Episode 346: I’m on a Mission to Change the “Fitness” Industry

In this episode, Tara Garrison breaks down why real fitness isn't just physical, walking through the mental, emotional, and spiritual skills that actually drive lasting health and personal transformation.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro: the hidden sides of fitness nobody talks about
00:21 Sponsor: Peluva Shoes ad
02:10 The "just a fitness coach" label problem
04:02 The Higher symbol: redefining what fitness means
05:35 Mental fitness: attention as a trainable skill
07:04 Self-awareness and spotting subconscious beliefs
08:21 Rewiring self-talk and mental habits
09:47 Habits, decisions, and directing your thoughts
11:45 Mental fitness as resistance training, diet, and cardio
15:40 Emotional fitness: emotions follow your thoughts
17:15 What emotional fitness really means
20:22 Recovering from conflict, regulating your nervous system
22:38 Boundaries, Terri Cole style
24:38 Spiritual fitness: purpose, values, and intuition
28:04 Tara's unfinished book and the trifecta of transformation
31:19 Big news: Coach Tara app becomes Higher Fitness
33:48 Jim Rohn's bricklayer analogy on living with intention
37:10 Full-spectrum coaching and parting wisdom
40:37 Inside Higher Fitness: what's included
43:11 Final thoughts

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: 

 Welcome to the show. Today is going to be a solo cast, and we're gonna talk all about fitness, but not about the kind of fitness you're thinking. We're talking about the other kinds of fitness that never get talked about when we think fitness. We're gonna be talking about spiritual fitness, mental fitness, and emotional fitness.
So truth be told... Okay, before we get into the episode, I wanna take a moment to tell you guys about Peluva Shoes. So here's what happened. So Mark Sisson, if you don't know Mark Sisson, you should know Mark Sisson, okay? Go look him up and start following Mark Sisson.
Uh, Mark Sisson and also Brad Kearns, who have been on the... He's been on the podcast, uh, a few times now, and Mark has also. They are, like, legendary OGs in the health and wellness industry. And, um, Mark, who also started Primal Kitchen, if you're familiar with that brand, um, has started Peluva Shoes.
So Peluva means foot glove in Portuguese, and these are minimalist, zero drop, barefoot shoes, and they have that five-toe articulation. I resisted trying these out for a long time 'cause I thought they looked nerdy. I'm just being so real.
Um, but after many times of Brad being like, "Dude, just try them, just try them," I was like, "Okay, okay, I promise I'm gonna be honest with you." Yeah, I wear them all the time. I absolutely love them. I didn't think that the five-toe articulation was really that important 'cause I've been a longtime fan of Vivos and barefoot shoes, and still love Vivos too.
Um, but wow, like, major difference. Like, I was like, "Okay, now I'm, like, really actually using my foot the way I was supposed to." So they are awesome. Um, I told Brad, I was like, "You're right, dude. I love them so much. They're awesome." Um, and then they offered to sponsor the podcast, so thank you to Peluva, and they also offered to give you guys 10% off if you would like to try them out, which I highly recommend.
Um, you can go to Peluva, that's P-E-L-U-V-A.com/coachterra, or you can just use the code coachterra at checkout and get 10% off of your order, and I highly, highly recommend getting some of their toe socks while you're there because you're gonna need toe socks. All right, let's go ahead and get into the episode.
Very often when I run into people in public that maybe, like, you know, they kinda vaguely see my content here and there, and if you follow me on social media, you know that you see a lot of fitness content from me, the typical fitness content, right? You're thinking stuff in the gym, maybe some things about deeper health, maybe a little mindset.
But when people see me, and yes, I do share a lot of gym stuff online because that seems to be what people really want help with online,
I'll have people say to me, "Oh yeah, you're like... You do, like, fitness coaching, right?"
And every single time I hear that, it's just like knife in my heart. I'm like, eh, turn it a few times. I'm just like... Because the reason why is because most of my work that I'm doing day to day with people is centered in life coaching, period. Most everybody comes to me 'cause they want help losing weight or figuring out some health problems.
