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167. Katrina Scott, Co-Founder of Tone It Up · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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Speaker 1: Everything is going to be okay. No matter what, everything
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Speaker 1: is going to be okay.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Hurdler's Emily A Bodi Here.
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Speaker 3: You are listening to episode one sixty seven of Hurdle,
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Speaker 3: a wellness focused podcast where I sit down with inspiring
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Speaker 3: individuals to talk about their big wins, tough moments, and
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Speaker 3: everything in between. On the show, you can expect vulnerability, motivation,
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Speaker 3: and candid discussions with everyone from top athletes and CEOs
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Speaker 3: to aspiring entrepreneurs on what it really takes to follow
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Speaker 3: your passions. My mission is simple to inspire you to
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Speaker 3: be your best self, move with intention, and have some
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Speaker 3: fun along the way. Today I am chatting with Katrina Scott.
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Speaker 3: She is the founder of Tone it Up, the host
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Speaker 3: of the new Live Beautifully podcast, and someone I'm looking
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Speaker 3: forward to chatting.
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Speaker 2: With for a long, long time.
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Speaker 3: A shout out to my girl who recently walked the
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Speaker 3: runway at Miami Swim Week over the weekend with her
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Speaker 3: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit family. So hip for you, and again,
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Speaker 3: I was just so excited to have the opportunity to
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Speaker 3: sit down finally and chat with Katrina for the show.
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Speaker 3: In today's episode, Katrina unpacks her backstory. We talk about
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Speaker 3: how she got started in health and fitness, the gutsy way,
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Speaker 3: she met her co founder, Karina da and how the
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Speaker 3: brand really came to be. I asked her if she
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Speaker 3: expected tone it up to become what it has today,
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Speaker 3: offering everything from workouts, of course, to a plant based
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Speaker 3: nutrition line featuring collagen and gummies and protein powders and
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Speaker 3: so much more, and her answer may just surprise you.
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Speaker 2: She also gives us the lowdown on her new stay
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Speaker 2: for program.
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Speaker 3: And then we get a little personal and she opens
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Speaker 3: up about her fertility struggles, her IVF journey, and what
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Speaker 3: she hopes will come from her getting vulnerable and sharing
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Speaker 3: the difficulties that have come hand in hand with hoping
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Speaker 3: to have a second child.
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Speaker 2: I love Katrina's attitude.
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Speaker 3: I had a blast talking to her, and I'm really
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Speaker 3: excited to bring her story to the feed. Before we
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Speaker 3: get into it today, I would be remiss if I
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Speaker 3: to hurdling.
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Speaker 2: Today.
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Speaker 3: I'm talking to Katrina Scott. She is the co founder
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Speaker 3: of Tone it Up. She's a New York Times a
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Speaker 3: best selling author. She's a Forbes featured entrepreneur, a mom
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Speaker 3: the accolades. They're just raining down.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, How are you? I'm so good? How are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm so good?
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Speaker 3: We were wrapping off the record about your newest venture,
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Speaker 3: or at least one of them, becoming a podcaster.
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Speaker 2: How's that been for you?
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Speaker 1: It's hilarious. And so hard. It's like harder than anything
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Speaker 1: I've ever done, and I didn't know that it would
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Speaker 1: be that difficult. So I have so much respect for
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Speaker 1: you and all these like podcast hosts out there. And
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Speaker 1: last time I was thinking, I was like, Okay, let me,
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Speaker 1: let me figure out how I can do like maybe
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Speaker 1: just two a month for season two, And then I
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Speaker 1: asked you how many you do? And You're like, I do.
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Speaker 2: Three a week. Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, as I let us off here, you
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Speaker 3: wear so many hats. So just the fact that you're
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Speaker 3: getting into this arena is going to help the people
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Speaker 3: that you're already helping in such a different and fun way.
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Speaker 2: And I loved they listened to some of your episodes.
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Speaker 3: A podcast is called The Beautifully and I love that
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Speaker 3: on one of the lead episodes, you talk about stumbling
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Speaker 3: into this name so to speak, and how it came
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Speaker 3: to you so organically, like in aha moment, talk to
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Speaker 3: me about that.
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Speaker 1: So this is something that I think we all not
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Speaker 1: struggle with but discover, as you know, for example, like
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Speaker 1: when you are in high school and then maybe you
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Speaker 1: go to college or your first job and you go
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Speaker 1: through relationships and maybe become a mom, and that's your identity,
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Speaker 1: right and so when you're when you have different career
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Speaker 1: things that you do. And for me, of course, my
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Speaker 1: one of my first companies that I started was Tone
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Speaker 1: it Up. I had started a couple other things before that.
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Speaker 1: You know, you wrap your identity around it so much,
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Speaker 1: and so when I was starting something new, you literally
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Speaker 1: sit back and you go, who am I? And it's
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Speaker 1: the same thing as soon as I had a newborn
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Speaker 1: and I was pushing a stroller down the street with
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Speaker 1: a baby, I'm like, who am I? We go through
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Speaker 1: so many things in our life that we discover our
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Speaker 1: new identity. And so for me, I was trying to
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Speaker 1: think about something that could help serve other women and
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Speaker 1: something that is my purpose and my passion. So beyond
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Speaker 1: fitness and beyond doing squats and doing all those things,
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Speaker 1: have Tone it Up. I was like, what can I
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Speaker 1: offer two women? And that's to live beautifully? And ever
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Speaker 1: since I was young, I whether it's helping someone go
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Speaker 1: to the prom or their first date, or getting them
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Speaker 1: ready for their first job interview or printing out their resume,
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Speaker 1: helping them feel beautiful for that day and prepping them
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Speaker 1: with questions and making them feel confident whatever that was.
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Speaker 1: It was living beautifully, working beautifully, being a mom beautifully.
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Speaker 1: And so it was actually Brian who we were walking
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Speaker 1: on the boardwalk on the beach and he said, you
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Speaker 1: want to help women live beautifully in all avenues of
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Speaker 1: their life, and I start crying. I was like, I
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Speaker 1: that is what I love so and even little things
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Speaker 1: like helping women do their hair or their makeup or
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Speaker 1: journaling or something that's more internal too, So it was great.
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Speaker 1: And it's my blog also, and then it's where I do,
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Speaker 1: you know, home blogging and personal journaling and things like that.
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Speaker 1: So I'm really excited and thanks for the plug.
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Speaker 2: You got the plug. You got the plug.
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Speaker 3: What has been the hardest part of becoming a podcaster
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Speaker 3: so far.
