The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Live FIT from the Inside Out: The 6 SHIFTS to Living Your Strongest, Healthiest, and Happiest Life by Nicole Zapoli

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

Live FIT from the Inside Out: The 6 SHIFTS to Living Your Strongest, Healthiest, and Happiest Life by Nicole Zapoli Nicolezapoli.com https://www.amazon.com/Live-FIT-Inside-Out-healthiest/dp/1967587159/ What if getting strong, healthy, and happy didn’t require overhauling your entire life? What if I told you it is possible through smart, simple shifts you can actually stick with, sustain, and build on for a lifetime? Whether you’re a busy parent, a driven professional, or simply tired of starting over, Live FIT. From the Inside Out is your guide to lasting transformation. With more than 25 years as an elite coach and athlete, Nicole Zapoli shares a proven framework to help you reclaim your strength, energy, and confidence without extremes or trendy promises that never last. Inside, you’ll discover the 6 SHIFTS that reshape your entire lifestyle: • Sleep: Build real recovery so you wake up refreshed and ready • Hydration: Give every cell in your body what it truly need • Intake: Eat to nourish, not punish • Fitness: Train with purpose, not perfection • Thoughts: Strengthen your mindset and leave excuses behind • Sunshine: Harness nature’s most overlooked power source You’ll also learn how to: • Move past plateaus and perfectionism that keep you stuck • Change the beliefs and “time guilt” that hold you back • Build steady momentum, even if you’re starting from scratch • Become a role model of health and strength for your family and community • Stay consistent through life’s toughest seasons This book is for you if you’re ready to finally put your health first without sacrificing everything else. If you’ve wrestled with motivation, time, or feeling supported. If you want fitness to feel like freedom, not another chore. If you’re ready to build a legacy of strength and health from the inside out. What’s inside: • Honest stories from Nicole’s own life and from her clients, showing what’s possible when you approach health from the inside out • Tools, assessments, and journal prompts to help you reflect, track progress, and stay accountable • Online resources with workouts, meal ideas, and more coaching support It’s time to focus on building the kind of strength, health, and happiness that stays with you for life! BUY NOW and begin your journey toward a stronger, healthier, happier you today!

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Live Fit from the inside out, the six shifts to living your strongest, healthiest, and happiest life out August 24th, 2025 by Nicole. Sapoli. She joins us in the show. We're going to get into it with her. We're going to find out how to live a happy, healthy life. Unless you know, you just want to. And so listen in, especially that guy in the beanbag eating the Cheetos naked on the living room floor. You need to eat better and trade that for some broccoli. Welcome to the show. Nicole. How are you? Hi. Doing well. Thank you. How are you? Good. Good. Me and the audience and that one guy in the beanbag chair. Stole that from a comedian. Anyway, Nicole, give us your dot com. Where do you want people to find out more about you in the interwebs? Yes, on my website, nicolezzapoli.com. And I am on Instagram as well, just at Nicole Zapoli. And pretty much between those two, you could probably find anything and everything that you need or didn't know you needed.

I didn't know you need. I think that's what we do on our show too. Things you don't need. But they're funny. And we're interesting and they make you smart. Is Apoli, what origin on the plan is that? Is that French or Italian? It's Italian.

Italian. Now I'm hungry for pizza. But you're here to tell me not to eat pizza or maybe moderation. So Nicole, you have the floor. Give us a $30,000 overview. What's inside your new book? Yes. So my book is pretty much my entire approach to how I have been coaching for the past 25 plus years.

It's definitely evolved since. that time, but my entire approach of what I have my clients do, what I encourage them to do, but really it is what has allowed me to stay healthy for as long as I have, stay training, stay fit throughout many different seasons of life. And all of those things have really carried me through a lot of fun adventures. And so at this point in my life, it's been a really big goal of mine for a really long time just to do this. So I finally decided to go for that this past year. And yeah, and it's all about taking just my own stories, but also client stories and transformation stories. But beyond that, taking action in your own life, different ways to actually

implement it into your life. So it's not just telling. It's also how to actually do with manageable, doable steps. Ah, manageable steps are important because like I still have that. I want to be a billionaire, but I'm 58 now. I'm running out a little time. So I've got at least $5.00 save. And so I'm close. Anyway. That's better than no dollars. Yeah, it's true.

