Good as Gold's
Good as Gold's
Breaking barriers and changing your inner dialogue with NBA Figure Athlete Champion & Coach Mariah Jean Fit
Bodybuilding Champion, Qualified Accredited SNA Sports Nutritionist and Founder / Head Coach at Mariah Jean Fit - Mariah joins us on the Good as Gold's Podcast.
Mariah is an NBA Figure athlete and comp prep coach who is breaking the stereotype and leading the way for women in coaching by showing what female coaches are capable of.
After avoiding her passion for so long, she chats to us about:
- Overcoming self-limiting beliefs
- The stigma around being a bodybuilder
- How to change your inner dialogue
- Overcoming the setback of an injury
- Advice on how to overcome gym anxiety
- Importance of being intentional and training with intention
Find Mariah on Instagram here: @mariahjeanfit
Want to get in touch? Reach out to the Gold's Gym Australia team on socials @goldsgymau or via email: feedback@goldsgym.com.au
04:06:29:07 - 04:06:30:16
Emily
Welcome, Mariah.
04:06:30:17 - 04:06:54:07
Mariah
How are you? I'm well. I'm happy. I've just come back from a little holiday. I'm. Yeah, busy. Yeah, it's becoming a little tricky. Where did you go? I went to Byron. I know the stereotypical white girl holiday. I went to Byron with my partner and we actually went out to a glamping style hut at the middle of nowhere.
04:06:54:21 - 04:07:05:05
Emily
So nice. It's like Byron. Although barring, like, gets this wrap of, you know, it just being, like, the classic, you know, just literally, like, so influenced me, but it's got.
04:07:05:05 - 04:07:07:01
Callum
The goods around it. It's just the ram.
04:07:07:08 - 04:07:08:16
Mariah
Yeah. Cool thing.
04:07:08:18 - 04:07:11:07
Callum
Did you feel like you're feeling relaxed, though? Yeah.
04:07:11:17 - 04:07:35:01
Mariah
I popped the cherry. I'd never been there before, so I think it was really. I know. I was like everyone, like, you haven't been to Beirut. I just. I really enjoyed it. We kind of backed onto this some cattle farm, which was interesting. This reminded me of my childhood. So, yeah, it was good. It was really relaxing and I preempted the idea that there would be no technology available for my clients and myself.
04:07:35:08 - 04:07:44:21
Mariah
Yes. And it was like going back in time. It was. Yeah. The era of of not being connected at the hip to your phone, so. Yeah. Yeah.
04:07:45:01 - 04:07:58:03
Emily
It definitely doesn't happen enough, does it? Like, we just don't get off that phone. I've actually lately have been putting like a timer on my, like, Instagram of Facebook, Facebook and like all my socials. I'm like, so you know what? You get a limit, Emily, every single day. And that's it.
04:07:58:03 - 04:07:58:17
Mariah
Switch off.
04:07:58:24 - 04:08:00:02
Emily
It's just so quiet.
04:08:00:15 - 04:08:09:03
Callum
Okay, so you've just got back from a nice little relaxation. Tell the people who you are, what you do, I would love to deep dove into it.
04:08:09:22 - 04:08:35:00
Mariah
Well, I'm Coach Mariah or Mariah Jean. My my company is called Mariah Jean Fit. I'm an online coach. I'm fully online, so I didn't do any sessions. I couldn't think of anything worse. I don't want to go back into the world. I love you guys. I love gyms. It's just I think being interwoven and mesh too enmeshed with my business at the gym and also online is just too much.
04:08:35:00 - 04:09:06:23
Mariah
So, yeah, Yes. Fully online. Fully booked. I'm NBA figure, pro athlete, double pro. So I went pro late last year. I prepped myself into my shows. Wow, I'm batshit crazy and I'm a competition prep coach myself. I coach every day athletes, sports, nutritionist, qualified, certified insured and currently studying my diploma of performance sports nutrition with IPN. So in English, like UK provider.
04:09:09:00 - 04:09:23:01
Mariah
It's some heavy stuff, but I'm like a science geek, actually addict when it comes to this type of thing. So yeah, and obviously qualified and said three and four. But yeah, that's kind of something I got is the formalities I suppose for train on. Yeah.
04:09:23:23 - 04:09:27:06
Emily
Wow. Well, there's this quite a list, sir. It's in that, that is.
04:09:27:17 - 04:09:32:17
Mariah
Yeah. I imagine putting that in your bio like it's not.
04:09:33:15 - 04:09:36:12
Callum
You should just say like trust me. Yeah, I know what I'm doing.
04:09:36:19 - 04:09:39:19
Mariah
Just take my word or not. Yeah. Oh my.
04:09:39:19 - 04:09:47:02
Emily
God. So run me through kind of like you and be a double pro bodybuilder.
04:09:47:11 - 04:09:47:19
Mariah
Yes.
04:09:47:19 - 04:09:50:04
Emily
What does that even look like?
04:09:50:06 - 04:10:20:11
Mariah
Yeah, well, it's a natural bodybuilding title and it's a national title, and, well, there's two of them, so it's figure international and figure. And people get confused when I say figure international because I think it's an international championship like title, but it's just analogy for kind of the equivalent to Olympia figure in the I just do the symmetry rounds and it's the most coveted, I think, female bodybuilding category in Olympia.
04:10:20:20 - 04:10:47:14
Mariah
Yeah, obviously I'm a natty, so I don't I don't use any substances. I'm, oh, my God, I'm as clean as it gets. I don't smoke, I don't drink. I would kind of liken it to you know, like being an Olympian in the sense that I don't like to interrupt my training or anything with any sort of, you know, exterior influence I'm very stubborn, so and yes, I've being natural.
04:10:47:14 - 04:11:06:12
Mariah
You get tested. Obviously, there's a lot in the industry to say for testing criteria across a lot of different federations, whether or not they do actually test their athletes. And the one thing I love about NBA is that they do they actually the first thing you do when you come off stage after that win, you don't get to take photos and do all the fun stuff with family.
04:11:06:12 - 04:11:12:23
Mariah
You have to go and pee in a cockpit. So I have a video of me, not the actual thing, but like the up with.
04:11:13:05 - 04:11:16:02
Callum
The process and that's what needs that.
04:11:16:02 - 04:11:20:19
Mariah
Like, I think it would really gross if I actually filmed myself peeing in a cup and then put that on the Internet.
04:11:21:15 - 04:11:23:23
Emily
It's real I'm I would do it honestly.
04:11:24:22 - 04:11:25:05
Mariah
Yeah.
04:11:26:13 - 04:11:35:15
Callum
And that's what keeps that integrity in the sport. Right? Is that the fact that 100% like you've put in the hard work and there's nothing that is a to you extra.
