The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Stay Faithfully Fit: Minister of Fitness by Linda M. Bolton

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

Stay Faithfully Fit: Minister of Fitness by Linda M. Bolton https://www.amazon.com/Stay-Faithfully-Fit-Minister-Fitness-ebook/dp/B0GPHFRZ29 https://stayfaithfullyfit.org/ Linda is a Minister of Fitness. Her enthusiasm radiates when she walks into a room. Her energy is contagious, authentic, genuine, and undeniable. Her dynamic messages are infused with grace, wisdom, compassion, and empathy. Her spontaneous, no-nonsense approach is complemented by an intriguing sense of humor that uplifts and inspires her listeners. The catchy phrases she uses, such as “I’m Just Saying” and “Praise Him, I Said,” ignite the moment and capture the audience’s attention as she passionately discusses the four “P’s”: Process, Preparation, Possession, and Promise. The foundations of Stay Faithfully Fit and its teachings are rooted in her personal and professional experiences as a woman of faith and a Master Physique Champion. Her ability to integrate spiritual, mental, and physical fitness concepts is powerful, compelling, and encouraging. The book reveals a magnetic force that empowers and equips those who dare to pursue their potential, embracing total wholeness and becoming faithfully fit and focused!

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Bolton. We're going to get into some of the details of her thing. And she looks amazing for her age. I'll just say that much. And we're going to be talking about how she does it. And boy, she's inspiring me to go back to the gym and all that good stuff. So we can get into it with her, find out what drives her, what makes her at this competitive level drive and do all that.

this stuff and et cetera, et cetera. Welcome to the show, Linda. How are you? I am absolutely wonderful, Chris. Thank you. Your energy is contagious. I feel like going to the gym. Let's go.

Let's go right now. I love it. We'll just take the mic and the podcast and we're just going to go on the road. We're going to road trip this effing podcast. And I don't know, maybe we should start broadcasting from the gym, really. You can give me a sponsor. You get my gym fees for free or something. So, Lynn, give us the dot coms.

Where can people find you on the interwebs? We can go. They can find me on stayfaithyfit.org. That is my website. Also, I have an Instagram page, stay underscore faithfully underscore fit. My daughter got me sent me on TikTok. I believe that's the same thing. And Facebook, Linda M. Bolton or stay faithly fit.

And we also have a YouTube channel, Stay Faithly Fit. So a lot of things going on there. Thank you. There you go. YouTube channel with your podcasts on it there. Yes. You're the founder and owner of Stay Faithfully Fit in Noonan, Georgia. You began your fitness journey after serving the U.S. military.

Your goal is to teach fitness as a ministry, aimed at promoting and helping others understand how to incorporate Christian principles to attain total fitness as referenced in, let's see. What is this, John 2, the third, third John 2? So give us a 30,000 overview. What's inside this book, Minister of Stay Faithfully Fit, Minister of Fitness? What's inside the book is a roadmap as to how we can steward our body

as principle of discipline, disciplines, disciples of Jesus, how we're supposed to have the mindset to be able to take care of the body, the temper of the Holy Spirit, according to God's creation. Pretty much it kind of gives the tubes. It gives you a roadmap. I call the GPS gospel by the satellite on how to roll out and follow the journey to become the best person, best you can be, spiritually and mentally. Ah, be the best you can be. Why is that important?

Because I like just being lazy and slavily. If that's the best you want to be, it's a judgment call. You know, that's a personal judgment call. And everybody's being the best thing can be is all comes in different shapes, forms, sizes, you know, ages or what have you. It's what you determine to be successful for you. So it could be subjective or objective. So for me, it's subjective.

What is the best you can be. So the thing is to try to help people be all they can be. You know, that's what it's all about, Paris. That's what it's all about. Yeah. So you wrote this book and you talk about the best. minister of fitness. So tell us why that's a feature of your fitness guide that you help other people with. It's a feature because when I, I don't train like a personal trainer. Because for me,

personal training, when I first got into this, it was all about the outward appearance and how high you can jump and how fast you can run. Whereas I incorporate and integrate tools of the Word of God that helps you change from the inside out instead of the outside. So when I'm a lot, I'm going to I talk to people about, they say, are your personal trans? In the world, in the world's terminology, yes. Personal, I train. What the takeback is on minister of fitness is I serve. It's a difference.

