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Speaker: Welcome back.
Speaker: Welcome back.
Speaker: Baby Talks, IG Live edition.
Speaker: I have a new episode with a new guest, Danielle Gray.
Speaker: Danielle Gray Fit.
Speaker: She's an entrepreneur, the founder of Train Like a Gymnast.
Speaker: She's a coach and a trainer and also a fitness model.
Speaker: So she's going to come on.
Speaker: We're going to discuss.
Speaker: We're going to talk about life, opportunity, why she quit her job.
Speaker: We're going to pursue her passion.
Speaker: It's going to be a great discussion.
Speaker: Join us, listen in, and we'll be right with you.
Speaker: Oh, there she is.
Speaker: Hey.
Speaker: Hey.
Speaker: Hey.
Speaker: Good afternoon.
Speaker: How are you?
Speaker: Good afternoon.
Speaker: I'm good.
Speaker: How are you?
Speaker: I'm phenomenal.
Speaker: Happy Monday.
Speaker: Thank you for coming on Bigger Talks, IG Live Edition.
Speaker: Yeah, welcome.
Speaker: So Danielle Gray, Danielle Gray, fit, the founder of Train Like a Gymnast, entrepreneur, fitness trainer, coach.
Speaker: Can you just give the people listening and people who will watch just a background on who you are and what you're all about?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So I've been a gymnast since I was four and throughout, you know, my, my competitive career, I was like, I wanted to go to college and the Olympics for it and everything.
Speaker: But I had a bad attitude, you know, so it was, it was, it was a lot of just kind of emotional maturity that got me to where I am now.
Speaker: And I, you know, retired from gymnastics because it wasn't the right environment for like with coaches and teammates and all of that.
Speaker: And I dove into like acting and voiceover and dance and all that fun stuff and learned a lot about myself.
Speaker: Focused on college when I was in college and kind of stumbled into pole fitness and aerial arts.
Speaker: And I realized I can use my gymnastics background to do other things, which was really like,
Speaker: Mind blowing because I guess we're not taught that when we're in sports like yes, it applies to other things.
Speaker: And then, you know, I had a desk job after college and I was still doing, you know, aerial arts and pole fitness.
Speaker: And I was getting so stressed out.
Speaker: I was realizing that why am I stressing so much about my clients' accounts?
Speaker: And I'm like crying in the bathroom and I'm, you know, it's not that important in the grand scheme of life, but it's like blowing my mind.
Speaker: So when they offered me a promotion, I was like, I don't want to lead them on like that.
Speaker: This is what I want to do with my life.
Speaker: And, you know, I was forgetting to pick up my checks at the gymnastics gym and forgetting that I was getting paid to train people.
Speaker: I was like, OK, this is probably my passion.
Speaker: So I should follow it.
Speaker: And I turned down that promotion.
Speaker: And I dove headfirst into the fitness industry.
Speaker: And I was like, Oh, okay, I don't have a strategy.
Speaker: I'm just hopefully not going to be homeless like this is what I'm going to do.
Speaker: And that was six years ago, five, six years ago.
Speaker: And it's
Speaker: Turned out pretty good.
Speaker: I signed with one of the top modeling agencies in the country in their fitness division at only five foot four.
Speaker: So I'm like- Oh, really?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'm wrapping the room.
Speaker: You seem taller.
Speaker: You seem about what, five, seven, five, eight.
Speaker: Interesting.
Speaker: Good.
Speaker: That's what I'm trying to photograph as.
Speaker: But yeah, so I've worked with brands like Reebok and Nike and Fabletics and Lorna Jane and all that fun stuff.
Speaker: And yeah, I started my own company and I'm showing people how they can use, for me, it's gymnastics, right?
Speaker: Train like a gymnast.
Speaker: Using gymnastics, conditioning, flexibility to stay in shape, to have fun, to keep moving.
Speaker: You don't have to just go to a gym or just run outside.
Speaker: Like there's so much more you can do to stay fit physically, but also mentally.
Speaker: Because there's a whole...
Speaker: Jamie Tworkowski It can be complex.
Speaker: But first of all, congratulations on a six year departure from, you know, the old life to the new life.
Speaker: And I think that says a lot in the world of people who want to chase their dreams, who have aspirations to become something and do something.
Speaker: And I think what I've experienced with people is that they want all the information or they want all the money or they want everything to make sense before they make a decision.
Speaker: You felt something and you made a decision and then the universe aligned to what you needed at the time.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So I think, you know, training like a gymnast could also be something that you can compare like
Speaker: Or how can you compare training like a gymnast, being a gymnast from four years old to now to life?
Speaker: How when you started out right as a gymnast, as a young child, like you were learning, you probably had pitfalls and failures and setbacks and hardships.
Speaker: But then it became so natural, right?
Speaker: become a passion, it becomes something effortless, something magnificent that you love without even trying to love it.
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: You're just doing it.
Speaker: You're in it.
Speaker: You're the it of gymnastics.
Speaker: And I think we put so much value on like what we want for our success relationship and we forget what is it that I'm great at?
Speaker: What is it that we're good at?
Speaker: That's huge.
Speaker: Like I also do business mentoring with like people who want to turn a side passion into their like career or their life.
Speaker: And so often, it's and especially for women, it's really hard when I ask the question, what are you good at?
Speaker: What are your gifts?
Speaker: What are your talents?
Speaker: They're like,
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I'm like, I'm organized.
Speaker: I, you know, know how to do this.
Speaker: Like, there is so much that you can figure out because we all have gifts and talents.
Speaker: But I want everyone to imagine a world, right, where everybody is living their best self.
Speaker: They are super like pumped to wake up every day because they get to do what they love.
Speaker: And it's, I think it's possible.
Speaker: There just has to be a lot of like reorganization and restructuring in the world.
Speaker: Like there are people who love driving.
Speaker: I don't like driving, but if you love driving, then maybe like trucking is free.
Speaker: I just saw a truck.
Speaker: So I was thinking like, you know, there are things that, you know, people love cleaning.
Speaker: There's some people that hate cleaning.
Speaker: And if we're all doing the things that we do,
Speaker: love to do or we can experiment and figure out even with train like a gymnast like oh i didn't even know that this is i love moving my body this way i love being able to do a handstand or be upside down it blows my mind that there are some people in this world who live their entire life and die without ever have going upside down
Speaker: Like to me that's just like what?
Speaker: Like you're constantly upright.
Speaker: Hold on.
