Miss Lauren Stallwood is our guest on EP 42 - she is a well known, respected, and recognized fitness and health professional. She is a CrossFit Games athlete, former professional International Women’s Rugby League player who played in the Women’s Rugby League World Cup in 2013. She bachelor’s in physical education and science and a has a masters in Education, and so much more. She not only is buff and has a smile that could brighten up any room, but she aims to inspire women of all ages to pursue their ultimate life and fitness potentials. We’re going to learn more about her unique and high octane life in this episode - prepare your ears to be inspired and motivated to chase your wildest dreams.
Miss Lauren Stallwood is our guest on EP 42 - she is a well known, respected, and recognized fitness and health professional. She is a CrossFit Games athlete, former professional International Women’s Rugby League player who played in the Women’s Rugby League World Cup in 2013. She bachelor’s in physical education and science and a has a masters in Education, and so much more. She not only is buff and has a smile that could brighten up any room, but she aims to inspire women of all ages to pursue their ultimate life and fitness potentials. We’re going to learn more about her unique and high octane life in this episode - prepare your ears to be inspired and motivated to chase your wildest dreams.
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Speaker 1:Today, on episode 42, I have drumroll miss Lauren Stollard, which is she's a very well-known, very well-respected and recognized fitness and health professional. She's a CrossFit Games athlete. She is a very well-known, very well-respected and recognized fitness and health professional. She's a CrossFit Games athlete. She is a former professional international women's rugby league player, holy moly, who played even in the Women's Rugby League World Cup in 2013. She has a bachelor's in physical education and science and has a master's in education, so she's smart too, and so much more.
Speaker 1:So not only is she buff, she has an amazing smile that brights up anyone's attitude in anyone, any room she walks into, but she's a very I hate even using. I know you're sitting here. You're like stop talking, no, but it's to say that you're influential is really important, because you are influential in this fitness and health space, as well as like body positivity and attitude and like finding a way to enjoy life and just like live it to your fullest, um. And so it's not just like like, oh, look, there's this influencer that has 400,000 followers. It's like, no, let's sit down with Lauren and figure out who she is and why and have everyone just be like, oh my gosh, she's so cool. This is why they partner. This is why this is the thing. So, uh, lauren, welcome to the show thank you got a big introductory.
Speaker 1:You're like, okay, and the academy award goes to um, no, no, but I'm so excited we finally did it. It took us like a month and a half to do this, which is we did it. It also took us like 40 minutes to figure out our cameras and once yours started working, mine decided to stop. So that was silly and stupid. But, um, we're here and we're live and so excited. So talk to me. What does Tuesday have in store? You just came off a weekend, you played, you went to a music festival or like a concert.
Speaker 2:Give me the scoop on life right now yeah, I guess life right now it's kind of like, um, we didn't make it to the games, which was pretty soaky, and I, I like had like a like two weeks. I didn't do any sort of training and wow, like motivation was just so low. And then I was like, wow, like what do we? What am I going to do? This seminar? Like I really wanted games training, obviously, and and then I was kind of like, okay, like this, sometimes it's a blessing in disguise to give you a break that you need and, like you know, to focus on different things. Like I guess, since I've moved to San Diego, like I've done things, but I've never really like explored everything that I wanted to do. Um, so I've kind of been like, oh, like I can do that this summer while still training and getting stronger.
Speaker 2:But yeah, this weekend I went to a concert and it was awesome, and then I went and hiked a waterfall, which was even better. But it's really strange here because, um, the waterfalls here like a back to front, like you hike down and then, on on the way back, you hike up, so it's kind of weird. Um, but yeah, today, an average Tuesday, today, I went and did some strength training. This morning I did some check-ins with some online clients, um, and then I went and did another session and then hang out cool, okay, so you coach or what.
Speaker 1:What's going on online for you?
Speaker 2:um, I do actually coach um at gym in San Diego just once one day a week. Um, it's quite cool. It's just to like interact with different people. Um, but I actually own a fitness app online and then I have individual clients, um, that basically just trained for years. A lot of them, um, yeah, I just do that as well.
Speaker 1:Perfect that's really cool. Yeah, what is your favorite thing about training people?
Speaker 2:um, I guess, like online, it's more like you build relationships, like there's a lady that I coach in Saudi Arabia who I've had for um, she's, she's. I've been with her for years now and I guess, like now, we're more just friends. So it's nice. But then in face it's just, it's just nice to be able to help people in on a daily basis. I guess, especially like after semifinals, when I was so demotivated, I was like wow, like I couldn't imagine ever feeling this every day yeah, absolutely, and I think that's the important part about coaches.
Speaker 1:Right is like people, it's not just food, it's not just training, like it's like I'm connected to this waking up in the morning you're like, and I wouldn't want anyone to feel like that, like just feeling that for a few days for me was not fun and it's. I mean it's not nice, but it is nice to kind of see that other side of it too, because then it's like having that empathy right as a coach to stand a little bit better absolutely. Let's talk about semifinals, I yeah.
Speaker 2:I guess, like it sucked really, because we performed so well in like our mock semifinals and then we just didn't in semifinals. Like it was fun. But on the lift, like obviously I don't know if you've heard of the domino effect, which is basically like a theory based. I don't know if you've heard of the domino effect, which is basically like a fairy based um well, theory, sorry. And I guess one of us failed a lift and then we all just failed and it was just terrible. Like I hit over like 20 pounds more just in the warm-up and I was like yikes, okay, this is bad, but you know, it is what it is and that's just the beauty of sport.
Speaker 1:Like if you don't perform, you know you don't perform speaking of performing, you have a very notable aesthetic that you've maintained through the years. Um, how do you stay fit through the year? What does nutrition look like? I mean training, right, like you've been a high level athlete you've correct me. You've been to the cross of games, right, and I mean so. You've done all kinds of stuff as an athlete. Oh, my camera's frozen. I can you still hear me?
Speaker 1:I can hear you, but you are stuck okay, um, but how do you maintain your physique? How do you like? Do you do 80, 20? Do you 90, 10? Are you 100 on? Do you do cheat days? Do you? Is it a? How do you like? Do you do 80, 20? Do you 90, 10? Are you 100% on? Do you do cheat days? Do you? Is it a lot of genetics and like just kind of a routine? Do you log macros, like what happens in your world?
Speaker 2:as far as aesthetic goes, Um, I guess for me, like I used to count macros, um, when I had my last shoulder operation, I counted my macros quite severely and for me it's a very obsessive thing. So after that I was like, okay, I'm not going to do that Like, and I'm pretty glued up on like what to eat, what not to eat, and like actual portion control, because I've done it for so long. But I just, I honestly now just make sure I eat enough, because with training it's really easy to under eat. Like between sessions eating is I find it so hard. Like it's really easy to under eat.