04:11:35:23 - 04:12:08:01
Mariah
Yeah no there's like there's even some pre workouts that were not allowed to take like leading into the shows as well because that can flag is like you know almost like the same substances found in cocaine and the like so and look honestly some of those pre workouts do feel like you're taking cocaine so yeah yeah you know I'm but yeah that's and then they randomly test you throughout the year so I've kind of like once you get your pro status to be able to hold that so you get it ripped off you basically if you do test positive for any of the illicit substances.
04:12:09:16 - 04:12:32:03
Mariah
So they're really strict on it. I've kind of challenged the president we're quite close to just test me whenever he wants to. Yeah. So I'm ready for it and yeah, that's, that's pretty much what it entails. So it's not a super glamorous lifestyle or anything like that. Like I don't get paid. I think when I go and eventually want to do pro shows overseas, that's where you'll see a lot of, you know, prize money in that kind of thing.
04:12:32:22 - 04:12:48:08
Mariah
But through the COVID era, that was where I was actually training. And, you know, even like my prep, there was multiple lockdowns so if there was any a time to test my resilience as a natural athlete, it was then. Yeah.
04:12:49:03 - 04:13:13:03
Callum
Getting the I sorry, I've just got a bit of a to it, a two part question about you having like double pro and especially going over COVID and everything you becoming a bodybuilder did, did you get in it to like, I don't want to say win it, but did you get into the competition to get your pro status or you just purely in it for the sport, but you love the physique style, style of things.
04:13:13:12 - 04:13:42:22
Mariah
Combination and both because obviously I competed before in 2019 I started, I actually started competing for the first time after seven years of training. So I'm a bit backwards I, I guess I just didn't want to when I was younger like 20, 21 22. I was bodybuilding obviously ten years ago and it wasn't popular like I was in a small country town and it was just like people thought I was the weirdest person for bodybuilding as a female, let alone at all.
04:13:42:22 - 04:14:15:06
Mariah
You know, in that town it was, it was kind of more normalized to be like obese and to just, you know, eat trash and watch the footy. Yeah. So I kind of, I suppose back then when I was around like 23, 24, a lot of people were seeing what I was doing with myself and I had a lot of external influence and push to compete and I still didn't, I chose not to, I just, I think back then I probably wasn't mentally stable enough to make those choices and to go into that, that area and I avoided it for years.
04:14:15:06 - 04:14:29:09
Mariah
I didn't want to be a bodybuilder. Yeah, there was I was just I think there was this divide in my mind where I was like, no, I'm intelligent and I'm, you know, I'm educated and yes. Yeah, there's like no way that I that I will be doing bodybuilding shows. Like, oh.
04:14:29:19 - 04:14:37:20
Emily
It's like the stigma. But behind like being a bodybuilder and like exactly what you just said, you're like, I'm not going to be that like.
04:14:37:20 - 04:14:57:03
Mariah
I'm not that I didn't want to be lumped in with the meat heads, I think. And all the, you know, the cardio bunnies. It was for me, I had a very strict upbringing I came from a really humble background. We were God. We were broke growing up, but I really worked my ass off in my academia to try.
04:14:57:03 - 04:15:21:02
Mariah
And you know, prove myself, I guess, to my family and myself that I was that I was worthy. And I think getting to my early twenties, I wanted to be something that was far above and beyond the physique. And I never I avoided it for so long. I avoided it. I avoided my passion for so long because I was worried about the way that people would perceive me as a woman and as, you know, my level of intelligence and everything like that.
04:15:21:02 - 04:15:46:03
Mariah
I was like, No, I've got more on the inside. Yeah, I guess that's part of why I actually ended up getting into coaching. But yeah, I started in 20, 19, my first show after seven years. A bit of attention there. Yeah, and I actually went in, interestingly enough, like most people will compete these days and I'll be following their competitors, their fellow competitors, and they'll be like, you know, tracking their brain about who they're going to be up against and everything like that.
04:15:46:03 - 04:16:04:13
Mariah
And I was so oblivious, you know, I'm that girl who's in a race and I'm just, I don't even look behind me or beside me. I don't it's not that I'm overconfident. I just don't care. I don't care who's in the race. Yeah, yeah. I'm, I've always been super determined and I work autonomously all the time since I was a kid.
04:16:04:13 - 04:16:30:24
Mariah
Like, I've studied alone. I've done everything alone, but not lonely. And it was a really enjoyable experience. To prep after I had been deterred from competing from, like, a previous ex partner who had competed himself. Yeah. So he was very much like, I can, but you're not allowed to. And which was kind of toxic. And I guess it was like he said to me, like it was a very attention seeking sport.
04:16:30:24 - 04:16:51:03
Mariah
And in the like and it didn't really add up to me that, you know, he was allowed to take his shirt off in public. But you know why I like where are these double standards coming from? So I think after that all blew up really badly. There was a lot of pretty tumultuous stuff that happened over the seven years of the relationship.
04:16:52:08 - 04:17:14:15
Mariah
I just went, fuck it, you know, it's my turn. I get to choose what I want to do with my life. You're no longer dictating to me what I do, and you cannot control me anymore. And so my revenge wasn't, you know, going on a rampage and or anything like that. It was just competing so I competed and I, I won.
04:17:14:15 - 04:17:25:13
Mariah
I won the classic thing, a state title. And that's my sword here. My beautiful useless. Oh, yeah, I see that. Yeah, I see massive looks pretty.
04:17:25:15 - 04:17:27:03
Callum
Get it out for you.
04:17:27:18 - 04:17:47:06
Mariah
So that does soccer good. Looks like I know you got a sword for winning. Yeah, I got a sword. And it's, um. It's really cool. Scott Snakes on it. Yeah, it's really rad. Whenever we have, like, male friends come over, they always, like, pick the sword up here, like, can I play with it?
04:17:48:16 - 04:17:54:20
Emily
It's like, you know, you think about winning, and you get a trophy, but it's, like, not over here.
04:17:54:20 - 04:18:05:20
Mariah
But, yeah, it's not only it's a funny story, actually. With that, with the trophy is that I'm a hello. I'm having a little we've got a little chat screen.
04:18:05:20 - 04:18:06:22
Emily
This is so good.
04:18:08:10 - 04:18:39:14
Mariah
To see here. So the sword was interesting. Because obviously prepping for me, you know, I wasn't looking at my competitors. I was just doing my thing. I was so happy to just compete. And on the day when I got handed the and Sierra wants to talk to me. This is a great podcast sorry. Oh yeah. We're getting all of the live action on the day when they announced my name, even for the novice win because I won my novice division first.
04:18:39:14 - 04:19:01:02
Mariah
Obviously it was just that moment. Like I honestly, genuinely was like, what? Me? Well, and I just cried. I'm not a crier. I'm not an emotional person. I'm really tough and really resilient, and I just lost my ship. So that was fun. And then I think that was my like that was the moment where I was like, Oh, I'm good at this, you know?
