Sticky Notes
Ever wondered what it's actually like to build a fitness business from the ground up? Meet Rosie and Leila, two Pilates instructors who crossed paths at a London studio and discovered a shared vision that was too powerful to ignore.
This podcast—Sticky Notes—is our real-time chronicle of building something from nothing. We're relatively new teachers stepping into entrepreneurship, balancing Rosie's big-picture dreaming with Leila's pragmatic planning. We're challenging fitness industry norms, particularly the narrow concept of a "Pilates body," and creating spaces where everyone feels welcome regardless of how they look.
Join us weekly as we document every decision, meeting, and milestone. Whether you're interested in Pilates, entrepreneurship, or simply enjoy witnessing the unfiltered journey of two women betting on themselves and their vision—we're glad you're here for the ride.
Sticky Notes
Adapting to Change: Time Zones, Transitions, and Taking Leaps (Ep. 10)
Celebrating our milestone 10th episode with candid conversations about personal victories and professional evolutions! We've grown from having just our moms as listeners to approaching 300 downloads – proof that consistency truly pays off when building something meaningful.
Leila shares her exhilarating experience completing her first 10K race at Wembley Stadium, finishing in under an hour despite challenging hills that had her "seeing white lights" at one point. The inclusive, family-friendly atmosphere contrasted with her previous competitive racing experiences, creating a uniquely wholesome environment that celebrated runners of all levels.
Meanwhile, Rose has been embracing new teaching opportunities in Salt Lake City while managing her role at Pi across multiple time zones. After an initially frustrating navigation mishap (turns out grid systems can be confusing!), she participated in a studio photoshoot that landed her front and center in promotional materials – likely for years to come. Her excitement about teaching Wednesday evening equipment and mat classes is palpable.
We dive deep into the progress of Honeycomb Studios, our digital platform for the Pilates community that's been evolving since our very first conversation at a team dinner table. After numerous iterations, we're thrilled with the split-screen website design that perfectly captures our vision for Honeycomb Studios and Hex – connected but distinct entities that complement each other beautifully. If all goes according to plan, we'll be launching within the next month!
Life transitions are a central theme as Leila prepares for a significant move, compiling lists of London essentials to stockpile before departure, while Rose balances life between Utah, Michigan, and upcoming trips to California and Alaska. Through it all, we're learning that consistency, patience, and flexibility are essential ingredients for success – whether in running that extra kilometer or building a digital platform from scratch.
Join us next week as we shift to more informative content, breaking down classical Pilates equipment terminology that might have gone over your head in previous episodes. Have questions or topic suggestions? We'd love to hear from you!
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Speaker 2:can you give? Us a description I mean, it is a textured replica of a dinosaur's eye. I think it's probably supposed to be a T-Rex. We went to watch Jurassic Park at some point in the summer, Sari and I, and we saw it because I was getting a Diet Coke, as always at the cinema and we just eye-audibly gasped and we were like, well, I have to get it.
Speaker 1:That eye is wild. I kind of love that. It's kind of scary though.
Speaker 2:Love it. What are you drinking? What is your drink of the episode?
Speaker 1:I'm drinking some red tea in my Michigan cup. How British of you I'm at home in Michigan, so I'm trying to use Michigan themed things.
Speaker 2:It's beautiful and green outside A new location unlocked.
Speaker 1:Another location which is causing me grief because the time zones Salt Lake City is seven hours behind the UK, london's five hours behind, london's five hours behind, and Salt Lake City is on mountain time, which is a really weird strip that very few places are actually on, so it's kind of a weird one, like no one's ever on mountain time. Um, so it's just been up and down and today, actually yesterday, I got an email from Holly like hey, make sure you're not missing meeting, like teacher training phone calls, and I was like I know I have been and it's because I hadn't. Acuity scheduling is great, yeah, but what was happening is that people were able to book in within two hours beforehand on.
Speaker 2:British time. Oh, I didn't know you were saying that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is not a good thing anyway, because then you can't like live your life Like you'll be out somewhere and it'll be like so-and-so booked a phone call in for two hours from now. So what was happening is people were booking in for like 2 pm UK time, which would be 7 am my time, and then I would not see it because I would be sleeping and then I'd wake up and have to email them and be like hey, so sorry, I'm on a different time zone. So then I was getting up at like 5 am just to wait and see.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure you were saying this.
Speaker 1:No, that's not a healthy answer. It wasn't good 've. Now I've restricted the slot. I think also so many people are interested in doing teacher training now that these slots just are filling up in terms of just even wanting to talk about it, that is wild to me.
