We may not be skilled at something, or there may be more reasons hindering us from getting ahead; nonetheless, it's not a reason for us not to succeed. 

How then do you place yourself in a position for the road to success?

Dan McGinley has been a coach at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning since January of 2013. During this time, he has worked with everyone from Olympic and professional athletes looking for a competitive edge to developing high school and middle school athletes and adult personal training clients striving to feel, look and live healthy and active lives.

Dan travels both internationally and throughout the U.S., educating coaches on the systems used at MBSC as a member of the teaching staff for the Certified Functional Strength Coach.

Dan spent 16 months in China representing MBSC as the director of strength and conditioning at the Ersha Sports Training Institute of Guangzhou Province. During this time, he was tasked with overseeing the development of the strength and conditioning program for the training center and coaching both healthy and rehabbing athletes from 14 Olympic sports. His athletes in China, including current and future Olympians, won 26 medals during the 2017 China games in Tianjin.

Dan is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and participates in numerous continuing education courses, including the Functional Movement Screen level 1 & 2, Selective Functional Movement Assessment, Functional Range Conditioning and Precision Nutrition (PN).

In this episode, Dan shares how he went past his learning disability and anxiety. Getting into exercise gave him the outlet to overcome those struggles. 

He may have all those blockages along the way, but his passion for learning is huge for him to continue growing and being better. Once you continue learning, for him, that's when you improve, you evolve, and you get fresh and better ideas. 

He also shares what a true leader does and how he does things. In the person of Mike Boyle, he recounts the many ways he has personified traits of a leader, which we can all learn from.

He also points out how, despite the success and longstanding stay in the fitness industry, the need to adapt to changes and tweak is necessary to make your business better and relevant to the call of times.

He also talks about his viewpoint as to where the fitness industry's direction is going post-COVID. 

"Having that growth mindset of, hey, even if I fail at this, I'm going to get a little bit better, I'm going to learn from it, and then try and grow." - Dan McGinley

What you will learn from this episode:

02:36 - How he got started into strength and conditioning training

04:19 - Trying to be better at something you are weakest at

06:21 - A continuous process of learning and trying to be better at something

07:21 - Nurturing a culture of continuously evolving and innovating

08:34 - Exercise as an outlet for his anxiety

10:52 - How learning improves with exercise

15:57 - Where kids learn better

19:04 - How research showed that exercise helps brains function better

21:00 - Self-awareness learned from having learning disability and anxiety

25:04 - How he got the internship at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning and how it was like back then

28:56 - Lessons learned for someone with anxiety knowing there are limited jobs out there

31:00 - Love seeing others succeed and at the same time inspired to do much better

32:43 - Looking up to someone in terms of building a long-lasting business 

34:01 - Adapting to change to make business better

35:39 - Awesome funny stories about Mike Boyle

37:37 - What a leader does - holding other leaders to a high standard

40:15 - It's not so much about what you are saying, people, pay attention more to what you are doing

42:54 - Sharing a crazy story while in China

45:07 - The two huge pieces about the Certified Functional Strength Coach 

47:50 - Make people be able to adapt and not become robots

50:32 - His viewpoint as to where the fitness industry is going post-COVID

Connect with Dan McGinley:

• Bodybyboyle.com
• certifiedfsc
• Instagram

Connect with Gavin McHale

• maverickcoachingacademy.ca
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

The fitness industry is saturated with coaches doing similar things that confuse one from the other.

How do we distinguish the good coaches from the mediocre ones and find value in the service they offer?

Manny Alayon is a health and performance professional who owns Northeast CrossFit. He is a proud husband, father to two daughters, and coffee connoisseur.

In this episode, Manny shares how he started wrestling and chased the 'high' in CrossFit as we find out what made him chase it.

With his business among the ones hit by the pandemic, pivoting was his way to stay afloat. It's something to look forward to how he did it.

Social media is becoming too noisy, but leveraging it the right way will do your business better than harm. Learn to make use of it truly.

Where everyone is showing similar things, separating yourself from the rest is undoubtedly an advantage. His tips on that are valuable.

Don't be fooled with instructors claiming to be coaches. Learn what distinguishes an instructor from a professional coach. 

Becoming a good coach takes effort and tools to become one. Hear his important thoughts about this.

People find it awkward increasing prices, and it's helpful to know how he steadily gets the clients he wants and maintains good client retention despite increased prices.