They wanna run some labs. They need help with fixing their nutrition and their training and la-di-da-di-da. And within a month, within a month, they're like, "Whoa." They're in a full tilt life coaching experience because
the way we are as humans is we have blind spots, right? And we don't, we don't understand until somebody comes in that can see those blind spots, helps us see, like, hey, it's actually not what you're thinking. I know that you think that you just need to, like, force yourself to do things better and, like, get your shit together and la-di-da-da-da, but it's actually much deeper is what I'm seeing, and this is what I...
this is the path I recommend start taking so we can resolve that. So it just starts to turn into that. And yes, we... of course, I'm doing people's training and nutrition and, and labs and things, but those become
generally not the central focus of our work together. It's usually way more on the internals. If you're watching this on video, you can see my higher symbol behind me. Um, if you're not watching on video, and maybe you've seen it before, it's kinda like a triangle with, like, a eagle flying out of the center.
What that represents is, like, it's open on the bottom. So it's like you start there, and you start to climb up this mountain, and this is the approach that most of us, I think, think that we need to take to get higher in whatever area of our life, right?
And we do. There is some of that, right? We do have to kinda, like, you know, take some steps, take some action. That's very important. Um, and but it's a trick. You get to the top, and it goes down, and then it goes, swirls around in the middle, and this eagle's flying out.
And basically what that means is, like, if you really wanna get higher in your life, you gotta go inside. You gotta go on the inside, and you will soar way higher than any mountaintop.
And so I've, I've, I've really thought about all this, and I'm like, "Okay,
I will embrace being called a fitness coach if I can be on a mission to change what we think of when we talk about fitness, that it's not just physical fitness, that it's mental fitness, emotional fitness, and spiritual fitness." And so that's what I wanna talk about today, and I hope you guys will join me in this mission.
I hope that, that, that, that this echoes out into the world, that we stop just thinking as our health and fitness as only nutrition and exercise and sleep and recovery and stuff. That is just one small facet of what it really means to be fit. So let's get into it.
I'm gonna start with mental fitness. Okay, so I made a little list here. Here are some examples of things that are involved with mental fitness. Our focus and our attention,
right? That's like a skill. It's a skill. I probably have ADHD, okay? Just full out, I probably have ADHD. I haven't been diagnosed. I've had a lot of doctor friends in the industry, even some that have been on the podcast. Maybe some of you guys got that, are like, "Terra, you definitely have ADHD." Okay, cool.
Run, runs in my family like crazy. Sure.
Um, what is ADHD? Or if we do the old-school ADD, attention deficit disorder. Now, I'm not trying to undermine, like, the genetic impacts and, you know, the actual stuff that's happening in people's bodies, but it's like, okay, so I have an attention deficit.
I mean, I'm a believer that most things can be improved. So I'm like, well, if I said I had muscle deficit disorder, what would I do? I would work on building that. I would put in reps. I would apply myself consistently
to improve that, and that is what I have been doing with focus and attention. Reps, practice. The more I practice the new pattern, a lot of that has come through a meditation practice for me of, like, learning how to not jump onto every freaking squirrel thought that comes through my mind.
I'm not, uh, not 100%. I still definitely do that sometimes, but it has improved dramatically. Okay, another thing, mental fitness. Self-awareness.
Self-awareness is a skill. It's not just some people are self-aware, and some people aren't. I mean, yeah, that might be the outcome, but why are some people self-aware, and some people aren't? Because some people are practicing the skill of self-awareness. Let's talk about recognizing subconscious beliefs that are running the show.
This is a complete and total part of mental fitness. It's a skill. It can be learned, but we need tools. We need concepts. We need teachers. All right? Questioning the way we're interpreting things, self-inquiry, being able to question our immediate thoughts about things. "Oh, she did that because blah, blah, blah.
Done. That's the story. She just... You know, she's just selfish." Okay, well, self-inquiry is a practice. It's a skill of, "Hey,
I don't know that for sure.
I could be wrong here. Let me ask. Let me clarify." These are all skills that are part of mental fitness, just like training in the gym or being able to do a box jump or a ladder drill, et cetera. They're skills.
