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Married to an NBA Legend, But She's Got Her Own Game! | Natasha Salley · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, moms. Welcome to Inside the Moms Club. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Monica Samuels. I'm here with Julie Orkid, one of my
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  Speaker 1: dearest friends.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Julie.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's so good to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, this week, you know, it's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun, but something happened the other day that's not, well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what happened. So I was at
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  Speaker 1: Target checking out at Target. And the high school person
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  Speaker 1: who was checking me out, the cashier, she was lovely.
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  Speaker 1: And so I thought, well, we can kind of connect
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  Speaker 1: here because I was a target cashier. That was my
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  Speaker 1: first job in high school. So I told her, I said,
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  Speaker 1: I was a target cashier too. Only when I was
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  Speaker 1: a cashier, they didn't have those scan things. We had
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  Speaker 1: to actually type every single number in. And then I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: it was a long time ago. Lincoln was president. And
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  Speaker 1: she said, wow. Now, do I look like I was
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  Speaker 1: around during the Civil War? I mean, tell me, do
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  Speaker 1: I look that bad? No, you can be honest. No,
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  Speaker 1: you can't be honest.
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  Speaker 3: We're really good friends, but you look great.
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  Speaker 1: So is our education system suffering that someone would think
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  Speaker 1: that I was alive when Abraham Lincoln was president? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is it more on her or me? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But it did make me start thinking about My youth
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  Speaker 1: and my appearance. Possibly that you're aging.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I need to get back into it
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  Speaker 1: because I used to be Miss Fitness. I used to
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  Speaker 1: have a trainer twice a day. Twice a day?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I was really into it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I was working out a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I recently read something that said that after 60,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to live a nice life as you're
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  Speaker 1: older- A quality life. A quality life.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this.
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  Speaker 1: You need to be able to get up off the
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  Speaker 1: floor without using your hands at all. People that can
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  Speaker 1: do that are going to have a nice glide path
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  Speaker 1: to their sensory marker, whatever they're going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, can you do that?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: So that makes me very concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Not only.
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  Speaker 1: High school kids mistaking me for, you know, someone from
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  Speaker 1: the 1860s. But I can't even do that. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make it my my goal here today. And
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  Speaker 1: why I'm so excited about our guest today is I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make it my mission to get there.
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  Speaker 3: In front of all these witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pledging that I am going to do this. And
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  Speaker 1: so that someday on the mom's club, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: see Julie here get off the floor without using her
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  Speaker 1: hands because I'm going to inspire her to do this.
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  Speaker 1: And then I might try to do it myself. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot harder than your situation where Julie's going
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  Speaker 3: to do it first, which is.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Well, we have to do it together. That's
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  Speaker 1: what moms, that's what the mom's club is all about.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm excited today that we have with us a
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  Speaker 1: devoted wife, mother, mentor, community leader, a lifelong fitness enthusiast,
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  Speaker 1: and certified Pilates instructor. Not just someone who does it,
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  Speaker 1: but is an instructor. She has been married to former
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  Speaker 1: NBA champion John Sally for more than 32 years and
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  Speaker 1: is the proud mother of three children as well as
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  Speaker 1: the surrogate mother to several others. Please welcome Natasha Sally. Natasha,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the Moms Club.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, how are you? Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So Natasha, I'm betting that you can get up off
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  Speaker 1: the floor without using your hands. I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I can.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, well, how, well, I'm going to ask you specifically
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  Speaker 1: how to do that. What's your, what's your regimen? Like
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  Speaker 1: what's your secret? I know you've been doing this. You
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  Speaker 1: were a track star. I mean, you've been, you've unlike
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  Speaker 1: me who got into it and then like got really
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  Speaker 1: into it and then just fell off the wagon completely.
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  Speaker 1: You've kept it up your whole life, right? So how,
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  Speaker 1: how did you do this? Share with all the moms
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  Speaker 1: out there because I know they want to know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you're always running after your kids. So
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  Speaker 2: that's track right there. Trying to keep up with somebody.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know. I just made it part of
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  Speaker 2: my lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. So you commit to like I used to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that when I got up at 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: that by 6 I was working. I was exercising somehow.
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  Speaker 1: So is it just making a schedule or.
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  Speaker 2: You schedule yourself in to your day? So I like,
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  Speaker 2: if you can't do anything, you know, you can do
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  Speaker 2: squats while you brush your teeth. You can do calf
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  Speaker 2: raises while you brush your teeth. You know, park farther
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  Speaker 2: in Target parking lot. Just make it an active lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're lifting groceries out of your trunk. Those
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  Speaker 2: are bicep curls. So just make it part of your
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  Speaker 2: everyday routine. You have a baby, you know, you're playing
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  Speaker 2: with the baby, lifting the baby up and down. Again,
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  Speaker 2: running after kids, lugging school bags. just a fit mom.