I serve. And maybe, you know, it takes a lot sometimes to get the gumption up to go to the gym, especially if you go a lot. Or, you know, I spent most of my life not going to the gym and kind of had some bad habits of avoiding the gym. And, you know, I go like once every couple years, you know. And because that works. I cannot believe that, Chris, and I'm going to tell you why.

If you finish, I don't believe that. I'll tell you why. Why? I looked at your background. I know where you come from. I know what you've done. I've known to accomplish. I know what you go is.

And what you've done does not fit that profile of that person that you are saying. You are. I could have done better. So let's put it that way. And, yeah, in my old age, I wish I'd laid a better foundation. So you come out of the military. And obviously, you know, in the military, you're, you know, You're in peak shape, I would imagine, or, you know, in great shape.

I mean, they don't let you just sit around and eat burgers and fries all day and sit in the lazy boy in the military. And what got you started on this journey of fitness after leaving the Army? You know what? And I forgot to mention I did another book. So I had five books. And I'm so glad you asked that. Sojouring for Jesus. Ah, that's a book.

That is a book. Okay. And that right there is the one that really talks about discipline. It actually parallels. So when I got out to military, one of my spiritual quests, okay? And what that consists of taking my life as a soldier in the United States Army for nine and a half years and parallel to that with being a soldier in God's Army. And both of them are the same.

It requires discipline, consistency, a mindset, a change of thinking and thoughts. So it pretty much all falls in line with staying faithly fit. So the book really parallels the life of a soldier in a real army, a man's army versus being a soldier in God's army. And the tools and the attributes and everything I'm about to say. And sometimes you need that higher calling to get to that gym when you don't want to go. Yes, you do.

One thing I learned is, you know, I mean, I've learned this all my life with business. You know, one of the keys to success is just showing up. That is correct. Absolutely. Because, you know, if you're not there, it's a little hard to be successful. And so about four years ago maybe now, I got sick of myself and I'm like, I'm going to start going this stupid gym thing. And I started working out really hard and going every day. And then I realized that it wasn't about just going to the gym. It wasn't about, you know, looking good for other people.

It wasn't about, you know, competing with other people to be at their level at the gym. gym it was about my discipline and my commitment to myself in my head and discipline probably was one of the keywords and I would have days where I would be like I don't want to be I don't want to go to the gym I feel awful I feel kind of off and I don't feel good maybe I just don't feel like going and I would be like okay so here's what we're going to do we're going to go to the gym anyway and we're going to follow our daily schedule and we're going to go to the gym and you're going to sit in either the sauna or you're going to sit in the massage chairs and you're going to loosen up. And then we're going to go, we're going to do one lift.

All right? And so I would do that. I would play this bargain game with myself, but it was a driving because I knew that once I got there, all the stuff would kick in. The smell and the look and it probably used the smell would hit me and I'd be like, I can do this. You know, and you start going back into gear. Yeah, yeah. But no, if you're using spiritual to help you maintain that discipline and understanding, you know, how important it is to the spirit in your body as opposed to just building muscle, that's an added feature for motivation. Correct.

It is. And so you've written, you said five books, correct? Yes, sir. Do you want to run through the title of those real quick? The first one was Soldier for Jesus. That was written in 2000. in? During COVID?

No, it wasn't 2000. COVID was 2020, right? Yeah. So 2015, I think I wrote the book, but Soling for Jesus, that was a real, real book where I kind of like to say I vomited. I don't know if you ever heard that terminology.

You've written books. You know how you write books and you just have to put everything out there. Yeah, vomit on the page? Yes, not literally, but, you know, figuratively speaking. Just put it all out there, write it down, and edit it later. Yeah. And I remember doing that.

And it was a lot to chew on when I first read it. Even though I had people reading it, I choked on it. I couldn't even if you can't read that book and sit and read it all in once. You have to take it a little bits and pieces. So that book, and then after that, that's when I got the calling of, you know, staying faith to fit. Or should I say taking care of my body or temple, the revelation of being inwardly changed and having the mindset to persevere beyond those I don't want to do. And I don't want to go. I didn't have a choice.

God's finger was on me, so I didn't have a choice. We can fight God, try to fight them all day long, but we know how that battle is going end up. What are the names of some of the other books? Spiritualize your exercise while start subliminal women overweight, but then once you follow the process of taking care of yourself and acknowledging self-esteem and it becomes a woman of worship, a woman of the word, a woman of wisdom. And then stay faithly fit, which is my baby.