Speaker 2:Like between sessions eating is I find it so hard. Like it's really hard for me to get protein in. It's not fun. But yeah, I guess, like now I just eat. I used to eat well all the time, like I'm not saying I don't have like a cheat meal, for example. Um, like I'll eat pizza or I'll eat if I want to eat something. I guess, um, but I guess also with the training volume, like we're able to do that.
Speaker 1:So it's not something that everybody should do, especially in the states, because the food is just not good yeah right, I know I have another athlete who we've worked with previously and he's like I eat two snickers bars a day. He's like that's not conventional oreos to be fair like are you double? I don't know why people like those double stuffed ones.
Speaker 2:It's good to eat that middle bit.
Speaker 1:You're more about the cookie. I'm more about the cookie. Yeah, have you tried dunking with, like the fork in the middle of it? Oh, what Dunking in what Like milk, oh, I haven't done it, but I've seen it. I haven't done it, but I've seen it and you like, put the fork in, which is nice, I guess like in England we would dip a digestive biscuit in a cup of tea.
Speaker 1:Okay, so grains and water. No, I'm just kidding. Oh man, have you tried those space Oreos? We're going to tangent on Oreos for a second. Have you tried any like the new flavored ones, like there's Sour Patch Kids Oreos?
Speaker 2:And there's sour patch kids, marios and there's like, let's throw out that. No, I'm just like an awful normal, simple. Everything's so complicated here, we just gotta stick to what we like we have one thing, and the one thing's great oh god, there's so many options, so it's mental how have I mean so?
Speaker 1:you're done in San Diego. How long have you lived in the states?
Speaker 2:um, I officially got my visa last February. Um, yeah, thanks, it's good, it's a five-year visa, which is cool, um. But I came out like just before, just after Christmas in 2022, and then like stayed until I had to go back to England to like go to my visa appointment and then I officially moved in February that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Do you like it besides?
Speaker 2:I really like it here, especially in San Diego. Like I, I live now, especially because it's summer, so it's warm, um, but it's a really cool place in San Diego because it's like kind of loads of different vibes across the city yeah um do you go um, do you go back to England like, do you have family back there?
Speaker 1:is it? Is it something?
Speaker 2:I honestly don't really tend to like going back there. It makes me feel like I go back in life. Uh, my sister lives in Australia, in Melbourne, so, like me and my sister are kind of like spread out as well, but my mom and dad live back in England gotcha.
Speaker 1:We won't tell mom and dad what you said. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:Oh, dad won't mind, he knows I've wanted to leave England since I was like six yeah right, well, I'm glad that you you did and you haven't lived in the states for that long. So where, where is your journey kind of taking you? I know in the description, if you anyone read it or any of our listeners saw it. Um, you know that you have played rugby. I mentioned it in the beginning, like, just give me kind of your origin story a little bit yeah, um, I guess like.
Speaker 2:So I grew up in like a small um like country town um called Skipton, which was actually voted the number one place in Yorkshire to live. So Yorkshire is like kind of like a county which is kind of like a county which is kind of like a state here, but much smaller. And then I started, like my dad got me into all sorts of sports as a kid, so I did a lot of athletics, which is track and field here, a lot of like running football, so soccer here, and then I started playing rugby with the boys when I was like 10. And then realized I was pretty good. So then dad started to make me play outside of school, um, so I played outside of school and trained at school, like it was pretty much every day, um, and then I started playing like for a local club it wasn't really local, it was like an hour drive, um. And then my dad made me start training with the women when I was 14. You can actually play with the women until you were 16. But of course dad made me do that, which was fun. And then I started playing for England when I was 17, which was awesome. And then I had oh, I had two, one. I had four operations within like the space of a few years. Yeah, it was pretty brutal.
Speaker 2:And then when I did my ACL, when I was I think I was God, I can't remember how old I was, maybe 20. I then, or 20, no, it was maybe like 22. I was like, oh, I just don't know if I want to go back to it now. And then that's when I started doing CrossFit, um, and then I guess I did my master's and then I hated it because it was the days were so long, um, and then I just ended up getting a job in the Middle East and then I moved to the Middle East. I moved to the Middle East like three days after graduation. It was crazy, wow, yeah. I was like kind of like, I did it. And then I was like, okay, peace out. Later, yeah, dad was like, oh, okay, you're going. I was like yep, oh yeah, was like, oh, okay, you're going. I was like yep, oh yeah. And then I moved out to Abu Dhabi and I think it was 2017.
Speaker 1:Gotcha, so a few years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was there for like five and a half six years, um, and that's when I like started actually doing CrossFit, um. But I was at competition in Kuwait and I disc'd my shoulder in a split jerk. Yeah, it was horrible and no one's like. The paramedics didn't speak English and they were like okay, lift arm. I was like no, don't touch me. And then it was quite severe and I went back to England for an operation, so that put me on a bunch of leaves.
Speaker 1:So you've had quite a few major, major injuries, major surgeries still are really athletic, still are really buff, really good, carry yourself um what have been some of like the mental setbacks with that. I mean, do you still experience pain? Do you work through it? Does you, do you feel like you have to do more things than the average athlete to stay injury free?
Speaker 2:yeah, I guess, like I, when I remember when I first hurt my shoulder and I was I was 17 and it was my first England game um, and it was basically um, like I desiccated it and I remember all I thought about was I don't care what I have to do, I want to get back playing. So I guess, like every injury, I was just I knew what I wanted to do and I knew how to get back there and I I didn't stop until I got back there. The hardest thing was it was like after the operation it's kind of like the time between like not being able to do stuff and then getting to where you need to be like there wasn't a moment where I thought I can't do this. It was just, it was just hard. But every every operation that I've had because I've had five operations it was kind of like every little one had their own individual challenges, but there was never a point where I was like I can't do this.
Speaker 1:I like that so kind of always adopting that growth mindset, not getting stuck in the injury.
Speaker 2:I just think that you can end up just getting so wrapped up in like oh, I can't do this, I can't do that, like, this is so hard, instead of being like appreciating those little things that you can do, and then, when you can do more, you're like oh, this is really cool. Which is like people are just. They just don't really appreciate what you, you can do until it's gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely, and I think like learning that at a young age, having a major injury at a very young age, on a very high school yeah, absolutely. What? What do you like about crossfit? What do you? What does crossfit do for you? How does it fill your cup? I?
