2023 | A Year in Review

Join us as we review last year's events! We had plenty of triumphs, learning experiences and memories made. Hear about our Changemaker Grant with Gymshark, our first year at TYR Wodapalooza, the development of our relationship with Pliability and Tia-Clair Toomey, and plenty of personal stuff too! We couldn't be more proud of the events of last year and are so looking forward to growing more in 2024!

MINT Trainer's Course
Pliability Pregnancy Path
Tina Cardio

Chapters

• 0:01 New Year Reflection and Resolutions
• 10:51 Winning Gymshark Grant and Networking
• 24:58 CrossFit for Busy Moms
• 31:07 2024 Travel Experiences and Future Plans

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Right. Happy New Year, ladies. Happy New Year. What the heck. How is it 2024? I don't understand.

Speaker 2: 0:11

I don't know. I was looking at documents today that said something about our business in 2022, and I was like wait a second, wait what it's when this started.

Speaker 1: 0:21

I was thinking about that today too, because I'm like we technically launched December of 2021. 2022, we were slowly growing, and then 2023, I feel like we really grew up, yeah seriously. We're like big kids now. Have you guys had to write 2020 for yet I haven't.

Speaker 2: 0:45

I did, oh, no, I did I did.

Speaker 3: 0:47

I did have to write it today. I've been trying to journal every day, starting last week I didn't even start yesterday. I started last week because I'm like, why would I wait to start? I haven't, let's just start now. Yeah, so I wrote it yesterday. Yeah, I did. That is so true.

Speaker 2: 1:04

I wrote it in a journal.

Speaker 1: 1:06

Yeah, that's good. I cannot. I started an online journal once because I don't know why, but when I write for too long, my hand starts hurting, and then I just stop because my hand hurts, even though I have more thoughts.

Speaker 2: 1:21

Yeah, isn't that sad that we can't bear to write for very long anymore.

Speaker 3: 1:27

Our hands are so in condition to write.

Speaker 1: 1:30

Yeah, literally how you used to have to do things.

Speaker 3: 1:33

Yeah, well, and it used to be worse. They used to have to etch their thoughts into stones. Etch their thoughts into stones. Now, all we have to do is talk and our thoughts get recorded.

Speaker 2: 1:47

Yeah, Thank you.

Speaker 3: 1:49

Riverside. Thank you, tecmal. I appreciate you. No hand cramps over here.

Speaker 1: 1:57

Two questions. Did you stay up until midnight?

Speaker 3: 2:00

Yes, you did.

Speaker 2: 2:03

You actually did.

Speaker 1: 2:05

This was the first year I stayed up until midnight in probably four years.

Speaker 3: 2:09

Yeah, it's been a while.

Speaker 1: 2:11

Mila wanted to stay up and I'm like. You mentioned that stage.

Speaker 3: 2:15

You're going to keep being up for the next 10 years with her.

Speaker 1: 2:19

Well, she can go do her own thing, and then I'm probably going to be up worrying about her. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3: 2:25

It's over now.

Speaker 2: 2:26

You're never going to get to sleep? We never do sleep again. I know.

Speaker 1: 2:32

And then second question do you set resolutions? Quote unquote.

Speaker 2: 2:40

I'm kind of against it because I'm kind of against anything that's cliche and that is, you know, you have, like you said, carol, like why would I wait to start that now? But I will go ahead and suck it up and say I haven't made any. But there's definitely that fresh thought of, like these are the things that I reflect on from the past year. These are the things that I've been wanting to change, and now that everybody online is making me feel motivated with all their change, I'm going to be intentional about it. A word is I say what feels like having intention for the year.

Speaker 2: 3:17

I like that.

Speaker 1: 3:18

I like intentions.

Speaker 3: 3:21

I kind of like to look, I like to review the year and then I like to think what you know, what did I? What am I proud of about the year? You know what could I do better? I kind of also do the same thing on my birthday, because I feel like the new year is a new year you know, calendar year, but my birthday is literally a new year of my life.

Speaker 1: 3:40

And so I like to kind of do the same thing I like that.

Speaker 3: 3:44

Yeah, and it's not and it maybe I don't necessarily set all these goals, but it's just a kind of check in where am I going, and I do kind of like to set goals, like I started the China Journal thing. One resolution, though, that I am proud of myself actually it didn't start as a resolution. Last year, me and one of my sisters, we were doing like this healthy eating thing and we decided we were going to drink a gallon of water a day until April, when our other sister got married and then, when I was done, what you have to get out.