04:19:01:14 - 04:19:16:16
Mariah
Oh, my goodness. And because I've been used to someone putting me down for so long, and telling me that, you know, you'll never you're never going to do the things that you said you're going to do, and you shouldn't do that. You shouldn't do this. I guess it was that moment where I was just like, yeah, well, fuck you.
04:19:16:16 - 04:19:38:22
Mariah
Like, I'm going to suck it. Yeah, this is this is my life. And I do get to win and I do get to succeed and own it. Yeah, and honestly, when I won the overall, that was also very unexpected. You know, it was like, oh, wow. Like, I was happy with my novice win. Yep, yep. And he and the president of Iceland, because that was the first iteration I kind of got into.
04:19:39:07 - 04:19:56:17
Mariah
He handed me the sword, and I actually thought it was just for the photo. And so I handed it back he's like, No, that's yours. That's in the video is like, this is yours. I'm quite well and followed.
04:19:57:12 - 04:19:58:19
Callum
I got to do this in my.
04:19:58:19 - 04:20:05:06
Emily
House. That is so cool. And you just said that you coached yourself.
04:20:05:07 - 04:20:20:10
Mariah
Yeah. Oh, for my next. Yeah, so I did another like I did another prep because I was to poke to do it to do nationals, which I qualified for. Yeah, I just one of them was one of those girls is like not bugging you. I'm just going to, you know, not do nationals. I did prep the second season.
04:20:20:10 - 04:20:41:23
Mariah
I did back to back season and season and season, babe. I took the piss out of my season. Bay Prep. I honestly was like ten weeks out of LA. I lost like seven kilos in ten weeks or something like that. Like I only just came in in time and I went to Nationals and I won the Australian Novice Classic thing, a title for Australia.
04:20:42:06 - 04:20:59:22
Mariah
So I've got in middle there somewhere and that was, that was cool. Like I was not expecting to get the overall because I didn't put my heart and soul into it. Like I was eating cookies on show day and just whatever. I just didn't care. So I think because I just didn't really have I guess a desire to win the Australian title at that stage.
04:21:01:01 - 04:21:21:15
Mariah
And then I took years off, obviously went through the whole COVID situation. I you know, actually kept my business through the whole thing. Online was thriving. I did Pete Sessions in the park for a dollar a minute. Like I just that one of those types of people who couldn't sit still. Yeah. I also didn't want to be a person who was wallowing in my sorrows while lockdown happened.
04:21:22:03 - 04:21:40:19
Mariah
I wanted to be like a ray of sunshine for people who were really struggling. And I managed to do that. There were people who were like their mental health was declining so strongly and all through lockdown, I'd get up at 5 a.m. and go to my local park and freeze my butt off to do kettlebell swings with the people who just needed to talk.
04:21:41:00 - 04:21:47:14
Mariah
I just really just wanted to get out of the house and talk. And because it was legal to do that, I was like, but, you know, I'm not breaking the law. Like, Yeah.
04:21:47:20 - 04:21:48:10
Emily
Let's do it.
04:21:48:24 - 04:22:08:08
Mariah
Wouldn't take government payments or anything like that. I just refused to not only not let my business die, but also not abandoned anybody, you know, in that process. So that was a lot of fun. I actually really enjoyed lockdown because it was just like getting creative and being imaginative with what I could do. And from my upbringing, that's what I was taught to do.
04:22:08:08 - 04:22:29:21
Mariah
We just I was taught to just figure out how to make myself happy from nothing. So I didn't actually struggle in lockdown at all. But then through that, you know, I was training and I got a back injury actually where she really stuffed my own 405 from kettlebells. Yeah. And it was I couldn't even bend over to pick anything up.
04:22:29:21 - 04:22:50:23
Mariah
It was just agonizing. And there's some immune condition I've got I've got enough to keep me in condition, and it riddles me whenever I get an injury or when I'm stressed. So I was I couldn't get out of bed. At one point it was that bad. And I remember thinking to myself, like, you've competed before. You've made it through these, these really tough times before.
04:22:50:23 - 04:23:10:05
Mariah
You can do this again, you can you can come back from this so I came back from a back injury. I rehabbed it myself. I did go to a physio for one or two sessions, figured out what was wrong, and then off off I went and I couldn't even stiff like I couldn't even do seven kilo dumbbell stuff like deadlifts, like it was just, you know, horrendous.
04:23:10:14 - 04:23:37:21
Mariah
No. And I worked my way up. I'm now doing 40 sevens. So like, you know, the injury was 21 20, I think. And so I just went, I'm going to build this back up again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I guess like fast forward to come I'm super fussy and obviously when you're a coach yourself, if you're looking for a coach specifically to when men don't intimidate me, I don't find them intimidating.
04:23:37:21 - 04:23:55:09
Mariah
I don't find them, I find them to be equals. And when I can find an intellectual equal in a male, especially as a coach or, you know, somebody who's a colleague, etc., it's wonderful. And especially if there's that mutual respect between the two of us, they're not trying to come over the top of me and vice versa. I'm very strong minded.
04:23:55:09 - 04:24:19:11
Mariah
So you know, you try and get into a debate with me and you will lose. But it's it's I like to have that really constructive conversation between you know, I think that a coaching experience is a partnership. I don't think it's about coming over the top of people at all. Yeah. So I was going to go back to my previous coach, basically he just said to me, Look, I think you can do this yourself.
04:24:20:06 - 04:24:38:01
Mariah
He is like, right, you don't need me. Like, even halfway through most of our two done together, you called the shots. I was just there for you. And I was like, oh, shit, should I do this? And I just kind of did. I think I got eight weeks into my prep. I was just prepping and I didn't announce it.
04:24:38:01 - 04:25:02:16
Mariah
I wasn't like, I'm in prep. You know, I she was a case. I'm sorry. My cat is very meaty. Yes, I do. I guess, like, I was like, I've got eight weeks into prep, and I, I didn't tell anyone until I was probably like ten weeks deep. Nine, ten weeks deep. Yeah. Yeah. Walking up to one of the opposing sessions and another coach was like, I didn't know you were in prep.
04:25:02:20 - 04:25:31:10
Mariah
And I said, like, why do I need to tell everybody, you know? And yeah, I decided that prepping myself would be the perfect example of executing my own work and, you know, reach my own protocol. Kind of also proving that you didn't have to do excessive amounts of cardio, but you didn't have to be on the stupid fish and beans meal plan like I was eating what I wanted in prep but fit my macros I was training six days a week, 10,000 steps.
