Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - Sami Clarke: Hormonal highs/lows and healthy routines to shift your mindset

Episode Date: March 9, 2021

Kaitlyn talks with Sami Clarke, an incredible health, wellness, and fitness trainer who trains celebrities and inspires women (and men!) through her presence on social media training on Sports Illustrated Swimsuit instagram, leading classes on Fitplan and beyond. Sami opens up about the challenges she has with hormonal imbalances, how creating and sticking with a morning routine has been a game changer in her life and how taking care of your body is more about taking care of your mind. Plus she shares some tips and tricks to sticking to short and achievable workout goals! You can follow Sami on IG at @samiclarke Clarins - Give your eyes a visible eye lift in :60 seconds flat. Go to clarinsusa.com and enter promo code OFFTHEVINE10 for 10% off your purchase Geico - Go to GEICO.com and in fifteen minutes you could be saving 15% or more on car insurance Fitish - Try Fitish CBD for yourself to get the best wellness in the game at fitish.com and use the code VINE15 for 15% off your order - a clear mind and clearer skin for the win. NUUN - To find your balance, visit nuun.com and enter code VINE for 25% off your first order. Talkspace - As a listener of this podcast, you can get $100 off your first month on Talkspace. To match with your perfect therapist, go to talkspace.com or download the App. Make sure to use code VINE. Best Fiends - Engage your brain with fun puzzles and collect tons of cute characters. Download Best Fiends free on the Apple App store or Google Play.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Here's Caitlin. All right, welcome to Off the Vine. I'm your host, Caitlin Bristow today on the pod. I have an incredible health, wellness, and fitness trainer who inspires women and guys out there through her presence on social media and beyond. She really does have like this really warm, positive energy about her and is truly great at providing tips and tricks to make sure you feel your absolute best, especially being home right now, stuck at home at home workouts.

She has recipes. She has tips and tricks. and you may have caught her training on Sports Illustrated swimsuit Instagram live workouts. That's pretty legit. Leading classes on FitPlan and generally just killing the game on YouTube and Instagram. We talk about how we can be healthy in both your mind and body. Some tips for staying on track during the pandemic, like I said, and hear about her journey and passion for the world of health and wellness.

I hope you guys enjoy today's episode with Sammy Clark. I love your mug. I was just watching your stories. Your mug says boss-ass bitch. I love it. And you are one. And I wanted to get into it. But first, I love how open you are about getting your period twice a month and that you've been suffering with these, all these hormones and early stages of PCOS. Now, I don't know about it, but I have my own struggles with hormones and everything. But is that something that you have to kind of just rule out certain things and get down to the point like, okay, maybe I have this? Or is there like a certain test you could take? Like, how did you figure that out? Yeah. So I was honestly just listening to tons of stuff about it because I'm so intrigued. But a lot of, if you go to the right person, like a hormone specialist, usually they can tell off the bat if you have it. They like can ask you a couple things. Like the main things is like, are you growing hair in areas? You shouldn't as like a woman. So like for me, like I'll get like chin hairs and like a little bit of chest hair, which is like not freaking right. And then acne is like another one and then weight loss and then weird periods. So really they can like ask you a couple. couple questions and be like, okay, I can tell. But for me, to really see if I had it, I went and got a blood test where she could see, like, my hormone levels. And that's how we kind of figured it out. Yeah. Yeah, I thought I had the same thing. I had to go and get all my hormones checked because I was like, something's going on with me. And it wasn't that, but I'm still convinced that's what I have. But anyways. Someone said that it's that the tests aren't

always like, you know, these freaking tests. Like, I mean, we could go all day. But the test aren't 100% so I would if you're like kind of feeling in your gut like I think this is it and symptoms that I would probably like kind of run with it yeah it's like if it walks like PCOS and talks like PCOS but I'm so good to comment and shout about it I just don't know like so much about it yet because I just went out but I'm so open to talk about whatever yeah I'm the same way I mean me too I don't know too much about it but I just know I have so many hormonal issues. And I like when I come across somebody that also is open to talking about it. But I just wanted to talk about getting in the right mindset when it comes to fitness,

because fitness, of course, involves a lot of training your body, working on your physical goals, but it's also such a huge mental game as well. Like for me, the hardest part is getting my shoes on and going and staying in the zone, especially while being at home. But I wanted to know some of the ways that you push yourself and all the people who follow you and who you train to do their best and try their hardest because it's really hard to stay in that mindset sometimes. It's so freaking hard. And even me, like, it's my job, which I think it's so funny that I pick this job. I'm like, I pick the job to work out all the time.

