know.
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:29.920
So it's yeah, and they're and they're awesome.
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:31.279
So it's a great location.
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:34.079
It's there's the studio has so much natural light.
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:35.599
It's just such a happy place.
00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:36.799
I love being there.
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:44.880
Even when I was there 56 hours and I hired my instructor Courtney, I was like, I'm gonna be sad not being here all the time just because I love it so much.
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.119
And during a storm, it's my favorite place to be.
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.599
And then when it's snowing, it's like a reverse snow globe.
00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:51.200
It's yeah, I just I love it.
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:52.559
And when it's sunny, it's beautiful too.
00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:57.440
No, I bet you do get some good natural light in there because you do have some nice big windows like all around on the side.
00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:00.960
But it's all worth it.
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:02.480
It's all for the vibe, right?
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:04.799
So is that what one of the reasons why you pick that place?
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:09.119
So it's the energy from the sun is very therapeutic.
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:14.720
And when you're on the reformer and you're looking out in an evening class, the sunset out there is just so gorgeous.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:19.920
I have a client who always has to have, she's like, I need this spot so that I can see the sunset during class.
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:21.440
Yeah, um, it's such a happy space.
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:21.920
I love it.
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:23.279
And I hope everyone else loves it too.
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:25.359
One of these days here, real soon, we're gonna do something.
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:26.400
You're gonna show me some of these moves.
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:33.920
Yes, would love to get you like mic'd up and on the reformer because everyone thinks like, oh, Pilates is for girls, but it was actually started by a man, four men.
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:34.240
Yeah.
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:44.000
Um, so it was started during the war and world war one, and it was meant to help rehab soldiers and prisoners who were injured.
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:44.960
I didn't realize that.
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:46.880
So it was started by Joseph Pilates.
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:48.400
Oh, I was I would have got that right.
00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:49.759
I was just about to ask you, was it Joseph?
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:51.519
Pilates.
00:32:51.759 --> 00:33:02.640
Um, so he was a German boxer and he fled Germany, was living in England, and was captured there as a foreign alien and put into an internment camp.
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:12.559
And that's where he developed most of the Pilates regimen, and where I would say the bulk of the moves were developed.
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:18.960
And there's a story which it can't be confirmed because the the records from then were not kept well.
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:19.359
Sure.
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:21.119
But most people agree that it's true.
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:23.359
So, you know, don't quote me, but you can quote me.
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:28.480
But uh influenza broke out in the camp, and everyone that was doing Pilates did not get sick.
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:28.880
Really?
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:33.279
And everyone else who was not doing his his daily exercises got influenza.
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:35.519
So I think that that's so interesting.
00:33:35.759 --> 00:33:46.880
Um, and then after he was released from the camp, he went back to Germany and then he was getting recruited by the police force to train the police, and he was like, I don't want anything to do with this.
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:54.720
So then he left Germany, came to America, and was in the same building as what is now the New York Ballet Company.
00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:58.880
And so all the dancers that got injured were sent to him for rehab.
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:09.199
And so I think that's where it became this more for like ballet dancers and females, even though he had tons of male clients because they were also dancers, but all they were all sent to be rehabbed.
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:12.800
And from there, uh, then they would go back to their dance.
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:18.880
Some of them ended up retiring and getting trained by him and then going off and teaching Pilates for themselves.
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:21.280
Yeah, it's such a fascinating history.
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:22.239
That is, yeah.
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:25.119
With the influenza not getting that, that's right.
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:25.760
Right, I know.
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:32.000
Yeah, I mean, because like the breath and just like again, what it does to your organs and to your lungs and everything.
00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:37.360
And like opera singers were big clients of his in the beginning, just because you need that lung capacity.
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:41.440
Um, and there he had all different kinds of crazy little breathing tools and stuff that he made.
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:44.880
But yeah, he was such like an inventor and funny looking guy.
00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:51.119
He was like absolutely jacked, yeah, but always wore this like little, these like little, very tiny shorts, very tiny shorts.
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:52.639
I don't even know if they would classify as shorts.
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:53.360
Right.
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:54.400
More speedo-esque.
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:55.599
Yes, very much so.
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:56.079
Yes.
00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:58.559
But yeah, he was way ahead of his time.
00:34:58.639 --> 00:34:58.719
Yeah.
00:34:58.880 --> 00:34:59.119
Way.
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:10.320
But I think now this whole pli's only for girls or the Pilates princess vibe, much at all, it's it is a very controlled exercise, but there's so much power and strength behind it.
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:18.159
And there's so many very serious athletes that love Pilates and actors like Sylvester Stallone's a big fan.
00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:21.119
There's not really too many feminine qualities about that man.
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:22.079
So you know what I mean?
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.079
So if Rocky's doing it, right?
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:24.639
Exactly.
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:25.440
Exactly.
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:26.480
So that's awesome.
00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:27.519
No, I'm looking forward to it.
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:29.360
Well, Bailey, so much great stuff today.
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:31.679
I always like to close with these last couple of things.
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:38.559
Let's give the audience a piece of advice, one on the personal side, one on the professional side to help them elevate their life or business.
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:45.679
I just think that not giving up on something just because it's hard or giving up on yourself because you're going through a hard time.
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.360
I think, you know, my mom got me this plaque that said not to spoil the ending, but everything's gonna be okay.
00:35:51.599 --> 00:36:03.920
And so I think that just keeping your head down and grinding through whatever it is that you're going through, whether it's that happy time that you're gonna get to enjoy or the hard times, you just gotta keep on powering through the storm and it's all gonna end up being okay.
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:04.719
Love it.
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.440
And a piece of professional advice from your first year?
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:17.920
Man, if you have a gut feeling that you are meant to do something and that you are destined to do something, even though it's terrifying and intimidating, I go for it.
