Fearless Fridays - Hidden Battles

Ladies and gentlemen and gentlemen, gentlemen, welcome to Fearless Friday with your hosts Vanessa Lindsey and Sydney Johnson, empowering to live fearlessly through authentic conversations that inspire purpose and action. I'm your resident DJ, DJ Woody Wood, and I hope you enjoy. Oh, the show, girl. You know, that music always get me pumped up and get me going. And you know, shouts out to DJ Woody Wood all the way up into the PA. We call him our kidney warrior. Um, DJ, because he had— he went through his transition. Everybody go through their transition, they pivot. Which brings me to the hour of the day. Look, folks, y'all don't even know who we got online today. I did the promos, I got us out there and everything, right? But listen, we got Lady Ty, right? Straight out of the North Cackalacky. So all you North Carolina people, bring them on.

Cackalacky!

Okay, the country, country of the Cackalacky is inside the house. Today, right, by way of Los Angeles. I'll let her tell her story, right?

Yeah.

But we're excited. Um, Ty is a professional fitness coach by way of even going on the way to the Olympics and everything. She's a corporate coach for fitness as well. She's just an incredible, tight-packed, wonderful young lady. You know, um, listen, you can't look at it— you know, she look like a baby, and she is a baby in comparison, right? But listen, you want young and powerful? We got young and powerful online right now, and she is popping up. Hey, Ty, how you doing today, girl?

Hey, I am great. Thank you so much. I love it. I love that intro. No, hey, I'm getting better.

I'm getting better at it.

I love it.

Welcome, welcome. Come on, tell us all about you and all about how you help people become the best versions of themselves.

I heard that you have B-E-S-T, y'all. Yes, and trust me, that has meaning to it.

And if you— oh, if you made it to the Olympics and you have to be the best, you have to know about being the best. And so you have to be able to— because it takes an extra to get you there. So let's talk about you. Tell us about yourself.

Yeah, so I didn't— I didn't actually make it. I didn't make it. So I was—

You was on your way.

I was, yes, I was on my way. So I actually pursued it after, after school. So, okay, just to go back, I was a former collegiate athlete, um, D2 and D1. So I had the pleasure of doing D1, um, right after my D2. Um, I had a semester to, to, to go out and hit a bang, and I went and, um, my— I had a scholarship a full ride to get my master's, actually, to finish. And, um, I went and I killed it. I, I killed it. Uh, and what I mean by that is I, I broke records. I led the team to a championship. Unfortunately, yes, I wasn't a part of the championship that they actually won, but I would say that I— my presence, uh, definitely led the team there. Um, They, they definitely acknowledged that.

Wow.

Sure. Um, and it was, it was a great time. But, um, because I only had an indoor season for that, for that time, they won outdoors. We, we lost indoor by 2 points. So, um, they brought me in to, to finish it up. I did my part, and then, and then we— someone else kind of had it, had an accident and didn't hold their part on the end. But that's all right, that's all right, that's all right. I still left with, with some titles, but it was a great time. So after that Um, I went to Cali and I, I didn't plan on staying. And then I had a, uh, my former coach, he, he reached out to me and said, hey, you need to stay and you need to reach out to, uh, Carmelita Jeter— Jeter. And, um, she was at the time the, the fastest woman alive. And so I had reached out to her and she instantly wrote me back and was like—

You said the fastest woman alive?

At the time, yes, she was.

I got you. Yeah, everybody has their moment.

Yes, that's her title. Yes, it is. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I definitely was inspired by her in school for sure. I had— I took pictures with her, had her autograph. I seen her at Penn Relays. It was amazing to just have a conversation with her and potentially work with her. And unfortunately, it didn't get there because she ended up moving and going to be a head coach at a different location. So I had to find another coach and then I found one. He was great. And then for about 3 years, I was pursuing it. I ended up getting injured, and, um, I just couldn't recover the way that I wanted to. And then I started getting discouraged. And so I was like, you know what, let me see if I could walk away right now, would I be okay? And until I felt that okay feeling, um, I, I decided to walk away. And I was like, you know what, you've done great things in this industry. It's okay, you know. So—

You love yourself.

So yeah, so I, I walked away, and when I walked away, I walked into my full fitness journey.

Wow, that's amazing. And I love that you say that you, you had to come with yourself that it's okay to walk away, because sometimes we did— we know it's okay to walk away, we, we should know it's okay to walk away, but we don't. We just keep staying.

Yeah, you got to give yourself permission, right?

And sometimes, like they say, some things are for a reason, a season, a time, right? And so you realize that Okay, you did that for your time and then you were able to step into your purpose for now.

Yes, yes, ma'am.

Wow, wow, wow, wow. Nice. That's awesome. That's awesome.

Challenging. I'm not gonna lie, it was very challenging. I mean, even today I still, um, say once I get my foundation set with my, my business that I'm creating, there may be a possibility that I may step back out there and, and try to see if I can finish.

Okay. And so would you— have you ever thought about— because, you know, I know a lot of people, they begin to do this and then they go— they, their career may end or they may decide to pivot, but then they go into coaching. Is coaching something that you're considering doing?

Absolutely. So I was coaching while I was actually— so I was coaching the entire time that I was in, um, LA. So when I first got there, I was actually a high school coach at, um, and then when— before I left, I was, uh, also a high school coach. I just never, I just never posted about it. But yeah, I was working with the Um, there I was assistant coach, and then I was, uh, the head coach for a private school.

Okay, it had to be kind of— it had to be rewarding.

It was, it was so fun. It was, it was something that, um, again, I didn't— I, I'm— if I could do that, I, I would definitely, um, I would do it. Definitely, definitely coach for sure.

Yeah.

Okay, okay. Well, it sounds like you can do it, and there's gonna be— there's lots of opportunities Don't even get me started. I've been— I would have had you start your own nonprofit and have a sports facility and sports for kids and after-school programs and stuff where you could teach them and they can compete.

That's the goal.

Okay.

Yeah, for the benefit of the public, nonprofit type of angle right there. I mean, you, you are packed with so much capability.

Thank you.

That, that you, that you owe it to yourself and, and your tribe that is following you and the tribe members that haven't even discovered you yet.

That's right.

You know, so you can branch different directions, and I'm sure you got a lot on your plate in terms of what direction you can, a lot of choices. And, um, you know, we, we, we want to see T.I. grow.

Hey, hey, we want to see you bring it on up, especially at this pivotal time, because right now health is so important.

Health is everything.

It's everything. And that, that is our real, um, money right there. We think getting the dollars is money, but our health is money. Our health is currency.

That's the currency. Health is the actual currency.