Um, changing our self-talk, re-patterning, these... That is an actual practice that we need if we're going to be mentally fit.
All right? Uh, yeah, self-talk. Self-talk is a habit.
I always have compassion on our self-talk, right? We... Somewhere along the lines, something happened in our lives to cause us to start being mean to ourselves, basically, or limiting ourselves,
but it is a habit. It becomes a habit unless we practice mental fitness and be like, "Whoa," and this is where the self-awareness thing comes back in. It's practicing our ability to be like, "I'm not... Mm-mm. I'm gonna catch that and re-pattern that because that's not cool to be talking to myself like that." Right?
Like, we, we have these things that we do socially where we're like, "Oh, yeah, I have horrible self-talk." Well,
do we wanna do something about it? We don't have to do anything. We can just stay that way if we'd like. But to just say like, "Oh, I just have horrible self-talk," is like, well,
have you learned any skills or practiced changing that? It You know it can be changed, right?
And then that, that's where we're probably gotta get to emotional fitness. We'll get there in a second. Um, creating habits and systems, these are skills,
and a lot of us were not gifted with wonderful mentors on this in our lives. But they're out there
if we will seek them,
um, or we can come up with it ourselves and do school of hard knocks approach too. But it is a skill to be able to say, "This isn't working in my life. I can be self-aware enough to recognize what is going on that's leading to this habit or this dysfunctional system, and what would I like to do about it?" Right?
That's a skill, right? Versus, "Oh, my gosh, my life is just so hard, and there's nothing I can do about it." All right. Um, making decisions
instead of continually reacting, right? For me, a tip-off on this is like when I want to complain to somebody.
That's a tip-off to me that I'm not handling it. You know what I'm saying? It's like, whoa, okay, I don't like how this is. What would I like to do about it? And I might not get it right the first time, but having that skill, practicing that skill of making a decision, what do I want to do about this, and acting on it, this is all part of mental fitness.
Um, another thing is directing our mind instead of just believing every thought that it comes up with. We talked about this a little bit, but this kind of goes with focus and attention. This also trickles into emotional fitness as well. But recognizing, like, okay, I'm really caught up on this whole thing.
I can switch.
I can absolutely switch into a new thought pattern, a new focus, a new belief. And for some of us, this can be really hard because we're not very mentally fit. We haven't practiced mental fitness.
let's make the analogy here with health a little bit more, like physical fitness. So with physical fitness, there's a lot of components of physical fitness, right?
Uh, one of those is resistance training, of course. You guys know I'm a fan, and I think most of you are too. Um, so resistance training is practicing our ability to be able to withstand force, pressure, resistance, and stay with it and overcome it. It's the same thing with mental fitness. Sometimes I, I really like to look at it that way when the freaking storm of life is hitting me and I wanna be like, "I can't freaking handle this," it's like, well, I'm getting... uh, depending on how I respond to this,
I'm getting a lot more mentally fit right now. This is a hardcore resistance training session,
right? Now let's talk about diet. That also plays a part in our physical fitness.
Thinking about this with our mental fitness is like, what am I consuming?
How much of my time am I spending consuming content?
Random content too. I'm not directing this at all,
you know? And I'm not saying I don't sometimes do this too, but
I'm very cognizant of how much I allow that, right? And music, and even just conversations that we're entertaining, gossip, all that kind of stuff. What am I consuming?
So there's that diet aspect of it, too, when we think of our mental fitness. Um, also, there's cardio, right? Endurance. We need to have that. And so with mental fitness, quite often it's like, yeah, being able to understand that when you're really having to kind of push for a, a long period of time because that's what's life, life is requiring of you, that it is good for you to be able to have access to that.
I don't always wanna be in an endurance, right? Just like we wouldn't always wanna be running all the time, but you know, it, it can have some really positive impacts to increase that endurance capacity. And it's the same thing when we are in kind of an endurance period with our mental fitness.
It's like, this is good for me.
