Caroline Juster is a personal trainer and online fitness coach living in Chicago, Illinois. She helps busy millennials get strong and lose weight without fad diets or gimmicks. Caroline received a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, where she studied trombone under Michael Mulcahy and others.

QUOTES

“Music school was challenging, I don’t think I was emotionally prepared for the things I was going to encounter there.” 

“At music school, the prospect of having to make money and win auditions changed things for me.”

“At grad school I started falling even more out of love with music.”

“If somebody left the (music) program, to pursue something else, there was a shame thing. I saw that and absorbed that for so long”

“The way (music) lets me see the world and the way that I appreciate connections between different fields.. gives me fresh eyes.”

“There was so much pain associated with music that I knew I needed a big break.”

“I was in bad shape, I thought I had nothing to offer. But that wasn’t true at all.”

Trust that you really do have valuable experience that can translate to other career paths, even if they're unconventional and you can’t see them.”

LINKS

• Caroline Juster Fitness Website, Instagram, Facebook
• Personal Training as a Second Career from The PTDC
• What Singing Opera Taught Me About Personal Training with Daniel Lopez from The PTDC
• Interview with Geoff Collinson about improvising in business

PODCAST TEAM

Production Support from Molly Jenkins
Audio Engineering from Frazer Ruddick
Theme Music Composed by Danna Yun
Theme Music Performed by  Jasper Ly

RECORDED
26 April 2021.