Speaker 2: 4:20

What this is our podcast. Motherhood in New Terms. Yeah, children on the podcast.

Speaker 3: 4:28

Okay, I'll come deal with it in a second. Can you get out? Get out.

Speaker 1: 4:32

I'm only happy about it because Kara's so patient. Yeah, Everyone else she's like had her, she's at her limit.

Speaker 2: 4:40

It's kind of satisfying, to give her your tip. Oh, I know I should have never Did I amue or no, it doesn't amue or not. No, we like it and I'm glad, honestly.

Speaker 3: 4:50

It's real life. She's coming to tell me that she's not going to flush the toilet because she's not putting much to the paper. I'm like I'm going to deal with that later, it's fine, yeah, anyway, right now, yeah she's. I am happy, though, because I got to April. I was drinking the water every day a gallon, and then I thought why would I quit this? We're getting into summer where it's starting to get hot and I was still nursing. Yeah, like it's so beneficial. I'm already in the habit, and it almost has become to a point where it's harder for me not to drink the gallon of water because I feel I can feel it. So, while it's still a little bit difficult sometimes or almost every day there you go bets to get it in it's still kind of difficult to get it in. It's almost worse when I don't Right and I think that's when you know that you've created like habits is when it's harder not to do it. So, yeah, so I'm just going to continue that because it's been great and I feel good.

Speaker 1: 5:52

I, yeah, I have like a very mixed feeling. Mixed feelings because I hate the January first resolution, like that are super extreme and that we're only starting, because then they fall off in like two weeks. Right. It's like like you said, Kara, what can I start? What habits can I start working on? Because those are the things that get you to your goal. So, instead of like I'm going to eat X, Y and Z, it's like okay, can I eat more whole foods?

Speaker 1: 6:22

or can I walk more? Or can I commit to getting a couple of workouts in every week, like um? I just feel like when people set these and, like you said, why are we waiting until January 1st?

Speaker 1: 6:34

You know, you've probably, if you want to lose, weight we've probably been thinking about it for the last six months and you're just pushing it. My dad does this. He's like oh, january 1st every single year. So this year I'm like dad, we're creating some like meal templates that you can create habits Like these are some options for breakfast. Because he'll be like I'm just going to eat a lean cuisine for dinner, like no cause.

Speaker 2: 6:58

you'll do that for two weeks and then you'll go back to that. Yeah, so I don't have to.

Speaker 1: 7:04

Yeah, like, and I, yeah, I'm also like a. Let's look back on last year and like what can I? Change. Yeah, a lot of like. A lot of mine were like I need to not say yes to everything and I need to be better at setting boundaries and you know time management and stuff like that. So all about like working on yourself but pick things that are realistic and Like that are long-term.

Speaker 3: 7:32

Yeah, and don't just say like you said, don't just say I'm gonna lose weight January 1st, I'm gonna start doing that. It's like, okay, well, what's your plan to do? That you know. And then make it realistic.

Speaker 1: 7:42

It just goes back to all the goal-setting things. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 7:46

Love it cool. One of the ones, fitness wise, that I want to do is start rucking like just walking. I like that best on, or we did a workout yesterday where you just did carries and it's Such a nice like not intense but still really effective and gets you outside more type exercise.

Speaker 3: 8:06

Yeah and Quick bonus if you're a mom and you're carrying your baby in a backpack or you know whatever you are rucking. Yeah, I rock very often.

Speaker 2: 8:17

You do.

Speaker 3: 8:20

I'm carrying someone.

Speaker 1: 8:21

Yes you are. Oh, it just got so cold here, so it's like I Need to get one of those mini treadmills that you can like. It's like a walking pad. Yes, yes you need to send me which one Christmas, and it's cool.

Speaker 3: 8:38

Only 45 pounds, so it's like you can move it around Right. We're still trying to find the best place to put it. That's kind of hard. I got it from first office but it won't really fit with everyone else.

Speaker 1: 8:49

Yeah, dang it Okay.

Speaker 3: 8:51

Um so, anyways, it's cool, it's fun.

Speaker 1: 8:54

Yeah, yeah, send me a link, because I've been looking at them and I just there's so many I and I need a small one too. Yeah, I also need to get my dog out for walks, but she also can't walk very long in the cold because she's got arthritis, baby. So it's just a double-edged sword. I like I forced myself to go out and then we go for a little bit and she's like okay, I want to go home.