Speaker: Elaborate on that terminology because that could be a metaphor, it could be an analogy.
Speaker: So live their life without being upside down.
Speaker: Can you kind of like elaborate on that from a literal perspective and just from a universal perspective?
Speaker: Please.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So literal perspective, I mean, you've literally never had your feet over your head, right?
Speaker: On purpose or accidentally.
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: So there's that.
Speaker: It's crazy, right?
Speaker: But you can turn that into there are some people in this world who will...
Speaker: And it's interesting because I travel a lot to Utah and I've talked a lot with people and the cultural differences there too.
Speaker: Just there are people in this world who will live their entire lives on this planet in this form of ourselves who have never, you know, tried to start a business or who have never been
Speaker: well, just done something because they thought they couldn't do it.
Speaker: They thought it, you know, it wasn't possible in their environment.
Speaker: They thought they wouldn't be supported.
Speaker: You know, even LGBTQ, we could think about like, there are people who never fully came out, like, because they thought they wouldn't be accepted.
Speaker: There's so many different, like, ways to make it a metaphor for
Speaker: Living your life and not ever experiencing something like that.
Speaker: So for me, I'm just turning it into a handstands, but I show people like, oh, I can teach you a backflip in a couple of hours.
Speaker: And people are like, whoa, if I can learn a backflip in a day, what else can I do?
Speaker: that's my... Yeah, and it's so important to know that to move forward, sometimes you might have to be upside down or you have to go backwards, right?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: And sometimes backwards is like a new start, a rebirth to something greater, to something new to shift your paradigm and say, you know what?
Speaker: I'll make you money over here or I like this relationship, but I'm not really happy.
Speaker: So what is life about?
Speaker: And I believe, like what you said, I think life is about going after something you know you can do, even if you don't have the plan in mind or the assets or resources to make it make sense monetary, right?
Speaker: Because we always say, I've got to have money, I've got to eat, I've got to survive.
Speaker: Yes, we understand that.
Speaker: And I think the underlying thing to kind of keep that that passion going is the faith you have, right?
Speaker: Because I know, for instance, if you know, I invited you to an event and I asked you to do some gymnastic things, you wouldn't think twice, right?
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: But you know, if somebody who's not comfortable
Speaker: They might, you know, hesitate to do it.
Speaker: And that's okay.
Speaker: Because when you start a business, when you start your passion in a new area, you're not supposed to have the answer, right?
Speaker: You're not supposed to have it all figured out.
Speaker: There's a process.
Speaker: So I think what you're doing and what you're amplifying for others is say, listen, guys, I know you want to make money.
Speaker: I know there's something inside of you.
Speaker: Because it wasn't me.
Speaker: I started my own company.
Speaker: I signed with one of the biggest model agencies.
Speaker: in the world and I'm with big brands doing the things I love because I'm a decision.
Speaker: That was it.
Speaker: I had a feeling I made a decision and it got me this far and you're six years removed from your corporate job.
Speaker: So what I want to ask you, like growing up, who or what was your inspiration to be who you are today?
Speaker: Was it like your father, your mother, an athlete, an entertainer?
Speaker: Like who inspired you to be great and to be this powerful, multi-passionate entrepreneur?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, I grew up only child single parent.
Speaker: So my mom was always like, very, very
Speaker: Right, I idolized her and I saw that she could do it on her own.
Speaker: So I always had that kind of level of independence.
Speaker: And I always knew that like if I want to get something done, it's up to me, like I got to do it.
Speaker: And she taught me that and she also introduced me to travel.
Speaker: So I got like the concept of different cultures and just had a worldly perspective, even though where I grew up was kind of like a little bubble.
Speaker: Where are you from, by the way?
Speaker: I'm from Manhattan Beach, California.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's really nice.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I just, it's, we didn't even talk about like diversity.
Speaker: That's a whole different conversation, but yeah, she was, she was my inspiration for like independence.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And then in the athletic sense, it was a lot of, you know, just Olympians and high level gymnasts.
Speaker: I was like, okay, like I would watch the Olympics before I'd go to, um,
Speaker: practice, like I'd have it recorded on VHS and I'd just play it and then watch it and go and pretend like I was them and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker: But in an entrepreneurial sense, I didn't have any
Speaker: real example.
Speaker: So it was, it was very interesting.
Speaker: I only started getting into it.
Speaker: Like honestly, a few years ago when I started my business and I've just learned kind of on my own and I've tried to find mentors and I do a lot of personal development and that is what kind of has gotten me to grow because as I grow, the business can grow.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker: Cause I did not, I never pictured myself being entrepreneurial.
Speaker: I have a problem with authority, which is probably why I have a problem.
Speaker: Let's talk about that.
Speaker: Let's kind of pull the onion back on that because you spoke on attitude and authority.
Speaker: What do you think that comes from and why for you?
Speaker: I honestly am still like trying to figure this out because I never, I don't know if it comes from like being sensitive, but I never really liked people telling me that I was doing something wrong.
Speaker: Not in the sense of like, oh, I'm always right.
Speaker: But if someone would tell me I'm doing something wrong, I would like cry.
Speaker: And it was just like, it was, I think the perfectionism that comes from gymnastics and everything.
Speaker: Ah, that makes sense.
Speaker: but i also wanted to be understood like oh danny's not trying hard enough so everyone do 10 push-ups that kind of fun coaching um turns into it's not that i'm not trying hard enough i want it to be understood like i literally need help to be able to
Speaker: Like lift up higher.
Speaker: Like, I need you to understand, help me be better.
Speaker: I'm not doing this on purpose.
Speaker: So a lot of it kind of came from that athletic background.
Speaker: And I know people listening who, you know, maybe we're soccer players or basketball players and their coaches.
Speaker: Conditioning them in different ways.
Speaker: And it's maybe not exact as gymnastics, but especially dancers and cheerleaders, they understand the perfectionism that comes along with it.
Speaker: And that translates into how you learn in school.
Speaker: That translates how do you work in your job.
Speaker: That translates into your relationships.
Speaker: It's a very, very important foundation.
Speaker: So I think it came from there.
Speaker: in a good and a tricky way.
Speaker: Was your mom like critical of everything you did as a child?
Speaker: Was she hard on you?
Speaker: Did she held you to a standard that she thought you should live?
Speaker: And you always felt like there was never enough for her?
Speaker: And you're like, damn, I just did a cartwheel.
Speaker: Like, you know, like, you're going to do it.
Speaker: She had high standards.
