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It’s Fuck Yeah Friday and Lesley Logan is celebrating wins, self-love, and the power of consistency. Whether you’re single or in a relationship, loving yourself is key. Plus, hear inspiring wins from the community, including a marathoner defying limits and an author achieving her dream. Tune in for motivation to stay consistent, embrace the journey, and celebrate your own progress!

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In this episode you will learn about:

• Why self-love is the foundation of confidence and success.
• The inspiring story of Hannah Gavios and redefining limits.
• How networking can be easy with the right mindset.
• The importance of sticking with your goals even when progress feels slow.
• A powerful reminder: Don’t judge your beginnings harshly.

Episode References/Links:

• Hannah Gavios’ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/hannahgavios

Transcript

Brad Crowell: Fuck yeah.

Lesley Logan: Get ready for some wins.

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Lesley Logan
Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I’m Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I’ve trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it’s the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It’s a practice, not a perfect. Let’s get started.

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Lesley Logan
Hello, Be It babe. Happy FYF. Oh my God, it’s on the Valentine’s Day, which, you know, we don’t really celebrate around here, because it’s just a day. But in case no one has asked you, would you be my Valentine? Do you want to be my Valentine? Oh my God, we’re all Galentines around here. I know I think it’s just important that it you are kind to yourself and you have love for you. That is my message for you today. Because I think when I was growing up, it was like, oh, do you have a Valentine’s Day date? Do you have this date? No, I never did. No, I did not. And now that I’m married, my husband is wonderful, and he’s lovely, and we really don’t do anything about this holiday. Hopefully don’t need a holiday to celebrate your love. But if you are alone and you are single, please focus on what you love yourself, because that, I promise you, is gonna be the sexiest thing about you. And you also don’t need someone to be awesome, because you are awesome already.

So I start these FYFs now with someone who’s or something that’s like, caught my eye or inspired me. Hopefully it’ll inspire you. So this girl, Hannah Gavios, she, seven years ago, fell off a cliff. You’ll have to go to her account on Instagram (inaudible) surname Hannah Gavios. She fell off a cliff in Thailand and she has a spinal cord injury, and so she is on crutches, and appears she can stand on her legs, but can’t really use them. At any rate, she used to be a marathon runner, half marathon runner, before she had the spinal cord injury, and now she uses her crutches to do marathons, and they take like 11 hours. And now she’s, at least from the last one I saw, she got them down to like nine hours, but nine hours doing a marathon, crutching her way on crutches, right? And I just love this because, to me, a spinal cord injury would just feel like my entire life would change forever. Because, I mean, I use my whole body all of the time, but seeing someone like her, who used to run these marathons, continue to do it with her crutches, she’s not on five, at least, according to this last post, and do it in her own way, in her own time, and she travels and she does yoga. Guys like, how cool is that? How freaking cool. So Hannah, thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for being you, and thank you for allowing us to see what is so possible even with a spinal cord injury. I mean, it’s pretty phenomenal. And I think too often we let ourselves get put in a box and a label on things, and we go, well, that’s the life I’m gonna live. And my goodness, you are showing that there’s no box around your spinal cord injury whatsoever. So thank you for that.

Okay, a win of yours. Let’s go with Melissa Capitano from Chicago, eLevate grad, Agency member, networking win. I had a coaching call with Brad and he gave me a networking pep talk. I walked into a neighborhood business and saw a woman that I had previously talked to at a networking event. She said she still wants to come in some time. Do I have any beginner things coming up? I said, I will send you an email, and I pulled out my contacts, clicked the plus button on the phone and told her to add in her info. She said, perfect. And did it. Bonus. I couldn’t remember her name, and didn’t even have to ask, because she put it in my phone. Yes, Melissa, oh my God, I love this so much. I love this so much.

One more win, because I’m excited today. It’s also just a day of love. So let’s just like, love up on all these people. Okay, but before I go to the next one, I just want to highlight like. So what she’s saying she did, you guys, is she and this is what Brad does all the time, and it’s really helpful. You don’t have to know that person’s name. You just take your phone and open up the Contacts app, and you can just hand it to someone. So we have a new neighbor on the street, and the person introduced themselves, and they’re like, oh yeah, that’s amazing. We should definitely connect. And Brad just like, pulls his phone out, hands it to the guy with the contacts thing open, and the guy puts his first name in, last name in, phone number, what everyone puts in there. And then Brad can, like, add notes, like, neighbor down the street with great dane. And so it’s really great, because we can search for him if we need to. And also, if you don’t remember the person’s name, no, you can’t. Another fun fact that we like to do is we like to then take a picture of ourselves with the person. We learned this from someone else at another network. Maybe we take a pictures of ourselves with the person right then, and then we text it to them, so now they have our contact, phone number at least, so we can give them more if we want to. So thank you, Melissa, for letting us share all of that, and hopefully someone got a little tidbit on something they can use later.