Speaker 1: 9:19

Yeah, I know I know I'm so sad, all right. So, speaking of years and New Year's, today on the podcast we are doing a little year in review of 2023, mostly about like kind of what we've learned, what we experienced with the mint project, but maybe a little bit of like what's happened in the fitness industry and mom life type stuff we can throw in there. So, going back to basically a year ago, we were at water in Miami, which is crazy to think about, feel like we've come a long way since then, but yeah, yeah, what's happened yeah?

Speaker 2: 9:59

That was only here.

Speaker 1: 10:02

Yeah, crazy. So what a Palooza, how we got there. Kara, this was your idea, so you give the back story on like how we, how we got there.

Speaker 3: 10:12

Okay. So, just if you're not aware, water Palooza is a big CrossFit competition. It's in Miami, it's outside, it's like on the Bayfront. It's really fun, it's got really good energy and there's like an individual competition, there's team competition and it's cool because there's like elite crossfitters that are there, but also Not elite crossfitters that are there, so there is just like a big mix of people, anyway. So we went there, but the story of how we got there to water Palooza is, I think, in 22, 2022, in what March or something, I got an email from Jim shark.

Speaker 3: 10:51

Oh yeah, yeah, cuz I have a gift card from them and so I just get their emails and it was saying, like they're doing this change. What was it? Change makers Grant? Yeah, change maker grants. So they were looking for three female-owned companies that are changing the strength and conditioning world for women, and it was gonna be a $10,000 grant and they were gonna do a business mentorship as well.

Speaker 3: 11:15

And so I emailed it to all, to everyone, all the girls, and we were like we need to apply. So we applied, we all applied. I think Ray applied for us too. We just had multiple people apply so that they would see it, and then we just kind of forgot about it cuz you had other things to do. Um, like you know, we were filming a bunch of our programs writing new programs, writing our trainers course, filming that. I had a baby, yeah, and then, literally I was still in the NICU with my baby and I remember this so clearly I it was like the first time I was able to hold her after three days of her being alive and I hadn't got to hold her. So it was really special. And like two hours after that, I got a Marco Polo from Jess.

Speaker 3: 11:59

Oh my god she's like sorry, I look like a rat, but she's like just come out of the shower. It's so funny, your hair was. I actually found it. I saved it because Marco was gonna get rid of our stuff and I was like that's a good one. But she was like girls, we won. We won the changemaker grant from gymshark and I was like what? First of all, I'd for like eight months ago, we forgot I know well what's funny is a.

Speaker 1: 12:29

I had that package for like probably six days before.

Speaker 3: 12:33

I opened it.

Speaker 1: 12:34

Betsy was there the entire time she was at my house visiting. And I got the package and I was just I was thinking it was just like swag because they, when we applied, they asked for our size and like I don't know anyways, so my co is probably just swag. Like betsy was coming, so I was like frantically cleaning my house, so I set it aside Like a week later and why I opened it like after I like. I got out of the shower and then I was like, hi, I'm naked.

Speaker 1: 13:07

Some leggings to put on and I opened it and I'm like, oh my god, like wait, wait.

Speaker 2: 13:14

So yeah, we won the $10,000 grant and uh, that really changed a lot for us, because it started all rolling, so so we got that money, which was thank you, jim, for doing that.

Speaker 3: 13:28

It was really cool actually, and the two other companies that won with us Doing amazing work for refugees and also, um women in religious Um areas in Europe, right, and so it was really. It was really cool, but, um, anyway, so we decided to use some of that money to go to wada palooza and just do some marketing. Like we don't really know what's gonna come of this. We're gonna go, we're gonna walk around in all of our clothes, we're gonna just talk to people and then, through gym shark, we got um A little gig at Noah Olson's dad's gym because Noah Olson was doing releasing something with, uh, gym shark.

Speaker 3: 14:08

So they're like why don't you come set up a booth at the gym? And so we're like, okay, and it was all day and we had our booth back there and it was in the back corner of the outdoor part.

Speaker 2: 14:19

No one came to see us except we met like two or three, two people maybe.

Speaker 3: 14:24

Okay, well, listen, we, we talked to a lot of people, but no one really came back to our booth other than two people, and those two people Were like the start of so many cool things. So the first one was Michelle, and she was our first ever trainer. Yeah, Michelle meant trainer.

Speaker 3: 14:41

Hey, michelle, she was the first one to ever buy our trainer's course. She just came and talked to us for a bit and then, I think a month or two later, she had bought the course. Um, yeah, we were so pumped for so that was a really good connection and she's doing amazing right now. Um, training, training, postpartum women.

