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Standing up for your own ethical voice

Todays solo episode discusses ethical communication, understanding intention and trusting your inner voice in your business and personal life.

... sometimes in our desire to make the “right” decisions in business is sometimes rooted in our fear of making a “wrong” decision, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by too many voices.

The loudest voices are sometimes the last ones who matter. They’re the folks who aren’t your ideal client, have no skin in the game, have no idea what you do or why you do it and usually don’t know you at all.

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What’s your real job?

Today I wanted to talk about the upstream cause of the issues we see in the fitness industry, high turnover, burnout and low skills is coming from a lack of understanding about what the job actually is and a true understanding of the skills that are required to succeed in a professional capacity without sacrificing your body through burnout over time.

So I want to start with this question. What is your real job? If you are a group fitness instructor, personal trainer, health coach, fitness specialist. Whatever your job title is, what is your real job?

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That Hideous Perfection

Perfectionism is an insidious kind of infection that destroys the ability to set healthy boundaries and over a lifetime cuts you off from any kind of friendly connection with yourself. That includes physical armoring, undermining our own emotional integrity and creating an internal toxic state of mind that leads to confusion and paralyzing self doubt. 

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