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Speaker 1: The organization, like media organization. I'm not an like I
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Speaker 1: am the story book creative. I am just this. I'm chaotic,
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Speaker 1: but it's organized in my head. But you can't be
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Speaker 1: that way when you're doing a podcast or something that
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Speaker 1: requires files. So I would record an episode with like
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Speaker 1: the most amazing person in the world, and then like
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Speaker 1: two weeks later, we like, oh, where is that file
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Speaker 1: or where's that memory card or I've lost so many
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Speaker 1: files where thank goodness, I had them do like a
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Speaker 1: backup voice memo, which I'm doing for you right now
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Speaker 1: because I'm in a total panic that what I do
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Speaker 1: for others I'll like forget. So that has been something
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Speaker 1: that's been a struggle because with a podcast, you have
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Speaker 1: to be so organized with all the files, the technology
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Speaker 1: behind it, the sound. I didn't know that I had
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Speaker 1: to become like a sound tech, you know. I thought
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Speaker 1: that it would just be something that you can speak
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Speaker 1: into a microphone and that's it. I'm so used to
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Speaker 1: the video side and be able to talk on camera
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Speaker 1: that I didn't know that it was. It's so much
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Speaker 1: more intimate. You know, you're in someone's ear when they're
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Speaker 1: out for a run, they're in their car and their commute,
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Speaker 1: they're folding laundry at home, or maybe they're laying in
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Speaker 1: bed after a long day, or they just put their
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Speaker 1: baby down, like whatever. It is, like, that's such an
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Speaker 1: intimate time. So I think like that was also, like
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Speaker 1: I guess a lot of not a lot of pressure,
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Speaker 1: but a lot to say, Okay, I'm literally going to
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Speaker 1: be in some of the most intimate moments in someone's life,
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Speaker 1: Like how can I live up to what they need
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Speaker 1: right now. And so that's also a big thing to
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Speaker 1: walk into a room or a closet where I record
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Speaker 1: my podcast and say, Okay, this needs to be important
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Speaker 1: for her.
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Speaker 3: I love that no matter who you are, you have
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Speaker 3: a story about recording a podcast in a closet. H true,
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Speaker 3: Like the top podcasters in the world right now started
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Speaker 3: recording podcasts in their closet.
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Speaker 1: That makes me feel better. Did you have you ever
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Speaker 1: recorded in your closet?
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Speaker 2: Of course I've recorded in good.
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Speaker 1: I feel better.
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Speaker 3: This whole setup that Katrina is seeing behind me right
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Speaker 3: now is quite new, so do not be deceived. It
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Speaker 3: has been a long road to having like color coded
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Speaker 3: books behind I was.
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Speaker 1: Just going to say, that is so impressive. You're like,
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Speaker 1: there are coloring progress.
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Speaker 3: The shells still needs some stuff on them, but it's
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Speaker 3: coming along. It's coming along quite nicely.
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Speaker 2: Well. Podcasting just one of the many hats that you wear.
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Speaker 3: Talk to me a little bit about what the latest
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Speaker 3: is with tone it up, and of course after this
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Speaker 3: we'll get into a little bit of that backstory.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so very exciting. Tone it up. If if someone's
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Speaker 1: listening it isn't familiar, it's a fitness community for women,
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Speaker 1: and we have a fitness app with so many different programs,
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Speaker 1: with many different talented trainers. We have nutrition products that
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Speaker 1: are plant based, non GMO, and they're perfect for everybody,
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Speaker 1: and they're healthy and you can actually pronounce the ingredients,
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Speaker 1: which we're proud of. And we had protein, collagen and bars.
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Speaker 1: And then of course we have community, so a place
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Speaker 1: to connect with other women and feel really good about
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Speaker 1: the life you're living, in your lifestyle and your healthy
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Speaker 1: lifestyle and feel supported. Recently, I developed what I like
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Speaker 1: to think about as my legacy program, and it's called
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Speaker 1: six point forty. During COVID, I was home, and you know,
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Speaker 1: we all experienced something so unique during the pandemic, and
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Speaker 1: my personal story was a lot of struggle, a lot
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Speaker 1: of personal things that were happening in our lives. And
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Speaker 1: I'm sure maybe we can get into that. But the
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Speaker 1: only time that I could actually do anything for myself
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Speaker 1: because between business and being a mom and everything that
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Speaker 1: we were experiencing, was first thing in the morning, and
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Speaker 1: so I had to wake up and work out at
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Speaker 1: six and then by and it wasn't an hour, it
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Speaker 1: could never be an hour. It was always forty minutes
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Speaker 1: and then at six point forty then I could take
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Speaker 1: care of the rest of my little world, you know.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's really important for women. You know,
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Speaker 1: they say like fill your own cup. It's it's we
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Speaker 1: have to We have to do that before the rest
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Speaker 1: to day because we're so nurturing, we take care of
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Speaker 1: everything else. And before the zoom calls started and before
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Speaker 1: I needed to wake up my daughter she would wake up.
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Speaker 1: I had to do something for me, and so I
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Speaker 1: made this program that's six weeks, but you can do it,
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Speaker 1: of course forever and ever. It doesn't have to be
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Speaker 1: six weeks, but a six week program forty minutes a
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Speaker 1: day and hopefully you can do your workout at six
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Speaker 1: am and buy the goal is by six forty then
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Speaker 1: you get to take care of the rest of your world.
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Speaker 1: And I incorporated all of my favorite workouts in there. Strength,
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Speaker 1: strength training, hit which I know that you love, yoga, sculpt, cardio,
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Speaker 1: and move based workouts too, So if you're at the
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Speaker 1: gym and you can't do a workout video, you can
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Speaker 1: incorporate those. And I am still adding and evolving this program,
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Speaker 1: so this will be something. The reason why it's my
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Speaker 1: legacy program. I just feel like I'll always be adding
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Speaker 1: to it and I'll always be improving it, and I
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Speaker 1: already have workouts planned to add for early next year,
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Speaker 1: and so that's the latest and I'm really excited. And
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Speaker 1: then of course all the other things wo Tone it
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Speaker 1: Up in our nutrition products, they're at every Target and
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Speaker 1: at Kroger and at different We just actually hit vitamin shops.
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Speaker 1: So that's really exciting too, is it.
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Speaker 3: I Mean when you started off talking about what's going
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Speaker 3: on with Tone it Up before you got into six forty,
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Speaker 3: you literally listed like a handful of all the unbelievable
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Speaker 3: things that go hand in hand with Tone it Up,
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Speaker 3: from the nutrition to the program offerings off obviously the apps,
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Speaker 3: so many things. When you go through that listicle, sometimes,
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Speaker 3: do you ever have one of those moments that's like
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Speaker 3: when did we get here?
