Your Biggest Opportunities in Life Are IN The Resistance

Whether you like it or not, your environment is stronger than your willpower. And so your environment will change you for the good or for the bad. So I've just started to choose the environments where I put myself in the front row, where I have no option but to change for the better. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the podcast. It's time for another quickie, because there's always time to fit in. Inspiration. I can't believe I am telling you that the official launch of Glossy is finally here. You know, four years later, here we are. It almost seems surreal, to be honest. All of my friends are congratulating me and saying, I hope you're letting this soak in. Like, what does it feel like? I can't honestly tell you yet what it feels like. I think because I've been for so long in this feeling of like, we're not there yet, we're not launched, like, so many different issues that now that we're like, off to the races, it hasn't sunk in yet. 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So if you guys have followed me for like the past, I'd say you would have had to follow me for at least minimum five years now. Chris and I. Chris is my husband, if you don't know. And Chris and I lived in Santa Monica and we would go to Soul Cycle all the time. And I remember that one day this beautiful, amazing, strong fit soul Cycle instructor named Sunny walked in and she got up on the podium and I was like, oh my gosh, this woman is like a powerhouse. And when she started talking, it was no different. I mean, the people who were the sole cycle instructors at this LA studio that we would go to, these were not just like instructors. As if that wouldn't have been enough. It would have been. But these are, you know, actresses, actors, performers, singers. They're super into personal development. They've had to undergo hours and hours and hours of training with the best and hours and hours of teaching and seeing if they pass. Like, I know people who have taken the test twice and were good and still did not pass. That's how good these people are up on the bike. And I'm not just talking about how they ride the bike like they are true performers. Like you are going to church when you're in this class. And I don't know if that's every Soul cycle around the US but that's how it was at this one in LA that we went to. It was like the creme de la creme of instructors. And so if you've never been to a soul cycle, it is a smaller room where they pack you in. It's about 50 to 60 people on bikes. It's dark, it's candle lit, it's a heated room, the music is blaring and the music is always incredible. And then the instructors, amazing. So this can bring a few things up for you. If you don't love feeling like you're kind of, you know, trapped in a room and if you get up, like people are going to see you get up and leave. It brings up a lot of emotion. Good and Bad soul cycle, these rooms they were confronting. So we're riding our bike and for me, the front row was always the place with a lot of resistance for me, because in the front row, you are leading everybody behind you. So because you're doing choreography, everyone looks up to the row in front of them. And ultimately the entire front row is also facing the mirror so they can see you. And they highly suggest that if you are new or you don't know, if you haven't gone to the class frequently, that you don't sit in the front row. So I waited to sit in the front row, but then when I started to get better, I forced myself to sit in the front row. Why? Because I knew that the front row was the place I had the most resistance around. And I also knew that it held the most opportunity for me. Okay, just a one minute pause here because I have to tell you about something that I am loving. So you know I'm a fan of a good supplement that promotes gut health, tastes amazing, and is packed with health benefits. 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So head to the link in the show notes to grab Chai Protein plus and spice up your supplement and self care routine and get all of that protein in. It's so important, you guys. Okay, let's get back to the episode. And so when Sunny was telling us all of the different choreography and you know, right arm, left arm, push up, tap back, all these different things that you're doing over and over and you're doing it all at the same time, while you're going on the same foot, right, left, right, left, right, left, or whatever the beat to the music was. She says, okay, now I want you to reach down and I want you to pile on the opportunity. And I'm like, okay, pile on the opportunity. What does that mean? She wanted us to turn the resistance up, but by turning the resistance up, we are turning the opportunity for ourselves to get better. Now, I can honestly tell you that if I was not in that environment with someone to my left, to my right, and behind me and looking at me in the mirror, that at that point in the game, I already had the resistance up. If I was not in the room, in the environment where the room literally forced me to turn it up even more, that I wouldn't have given myself an even bigger opportunity to get stronger in that room. Because, you guys, I have been at home on my bike, on my peloton bike, where the instructor is zestfully yelling at me to turn up the resistance. And I say right back, not today, Cody. So it does not mean that you are going to turn up that resistance when you're alone. And so there's a lot of themes here. I want you guys to think about the places that hold the most resistance for you. Maybe it's rooms you don't want to be in. Maybe it's money you don't want to spend. Maybe it's things, you know, that would make you really uncomfortable to join. Maybe it's networking things. Maybe in the evenings you don't want to go out and meet people and create those dinners or opportunities because you're just too tired. Except all of those places that you have the resistance around are the. That hold the most opportunity for you. And where is it maybe in your life that you are not putting yourself in places where you're very accountable or you don't have groups of friends that hold you accountable, like the person to my right and left and behind me, and choosing the opportunities that make you be in that front row of your life so that people look to you to lead and you are forced to lead. When you are putting yourself in the place of front row in your life, you have no other option but to show up. Maybe this means if you are trying to change your body or you're trying to get healthier, that you hire a trainer, that you start hanging out with groups of friends who all go to classes together, who all go to the gym. This is who they are. When they go out to dinner, they're not drinking their Faces off. They're not necessarily ordering everything on the menu and piling it on the table. Because whether you like it or not, your environment is stronger than your willpower. And so your environment will change you for the good or for the bad. So I've just started to choose the environments where I put myself in the front row, where I have no option but to change for the better. Now, this shit is scary and it is not easy, but if you can start choosing the resistance, if you can start choosing the places of resistance, and if you can start putting yourself in the front row, places of your life where the opportunity is the highest, is the most intense, I promise you, you're gonna get that change that you wanna see. Because why the f go to the class two or three times a week? Why the f go and do the thing if you're not going to actually turn it up, if you're not going to actually pick up the heavier weights, if you're not going to actually put yourself in the front row? So you really show up and you hold yourself accountable. If you're not actually going to really put the work in and be responsible, maybe to a team, be responsible to people to show up, be responsible to lead. This is the only way that I have learned how to show up in my life. Because, you guys, I actually think that innately I'm lazy and I just want to play. Because if I look back at my life in my early 20s and teens, like, it was so hard for me to want to do any work. It was so hard for me to stick to a fitness routine. Like, I didn't actually like it. And I felt like I would prefer to just sit around and eat and watch tv. Like, that's just the type of kid that I feel like I was. And I made myself fall in love with activity and getting outside and doing different things. Because as much as I felt lazy and, like, I just wanted to eat and watch tv, it also made me so extremely depressed that somehow at a young age, I was able to tap into, ooh, this is gonna be painful if I keep doing this. This is gonna get harder and harder and harder to get ahead or get to my goal if I keep getting further from it. So follow that resistance. I want you to follow where the opportunity is, and it's the resistance that marks the spot. 2026 is the year that you launch your business. It's the year that you've become the boss. You become the leader. That idea that you have that has been eating at you forever, that just will not leave you alone is going to come to life. Maybe it's something that someone tells you you should always sell or a store you've already designed in your head. And with SH 2026 is when you finally make it happen. Shopify gives you everything you need to sell online and in person. 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