Be Fit for Life, Not Just Now

Speaker 1: hi I'm Melanie bar welcome to the she builted experience with Melanie you're here because you want to experience the life and business that you crave join me as I talk to women who have successfully built it a career and business that they love we dive into the topic of how they built it and talk about everything from Having the courage to make career leaps to the details of how to lead effectively create successful teams Implement strategies for growth and Infuse Tech innovation magic happens when we focus on the part of ourselves and our business that brings us joy so let's dive in Angelica Vries helps female entrepreneurs and Executives who desire to level up their health and wealth she has been featured in entrepreneur Authority magazine and my fitness pal and is obsessed with guiding women to shift their mindset and bank accounts while shredding unwanted pounds along the way without ridiculous diets or crazy restrictions thank you for joining us Angelica have you always been interested in Fitness and what was your journey in getting as physically and

Speaker 2: mentally fit as you are actually no not at all so I grew up overweight I was never into sports wasn't interested in Fitness and then I gained more weight as I got older throughout college and in my early 20s and then one day I hit a point where I looked at myself in the mirror and I was not happy with how I looked how I felt was doing medical sales at the time and I had a closet full of nice clothes nothing really fit me well so I just decided to hire my first coach and that's how I started my journey so I hired my first coach lost 35 pounds of weight then got really into to Fitness and running so that's how it started I was never into fitness I couldn't even run a mile like in high school it was a struggle like I think it was the always the last one so no I was not always into

Speaker 1: fitness you help people level up in their health and wealth how do you

Speaker 2: advise clients to do this first let me describe how we actually help the busy professional women in our program we have them complete a really in-depth intake form we do an orientation call with them we really get to know them we want to know not just how much weight they want to lose we go deeper what's their lifestyle what's been their roadblock so they have any past trauma do they have trouble sleeping do they have good health issues so we really take a holistic approach and I talk about this all the time in my content and my videos I don't believe in just giving someone a meal plan and giving someone a fitness plan for them to have this massive transformation it has to go much deeper than that there really is a Mind Body Soul Connection in our program there's plenty of programs out there that can just give you the macros and the meal plans but we we really do go deeper so we do everything really in- depth like I said customize so gut health protocol nutrition coaching Fitness coaching but also the mindset so the mindset piece really is the missing link I find for many women out there and

Speaker 1: once we work on them with their mindset we're able to change their emotions their behaviors and their habits to create this long lasting sustainable

Speaker 2: change for them oh it's so true because

Speaker 1: it is all connected and you're right you could look at food as just food but there's a reason why at times we eat the things we shouldn't or we do more of what we shouldn't or not enough of what we should be doing right and I also we really work with our clients too on their language their language just how they speak out into the world and how they speak around food I I really desire to help them focus on not saying these foods are bad these foods are good detaching from the moral value of food

Speaker 1: so pretty in-depth yesterday we had a breath work coach come in we do tapping so we do a lot of modalities to help our clients release the stress because a lot of women they don't gain weight from particularly overeating a lot of it is stress and hormones and damage metabolism and simply just not putting them so first for so long and then the

Speaker 1: connection to health and wealth I believe that the body is the vessel and you think about our bodies are home we live in them our brain is not separate from the body the body is not separate from the brain we are one being a lot of women can tend to get caught up in you know well I think this but my body does this no the way you think affects your body the thoughts you have affect your

Speaker 1: body on a cell your level so if you tell yourself like oh well I desire this amount of money but I can never do it or I desire my body to look like this but I'll never get there you're actually signaling to your body that you're not going to get there so from a on a cellular level our thoughts obviously affect us and as far as health connected

Speaker 1: to wealth if you are feeling really bad in your body and you're having low vibrational thoughts and you're anxious and you're depressed like from poor gut health and you have brain fog all these different symptoms you have how can you show up and perform your best as a COO or CFO or an entrepreneur or a high level marketing executive or real estate agent if you're not showing up as your best self sure you can make money but you can make way more if you're operating at a higher level mentally and

Speaker 2: physically it's so true the conversations that we have with ourself are the most important conversations we'll have more important than other conversations we have with other people totally we hear a lot about gut health you share with your clients how it affects our business performance tell us why and how has making changes helped

