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748. Why I Finally Created upLift (When I Said I Never Would) · Be It Till You See It

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  [SPEAKER_01]: I remember when I was a brand new teacher, my friend asked me to sub for her and I said, oh, you know, can you tell me how the client and she said, oh, you know, she's got some asymmetries.
• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the person had one leg.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: My, my trained and tell me what to do with some with one leg.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So on the fly, I had to figure it out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Beat Till You See at Podcast, where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm also Logan, prize instructor, and fitness business coach.
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've trained thousands of people around the world, and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: My friends, action brings clarity, and it's the antidote to fear.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Each week my guests will bring bold, executable, intrinsic, and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and be it till you see it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a practice, not a perfect, let's get started.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, be it babe.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I said I would never do this for years.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I...
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you ask me, if I was going to create a policy to train program years ago, I literally laughed at you.
• 1:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was, no.
• 1:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because also I had elevated.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Before, I created elevated people asking me, aren't you going to create your own program?
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I never.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would never.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I've already done that.
• 1:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, remember, actually, in 2018, somebody, maybe 2019, somebody asked me.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: As I'm a studio, I remember it so it was before 2020 and she said, you just need you should have a program.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I said, oh, no, I was a teacher training before him.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: That I did that, you know, I'm on the next thing.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then when I created L of 8 as well, I'll never create a teacher training program because I've elevated and I can just help people and elevate.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I can take the ones who are already certified in that just felt like enough.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and it wasn't enough and today I'm going to tell you why.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it was really quite an unexpected beginning because here's the truth.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I actually really have never, is not been on the vision board.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I created a teacher training program for new teachers, people are partially trained, people who want to bridge, not once, not even a little bit.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have been so happy doing what I'm doing.
• 2:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: My Elevate Mentorship Program, which I'll do another episode on what that is, so you have to to compare it by, you know, a happy mentoring teacher to elevate a lot.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been it grows.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It sells out two years in advance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So as far as lift goes, it's not difficult and it's also so more importantly, it's the most fun thing to watch them get better at what they're already doing.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know, in my head, like that was the plan.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is what I'm going to do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is my retirement project.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want to help teachers who are already certified are already trained become the type of teacher that they really want to be to ditch the imposter syndrome to deepen the work that they're doing with their clients already and I I didn't just wake up one day and aside I'm going to build a 600 hour program called the lift so that isn't the story that you're hearing.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: But truthfully, there was just a problem I couldn't ignore.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: So here's a kept happening.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I had studio owners that I was coaching with Profile Pilates who were struggling with the same thing that people who did elevate, we're struggling with, we're struggling with the same things that people outside of both of my programs, struggling with, which is finding good teachers.
• 3:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Over and over again, all I would hear is I can't find comprehensively trained teachers.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I go on tour, I meet people, they are going through trainings all the time, and what I kept hearing from them is why didn't anyone ever tell me this?
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: How come I didn't know that?
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm only able to do my program, I saw this program and then the person quit doing the program where I moved, and I have to start over.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know, I just felt like there's this whole, maybe I have vacuum, but like a whole, that just needed to be dealt with.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: One of my elevate teachers,
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: She has her own studio and she was actually running her own program and she started telling me the exact same thing, but she came at from a different angle.
• 3:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And this angle is kind of similar to the people who graduate from elevate, who got so busy teaching, so they got everything elevate wanted.
• 3:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: They wanted from elevate, now they're too busy, and they wanted higher teachers, and they are struggling.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: But this person shown her on studio, I knew her from profitable bodies.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: She did elevate, so I knew her from there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And she wanted to start a program so that she could teach people from the beginning what elevated did.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And she
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: got through the program halfway through and she just was, you know, it'd be really great if you could help us out here because truthfully so many programs that are going on out there, including the one that this person had licensed, they really are good at graduating teachers who know choreography and set it out.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: but when a real body walks to the door that has a different learning style or a different understanding or a different background, it doesn't fit the textbook.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: They kind of freeze or they get frustrated.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: They don't know what we're gonna do and it's not that they don't know how to teach.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's as they weren't taught how to work on the fly.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Most peak, most programs that most studios are actually kind of requiring like a pre-planned class
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so that looks that flow looks good on paper.