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Speaker 1: Yes? And no, because I know how we got here
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Speaker 1: and I know every moment that it took. Some people
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Speaker 1: actually ask me did you ever expect for Toning Up
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Speaker 1: to be where it is? And Krena and my business
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Speaker 1: partner and I are always like yeah, and so I
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Speaker 1: think that has you have to believe that you are
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Speaker 1: capable of something extraordinary. To do something extraordinary, not always
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Speaker 1: sometimes it just happens and that's amazing. But we had
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Speaker 1: to literally believe every single day that we could do
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Speaker 1: something that had never been done, and that we could
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Speaker 1: reach millions of women and make fitness positive and fun
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Speaker 1: and create programs that are for every woman. And we
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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure our nutrition products were plant based
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Speaker 1: so everyone could have them, and we as soon as
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Speaker 1: we started developing our nutrition products, we wanted them in
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Speaker 1: every store where she shops. So I think when you
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Speaker 1: start something just you are allowed to dream big and
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Speaker 1: you're allowed to shine. And that's so it's been a
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Speaker 1: crazy journey. It's been over twelve years, and so it's
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Speaker 1: been amazing and I'm very proud, and we have incredible
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Speaker 1: women that work with us. We're still a small team
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Speaker 1: with big dreams, and I think a lot of people
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Speaker 1: look at tone up like it's this huge organization now
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Speaker 1: and it's still very small, but we're doing big things
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Speaker 1: because we're all we're all thinking this big. And I
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Speaker 1: never keep anyone's thoughts tiny too, like oh we can't
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Speaker 1: do that, or we can't do that. I'm always like
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Speaker 1: sky's the limit, Like where do we want to go.
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Speaker 1: So it's been cool twelve years.
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Speaker 3: Talk to me about what life was like for you
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Speaker 3: twelve years ago.
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Speaker 1: H wait, hold on, what year is it?
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Speaker 2: Where are we? What's going on?
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Speaker 1: Well, when I first graduated college, so I went to
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Speaker 1: college for exercise science and nutrition and a total science nerd,
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Speaker 1: and I love anatomy and just anything that has to
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Speaker 1: do with the body and nutrition. And so when I
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Speaker 1: got out of college, I wanted to not only personal train,
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Speaker 1: but teach group fitness because I wanted to reach more women.
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Speaker 1: And then I loved from group fitness. Then YouTube came along,
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Speaker 1: and it was kind of like, well, you can not
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Speaker 1: only reach sixty people, but potentially thousands. And then it
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Speaker 1: just kind of you know, the more the more I
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Speaker 1: could I look at. I guess I look at my
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Speaker 1: time and the more women that I can reach with
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Speaker 1: my time. And I of course miss the one on
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Speaker 1: one training so much. I still meet with of course
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Speaker 1: friends and family one on one and a lot of
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Speaker 1: different things like that to fulfill that. But I think
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Speaker 1: where I can make the biggest impact is through video
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Speaker 1: and through programming, where the potential is limitless. And so
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Speaker 1: that discovering the Internet WWW like discovering blogging, discovering. I
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Speaker 1: bought so many domain names. It was crazy. Knowing that
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Speaker 1: I could reach the world potentially was really a cool,
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Speaker 1: cool thing. And when that all started, this was pre Instagram.
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Speaker 1: Twitter wasn't even a thing yet. It was just Facebook, MySpace,
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Speaker 1: and then YouTube and YouTube was really really neat. It
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Speaker 1: was a little crazy because if you put up a
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Speaker 1: YouTube video and at landed on the homepage, you get
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Speaker 1: like millions of views. So this is actually something really
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Speaker 1: crazy to think about. I got more views when I
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Speaker 1: first started on YouTube than I do now, but the
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Speaker 1: quality is better. And so when I tell someone when
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Speaker 1: they're first starting out, they're like, oh, I'm nervous. What
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Speaker 1: if I only have like one hundred people that watch
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Speaker 1: my videos. I'm like, imagine one hundred people in your
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Speaker 1: house that you're talking to. That's amazing. And so I
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Speaker 1: do miss those days were, you know, maybe it was
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Speaker 1: like one hundred views and we knew that it was quality,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it goes like it
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Speaker 1: goes crazy on these platforms. You don't know who's watching it.
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Speaker 1: But if you can do something and have an impact
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Speaker 1: on even just ten people, that's incredible. And so some
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Speaker 1: people say it's too saturated now, and I think back
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Speaker 1: twelve years ago and I feel like it's better than ever.
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Speaker 1: And the algorithms help you. They only show your video
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Speaker 1: to people who will probably want to see it.
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Speaker 3: So it's funny too, because I know that you kept
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Speaker 3: putting off starting the podcast and you were like, I
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Speaker 3: wanted to be perfect.
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Speaker 2: I want it to be perfect.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like you had that same worry when
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Speaker 3: you started with the videos, did you. No.
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Speaker 1: For some reason, the podcast intimidated me so much because
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Speaker 1: it was so different, and so I completely empathize with
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Speaker 1: someone who's not used to being on camera. When I
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Speaker 1: first started being on camera, though, I was pretty nervous
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Speaker 1: and shy. But it just takes time to go through
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Speaker 1: the motions and figure yourself out and kind of like
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Speaker 1: what you're saying, You know, it just takes you're like,
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Speaker 1: who again, who am I? What's my identity of this podcast?
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Speaker 1: Or whatever? But yeah, I think I was more fearless
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Speaker 1: in my twenties. I'm thirty seven now, and now I'm
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Speaker 1: a little more careful about what I start because I
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Speaker 1: know once I start, I want to make sure I
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Speaker 1: stick to it and keep going. I'm a little like
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Speaker 1: more I guess scared of risk in your twenties. You're like, well,
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Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out, whatever. But yeah, I feel
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Speaker 1: like I'm more like timid now. I don't know why,
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Speaker 1: but even with some of the stuff that tone it up,
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Speaker 1: Like you know, I tell the team, I'm like, we
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Speaker 1: can go here, and I'm like, oh my gosh, we're
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Speaker 1: really going to do that.
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Speaker 3: So talking about not being timid. When you first went
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Speaker 3: up to Karina, that was anything but being timid.
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Speaker 2: Talk to us about how that came to be.
