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This podcast episode includes about a 10-minute interview between Adam and Joanie which basically recaps what we talked about in the last two episodes of The Inform Fitness Podcast. Then at the completion of the video a little magic happened. A relatively spontaneous little jam session broke out between Adam and Joanie. Adam pulled out a guitar and Joanie shared her voice with us and we captured it all on video. It was really great and we hope that you enjoy it as much as we did. Click here to see the video of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL5GaDyQDCc To find an Inform Fitness location nearest you visit www.InformFitness.com If you'd like to ask Adam, Mike or Sheila a question or have a comment regarding the Power of 10. Send us an email or record a voice memo on your phone and send it to podcast@informfitness.com. Join Inform Nation and call the show with a comment or question. The number is 888-983-5020, Ext. 3. To purchase Adam's book, Power of 10: The Once-a-Week Slow Motion Fitness Revolution click this link to visit Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Once-Week-Revolution-Harperresource/dp/006000889X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485469022&sr=1-1&keywords=the+power+of+10+book If you would like to produce a podcast of your own just like The Inform Fitness Podcast, please email Tim Edwards at tim@InBoundPodcasting.com The transcription to this episode is below: 14 Jammin with Adam and Joanie - Transcript Intro: You’re listening to the InForm Fitness podcast, 20 minutes with New York Times, best-selling author, Adam Zickerman and friends. Brought to you by InForm Fitness, life changing personal training with several locations across the US. Reboot your metabolism and experience the revolutionary Power of 10, the high intensity, slow motion, strength training system that’s so effective, you’d get a week’s worth of exercise in just one 20-minute session, which by no coincidence is about the length of this podcast. So, get ready InForm Nation, your 20 minutes of high intensity strength training information begins in 3, 2, 1. Tim: Hey InForm Nation. Welcome into a special bonus addition of the InForm Fitness podcast, 20 minutes with Adam Zickerman and friends. I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network. A few things are a little different about this episode. For one, it's definitely going to be a little shorter than 20 minutes. And Mike and Sheila won't be making an appearance but certainly will be returning in the next week's episode. The audio was captured from a video that my company, Inbound Films, produced for InForm Fitness. Now, if you listen to the podcast with any regularity you know that Sheila and I are here in the Los Angeles area but we record the podcast from two separate locations. Mike Rogers and InForm Fitness founder, Adam Zickerman, participate from their Manhattan location in New York City. Well, in June of 2016 Adam Zickerman visited the InForm Fitness location in Toluca Lake near Burbank, California and we filmed a ton of trainer certification and marketing videos for InForm Fitness. Some of which you'll be able to see at informfitness.com. Well, during Adam's visit here in Los Angeles, Joanie Pimentel from the group No Small Children and the special guest of our last two episodes here in the podcast, Fat Loss and Face Melting, stopped by InForm Fitness to chat with Adam in one of the videos that we were producing. Now, this podcast episode includes about a 10-minute interview between Adam and Joanie which basically recaps what we talked about in the last two episodes of the podcast. Then at the completion of the video a little magic happened. A relatively spontaneous little jam session broke out between Adam and Joanie. Adam pulled out a guitar and Joanie shared her voice with us and we captured it all on video. It was really great and we hope that you enjoy it as much as we did. So, here is our bonus episode of the InForm Fitness podcast, 20 minutes with Adam Zickerman and friends. This episode is called Jammin with Adam and Joanie. Adam: Hi, I'm Adam Zickerman. I'm here with Joanie Pimentel from No Small Children, one of my favorite new bands. And she was just a recent guest on one of my shows called 20 minutes with Adam Zickerman and friends. Joanie, I love your band. I love No Small Children. I've met you guys. I've seen you live. Your albums are great. You have high energy. It's really awesome. Your voices are -- your voice, it kills me. It kills me. Joanie: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Adam: Really. Really. So, tell me about the band a little bit. Tell everyone about that. Joanie: Well, we are a power trio as you had mentioned. Adam: Yes. It's a power trio. Joanie: We play original rock music. We've been playing together about three years now. We have three albums out and we are super active on all social