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195. Your Energy Creates Your Impact (The One About Fitness Instructors) · Impact Ready

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  Welcome to Impact Ready, a show dedicated to helping you elevate
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  your impact in the world. I'm Steph Safra, your host.
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  Let's explore the power of showing up with intention and
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  energy each day. This is for those who seek to
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  make life truly meaningful. Get ready for impact.
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  Hello team, welcome to the Impact Ready podcast.
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  I'm so happy you're here. Last Friday my wife taught her
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  last group fitness class. She's been in Group fitness for
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  14 years in the city of Portland.
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  She's taught at various studios, different modalities of fitness,
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  but she taught her last class at Berry's to a packed room with as
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  much energy as she taught 1314 years ago.
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  It was such an honor to be in the room.
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  The energy was insane. People are expressing so much
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  gratitude for her and to see her get choked up at the end and
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  just say thank you and express what it meant to her for the
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  last 14 years. To have people giving energy to
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  her. Not just her giving energy to
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  people but and people giving energy to her.
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  It was so moving and everybody felt it.
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  It was really awesome experience and the endorphins were high
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  afterwards. It was just amazing.
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  It was lovely. And since then, I've been
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  thinking about ripple effects, the ripple effects of impact
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  that you have on people when you give your energy and you share
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  your gifts with the world, with the community around you.
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  More than that, I've been thinking about how it's the
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  energy you give that correlates with the impact you have and the
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  ripple effects that you create. It's all about the energy.
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  So this episode is a bit of an ode to instructors out there in
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  the world. I think they're an incredible
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  example of how to have powerful impact, and they embody a lot of
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  the characteristics of being impact ready, something that I
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  want to talk about today. Now, if you've ever been a
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  fitness instructor before, you know this, you know that to be
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  good, you have to put in the energy.
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  Every time you walk into your class, you have a choice about
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  how you're going to show up. You can choose to phone it in to
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  some degree you can, or you can give the best that you have that
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  day. It's a constant decision every
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  single time you walk into that room.
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  You can also make the choice to be in your best energy possible
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  regardless of how other people show up in the room, which
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  again, if you've been an instructor, you know that some
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  days it's pretty hard to bring the energy when other people,
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  other clients in the room aren't bringing it with you.
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  What I've learned over the years is that the instructors out in
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  the world who have the greatest impact are the ones who have
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  continuously poured the most energy into their craft.
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  It's not hard to tell. They pour energy into building
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  skills, into learning, into improving their teaching, and
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  they pour energy into the clients.
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  And it's no wonder, because there's something really special
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  and unique about the relationships that you build
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  with people in those rooms. I don't know if it's the music
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  or the lights or the drama. Maybe.
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  Maybe it's the fact that you're asking people to push themselves
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  out of their comfort zones every single day and they're actually
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  doing it. Maybe it's the winds that people
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  feel like they have in those rooms when they run a little
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  faster or lift a little more or spin their legs to the beat of
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  the music for the first time. Maybe it's the fact that those
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  clients show up in all different states of their life over the
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  years. They show up in good times, hard
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  times, when they're grieving, when they're celebrating.
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  Maybe it's that on any given day, you are acknowledging
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  somebody. Someone's birthday, someone's
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  upcoming wedding, their anniversary, their 500th class.
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  It might be that you're putting a hand on someone's shoulder
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  because you know that they're going through a divorce, and the
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  tears on their face as they're running on the treadmill or
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  spinning on that bike are an indication that they're working
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  through something. Maybe it's because you knew that
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  that client was struggling to get pregnant for three years,
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  and then one day they showed up and told you that they had to
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  modify because they were in their first trimester.
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  They'd finally gotten pregnant, and you get to see them at nine
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  months pregnant and they've come to your class to try to get that
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  baby moving out. It could be all of that.
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  It could just be that all those clients have been a witness to
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  you growing and evolving as an instructor, going through all
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  your good times and all your hard times yourself.
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  They might have seen you get choked up on certain days, or
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  they've celebrated with you when you meet that person that you
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  fall in love with, or you win that bodybuilding competition
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  you've been working towards, or you're just celebrating because
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  you can. It's all of these moments that
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  build and connect. It's the relationships that
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  spread. It's when you get to see clients
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  outside of the room in the real world and you get to cheer them
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  on, or you get to watch friendships develop between
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  clients in certain classes. The instructor gets to be a
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  witness to so many different facets of humanity, and the
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  whole time they're holding the space for that to happen.
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  Not to mention they're curating it with the soundtrack that
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  meets and matches those different moments in people's
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  lives, and they are guiding people to grow in their own
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  right. As I said earlier, this whole
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  scenario around teaching fitness, it's one of the
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  greatest examples of impact I can think of.