Yes, it's the actual currency. And a lot of us, we just frivolously throw away our currency, like we just burn through our money, right? We hit— when we came down, most of us, we hit the lottery. We came down with good bodies. We came down just feeling good. Then all along the way We just squander.

That's true.

Our money, people's money just goes away sometimes when they win. And so what made you decide to— I know you were running, and even, even athletes, you know, while they're training, they, they, they, they work out, but sometimes when they're done, they feel so defeated that they don't have anything to do with them. They don't continue taking care of themselves. So what made you continue to say, you know, I'm going to continue on this road because this is the most important thing I have right here?

Um, I just learned that taking care of myself is not just about, um, how I look, right? Um, it's about how I feel. So it was, it was challenging in the beginning because I was, I was going back and forth with, with leaving, um, track. I mean, I, I had ran for so long, um, and then walking away from it was different. So I definitely had to, uh, pivot back, like shift a little bit. Um, and then, um, I had scares. So I had, I had a pre-diabetic scare on my journey.

Hmm.

And, um, and it shocked me because I had never been in that lane before. So I knew that, um, I needed to to get back to myself. Um, but it does hit you. It does hit you. But, um, yeah, I just, I just, yeah, I just realized that it's more than how you look. It's about how you feel, right?

Right.

Um, and so, and how you live and the, the habits that we build every single day. So, you know, that's what I had told myself. My, my family has pre-diabetic or diab— you know, diabetes, and I'm like, You know, I never, I never thought— I was looking, I was looking just as how I, how I look today.

Right.

That's what made me realize that no, you gotta, you, you have to recenter yourself. And you know, if this is something that you're, you're passionate about, then you need to get back into it. Either you go back to running or you get back into that fitness lane. And so I definitely had to stop I'm not gonna lie, I had a big stop because it was, again, it was just, it was very challenging for me to walk away. I was, I was, oh, it was hard. But, um, once I made that decision, it was like, oh, okay. Like, like I told y'all earlier, when I, when I realized, girl, you did great things here, let it go. Like, you're, you're fine. You have nothing to prove to anyone but yourself. Like, you know what you've done. And so, um, and so yeah, that's, that's kind of how You know, it happened.

So did you feel— so sometimes when we make those pivots or when we've been doing something our whole life and we decide for ourselves, I no longer want to do this, how do you feel? How was your support system? Do you feel like you had the support that you needed when you made that change?

Great question. Um, no, at the time I didn't. So I did The best when I was an athlete because I had a great support system, a really great support system. Um, my family came with me everywhere. They was the loudest. They were rooting like everyone knew when they were there. Like, they, they were like, oh, that— those are Talia, that's Talia's family. They— that she is like, she has the support. And so it, it made me, um, want to be better.

Right?

Um, and then I no longer had that when I left North— uh, left North Carolina, right? So I was in here mentally trying to do a process that I wasn't used to doing, um, you know, now alone in a sense. And when I was doing my best, it was, it was COVID, and I had just started with this new coach, and I was doing amazing. I knew for a fact that I was going to go to, uh, the Olympic trials. I knew that I was gonna do it that year. And then— Had COVID happen.

COVID.

Yes, COVID hit. And, um, and, and my numbers was good, and, and I was, I was really killing it, but my, my mental was not— um, how do I want to say this— I was not motivated by what I would say I should have been. I was, I was thriving off of trying to prove a point to everyone else when I had never— my My accolades, like the things that I had accomplished before, never came from that. It was always because I loved what I did and I knew that I could do it. But now my mental had shifted because I was, I was mad at the world. And so I was in it for trying to prove it to others that I could do it without a certain type of support now, because I was mad because I didn't have the support system. And so, um, and so I feel like the, you know, God was like, nope, that's not who you are. COVID, you go. Now let's see how— what you do, you know, during this, you know, year. So I trained, um, I still, you know, I was like, this is a test, this is a test. So I trained throughout that whole COVID, um, you know, really hard and stuff. And then after that, I got injured and I was like, It just mentally just messed me up. But yeah, the support is definitely, um, core, very much.

So there's a lot of young athletes out there today, and they, they're doing it and they're not having support. And it sounds like one of the things you're telling them to get support— what kind of ways, if they are not getting that core support, would you recommend for them to get alternative support, or how they can get that support? That's a good one.

Yeah, so that is a great question. So my team, the people that I, um, that had the same goal as me, was my support. Um, we were all a family, so that was one thing that helped me a lot. So we would always have like gatherings. We were always just— it was just the people that you are in the grind with, or whether that's your coach, or maybe sometimes it just may be you training, because there was times that it was just me, right?

Um, I—

it was either those people that I was training with or whatever I was doing outside of the training. Those were the people that, you know, was my support. It's really— honestly, I always say, in my experience, I would just say just kind of try to know why you're doing it, you know what I'm saying? Um, just try to know why you're doing it because it, it can be hard. It really can. And make sure that you're prepared, like you prepare your— like you are prepared. Like especially in track and field, that's an individual sport, you know.

It's individual, true.

It's very individual, you know. And so, and, and it's not a lot of money in that sport, so I always say, like, if you're gonna pursue it outside of, you know, or be post-collegiate or outside of, you know, however you're gonna pursue it outside of college, um, you definitely need to prepare yourself, you know, you know, have the money. Because I feel like, you know, financially, um, that will help tremendously because then, you know, that's a different level of support. But if you don't have the, the funds on top of people feeding into you, it can be challenging. It really can. Um, but it's a, it's a mental battle, and I feel like everyone has to kind of go through that, um, on their own.

Yeah, it is an individual race for sure, you know. Wow. You know, in the curiosity of it all, at, at— if you can remember any of your lowest points Mm-hmm. What would be your top 3 things that enabled you or strengthened you to come out of it? Like, you know, um, it's one thing with people, we say we pray, but it's another thing when you really find yourself in the desert by yourself and it's really just you. At that point, do you believe in what you've always professed your whole life? Because it's one thing to replicate and communicate, but it's a whole different thing to literally, literally believe in, in the relationship that you may have with whatever your higher power is and how that looks. Much less, do you feel that it was breathing back into you from your— belief to encourage you in your intuitive witness to start identifying ways to walk out of it. Um, because many of us, and even this, the segments that we do, is really largely based upon how did you really do that? What was, what was in your mind?

Mm-hmm.

And what I'm finding out, there's some common denominators that we all get as nuggets. To walk us out. And I'm just always curious, what was yours?

Okay, so I, I want to make sure that I understand the question. So your question is asking me how did I enable— can you, can you repeat it again?

Okay, so it's like, um, what other— what, what other relationship other than the physical relationships, what enabled you to, to encourage yourself Intuitively wise, spiritually wise to walk out?