But I love it so much because it's changed my life. But even for me, like truly this morning, especially like I said, I'm having some periods a month, TMI, welcome everyone. But I'm like exhausted. I'm not like feeling incredible. And this morning I was like, I need to get a good work cut in. And I know it'll make me feel good. I can tell the difference of when I shouldn't and when I should.

And truly during the workout, like I sounded like a crazy person, but I was like, let's go, Samantha. Like I was like my own cheerleader while going through the workout because, I mean, there was, I didn't want to be in there. I didn't want to do it. But I think I just always remember that I don't want to be at day one because day one is a rough day. You know, day one's like, okay, here we go.

Let's get the shoes on. Is this even going to work? like you know so i think i just remember that consistency is key and like you feel will feel incredible after you're done working out so i think i just really based off i don't want to feel that day one so let's keep it going and then usually it just like pushes me a little further that's a good point actually just keeping that like momentum of not going backwards like always to push forwards because oh i've been there so many times i get in the zone for like months at a time and then i completely stop and i'm like eh i'll get back to it tomorrow

and then tomorrow comes, oh, I'll get back to it the next day. And then, you know, right away, you're like, oh, wait, I'm back to square one. Why did I stop? So that's a good, because I always tell people that have small goals, too. Like, instead of just like, okay, for a year, I'm going to do this. Or for six months, like, it's like take it day by day, push yourself, set those small goals to just keep going, you know? Right, right.

And like you said, it's about how you feel after a good workout. And I'm definitely one of those people that it helps me mentally to work out. Or I'm just on a high. I feel like I can take on anything the rest of the day if I get up and get up and do a workout. A hundred. Yeah, you feel like some type of accomplishment. You feel good about your body. You feel accompanying your skin, which then also goes across through, you know, meetings,

whatever it is. Yeah, I completely agree. So what, you've got to remember that feeling for sure. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And just when we first started talking, you said that you picked this job and that it has changed your life. How has it changed your life? I definitely grew up in.

a healthy household, but getting, moving to L.A. by myself, it was kind of the time for me to choose, either to go the healthy route or kind of mess around and do another way. And I definitely dabbled in both. And I mean, I just went through stages of like mood swings and not feeling incredible and my energy towards other people, my energy towards life and my energy towards myself, my connection towards myself. And I really like had this epiphany of like, wow, when do I feel my best? And I feel my best when I'm taking it? care of my body. And that is through food, that is through working out. And then I also kind of wanted to do it in a way where I enjoyed it more because I also grew up where my dad would go to the gym

for two hours. Like he was that guy and my brother's still that guy. And I'm like, I am not that girl. Like I don't have time for that. I have some of the other things I want to do. So I think it was like, how do I actually enjoy it a little bit more and not make it feel like this is such a short. That's where I kind of tried to make less time, but still have great results. Yeah, because I was seeing on your story that, you know, a lot of people don't believe that you can see results and feel results and really get what you need to get done at the gym in only 30 minutes. But I found that very inspiring because I'm like, I too like to go 30 to 45 minutes. And so I was like, okay, you're telling me there's a chance. So why is that such a

myth that you have to go to the gym for like two hours to see results? I mean, again, It's kind of what goals you want. Like what results do you want? What lifestyle do you want? My brother who goes to the gym for two hours is in the bodybuilding space. Of course, that's where he does need to be for two hours. But I know that for me, I could be at the gym for two hours, but I'd be taking way long of rest.