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  It embodies so many different aspects of what creates a
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  powerful impact, things that we talked about on this podcast all
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  the time. For example, the idea of ripple
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  effects. When you are great at what you
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  do, you create environments for people to become better
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  themselves, and then those people go out into their
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  communities and start to have an influence there as well.
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  That's how it spreads. Let me pause here for a second.
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  If you're listening and thinking I'm capable of more or this is
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  the level I want to operate at, this is for you.
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  I work privately with a small number of high performing
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  leaders who are ready to elevate how they show up in their
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  business and in their lives. This isn't motivational
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  coaching, it's precision work. We refine your energy,
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  strengthen your ownership, and eliminate inconsistency so your
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  impact becomes undeniable. If you're ready for that level
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  of growth, book a private call through the link in the show
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  notes. We'll see if it's a fit.
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  All right, back to the episode. Instructors demonstrate one of
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  the number one rules of impact, consistency.
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  Consistency is king. Showing up in Group fitness for
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  years, bringing your best, that is the perfect embodiment of
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  consistency. Not only are they doing that,
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  but they do it on good days and on bad days.
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  It's a prime example of how you can show up and do a great job.
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  You can bring your best even when you don't feel your best.
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  We've talked about that before. Another aspect of impact, the
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  idea of how a little effort can go a long way.
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  Maybe you learned somebody's name and you shouted it out in
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  class and it made their day. You celebrate somebody's
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  birthday. You support them through a loss.
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  A little effort goes a long way. They also perfectly illustrate
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  the power of connection. So often when you're an
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  instructor, you see your clients 234 times a week.
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  That's more than you see your own family sometimes.
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  There's a unique special connection there and it
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  motivates, it inspires people, it builds community that allows
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  them to feel better in their daily life and team.
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  If they're really good, they make it look easy.
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  And that's what you call mastery, something we've talked
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  about so many times. It's what we would call
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  unconscious competence in terms of the levels of learning.
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  Those are the instructors that are really fun to take a
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  classroom, those who have developed mastery.
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  They just make it look so damn easy and at the same time, it's
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  incredibly fun. And that brings me to one of the
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  biggest reasons why I think that instructors are such a great
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  example of powerful impact. It's because it's all done
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  through the lens of play and joy.
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  These classes, these group fitness experiences, they're
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  fun. That is why they are successful,
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  because you get to bring people together, get them out of their
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  comfort zones and make it celebratory.
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  You get to put great fun music. You get to play with the lights.
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  You get to be dramatic. We as adults get to step out of
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  our serious comfort zones and have fun even when we're doing
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  something hard. And we all know the power of
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  play and joy. It creates incredible impact.
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  If we zoom out here and we look at the big picture, you can see
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  that none of this would be possible if it weren't for the
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  energy invested. And that's what's really
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  standing out for me this last week as a reflect on my wife's
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  last 14 years of group fitness. As I think about my own
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  experiences teaching, and as I think about the instructors
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  who've had the most impact on me, I realized the common
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  denominator. All of this is the energy given.
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  And it hammers home the point that our impact is a reflection
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  of what we put out into the world.
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  That the energy we cultivate is what allows us to create the
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  ripple effects. It reminds me of why it's so
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  essential to prepare and plan for energy, because without it,
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  we are completely stunted in our ability to do what we want to
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  do. Think about this.
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  The energy a teacher might put into guiding his students.
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  The energy a parent might put into showing up for their kids.
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  The energy a spouse invests in their marriage.
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  The energy a boss or a leader gives to their team or a doctor
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  gives to their patients. A best friend puts into their
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  friendship. A coach invests in their
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  athletes. It all comes down to this.
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  The impact we have correlates with the energy we give.
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  If there's a place in your life where things are floundering or
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  where things aren't flourishing, look at the energy you're giving
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  it. Perhaps that's the reason you're
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  not seeing the impact you want. And the good news is it's an
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  easy fix because it is within us.
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  The solution is to focus more energy.
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  So this one, this episode, this one's for my wife, and it's for
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  all the fitness instructors out there.
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  Whether you've taught for a year or 15 years, the energy you give
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  to your classes, the time and attention that you put into
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  curating your workouts and your playlist, the way you encourage
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  and see all the individuals that filter through those rooms over
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  the years, it matters. It matters so much.
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  I've heard hundreds of stories of why it matters and I'm here
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  to tell you, you are creating ripple effects beyond what you
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  will ever know. So maybe all think like a
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  fitness instructor today and give the energy we can so we can
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  create the impact we want. I'm so glad you're here
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  listening. Thank you for all of your
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  support for this podcast as we approach 200 episodes.
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  And as always, team, thank you for being ready to Impact.
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  Thanks for listening to Impact Ready.
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  I hope today's episode inspired you to own your impact and
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  recognize that you are powerful. By elevating our energy and
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  awareness, we can create exponential change in this life.
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  subscribe to the show for more. I truly appreciate you.
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  Thanks again for being here.