Speaker: She had high expectations.
Speaker: But it wasn't that I was like never enough.
Speaker: It was, it was like, you're doing this take pride in your work like integrity.
Speaker: So I think that's kind of where it came from.
Speaker: The never enough.
Speaker: might have honestly come from my dad I'm not entirely sure.
Speaker: What was your relationship with your dad growing up?
Speaker: Were you guys close?
Speaker: Was he there?
Speaker: Did he you know?
Speaker: We saw each other like every couple of months maybe and he was always like a friend like it's like fun dad type of thing you know.
Speaker: So I think you know it just kind of turned into
Speaker: I just want I never wanted people to be disappointed in me because that was the ultimate letdown.
Speaker: You know, like, I'm trying my hardest for this or I want to be good at this like I wanted I want to make people happy.
Speaker: Yes, but not in a people pleasing way.
Speaker: It was more for
Speaker: it's never my intention to hurt someone or make someone feel disappointed.
Speaker: So then I would take that personally.
Speaker: And that kind of is what turned my whole kind of mental health journey into what it is.
Speaker: And I recently got this tattoo to remind me to hold my darkness in my light.
Speaker: It's an avocado.
Speaker: Hey, avocado.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: to hold my darkness in my light because I just went through like one of the darkest times in my life recently.
Speaker: And I've always kind of had depression or kind of started when I was like 11.
Speaker: Self harm and stuff like that.
Speaker: And it goes in waves.
Speaker: and i was on medication like 2015 and then um i was like i don't want to be on this i need to figure it out myself but then come like august september it was really bad this year and i had suicidal ideation i had a plan i was i was literally just sitting on the floor not doing anything for days and it just spiraled
Speaker: And then I texted my mom.
Speaker: I was like, hey, can you come over here and make sure I don't kill myself today?
Speaker: So she came over, stayed with me the whole day.
Speaker: My dad came for a couple of hours.
Speaker: And she just, like, made sure that I was like, okay, go shower.
Speaker: Go do this.
Speaker: You know, here's food.
Speaker: And it was crazy to have to text her that because...
Speaker: You know, I had just finished hosting a retreat.
Speaker: I had, you know, I have so many great opportunities that are going on right now.
Speaker: You know, and then it's still like, why are you feeling this way?
Speaker: You shouldn't be feeling this way.
Speaker: All those fun thoughts.
Speaker: But when I was starting to come out of it and I was getting help and I, you know, I'm back on medication to kind of regulate.
Speaker: When I was trying to draw my emotions, like how I was feeling,
Speaker: One of the things, I was trying to draw an avocado, but it ended up looking like
Speaker: a woman holding her machine, but I was like, I'm not trying to go for the shadow effect here.
Speaker: And so ultimately, it was that like, you're human, you're allowed to have these thoughts and these feelings.
Speaker: So you, you want to hold almost embrace your negative, dark thoughts and love and light, instead of letting the darkness suppress the light.
Speaker: That makes sense.
Speaker: And as you know, I mean, God is great.
Speaker: Timing is everything.
Speaker: I believe in the timing of the universe.
Speaker: I think we were opposed to connect and do an interview probably two weeks ago.
Speaker: And I was like, look, I'm busy.
Speaker: I have a lot going on.
Speaker: Let's do two weeks after.
Speaker: But I wasn't really paying attention to the dates.
Speaker: So it's interesting that you said that because yesterday I was at Exposition Park for Suicide Prevention and we spoke on these topics and we spoke on, you know, suicide audiation and I had a friend who, you know, a few months ago I got a call that he was contemplating and having a crisis struggle with suicidal thoughts.
Speaker: you know, in this space for me, you know, having a platform, having a voice.
Speaker: Some people know me on the show, I want to use my platform to give light to the dark.
Speaker: Someone spoke yesterday, I said, I believe that I'm chosen to be in the light, to put light into the dark spaces of our life.
Speaker: Because everyone can look good and be good and have followers and make money, but how do you feel?
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: And where do our feelings come from?
Speaker: Where do these emotions come from?
Speaker: Who gives us our thinking?
Speaker: Who gives us our thoughts?
Speaker: What is our DNA?
Speaker: What does our ancestors say about the energy and spirit and DNA that we were born in?
Speaker: And I'm so happy and thankful that you spoke about that and you were vulnerable and you are authentic.
Speaker: So I'm going to say thank you for doing that because that's powerful.
Speaker: And that's a form of you healing, right?
Speaker: You know, I always say the more
Speaker: feel we the more we heal and I think you know as performers right as a gymnast as you know a model you have to perform you have to show up and sometimes I tell my manager I'm like yeah I would love that deal and I'd love to do that but I remember
Speaker: I have to show up.
Speaker: And I think sometimes when you're always showing up, right?
Speaker: And you're always doing things about what it takes to show up.
Speaker: They just say, oh, yeah, but you're beautiful.
Speaker: You're attractive.
Speaker: Like, you're strong.
Speaker: You're talented.
Speaker: You're an entrepreneur.
Speaker: You make decent money or whatever it is.
Speaker: And they don't take it.
Speaker: that you're human.
Speaker: I mean, you have thoughts and emotions.
Speaker: So with all that being said.
Speaker: I'm super proud of like Simone Biles this year.
Speaker: I mean, honestly, a lot of people.
Speaker: You relate, right?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: In the beginning, I was like, oh my gosh, she's laying down her team.
Speaker: Like, why is she doing this?
Speaker: But then when you think about it, like, yeah.
Speaker: I mean, can you imagine being the face of the Olympics?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like,
Speaker: how much pressure was on her and you know it's still just like a gymnastics team but her other teammates don't have that same pressure you know and if you're on four inches it's still four inches for you it's still four inches for her and it's the fact that it was international like literal world attention on her it can break you down it can
Speaker: I mean, no matter who you are, you're still seeing things and reading things.
Speaker: Like even in this conversation, the comments for some reason froze for me.
Speaker: But you know, I'm seeing things go by like shut up, blah, blah.
Speaker: And I'm just like, okay, then go away.
Speaker: You don't have to listen.
Speaker: I'm not like forcing your phone to be on here.
Speaker: You know?
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: When you go through like your mental challenges or things that are tough or adverse, what do you do, you know, and how do you get through it or how do you get over it?
Speaker: What are you doing to try to get over it and try to get through it?
Speaker: Because for some of us it's different and everybody has a different approach to mental challenges or just life challenges.