media, Facebook, Instagram, all those things the kids are doing nowadays. And we actually something very exciting has just happened for us. We were -- one of our songs was selected to be in the new Ghostbusters movie. Adam: Oh my gosh. Joanie: We had actually recorded a version of the Ghostbusters' theme song and submitted it to Sony Pictures, thinking this, you know, probably nothing with ever happen of it but it did and they actually fell in love with our version of the song at the last minute, snuck it into the movie. So, you will hear -- Adam: It's going to be opening credits of the movie. Joanie: It's going to be in the closing credits of the movie and over the blooper reel. Yes. Adam: Wow. Joanie: So, you will hear us playing that version. Adam: Oh, right on. Congratulations. Joanie: Yeah. It's really exciting. It's really, really exciting, so. Adam: That's great. Joanie: Yeah. Adam: Yeah. Well, it couldn't happen to a better group of people. Joanie: Why thank you so much. Adam: You definitely deserve it. Joanie: We are very serious about having fun. Adam: Yeah [laughs]. Joanie: Very serious, so. Adam: So, tell us, the reason you were on our podcast is because you went through a transformation recently. Joanie: I have indeed. Yes. Adam: And you've been -- part of that transformation was using the Power of 10 workout. So, why don't you tell me a little bit about that? Joanie: Well, over the past about a year, just over a year, I have been in the process of losing quite a bit of weight. I've lost about 120 pounds at this point. And early on I met with Sheila through InForm Fitness. I met her through my sister who is a longtime friend of Sheila's and I came to the open house and I have always been one of those people who despises working out. There really is nothing that beats relaxing on the couch. It's very hard to beat that [laughs] but -- Adam: [laughs] I'm with you. Joanie: Yes. It feels good, right? So, I came to the open house and I was a total skeptic and I said to Sheila, just so you know, I hate all exercise. I don't like going to the gym. I do not like going to classes. It's not for lack of effort or willingness. I just tried it and really disliked it. So, she said, great. I said, what do you mean great? She says, this is going to be perfect for you. This approach it takes 20 minutes. It speaks to the things that are very important to you. There is lots of data and scientific information to back up its effectiveness and it's results driven. So, I said, alright. I'll believe it when I see it. So, I started working out with her once a week and within three weeks it was very clear that it was working. I started to feel really strong and for me personally that's actually very important, that part of it. I have to move a lot of equipment and gear, often have to do it very quickly. And when you're in an all-female trio and you're the biggest person [laughs] -- Adam: After the Ghostbusters you can have roadies soon. Joanie: Yeah. Oh, wouldn't that be amazing? I would love that. Yes. But in the interim we manage all of our own gear and things like that. So, being able to do that's very important. And also not getting hurt is very important because those things can really end your career if you get seriously hurt. Not being able to jump around on stage and perform is a big problem. So, that was always a concern. Adam: Yeah. Well, that's our number one value principle is don't do any harm and [crosstalk 06:41] results. Joanie: That's right. And actually that was one of the things that appealed to me right away, is that the emphasis was put on safety. All the equipment looked like something you would see in a medical rehab center. Not even necessarily at your local gym. So, and I did the workout the first time and I could barely walk to the car. And I said, okay, this is clearly a workout. I was skeptical that you could get it done in 20 minutes but it definitely worked for sure. And then I came back the next week and came back the next week and like I said, after three weeks, I really noticed a difference. And then it continued to grow from there. Adam: [Crosstalk 07:19]. Joanie: About four years earlier I had been treated for thyroid cancer and one of the treatments, the treatment requires that you essentially be starved of thyroid hormone which makes you completely exhausted to the point where every muscle in your body stops working effectively. And that was very difficult for me. Actually, strangely enough that was the most difficult part of the entire process. Because I have always self-identified as being very strong, physically strong person. Being able to lift things that are heavy, more so than the average woman. So, when that part of me was gone I felt like part of my identity had gone. Adam: Hm [contemplative], interesting. Joanie: So, maintaining that was very important to me. And, so that three weeks later I said, okay, this is working and the Sheila and I continued to work out for quite some time