Speaker 1: 14:56

Yeah, she's awesome yeah she is.

Speaker 3: 14:59

And then, um, alex from Pliability because Pliability know Olsen is a Pliability athlete so they were there doing some mobility and cool down stuff after the workout that he put on for everyone. And so, um, yeah, alex came back and she talked to us and she's high up in Pliability and, uh, she was like hey, we're actually looking for someone right now to do a pregnancy mobility Um pathway with us and we were like that's cool and we were just talking and we exchanged info, um, and then lots of amazing things came from that.

Speaker 3: 15:33

So yeah yeah, that's, that's why we were. We were in at Water Pallusa, but so many good things.

Speaker 1: 15:40

Yeah, yeah. And I think that just goes to show that, like, like we went there, I don't think we had any expectations, but we kind of put ourselves out there. We really like tried to network. We introduced ourselves to Noah. We kind of networked with his now wife a little bit. Um, we met with some of the chiropractors there. Like our goal was just to talk to people, yeah.

Speaker 2: 16:01

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:02

Go ahead.

Speaker 2: 16:02

And at one at the venue itself. Like going around to different booths and talking to other business owners and figuring out who we want to collaborate with. Who do we want to cooperate with? Who knows of good opportunities for us? How do we grow? Just really looking to learn everything too.

Speaker 3: 16:19

And another person we met who he doesn't remember.

Speaker 1: 16:22

uh, we met Shane oh yeah, fair to me, husband, and the Shakthiha was pregnant and we were like, oh my gosh, we have to at least go introduce ourselves.

Speaker 3: 16:32

Yeah, so he knows that there's a resource out there, in case they want it you know, and then we were like wouldn't it be so cool if we did something with Tia? Like that would be amazing. Blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1: 16:42

So foreshadowing, foreshadowing.

Speaker 3: 16:46

Yes.

Speaker 1: 16:47

Which brings us to March when we ended up. So after Wadapluza we kept in touch with um pliability and secured that project with them. And then I don't remember, it might have been February when we found out that Tia to me or like the, goat, six-time fittest woman on earth. Yeah, if you're not into cross or if you don't do CrossFit, which is totally fine If you don't, but if you do, you know who she is. She's basically the best female cross fitter of all time.

Speaker 1: 17:17

Um she just, and she came back in October, which we'll get to to uh kind of dominate. She made kind of made her comeback at the rogue, invitational, so but anyways, we found out that she was going to be the model for the pregnancy program that we were running or doing with pliability, which I think we were all. That was kind of that moment of like. I remember getting off the call with pliability and being like do you guys understand that we're going to like hop on a zoom call with Tia next week?

Speaker 3: 17:47

and so it was funny, because I remember when they were like okay, so we've decided to go with you guys you know, this is our schedule, this is our timeline and the reason it's so fast and they're like oh, did we tell you who's going to be the model? Yet they said, um, it's going to be. Do you guys know who Tia Clare Tumi is? And we were like yeah, are you in? And we're like, oh, I don't know, let's think about it. Yeah, you're like I'm not even good at that.

Speaker 1: 18:13

Well, and I think one thing like that we learned from that, because I think anyone in that situation no matter how long you've been doing something or how much you think you know about something like that's a lot of pressure, and so we all kind of, I think, felt maybe a little bit of that imposter syndrome for a little bit Like who? Are we the right people to be doing this and are we going to put out a good like product and um, we just jumped in and did it Like we had to overcome.

Speaker 3: 18:43

We just trusted our instinct to and as that program started to like be on paper, and we saw it coming to life.

Speaker 2: 18:51

It was like, oh, this is perfect, this is perfect, it makes so much sense.

Speaker 1: 18:58

Yeah, we can do this Like it definitely was. Yeah, like you said, we learned as we went. But, um, but definitely not a reason to turn down something just because a you've maybe never worked on yeah, or you're scared yeah, like it was really scary it was.

Speaker 3: 19:13

it was and it was a almost, it was very overwhelming. That first, that first project that we did, um, we learned so much, oh my gosh, they learned so, so much. And it's really cool to like, not just about mobility Like I I started, you know, dove into the education there but also just about different platforms of how people, you know, put out their products and how I've never been to any kind of like. I mean, we shot our, our programs, but this was like on a bigger scale, bigger level. I'm learning so much about like directing not that I'm directing, but you know all these different things that you have to think of when you put a program together, um like this, and so it was.