Speaker: Like what is your go-to to kind of like either heal it or, you know, dissolve it so you can be in a better space?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: When...
Speaker: When I was in my like really dark place a few months ago, I know meditation helps me.
Speaker: So I found a really good shifting out of depression playlist.
Speaker: So it played a bunch of different meditations on Insight Timer.
Speaker: So I had been, you know, Insight Timer was recommended to me.
Speaker: So I hopped on there and I found, I found one.
Speaker: And I actually ended up finding the girl who did one of the meditations that I really liked, found her on Instagram.
Speaker: I was like, you're literally saving my life right now.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: And it was hours long.
Speaker: So I just played it to sleep just, you know, trying to absorb things over over time.
Speaker: So meditation is really helpful for me.
Speaker: I was trying to draw how it felt, even though I'm a terrible artist, sometimes just pen on paper, it can be scribbles, it can be words, it can be bullets, it can be writing, it can be, you know, artwork, whatever.
Speaker: you know, whatever some kind of expression is to you.
Speaker: Some people, like for my mom, it's music, right?
Speaker: Songwriting, playing piano.
Speaker: I have a, you know, I'm pole fitness, so I can, you know, do a pole freestyle dance or something.
Speaker: Whatever can help you emote is really good to let it out in some other way.
Speaker: Also, honestly, sunlight.
Speaker: And if you live in a place where it's really hard to get sunlight, it is top.
Speaker: So you can get one of those like little happy lights that has the right, you know, color of the sunlight.
Speaker: But getting outside to putting your feet on the earth, like standing in grass, standing in dirt, standing in sand, to ground yourself, remind you that you're human, you're here, you're not alone.
Speaker: But I think what holds me or keeps me from really, really going is
Speaker: and acting because I've lost two friends in the past year to suicide.
Speaker: One is yeah, it's, it's interesting to think about that because they actually did it and they're gone, you know, so that's something that reminds me.
Speaker: It's like, I can't text him like he followed through.
Speaker: And I wish I could have
Speaker: I wish I could have helped them talk to them in some way and let them know that they're not alone.
Speaker: So the big thing for me is like, okay, they did it because they felt alone.
Speaker: Like no one else would understand, but I feel like I understood, which means that there are other people who understand.
Speaker: Um, so, um,
Speaker: Reminding my brain logically when it's in that place that this is not my own thought.
Speaker: I did not create this thought.
Speaker: I heard this thought.
Speaker: This is the thought of the human mind.
Speaker: There are others who feel this too.
Speaker: It's not that their problems are worse or less than, but I'm not alone in this feeling.
Speaker: Maybe my scenario or situation, people can't physically understand, but or mentally understand, but it is the emotion that
Speaker: that we're feeling unites us.
Speaker: And then when I actually post on Instagram about that, the support and the relatability and the stories that I got was incredible.
Speaker: And I was like, well, what if brands see this, you know, are they gonna, you know, not, not bring me on because they think I can't handle it or overwhelm me.
Speaker: I don't want to lose money or have, you know, my career suffer by just being honest.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: opportunities like this to talk about it because it's relatable.
Speaker: You never know like I had a buddy when I posted my promotion for the event yesterday and for 11 years and he said he had five attempts.
Speaker: And you probably didn't know right?
Speaker: Didn't even know he was like thank you so much for speaking up and stepping up and I'm like yeah and I didn't know how to respond I was just like
Speaker: And so for me, because I'm in a psychological self-help NLP, Neurologistic Program, I'm always trying to study life and study the human mind.
Speaker: I'm into numerology, I'm into astrology.
Speaker: I'm into like deep stuff that doesn't show us the information we need to kind of understand us, right?
Speaker: Because sometimes we have things about us that are natural, but we don't understand it because even the information is not there or no one, there's no blueprint to make it make sense.
Speaker: And one thing that stood out to me is the Kanye West interview he had on Drink Chance.
Speaker: And I've realized something about him.
Speaker: He, you know, he's a musical genius.
Speaker: He says things that offend people and you know, that's the Spike thing.
Speaker: What I realized was that he said something that I knew.
Speaker: I said, listen, Kanye West is not crazy.
Speaker: We got to stop calling man crazy.
Speaker: He knows what's going on.
Speaker: And he said in the interview, he's like, you're not going to silence me.
Speaker: You're not going to counsel me.
Speaker: I'm not crazy.
Speaker: He's like, I'm worth 9 billion.
Speaker: Like he was talking trash, but it's like the guy is a genius, you know?
Speaker: But we like to, I was telling a friend this the other day, we like to label people because we don't have the information to make their existence make sense.
Speaker: But we don't understand what that labeling does to their mind or their body.
Speaker: We have to stop it.
Speaker: Just because you don't understand, you know, Danielle Great Fit and how she gets down and how she doesn't, like, doesn't mean you can label her so it can make sense for you so you can stay comfortable.
Speaker: That's not fair.
Speaker: Sometimes you're not meant to understand a person because sometimes that person don't even understand themselves.
Speaker: They just know they don't give or thing that vibrates through their soul to put out in the universe.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Like you knew that you had to leave this desk job.
Speaker: You had for you to think the way you thought about like, hold up, I'm crying about my clients.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Leaving checks at the gym for my other clients for the gymnastics.
Speaker: The fact that you can even
Speaker: Put that together and have that opinion.
Speaker: There's a lot about how you do think about yourself and how you do think about life and what you want to bring.
Speaker: So that was just like, you know, a channel in time, right, that came through, you know, you channeled it to make you make a decision.
Speaker: Right, to act.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: To act.
Speaker: And I think people like you and I, you know, and especially you, like we need people around us who love us for us, right?
Speaker: But not what we can do for them, not because how we make them feel, not because we can make them look good.
Speaker: Like, you know what, Danielle, I don't care what you, you can have a fit, you can cry today, you can just sit there and do nothing.
Speaker: I'm going to still love you and be with you.
Speaker: I'm going to still have faith, pray with you.
Speaker: What do you need?
Speaker: I'm here.
Speaker: I'm showing up.
Speaker: Fuck that, sit down, don't do nothing today.
Speaker: We need that support.
Speaker: When you're a performer, you need it.
Speaker: But people don't- Yeah, and you need others that understand that kind of burnout too.
Speaker: And it's not to say like, oh, you're not a performer, you're not an entrepreneur, you don't get it, you can't be around me.
Speaker: It's just, especially when we're going through those times,
Speaker: That's also why you see so many actors marrying other actors, because they get it too.