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.920
Failure is very scary, but regret is even scarier.
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:23.039
Love that.
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:23.440
Yeah.
00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:28.960
And is there anything we can do community-wide to help all of us here elevate Springfield or the surrounding communities?
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.679
Just continuing supporting local businesses.
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.199
Um, I'm been such a huge since I moved back here.
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:37.280
I'm like, we need to make Springfield great again.
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:38.960
There has so much potential.
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:43.519
And when I grew up here, there was so much to do and so much going on.
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:49.920
And I feel like every time I get on Facebook, you know, on 217, whatever, it's there's another business is closed and whatnot.
00:36:50.079 --> 00:37:06.960
So I think that I know life is expensive, but instead of, and I am guilty of this, but just because of the easy factor of getting on Amazon and ordering something, like go to local businesses and find a gift from somebody like District 23, Gypsy Soul, Kennedy Sue, Bella Boutique.
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.360
I mean, there's and uh better with Bubbly.
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:16.480
Like there's so many cute spaces and stores that you can shop at that have way better stuff than you're gonna find on Amazon.
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:17.119
Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:18.880
So I think just support local.
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:21.920
Um, and now that I'm a local business, I feel that way even more so.
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:30.079
I just think it's so important that we continue to do so so that more people then have the courage to open up a local business because they know their community is gonna support them.
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:30.559
Right.
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:31.119
Absolutely.
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:34.480
When we all work together, we grow together, absolutely create something great.
00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:35.440
No doubt about it.
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.880
And we can all continue to make a conscious effort to support local.
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.039
I mean, just like these shoes here, these are ASICs.
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:44.719
I could have gone online and got them there, but I went down to Springfield Running Center and got them there and still.
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:45.440
Nice, very nice.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:45.760
Yes.
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:46.639
They're right there.
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:48.480
Why not support local when you can?
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:48.880
Right.
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:53.840
You know, there might not be everything you buy, you might not be able to get local, but when you can, let's make it local.
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:54.400
Absolutely.
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:58.639
I everyone laughs at me because I'm like one of the five people that still shop at the mall.
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:04.400
But even at American Eagle, it's like I know it's not a local store, but there are people there that are local that have jobs.
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:09.440
And if I see, like I will check stock and if they have it in store, I will go in and get it.
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:19.039
And then I will have them order what I want from the online so that they get the store gets credit for it, so that it's not just like drop shipping from their online store.
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:25.119
So even just little things like that, it's probably a lot more work, but um, the mall, don't even get me started on that.
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:26.320
It makes me so sad.
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:33.599
I'm like, I will be the person that like when they're cutting down like an old redwood tree that changed themselves to it, I will be changing myself to the white oath tree.
00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:35.440
Because I'm like, you cannot take it.
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:36.400
You cannot take it.
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:36.719
Right.
00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:38.000
It has to stay open.
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:39.760
So yeah, I mean, do what you can.
00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:44.559
I know convenience is hard because we all have busy lives and life is expensive now.
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:46.880
And so you can always find everything cheaper on Amazon.
00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:52.800
But also, if you take the time, you might be able to find something a little bit better too in your local community and local stores.
00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:53.519
Absolutely.
00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:57.280
Yeah, my my older daughter said something very similar when she was on here.
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:02.800
She said, Yeah, just make an effort to shop in person at these places instead of instead of always going online for the show.
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.119
Right.
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And you might come to a shop downtown that you're planning on going to and then see, like, oh, wait, I haven't been in there.
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Right.
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And then hop in there and then you find something great.
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So you never know.
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Yeah.
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Support local folks.
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In the meantime, we're gonna go ahead and start getting our what would it be?
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Ms G A hats or make Springfield Great Again.
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Yes, yes hats.
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We'll go ahead and start getting those.
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I was like, Madison Square Garden.
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I was doing it in my head, make sure I get this right.
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Yeah, M S G A, Make Springfield Great Again.
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Yeah, we'll go ahead and start getting those.
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Yeah, that'll be fun.
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Yeah.
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We'll remind everybody if they want to come do some Pilates with you, take a class, whatever, hey, where do they go to learn more?
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Go to Pulse Pilates Studio.com or you can reach out to me directly.
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My number is on our website.
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You can message us through Instagram, Facebook if you have any questions.
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Um, but you can also find us on the Mind Body app.
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So if you are already on that app through different studios in town, you are welcome to just go on there directly, sign up for class.
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But just remember that Matt class, anyone can come to reformer classes.
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I just need you to have that prior experience before coming to a group class.
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And if you don't have that, then I will happily get that for you with those three private sessions so that you are ready to rock and ready to jump into group class after those sessions are up.
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Let's go.
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Well, appreciate you spending some time with me today.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I appreciate it.
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Looking forward to our follow-up here.
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Absolutely, yes.
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I'm excited to stabilize your muscles.
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Can't wait, can't wait.
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Yeah, you'll have to do the Sylvester Stallone voice.
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I'll do that.
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That'll be fun.
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That'll be fun.
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I can I'll work on that.
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I watched enough Rocky in the past.
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There you go.
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I could do that pretty good.
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So love it, love it.
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All right.
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So, hey, take what you learned today.
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That's right, y'all.
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We're gonna elevate Springfield.
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Be great.
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When I first walked into Shudokong Karate Club, I was just looking for a way to get stronger.
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But what I found was so much more.
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Here we train in traditional karate, the real stuff.
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Passed down through generations.
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Every punch, every kata has purpose.
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I've learned self discipline, confidence, and how to protect myself.
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Not just in class, but in real life.
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It's not about being aggressive, it's about being prepared.
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This is more than a club, it's a way of life.
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Join us at Shudo Khan.
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