That's been in the incubator for a long time. So that's it. Because I had to become that book before, and we probably get ahead of the scripts, almost shut that down. So I'm answering to the answer to your question. That certainly does. Yeah. Yeah.

It certainly does. With the safe faithfully fit, you give a no-nonsense approach. And then tell us a little bit more about your journey. I can see here that you've competitively done bodybuilding. Is that correct? And yes, I like to refer to it because the word bodybuilding, Chris, so masculine? Yeah, it's kind of like adding weight and probably women aren't favored. That's why I figured I'd ask. Right. So I tell people I'm a fitness competitor or a physique competitor. I don't like

the word by I don't we can't build something that's already built. I've done bodybuilding with big max. So I can see why women are probably a fan of that term. But yeah, I like that. Yeah. So it just keeps my yeah, it just to me it makes it more approachable or easier for women to accept the process and not think they're going to look like something they don't want to be. Because when you're bodybuilding, you're like, are you calling me fat? I said, I did bodybuild with Big Macs. Oh, how'd that work for you, Mr. Chris? It did not work for me. I'm still trying to get rid of the Big Macs.

And so you've kind of created a coaching business, a consulting business, where you help people get better and get their fitness straight. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah, I am on that process right now. Now, yeah, I used to be one, I used to do a little one-on-one. I used to teach, Lord knows how many classes, to try to perfect my craft or my gift. And so now I'm more in the broader perspective of community versus one-on-one.

They can make a difference, like being here on this podcast will help get the message out about what it means to stay faithly fit, what's the mindset. And it's something I heard you mentioned on one of the podcast. podcast with Hubbardman about mindset is very important to the relationship for the outcome. So that's where I am with that. Yeah. You know, I think that's where a lot of people get lost is they think that the gym is all about the physical. That's correct.

And sometimes, and a lot of times you go there and you look at other people and you're like, oh, I need to get. Compare that, dude. Yeah. You know, and I think probably women do a lot of comparing with the other women there. And, you know, everyone's body's different. Everyone's life and lifestyle is different. You know, I mean, some of those guys in the gym, I know them, they're wonderful guys, but, you know, they're spending a little too much time.

But, you know, I mean, girls don't seem to mind that. But I spend a little more time in the office, so I tend to make a lot of money and then go work out. I'm just doing jokes, folks. I'm sure it's all good. I love it. But, you know, but my point is, is that people focus in the external nature of the exercise and the muscle. Correct. And really, the muscle is the discipline and the mindset and the brain is what I found.

And I wish I would have discovered that earlier and realized that earlier. And I didn't, but I finally did. Okay. Okay. That's a good thing. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely.

I mean, mindset plays, like I said, that discipline where I would go, okay, you're going in the gym anyway, even though you don't want to. We're just going to go, we'll go have a pop and go sit in the massage chairs. And usually I'd go sit in the massage chairs and get loosened up and I'd feel better because That's probably, you know, it's probably out of sorts with my back or something. You get loosened up in your body. I'm like, I can go lift something. I would just go lift like one thing.

And I'm like, okay, you feel sick, but we're just going to, I wasn't, I really was a sick. I just kind of felt out of sorts because I'm old. And I would just be, okay, we're going to do one machine. And then if you don't feel better, we'll go home. But we're doing one machine. And then I do the one machine. And, you know, that would start getting me.

Yes. You know, and then I had the music. Yeah. And then I had my music playlist. And so once they started hearing the music, firing me up, you know. So, yeah, it was all about mindset. And I learned, don't look at other people to gym. Don't compare yourself to other people to gym.

Correct. Correct. Your competition, your battle is with yourself. That is correct. Absolutely. You're going to battle your body. And I did. I got two hernius.

You got two what? Two hernius. You know that now, now on the physiological side of things, that can happen when you lift too much weight and the body hasn't been trained properly to take on it. That can happen and that's kind of dangerous. So I like to call going to the gym, the fitness kitchen. Fitness kitchen.

That makes me hungry. Ooh, hungry for exercise. Hungry for that leg press machine. Okay. Hungry for the dumbbells. But you're right. The first part of approach to mindset is to perseverance of that first step is always the hardest step.

Yeah. And to me, yeah, it is. So for me, I have a gym in my home. Oh, that makes it easy. But convenience is not always compatible to commitment. So it's kind of like books. A lot of people buy books.