Speaker 3: 19:54

It was really cool, Just a great experience.

Speaker 1: 19:57

Yeah, and so Cara also had to manage coaching Tia through some of these movements while having Ayla, her baby, at the shoot with us because she was still breastfeeding. So there's a really cool photo on our Instagram of Cara breastfeeding while also um like talking to Tia.

Speaker 1: 20:17

Because we were on a. Really there was like some madness that put us on an even shorter schedule than we were supposed to be on, and so I think also just. I think we learned a little bit about ourselves during all of that too, as far as like working with different personalities and, you know, being assertive and knowing being assertive.

Speaker 2: 20:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Boundaries as a business yeah.

Speaker 3: 20:42

I learned a lot too, even just like being the working mom. You know like I'm like I can do this, I can take care of her and do it at the same time, um, but I realized it is fine to be like, no, it's okay to ask someone for help, and it's like it was so nice. So at the last, literally the last second, we flew Betsy's sister Margaret out to Nashville.

Speaker 1: 21:03

She gets so many shout outs, she's the best.

Speaker 2: 21:07

She's a VIP. She saved me that She'll be with us at Waterpalooza this year. Come meet sister Margaret. Come meet sister Margaret.

Speaker 1: 21:13

She's in a lot of our promotional materials.

Speaker 2: 21:15

She's our model and our assistant.

Speaker 3: 21:17

And she's our. Yeah, she helped me out so much. It was just so nice to know that someone was taking care of Aila so I could focus on what I was doing. Um, yeah, it was. It was a great time.

Speaker 1: 21:30

I'm laughing, because which thing picked her up from the airport? Oh my gosh, okay, I wasn't there. Was that the Nashville airport? Yeah, yeah, that is. That's a terrible place. It's very scary because it's all it's like a large circle and you can't see, and you can't stop.

Speaker 2: 21:48

Like you can't like at Detroit you can stop and wait for people you can't stop and wait for people to pick them up, slow down, people have to jump into a moving bar.

Speaker 1: 22:00

There is a man with a whistle we never forget that whistle Whistling and moving people along and we tried to pull over and pretend like we didn't. Like you know, we played the oh, I'm not from around here. So we pull over and this person comes and knocks on our windows like you can't stop here. So we just had to circle and Margaret literally had to run and jump into the car.

Speaker 2: 22:21

Oh, my goodness, there's a video of that. Somewhere I've heard jumping and doing moving obstacles. Yeah, that's funny. I've actually never seen that.

Speaker 3: 22:25

It's weird, it was pretty funny, anyways.

Speaker 1: 22:29

so yeah, that was great. So yeah, and it's cool, circling back to Wattopluza, that one year later we are now going to have a full booth experience at Wattopluza. So, that's exciting, a come see us there. We're going to have a really fun challenge where you can win some rogue gift cards if you want to build out your own gym so that you can do our mom's program or any of our programs. Yes, I tested our challenge today.

Speaker 2: 22:55

How do a few people test it?

Speaker 1: 22:57

Oh nice, oh yes.

Speaker 2: 22:58

So come by the booth and try it out.

Speaker 1: 23:00

Yes, yeah, come by our booth. And then also, if you're interested in that playability pregnancy mobility program, that's always linked in the show notes too. So Okay, moving on, and these are just like the highlights. So if I missed anything, you guys let me know. So may. We launched our.

Speaker 1: 23:22

It started as mom's strong, strength and conditioning. So, as a lot of you know, we have always specialized. Since we launched as a pregnancy and postpartum Specialty fitness company, we really wanted to serve moms in pregnancy and early postpartum, help them work out safely and effectively through those chapters, because it is confusing and there's not a lot of information out there and a lot of misinformation. And then from there we were like okay, so once a mom finishes our postpartum program, where can she go from there? Because maybe she's still working out at home or maybe she's going to a gym and she wants a program to follow. So we launched a what we called a strength and conditioning program at the time. We've actually just rebranded it To strong full body. We thought it just spoke a little bit more to how the program is run and the results it gets and Just a little bit of, I think, what the intention is for the program.

Speaker 2: 24:25

It is a full body strength program.

Speaker 1: 24:27

Yes, there's some conditioning, but it's not your typical Athletic strength and conditioning program. It's really focused on performance based.

Speaker 2: 24:36

It's not. Yeah, it's like I want to look good, feel good. Yeah, exactly yeah.