His social media has an engagement he is so happy about. Let's dig into the kind of content you need to put out there in your social media and website, so you get people to know you and ultimately work with you.

Designing a program tailored to your client's needs is one sure way to attain one's goal. And he shares details about this.

More than anything, learning how to be a better human helps better society, and he shares his thoughts on this that we can all reflect and learn from.

"Make sure you're really good. And then it's a matter of letting the world know that you're really good. And that is really complicated because I think the best coaches aren't on social media, because they're too busy helping the world." Manny Alayon

What you will learn from this episode:

03:29 - His wrestling story when he was a kid

05:43 - What those losses in his wrestling matches taught him

09:33 - What got him into CrossFit

13:52 - The bipolar personality that CrossFit has

17:29 - How he pivoted his business when gyms were made to close

21:27 - What he does to separate himself from the rest 

24:00 - Difference between a coach and instructor

25:58 - What's with increasing the price and not putting the price on the website?

30:39 - One tough thing about being a coach

32:36 - Important things to note to leverage social media platforms like Instagram

35:01 - The key is consistency

37:33 - Finding the opportunity to individualize programs for clients during the pandemic and how it works

38:52 - Designing a holistic lifestyle program not just focused on the workout piece

40:26 - In what direction does the fitness industry go given the changes this pandemic has made

43:38 - Will lifestyle coaching benefit the best coaches from the mediocre ones?

48:38 - The most significant lessons learned from his two daughters

53:21 - The many contradictions in life we can all reflect on

57:50 - What humans need to learn for society to get better

Connect with Manny Alayon:

• Instagram

Connect with Gavin McHale

• maverickcoachingacademy.ca
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

How do you move from being in fear to surrender, which opens to the vastness of opportunities and success?

Breathwork allows one to tap into self-awareness and consciousness, so you're able to unblock the energy of trauma and come up with clear thoughts, so you learn to trust and create beautiful ideas.

Loretta Cella has a Masters in Leadership with over 1,500 hours of ICF coaching experience under two international coaching institutions, Prosci Change Management certification and body therapy breathwork also under two well-known leaders David Elliot and Rebecca Kordecki. She has worked with a full spectrum of populations in various parts of the world and has been able to hone in on her skills and develop a real passion for creating high-quality, innovative programs, and supporting projects for an array of clients. In 2007, she founded a charity that now has served 6000 youth with leadership skills in partnership with other organizations globally.

In this episode, Loreta shares that SUCCESS is an acronym, and this is what it stands for:

S - elf reflection

U - understanding that limitations are self-imposed

C - ourage 

C - ooperation / community

E - evaluation 

S - kills 

S - ervice

When you grow in yourself, you create a community that keeps you passionate about doing something more, giving to others, serving them. When you do things in service, that's when you cultivate sustainability, and that's where success comes.

Just as we're talking about success, breathwork is not far from the notion of that. And Loreta also shares important insights on this realm in transitioning your life of overwhelm and addiction to one of clarity and focus.

"When we surrender, when we let go of control, we open the door to a vastness within us, the possibilities which creates vulnerability for some folks. But, in that vulnerability is exceptional power."

 - Loreta Cella

 What you will learn from this episode:

03:33 - A firm belief in everyone's evolution -- a continuous cycle of growth and death

06:14 - A stormy adolescent piece that brought forth a charity organization for children and youth

11:12 - SUCCESS is an acronym

17:57 - What self-awareness and consciousness bring us into

21:10 - What happens when we come into a space of understanding and healing?

22:50 - How healing the world starts with yourself

25:24 - The opportunity that comes when you stop being in fear and start being in trust

30:15 - A formula and practice that makes it easier for people to transition from a life of overwhelm

33:01 - The two pieces that bring out anxiety and overwhelm

35:35 - How to connect with your body and be present with it 

39:14 - Getting past the traumatic blocked energy and having clear thought through breathwork

41:41 - What amazing things breathwork can do for your addictions

45:26 - Mini sessions to help you figure out what breathwork is all about

48:23 - The incredible piece in breathwork of surrender

50:49 - The beautiful idea of 'trust and create something beautiful' in breathwork 

52:53 - What's the biggest lesson of her being a mother?

Connect with Loreta Cella:

• Loretacella.com
• Instagram

Connect with Gavin McHale

• maverickcoachingacademy.ca
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Do things seem to be not making sense? Are you beating yourself up for not living up to your own expectations?