Like I'd be like in the corner on my phone for 10 and then, you know, maybe playing around with the other gym equipment. So I think actually a lot of people can have shorter workouts. if they didn't have as much rest time, they were really strategic of what exercises are doing, repetition, and really just confining the amount of rest time and distractions. Like I think we're so distracted in workouts that the workout ends up being an hour and a half because we were talking to a friend, we're on Instagram, whatever it is. So I think I just like get in the zone.

I also do it like on a time base. So I'll do 45 seconds on, 15 seconds off usually. So I'm on this clock where I'm just like, let's go. I don't have time to, like, do other things. Yeah, I mean, the phone is always a main distraction in my life. And I use it as an excuse. Like, I'll stay on toilet longer just to be on Instagram longer. Like, I find places like the gym.

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looking your best. And I mean, you look pretty dang amazing. Don't get me wrong. But it's also so much more than that. So what do you feel like are some of the parts of your job that really give you the meaning and energy to keep going? Like I'm sure you've had so many interactions with followers and people that you've trained. But what is it that that gives you the means and energy to keep going? Again, I think truly actually, I haven't had any crazy health issues and figuring out so many things now that are going on with my body. But I do think I haven't had a lot of crazy health issues because I take care of myself and seeing a lot of people around me that have gone through severe health issues or have had to change their diet routines at a younger age or

an older age and just seeing how much it affects your life. I think I just keep going with like, yeah, I look good, but the inside is the best part because, you know, I'm maybe not getting sick as much or I, you know, I just feel, my posture is up more straight because I'm feeling confident. I'm feeling sexy. You know, I'm eating so my skin looks good or my gut feels good. Like, I feel like it just all plays out to overall well-being. And I feel really great. That's so true.

It is. It's so I've had so many conversations with health and wellness or life coaches or anything about how food becomes fuel, like how good it makes you feel what you're putting into your body, seeing it for energy. So I think that is really important. And obviously it's 2021, we just went through, like, the craziest time where everybody's at home and most of us are still at home out of our typical routines and going to the gym or whatever. But do you have any recommendations for people staying healthy, both in terms of working out and eating while while at home? Because I think one thing I think has been really helpful during this time is sticking to some sort of routine or structure.

Like, that helps me feel more sane in my day and working out has become part of that. So do you have like a typical routine each day? And what does that look like? Yeah, I'm a crazy routine. person and it's gotten even crazier, especially in quarantine, because I think we needed that structure to feel like we have things to do. It's like, you know, we're not, we're in our house all day long. So for me, I have a crazy morning routine just because I think that's like the first part of your day. And I feel like everyone's talking about a morning routine, which is amazing.

I'm like, I love that we're all talking about morning routines because I think that they are the game changer. Like if you don't have a morning routine, like we got to get it going. Because, you know, I just think that sets the tone for your day. It's the time where we at least get a little bit of silence before the chaos happens before the whole day comes out of. So my morning routine is super structured and super important to me. I have a journal routine. I have a meditation routine.

I have a walk. I have, you know, time with my partner. Like, because him and I don't see each other. Even though we're in the same house, we don't see each other all day because we're in different offices. I'm in the living room. But so, yeah, I feel like having a morning routine is really important. and then that workout routine.

I think that's also really important, too, if you know for a fact, you will not work out in the afternoon. That's for me. Like, I know for sure, if I don't get a workout in the morning, your girl is not going later. So I just feel like I have to get it done in the morning.

So, like, that's for sure part of my routine. But a routine is definitely something I need. I agree. I think it's, I don't know why it is so hard to get into a routine if you're a person. Like I used to not have any routine and I kind of functioned.

way. Like I was like, oh, wake up with my body lets me. And I'll just do this and I'll just go day by day. But I don't know when that's shifted, but it must have been over quarantine where I actually am just in a better mind space for the whole day if I get up and do a morning routine. And I think it is so important. And part of that is, you know, eating a healthy breakfast, working out, all those good things. And you mentioned that you have a partner. You guys are obviously living at home. You're in a relationship in quarantine. That's always stressful. But you also started a business together, which is, a huge move in, I mean, in a relationship and your career, and it's called reset and aims to bring wellness and performance practices to today's generation by merging them with a twist