Speaker 1: 24:42

I want to look good, I want to feel good. I don't have a lot of time to do that, so how can I do that in the most effective way? And, betsy, I want you to talk a little bit more about it, because you guys are really the brains behind the programming and you know what results people can get from it.

Speaker 2: 24:58

Yeah. So my husband and I had a crossfit gym for roughly 10 years I think it might have been closer to 11 but towards the end we Deaffiliated with CrossFit. Nothing against them, we just wanted to. We were changing our programming and wanted the message to be clear and Then closed our gym down and continued training at home, and that just really can. That type of training is what we stuck with. It just became much more sustainable as Not only we were getting older, but clients were getting older and wanting a little bit more of a like tendon health Version of strength.

Speaker 2: 25:32

So anyway, a lot of the movements will be you'll have super sets that very often are slow and controlled. That's really the name of the game. We don't do a whole lot of fast and heavy or Olympic lifting. There's a lot of one-sided stuff. But, yeah, brute strength, slow and controlled stuff, and then typically at the end of each day there's some sort of Metcon and some sort of conditioning piece. And there will be others days like we did a whole Like season where there were. It was just zone two, get comfortable and zone two, and then graduated from that. There's still cycles like we did a lunch cycle, we've done a squat cycle. I think we're about to start another lunch cycle. There will be core cycles just depending on the time of the year. But it's it's been great. In my opinion. It is nice to be able to do some strength, get my muscles Feeling like they're getting quote-unquote toned. I used to hate that term.

Speaker 1: 26:27

Yeah, honestly.

Speaker 2: 26:28

I do still kind of hate that term, but it is the best description for what a lot of women are looking for. Yeah, and I think what women kind of have never or or didn't understand, and I didn't really understand, there's a lot of misconception that getting strong means you're gonna get bulky, but getting toned means, like you need to do cardio all the time you, if you want to be quote-unquote toned, you need muscles, those that's that look is that's muscular.

Speaker 2: 26:56

Are you going to get you know crossfit level athlete Bodies? Probably not, unless you're training at high intensity, super strong, four hours a day, with the dialed at nutrition and recovery, yeah, etc. That is not at all what this is. This is get it in an hour if you're a busy mom With a kid taking a nap, or an hour to spare, even less, we have. It's based on 45 minutes, but we've just now started integrating. If you don't have time to get this in today and you need just like 20 to 30 minutes, do this. And for me personally it has worked so well because I I Love how I feel when I exercise. I love how I feel once I start getting into it. I love feeling strong.

Speaker 2: 27:41

But the second, my son is not with me, I think okay, I have to be productive so that when he is, now next, I can give him my full attention, and which makes it very difficult for me to get motivated to work out, because if it's gonna take an hour and a half two hours, that's a valuable chunk of time. So I feel like I'm getting a true full-body workout. I'm getting my muscles strong and toned. I'm I'm getting my heart rate up a little bit and I'm still having enough time for all the things I need to get done and for my family.

Speaker 3: 28:15

Yeah, yeah, I think you guys do a great job with that program.

Speaker 1: 28:19

Oh my gosh, I love it, I follow it and I know it's our program, but I don't write it, so I'm not I'm not super biased. I love the programming. I do it three to four times a week and, like Betsy said, there's days where I only have 20 minutes. So I love that feature we just added, because I'm a coach so I understand how to cut things down. But I think for a lot of moms it's overwhelming to look at something and be like gosh, how do I? Or feel like you're kind of like cheating if you're trying to cut something out when it's really not. You're still getting the intention of the workout. We're just giving you options to shorten it and be more efficient with that shorter amount of time.

Speaker 1: 29:00

So I love that there's lifting. I love that there's a little bit of conditioning. I never feel like dead on the floor from it. I always feel good, which is like for me now that I'm working at like if I'm going to the gym, I can push some limits a little bit easier when I go down in my basement. I need something that I'm like. I know I'm going to feel good after this workout. There's days where I can push myself to that. You know, laying on the floor afterwards. But I feel more motivated doing this style of training to actually do it on my own, like because I know I'm going to like what I'm doing. So I know I feel like I'm doing like a little marketing sales pitch after all of these, which was not, was not the intention.

Speaker 2: 29:43

I'd say we're very proud of that. Yeah, this year it's come a long way and I think it really it's become something that's very niche to how we work now. So we're really proud of that. I think all of us.

