The Bossticks - Bryony Deery - How To Make Small Changes For A Better Life & Mindset For Success

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

#668: Bryony Deery is a renowned UK Pilates trainer and founder of the health & fitness app, Pilates By Bryony. She discovered Pilates as a form of rehabilitation after a serious road accident at the age of 17 which left her with chronic pain and arthritis. After 10 years of self-practice which left her pain and arthritis free, she embarked on a teaching journey of her own. Today, she joins us for a conversation on natural healing and how to make small lifestyle changes to enhance your health, mental focus, and overall quality of life. She also discusses the rise of her Pilates business and gives insight into how she grew her business from nothing. To connect with Bryony Deery click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts Bosstick click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE To Watch the Show click HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential This episode is brought to you by Honeylove Treat yourself to the best bras and shapewear on the market & save 20% off your order at honeylove.com/skinny . This episode is brought to you by AG1 If you want to take ownership of your health, it starts with AG1. Go to drinkAG1.com/SKINNY to get a free 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase.   This episode is brought to you by Caraway Ditch the chemicals with Caraway. Visit carawayhome.com/HIMANDHER to receive 10% off your next purchase. This episode is brought to you by Vegamour Give your hair the power of the little pink bottle. Visit vegamour.com/SKINNY and use code SKINNY at checkout to receive 20% off your first subscription order. This episode is brought to you by A2 Nutrition A2 Platinum is formulated for tiny tummies as the grow and develop. Visit a2platinum.com/SKINNY to get 25% off your first purchase. This episode is brought to you by Toups & Co Visit www.toupsandco.com and use code SKINNY for 15% off your first order. Produced by Dear Media

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I went through a period of feeling a dark cloud on me, like constantly. It was like the lowest time ever. So I just stayed in bed all weekend, like literally didn't leave my bed. All the curtains were closed, like just dark time. And I remember listening to a J. Shetty podcast, and it was like your mental health ingredients list or something along those lines. Like you have to write down what is going to make you feel good and what is going to get you through this time. So I wrote this like manically. I was like, okay, waking up early, doing this.

doing that hot and cold therapy, whatever. Meditation, Pilates. And then literally that next day, I just stuck to this routine every single day. It's so great when you record an episode and you're like, this episode is going to hit. And this is one of those episodes. When we recorded this, I looked at Michael after and I'm like, the audience is just going to not only love the episode, but love Briani. Brianie Deary, is on the skinny confidential him and her podcast today, and she is letting us in in all the ways. She talks about an accident that she went through when she was 17. She talks about trauma that she experienced during COVID. She's so open. She's so raw. And she also gives us the juice on all

the questions that we want to know. We talk about exercise, beauty, diet, fitness. She is the founder of a health and fitness app that is very, very famous. especially in the UK. It's called Pilates by Brian E. She is also a co-founder of the brand Cloudcia. It's a macha brand and it is delicious. Let me tell you. On that note, Brianie, welcome to the show. This is the skinny confidential, him and her. I actually found you, and I haven't told you this, through Kenzie Burke. Oh, yes. She had posted like that she was working out with you and I clicked and I just found your page so soon. and calm and serene. I liked your voice. I just liked your vibe. But I want to know about you before all of this. So where did you grow up? What was your childhood like? Talk about that.

Okay. So I grew up in England, obviously. And it was kind of like quite a, I don't know, quite a normal family upbringing. My parents both worked really, really hard. So my mom, my mom was super successful. She, like, I really remember. from my childhood, her being so driven and hardworking. That's kind of like, it's always stayed with me. I had quite a normal childhood and then so shy. I only found my confidence when I was maybe 27, 28. So I was so shy in that whole time. Why? Like painfully shy. I had a, this is like jumping, but I actually had a swimwear business quite a few years ago. And I remember, like, I would do a breakfast to launch it and there would be like 10 people there and I could cry at the thought of getting up

and saying thank you for them to come for coming I have no idea I just was I wasn't insecure I was just or I don't know that it was from an insecurity I think I was just my brother was very intelligent super he was like a child genius but didn't work for it so everything came very natural to him whereas I had to kind of work a bit harder and I still wasn't very bright in school wasn't super smart. So maybe that was in me and I was kind of overcompensating or just not not super confident. And then I literally only found my confidence like recently. It says here that you got an accident at 17. Does that have to do with the shyness starting at 18 and what happened? Yeah, maybe. So I had a, that's kind of how I got into Pilates. I had a car accident when I was

nearly 18 and I had to wear a neck brace. It was a big car accident. Not cute wearing that neck brace. So I twisted my pelvis. My neck was just in so much pain. Yeah, they had to basically scoop me out of this car on a spinal board. Yeah, it was, it was not good. And I'd obviously just passed my driving test so excited and everything. Oh, that's the worst. Yeah, it was so bad. And then Pilates wasn't really a thing then, so no one, like, was it? When, like, that many years ago, the people doing Pilates were like 70 years old only. And it was more of like a rehab kind of type of a thing.

So then I was in so much pain. I was actually taking Tramadol. I don't know if you've ever taken it before, but I was prescribed Tramadol, which was insane. I lost so much weight. I couldn't eat anything. It got, I think it gave me some form of depression. Anyway, so I had this test.

terrible pain. I was taking tramadol every day. And then I had to come off tramadol, obviously. Is it a pain medication or is it like a, it's kind of like on your way to morphine, I guess. Okay. Pain medication. Yeah. Then I had to actually go on antidepressants because when I came off the tramadour, I just couldn't sleep. I mean, I was literally wide awake, wide all night, like downstairs, doing things at home. I couldn't sleep. I'd lost so much weight. And then I had to go on these antidepressants. When I would fall asleep, I would, you know, when you like jump yourself awake, but it was, it was worse than that. It was like almost like a mini kind of attack waking me up. So anyway, I went on these tablets and at the same time I discovered Pilates. So the doctors were all

telling me you have to do Pilates, you have to strengthen your core. And yeah, that's kind of how I got into it. But the Pilates that I was doing then was like this, in this rehab center, in the hospital. It wasn't like a super-hy-bibe Pilates studio. I just completely got hooked on Pilates healing my body. But it wasn't at that time a thing that I would stay consistent with because no one else was doing it. And when you're 18, you just want to do things your friends are doing. Do you know what I mean? Totally. What's so interesting to me about all of this is that your doctor in, is it the UK? Yeah. Tells you you need to do Pilates. In America, that would never happen. Really? No.

No, no, no. How come? What would they suggest? Okay. Well, I guess I would say it was on tablets. Not every doctor, puck. Yeah. Not every doctor.

Majority of doctors did not suggest Pilates in America. Okay. Well, I guess I was lucky because actually a couple of doctors suggested it. They said you have to go. And basically, if your core is strong, your back is going to be more protected, more supported. Yeah. And then I basically went from being in terrible. pain like tears every single day obviously wearing this neck brace on pain medication to like

zero pain wow but then I was just being 18 like okay I've cured myself I'm good now like I'll just do something else and obviously you have to keep working at it so then I would try other forms of exercise like I don't know there was like a spin hype at one point or like a barries or whatever and I couldn't work out why I still had this pain and I wasn't feeling good and I was getting so inflamed, so puffy. And then I kept kind of finding myself going back to Pilates. And then I got diagnosed with arthritis quite soon after, like just kind of after I had healed myself. What is that from?

So it can be hereditary, which it is in my case. My mom has it. My grandma has it. My auntie has it. But I was so young when I got diagnosed. But I literally couldn't tie my hair up. My fingers were so painful. I couldn't put my hair in a hair band. Couldn't pull. I remember in my house at the time I had like pully light switches. I couldn't grip. So arthritis makes it just basically your, I know it takes your grip strength, right? And it takes some of your hand function, right? But what else does it do?