How about learning to surrender and think from a place of abundance? Then, start to see the magic happen from there.

Cory Camp grew up a swimmer for 18 years of his life. Upon graduating and with his sports career-ending, he realized he wasn't prepared for this whole "real life" thing. A year went by, and he found himself lost, 40 pounds heavier than when he graduated. That was the turning point for him and the moment he had to get his S*%^ together. He spent every moment since turning his life around and reintroducing purpose and intention to it. Through fitness, lifestyle choices, and neuroscience, he figured out a system that works to optimize life. Now, he's passionate about helping other former athletes find their optimal plan to embody being a Forever Athlete. He taps back into the Athletic Mindset and how it can best serve everyone now, in the "real world."

In this episode, Cory shares how he brought swimming to the next level, getting better at it, getting a scholarship, and getting paid for what he does. 

His being a swimmer, getting his share of success, and his fair share of failures has taught him lessons in his personal life and career as a coach.

What those failures paved for him, he can only be thankful for, as it brought him to where he is today in his coaching career.

He has a lot to teach about growth mindset as he relates that story about him desperately wanting to improve. That also points out to accepting that you have your own timeline, that you need to swim your own race, and to take feedback from your own experience and situation. So you show up better and find ways to improve.

With social media portraying everything as perfect, there's the danger of falling into the comparison trap. What better way to avoid it than finding inspiration from what others have, taking a system that has already worked and adding your own flavor to it and making it your own.

He could not stress enough the importance of having to come from a place of abundance. Because once you have that mindset, you will never be in want of anything. You radiate positive energy that draws the right people to you.

That also speaks truly of when you do things to serve others and not just go after their money because people can sense that.

All these extend to also showing up and giving value and making them feel it's in their best interest.

"We have to be able to shift into that space of abundance of like; I already have everything. It's all within me. And that's contagious energy too. Like, when we are able to truly embody that and then show up as that in the world, then people want to be around us." - Cory Camp 

What you will learn from this episode:

04:14 - How he got into swimming and made it to the collegiate level

07:56 - What freedom does swimming give him?

10:20 - The time he felt the lightbulb taking swimming to the next level

13:45 - Rising to the occasion

17:32 - Lessons in the growth mindset

20:36 - Doing away with the comparison trap

23:39 - Taking the system that has already worked and put your own flavor to it

25:47 - Failure as a great flashlight

25:47 - How contagious your energy becomes when you come from a place of abundance

28:40 - Setting the better intention of serving than just getting money 

31:55 - Stories from his college scholarship and lessons learned

42:58 - Actually working for it to happen and not just wishing for it to happen

47:03 - Showing your value add and what it can do for you

50:18 - What's the idea behind spearheading writing a book 'Forever Athletes' with Gavin and many others more

56:42 - The magic in storytelling

Connect with Cory Camp:

• https://www.corycamp.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/corycamp/

Connect with Gavin McHale

• https://www.maverickcoachingacademy.ca/
• Linkedin
• Instagram

Maybe for some, but for most, getting successful is never left to luck and chance.

Even the most successful of us have our own share of struggles and adversities when they start.

How do you keep that winning momentum oozing inside and have a true mind and heart of a champion?

When it comes to social media, what could be one thing you are doing wrong that you are not gaining any traction?

John Rush is a professional football player and Grey Cup champion with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL (Canadian Football League). He is an outspoken vegan athlete with a passion for rescuing dogs and a love for animals.

In this episode, John talks about the most important thing you can do when things are out of your control -- take control of what you can.

Listen to him as he explains why it is all about mindset. His own life story has a lot to tell about that.

Where many struggles to gain a good following, John succeeded in growing his Instagram account organically. 

Let's find out what could be contributory to his success. 

"There are many factors that are just outside of your control, especially in sports, but if you have that process, if you have that strategy in place, you're putting yourself in the best possible position for success." - John Rush

What you will learn from this episode:

03:33 - Recalling the first time he wanted to be a pro athlete

05:30 - A different journey he took in being drafted as a pro football athlete

07:56 - Relating a humbling experience that taught him many lessons

12:11 - What kept him going during those tough times 

15:04 - How everything is all about the mindset shift

20:35 - How to win a championship?

