Creating the 4%: Real Life Stories From The Fitness Industry

Tatiana Lampa is from Queens, NY and she has been physically active her entire life.  Her love for sports grew in high school when she played volleyball and committed to cheerleading and dance in college.  She graduated with a degree in Nutrition and Exercise Sciences where she instantly fell in love with how the body functions. With a background with NYC group fitness, she absolutely loves coaching people. Tatiana has taken her business onto the online space where she is able to connect with more people across the world.

https://www.trainingwitht.com/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/training_with_t/

He believes fitness should be fun, inclusive, challenging, and inspirational. Growing up an overweight, gay, black boy in West Baltimore wasn’t easy for Gerard Burley, but it emphasized the importance of diversity and inclusion across gender, age, ability, sexual orientation and race in what would become his fitness journey. 

Gerard Burley, better known as “Coach G” has over 15 years expe­ri­ence in the exercise sports science field includ­ing a Bachelors of Science in Sports Med­i­cine from the Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina Chapel Hill, and a Masters of Science in Exer­cise and Health Pro­mo­tion from Cal U Pennsylvania. He also holds var­i­ous high level cer­ti­fications such as Strength and Con­di­tion­ing Spe­cial­ist, NASM Per­for­mance Enhancement Spe­cial­ist, Spe­cial­ist in Speed and Explo­sion, and an Advanced Exer­cise Nutri­tion Certifi­cate from Human Kinet­ics.

After holding a corporate position as Director of Sports Medicine at Bowie State University, Coach G decided to follow his dreams of living abroad, and changing lives. In 2009 he moved to Rome, Italy and while playing pro basketball started training foreign service workers inside the US Embassy. After Italy, Gerard decided to return back to Washington, DC, and continue his calling of helping people change their lives through healthy living, positive thinking, and fitness.

After a series of pop-up fitness parties and demos, Burley opened Sweat DC in September 2017, an inclusive space for people of all body types and levels of experience. 

Gerard Burley has been featured on CNN, Fox News, ABC News & the Washington Post just to name a few. And wouldn’t you know it, he also low key teaches at SoulCycle. I AM SO GRATEFUL to have this incredible inspiring human share his story with us!

Follow on instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/impact360coaching/

She is Hoda Kotb’s personal fitness inspiration you may have seen her on the today show, or read about her 50th birthday party on page six, or heard her on Sirius XM, but Sue Molnar is best known for her fiercely devoted tribe at SoulCycle.

A Senior Master Instructor, currently teaching in studio & digitally on the equinox + app, Sue is known for her passion for music, and transformative rides that will leave you both sweaty and deep in your feelings.

A competitive cheerleader in college, a former Stewardess for United Airlines, a step aerobics instructor, she was reluctant to join SoulCycle after a friend told Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler to take her class in LA.  Sue ended up taking the chance, and now we couldn’t imagine life without the legendary July 4th Bruce Springsteen rides in the Hamptons.

Sue calls herself the anti-instructor at Soul and inspires riders to hold on to the good crazy and let go of the bad crazy. Her grit and personal struggle with cancer, has inspired so many who cross her path and today I hope after chatting with her you too will be inspired to pursue your true calling despite what life throws at you.

Get READY MOFO’s because it is an honor to welcome a true legend to Creating The 4% Podcast , SUE MOLNAR!! 

She hails from the land that gave us Champagne Papi & Bieber and she is someone I have gotten to know via MANY voice notes the past two years when we connected through Ruth Zukerman (Featured in episode 3!) & Tru Community.

Alicia Miller was a Master Instructor and a Talent Development Coach for Flywheel for 8 years from 2012 to 2020. She has developed over 200 instructors throughout the US as well as Dubai.

Currently she is the Cycle Program Director, Large Studio Group Fitness Manager and Social Media Manager for Flow Fitness Seattle. In addition to that, catch her at LifeTime Bellevue & Shred415 Seattle/Bellevue, and ride digitally with her 3 times a week. 