of our style and some pop culture. Okay, I love this. Explain reset to me and how people can get involved. Yeah. So this is kind of like a better sweet moment because reset, my partner and I did start last year. And it was a, we kind of started it because after we kind of wanted a place. we have a lot of different friend groups. So not everyone's into health and wellness. But we wanted a place where everyone could come. And instead of like drinking at the party, they could, I mean, I love a good drink. But another type of party could be like, okay, let's all take care of ourselves and leave feeling

freaking amazing and trying new products, new brands, all that. So we kind of started to do it after festivals. So we would hop up a tent and like have pretty much a spa day on steroids. So it was like facials. It was cryotherapy. It was IVs. It was different types of massages that are supposed to make you feel better. It was all these different food brands, everything that you could imagine in one place that

everyone got to try and truly feel leaving after the festival feeling incredible. So our last one, our biggest one was to see after Coachella of 2020. But then obviously Coachella did not happen. And it is an event. So it is on a slight hold, sadly, because it's in person, but it will continue when the world does. Yeah, of course. that's what is it like running a business with your partner gosh yeah it's it's a journey i mean i think communication is obviously everything in all ways of relationship but especially if you're running a

business uh we had to have so much communication and also understanding of each other's roles because i think if you both try to play the same role it could get you could butt heads so i knew what his role was and he knew what mine was and then also i think having times to shut it off like when going to bed we probably shouldn't talk about it as much even though you want to but we needed that separation of like work even though it was our baby we also need that separation of like play and not talking about our business all the time yeah i hear that that's jason my boyfriend his mindset is just always business like from the second he wakes up to the second he goes to sleep and when he can't sleep in the middle of night his brain is like on business mode and i'm like

I'm really lucky that I can shut it off and separate it, but that's something that we've talked about that we need to do a better job at is putting the phones down, separating work from our days like at time, because I mean, I say we. I'm being kind. It's him.

I'm very good at being like, I'm done with work talks. But it's just, it's such a, you know, it's such a typical thing to talk about in a relationship, even if you're not working together or you are because it's, your day is kind of consumed around that.

So why not talk about it, you know? Now back to Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow. One thing that you, they're both passionate about or is it just you about cooking? You love to cook, right? Yeah, I love to cook. He used to love to cook. When I first met JT., he loved to cook.

And now that I've taken the role, I mean, I haven't seen the guy in the kitchen in ages. So he did love to cook and now it's me. But yes, I do. I really thought people at home would benefit from hearing some, maybe easy snacks or meals that you recommend for people who are getting into cooking, who want to stay healthy, who, you know, I think people get intimidated by cooking. But if you have any insight to that, I think people who are listening would love it. Yeah.

No, it's such a good question because I actually wish I had this back in the day because I didn't, I think, find anything like this. And I actually just filmed a whole YouTube video on like healthy eating like 2.0, like let's go really, really deep of how to even start because it is intimidating. like you read some of these recipes and they're like so long you don't even know some of the ingredients it's a lot for me it's finding recipes that i connect to so meet my dietary needs i find all of these recipes on instagram i'm like no chef that's like cooking up in the kitchen from scratch i'm like oh okay i save this one from becky and becky loves onions i hate onions so i'm going

to take up the onions and then i'll just start to create and make it my own um but finding recipes from like people you love that like meet your needs that look tasty but also look really convenient like I always say look at the prep time when you go to look at a recipe if it says this is going to take two hours like probably pass so I think like reading really understanding the recipe if it meets your needs I always tell like my clients everyone do like a one sheet pan was like the easiest thing so I'll like turn the oven on I'll put a vegetable I put a carb and I'll put of protein and I'll literally stick that one sheet into the oven and I won't have to see it for 25 minutes and it's the easiest thing but it tastes amazing like I'll switch from sausage or

chicken or chickpeas whatever it is so I think it's finding those like alternatives that are still so easy and quick but really healthy and as far as I could go on food forever I love it but as far as snacks I love protein balls I feel like everyone talks about them but they really are my dream I'll make them with like oats, coconut, chocolate chips, honey, protein powder, and you roll them up in little balls. And they're like the perfect dessert taste, honestly, but you can have them throughout the day. So I love things like that. It's probably my favorite. I used to never be a big shake guy. But lately, I've been like, like, what was it? Two nights ago, I was craving something sweet. I made it like chocolate protein shake. And I was like, that was really satisfying.