So it basically, I've got rheumatoid arthritis. So it attacks different joints. So my body was creating a liquid that was basically kind of attacking itself, if that makes sense. And how do you manage that? At the time, they hadn't actually diagnosed me, but that's what it was. And they were like, we'll just give you a cortisone injection and it'll be fine. So I had a cortisone injection, obviously, and I was like, oh, great, it's cured. And it was obviously short term. But then it came back. And it was honestly, my fingers were like sausages.

They were huge. And they had like red bumps all over them. Then they just didn't know what it was, but they had just like masked it with the cortisone injection. Fast forward to when I went to Switzerland, I then went to a specialist because it got so bad in the cold without doing all the things I do now. It got so bad. So then I went to this arthritis specialist and she said it's like severe arthritis.

And you need to take injections every month. So do you still take injections? No, I've never taken them. So then I was like, okay, even though I have tattoos, my parents are always like, you're not scared of needles. You have tattoos. It's a different kind of needle. It's kind of scared. I get it.

I couldn't do it myself either. I had to do it myself. So I was thinking, and I, the thought of, like, a family member doing it. So I thought, no, I'm going to just try and heal some other way. That's when I kind of started doing the saunas and all of that kind of stuff. So I stopped dairy. Also, at the same time, I had severe acne. So I had arthritis, covered in spots, quite like a, yeah.

Acne. Not a look. Setting the scene. Yeah. So I had acne. And I also have this arthritis. So I was thinking, okay, maybe I'm getting just, maybe I have such bad levels of inflammation in my body.

So I went to hormone specialists. And she was like, your inflammation in your body is through the roof. Like I've never seen this level in the clinic. So then I'm thinking, okay, like this isn't good. So basically, I can. cut out dairy completely, cut out meat. I went so extreme. So cut out meat, dairy, and I occasionally ate fish and that was it. I still had gluten. But yeah, I did that for, it was only recently that I added a little bit of meat in. And it's funny when you talk about mince, because my craving is

burger, which is obviously mints. Like, it's wild. Everyone thought I was pregnant. I was thinking, I need to know where I can get my next burger. What is mints? mince is what you eat. What do you call it ground beef? Ground beef. That's mince. I'm going to call it mince now. I was obsessed with mince out of the blue and I hadn't eaten any meat for like seven years.

And then one day I was thinking, I need to find a burger somewhere. And how did it go like adding meat back into your system after you hadn't had it like at all? Honestly, like I went all in. I didn't even ease myself in. We'd literally just had brunch. I was actually in Copenhagen at the time. We'd just finish brunch. I said to my boyfriend, I was like, can we go and get a burger?

And he's like, we've just eaten brunch. How are you hungry? He's like, great. And he gets to wear another outfit, though. Yeah, he puts his other outfit on. So, yeah, I had like a full blown burger straight away. And I had no reactions, no bad reaction. I think, though, when you have arthritis and you're so, when you were so young and you have

all this inflammation, I can understand why you would be so. extreme to cut everything out and then add it back in slowly to see what your intolerances were. Looking back, can you pinpoint what those were? Well, dairy really had an impact on my acne. What kind of dairy was? Were you mostly? So because I was in Switzerland, that's like their diet is basically dairy and meat. So I had to kind of cut everything out.

But like cheese, milk, cream. I also cut out eggs. so I was just trying like manically trying everything and anything. I even went on Raracotane and it didn't work twice. And Rorakotane is, do you call it Raraketan? I think we call it Accutane. Acutane, yeah. It's so strong.

It is strong, huh? I haven't heard a lot about it, what people's experience, but I've heard it is so strong. They put a lot of young kids on it too, right? What are the reactions to that? You get crazy dry lips. Like they're like bleeding. Oh, that ain't going to work for us, Lauren. I need those lips moving.

Flushes lips. Yeah. I can't have some chappy, ashy lip. Chappy lips. It's seriously like cracked bleeding lips. You get dry eyes. A lot of people feel depressed. I didn't really know the difference between having depression because I was covered in spots or feeling low on the, you know what I mean?

I know. It's kind of like, pick your poison. For me, it just didn't work. During the time I was on it, it worked. Like, you never get a single spot when you're taking it. And then some people never get a spot back. Like, my brother went on it and never had another spot ever again. I don't see a spot on your skin, though.

No, I do have spots. I don't see a spot. Okay, maybe it's a microphone. You guys go watch the YouTube. There's no spots. Also, Carson, this has to be noted. This is not a spot. My son scratched my face.

That's a spot. He grabbed me the other day and just dug his ears in there. You have also shavings from your beard. all over your t-shirt that looks like you shaved your cubes and I don't know what's going on that is not hot I knew we're going to be on camera today yeah okay how do you by the way cut our kid's fingernail we keep going how do you decide to start a swim line so I oh another thing about my childhood I guess is I had done every single job under the sun like anything you can think of I had done it I'd worked in a Chinese restaurant

in makeup, all these different things. I actually worked in makeup when I was having the arthritis, so that was a problem. I couldn't pick up the brushes, everything. It was this whole thing. And then I went to media, so I worked for the New York Times magazine, Cosmopolitan, all these different magazines. Then I met this guy, my ex, who I moved to Switzerland for. So he was like, come to Switzerland with me, you know, we'll figure out when you get here.

But I loved working. So I was thinking, okay, I've just come from working. in cosmopolitan, this like fun fashion magazine. And now I'm in, it wasn't even like Zurich, which is probably the London of Switzerland. It was like this small town in Switzerland. So I just thought, okay, I'm going to do this swimwear brand. So that's when I created it then. And how did you even go about that? I literally just sat at my dining table, found everything, Googled, everything. I was like Googling, like anything you can possibly think of. I was typing into Google. I knew,

Nothing. I was so naive, but I think sometimes it's good to be naive because had I not had I known what I knew I knew afterwards, I would never have done it. Well, I think the it's the swim line is so interesting to me because I think it probably gave you a lot of tools to where you are now. Because even when I see your Instagram, like you're doing a lot of similar things that you just said. Like I see you doing dye lines and like I can see you coming out with your own workout line and you have this platform. So it's almost like you had to get through the swim. line to get to the other side to your own brand. Yeah, completely. I feel like the swimwear company was like the practice run. Do you know what I mean? So I made loads of expensive mistakes. I did some

achieve some really cool things as well. I mean, I was stocked in Harvey Nichols. I had like 19 stores in the UAE that I was stocked in. We did some cool things, but it was, I think you have to be completely into it, invested in what you do. Obviously, you guys know that. And I just wasn't really that into it. I think I just liked the idea. And yeah. What was the moment of self-awareness where you were like, I don't want to be doing this?

This isn't the right direction for me. And how did you pivot? I'm trying to think what moment it was because it was quite gradual. I started at the same time. I started corporate wellness business. So I still had the swimwear. Then I launched this corporate wellness business that was. that was basically taking loads of therapists and meditation practitioners, yoga, Pilates teachers,

and obviously supplying them to offices in London's. Cool. Yeah, it was so cool. I loved it. And then COVID hit, basically. So all the offices closed. Yeah, it wasn't kind of like a harsh ending because I kept it going the whole time until then I was just, like you could probably even look on the website now.