Speaker 1: your clients see success yeah so there's like the obvious for health system but then there's a whole realm that a lot of people don't even realize that it's coming from their gut the brain fog the lack of clarity the extreme fatigue joint pain skin irritations poor sleep all of these things affect your performance as a busy entrepreneur whatever your career if you're waking up and you're a high level executive and you don't have that Clarity in your brain to make sharp decisions and to show powerfully it's going to affect your business it's going to affect your sales right it's going to affect your bottom line and like I said I tell my clients who are real estate agents the first thing someone sees when they show up to the house is you not the house they're connecting with you so if you don't feel good in your body if you feel uncomfortable you might look nice on the outside if you're not really confident that energy comes out so that's really how I believe gut health affects your business it's an energetic thing it's a mental thing and it's a physical thing because you can get hit with the physical symptoms then from a mental standpoint you're not feeling good and showing up with your B self and if you're operating at a lower level how can you attract more abundance into the world if you're in this low vibrational State sure you can make some money but if you desire to track rer levels of wealth you have to be the and the most highest aligned version of yourself I

Speaker 2: believe and how would you tell a client to start looking at their gut health what's the first thing that you would

Speaker 1: suggest so I first would ask symptoms and then really assessing how they feel after they eat certain food so paying attention to not just what they're eating but how they feel some people eat broccoli and their stomach bloats up really horrible right some people eat Glo and they have really horrible sensitivity you don't have to have Celiac to to have a gluten sensitivity so it's paying attention to the physical symptoms and taking note of them and then from there we go into certain gut health protocols so we make sure we're incorporating certain foods eliminating certain foods that we feel could be irritating our client systems and we do everything on an individualized approach because you're not going to eat the same as me our bodies are different we also look at their history what's their diet what's their lifestyle what's their stress have they had any traumatic events because we hold our issues our tissues if you've gone through a divorce or someone has passed in your life all of these issues per se are living in the body so everyone's gut health is is just at a very different state and then if they want to go deeper we have a functional medicine doctor on staff to do gut health testing for them so we send them the testing we run the test and then the doctor comes in and gives them a whole analysis so we can go pretty deep I've started to eat more gluten-free and I've noticed my skin has cleared up of course we tell all of our

Speaker 1: clients to minimize gluten avoid if they can in reality you're going to have it here and there you go out to a restaurant you might have it but minimizing it to the greatest ability because glutin contains an inflammatory protein called lectin and when lectin goes into your system it it causes inflammation people who have Celiac obviously it's more serious but just your average person when I first started on my good healing protocol it was eliminating gluten I eliminated dairy dairy in America is also very inflammatory highly processed so little things like that but I I don't believe in severe restriction if you want a slice of pizza have slice of pizza if

Speaker 1: you want a brownie have a brownie I don't believe in restriction because that leads to a poor relationship with food that leads to binge eating episodes that leads to you craving the thing that you've cut out because you haven't had a cookie in five weeks and then you have a whole box of cookies so and I'm Sicilian so I like my pizza we have pizza every Friday when I go to New York I eat the freaking Bagels because that's where I'm from so I do believe in balance and flexibility which there are a lot of health coaches out there there's like there's no such thing as balance I have to disagree I've kept 35 pounds of weight on for 12 years so obviously you

Speaker 2: can be balanced yeah can you share with

Speaker 1: us a favorite client success story yes there's there's so many I mean at this point I've helped over 700 women we have a lot of women come to us who have autoimmune disorders like Hashimoto lupus rheumatoid arthritis and they come to us in a really low State like they've tried everything they've been told they'll never be able to lose weight they're told they have to be in all these medications for the rest of their life and we've helped so many women

Speaker 1: one decrease the inflammation in their body to where they're able to run again where they were told they can never run again where they can lift weights and feel good where they can actually enjoy meals and enjoy their food and go on vacation so I've had a lot of those and

Speaker 1: I also have some clients that come to me with with really no issues that are just really resistant to invest in themselves I had a client Kenya she came to me when I was living in California and she was like well I'll do the program but as long as it doesn't cost more than this and I'm really resisting because I've done all these boot campy type things and none of them worked for me and I was like trust me this program is different so she invested in herself she trusted

Speaker 1: but through the process in the beginning she had a lot of resistance she was obsessed with weighing herself and I was like we really need to detach from the scale because you are one putting negative energy towards it your obsessive attached energy will actually work against you and could cause the scale to go up once again that's the energetics that's a metaphysical side to weight loss so uh she put her scale away she actually was in my program for two years took a break and more so recently

Speaker 1: came back this is what's so great about it so she was in the program for Te years she lost a ton of weight transformed her body the greatest thing I saw with her was her mindset she started to work on manifestation and abundance and not focusing on a perfectionism which a lot of the women we work with are very type A perfectionism so she let that go and it was a really beautiful transformation of Mind Body and Soul um so much that she just became like a real leader in the in the community in the tribe telling other women like don't focus on the scale just focus on the journey she really took to the philosophies she was with us for a while and she took a little break which I get two years is a long time to be in a program and then she recently came back and shared a wi today that she's back in the program for a month she's lost seven pounds I love that and sometimes it's all about the support in the community that's why she came back yeah it's not that she didn't know what to do but just having the community having this Sport and having that accountability me we all need coaches we all need people checking on us to some degree I believe I still work with many different coaches so but there's so many stories but K Kenya always pops out to me because she really had a real attachment to the scale we would talk every week she'd be like it's still not moving it's still not moving I mean how many ladies listening to this are probably shaking their head yep yep that's me I've been there I mean that was me I was