That's a good positive outlook. But, you know, you talk about some different things that are very manageable in your book. You talk about sleep, hydration, intake, fitness, thoughts, and sunshine. It always helps if people have thoughts. I go on Twitter and there's nobody thinking over there. So that's good. We do callback Twitter jokes. So talk to us about some of your favorite things in this list.

Maybe what sunshine is important and maybe some of these other things that maybe you're a favorite. Yeah. My favorite probably is, well, fitness, of course, is top on the list. But I would say the most important thoughts. That is really mindset. And just that affects so much. It's, I mean, it really affects everything in our life. The way that we grow stronger in our mindset is the biggest thing in our life that we can. can do on a regular basis to help us grow in that mindset, in my opinion is through fitness, through tough physical challenges on a regular basis that are uncomfortable doing stuff that maybe we would be happier taking a nap or not doing it in the first place,

but actually taking action and getting it done and staying consistent will care. carry you so far through as far as just the mental capacity and overcoming a lot of mental setback. So just the challenge to just show up when you do that and you continue to do that day after day, week after week, you really do grow so much in your overall mindset and that carries over to every part of your life. Yeah. mindset is important. You know, I started working out when I was about 53 or 52.

I think it was after COVID cleared up. So like 52, 53, I started really getting serious about working out, and I never worked out at the gym or went to the gym daily in my life for more than a week. And it took me a while to learn this, but it's not about going the gym and competing with other people or trying to look good for the babes or, you know, whatever people's thing is. it's not about going there showing off or whatever the hell may be. I mean, maybe if you're built right, you show off.

I've never gotten there yet. But it's really about discipline. And I learned a few things. Like, you know, sometimes at my age, you know, especially sending to take care of myself, you wake up, you feel mucky, maybe you feel a little worn down. You feel a little beat up maybe from the gym from a couple days ago. And I would be like, I'd be like, I don't want to go to the gym today. and then I'd be like, okay, it's about discipline, bud.

This is a war with you. It's not a battle with all those other girls and guys at the gym that, I don't know, I'm supposed to look like them or do more reps than them or lift more than them. It's a battle of wills inside. So that inside that you're talking about. And so I learned this trick that, okay, so you don't feel like going to the gym. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to go to the gym, sit in the massage recovery chairs.

I love those massage chairs. They got the zero gravity ones. and I go there. And sometimes, you know, sometimes my gut would be mucking with me or something. I just feel mucky, you know, I just like, I don't want to do this. I go sit in the gym, massage chairs, get my massage, hear the music. And it kind of got to this point where I'd have one of those, I forget what they call it, mnemonics or some sort of thing where as soon as I walked in the gym, my brain would pop.

Okay, gym time. And so sometimes I just sit there for maybe 40 minutes on the chairs and then suddenly I feel a little bit better. And I'd start going, hey, I'm at the gym. And then I started teaching myself, okay, let's just go lift a couple weights. You want to go home? I know. Let's go lift a couple weights. Just we'll do one.

Just one set. Let's just do one set. And then it would just slowly come on. And so, yeah, that mindset of discipline, I think is a real important thing because I think a lot of people get blocked by the gym, by peer pressure and all that stuff. I don't know what your thoughts are on that. Yeah, I love that. So one of the things I talk about is just first building the actual routine, that habit,

of showing up for yourself in that way. And that is probably the hardest part right there. If you're not, if it's not part of your life and it has never been a consistent thing, just creating the habit of showing up and doing something, whether that's, you know, going outside and taking a 10-minute walk or going and doing a set of some free weights of some movement or just show. going up and sitting in the massage chair for, you know, and gradually building on that over time and just continuing to, you know, do a little bit more each time.