You know, I'm guilty of this. I probably have, I don't know. And you have read them? 200 books on my audible and I haven't read them. And people have this proximity thing where they just go, if I buy a book, I've clearly absorbed by proximity. The data. So if I have a gym in my house, I am exercising, you know, through.

That's a part of your problem. No, Chris. Yeah. A lot of people like that. You buy books and they just figure, I don't need to read it. It's on the shelf. I'm getting the energy from the book. Right.

That's just like saying going to the gym and okay, can I pay somebody to go to the gym and work out for me? Yeah, you can't, but you won't get the results. What? I'm just saying. So just like showing up at the gym, like you said, my home, I can't. I have to get in the environment. Oh, yeah.

And trust me. A lot of people think that doctors are perfect and they're healthy or whatever. That's not true. Just like fitness and personal trainers or what have you. The difference between them and us is that we have the process in terms of what it takes to push past and not talking to yourself out of it into it. And, you know, going forward. And nobody said it's easy because there are days when I be like, I am not going today. I don't feel like it.

Okay. Let's keep it real. Yeah. And I tell people, I like, but I like you like your Big Macs. I like my ice cream. I like my potato chips. Oh, ice cream potato chips. Oh, I do.

Unfortunately, I am lactose intolerant, so I can't eat a lot of ice cream. That keeps me out of some trouble. How about pizza? You like pizza? Oh, I love pizza, yeah. I mean, I recently discovered lactose-free cottage cheese, and so I love having some of that with some peaches and fruits and stuff. I keep a lot of fruits in the house, including my brain, I guess.

I don't know what that refers to do. I don't want to say what's the fruit loops, okay? Yeah, I'm always fruit loop, and I suppose high on sugar. And so anytime I get the sweet bug, a lot of times I'll just grab a bunch of berries and fruits and stuff. I love blackberries. I can eat blackberries until I die. And I actually have to cut myself off of those things. The blackberries.

Oh, I love blackberries. They get in my teeth, Chris. I don't know. Do they? I'll do the, I'll blue berries. I must have 12. But the blackberries just get hot. I don't know, but I know they're good for you, good anti-oxid food, but I just, something about, I'm glad you got that.

Blueberry, strawberries, I keep pineapple, bananas. And a lot of it I can just throw in that cottage cheese. And so I got a lot of that going. Good, healthy stuff. You know, I learned a long time ago, if it's in your house, it's in your mouth. So I just, I just force myself to only buy and have fruit. What you go. There's something.

It's funny. you should say that, Chris, because part of what I do is staying faithly fit and I don't talk about debt probation. I talk about moderation. Not just like you're being transparent. I don't eat perfect, but I know how my body works. I know how my body functions and my metabolism. And, you know, it's all about understanding the process of what you put in your body and how that body is going to respond to that food. So my biggest takeaway downfall was french fries. French fries. Ooh, and not the Big Macs, but the Burger Kings. The Burger King fried fries.

I'm trying to remember what those tastes like. Oh, see. I don't eat much Burger King. But, you know, I'm bad, too. I go to an out burger. I get a burger every now and then, and I, you know, I eat some bad food every now. But I try and make it a rarity. And I try and keep it down to...

Calculate the cost. Yep. Calculate the cost, you know. I don't do a cheat day. I think that's kind of a bad thing because it throws you off. You want sugar again on a cheat. day. But you know, I can have little samples here and then, but the one thing I do is I don't bring it home, but that I'm not foraging in the fridge. Exactly. And I'm really lazy, too.

So if it's not at the house, I'm like, ah, I got to get in the car. I'll just eat this fruit. So now on your website, let's talk about some of the offerings you have there. You've got your podcast, you've got speaking that you do. You've got a shop and some of the giving. You run a charity, too. Let's flesh out some of these things. I'm actually new. The nonprofit is new to charity. charitable. It's just new. I'm very new, Chris, so I'm not, I don't have a season profile, should I say. As a matter of fact, I just mentioned to my daughter, we probably need to put the, take the website down, put it on the construction, because right now we need to revamp it. It's a lot of old stuff on it that just just needs to be upgraded. Some of the programs, we are,

we are just reinventing the website, just put it like that. So I kind of have that up, but I did I do want to take it down and just put it out of the construction for now. So we do have products, state safety fit products. We are in the process of trademarking the logo, which we are actually getting ready to change again. And learning the process of becoming a successful, you know, nonprofit organization founder or entrepreneur and things of that nature. So I've been big on just being the muscle behind the message. Yeah, I've seen your, I've seen your competitive photos. So you are in muscle, but quite a few muscles behind.