I'm really into like peanut, butter, banana, chocolate protein smoothie. That is, like. It sounds amazing. Delicious. You said something about how when you wake up in your routine, you journal. And I talk about that a lot because I think journaling is important. And I try and do like a five-minute gratitude journal every morning. But what are some things that often come up in your journaling? Is it like a lot of gratitude?

Is it about your day? Is it about like your thoughts on what's to come? Like what does your journal look like? Or is that a private question? No. I don't know something so funny is I literally posted my journal like, boomeranged, like really quick on my story today. And someone literally paused it and read what I wrote. And one of them said ultrasound because I have to get it for my hormones. And

someone literally messed me like, are you pregnant? And I was like, how did you read that? Like, never posting my journal routine again. But anyway, I was in my journal routine consists of a lot of gratitude. I cannot say enough of like what gratitude does for my soul. I feel like perspective and just remembering, you know, the small things is so, so crucial, especially in a time like this. You know, I think we can have so many things that we can't complain about. And I'm one of them. I can have those days where I'm just like, Samantha, be quiet. But when I go and I remember, like, wow, I have a healthy body. Wow, I get to breathe. Wow. Mother nature. Like those small things really grounds me and brings me back to just being so grateful. So a lot of gratitude in my journal.

Also something that I really love in my journal is the send love. So I pick like free people every day and I'll just send them like a sweet message or a little voice memo, something like that. But it makes it kind of easy where you're like, okay, I'll get it done in the morning. I send them the message. I'm a huge voice memo, girl. So I'll literally be like, hey, girl, I love you. You're the best. Whatever it is.

And I truly see how much it makes their day and then it makes my day. So I really love that one too. That's sweet. I should start doing that. Bailey made me a jar of like a hundred little pieces of paper of things that she loves about me. And so when so Bailey, right? And so when I, she's like, like I'll be Marco Polo in this app. We have where we like video chat.

And I'll be like, oh, I'm having like just such a crap day. She goes, go home and take a thing out of your paper jar. And then I'll like go and read it. And it's just more like saying something nice to me. I'm like, oh, my God. And it just changes my whole mood around. It totally. It's such a, it's crazy. Like when you give back and then when someone you know that they felt the joy and then you feel the joy, it's something, it's something about it. And I'm not a

gift giver like Bailey. I know she's unreal at that. So for me, it's like the quick voice memo to know someone I'm thinking about them. And I think it does a lot. Absolutely. And before I make you confess something embarrassing to me, where can people find you and how can they become involved in getting your recipes and falling along with your workouts and everything? Yes. They can find me at Sammy Clark over on Instagram and YouTube and TikTok, but it's Sammy Clark across the board. Love it, simple. Okay, it's that time of the pod where you have to confess your deep work secret to me. Oh, my God.

Yeah, and everyone around. When I think of the most embarrassing thing, you know, kind of. of recently. I feel like we have tons of childhood, uh, whatever, Sammy get to it. I'm embarrassed already. Um, so I feel like one of the biggest ones was my partner now, Katie. I, we like went on one day and it was so freaking great, whatever. So then the next time he asked me out again, but he's like, let's go out with all of my friends. And I was like, oh, okay, cool. So at this time, I am on an antibiotic, which, you know, uh-huh, I'm on an antibiotic. And He was at a hotel, like next door to my apartment, actually.

So I was like, okay, cool, I'll walk over. I didn't eat lunch or it was like kind of like a weird time. It was like almost dinner so that I didn't eat anything. So I took the antibiotics. I was like, I'm going to be out all night. I'm going to forget it. I took the antibiotic. I show up to like the balcony where all of his friends are.