Speaker: It's not that they don't like non-actors, but they might have had an experience.
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, I was in a relationship in the past where he was like, oh, if you had to kiss somebody else on screen, we wouldn't be together.
Speaker: I was like, well, that's literally a job, but okay.
Speaker: So like things like that, you know, there are certain values and certain perspectives that you just, you want there when you're going through a rough time.
Speaker: there are certain people that you would want around you and there are certain people that you wouldn't.
Speaker: Like I have two best friends and I was like, one of them, yes, please come be with me.
Speaker: The other one, no, that's not, I know that's not gonna work right now.
Speaker: That's how you have to think about it.
Speaker: And it's important to know that, right, that awareness, because other people can bring your energy down or amplify it.
Speaker: So right now in your life, in your career, what is your intentions and what is the next two months, month left in a year hold for you?
Speaker: Where is your, what's your big picture for you?
Speaker: My big picture is really trying to change as many lives globally as possible, like creating an impact, creating a movement through Train Like a Gymnast, almost like Pilates or Bar or CrossFit type of thing, like showing people you can show up to if I've
Speaker: you know, have an event at a stadium, you can show up to a stadium with your friends with just a yoga mat or whatever, just or a blanket.
Speaker: And you can train like a gymnast for an hour or two with barely any space.
Speaker: Like there's so much you can do.
Speaker: Yeah, people think, oh, I have to flip I have to be bendy.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: You don't.
Speaker: It's flexible.
Speaker: Yeah, we can we can work on stretching but like everybody in the stadium or the room is going to be at a different like if I put you in a lunge and I put someone else in a lunge, everyone's still doing a lunge.
Speaker: But it's going to look different.
Speaker: You're going to engage the same muscles, everything.
Speaker: You're a human.
Speaker: So if you see if you see Simone Biles doing a Biles on whatever event, you know, she has five million of them, right?
Speaker: She's still a human and you're still a human.
Speaker: That means you have the capability to do that as well.
Speaker: You just don't have the training.
Speaker: Like that's literally it.
Speaker: Like you see someone doing the splits.
Speaker: Oh, I can't do the splits.
Speaker: I never could.
Speaker: Technically you can because you're a human and you have two legs that can split.
Speaker: You're just, maybe you don't have the time to stretch, but if you stretch and you train the same way as someone else who has the splits, you can do the splits.
Speaker: Yes, there are more naturally flexible people.
Speaker: Yes, there are people who are built differently, but every sport has like a similar body type, but they're all different.
Speaker: So that's what I'm trying to show people is, okay, I want to create this movement of people realizing, oh, I can train like a gymnast.
Speaker: I don't have to compete.
Speaker: I don't have to be a gymnast.
Speaker: I don't have to wear a leotard.
Speaker: But I can still do stuff because I have a body and I'm human.
Speaker: So we have an app right now.
Speaker: And it's like a dollar for the first month and $14.99 after that.
Speaker: And what I'm doing in that app is I'm putting in different beginner programs.
Speaker: I'm putting in like skill-focused programs, like if you want a pistol squat.
Speaker: This is how you're going to build strength for a pistol squat.
Speaker: There are stretching videos.
Speaker: There's also a mindfulness portion where I'm putting in meditations and productivity and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker: So it's a very holistic training behind Train Like a Gymnast because there's Think Like a Gymnast, Stretch Like a Gymnast, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker: you know, all those different angles, eat like a gymnast, nutritional stuff.
Speaker: So that's kind of my big vision.
Speaker: I'm really wanting to grow that to get as many people in there as possible, trying a new, you know, way to move.
Speaker: And I'm excited about it.
Speaker: Obviously, I want to continue to help people in all the different ways I can.
Speaker: I'm an iFit trainer, so I teach live treadmill classes.
Speaker: Like, just move your body,
Speaker: Find what you do best.
Speaker: Live your life to the fullest.
Speaker: If you know you are good at something or you enjoy something, do more of that.
Speaker: Yeah, I think that's special because I always tell people, say, look, someone's like, oh, I'm just busy running around.
Speaker: I said, well, look, at least you have something to look forward to, right?
Speaker: Have something that's natural.
Speaker: It could be baking.
Speaker: It could be training.
Speaker: It could be speaking.
Speaker: It could be running.
Speaker: Do that.
Speaker: And maybe you can add value to someone else and show them and teach them.
Speaker: But sometimes we just need something to look forward to.
Speaker: That's why I have a job.
Speaker: Having a career gives you life, right?
Speaker: Because you have something to look forward to, you have goals to hit, you have things that you want to get to.
Speaker: But more importantly, I think for what you're doing, you're showing people because you're showing up, but then you're showing them how you show up and you're being vulnerable to make them understand like, look, I wasn't always here, but I had to get here.
Speaker: You can do it as well.
Speaker: And we think it's not a me think, right?
Speaker: Not about I, it's about we because if I know you and you're struggling with something, you know, suffering in silence, how can I help you?
Speaker: So if something happens, I'm affected.
Speaker: And I think fitness, just like gymnast, when I ask you a question about
Speaker: doesn't get enough acknowledgement because it has a general perception.
Speaker: Fitness is looking good, working out, moving.
Speaker: It's like, yeah, it's not so much about how you look, it's more about how you feel.
Speaker: Motion, right?
Speaker: Motion is emotion.
Speaker: So you're opening people's body to expand their mind.
Speaker: So for definition, what is a gymnast?
Speaker: Because I have my interpretation or perception, one who's flexible, who can do flips and do all these crazy things on a bar.
Speaker: That's dangerous, scary.
Speaker: That's my perception.
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: I would say that gymnasts are anyone who is using their body in, in doing calisthenics.
Speaker: They're stretching, they're working on their strength, they're, they're working on their balance, their proprioception.
Speaker: And that's honestly it.
Speaker: It's you use your body with, you know, you can do equipment or you can do body weight.
Speaker: It's just somebody who does calisthenic movement.
Speaker: So even, you know, down at Venice Beach, Santa Monica on the rings and the bars and everything, you know,
Speaker: I consider them like gymnasts slash calisthenics athletes.
Speaker: Not in the like gymnast, but you know, like that is what a gymnast is.
Speaker: And I think a lot of times people also have the perception when you think of the word gymnast, you think of a young girl and a leotard.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yes, you do.
Speaker: That is in my visual internal representation.
Speaker: That's exactly what it is.
Speaker: That's crazy.
