WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:05.189 --> 00:00:08.709 Kyle Wood: In today's episode of Everything Bootcamp. 00:00:08.729 --> 00:00:11.009 My guest is Amy Connell. 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:13.619 Based in Texas in the U S. 00:00:13.949 --> 00:00:18.509 We're talking about pivoting your fitness business during the pandemic. 00:00:19.139 --> 00:00:24.359 We also talk about when is it the right time to stop running classes? 00:00:24.749 --> 00:00:32.159 You know, when does adversity become a sign that it's time to stop. 00:00:32.879 --> 00:00:36.479 We also talk about writing a book from scratch and publishing it. 00:00:36.989 --> 00:00:39.299 If that's something you've been interested in doing. 00:00:39.749 --> 00:00:44.909 And the different forms a career in fitness can look like yes, it's training 00:00:44.909 --> 00:00:49.709 people, but the fitness industry is vast and there's many ways we can help people. 00:00:50.429 --> 00:00:52.649 All right, looking forward to sharing this recording with you. 00:00:52.979 --> 00:00:53.699 Here it is. 00:00:57.589 --> 00:01:00.319 Hello, and welcome to Everything Bootcamp. 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.199 Today my guest is Amy Connell. 00:01:03.649 --> 00:01:09.709 Amy is a mom of 18 years, fitness professionals, 16 years, and 00:01:09.709 --> 00:01:11.779 owner of Graced Health there. 00:01:11.779 --> 00:01:15.799 She offers various health and fitness options, which we'll talk more about 00:01:15.829 --> 00:01:19.909 later plus a podcast of the same name, which we'll also talk about. 00:01:19.964 --> 00:01:25.336 We connected last year when Amy invited me on her podcast of the same name, 00:01:25.336 --> 00:01:30.269 grace stealth already mentioned that we talked about community and fitness, 00:01:30.269 --> 00:01:32.159 especially during the pandemic. 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:37.499 So today I'm very excited to have Amy on my show to be able to talk 00:01:37.499 --> 00:01:40.808 about Similar topics, but also different ways that you can like 00:01:40.958 --> 00:01:44.048 create fitness communities online. 00:01:44.618 --> 00:01:45.448 So Amy welcome! 00:01:46.248 --> 00:01:47.178 Amy Connell: Thank you Kyle. 00:01:47.178 --> 00:01:47.628 Yeah. 00:01:47.648 --> 00:01:48.668 Thanks you for having me. 00:01:48.668 --> 00:01:51.608 And I can't believe that it's been over a year since we connected 00:01:51.608 --> 00:01:53.198 last, so I'm glad we're here. 00:01:54.298 --> 00:01:54.508 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:01:54.508 --> 00:01:56.978 I thought last year's time was weird. 00:01:56.978 --> 00:01:59.858 This year is time is weirder, I think. 00:02:00.848 --> 00:02:02.468 Amy Connell: It's a different kind of weird for sure. 00:02:03.068 --> 00:02:03.458 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:02:04.628 --> 00:02:09.468 So, I've been enjoying, starting off these podcasts, eh, with a question. 00:02:10.488 --> 00:02:14.748 So I want you to cast your mind back to, if you can remember your 00:02:14.748 --> 00:02:19.398 first group fitness session that you attended as a participant. 00:02:21.633 --> 00:02:22.473 And do you remember that? 00:02:23.883 --> 00:02:25.323 Amy Connell: I'm trying not to laugh too loud. 00:02:25.353 --> 00:02:25.803 Yes. 00:02:26.253 --> 00:02:27.123 I remember that. 00:02:29.193 --> 00:02:30.783 Are you wanting me to go back and explain 00:02:30.783 --> 00:02:31.173 Kyle Wood: it to you? 00:02:34.143 --> 00:02:34.863 Amy Connell: Oh gosh. 00:02:34.903 --> 00:02:39.213 So I grew up dancing and I was involved in all things dance. 00:02:39.693 --> 00:02:42.783 Um, so this is definitely going to date me, which I don't have 00:02:42.783 --> 00:02:47.483 a problem saying how old I am, but in, it was probably 1990. 00:02:48.213 --> 00:02:54.543 Two and one of the members of my dance team, and I decided we wanted to go to 00:02:54.573 --> 00:02:58.233 a step aerobics class at our local gym. 00:02:58.593 --> 00:03:09.083 So in, in keeping in check of the fatness of the, fashion, the fitness fashion. 00:03:09.083 --> 00:03:11.093 Those words came together really poorly. 00:03:11.693 --> 00:03:16.373 The fitness fashion I showed up in, I still remember what I was wearing. 00:03:16.373 --> 00:03:23.483 It was a Royal blue, shiny blue thong leotard, and by black biker 00:03:23.483 --> 00:03:28.523 pants with this like a three-inch stretchy band, of course, as you 00:03:28.523 --> 00:03:31.913 know, I remember what I wear more than anything, but it was a step of rubbish. 00:03:32.538 --> 00:03:36.528 And it was really fun because if anyone has ever participated in 00:03:36.528 --> 00:03:40.548 that they know how rhythmic it is and remembering the steps and you 00:03:40.548 --> 00:03:43.428 really get to utilize a lot of that. 00:03:43.518 --> 00:03:49.818 Um, a lot of the elements that I had done all of my life and it was, it was so fun. 00:03:49.818 --> 00:03:51.198 I actually ended up teaching it. 00:03:51.198 --> 00:03:53.868 It would kind of when it was on the tail end of being in. 00:03:54.783 --> 00:03:57.573 Jim's but, uh, it was, I loved it. 00:03:57.573 --> 00:04:01.863 It was so fun, so fun, but I'm glad I'm not wearing that 00:04:01.863 --> 00:04:03.183 blue thong leotard anymore. 00:04:03.183 --> 00:04:03.873 I'll just say that. 00:04:05.463 --> 00:04:07.983 Kyle Wood: I know waiting for that, that to come back in. 00:04:09.543 --> 00:04:12.993 You didn't have the affections, they like cyclical, but yeah, that's one that 00:04:12.993 --> 00:04:15.243 hasn't quite come back in as it, since 00:04:16.083 --> 00:04:16.473 Amy Connell: eighties. 00:04:17.073 --> 00:04:17.373 Yeah. 00:04:17.373 --> 00:04:21.123 We need to just kind of keep that wind, keep that one in the back of the drawer. 00:04:24.563 --> 00:04:25.313 Kyle Wood: Oh, that's awesome. 00:04:26.363 --> 00:04:31.313 So that, that sounds like that gave you the, a bit of the bug for teaching group 00:04:31.313 --> 00:04:34.583 fitness being in that experience to music. 00:04:35.513 --> 00:04:39.893 Amy Connell: Yeah, it was just something, I think that the group fitness environment 00:04:39.953 --> 00:04:42.443 I loved, uh, have you read the book? 00:04:42.503 --> 00:04:44.393 Uh, The Joy Of Movement by Dr. 00:04:44.393 --> 00:04:45.393 Kelly McGonigal. 