Okay, so Natalia from Germany, she wrote, I held my book, just coming out next week, in my hands for the first time today, and saw it live. I still can’t believe it. If someone had told me the beginning of the year what was happening, I would have called them crazy. I’ve always wanted to write a book about Pilates, and I remember the agency webinar last year on this topic. And this year, a big publisher even approached me, and now I’m publishing my book about Wall Pilates. There’s a lot of interest in media, and I really hope that the people out there like it too. Keep your fingers crossed, please. Okay, Natalia, I have your book now. This one is from a bit ago. I have your beautiful book. It is so cute, it’s so fun, it’s so special. You are adorable. And it’s in German. So I have, I have not a lot to read there, but I could follow along the pictures, and you thank us at the end. I’m so pleased and honored, and I’m so, so grateful. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that. And congratulations on your book. And it’s so cool when you get to see it in real life. And isn’t that fun? I know we’re in February, but like we’re in the first quarter of the year, and we have no idea what’s about to come up the rest of this year? We have no idea. In February, a year ago, Natalia had no idea she was gonna write a book, and then within a few months, she heard she’s writing a book, and now she’s holding a book, all within a year. So you don’t know what surprises around the corner that are for you that is so cool.

All right, so now we have a win, a win of mine. Okay, so here’s the deal, Brad and I have been working extremely hard behind the scenes on a lot of stuff, and something we were talking with a friend about was like, when you start a business, you were like, I love this thing that I’m doing, so I’m gonna, I’m gonna start this business, and then I get to do the thing that I love all of the time. And then no one tells you wrong. That’s not true. You’ll do a lot of paperwork. You have a lot of paperwork to do, and then there’s some more paperwork. And then did you know that there’s this other paperwork you can do? And did you know that there’s this other thing that you could do? And so in the last year, we’ve been working behind the scenes on just certifying our company and getting these things taken care of, so that in these certifications are just like, so that we’re like women-owned, and honoring our ADHD-ness that we have and all this stuff. So we have been working really, really hard behind the scenes. And I’m the type of person that when I get working over here in this kind of category of things, I can get a little distracted from the other things that, you know, just hard for me to like, balance it all. So at any rate, I’m sitting here today. We’ve been home for more than a month, and we have really stayed on track with some of the things we wanted to do. In the last year, we have made changes into some programs, and we’ve announced those changes, and we’ve followed through with the access like, we’ve just stayed consistent. And if I can offer anything to any of you who are working for yourselves and you’re tired of the paperwork, consistency is the thing that I promise you will grow your business. Just being consistent. Being consistent is why this podcast is so successful. Being consistent is why OPC is so successful. Being consistent. So if you are feeling like, completely overwhelmed with all the paperwork, there is an end in sight. I’m feeling that end for a lot of the things we’ve been doing paperwork for for over a year. I’m feeling that end. It’s here. But also, if you can just stay consistent and not try to be like, let me do this 17 new ideas. Stay consistent. Things will grow. And then when you’re done with the things that feel like they’re bogging you down, you’re done with the things that are bogging you down, you can get back to those ideas you have. You can get back to the ideas parking lot. You can. All right, so that’s just my little tidbit, and my win. It’s not really like a win that we could all mark, or, I can’t say on this date we finished this, not yet, but we are close. We are so close. And my win is that with all of these distractions, of all the stuff we have to do to just have some things, let’s not even just have something. There’s actually a bunch of windows and doors that open once these things are done, but it can feel like you can lose sight of why you’re doing something like this when you’re just filling the paperwork all the fucking time. So be consistent in what you love, and have an ideas parking lot board for those ideas that come up that you can’t take action on yet. Do the paperwork, whatever the obstacle is, and then I promise you, you can get back to those ideas.

Okay, your mantra is don’t judge your beginnings harshly. Don’t judge your beginnings harshly. Don’t judge your beginnings harshly. Please, don’t ever do that. Oh my gosh, during the recaps of last December, you absolutely heard episode number one, and our audio equipment wasn’t awesome, but that episode was great, and if we had stopped then and rejudged our beginnings so harshly, then we wouldn’t be here today with this amazing episode for you. So my love, you’re amazing. Take care of yourself, and you know what to do until next time, Be It Till You See It.

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Lesley Logan
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Lesley Logan
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Brad Crowell
It’s written, filmed and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell.

Lesley Logan
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Brad Crowell
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Lesley Logan
Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals.

Brad Crowell
Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time.