Everything's just out. You just slowly kind of wound it down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. there was never like, I'm pretty sure it's still alive. So then how do you move into this corporate wellness situation and your swim to what you're doing now? Did COVID make you stop and look at what you were doing and dissect it and be like, this is the path that I need to be on? Yes. So we obviously were hiring this

kind of like amazing group of people in London to then provide them to different business like Barclays and LinkedIn and all these different places. So I wanted to know that people were like really on it really good. So I, we were obviously trying to look for yoga teachers and Pilates teachers and I was thinking, I really want to do this. I could do this myself. So, but just for myself, I had no intention with the business. But I just thought, I'm going to take my certification now because I've been doing it for so long. I think I can just do it for myself as a hobby as like kind of an achievement. So that kind of spurred me on to do that. Then we went into lockdown and all the offices closed. So our business went to zero, like overnight. Did London go into full

lockdown? Full lockdown. So like one day to the next, no one was going into their offices. No one was like leaving their house. It was intense. And how long did that stay like that? For like pretty much a year. When did we get over there last? We went over there and it was still kind of going on. I don't remember. God, that, you must have been, it must have been. It must have a while since you guys have been to life. Yeah, maybe 21. Yeah, I could use a London trip. Yes.

It definitely wasn't at the end. It might have been at the end of 2020. I have a question in the midst of what you're telling me. Were you taking Pilates and into Pilates all the time? Is that how this transpired? Yes. So I was always going back. I would do like a hype at like a hype class or a different exercise.

And then I'd be like, okay, that's not working for me. Go back to Pilates. Because it raises your cortisol. And I feel like this is so weird. I feel like it makes me gain weight. Yeah. That's like raising my cortisol, raising my cortisol. Yeah, completely.

And because my inflammation levels are already so high, it was just through the roof. So I was doing all these different things and then finding myself going back to Pilates. So I just thought, okay, I just, and then any time I was kind of needing to, I don't know, also kind of as a mindfulness practice for myself, just to calm myself down, I would go back to Pilates. Or if I was going through a challenging time, I'd go back. So then I took my certification and then we decided to create this online portal for our corporate clients. So we got all of our practitioners to record for us and we did like this kind of makeshift homemade app, but it wasn't an app like a website of videos for them to like subscribe their employees to. It kind of didn't really work. I mean they liked the idea, but it.

It was just, there's so many options out there. So they were just like, no. So basically income went to zero. Then my mom got diagnosed with cancer. So I'm like, okay, I've got no money. My mom is now really sick. And so my mom and dad are separated, but they get on really well. So for lockdown, me, my mom and my dad all moved in together.

So I was like looking after my mom. I hope so as that. You're so sweet. You were looking after your mom. Yeah, but it was, now I look back. I just think it's some of the most special times. It's just so funny. My dad was online dating and you know that you, you know, you could only meet up in

supermarkets during COVID. My dad was online dating in COVID. My dad would like meet. Because you couldn't go anywhere besides the supermarket. Besides the supermarket. So my dad would be like, I'm just meeting Sally and waitress. Which in hindsight? By the way, we're not going to be living in a house together with Zaza and you're meeting girls at the supermarket.

I'll be like, listen. I'm like, shh, shh, meet me at the H-EB. Yeah. I'll be the guy in the hat. So was your mom fine with him meeting Sally at the supermarket? So fine. Like me, he would do these Zoom calls and they were like Zoom dates. It's actually just heartbreaking.

So me and my mom would, he would like go into his office and do these Zoom calls with his date. online. He's actually going to kill me for saying this. I think it's so sweet. And then me and my mom would creep up the stairs and hear him going. Like, so, Lisa, what kind of music is you interested? But I picture your dad as like a super suave English gentleman in a suit. Is that like, am I picturing the right guy? Yeah, that's kind of the vibe. Yeah. What was it like when you definitely think so? I feel like he would be like dressed up for that Zoom, you know? Are you picturing yourself. No, I swear to you, he would be wearing like shorts and then a shirt. Yeah. That was the vibe. So my mom was just, just finding it so funny. And he'd show my mom like,

what do you think of this woman, Suzanne? And what do you? And she was like, oh, she looks lovely. And I was just listening to these conversations. And then anyway, no. He then obviously my mom started her treatment and he was like, I'm definitely not dating or online dating anymore. Like, it's just about that. But anyway, so we live. together in lockdown. And this is kind of like I feel like I went really deep on health and wellness during that time because my mom was so sick and she she just taught me so much in that time. But she was obviously really struggling. She was having chemo every week. Normally you have it once a month. Wow.

She was having it every week and she's just so strong. So I was Googling every possible thing that I could give her and I discovered Chaga, which was like, I mean, you can't say the claims because who really knows, but I read that it was anti-cancer and it was just the new thing that so I'd be like... You're saying that about a lot of mushrooms now. It's crazy. And I know, you can't say it. I'm saying it. I'm saying it.

Of course you're saying. You know, Lauren's exactly, I'm saying it. But I swear, it was just incredible. And I think actually, if you're going to go down the mushroom and the chaga route, I was brewing her homemade child gut. I would get the stones. I don't know if you've seen, obviously you can get the powder,

add it in. I was like doing back to basics because I thought that was the most potent thing. So you have to brew it for hours. So I would do this every day and literally spoon feed her and she would be like, Brian, I hate this.

This tastes like shit. I'm like, mom, it's fine. So I'd add cacao to it, maple syrup. I'd try and make it a bit nicer. So I, and then I was researching like oregano oil, all these different things I could give her and try and then only organic cooking every single meal from scratch. And yeah, so that's when I really went all in with health and wellness, routine,

everything. What is that like for your mental health to be in your house during COVID with both your parents? Your mom has cancer and you're trying to help her. That's a lot of pressure. Yeah. So I, it was, I don't want to say it was so hard because it's like it was not about me. It's about her. But I found it so. difficult to what I really wanted, I wished I had it, not her. I just couldn't bear, bear going through it with her. So I kind of got, or went through a period, I don't want to say I got depression, because I don't think I got depression, but I went through a period of feeling a dark cloud on me, like, constantly. And I would just burst into tears. And I never

cry. Like, my boyfriend's seen me cry once. I never, never cry. And I was just constantly crying so weak no energy and so I was like okay I had this one weekend where I went to so my mom has an apartment in London it's probably like against the lockdown rules but whatever she had an apartment in London so I said to my dad please can you just go and stay at moms I just need to be alone for the whole weekend and I was it was like the lowest time ever so I just stayed in bed all weekend like literally didn't leave my bed all the curtains were closed was like just dark time. And I remember listening to a Jay Shetty podcast and it was like your mental health ingredients list or something along those lines. Like you have to write down what is going to make

you feel good and what is going to get you through this time. So I wrote this like manically. I was like, okay, waking up early doing this, doing that hot and cold therapy, whatever. So meditation Pilates and then literally that next day I just stuck to this routine every single day. For how long? For the whole time. Like kind of even until now. I think that time was interesting because I think people were struggling for an assortment of reasons.

Yours is an extreme reason. But I feel like people either went super in to mental health and physical health or they went the other direction unfortunately. And like kind of just said like fuck it, let the wheels fall off. Yeah, there was there was a two. It was two camps, yeah. Yeah, I'm not saying that to make anybody feel bad. I just, like, it's in our case, same thing.

I was like, okay, this is the time to get your health in order, right? Like, you had downtime. We just had a kid. But it was weird because it's almost like, to your point, there was two camps. And if you were so health focused and then people you knew were focused in the other direction or just were putting that as like a non-priority anymore, I feel like you got to see a lot of people go down the spiral and get, unhappier, more stressed and more anxious. And then the other people that kind of put the other stuff as a priority kind of went the other direction and got better after it. Does that make sense?

Yeah, definitely. Like sometimes I honestly miss it. Yeah. Which is such a weird thing to say, but I see that. I get what you're saying. By the end of it, I felt, I mean, I was ready, obviously, to come out of lockdown, but I felt I just had this new outlook on life. And actually, my mom, watching my mom go through this, I think has given me this superpower where I just don't feel nerves like I used to or nothing really scares me like it used to because nothing actually matters that much more than your health. Yeah. And I think, and you take, I think that's so true. And taking it a step beyond that when you see somebody you love that's sick, so you have a kid or a parent or whatever, it takes a lot to rattle you in other things that aren't as significant.