00:04:46.398 --> 00:04:47.058 Kyle Wood: No, I haven't. 00:04:47.418 --> 00:04:49.008 Amy Connell: Oh, you would love it. 00:04:49.308 --> 00:04:50.538 It is fantastic. 00:04:50.538 --> 00:04:53.298 But one of the things that she really highlights in there is just the 00:04:53.298 --> 00:04:58.848 psychology and the empowerment and, uh, all of the wonderful things that 00:04:58.848 --> 00:05:01.548 happen in a group fitness atmosphere. 00:05:01.938 --> 00:05:05.358 And when I went to college, that was how I continued to move. 00:05:05.358 --> 00:05:09.073 I mean, some girls would go out and run and some girls would run to the bars. 00:05:09.073 --> 00:05:13.513 I don't know, but I was, I loved going into the group fitness rooms 00:05:13.903 --> 00:05:18.913 and that was really my that's always been my preferred way of movement. 00:05:18.913 --> 00:05:21.973 So yeah, I was, I mean, in my early twenties I was doing it. 00:05:21.973 --> 00:05:25.383 And then once my youngest son was born. 00:05:25.713 --> 00:05:27.573 Uh, we had lived in one city. 00:05:27.603 --> 00:05:32.343 We moved to a new city and I started a program in my neighborhood 00:05:32.613 --> 00:05:34.533 where it was like a mommy and me. 00:05:34.533 --> 00:05:37.683 So it was a place that I could go and actually bring my child and work 00:05:37.683 --> 00:05:40.293 out and create a community with that. 00:05:40.563 --> 00:05:43.683 So that's kind of how I got into being a fitness professional, as I saw a 00:05:43.683 --> 00:05:46.443 need in my young family community. 00:05:46.503 --> 00:05:46.773 And. 00:05:47.603 --> 00:05:50.073 Uh, just decided, well, if it's not here, I want to go ahead. 00:05:50.123 --> 00:05:50.903 I want to start this. 00:05:50.903 --> 00:05:53.393 Cause I knew how instrumental it was in my first one. 00:05:53.723 --> 00:05:55.733 So that's kinda how I moved into it. 00:05:55.733 --> 00:06:01.463 But yeah, group fitness has been a huge part of my story as someone who just 00:06:01.793 --> 00:06:04.193 enjoys, moving and enjoys working out. 00:06:04.973 --> 00:06:05.183 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:06:06.533 --> 00:06:07.103 That's awesome. 00:06:08.093 --> 00:06:15.003 So let's fast forward a bit then to the start of 2020, so pre- 00:06:15.333 --> 00:06:19.413 COVID the, you know, it was then just a small blip on the news. 00:06:21.393 --> 00:06:24.013 What we, yeah, it was happening. 00:06:24.013 --> 00:06:27.453 And so overseas, we had, we weren't thinking too much about it. 00:06:27.963 --> 00:06:31.143 Uh, what did, what was your business looking like then? 00:06:31.143 --> 00:06:35.103 Like what kind of classes were you running at that point and what else 00:06:35.103 --> 00:06:36.363 we offering with your business? 00:06:37.803 --> 00:06:39.453 Amy Connell: I did a hybrid of. 00:06:40.788 --> 00:06:43.098 Of fitness type things. 00:06:43.128 --> 00:06:47.868 So I did personal training and that was primarily in-person. 00:06:48.468 --> 00:06:53.778 And then I also did group fitness classes outside, and which is really 00:06:53.778 --> 00:06:57.428 where I got connected with you because I did, um, Yeah, it was a 00:06:57.428 --> 00:06:59.408 subscriber of the bootcamp ideas. 00:07:00.248 --> 00:07:05.858 I led classes and they were mostly for like women in their thirties, 00:07:05.918 --> 00:07:08.108 or I'm sorry, like 35 to 55. 00:07:08.468 --> 00:07:11.498 And we would go outside the community that I live in. 00:07:11.498 --> 00:07:12.068 Now keep in mind. 00:07:12.068 --> 00:07:14.708 I live in Texas and you know, everything's bigger in Texas. 00:07:15.223 --> 00:07:21.223 And I'm really fortunate to have access to some multi-purpose fields out here, which 00:07:21.253 --> 00:07:25.933 by multipurpose, I mean that it's like a turf field and depending on what sport is 00:07:25.933 --> 00:07:28.633 on it, it's either, um, American football. 00:07:28.633 --> 00:07:28.993 It's. 00:07:29.823 --> 00:07:34.323 American soccer or, you know, um, lacrosse, uh, what 00:07:34.323 --> 00:07:35.283 else do they have out there? 00:07:35.283 --> 00:07:38.103 And they just have markings for everything, but it's, it's that 00:07:38.103 --> 00:07:42.273 standard like hundred meter distance. 00:07:42.273 --> 00:07:43.713 And I don't even know what the width is. 00:07:44.073 --> 00:07:44.583 So. 00:07:45.358 --> 00:07:49.168 And that was a really great place to go because I didn't have to worry about what 00:07:49.168 --> 00:07:51.328 grass, which is always a problem here. 00:07:51.328 --> 00:07:53.998 And it's just, I mean, it's, you know, that was just a really 00:07:53.998 --> 00:07:56.398 fortunate aspect of, of my business. 00:07:56.848 --> 00:08:01.768 So when COVID hit in March, of course, we shut everything down for a while. 00:08:01.768 --> 00:08:06.208 And then when the business entity that was renting, those fields 00:08:06.268 --> 00:08:07.828 felt like it was safe to open. 00:08:07.858 --> 00:08:12.868 I reopened and not only did I hold my, uh, women's my. 00:08:13.618 --> 00:08:18.748 Classes and that, by that time it was probably, uh, mid June 00:08:18.748 --> 00:08:21.238 or July early July of 2020. 00:08:21.868 --> 00:08:30.348 Um, I also saw a need with some of the local high school female athletes, 00:08:30.708 --> 00:08:32.568 because particularly the volleyball. 00:08:32.838 --> 00:08:37.788 So I actually hosted some fitness and conditioning classes for those, 00:08:37.878 --> 00:08:42.378 uh, female or for, you know, for the teen athletes playing volleyball 00:08:42.378 --> 00:08:44.448 because their clubs were shut down. 00:08:44.748 --> 00:08:45.848 Um, and when I say club. 00:08:46.413 --> 00:08:49.293 The, you know, the, the select organizations are the small groups 00:08:49.293 --> 00:08:52.353 and so they weren't moving around and they weren't going to competitions 00:08:52.353 --> 00:08:54.723 or, um, anything like that. 00:08:54.753 --> 00:08:58.593 And so I held fitness and conditioning classes for them just to help 00:08:58.893 --> 00:09:00.423 number one, keep them conditioned. 00:09:00.423 --> 00:09:05.133 And number two, what really I enjoyed doing was teaching them ways that they 00:09:05.133 --> 00:09:09.513 could strengthen and protect their body as they were doing the sport that they loved. 00:09:09.843 --> 00:09:11.463 So teaching them about. 