Speaker 2:It's not wild, it's like I don't, I'm like surely and everyone that's wanted or thought about it would have like up or been in and have done their training, but I guess not, because every week there's more people finding it.
Speaker 1:Every week. Yeah, and I used to tell people if you sign up within a month of it starting, you'll be more than fine. It won't fill up. But the October one was full in July, so now I'm like you might want to sign up if you want to do the January or whenever the spring one starts, which is crazy. I mean it's very cool, but it's nuts.
Speaker 2:That's so funny because I remember when I was signing up for the Equinox course, there was like minimal information online and it was just like the website was being done through. I was like connected to the Equinox one but not and I didn't think to contact like anyone from the team in London or like try to get in contact, which I don't know why I didn't. But I remember feeling so stressed about making that first deposit or like wanting to make it like as soon as possible to get myself on the um, like on the intake, and I was like stressing my parents out, being like can we please like sign me up for this as soon as possible? And they were just like there's no way it's gonna sell out, like you're fine, don't stress about it. Like I'm sure you can just book, like up until right before. And I was like yeah, yeah, like I'm very type A. I was like can we please just get it sorted?
Speaker 2:Um, and we were still able to get it done, like in the summer, but we were just trying to figure out like legality, things else, like they were going on with me being in the uk more than anything, um, and it's funny because our intake didn't fill up completely, but now they've started to cap the intakes, because I think I'm not gonna say it was just our intake. I think it was us and a couple others who have been really promoting the Equinox brand and, like there have been people who told me to my face they found Equinox through me or through a TikTok I made and I was like I'm a little tiny human, so if that's happening, um and so yeah. So the next few intakes are like filling up completely and I'm'm like thank God that that was not me and that's not me with five, because if I had, yeah, I can't imagine having missed out.
Speaker 1:How big is your intake? How big was your group?
Speaker 2:think we were around 10 at the start. One or two ended up dropping out and then we gained to our final co and then no. But then some people like delayed at the end, but like the sort of final main group of us. I'm going to pull up one of the photos we have because that's just a better way to make sure I don't forget any of them.
Speaker 1:10 to 15 is kind of a sweet spot. I think pies max out at 16 for the full one. I guess it depends what size space you have, but just that's the thing.
Speaker 2:Okay, our very first intake, our very first day.
Speaker 2:We were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and I think someone might've been missing from that, but we were around eight to begin with and then we finished oh, actually no, I do think we were just about it, I don't think I'm missing anyone and then some came and some left and then we ended around eight to ten, but I don't think we were ever more than ten, um, and especially with equinox, I don't think that we you could have had more than that.
Speaker 2:Like right now I think they have it capped at like 16 or 17, because obviously from the business end they want to be making a profit, but there is only so much space to have and to use, because then you have overlaps of intakes and you want all the students to be able to access the studio and there's always and both clubs are quite popular in terms of, like everyone a lot of the members do pilates, so you also want to make sure that there's not too many students or apprentices like practicing in a studio. So, like, studio time is limited, um, so I think that they have struggled a little bit with a quantity of students that are being accepted onto the intake. But I guess business is business.
Speaker 1:It's tough to know how. I think because if you have more than 20 people, it would be pretty easy for someone to kind of sit in the back and not sort of be in the mix which I guess you can really encourage people to get up there and do things, but I just think 20 seems like it would be way too many. I want to say mine was 12.
Speaker 2:That's a nice number, and it was intensive over the course.
Speaker 1:We did, I think, 10 days straight or 12 days straight, and then another weekend a few months later.
Speaker 2:And I think more than 12 people for that type of program would have just been way too much.
Speaker 2:I think, also for hours you have to hit a certain amount of well, teaching hours, yes, or like training hours, but also supervised hours which would only be put on a certain amount of times per month and it was like the teacher trainers would host like two hours where you could go and practice and you were being observed by them and then they would give you feedback in that moment and it was like a really helpful hands-on experience.
Speaker 2:But all those supervised hours you have to cap the amount of students that could attend them. So then, the more students you have, the more people that are trying to buy or like are vying for these spots, then the harder it is for everyone to get equal access to the trainers. And then also, you have to hit a certain amount of like private sessions at each level. So then, the more students there are, the less. You would just have to have enough trainers then to match the amount of students you're bringing in. I think, more than anything, If you've got enough teacher trainers you can do it, but if there's only like one or two, then it's a bit of an issue.