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Speaker 1: So I feel like this is going to be the
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Speaker 1: case for everybody, especially coming out of twenty twenty. How
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Speaker 1: do you meet friends after we've been you know, isolated
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Speaker 1: by ourselves, and how do you talk to people? It's
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Speaker 1: harder to meet people. And so twelve I think it
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Speaker 1: was twelve years ago. I was in the gym. I
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Speaker 1: saw this girl walking in to the gym. She would
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Speaker 1: come in and like Friday nights, and I had just
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Speaker 1: moved to Manhattan Beach, California from Boston, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: she's here on a Friday night. She probably needs a
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Speaker 1: friend too, and maybe she's new to town. And sure
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Speaker 1: enough she was. She moved from like literally a few
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Speaker 1: miles north. She came down here, but sure enough she
19:34
Speaker 1: didn't know anyone in the area either, and so we
19:36
Speaker 1: started talking. But twelve years ago, five years ago, tomorrow,
19:42
Speaker 1: it's going to be hard. It takes bravery to literally
19:45
Speaker 1: go up to someone and introduce yourself. I've heard from
19:48
Speaker 1: so many women where they're like, I want to meet friends,
19:51
Speaker 1: and I'm like forty, or I want to meet new
19:53
Speaker 1: friends I'm thirty. In college, it's easier because you're literally
19:56
Speaker 1: put into like a building with people and you have
20:01
Speaker 1: to talk to each other, and you go places and
20:03
Speaker 1: you eat together. Like maybe in work you you meet
20:06
Speaker 1: the you meet people because you have to. But going
20:10
Speaker 1: to like a workout class and meeting someone and introducing
20:13
Speaker 1: yourself it kind of it's uncomfortable sometimes. So that's why
20:18
Speaker 1: with Tone it Up, we wanted to create something with
20:20
Speaker 1: community where you can meet each other. And so there's
20:23
Speaker 1: a lot of different things that we're adding to the
20:25
Speaker 1: app where you can actually we always call it kind
20:28
Speaker 1: of like a tender for friends, where you don't of
20:32
Speaker 1: course you don't like deny, but you can connect. Soy
20:36
Speaker 1: I've left right, I don't know what it is, but
20:40
Speaker 1: but you don't. We can. We can kind of take
20:43
Speaker 1: some of the awkwardness out and so that way you
20:46
Speaker 1: are linked with women that are like minded with you
20:48
Speaker 1: and your area and things like that. That's definitely the
20:52
Speaker 1: direction that we want to go. But but yeah, going
20:54
Speaker 1: up to Karina and introducing myself and then her saying
20:58
Speaker 1: yes when I asked her if she wanted to hang out,
21:00
Speaker 1: like that's that takes two people being like oh okay, cool.
21:03
Speaker 1: And again, Instagram wasn't a thing when we met. I'm
21:07
Speaker 1: literally sounding like I'm eighty years old. For anyone that's listening,
21:10
Speaker 1: they're like, what I didn't know? Instagram was not even
21:13
Speaker 1: not a thing at one point. And you know, we
21:17
Speaker 1: weren't on our phones, we weren't just looking down, and
21:19
Speaker 1: so I think I want to look up more. We've
21:22
Speaker 1: been on our screens for especially during the pandemic so much.
21:26
Speaker 1: That was the only way that we could connect with people,
21:28
Speaker 1: and thank goodness we can. But now coming out of this, like,
21:32
Speaker 1: how much can we just actually like step away from
21:34
Speaker 1: our screens.
21:35
Speaker 3: I would imagine that the screens, however, probably helped you
21:39
Speaker 3: guys out and from a business POV quite a bit
21:43
Speaker 3: over the last you know, fourteen sixteen months.
21:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thank goodness. You know. So when when the
21:50
Speaker 1: pandemic first hit, I think everyone at home kind of
21:52
Speaker 1: went if you weren't on the front lines, if you
21:55
Speaker 1: weren't fighting this thing, or you weren't a scientist, you
21:58
Speaker 1: were helpless, You're at home going what can I do?
22:01
Speaker 1: And for me, I was literally what can I do?
22:05
Speaker 1: I And I knew what I could do, and that's,
22:07
Speaker 1: you know, help women at home and maybe their husbands
22:11
Speaker 1: or whoever their partners be healthy at home and do
22:14
Speaker 1: yoga and work out, like that's what that's what I
22:16
Speaker 1: could offer the world. Because I also felt like, wow,
22:20
Speaker 1: how can I help this situation that is so so bad?
22:24
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm very very grateful for the ability to
22:27
Speaker 1: go live. I went live, and that's another reason why
22:30
Speaker 1: I pushed off the podcast for so long. I had
22:33
Speaker 1: lived beautifully for like literally just sitting there, but I
22:38
Speaker 1: it wasn't the right time. No one really felt like
22:40
Speaker 1: they were living beautifully. Also, when the pandemic hit, I'm like,
22:43
Speaker 1: this is not good timing for this. And my first
22:46
Speaker 1: episodes were like about business and branding, and people were
22:49
Speaker 1: like literally just trying to survive. So I was like, Okay,
22:53
Speaker 1: everything is always about timing too, So right now it's
22:56
Speaker 1: live workouts and quarantine sit ups and and wine.
23:02
Speaker 3: So I mean, you talked about going up to Koreina
23:04
Speaker 3: that you felt really lucky that she was like, yeah,
23:06
Speaker 3: I'm game to hang out with you. But when did
23:09
Speaker 3: the two of you just hanging out and discussing your
23:12
Speaker 3: mutual interest for being fit for wellness, for that kind
23:17
Speaker 3: of lifestyle turn into hey, like should we do something
23:21
Speaker 3: with this?
23:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting because, like I think what it wasn't
23:27
Speaker 1: like we both weren't doing anything when we met. She
23:30
Speaker 1: was blogging, and she was a fitness model, and she
23:35
Speaker 1: was contributing to like Shape magazine, and she was doing triathlons.
23:40
Speaker 1: And then I was doing YouTube videos, I was blogging,
23:43
Speaker 1: I was personal training figuring out how to do video
23:47
Speaker 1: and audio, and we both had so much going on
23:52
Speaker 1: that when we first started talking, we had already been
23:55
Speaker 1: working on things for over five years, maybe even ten,
23:59
Speaker 1: And that's when we were like, Wow, we really really
24:01
Speaker 1: compliment each other and what we're what we're doing, and
24:04
Speaker 1: we could do some really cool things together. And the
24:06
Speaker 1: way that we met through fitness, we wanted other women
24:09
Speaker 1: to feel like they could do that too, and it
24:12
Speaker 1: just it just worked, you know, Like I don't know
24:16
Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, oh, don't work with
24:17
Speaker 1: your friends or don't work with family or whatever it is.
24:21
Speaker 1: But if you both have things that really compliment each other,
24:24
Speaker 1: Like Krane and I always had like very different jobs
24:26
Speaker 1: within the organization, but then when we came together create
24:29
Speaker 1: create content, it was like we got to just be friends.
24:33
Speaker 1: And that's what we do. We go live every single
24:35
Speaker 1: week on Instagram, whether it's like a workout or why
24:39
Speaker 1: not Wednesday chat, and we just get to do whatever whatever.
24:44
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a little wild, but we just get to
24:47
Speaker 1: create together. But when we're running an empire together, we
24:51
Speaker 1: have different roles. And I think that that's really important
24:54
Speaker 1: when you work with family or friends or anybody, that
24:57
Speaker 1: you have what you do and you do best and
24:59
Speaker 1: then you have lot of trust over here and it's
25:01
Speaker 1: like you got to do that over here and it's
25:04
Speaker 1: not like we're not managing each other.
25:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
25:07
Speaker 3: And I mean I think it's also like communication and
25:10
Speaker 3: being upfront right, Like it would be one thing if
25:13
Speaker 3: you guys started working together and you didn't feel like
25:16
Speaker 3: it suited you, but you stuck it out. It's the
25:18
Speaker 3: same thing with these, you know, new friendships that some
25:21
Speaker 3: of us may be trying to make after the pandemic
25:23
Speaker 3: and opening yourself to that vulnerability, opening up yourself to
25:28
Speaker 3: a new friendship is like, that's a hurdle. And then
25:31
Speaker 3: there's also like a level of honesty that you owe
25:33
Speaker 3: yourself because it's like, well, if this isn't the thing
25:36
Speaker 3: for me, if this isn't the relationship for me, then
25:39
Speaker 3: you have to be honest, right because there are going
25:41
Speaker 3: to be ill fitting scenarios, and whether it is in
25:45
Speaker 3: friendships or within business, it's like, if you're not honest
25:48
Speaker 3: with yourself, then that's only going to come bite you
25:50
Speaker 3: in a long haul.
25:51
Speaker 1: Yeah. The cool thing is is that Krina and I
25:55
Speaker 1: evolved so much as individuals too. Speaking of identity, it
25:58
Speaker 1: always comes back to that and the way that we're evolving,
26:03
Speaker 1: we're bringing that into tone and up. Still. You know,
26:06
Speaker 1: we're not the two girls that lived together and had
26:09
Speaker 1: a Bravo show when we first started, which we also
26:11
Speaker 1: did that, which is wild, like we are those those girls,
26:16
Speaker 1: but we've both grown so much as women and we
26:21
Speaker 1: have so many things and so many stories to tell
26:24
Speaker 1: to help women that are going through different, you know,
26:28
Speaker 1: situations in their life. Like creating it's a big advocate
26:31
Speaker 1: for mental health and for me, I'm talking with a
26:34
Speaker 1: lot of women about also their mental health, going through
26:37
Speaker 1: fertility issues and things like that. So that's been the
26:41
Speaker 1: coolest part is having not only the community embrace us
26:44
Speaker 1: as individuals and also all the other trainers that are
26:47
Speaker 1: coming into the platform, but also that gives that for
26:51
Speaker 1: us to be able to be ourselves and grow with
26:54
Speaker 1: Tone it Up. It's almost like giving permission to anyone
26:57
Speaker 1: to be part of Tone Up to also be able
26:59
Speaker 1: to change and evolve and honor each other for that too.
27:03
Speaker 1: And we all go through so many things and say, hey,
27:06
Speaker 1: this is where I'm at right now in my life,
27:09
Speaker 1: and these are things that I want to do, and
27:10
Speaker 1: that's really really cool. And so I think that's been
27:13
Speaker 1: the funnest part over the last few years of Tone
27:17
Speaker 1: it Up to see how much we can evolve as
27:19
Speaker 1: a community. And it's a company, but I like to
27:22
Speaker 1: think about it's just a community together and then we
27:25
Speaker 1: make cool shit together.
27:28
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you being open about what's going on
27:31
Speaker 3: in your life and you getting vulnerable is what encourages
27:34
Speaker 3: that same behavior amongst your community, which modeling that behavior
27:38
Speaker 3: is just so important because it's bigger than just telling
27:41
Speaker 3: someone that they're not alone. But by opening up about
27:44
Speaker 3: what's going on in your life and modeling this showing
27:48
Speaker 3: them that they're really not alone, you can't put a
27:51
Speaker 3: price tag on that.
27:53
Speaker 1: So true.
27:54
Speaker 3: So you mentioned before that you guys had a tough
27:57
Speaker 3: year and a half two years now, you just mentioned
28:01
Speaker 3: recently talking more about mental health, especially relevant to your
28:04
Speaker 3: fertility struggle. So talk to me a little bit about
28:08
Speaker 3: first of all, what it was like for you to
28:10
Speaker 3: become a mom.
28:13
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well, becoming a mom is the most
28:17
Speaker 1: beautiful experience that I've ever had in my life. It's humbling,
28:22
Speaker 1: it's scary, it's exciting, it's incredible. And then you feel
28:28
Speaker 1: like I'd like a total mama bear, you know, like
28:31
Speaker 1: you would do anything to make sure that your child
28:35
Speaker 1: is safe and feels loved and all those things. So
28:38
Speaker 1: that's been really really cool. And then realizing not that
28:44
Speaker 1: you like I say this, and I'm sometimes I'm really
28:47
Speaker 1: careful about saying this because I totally respect all the
28:50
Speaker 1: women out there that do not want to be moms,
28:55
Speaker 1: or that cannot be a mom and maybe or they
28:58
Speaker 1: don't want to be or something like that. Just because
29:01
Speaker 1: I'm a mom doesn't mean that I know a love deeper.
29:04
Speaker 1: Like I hear that a lot, Like you know you
29:06
Speaker 1: don't know a deep love until you become a mom.
29:09
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's the case. I think I've
29:12
Speaker 1: seen deep love of amazing aunties and just so many
29:16
Speaker 1: different things. So I think for me personally, and this
29:21
Speaker 1: is my own experience, but it doesn't take away from
29:23
Speaker 1: anyone that is not a mom. I didn't really realize
29:29
Speaker 1: nothing really matters except for what I have downstairs right
29:34
Speaker 1: now with she's down there. But you know, everything else
29:38
Speaker 1: in my life was a little more not serious, but
29:44
Speaker 1: you know, everything was so heightened in the like high
29:46
Speaker 1: stress situations. And then as soon as I had her,
29:49
Speaker 1: I was like ooh wow and everything else, I let
29:53
Speaker 1: things go so much easier because I have to. At
29:56
Speaker 1: the end of the day, we sit down and have
29:58
Speaker 1: we have dinner as a family and stuff, and you
30:00
Speaker 1: got to let that shit go. And I look and
30:03
Speaker 1: I look at what I used to be stressed about
30:05
Speaker 1: before I became a mom, and I'm like, wow, like this.
30:09
Speaker 1: It just put everything in perspective. And again, you don't
30:12
Speaker 1: have to become a mom to have that realization. I
30:15
Speaker 1: think it just takes wisdom. But for me, it became
30:18
Speaker 1: becoming a mom to realize that, like like the minutia
30:23
Speaker 1: or any of that stuff, like it's gone tomorrow, but
30:27
Speaker 1: what I still have tomorrow is my family. And so
30:29
Speaker 1: it's given me a sense of peace that is that
30:34
Speaker 1: is amazing. And then you could be like literally covered
30:37
Speaker 1: in poop and up all night with the todd learn everything,
30:42
Speaker 1: and like that's why it's like humbling and you're doing
30:45
Speaker 1: this stuff that you're just like you're in survival mode
30:48
Speaker 1: and being a mom is really hard and that's what also,
30:51
Speaker 1: like the other stuff, it's just you know, it puts
30:54
Speaker 1: everything in perspective.
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33:43
Speaker 3: know that you wanted to have another child?