00:09:12.843 --> 00:09:17.373 You know, strengthening their gluteus medius and their gluteus minimus, and 00:09:17.373 --> 00:09:20.883 you know, all of these small things that, that when you're 16 years 00:09:20.883 --> 00:09:22.263 old, you don't care about so much. 00:09:23.343 --> 00:09:24.423 You just want to jump higher. 00:09:24.423 --> 00:09:27.003 But then I was like, well, this is why you need to strengthen it. 00:09:27.303 --> 00:09:30.033 So I moved into that and then. 00:09:30.913 --> 00:09:35.083 September, which was kind of when school started back up for us here, 00:09:35.563 --> 00:09:39.733 uh, it was, it was a weird hybrid situation with our school district. 00:09:39.793 --> 00:09:46.813 And I just didn't feel like my community of moms could commit to, um, showing up 00:09:46.843 --> 00:09:49.963 at the same time that they normally do, because some of them had kids at home. 00:09:49.963 --> 00:09:51.853 Some of them didn't, some of them they could leave at home to that. 00:09:51.853 --> 00:09:53.623 May you know, it was just, it was like, you know what, that's fine. 00:09:54.403 --> 00:09:59.343 Kyle Wood: Sorry, Amy, by hybrid, you talking about online and face-to-face 00:09:59.343 --> 00:10:00.903 learning for kids at school. 00:10:00.903 --> 00:10:01.563 Is that what you mean yet? 00:10:01.593 --> 00:10:01.773 Okay. 00:10:02.493 --> 00:10:02.853 Amy Connell: Yes. 00:10:02.853 --> 00:10:03.093 Yeah. 00:10:03.123 --> 00:10:03.483 Thank you. 00:10:03.513 --> 00:10:04.863 Thank you for clarifying that. 00:10:05.193 --> 00:10:08.163 And then at the same time, my costs went up because all of a sudden, 00:10:08.163 --> 00:10:11.943 everybody was wanting to use these fabulous multi-core purpose fields. 00:10:12.783 --> 00:10:13.143 Yeah. 00:10:13.143 --> 00:10:17.913 So my cost actually doubled and, uh, because they increased the rates and then 00:10:17.913 --> 00:10:21.633 they put a two hour minimum on it, even though I only needed it for 45 minutes. 00:10:21.963 --> 00:10:27.333 So I, um, I just said, you know what, I need to do this, or I 00:10:27.393 --> 00:10:29.673 I'm going to pause it for now. 00:10:29.733 --> 00:10:33.963 And I also really wanted to focus on this book project that I was working on. 00:10:34.383 --> 00:10:40.353 And I have not yet gone back to, um, group fitness with my women's. 00:10:40.353 --> 00:10:41.643 I did over the summer. 00:10:41.643 --> 00:10:46.083 I did the volleyball again, and I did just general team fitness again, but I haven't 00:10:46.083 --> 00:10:48.783 gone back to like that core group that. 00:10:49.363 --> 00:10:51.583 Uh, really that I really loved. 00:10:51.583 --> 00:10:55.693 It just hasn't quite made enough business sense for me to do that. 00:10:57.283 --> 00:10:57.433 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:10:57.433 --> 00:10:58.123 What was that like? 00:10:58.123 --> 00:11:02.713 Cause I can, I've definitely come across all the trainers being in similar 00:11:02.713 --> 00:11:06.763 situations where rent prices get to the point where they're not really making 00:11:06.763 --> 00:11:11.443 any, you know, they're sort of breaking even, but, and the thing that usually 00:11:11.443 --> 00:11:12.613 keeps them going is their clients. 00:11:12.633 --> 00:11:15.103 What was that like sort of with these clients who've 00:11:15.103 --> 00:11:16.233 trained with you for awhile. 00:11:18.068 --> 00:11:19.388 Having the let go of that. 00:11:19.418 --> 00:11:20.678 Like that would have been a tough decision. 00:11:21.908 --> 00:11:23.288 Amy Connell: Yeah, it really was. 00:11:23.318 --> 00:11:29.498 And honestly, Kyle, when I told them that, Hey, look, I've just got to pause this. 00:11:29.748 --> 00:11:32.018 I felt like I betrayed them. 00:11:33.518 --> 00:11:35.228 I could just see it on their faces, like, but. 00:11:36.228 --> 00:11:39.408 They didn't say this because they're too kind and gracious, but 00:11:39.738 --> 00:11:44.298 it was kind of like, but we're a community and now you're leaving us. 00:11:44.298 --> 00:11:48.138 And so, yeah, I felt really, really badly about that. 00:11:48.498 --> 00:11:49.998 Um, I will say I have. 00:11:50.973 --> 00:11:53.643 Definitely stayed in touch with a lot of the clients. 00:11:53.643 --> 00:11:55.023 I mean, we'll go walk. 00:11:55.023 --> 00:12:00.003 I, to me walking is one of the best ways that I have found to 00:12:00.033 --> 00:12:03.693 connect with my friends, regardless of if they were clients or not. 00:12:04.083 --> 00:12:06.723 And so we'll get together and we'll go walk or every now and then we'll, 00:12:06.813 --> 00:12:10.473 um, get together for lunch or maybe a happy hour or something like that. 00:12:10.473 --> 00:12:13.413 But yeah, that was, that was hard. 00:12:13.413 --> 00:12:15.843 That was definitely hard, but it had just gotten to the point 00:12:15.843 --> 00:12:19.053 that I was almost paying to. 00:12:20.283 --> 00:12:21.783 To run those classes. 00:12:22.293 --> 00:12:28.473 And I also knew that I could, um, that I could make more money. 00:12:28.473 --> 00:12:33.423 I mean, if it was just F I did it, wasn't a purely financial and business decision, 00:12:33.423 --> 00:12:39.603 but I knew that I could make more money, uh, doing virtual training out of my home. 00:12:40.383 --> 00:12:41.103 Cause that, that. 00:12:42.303 --> 00:12:43.713 Was relatively low. 00:12:43.713 --> 00:12:46.893 And then the other thing that you really can't put a price on is your time. 00:12:47.613 --> 00:12:48.783 And I needed time. 00:12:48.783 --> 00:12:51.123 I needed time to be creative with my writing. 00:12:51.123 --> 00:12:55.653 It was, this has been a two year project and I needed time to focus on that. 00:12:56.103 --> 00:12:59.823 And it was just the right thing to do, but it was still the hard thing to do. 00:13:01.243 --> 00:13:02.143 Kyle Wood: Yeah, absolutely. 00:13:02.293 --> 00:13:03.373 Absolutely. 00:13:03.733 --> 00:13:04.063 Yeah. 00:13:04.063 --> 00:13:05.893 And I, I think that's the. 00:13:07.148 --> 00:13:09.938 The tricky, Elena, that's usually the advice, like if train isn't, 00:13:09.938 --> 00:13:13.988 that situation is it's going to be a tough conversation, but you can't. 00:13:13.988 --> 00:13:16.088 How long can you, can you sustain? 00:13:16.598 --> 00:13:18.278 You're either running at a loss or. 00:13:19.368 --> 00:13:20.388 Like running for cost. 00:13:20.388 --> 00:13:23.778 Like at what point are you going to start getting bitter and feel resentful 00:13:24.168 --> 00:13:26.448 and then that's not helpful for anyone. 