Yeah. So powerful and very effective, for sure. If you're looking at it as long term, this is about long term, longevity, and creating, and, you know, just challenge for yourself of showing up. once that's dialed in and it's a consistent thing and you're like, this is what I do. I go to the gym at this time on these days and whatever you have to be able to give that day and then continue to just keep the thought going of, okay, I'm going to make it maybe a little bit more challenging, you know, each time you show up or especially in the beginning.

And then as you get going and you really have that established, then maybe hiring a coach, maybe, you know, getting someone to actually do some custom design program for you specifically. So you have some sort of structure and a plan working. But that can all come in time. It's really first just like dialing that in as part of your life, you know, part of your lifestyle. What I did was I hired a BDSM coach. And so what she does is when I sit down on the machine, she handcuffs me to the machine, feet and legs and then if I don't do the reps, the whip comes out. No, I don't do that, folks.

Sounds like it. It might work for some people. That's for sure. So you said you've been coaching for 25 years working out and staying healthy. So were you lifting weights coming right out of the womb there? Pretty much, actually. I honestly, there are certain, so I started gymnastics when I was four. And I started dance. I started dance when I was two. And, and, and, and, and, and, and gymnastics at four. And I mean, really, I don't remember going, like, more than a couple days in a row throughout my entire life without being in the gym in some form. So it's definitely part of my life for a very long time.

And, yeah, I started, I got my first, so I started gymnastics when I was four and I competed all the way up through high school. school and switch to competitive cheer and in competitive cheer. They, I am from Texas and cheerleading is a very big thing there. So it's gymnastics, but they take it very seriously. We had a former Marine drill sergeant as one of our coaches, and he was the, I guess, the founder of our cheer squad. And so he kind of set the tone of like our conditioning and our strength that we would do on a daily basis.

And so that was where I started learning about weightlifting in the gym and just the traditional lifts and in that type of thing. And from there, I got my first gym membership at 24 hour fitness when I was 14. How old? 14. I was 14. And I was detailing cars at my dad's shop and saving up my mom. And I went and got myself a gym membership. Good for you.

I mean, I'm a entrepreneur. Yeah. Now, you had a drill sergeant is your thing I think you said. Was he like that guy, Lee, R. Lee, Emery on a full metal jacket? I don't know. Bark at you. Y'all, the all expletives. Get young.

Get cheerleading, you maggots. It's not nice. I don't know. Have you seen full metal jacket the movie? I did, but it's been a really long time since I actually... He was the guy who yelled the old expletives, everybody. He was a mean guy. So anyway, I could just see him yelling at a bunch of cheerleaders.

I just had that visual in my head. I had to explore. But yeah, 14. And you worked hard at it is what was motivating you at that young age? Because when I was young, I was, I don't know, putting sand in my mouth, eating dirt and playing with Legos. And that was the height of my IQ. So, nothing's changed. So what motivated you to want to do that?

Was there any sort of, were you just trying to get out of the house or something? No, I'm just kidding. I have no idea. I don't know. I just had, I have absolutely no idea. Honestly, I, um, do it. Like you out of water. I loved, you know, I, I liked training.

I liked working hard and, and, you know, discovering new things that I could do from working hard across time. It was fun. And then of course, like, just the friendships and all of that was super fun. And each girl that was on my squad or like on my team also, you know, was an inspiration to me and it kept me going for sure. And yeah, I don't know. Making my parents proud too, of course, there's probably a big, a big, but yeah.

Plus, they're looking at you going, she's going to pay for her own call. It's let her run. So you don't have one of these stories where, you know, we've had a lot of people on the show that have gotten healthy and stuff. And me, too. I lost 100, 150 pounds eating well and starting to work out and stuff. But, you know, yeah, I waited too long to do it. I should have started when you did around four. But where were you when I was four, damn it?