33:46
Speaker 1: Yeah? So Brian and I my husband. I've known him
33:49
Speaker 1: since I was nineteen nineteen twenty, and we always wanted
33:53
Speaker 1: a big family. We both have one sibling, and both
33:55
Speaker 1: our moms always said like, oh I wish I had more,
33:58
Speaker 1: Like you know, it would have been fun to have
33:59
Speaker 1: a bigger family, and so we were like, oh, it'd
34:02
Speaker 1: be great to have a bigger family. And then Brian
34:05
Speaker 1: works with us at Tone it Up. He's a co
34:08
Speaker 1: founder of a lot of our stuff. I say that
34:11
Speaker 1: because he encourages us to find like start things. He's
34:16
Speaker 1: just like, he's incredible, He's he's our product innovation. If
34:21
Speaker 1: we say that we want to make booty hip bands,
34:24
Speaker 1: he literally is like, Okay, let's do it. And so
34:29
Speaker 1: we started building our Tone it Up family. I like
34:33
Speaker 1: to think back at what we did grow together, and
34:36
Speaker 1: we grew amazing, amazing thing. We grew teams, we grew companies,
34:42
Speaker 1: we grew products, and we always were just like, Okay,
34:46
Speaker 1: we'll start a family later. We'll start a family later.
34:49
Speaker 1: And I don't regret it because then we wouldn't have Isabelle,
34:52
Speaker 1: our daughter. But thinking back, I definitely thought I had
34:56
Speaker 1: a lot more time than I did, and so in hindsight,
35:00
Speaker 1: maybe it'd have been great to freeze my eggs early.
35:03
Speaker 1: So if you, I know a lot of companies are
35:05
Speaker 1: offering that as benefits and insurance. If you have that opportunity,
35:09
Speaker 1: totally do it. I've got girlfriends.
35:11
Speaker 3: Do it.
35:11
Speaker 1: And I'm like, thank goodness, Like that's amazing. We just waited.
35:15
Speaker 1: And then when we wanted to try for a baby,
35:18
Speaker 1: we didn't have any issues, thank goodness. And I was like, wow,
35:21
Speaker 1: We're so blessed. And then we have secondary infertility, which
35:27
Speaker 1: is accounts for over fifty percent of fertility issues, So
35:32
Speaker 1: anyone that struggles with fertilities, fifty percent is secondary. And yeah,
35:39
Speaker 1: we've lost three pregnancies. One of those pregnancies was a
35:43
Speaker 1: chemical pregnancy. So it's only like four weeks, but the
35:47
Speaker 1: first two or a few months, and so it's been
35:51
Speaker 1: really really crazy. It's been just been something I just
35:56
Speaker 1: never thought that I would experience. And when you're going
35:58
Speaker 1: through you're like, oh wow, and then you start talking
36:01
Speaker 1: to people, and then you start researching You're like, oh,
36:03
Speaker 1: this is really common. And then you realize that a
36:05
Speaker 1: lot of women go through this and I'm like, how
36:06
Speaker 1: do how are women just walking down the Street, and
36:09
Speaker 1: now I look like you'd be standing in line at
36:12
Speaker 1: Starbucks and someone could have just like literally experienced it
36:15
Speaker 1: last week and I'm just and it opened my eyes
36:18
Speaker 1: to what women experience. One and four pregnancies are lost,
36:22
Speaker 1: and so it's been wild.
36:26
Speaker 2: You never know what somebody else is going through for you.
36:31
Speaker 3: I mean, there's so much to unpack here, but the
36:34
Speaker 3: first time around, and thank you for sharing that.
36:37
Speaker 2: Do you remember where you were when you found out?
36:41
Speaker 1: So when I was eleven weeks pregnant with my second pregnancy,
36:48
Speaker 1: I felt like everything was normal, like still had morning
36:52
Speaker 1: sickness and everything. Went to our doctor's appointment and they
36:59
Speaker 1: were just looking for the heartbeat and they couldn't find it.
37:02
Speaker 1: And I think I just went numb. I just, you know,
37:06
Speaker 1: you just kind of don't even realize what they're saying
37:09
Speaker 1: is real. And this was pre COVID, so this is
37:14
Speaker 1: right before lockdown. So Brian was with me and we
37:17
Speaker 1: were both just in disbelief. I didn't even cry at first.
37:20
Speaker 1: I was just like, are you sure? For anyone that's
37:23
Speaker 1: experienced like this is like super weird. But when I
37:25
Speaker 1: came home, I was still like not drinking coffee, not
37:29
Speaker 1: drinking wine and knowing that I would miscarry, but I
37:31
Speaker 1: was still thinking that I had to be careful and
37:36
Speaker 1: like I could bring it back or something. It was
37:37
Speaker 1: like the strangest thing I've ever done. It's like just weird.
37:43
Speaker 1: And so I walked around for a week just waiting
37:45
Speaker 1: to miscarry at home and just thought that I could
37:50
Speaker 1: bring this baby back. And it was crazy. And so
37:53
Speaker 1: I went to the doctor and wanted to confirm that
37:55
Speaker 1: the heartbeat wasn't there, and it still wasn't there, and
37:58
Speaker 1: then of course got another opinion. I mean, I just
38:00
Speaker 1: was like in such denial, and then we went to
38:03
Speaker 1: the hospital for a DNC and so I had surgery
38:06
Speaker 1: because it was just I was just waiting. It was
38:09
Speaker 1: the hardest time ever. And then same thing happened. Second
38:14
Speaker 1: pregnancy or a third pregnancy. We did have a heartbeat
38:17
Speaker 1: and it was a boy and he wasn't growing, and
38:21
Speaker 1: then he lost his heart beat by the time that
38:23
Speaker 1: we had our third appointment, and so instead of waiting,
38:27
Speaker 1: I scheduled a surgery. Again. I can't believe, even like
38:31
Speaker 1: speaking the speak talking about it, I could really like
38:35
Speaker 1: have a glass of wine and cry and sob about it,
38:38
Speaker 1: or I can talk about it like it was someone else,
38:41
Speaker 1: Like I'm the way I'm talking about it right now,
38:43
Speaker 1: I almost feel like an outer body experience. I'm just like, oh,
38:46
Speaker 1: that happened to someone over here.
38:48
Speaker 3: When this happens, your just like faith in life has
38:53
Speaker 3: to be shook. How do you find your foundation again
38:59
Speaker 3: in this.
38:59
Speaker 1: Whatever it is that you believe in, you definitely reach
39:04
Speaker 1: for something. And for me, I looked to faith and
39:09
Speaker 1: I was I just held on to hope, and I
39:12
Speaker 1: looked for signs and my sister in law actually saw
39:15
Speaker 1: a like a baby in the clouds. It was like
39:19
Speaker 1: this beautiful picture. I'll send it to you, and she
39:22
Speaker 1: was like, oh my God, like there's like a baby
39:24
Speaker 1: in the sky and like literally anything. And you're just like, oh, like,
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Speaker 1: just anything and everything that gives you hope is there.
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Speaker 1: And so that's the only thing that I can really
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Speaker 1: say about getting through something really difficult is just you know,
39:40
Speaker 1: connecting with friends, family, God, whatever it is that you
39:45
Speaker 1: need to look to and just know that everything's going
39:48
Speaker 1: to be okay. I'm still in it. I don't have answers.