Speaker 1: 29:55

So, yeah, if you're a mom and you want to try a program, there's a free trial. So head again. That'll be in our show notes or you can just go to our website and find it. But again, that's for if you're not pregnant not postpartum we also have programs for that. But this is for that mom that's further along, recovered postpartum, and it's also cool because you get to chat with other moms that are doing the same workouts on the same days. So that's fun to kind of see what other people are doing and not in a competitive way, but I like, how'd you do it that?

Speaker 2: 30:26

or what are you modifying? Yeah, on an island working out by herself.

Speaker 1: 30:31

Yeah, yeah, exactly so. Next one, october, is when we went to the rogue invitation, which was super fun. We got to hang out with Tia a little bit again and the flyability crew. We can't give out a ton more information, but I'm sure you can kind of make some assumptions of what is coming from that, so we're super excited. That should be coming soon like an announcement from Pliability on that. But rogue was fun, man. We had some interesting sleeping or housing.

Speaker 2: 31:07

We've learned a lot about traveling this year. We've learned so much about booking hotels, airbnb's, what to look for, what not to, what to make sure you don't have. We know what was it. What was that hotel in Nashville?

Speaker 3: 31:23

It was officially our favorite line of hotels the. Elevate. Oh yeah, what was it?

Speaker 2: 31:28

Elevate line Mike Fortair and Mary.

Speaker 3: 31:30

Other than disclaimer, disclaimer. You had to have a what is it, valet?

Speaker 2: 31:35

That was annoying, oh yeah, everything else was amazing. It was a good hotel, yeah it was great, great vibe.

Speaker 1: 31:42

Yeah, I love that hotel. Great breakfast, great breakfast.

Speaker 3: 31:46

There was parking, so good.

Speaker 1: 31:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 31:50

You know can't have it all we will definitely we're not doing a hotel, for what a plaza we're doing in Airbnb, but we will get an element, for sure. Yeah, hopefully, our Airbnb. It does it does have a door. Are you ready to be fingers crossed? Oh this Airbnb.

Speaker 1: 32:08

Oh my God, our Airbnb in. Where were we? Austin area at fur the rogue invitation? Oh, first of all, we're sharing an Airbnb with how many people were there?

Speaker 3: 32:19

Multiple friends, 12 friends, all friends, all friends Right.

Speaker 1: 32:25

Amazing time. But the bathroom door was a barn door and there was like a gash and you not flush, you could see when you were peeing or whatever you had to do. You could see through the door into, like entryway, walking by. Really bad for people who already? Have trouble going potty and public, it's just traveling.

Speaker 3: 32:50

That's a good, yeah, hotting, and public was not the good, and then our hotel had this same or a weird. I was weird.

Speaker 2: 33:01

If that's why it's starting to happen. No to all of our listeners, don't skip it. Don't do that one. It's not.

Speaker 3: 33:08

No, it's not the bathroom, not on the bathroom. Don't do it on. We need a seal, it's not good for sound.

Speaker 1: 33:13

We need a sound barrier, and we don't barrier.

Speaker 3: 33:16

There's lots of barrier Sight barrier site, you know all the things need to be covered.

Speaker 2: 33:24

Yeah, my gosh.

Speaker 3: 33:26

Yeah, rogue was fun. Remember? I think that it was the first morning we were there, we went for a walk and we're like we're just going to walk. Also, I was sick and so I'm not going to go to the gym. I'm just going to go for a walk, but then we happened upon this lovely group of women doing.

Speaker 1: 33:42

Zumba in the park. Something coming, tina Cardio, tina Cardio, we have to check them.

Speaker 3: 33:49

And so we saw them and they looked like they were just having a blast and I was like I want to go join that, and so we walked up and we said can we join in? And they were so pumped to have us so cool and we did three songs and I was like dying.

Speaker 2: 34:03

I was tired. It was very humid outside at the time.

Speaker 3: 34:06

Oh yeah, it was very humid.

Speaker 2: 34:08

But it was a fun time and that was so fun.

Speaker 3: 34:11

Yeah, it was fun, so yes, that was fun. It's fun to just do things like that. You know kind of we could have just walked by and been like, oh, that looks fun, but yeah, we're just joined.

Speaker 2: 34:22

We'll never let that happen. She's getting there. I had to join in.

Speaker 1: 34:27

Yes, you're good, that was very fun.

Speaker 3: 34:30

It was fun but yeah, lots of other things at Rogue who Greg won an echo bike.

Speaker 1: 34:36

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3: 34:37

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 34:37

Street parking. Kara made me do the challenge and we tied and I didn't want to do it and we tied so we had to do it twice, twice. Oh my God, I was dying yeah just as good. She's fast on that echo bike the first time, not the second round. I was like oh, these legs are done, hey, Kara.