Speaker: Yeah, because that's my eye.
Speaker: Yeah, it's a little girl with no boobs.
Speaker: She's very like, strong and kind of a little bit like this shaped and very defined hair in a bun or a ponytail.
Speaker: Like that's what we envision.
Speaker: And a lot of that came from the Carolis, which as we've seen the gymnastics world has like completely blown up.
Speaker: Since everything has come out with all the abuse and the communistic approach.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But when you look back at Olympians from like the forties and fifties, they're women.
Speaker: They're like,
Speaker: full grown women who look like women.
Speaker: And then you notice kind of after Nadia Comaneach, that's when it turned into what we visualize now.
Speaker: So there's a big shift and a lot of gymnasts are speaking out about their own abuse, about how the sport needs to change, the people in charge need to change because like the same concept, just because you turn 18 or 21 and you're done with college, that doesn't mean you have to stop gymnastics.
Speaker: And that's why,
Speaker: part of train like a gymnast is we're trying to get a lot of gyms to open adult gymnastics classes because why why can't you go and try to learn a flip if you've always wanted to flip like
Speaker: I always wanted to do a backflip.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, I could teach you easy.
Speaker: Flipping off of monkey bars and I'm like, I'm too scared.
Speaker: I'm going to do a round off.
Speaker: And then I'm like, I'm trying to go through the backflip.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Guys are so easy to teach backflips too.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That was totally possible.
Speaker: I think it's like, you got to have faith.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like you got to trust yourself.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or trust another person who's going to help lead you to the flip because it says a lot about life.
Speaker: And I think,
Speaker: That's the whole way to look at a gymnast.
Speaker: Like they have phenomenal faith in themselves when they're out there.
Speaker: And it's you need a coach to help you.
Speaker: Because a lot of times, you know, you'll just be scared on the beam, like wiping your sweat and your coach is like, go!
Speaker: And you're like, but if I do this wrong, like I'm going to be paralyzed.
Speaker: So I have to do it right.
Speaker: Like your brain is thinking that.
Speaker: It's that level.
Speaker: And that's why Simone, like with the twisties, it's literally life or death.
Speaker: Like if she landed wrong on her neck, like she's done.
Speaker: I didn't even process that thought.
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: It's crazy because like, okay, if you're doing soccer, playing soccer and like you could spray an ankle or you get a concussion,
Speaker: But it's really, really hard to break your neck in soccer.
Speaker: Like you have to be actively trying to break your neck in soccer.
Speaker: So it's that level of seriousness and these little girls brains, right?
Speaker: And we're telling them, okay, well, when you get older, you're heavier, you're higher risk, coaches can't help you.
Speaker: So it's more dangerous and you should probably stop.
Speaker: Which is no, that's wrong.
Speaker: We need to maintain, we need to continue moving for our entire lives.
Speaker: And adult master classes are a perfect way to do that.
Speaker: And it's kind of in demand too ever since we saw Chelsea Memel, who was a 2008 Olympian and she made a comeback after having two kids.
Speaker: And she was competing at a national level.
Speaker: Well, yeah, national level.
Speaker: And it inspired so many people to get back into it this summer, which was really exciting to see.
Speaker: So.
Speaker: I don't even remember your question, but I just got like on a roll.
Speaker: Like I've I won't say the reporter's name, but he spoke highly on Simone and what's the young lady who played tennis?
Speaker: What's her name?
Speaker: Wimbledon or Olympics?
Speaker: Yes, I know who you're talking about.
Speaker: Like from his perspective, I was like, okay, he's like, no, you can't just use mental health as a cop out.
Speaker: Like you got to show up and when you show up, you got to perform.
Speaker: And that's just what it is because I was a professional athlete.
Speaker: And I was like, yeah, you know, you know, you just got to do.
Speaker: But then when you get new information, right, and you understand what really goes on in that process, and you understand what's going through a person's body and mind, you learn to have more compassion and grace for a person because you don't know what it's like to be that because you wasn't doing that sport.
Speaker: Even if you were, I can't force you to do something because I feel like you should have enough guts or will to keep going because you don't know what I'm going through.
Speaker: And that was yesterday, I knew it was someone there
Speaker: who was there by themselves, right?
Speaker: And I made sure that everyone like hugged each other or hugged themselves.
Speaker: And the young lady came up, she lost her daughter 10 years ago, right?
Speaker: I saw it.
Speaker: I heard herself in the light of supporting the life of her daughter.
Speaker: And it made me think like, by just showing up like we do on this live right now, you don't know who's watching.
Speaker: You don't know who's gonna be listening.
Speaker: But show up the best way we know to be authentic and to be vulnerable and to be open brings a lot of light and a lot of dark spaces that we have no clue about.
Speaker: So what you're doing and the route you're on your path, like keep it up.
Speaker: And I always say progress equals happiness.
Speaker: On another note, in your career, in your business, what's working for you and what you think is your greatest challenge right now?
Speaker: Greatest challenge is rebuilding after COVID because I was really smart at the end of 2019.
Speaker: And it was kind of getting harder to like retain people in our virtual program.
Speaker: And I was like, all right, 2020 is the year of all in-person events.
Speaker: We're going to have retreats.
Speaker: We're going to do workshops.
Speaker: Let's go.
Speaker: So I dissolved the virtual program and...
Speaker: Boom!
Speaker: So that was stupid.
Speaker: But I couldn't have known, you know?
Speaker: So now it's kind of just rebuilding that, getting people back into the virtual side because it was so cool.
Speaker: We had people across the world.
Speaker: We had people sending gifts to each other across the country for like Secret Santa and Galentine's Day, whatever it was, right?
Speaker: And I miss that camaraderie.
Speaker: And the in-person events were good.
Speaker: But as I was just explaining in another interview this morning,
Speaker: At the end of last year for our second retreat, it was tough because we didn't, we had, I think, two paying retreaters.
Speaker: And it's hard because retreats are a lot of upfront costs.
Speaker: You have to have a place to be able to market it to get people to want to sign up.
Speaker: You can't just be like, hey, come somewhere, you know.
Speaker: So there's a lot of upfront costs and you're just hoping that it works, but it was really hard to get people
Speaker: to one, want to travel, two, be with a bunch of strangers, and then three, spending a lot of money when people are saving.
Speaker: So those kind of challenges are tough right now business-wise.
Speaker: So that's why the app is super accessible, and I'm really pushing that because I want that to be where I just put all of my energy, and anybody who wants to get stronger, more flexible.