39:51
Speaker 1: I still am not pregnant, and so you know, we
39:55
Speaker 1: went through our IVF journey and we're still in it actually,
39:58
Speaker 1: so just I'm still there. I'm still holding on to faith.
40:03
Speaker 1: And so this is something that I haven't shared yet.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be sharing. But when you go in
40:09
Speaker 1: for your egg retrieval, which is also like so bizarre,
40:12
Speaker 1: they go on all like for anyone that doesn't know
40:15
Speaker 1: IVF is, which I didn't know what it was. I
40:17
Speaker 1: made sure I didn't google anything else. That's like just
40:19
Speaker 1: going in. Whatever happens. You get pumped up on all
40:22
Speaker 1: these hormones for a while with all the shots, and
40:24
Speaker 1: then it makes you release a lot of eggs and
40:26
Speaker 1: then you go in for surgery and they take the
40:28
Speaker 1: eggs out. So wild. So, speaking of looking to faith,
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Speaker 1: looking for signs, looking for anything, something that's personal to
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Speaker 1: me in my life are butterflies. I grew up with
40:39
Speaker 1: this wallpaper in my nursery of these little butterflies my
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Speaker 1: mom like loved. And then butterflies are part of six forty.
40:46
Speaker 1: They represent spiritual rebirth, transformation, change, embracing change. And so
40:54
Speaker 1: when I went in for my egg retrieval, you know,
40:57
Speaker 1: you're so nervous, shaking, and I was in the in
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Speaker 1: the bed and they went to wheel me into the
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Speaker 1: surgery center, and the nurse that came in that was
41:08
Speaker 1: like taking care of me and everything. I look up
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Speaker 1: and she's wearing like this butterfly clip that's holding her
41:13
Speaker 1: name and again like you'll look to anything to hold
41:17
Speaker 1: on to faith and hope, and I would just start crying.
41:20
Speaker 1: And it turns out that she like has like a
41:22
Speaker 1: butterfly farm. I'm like, what, so that was really I
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Speaker 1: just felt like I was in good hands for some reason.
41:30
Speaker 1: And that's again like when you're going through something, you
41:32
Speaker 1: just you you see a rainbow in the sky and
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Speaker 1: you're like, I'm gonna be okay. It's just that's why
41:39
Speaker 1: holding onto hope and looking for signs that everything's gonna
41:42
Speaker 1: be okay is so important. But yeah, and then now
41:44
Speaker 1: we're just we're still on our journey and so hopeful
41:48
Speaker 1: staying hopeful and staying positive.
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Speaker 2: What a beautiful symbol. Though. Did you get emotional right
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Speaker 2: when you saw that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I start crying. She's like are you okay, honey?
41:56
Speaker 1: And I was like, you have a butterfly She's like yeah,
41:59
Speaker 1: they mean something really, you know, and she's like, I
42:02
Speaker 1: have a butterfly farm or whatever, like she has like
42:05
Speaker 1: these milkweed plants. But I don't know if you know this,
42:07
Speaker 1: but if you put milk weed outside your house, like
42:10
Speaker 1: all these butterflies come and they start growing, and then
42:12
Speaker 1: I like researched it and Michelle Obama put them all
42:15
Speaker 1: around the White House and so that way there would
42:18
Speaker 1: be like butterflies.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, Wow, for you now in your journey, I mean,
42:23
Speaker 3: not only is processing that's difficult enough, but I would
42:27
Speaker 3: imagine that it's also difficult to open up about this
42:31
Speaker 3: process to other people. So talk to me about what
42:35
Speaker 3: that experience was like for you.
42:37
Speaker 1: I think whatever trauma you go through in your life,
42:41
Speaker 1: you're never really like ready to talk about it. I know,
42:44
Speaker 1: like going to therapy can be really healing and therapeutic
42:48
Speaker 1: to talk about something, but it's really scary to actually
42:51
Speaker 1: take that step to start opening up and talking about it.
42:55
Speaker 1: And so for me, I wasn't ready to really talk
42:59
Speaker 1: about our lives or our struggles. But it was right
43:02
Speaker 1: before Mother's Day and I still hadn't talked about it,
43:04
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, Okay, I think that if I
43:07
Speaker 1: open up about this, it could probably help someone out
43:09
Speaker 1: there not feel so alone. And I was thinking about
43:12
Speaker 1: a lot of women that may be in the same
43:14
Speaker 1: position as me, and so I was able to open up.
43:17
Speaker 1: And I think that I look, I find my strength
43:20
Speaker 1: and knowing that if I open up about my story
43:23
Speaker 1: will help someone else. I totally respect anyone that keeps
43:28
Speaker 1: more of this stuff private too. I don't think that
43:31
Speaker 1: you have to talk about things, but I do think
43:34
Speaker 1: it is amazing to open up and share so that way,
43:38
Speaker 1: you know, women know that it's more you know, it's
43:42
Speaker 1: more common than we think it's normal. It's just something
43:45
Speaker 1: that we can all support each other in it. And
43:48
Speaker 1: so I found strength and opening up by knowing that
43:51
Speaker 1: I was hopefully helping at least one person out there. Yeah.
43:54
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's safe to say that you're doing
43:57
Speaker 3: much more than helping just one person. And whether it's
44:00
Speaker 3: this journey or you know, other things that you've shared
44:04
Speaker 3: in the past, just that vulnerability is really special. I
44:08
Speaker 3: remember I sat down with another woman a couple of
44:12
Speaker 3: years ago. Her name's Ash Wilking, and she's a trainer
44:14
Speaker 3: as well, and she said something that has always stuck
44:17
Speaker 3: with me.
44:17
Speaker 2: That was, make sure that the sword you used to.
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Speaker 3: Help others isn't the one that you fall on and
44:24
Speaker 3: I always go back to that when I'm doing kind
44:27
Speaker 3: of a gut check on my vulnerability is agreed to.
44:32
Speaker 3: What you're said is that you might not always be
44:34
Speaker 3: totally ready, But there's a difference between sharing and you're
44:37
Speaker 3: not one hundred percent ready and sharing and just like
44:40
Speaker 3: not being prepared for what could happen after that.
44:44
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, totally for you now.
44:46
Speaker 3: These days with everything that toned it up is building
44:50
Speaker 3: and what you are building outside of the brand, what
44:53
Speaker 3: would you say is the thing that excites you the most.