And your book. But no, so you don't, was there ever, you know, a crisis point in your life? where you were just sitting around eating bags of Oreos and putting on weight and woe is me like a lot of people have that story as their beginning like me and then you know then the you happen they got they got better and healthier and learned it so have you ever gone through any of that like or has it been pretty much uh you love this i mean i've definitely had some very tough challenging times in my life for sure um i would say um and that the one thing that got me through it was the six shifts really i mean

Um, the all of, and of course that has obviously evolved across time. I would say I began bringing more awareness to these six shifts and starting to organize them and in a more structured format, probably about 12, 10, 12 years ago or so, with my approach to coaching and to my own life. The earliest, I would say that I remember like going through. a time when I was transitioning from gymnastics, I had come off of training at the Olympic Training Center and was I just really had, I was just, I don't know, at this point, my parents were going through some stuff and I just didn't want to do it anymore. And it was really sad because it was like a,

you know, such a big part of my life for so long. And it was something that I really truly loved doing. Um, and so during this period of time, my mom was concerned because I, I wasn't doing any sort of structured thing. And I think it was like a month had gone by. And, um, and I was, I had been riding go carts and it broke. I got ran. I was run over by a go cart in the middle of the street. And, um, how old were you? I was 13, 14 years old. Small. And I broke my, a few bones in my foot and got really bad road rash.

And then a friend of mine that was down, lived a couple doors down from me. She was a year older than me and in the cheerleading in our competitive cheer squad. And she's like, you need to try out. I broke my ankle. My mom made me. broke my foot. She made me go meet with the counselor at the school to discuss some other things that I could do. And I had already decided. I was like, okay, fine. I'll try out for cheerleading. And, you know, there's no guarantee on that for sure because you have to go through an entire

like audition process. And I decided to try out and about, I want to say I had just gotten my cast off probably like a week before tryouts. But during that time, that was such an interesting time because I remember being more aware of nutrition because of a lot of the stuff that I had learned in gymnastics about proper nutrition, feeling your body properly, and all of this. And during the time that I wasn't in an actual sport, which wasn't very long, just understanding the importance of it and then having a little bit more awareness around that. And then when I tried out, it was, yeah, I don't know.

That was just probably that that was so interesting because I remember going after our very first like big like, I don't know what it was. Maybe a game or something. And we all went and got cheese burgers after the game. And I could not believe that her coach had taken us to get cheeseburgers. There's like no way that would have ever happened when I was in gymnastics. But I and I was like, this is okay. Yeah. That's funny.

We could do this. Oh my gosh. You're going to go to gym? Burgers. Now this this leader probably wasn't the same as the military or the drill sergeant. No, this was not. So this was following his, his, yeah, time. You know, most people don't know this.

When I was in high school, I was like 100 pounds. Skinny is a rail and six foot tall and all that good stuff. And I actually tried out for cheerleaders. Most people don't know that I tried out for cheerleaders. That is. Isn't that cool? Yeah. They all said, no, they wouldn't date me.

Thanks for help me with a set up. that joke. I like how that went down. We had guys on our team. We were co-ed, a small co-ed. Well, I'm not one of those types of guys. I don't know what that means. Now, you talk about these six shifts.

Let me re-put these because you brought up six shifts. Now, the six shifts are what you talk about in your book, sleep, hydration, intake, fitness, thoughts, and sunshine. Let's talk a little about sunshine, if you don't mind. One thing I discovered was, you know, sitting out in the sun, getting your vitamin D, starting your cicatia rhythms. You know, all these people have taught me a lot of stuff on the show. That's the reason I do the show, so I learned stuff.

And so what's important about sunshine? What's that all going on? Oh, my gosh, there's so many things. It regulates your mood, your hormones, your just everything. Making sure that you're actually getting out into the sunshine on a regular basis is by far the most important thing. If you can do it in the morning, first thing when you wake up, that's great. I do not have the ability to do that because when I wake up, it's very dark for a long time. So, but getting sun just as like sunlight as soon as possible.