Yes, I am. So thank you. But, yeah, I like what you said earlier. The muscle that you got to work the most is the brain. The mindset. You understand what I'm saying. And that, that's something we have to learn how to do. And that takes us a process to unlearn, to relearn, how to journey the, you know, the ideal of being the best you can be in any way.

whatever. And I just don't like people to beat themselves up on things that, you know, about what they aren't doing. It can't do. It shouldn't do. Let's talk about what you can do. You got the cans, the wills, the won'ts. Doos and the don'ts. I love this. Okay. So I just tell women, which category are you in? The dues and the don'ts. What was the other thing you said? The wheels and the waltz. The wheels and the wands. The wheels and the wands. The wands. I'm just saying, just take your pick. I love it. You're like a preacher. You got the rap. right i'm a minister of fitness i got something good she's a minister of fitness ladies and gentlemen she is going to save you from big max anyway chicken nuggets yeah if you can figure out if you can

i like i love when mcdonalds had to come out and be like yeah we started putting real chicken in the chicken mcnuggets come by and have some and you're like what what was what was there before stop stop stop stop making a judge called it frank and meat. Oh my goodness. That's funny. Yeah, if you remember the lawsuit on that, it was kind of funny because there really wasn't, I mean, there might have been some chicken in there or something. I don't know. The hair part or something. But so anyway, enough about McDonald's and I'm getting calls from attorneys. Right. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. We like to pick up McDonald's and I will eat McDonald's every now and then. I think I had a, I think I had a quarter pound or the other

night. Oh, Lord. Yeah. But it's okay. Calculate the cost. I tell you just have what you want, But the most mistake a lot of us made that I found was if I'm going to have this particular food, I don't want to sabotize what I've been doing. Different between working out and training. Workout is when you're going in the gym. You make it to your car. You get in the car. You turn it on. You drive to the gym or walk to the gym or cycle to the gym.

Then get in the door. So now you're going to work out loosely. Go in the fitness kitchen. Oh, you're going to train. I tell people, you wait a minute. going to the fitness kitchen, it's a mindset. If you want to go into your kitchen and bake a chocolate cake, you got to have the right ingredients.

They have the ingredients for a pound cake. Okay. So know what you're doing when you go in the gym. Stop looking at it with everybody else doing. Like you said earlier, everybody's different. Yeah. Guardian design is the same way that would be so boring. He'd be like, oh, that's boring.

You know, your competition is with yourself. It is. the hardest person you're going to have to fight and beat an arm wrestle is yourself. That is correct. You know, as humans, we're a little lazy sometimes. And, you know, we're like, pain, pain, that's going to take a little pain to go to the gym. I'm a little pain of earth. I don't want to do that.

You know, so you've got to motivate yourself. Now, who is your ideal client? Do you work mostly with women or what is that ideal client if they're out there? What do they look like? Me. I mean, women. Women.

Females. I was going to say. Not, you know what I'm talking about. So females. What is one of the things you find a lot of females need help with, either in terms of exercise or mindset? I think it's a little both.

It's really kind of hard to put the finger on it because for me, I never really lacked the confidence to believe in myself. Mm. And then going to the military, I think going to the military is what helped me horn in on my capabilities of being the best I could be. And at age 29, I already had two, I was a mother of two. Oh, wow. I had two daughters just to make that decision to do that. It said, I believe, and we didn't go through it down this path, but if I can just kind of talk about that, that would help when the audience follow my mind.

and how it got changed from the inside out. It's just that the outside, the external part is what helped bring in and tap into what I didn't realize was there. So sometimes you have to approach it from a physical perspective on what you're trying to achieve or be successful with before you can identify. You've got to get to the root before the fruit. You get to the fruit, but you got to identify the root. So the root calls behind that is saying, okay, what is who am I, first of all,

identifying who you are. Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing? So when I went into the military, it helped change my life big time. I was married at the time and I just wasn't satisfied with life. Having a child at 16 and out of wet law, that can be very traumatic for anybody, a female or a woman or a girl or what have you, depending on what, it doesn't matter what color culture or whatever at the group you are. You really have, you're just a child yourself, right? Yeah. So having done that, my life stopped when that happened. When I had my first child, my life stopped, it was no longer about me. So I guess progressively nine years later, not nine years, 19 years, whatever, 25, whatever that math is, I went into the military because I didn't feel I could do

better. I felt I could do better with all for the better environment of stability for my family, my children. But I didn't realize the effect it was going to have for me in terms of me realizing my potential as a female and a woman. So I expired physically. I always maxed the PT test. I always got a 300. And it was the Army. And it was good. It was just so fulfilling.