Speaker: How do you find the app?
Speaker: Is it in your link, in your bio?
Speaker: Is it a website?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Link in my bio or train like a gymnast app.com.
Speaker: Either way, train like a gymnast.com.
Speaker: You can find it too.
Speaker: But it's, it's me.
Speaker: And right now we have two other coaches, Andrea and Megan, who are, are stretched like a gymnast instructors.
Speaker: So that's, that's on there until December 1st.
Speaker: Just to kind of give people like,
Speaker: extra stretching fun stuff.
Speaker: So that's, that's the way to really, to really focus.
Speaker: That's our main thing.
Speaker: We will still do retreats and workshops, but it's kind of on hold right now.
Speaker: The retreats, what does that consist of?
Speaker: Do you do that like once a month?
Speaker: You do it every quarter?
Speaker: No, these are big retreats.
Speaker: So last year we did two.
Speaker: My goal is three a year.
Speaker: But we do five day, four night retreats in like we did Hawaii in 2020.
Speaker: We did like Tahoe last year.
Speaker: This year we did Park City.
Speaker: So a bunch of different places.
Speaker: I'm trying to go somewhere warmer for this next one, hopefully in 2022.
Speaker: So yeah, it's personal development.
Speaker: It is training and gymnastics.
Speaker: It's stretching.
Speaker: It's doing a lot of mindfulness, meditation, journaling, human connection.
Speaker: It's incredible.
Speaker: People are breaking through traumas.
Speaker: We've had people sign with their dream agency.
Speaker: We've had people having difficult conversations with their
Speaker: with their parents.
Speaker: We've had people starting businesses.
Speaker: We've had people leaving jobs.
Speaker: We've had people just getting back in touch with themselves.
Speaker: It's incredible, the kind of transformations that happen at these
Speaker: retreats it's so much more than gymnastics but you're around people who have gymnastics either background they you know like to do that kind of stuff but it's people who like personal development too that's a beautiful business model because as human beings what do we want human connection and when you people that can relate to a subject or topic
Speaker: and then you kind of get in the nuts and bolts of the machine or the system, you open up Pandora's box to so many different ideas, you know, ideologies, pains, hardships,
Speaker: you thought that as well?
Speaker: I thought I was the only one.
Speaker: Or you know, I was talking to a friend yesterday and he's like, man, I should be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker: I sacrificed so much blood, sweat and tears.
Speaker: I averaged like 20 points in my career.
Speaker: Like, I don't get it.
Speaker: You know, and I'm just like, and in my mind, I'm like, I can't tell him not to be that way because I don't understand what that feels like.
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: to go to a D1 college, get a scholarship to sacrifice so much of your time, your energy, and your mind for sport to make the people and the boosters, the organization, whoever happy.
Speaker: Where are you like, where's my just due, where's my acknowledgement?
Speaker: Can I get some
Speaker: you know, get some love I put in and I think people don't care.
Speaker: They just want you to perform and I think what it takes to be you but I would love to know more about those retreats by the way.
Speaker: Do you guys have like a video or like some information?
Speaker: Because I had an idea.
Speaker: creating a retreat but I like that you know mindfulness, meditation and just the whole culture of gymnastics.
Speaker: What people do you study from a self development space or what books are you reading or courses you've taken or like what's what got you into like you know self development.
Speaker: I've been in it for a long time and I love it so I'm just curious like what you're reading what you're into.
Speaker: it's funny i really think back to i think i was 14 when i first watched the secret like and then i mean there's so much more now but like that's what i when i first started like visualization and everything but that was right at the end of like right before i stopped um gymnastics so it just transitioned or yeah it transferred into the rest of my life so uh the secret i read like the magic power all of those different ones focusing on intention setting
Speaker: And then I've always just kind of loved reading self-help, self-develop, personal development, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker: Just how can I get better?
Speaker: How can I continue to grow?
Speaker: And then I watched, I've always heard of Tony Robbins, but I watched...
Speaker: I'm not your guru.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: I was crying.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: So I had a difficult conversation with my dad after watching that.
Speaker: And then that kind of started my interest in like, OK, what else is out there?
Speaker: There's Dean Graziosi.
Speaker: There's Joseph McClendon III.
Speaker: I was on his podcast.
Speaker: I went to Unleash the Power Within.
Speaker: So I walked across fire.
Speaker: That was fun.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But that, I think of my life almost as like a pre-2019 and a post-2019 because of like how it changed how I view things.
Speaker: And then I went to my friend's retreat in Hawaii and then that's kind of what started.
Speaker: And I was like, okay, I've been on one now.
Speaker: Now I can lead one.
Speaker: I know what to expect.
Speaker: And then I've just been to a bunch of different, like through Boss Babe, through...
Speaker: Yeah, I've done a lot of different seminars.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: What sign are you, by the way?
Speaker: I'm a Libra.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: Lucky Libras.
Speaker: Happy belated.
Speaker: Good birthday.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: September 26th.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: September Libras.
Speaker: Libras are great.
Speaker: I love Libras.
Speaker: They're very observant and very balanced.
Speaker: at scale and pace, you know.
Speaker: Yeah, which drives some people crazy.
Speaker: They're like, make a decision.
Speaker: Is it this or that?
Speaker: Well, it depends because if it's this, then it's this, then it's that.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: It's so terrible when you're a lever.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You know, I don't know.
Speaker: It didn't keep indecisive like my manager's a leader.
Speaker: Accountant lawyers are a leader.
Speaker: So it's like I love leaders like get up like it's interesting.
Speaker: What are you?
Speaker: I'm a Pisces.
Speaker: You're Pisces.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So we know intuitive, you know, we feel all the feels.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Wow, done a lot of work, a lot of research.
Speaker: So, Brené Brown, too.
Speaker: I totally forgot about her.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: Brené Brown.
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: I love her.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So what's the goal of yours?
Speaker: Like, if the next five years, if you have any or something you will want to accomplish other than impacting millions and millions of people like for you, per se, as an individual?
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, I guess the impact is like five, 10 years.
Speaker: I want to host like big events with people.
Speaker: But for me as a person, I guess I really personal.
Speaker: I want to buy a house in Vegas because I'm in LA.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Um, I, I would like to, um, get to a point, you know, where, and of course I feel like this is everybody's goal, but I want the financial independence where, um,
Speaker: there's more than enough to cover all the basics and then I can live more.
Speaker: I want to take more classes.