Speaker 2:guess, like for me, especially coming from, would be like I love, like I love anything where it's just you've just got to grind and work through, like I love being able to go to a dark place and like stay there, like I like hurting yeah, have like that high tolerance for or threshold for a painting be able to sit in it, right, yeah?
Speaker 2:for sure. Like I love just going to a dark place and being there. I don't mind the higher skill stuff. It's not like I really struggle with it. But if I was to choose anything, I would choose something that was just pure fitness.
Speaker 1:That was hard yeah, so then let me ask you why do you choose team over individual or individual over team? What have your experiences been with that and why? Which one do you like more?
Speaker 2:like um, individual type stuff. When I had my last shoulder operation, getting back into it was really hard, like it took me years, because I had basically something called a latter j, which is called a bony block, so basically you can kind of see the scar, kind of they basically screw a bone into the front of your shoulder. So it took me a long time to get back like high-end, like gymnastics and like, say, for example, let's say, chest bars. I don't struggle with them anymore, but it's like the range of movement that a normal person will have is comes through the bar whereas I drop because I just don't have that range of movement. And I struggled with like handstand walks for such a long time, um, and I guess like I just wasn't going to be competitive in in those higher end skills for such a long time like I could keep up on anything where it's like, say, like um, there was an open workout quite a few years ago that had like rowing and warbles.
Speaker 2:It was like 19 19 and I think I came like 18th or 20th or something like that in the world. So something like that I can always keep up on. But I guess, like the other stuff, it was like oh yikes. But I guess since moving to um the us, everything's kind of like I've got so much better at those things so I wouldn't mind, like maybe next year or the year after, seeing just where I line up in the field in Europe. Europe is just so competitive to compete in because I would have to compete over there because of my citizenship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you'd have to go back for the season.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, which would still be really cool to do. I guess, like team as well is just fun, especially when you have a good group of people that all want to put out for that same goal right and I think that's kind of the essence of CrossFit too is like that shared suffering.
Speaker 1:You know the person and it's always like.
Speaker 2:I guess when you do go it's always like. It's always like that kind of max effort type work for a lot of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, being on a team, is there a tough team dynamic at times. I mean you have four different, five different personalities, you have coach, you have times everyone's straining you're pushing. I mean, I think can you explain to kind of the everyday athlete or everyday consumer of cross or people who go to class what is that like, what have been some struggles of being on a team and how do you navigate those?
Speaker 2:I guess, yeah, like you said, like it is like different personalities and obviously it is hard to always be around different personalities and just know how to manage people as well. Um, which is which is interesting and um, but it it is good at the end of the day, especially if everyone does like each other. I was on a team last year with one of my best friends, lalo, and he's like, he's great, but like we would bicker, like like we were brother and sister.
Speaker 2:So everyone was like, oh my god, you two are just always at each other's throat and we're like, no, no, we're having a great time like go harder, shut up yeah, he was funny, but I guess like say, if you get burnt out, like obviously Lalo and I, for example, like if we got burnt out, like we didn't want to show anyone else that, but like obviously we would be able to take our frustration out on each other, which wasn't like a bad thing, but that was just able to like, I guess, like get out of our emotions, for example.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. Being at Invictus, I feel like, is a very unique opportunity that a lot of people will never experience. Can you shed some light on what it's like to be in an environment focus on training with so many good athletes, people who were strangers, who became family? Talk to me about just like the uniqueness of being at Invictus and why you choose to be there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, honestly, invictus is great, Like there's a great group of us, like there's such good athletes. So, obviously, because you are in that competitive environment every single day, like you, you naturally get so much better because there's no way you can really hide, like and as much as. Obviously sometimes we don't always want to go as hard, but you're always competing, even if you're, even if you're like no, I'm not today, you still are. But it's great because, like you said, like it does end up becoming a family and just like the owners and like the owner's parents, karen, like they look after us so well and I'm so very grateful to be able to be in that environment every day. I honestly, especially from someone coming like from the outside and then coming in, it's like, wow, it's just really great.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. What do you do for post-workout recovery? Are you an ice bathroom? Are you a sauna person? Are you a let's go sit on the beach? Are you big?
Speaker 2:let's go sit on the beach, but it doesn't always make me feel better. Um, I do try and sauna um. Right now it's pretty hot, so I have? Um. I just got a? Um an ice bath from true grit, and they're really good because they're portable. Um, so I do use that as well, which is nice that's really cool, so it's portable yeah, it's portable, so you could like, basically, like you could take it anywhere, you just need to be able to have a plug to plug it in, that's really cool, you just fill it up, um, and then it chills it because it's got chiller with it yeah, have you been.
Speaker 1:Uh, triggers down in san diego right yeah, it's up um by um.
Speaker 2:It's like north of san diego. I've been up there, it's nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cool facility. Who is it Todd? No?
Speaker 2:Anyways, it's got a really cool facility in there. They have a gym there. They actually just kitted out the San Diego Police Gym.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's really cool. It's a build out there. Yeah, do you have any pets?
Speaker 2:Pets Not right now. Now my dad does back home. It was really sad, though, because I had a dog growing up called Harry, and we named him after Harry Potter because he had a scar on his forehead, and he died last year before no, not last year, the year before and before I went home to see him. It was was really sad, oh.
Speaker 1:I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay, I'm just crying, but there are only no pets here. I just don't like by myself. I just don't really have the commitment to go to the water right now.
Speaker 1:What is what's on the horizon for, like summer? How do you stay competitive through the year? Do you mainly just train? Do you hop into little competitions, big ones? Are you doing water polo, I guess?
Speaker 2:like, honestly, last year after games I was like I was so burnt out. I was like I just like, because game training is so fun but it is hard. So after that I like literally just chilled out. I didn't do. I don't think I did anything until the open um, which is also another blessing to disguise this year, because I'm gonna do north cal in september and then I think I might do try and do, uh, dubai fitness champs, so I can go back to dubai for some of the winter. Oh, and I was thinking of doing down under as well, because then I could go see my sister too. So I'll probably try and do two or three off-season comps before next year, so that would be quite good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's the beauty of CrossFit too, is it makes the world so small?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's crazy actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's a big purse prize this year at NorCal, which is really cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because last year, like I didn't even really know about it until some of the girls went up and did it. So then I was like, oh, I'll do it this year, that'll be fun. And I would also really like to like drive the West Coast, so I might actually drive up like sometime before the competition, compete and compete, and then like take my time going back yeah, that'd be really fun.