Like, for example, if I'm running a business, but I've seen a parent get sick or a grandparent die or my kid get sick. Like somebody's saying, hey, the numbers are off or P&L or this person quit or this. It doesn't, it just is like, okay, because comparing it against something that really matters, not something the business doesn't matter. But it's like water for ducks back. You're just more resilient to those things. You're just like, okay. You just, do you stay calm and you've, you kind of feel like you'll find a solution. Yeah, it's why I think it's good for people to go through, I mean, it's inevitable, but to go through a traumatic or terrible thing at some point because you develop,

it puts things that maybe aren't as significant in perspective. Yeah. And it helps you focus on what's really important. I really, really, too. I lost my mom at 18. And ever since then, I have that same mentality that you have. Yeah. Where it's like, it's just not that big of a deal.

Yeah. Nothing is a big deal. And so when you can have that, it is a superpower. As hard as it is to go through, it's like you really can sort of use it to your advantage. Yeah. How is your mom today? She's much better. Thank you.

Yes, she's doing much better. So she's still eating her mushrooms? No, she's not. I think that's the best part. She's like, I don't ever want to see those mushrooms ever again. But yeah, she's loads better. And actually she's doing Pilates like seven days a week. It's crazy.

she had no, she had no strength whatsoever. So when she was doing her treatment, her bones were so sensitive. She couldn't like stand up off the floor kind of thing. And now she's like doing my challenges and it's just so, honestly, it's incredible. And I feel like it is so healing movement in that kind of scenario. Like every day, she would go, she would force me to go with her for a walk for two hours every day. And I'm like, how do you have that drive, that energy? You could so easily say, I said to her, I was like, do you ever think why me?

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why me? I can't, you know, how could this happen to me? And his point was like, it's just such a useful, or not useful, a useless emotion. It doesn't make you better. It doesn't make you feel better. It doesn't help those around you. And so he was talking about how when you're going through something terrible no matter what it is, like that self-pity is not going to help you get out of whatever situation.

It's going to just make it worse and make you feel worse. completely and I think self-pity like feeds itself doesn't it it grows and it's kind of just this toxic disease in itself and yeah she definitely taught me I mean she would she would walk home from chemo she would do four hours of chemo and walk an hour and a half home straight from the hospital I'm just like it's amazing it's probably healing to be outside to walk to move I mean that's yeah exactly I mean it's very smart I think so so yeah you're right the self-pity. I mean, we all have those moments, but I think, yeah, the lesson that I've learned in all of that is that you just have to have resilience and mindset. Your mind is so incredibly

powerful and it can't be kind of underestimated. I totally agree with you. I have my mindset tapes that I listen to in the morning. Michael's like, what are you? I'm going to send you all of them. It's like, I don't mind them. Hold on. The latest one that I'm listening to. It is a little, like, sometimes the voices are a little bit. I'm going to send them all to you. No, no, no. This one, the latest that I'm listening to is dissolving barriers.

Oh. Okay? And it's really good. Who's it by? It's by Louise Hay. I love Louise Hay. Love. See, I read her books really saved me in that time.

I keep telling everyone, I'm like, heal your life. Please just buy this $2 book. I know. So healing. I think I read them all. He'll heal your life. heal your mind, heal your body.

Whatever was healing, I was fine. When you're going through a tough time or you're feeling depressed, like reading is the best thing ever. Yeah. And not because of many reasons people think. It's great to get the information. But I think what I found is reading is the only thing that's able to take me out of my own head and put me in somebody else's to get it in perspective.

Yeah, that's interesting. You know what I mean? Like if you're going through the day, the mind is crazy and you're just thinking all your own thoughts. But when you read, you're thinking somebody else's thoughts. And it helps you like literally if you're going to take your mind out of your own head and put it somewhere else. You look outside yourself. Yeah.

And you kind of absorb all of those thoughts. And yeah, it's so good reading. I think sometimes you meet people that don't read and I'm like, oh, you're missing out on so much. Such a big part. You know what I call those people? No, Michael, don't even. You're missing out on a huge part of life if you don't read. That's my, I love it.

I stand by it. Sorry. I think it's amazing. Yeah. And there's so much, I mean, obviously you pay for books, but there's so much free content now that you can just, that we have access to. It's such a shame to not, to not do that. I'm not going to say what I call those people. No. It's not good. It's not nice. What point do you start aggressively posting on Instagram and when you are having

this low where you're in your bed, you're in your house, the curtains are closed. Did you have this idea conceptualized or was this something that you sort of just fell into naturally? So not at all. I, um, During COVID, I was just teaching friends on Zoom or FaceTime, whatever. We're kind of just like working out together. It wasn't like a thing. I wasn't saying, guys, I'm practicing. I'm going to be a teacher now. It wasn't like that at all.

I think my mind was just completely on my mom and on health and wellness and just being strong, basically. So then we came out of lockdown. I think it was March 21. This is also quite funny. I was broke, like completely broke in lockdown, right until. I didn't teach my first online class until May 21 group class. I like that you're honest about this because so many people come on and they don't tell that part.

No, I'll tell you so many things. I was so broke. I went to go and get night nurse, which is basically like a night paracetamol. One night I had like a cold or whatever. This is just as we were going into lockdown. And my car declined and it was like $6.99. I was really broke. I mean, luckily I had my parents to stay with and, you know,

And then the government was doing all these different grants and things. But because my business was so young, they weren't supporting, like it was under the whatever the threshold was. So then they were giving me 400 pounds a month. That was the support. So I was like, okay, well, I'll take it. And then when we came out of lockdown, I was like, okay, I'm just going to slowly but surely start teaching people privately and be able to afford rent to move back to London.

And then the government called me and was like, oh, by the way, we've just discovered you have a savings account that's just over the threshold. So we actually need you to pay all that money back. Oh, God. I know. And it was something like 6,000. I, like, my world was over. And this was 2021. I remember calling my mom.

I was like, man, the government call me. I owe him 6,000. I was on the phone to, I think it's HMRC. I was on the phone to them. I was going, so you're telling me, I've been smart with my money and I've saved and you're punishing me. Like I really was so passionate about it. Anyway, so I had nothing. So I had to build from the ground up. Then I taught my first group class in May 21. So yeah, that was like not long ago. No, it wasn't long ago. And I think what's so impressive is you're going from broke where you have to pay the government's $6,000 to where you're you are now, I mean, there's a lot of hard work that's happened. What have you done? If someone's listening and they're in a position where they feel broke, they feel helpless, what you've done in the last three years is incredible. So talk to us about how you started, how you launched, the steps,

all the tools that you've used to build up your business and yourself. So I started on Zoom, which is like the cost of a Zoom membership is nothing. I also had a booking system, which was 40 pounds a month. So I literally had that, my tripod and a mat. And I did all my classes from my kitchen floor because I had a studio apartment. So if you're in the fitness industry, there is no excuse not to start. You can start from nothing and you can just gift your time. You could work a full-time job and then on Monday nights and Wednesday nights do an hour class, get people to sign up, pay and that can be your side hustle. And you can build up like that. And you can build up like that. I had 10 people on my first Zoom class. I was so nervous. I always say I felt like I was like

going live in Wembley Arena. It was that serious, that first Zoom class. I was thinking, oh my God, I was like overthinking everything, checking everything. And then it just started to snowball. And I gifted my time. So I gifted a couple of people. I remember Nadine Leopold was one of my first clients. She is the client that kind of turned things around for me. I had met her briefly in passing once. She was

a Victoria Secret Angel. She's just beautiful. Such a nice person. And I taught her. And I said, please can I just teach you? And, you know, she had nothing to lose. For free. You just said, yeah. And then from then, it's snowballed. So then I got her, I trained her sister-in-law,

Jenna, Zoe, who you guys have Yeah, she came on the podcast. You like Jenna. Yeah, I love Jenna. She's one of my best friends. Jenna then introduced me to Kenzie. Kenzie then, you know, it all has this knock on effect, and it can happen so quickly. Like if you're passionate and you're hardworking and you have a good product or your service, whatever you're doing, it can happen so quickly the snowball effect.