There's like truly like 10 to 15 people. And he's like, hey, this is Sammy. And I'm like, hi, guys. And they like hand me a drink. And all of a sudden I'm drinking this drink. And I'm like, oh. budge like this is going to be so bad when i tell you i go to meet his friend lexie like i literally i'm like hi sammy and puke comes out oh my i'm literally holding it in my mouth holding it in my

mouth and i'm like and i just book it i literally just book it i head to the elevator i get in the elevator i'm yacking in the elevator like throwing up in the elevator i'm walking through the And this is like L.A. So I'm like, they think I'm drunk. They think that this girl's just puking all over the lobby. Also, I'm like, please no one follow me. I have no idea of someone's behind me. I'm running.

I run to my apartment complex. My sister lives with me. I have puke all over my shirt. I look like a disaster. And I met like all of his best friends night one. So I feel like that was like definitely. And then I met up with them right after I got changed. And they were like, yo, hi.

Like, I was like, I'm so sorry, you guys. Like, I'm not this kind of girl. Like, quick, puke, and we're back. Was it was better that time? You have some food in your stomach? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's definitely got some food in me. And then I was ready to party, you know, anything for love.

I was ready to go down. That's, you're a trooper because I have, like, the most unrealistic fear of throwing up. Like, I turn into a child and need to, like, get in the fetal position and cry and, like, call my mom and I'm not okay and then I like like I'm so dramatic if I'm going to throw up and I would never be able to just like change and go back and party like if I threw up I'd be like I'm out for the night I am unwell I need to go the hospital that I would just lay in bed and cry and get my mom to fly to me yeah I hear you I mean again I think what we do for love because I think if it wasn't love I think I would have been like F this I feel disgusting but I was just

so excited about him that I totally got changed and act like I was so okay Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow. Okay, I'm going to play a quick game with you before I let you go. It's called Sammy's Top Tips. So I want to hear your best tips and pieces of advice for the following questions and topics. You ready? What is a good first step to becoming more active when you haven't exercised in a while? Walking.

I agree with that. Okay. What are a few pieces of at-home workout equipment you would recommend for those trying to get fit at home? A resistance band and some dumbbells. Okay. What are some of your favorite ways to motivate yourself to get going when you're not feeling it? Look at inspiration. There be another one.

So, like, find someone that inspires me that works out. And I'd probably go to their page and be like, get me pumped. Yeah. Okay. What are your favorite snacks to eat before? and after a workout. Is it the protein balls? Before a workout, it matters like what time, but I love anything like peanut butter. I feel like, I don't know, peanut butter just, I literally will take like a spoon sometimes and just eat a table spoon to peanut peanut peanut butter. And then after I'm definitely

a smoothie girl. Yeah. Oh, me too. I'm into it. I want on right now. Are you a fan of meal prepping for the week and do you have any advice on how to get started meal prepping? I am such a fan, but I do understand realistically it doesn't fit for everyone's schedule. But if you ask, actually really wanted to crush the game, meal prepping would be a game changer and at least even meal prepping snacks because I think snacks are the number one thing we go to the pantry for and like kind of grab those like not the great ones for you. So I feel like having prepping at least like celery, carrots, apples, all those things chopped up and ready to go is really important. Do you do any like meal propping stuff on your Instagram? I don't have like a segment

or anything but I'll share my meal prepping on like a Sunday. Okay, cool. Yeah. And then what's your favorite journal or just overall tip that people can start with if they are new to journaling? I think the five-minute journal on Amazon is unreal to start with, but if you did not want to purchase that, then I think starting with gratitude, like three gratitude a day. I've been trying to get my mom on that gratitude train because she's, she suffers from fibromyalgia and her bones and like joints and muscles are always sore and she's just like in constant chronic pain i feel so terrible and so we're trying to like talk about things that are really positive in life and like things we could be grateful for every day so that helps her a bit but

oh it's it doesn't be different though in in your life i i can really attest to that any advice for getting out of a self-confidence funk that's either caused by comparing yourself on social media or just generally feeling down the comparing yourself is such a real thing so for me i only follow a certain amount, like I follow a lot of people, but I only go and look at the stories and feed posts of people that when I leave, I feel amazing or I feel inspired or I feel laughter or I feel happy. So I think paying attention to how you feel when you look at people's content is really important. And if you do feel like you're comparing, then I probably wouldn't go to their page as often. And then also like daily affirmations. I feel like truly

they're lame to say, but when you repeat over and over again of I am beautiful. I am caught all these things. I do think that you start to believe them. I agree. I agree completely. And then what's the best piece of advice and worst piece of advice you've received when it comes to health and wellness? Something I think I would take like I don't know if I heard this for anyone, but doing my own research, I think, and doing your own research by even if that's watching someone else that knows what they're talking about, but at least researching and understanding because I think I've dabbled in so many different things. And I wish that I would have done my own research before, maybe buying that product or before, you know, going on that, whatever thing.

