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.

My guest today is Agape Garcia. Agape is a post traumatic growth strategist, a whole life coach and an energy consults certified high performance coach. She has a tenacious attitude towards empowering others. Over the past 35 years, she's navigated through domestic violence, privacy, safety, vulnerability and the mindset to endure personal adverse events in life. Her survival of a double attempted homicide, well, eight months pregnant, and the desperation to survive became the catalyst to the foundation of BYI s which she will explain momentarily, while achieving an undisputed outlook of independence. Agape his personal journey of post traumatic growth has led to dedicating her life and developing transformational programs, various forms of coaching certification courses and establishing a nonprofit to help real time victims with real time resources. Her commitment is to provide lifelong transformational habits that can restore your powerful internal sense of awareness and control. One of her personal statements you don't live anywhere but in your head, is why some of her laser focus teachings are on aligning your mental and emotional belief system. So let's start our work in today with Agape Garcia.

I teach people how to hold space as part of trauma informed coaching and instruction. The purpose of holding space in that way is to create enough safety to calm the nervous system. Why would we want to do that? To find common ground, to be able to speak to each other from a place of bi directional tolerance and understanding, to be able to listen to each other, to be able to learn from one another. Notice I didn’t say to always agree with one another. I think it’s ok that we disagree sometimes. But I want to be very clear here. Being trauma informed and following these principles does not mean that you won’t trigger someone or that they won’t get offended. As an instructor or coach (or just a regular person) you can’t be held responsible for anyone else's emotions or experiences. That’s not what trauma informed means. In order to hold space for others and truly be trauma informed you need to create your own internal safe space that is stable and untouchable. A deep calm so that when things go sideways you know which way is up.

My guest today is Allie Cass. Allie is a former bodybuilding pro turn functional health and fitness coach who helps stressed out women optimize their metabolism up level their mindset and shift from surviving to thriving. We discuss movement, metabolism, nutrition, stress and mindset to get and stay healthy.

The real magic, the secret to any business success actually comes behind the scenes through the work you do on yourself to set the stage for your business. Without it you and your message can get lost in confusion and overwhelm.