Also, there is flexibility,
right? Mobility, being able to move well. How adaptable are we in our minds? It's crazy how much we don't think about this, right? We just kind of like live in this, like we're like these like jellyfish just kind of blobbing around through life. But we can actually take this by the horns, just like our physical fitness.
And so what is gonna be required for that?
We need some sort of practice.
It's funny to me, I've noticed, you know, I observe us as humans a lot
because of what I do for a living, and I think I'm just naturally kind of like this as well. But it's funny to me that I notice that we all seem to think that the way that we think about things and the way that our minds work is like the right way.
Like, it's the good way, you know?
And it's like, well, maybe it is, but let's look at the fruits of it. I always say, "You wanna see what's going on inside of you, look at your life." There's a... I've... Forgive me, it's just coming to mind right now, so I don't have who said this, but there's some quote that's something like, um, "There are no secret thoughts.
They become your life."
So if we wanna look at where we might want to focus on improving our mental fitness, look at your life.
Now, there may be an aspect of emotional fitness that is very closely related to the mental fitness aspect that, um, needs to be practiced and improved upon as well. So let me preface this by saying this:
I am a believer that our emotions follow our thoughts.
Joe Dispenza talks about this. A lot of teachers talk about this, and I, a that has been my experience personally with clients. It's like, why did I have that emotional reaction? Because of either... it's either a conscious thought or it's a subconscious thought. There's some sort of story in me that is causing me to have that emotional reaction.
Now, all emotions are welcome. I'm a believer in radical emotional acceptance. We have a podcast episode about that with Dr. Alex Wills. Love it. Accepting all of our emotions and learning from them 100%. And you know, let's say that
somebody does something to you and you are just steaming. You are just so mad. You know, there is a story that you hold that is
leading to that,
right? It's just like, you know, think of like, you know how you see somebody get really offended by something, and like you wouldn't really be that offended by that? It wouldn't really bother you?
Well, 'cause there's some sort of story stuck in them that is creating that emotional reaction. So when we talk about emotional fitness, it's... I mean, independently, it's really important, but the mental fitness aspect, the more we can practice that, the easier the emotional fitness side of things gets. So let's talk about what emotional fitness is.
Emotional fitness is your capacity to experience, process, and respond to your emotions.
This is huge. A lot of people, that first one, experience your emotions. A lot of us, a lot of us human beings, we don't wanna experience the emotions, and so there's a lot of numbing. There's a lot of distraction.
This is... If you have a hard time being in silence or resting, you know, and you just feel, like, whack if you try to do that, there's likely some resistance to feeling emotions, and I have a lot of compassion on it 'cause it probably comes from, you know, a lot of painful experiences you've had in your life, so nothing but love, and we need to work on it.
By the way, like, all of this,
the reason this is so important to me is I don't believe you can truly be healthy just through physical health, Virges. And I know when I say that, I know you agree with me. It's common sense.
It's common sense. You... Just exercising and eating healthy is not complete health.
It's not even remotely close. So the reason I care about all this stuff, I've said it a million times and I'll say it again, the reason I even got into the life coaching side of things was because I felt like I had to in order to be a good health coach.
It's just over the years, so many people are, like, telling me about these crazy dysfunctional home environments and beliefs about themselves and all this stuff, and I'm thinking, "I'm just trying to tell you to, like, brute force your way through it and, and do your exercise and eat well?" I'm like, "I'm...
We're scratching the surface here. This is not even remotely close to a complete picture of health." And actually, they're gonna have a really hard time getting to where they wanna go if we don't address this stuff. So that's what led me here, is just purely trying to actually help people get healthy.
All right. So,
so emotional fitness. Here are some examples: feeling an emotion without becoming completely controlled by it.
Allowing it, not blocking it. We wanna allow the emotions and notice and observe that they're there, and it doesn't have to completely control us. Another aspect of emotional fitness is being able to tolerate discomfort.
you know what? I'll tell you, resistance training is a real, real great practice ground for that.
A lot of times we can learn things through different approaches and apply them. Not everybody does that, though. I've worked with a lot of really successful business people that are not applying what they learned in business into their, their physical health, right? So you do have to actually practice that.