• 5:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, a lot of people are buying flows these days.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That flow looks good on paper, but it doesn't work when a regular comes with a broken arm or a consistent client brings her best friend who's never
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, with the problems that the studio owners I coached for their business had, with the problem that elevate creative, which is amazing teachers who are super busy, who needed teachers and just teachers and students in general needing comprehensively trained teachers who can handle real bodies.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I really couldn't dodge the question anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I've had to sit down and go, is this a problem I can actually solve?
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you know me, you know I wasn't about to copy something that already existed.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: The world actually does not need another version of what's already out there and I truly mean that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I have an a teacher trainer for a program.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I have referred people to that program.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it is really great.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I have done multiple programs.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've actually done three, two, more for becoming a teacher and one was a mentorship program.
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so whenever I am looking at creating something, I really am thinking obviously what I went through had pros and cons and everything well, right?
• 6:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Everything well, everything had pros and pros and cons.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: But what did I like about that and what didn't I like?
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so, I really, when I was asked and propositioned, hey, what if you created a program?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: People know who you are, people want to study and learn with you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And what if we, those who have trained, can teach it?
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: tabby really great and I was okay, but I don't want to just create what exists out there.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you just buying the same thing that you just bought from someone else but it has my name on it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a classical teacher.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So the reality is some of the orders are the same, right?
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's not so much variance.
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if I was going to do this and it's not something I'm just going to do in a weekend, this is going to be years of my life.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is I'd really sit with if I do this, this is not just a project that I do when I walk away from.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is part of my job for the rest of
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  [SPEAKER_01]: however long I'm doing my Pilates' life, right?
• 7:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that means years.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I needed to create something that resonated with me, that lit my fire, that really felt something like I would could fight for.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not something I was wellmed by, but overly wellmed by how incredible this can change what is going on there.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it needed to solve the problems I've personally been watching happen.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, after teaching thousands of clients and thousands of teachers at this point, what are teachers actually missing from their original programs?
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because the reality is is no first program is going to make anyone a master instructor and also, by the way, you should never be able to tell yourself that you are a master teacher.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's something people say about you.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: But anyways, no one program can do that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's just impossible for anyone to expect.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: But how could I make sure that the instructors were ready?
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So another question I was like, why are many new instructors complete overwhelmed the second they start teaching or why do they feel like they can only teach groups or why do they feel like they only teach privates what is going on in the trainings that people feel like they're very siloed into something and they don't have the confidence to try out the other thing.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: And what do I wish every single teacher understood before they ever stepped foot in front of a client?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What do they really need to know?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because yes, people want to become applies instructors as fast as possible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These programs are an investment.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Students need teachers two months ago.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But how do we make sure that we give them information in a way that also allows them to teach a real client and not be memorized in a manual?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I really, how do I make a program that isn't a bunch of people who sound like me, but sound like them teaching,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: the work that I've been so lucky to have learned from the people that I've been so lucky to train under.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So with those questions, I've left kind of started from now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No business plan, but with a list of problems, I couldn't stop thinking about it because I have done elevate for so long.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know what teachers are loving out of elevate that they didn't get from their first programs, because I travel the world teaching teachers of all backgrounds, all styles, of all levels.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: what is it that they have in frustrated by how do I make sure that that's solved in the first program?
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then put a client's actually needed in a teacher.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What are clients thinking that they need, but what are our clients actually needing, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so that's kind of what I did and I really sat with that and then I got even deeper, right?
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I got really deep because it can't just be, I can't just pull from Pilis, nothing that I do ever just pulls from the one thing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Joe Pilis didn't do that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He pulled from so many walks of life to bring his work together.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: The truth is, is that the years of teaching really led me to put up up altogether.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I only, you know, in the last couple of years sat with these questions, it's the years of teaching, the years of experience that have really helped me.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's important that you know, up a lift wasn't an idea that hit me in the shower.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And as I already mentioned, I denied wanting, I denied doing it multiple times because it just was, not that it wasn't the right time.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't have the right experience with the knowledge that I have and the understanding and the time till, you know, you know, enlightening a bottle, everything has still come together.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so these different things had to intersect.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that couldn't happen in 2018.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: That couldn't even happen in 2021.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that really couldn't even happen in 2023.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't until after I finished my flashcards,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: that I had the space in my brain to go, okay, what is next, right?