So then people were sharing, and I think I'm lucky that Pilates is a bit of a trend, so people want to post them doing Pilates. the morning and then my Zoom classes were 100 people every time consistently wow then it was like okay because I remember seeing joining some Zooms in lockdown of other trainers and then because I love business my mind is so business focus so I joined this Pilates class and this girl had like 60 people and I was thinking wow like this is a real business she's she's doing so then I was getting 100 and then I thought okay I need to do a January challenge because January is the time to really capture everyone's attention, really go all in. So I was on holiday with my mom actually and I said 10, and I was doing well because I had private clients and I had the Zoom and I would only take a

private client on if they did 10 sessions a month. I wouldn't do any less. Smart. Because I thought, I want quality over quantity. If they do 10 sessions with me, a month, their bodies will completely change. So I was training people that had just had a baby, and then all of a sudden they had the best bodies of their life. And it just really, really quickly kind of gained traction. It was just so exciting. So then I thought, okay, I'm going to do this January challenge, and I'm going to charge a lot of money because I'm going to do five live classes on Zoom a week. So it was like 25 for the whole month. And I charged 200 pounds. So I thought if I can just get 100 people to do this, then, you know, that's a really good amount of money for the month.

It's a good amount of people sharing each day or whatever. And then I had 550 people sign up. So I was like, okay, this is, this is great. I've gone from being completely broke to making like more than I've ever made in a whole year ever, like times five in one month. You can pay the government back? I'm like, yeah, fuck you. Yeah, so then I was like, wow, and then it got so crazy. Bearing in mind, I was doing, so I was doing it live, but then recording it at the same time, then uploading it to vimeo.com doing like a, it was so manual.

I had to manually enter everyone's email because the systems weren't set up for this type of thing. It was a mess because the booking system wasn't linked in Vimeo. So then more and more people were signing up, paying 200 for two weeks into this. challenge. So I'm like, guys, there's no point in signing up. I remember because I couldn't do it. I couldn't do more than I was doing. I remember posting like, wait for the next one. Like, there's no point signing up now. People were still signing up. So it was just like the power of Instagram and word of mouth. And then people with, and I was just going to do the January challenge and didn't really know what else to do after that. And then people were saying, well,

what's the February challenge? I was thinking, what's the February challenge? I don't know. I don't know, but it's going to be something. So then I created this like love Pilates challenge, two weeks to love Pilates. So then did that. And then I had even more people sign up. Then I did a March challenge. And then I'm like, okay, they're going to start getting like a bit of fatigue here.

So I need to do an app. So then in March, I recorded 50 classes. Because I was like, I don't have time to waste here. I need to get on this. How long does that take you? How many days? Well, it took the whole month, but I would do like crazy filming days where I do eight classes in one day.

Is your body dead after that? Yeah. I was so tired. It was, and I had all my private clients at the same time, all the people doing 10 a month. So I'm like, I've just told them they have to do 10 a month. That's a lot of working out. So I honestly was so burnt out, but I'm the kind of person that's so fueled by doing

what I love. So I was like, I don't care if I'm doing all hours of the day. and then I launched the app in the summer of 21. So what's that? Probably July, 2021. Yeah. Because then it takes time to then go to Apple and then do all these different things and build the app.

And then the app's done so well. So it's just been from literally nothing. And everyone I talk to that wants to kind of get into this, I'm like, listen, if you are in the fitness industry, we're so lucky we can do this like you can easily do this if you're if you're passionate and you're good at what you do you're you're a likable person you really believe in it then you can make a really good living i think a lot of people want to just be forever students they want to just keep asking questions and reaching out to people through dms and reading the books and

some will want to go back to school whatever it is yeah sometimes you just got to throw it to the fucking wall and just let it fly and let it rip. A hundred percent. And who, like I read this thing. I think it was from the Shopify CEO, I want to say. That failure is just the discovery of something that didn't work. Exactly. So just go for it and see, you know, try it, test it.

My testing was Zoom and then it built up. You know, I wouldn't just go straight into an app. Do do what you can and do it now. Part of what I like doing about this, part of what the things about this show is, I think we try to indirectly show how many people have come on with not your story, but a similar story. It was like, there is no credentials. There's no permission. There's really not an expertise. It's just people that decided to do something without permission and take the leap and chance and how many people have become successful from this.

So even if you look at this podcast, like same thing. Like, Lauren and I just started doing this out of our living room. did you. Like that's it. It was just like we bought some shitty equipment and a mic and we started talking and it was terrible in the beginning and probably eight people. Do you still have that? The first one. No, we still have it. It's still if you go to you. It's on YouTube. If you search our first episode, you'll see it. It's a disaster. We're literally just sitting in our kitchen. But my point is, is like when I go around and I talk now at conferences or Lauren or we get asked to speak places, there was no there was not like, hey, I studied this and then read this book and did this. I sure have done that along the way. But it was literally like we just started doing. something. It was not great in the beginning. Eight people listened. It snowballed. Now we have this show and a bunch of other shows and a business. But like the point is, I think so many people, to Lauren's point is just they just want to learn and study and go to school. No, they're using the, no, they're using the studying and the forever student as an excuse not to execute. Yeah. Or not just they could be, you know, I don't want to say the word lazy, but it's, it's sometimes it can be like

lack of confidence, which I definitely had, you know, maybe a little bit of laziness, lack of discipline. And I think you have to have a lot of discipline. People say this motivation thing all the time. Like, how do you feel motivated? I don't always feel motivated, but I have discipline. I have drive and determination. And I'll just, you have to do hard things sometimes.

Yeah. I also think you have to look at the long-term vision. So when you wake up every single day, if you don't feel motivated, at least you can look towards your compass of the long-term vision to be like, okay, I still have to put the work in because I'm still chipping away towards the long-term vision. When you have that long-term vision, it's really helpful in the micro-moments during a random Tuesday where you just don't feel like doing anything. Yeah. It helps the perspective. The problem I have with like the whole manifesting thing is like, to your point, you can't just put it out there and oh, it might happen. Like you say,

you have to chip away at it every single day and do small actionable steps to get to that. You can't just say, you know, oh, I want to put it out there. You could be the smartest, most educated, most credentialed person in the world. And somebody with none of those credentials and none of that education can come and eat your lunch by just taking action. And I think that's what I try to tell people all the time. There is, you know, we just got asked to speak at a nice school out here, a school that would have just thrown my application in the trash. I was kidding. And it wasn't lost on me and I was sitting there like all these kids are sitting here and they spent all this money and they're trying to learn this thing. And then they have some dumber like me come in who's like never would have gone to that school, never got in. I just did. I just went and did something. And I'm not saying that to brag. I'm just like what I wanted to tell them was like, hey, like of course finish your education, do that especially if you paid. But like the biggest thing after this is go take the actionable step to go and do something. Nobody's going to teach your way into success. Yeah. I couldn't agree more. And I, I think actually some people are really not suited to the education.

Like, I actually went to university part-time so I could work full-time. And so I have a degree. I couldn't, I was talking with my boyfriend last night about this. I couldn't tell you one thing I learned on that. I'm the same way. I'm just like, not one thing. Like, unless I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer, like, education after school was just really not for me in that sense.