And then that's when I finally realized. I said, I got something going on here. Maybe I need to pursue this. And so I just think women, sometimes we, we. We mask or we're forced to reserve who we really are potentially. By catering, like you said earlier, we're always comparing ourselves to others. And why they got this and who got this? I tell people, read your script.

Stay out that other person's lanes. That's their script, okay? Just stay in your lane. It's a production company. And it's God's production company. This is his history books and we're part of it. So just participate. And, you know, I just like to be able to encourage women because I wasn't, no one was there to encourage.

My mother did a great job raising us, but in terms of realizing and developing my potential, it just wasn't there. I was raised in a single mother for household. And my dad just wasn't in my life. So I really didn't have that positive image, you know, to be able to fortify how I persevere. And I think that resistance is what has. help me develop that stathema and that inward perspective of knowing who I am from the inside out instead of the outside end. Because the outside in with odds where it gets me.

So I'm going to help women to understand that through and mostly through fitness. And the first thing they're going to do is look at me and say, oh, I want to be like you, but like I tell everybody, you don't want to be like me because you don't want to do what I do. Ah. I say, you need to be. I want you to be the best you could be, not the best lending. can be. So when I go into the gym with a woman and we talk about staying faithly fit, I want to, I'm talking to the woman that I don't see visually. I'm talking to the woman that

no one can see but her and God. That's my approach. That's what makes, yeah, me and I'm just, women, I just want to help them. We need, we need to help. We need somebody to be there to care for us and love us the way we are to where we want them. They want to be. And you're looking amazing for your age. I mean, you're really doing well. And I, I kind of thought you were about 20 or 30 years younger than what you told me you were. When do you want me to take you to make dollars a buy you this? I want to get some of them, Burger King fries. Oh, I'm going to send you a gift certificate, a gift card. How about that? Oh, I love you, but don't do that. We don't have that. We don't have fat free french fries, okay. Yeah, I know.

I know, I don't know. But I like French fries. I eat out a little, too much anyway as a single guy. We have bad habits of single guys. So as we wrap the show, talk to people, give a final pitch out to people that are, you know, how you can help them, how they can find out more about you, websites, etc., etc. Like I said, they can go to the website. The book itself is on iTunes, Barnes & Noble, eBook. And I said, I said, I'm going to look at this.

On Amazon, it's in Barnes and Nobles and E-Book. the Apple iTunes store at Barnes & Noble. And they're working on the publishing company is working on the press release to get it up on their website. So it's going to be a different website to get to the book. And one of the things I would like to close out with

is that in being a following the GPS about staying faithfully fit, it's about having the correct mindset, the body being a gift. This body was given to, us alone and you don't loan your girlfriend a dress when you loan it to her you want to back the same way you got it that's the way i tell women and and then you want to and i don't want to leave men out but i'm just saying i'm not a man i don't i believe women should train women that's just

my take on it and then like you said somebody might call me and sue me but not a man i'm not a man yeah i mean it's hard to coach different people of different sexes because you you know women are very different than men and they have different needs they have different needs they different, you know, they deal with hormones more than men do. Yeah. And, you know, mindset, you know, women definitely have some different mindsets. I know women, you know, they, they competitively look at each other and, you know, compete with each other to look the best. And, you know, sometimes when they go to the gym, you know, I've had women say in my singles group, you know, I'm not in the best shape. And so I feel intimidated when I go to the gym by these other

women that are, you know, they live there basically. And it's no, that's not what it's about. It's your personal battle. It's right here in the brain. This is your, this is my worst enemy right here. That's correct. Because he's the guy who's going to go, let's go to the McDonald's before instead of the gym. Expect if you have to pass McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts on the way to it. There's two of those.