04:25:31:10 - 04:25:57:11
Mariah
The entire prep never changed. Didn't you increase my steps throughout the entire prep? And I kept it really simple and I got down to, I think, 7.5% body fat. And yeah, so that's something that was both skins and pinches. My legs carry a load of fluid because of this immune condition, so it doesn't take me long for them to fill up on show day, which kind of sucks, but yeah.
04:25:57:11 - 04:26:12:20
Mariah
And then that was it really. I think people ask me what it was like prepping myself, whether it was harder, and I would say that it was the single most challenging experience I've ever had, but also the single most rewarding experience.
04:26:13:01 - 04:26:13:22
Emily
Absolutely.
04:26:14:12 - 04:26:18:03
Mariah
You know, it was I discovered who I was without everybody else.
04:26:18:10 - 04:26:21:09
Callum
Yeah. And that's why you have the sword to slay.
04:26:21:11 - 04:26:23:09
Mariah
Literally to.
04:26:23:09 - 04:26:25:00
Emily
Slay those comments. Yes.
04:26:25:09 - 04:26:26:12
Mariah
Yeah. Yeah.
04:26:27:06 - 04:26:52:12
Callum
On, on that. Were you afraid at all like what you were saying that you stepped out and you started doing coaching and also was like were prepping yourself and like, I can imagine that can be hard because obviously accountability to have a coach and they checking up on you, doing weigh ins and all of that. We ever like fearful of not pulling through on either of those things, like being a coach, going online and getting out.
04:26:52:12 - 04:27:01:03
Callum
It's a whole face to face stuff and then getting into prepping yourself to that point, you know? Yeah, that's what again, why you got to sort of just stoic. You just like.
04:27:02:01 - 04:27:06:15
Mariah
I mean, like if you knew what I grew up in, I think you would probably understand why and. Yeah.
04:27:07:03 - 04:27:09:12
Emily
Do you mind elaborating on that? Yeah.
04:27:09:15 - 04:27:11:01
Mariah
Like if you in your mind.
04:27:11:01 - 04:27:12:03
Emily
I'd love to know more.
04:27:12:04 - 04:27:13:13
Callum
What made you who you.
04:27:13:15 - 04:27:36:23
Mariah
Were. Well, mostly in prep too. I must make special mention because he must he really does need special mention. My partner, my new partner, which I wouldn't even call new, have been together for two years. I've known him for seven years. We were friends for a very long time. We just both had a massive crush on each other and just never made the move, even though we matched on Tinder and like, we just didn't talk to each other, we're just those stupid people.
04:27:37:07 - 04:27:57:20
Mariah
Anyway, so he we finally got together properly, like, as in like the moment. We hung out like we'd been speaking to each other for like I never hung out, just spoke to each other and what we got together and and that was it. Like, from the day we hung out, we'd been together ever since, and he was my rock throughout prep.
04:27:57:20 - 04:28:17:23
Mariah
He would help me with my meal prep he would at the end of the day, because I was sedentary, obviously on my laptop all day getting my steps in. We play a game where I'd run around the room and, like, give him a high five to get my steps in. And, you know, it was, he was he would go for late night walks with me in the middle of winter, you know, so he was my rock.
04:28:17:23 - 04:28:37:24
Mariah
He was the closest thing I had to a coach. Yeah. You didn't get to decide my protocol. But he was that person who kept me going when I was weak, when I was like and I'm talking like physically weak. Just really struggling to get out of bed, that type of stuff. Yeah. So I have to admit, I was never worried.
04:28:38:12 - 04:28:57:14
Mariah
I even think without him, I wouldn't have been concerned. But because I will obviously expand on why and how I end up so resilient slash stoic, I suppose you could call it. And so my upbringing, I love my parents to pieces both of them. They're not together anymore. Obviously, they split when I was quite young. So that was kind of the start of all of it.
04:28:59:14 - 04:29:21:09
Mariah
Very different people that come from obviously my dad's like 72, my mum, 60 something. So in our generation, I guess growing up, my father was a computer programmer. It still is. You can imagine he started computer programing before I was born, so 12 years before I was born. And so it wasn't even a thing back then. It was kind of like being a magician.
04:29:21:21 - 04:29:47:23
Mariah
So it was very difficult to get work. It was really hard to get work because computers just weren't, you know, so we didn't, we didn't come from a like this amazing upbringing where there was money all the time. In fact, I just wasn't yeah, I didn't get roll ups. I didn't get all the nice treats that kids get and all this nice memories you have of a kid where it's like, you know, I got an Xbox, I got a PlayStation, I got a new bike that not that didn't happen to me.
04:29:48:03 - 04:30:01:09
Mariah
You know, I wore my brother's hand-me-down clothing. I was happy. Like, sure, I was happy, but I, I got FOMO a lot, you know, I was like, what have I, what does everyone else have it? I don't.
04:30:01:20 - 04:30:02:04
Callum
Yeah.
04:30:02:15 - 04:30:25:09
Mariah
We there were a few houses we lived in. It was one that we had that didn't have a front door for a while. And when the black and white TV blew up, we just didn't get a new one. Couldn't afford it. I slept on a futon in the loungeroom for a long time because I didn't have my own bedroom we ended up getting bunk beds at one point as well.
04:30:25:09 - 04:30:43:21
Mariah
And that was pretty good because obviously, like, my brother and I could sleep in the same room in bed, you know, like whatever. But I was the youngest in my family as well. And there was like altogether there's five kids. So across the board it's all split families and there's like step kids and half sisters. And I was the pretty one.
04:30:43:21 - 04:31:05:24
Mariah
Like, I was the only one that not saying that my, my siblings aren't good looking, the I was the black sheep in that I was always really happy and just super bubbly. Yeah. Everyone else was pretty antisocial and and I came from and I'm bringing which was I guess kind of like you work your ass off for everything and nobody hands anything to you basically.
04:31:05:24 - 04:31:24:05
Mariah
Yeah. Yeah. You know, I didn't get given pocket money just because I would get given maybe five boys to record the leaves in the backyard up. And then I would also have to go and buy our milk that we needed out of that five boys walk, you know, a couple of days up the road to get the milk and come back and everything like that.
04:31:24:05 - 04:31:47:23
Mariah
So things like walking to school and catching to our busses to school and everything like that, because I got bullied really badly in primary school. So I had a disease that rotted my teeth away, my baby teeth, and yeah, imagine being a kid with like completely brown rotten teeth and people just didn't want to sit with me and they didn't want to be friends with me like I was a loner.
04:31:48:12 - 04:32:19:08
Mariah
Yeah. I had one or two good friends that were were there for me, but it got too much. I used to get kicked like things are thrown at me. Like I went to a very rough state school. So it was out in the middle of nowhere. ROSEDALE It's like literally the tiniest population, and I just knew as a little girl, they had to be more they just had to be more than what I was experiencing, even though I was content, they had to be more than than that.
