Joys of J (ep.23)
Been awhile.…but we’re back with ep.23 to provide some entertainment while you sit in the poll lines 😉.
Here’s our girl giving all the vibes to start us off!
🏋️ What Company Has My Attention
A little bias here but recently started a new gig working as the head of creator acquisition and people operations for a fitness technology company called Playbook. Two fully loaded roles = just the recipe to keep Jekka’s ADD at bay.
In a pre-covid era, we all waltzed into our favorite studios with our favorite instructors as a complete sanctuary and place of release. A (sweat) church for many of us..
What so little of us knew was the tiny amount of $ these amazing instructors were taking home after each class. After all, these trainers were passionate about something so much bigger than $ and that was being a vessel to carry all of us down a mood boosting environment with bomb beats and stellar sequences. However, talk to any of these trainers and you’ll learn that they prepped at minimum 4 hours to give you that 45 min dopamine hit!
Playbook puts a reoccurring digital subscription business into the pockets of trainers all over the world across all modalities. Equipping them with a two sided app technology to not only create and upload all their content but to then easily distribute their content (training, merch, lifestyle tutorials, nutrition guides, etc) in one place.
Giving them the opportunity to grow and impact beyond the confines of a four walled studio and bring a recurring take home check that can actually sustain their life.
We have over 150+ premium creators on the app.
To highlight one in particular, Devon Levesque who recently completed the NYC marathon… on his hands and legs.
Yes, he bear crawled 26.2 miles in the rain for all of 22 hours to raise money for the FitOps Foundation- a nonprofit founded in 2016 by Matt Hesse that helps veterans build fitness careers as personal trainers, coaches, etc. His goal of $200,000 would help 66 veterans through the foundation’s programming.
Humans can seriously do ANYTHING.
🌿 What Product I Love
For those on the go as much as I, turn all your showers into a spa instantly with this guy.. (Thanks Dee!)
Other options..
Get some eucalyptus oil and a spray bottle of water. Combine and voila!
OR if you’re feeling like going au natural…
🎙️ What Podcast Episode Has Got Me Thinking
Jay Shetty ft. Dr. Joe Dispenza on: How to Chemically Teach Your body to Focus on Healing
Joe Dispenza’s brain is one of my favorites to adventure into and if you haven’t rode the ride inside this very brain this episode is a great place to start.
Highlighting a few quotes that jumped out at me…
“If you think that your thoughts have something to do with your future and you think 60-70k thoughts a day and 90 percent of those thoughts are the same thought as the day before. Those same thoughts lead to the same choices, the same choices lead to the same behaviors, the same behaviors create the exact same experiences...”
“How we think how we act and how we feel is our personality. Our personality creates our personal reality called our life. If you want to create a new life you have to change your personality. Which means we have to begin to look at the emotions that we live by everyday that keep us connected to the past and decide do these emotions belong in our future.”
“You keep thinking the same way, making the same choices, demonstrating the same habits, creating the same experiences that stamp the same networks of neurons into the same patterns all for the familiar feeling called you and you do that for 10 years on end and you hardwire your identity.”
“We are 95% running the same program all day, we need to do the work to become disentangled from the usual programming and usually it’s that discomfort, that lack of predictability, that unknown is what people are afraid of. They’d rather live in guilt at least they can predict than take a chance on possibility.”
“Thoughts are the vocabulary of your brain. Feelings are the vocabulary of your body.”
🎬 What Video Made Me Smile.. Real Big
💬 What Quote Has My Attention
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
🎶 What Song I’m Moving To
Special shoutout to #BFE for this one.
Playcount: Had to stop counting.
OH and also… about to drop a serious treasure trove of beats on all of your ears…Thank me later.
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