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  Speaker 3: All of that is working out. I will say that, uh,
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  Speaker 3: how would you describe aging gracefully? Because, you know, Monica
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  Speaker 3: and I are almost empty nesters. So it's a different
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  Speaker 3: stage for each part. I mean, I'm sure you have
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  Speaker 3: people in your classes all the way from, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're in their late twenties, mid twenties, all the way
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  Speaker 3: up to our age. So, um, what do you tell
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  Speaker 3: people about that, about, you know, continuing to be strong
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  Speaker 3: in a routine?
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  Speaker 2: Um, I like baby steps. You do a little, a little,
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  Speaker 2: a little, and that will help you as you get older.
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  Speaker 2: So as your child is a young, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: elementary school. So you're doing one type of workout. And
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  Speaker 2: then you're in high school and your kid needs you more.
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  Speaker 2: You're driving more. So like I would take my kids
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  Speaker 2: to practice. They're at practice. So I'm walking around. I'm
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  Speaker 2: doing something active. I always tell my moms, do not
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  Speaker 2: eat after the kids. I know you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: throw the food away. Save it for them to eat
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  Speaker 2: it later. Don't eat their leftovers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one. That's actually a biggie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's tricky.
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  Speaker 2: You have to just every day, whatever you do for yourself,
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  Speaker 2: just make it part of your routine. So like I
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  Speaker 2: know I have to stretch every day as I get older.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm getting tighter, so I have to stretch
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  Speaker 2: every day. I do Pilates every day. I don't do
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  Speaker 2: like a full workout, but I do something and that
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  Speaker 2: keeps my body moving. I have to eat green vegetables.
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  Speaker 2: Like if I don't eat green vegetables, my body's like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: so I go to Michigan. It's harder to eat healthy,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I take snacks. I eat almonds. Just
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  Speaker 2: put it in your lifestyle and those small changes make
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  Speaker 2: big results.
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  Speaker 1: You became a certified Pilates instructor. So do you think
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  Speaker 1: like if, if you could only do one extra, if
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  Speaker 1: you could only do one form of formal exercise and,
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  Speaker 1: Would it be Pilates or strength training? Or is there
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  Speaker 1: one that you think can help move us to that
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  Speaker 1: goal that someday we can all like get up off
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  Speaker 1: the floor without assistance?
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  Speaker 2: You can Pilates eight, eight years old to 80 years old.
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  Speaker 2: I've started doing a little bit of that, you know, weightlifting. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we do weight bearing on our Pilates reformer. We, we
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  Speaker 2: can do everything. We do stretching. We do strength training.
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  Speaker 2: It's really, and like I have my pregnant moms, we
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  Speaker 2: do workouts. I have like, you know, my 80 year
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  Speaker 2: old clients, we do workouts. You can have a broken foot.
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  Speaker 2: I've had clients in a boot. So you can still
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  Speaker 2: move your body. I'll have like a bride getting ready.
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  Speaker 2: She's not doing the same workout as my 80 year
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  Speaker 2: old client. You know, it's different things for different parts.
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  Speaker 2: I have an executive, he does golf. So we do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, movements for golf. You know, there's different movements,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we do for our moms, we do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of lifting, a lot of carrying. So there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of overhead things. It's not all about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting the heart. Well, our heart rate gets up. Like
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  Speaker 2: we have jump board and we have, you know, I can,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I can really kill you or I can
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  Speaker 2: shut you out. So, you know, it depends what your
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  Speaker 2: body needs. And I like to read my clients. So
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  Speaker 2: You know, no, because like I'll have in my mind, OK,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to work out Susie and Susie, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she's like hardcore wants to do. But, you know, Susie
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  Speaker 2: woke up with a headache and she just wants to stretch.
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  Speaker 2: So I go in and I change it and I
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  Speaker 2: adapt to what you need. So Pilates is one of
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  Speaker 2: those things. For me, it was the only thing that
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  Speaker 2: I found after I had my baby, my first baby
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  Speaker 2: that changed my body. It was like, oh, this is nice.
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  Speaker 2: I like, you know, I like the results. I got
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  Speaker 2: long and lean. And I kept it up and then
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  Speaker 2: it got expensive. So I said, you know, I should
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  Speaker 2: just become certified and then I don't have to pay
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  Speaker 2: for it. So I did.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a great idea.
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  Speaker 3: So do you have mostly private clients, Natasha?
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  Speaker 2: I do. I'm at a point now where it's also Pilates,
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  Speaker 2: I will say, is a great exercise for moms because
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  Speaker 2: when my kids were in school, I could plan my
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  Speaker 2: clients around their drop off and pick up. So like
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  Speaker 2: I would drop one kid off, go do a couple
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  Speaker 2: of clients, have to pick one up, drop her off,
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  Speaker 2: go do another couple of clients. So it worked for
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  Speaker 2: my lifestyle. I right now, though, I have clients and
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  Speaker 2: I go to their homes and we also do Zoom. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. You can now do Zoom. Do you ever
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  Speaker 1: have any challenging client where you're thinking to yourself, this
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  Speaker 1: person's like I used to have like. I used to
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  Speaker 1: exercise with somebody, I won't name the person, but I'd
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  Speaker 1: go to the gym with her and she'd get on her,
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  Speaker 1: the treadmill. And I'm pretty sure she said it on
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  Speaker 1: Mosey because she was going so slow that there's no
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  Speaker 1: way she was getting a benefit out of it. And
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  Speaker 1: my husband was one that he would get on a machine.