There's not the Dunkin' Donuts, but there's a big McDonald's. There's two of them that I drive by on the way home and going to. And then there's a, there's one of those, it's worse than Dunkin' Donuts. What's the real sugary? You're talking about crispy cream. Crispy cream, yeah. As I drive by, there's one right there. And I'm just like, damn it, man.

What are you doing, man? Maybe I should get a gym in my house, so I should do that again. Thank you very much for coming the show. We really appreciate it. Linda, give us your dot coms one last time or dot org as we go up. Stayfaithfulfit.org. You have the YouTube, Linda in Bolton Ministries. That's pretty much what is under, Linda in Bolton ministry.

that is correct. What is your perspective? And you do that every Saturday, I think, right? I was doing it every Saturday, but this year I changed it to the third Saturday of every month. Oh, wow. Because there were other things contending with the journey. And you have the stay underscore faithfully underscore fit, which is Instagram. You have the TikTok, which I believe is the same thing. Stay, stay faithly fit.

Facebook page. And then the M. Bolton Facebook page. I've just recently incorporated the Lina and Bolton Consulting, which I'm trying to integrate and figure out how to navigate through all that integrated under one platform, or more than just six. I don't like all the platforms, but I'm trying to be more broadened to get it out there. So I'm learning,

listening to people and checking out of Mr. Chris Boff's show so I can see what's going on. So yeah, you're mentoring me. And silently, you don't know that, but I just thought I let you know. Great. That's why we love the show. We want to inspire people.

And if we can inspire them for all my stupid jokes, that we're winning. Yeah, I will be. they also be featured they're going to be doing. I don't know if you heard of the inside success, success TV show, CEO TV show. There'll be air and a film or stay safely fit. We haven't put that on the website in June, so I'll be going to Miami to film that.

And this is the story, the episode, where they actually follow the life of military personnel that served in the military, become veterans, are now entrepreneurs and making an impact in the community. So that's coming up. So this, with you, the opportunity is really been a blessing to open the door for me to step on the stage and use my gift to further the gospel and to administer positivity and empowerment to the community of women that, you know, my, I just love my sisters and just want to help and just want to help us them be the best they can be in whichever way that looks. Yeah, I'm looking at your fitness pictures where you play six in the quarterfinals in one event. Yeah, yeah, that was that was part of the journey.

That was kind of interesting. It was a challenge that was offered in May. Was it May? No, what is this? Yeah, we're in February. Yeah, February, where it was a challenge that was designed to fund the research for the B Foundation for Research for Childhood Cancer. Wow.

So it was the donations and the challenge, that was the basis and the impact that it was the challenge was based on. And in order to advance to the next stage, it was driven by boats. And so they had the first 20 and then every week you went to the 15 and then you went to the 10 and the five. And then the final stage that I didn't have enough boats to go into the final stage, which is fine. And then you would be featured on the Miss Health and Fitness cover. Yeah. Wow.

You look amazing. You look amazing. Now, how recent was this? This recently. Wow. I didn't make the finals. And like I tell people, I said, it was just part of the journey. I just thank people, all their support and everything.

It was just part of the journey and also to keep me accountable. Yeah. Because I need to be accountable as well. Yeah. Self accountability. That's one of the great things you learn from the discipline of doing the wine. That is correct. That is correct.

I'm going to share this picture in your Instagram with some friends and shame them that they need to go to the gym. No, I can't do the shame. Chris. It's subtle shaming. It's subconscious. Look at this amazing woman. And they're going to be like, Anyway, hopefully they'll call you.

Okay, that'll be great. Thank you, Linda, for coming to show. It's been just a wonderful joy to have you an inspiration. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me, Chris. And I would just say one thing, a discipline disciple doesn't just believe in change. They train for it. When the spirit leads, the mind renews, the body aligns, transformation becomes a lifestyle.

Yeah. It's all in the head game, really. It is. I mean, there is the fitness part of it. but if your head's not in the right place for fitness, it's not going to work out well. Anyway, thank you very much, Linda, for coming to the show. Thanks, for me honest, for tuning in.

Order up per book where refined books are sold and other books as well. It is called Stay Faithfully Fit, Minister of Fitness, out by Linda M. Bolton. Thanks for a minus for tuning in. Go to Goodreach.com, Forteous, Chris Foss, LinkedIn.com, Forteous Chris Foss. Chris Foss, 1 on the TikTokity, and all those crazy places in it.

Be good to each other. Stay safe. We'll see you next time. 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. All right, Linda, great show.

Wonderful job.