and then we had some trouble with our schedules and things didn't line up and I got busy with touring and I'm also a teacher as well, music teacher. So, that became difficult. So, I had gotten the book. The Power of 10 book early on. My first time, the open house and -- Adam: New York Times best-seller by the way. Joanie: Yes, and so -- Adam: For one week. Joanie: It was -- it's -- and I'll tell you, it's not like reading through a novel. It's very practical the way the book is laid out and written. So, what I did was after I read it, I took pictures of the various workouts and then kept it on my phone. Adam: That's [crosstalk 08:45] [laughs]-- Joanie: And when I couldn't meet with Sheila I would go to the gym and look at my phone and look through all the workouts and do it at the gym. And I get a lot of strange stares here and there. Adam: That's interesting. Joanie: You know, everybody's kind of going fast and putting in and I'm there -- Adam: Yeah. I know. Joanie: One, two and then three. You know, slow and steady and the people at the gym that I've gone to have seen me shrink over time. Adam: Yes. That's funny. You talked about this weight loss. 100 and how many pounds? Joanie: It was 119 as of today. Adam: 119 pounds. So, let's talk about that because I think it's important for everyone to understand how you lost that weight. Joanie: Yes. It is. Adam: That obviously no exercise program in the world can ever be responsible, solely responsible for weight loss, fat loss. So, how'd you do it? Joanie: Well, as you said, exercise is relatively small part of losing that much weight. Adam: Absolutely. Joanie: So, I did have a vertical sleeve gastrectomy in September of 2015. That's a type of weight loss surgery. It's not as -- Adam: Bariatric surgery, mhm [affirmative]. Joanie: Yeah. It's not as -- it's not as restrictive as a gastric bypass but it is a very popular, growing in popularity procedure. Now, the thing about weight loss surgery, what they often don't tell you going into it is that actually 50% of people who have weight loss surgery gain all of their weight back. Adam: Mhm [affirmative]. Joanie: And also during the process and you're losing weight very rapidly, it's very easy to lose muscle mass. And you also excess skin is a problem, especially the older you get. So, what the Power of 10 did -- what the surgery did for helping me lose weight, the Power of 10 helped me to actually make my body strong and fit. So, my body does not look like it would if I had not done Power of 10. Absolutely does not. The extra muscle not only aides in the weight loss because at a resting -- when I'm resting metabolically, I'm still burning more calories than I would if I didn't have that added muscle mass. It prevented me from losing muscle mass during this process which is very easy to do and it -- the added tone to my frame helps to support excess skin. I mean, there's really not a whole lot you can do about excess skin but you can help how it looks by supporting the skin with muscle. And I feel stronger right now than I ever have in my entire life, ever, hands down. Adam: Right on. Joanie: Yeah. Adam: Well, congratulations. Joanie: Thank you so much. Adam: You look so great. You look great. Joanie: Thank you so much. Adam: You always looked great to me actually. Joanie: Thank you. Thank you. And I'll tell you there is no weight loss surgery, there's no exercise program in the world that's going to change how you feel about yourself. That way's a two stage process. I had to start with my body and then I had to work on my head. So, the in -- that the only -- that it's a lot easier to change how your body looks than how you feel about how your body looks so. Adam: Right. Well, you said on our podcast that you never thought of yourself -- you were not an insecure person. [laughs] Joanie: No. It's very -- thankfully, music -- that's one of the gifts of music is that from a very young age my identity was more about being a musician and being on stage and things like that. I before the surgery I was not ashamed to be an obese person. I was -- I didn't feel like I was ugly or disgusting. Fitting in airplane seats was kind of tricky and -- Adam: [laughs] [Crosstalk 12:04]. Joanie: Finding matching clothes was a little -- because our band we actually always wear matching dresses. So, it's much easier now find matching dressing than it used to be. You know, we don't have to worry about finding extra small, small and a double extra-large. Now it's small, medium and large. So, or actually small, small and medium. I am at a size eight right now. Adam: You're a medium. You're a medium, officially. Joanie: I wear size eight pant and I wear a size six dress. I have not been in a single digit dress or pant size in my entire adult life ever. Adam: Now, I asked you also and you said no. And the question was, it doesn't affect your voice losing all that weight. Joanie: Nope. That's a misnomer. That's a very old like classical -- Adam: Mhm [affirmative]. Yeah. Can you prove that with me? Joanie: Absolutely. Are you asking me to sing with you? Adam: I am asking you to sing with me. Yes. Joanie: I would love to. I would love to. Adam: It would be a real honor because I'm a frustrated rock star. And never had the talent for that so I went into fitness. But this would fulfill a fantasy of mine. Joanie: Oh my gosh. Hey, you know the difference between a frustrated musician and a working musician? Adam: Probably not much, right? Joanie: Just getting up on the stage and doing it. Just got to get up on the stage and do it. That's the only cure. Adam: Alright. Alright. So, let's do it then. Joanie: Alright. Tim: So, there's a little backstory that I want to share with you before we get ready to hear Jammin with Adam and Joanie. Since Adam was traveling he didn't have his own guitar with him and Adam wasn't quite sure if Joanie would be interested in singing when she showed up for her on camera interview. But he wanted to be prepared just in case. Well, I have a guitar so I offered to let Adam use it. Now, even though I have a guitar, I don't play it. It really serves as a decorative piece in my house. Well, many years ago I had it signed by many popular musicians and since it's been on a shelf for close to 20 years, the strings were as Adam calls it, dead. Nonetheless, it was all we had. So, when Joanie graciously accepted Adam's offer to perform with him Adam made the most of my 20-year-old dead guitar strings. My guitar truly never sounded so good. Judge for yourself. Here's Joanie Pimentel from the group No Small Children with Adam Zickerman performing Tracy Chapman's ”Give Me One Reason” live from the InForm Fitness studios in Toluca Lake. Joanie: Alright, Adam, you ready? [“Give Me One Reason” cover by Joanie Pimentel and Adam Zickerman plays] Adam: [laughs] [claps] I love it. Joanie: [laughs] Nice. Adam: Very good. Tim: That was pretty cool. That was Joanie Pimentel from the group No Small Children and our very own Adam Zickerman with Tracy Chapman's Give Me One Reason. Remember the ladies from No Small Children will be hitting the road out in the east coast and the mid-west here in the month of August in 2016 and don't forget to head out to the movies this summer and see Ghostbusters. If you do, stick around to the closing credits and the bloopers so you can hear Joanie and her group No Small Children perform the song “Ghostbusters” over the closing redits and the bloopers. Very, very cool. We'll be back again for another regular addition of the InForm Fitness podcast, 20 minutes with Adam Zickerman and friends. Please don't forget to subscribe right here in iTunes, we would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again for listening to the special addition of the InForm Fitness podcast. For Adam, Mike and Sheila, I'm Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network.
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14 Jammin with Adam and Joanie - Transcript
Intro: You�re listening to the InForm Fitness podcast, 20 minutes with New York Times,
best-selling author, Adam Zickerman and friends. Brought to you by InForm
Fitness, life changing personal training with several locations across the US.
Reboot your metabolism and experience the revolutionary Power of 10, the high
intensity, slow motion, strength training system that�s so effective, you�d get a
week�s worth of exercise in just one 20-minute session, which by no coincidence
is about the length of this podcast. So, get ready InForm Nation, your 20 minutes
of high intensity strength training information begins in 3, 2, 1.
Tim: Hey InForm Nation. Welcome into a special bonus addition of the InForm Fitness
podcast, 20 minutes with Adam Zickerman and friends. I'm Tim Edwards with the
Inbound Podcasting Network. A few things are a little different about this episode.
For one, it's definitely going to be a little shorter than 20 minutes. And Mike and
Sheila won't be making an appearance but certainly will be returning in the next
week's episode. The audio was captured from a video that my company, Inbound
Films, produced for InForm Fitness.
Now, if you listen to the podcast with any regularity you know that Sheila and I
are here in the Los Angeles area but we record the podcast from two separate
locations. Mike Rogers and InForm Fitness founder, Adam Zickerman, participate
from their Manhattan location in New York City. Well, in June of 2016 Adam
Zickerman visited the InForm Fitness location in Toluca Lake near Burbank,
California and we filmed a ton of trainer certification and marketing videos for
InForm Fitness. Some of which you'll be able to see at informfitness.com. Well,
during Adam's visit here in Los Angeles, Joanie Pimentel from the group No
Small Children and the special guest of our last two episodes here in the podcast,
Fat Loss and Face Melting, stopped by InForm Fitness to chat with Adam in one
of the videos that we were producing.