Speaker 1:And I think that's one argument for limiting the amount of time that people can take to complete the course, because I think it's really great that Pi doesn't have that. You can be an apprentice for as long as you would like, and maybe until now when the training program hasn't been filling up. That's fine. But if you have multiple people who are there for many, many years, it's like you got to get new apprentices into this day, move the old ones out or get them into teaching.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think also at Pi do you have to, because for at Equinox, for example, if you wanted to extend your course or, like, set your exam date at a later date, there was basically you had to pay a certain fee. I can't remember what it was because I didn't end up going through it but that was because with us as well, you are getting access to the gym and then also access to the studio to train in and also access to the studio to train in, so they don't want people obviously just remaining apprentices forever and then just getting the free Equinox membership and, like, the ability to train in classical studio.
Speaker 1:But at Pi there is no recurring fee, there's no restriction, and I will say, every time I talk to people about the teacher training which is probably I have five calls a week about it the number one thing people say is I love how flexible it is. I think you should only have flexibility, maybe to some degree. Some people come in and they're like I'm treating this like a master's program. I will be done in nine months. Some people will say I have four kids and a full-time job. Will I be able to do this over the course of a few years? And I'm like yes. So I think it's good to make it accessible, but maybe there should be a cap on it, even if it's like three years or two years, because then to your point and I guess especially.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I think we just got an email from kate. I need to mute my my laptop, but I just saw it came through about um branding being done she texts, she, she said to us all finished.
Speaker 1:That's exciting.
Speaker 2:I have completed the branding oh I, I meant to say I saw on a different email Kate said something about wanting us to also pay for a branding package that had like a second logo or something, but that we had originally not wanted. I don't know if I don't think either of us responded about that comment.
Speaker 1:I don't remember seeing that I feel like we're good on that. Mm-hmm, you could be wrong. I can read that we don't do that, anyway, this is episode 10, maybe, oh my God, it is when we didn't even say hello, or even oh, my God.
Speaker 1:A lot going on. Welcome back, welcome back, episode 10. Very exciting. I'm really proud of us. You know what has been super cool is this podcast to me? First of all, so useful for me to have this time every week, a good sort of cleansing reset, because it feels like purposeful, because it's feeding into this job that we're both building for ourselves, but also there's no pressure around it. And when I look at the buzz thing Sprout I was like is she going to butcher it again? I was going to butcher it. I was going to butcher it so I just didn't say it.
Speaker 2:When I look at it, Buzzacott, which is kind of like tax firm or something.
Speaker 1:I don't know where I got that from. It's cool to look at it and see if you just keep progressing at something and doing it and putting it out there, it does start to slowly gain its little group of followings. It's really nice.
Speaker 2:Which I actually am going to say here. I'd like to apologize to all of our listeners and people who have been waiting for me to upload to YouTube. I have missed the last two episodes and they're currently in the process of being uploaded. Namely, I would like to apologize to my grandmother because I called her last week and she told me where is the new episode? I'm not seeing it. I've been checking for the last two weeks. There's no episode, and I was like I'm so sorry, I apologize, so hopefully by the time she's listening to this, the episodes will be up, yeah.
Speaker 1:Shout out to my grandmother. This is cool because, if I just look, when we first started putting out the episodes and it's only been 10, so it hasn't been like that many. But when we first started putting it out, remember, it would be like two people listening to it, it would be like your mom and my mom, basically. And now we have almost 300 downloads. It's just so fun.
Speaker 1:And when I checked yesterday it was 10 less than that. It was 10 less than that. So it's just, it's cool to actually just be consistent about something and then see it sort of roll out.
Speaker 2:I meant to say I was going to check in and see what, because I kind of posted our TikToks but I didn't actually check in and see what happened to them, so I don't even know if those are reaching any audience. I was like what are reaching any audience? I was like what?
Speaker 1:So I'm going to just wiki love it. Our Instagrams get like 500 views. Okay, they're getting.
Speaker 2:They've got like 200, some of them yeah.
Speaker 2:I love that I need to just get more consistent with it. I want to also, on my personal TikTok, get a bit more consistent and just sort of start posting like dumps of things and just like documenting my last two months in London and I just want to have things that I can watch back. So I want to try to get more consistent with that. Literally, it's very similar to what we do here, where it's like, just so I have something to look back on, yeah, and I think it will be interesting to document the move which'm just gonna tease, because who knows where I'm gonna end up because switches every week, um yeah. So I think it'll be interesting to then document that transition and figuring out that whole, like leaving London, trying to work somewhere else, yeah, and then also like that last few weeks or like months in London.
Speaker 1:So I want to get a bit more consistent there. What's going on in Leila land?