Yeah, so, um, surrounding myself with, with people that— with like minds as me, with, uh, that— or if I didn't care, if I didn't mentally— if I didn't have what I felt like I needed, I would go around people that, that I felt like could, could give me that. Um, a lot of times I was going to church. I was, um, I was fine, you know. I was, I was just finding things that were making me happy I'm trying to figure out what made me happy, um, so that my mental could be better. And so a lot of, a lot of, uh, this journey, or that journey, um, really did develop who I was, or, uh, allowed me to find who I was.

Because—

Yeah, because I was thinking— I was, uh, yeah, because I was seeking, um, you know, happiness. So I was just trying a lot of things out. I was going places and, um, doing things that I had never done. This was actually the first time that I had, um, stepped out and like went like out to eat by myself. And, you know, I started going places and, and doing a lot of things by myself, and I started getting comfortable with it. And then after that, that's, that's when everything else started to align.

Yeah, it sounds like when we're, when we're younger, we start in a sport And that's all we know as we're going— as we're going to junior high, high school, we go to college and we do it.

And that's all we know.

Yeah. And so we're isolated out of the world. So it sounds like after you stop, it's like, okay, now it's like you have to go live your life now.

Yes.

Who else am I? Yes. What, what part of me I haven't met yet? And what channels do I go through to meet the other me?

Absolutely right.

That's right. And so it's good. I heard you say, and which, which I'm excited to get into, is like now you're, you're training others to get into sports, and now you're doing corporate coaching.

Yeah.

Yes, that's big. That was big.

I'm building, I'm building.

Let's talk a little bit about your coaching. What are you doing?

Yes, so I am, um, so I have coached over 300 women, over 300+ women, which I am super excited about, right? And, um, And these are women who are over their 40s, um, and, you know, when it comes to menopause or just, um, anything that are— is dealing with just starting somewhere, right? Because I have been there. Like I just said, I was— I grew up in fitness, but then when I thought that I was walking away from something that was life for me. Um, I stopped. I stopped, and I didn't— and it was hard for me to figure out how to get back into it. So, um, now I have created a business to where, um, it is strictly focused on helping women to get back into movement, but not the same as where people think that, you know, you have to— you, you know, where you have to— where people think that you have to start So, um, that's what I'm, I'm creating a business around.

This is really interesting, Talisha. It's really— Talia, sorry about that. It's really interesting because you're saying that your base is plus 40.

Yes.

Yes.

And here, so, you know, walk us that out. Walk that out for us because you is— you are not 40.

I am not 40.

You are nowhere near 40.

No, this is good. Yeah, it's amazing. You know, I, I sit here and I sit in gratitude all the time because, um, because of it. But, um, yeah, I just started— honestly, I had started, um, working at a gym in LA, and they were with actually with, um, women that were in their 60s, women and men, and I absolutely fell in love with it. And, um, And I was already— I was still personal training on my own, but I had stepped away from personal training and I wanted to be hand— I wanted to learn more. So I stepped away from my personal training business and started working for another business, um, to learn the business. And so in that, I, um, fell in love with working with people older than me and, um, just learning.

Wow.

you know, just the— yeah, I did. I fell in love with it. And so, um, and, and so, yeah, and so I started to just kind of do more research and just be more hands-on, and it just kind of just kept going from there. Um, but my inspiration had— well, really had hit me when, um, I had went back home one day and me and my grandmother, we were dancing. And then when I had left back LA, I was editing a video and, um, of us dancing, and I just started reminiscing. And I thought to myself and I said, wow. I said, this same woman— and she's had over 12 surgeries— and I said, the same woman is the same woman that taught me how to hula hoop. She taught me how to ride a bike. She taught me how to jump rope. And now she cannot even Wow. She can't bike, she can't jump rope, she can't, um, do any of the movements that I remember her doing when I was like 6, 7, 8 years old, right? And she was the one that, that taught me these activities, these movements, um, at a very young age. And it just hit me and I was like, wow, yeah, I, I gotta do this. Like, I have to do that. And so, um, that was when, like, the, the, the shift started happening and I started becoming more passionate about it. And then I started posting about the movements that I was learning, like the, the, um, science behind it.

The science behind it.

Yeah, the science. Because I started doing, uh, research, I started reading my books, um, I started, um, I was applying to go back to school for— it was a lot of things that I was just I was in— like, I was really into it. And so, um, and so everything that I was learning, I started posting it and people gravitated to it. And then from there, it just kind of—

Here come your tribe.

Yeah.

You know, it's very— this is interesting because, um, I, I— because my past has been, um, fitness and everything, even the military, I was a master fitness trainer. I mean, these different Parables come to play. But as I find myself in my new— the plus 40, plus 15, right? Plus 15. Yeah, right.

So keep counting, keep counting. Look, don't be stopping there.

But you know what the challenge that I asked my friends, you know, can you get on the floor and get up?

Exactly.

So my reality hit me once because if you're not consistent in utilizing everything that God give you The inconsistency that you gave yourself not to do was do tell on you as you go along. And one day my grandson was on the floor just doing this little thing, and, and we was out, um, he was dancing. It was, it was that and one of the neighbors', um, grandsons. And so I got down there and started to try to— I used to breakdance back in the day, and I was pop locking. I could do it all, right? Get on that floor, I could spin.

I don't believe it. Let me see, let me see. I don't believe it.

Hey, I know that's right. Hey, that's what I'm talking about.

You playing with me, girl. See, you gonna get me started. You know I was that student in high school. You get started. But the truth of the matter was I, I couldn't twist a bend because I had not been utilizing all that.

Yeah.

And before I knew it I just found myself and say, I'll say, uh-oh, Sid, you better get back out there and start running around Lake Merritt again and get all that you got to get done. So start hitting them, you know. I look like I'm okay, but when you start trying to move those muscles—

Yes. And, and Ty, a lot of people think that just because you're aging, that's how you age, by having stiff muscles and not being able to move. Is that what you found? In your research and in the work that you have, is it just this age that's stopping all of us from moving?

Oh, I'm so glad that you asked me that. So, um, that's one thing that I always address, right? Everyone always puts the age on everything, and the age is— it's not the age, it's the mindset.

It's the mindset.

Yes, I always tell them it's the— it's the mind, right? Because so many people hit 40 and immediately they start telling themselves, I'm getting too old, um, you know, I can't do this anymore, you know, I, you know, I can't move the way that I used to. And, and it's just the age has nothing to do with it. It's just a number, right? If we took, if we took age out of everything, life would be a whole lot better.

It'd be a lot better. You don't have that mental block up in here thinking—

No, it's not. It limits us, right? And being an athlete, I tell everyone Um, and there's no shade, right? But every athlete, as yourself, Mr. Johnson, you know it's a different mindset that we have to, have to, have to have as an athlete, especially as a collegiate athlete, and especially as someone that has been professional. It is a different type of mindset, right? And it's a, it's a, it's a mindset shift.