04:32:19:08 - 04:32:36:00
Mariah
So I was the dreamer of the family. I was the one that when they said, What do you want to be when you grow up? I said, I want to be famous. Yeah, I'm not famous. I think it's definitely taken a big turn from that original dream. But I said I wanted to be a model or singer or an actor or not.
04:32:36:16 - 04:33:04:10
Mariah
And my family thought I was ridiculous. You know, my stepfather was an ex police officer. So you can imagine that type of style of upbringing. My mother she was a teacher at my school and she was studying full time, so she wasn't around very much. So, yeah, I think going going through all of that, and not to mention a few things that happened to me as a child, but really nothing within my immediate family.
04:33:04:10 - 04:33:29:22
Mariah
But obviously, you know, that just really distorted my view of what a safe life was like. Yeah. And I didn't feel safe for most of my childhood because of that. So yeah, that was I guess. And then going straight from that into I worked in a nightclub at the local nightclub when I was 15 and I got my first job at 14 and six months because obviously being not well-off, we needed more money.
04:33:29:22 - 04:33:57:05
Mariah
So that was my job to contribute to my what I wanted. I also got an academic scholarship at age. I think it was 12 or sorry. Yeah, 12 to continue to go to a private school. Yeah, so I was like because I wanted to get out of this being bullied, right? So, you know, it's the scholarship test and I tested in the top one percentile of social science, science math and English in Australia, and that was an aptitude test.
04:33:57:05 - 04:34:16:00
Mariah
So if you were to test a child at that age, it was a given that that would be a forever thing. So it was a bit of a, I guess in a way because I found a safe place in the library as a child because I was bullied so badly. It was like this is my happy place, this is where I go.
04:34:16:00 - 04:34:40:03
Mariah
And I loved reading and I loved writing. So to me, interestingly enough, even though I was bullied so badly that I guess I didn't get to have as much of that social life, I made something else of it and ended up you know, getting myself out of that with, well, my knowledge and my passion for learning. So yeah.
04:34:40:11 - 04:35:10:14
Mariah
And after that, we had worked at the night club when I was 15. It was rough. I saw people being cut open, like with, you know, bottles and glass and vomiting all over themselves and, you know, right. Like there wasn't anything I hadn't seen as a 15 year old. Yeah, well and across the period of from age 15 to 20 and even actually more recently, last year I lost around seven, seven friends to suicide, an accidental death in our age group.
04:35:11:06 - 04:35:35:16
Mariah
17 massive. Yeah. And one of them was my ex-partner who I was still very close friends with. One of them was my best mate that was behind the bar with me for three years, my best male friend. It was rough on our whole social work echo and we, we actually got the job together so we were trained up together and we actually left pretty much within the same week of each other on the job as well.
04:35:35:16 - 04:35:59:20
Mariah
So there was a lot and then getting into the DV relationship at 20 and and that was being kicked, punched, thrown down the stairs, cheated on hundreds of times to the point where I got to when I first competed and thought no one can take anything else from me now, you know, and not possibly take more from me.
04:35:59:20 - 04:36:22:22
Mariah
If you tried yeah. So yeah, I guess that I guess it's funny because you look at bodybuilders and you think like on the outside they're just these lumps of muscle, but there's intricate details in their story and their life and what led them. So that's, that's actually a snapshot of. Yeah, and they might lose money.
04:36:22:23 - 04:36:23:10
Callum
Wow.
04:36:23:18 - 04:36:47:17
Mariah
So what do you say when you say, are you afraid? I mean, there's. Yeah, you know, more afraid of of course, the the immune condition I've got as well. I was on chemotherapy for at age 16. Now it's a chemotherapy drug. It's the only thing that can treat PSA so I went through three bouts of chemotherapy and I dipped out of that because that was that was when my life turned around.
04:36:47:18 - 04:36:59:02
Mariah
I realized I've got to do something else that isn't, you know, it's not chemo, it's exercise, nutrition. I went behind my doctor's back and I haven't I haven't looked back since then.
04:37:00:23 - 04:37:17:07
Emily
That's your powerhouse. You actually are amazing. I actually want to ask you, what is like the biggest piece of advice you could give someone who is like ready to pretty much, like, take a hold of that, like their life and actually just be like, alright, Phuket, like, let's go.
04:37:17:11 - 04:37:17:20
Callum
Yeah.
04:37:19:11 - 04:37:51:02
Mariah
I think the biggest piece of advice would probably be really relevant. The most recent podcast I did actually about self-limiting beliefs and changing your in a dialog before you do anything else. Mm. Because I don't think I think that when I hit rock bottom at 20, 20 years old, when I was diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia and I had two suicide attempts within the space of a year, like as resilient as it seems, eventually people try to give up.
04:37:51:02 - 04:38:20:09
Mariah
Right? Yeah. And stuff. And this is, this is definitely known information. So I've got no, no qualms in sharing it again, but I think I had a lot of hope growing up that things would get better and often I would get inside my own head as things just got worse and they spiraled and they snowballed and I felt like the world was against me or I felt like that nobody was there for me or wanted me around and I felt like I couldn't win.
04:38:21:16 - 04:38:45:05
Mariah
And that was all internal. That was all internal. You know, even though these things were happening to me, what I had control over was what was happening inside. And so if someone wants to take control of their life, they absolutely can. This is the crazy thing is like I even look at people who are super successful, even multi-millionaires, you name it.
04:38:46:00 - 04:39:07:10
Mariah
And I said, this in this podcast yesterday, have you ever seen them talk shit about themselves? You know, like they don't do that and they're actually good people to I find that if you talk shit about other people, you mustn't like yourself very much. So I think that getting out of your own head is is a massive part of changing your life.
04:39:07:10 - 04:39:25:10
Mariah
It's knowing that you don't actually have to be brilliant at anything. You don't have to be skilled, you don't have to come from a brilliant upbringing. You don't even have to have the best staff. You just have to staff. You have to start with your internal dialog. So the way you speak to yourself, you've got to catch yourself.
04:39:25:13 - 04:39:40:18
Mariah
You got to smack yourself in the face and say, No, no, I'm not going to I'm not going to say that to myself. Yeah. And to choose that path, I'm the only person who can save me. So I figure that out at 20 that it wasn't no one else could save me but me. Yeah, yeah.
04:39:40:18 - 04:39:56:01
Emily
And I love that. I think that's really actually super powerful. And I feel like a lot of women and men are actually going to take a lot out of that. What you just said that was really, really powerful. Is that why you kind of wanted to get into that online fitness world? Like you start where you were like, Alright, these women need to be taught that.
04:39:56:10 - 04:39:56:22
Mariah
I.
04:39:56:22 - 04:39:59:20
Emily
Am, you know, you are actually fricking powerful. Yeah.