Speaker 1:Just go down the coast, go to san francisco, go see some more waterfalls that you have to hike down to.
Speaker 1:I know, there are some pretty cool ones here though yeah, there's a um, that one, I think it's in a cove that, like the tide comes in and you can only go when the tide goes out. Oh, I don't know, I'll have to send, I'll send you an email. I don't know the name, but, um, yeah, I had a lot of friends who went to school down in San Diego and, uh, one of them that's where she got proposed to was that little waterfall. So I'll have to find it. But talk about training. Talk about, like, let's talk about training people. Like, what do you wish people knew? What are the biggest things that people come to you for? Like, how do you?
Speaker 2:let's just start there um, I think obviously, like a lot of people tend to, in terms of like actual training, what they want to know is more just like actual, like technique things. Like obviously people don't necessarily aren't always body aware.
Speaker 2:I guess as such. So that's something that is quite hard to teach, but the good thing is like, if people are actually coachable which a lot of people are that I've worked with like they can pick things up so fast, which is pretty much perfect. It's like when cause I've taught kids as well. It's like if you teach a child something from a young age, they'll pick it up so fast, and that's why it's so important to do that from an age, cause when they are older, it is so much harder to save them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. What's kind of the average age of um client that you have?
Speaker 2:Um, I guess, like a lot of them are like some of the older ladies that I guess they're in um, they're like mid-40s people that come to class honestly range from like 21 to 50 55 yeah, so it literally depends on who comes, but here everyone most people in san diego, it's like actually which is very stereotypical of me but, um, a lot of americans in some places are slightly overweight, but a lot of people here are really fit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I think that changes, especially being like a beach culture. Right, yeah, don't have clothes on all the time. Yes, right, um, do you find that that does present a challenge? In the opposite side of the spectrum, though, like where people are so concerned about the way that they look that they're not willing to maybe follow like their plan as much, or tweak it or under eat. I mean, um, not really.
Speaker 2:I haven't really experienced that, but I guess like I can see where you're coming from with it. Um, the only thing that I find with females is like we tend to completely be like oh my god, if I eat too much, like I'm gonna put on weight, and it's like everyone thinks that more is is better, like I, I have to do this conditioning today.
Speaker 1:I have to do that and I'm like well no, like you're just over training and you're under reading, right now, yeah, that's a big one, especially with the like hey, I need you to stop going for walks.
Speaker 2:I need you to say that like yeah, okay, I'll just walk for three hours. I'm like, why people I guess, like you know as well um, you've frozen. I can hear you, you're good. Okay perfect, I guess. Like you know, like well, I used to do it with one of my best friends, actually, where we had a Garmin watch and we'd always see who could get the most steps a day. But now I'm like, well, yikes, I don't really want to get a lot of steps.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, well, and it's kind of like the thing you had mentioned about the protein right where it's like hard to eat, where just sometimes it's like hard to stop or hard to, I don't know, it's just hard to do all the things.
Speaker 2:I think everyone just ends up being like they're constantly in fight or flight every day, like that, like you don't, you're not very good at actually slowing down?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would agree with that. I have issues to be fair as well.
Speaker 2:Have you experienced overtraining, not necessarily overtraining. Well, like we obviously follow like a program from Invictus, so like the guy that coaches, like he's really good at programming, so it's not as such overtraining. It's just I like doing fitness so I tend to always make sure it's in, but I have got better at this offseason so far, like I've just stopped doing all the strength stuff and like the extra cardio pieces have just missed out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with injuries. Do you find that you notice you're overtraining with the way that your body feels or the way that your aesthetic changes or the way that your performance dips, or do you notice it until it's like kind of too late?
Speaker 2:I think obviously from playing sport a lot of my life, like you, kind of know how your body feels, especially like like, say, my ACL knee. Sometimes that flares up. I've done a lot of work on that the last few years, so it used to like my, because it would like be more my cough. So like my coughs would really flare up when my, when I'd run, so my knee would get swollen. But it hasn't done that in a while now. So, like, as long as you, as long as your training volume is, is like comfortable for you and you do, you like your little rehab, things like rehab, then things down top I think for the general population though that's also another problem is like no one does any rehab work. So it's like people will come in my knees and I'm like well, have you ever stretched your hip flexors? And they're like oh no, I'm like okay it's difficult.
Speaker 1:And it's difficult because a lot of times I mean it's boring. Yeah, it's boring, and like I tell people to stretch in the shower, like you're already in the shower, you're already warm, you know what I mean. Like take your seat yes, scrub your feet. I don't know like. I think a lot of people don't like to do that type of effort, but they also don't want to be injured, you know the one thing for me is like I try and be like you know when you're sat on that sofa.
Speaker 2:Why don't you, just before you sit down, just do put your leg up on that and sit in a couch stretch for a couple of minutes, and then you can lay down yeah, yeah, absolutely I, we, I had a uh huh, oh I said sorry. Everyone has the sorry, everyone has the time. It's just we're not very good at prioritizing.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, and in the United States too, like we're such a bandaid society, you know, like like, fix it when it breaks, don't do anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, I guess, like being British, our type of culture is like you know, we just suck it um, suck it open and we just get on with it. Sorry, You're okay.
Speaker 1:It is different and it is a different mentality. I think living to like in a more active area there's more opportunity for it. You know, there's not as much in a rural community. There's not like 800 spin classes and 400 CrossFit gyms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Sure, I guess like things are very accessible here what do you think makes you different as a coach, like, why should someone sign up for your app to train with you, as compared to, maybe, another app or another coach?
Speaker 2:I think, like, obviously, like I generally care about people and also like I'm very um, like I'm very unique as an individual, like I'm very energetic, like I'll always be happy to help someone, I think, like, a lot of times, people people that obviously work with individuals don't actually tend to care. They care more about, like the money they're making, or like they care more about the outcome, not about, like, the process of it so the way go ahead, oh no sorry, what were you gonna say?
Speaker 1:that's good. So with being a client, like, do you do custom programming, do you do templates? Like give me, give me the whole scoop. Or like if somebody's listening, like, man, she's super cool, she knows a bunch of stuff, I want to work with her. What could someone expect to get?
Speaker 2:um, I tend to do like one-on-one stuff with people online, Like if they want something a little bit more personalized, like I just started with working with a girl from a month ago that does tactical games the shooting side. That's not me.
Speaker 1:But she obviously has someone to do that with.
Speaker 2:But then like, obviously, all the training side, like we've just done a little bit more specific for her and especially because she's been working around a few injuries, um, and then the app stuff. There's like, um, three different programs that someone can follow. So there's like a body weight, like a dumbbells only and kettlebells, and then like a full program and that like follows in monthly blocks. So it's all very like versatile for people and there's a lot of options I like that a lot.