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I have been lucky, you know, teaching thousands of classes and teaching all over the world and rooms of full of people who've moved differently thought differently, needed different things from me as a teacher, learning from J Grimes who taught me that Polizes Never About Memories of Sequence, even though we do use orders.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was learning from every mentor who's really,
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: came before him and in my life.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really thought, how do I put this together in a way that helps these people who will come through a polliff, who want to become Pilais instructors who have done partial trainings or want to bridge into classical, how do we make sure that they're not just memorizing, but they actually get the gems and juice that Joe Pilais passed to Jay and Jay passed to me and then the people in between have also given me an inspired me.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: start from the beginning with this information.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have to find it after years of being a teacher and kind of getting frustrated.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because here's the thing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Polize is more than choreography.
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that really is a thing that changed everything from me and it's how I bought this whole program around it because my first training program, you know, is based on exercise levels and, you know, remember all the different, I mean, you have to learn the names in the choreography and everything, of course, but it was really much this is the beginner order, this is the intermediate order, this is the advanced order and you know you say it like this and do it like this and it looks like this and then I got to another program.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: that also had levels, but didn't have a beginner 100 and advanced 100, they just had the 100.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so that shaved a lot and answered a lot for me, but it still felt like I was memorizing orders and memorizing exercises.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it wasn't until I got to J where it was, well, what do they need?
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: What are they doing well?
• 12:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, there is going to be ugly Pilates, but never dangerous.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: And how do we make sure that we're actually using Pilates to help them, not our words?
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: exercise exist in the first place.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: As a teacher, not taking what you've memorized and putting that in the class, but what are we actually looking for as a client moves and what does that client need?
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, how do we look at them today and go, how that look yesterday?
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, oh, that's different than yesterday.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Go to our bow.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do we do that?
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe so present that we can teach the body that's actually in front of us and not the body from the manual.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Most of the people will teach are not teachers.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: So how do we teach them they're the human that they are who are as deserving of our attention and our time and our thoughtfulness and and bringing Pilates to them, not in the water down fashion, but in a way that is as accessible and achievable and supportive towards their goals.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because every single client who walks of the door is actually different, every single one.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if all you know is choreography or even orders, you're going to freeze the moment that they don't match the script.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I remember when I was a brand new teacher, my friend asked me to sub for her and I said, oh, you know, can you help me have a client and she said, oh, you know, she's got some asymmetries.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the person had one leg.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: my trained and told me what to do with some with one leg.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So on the fly I had to figure it out.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm grateful for the experience every single day because it really got me out of the the textbook training that I was given.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: But what if I didn't have to have a freak out moment?
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: what if I could have the confidence to go tell me more about you, right?
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think one that client would have had a great workout, I think they would have had a better workout, I think they would have won a workout of me again, you know, so I really want that for teachers because, you know, you don't become a plies instructor because you kind of like Pilates, you become a plies instructor because you love it.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I found some training programs can really take the fire out of someone because instead of it being about, you know, how are we empowering people to move their bodies and have and balance their imbalances and achieve these goals in their life, it becomes about what shouldn't they do, what should they do?
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it treats people like robots and they're just not.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, as I was curating what I was going to do, a lot of our past guest, Claire Sparrow, actually was, oh, have you read this book?
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I started going down a rabbit hole of what is the science of learning, because it's one thing to put together a program that teaches people, Joe's intentions and orders.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's another thing to make sure they actually learn them.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is what's also missing from,
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: most programs, but our education systems in general, which is actually how do people learn?
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not just kinesthetic, auditory, visual, blah, blah, blah.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, how do people actually retain the information?
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And this is why up lift is built the way that it is.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not as an information dump, but as transformation, I really did build
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: the material and the education hours around into the repetitive and, you know, just say it like I do.
• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, it's actually built on how retention actually happens.
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's layered education.
• 15:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't give you the advanced stuff without you having a solid foundation, but also how do we make sure you see the full big picture and that you see it as a system?
• 15:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been really radical and fun for me to curate that process.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And because, honestly, there's not a single program out there that's doing the way that I'm doing it.
• 15:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's because a few people know that there's a way that we can train you to learn.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: and to take it from memorizing and repeating parodying is another word or narrating to teaching intuitively, even though you'll have new skills.
• 15:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: So the intuition will still be new, but you'll have a bigger understanding the bigger picture so that we can actually progress people safely, but not to safely, but purposefully, right?
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: So what I'm really excited about is that, because it's layered education,
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: built on a foundation that is solid.
• 16:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: We can actually practically apply the information and we don't just do it sitting in the classroom because that's as a make you a teacher to sitting there, memorizing.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: We actually do the work together and there's this really fun hands-on experience.
