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So obviously you've been personal training now for several years. Yeah. What would you say are the most enjoyable or rewarding parts of your job? So I first absolutely love my job. It feels when I go to it, it feels like I'm not really going to work. It's just such a great job. One of the things would be the people that I meet. So, you know, you really do form great connections with people and also some friendships as well. So just getting to know different people and learning about them and their story, that has to be a real highlight for me. And one of the other things would be that you make a real difference in people's lives. You know, people will often say like this, like coming along to the sessions, like the highlight of my day or, you know, my mum's group will say it's the highlight of my week. So that's a really cool thing that you essentially get to make someone's day. And I try and, you know, we all like sometimes you feel tired, you don't have a lot of energy. I try and think to myself, you know, within the session, like their paying to see me I'm going to make their day and, you know, make it a really, a really great part of their day. And I guess one of the other things is the fact that I get to be active, too. So, you know, you're always moving around weights and demonstrating movements. So many jobs these days are really sedentary. And I think that it's great that within this job you get in so much incidental movement. So, yeah. You do. Yeah, absolutely. I think a lot of trainers found that during the lockdown when they did a lot of training online. It was a major, major difference. Definitely. Awesome. Okay. Well, obviously, all the positives in the job. Are there any things that you found challenging or a little bit tough? So I think one of the things probably as my business started to grow and I started to take on more and you know, you see all these opportunities of how you can develop things and, you know, lead in bootcamps. and PT sessions, it required a lot of energy. I think just managing those energy levels sometimes you can get like you feel really tired or really fatigued. So that is a little bit of a challenge, especially if you're somebody who really loves what you do because it's tempting to keep on taking more clients, keep on doing new things. So I think it's really important that you are aware of that, and that's one of the challenges for me. I'm trying to think of others, I guess some of the time if you have clients and some of their perspectives don't align with how you, you do things. For example, I had one lady and she didn't want to lift any weight. She just wanted to do just body weight stuff. So, you know, things like that can sometimes be quite challenging, but at the same time, working with some of those clients is a really good chance to grow as well and develop your communication skills and learn about different perspectives. So absolutely. Yeah. Okay, cool. And obviously, you're going to be speaking to a lot of people that are going to be embarking on a personal training journey. Yeah. The unfortunate stat is that a high percentage of people that start as personal trainers don't make it past the first year, right. Yes. So someone who's obviously been through that early stage and now is built a really successful business, what would be some if you could give a couple of pearls of wisdom or a couple of tips that would really help new personal trainers embarking on their journey into the fitness industry. Yeah. So I think one really important thing to do is to think about what success looks like for you. You know, nowadays with so much out there on social media, we're constantly being inundated with information about how the people are going, about their personal training and whatever. But for me, it's what does success look like for me, so if. I'm a successful business owner, personal trainer. What does that mean? So for me success is being able to really love what I do, is being able to do my job and have time with my family and it's being able to set my own hours and be able to, if I need to, to get to go and help on a school trip and that sort of thing. We have to be flexible with that. So I think think about what does success look like for you and do your best to filter out what it means for other people. Because we're all different. We all have different lives and different priorities. So I think that's really important. And connected to that, I guess is. spending time and energy thinking about what your brand is and really staying true to that. You know, it's it's easy to be pulled in different directions. Within the fitness industry, there's, you know, different sort of like fast trends and so but really just stay true to what is important to you and what you value. And I guess the last one, this is probably just a little bit of my personality is being like being really organised. And if I think back to COVID my skill to be able to look ahead and be organised with things and think ahead has really meant that my business actually thrived in COVID because I thought like, what am I going to do if this happens and if this happens? I have communicated with with clients. So and that that was really that was really helpful. So it goes back to what we said about the systems and having those things in place. Absolutely. All right. So thank you very much for your time, Tash. I know you're busy. So as we said earlier on, Tash is obviously a personal trainer. She's a mum of three under fives, and she's off to England in a few days time. Yeah, so a lot to organise. So thank you for your time. All the best for your trip. Actually, just while we're on that and we're closing, obviously, you know, you're running the successful business, but you're overseas for a couple of months or nearly a couple of months. So what have you got in place, being organised, I'm sure you've got something. Yeah. So I have a lady who is sub-contracting and she is going to be running all of the, all of the face to face sessions, so it's quite a lot. So she's going to be doing six boot camp sessions a week, she'll be doing six mums sessions a week. And so all of that will continue whilst I'm not here and I will continue to run the behind the scenes stuff, whilst I'm over there. So fantastic. Yeah. And I suppose that is the pinnacle and it doesn't happen overnight where you can actually earn a passive income, you can be overseas enjoying, you know, your family and your holiday whilst, you know, you're making money through your subcontractor, someone else is doing it for you. Yeah. So yeah, that's really awesome. So. Okay, thank you so much Tash.