Speaker 1:It's pretty cool. Where do people find the app?
Speaker 2:um, I'm actually in the process of putting on android and that it's only on apples at the moment, which is kind of sucks, because everyone here actually a lot of people don't have apples here really you got a bunch of bubble people that mess me, like I don't have an iphone, I'm like whoa, it's the 21st century. Like what are we doing?
Speaker 1:your bubbles are green, we can't be friends. So they can download it from your instagram.
Speaker 2:They can get it from the app store android and then it's on a website as well, so that's quite cool. It's been good, it's been a fun journey how long have you been at social media?
Speaker 1:I guess I'll say like, how long have you been working on that? I mean, you have 400, something thousand followers, right? Where did you start? Do you like it? Is it hard? Do you love it? Is it something?
Speaker 2:um, it was mostly when I moved to the Middle East. Um, it was random. That was like a photo of me and one of the girls, and then that just kind of went viral and and then I just kind of like I kind of like talking well, actually I love talking, um and then it just kind of grew. Really, it's been pretty cool, though I did start doing YouTube as well, back with my ex-boyfriend actually, and I do really want to get back into that and do a little bit more like vlogging style stuff, because that's pretty cool. But I like the social media stuff. It's fun, it's different as well, like I guess, like I'm not really like it, I'm not really like a normal individual like I. I would never be able to do like an average person okay, not an average person, but like a daily, like you know, nine to five thing like I. I have ADHD, so I'm pretty much all over all the time, um, so it works out really well for me yeah, what do you like to share on, like the vlogs, like what do you?
Speaker 2:I kind of just want to show people a little bit more like like life stuff really, because, especially like, say, with ADHD, like it's like kind of like a thing that is very common for people, but not many people actually really talk about it and everyone's just like, oh she's annoying, she talks so much, oh she's rude.
Speaker 2:She interrupts and I'm like, well, no, it's actually a thing how have you good, um, I was just gonna say, like my friends, like a pretty good understanding, like obviously with ADHD, like if you're, if someone's talking about something, I will naturally be like oh my god, I something's come to my head and it comes out. And then some people are like wow, she's really rude. But my friends are like no, she just has to say it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you kind of like go to the beat of your own drum, right yeah exactly, and it's just good to show people that it is normal and it's fine and you can live with things and like it doesn't mean that you're a weirdo or whatever.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it's better to be different. Yeah, I agree, and I think you are different. You know, it was fun because I, before you know the podcast, I was like hey, guys, like it's fun to ask people who know the guests that I'm gonna have this whole friends right. And then it's fun to also have people who don't know of the guests that I'm gonna have and I'm like what would you ask her? What do you, what would you want to know about him? What would you if you could sit down with them for five minutes? You know, what do you want to take away from that? And it's fun because a lot of the people that I showed was like this is my guest. Here's you know kind of a synopsis on what she does, how she does it, and they're like well, she's cool because she's not just like a normal girl, she's not just fit, she's not just like. You can tell her personality through her page. You can tell that she does more things, you can tell there's more to her, but I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's obviously the problem with social media to a certain degree is like people are so fake on that and it's kind of like um, like there's so many like like you know, like obviously when you share a story, like people can put a filter on it, sometimes like I'll be messing around and I'll put one on my face. I'm like whoa, like girl, you look totally different. Why would you even want to put that on there? Like I just think it's so important to just like always just be yourself yeah, I would agree and like kind of share some of those vulnerabilities, right yeah, 100 do you feel like, with the recognition and following you have built, you have refrained from sharing some of those real life things?
Speaker 2:Do you still refame the search? Obviously, there's some things that obviously are a little bit more personal that obviously I'll only share. If it's something like like, say, like relationship stuff, I would only share that, obviously. If it is something that is you know, long, long-term type, vibe or like, obviously I'm trying to think of another example. I'm pretty open, though, to be fair. Um, I actually share most things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I mean, it's good that way. Right, yeah, what have been like? Uh, this is kind of a weird question, but like, have you had any negative experiences with social media? I mean?
Speaker 2:honestly not that much. Like I guess like sometimes some people put it on and like they'll always talk about like my boobs being small, so it's stupid. Um, but yeah, I'm like, I, yeah, it's like oh cool, but I guess, like honestly it's, it's never really bothered me, like I got bullied as a kid, so I guess, like if someone says something to me now I always just I just laugh more, but honestly people haven't really been meaning to me, which is nice, good, let's keep it that way.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I keep waving my little tape thing here in the air. Oh, I was playing with a dog we have a resident dog around here for one of our friends that works in the office and I was playing like tug of war and instead of going for the little thing, yeah, so we don't have any band-aids. If somebody wants to gift swolverine a first aid kit for the hq, our address is no, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2:Um, we really don't you guys call it band-aids. Honestly, we call it. What do you call it?
Speaker 1:wait what a plaster.
Speaker 2:A plaster, yeah, why? Um, I don't know, there's not like a cast. Uh, I guess, yeah, like you have it, but we would call that a cast. We wouldn't call that a pasta, we would just call like say, you put one on, like you would call it pasta.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna start saying it. People are gonna be like what is wrong with you?
Speaker 2:thing here is obviously like we do say, like I say different things and everyone here is like wow.
Speaker 1:I had. I remember last year we had James Newberry on the show and he was like, yeah, the potty, I can't wait to go do the potty as well.
Speaker 2:Different things everyone's like.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I feel like you need to go to the bathroom before we do the show and he's like no, the party, we're gonna be on it together. And I'm like what the hell is happening? Sorry, I don't understand. Yeah, sorry, my typical like California, what like?
Speaker 2:yeah, oh my gosh, it's like they're really like Cali girl accent.
Speaker 1:I know it's bad, I grew up. No, it's not bad. It just kind of gets annoying sometimes, especially if there's like a bunch of us girls around each other and they're like it's like shut up yeah, if I'm around, like some of my friends, I'm back home.
Speaker 1:I'll sound very, very english, which isn't the nicest oh my gosh, who have been some of your favorite people to compete with. I know you've competed against a lot of people, with a lot of people, especially being in Dubai, maybe with Miss Jamie she's such a sweetheart oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, she's really great.
Speaker 1:I'm like, can we just go drink? She calls them pints, so I'll say pints. I'm like, can we just go drink beer? Oh yeah, that's what we call them in england, pints. But who have been some of your?