Vice President & Founding Instructor of CITYROW, Annie Mulgrew brought rowing to the masses. Her passion for rowing; a modality that most people associate with college crew teams, has transformed the fitness landscape in studio and now digitally. 

She is a real DAY ONE who grew & developed the instructor team at CITYROW from one studio in 2014 to a nation-wide franchise and now a digital platform with on demand and live classes from strength to signature rowing to yoga. OH yea she is also an incredible Yoga Instructor.

Passionate about music, Proficient in Spanish, Annie is kinda of a big deal, as she is regularly featured in Women’s Health, Morning Honey, Well + Good, Bustle Fitness, Fab Fit & Fun, Pop Sugar Fitness, The Today Show, Refinery 29, The New York Post... I could go on… but this podcast isn’t long enough. 

IT IS AN HONOR TO HAVE the only and the only ANNIE MULGREW on Creating the 4% Podcast!

Follow Annie on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/user/1265463471?si=cd50697096314fd3

Learn more about CITYROW GO MAX  Rower:

https://go.cityrow.com/us-en

Personal Training & Coaching weren’t a part of athlete David Freeman’s aka Coach Freezy’s original plan. But once he discovered them as his calling, there was no looking back. 

A health & fitness professional for over 15 years, he is the National Digital Performer Brand Leader for LifeTime Inc., also LT Inclusion Council Director & co-host of the LT Talks Podcast (a personal fave). David is a lululemon legacy ambassador, and is regularly featured in Men’s Health & Men’s Journal as kind of a big deal, an an expert in helping change lives around the world.

It was an honor to have Coach Freezy on EPISODE 9! Available on all streaming platforms on Thursday February 3!! 

Check out the story and be sure to follow @life @free for more information on how you can sweat with this fantastic Fit Pro in person and digitally!

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As the Vice President of Experience for CycleBar, a wife, mom of two, & former P.I., Tevia Celli is a pioneer in the indoor cycling community.

In 1998 she started THE FIRST high end indoor cycling boutique studio called Body & Soul in Los Angeles. She ran it for over a decade, then worked for Flywheel as the Creative Director of the West Coast. In 2015 she joined CycleBar where she created their education curriculum and ride platforms for thousands of instructors across 200+ franchised studios.

Tevia Celli is one of LA’s OG celebrity instructors and a disruptor of the instructor stereotype. She is a GOAT, an ICON, a LEGEND and it was an honor to have her on the Creating the 4% Podcast!

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Kristina Girod is the Owner & Chief Motivation Officer of Scottsdale's Premier Indoor Cycling Studio Power + Flow, which she opened September 2020 smack in the middle of a global pandemic.

Former Athlete, Volleyball Player & eventually a Flywheel Instructor, Kristina was adamant about leading the change of the fitness landscape in Arizona.  Assertive & calculating in her decision making, she has made Power + Flow a global community with a large and dedicated following on youtube and instagram. Her personal and studio IG accounts are a must follow that reach thousands daily and one of her videos always ends up in my DMs.

Her post workout snack is nachos and that just makes me love her even more! I am so excited and honored to have had her on this episode .  Check out the links below to connect with her and learn more about Power + Flow:

https://www.power-flowstudio.com/

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Amanda Brabec is a fitness instructor & personal trainer based in Boston whose mission is to make fitness FUN & approachable for everyone. Almost five years ago, she took a leap of faith, did a local fitness instructor certification & instantly fell in love with the connection & empowerment created in a group fitness setting. 

Shortly after, she left her corporate marketing & event planning career to pursue fitness full time. After a few years, she noticed just how fat-phobic & diet-centric the industry still can be, and how damaging those messages can be to clients so she is launching a group body image workshop this January. 

She is the host of the Build with Brabec podcast, a cycling instructor at The HandleBar, a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Corrective Exercise Specialist, and offers virtual workouts on Youtube & her own platform.

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Podcast: https://anchor.fm/buildwithbrabec

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