But I'm so curious to love. learn every day in like reading and podcast and speaking to people and being around inspiring people. But sitting in a classroom, I was just like really bad in school, really, really bad. That makes all three of us. And by the way, if you're good at school, that's amazing. But it's just like school is definitely not for everyone. It's just not the way some of us learn. And it also doesn't shape your future.

No. No. And I've said, I think some of the difficulty with school. And the academics sometimes get really frustrated with me saying this. But school teaches you to either pass or fail and get a score. And if you don't get a great score, it's a failure. If you do, it's a pass. And I think what people don't realize is, like, in a career, in an entrepreneurial endeavor,

like, it's mostly fail until you get the path. It's like, and you have to be okay. And the failure is a good thing, actually. Because that makes you perfect and tweak the product at the end. Totally. Totally. So it's like you're going to have daily failures, but it's coming back from those and being like, okay, well, maybe we'll go down this route then, or that was good to know.

We'll do something different. And that's fine. But if you're taught that failure is a bad thing and then you start something and it doesn't go right the first time, which 99.9% won't. And you're looking like, oh, this is bad. I'm a failure. And that's kind of the system you've come up in for 20 years. I think it's really hard to break out of that mindset.

Where for me, like, I was always such a fuck up in school that it was like, that's just that's the norm. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I bet no one that meets you to believe that. They're just like, how did you achieve this without, you know? But yeah, it just goes to show, doesn't it? I have to ask you, the queen of Pilates.

What is the difference between Matt and Reformer? You mentioned that in 10 sessions, people would see their body completely transformed. Talk to us a little bit more about that and what the transformation's coming from. So just to not go too deep and bore you, but you also have, you don't just have Matt and reformer, you have classical and contemporary. And what are you? I'm classically trained, but my method is classical and contemporary, which doesn't really exist because Pilates world is a little bit, you know, kind of like in ballet, I guess.

I can't speak for ballet. I don't want to offend anyone that's into ballet. how it's a bit more snobby, like, oh, well, you don't mix contemporary. I think the results come from that combination. So classical is basically a repertoire designed by Joseph Pilates, who's a German anatomist, who is incredible. He's honestly just like a, he's just the most creative with the body person ever. And he created this repertoire, but it's so boring,

after a while. But your body feels amazing. It feels so strong. Your spine is so healthy. He always says you're only as young as your spine is. So if you, you know, if you're super stiff or whatever. But after a while, you will get so bored. And you also get incredible results from the burn of contemporary Pilates and the pulses and the, you know, that shape. So you mix it together. So I mix it together. So I'll flow from a real staple classical moves. straight into a contemporary button. So I think that's what makes the class is so hard. They are really hard classes.

Are you going to do Pilates with me? I need a machine or is this not a machine? I would die to teach you to. My boyfriend is he's obsessed with the gym. Why don't you teach us Pilates in St. Bartz? Yes, done. We'll do that. Is it a machine?

No, no, no, no. Say yes. Let her teach us Pilates. I'm not saying it's going to be pretty. Well, don't come in your fucking skirt kilts that you wear. Because no one wants to see your balls floating in that weird position. You'd be surprised. No, we'll do that.

Definitely. We want to learn Pilates from you in the same parts with like a mat. I want the bands. We'll do the whole thing. Wait, hold on. Just for the uninitiated myself, the uneducated, this is not something where you need one of those crazy machines with like ropes on the scene? No, not at a reformer, right?

That's a performer, which is also amazing. But I think there's a confusion between a classical reformer class versus a legree. class. Legree is not Pilates. Did I do LaGree one time with you? So like a mega format and degree. That's not technically Pilates. You'll have an amazing workout, but technically it's different. You know what? Lauren is probably sitting there thinking, oh, I'm doing, weightlifting for so long and all the other stuff. But I was thinking, I'm like, people that do Pilates like yourself, the core is so strong. And as I get older, I want the back to be really strong. And like, I'm carrying all these kids. Also, we weightlift. And so it's a

perfect yin in you. This is why I'm excited to train you because I'm going to correct your body. So you're going to get 10 times more out of your weight training. It makes a ton of sense when you say it. Like when I think about it like that, I'm not like, oh, Pilates. I think a lot of men are maybe resistant. I'm signing up for the app the second you leave. I'm so excited. I'm signing up for the app and I want a Pilates class. Yeah. I would I would get torn apart if I don't switch to beauty routines morning. I think people are going to like like kill me. But I'm in for the Pilates. Yeah, we're doing that. You're in a hold you to them. Yeah, because I like the idea of strengthening the core and the fly.

I cannot wait to film. I promise you and your weight training are going to feel incredible. The difference. You're going to be surprised when I'm going to bring the kilt. We need to bring the kilt. No, the kilt is too much. It's like this weird creepy kilt. Like, why did you wear a kilt? It's so weird. I don't wear a fucking killed. What are you talking about? What is horrific? Hold on. What. Whatever those weird Peter Pan shorts are with those sack down the left. Oh, no, there's no sack down the lake. Yes, there is. Wait, which ones are you talking about?

I can't even put it on Instagram story. They'll take it down. Guideline like... Oh, maybe I do have some pretty tight shot. Yes, I know. I'll keep it appropriate. It's okay. My dad has a green thong.

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know what I mean? When I wear it, I commit to it. And I've been trying to slowly replace some of my products with non-toxic makeup. And a line that I am loving right now, you've seen it on my Instagram story, is Toops and Co. They have a skincare and makeup line, and it's 100% natural. They only use organic ingredients like grass finished tallow, organic botanicals, and organic cold press plant oils. They never use synthetic chemicals, toxins, fillers, artificial colors, or synthetic fragrances. I really, really like their lip gloss, especially because, lip gloss is on your lips and I just feel like I'm drinking coffee, I'm having matcha, maybe a cocktail, some water and it's just I don't want the lip gloss to constantly be near my lips. So I got

their clear lip gloss. I really, really like it. It takes any like pain points out of it for me. All of their products have essential fatty acids to balance the skin's microbiome. They also have this baby wash that I use on my kids. So what I'll do is I'll fill up like a tub of water for the I'll put some toys in there and then I'll use their baby wash in the bathtub and then I'll actually also use it on a sponge. Visit Toops & Co and use Code Skinny at checkout for 15% off your first purchase. That's Toopsandco.com use code skinny for 15% off your first order. Routines. I feel like you, I think one of the reasons I was drawn to you in the first place is I love routines. And I think that I could tell by going to your page that you're similar.

Michael, sorry, I need to hear the morning routine and the nighttime routine. Okay. So I am such a routine girl. I have to say I've become a little bit more relaxed in the last year, I would say, with my routine, which I think is a good thing. And that probably comes from the boyfriend that always wants to go out. But I think it's at a healthy level. So my morning routine is basically, I wake up at six. I have to have a very slow morning.

And this, can I just say, this is, this, what I'm about to say is not going to be groundbreaking. You've probably, there's probably so many people rolling their eyes. And it's going to sound wanky and very luxurious. We love winky. But I have to do it because I have the arthritis and I want to be strong in my body and feel good. So this is kind of what I'm lucky enough to do every morning. So wake up early, have a slow start. Make my matcher, cloudcha, matcha, by the way.

I sit there. I do the whole process of making the matcha 80 degrees Celsius. I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit. Carson, look it up. Anyway, so it has to be 80 degrees, by the way. If you go high, you're going to burn the matreter. It's not going to taste good. And it's not going to have the health benefits.

I'd love a matcho when I wake up. 176. You're pretty close. Okay. And just a pause. I actually am going to ask you because we didn't bring the macha here today. but I'm going to ask you to, when you go home to film an Instagram story, that's like a minute that I can put on my Instagram and Skinny Confidential podcast.

So people can go watch exactly how you make the matchup. Every time people come on, we give them like six jobs. I'm going to make notes. We'll send you. I actually swear I have a list. That's so sweet. Okay, so I make my matcha and I really just sit there and just sit in silence. No one else is awake.