27:20 - The story behind the tattoo

32:06 - What made him choose a vegan lifestyle

36:27 - What he found was huge in growing his Instagram organically

42:49 - How do you create a massive community and an engaged audience?

46:46 - Value for value

50:22 - When do the opinions of other people matter less?

53:47 - What happens when you have nothing to prove to other people?

Connect with John Rush:

• rescuedogkitchen.com
• Twitter
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Pinterest

Connect with Gavin McHale

• maverickcoachingacademy.ca
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Nothing ever becomes successful when you don’t hold a safe space for people.

People seek connection and a place to belong and be themselves.

How do you empower people to live the best life they can and be vulnerable?

Katie St. Clair is a wife, mom, strength coach, educator, business owner, and lover of all things movement. After 20+ years in the industry, Katie decided to create an educational program based on her passion for seeing other women excel in the industry as leaders and educators. There was a time when life got in the way and she couldn't be the professional she wanted to be because she had to put her family first. She has spent the past 5 years embarking on a journey of learning and combining that knowledge with her love of athletic movement, as well as her passion for empowering female movement professionals, with the intent to elevate the entire industry standard.

In this episode, Katie shares great life lessons and benefits sports and gymnastics taught her in terms of hard work and achieving your life’s goal.

She also highlights the many struggles she went through and knowing how she overcame them is one great inspiration for us to ponder on.

Finding an emotional connection to why you are doing something is one great factor to keep you going and continue working hard to reach your goal. Without that, you will get lost in the process and not move forward.

She found a way to truly connect with her clients and that gives her the privilege of doing what she loves.

When we create a safe space for everyone where they feel empathy and empowered to live their best life, half of the work is done. And that’s when it opens up a lot of opportunities for you to help others at the same time earn a living.

One big factor in creating a successful community or membership is when you create a true connection with your people. Katie has a lot to teach us about that.

As to her, with the fitness industry making changes because of the pandemic, it is only by providing a better connection from an emotional standpoint that you will always have a place in the industry. After all, people seek connection. 

“What's more important is that you just figure out why you can't connect. And work with someone on that. Once you learn how to connect and be open and vulnerable to everyone, and empathetic because that's what clients want -- empathy, then you have the opportunity, the privilege to be able to do what you want to do. The privilege comes because you are able to connect with that part of yourself.” - Katie St. Clair

What you will learn from this episode:

02:54 - Knowing how to have fun and not taking things too seriously

04:20 - Getting into Gymnastics at a very young age

06:53 - Life lessons and benefits of living her childhood life in a ‘gym’

09:47 - How sports provide a safe space for her and everyone getting into it

15:22 - Creating the emotional connection behind your hard work

18:56 - Finding authentic connection and being vulnerable to others

25:35 - Dealing with the mental aspect of pain and the struggles that come with that

27:52 - Starting from scratch and on to success

30:32 - How she got chronic pain from playing sports and how she got over that

38:58 - How Empowered Performance came to be

43:38 - Creating a safe space for men and women

46:50 - Dropping down your ego to create a safe space for everyone

Connect with Katie St. Clair:

• katiestclairfitness.com
• Instagram
• Email: [email protected]

Connect with Gavin McHale

• maverickcoachingacademy.ca
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

We seem to be too attached to the labels we put ourselves. 

When we are stripped of these, and things don't go the way we want them, what likely happens?

Depression and anxiety set in, and that would further lead to addiction.

How do you overcome them and turn your life for the better?

Todd Sylvester calls himself a belief system master. And for the last 30 years, Todd has served as a mentor and personal development coach for those looking to get more out of life, move beyond limiting beliefs and overcome addictions. Todd is an experienced motivational speaker and has conducted over 1500 speaking engagements at businesses, seminars, schools, churches, and youth groups. He's the host of the Beliefcast podcast, and he's got an incredible story about his own journey overcoming addiction and becoming his best self. 

In this episode, Todd shares his all-or-nothing mentality in getting better at his favorite sport at an early age. Just when he was at the peak of his career, everything fell because of drug addiction and alcoholism. 

That was the darkest moment in his life. Everything seemed to dim, and he couldn't see the light ahead. He lost himself to the brink of suicide. For him, everything seems futile.

He fell into depression and anxiety and almost couldn't get out of it. What's more, alcoholism and drugs got the better of him.

But despite it all, he got up, learned his lesson, and took a turn in life for the better. What used to be a selfish lifestyle turned out to be a life-giving existence for others.