But if you do practice that, it's a great, great learning ground for tolerating discomfort. But can you tolerate emotional discomfort? Can you tolerate shame? Can you tolerate sadness? Can you tolerate guilt?
Um, another aspect is recovering after disappointment, rejection, failure, or conflict, right? Like, and this also leads into the mental fitness side of things 'cause, like I said, like, if you have a conflict and your story is, "They're just a jerk and selfish and I hate them," well, you're gonna have a hard time getting to a recovered place emotionally from that conflict, right?
If you don't know how to repair after conflict,
which is part of mental fitness, 'cause you gotta get to a good place yourself first, then it's gonna be very difficult to get to a place of emotional fitness on that thing. Okay. Another aspect of emotional fitness is regulating our nervous system.
It can be hard sometimes, really hard, and that's why we need
clutch in the moment. When you're dysregulated it is real... I mean, I think you guys all know, when you've been really freaking messed up, it can be really hard. You need something that is, like, easy, doable.
I mean, breath or going for a walk I think are a lot of people's go-tos. But maybe that doesn't... That's... Maybe that's not your thing. Maybe you need something else, right?
Another aspect of emotional fitness is communicating honestly.
Mm-hmm.
'Cause a lot comes up, right? If you got people-pleasing skills or fear of abandonment or all these things, uh, well, it's gonna get real. It's be very, very difficult to communicate honestly. So that's a whole can of worms in and of itself, right? You could spend weeks on that.
But it... So you see, like, this is why you can't be healthy. You just can't. You can't be healthy if These things have never even been touched.
It's like you're, like, so messed up by your, your numbing out, maybe going to substances to not feel certain things. You got all this resentment built up towards others, towards yourself. That's not healthy. That's not You cannot be physically healthy when this stuff is completely in disarray. All right.
Another aspect of emotional fitness is setting boundaries, and I've said this million times, and I will say it again. My favorite quotes on what boundaries are comes from this podcast, uh, my episode with Terri Cole, author of Boundary Boss. I asked her candidly in the show, "How would you define boundaries?" And she said, "Well, boundaries are knowing what your preferences, desires, limits, and deal-breakers are," and I'm gonna put a big emphasis on the knowing what they even are,
"and being able to communicate them clearly and concisely with anyone." That's it. That's what boundaries are. That's there are a lot of confusion around boundaries. Boundaries are just knowing what you are and aren't okay with, what you do and don't want, and honestly communicating that with people. That's it.
That's all it is.
Sometimes I think we need a, a new word, right?
'Cause people, people think it's all about, like, "Don't let them do that to me."
Well, you don't have to be so intense with it if you can just say no, right? And that's where we get into emotional fitness, right? 'Cause there's a whole bunch under that,
some level of codependency or fear. Okay. Um, another aspect of emotional fitness is staying connected to ourselves in relationships.
Mm-hmm. So if any of this is standing out to you, it's like, man, what are we gonna do about it? What are we gonna do? We need skills. We need concepts. We need to give space to this preventatively in our lives, just like we do with our physical health.
And the last one I have on emotional fitness, uh, as an example, is responding intentionally
versus just repeating automatic protective patterns.
That goes back to the, the mental fitness side of things. This, this requires practicing self-awareness, practicing being the observer.
So let's talk about spiritual fitness. I'm not talking about anything religious. I'm not talking about anything New Age, hippie. I'm not talking about any of that. This has nothing to do with any of that. Spiritual fitness is our ability to stay connected to that deep meaning and purpose and our intuition and our values and something that feels bigger than us, right?
That's what spiritual fitness is. So spiritual fitness examples is knowing what matters to you.
Knowing what matters, like getting clear there, right? What really matters to me?
Listening to ourselves is an aspect of spiritual fitness. Like, are we connected there? Can we really hear?
Is there trust there? I mean, if, if self-criticism and shaming and being hard on ourself is a pattern, it's gonna be really hard to get there, right? Because the relationship with ourself is one of abuse.
So it's gonna be very hard to have self-trust when we're being mean to ourselves all the time, 'cause there's just not a safe space in there.