And just the amount of energy that it is by far probably one of the most effective mood boosters besides fitness. And if you're doing fitness, like going for, go for a jog outside, like go for a walk. Those things, doing that in combination is even more amazing. And as far as just your overall mindset, you're just the mental space that you're in. If you're, you know, maybe having a rough morning or a rough day, just taking a time out for a moment, going outside. and, you know, it doesn't have to be anything super crazy. I mean, just taking walk is effective in itself. But even sitting outside eating lunch or going and maybe even just like taking some quiet

time, lay down in the grass, close your eyes, take, you know, whatever, whatever that looks like for you and it could be different across, you know, across time as far as how you get that sunshine in. I am lucky enough to be able to live super close to the beach. So I love going down to the beach, going for walks or running, you know, getting in a little bit of whether that's body weight, a body weight workout, body weight session on the beach and or just sitting and hanging out, maybe reading, listening to some music, whatever it is, even if it's like 15, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, whatever you've got, I mean, it can make a huge difference. Now, this sounds really beneficial to the sunshine stuff, but this sounds like something like

it's going to cost me some money. How expensive is this? Sunshine. Sounds like a racket, maybe. Is there an MLM involved with the sunshine crap? I know it's easier in certain places of the country and the world for sure to get in that sunshine, especially during certain seasons. But yeah, it is, it's one of those things. It's also super important for just strengthening your entire immune system.

So making sure that you're able to be able to stay healthy. That's one of those things that you can be doing for yourself, for sure. Now, what about the vampires in our audience? What do they do with the sunshine thing? How is that? We have a small contingency of vampires. and Romanians, we're big in Romania. One of my coaches is Romanian, so.

Oh, really? I come from Vegas, and there are times during the summer, you just become a vampire, you just live in night, because it's scorching hot like hell in the sun on there. So let's get into some of the services you offer on your coaching. I see you have some online products and different things. Let's get into flushing some of that out so we can know more about how you can help people directly and they can work with you.

Yeah. So I offer remote coaching one-on-one. This is different than online coaching where you sign up and you get a program. It is I am, we are meeting, I am learning about you, where you're training, what you're doing, what your struggles are, what your goals are. And I'm putting it and designing an entire program to, you know, putting that all together for you and that includes nutrition. I have teamed up with a company called Sprin, Body Composition, and it's all done from your phone. It's one of, if not the most accurate form of just mobile body composition apps out there. And so super exciting. teamed up with them a few years ago and have been working with them as they've done doing tons and tons of tests. doing tons and tons of testing and retesting and making sure that they're providing the highest quality product possible. And they've also come out with a way to track your nutrition. So what I'll normally do is provide your own, like a custom meal plan specifically for you.

You have the body composition app, which is a tool that I use to help us keep track of data on body fat percentage lean mass. And those are the top two things right there rather than just relying on the scale, which is helpful information, but it's not the big picture. So it doesn't, it does not, you know, provide us with the most important information, which is what that body composition app does. And then with tracking your nutrition, that is something that that is a, available as well. Super helpful for sure, especially in the beginning when we're getting going.

But that is one of the offerings that I have. And then I also have teamed up with a company called Territory Foods and Meal Logic to provide a custom curated menu that I actually eat myself. And it says I typically will meal prep at the beginning of the week. But if you've ever meal prepped for an extended period of time, sometimes can get where you might feel a little burned out by what you're eating and you just need to switch it up. So this is helpful because I look at it as a form of supplementing my meal prep. So I'll get, you know, maybe four to six, six to eight meals or so a week that I can swap out maybe for a lunch or dinner. And it all fits within the main dietary guidelines that I, you know, like to adhere to in my own life. But what I would also, you know, encourage my own clients to kind of steer towards.

And so it's all gluten-free. high protein, moderate fat, and moderate carbs. And so, yeah. Now, how many of these meals are pizzas and in and out burgers? There are, there are some burgers, but they're, I'm trying to write this down. Healthy. But yeah, it's a, it's all, it's a curated menu with delivery service.

And that is nationwide. And yeah. And then, of course, my book also provides an entire private resource page that gives you access to all sorts of other tools that you can use to take your fitness and nutrition to that next level. Can I just make the meal prep tacos all week? Is that legal? Asking for a friend. I mean, it depends. But yeah, there's different ways that you can make.