00:13:26.478 --> 00:13:32.148 So you need to find a way to, to change things up and for you, I guess. 00:13:32.328 --> 00:13:32.498 Yeah. 00:13:32.498 --> 00:13:35.598 You mentioned we'll can talk more about that now that you 00:13:35.598 --> 00:13:39.408 have this sort of project in the background that you're working on. 00:13:40.818 --> 00:13:45.468 And I've spoken to quite a few authors and, you know, 00:13:45.678 --> 00:13:48.078 taking on a book sounds it's. 00:13:48.138 --> 00:13:48.378 Yeah. 00:13:48.378 --> 00:13:52.728 It's not something you can kind of like, I mean, I guess some people 00:13:52.728 --> 00:13:55.898 do sort of half, half, but yeah, it is something that requires a 00:13:55.898 --> 00:13:57.158 lot of your attention doesn't it? 00:13:57.928 --> 00:14:00.608 And kind of a grit and determination. 00:14:02.708 --> 00:14:03.878 Amy Connell: Yes, yes. 00:14:03.878 --> 00:14:08.228 To all of that, I, there are a lot of different ways of approaching a book. 00:14:09.008 --> 00:14:14.858 And even though I am self publishing, this one, I really wanted it 00:14:14.858 --> 00:14:17.738 to be, uh, some of my legacy. 00:14:17.738 --> 00:14:21.068 This is obviously fitness and health related stuff is not 00:14:21.158 --> 00:14:23.228 the only part of who I am. 00:14:23.708 --> 00:14:28.448 I I'm, I'm more multifaceted than I probably portray myself to be online, but. 00:14:29.083 --> 00:14:35.293 Was important to me to get it right, and really, to kind of step into the next 00:14:35.293 --> 00:14:44.533 phase of education for not only, um, you know, women and, uh, potentially teens, 00:14:44.563 --> 00:14:48.283 but also I think it's good for other fitness professionals to hear maybe. 00:14:49.793 --> 00:14:54.083 What kind of language are we using around our clients and by language, I don't mean 00:14:54.083 --> 00:14:58.853 like cursing or F-bombs or anything like that, but just what kind of messaging 00:14:58.853 --> 00:15:01.343 are we giving them unintentionally? 00:15:01.703 --> 00:15:05.813 Um, I know shame is a big word to you as, as it is to me and, you 00:15:05.813 --> 00:15:07.523 know, unintentionally creating shame. 00:15:07.523 --> 00:15:10.763 If, you know, if we're talking about rock hard abs or something like that. 00:15:11.243 --> 00:15:12.953 Uh, but yeah, the book that book was. 00:15:13.613 --> 00:15:15.233 Uh, huge project. 00:15:15.323 --> 00:15:21.893 Uh, I have a feeling that when I get to my next one, I may not be as neurotic 00:15:21.893 --> 00:15:27.173 about it as I've been with this one, because this one being my first, I'm just 00:15:27.173 --> 00:15:29.423 really throwing everything I have into it. 00:15:29.543 --> 00:15:30.263 Yeah. 00:15:30.503 --> 00:15:31.373 It's been worth it. 00:15:31.403 --> 00:15:32.993 It's, it's a beautiful book. 00:15:32.993 --> 00:15:35.723 And I can say that because I did not design the outside and I did 00:15:35.723 --> 00:15:37.233 not design the inside, but instead. 00:15:37.743 --> 00:15:38.613 Gorgeous book. 00:15:38.613 --> 00:15:41.733 I'm really proud of it, but it was something that was important to 00:15:41.733 --> 00:15:49.353 me to leave a mark and to create a ripple of a different way of thinking 00:15:49.383 --> 00:15:51.213 about our health and our body. 00:15:52.353 --> 00:15:52.743 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:15:52.773 --> 00:15:53.223 Cool. 00:15:54.303 --> 00:15:54.723 Yeah. 00:15:54.813 --> 00:15:58.593 Yeah, I've got a question for you and then I'd love to ask you a bit more about the 00:15:58.593 --> 00:16:02.913 process that you sort of took of taking on writing your book cause it's huge. 00:16:04.388 --> 00:16:07.138 So like whenever, you know, someone else I like following a lot talking 00:16:07.138 --> 00:16:09.848 about shame, a lot, love following Brene Brown, someone else I like following 00:16:09.848 --> 00:16:11.438 for business stuff is Seth Godin 00:16:12.798 --> 00:16:16.428 I mean, in his videos he's always got like these, like, you know, these like 00:16:16.428 --> 00:16:18.138 Ikea shelves they're just like books. 00:16:18.438 --> 00:16:19.998 Um, you know, it's just stacked. 00:16:20.028 --> 00:16:21.138 Just like hundreds of books. 00:16:21.558 --> 00:16:25.008 And he talked him one of his videos about how, like, the reason he has that 00:16:25.008 --> 00:16:28.668 is because the reason he loves books is because each one is like an idea. 00:16:28.698 --> 00:16:30.348 It's an idea that someone's had. 00:16:31.088 --> 00:16:33.198 An idea, and a conversation is fleeting. 00:16:34.808 --> 00:16:39.388 But the person might remember it possible, but you know, in 20 years that ideas gone 00:16:39.698 --> 00:16:43.898 but a book like immortalizes that idea. 00:16:44.358 --> 00:16:47.628 So that someone 20 is 50 is a hundred years from now can go and read that book 00:16:47.628 --> 00:16:51.408 and read about this idea that you had, and it can still be shared with the world. 00:16:52.038 --> 00:16:56.503 So what idea is it that your, you feel like you're trying 00:16:56.503 --> 00:16:57.853 to share with your book? 00:16:59.533 --> 00:17:00.673 Amy Connell: That's a great question. 00:17:00.673 --> 00:17:03.613 And I have not heard him say that, but I completely agree. 00:17:03.793 --> 00:17:08.383 Um, the idea of my book is all of these. 00:17:09.433 --> 00:17:10.513 And I'm using quotes. 00:17:10.543 --> 00:17:15.223 No one can see them, but I'm using air quotes, health rules, or maybe 00:17:15.223 --> 00:17:22.423 some might say myths that people hear and feel like they have to abide by. 00:17:22.783 --> 00:17:24.013 Um, and then they feel. 00:17:24.828 --> 00:17:25.998 They feel shame. 00:17:26.058 --> 00:17:30.048 They feel like whatever they're doing is not enough because they're not doing 00:17:30.048 --> 00:17:34.578 all of the things that the, that the motivating a fitness professional might be 00:17:34.578 --> 00:17:38.418 telling them, or, or things that they've heard, or there's headlines that come 00:17:38.418 --> 00:17:43.548 across on your news feed or on best sprout or social media or something like that. 00:17:43.818 --> 00:17:48.948 So it really takes all of these health quote rules and debunks them using. 00:17:49.458 --> 00:17:52.518 Exercise science using nutrition science. 00:17:52.518 --> 00:17:57.018 And then I do that, um, through a lens of my faith as well. 00:17:57.018 --> 00:17:59.328 So there's absolutely hard science in there. 