Okay, next is creating silence is an aspect of spiritual fitness.
Allowing space for wonder and awe,
giving ourselves the,
the, the magic of life.
Next is living in alignment with our values, and again, do we know what they are?
Uh, a mindset mentor of mine, also has been on the podcast, uh, Tony Child, um, uh, when I did all of his programs and things, he said, um,
people always say that they value If you ask somebody on the street what they value, they'll say, like, "God, God, country, and family," you know, like kind of these stereotypical, uh, values answers. And cool, like, I'm sure a lot of us value those things. Um, but he's like, "What you really value is what you spend your time and your money on.
So let me see your calendar, and let me see your bank account, and I'll tell you what you value."
So that can be a really powerful thing to take a look at, you know? Might maybe need a little bit of thought put into that. Um, another aspect of spiritual fitness is trusting ourselves without, um, thinking that we need to control everything.
Self-trust. Um, being able to ask for help, being able to receive, being able to surrender to a process,
these are all aspects of spiritual fitness. Um, and then moving beyond constant self-focus into contribution, service, giving, generosity, a very important aspect of spiritual fitness. And, um, being able to stay connected to meaning and purpose during times of uncertainty,
right? So it's like it's not any sort I'm not hitting on any sort of belief system here. We all have very different belief systems, um, when it comes to spirituality, but these aspects apply across all of those, right? It's that, it's that connection to, to our highest self and to something bigger than us, to the collective, to the whole.
So
what are we gonna do about all this? This is You know, uh, some of you may have known I, I have been writing a book for a really long time.
And it's not that I'm... I'm writing the book about my life and different things that I've been through and things that I've learned and things that I teach.
And it's been years in the making, and it's not that I'm not, you know, I'm just, like, avoiding it or something like that. I just have had a lot of
knowing, deep inner knowing, of, like, when to wait. So that's why it hasn't come out yet. But, um,
a big, a big reason that I'm even writing the book and sharing it is because I've been through a lot of resistance in my life. A lot of... I, I like to say I've had a lot of common traumas.
Uh, and what I've learned from those and, and why I'm bringing it up today is that if we can take those experiences that we've had that have been difficult, that have led to a bunch of bullshit in our lives, and we can go to different teachers, different mentors, become curious, become good students of life,
and we can start to understand our own patterns and what happened in us as a result of those things and why we made certain choices that feel very out of alignment with who we feel we really are, and, you know, resentments we might hold and, and, you know, maybe really crappy stuff happened in your life for a very long time as a result of abuse or neglect or, you know, really hard things that you went through.
If we can take those things
and look at them as stimuli
for us to really, really give space to what happened in us mentally, emotionally, spiritually as a result of those things, I think it is one of the most valuable things that we can experience in this earth life.
And so when we... If we compare all of this that I'm talking about with
physical, physical fitness, what, what do you hear all the time with physical fitness? It's all about consistency. It's all about consistency. It's all about consistency. It's all about... You've heard it 50 million times, right?
So in, in my book, what I've been writing about is what I call the guaranteed trifecta of personal transformation. And I'm not gonna tell you all of them, okay? Spoiler, spoiler. But I will tell you one of them is a consistent daily personal development practice.
So what's yours?
What is it?
It can be so many things. It can be all kinds of things. It could be, uh, you know, for me, meditation, a written gratitude practice on how I feel about those things besides grateful to get me more tapped into my emotions, and then the... And then a, a window for personal growth, and that changes a lot.
You know, my clients in Hire do, um, a program through that. And, um, I don't know when this podcast is gonna come out, so this might be a spoiler. I don't know if I will have announced this yet on social media, but we're getting ready to change the Coach Tara app to Hire Fitness.
So it's a complete and total change, and
one of the reasons for that is, um, this. What I'm talking about today is, like, I, I realized the mindset, the personal growth aspect of the app was not nearly where I needed it to be, and I was like, "People need a daily practice." They need an actual something kind of done for them to, like, guide them along and bring in all these tools that I'm so grateful that I've found and concepts and, like, make it a practice, a daily practice.