Speaker 2:Leila land, oh I ran my 10K.
Speaker 1:I was going to say you ran Amazing. How was it?
Speaker 2:It was such a wonderful experience. It was so cool. We ran it was at Wembley Stadium, so you ran around the the the stadium, basically, and our finish line was like right in front, like on the like that like main line in front of the arch, which is really cool. Um, we had incredible weather. It was like blue sky, sun, it was nice and cold, but it like warmed up, um, and it was just such a wholesome day. It was so cool to see because when I raced or like did competed whatever in high rocks, almost everyone like there were a lot of, yes, like regular people, but a lot of people who are doing it were athletes to some extent or like to a degree.
Speaker 2:They were all just at a quite a fit level, whereas this had a lot of regular people and I don't use that, I don't want to use that like an offensive just like normal people were running and it was like a lot of families, um, and little groups and like there's a lot of like couples running it and like I saw a couple of dads with their sons and just like regular people running it, and so it was just very wholesome in that sense and it was nice, um to just how it felt like it was a fun day out for a lot of people, less than like okay, I'm going to go and get the fastest time ever. Like there was that first wave that were sent out where like the fast paced people and then they sort of like got a bit slower but everyone would seem to just be like having fun with it, whereas Hierarchs is a lot more. Everyone was like wanted to succeed. So it was nice to be in that environment.
Speaker 2:Um, and I aimed to race it. I wanted it to sit, to sit around an hour 10, an hour 15. Cause I was like, let's run it. Um, I wanted to run it at like six, 30 a kilometer and I was like it'll be like a nice baseline speed or baseline race time and I can go build from there because I didn't want to do which I did, which was set like a time, and then now have to like improve from it, because I was like, yeah, I have to get faster yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't have to but um, but I ended up running it in under an hour, which was really, really exciting. That's awesome I had it was so cool. I had my like Strava connected to my in ear so it would like tell me every kilometer, like how fast I was running. And my first kilometer it's funny if I showed you I was like, oh, that's going to be my slowest one, because I had heard about how you're supposed to like um or like running a negative split which, like the first half of your race is slower than the second half and you're supposed to be able to build up. And I was telling one of the guys from F45, I was like my first kilometer is going to be my slowest, like, don't worry. And he's like, yeah, sure, my first kilometer was four minutes 22 seconds. I've never ran that fast in my entire life. Genuinely, you were ready to go, yeah. And then my first 5k of the race. I set a PR at my 5K. I did it in 26 minutes, which it was like hilarious because I was like, oh, it'll be my slower half and it just it kind of went out the window.
Speaker 2:But it was just a very fun environment. I guess I had the pace on that day, so it was really cool. But I will tell you there were a couple of hills. I was not expecting it to be so hilly. I was warned, but I was then also told it was supposed to be a flat course. Um, at like the eighth kilometer I was just checking this travel the other day I there was like an elevation of 44 meters. That was a gain throughout it, and I was, I tell you. I got to the top of that hill and I saw a white light. I was like I don't think I could do this. But then you go down and then it's like wow, I'm on top of the world.
Speaker 1:Like it was really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the emotions were all over the place, um, but it was really, really fun, so I enjoyed I feel like, although I distances is it's a good it's a nice distance, like I can't believe that that is only, for example, a quarter of a marathon. You would have to do that three full more times, or like that is only halfway of the half, which obviously would run it at a slower pace if you knew you were running a longer distance, but I was just like that's the halfway point, like what you mean sarah and I did um the edinburgh 10k a few years ago.
Speaker 1:And talking about hills, we didn't. We did it because our friend was doing the marathon, so we just went up to do to support with it and the hills were just like I. It's still one of the hardest things I've ever done because I just impossible to just walk yeah it was nuts, but I also have. It was such a fun day like I similar thing to what you're talking about. There were like families and then there was like sort of a kid's fun run. It was just like a really fun event and super beautiful.
Speaker 2:So yeah, but man, I don't know, is my like fate. I don't know if I've said on here, but it's my favorite city in the entire world. Like there, I have a love for it. Yeah, I, if I could, if I could live anywhere, just actually, I don't even know if I'd want to live in it because I wouldn't want to ruin it. Like that is how much I love it. It is my I don't know why the very first time I went there, my soul, just like, I felt at peace, and every time I stepped foot in there, on those like in that city, I am just like I meant to be here.
Speaker 1:So I my dream is to like one day retire why do you think it is? I'm curious.