00:17:59.328 --> 00:18:03.108 I think I say, you know, this is not a compilation of my woo thoughts. 00:18:03.108 --> 00:18:09.048 Like these are, this is real stuff that I think somewhere along the 00:18:09.048 --> 00:18:11.568 re it has just gotten either. 00:18:12.553 --> 00:18:14.533 It's kind of like that telephone game. 00:18:14.533 --> 00:18:16.933 I don't know if you have that in Australia, but in the states we would 00:18:16.933 --> 00:18:20.923 grow up and someone would say something in some, someone person's ear and then 00:18:21.573 --> 00:18:24.883 they would whisper it and then they would whisper it to the next person. 00:18:24.883 --> 00:18:26.743 And then they would whisper it to the next person. 00:18:26.743 --> 00:18:29.413 By the time it got around a circle, it was totally muddied, 00:18:29.443 --> 00:18:30.733 you know, just total jumble. 00:18:31.213 --> 00:18:34.963 And so I think sometimes that's what, that's, what happens with, uh, with the 00:18:34.963 --> 00:18:40.243 health industry, with, uh, with diet culture and, uh, you know, sometimes. 00:18:40.738 --> 00:18:42.688 There are also things that we create in our head. 00:18:43.078 --> 00:18:45.808 So for example, some of the chapters that I have in the 00:18:45.808 --> 00:18:48.328 book are, um, no pain, no gain. 00:18:49.258 --> 00:18:53.758 And I know maybe the original intent of that is like, oh, you want to be sore 00:18:53.758 --> 00:18:56.998 tomorrow, but people start to thinking, oh yeah, pain is a badge of honor. 00:18:57.268 --> 00:18:58.528 Oh, I'm hurting here. 00:18:58.528 --> 00:19:01.378 I'm I'm I'm hobbling because I. 00:19:02.068 --> 00:19:05.278 Did burpees all the way around a 400 meter track or, you 00:19:05.278 --> 00:19:06.418 know, or something like that. 00:19:06.718 --> 00:19:07.708 Pain is not good. 00:19:08.338 --> 00:19:08.578 Yeah. 00:19:08.698 --> 00:19:09.958 Kyle Wood: Pain is, is a warning. 00:19:10.408 --> 00:19:12.048 Is your body saying stop. 00:19:12.678 --> 00:19:13.578 Amy Connell: Exactly. 00:19:13.908 --> 00:19:15.288 Yeah, exactly. 00:19:15.288 --> 00:19:16.038 Exactly. 00:19:16.038 --> 00:19:16.748 And then things like. 00:19:17.273 --> 00:19:18.563 Carbs are the enemy. 00:19:18.893 --> 00:19:22.523 And I know that there's a lot of different ways that people feel best with eating, 00:19:22.523 --> 00:19:27.143 but in general carbs are not the enemy and the right kinds of carbs can fuel your, 00:19:27.413 --> 00:19:29.693 fill your brain, well, fuel your body. 00:19:29.693 --> 00:19:34.043 Well, and just things that like that, that have been trickled down and whispered 00:19:34.043 --> 00:19:35.453 from person to person, to person. 00:19:35.483 --> 00:19:40.013 And I don't think that the way that people are grasping onto them and 00:19:40.043 --> 00:19:45.263 trying to incorporate them into their life is really the, what was. 00:19:46.268 --> 00:19:50.438 Intended with that in the first place, if that was even a real thing. 00:19:51.138 --> 00:19:55.988 And then of course, as a woman who, um, you know, in, in my mid forties who grew 00:19:55.988 --> 00:20:00.038 up with a lot of body image issues, I talk a lot about body image and why we 00:20:00.038 --> 00:20:01.628 think we need to look a certain way. 00:20:01.628 --> 00:20:06.488 And, um, and you know, there is no, you know, the perfect body and that kind of. 00:20:08.238 --> 00:20:08.718 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:20:09.678 --> 00:20:11.088 Yeah, that sounds awesome. 00:20:11.088 --> 00:20:13.578 And well, well needed. 00:20:13.668 --> 00:20:20.208 Uh, I know even working with my clients, I would often sort of unpack a lot of 00:20:20.208 --> 00:20:24.318 that with people when they come into class and be like, oh, duh, he'd be like, 00:20:24.348 --> 00:20:27.898 uh, you know, like I remember there was this crazy diet going around for a while. 00:20:28.623 --> 00:20:31.323 Where you are in the eight, like mate for the first two weeks. 00:20:31.443 --> 00:20:35.523 And like the guy who created it ended up getting like judged. 00:20:35.913 --> 00:20:36.573 Um, and then. 00:20:37.578 --> 00:20:40.698 Yeah, like mate and a tablespoon of oats a day. 00:20:40.758 --> 00:20:43.488 And then you basically decided like reintroducing foods. 00:20:43.488 --> 00:20:48.138 And it's like, actually, there's a lot of data that shows that elimination, diets 00:20:48.318 --> 00:20:51.858 don't work long-term and everyone will be like, cause then I need carbs for two 00:20:51.858 --> 00:20:53.418 weeks, like dropping all this weight. 00:20:53.418 --> 00:20:55.938 Cause it's just like inflammation and water and stuff like that. 00:20:56.418 --> 00:20:59.958 And like, this works so good, but then not many people even made it through those 00:20:59.958 --> 00:21:02.358 first two weeks because it was so extreme. 00:21:02.808 --> 00:21:03.708 And then they just. 00:21:04.938 --> 00:21:05.448 Go back. 00:21:05.448 --> 00:21:07.908 And then every time you do that yet builds, like, I think you're 00:21:07.908 --> 00:21:10.668 talking about it builds that language in your head isn't it? 00:21:10.938 --> 00:21:11.298 Doesn't it? 00:21:11.328 --> 00:21:13.908 That you're a failure that you can't lose weight that you can't keep it. 00:21:15.228 --> 00:21:17.808 And then, and then that fades into the yeah. 00:21:17.818 --> 00:21:20.718 The cycle of, of, yeah, just nastiness. 00:21:21.258 --> 00:21:21.798 Amy Connell: Yeah. 00:21:21.828 --> 00:21:22.248 Yeah. 00:21:22.278 --> 00:21:24.558 Oh, well it's, if it's not going to work, then why bother? 00:21:24.558 --> 00:21:26.988 Or if it didn't work last time, I'm not going to try. 00:21:27.318 --> 00:21:30.708 I mean, there's a whole lot of really negative self-talk 00:21:30.708 --> 00:21:32.898 that can get in, get into that. 00:21:32.898 --> 00:21:34.308 And, and I completely agree. 00:21:34.308 --> 00:21:35.298 I dig into one of those. 00:21:35.298 --> 00:21:38.958 I think that chapter title is called there's one best diet and it gets 00:21:38.958 --> 00:21:42.498 into me like, no, actually, you know, what's research backed what. 00:21:43.208 --> 00:21:44.168 Uh, realistic. 00:21:44.168 --> 00:21:45.188 What's sustainable. 00:21:45.188 --> 00:21:51.008 Like let's really think about what we can do before we just blindly accept whatever 00:21:51.038 --> 00:21:57.908 the latest and greatest diet plan is that someone is trying to profit off of. 00:22:00.508 --> 00:22:03.328 Kyle Wood: So for other trainers out there who might be like, oh yeah, 00:22:03.358 --> 00:22:06.868 I've been kind of wanting to write a book, but I'm not really sure. 00:22:06.868 --> 00:22:08.968 Like in like three minutes. 