Episode 110: A Conversation about Race, Love and Learning With Myrna Brady
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This week I am privileged to open up a dialog about race, love, listening and learning with my good friend Myrna Brady.
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Episode 109: John Jantsch and The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur
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John Jantsch brings 19th-century wisdom and his 20th-century experience to the show and discusses his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur.
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Episode 108: The Crossroads of Must, Should and Want
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"What Is The Whisper That Will Not Leave You Alone?"
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Episode 107: Susie Moore: How To Stop Checking Your Likes
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In today's show Author, Susie Moore stops by to share how to stop checking our likes, start taking and action and move toward creating a life of purpose and fill our potential.
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Episode 105: Staying Centered, Creating Community and Moving Forward
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So the show notes today are the resources that are helping me get through these unprecedented and challenging times and I hope they will help you too.
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Episode 106: Meditation To Find Calm In The Chaos
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A short meditation to help you find the calm amongst the chaos
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Episode 104: What I Learned From Oprah
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This week’s show is inspired by my recent experience at the Oprah Winfrey 2020 Vision Tour. Below are a few questions and insights from the day. I encourage you to print out the questions in the full show notes and take some time after this episode to get quiet, turn inward and listen to the whispers.
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Episode 103: How To Close The Confidence Gap
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In this solo episode I walk you through a few of the steps that I take my clients through when working with them around the feelings of confidence. Topics include why we lack confidence, what to do about it and how to act confident before we really feel confident.
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Episode 102: Kelly McGonigal on The Joy of Movement
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Author Kelly McGonigal joins the conversation this week to talk about the power of movement, music, and community. Kelly helps remind us about the gifts that come when we move our bodies to music and come together in community.
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Episode 101: Jenny Blake on Building Momentum With Ease
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Jenny Blake joins me this week to talk about creating and building momentum in 2020 with ease and joy. We talk about time management, systems, goals, and money.
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About Today's Guest
Pete McCall is a strength coach, personal trainer, author of Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise Made Simple, education consultant, public speaker and host of the All About Fitness podcast. As a consultant, Pete has experience delivering education and content solutions for a variety of health and fitness organizations including the American Council on Exercise (ACE), the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), Reebok, 24-Hour Fitness, Core Health & Fitness, ActivMotion Bar, Hyperwear and Terra Core Fitness. Frequently quoted as a fitness expert in publications such as The New York Times, Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, SELF, Glamour, and Shape Magazine and featured as a fitness expert for TV news outlets including WRC-NBC (DC), Fox News, Fox 5 San Diego, and NBC7 San Diego, Pete is a sought-after media resource for accurate, in-depth insights on how to get results from exercise.
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Show Notes
We begin the show by Pete reminding me that we had met in the early nineties when he was an assistant, checking presenters in at the ECA conference in NYC. This leads to us talking about the importance of creating our own opportunities, including volunteering at local conferences.
Pete shares that his fitness journey began when he was working on Capitol Hill. He grew up in the DC area and after college returned to Washington, and it was while he was working on Capitol Hill that he began working at the front desk at a local gym.
After he earned a certification from the American Council on Exercise, he eventually went on to work for ACE directly in 2008. Along the way, he got his master's degree but the one thing that he took from politics was the power of networking and getting to know people.
Pete talks about the benefits that can come from working within a gym chain. It is here where you can get a lot of reps, teaching, and training. Pete suggests that one way to have a solid career is to work within an organization, do the most you can, work 25 to 30 hours a week and make a very good living. Then to expand your career ask your company for ways that you can expand your services, and help them by offering workshops, etc. for both trainers and customers.
We talk about the hustle and grind that has to happen behind any successful career or venture. We both discuss how it can look easy to be at the top, especially with social media but we all have to remember that there was a climb to get there.
Pete shares his thoughts on the importance of learning both within and outside the industry that you are in. He talks about the need to develop skillsets in leadership, marketing, sales, and social media. Staying on the topic of social media we talk about how to be resilient and move forward when there is so much opportunity for people to share their opinions of us on the internet.
We talk about whether to niche down in one area of expertise or to cast a wider net. Pete shares something a friend told with him many years ago when he said, “you want to be an inch wide and a mile deep.” However, at the end of the day, we both believe the most important thing is to do something and get started.
Pete talks about the importance of doing your best- daily. On bringing your best effort forward to every day, regardless of whether it's a good day or bad one. It is when we do our best and create a positive environment for others, everything will fall into place.
We close out the conversation with Pete sharing a daily practice that we can all use to stay on track and moving toward our goals, called S.W.OT.Strengths - look at your strengths. What are you doing well?
Weaknesses – what are your weaknesses and can you turn them into an opportunity?
Opportunities – where are they and where can you create more?
Threats – where do you feel challenged? Which elements are in your control and which are outside of your control?
So this week I encourage you to remember your strengths, look at areas where you could improve as opportunities to grow instead of signs of weakness. Explore new opportunities and follow through on existing gateways to greatness and view your threats as motivation to rise.