Speaker 2:Wow, like I wonder. Maybe it's I mean, just maybe, probably like a mixture of the architecture, the gloomy weather, just the greenery. Um. I went this year for my birthday, my like my birthday fell like in the middle of the week, um, and I decided to just do a solo trip up to Edinburgh, like, and stay for two nights because I was like my, the only thing I want for my birthday is to wake up in that city. And I was like I don't. Even everyone was like do you want one of us to go with you? And I was like no, because I don't want you anyone to ruin it for me. I was like I need to be on my own headphones on just like walking around the city. Um, and I don't know, I'm sure you would have done it when you were there, you know, like the walk up to Arthur's seat or like up Arthur's yeah yeah, I like that walk gives me so much peace and I just did it like every day that I was there and yeah, I have don't.
Speaker 2:I have no clue what it is about that city, but yeah, I just but I do. But it is a beautiful city, but also it is a hilly city, like you finish every day. You're like I worked out my legs so I could not even imagine how on earth you would have ran a 10k there. That is.
Speaker 1:I'm very impressed. It was really beautiful. That's the only time I've ever been to that city, I think, but, and that was in May, so it was really like green and lush.
Speaker 2:That's such a lovely time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I, yeah, it's so Gothic and maybe I must have gone up there. No, I think it might have just been that time, but even going out at nighttime when it was dark and kind of gloomy, but romantic like such a cool, there was just something in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's my thing. Where I'm like, I don't even want to taint it because you know when you live somewhere like you don't think it taints something, but like you you risk growing to hate it just because you live somewhere and that has growing pains. But I think if I could retire anywhere, I always say it will be the Scottish Highlands for me. I will be like uncontactable on a farm somewhere. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:So yeah, it's nuts how much I miss the rain and sort of the gloominess of the UK.
Speaker 2:You were saying yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel like the UK has a huge reputation for raining all the time and it doesn't really rain all the time. But two winters ago maybe it was last winter there was some kind of record for the amount of rain that we had and I did feel that it was insanely rainy the whole winter and I remember just being like I'm never going to be dry, ever again. But also in the summer it can be beautiful and sunny and it's not like a place where literally every single day, if it's not raining, you're relieved because it's not so bad.
Speaker 2:So Sunday was really sunny. I hate to prove the haters right. There was a rainstorm this morning out of nowhere.
Speaker 1:The sky opened up.
Speaker 2:And then it went sunny again and then it was raining an hour ago. But no, I don't think it rains as much as people make it out to, or at least this year has been a drier year than before. Yeah, although every time I what? I just have a couple of memories of exactly what you're saying. When you get rained on, you're like will I ever be dry again? There was like two or three times in the last year where I wasn't wearing my waterproof trainers and I just had wet socks and I genuinely think it is like up that is up there and like one of the most uncomfortable things to have, like like top discomfort, really is a wet sock. So I'm trying to remind myself now like your feet are dry, because every time I have wet socks, I'm like I did I did not take for granted, or I took for granted having dry feet.
Speaker 1:You need waterproof trainers in London.
Speaker 2:Yes, I want a pair of ons that are waterproof, but you either need that or boots, but if you're walking a lot, I just think the trainers are more comfy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, agreed, I've tried to run more.
Speaker 2:I was going to run more I was going to say you've been talking about your other dealing with elevations and all of that Well.
Speaker 1:is there anything else going on in your land?
Speaker 2:Not much. I think we're now settled where I may end up, which will be a continued teaser for the next few weeks.
Speaker 2:That's different from what you previously had told me. The last thing I told you is what we're going with, I think, as it stands. So I'm just starting to think of compiling lists of things that I want to start to almost stockpile or just purchase before I leave, because there will be some things that I won't be able to buy, and then there will be a lot of things where it'll just be more expensive. Um, so I'm trying to, just where I can, like buy an extra one of these, or like doubles of things, um, which is causing my own personal budget to like skyrocket, but I'm like it'll be fine or it'll be for the greater good. Um, so, and that's what I'm trying to do like extra even just like skincares, lip balms, things like that, um, yeah, so I've been also messaging people to be like, if you think of anything that you miss from London or that you're like, oh, I wish I could just buy one of these, like what would it be? Because obviously, while you're here, you forget what you use so often, um, and there's just a few things and places that I have always said oh, I'll get around to it, I'll get around to it, but the clock is ticking and it's not that I'm never going to come back.