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  Speaker 1: And now your husband being an NBA superstar, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have this problem. But his deal was he'd get on
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  Speaker 1: a machine for like two seconds and then he'd always
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  Speaker 1: have to get off. you had a drink of water
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  Speaker 1: or to go do the one. I mean, do you
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  Speaker 1: have some that you're having trouble motivating or how, and
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  Speaker 1: then when you do, how do you motivate them?
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  Speaker 2: Um, I do have a couple of clients that get
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  Speaker 2: distracted and we'll start talking and I can tell when
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  Speaker 2: they're not Pilates is a mind body connection. So when
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  Speaker 2: you're doing it, you really have to be present. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm really good at bringing you back into your goals.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll, reiterate what your goals are for yourself. Like
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  Speaker 2: you want to be more flexible or you want to
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  Speaker 2: be more toned. So I'm really good at bringing them
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  Speaker 2: back to, Hey, you have this thing coming up and
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  Speaker 2: you want to look good for that. So come on,
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  Speaker 2: let's do this. We need to get up and go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So she would easily, if she was training me beyond
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  Speaker 1: my little, my little tricks is kind of like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: can you explain to me a little bit better how
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  Speaker 1: that machine works?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That takes up a little time for you to explain that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You'd get me right back on track, I guess. So yeah, no, that's,
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  Speaker 1: that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So like we're, this is how the machine works
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  Speaker 2: as we're doing the exercise. No, there's not stop.
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  Speaker 1: No, not, not Monica. You can take notes or sit
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  Speaker 1: back and watch for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. That's not going to happen with Natasha, you know?
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  Speaker 1: I'd probably be really in shape. You know what did
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  Speaker 1: it for me? You mentioned something about people in boots.
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  Speaker 1: I broke my foot and that was kind of when
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  Speaker 1: I had all that training, when I was doing all that,
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  Speaker 1: I was really super fit. And then I twisted my foot.
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  Speaker 1: I literally walked four steps across the floor and my
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  Speaker 1: foot rolled and I got what's called a Jones fracture,
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  Speaker 1: which I understand Kevin Durant had. So, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: athletes get it. But I had, I was in a
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  Speaker 1: boot for about a year. I had two surgeries and,
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  Speaker 1: But no one suggested to me, hey, you could still exercise.
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  Speaker 1: I just kind of fell off. That's when I quit
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  Speaker 1: doing it. So now you keep people going. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like they could have a broken arm and
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  Speaker 1: they can still do something.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they can. Your glutes are fine with your arm broken. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So, okay. So what about someone like me who
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  Speaker 1: then didn't quit for a while? How do you get
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  Speaker 1: back into it? What's the best way to do that?
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  Speaker 2: Baby steps. We slow, like I said, my 80 year
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  Speaker 2: old client is not going to do, you know, what
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  Speaker 2: my 25 year old client's been doing. So we do, again,
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  Speaker 2: I will look at your body, see what your goal,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if you just want to be more active,
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  Speaker 2: you just want to get the blood flowing. You feel
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  Speaker 2: really tight. You want to be able to pick something
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  Speaker 2: up off the floor, you know? So we work on
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  Speaker 2: like flexibility and stuff like that. But again, a little
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  Speaker 2: at a time. And I like to tell my clients,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like the dentist. You know, you can't come in
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  Speaker 2: twice a year for a cleaning and expect beautiful teeth.
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  Speaker 2: You have to floss every day. You have to brush
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  Speaker 2: every day. So you have to do something every day.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll give you some little homework, like, okay. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: nothing crazy, you know, just like, okay, you're going to
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  Speaker 2: roll up out of bed like this. You know, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do that, you know, little baby, baby, baby,
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  Speaker 2: you know, nothing major, but just to keep you active.
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  Speaker 2: So then the next time you come see me, you're like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so now I'm getting a little closer to touching my toes. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I can bend down a little further.
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  Speaker 1: I love your attitude. I think that's absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: You make it sound so easy from working out to
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  Speaker 3: having a really good relationship.
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  Speaker 1: With your husband. Have you written a book? I think
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  Speaker 1: you should. You definitely have some good advice. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: a great example. Well, thank you, Natasha, for being with
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  Speaker 1: us today. This has been a Amazing, as we say
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  Speaker 1: center of I mean, of everything. So let's all band
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  Speaker 1: together and support one another. That is what Natasha was saying. Yes,
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