So that is coming. That is coming. I, um... Hopefully. I don't know. I don't know if that's gonna be
announced yet, but watch for it on social media if this was the spoiler alert. And if not, you'll probably see all bunch of stuff about it on my social. But that is critical to me. And, and a lot of the... You know, the way that I do my programs for life coaching is it involves mental fitness and spiritual fitness and emotional fitness, right?
I'm never gonna leave one of these off the table. We have to be connected to our purpose and meaning and what we're doing here and something that helps us feel fulfilled and like we serve a, a, a purpose in this world that is so important for human health, that we have an, a connection to our intuition, our soul or whatever that, however that resonates with you.
Higher self.
Critical. And then emotional. You know, we, we gotta get into boundaries and, um,
being able to regulate ourselves and become friends with our emotions, be able to identify our emotions and know what they even are, how they feel in our body, how to respond to them versus just going into all these automatic patterns. We've got to know How to practice self-awareness, practice self-inquiry, inquiry, question our thoughts, not just jump to every thought that we've ever had.
How to be without our thoughts, how to recognize who we are without our thoughts.
What's there, you know? Um, becoming more, uh, aware of our subconscious patterns. These things are critical for our life quality.
I shared a, a, in my Instagram story, uh, the day before I'm recording this recently, uh, a clip of Jim Rohn, one of the greatest personal growth speakers of all time, personal development teachers. And he, he was making an analogy. I love analogies. I'm a huge analogy person. My brain just kind of just thinks like that all the time. And he was saying, "You know, if you were gonna go, you know, trying to build a house..." He was talking about building houses, and he said, "If you were just, like, laying a bunch of bricks and somebody came up to you and said, 'What are you building here?' And you said, 'I have no idea.'"
Well, then he said something like, "They, they might take you to a safe place."
He's like, "But so many of us are doing that with our lives."
We're just haphazardly just going through it, and it's like, do we realize that there's so much more available to us than that?
Do we realize that there are so many tools?
Do we realize that there are
possibilities that we haven't even conceived of yet in terms of how to live our day-to-day reality if we will just be a good student of life and seek those out?
And what happens... What, what happens when we
do this
to our physical health?
I mean, for me, like, when I see somebody is in, you know, maybe they're very obese, like, God, my heart just hurts, you know? Like, I'm just like, I know there is so much freaking pain under that.
And so many of us grew up in dysfunctional situations. We did not learn tools. We did not learn or have modeled for us healthy behaviors.
We did not have fitness modeled for us,
most of us not in all the areas, spiritual fitness, emotional fitness, mental fitness, and physical fitness. Man, if you had that modeled for you, that is so cool. I would love to, like, meet your parents.
Very cool. And even then, they may not had it all figured out, right?
Every generation is a bridge. So we... To me, it's like, it's so worth it to invest in seeking out what is even available to me that I don't even know yet. But we have to do it consistently. Like, reading a book every once in a while, or, like, randomly thinking about taking, watching a mindset video at random, it's just like going to the gym once in a blue moon, you know, eating healthy once in a blue moon and think it's gonna do anything.
It's not gonna do anything. Not really.
So
this is what I'm really, really hoping to, like, bring to the world. This is, this is my professional mission, which is very much a spiritual mission for me. It always has been, always will be,
is, like, changing how we're thinking about approaching our entire health,
our mental, emotional, spiritual, physical health.
You know, I've been asked many... I'm just kind of rambling now, but hope you guys are enjoying. I've been asked so many times if I will just only coach people on training and nutrition.
No.
You know why? I have no interest in it. I have no interest in... If I'm going to invest in somebody's life, like, get to know the... Like, I really get to know my clients. Like, I know their dogs' names and stuff. You know what I mean?
And if I'm gonna invest in somebody's life like that, like,
it just... I'm not gonna not
do it all the way, you know? And it's... I'm just being so honest with you guys right now. It's very unfulfilling for me to only address part of the equation of health. Like, if... I, I totally respect if somebody's not open into diving into deeper what's going on with them.
Totally cool.