I'm sitting there. It is so quiet. If you try and talk to me earlier, it's just not going to, you're not going to get anything out of me. So I sit there, have my moment. I love writing. So again, I know it's a cliche thing. Everyone's journaling now.

I love writing everything. Everything, I visualize. I do, I practice a lot of visualization. So I'll think every minute of something I have to do through in my head. And I'll also write it. So I'll do like a whole journaling thing. I meditate. Sometimes if I can't meditate, I'll do like breathwork after my workout, which you guys have to get into that.

It's so good to just put your body straight into recovery. So you work out and then you do breathwork? No, so in the morning after my matcher, I'll do some sort of like mindfulness practice. But if I haven't meditated, I'll definitely breathwork after my workout. What's the breathwork? So I have breathwork on my app, this guy Jamie. He is incredible. What kind of breathwork is it?

Is it like box breathing? Is it like a Wim Hof style? He does every time. He covers it all. Tomorrow morning this bitch is going to be making his mashat at 80 degrees. No. Journling doing his fucking box breathing. I'm going to be like,

I do Wimhoff breathing before meditation in front of my Jew of Red Light. That's what I do. I don't want to picture that either. That's enough enough. I don't know what you're. There's no guilt. There's no guilt. Yeah.

I just, listen, there's nobody around. I'll have to creep down. I didn't know you guys. Okay. Go on. So you're doing your breath. work by Jamie in the app. Yes, exactly.

Occasionally I'll do a sound bath, but that's more in the evening. But I have to do some sort of like mindfulness practice in the day. I'll, what else am I missing out? Oh, before my matcher, I'll take my probiotic. I take Simprove. I'm not sure if you have that here, but it's a liquid probiotic in the morning. So I'll do that first thing. Then wait 10 minutes, then have my matcher, then carry on.

If it's really healthy and really good, they don't let us have us. We don't get in America. We don't get anything. They're like, not for you guys. And then I will do a workout and then I'll do my sauna, infrared sauna, 20 minutes at 70 degrees Celsius. Again, I'm not sure. I guess that's like 160-ish, for 20 minutes and then I will jump in the ice bath. And I swear to you, I have no arthritis symptoms.

That's pretty cool. Yeah. So you have this morning that really supports you, having the arthritis. Yeah. Do you think that's the cold or the hot or the combination? I think it's mostly the infrared sauna because too much cold and it gets worse. Uh-huh.

But I think the contrast therapy really helps. What do you do in the ice bath? Do you go in for a minute? Do you go in for five minutes? What do you do? I don't time myself because it totally depends on the day. Like sometimes I'll get instant pain in my feet from the arthritis. Huh.

So I'm like, okay, like I can know. I'll just do what I can tolerate. That makes sense. But yeah, I'll do that pretty much six days a week. I have a weird question. I've never asked anyone this, but I feel like you're the perfect person to ask. What do you do with the hair in the ice bath? Are you dunking your head or are you putting in a shower cap?

No, but what I do do, I just pin it on my head. But every time I wash my, so then after the infrared, oh, and before that, I dry brush. So dry brush, infrared, infrared, sauna, ice bath. Dry brush. And I'm obsessed with the spoon, by the way. Oh, thank you. I know you. Oh, hang on.

The biggest part of my morning routine to mention is the ice roller. I swear, guys, I use the ice roller every day. I have it here. I've done it twice today, which is quite weird. It must feel good maybe on your arthritis or your inflammation. It feels so good on, well, I think it's helped with my acne. Oh, yeah. Well, for sure.

For sure. Well, I think two things have really helped. I have two or three matches every day, which is very, really high in vitamin C and E. No coffee. Never any coffee. It gives me too many jitters. If I had one espresso, I would be awake all night.

I just can't. Your boyfriend has 40 and he's like, sleep. Yeah, but some people can process caffeine better. He once, recently, he asked me to go and get his double espresso. He asked for two double espressoes in one thing. That's out of control. It's wild. And he's the most mellow guy you've ever met in your life.

I would be bouncing off the walls. Yeah, some people's genetics allow them to process caffeine in a... It's crazy. But the matcher has al-thianine, and that's why it levels you out. So that helps acne. And then you said, what else? And the ice roller. I think where I do my skincare, it opens my paws, then I do the ice roller, it closes my

paws. Huh. So I'm sure it's helped with bringing down the inflammation. Your content that you filmed of the body sculptor was the most beautiful, aesthetically pleasing but also just like your body from Pilates with the with the

sculptor was just like I loved it oh that's so sweet well it's an incredible product like you've done it you've done it so well everything you guys do is good so you do your cold plunge do the cold plunge do the shower oh yeah tell us about the hair

then I go into the shower do quick warm shower and then I always finish on cold but I put my hair if I'm washing my hair I always put my head under the cold water for a long time. It's good for your scalp. Makes it so shiny. I wash my hair like once a year.

But when I do wash it, I put it under the cold. I don't think people realize how beneficial it is to heat your body up and then cool it down, heat it up, cool it down, and then let it heat itself back up on its own after getting out of the cold. Like that has to be good not only for the pores, but your entire lymph system. Like your entire muscular structure, everything. Yeah, absolutely. I think it's incredible and it's and it also just makes you feel amazing. You're on such a high for the rest of the day. So then I after that I will get ready and go into the office. I don't eat breakfast because I did not because I'm fasting. If I felt hungry I would eat breakfast earlier. I feel the same way. If I'm really hungry I eat but if I'm not hungry I'm just like it. Like this morning I had an early breakfast because I woke up hungry. Normally I don't get hungry till about half 10, 11. And night. Tell us. And then nighttime I will do. I'm really. I'm really. I'm really. I'm really. I'm really. I'm. I'm like a big warm person at night. So I love to have an Epson salt bath. That is incredible for any

inflammation or pain or anything. I swear by that. Again, I'll do the dry brushing before that bath. That's my dream. Yeah, that would be really cute for you to do it. Like, because I'm sorry, it's so ugly. It's, I ordered off the Amazon. Why is I no cute? I know. Yeah, so true. Go on. Anyway, so I have a bath. I have the CBD body oil, which I use afterwards. And I'll have like a bedtime tea or something like that. And I have a hot water bottle every single night on my stomach. Hot water bottle on your stomach. Yeah. It's like it. It's like a heavy. Like the red ones, like the old cartoon red ones? Like what an old lady would have? Yeah. Yeah. Like that every night. You hosted on your Instagram story? Yeah. It is. And I actually read something today about how that just

so soothed by this hot water bottle. It must be like a weighted blanket a little bit. It is. You have to send me the link to it's not like an actual water bottle though. It's like the like that like it's like I know it's not it's like a flat like rubber thing that you fill up yeah it's like the one the cartoon dog used to wear in the snow I'm gonna I trained Michael so well he's not allowed to turn a light on he's not he he's like falls or knocks his water bottle we're over we're moving on from that I'm gonna have my water bottle I mean you have to make that's like the nicest thing that's like the one thing that my boyfriend does for the day like he'll make the hot water he does that every night you make the coffee in the morning so you have to do the night at 80 yeah I'd like a macha that you

actually physically whipsed. She's going to show you how to make it. All right. Thanks for coming on the show. And then I want to end with the hot water bottle. And then again, I'm not being funny. And then the supplements, magnesium, you could, I, 5HTP, CBD. I, I'm a bit, magnesium is a must. I have that every day. Oh, creatine. I take a good one for you. Oh, that's good that you, I want you to talk about creatine because so many women are scared of creatine. Quickly though. I know. I do have a good one for you if you're taking, instead of taking the 5HTP. Yeah. If you did the Lthianine, the magnesium, and then there's something called Apigenin.