Now, this podcast episode includes about a 10-minute interview between Adam
and Joanie which basically recaps what we talked about in the last two episodes of
the podcast. Then at the completion of the video a little magic happened. A
relatively spontaneous little jam session broke out between Adam and Joanie.
Adam pulled out a guitar and Joanie shared her voice with us and we captured it
all on video. It was really great and we hope that you enjoy it as much as we did.
So, here is our bonus episode of the InForm Fitness podcast, 20 minutes with
Adam Zickerman and friends. This episode is called Jammin with Adam and
Joanie.
Adam: Hi, I'm Adam Zickerman. I'm here with Joanie Pimentel from No Small Children,
one of my favorite new bands. And she was just a recent guest on one of my
shows called 20 minutes with Adam Zickerman and friends. Joanie, I love your
band. I love No Small Children. I've met you guys. I've seen you live. Your
�
albums are great. You have high energy. It's really awesome. Your voices are --
your voice, it kills me. It kills me.
Joanie: Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.
Adam: Really. Really. So, tell me about the band a little bit. Tell everyone about that.
Joanie: Well, we are a power trio as you had mentioned.
Adam: Yes. It's a power trio.
Joanie: We play original rock music. We've been playing together about three years now. We have three albums out and we are super active on all social media, Facebook, Instagram, all those things the kids are doing nowadays. And we actually
something very exciting has just happened for us. We were -- one of our songs
was selected to be in the new Ghostbusters movie.
Adam: Oh my gosh.
Joanie: We had actually recorded a version of the Ghostbusters' theme song and
submitted it to Sony Pictures, thinking this, you know, probably nothing with ever
happen of it but it did and they actually fell in love with our version of the song at
the last minute, snuck it into the movie. So, you will hear --
Adam: It's going to be opening credits of the movie.
Joanie: It's going to be in the closing credits of the movie and over the blooper reel. Yes.
Adam: Wow.
Joanie: So, you will hear us playing that version.
Adam: Oh, right on. Congratulations.
Joanie: Yeah. It's really exciting. It's really, really exciting, so.
Adam: That's great.
Joanie: Yeah.
Adam: Yeah. Well, it couldn't happen to a better group of people.
Joanie: Why thank you so much.
Adam: You definitely deserve it.
Joanie: We are very serious about having fun.
Adam: Yeah [laughs].
Joanie: Very serious, so.
Adam: So, tell us, the reason you were on our podcast is because you went through a
transformation recently.
Joanie: I have indeed. Yes.
Adam: And you've been -- part of that transformation was using the Power of 10
workout. So, why don't you tell me a little bit about that?
Joanie: Well, over the past about a year, just over a year, I have been in the process of losing quite a bit of weight. I've lost about 120 pounds at this point. And early on I
met with Sheila through InForm Fitness. I met her through my sister who is a
longtime friend of Sheila's and I came to the open house and I have always been
one of those people who despises working out. There really is nothing that beats
relaxing on the couch. It's very hard to beat that [laughs] but --
Adam: [laughs] I'm with you.
Joanie: Yes. It feels good, right? So, I came to the open house and I was a total skeptic
and I said to Sheila, just so you know, I hate all exercise. I don't like going to the
gym. I do not like going to classes. It's not for lack of effort or willingness. I just
tried it and really disliked it. So, she said, great. I said, what do you mean great?
She says, this is going to be perfect for you. This approach it takes 20 minutes. It
speaks to the things that are very important to you. There is lots of data and
scientific information to back up its effectiveness and it's results driven. So, I said,
alright. I'll believe it when I see it.
So, I started working out with her once a week and within three weeks it was very
clear that it was working. I started to feel really strong and for me personally
that's actually very important, that part of it. I have to move a lot of equipment
and gear, often have to do it very quickly. And when you're in an all-female trio
and you're the biggest person [laughs] --
Adam: After the Ghostbusters you can have roadies soon.
�
Joanie: Yeah. Oh, wouldn't that be amazing? I would love that. Yes. But in the interim we manage all of our own gear and things like that. So, being able to do that's very
important. And also not getting hurt is very important because those things can
really end your career if you get seriously hurt. Not being able to jump around on
stage and perform is a big problem. So, that was always a concern.