So how do you get somebody to shift that mindset? You have somebody who's 30, 40, 30 years old, okay, I'm, I don't have to worry about moving because I'm moving, I can still go to the club, I can still dance, do what I want to do. But now I'm 40 and I'm 50 and I'm 60. How do you get them to change that mindset? What is one or two tips that you can give them to at least start looking at, looking at it a little bit different?

Yeah, so I always start by, by telling them, you know, consistent, starting with something, one movement consistently every day. You know, it's not about— people think that you getting fit is all these Instagram posts that they see, these crazy things that people post that is not, you know, realistically for, for, uh, Yeah, average person. That is not true, you know. So I, I build a plan that is around the person's actual life. It's not, it's not, uh, around what looks good on paper or what looks good on the internet. It is, it is literally about you. But I always tell them, start with something that you can do every single day, whether that is jumping jacks, a squat, uh, a 10-minute walk. Something that you can get your body consistent with first.

Life ergonomics.

Yes. And then you shift to something else, right? It's not— fitness is not what people think that it has to be, you know. So that's why I always— what I, what I do, or my business, is about you. It's about you being— you tapping into your best self. If your, your best is not going to look like mine, right? And, and that's the truth, which is why it's B-E-S-T— beat every situation that is tested for you. Because you are on your own journey. Everybody's life is not going to be the same. So you have to, you know, I, I, I always start with what it is that you can do every single day. If it's something that you can't do every single day, okay, what can you do every 3 days? And then, and, and then kind of just kind of go from there.

Yeah, it's something about a rhythm, a weekly of something.

Yes, yes.

Say 2 to 3 times a week, you know.

Yeah.

But strength development, maybe some lung capacity training, stretching, flexology.

Yes, stretch.

My new thing now is called the gorilla tactics, was getting on the floor Getting up, moving this way, you know, be creative with your, like, your real lifelong ergonomics, if you will.

Yes.

Utilize— can you stretch up and get that?

Exactly. Yes, yes, yes.

So say you have that person, because now they're saying that sitting is the new smoking, right?

Oh, whoa, I've never heard of that one.

Yeah, sitting is the new smoking. You— it's, it's definitely, it's definitely— it can't— it could be— it's cancerous because you're not moving your body people are sitting here at our computers all day and we're just not moving.

Yes, I love— I've never heard of that, but I'm gonna start using it.

Yes, it's the new smoke. So, so what would you recommend to somebody who's— I work 60 hours a week, I'm always at my computer, I always have to work and I don't have time, and every time I move or do something, then I lose my train of thought, right? Because it's like I'm working on something and they're all, you know, you get all these interruptions and you don't stop. What would you recommend for somebody who's working 60 hours a week. They're running on empty, you know. What's the one realistic thing that they could do? I sit in front of my computer all day. What is one realistic thing that you could recommend, um, for that person to do?

Um, well, a walk, because we all have to walk every day, right?

So like get up every hour, get up every 2 hours, or— yeah.

So a lot of my clients, they have sitting jobs, right? So I always tell them, if you can sit at a desk for 8 to 10 hours or 12 hours and do something— because a lot of them, they complain about their jobs, right? If you could, if you could sit at your desk for 8 to 12 hours doing something that you don't like, but then you, you, you have a desire to do something that you want done, that you, you know, you're passionate about, or, uh, you, you want, you know, to look a certain way, why not give yourself at least 10 minutes To do that, right? You sit there all day for 8 to 12 hours, um, doing something that you, that you don't really care to do. So take at least 10, 10 minutes to— I, I'm an advocate for jumping jacks, so I, I have a jumping jack challenge that I have been doing for the past few months, right? So I always tell people, no matter where you are, what you're doing, uh, how you feeling, at least get 20 jumping jacks in every single day. And if you can try to do a consistent 20 jumping jacks every day, I promise you, you're going to be happy with yourself because now you have— you, you are— you have now, um, implemented something consistently, whether it is just a jumping jack, right? It— but now you're gonna, you're gonna challenge yourself to do something else. So people that have done that— excuse me— they always tell me, hey, I didn't bump my 20 to now 30. The 20 is, is a no-brainer, you know. And I'm like, great. And then the people that can't do 20, you know, I'm like, well, well, why don't you just start with, you know, 5 minutes, 10 minutes? You can walk around your house. Every— anybody can walk around. You don't have to be outside to walk, you know. So I always tell anyone that has a sitting job, or if you are sitting, right, uh, there's small movements that you can do while you sitting at a desk all day You know, you can do 20 shoulder press while you sitting there, you know, your body. People, like I said, people, people make it harder than what it is, and it's, it's, it's not, it's not as hard as we think. So we just have to start shifting our mindset.

And what do you think about those machines? I'm sorry, Sip. What do you think about those machines, you know, people, they say they have under their desk and it's like, okay, I'm gonna walk with my feet while I'm sitting underneath my desk. What do you think about those type of, um, contraptions?

Absolutely. I, I'm not, I'm not against them. I think that they're, they're great. Anything that's going to keep you moving, I'm, I'm anything. Yes, literally. I, you know, I'm just not— I'm, I'm a coach that is about simple movement because I know if you move your body, you're going to get the results that you want. It's, it's impossible for you not to. It's impossible. You work. It's, it's just like what they, what they, what they say about that, that the quote, faith without work is dead. If you don't work, it ain't gonna work. It ain't gonna work. It's gonna work. That's what it is. And so you have to see it though. It's a consistency that you put into your— it's a— it's literally just consistency. People lose the most weight when they walk every single day, whether it's 10 minutes or 30 minutes. And walking is so beneficial for you. It's so beneficial for your body.

How about weightlifting? I'm sorry, you know, Sydney, you know I just keep going with questions. No, okay, Sydney, go ahead. Let Sydney ask.

No, no, no, no. What you brought back to my memory, when I was in South Carolina, I was a recruiter, right? I had to be put on a recruiting command. And so I'm dealing with a city who's largely overweight, you know what I'm saying, like this. And to keep my mind going as a recruiter, being in the civilian population, I started a fitness program called Body Graphics, and I was fitnessing people inside the park. But then the school system got a hold of me when they do all the teachers together, Hilton Head. They brought me in. I'm like, I taught them how to do a desk-side workout, which was exactly what Vanessa is talking about, you know. I did desktop stretch, stretching, and all this other kind of stuff. The whole thing was get involved, be involved with yourself, give yourself permission to, to do that.

That's right, give yourself permission. We don't give ourselves permission in that, in, in our bodies, our health, and that, that's, that's what we— that's—

you got ownership of that.