She says yes. They're healthy. Yeah. And of course, everybody has different goals and there's no one right way necessarily to eat. Everybody's different. Everybody's got different goals, different dietary needs or, you know, and you've got to enjoy somewhat of what you're eating. Now, of course, if you're training for a bodybuilding show, you're probably going to need to understand that you're not going to enjoy eating and you need to look at it as like you're fueling your body and that that is the

approach there but for lifestyle living just for longevity long-term sustainability you you know should be able to enjoy what you're eating but there are ways that we can approach that in a smart way yeah you know i started doing that early on when i started losing weight i found that to if you add sugar to broccoli, it's really good. That's so gross. I just thought of that too. That's how my mind works. Dry heavey there.

Maybe you add some cheese to that. Cheese is kind of its own thing. One of the cool things I learned, I got this from the book Presto by Penn Jolette from Las Vegas was instead of cheese, you eat yeast. What is it called something yeast? Um, I forget. Some yeast. And it's, it tastes like cheese and it fools your brains, but it's kind of healthy there.

I can pull it up what it's called. It's something, it's some yeast. It's, uh, you can put on popcorn and stuff. I don't know. Yeah. So anyway, it's supposed to be good, I think, for your gut too, for like digestion. Okay. Oh, interesting.

I don't know. I'll look up the proper name because I'm probably not, I know it is yeast, but, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll pull it up. So who are your clients, uh, specifically? So I'm out there listening in the audience and I'm like, would you work with me? Is there a certain client that you only work with? Do they have to be like, you know, really great shape or can they be like 500 pounds? Yeah, I work with anyone and everyone.

However, all of my clients, they are, they have already committed. They've already made the decision to show up for themselves. and they're, you know, I am just part of what it is that they've already decided that they're doing in their own life as far as living a strong, healthy, happy life. And I am there to just support them in that. And so my clients are from all different walks of life. I work with couples. And, you know, that is also super, it's always amazing to me, too, just how,

powerful that can be because they're like in it together as a team. And so that is super cool. I've, you know, I work with kids all the way up to my, my oldest client that I've ever had was in her 90s. And everybody in between former professional athletes, collegiate athletes, professional bodybuilders. And yeah, and CrossFit athletes, professional crossFit athletes. And I don't, mom's people that are highly driven are probably, that seems to be a theme across the board with all my clients. They're all very high achievers and they, they're very motivated, self-motivated. And they're looking for accountability, structure, a plan, you know, and they want to make this

part of their life. And so it's, it's, uh, and I'm just, I'm just there as their support team. Uh, help help them get to where they want to go and continue to to grow and move in that direction. You know, accountability is a big deal. When I started losing weight, I, I used, uh, Facebook as my accountability. And every day I would post my weight. And I was losing like two, three pounds a day. Now I was, I, you know, I've been single all my life. I've been eating out all my life, you know, Taco Bell, McDonald's, the worst. And I would drink 15 Mountain Dews a day, 10 to 15 Mountain Dews a day, and then half a bottle of vodka about every other night.

And so I was really healthy. And, you know, one day I finally just got sick of being sick and tired, you know. And I just felt like I was dying. And I'm like, I don't want to die. And I don't want to feel this way anymore. I'm just sick of tired of being sick and tired. And it's kind of like how I feel in 2026 about everything. Anyway, so getting old.

But so I used Facebook as an accountability thing. And I have a huge audience across my social media and always have since the dawn of social media. And so I knew that every day, every morning I would have to post my weight. And so it would really help me stay accountable because they were my accountability group. And, you know, I'd be like, well, you should go get that. burger for in and out. Yeah. Get an extra patty and that extra sauce and, you know, and then get a shake and then, you know, get the fries smothered in, I must be hungry right now. So I know Burger folks have been calling to me for a while and it's probably time. I do it like once a month. I go in there and do a nasty day and then I, then I'm ashamed for a month and then I go back. It was really important to me. And so people would see that I was losing literally like two to three pounds a day. Women were really angry with me.

