This attitude in the fitness industry that the person at the front of the room doesn’t matter, it’s the workout that matters and anyone can deliver it, is one of the things that drives instructors out of wellness. I want to change that. It’s time to elevate the fitness professional with gold standard skills. Our Work IN today is about how to teach to the room and make every student feel like the ONLY student in any format. 

I’ve given up resolutions in favor of a more organic goal setting and a manifestation practice for both my business and my life. Our Work IN today is a look at the art and science of manifestation and why goal setting is such a struggle and resolutions fail.

I’m killing the dream of a full time fitness career today on The Work IN. Working full time as a fitness instructor or coach and making a living is not realistic.  At least not the way we traditionally think of full time in other careers. But there are ways to make your wellness work work for you no matter what kind of fit pro you are.

The nature of entrepreneurship is experimental. There isn’t any certainty that what you have to offer is what people want. So we test and investigate and try things. There comes a point in every business and especially wellness business where you have to stop testing and stand and deliver. Today on The Work IN we’re going to take a look at what that looks like for successful fit-preneurs and the critical mindset skills you need to build a business backbone, stay creative, focused and grow professionally and personally.

No matter how strong, fit or healthy we all get injuries from time to time. It’s petrifying for fit pros because so many of us are contractors so no work no pay. I don’t know any instructor who hasn’t had to deal with an injury from time to time. Sometimes you have to take time off. But you can take less time off if you know how to teach off the mat. Today on the work IN we’re talking about how to navigate recovery and maybe up our instructor skills along the way.

In this Best of Replay my guest is Nate Sleger. He's a speaker, author and fitness industry expert, who has had his start as a personal trainer and and a nutrition coach. He's the host of the begin with podcast, where he interviews experts to uncover the behind the scenes of fitness, motivation and lasting results. Nate is also the founder and operator of begin within fitness. A 100% online personal training and nutrition coaching studio designed to remove barriers to fitness and make it easy. Today we're going to be talking about how to lift the pressure and stress of prescriptive fitness and how trauma informed principles overlap when it comes to maintaining long term health habits. Part of being a trauma informed FitPro is understanding that we are really teaching our clients to be trauma informed for themselves, helping them build their own awareness. So they can get the results they want. After all, they are the ones who have to do the work. And that can't happen if we overwhelm them right out of the gate. And it really can't happen if we ourselves don't have an integrated self regulation practice to share. So today let's get right to our work in with Nate Slager. Nate, thank you so much for joining me on the work in