• 16:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, within the first couple hours of education you are teaching each other and I'm so proud of how that is designed and really, really excited.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what helps with confidence because confidence is something you get from finishing a course if it was we wouldn't have Impossers in them in the industry confidence is something that you get because you built up this knowledge over time you did it you did the reps you you got the feedback you got the real understanding and so you actually do feel ready you know what is confidence it's feeling ready.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, no one program can make you a master instructor but your first program should certainly make you sure you feel ready, feel confident, to teach this stuff and that you understand it.
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so that's a difference of what I was, how do I make sure that we're just not doing another classical teacher training program that looks a little bit like all the others, but it's slightly different because it's my name.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: my brand ain't no.
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: It needed to be different than what is out there because what is out there is not creating analytical present teachers, unfortunately it's taking a lot of great teachers potential and watering them down into kind of is our classful and that's why we're losing teachers.
• 17:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's why they're burning out because the focus isn't on are they impacting people but you know it's classful.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: So
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uplift is a comprehensive teacher training program for new teachers partially chained teachers and people who would like to bridge into classical.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe you train classically, but you want to learn the way that I'm doing it.
• 17:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's truly for people, first and foremost, you are brand new and you want to become a plies instructor because of the way a lot of programs are working out there.
• 17:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: you may have done one or two trainings or some trainings.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so a belief is still for you.
• 17:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: A comprehensive education actually gives you as a teacher options.
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: So without a comprehensive training, you will likely find yourself driving between five studios to try to piece together enough hours to make it work.
• 18:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is what happens to a lot of people in a lot of cities.
• 18:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: They are running around town.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Think of it.
• 18:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I used to work at a gym and the group fitness instructors who
• 18:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: and spin, and yoga, and blah, blah, blah.
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were only maybe working 20-ish hours a week, but they had to drive around town to six different studios.
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes three studios on one day.
• 18:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: So what a weird schedule that is, just to cobble this together, whereas when you're comprehensively trained teacher, you just have options.
• 18:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can teach one-on-ones, semi-private, and group classes.
• 18:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: So hopefully you can find yourself in a place where you can actually teach hours that are back to back.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you only get trained on the mat that you can only teach mat classes, there's only so many mat classes in the community that are at times that you're going to want to teach.
• 18:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: No one wants to teach at 7am and 7pm.
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's annoying.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you only have mat and reformer, you're limited there.
• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: When you have a comprehensive training, you actually can teach in fully equipped studios and you can teach and mat only and reformer only.
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you have these options.
• 19:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: to put together a career that works for you, to put together a schedule that fits your needs and your goals.
• 19:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I truly believe that everyone's applies business can actually meet them where they are and where they want to grow if they
• 19:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: are given the opportunity to have a comprehensive education.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: So this program isn't about just making sure you can teach more hours because some of you only want to teach five hours, some people are want to teach 15 hours.
• 19:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: This program is really designed so you can actually teach whatever hours you want, make the money you desire, but do it better.
• 19:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do it impackfully, do it purposefully, do it present, and not overwhelm.
• 19:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I'm really excited about.
• 19:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: So what is a comprehensive training
• 19:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: It means that while we teach things in modules of equipment, you cannot just pay for one of the modules.
• 19:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: You cannot just take up a lift for a farmer, up lift mat, you have to do the entire uplift program to do it.
• 19:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And because you're doing that, you're actually going to see the entire system work together.
• 20:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm very excited about how the student workbook allows you to be constantly learning about the mat even when we're on the barrels.
• 20:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that is the intentionality of how I put the program together so that you see them as a system and not like, well, this is my barrels and this is this.
• 20:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if you've never done a training, you don't know anything differently, so you won't know.
• 20:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: what I see out there as you do, you're mat one, you're mat two, you're mat three, you're a former one, you're former two and four, and so you only see things as in that piece of apparatus versus this is a full system.
• 20:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was created together.
• 20:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're exercise you can't do in reform or three because you need barrels, right?
• 20:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we got rid of the levels, we got rid of,
• 20:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: the ability for you to just buy things peace merely.
• 20:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And instead, you are learning the full pull out a system in a way that allows you to dictate and choose and understand when someone is ready for another exercise.
• 20:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I will be honest with you about something like this did not happen very fast.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: It probably feels fast to you because I wasn't very public about it.
• 21:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I've been saying this idea for a really long time and really getting as much information and contemplating and chewing on it and swirling it around and dreaming about it.
• 21:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, because before I did anything, I really did question whether I should be doing this.
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Does it need to be me?