But I mean, I stopped drinking 15 mountainoes a day. So, I mean, if you do it. Right there, that's like huge. You probably wouldn't even have to do much else for a while. That's like a 10 pound bag of sugar every day. Oh, my gosh. God, I don't know how I'm alive or seriously. So, you know, I'd buy, I do that fosty and bargain thing where I'd buy an Oreo, a box of

Oreos. And I'm like, I'm only going to eat a couple at a time every day. And, you know, then you get home and the bags gone. And so that was really helpful. Why is accountability so helpful to people and keeping them on the straight and narrow and having someone to kind of report to that can go, ah, you know, bad dog. They can kind of hit you with the newspaper a little bit or something. I don't know.

Yeah. I mean, it's all about setting up your life in a way that supports your goals and how you want to be living. And it doesn't mean that your trainer or your coach, I mean, I guess depending on. on who they are. Just knowing that your trainer is going to be, I do in-home private coaching as well. And so, you know, knowing that I'm going to be showing up at your home.

Oh, wow. Showing up at the home. Yes. Hi, the Oreas. What are those donuts that are really, everyone loves the really sugary donuts? I forget the popular place. They're like cracked donuts.

But, yeah, just, you know, just knowing that someone is, you know, going to be showing up for you is just enough motivation for most people to, you know, show up for themselves. And also to just have that quiet reminder of, oh, yeah, I need to be, you know, doing this or the check-ins with your coach on a regular basis. however it's structured or set up with your with your trainer with your coach but not necessarily like the coach like scolding you or something um but no i can see you as a i can see you as that full metal jacket guy you come out of the house you're like are these your Oreos give me 10 on the floor go push-ups because i mean really ultimately it comes down to taking ownership over your own life. And when you do that, you're going to take the steps that you need to take to set yourself up for success in that way. And that takes time in it, depending on where you're at mentally and also

like just in your journey, that definitely looks different for everyone for sure. Yeah. Yeah. You know, some important techniques I learned. One was from Presto and one just a friend told me when I was in my 30s, and he explained to me how the setup of a grocery store works. And he said, you notice how all the freshest, most live foods that are still alive are on the outside of the store. And as you move closer to the middle of the store is all the frozen dead foods, right? And, you know, the crackers that, you know, have 5,000 ingredients on the list of some sort of chemical nature that, you know, who knows what they're about.

it knows what you're putting in your pie hole. And he goes, you know, why? It's because that's where they have to turn that food over because, you know, it goes bad really quick because it's live and it's healthy and stuff. And the dead foods, they're dead. And so you're just eating like dead food or what, you know, the judge called in the McDonald's chicken nugget case, Franken meat. I'm stuck with that too.

Anytime I see McDonald's go by, I'm frank and me. And it really helps, actually. Because I just think of this big Mac going, Ah, villagers. And, but that really helped me. And then the other big rule that really helped me, this came from Cray Ray and Presto, was if it's in your house, it's in your mouth.

And so I learned not to do that Foste and bargain crap at the store. Well, if you buy the thing and, you know, I promise myself. I promise myself by the eight pack of Mountain Dew extra sugar whatever the hell version they're selling this week and you know and I just learned I learned there was sometimes where I'd look at my cart when I would be at checkout and I'd start pulling stuff out

and be like no no no no no and oh that was the other thing that helped me with accountability I would take a picture of my cart at checkout and then I would post the receipt so that people can be like yeah Chris yeah Yeah, like a Snickers bar after that. But I would just say that snubberately. And that really helped.

And people really... I like that. That's pretty cool. Yeah. And, you know, then, you know, you go over to people's house and probably yell at them and you're going to yell on them, I'm sure. But, you know, you get a little bit of stink guy. Like, I just found a rapper from Bon Bonds in the garbage. Do you go through their garbage and you go to their house?

What are you been eating? I'll have another last week. Give me 10 on the floor. So what else have we talked about that you offer on your website that people should know about? Yeah. And I kind of got a little sidetrack when I was talking about the curated menu. It's gluten-free, dairy-free, and very low, no sugar. These sounds like the worst pizzas ever.