Adam: Yeah. Well, that's our number one value principle is don't do any harm and
[crosstalk 06:41] results.
Joanie: That's right. And actually that was one of the things that appealed to me right
away, is that the emphasis was put on safety. All the equipment looked like
something you would see in a medical rehab center. Not even necessarily at your
local gym. So, and I did the workout the first time and I could barely walk to the
car. And I said, okay, this is clearly a workout. I was skeptical that you could get it
done in 20 minutes but it definitely worked for sure. And then I came back the
next week and came back the next week and like I said, after three weeks, I really
noticed a difference. And then it continued to grow from there.
Adam: [Crosstalk 07:19].
Joanie: About four years earlier I had been treated for thyroid cancer and one of the
treatments, the treatment requires that you essentially be starved of thyroid
hormone which makes you completely exhausted to the point where every muscle
in your body stops working effectively. And that was very difficult for me.
Actually, strangely enough that was the most difficult part of the entire process.
Because I have always self-identified as being very strong, physically strong
person. Being able to lift things that are heavy, more so than the average woman.
So, when that part of me was gone I felt like part of my identity had gone.
Adam: Hm [contemplative], interesting.
Joanie: So, maintaining that was very important to me. And, so that three weeks later I
said, okay, this is working and the Sheila and I continued to work out for quite
some time and then we had some trouble with our schedules and things didn't line
up and I got busy with touring and I'm also a teacher as well, music teacher. So,
that became difficult. So, I had gotten the book. The Power of 10 book early on.
My first time, the open house and --
Adam: New York Times best-seller by the way.
Joanie: Yes, and so --
Adam: For one week.
�
Joanie: It was -- it's -- and I'll tell you, it's not like reading through a novel. It's very
practical the way the book is laid out and written. So, what I did was after I read
it, I took pictures of the various workouts and then kept it on my phone.
Adam: That's [crosstalk 08:45] [laughs]--
Joanie: And when I couldn't meet with Sheila I would go to the gym and look at my
phone and look through all the workouts and do it at the gym. And I get a lot of
strange stares here and there.
Adam: That's interesting.
Joanie: You know, everybody's kind of going fast and putting in and I'm there --
Adam: Yeah. I know.
Joanie: One, two and then three. You know, slow and steady and the people at the gym
that I've gone to have seen me shrink over time.
Adam: Yes. That's funny. You talked about this weight loss. 100 and how many pounds?
Joanie: It was 119 as of today.
Adam: 119 pounds. So, let's talk about that because I think it's important for everyone to
understand how you lost that weight.
Joanie: Yes. It is.
Adam: That obviously no exercise program in the world can ever be responsible, solely
responsible for weight loss, fat loss. So, how'd you do it?
Joanie: Well, as you said, exercise is relatively small part of losing that much weight.
Adam: Absolutely.
Joanie: So, I did have a vertical sleeve gastrectomy in September of 2015. That's a type of
weight loss surgery. It's not as --
Adam: Bariatric surgery, mhm [affirmative].
Joanie: Yeah. It's not as -- it's not as restrictive as a gastric bypass but it is a very popular,
growing in popularity procedure. Now, the thing about weight loss surgery, what they often don't tell you going into it is that actually 50% of people who have
weight loss surgery gain all of their weight back.
Adam: Mhm [affirmative].
Joanie: And also during the process and you're losing weight very rapidly, it's very easy to lose muscle mass. And you also excess skin is a problem, especially the older you
get. So, what the Power of 10 did -- what the surgery did for helping me lose
weight, the Power of 10 helped me to actually make my body strong and fit. So,
my body does not look like it would if I had not done Power of 10. Absolutely
does not. The extra muscle not only aides in the weight loss because at a resting --
when I'm resting metabolically, I'm still burning more calories than I would if I
didn't have that added muscle mass. It prevented me from losing muscle mass
during this process which is very easy to do and it -- the added tone to my frame
helps to support excess skin. I mean, there's really not a whole lot you can do
about excess skin but you can help how it looks by supporting the skin with
muscle. And I feel stronger right now than I ever have in my entire life, ever,
hands down.
Adam: Right on.
Joanie: Yeah.
Adam: Well, congratulations.
Joanie: Thank you so much.
Adam: You look so great. You look great.
Joanie: Thank you so much.