00:22:09.688 --> 00:22:13.528 So like the short version, cause obviously we could talk about this for a long time. 00:22:13.978 --> 00:22:16.948 What was kind of like your process for writing the book? 00:22:16.948 --> 00:22:21.928 What was like the most, or maybe what was like the most important thing for 00:22:21.928 --> 00:22:27.058 you that helped you go from, I've got an idea from a book for a book to. 00:22:27.858 --> 00:22:29.988 Now you have you, you've finished the... 00:22:30.228 --> 00:22:34.218 Amy Connell: It's it's actually, so I have, yeah, I'm holding it up. 00:22:34.248 --> 00:22:35.178 It's it's the, yeah. 00:22:35.178 --> 00:22:38.058 Where the, but it's, um, it's the author proof. 00:22:38.058 --> 00:22:40.848 So you can see Kyle, you can see this little line that goes 00:22:40.848 --> 00:22:42.498 across that says not for resale. 00:22:42.498 --> 00:22:45.888 So I've got the real ones coming very soon, but by the time this 00:22:45.888 --> 00:22:47.928 comes out, it will be out on Amazon. 00:22:48.378 --> 00:22:52.668 Um, boy, I tell you, I think the number one thing that I can 00:22:52.668 --> 00:22:56.898 recommend for someone who was wanting to write a book is to write. 00:22:58.218 --> 00:23:02.898 Yeah, we have a lot of ideas coming around our head and really what I did. 00:23:02.898 --> 00:23:09.348 I mean, I wrote most of this, I wrote during COVID and, uh, during lockdown and 00:23:09.348 --> 00:23:15.588 shut down and I made a goal of writing 500 words a day, four times a week. 00:23:16.368 --> 00:23:18.828 So that equates to 2000 words. 00:23:18.978 --> 00:23:23.358 And if the general book, I think this book is like 64,000 words, but. 00:23:24.498 --> 00:23:29.838 The, you know, the average size book is 50 to 55,000 words a minute. 00:23:29.868 --> 00:23:29.958 Okay. 00:23:30.768 --> 00:23:33.618 My finance degree would tell you that I could do that in my head really quickly. 00:23:33.618 --> 00:23:37.818 And I'm having a hard time for like 25 weeks, 25 to 30 weeks. 00:23:37.818 --> 00:23:42.228 Then you could get a first draft of your book done, but there's a lot of things 00:23:42.228 --> 00:23:45.048 that go, um, go along in our head. 00:23:45.348 --> 00:23:50.658 And so I would say when those come in, do not assume you will remember those ideas. 00:23:51.048 --> 00:23:54.258 So get a note in your phone, get Evernote. 00:23:54.258 --> 00:23:55.638 That's a really great way of tracking. 00:23:55.638 --> 00:23:58.638 However you can consistently track those. 00:23:59.138 --> 00:24:03.788 Just the idea, just five or six words to remember what your remember that 00:24:03.788 --> 00:24:08.348 jumping off point and then schedule in. 00:24:09.318 --> 00:24:12.288 The however long, it takes you to write 500 words for me. 00:24:12.288 --> 00:24:15.378 I could normally get them done in about 30 minutes. 00:24:15.528 --> 00:24:17.748 So it's not like I'm sitting at my computer all day long. 00:24:18.738 --> 00:24:21.348 It's just downloading a whole bunch of gargly goop. 00:24:21.648 --> 00:24:23.628 That doesn't make sense. 00:24:23.688 --> 00:24:29.148 It's all crap when it first comes out, but then you can go back and then 00:24:29.148 --> 00:24:34.578 that's when you start massaging it and self editing and making things work. 00:24:35.058 --> 00:24:36.438 But I would say, yeah, number one. 00:24:37.188 --> 00:24:43.428 Take note of your, um, of your ideas when they come and, and schedule in time to 00:24:43.428 --> 00:24:47.268 write at least four times a week, if not. 00:24:48.783 --> 00:24:49.233 Kyle Wood: Awesome. 00:24:49.563 --> 00:24:49.863 That's. 00:24:49.893 --> 00:24:50.163 Yeah. 00:24:50.163 --> 00:24:52.383 And that sounds very achievable. 00:24:52.473 --> 00:24:53.373 It's really about that. 00:24:53.523 --> 00:24:53.913 It's like what? 00:24:53.913 --> 00:24:57.333 We teach our clients with exposition it's consistency. 00:24:57.573 --> 00:24:58.863 You just gotta keep showing up. 00:24:59.793 --> 00:25:00.183 Amy Connell: Yeah. 00:25:00.183 --> 00:25:04.713 Well, and it's also training your brain and it's training that, that, that writing 00:25:04.713 --> 00:25:09.483 muscle, I mean, just like we can't expect to go drop down and do 200 pushups. 00:25:09.483 --> 00:25:11.883 If we haven't been doing pushups at all. 00:25:12.153 --> 00:25:13.203 No, you start off with me. 00:25:13.668 --> 00:25:14.358 Five. 00:25:14.388 --> 00:25:18.288 And then the next week, maybe you do 10 a day or something like that. 00:25:18.288 --> 00:25:18.678 So, yeah. 00:25:18.678 --> 00:25:21.408 It's, I mean, it's the same concept from the fitness perspective is 00:25:21.618 --> 00:25:24.618 training your writing muscle and just getting it in consistently. 00:25:25.398 --> 00:25:25.728 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:25:26.838 --> 00:25:27.168 I love that. 00:25:27.198 --> 00:25:27.648 Thank you. 00:25:28.818 --> 00:25:29.118 All right. 00:25:29.118 --> 00:25:31.008 Are you ready for the rapid fire round? 00:25:31.578 --> 00:25:32.208 I am. 00:25:32.718 --> 00:25:33.018 All right. 00:25:33.018 --> 00:25:37.998 So first question, and if, yeah, like I've got these, so if you get, let me know. 00:25:38.778 --> 00:25:43.818 What are the top three things you do each week that you found help your business? 00:25:44.208 --> 00:25:44.568 Correct. 00:25:46.893 --> 00:25:49.053 Amy Connell: Well, the first thing I already mentioned, which is I 00:25:49.053 --> 00:25:52.083 schedule in, well, it's kind of goes along with what I talked about. 00:25:52.083 --> 00:25:54.633 I schedule in my to-do list. 00:25:54.993 --> 00:26:01.653 So if I know that I need to, uh, prep at podcast episode and edit and do the 00:26:01.653 --> 00:26:03.273 socials and all of that kind of stuff. 00:26:03.273 --> 00:26:07.353 I know that in general, that takes about six hours per episode for me to do so 00:26:07.383 --> 00:26:10.743 I will schedule that in throughout the week to get something like that done. 00:26:11.223 --> 00:26:12.933 Um, I also. 00:26:14.223 --> 00:26:14.763 State. 