Speaker 2:favorite people to compete with or that you've been able to connect with and become friends with. I guess one of my favorites is one of my best friends who lives in dubai called carmen bosmans. Um, she went to the games for belgium gosh, what year was that, um? But she's probably my honestly my favorite person I've competed with. Yeah, why she's so great. We did um, we did DFC as a team. God, this was like years ago and like I was like I'm not gonna be the strongest at snatching with my shoulders. Um, I just get through. But obviously now I'm better, but back then it was really bad. I remember we were in the warm-up and the warm-ups I find that are quite intimidating and obviously every girl's going out there to show who's boss. So everyone already had, like I don't know, like 245s on each side and I was like, oh, I'm not gonna about to go straight there. So boss was like, just take it off, all right, it's fine. I was like, oh, I'm not gonna about to go straight there. So boss was like just take it off.
Speaker 2:Lauren it's fine. I was like, no, I'm not gonna about to do it. She so she walks over. She's like strong, she's intimidating, she takes it off. Anyway, I do that, do another one and I fail it and I'm like, oh my god, I'll just do it when we get out there. She's like Lauren, you're not gonna about to do it. And I was's fine, it's fine. We go out there and I think I did five. I think I did five reps. It was, I don't know, like 155 or 165. And then she comes over and she just like, smashed up 15 reps. This is why we're together. This is why this works. Yeah, it was so good. Gosh. Yeah, she's probably honestly the best person I've met through um CrossFit. Have met a lot of good people, especially being out here in the states as well you've competed at the Dubai fitness championships right yeah, I can't remember what year that must have been now yeah, did you do once or did you go back?
Speaker 2:I've only done it once. I wish I went back last year, I guess, like um, I got invited but it was like last minute and it I was like, oh, it's like too far to go to go right now. Um, but I think I'm definitely gonna try and go this year. That'll be really fun, especially like I can see my friends and like like I have a lot, I know a lot of people out there, and just also to compete. That would be really fun do you?
Speaker 1:why did you choose invictus like what is it?
Speaker 2:uh, it's a funny story. It wasn't really like a choosing thing of invictus. Uh, there was a guy that I that lives in San Diego, um, and then I came out to see him and then, uh, josh was at the gym in in Invictus and I was like, oh hey, can I come and train? I didn't even realize it was like an athlete group, I just thought it was just like how I trained in like Abu Dhabi and there's everyone trained at the same time. Anyway, I went, I was like, oh, this is really cool, and then I just kind of kept going and then, yeah, it was like I just didn't realize. And then I was like, oh, this is really cool, and then I just kind of kept going and then, yeah, it was like I just didn't realize, and then it was like really awesome, and everyone there was like, oh, she's good, so like she can dream of us, and then we just kind of kept it and I just kind of kept trying to go back.
Speaker 1:Her snatch sucks, but she can stay with us.
Speaker 2:But she's fine. But she can stay with us. But she's fine, she's good at. She's good at burpees, good on the bike. She can move fast. This is good.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was funny what do you think makes like the programming at Invictus or the coaching specifically unique? Um, I mean, what do you like about it? What I mean you know because you hear about the different like core training groups or core apps and things like that and like some are more you're just getting hammered all the time. You know other ones have more gymnastic sets and more endurance based Like. Do you feel like the programming is unique to the skill sets that you have and that's kind of why you like it, or is it? Do you have preferences? Or why would somebody go with Invictus training over like some other group?
Speaker 2:I think that Invictus is really good on, honestly, just because it's it's very community-based. Um, our coach is good because he obviously, like he programs for those guys and it's kind of like, tries to get in a little bit of everything for everyone and then obviously we can add in the extra things as well with him that we specifically need. But it's good because, like, he's at pretty much all our training sessions. That's awesome. The fact that we can have an in-person coach is just unbelievable, and then it's like it's also just like then having the coach and the environment is just great that's really wonderful.
Speaker 1:Why do you think that Invictus has been able to create so many teams, so many athletes? Um, just kind of like having been a part of it, having seen it from the outside, do you have an opinion on that like is?
Speaker 2:it like honestly, it's just like we do have a welcoming environment there, um, and and everyone is pretty competitive. Um, like last year we had three teams that went to the games. Um, like we could have had four this year, which would have been dope.
Speaker 1:It's okay, it's gonna be, but I just think like we got really looked after that's awesome and that's unique too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's honestly so unique, like I said, like coming from the outside and it's. I'm just like oh wow, like oh my gosh, thank you. Like I'm like oh sorry, thanks, this is great, um, and it's, I am very appreciative of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, can we talk about confidence? Have you huh I? Said okay, sure I know, I know it's a hard one, right Like, kind of like, where does it come from? I mean, you're notable, people know you. You're aesthetic, you go out on a competitive floor, you're a coach. What type of advice do you have for people, for body confidence, for life confidence, for training?
Speaker 2:I think, like honestly, like one of my best friends is like, wow, Lauren, I've never heard someone pick themselves up so much. And I guess for me, like I don't know, I mean it more in a jokey way a lot of the time. But I guess, like as a kid, like I got, I got bullied really bad. Like I had like a monobrow and like people would like make fun of like my skin, they would make fun of, like the hair on my arms. They like they would make fun because like my body looked different to other girls.
Speaker 2:And I remember I would always be like, oh, like I didn't like it and I would always try and change things. And then when I started playing rugby, I was just like, well, why, like I'm, I'm good at this, like my, my body's made to be able to do things like this, like it's cool. And then, as I got older, I just I guess I also aged better than I was when I was younger, which is thank God. But I just was like, well, it's good to be yourself and it's good to be able to enjoy yourself. And if you can't be your own number one fan, then why would anybody like want to be in like you like.
Speaker 1:It's so important to like be nice to yourself because, at the end of the day, your inside head thoughts are all you're gonna hear yeah, like you're negative on yourself, you're only gonna feel worse well, and the other thing too is like the things that we say to ourselves we would never say to somebody else.
Speaker 2:No, right. So I like, if I do, I like I got my hair braided. I was like, wow, my hair looks great and it's like little things. I just think it's so easy to be so hard on ourselves but at the end of the day, like, like I said, like you only have your inside headphones, so it's just about trying to be more positive with yourself and then that will then, in turn, make you more in positive environment. Confidence is like something that I used to really struggle with. I remember in like my reports from primary school. They were like she's really intelligent but lacks confidence. Every teacher would say this um, my mom was like, I don't understand that. I'm like.