Adam: You always looked great to me actually.
Joanie: Thank you. Thank you. And I'll tell you there is no weight loss surgery, there's no exercise program in the world that's going to change how you feel about yourself.
That way's a two stage process. I had to start with my body and then I had to work
on my head. So, the in -- that the only -- that it's a lot easier to change how your
body looks than how you feel about how your body looks so.
Adam: Right. Well, you said on our podcast that you never thought of yourself -- you
were not an insecure person. [laughs]
�
Joanie: No. It's very -- thankfully, music -- that's one of the gifts of music is that from a very young age my identity was more about being a musician and being on stage
and things like that. I before the surgery I was not ashamed to be an obese person.
I was -- I didn't feel like I was ugly or disgusting. Fitting in airplane seats was
kind of tricky and --
Adam: [laughs] [Crosstalk 12:04].
Joanie: Finding matching clothes was a little -- because our band we actually always wear matching dresses. So, it's much easier now find matching dressing than it used to be. You know, we don't have to worry about finding extra small, small and a
double extra-large. Now it's small, medium and large. So, or actually small, small
and medium. I am at a size eight right now.
Adam: You're a medium. You're a medium, officially.
Joanie: I wear size eight pant and I wear a size six dress. I have not been in a single digit dress or pant size in my entire adult life ever.
Adam: Now, I asked you also and you said no. And the question was, it doesn't affect
your voice losing all that weight.
Joanie: Nope. That's a misnomer. That's a very old like classical --
Adam: Mhm [affirmative]. Yeah. Can you prove that with me?
Joanie: Absolutely. Are you asking me to sing with you?
Adam: I am asking you to sing with me. Yes.
Joanie: I would love to. I would love to.
Adam: It would be a real honor because I'm a frustrated rock star. And never had the
talent for that so I went into fitness. But this would fulfill a fantasy of mine.
Joanie: Oh my gosh. Hey, you know the difference between a frustrated musician and a working musician?
Adam: Probably not much, right?
Joanie: Just getting up on the stage and doing it. Just got to get up on the stage and do it.
That's the only cure.
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Adam: Alright. Alright. So, let's do it then.
Joanie: Alright.
Tim: So, there's a little backstory that I want to share with you before we get ready to
hear Jammin with Adam and Joanie. Since Adam was traveling he didn't have his
own guitar with him and Adam wasn't quite sure if Joanie would be interested in
singing when she showed up for her on camera interview. But he wanted to be
prepared just in case. Well, I have a guitar so I offered to let Adam use it. Now,
even though I have a guitar, I don't play it. It really serves as a decorative piece in
my house.
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Well, many years ago I had it signed by many popular musicians and since it's
been on a shelf for close to 20 years, the strings were as Adam calls it, dead.
Nonetheless, it was all we had. So, when Joanie graciously accepted Adam's offer
to perform with him Adam made the most of my 20-year-old dead guitar strings.
My guitar truly never sounded so good. Judge for yourself. Here's Joanie Pimentel
from the group No Small Children with Adam Zickerman performing Tracy
Chapman's �Give Me One Reason� live from the InForm Fitness studios in Toluca
Lake.
Joanie: Alright, Adam, you ready?
[�Give Me One Reason� cover by Joanie Pimentel and Adam Zickerman plays]
Adam: [laughs] [claps] I love it.
Joanie: [laughs] Nice.
Adam: Very good.
Tim:� That was pretty cool. That was Joanie Pimentel from the group No Small Children and our very own Adam Zickerman with Tracy Chapman's Give Me One Reason. Remember the ladies from No Small Children will be hitting the road out in the east coast and the mid-west here in the month of August in 2016 and don't forget to head out to the movies this summer and see Ghostbusters. If you do, stick around to the closing credits and the bloopers so you can hear Joanie and her group No Small Children perform the song �Ghostbusters� over the closing redits and the bloopers. Very, very cool.
We'll be back again for another regular addition of the InForm Fitness podcast, 20
minutes with Adam Zickerman and friends. Please don't forget to subscribe right
here in iTunes, we would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again for listening to the
special addition of the InForm Fitness podcast. For Adam, Mike and Sheila, I'm
Tim Edwards with the Inbound Podcasting Network.