Speaker 2:I hope to be here, to be back quite often, but also I do. I want to get things done. I like take off places that I've said I wanted to see. So, yeah, there are a couple of restaurants I'm like I need to book that, um, and a couple of like little trinkets I want to buy. But other than that, it's just been work and working out, which has been great. It's nice to sort of just throw myself into routine and enjoy it. A lot of clients are coming back now from summer, so things will be picking up again. So it was nice to have like a little bit of a low for almost a week, 10 days. It was nice and quiet in the city, um, so that was enjoyable. But yeah, we're now back to. Oh, actually, because I just looked at the corner and I realized the biggest thing that happened to me personally yesterday was taylor swift getting engaged.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, it did I'm not a huge taylor swift, but even I was like this is a big moment for everyone.
Speaker 2:You know what it was as well, because I just checked my phone right before going to a workout and it was on my screen. I was like there's no way. I'm looking at this right now. I saw a bunch of the girls today at this Pilates studio and we were all just geeking out about it. I was like this is such girlhood.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy. Are Taylor Swift super fans excited about this choice of husband for her?
Speaker 2:I think it's yes, good, because I think, especially in the last few weeks, she did a podcast episode with Travis Kelsey and with his brother and it was like a two-hour episode and you can just really see that he looks at her and it's like, puts her on a pedestal in terms of like, he is like in awe of her, in like, in such a wholesome way. And I think it's also quite cool because she is a little bit older, she's 35 and now getting married to like the love of her life. So I think for a lot of people cause I saw an interesting comment that was like this is so cool to see someone older at finding, you know, when there's so much pressure on younger women to get married so young, and it was there's a lot of discourse about settling or not settling and it was such a it's so cool to see someone in such a public not that she's even that, that old, but just not someone who has talked so much and sung and written so much about love and romance, to have not settled and like to have waited and found someone who, you know, um, puts her on that pedestal or like, is in awe and it, you know, treats her the way she wants to be treated at the end of the day. So, yeah, I do. But it was so cool. I was talking to keelan about it today at equinox and we were both just like giggling and I was like this is so like I.
Speaker 2:She has sung me through so many in the last like 15 years, so many different like stages of my life, so it's so cool to see someone who's been with you in your darkest times like so happy. In a very parasocial way. I'm like, oh, happy for you, like go off, um. And my whole tiktok is just like all of her most depressing songs, like okay, if she can make it out of this depressed era and be engaged, like there's hope. Yeah, one of her songs is like that's great. Yeah, it's like it's called the prophecy and she's like singing to us to the sky, like to a god, and basically saying like please just change my fate, and so everyone is like posting to it to be like, okay, well, taylor, what sky did you sing to? How?
Speaker 1:do I get.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like what, how do I do what you did basically? Basically, it's pretty major. Those are my big life updates.
Speaker 1:Those will be very popular in the media, yeah.
Speaker 2:I wonder if it will be posted or if it will be tried to be kept so super private and we'd only ever see leaks because they are so private. But I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd be curious to see if they make a thing out of it or not probably not.
Speaker 2:So those are my two biggest things the take, the 10k and tears of getting engaged, which I would put you know on the same level major lesson yeah, what about yourself? So you've been saying you've been getting into more running.
Speaker 1:I've been trying to so. Did I say this last time? Tristan's running a half marathon at the end of October or mid-October.
Speaker 2:Exciting.
Speaker 1:Wanted me to do it as well and I still haven't committed or not. Just because it's in the mountains and it's very sort of rugged terrain as far as I can tell, and I just don't know if I would be doing it to make a point or if I would be doing it because I actually want to do it.
Speaker 2:I'm so honest, I respect that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I did. But I did start a half marathon training running plan, nice. But I only started that this week and it's middle of October is the time, so I had to kind of like skip a few weeks ahead in the training thing. So I've just been normally when I run I will go and run 5K and that is it. Like I don't usually have interest in running further than that.
Speaker 1:I'm like there's other things I would like to do with my day or other workouts or whatever, but yesterday I ran for an hour and I was like I actually kind of enjoyed that a lot. So I got some new running shoes and that makes it fun.
Speaker 2:That always helps. Any excuse for new workout clothing or any new workout clothing. Really just it helps a lot.
Speaker 1:So I'm enjoying that. I'm supposed to run 10 miles tomorrow. Oh my god, I don't really. It's like 16K, so we will see how that feels, um you're doing better at this distance than I am.
Speaker 2:I have yet to run more than 10 K and prep for this half marathon, and I'm like I probably should be doing that a bit more often.