Speaker 1:And then one day I just kind of was, oh fuck it yeah, you kind of just like chuck it in the fuck it, fuck it and be done with it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think also, I guess, like I, because I started playing rugby with the women from such a young age, I was exposed to that, and then I moved countries. I like I went to and worked in New York as well at university. So, like, like I ended up just like doing all these cool things as well where, like you, have to be confident to get through it. But I'm not gonna lie, like I do talk to myself, but sometimes I'm like okay, cool, let's go last.
Speaker 2:Okay, this is fine, we're fine. And I'm just like someone will be like what are you doing? But I'm like okay, cool, let's go. Okay, this is fine, we're fine. And I'm just like someone will be like what are you doing? But I'm like oh, it's got to pick yourself up to get through.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. There's this kind of there's a joke about like business owners and they're like no, like, no, I'm not talking to myself, I'm having a meeting with myself. Like it's gonna, I'm just managing myself right now. Right, you have to be your biggest fan too, because nobody's gonna know what you're saying or what you're feeling. And if you can address that and be like look, like I know you're scared right now. I know you're nervous, I know you're late for the podcast right now, you know, to be fair, I did ask someone down in San Diego. I was like do you have any questions? I can ask her. And he's like no, but she'll probably be late for the podcast. And I was like do I dare? Do I dare? Do you hear that bus? I'm about to throw him under it.
Speaker 2:I'm always late, though, and that's how my friends would end up telling me 50 minutes before I'm on time it's okay, I'm always late too, and I think I definitely, that's really funny it.
Speaker 1:I don't know. You'll have to ask around. Who said I'm going to be late?
Speaker 2:I'll tell them, it's all right.
Speaker 1:My business partner was like make sure your camera works. And I was like oh, I got this. And then you know yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, but always like always just little things, just to you know, just keep your tip toes.
Speaker 1:exactly what advice do you have for someone who is starting to get into training or wants to look like you but doesn't look like you? What advice would you like to give them about building strength and having respect for themselves and for their appreciation for the journey along the way?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, like you, just you kind of can't give up, you always just have to keep going, even when you like don't really see any progress. Like people will start doing something and then they're like two days later or a week later I don't see any change. I'm like, well, obviously you're not going to. It takes years, like you just have to be able to enjoy the process and just honestly, just suck it up and never give up with it, because it does get hard and it doesn't get easier. Even when you get better, it still gets harder. But that's the beauty of it, I guess exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know it's kind of the fun part right there where you keep going and, like we had mentioned, I had mentioned earlier having you have a really good growth mindset. You're always willing to grow and adapt, and grow and adapt, and when we do that we can look at health and fitness as a continuum rather than just a pay to be or a to abs or a to show, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a hundred percent. Like. I always use my dad as a good example, because dad's 67 he hates me telling people his age, um, and dad like is probably one of the fittest he's been in his life. And it's kind of like when people like they'll use things as excuses, like every little thing is is an excuse or a barrier, and I'm like well, no, like, you can still do things, no matter what. It's just you have to be willing to find a way and you, you have to be able to find that enjoyment, otherwise what's the point in doing it? That's why people give up in things, because they're literally like bored, or they don't know what they're doing, or they just are like and there's like. No, there's no like drive there, which also is like it's hard, because that isn't something that you can teach someone. That's something that they either have or they don't. So I guess when people don't have it, they need to be able to put themselves in that environment that you know can provide them with that motivation to be able to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. And kind of going back to the bullying thing, you know, a lot of times in the nutrition side of what we do, you know it like well, who taught you that right? Who said that to you? Why do you does this? Is something that you genuinely believe about your ability, in your body, or, you know, did someone just tell you you have long hair on your arm and then all of a sudden, you believed it for 42?
Speaker 2:years. It's so stupid, isn't it like people just can say so much silly things and then people just believe it. Some of the things on a separate note on nutrition that I heard in the Middle East was just like okay. They were like you can't ever eat bread and I was like, oh, why did she? Well, here bread's different, but back home I would eat like eight slices of bread a day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's culturally right, like cultural differences and like belief systems about what works and what doesn't work and why you know yeah, I accidentally booked uh, this is tangent, but I accidentally booked an airbnb.
Speaker 1:We thought it was in vancouver, it was like an hour outside of vancouver and um, it ended up being the fam, the women who own the house um, it was like an hour outside of Vancouver and um, it ended up being the fam, the women who own the house Um, it was her parents came to be there while we were there, right, and which was a whole weird situation in itself. But they were like, yeah, like cause this is right in a room, and but they were, I mean, I want to say Vietnamese, but they didn't know any English in their older generation, right, and they got across like well, what, when you're leaving in the morning, we're like really early. You know, they woke up at 3 am, started making bread, made like this whole like generational spread of breakfast and like sat there and we had oh my gosh, what are those? Centennial eggs? No, century eggs. Have you ever had a century?
Speaker 2:egg. Uh, no, what is?
Speaker 1:that it is a fermented duck egg that is like black I don't know I don't.
Speaker 1:I honestly haven't looked in it. But yeah, the next podcast we will sit and eat century eggs. Century eggs, got it, century eggs. I wish I could put one up on the screen. I need a media manager, somebody be my media manager. But anyways, what I'm getting at is that it's interesting when we have different cultural experiences and have different foods, and then it's like how we adopt, um, the way that we eat things. Right, like no grains, and you're like I'm an athlete, I need bread, I need carbs, and they're like no, you don't, you'll be fine, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, I just think like a lot of people end up reading something or getting told something from one person and and then they're like, oh god, I can't do this. But also people forget that people's bodies are different. Like some people can digest gluten, well some people can't like.
Speaker 1:Different people work different, differently with different food groups what is a general amount of food that you eat in a day?
Speaker 2:uh, I don't really know in terms of calories. I guess like I'll always have like a big breakfast, then I'll have like a shake after training like I'll always force myself to do that and have like a smoothie, and then I'll eat lunch, probably a snack. Mid-afternoon I'll always eat a big dinner. I've actually, for the last two weeks, eaten a Caesar salad every night.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was firing. Do you put like a chicken on it?
Speaker 2:No, I've just had that as like on the side of my dinner. Like last night I had two burgers and a bread bun with cucumber and ketchup and then a Caesar salad on the side, and then I had some oats.
Speaker 1:after it was a bun with a side of hamburger and a salad. Well, like the bread bun.
Speaker 2:I remember the first time when I met the guy I'm seeing, it was like it kind of like. I was like I always made oats with protein and then put it in the fridge and I'm like in like the night before or whatever, and I'd be like, do you want some oats? And he was like why would I want some oats?