04:40:00:09 - 04:40:24:15
Mariah
Um, yeah, yeah. There are my main motivator for getting into online coaching. Actually, weirdly enough, it wasn't a choice. I was pushed into it, so people started approaching me saying like, you know, what do you eat? What do you like? What do you do for training? Yeah. And to me it was like, No, this is mine. Like, I want to be selfish with this.
04:40:25:00 - 04:40:48:06
Mariah
Yeah, I didn't want to share. I wanted this was my, my happy place. And I think sharing for me meant that. Then I had to tell them my secrets, you know? And then it was like, oh, but and you know, what's interesting is the more I shared, the better I felt. Yeah. The more I told people how to do this, and I told people how to change their lives, the better I felt.
04:40:48:09 - 04:41:15:03
Mariah
And the more that I unraveled that, the more I saw that there was so much happening where people were punishing themselves constantly with food and exercise that where they had a terrible relationship with themselves and with other people and with their exercise in their their their food choices and that they going through my recovery from anorexia and bulimia, I realized that I wasn't the only one, whether I was whether they were anorexic or bulimic, I wasn't the only one struggling.
04:41:15:15 - 04:41:51:03
Mariah
Yeah. And then I actually realized how rewarding it is to help other people and to be the reason or be part of the reason and also not have to take credit all the time for it. Like I've helped, honestly, thousands of people since I started. Yeah. And some people will never have spoken about it. We'll just have going on them along their life and their family dynamic may have changed with their family or, you know, their kids might be eating healthier now or they may have, you know, a few chronic diseases and things like that where people have had a diagnosis of potential cancer.
04:41:51:03 - 04:42:05:24
Mariah
And then it's come good because of the changes in the nutrition, just stuff like that where I'm glad, I'm glad I got pushed into this and I'm glad that people yeah. Almost pressured me into becoming a coach. Yeah.
04:42:06:09 - 04:42:42:14
Callum
I think it's so I mean, like, I love seeing women in like the point of just no, not even influence. But other women were like, yeah, like passionate about helping not just other women, but helping people in general. I'm going to stick in the realm of helping women, though, because, like, I, we're both parties ourselves and being around the industry, being in and out of gyms, I do find a lot of my female clients that are beginning their first struggle is always around anxiety around the gym or like, like you was saying, you like sort of had limited beliefs like, could I do this?
04:42:42:14 - 04:42:56:10
Callum
Could I not do this? Could I be a bodybuilder? Like, what if someone shuts me down like when when someone comes to you? Or like, what's a bit of advice around them? That anxiety around the gym or getting started or like to to put those options like you're talking about you you kind of put yourself in a box.
04:42:56:10 - 04:43:03:23
Callum
You're like, no, I have the ability to move on. Get out of where you get out of the relationship. Get out of the job. Like, Well, Eddie, stop.
04:43:05:03 - 04:43:06:20
Mariah
I have a podcast on this as well.
04:43:09:00 - 04:43:27:14
Mariah
As a podcast. It was actually one of the first ones I did How to Come Overcoming a Gym Anxiety. Yeah. Um, do you? My anxiety is actually in the top five highest anxiety like fears in the world, like, along with fear of sharks and fear of dying. Right. Would you believe there are people? I would. I honestly would.
04:43:27:19 - 04:43:29:13
Callum
Yeah, I mean, going into that space. Yeah.
04:43:29:13 - 04:43:48:18
Mariah
Yeah, for sure. Like, I get it. I think. I think from what I've heard from a lot of people, it's I'm afraid of people judging me that I'm doing the wrong thing. I totally totally I'm intimidated by men. I think that was a really big one. I'm intimidated by men looking at me. I'm timid by just people looking at me in general, whether I'm doing the exercise right.
04:43:49:03 - 04:44:07:01
Mariah
Yeah, I think that the life changing moment before you even step into a gym, before you even think about it being a gym rat, because it's the gym thing that seems to be this massive focal point when you walk into a shopping center, do you give a shit what someone thinks about you when they're walking past, you know?
04:44:07:01 - 04:44:24:09
Mariah
Right. You don't like Buddy Joe when he's kids walking past you not thinking, oh my God, he's judging my outfit or he's judging the way I walk. You know, some people might. Shopping centers are a place of anxiety for me to actually put my headphones in and just you know, design out. Yeah, I hate shopping. Can't stand it.
04:44:24:09 - 04:45:01:05
Mariah
No typical female and I think with gyms is that my top five tips would be that it's not as bad as you think it is. It's never as bad as you think it is. And that's a fact because when we make these irrational thought processes in our mind about this thing and this thing happening, we're actually dramatizing. We're going like if you go from a scale of one to ten, best case scenario, worst case scenario, when we're afraid of something, anything, we always seem to jump to worst case scenario, you know, what you've got to practice in your mind is is this an emotional or illogical thought process?
04:45:02:01 - 04:45:28:17
Mariah
Is this logical or emotional? If you can probably say this is mostly emotional, then I can guarantee you that it's not factual and it will actually not be a worst case scenario situation. So they're separating that emotional slash logical in your mind? It's not actually as bad as what you think it is. And that can often by downplaying it to yourself, that can often soften it just a little bit for you to actually, you know, entertain the idea of walking into a gym.
04:45:29:04 - 04:45:29:12
Callum
Yeah.
04:45:30:02 - 04:45:35:16
Mariah
The next thing is, if you know someone who goes to the gym, go with them. Like, you know, if they offered.
04:45:36:03 - 04:45:37:12
Callum
The gym by the.
04:45:37:16 - 04:45:59:07
Mariah
Body get a gym, buddy. Because I can guarantee anyone who is currently in a gym, anyone I mean, like pretty much anyone in that gym will say, I'm happy to bring anyone with me. Yeah. Help them and to show them a couple of things and just generally to just walk around. My third tip is, you know, rely on the staff there as well.
04:45:59:07 - 04:46:16:09
Mariah
They are heavily they've experienced this time and time again going have a chat with the staff like you would to a shopkeeper and go, hey, I really buy gym anxiety. And then I can guarantee because it's in those top five fears, they will have heard this before. They know it's.
04:46:16:10 - 04:46:17:23
Emily
Like good strategies to coping.
04:46:17:23 - 04:46:18:08
Callum
Mechanisms.
04:46:18:11 - 04:46:36:15
Mariah
Yeah. Get them to give you a tool like they do on the first day of school, like walk around, show you the different pieces of equipment, show you the bathrooms because there is a theory that behind fear, if we have slow exposure, that that is the way to get past the fear. To start small with an introduction of this is where everything is in the gym.