So I feel like doing research is advice. And then the worst advice is that skinny tea work. Yeah. Preach. Yeah. What the heck is in that stuff? Does it just make you poop and then you feel skinny or something? I don't even know. I don't know. It's not good, though. That's good. That's a good, that's a good worst piece of advice. I like that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I know it's 2021. So like we don't know. if you'll be able to do your events and stuff. But what are you looking forward to in 2021 personally and professionally? Yeah, professionally, which affects me personally as well.

I'm actually coming out with my own platform, which will be really exciting at the end of March. So I'm doing it with my partner, Sana, which if you guys do all of our workouts together, she's Pilates, and then I'm more like fit strength training. So we're coming out with that, which I'm really excited about because it's just going to be everything that I wanted to know, like I said, in the past, is going to be here. So my goal is for girls to actually succeed, not to just, like, go by a program. It's to have workouts, meals, everything, mindset, all of it, journaling on one platform. So we're coming out with that soon.

So I'm very excited about that. And then hopefully when it does open up some, like, tours to travel and have some fun workouts with everyone. Yeah, absolutely. Gosh, I am not going to lie. I used to do the workouts with the trainer here in Nashville and my act. I used to like dread. And I was even doing the workouts.

I was just like they're DJing and partying. And I would I would just dread like the because I was like, oh my gosh, it's all these like it's fitness. And I feel like I'm just getting drunk up there by myself. And it's all these people. And now I'm like, I would give anything to go back and tour around do live podcasts, see people, be in crowds. Like I used to be like, crowds and I get overwhelmed.

And now I'm like, I will like, like, like just throw me in to a I know. I know. I know. Is Nashville open? Yeah. Nashville's pretty open. Like Jason and I went to a restaurant the other night. We got absolutely torn apart on Instagram for it. But the restaurants are open to Nashville. And we purposely like, okay, obviously wear our masks.

And then we go and we pop our head in to see like, is it busy? Or we try and find like a really good dead spot where we like have the whole restaurant to ourselves. off our mask to eat, put it back on, leave, and it's like, well, I mean, we still get in trouble. But yes, things are open in Nashville. I do feel bad, though, because there are so many, I mean, what's LA like right now? Because I know it was getting pretty bad there. Yeah, LA's a, LA's a ghost town. I mean, no one lives here more and then nothing's open. So I actually went to Arizona this past weekend and Scott still with my partner. And we actually

had a work out there, but it was pretty crazy to see everything was open only because I haven't been around life in so long that it was really refreshing to actually see that because here in LA we just got dining outdoor dining back on Friday and it's been it's been it's been months like nothing's been open so yeah it just makes all the difference um when you can just like even just hearing other people's conversation or being around people like sometimes I even just enjoy going to the grocery store lately because I'm around people for sure no you forget I forget that this has been like feels like the new normal so then when i saw this like life of people laughing and interacting and groups larger than two i was like this is amazing so yeah i get it absolutely

well hopefully i keep saying i've been saved for a year hopefully soon there's light i think we pretend there is any ways up here but um i appreciate you taking time to come on the podcast today and talk about everything that you have going on and hopefully people leave here feeling inspired and go follow you on Instagram and I want to. I want to find your cooking stuff. Tell me about protein the balls recipe. I want one of those. It is on my page. So I'll send it. Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. I'm Caitlin Bristow. I'll see you next Tuesday. Thanks for listening to Off the Vine with Caitlin Briscoe. Get new episodes every Tuesday exclusively on podcast one.com. The podcast one app.

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