Okay. And if you take that combination together, you'll sleep all night consistently. And that's something about the 5HTP. I think that's good when you're getting sick. Okay. But sometimes you're like wake up in the middle of the night, you're like, oh, why am I awake? Like sometimes I think, but the Apogenin will keep you sleeping with that. Oh, I'm going to take it all the other stuff.

And what I've been interested in taking Lthianine on its own because I want to see what it's like without the match. Obviously, I'm having it throughout. the day, but. I had another one for you. If you take GABA at night, GABA, with the L-theonine, and glycine, two grams of glycine.

You'll sleep. Okay, but how many things am I? Because I'm all about now. Now I'm like obsessed with blue zones. I'm trying to simplify my life. There is a company called Momentus. Momentus. Which does.

It's a sleep pack. And he just creates these sleep packs. It is genius. And it has the three, it has three things of magnesium, Elthianine, and the apogeninin. And one,

you just, that's it. Okay, I'm going to do that. They don't have the headache of like buying 18 things. Oh, I love this. Momentous. I'm going to do that as soon as I get home. Okay, go back on the routine.

We need to hear your routine. We know your routine. I'm telling you. I'm creating creatine. So I have been taking creatine now for a few months and it's incredible. I love it too. Honestly, I think everyone should take it, especially if you are vegan. It's crazy because it's one of the one supplements that everyone probably should take.

but people are scared of it. Women are scared of it. I take it every time I work out. I love it. Every time. Because they're scared of bloating and getting water weight, but I promise you, if that happens to you,

it's a short-term thing, but I don't even think it would happen. You could also put it in your macha because it doesn't taste like anything. I add it, I like to have it with fruit because it makes the creatine, it makes the uptaking creatine higher.

So if you add it like I have it with my shake, which I put a banana. You know why people think it makes you bloated though? Because so men and weightlifters have been taking creatine for like, I mean, I've been taking creatine since I was 12 years old. Yeah. It's just like a thing that guys know about. But a lot of guys that were in bodybuilding would take like 20, 30 grams of it a day. And then they would get that heat.

Yeah. And that's why women, yeah, people think like they're going to blow. But if you just take five. Yeah, five grams. That's what I do. And also it just makes you so like on it with the performance. It makes, it changed my body. I feel like it tightens the muscle to the skin.

It really does. Yeah. It's very good for your sleep and for your brain too. It's one of the most studied supplements. Yeah, it is. It's amazing. I don't know why. And I think Elfienin is going to have a big moment soon.

Michael's going to say it's because of him. Are you still having your raw milk, by the way? I have my raw milk and I have it in my matcha. I mean, it keeps on the down low. No, I'm going to make your match. Not that. Didn't people come for you? I don't care.

No, no, not that. I'm talking about the authorities. Like, I'm telling you, anytime we find out something's good for us in America, they're like, hey. Raw. Everyone has all these problems with their stomach from dairy, and it's because,

dare I say, I've talked to a lot of people, scientists, doctors, all the things behind the scenes. It's because you need to go back to raw milk. Don't quote me on this, but I do an inch in my coffee and I do, I probably do a half an inch in the matre,

broth it up, but you're going to tell me I need to do the, this thing. You've got to show me how to do that. I'm going to show you the whole thing. Yeah, and I'll put my raw milk, but then the rest is water. But it's true because I think with milk, people, that's like the one thing that people are consuming throughout the day that can really fuck with your insides, whether it's cow's milk

or plant-based milk. There are so many bad plant milks out there. It is crazy. Well, here's why I stopped with a lot of plant milk. I found that it could just be one ingredient or two ingredients. Yeah. That almonds are sprayed with a lot of pesticides. Yeah.

And that, so you're, so it says only. Glysofates. Yeah. So you're, you're consuming all that. And I have to tell you, I have lost weight drinking raw milk because I use it as a, like, a pre-workout. Yeah. It's like, mixed with the coffee or the matcha, it, like, gives you, like, a high because

you get the caffeine. And then you also get the protein in a little bit of carbs. And how does it taste? It's delicious. It's like creamy. Like, it's so good. I'm going to send you guys. A cow?

No. A cow for your garden. You can be milking your cow every day. I'm going to send you guys this milk that I've just invested in because I think you would love it. I would love to try it. What's it called? It's called Koji. And it has a, so it's a prebiotic naturally because it's got a fermented product from Japan.

inside. Sounds perfect. But it's sweet. Your kids would love it. I'd love to try it. It's unreal. But I think you're right with the milk. It completely messes with people's insides and hormones and spots and everything.

You can't say anything about milk on the internet. But think about this. I'm not going to talk about milk. I'm so passionate about milk. But if you think about like milk and meat and all these things that people get so riled up and enraged about it. I was like the way that all of our ancestors survived for thousands and thousands of years before we were here is like they had to have.

these things. Like there was no, there was no other alternatives, right? Like this is, like if you were living on a farm. Like the blue zones, kind of. Yeah. And I just find it hard to believe that raw milk is this terrible thing when like they didn't have pasteurization. Yeah. A thousand years ago. Like they did they had to drink the raw milk. And it was fine. And that's how they sustain themselves and that's they live. So I have, I find myself going back to all these things. Like, if it existed 500 years ago when people were doing it, it's probably okay. But who knows what kind of things we're doing to foods now. And that's this kind of stuff I still away. from. But then, and I agree with you, but playing devil's advocate, people would say to the likes of

me and you, well, why do you have to take supplements? They didn't have supplements back then. Sure, because they were eating, they were getting most of their supplements from the food. Yeah, and the ground was mineralized and the food. Yeah, I just. But I agree. I think there's actually going to be such a shift now back to basics. It's so interesting, isn't it? Everyone's vegan. My God is. I know. And now I'm like loving eating mince. My best friend, Faith, I'm calling you out, who was like vegan, vegan, vegan, vegan, text me yesterday and goes, what are the bee sticks that you eat? And I was like, what the fuck?

By the way, they are paleo-valli-beasticks. They are so good. And they're like 10 grams of protein. But it's just so interesting how it like shifts. Oh, we got a lot of people that were in that world that behind the scenes are like, yo, where do you get that meat? What's that wrong milk? Oh, no, I won't out you.

It's like the black market. Can we do a code on your app? Yes, for sure. So we can do, I can give a free month for everyone with Code Skinny. And with Cloucher, the Matcha company, we can give 10% off everything. CloucherMachar.com. It just launched. It's really cute.

Yeah, I'm so sad you didn't get the products. It's okay. We're going to have you make it on my Instagram story so everyone can see it. You guys will put it up with this episode. And so tell us where they can find your app. your Instagram. Tell us all the things. My Instagram is Briani Deary.

Then the app's Instagram is Pilate by Brini. We have Cloudchamatcher on Instagram. That's the at Cloudchamatcher. The app is you can get it on the iOS store. Pilates by Brini. You can get it on what's the other one? Android. Nearly a soon to be a TV app.

And then Cloudcher is just Cloudchamatcher. Can we do a giveaway? Sure. Okay. What do you want to give away? A free year and all the equipment. A free year, all the equipment. You guys, all you have to do is go follow. Brian E. Deary. And let me know on my latest post at Lauren Bostic what your favorite takeaway of this episode was. I have to ask you, did your mom make up your name? Because I made up Zaza's name, kind of.

And I just, your name is so unique. Oh, thank you. I've been called everything in America since I've been here. It's Brian E. Brian E. Yeah. But it is a English. I think it's Irish, but I'm not Irish. So there's just, she just liked the name. It's very pretty.

Thank you. You guys, I loved this episode. Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you so much. I can't wait to do Pilates. Thanks for having me. With you. I need you to do some Pilates and you could work on your spine and those jorts that you have.

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