You got ownership of your own body, so why wouldn't you do that, right? And it just— I, I always start with shifting the mindset. Do you think that you deserve this? Because if you don't think that you deserve this, then me and you ain't gonna work together, because I, I don't, I don't operate with, with people. I, I might— the energy is nice. We're not gonna, we're not gonna— we ain't gonna, we ain't gonna do too well together. Because I want believers, but I also want people that know that they deserve this. You deserve it.

And that goes back to that mindset. So with your coaching, so when you say you do corporate coaching, does that— and so tell me, can you talk a little bit about what that entails with corporate coaching? Do you go to corporations and provide support for their, their, their, um, staff? So what's included in that coaching?

No, so that's actually something that I want to get into. So I, I am the corporate of my own coaching.

Okay.

Yeah, so I want to bring— I want to branch out to that, but I have done fitness events though. Um, excuse me. I have done fitness events to where, you know, um, people just want, you know, just, you know, uh, an instructor to get people moving, right? I have went to a, um, uh, facility for older individuals that they had a really hard time, um, getting the, the senior citizens moving, and I came in and, you know, provided a program to get them moving because it was just like simple movement, you know. It's just about the— what I feel is it's about the, the energy, you know. Um, a lot of coaches, they don't know how to— I'm not gonna say the coaches that I've seen, okay. Am I gonna say I've seen a good number of coaches? A lot of coaches have a, uh, um, a passion, a very strong passion about it, and so their deliverance sometimes is not as warm-felt as myself. And so, and I've been that coach, okay? So I understand it because you, you, you— it's a different— like I said, it's a different type of mindset that you have. I'm pretty sure Sidney understands because he's been in the military. You know, you, you be like, you know, um, and, and so I have done stuff like that, um, to, to make people comfortable enough to incorporate certain movements and then they see that, okay, this is all it is. Oh, I did. And then day after, they're like, I did feel that. I didn't think that I was going to feel that. I said, that's the point of me. That's what I'm here for because it's a mindset that I create for people to think, oh, I'm not really doing anything. And then the next day they're like, dang, I did feel like I'm sore.

I'm sore.

Yeah, you know, and it's like, that's, that's what I love about what I do is it's almost like a mind game. It's like a trick.

It is a mental game even to get people motivated. I tell people to start with your baseline from your soleus all the way up to your upper back and—

Yes.

Something daily, just a little tweak daily. Just—

Yes.

Just make yourself mad by actually going to work out.

Yes, exactly.

It's okay to be mad at yourself. Because you done did a little something, right?

Right.

Um, so it's encouraging. So what do you think about that also? Go ahead, girl. We all own each other. Um, you know, once you start doing something, your body starts telling you do a little bit more.

Absolutely. Yeah.

Eat, eat, you know, drink some, eat, drink some, eat some greens and Your body starts really craving stuff that you didn't feel before.

Yes.

Once you give yourself permission.

Right. Yes, that's true.

Yes.

Now what I see a lot of seniors are doing now, and I'm loving it, I've got to admit I'm one of those— line dancing.

Oh yeah.

What do you think about— what do you think or feel about line dancing? Do you think that's, that's enough, or do you think they need to maybe add some weightlifting along the line with that line dancing? Or what?

So it just depends on your goals, right? Um, so I always say whatever your goal is. So some people want to tone, some people just want to be consistent. If you want to be consistent, do line dancing. But if you have a specific goal, then you have to— you know, I would recommend that you incorporate something else outside of line dancing.

Okay, so I'm gonna ask you for a subscription for me, a prescription for myself. Okay, so over the last 35, 40 days, I've lost roughly about 25 pounds.

That's amazing.

Amazing. I look so good. I was, I was walking my dog this morning. I hadn't walked through my neighborhood. I was walking my big dog, and 2 of my neighbors who have been walking, they walk every single day, and I just waved because I had my big dog. And they came, and eventually they caught up to me. They're like, you have lost weight. And I was like, yeah. They said, you look so good. What have you been doing? And I've Broke them down. I broke it down to what I've been doing. And so now I am perfect size that I want to be. Oh, so now it's— now it's time. It's like, okay, so now you need to build. And so now I started doing, um, push-ups on my counter every day.

Good.

Every, every time you pass by that counter, you need to give 8 to 12 push-ups. Okay.

I love that.

I love it. Yes. And so what are some other things that I could do, you know, I'm, um, that I could do To build more strength?

Uh-huh.

Um, since I've lost a lot of weight, I don't have a lot of flab, but I do have a little— still a little belly, um, budge there. What are some of the things I could do that's not so, um, intensive? They just shut down— they just shut down 2 days ago our YWCA, but we— YMCA, where we all would get together, go line dance and work out. They just shut it down. So I'm a little— I'm a little scared. So no, that's the things I'm gonna have to do at home.

Okay.

And I sit in front of the compu— I'm one of those people who will sit in front of the computer 12 to 14 hours a day.

Oh.

Because I love AI and working.

We all getting into AI, huh? Yeah.

So, so what, what type of regimen would you recommend for me? I eat pretty healthy.

Good.

Um, I eat really healthy, really. I'm a, um, most of the time I, I work on eating, um, plant-based, raw plant-based foods. Um, and then I eat some cooked, a little bit of cooked food. So, okay, no, no, I'm a plant-based person.

So, so you more, you're working now more so on strength?

Strength, yeah.

So what I would recommend is that you start incorporating, um, something like wall sits.

Okay.

You know what a wall sit is?

I put my back up against the wall and I sit up, go up and down.

No.

So yeah, just sit.

So you— so that's, that's great though. That does sound like that, that's what that is. Yeah, so you put your back against the wall and then you sit into a squat position, right? And then you hold that position. And what I would say is you bring your arms out front and then you do that for about 20 seconds or however long your body allows you to, to do it. And then you reset for about 15 to 20 seconds and then you do It was—

hold on a second, I think— okay, it was noise in the background. Okay, go.

Okay, but yeah, so that's— it's more so like a, um, it's like a— it's a squat, right? But you are holding that squat, but the, the wall is assisting your back, right? So it's not just a, uh, a squat where you're just holding yourself up. It's gonna— it's gonna help to, you know, assist you as well. But it helps to, to build your, your quad muscles also a little bit, strings. But, um, I always recommend that. And then it, it also is really good for you, for your knees, people that have knee issues. But, um, yeah, I would say do a couple rounds of those. I always recommend, uh, 4 sets.

Okay, 4 sets of 12, 4 sets of 8 or sets of—

So I would say 8, um, um, if you could, um, but if 4 sets is too much, go down to 3. I just say how many, how many you can do. I always— I'm gonna be honest with you, I always start my people out with 20, not 4 sets, but about 20, um, 20 reps and about 2 sets of everything in the beginning. Um, I'm really big— I'm sorry.