Listen to that interesting lemonade story he shares as that's where everything started for the better, and that's when he realized a mantra that he now lives by every day.

He has his hurtful past to thank for when it comes to connecting deeply with his clients and other people. It has given him the wisdom and deep understanding of what they are going through in life as he had once been there in their shoes.

And that he is encouraging everyone that the only way you can fight addiction is to strengthen your connection. Have the humility to ask for help. Let people know you're struggling so you get out where you're stuck and move forward.

"We label ourselves, I'm an athlete, or I'm a basketball player, I'm a baseball player, I'm a dancer, I'm a teacher. And those are all good things to be. But these are things that we do; it's not who we are. And when we think it's who we are, and it goes away, we're in trouble. If we lean on anything that can be snatched away in an instant, we will fall and be bruised." 

- Todd Sylvester

What you will learn from this episode:

01:00 - Being a huge Michael Jordan fan

02:17 - How he was so obsessed with basketball

04:48 - A combination of a supportive dad and all-or-nothing mentality towards basketball

06:53 - "Adversity and addiction is your wake-up call to your greatness."

08:05 - The difference between motivation and drive

09:25 - The 21/90 rule

11:44 - His first experience of alcohol and drugs and what made him fell for them

15:42 - The stigma attached to both alcohol and marijuana and what it does to you and your life

18:15 - His approach to making people aware of the negative consequence of using marijuana

19:37 - Creating awareness about anxiety and overcoming it

24:30 - How drugs, alcohol, and partying are catching up with his athletic performance

30:00 - A wakeup call for messing up 

31:21 - Why many struggled with depression and anxiety

34:26 - That lemonade stand - his life's turning point

42:16 - Talking about the principle of if you want to be... give it away

46:26 - How he builds a trusting relationship with a client

47:58 - The way he cares about someone

50:22 - Connection is the opposite of addiction: Why we need to let people know we're struggling

Connect with Todd Sylvester:

• toddinspires.com
• Facebook
• Instagram

 Connect with Gavin McHale

• maverickcoachingacademy.ca
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Material stuff can only provide you to some extent. When life gets tough and nasty, the one thing that will help you sail through is your support system with whom you build a great relationship.

How do you live in the hearts of many and leave a lasting impact in everyone's world?

Brendon Rearick is a husband, father, strength coach, public speaker, teacher, business owner. He's an ice cream lover, bookworm. He's a co-owner and educator at Certified Functional Strength Coach at Train Smarter and Harder at strengthcoach.com and @mbsc.tv. He's also a co-owner and therapist at Movement as Medicine and the director of fitness at Crossover Health San Jose. He is the former performance director at Mike Boyle Strength Conditioning. Beyond the labels, his perfect purpose for living is to make exercise the number one prescribed drug in the world, to spread the positive byproducts of movement and coaching as far as he can. And to collect moments, not things that have become his personal mantra. Any decision he faces is put up against those values. And if it doesn't align, he does not do it. Because in his words, life is not about what we have, but who we share it with. 

In this episode, Brendon shares how creating real and deep relationships opens you to doors of many opportunities, as it did to him. He also underscores having enriching conversations with as many so you can help more in the process of doing that. And when you help more, that's when you become more successful in the end.

These thoughts about relationships tie to what his book is all about, Coaching Rules: A How-to Manual for a Successful Career in Strength and Fitness. He also shares other book resources he finds interesting to base reflections on as you aim to make your life better for yourself, your family, and the tribe you serve.

He has a thing or two and more to say when it comes to getting successful at coaching. That you just have to deliver, and when everyone talks about it, that takes care of everything.

Illness has a way of giving perspectives we never thought about beforehand. Find out how this setback completely changed his views on many things in life to the point of making it his mission statement to make exercise the number one prescribed drug in the world. 

The experience of being a father teaches you lessons that go beyond oneself. Let's find out what he says of the lessons he got from his daughter, what experiences and memories we need to create with our loved ones; what we need to declutter ourselves and fill it immensely with instead.

With the pandemic changing the fitness world profoundly, he shares what lies ahead for the in-person and online fitness setup zeroing in on people's need for connection which all boils down to relationship building.

"The way that you continue living is through memories and moments that you created with people. You don't die with your stuff." 