00:26:15.213 --> 00:26:24.123 I try, not always great, but I try to stay focused on, um, by remembering my why and, 00:26:24.183 --> 00:26:29.463 uh, who I'm there to serve, because there are a lot of shiny objects I have learned 00:26:29.493 --> 00:26:33.543 over the last couple years that I am more of a visionary than I ever thought I was. 00:26:33.753 --> 00:26:37.653 So all come up with a lot of really great ideas, but there's 00:26:37.653 --> 00:26:39.233 no way that I can get them done. 00:26:39.788 --> 00:26:41.078 I have to stay. 00:26:41.618 --> 00:26:46.808 I've got to stay in my lane and finish the task at hand. 00:26:46.838 --> 00:26:48.878 Otherwise nothing is going to be good. 00:26:48.878 --> 00:26:53.378 And I'm just going to have a whole lot of open-ended projects out there and, you 00:26:53.378 --> 00:26:55.148 know, and the lanes we can change lanes. 00:26:55.148 --> 00:26:55.448 Right? 00:26:55.448 --> 00:26:59.198 And we can take new new highways or roads or something like that. 00:26:59.198 --> 00:26:59.948 I mean, if we're going to stay on. 00:27:00.708 --> 00:27:04.608 Terrible analogy, but, but just kind of staying focused and 00:27:04.608 --> 00:27:07.848 staying between the lines, I think has been really helpful for me. 00:27:08.238 --> 00:27:13.598 And th and that's honestly, I mean, that's how I was able to get this book done/ 00:27:13.738 --> 00:27:15.908 Kyle Wood: I know that feeling well. 00:27:16.248 --> 00:27:16.758 Amy Connell: Yeah. 00:27:16.878 --> 00:27:17.328 Yeah. 00:27:17.628 --> 00:27:20.778 And then the other thing too, on a more practical level is 00:27:20.808 --> 00:27:26.028 I do invest in some tools that help me save money or save time. 00:27:26.238 --> 00:27:28.038 Uh, they cost money, but they save time. 00:27:28.038 --> 00:27:29.268 So like, I schedule. 00:27:30.213 --> 00:27:31.533 I try. 00:27:31.623 --> 00:27:34.593 I'm not, I haven't been graded this lately, but I try to schedule 00:27:34.593 --> 00:27:37.203 all of my social media through. 00:27:37.203 --> 00:27:40.983 I use Later, there's buffer is one there's CoSchedule. 00:27:40.983 --> 00:27:45.183 There's all kinds of different ones, but I scheduled those a month in advance 00:27:45.243 --> 00:27:46.953 or at a minimum a week in advance. 00:27:47.313 --> 00:27:48.663 So that way it's all done. 00:27:48.663 --> 00:27:52.653 Cause I love engaging and talking to people online and I really hate putting 00:27:52.653 --> 00:27:56.163 content out there, which I probably shouldn't admit, but it's just, it's 00:27:56.163 --> 00:27:58.013 really hard for me, me a little bit. 00:27:58.488 --> 00:28:01.408 Kyle Wood: So you, you like batch that, try and do that in one go? 00:28:01.758 --> 00:28:02.448 Amy Connell: Yes. 00:28:02.478 --> 00:28:02.988 Yes. 00:28:02.988 --> 00:28:06.528 And I have a rhythm of what I, where I know I want to serve and 00:28:06.528 --> 00:28:07.998 where my community feels served. 00:28:07.998 --> 00:28:09.798 So I'll do a fitness related one. 00:28:09.798 --> 00:28:13.158 I'll do a mindset related, one, a food related, one, a faith related one. 00:28:13.568 --> 00:28:16.878 And that way it at least starts to kind of narrow it down. 00:28:17.178 --> 00:28:21.468 And then I do things like, um, I use Buzzsprout as my podcasting 00:28:21.468 --> 00:28:23.478 provider and, uh, they have. 00:28:24.258 --> 00:28:27.708 Great tools like, um, magic mastering. 00:28:27.948 --> 00:28:31.278 So when I upload it there, I pay an extra like four bucks a month. 00:28:31.308 --> 00:28:35.688 I mean, it's relatively inexpensive and they make sure that the audio 00:28:35.688 --> 00:28:39.078 is really good, which you can do that for free on Auphonic. 00:28:39.198 --> 00:28:42.738 But it, the whole process takes like an hour, even though 00:28:42.738 --> 00:28:43.488 you're not sitting there. 00:28:43.488 --> 00:28:47.208 So just little things like that to me are worth the time to do it because 00:28:47.208 --> 00:28:48.768 that way I can stay focused on. 00:28:50.698 --> 00:28:51.118 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:28:51.658 --> 00:28:51.958 Awesome. 00:28:51.958 --> 00:28:52.348 I love that. 00:28:52.348 --> 00:28:55.108 And thanks for some specific tools there. 00:28:56.278 --> 00:28:57.298 All right, next question. 00:28:57.358 --> 00:29:02.248 What is your favorite song or perhaps a band to work out to. 00:29:04.008 --> 00:29:06.288 Amy Connell: Well, a lot of it really depends on what I'm doing. 00:29:06.288 --> 00:29:10.878 I mean, if I'm doing a mobility or a yoga, that's very different than 00:29:10.878 --> 00:29:14.748 getting out there and doing box jumps, but I kind of feel like you can 00:29:14.748 --> 00:29:19.428 never go wrong with something, like imagine dragons, radio on Spotify. 00:29:19.458 --> 00:29:22.518 For me, at least that normally will give me some good quality stuff. 00:29:22.908 --> 00:29:25.788 Um, and then the other thing, one of the resources, so this book. 00:29:26.473 --> 00:29:28.903 EV almost every chapter has a resource in the back. 00:29:28.903 --> 00:29:32.983 So some of them are recipes or some of them are journal prompts and reflections. 00:29:33.043 --> 00:29:35.023 And then I have a lot of workout stuff. 00:29:35.353 --> 00:29:38.058 In addition, To all of that. 00:29:38.058 --> 00:29:42.408 One of the, one of the resources is a walking playlist because one of the 00:29:42.408 --> 00:29:46.428 chapter titles, which is a rule to break is walking isn't worth my time. 00:29:46.728 --> 00:29:52.728 So I created a playlist on Spotify called your worthy body, 00:29:52.728 --> 00:29:53.688 which is the name of the book. 00:29:53.688 --> 00:29:56.478 So your worthy body walks and it's kind of. 00:29:57.008 --> 00:30:00.998 A curated list of all of my favorite songs that I liked to move to. 00:30:01.328 --> 00:30:04.808 So honestly, I mean, it sounds somewhat narcissistic, but it's not 00:30:04.808 --> 00:30:07.838 meant to be, but I really enjoy just pulling that up and I'll just listen 00:30:07.838 --> 00:30:09.158 to that whenever I'm working out. 00:30:09.158 --> 00:30:10.688 Cause I know that I'm going to like the songs. 00:30:11.108 --> 00:30:11.528 Yeah. 00:30:11.768 --> 00:30:12.098 Kyle Wood: Awesome. 00:30:13.298 --> 00:30:13.838 Thank you. 00:30:14.738 --> 00:30:18.968 And next up, because especially because we've talked a lot about 00:30:20.958 --> 00:30:24.378 the pandemic and how it's been very disruptive to all of our careers. 00:30:25.128 --> 00:30:29.178 I feel like a lot of trainers are at cusp of like, they've probably 00:30:29.178 --> 00:30:31.638 used this time to get clear about what they want to do next. 00:30:31.638 --> 00:30:36.408 So where would you like to hit next with your business or career? 