It's paleo, if you've ever heard of that. So it's, it's, yeah, that's, that's the gist of, of what I offer on that menu. And then, yeah, my, my book is available on Kindle and Audible as well. And in paperback and hardcover, that's all on Amazon. It's on my website as well. Yeah. And that's, yeah, that's a, that's, that's, that's the good portion of products and services. that I offer online.

So how can people on board with you, reach out to you, find out more? Do you offer any sort of pre-calls or discovery calls or how do people reach out to you and say, hey, will you work with me? I mean, they have to have office to qualify for you to work with them. I have an application they can fill out online. They go to my website, coaching. And under that, remote coaching takes you to an application. I then reach out to you and we set up a time to meet over the phone and discuss schools

and kind of just what you're looking for in general. And if you have questions, we can discuss all sorts of whatever it is that you are wanting to focus on. Maybe you have some things that you want to train for or you're just wanting to live your strongest, healthiest, happiest life for the rest of your life. And so that's all of the things that we discuss. And then I put together from there an entire structured coaching program to support you and your goals. And people can contact you through our website.

They can contact your website and find out more. Give us your dot-coms as we go out. Nicolezapoli.com. And my Instagram is at Nicole Zippoli. And you've done competitive, I see here. A competition cheerleading, I think maybe this is? Yes, I did competitive gymnastics, artistic, and rhythmic, and I did competitive cheer, professional cheer and dance, and professional bodybuilding.

Professional bodybuilding. There you go. And weightlifting as well. Yeah. I used to do that with Mountain Dew and vodka. I would do the weightlifting and stuff. So, but we need to get you a better origin story because an origin story always has to start out with crisis.

and then you fix the thing. So my suggestion, I'm just being funny here, my suggestion is what you should have as a crisis story. So you start at like two or four. So we need something like, you're in the womb, you're feeling repressed

because you can't get to the gym. You're kicking at your mom's belly. And you're like, hey, I need to get out of here and get to the gym and start working out because this is my thing. And she's like, you got to wait nine months, damn it.

And you're like, I'm so repressed. And then you emerge and you're free and you can go, pursue your dream. See, you've got to have the you thing sort of, you know, start. I like that. Yeah, yeah, was your mom, was like, boy, she kicked a lot, you know, and then get a picture of you like lifting in the womb, you know, the umbilical cord. You're starting to work out your arms, you know, take turns with the thing there. Yeah, I like this. This is a movie right here, maybe. I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah. I have good ideas, but they're mostly stupid. Anyway, thank you very much, Nicole, for coming on the show. Yeah. Thank you so much for having. Thank you. I'm on today, aren't I? So all the jokes pretty much worked, I think. I don't know. That are I'm narcissistic. Order up per book, wherever fine books are sold. It is entitled, Live Fit, From the Inside Out, the Six Shifts to Living Your Strongest, Healthiest, and Happy Life out August 24, 25th.

And people, I can tell you, at 58, please get started early. I mean, I wish I started too, like Nicole. So, yeah, check out our book, check out our services, and get healthy folks. You'll thank yourself and your body will thank you, and you'll enjoy getting older. So unlike me. Anyway, thanks to Cole. Thanks for honest for tuning in. Go to Goodreads.com, Fortresschristch, Chris Foss, LinkedIn.com, Fortress, Chris Foss, 1 in TikTokity.

Oh, and I'm reminded by James, it's called nutritional yeast. I look that up. Oh, okay. Are you familiar with it? Um, I mean, I, I, I don't know about using that as a taste of cheese, but that is interesting, though. I will have to check that out. I think there's some gut health to it. I don't know.

I'm not a scientist, clearly. I'm just an idiot podcast who pretends to be smart on TV. Anyway, thank you very much, Nicole. Be good to each other, folks. Stay, whatever is I say at the end. And we'll see you guys. You've been listening to the most amazing, intelligent podcast ever made to improve your brain and your life. Warning, consuming too much of the Chris Walsh Show podcast can lead to people thinking you're smarter, younger, and irresistible sexy.

Consume in regularly moderated amounts. Consult a doctor for any resulting brain lead. Nicole, great show.