That's how I like that. I have to try that same thing because I would, you know, I would normally do 3 separate sets, but I would do like, um, anywhere between strength development about 65% of my max at about, um, 8 reps, something like this.

Yeah.

Um, then I may go down on the weight and just tone at a 40%, the 30 to 40%, but let's do more reps.

Yeah.

That way I put my muscle and get more into the tone, but Yeah, that— I like that 20, that 20 and 2.

Yeah, so I always do that. I— that's what I always start, like, do. And then once we get to a specific area in the program, then I may drop it down. I actually just recreated my— how my system is to, to the 4 to 10 reps. But yes, normally I do, uh, 20, 20 reps. And, um, depending on how much you can get through depends on the sets that you do.

Thank you. I'm so glad you didn't say get on the floor because I am not— I do not do floor exercises. Not happening.

I knew based off of you saying you did the, the wall push-ups. So, uh, based off of you saying that, I knew that you, you know, you weren't trying to get on the floor.

I'm not like Sydney. I'm not gonna sit up and roll over and do whatever you say.

Good for you, Sydney.

Yeah.

And so I went to your legs because, you know, push-ups is, you know, you're, you're working those, those, that upper body, but also that, you know, that chest area. And then you, you're hitting that, that bag. So, you know, so I went to something that you can incorporate, you know, for your, for your lower half.

Yes, yes.

There's a reason why I talk about being on the floor, because the old commercial, I'm falling and I can't get up, you ain't trying to press buttons. And so now what's coming off my feed is people are saying, I'm 30, I mean, I'm 60, I'm 70, and then they showing what they're doing to keep their strength development up. And because it's going to start with flexibility, it's going to— you got to have strength development inside there. And if you're not doing it, if you're not doing it from the lowest point, and the lowest common denominator is the floor.

Yes.

Getting from your hips to your butt To your whatever you got to do to get up.

Absolutely.

You know, we call it the 4th point of contact. And when I was a paratrooper, right, you know, you hit the ground from your blah blah blah, you need to be getting off that, that gonna flow and get the moving. If not, you know, them slip and falls in the bathtubs or in the bathroom, slippery floors. This is what I call the ergonomics of gorilla movement. Yes. And that's just my terminology, but it came to me after I was watching these guys do stuff, I was like, we need to be able to move like a gorilla a little bit, you know. Stop playing around with— so Vanessa, I'm giving Vanessa right now, my homegirl, my number one ace coon boon, I'm giving her the challenge to take a couple of pictures of her getting off the floor.

Oh, I can get off the floor because, you know, one of the things I can get off the floor because one of the things I do is I do get on the floor when I meditate and I sit cross-legged, but then also I like to sit at the lowest points. I think when we sit high in the chair. I don't— we're not meant to sit high in the chair and our legs dangling. We're supposed to sit closer to the floor. So I have beanbag chairs too. So that means when I'm sitting in this beanbag, I got to get up. But I'm not getting on my knees doing no push-ups. I'm not getting on my back doing none of them things because I hear that don't feel good.

I ain't mad at you about that.

But I'm not doing all that. But getting up, oh, I get up.

But I do like go low, get high, go low, get high.

Now what's go low, get high? What's that?

Like you said, your lowest point of being close to the ground and get up to be high. Let me tell you something. I'm gonna tell you what blew my mind. When I was in Gambia, I was sitting over the balcony and across the way was another, another compound. Listen, it was a goat up inside the tree. True story.

Get out.

I saw a 70-year-old lady climb the tree to get the goat. Goat, get out the tree.

Get out.

No, I'm not joking. It was over there. They moved. And Kathy will tell you, she was in Kenya and they was out there doing ministry and all that. Them mamas was out there getting off the— they were just sitting down.

Yeah, they don't have all these conveniences.

Somebody may not be around to pick them up, so they get themselves up. So that's why I call it the— I call it the gorilla factor, because I was watching this stuff that they was talking about and it's called movements. Kind of like, what's that boxer name? I forgot his name. He's a kick fighter. He started learning how to do these movements, and the movements is, is critical, you know. Just start low, go high.

Yeah, mobility. I mean, that's why— excuse me— mobility and coordination, balance, all these things are so important. Um, you know, it's not just about the strength training or, um, um, endurance, right? Mobility is a key, key factor in flexibility, you know. All of, all of those— balance is, is one. People sleep on balance. Balance— if you can't balance, then, you know I recommend that you definitely, you know, start balance, you know, training, because it, it, it is crucial. You know, even walking backwards— people don't even walk back. I walk backwards outside. For the first time last week, I saw a woman walking backwards, and I was like, yo, you are the first person I have seen walk backwards. And she was like, that's a skill set. It is a skill. And that's exactly what we talked about. She's like, so challenging. I was like, it is, but if people just took out The— it— fearing it, you know. People think that challenge is so— it's so bad, but challenge is so good for us, right? Challenging ourselves. But, uh, walking backwards has more benefits than walking forward, and, and, and a lot of times people don't even understand that, you know. So, um, I always recommend people trying to, to walk backwards, um, because we walk forward our entire lives. That's, that's, that's second nature. I mean, that's something that— it's a no-brainer.

Yeah.

But, um, and but it's different muscle groups that you hit when you, when you walk backwards.

So yeah, yeah.

Wow, that's powerful, powerful though.

Wow.

So what do you recommend? Um, you hit on 2 things that we— I would like us to touch on real briefly. As you know, let's see, um, it's eating and getting rest.

Yes.

Uh-huh.

That's good.

Yeah. And so what do you recommend for people when it's like, okay, I'm, I need balance in my life, I need I need to get it together. What do you recommend as far as eating? Do I, do I need to eat those 3, 3 meals a day and have my 2 snacks like the American Standard Diet recommends? I need to eat all this food. Um, do you recommend intermittent fasting?

I saw that laughter when you said American Standard. I already know that's the program propaganda, so it's different. But go ahead.

I have— yes, I'm like, oh God, I get tired of that 3 meals a day and that— oh, I hate— oh, I'm gonna tell you my— what, what I say, what I, what I tell everyone is you go based off of your body, right? And I know that that may sound so generic, but it is the truth, right? I'm 147 pounds.

Mm-hmm.

When I work out, I eat like I'm 560 pounds, and that is the truth.

What type of things do you eat? Do you eat sugars and the cake? Do you— what type of things do you eat?

Oh no.

So I, I used to eat a lot of sugar growing up, um, a lot. Like, I used to drink sodas real bad. I used to have real bad, uh, back pain.

No.