• 21:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: and brainstormed a lot and put some things together because it's so important to me since the day that I started managing studios, which was six months after I started teaching.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I saw how sad and devastated can be to tell someone how interviewing for a job, why I couldn't hire them because the training that they did was not good enough.
• 21:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's why I wrote my book, Propholize, by the way.
• 21:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wrote that because I wanted to equip future teachers before they paid money before they signed contracts to understand truly what they were getting themselves into.
• 21:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: So when I put this together, I was very thoughtful and that I am the person who has been telling people what questions it asked before they signed up for a program.
• 21:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I need to make sure that if I'm going to do another program, it's going, it's because there is a whole, because there is a problem.
• 22:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, yes, it's classical and that's different than what a lot of people are doing, but there are other classical programs out there.
• 22:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: So how is this going to be different?
• 22:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: How is this going to make sure that it really does help not just in theory, but actual reality?
• 22:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: How does this benefit not just the teachers who are going to take this program, but the studio owners who they're going to work for, but most importantly,
• 22:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so, Uplaf wasn't built quickly, but it was very much built on purpose.
• 22:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: And one decision at a time with lots of community outreach where I talked to a lot of different potential people who would either be teaching it or hiring people from it or doing it to make sure that I had their worries in concern to my because they have different ones than I do.
• 22:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so we have beta tested this program as well.
• 22:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: As I record this, I am living the beta group.
• 22:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so you might be hearing this when they've already graduated, but I wanted to make sure that this program would work before I took any educators time and any students time and money.
• 23:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really needed to make sure, okay, this is, it looks really good and I really believe in it, but is it really good?
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: and I didn't want it just to be something on spreadsheets, it looked really good.
• 23:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really wanted to be really good in real life.
• 23:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so I actually put together a beta group to ensure that any type of person who might fall into the uplift program.
• 23:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I could see how their journey would go.
• 23:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I have someone who is a comprehensively trained teacher doing this program.
• 23:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have someone who has done a math and reform or training in a yoga training, but never a full conference of training in this program.
• 23:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have someone who has taken classical plies for years doing this program.
• 23:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I have someone who's been doing hot Pilates and contemporary Pilates for years doing this program.
• 23:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then I have someone who's done one class doing this program.
• 23:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: So
• 23:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to make sure that the different ways people fall into a polarized teacher training could be seen and that all those people could be successful because of all of the bridge person successful.
• 23:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then I didn't create a teacher training program for new teachers.
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I created another mentorship program.
• 24:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then I also have someone who's remote learning to see, is this something that someone could do if they aren't living near an actual cohort and how does that look and what would that be like?
• 24:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then in the beta group, I also have three people I have trained, sitting there watching it to see if what I'm seeing is what they're seeing.
• 24:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Are we seeing growth?
• 24:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Are we seeing them develop on their own in their skillset?
• 24:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: What are the hangups?
• 24:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's going on?
• 24:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: is that where they should be at this time, a lot of brainstorming and working together so that it's not my opinions, but it is actually a very much a community-based program so that when people start taking up lift in 2027 and beyond, we know that if you've only ever taken a make a former class, this might be weird, it's going to be different, but you can be successful if this is what you want.
• 24:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: and if you've taken years of training you can be successful and if you did someone else's program that you're not too confused.
• 25:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: All of that stuff is so key.
• 25:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's really been a beat till you see an action if you think about it and I once want to say you don't wait for anything to be perfect for you start.
• 25:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: You build, you listen, you improve and then you build some more and that's what we've been doing with this beta program and the workbook is basically done at the time of recording this,
• 25:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: will be ready for the cohorts and it's because I did it with the ideas in mind and then I let them use it and I got to see how are they using it.
• 25:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they're using it like that instead of like this.
• 25:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: So instead of it being like this, I'm going to rearrange it like that.
• 25:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so that it can by the time it gets to you, there's no such thing as perfect ever, but it is freaking great.
• 25:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it will support those who are wanting to become a truly comprehensively trained teacher who understands
• 25:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: that if Pilates has made it a hundred years for how to do that and how to make sure it stays a continuous for a hundred years, right?
• 25:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so, so it's been really fun.
• 25:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been really fun.
• 25:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So bigger picture.
• 26:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what I want you to walk away with.
• 26:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: One, if you're just excited about uplift and you're excited what I'm doing in your, just here to support me and sharing on.
• 26:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
• 26:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for listening this whole story.
• 26:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening the whole journey.