44:58
Speaker 1: Everything's starting to open up again, hugging, seeing my family,
45:06
Speaker 1: my mom, living life with a fresh perspective after the
45:12
Speaker 1: experience that the entire world has gone through. Right, So
45:17
Speaker 1: I'm actually really excited to live with a little more love, purpose,
45:25
Speaker 1: more present. Not that I wasn't present before, but you
45:30
Speaker 1: know a lot of us were on autopilot, and when
45:33
Speaker 1: the world shut down, we didn't realize one how much
45:36
Speaker 1: we were caring until we put it down, and then
45:39
Speaker 1: too how important the little things are, like going to
45:44
Speaker 1: your favorite coffee shop and saying hello to people who
45:47
Speaker 1: live in your neighborhood. Like, Wow, I'm just excited for
45:52
Speaker 1: life and through that is working with the team at
45:56
Speaker 1: Tone it Up and with the community and doing more
46:01
Speaker 1: more things on the beautifully dot com and having the podcast,
46:05
Speaker 1: like whatever it is, with family and work and career.
46:09
Speaker 1: I think that we all have such a good perspective
46:13
Speaker 1: on life and what matters now, so kind of going
46:16
Speaker 1: back to, you know, becoming a mom and realizing what matters.
46:20
Speaker 1: I think also there's there's not one person in the
46:24
Speaker 1: world right now that isn't sitting here going like wow,
46:28
Speaker 1: Like this is what walking around and a in a
46:33
Speaker 1: in a healthy world feels like now. And hopefully and
46:36
Speaker 1: hopefully we're we're going to stay healthy and it's now
46:39
Speaker 1: and now. We just never know. Life is so fragile
46:43
Speaker 1: that I really just look forward to life with it.
46:48
Speaker 3: Amen.
46:48
Speaker 2: Amen.
46:49
Speaker 3: When someone that comes to your Instagram page, they see
46:53
Speaker 3: a woman that is leading the charge on this international community,
46:59
Speaker 3: a founder and author, a podcasters, so many things. When
47:05
Speaker 3: you look in the mirror, what is it that you
47:07
Speaker 3: see looking back at you?
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Speaker 1: Happiness, a woman who has seen a lot of struggle
47:14
Speaker 1: but is stronger than she could have ever imagined. I
47:18
Speaker 1: still see the little girl that I was too. I
47:22
Speaker 1: think it's really important for us to reflect on who
47:27
Speaker 1: we were when we were little, and you know, and
47:30
Speaker 1: always tap into that curiosity. That's what keeps us creative
47:35
Speaker 1: and open to change and growth. Is looking at how
47:39
Speaker 1: much we have grown. And I also see someone who,
47:44
Speaker 1: of course is going to experience a lot more things
47:46
Speaker 1: in her life. And so I'm open and I hope
47:50
Speaker 1: that I can be as strong as I have been.
47:52
Speaker 1: And yeah, and then some and I see some gray
47:55
Speaker 1: hairs too coming.
47:58
Speaker 3: I mean, you just you just gain and mentioned the
48:01
Speaker 3: hard times that you have made it through the hurdles
48:03
Speaker 3: that you have conquered. How do you come back to
48:06
Speaker 3: gratitude in some of these seriously difficult moments.
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Speaker 1: Well, I definitely I do write down what I'm grateful
48:13
Speaker 1: for every day. I'm my calendar. I use the Boss
48:17
Speaker 1: Babe calendar. Yeah, they're so good. They have like you
48:21
Speaker 1: write three things that you're grateful for and your to
48:23
Speaker 1: do list and you have everything, and it's like before
48:26
Speaker 1: you even tackle work and everything, you tap into life
48:30
Speaker 1: and what you're grateful for. So I think that that's
48:33
Speaker 1: something that we're all working on always. So just remembering,
48:38
Speaker 1: you know, what is amazing in our life right now,
48:43
Speaker 1: and there's a lot to be thankful for. And so
48:45
Speaker 1: I always do that every morning.
48:47
Speaker 3: Right now, you have an opportunity to offer yourself a
48:51
Speaker 3: piece of advice going through the hurdle moments back at
48:56
Speaker 3: the beginning of twenty nineteen, you can offer her some advice.
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Speaker 2: What would you tell her.
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Speaker 1: Without crying? You if I could go back and tell
49:10
Speaker 1: myself anything, is probably what I tell myself every day
49:16
Speaker 1: is everything is going to be okay. No matter what,
49:20
Speaker 1: everything is going to be okay. And if I could
49:24
Speaker 1: forewarn myself I go back, I would say, you know,
49:30
Speaker 1: you may see the darkest days ahead, but just you know,
49:35
Speaker 1: keep your heart open and pure. The good thing is
49:39
Speaker 1: is I don't have any regrets. I know going into
49:44
Speaker 1: twenty twenty I had. I was always seeing family, always
49:51
Speaker 1: you know, the last to leave an outing, and spending
49:55
Speaker 1: so much time with everybody, And I felt really lucky
50:00
Speaker 1: going into even like lockdown and going through the experiences
50:05
Speaker 1: that I did, even with Brian, knowing that we had
50:08
Speaker 1: done everything like a lot of people, you know, went
50:12
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty with so much regret, like, oh wow,
50:14
Speaker 1: now that I'm home and had stay at home and
50:16
Speaker 1: I can't travel, I wish that I had done that,
50:19
Speaker 1: or I wish I had spent more time, or I
50:20
Speaker 1: wish I'd gone back and seen my parents or this
50:23
Speaker 1: or that, But like we were like, Wow, we've done
50:25
Speaker 1: it all and we're going to sit here, and then
50:29
Speaker 1: we started going through our own issues at home and
50:31
Speaker 1: again just going back to gratitude and then just telling
50:34
Speaker 1: myself that everything was going to be okay.
50:36
Speaker 3: So grateful for your time today, So grateful for your vulnerability.
50:40
Speaker 3: I know again and I said it before, about what
50:42
Speaker 3: you're doing really matters beyond obviously helping people to find
50:47
Speaker 3: what you know their own version of personal wellness means
50:49
Speaker 3: to them. It's sharing your story and evolving as an
50:54
Speaker 3: individual and sharing that with your community. That's really really special.
50:57
Speaker 3: So thanks so much. How did the hurdlers follow along
51:00
Speaker 3: with you? How do they keep up with Tone it Up?
51:02
Speaker 3: Give me all the details?
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Speaker 1: Yay? Thanks? Okay. So I'm I feel like I live
51:07
Speaker 1: on Instagram at least half the day and I love Instagram.
51:11
Speaker 1: I just I feel like it's a great place to
51:13
Speaker 1: connect with other women. So I'm at Katrina Scott and
51:18
Speaker 1: my fitness account is Tone it Up Katrina and on
51:22
Speaker 1: there kind I share more about my program six forty
51:26
Speaker 1: and then our Tone it Up is of course Tone
51:28
Speaker 1: it Up. And then my podcast is Live Beautifully, so
51:32
Speaker 1: again that's all Instagram, and my website is Live Beautifully
51:38
Speaker 1: dot com. And I also send out a newsletter which
51:43
Speaker 1: I think that you would love.
51:44
Speaker 2: Plenty of places to connect.
51:46
Speaker 3: I am over at Hurdle Podcast, at Emily Body another
51:50
Speaker 3: Hurdle Conquered.
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Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time
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Speaker 1: You