Speaker 2: obsessed I love the quote on your website Fit for Life is for you if you're busy High achieving woman struggling with weight energy and confidence you're tired of putting everyone before you and finally feel ready to pour into you we all struggle at times in our lives with putting ourselves first I'm a mom of twins I've definitely experienced it myself how sometimes right you want to go out you're like oh but the babies you know and having two babies I get texts all the time about oh I have one I don't know how you did it with two then you wake up one day and you think I need to focus on me you know I put so much energy into them it's time for me so I love that quote on your website how do you advise someone to start to do this if they are going through a challenging

Speaker 1: time yeah and it it can be hard for sure especially like you said Mom guilt is a real thing we work with like I said all busy moms I would say first things first is remembering in that and this sounds so cliche but we all know it's true you cannot pour from an empty cup it is not selfish to take care of yourself to put yourself first you're actually going to be a better version of yourself for your career for your partner for your children when you pour into you they don't want this run down burnt out tired overweight version of you they want the Happy aligned fit Confident Woman First Things First is just realizing that you can't pour from an empty cup and if you keep going this way what does your life look like like five years from now if you keep pushing yourself your health onto the back burner where will you be I think that's a lot of times what I say to women when I'm interviewing them for my program I get it it's an investment and you have all these things going on but like if you don't make the change now what does life look like in five years it just gets harder so in order for you to be the best version of yourself you have to focus on you and

Speaker 2: you can just take baby steps doesn't need to be anything drastic you don't need to go to the gym for three hours you can start with the 15 minute workout

Speaker 1: true you could do 30 minutes of meal prep on a Sunday to get a little bit more prepared there are ways to put

Speaker 2: yourself first but we all get in our heads well I I notic a lot of women they get overwhelmed when they think of meal prep and the workouts and all the things and I'm like that's where we come in because you shouldn't need to think about it we design it for you for your lifestyle and everyone's different we have women who do 15minute workouts we have women who work out for an hour so it needs to fit your lifestyle once we take that stress away too to know like you don't need to be in the gym an hour every day to get result you don't need to be cooking a different meal every day

Speaker 1: either and that's so true and I ran marathons before having the twins and so to me an hour to an hour and a half that was the only way to work out and then I realized oh I can do 20 minutes and feel better so I started to do the 20 minute pelaton and now I'm back up to normal but it's so interesting how you have those increments and even taking a quick Epsom Sal bath and it it doesn't have to be the whole spa day but then you just

Speaker 2: feel yourself first yes you feel better yeah you feel dramatically doing a 10 minute meditation for yourself like just doing little things so baby steps baby steps baby steps we do that in our program if someone comes to us and they have not worked out for a year we're not going to be like six days a week let's go so I'm like let's start you with three and walking and then we'll check in see how you feel baby steps progress

Speaker 1: over Perfection so true imperfect action too ladies it doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to be action any type of action if I would have waited till my business was perfect to start it I probably wouldn't have started you just got to go when you're ready to go magic happens when we focus on the part of ourselves and our business that brings us joy what is one way that you find and live your joy each day well living in

Speaker 2: Maui definitely brings me joy that's why I moved here I definitely make sure that I get out to the beach once a day whether it's in the midle day or almost every evening I take my puppy for a walk on the beach so making sure that I ground I need my feet in the Earth every day whether it's sand ocean so that that brings me joy thank you so much for

Speaker 1: joining us today can you please share

Speaker 2: with us how we can find you easiest way is Instagram the Angelic entries so there's a link in my bio if you want to learn more about me my program I always post a lot of stories and tips my reals are full of tips as well and then if you want to just send me a message I have a lot of people reach out to me that have heard me on other podcasts and just say hello and share their biggest takeaway or ask me any questions about gut health I'm an open book we do have a free challenge in November so that'll be the link in my bio too it'll be Fitness Nutrition gut health a lot of great

Speaker 1: value and information Instagram is the best way thank you for joining us today I'd love to hear from you reach out to me at hello Sheil it.com on our sheb built it website or at Sheil it on social thank you to my editor Rich draino who always makes us sound good until next time let nothing stop you from experiencing the life and business that you crave