So I'm real sensitive to sugars. I may eat, um, uh, something sugary here and there, but I have I have really cut out sugar. I used to eat sweet teas all the time, which made me pre-diabetic. Um, so I, I took a stand off of that. So my doctor—

North Carolina, you do eat, drink the sweet teas. Oh my gosh, I can't get the California— it's ridiculous.

This is what got me, because when I, I stayed overseas for so long, when I came back to North Carolina, every day me and my, my son Christopher would go out to, um, um, um, um The bar, not the barbecue hut, but I smoke out or whatever because I would get that crack tea because I couldn't get it nowhere else in the world. I couldn't get it nowhere, baby. That's crazy. It triggered, it triggered diabetes in me because I was just, I gotta have it, I gotta have it. And before I knew it, I realized, oh, I'm at the hospital, the VA hospital, and they— and you talking about something you didn't even know nothing about. Oh, I ain't know nothing about being sick.

That sweet tea would do it.

I'm telling you, when I came out here and I was like, knock you out, that stuff is crazy. I had an event and I was like, oh, I'm gonna have an event. And I had my little California teas, you know, the little teas in the bottle with Lipton and it's sugar-free and all this stuff. And I put it up here, people came and they're like, we don't drink that. Well, what do you drink? Oh, we don't drink that, we drink sweet tea. Well, I don't know what y'all— I would— I was like, what?

Yes, you better bet.

Anytime I have an event, you got these big old gallons of sweet tea you need to put on that table. And it's like, that little California stuff y'all drinking, don't nobody drink that here. No, it was a rude awakening for me.

Yes.

So when you say your sweet teas, I, I could dig it because it's, uh, yes, it was an angel for the South.

Crack chronic is worse than drugs. That is the drug on itself.

It is so bad.

It's so bad.

That's so bad.

It's so bad.

Yes, but here we are. Yes, but here we are.

So it's so good though. It's so good though.

It's so good.

Don't even lie, it's so good.

We're gonna kill you slowly, folks.

Isn't that what our diet does? I don't mean to get on the diet, but isn't that what our diet does? It slowly kills us. It slowly packages everything that we eat. It's packed, which is not food, it's products, but we eat it because it's been promoted. That, that's what we should have as products.

Correct. And so that's the thing, right? So I always recommend people to eat their half of what their body weight— I mean, uh, to drink the water that's half of your body weight. And I always break down the science of that, right? So if you are going to eat something sweet, we, we are— most of our body is, is water. Most of our body is like 70-80% of water. We sweat every single day, whether you see it or not. So if you drink half of your body weight, which is recommended more than that, but if you at least target half of your body weight and you eat the— or something that has sugar or whatever, um, um, that water is going to dilute that sugar, right? Depending on how much sugar you, you, you intake in your body. So for myself, I drink a lot of water, a lot of water. So I can go in and drink, uh, eat something sugary, and it's not going to— it's not going to do what the average person that may eat sugar all day, um, and not drink water. So the water is so important. People don't understand how important and how powerful it really is, and it can save your life. My, my, uh, aunt, she was having real bad cramps in her stomach, and she was telling me everything that was going on with her, and instantly I was like, you're dehydrated, you're not drinking enough water.

Water.

She hated— my family hate water. To get them to drink water, I would have to bribe them with a million dollars, for real.

Carolina people, we're not good water drinkers. No.

Now, you know, it's a good alternative. It's not an alternative to water, but it is an alternative to water. There's a gentleman out of New York, he's in, uh, he's overseas now, and he's plant-based, and he has not had a drink of water in over 40 years. He drinks coconut water all the time, every single day. So if you don't like, there are alternatives to water just as good because the— that's living water right there.

Coconut, drinking coconut water is the same like shooting an IV right up in your veins.

Absolutely, absolutely. And, and that's a really good point too because I, you know, I'd be trying to tell them that all water is not good, right? I get my water filtered. I do the reverse Osmosis, the alkaline water, things of that. But it is, it's so important. But what you implement in your, or put in your body, um, like, I don't, I don't push a, a healthy guru meal plan. I push whatever your blood type is and whatever your, whatever, um, your, your health.

Come on. Eat tight for— eat right for your type. Yes, bloodline. Like, I'm A positive. 65 million years ago, my blood type started filtering in. So the Eat Right for Your Type, in terms of the book, is that what you're referring to? Because I used to run that, basically.

Um, no, I mean, I haven't seen that, but, um, I have done experiments on just on myself when it comes to just implementing things for my blood type. I'm a B positive blood type. Um, but it's all about a balance. Right? So if you eat every the same thing every single day, it's not going to make you feel good. It's about us balancing it. I I am um I'm not I'm I'm gonna say I'm against eating meat every single day. We're supposed to allow our body to to clean itself. So every week we should be at least fasting at least one day because that's how we're going to get our system. system to, uh, reprocess or to, to clean it out, right? Because we eat every single day. So it's like, you— it's just about, like I said, it's about balancing that out. We're not supposed to, uh, eat meats every single day. So, uh, you know, I, I implement—

You're talking about intermittent right now, right? That's the direction you're heading into with this?

Yeah, in a sense. Like, um, Just balancing whatever works for you. Like, just try to make time to, uh, you know, even if you don't intermittent fast, right, one of those days don't eat meat, or one of those days don't eat fried something, one of those days just eat fruit, one of those days, uh, then implement your, implement your, your, your meat, whatever, you know, have your 3 meats or 2 meats, whatever, however many meals. And then the next day Do one meat and then a veggie plate and then fruits. Like, it's all about balancing. Like, that's, that's, that's what type of diet I always push for, um, to get you the best energy as possible, um, on top of drinking water. If you're gonna have— if you're gonna drink sodas, okay, fine, right? But make sure that the amount of sodas that you drink, you drink 3 times as you know, clean water so that you— so that your body is flushing that out.

Because the dilution phase—

yeah, you're diluting that.

So it's not about depriving yourself, it's about that balance that you still could have some of those things that you enjoy, like a, a piece of chocolate cake or some chocolate. I love chocolate, you know. And, uh, and sometimes we do— did we do more harm than good when we're so strict and we're like, this This is what I have to do, and I, I can't move to the left and move to the right because— and then that's when we start, um, really getting hard on ourselves. Our depression starts in because we cannot live up to the high standard that maybe not somebody else set for themselves, that for you, but that you've set for yourself. And sometimes I do that. I set these real high standards for myself, and I'm like, girl, go ahead and eat that piece of chocolate.

Yeah.

Go ahead, eat that. It ain't gonna hurt you because you said no, I'm not gonna do it. And you, you know, so then, and so then, so we, so we're eating, we're getting no exercise in, and now how about the rest? How important is rest? Because it's like, I can sleep when I'm dead, right? Have you heard that? I ain't come on this earth to sleep.