It's just there are a lot of us out there that do want that, that do want to, like, really figure out what's going on inside, and not just physiologically,
and that is
so fun. If we can have the courage to dive in and address those things and learn new things and apply those things, it's just like, it's just like going from obese to unbelievably physically fit, but in your life.
It's life-changing stuff.
And it doesn't really require that much effort, just a little bit of time dedicated in the morning and maybe some re-patterning throughout the day.
So I'm gonna leave you with this quote from Jim Rohn. He says: "For things to change, you have to change.
For things to get better, you have to get better." Now, that wording, a little bit on be better, I don't, I don't, I... Don't be all self-deprecating with that. Mm-mm, no shame-based performance stuff going on in how, in my world. It's just, you know, getting better at skills.
And, uh, Dr. Joe Dispenza says, "Your personality creates your personal reality."
Our personality is made up by what's going all on in here.
and frankly, you know, I, I... Like, I have two choices. Either I'm getting out of the fitness industry, 'cause I don't wanna be associated with it. That's how I have felt for years. I'm like, "Please don't want me in with the fitness industry." I don't like, I, I don't like a lot of what the fitness industry stands for. A lot of it is just pure vanity, just pure,
like,
be mean to myself until I get to the way I wanna be, and pressure, and, like, prove my value, and ugh. Like, but the thing is, is I love physical fitness. I love feeling good. I love
play. I love being able to see what my body can do. I love being able to feel the experience of physical freedom. I love knowing what's going on inside my physiology. I love knowing how to nourish myself appropriately, that I can actually know how to manage how I'm gonna feel throughout every day through the way that I'm feeding myself, supplementing myself, you know, approaching sleep and rest.
Like, amazing. Also very life-changing. But there's so much more to it than that. So I was like, "Okay, if I'm gonna stay in the fitness industry, I'm going on a mission then, that we're not gonna just only think of physical fitness. It's all of it." So
in closing, uh, if you have not checked out my app, it's been the Coach Tara app for many years now, um, my, my hope is that you will check it out with this new Higher Fitness. Um, by the way, if you hear this and it's still the Coach Tara app, you will maintain the price that you got on the Coach Tara app, okay?
Just a little vague hint, hint, okay?
But, um, Higher Fitness is going to have
a full-on life coaching, mindset coaching program in it, and I'm guiding... Once a month, I'm guiding... There's a theme every month, and we're gonna have a live call together, and there's daily work, and it's really, really cool. Look, I even have, like, a tarot deck kind of thing. This is phase five, gratitude. Um, there's... It's, it's really cool. Um, so I hope you'll check that out. Of course, there's,
I hate to say advanced, but I don't know how else to say it, advanced training. You know what I mean? This is not just like, "We're doing workouts." It's like, no, you're gonna learn how your body works, how to actually move appropriately, and how to create a stimulus appropriately.
And did you know that there are different stimuli that you're trying to achieve through weight training? It's not just, just weight training. There's different things you do within weight training and, you know, all of that. And, um, course, we have our mindset journeys. They're like guided meditation mindset journeys I take people through, and the nutrition section is getting a huge, huge boost.
So, um, I'm really excited to release that. Of course, we have our biohacking section as well on the community page. So if something like that speaks to you, the real reason I made the app was because I felt like I was gatekeeping all this to only people who could afford to work with me, and not everybody can afford that, and I also can only coach so many people at a time.
And so I made the app as a way to be like, this is affordable for anybody. Anybody, pretty much any, you know, in, the US at least and most countries can, could make this happen. And it's all there. It's, it's the full tilt Higher ecosystem: training, nutrition, mindset, biohacking.
So, um, yeah. I hope you guys will check it out. We'll put a link to that in the show notes. And, um, I hope that you'll join me on this quest I'm on
to change what we think of when we think of somebody being fit.
It's like, cool, yeah, your body's fit. And?
And? I said, "We don't stop there." So if you're, if you're like, if you're the kind of person who's wired like that with me, I hope you'll join me, and, and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Please DM me, message me on social media. If you like what I'm talking about here, please share this podcast episode with others.
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