Speaker: I don't wanna think, oh, well, if I wanna go here, then I have to, I want to just be like, I am fine.
Speaker: And there's no really specific number for that.
Speaker: It's more of a feeling because I find when we focus on numbers, it's limiting, right?
Speaker: And then the universe is like, okay, here's like $1 more because you wanted more money.
Speaker: $1 more money, you know?
Speaker: So it's, it's that emotion.
Speaker: You want a vortex.
Speaker: Abraham Hicks talks about the vortex, the feel and the frequency of, you can't really put a number on it because then you'll limit yourself.
Speaker: It could be a billion dollars.
Speaker: It could be a hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: You know, 10, you know, who knows?
Speaker: But I think the, uh,
Speaker: that intention and that thought those thoughts are just powerful that you even like understand that that's what I'm saying like I feel like I don't know if you have an analytical mind but the way you break down the information to make it make sense because you can't cap yourself out I want to make six figures a year okay you want to make okay a hundred thousand yeah or do you make seven hundred thousand
Speaker: It's a big difference.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So it's, I just think it's vital for people to kind of like, open up, believe in themselves, like you said, but go after that.
Speaker: I think the thing that I take away from this interview is that you're willing to do the work, you're willing to show up, but more importantly, you're following what you feel and what you felt to be where you are.
Speaker: And I think anyone listening, anyone who's going to see this,
Speaker: If you feel it and it's strong, I think you should go for it.
Speaker: And don't try to make sense for you not to do it.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And there are a couple of things like, I mean, honestly, I decided to turn down that promotion because I would rather fall flat on my face trying than be like 20, 40 years in the future.
Speaker: And I'm like, what if I had done that?
Speaker: So that was a big one for me too.
Speaker: And just...
Speaker: Yeah, it's, it's, yeah.
Speaker: I mean, you did it, you're doing it, and I think,
Speaker: that's just a celebration within itself for you because as people who work on ourselves and work for ourselves, it's constant like, okay, what's next?
Speaker: When does the next gig come in?
Speaker: What is the next opportunity?
Speaker: And then you start realizing, hey, I am the gig, I am the opportunity.
Speaker: How do I become more of a value in the space to attract, right?
Speaker: How do I be on that frequency to get that big gig or big thing?
Speaker: Or what is that big, big, big, big deal or big gig?
Speaker: you know like what is it and it's constant work and you know showing up for yourself and being available for others so i just want to see
Speaker: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker: And something I just realized recently was that, oh, when I was working a desk job, like at this salary per year, I was like buying lunch for people because I was good.
Speaker: And I was like, oh, yeah, come over for this, you know, and I just felt like I could because there was that stability.
Speaker: And interestingly enough, I'm making over double of what I was making there now.
Speaker: And I feel like, oh, no, can I afford that?
Speaker: Because there's a little, and I'm still working on it, a little bit of scarcity because you're an entrepreneur.
Speaker: It's like, it's up to you.
Speaker: And you don't know if you're going to get another job.
Speaker: Like, you're just hoping.
Speaker: And there's less stability.
Speaker: So I totally understand for people that I was like, I want to know how much I'm making so I can live this life that I want to.
Speaker: And so entrepreneurship is not for everybody.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: But for those of you who are like, I want this, I'm willing, I like risk, I like variety, then you definitely need to follow it at some point in your life.
Speaker: Give it a go.
Speaker: because you can always make more.
Speaker: Give it a go.
Speaker: Danielle, you've been great.
Speaker: This has been an awesome interview.
Speaker: Thank you for your energy, your time, and your word, inspiration, and wisdom.
Speaker: Where can people find you?
Speaker: Where can people sort you out?
Speaker: I know Instagram, you're here, but have you any other places where people can follow and find out more information?
Speaker: Yeah, so Instagram at Danielle Gray Fit is my main home.
Speaker: That's where I'm most active in my stories and posting.
Speaker: Of course, I'm on TikTok, not as often.
Speaker: I'm on Facebook.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: And YouTube.
Speaker: I'm trying to vlog more stuff.
Speaker: I know I need to do it.
Speaker: So hold me to it, peoples, okay?
Speaker: I'm...
Speaker: Oh, you can't fit.
Speaker: And it's all the same Danielle Gray fit pretty much everywhere.
Speaker: I think you can find me so Twitter.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, I'm on Twitter too.
Speaker: But I literally just post like from my Instagram to Twitter.
Speaker: Facebook.
Speaker: I'm on Facebook.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Everywhere.
Speaker: Just learn.
Speaker: Look.
Speaker: She's there.
Speaker: Daniel Brie Fit.
Speaker: I did mention that she was a Ninja Warrior and she also is an iFit trainer.
Speaker: Are you still on those platforms?
Speaker: Can people find you on those platforms?
Speaker: They didn't hear my run on Ninja Warrior, but it's fine.
Speaker: But iFit, yes.
Speaker: I'm still doing live travel classes on
Speaker: iFit, my Fabletics Fit workouts will be going live on their app soon.
Speaker: And then, of course, my own Train Like a Gymnast app.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm on a bunch of different, like, fitness platforms.
Speaker: So there are ways to work out with me.
Speaker: There are ways to train.
Speaker: If you're not on, like, our email list, that's kind of how we keep people up to date.
Speaker: So trainlikeagymnast.com is the best place if you're interested in learning more about that to get started.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Danielle, I just want to say thank you once again.
Speaker: Continue to spread and share your light and wisdom.
Speaker: We need more people like you in this space.
Speaker: And thank you for coming up to Bigger Talks podcast today.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Thank you so much.
Speaker: That was so fun.
Speaker: I appreciate being on here and have a wonderful rest of your day.
Speaker: Thank you to everyone who's listening as well.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Be safe.
Speaker: Talk soon.
Speaker: Bye.
Speaker: Yeah, so Danielle Gray Fit.
Speaker: Go follow her right now.
Speaker: She's amazing.
Speaker: You heard her story.
Speaker: She's inspirational.
Speaker: She's also vulnerable and authentic.
Speaker: She shows up.
Speaker: She showed up today.
Speaker: So follow her and find her on all her platforms, YouTube, iFit, everything else, trainlikeagymnist.com, and get some more insight and info on her.
Speaker: Guys, that's it.
Speaker: I'm out.
Speaker: I'm Eric Bigger.
Speaker: This is another episode of Bigger Talks, IG Live Edition.
Speaker: You guys have a phenomenal day.
Speaker: Be safe.