Speaker 1:I feel like 10 K is just plenty of distance. I don't know I don't have the thing inside me that's like do more push, push, push. So we will see. But I've been running in the mountains and stuff more and sometimes those runs end up it's like running hiking, because you're kind of going up and down and not all of it you can run and some of those end up being a solid two hours or whatever. So I think I'm building up my endurance, but that's been fun Are those like trail runs, like trail running vibes, Because I've been seeing people posting about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's cool. It's cool. It's cool because you can just see so much, Like when you do a hike. If you're hiking, there's only so much ground you can cover over a certain amount of time, and I really don't like camping. So I'm not trying to hike somewhere and sleep in a tent and then hike. A little more Fair so to see as much as I can in a day or in one outing. It's nice to run. Other than that, I'm going to start. I had a really fun last week, I guess, with the studio I'm going to start teaching at yes.
Speaker 2:How was the photo shoot? Because you were leaving or we had a catch-up call which was not a podcast, it was just us and you were off to go take some photos for it it was really fun, the.
Speaker 1:I got so annoyed at Salt Lake City because it's a grid, the streets are a grid, which I'm still not totally acclimated to and I just can't really read the city very well.
Speaker 1:So I got sent an address, went to that address, got out and just couldn't find the place, couldn't find the location was so frustrated and then basically got in my car and it's like, well, I'm not going to go, like just being silly about it. Looked up the actual address it was only six minutes away so I went and it ended up being so much fun. It was like a really this guy, stuart, his studio and his wife, who is not a photographer but she like helps out with his work. They had a really cool just big room with like a white backdrop and then the photos were really casual, so they had a stand in the area and then his wife would talk to us libby while he took pictures.
Speaker 1:So they all came out really like kind of casual um, and it was fun. It was kind of funny because the way that we organized people for the group photos based on height, I was in the front for pretty much everything and so I feel like I'm going to be in the photos on this website for the next two decades and I'm just not even like it's funny because I look at sometimes the photos on the PI website and I was like, how long ago was this taken?
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's. So that is going to be your lore in a completely different studio, nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's kind of funny. I'm going to start teaching on Wednesday evenings. Just they don't label their classes of what type of equipment it is. They just have equipment classes and mat classes. So it kind of gives you the freedom. So I'm going to teach an equipment class and a mat class and then have some availability for private bookings, which will be good. Yeah, so that was all very positive.
Speaker 2:At the end it worked out and then I know that feeling, though, of like when you try to go somewhere and you can't find it, and you're just like that frustration and just like should I just I'm over it. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just done, but then, pretty soon after that, I came back to Michigan, which is where my parents live, and that has been lovely, honestly, just not being in the dryness of Utah for a minute. It feels really good. It's just like it's raining sometimes and it's really green and there's lots of water around in Michigan, so that's been great. And then I go home, home to Salt Lake on Saturday.
Speaker 2:I saw you post a photo with your brothers. That must be nice to see to be all together.
Speaker 1:We haven't been all together since September last year, which isn't that long, but now we just live sort of in all different corners of the world, it feels like. So that was really nice. Seeing my parents is always nice, seeing my dogs is great.
Speaker 2:It's just good I have done. Even talk to me that you have got dogs. What breed? I have two collies like Lassie.
Speaker 1:They're both just sitting on the sofa. They're very sweet. Um, I've been really. The only other thing is I've been really really loving my job at pie right now yay, that's great, it's been. Yeah, it's been so fun, it's like it, it's a lot of uh. I don't want to use the term managing, because I don't really feel like Pi's culture lends itself to those sort of traditional terms.
Speaker 1:But, I'm sort of coordinating different things with teachers and we're like totally changing the schedule. But I kind of do the bigger picture pieces of it. So it's just been fun. I feel like I have a lot more freedom to kind of direct things. And some teachers have, like Javier, proposed a 100-minute reformer. Wow. And it was just cool to be like, yeah, let's give that a try, let's pop it in the schedule. So now he has a 100-minute reformer on his schedule, just some things like that, bringing in some new teachers.
Speaker 1:And speaking of new teachers, it's kind of funny. I've now had three different people have calls with me about teacher training and they've said you know, I'm going to be working full-time, am I going to be able to do this course? Blah, blah, blah. And I explained the flexibility and how, yes, it'll be fine. And three different people have said are you sure? Because when I was in the studio I met these two women and they both said that they're in there 25, 30 hours a week. And every time I've been like is it Pina and Pooja? And they're like yes, it's them. And I'm like just forget about them, because they both were working in corporate and then cut that off and started this program. They are extra special people, they're not. They are extra special people, they're not switching a norm.
Speaker 2:Applying their corporate schedule as well to Pilates Totally.
Speaker 1:It's just been fun, life's been good. I have a lot of fun little trips scheduled, upcoming Nice Just in, and around Utah have a lot of fun little trips scheduled upcoming.