Speaker 2:And I just had oats with almond milk and vanilla protein. I was like, oh my gosh, this tastes like amazing. I think that's half the battle with people, though, is like, especially being here, like you're so used to like having things sweeter, that like, when you taste something that isn't, you're like that's so wrong and it's like what's it's not um, and I guess like you do have to kind of teach yourself as well that like things do taste good, because they are as well you also have to like.
Speaker 1:Your palate can change as you reduce sugars and salts. Right. Like as you right, because there's a flavoring agent. So if you have less flavor, that's added to it and you can actually taste it like. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a big thing in europe is actually not putting dressing on salad greens um yeah, like I'm not really like.
Speaker 2:I'm not a sauce type of person, I'm not like dressing, I'm not really anything like that. Here. I feel like people can't have anything without anything on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're like I can't have anything without ranch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess I do have, I could eat anything. I eat food because I have to eat more than enjoyment, to be fair. But I'm like, oh my goodness, it's crazy. But an interesting fact is there's over half of the preservatives that are in the States are banned in Europe.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like even from the supplement side getting cow. Yeah, that's why it's so good, because it's so clean. Oh, you like it, I'm glad.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, thank goodness, and everyone is like, like you know, like people, obviously they have such a sweet tooth from things because of adding sugar and everything that they're like. Well, it doesn't taste nice. Well, not necessarily about his whole brain, but, like on, anything like that doesn't taste nice. I'm like you're not supposed to have something with that much sugar or salt in it yeah, like that's an interesting one.
Speaker 1:Is like people's taste preferences, I mean, and people have said it I mean, even with the isolate they're like it's not sweet enough and I'm like, what do you usually use? And they're like fruity pebble protein and I'm like, oh no, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like already I maybe add some cereal to it, I don't know um, but yeah, that's an interesting thing is, in a lot of times too, like people choose supplements initially just based off of what they taste like, and then they realize like, oh, these don't actually do yeah, like I can imagine, like obviously the general population tend to not have enough protein, so then you'll tell people to add like a protein shake in, and then they're like, oh, it wasn't this good and I'm like, well it does, but you could also make it taste nicer. You could make it into a smoothie and add a little bit of peanut butter perfect.
Speaker 1:I'm a big smoothie person, then I was just gonna say do you have like a specific like smoothie recipe like your go-to?
Speaker 2:I'll put the vanilla milkshake, one in, and then I'll have frozen blueberries, a scoop of peanut butter, those like um, low sugar sachets of, like brown sugar oat thing, what is it? You know like oatmeal packet, yeah, like the oatmeal packets, uh, one of those in, and then some almond, uh milk, and then water and ice. Oh, that sounds good, it's perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some of these are the jam. They really are um. What other supplements do you take?
Speaker 2:um, I'm a big fan, like I love pre-workouts. I'm a big pre-workout person, but I have way too much caffeine, so I really like the non-stim pre-workout and the intro workout stuff yeah, so do you like?
Speaker 1:the huh. What do we gonna say? Sorry, I was gonna say do you like the tropical blast or the cherry frost? Intro, cherry, cherry frost, do you just drink it with water?
Speaker 2:yeah, just water and ice. Um, I'm a big like I start taking because I'm really bad at taking like dailies as well. So the gummies for me are perfect. Yeah, the apple cider vinegar ones I do those every day. The vitamin c and then how do you say that?
Speaker 1:Close.
Speaker 2:Ashwagandha. I don't take those every day, so that's good.
Speaker 1:No, it's good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the sleep stuff just came back in stock, so I want to try that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so the DMT will come back in.
Speaker 2:So it's not. We had like a weird I. And then it is saying like I know I was like. I don't know why that happened.
Speaker 1:Our IT team is definitely on that one, but I got it. Yeah, I got a couple of those this morning. That's a very unique product in the way that it just helps us sleep, also just overall hormone function right, cause at night we need to recover, we need to bring those cortisol levels down. Yeah, so really unique there, and it's amazing how many people have been able to benefit from it and like watching.
Speaker 2:I'm really excited to try that because, honestly, my sleep's not particularly the greatest thing in my life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and when we launched it about a year and a half ago, we had a group of the athletes who had whoops to monitor. Now, like when they have it, their rem sleep and watching that um rem increase, which is really nice, so I think that you will be able to watch that too. Are you worried your accent will ever go away?
Speaker 2:no, no, but some of my american uh, well, actually none of my american friends say that my accent's any different. But my english friends are like warren, you don't even have your accent anymore. I do, uh I'm like I also haven't lived in england for what, like I don't even know seven years now, yeah, it's been a minute for sure yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:When I went back home, though, I'm like like Yorkshire is like a Yorkshire accent, I can't even do, but it's like very, very, very strong really. Yeah, like, and it's so prominent, I'm like yikes, I don't want to sound like that everyone back home. We love you, but like a London accent, but also that's like, I've never like I've never lived there, so I would never sound like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah but it's funny, I'm ranking to like every time, everywhere I go somewhere, I'm like you don't know, so we're like oh, my god, do you? Have an accent and I'm like yeah, me and my friends are like we're gonna just start saying different places she's from. Isn't that so weird?
Speaker 1:she's from Nashville, isn't that so weird. She's from Tennessee.
Speaker 2:Everyone's going to be like. I'm from Nashville.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I think, some cute cowgirl boots I don't know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'd be fun.
Speaker 1:Well, I really appreciate you hopping on here with me and our guests today. If you have been listening, if you've been watching, thank you for your time. Make sure to follow Lauren on Instagram. It's L O Z S T A L L W O O D two Don't forget the two and um, so make sure to go follow her on Instagram. Check out her app, check out our training If you're looking for that one-on-one aspect with a really awesome woman who knows her P's and Q's when it comes to fitness and life and confidence, she can help you there. And make sure to check out her YouTube channel when she starts it Right.
Speaker 2:Is it already up? Yeah, I did it years ago. I I have wanted to do it, I just haven't.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So we're all going to go flood the comments of her Instagram and tell her to do it. Someone commented the other day. Rumor has it she's still on that assault bike because she's not commented in three days. I was like that was good.
Speaker 1:Yep, exactly, she's still there, everyone. She's still alive, but yeah, so thank you for your time. Yeah, yeah, thank you so much for having me. Absolutely, and make sure to subscribe to the soul friends podcast. We go live every week with wonderful guests and our soul friends like miss lauren, and so we're on apple podcast, spotify and youtube. Check out the swolverian blog for all your things fitness, nutrition and supplements and we will catch you guys next time. Thanks, lauren, see you later.