The Coach's Playground

Meghan Callaway on Respecting the Fundamentals


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Most of us want to be good at what we do; we want to be rich or whatever it is we want to be, right away. 

Anything worth having takes patience and time. 

What do we need to master first so we can add in later layers of our own style and creativity and become more?

Meghan Callaway is a coach and trainer, published writer, athlete, and exercise innovator. She has been an in-person personal trainer for over seventeen years, an online coach for over four years, and an avid multi-sport athlete for most of her life. She is also a fitness blogger and content creator. 

In this episode, Meghan shares with us the mantra she lives by that guides her in her personal life and business. It's good to find out what are those three E's she mentions are her guiding principles in the way she creates content and deals with clients.

She could not stress more the importance of why, at the onset, we need to zero in on learning the fundamentals. There is something so important about them that escaping them would land you nowhere. 

To her, going to the gym is more than just the aesthetics side of it. When you look past them, that's when you truly are present in what you do, and in the process, tangible wins happen.

There is a lot to learn from her experience of taking her health for granted and turning it around in the end. That it's not a good idea to be too hard on yourself, you will only beat yourself up for nothing.

She believes in giving more and taking less. That's why she creates programs that give access to many and not just a few. She is after the impact she can make on the world more than the money she can get.

She tells of what happens when you always chase money when creating content for your business. 

She was in one dark stage in her life, but there is one thing that she shares that has been a gamechanger in her life, when you have that you become hopeful.

Her pull-up program has been an enormous success, and it has become popular. And she believes that mindset and belief play a big part in making it a success, regardless of gender.

Her pets have given her happiness and joy; let's find out what these two cuties have taught her in life and business.

"Basically train to live, train to enhance your life, train to enhance your happiness.This means, make yourself more, whatever your definition of more is, because we all have different definitions." 

- Meghan Callaway

What you will learn from this episode:

05:02 - The mantra she lives by in sports, career, and personal life

07:29 - How sports helped her appreciate mastering the fundamentals

09:35 - Seeing how sports was different back then

10:55 - The bad practice athletes do for their strength and conditioning

15:45 - The need for training to be fun, empowering, and exciting

17:59 - Why she never talks about aesthetics in her content

22:07 - What she's trying to achieve with all of her clients

23:17 - What one of his clients taught her about

26:55 - Figuring things out and not taking her health for granted again

29:40 - What helped play in her self-awareness and consequently her business

32:12 - What's the biggest thing with therapy

34:36 - Learn not to be hard on yourself

37:16 - Don't expect to be good at something right away

40:34 - A 10% discount from Base Blocks if you use Meghan as code to purchase for the same bars she uses at home

42:14 - Relating an experience with the Base Blocks bars

47:10 - What is so special about her pull-up program that it has become in demand

48:55 - Give them what they want, but make it what they need

50:23 - How mindset and belief play a big role in doing pull-ups and nothing to do with gender

52:41 - Affordable programs for everyone's accessibility

54:50 - Giving more than take more

57:09 - How impact means more to her 

58:01 - What happens when people only care about the money

01:00:15 - How happiness has been a gamechanger for her

01:03:04 - What her two cats teach her about life and business

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