• 26:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really am grateful.
• 26:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you are wanting to become a prize instructor, I want you to know that
• 26:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: to help you become a thoughtful, empathetic, present, Pilais instructor who teaches not just what you should be doing, but why you should be doing it.
• 26:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Understand the bigger picture for the clients and for the goals, teachers who are curious from the outset.
• 26:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: instead of just getting comfortable and repetition and having a script.
• 26:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Teachers who actually can observe the body in front of them and can in real time adjust a session to make sure it's meeting that body's needs in real time.
• 26:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then teachers who will keep learning long after they've trained because they're going to change all these clients live because of it.
• 27:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you're learning, by the way, when I say continue to learn, I feel like I learn every single time I teach.
• 27:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that is because the curiosity I bring to every session, I learn every single time I teach and that's what I want for uplift grads and that's how I created the experience I created the workshops I created the homework everything is created is done intentionally to enhance and support curiosity and
• 27:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm really, really excited about that.
• 27:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if you are someone who is interested in me on my applies instructor, this is for you.
• 27:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you've done a partial training, uplift is for you.
• 27:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you've done a comprehensive training, and you do not want to wait for L8.
• 27:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uplift is for you.
• 27:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uplift is in person comprehensive training that really does prepare you for the real teaching world and allows you to have as many options as possible when it comes to teaching.
• 27:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're not just a reformer teacher.
• 28:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm at teacher.
• 28:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: You are a Pilates instructor who can adapt to where effort is that you're going to grow.
• 28:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: But for those who are comprehensively trained, you'll probably want to listen to the Elevate episode and then compare, we also have a quiz that you can take to see if you're an up-lift student or you're an elevator student.
• 28:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I just want to say, a lift wasn't born because I wanted to create up-wise program.
• 28:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are enough, as I said.
• 28:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's born because of years of teaching people like you and the teachers that have gone through my program of observing what's going on out in the applies community and also in the spaces that I'm invited, listening to clients, listening to teachers, listening to student honors, and asking better questions.
• 28:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then okay, how many people want to do a 20-0?
• 28:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do we make sure Pilates continues to impact the world?
• 28:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, how do we do that?
• 28:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do we do that with new teachers and existing teachers?
• 28:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do we do that?
• 29:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do we make not just a goal, achieve, but change the lives of everyone who is touched by a lift, whether it's a client, a teacher, a studio owner.
• 29:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: And a lift is created because when you actually understand Pilates, it's not just choreography, but the why underneath all of it, you actually stop teaching just exercises and you start teaching people.
• 29:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the kind of
• 29:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: and I really hope that if you are wanting to be that kind of teacher that you join us.
• 29:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: We have cohorts all over the world.
• 29:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can actually see where our existing cohorts are.
• 29:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: More educators are on my website.
• 29:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if you would like to get more information, if you see a couple of just right for you, take the quiz, go to xxl.co slash quiz.
• 29:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: xxll.co slash quiz can also go to xxll.co slash uplift to get more information on the program and see where all of our educators are and if you don't see an educator near you know that there is in some cases a remote option for learning there's some things we have to talk about and I can help you see that if you're candidate for that I could also let you know if we'll have an educator coming to your area soon or not our goal like I said is really to
• 30:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know, if that's what you want, uplift us for you.
• 30:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So thank you my loves, thanks you for listening to me, talk through how Beth was created, what it does and something that I have not said is the actual logistics and it's less like how many years how long all of the information is on our site, but still quick and dirty, it is 150 hours of education,
• 30:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: 15 train your eye meetings, 600 practical hours.
• 30:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it is one of the most robust education programs that's out there at most programs, are about 450 practical hours.
• 30:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: They actually put your education hours in those 450 hours.
• 30:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: So you have less time learning from them.
• 30:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I just think that's unfortunate.
• 30:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: You really do need to be at a space where they actually do not count the education time in those practical hours.
• 31:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that you have time with your mentor, your educator, and then time to practice.
• 31:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: and to take away a single practice hour as unfortunate because it does there's a compoundingness that happens and I'm very intentional about that and I'm very excited and so it's a nine to 12 month program to pound how many hours a week you can dedicate to your practical hours but there is a way to get done in nine months and if not 12 and by the way most things take four years plus imagine where you'd be in less than a year if you do uplift.
• 31:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: It'll happen faster than you think.
• 31:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: So let me know if you have any questions feel free to reach out and until next time, be a TACA.
• 31:44
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