- Brendon Rearick 

What you will learn from this episode:

00:58 - Making it to the forefront his personal life motto

02:51 - How he thinks of relationships

05:55 - His formula for success

08:38 - How they got through all the trials and coming out successful

12:17 - You deliver, and they'll talk about it

13:53 - Ready, fire, aim

16:28 - Talking about his book entitled 'Coaching Rules: A How-to Manual for a Successful Career in Strength and Fitness'

21:45 - Why you can never step into the same book twice

25:23 - What it means for him to read these four books every year

26:28 - Becoming a completely different person when rereading books

29:30 - What his illness taught him

37:22 - Why he is a big believer in having less stuff

42:31 - Why should exercise be the number one prescribed drug in the world for him?

48:51 - The biggest lesson from his daughter: 'It's not about you anymore. It's not about me anymore.'

53:51 - Why it always pays to play the long game

55:58 - Where he thinks the coaching world is going on the horizon

59:51 - Sharing his thoughts of disincentivizing going online and incentivizing coming to live events

01:03:24 - How the connection piece plays its role in the in-person setup not going away

Resource:

• Coaching Rules: A How-to Manual for a Successful Career in Strength and Fitness by Brendon Rearick

Connect with Brendon Rearick:

• Brendonrearick.com

Connect with Gavin McHale

• maverickcoachingacademy.ca
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Life can only be fulfilling when you own your worth and do things that make you authentic.

What is stopping you from creating a life that you truly love and where your heart truly is?

Stephanie Mitchell took the concept of “yoga studio owner” to a new level with her unique and creative mobile yoga studio--The Rolling Mat! 

Her goal was to bring the empowering and uplifting vibration of yoga outside the 4 walls of a studio space--right to you, your corporation, or event. 

Anyone who has tried yoga knows flexibility is a big factor in strength. As her business grew, she saw opportunities to expand and be flexible to the challenges we currently face. 

She now offers services for corporate wellness, corporate yoga business mentorship, and training on setting up virtual wellness platforms.

In this episode, Stephanie shares the many struggles she went through in life that when she discovered Yoga it helped her more in treading the toughest waters she encountered in life.

After her stint in the corporate world and the time she settled being a Yoga teacher and starting her business, that’s when a lot of self-talk, negative or positive came into play.

When you are told by outside forces that being a Yoga teacher will not let you earn a lot of money, that kind of hits one’s self-worth. You’re seen as nothing more than just a Yoga teacher who is underpaid.

Add to that the limiting beliefs you are creating for yourself. That is one struggle to face and you’re likely to have a hard climb towards where you want to be.

But all these she turnarounds with having a paradigm shift. She managed to rise above everyone’s underestimation of what she can do and how far she can go with being a Yoga teacher.

It’s not so much more about a focus on having more teacher training as it is about learning business strategy and process.

That being said, you learn to own up your worth, understand and acknowledge the value you impart to your students, and more than anything else, you create a life-transforming journey both for yourself and other people.

And that you conquer fear every time it weakens you down.

Find out how Stephanie’s story has elevated a Yoga teacher to a whole new different level.

“You don't need more Yoga teacher training, what you need is business strategy. So that you can actually build a sustainable and profitable yoga business and you can thrive off of it and it's something that you can do for your whole life and pass it down to someone else or sell it, you franchise it.” - Stephanie Mitchell

What you will learn from this episode:

03:21 - What has got her started in her Yoga business

06:51 - How Yoga helped in dealing with her personal and business life

09:56 - What keeps people stuck to where they are 

13:57 - How fear gets in the way of making things happen for you

16:03 - Being thrown into the idea of having to work all your life and retire

18:19 - Do you really need more Yoga teacher training to run your business?

21:26 - A matter of shift of mindset - removing the can’ts and don’ts

24:45 - What is corporate Yoga?

25:42 - How does she provide corporate wellness programs?

26:44 - Making business at the same time impacting the industry tha needs it

30:17 - Take it from a place of curiosity, and openness

32:51 - Why market research is important

34:10 - How COVID shapes the landscape of corporate wellness

39:45 - How she came up with the idea of a mobile Yoga studio

42:06 - The most amazing Yoga class that she has been into

44:01 - The biggest struggle she has to face leaving corporate and starting a  mobile Yoga studio

Connect with Stephanie Mitchell:

• therollingmatadventure.com

Connect with Gavin McHale

• maverickcoachingacademy.ca
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

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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