00:30:38.148 --> 00:30:41.928 Amy Connell: Yeah, it's been a great opportunity to really reflect and 00:30:41.928 --> 00:30:43.278 figure out what's important to me. 00:30:43.278 --> 00:30:45.738 And what am I, what am I the most passionate about? 00:30:46.278 --> 00:30:50.868 What I have discovered about myself is I'm really passionate about. 00:30:52.323 --> 00:30:57.963 So I would love to, um, get into speaking more in a couple different realms. 00:30:57.963 --> 00:31:02.043 One is, you know, I mentioned I've kind of have a faith based element to this. 00:31:02.073 --> 00:31:05.763 So I would love to get into more churches where there's either 00:31:05.763 --> 00:31:09.543 women's groups or mom and daughter groups, because what I'm learning is. 00:31:10.093 --> 00:31:13.363 Is teen girls will listen to me because I'm not mom, I'm saying 00:31:13.363 --> 00:31:15.873 the exact same thing that mom is saying, but I'm not moms. 00:31:15.873 --> 00:31:16.963 So they'll listen to me. 00:31:17.413 --> 00:31:21.433 And particularly with regard to body image stuff and, and you know what 00:31:21.433 --> 00:31:22.783 to eat and all of that kind of stuff. 00:31:22.783 --> 00:31:25.033 So that's one area where I'd like to get into. 00:31:25.393 --> 00:31:27.523 Um, I would like to. 00:31:28.683 --> 00:31:33.273 I w I don't know how to do this quite yet, but somehow get into the education 00:31:33.273 --> 00:31:39.273 of, of young female athletes and, uh, protecting themselves from injury. 00:31:39.603 --> 00:31:43.323 And, you know, I, I'm not necessarily like a sports specific, but just. 00:31:44.088 --> 00:31:46.098 Here's how you can feel your body well. 00:31:46.188 --> 00:31:51.438 And, um, you know, if you've got a double header or a lot of games, then, you know, 00:31:51.438 --> 00:31:56.988 maybe let's not eat McDonald's on the way to a game, you know, something like that. 00:31:57.648 --> 00:31:58.548 Um, yeah. 00:31:58.548 --> 00:32:01.758 And then the other thing too, which is more of a pipe dream, but 00:32:01.758 --> 00:32:05.388 I'll just go ahead and put it out there in the universe is I will, 00:32:05.628 --> 00:32:07.668 I would love to spend some time. 00:32:09.123 --> 00:32:16.203 Um, talking to other fitness professionals and, and really working on reframing 00:32:16.203 --> 00:32:22.143 the mindset of why we exercise and how to support, uh, their participants, 00:32:22.143 --> 00:32:27.903 their clients, particularly those who are over 40, because I, all I 00:32:27.903 --> 00:32:30.003 can speak of for is over 40 women. 00:32:30.003 --> 00:32:33.093 Cause that's kind of more my specialty, but it's just a different 00:32:33.093 --> 00:32:35.733 mentality than the 25 year old. 00:32:36.693 --> 00:32:39.273 You know, th they are fantastic and they can do a lot, and there's 00:32:39.273 --> 00:32:41.493 nothing wrong with them, but it's, it's a different mentality. 00:32:41.853 --> 00:32:47.163 And I think in order to serve your clients best, you kind of need to have a deeper 00:32:47.163 --> 00:32:49.983 understanding of what's important to them. 00:32:49.983 --> 00:32:54.123 And it's not always how they look and how, and the size of their body. 00:32:56.548 --> 00:32:57.718 Kyle Wood: Yeah, I think that's so important. 00:32:57.778 --> 00:33:01.108 I'm thinking about a lot of the franchises that are fitness 00:33:01.108 --> 00:33:04.648 franchise that had taken off here and there pretty much all targeting 00:33:05.188 --> 00:33:08.098 people sort of between 20 and 35. 00:33:09.148 --> 00:33:10.498 And so, yeah, I think. 00:33:11.838 --> 00:33:16.368 That's such an important underserved population and yeah, I would 00:33:16.368 --> 00:33:18.378 love to have you back again. 00:33:18.838 --> 00:33:20.788 Just looking at the time, but I'd love to have you back again. 00:33:20.788 --> 00:33:22.168 Maybe just to talk about that. 00:33:22.218 --> 00:33:27.578 maybe even with like, another couple of trainers who are also working on this, we 00:33:27.578 --> 00:33:31.438 can do bit of around table, so people... 00:33:31.438 --> 00:33:32.708 Amy Connell: yeah, that'd be fantastic. 00:33:33.788 --> 00:33:36.578 Kyle Wood: If people want to find out more about your book. 00:33:37.238 --> 00:33:41.018 Can you give me the name again and the tagline? 00:33:41.918 --> 00:33:42.668 Amy Connell: Absolutely. 00:33:43.028 --> 00:33:49.748 Uh, the title is Your Worth Body and the subtitle is Find Freedom And 00:33:49.748 --> 00:33:51.968 Health By Breaking All The Rules. 00:33:54.698 --> 00:33:55.838 It's on Amazon. 00:33:55.838 --> 00:33:56.108 Yeah. 00:33:56.108 --> 00:33:59.258 So you can just type in 'your worthy body'. 00:33:59.588 --> 00:34:01.008 Um, Amy Connell. 00:34:01.008 --> 00:34:02.618 That's C O N N E L L. 00:34:03.088 --> 00:34:06.398 On the interweb I call 'em I'm I go by the name of Graced Health. 00:34:06.428 --> 00:34:12.488 It's G R A C E D health, because that's a huge part of my, um, my messaging 00:34:12.488 --> 00:34:16.118 is just incorporating grace and it doesn't have to be perfect into our 00:34:16.118 --> 00:34:20.168 health, into our movement, into our eating, uh, and I will have a link there 00:34:20.168 --> 00:34:21.938 of, uh, going out and purchasing it. 00:34:21.938 --> 00:34:25.898 And then I can, Kyle, I can also provide a link to you to. 00:34:26.518 --> 00:34:27.748 It put in the show notes. 00:34:27.748 --> 00:34:30.748 And so people can just get down in the show notes and, uh, if that would be 00:34:30.748 --> 00:34:34.498 helpful to you and just click on that and then go directly to, to Amazon. 00:34:34.888 --> 00:34:35.218 Kyle Wood: Yeah. 00:34:35.278 --> 00:34:37.318 I'll add that in the show notes below. 00:34:38.458 --> 00:34:39.568 Thank you so much, Amy. 00:34:39.568 --> 00:34:41.758 It was a, yeah, I can't believe it's been a year. 00:34:41.848 --> 00:34:43.738 It was so nice to connect with you and talk with you. 00:34:43.738 --> 00:34:46.168 And I felt, yeah, we could've talked longer and definitely 00:34:46.168 --> 00:34:47.278 want to have you back again. 00:34:48.088 --> 00:34:48.808 Amy Connell: I would love that. 00:34:48.808 --> 00:34:51.808 I love talking shop and it's really fun to be with like-minded people. 00:34:51.808 --> 00:34:52.698 So thank you for having me. 00:34:52.698 --> 00:34:55.598 Kyle Wood: You're welcome.