04:46:36:24 - 04:46:54:03
Mariah
So you know that you're familiar. So you don't feel silly when you walk in and you think you go in the girls toilets and you go into the men's show. I've done that recently. I actually went into the men's toilets, a girl gym Stafford and I'm just going to blame they lay out a right. Okay. Yeah. Have to go out yeah.
04:46:55:07 - 04:47:04:11
Mariah
You guys, come on. I'm sick. I know, right? I should I'm going to you know, and by the way, when you get to Gold's Gym in the Sunshine Coast, can you please tell me, like, I'm not a girl.
04:47:04:11 - 04:47:06:09
Emily
You don't know? You'll know for sure.
04:47:06:09 - 04:47:09:04
Mariah
You'll know about it, right? Because it's, you know, I'm waiting.
04:47:09:06 - 04:47:12:16
Emily
I should say we are. We are also.
04:47:12:24 - 04:47:26:21
Mariah
I walked into this this wrong bathroom, but even then, I had a good giggle to myself, came out and some dudes saw me do it, and he's like, oh, you going the wrong way to generate. Yeah, with the wrong way. Yeah. Yeah. You thought it was funny. I thought it was funny. It was a great little. Yeah. Yeah.
04:47:27:00 - 04:47:28:04
Mariah
But they could it yeah.
04:47:28:04 - 04:47:30:12
Emily
They could have been someone that did not find that, you know, it's going.
04:47:30:12 - 04:47:59:10
Mariah
To come from the clock. And then just last time on goal in the toilet, right. So the third thing is like, yeah, yeah. He's going to stay here where it's safe. Yeah. Literally the third thing is, is that everybody and I don't care what you say back to me, everybody is there for the same damn reason. Right? So everybody is there to better themselves, to improve their health, like whatever it looks like, it's.
04:47:59:20 - 04:48:24:06
Mariah
Yeah, right. So if you can imagine all those people you're worried about that you're looking around that, yes, that person might know how to do that exercise. Yes. That person might be jacked, though. Yes. That person might be skinny, whatever you whatever preconceived ideas you have of somebody appearance. I'm above you've met me today. I'm I'm friendly. I'm a bit crazy, but I look the way that I do, but I'm also not a bitch.
04:48:24:06 - 04:48:40:03
Mariah
I'm not going to be nasty to you. And I'm saying preconceived idea that because people look beautiful, they look a certain way that they're all of a sudden better than you. And there's this kind of hierarchy that you make in your mind. Well, I've never been to the gym before and I only walk on the treadmill and I haven't done the weights.
04:48:40:03 - 04:49:01:17
Mariah
And so therefore, I'm nothing Those people all had to start somewhere. They all came to the gym for the first time. At some point, they were all afraid. They have been where you all and therefore, no matter how much fear you have around this, they will understand. They will. And you know what? If they can see that you're a little bit scared you know what's interesting?
04:49:01:17 - 04:49:17:13
Mariah
If you take your headphones out and you ask somebody next to you, hey, can you please help me with this? Most of the time they're going to say yes. If they don't. And I say no that I don't know how to use that. Guess what? You're in the same boat as you, buddy. How cool. Someone I can help you or is in the same boat as you.
04:49:17:13 - 04:49:37:12
Mariah
So the reliability reliability is massive. Yeah. Look at them all as normal human beings instead of beautiful, beautiful people who are snobs, no matter what look they've got on their face. I've got an awful resting bitch face in the gym and and it's not because I'm trying to deter people. I can't see. I'm short sighted. Okay, I can see this.
04:49:38:08 - 04:49:39:04
Callum
I'll say, yeah, yeah.
04:49:39:18 - 04:49:46:24
Emily
My my resting bitch face in the gym. I don't even know if it's resting bitch face, but, like, honestly, it's just like my facials in the gym is.
04:49:47:02 - 04:49:55:08
Callum
All about trying. It's different, like, in the middle of the last set and the drop set aside. I think it is. Yeah. Look, anyone who looks is copying something.
04:49:55:09 - 04:49:59:09
Emily
Yeah. Yeah, they're getting devils. Probably just like I'm looking through you. Not at your.
04:50:00:00 - 04:50:15:19
Mariah
Exactly. It's half the time, too. You've got to think that sometimes that's their way of coping with being in a big, crowded place to escape. I put a wall up in because they're scared to do. You know, it's like when you see a snake, the snakes more scared of you than it is a bit like. Wait, wait, wait.
04:50:15:19 - 04:50:33:06
Mariah
But that thing. Yeah. We got you. We got you. Yeah. That little tongue twister. Yeah. My, my my final tips would be that if you are still a little bit frightened, stopped on the treadmill. Of course, go for a little walk. You walk in that way, yeah. Yeah, for a while. Yes, I did that for months. I did.
04:50:33:18 - 04:50:37:01
Mariah
I love that walk on the treadmill. Looked at the piece of equipment.
04:50:37:12 - 04:50:39:11
Callum
Yeah. Get comfortable with your environment. Right?
04:50:39:15 - 04:50:58:06
Mariah
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I suppose it would be more like six tips. The fifth tip is headphones are your best friend. Okay, put your headphones in. You go to a happy place. When you listen to your favorite music. Yeah, I love it. Don't try and walk into a gym with no headphones listening to the gym music and people's grunting noises.
04:50:58:06 - 04:51:20:12
Mariah
Expecting yourself to get less anxious. You know, if you. I don't like hearing myself. Yeah. So I put headphones in that loud. I can't hear myself. Yeah. And I think to myself, mate, if you don't have headphones on next to me, that's on you. Like you, you volunteered to listen to my, my crazy grunting noises. I don't actually want that noisy that it's I just think of it that you're in your own world.
04:51:20:12 - 04:51:39:08
Mariah
Once the headphones are in, you've got your own tunes. Make sure it's a playlist that you really enjoy and don't make eye contact. Don't feel like you have to make eye contact. Yeah, we like they looking at me, so I've got to look at them more. I'm going to look and make eye contact with every single person. If you ask me who was in the gym yesterday, I wouldn't be able to tell you.
04:51:39:16 - 04:51:58:20
Mariah
Yeah, I don't remember. I don't look at people. I don't look at people. And therefore that makes me less anxious because I don't feel like I have to connect with every single one of them. Yeah, and the other tip I know this is I haven't even followed my five, but I guess I'm at six. I'm going with a structured plan.
04:51:58:20 - 04:52:14:24
Mariah
And if you think to yourself, but I can't afford one or you know, I don't know what to do, that is bullshit. You can't afford one. I have six people training plans on my website. That are gym training programs that you can purchase. Yeah, I may not have the how to, but there is YouTube, there are online coaches who can help you.
04:52:15:05 - 04:52:36:03
Mariah
There are instructors and parties in your gyms for example, who can take you through a program that's been purchased by somebody else. It's not that hard to seek out and invest in knowing and don't be think to yourself, would like anything like riding a bike, reading a book, whatever. There was a stage where you had no idea how to turn a page is a child.