Yes. Get up the next day.

Yes, I'm the same way though, right? So I have a hard time telling myself to rest. I have a really hard time resting because I have always been on go, on go, on go, right? Um, but it's just like with eating. So I could— I, I can sleep 6 hours and I'll be good, right? I can sleep 4 hours and I'll be good. But that's me, right? It's somebody else that may need 8 or 7 or a longer period of time. Um, but I, I always break it down, or when, when I, um, talk to a doctor about sleep patterns stuff, it made sense to— it's always about your— about what you eat and how, um, late in the day you are eating and what you're eating late in that day, right?

Mm-hmm.

So she recommended that, you know, after 7 we shouldn't be eating anything. We should only be, you know, drinking a certain liquid, which is water, or, you know, something that is hydrating for our body. But It just depends on, you know, the person. But rest— we do need to rest because our brain needs to shut off. But everybody's rest period is not going to be the same. It's just not. Because what I thrive off of is— I have— look, I have slept for 8 hours and I felt terrible waking up. I was like, this is— that was way too long.

It's like the longer I sleep, the worse I feel getting up at times. And that's because I've been laying down the whole time.

Yeah.

Kathy gonna talk about the bed and all this, the cushy and all that, and I agree with all that. But you know, when I lived in South Korea, they, they slept on hard— they had elevated planks, and you can call it a bed, but it was, it was hard. Yeah, it was like straight up flat hard. But find out that's best almost for your ergonomics. I mean, just for your body overall.

Yes, but you are— but you know, even with the beds, right, and what I've learned about the science with that, say now, um, the best way for you to have for your body is to lay on like flat surfaces, the ground. Like, that's what's better for your body because it's not— it's, it's literally just an elevated hard, you know, it's not a mattress that can, that can fluctuate, um, but you— but it's, it's better for your spine.

Yes, yes.

I had to find— that's a good one. Yeah, I like those quotes you put up there. That's Yes, people are out here talking, you know. Kathy fell up under her for a good while and still she is. And you know, I saw her development come along quicker, faster, more motivated. She ain't come to me, the master fitness expert.

She went to Ty.

I wonder why. Yeah, probably didn't want you teaching her how to breakdance.

Told me too.

I had her breakdancing all right, you know, you know. But, but it was good. So it's, you know, you got to go to— and that's another thing, you got to go who motivates you.

Yeah.

If you're going to have a partner and working out, who's going to be there? It's like a partner. It's a real partnership.

Yeah.

And I'm gonna walk into the gym sometime and she'd be like, huh, huh. I'll be like— and I'll be peeking around the corner so if I can see Ty doing her thing. And Ty be like this, do it, girl.

I already got mine in. It's time for you to get yours in.

It's time for you to get yours in. You can't work 24 hours a day.

That's right, that's right.

So I accolade you to it. So yes, Ty, give us, uh, Give us a way forward when people are trying to get in contact with you. What what do they need to do to become one of your clients, or a challenge? Give us a challenge, and then give us a way to give for us to become one of your clients. We want everybody to know how to get in contact with Ty. I put it up under there and all your different links, but we want you to go ahead and advocate.

Yeah, so you can honestly. I, I, I'm— you can reach out to me anywhere, like Facebook message, uh, Instagram. But I do have a website, natosgym.com, and, um, you can book a consultation with myself and we can do a discussion call based off, you know, what it is that, you know, you want to, you know, may want to accomplish. Um, but yeah, it's a 30-minute call where we'll, you know, discuss your goals and things. Um, if you really want to, like, you know, have yourself on my schedule, um, and it'll take you to my schedule, and then you can just book the open, the open times. But I'm pretty— I pretty much see when I— whenever I go into my messages, I can see, um, everything. Unless like you're not my friend, it doesn't come straight to my inbox. But for the most part, um, yeah, I, I pretty— most people when they reach out to me, they get me. You may not get me, you know, as fast as you did it on the site because I may see it maybe a month later. But eventually I may see it.

Okay, so do you coach just in person or do you also do online coaching?

Yeah, so most of my— so I'm actually shifting my business to online, but, um, but yeah, so most of it is, is online.

Okay, and so for those of you who are listening and not able to watch this, it's— it is N-A-T-O-S, and when she says gym, it's G-E-M, not J-Y-M.

Yes.

So the way she says it, you all, you seniors are gyms. Gym.

They posted at the top, and it's at the top of the comments. It's pinned at the top of the comments. And we're going to continue to do some plugins and making sure. And then, and definitely we want you to continuously come back with us, you know.

Yes, of course.

Of course.

I appreciate y'all for even having me and doing this discussion. So thank y'all so much. I haven't done one of these in over 2 years, so I'm like, oh my, okay, let me see what I can, you know.

This is your residency, you know.

So, so what, so what, what is one, um, parting words that you would like to say to anybody who's in their 40s, 50s, and 60s? What is some parting words you'd like to tell them?

So my slogan is, can you do your best, right? Can you do your best today? Um, not somebody else's best, your best, you know. Not, uh, what you could do 10 years ago, uh, not what Instagram says that you can do, or Facebook, what you would— what Facebook tells you, or Um, but not even what I tell you, right? Or a personal trainer. What does your best look like today, and can you give yourself that?

Thank you, thank you. That's good. So thank you everybody for joining us. I appreciate you. Ty, thank you so much. This has been a pleasure. I'm gonna go do some more.

Everything— we celebrate you.

Yeah, we honor you.

We really thank you for giving us This time. Yes, of course.

Awesome.

Yes, y'all, thank y'all so much, and I wish y'all more continued success, and I look forward to coming back up here, on here, you know, with y'all.

Sounds good, girl. We might have to have you put together a little plan or something, but yeah, this is your home. You're always welcome, and maybe we might— we'll figure out some battle rhythm between now and whenever to get you to— whereas people are going to always have an expectation To Talk Fitness with Ty.

Yes, yes, yes.

If you have anything you'd like to give away, a check sheet or something like that, go ahead, send over to Sydney because this is going to be a replay and we'll be able to have on a replay where people can download it, but they can access you too. Okay.

Yeah, and definitely on the website and everything. You're on there now, but you'll be part of the continuation. Okay, whatever. So far as your archives-wise, so whatever you want to load up there for them, whenever they hit the site, they like Somebody who ain't listening to the podcast, see it a month later or whatever, they can click on you, find you, see the everything that took place and any deliverables that you want to get them going. Okay.

Oh, nice. Okay, perfect.

Yes, thank you everybody for listening. Thank you. Okay, DJ Woody Woods, let's put DJ Woody Woods on. We gonna hit it.

Hit that music, girl.

Hit that music. Hit that music.

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