Speaker 3: 34:57

You go ahead, girl.

Speaker 2: 34:59

Oh, this fun, it's always fun when we get to be together, which I mean, I swear, every time we're together. The second it starts I'm like already sad that it's going to end.

Speaker 1: 35:09

I know, so we're excited, we get to party over.

Speaker 2: 35:12

When we probably win this launches. Oh yeah, together, or almost. Yeah, well, first six one day. Yeah, kara is eating at waterplusa this year, that's right.

Speaker 3: 35:28

Yeah, intermediate division with two of my friends, so it'll be really fun, so watch for her.

Speaker 1: 35:35

I'm excited for that.

Speaker 2: 35:36

Yeah, 24 is gonna be fun.

Speaker 1: 35:40

Yes, what's coming in 24, waterplusa will probably have some new programs coming out. Kara is gonna be traveling the globe doing seminars at a bunch of gyms.

Speaker 2: 35:53

Yeah, if you have a gym that you want us to come to, let us know whether you're a trainer or a mom. We're doing seminars to just kind of basic stuff that we cover intros, little high level view of what our trainer's course teaches.

Speaker 1: 36:09

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 36:09

I really hope that we are gonna have impact a lot of trainers this year. That's something I'm excited for. I think that yeah yeah, it's becoming. If we're having a sale soon on it, right?

Speaker 1: 36:23

Yes, we actually have a sale going on right now. Back to the marketing lady.

Speaker 2: 36:27

No, no, we do I sent out an email.

Speaker 1: 36:30

If you're on our email list, you saw there is a sale going on for our trainer's certification right now, so I think our whole mantra in 2024 is to just expand our reach.

Speaker 1: 36:41

We grew crazy in 2023, but we still. We just want to reach more trainers, more moms have a bigger impact in 2024. And so in order to do that, like we're not we're not a company that's constantly doing sales on any of our programs because we do believe they're really valuable but we also want to make them more accessible to moms and trainers. So we lowered the price of our ongoing full body program recently as well, just again because we want more moms to be able to have access. Same thing with the trainer the trainer certification.

Speaker 1: 37:24

This is a really great time if you're thinking about getting certified, because it's at a really good price. We wanted to open it up. So if you had goals in 2024 to become a trainer who can work with pregnant and postpartum clients, it is at a really accessible price right now, especially because you can break it up into payments. So we'll put that link in the RBIO too. But I mean, I can't speak enough to. I know the trainers that have gone through that are kind of crushing it now because that's kind of become one of their niches and you know it doesn't have to be your niche, but it opens you up to more clients who you can serve, and I mean at the price it's at. If you sold, if you sell training and packages, it's one pregnant client.

Speaker 2: 38:07

So yeah it's really a really a no brainer. I wish there had been a trainer.

Speaker 1: 38:16

Yeah, for sure, cool, all right. Anything else, ladies? 2024? Predictions.

Speaker 2: 38:25

Any like predictions yeah?

Speaker 1: 38:28

predictions or who's going to win the games, or yeah, I don't know. Oh, she will, Did you say?

Speaker 2: 38:39

Mal, I said Noah.

Speaker 1: 38:41

Oh Mal. I think she said Mal O'Brien.

Speaker 3: 38:43

Oh, I said no, yeah, no.

Speaker 2: 38:46

Yeah, oh, wow. Well, that's exciting.

Speaker 3: 38:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 38:49

Yeah, I'm excited to see Very interesting Cool.

Speaker 2: 38:54

And they're in Texas this year.

Speaker 1: 38:57

Oh, that's true, oh, that's right, oh, so we'll for sure be there, so yeah you'll find us there.

Speaker 3: 39:02

Oh yeah, in Texas my clients had August Once again.

Speaker 1: 39:05

Sweating our balls off.

Speaker 3: 39:06

You guys seriously August. Sorry it was hot enough in October and humid, yeah, although the last day of the squeezing, maybe I'll have a little bit of pool by then?

Speaker 2: 39:16

Probably not. Don't get your hopes up.

Speaker 1: 39:19

I mean, the one you had was really nice.

Speaker 3: 39:21

My blow up pool will do the trick.

Speaker 2: 39:24

Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1: 39:25

Exactly Awesome. All right, cool, thanks ladies.

Speaker 3: 39:29

Cheers to 2024.

Speaker 2: 39:31

Happy new year.

Speaker 1: 39:32

Happy new year.