04:52:36:03 - 04:52:47:03
Mariah
There was a stage where you didn't know how to learn how to ride a bike. There's a stage where you didn't even how to make a damn sandwich and you figured that out. Alright, so yeah, you got it. All right, you can do it all a little bit.
04:52:47:18 - 04:52:59:21
Callum
I'm big on play it. I was talking to and before intentionality going into the intentional, having a training program and also then I think you're more focused right? You more zoned in because you like, I know what I'm trying to do of.
04:53:00:01 - 04:53:00:17
Emily
Getting it done.
04:53:01:02 - 04:53:02:06
Callum
Is about it just.
04:53:02:15 - 04:53:04:14
Emily
I love it. I love all of those tips.
04:53:04:20 - 04:53:10:04
Mariah
Yeah. It doesn't create anxiety between the exercises too. Like, what am I going to do next? Then you're sitting there feeling like an absolute numpty.
04:53:10:12 - 04:53:14:13
Callum
Yeah. Because then you describe yourself to go over to the leg pressing like, Dana, you're out, buddy.
04:53:14:23 - 04:53:15:19
Mariah
I got this done.
04:53:15:23 - 04:53:17:10
Callum
Mirai is in all right.
04:53:19:00 - 04:53:28:18
Emily
This is so much fun. It before we go, we normally just play a little, little game. We do five fast questions basically. We just ask you questions.
04:53:28:19 - 04:53:34:22
Mariah
Yeah, you you played this last weekend. We played boardgames in our house with our friends all like I bring in quick.
04:53:35:01 - 04:53:35:22
Callum
Quick fire, quick.
04:53:35:22 - 04:53:39:24
Emily
Fire. We are massive on the game front. So first question is chocolate ice cream?
04:53:40:13 - 04:53:54:00
Mariah
Ice cream. I I'm an ice cream addict. Like, I have a glass of I have a problem. It's like crack for me. Yes. Yeah. Every time my partner wants to get in, my good book is like on ice cream. Oh, damn. Yes, I do.
04:53:54:09 - 04:53:55:15
Callum
Yes. Perk up you like? Yes.
04:53:55:15 - 04:53:58:24
Mariah
Yes, I cut for everyone.
04:53:59:04 - 04:54:04:11
Callum
When you were younger, what did you want it to be? I know you said you want to be famous, but what was the the specific one?
04:54:04:21 - 04:54:07:23
Mariah
A singer love.
04:54:08:10 - 04:54:12:19
Emily
What? You can only do one exercise for the rest of your life. What are you doing.
04:54:13:01 - 04:54:15:24
Mariah
It for us all about? The booty go the birdie.
04:54:16:07 - 04:54:20:05
Callum
Wolfed your friends would describe you in one word. What would that would be?
04:54:20:19 - 04:54:23:02
Mariah
Mad, crazy, psycho, insane.
04:54:26:02 - 04:54:32:23
Mariah
Batshit crazy. That's six words batshit crazy. Look, any sort of any sort of synonym for psychotic.
04:54:33:21 - 04:54:40:04
Emily
I love to say you're my type of girl. Netflix or Disney plus Netflix.
04:54:40:04 - 04:54:44:13
Mariah
I'm so sorry. I'm not a kid's movie person. Please don't hate me. My partner loves lots.
04:54:44:13 - 04:54:47:05
Emily
Actually has some good songs on it.
04:54:47:18 - 04:55:05:11
Mariah
I've never been a Disney person because I was a poor kid. We couldn't afford Disney anything. So I think I've got kind of like, a resentment towards Disney. I got like, my partner is a polar opposite. He's this, like six foot two tattooed, like, like, do you act as shit dude covered in tattoos? And he can literally recite frozen.
04:55:05:15 - 04:55:12:24
Callum
So that's cute. Let it go. Hey, let I'm going to sing that song.
04:55:13:24 - 04:55:15:12
Mariah
Oh, baby, thank.
04:55:15:12 - 04:55:32:14
Emily
You so much for coming in or chatting with us. It has been an absolute pleasure and honestly, like, it's inspiring to see you growing up from such a like you're literally it feels like you're probably in two different worlds. Like, it's like.
04:55:33:14 - 04:55:54:18
Callum
Yeah, to hear that and like to look at like your physique that you got to as well as people in some of those. It's in credible physique seriously. And like, you know, you've gone through some true grit prior to like a 24 weight prep with some shit because I mean it must have been easier than like the life that you had lived or have lived, I should say.
04:55:56:00 - 04:56:02:05
Callum
Where, where would people find you if they wanted to come check you out, suss due out. What's the best way to find you.
04:56:02:13 - 04:56:04:02
Mariah
I'm because I'm everywhere.
04:56:04:13 - 04:56:14:19
Callum
I tried the Mariah Carey thing and I just had it. Mariah Carey fan pages pop up everywhere. I figure out when I went to find these guys, what is it? What's the IG handle?
04:56:15:03 - 04:56:37:22
Mariah
IG handle? I've always used my middle name as pretty much my, I guess, like Persona seven. Mariah Jean fit just one word. Mariah Jean Fit Ima RIAA H. I'm not Mariah the reason why I use my middle name. I see it a lot with fitness influencers. I get married and I have to take, you know, the partner's name and why my partner's name is like one letter different from my name.
04:56:37:22 - 04:56:46:09
Mariah
My last name. So it's the weirdest, you know, I'm making him out bias. Yet when he finally puts a ring on it, her intent, if he's listening.
04:56:47:01 - 04:56:48:18
Emily
Listen listen. Boy.
04:56:49:02 - 04:57:14:04
Mariah
Mariah Jean fit and that's on Instagram, which Mariah Jean fit on Facebook. They're separate words. It's Mariah Jean fit on TikTok. It is Mariah Jean fit on YouTube. It's where else are we gonna change it, baby? That's it, right? Martin sitcom. I'm super original. But yes, that's my my website's so consistent. Yeah. Look, I'm fully booked for coaching at the moment for one on one sports.
04:57:14:04 - 04:57:31:14
Mariah
Obviously, I've reached max capacity I have hired another coach. Coach, a lawyer. She's a carbon copy of me. If you want to have a look at a Laura and you think I've got an impressive physique, she's not figure competitor. She's based in Adelaide. So she's fully online as well. And she takes my eyes flight. So that's what we're about.
04:57:32:12 - 04:57:41:07
Emily
Amazing. Well, thank you so much for coming on the potty today. As we look forward to hearing and seeing more with your journey.
04:57:41:07 - 04:57:47:24
Mariah
Yeah, thanks so much for having me guys. Really appreciate it was a lot of fun this year. All right, bye you.