Speaker 2:So yeah, just in and around Utah, in and around I'm going to California, I'm going to. Alaska, she's a Cali girl, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm going to. Alaska to visit Tristan's family, back to California for a wedding and I'm coming to London at the end of September. I'm so excited for that. Yeah, yeah, not a lot otherwise, going on, just in lots of different time zones and trying to figure out what that means every day, for what time the world clock.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like your brain is just working across as we're saying a bunch of different what I've started doing is I'll put a meeting in my calendar and I'll say 10 am eastern time in the title of the event, so I'll just label it instead of trying to make sure it just matches up with the calendar.
Speaker 2:I mean, I do that as well, but yeah it is only going to get even more hectic in the future. I feel bad. I'm like when we have my time, london time, and then you, it'll be. I have Utah now on my phone, though, because I'm like I need to know what time it is for Rose, because when you posted something the other day, I was like why on earth is Rose posting at 2 am? I was like why is she working these hours? And then I was like, right, because it's not 2 am for Rose. She can post things.
Speaker 1:It is kind of nice to. I've had a few kind of ships in the night phone calls with Pooja and Holly where they'll be just waking up and I'll be going to bed, and it is kind of nice to sort of seal up a work thing and then just go to sleep and not worry about it for the next eight hours. I'm getting super excited for Honeycomb Studios and all of that because it's starting to sort of tighten up Take place it's starting to sort of tighten up in a good way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were sent what was like a website draft, I guess, or like an outline, I'm not sure what you would call it. Nikki sent that over this week and it's also cool to kind of similar. I don't know, I can't remember if we had this conversation on the podcast, but I remember we were both saying when we were looking at the coming soon page, we just thought it would be like a white screen that said coming soon. So I think, similarly with this, like obviously I knew we were signing up for like quite a nice or a good well thought out. I was not expecting just a coming soon page, basically. But it was even more odd because I could not visualize what it would look like. But this is exactly what I would have wanted to look like, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Totally, and I'm very proud of the way that we sort of explained to them this vision that we had, which evolved over many weeks and meetings. And then I don't think I really thought about it consciously, but when I actually then looked at the page that they sent and saw the split screen for Honeycomb Studios and Hex, I thought, whoa, this looks really good and I really really like it and also the description of this doesn't sound like it would look good.
Speaker 1:No, Because it's like two different things that are connected and you can tell that very obviously. But they also do look drastically different in the great way and they still look really good side by side. It's just cool.
Speaker 2:It is very cool. It's also nice because I feel like I've been talking, I mean, but we keep saying this, but I'm talking about this thing for so much and I I'm giving it so much time and energy, so it's nice to have something that I can like we can soon show people to be like and this is what we've been working on, like this here all this time, yeah, and trying to explain it to so many people, and just be like there was like for a lot of people there was no point even explaining it, and just it's nice to have like a here you go, sort of um, yeah, platform, yeah it made me really happy.
Speaker 1:tristan and I went on a weekend trip and when we were driving back he was talking on the phone to his brother and his brother was asking about me and how it was going and Tristan described Honeycomb Studios and I was like, yes, that is exactly what it is Like. Yes, good well done.
Speaker 1:You nailed that because in his defense it has been like oh, it's this, actually, it's this, actually, it's this, and we're adding this thing and we're taking away this thing. And now there's hex, by the way, also, which is a part of it, but not quite a part of it, and it was going to be a whole separate thing. Yeah, yeah. So, oh, the other thing I was going to ask yeah, I was going to just say to that point.
Speaker 2:It just is so cool to me. Um, I just I wonder if we've ever said it. But if you remember the very first time we were talking about honeycomb in general, and it was when me and Tristan were just sat at the edge of the table at the pie, like the little team dinner, and we were just in our own bubble just yapping away because that you had, just a couple of days before that, like approached me with the idea but had obviously spent a lot of the time there the year prior talking to Tristan's ear off about it in the best way.
Speaker 2:So it was so cool for all three of us to be there and to be talking about it and there's a, there's a clip which it's like at the very end of like the pie and it's like they were panning and you could just have me like very, um, excited, like animatedly saying something to you interested. And I'm like just explaining it because my hands are like going everywhere and it's so funny because I just remember the three was literally being in like a bubble about it and so it's so cool to see it's gone off into so many iterations and where we've now landed from what we thought it was, yeah, and then from when you and I first spoke about it at District, that first business meeting we had, yeah.
Speaker 1:To now. I know, Sometimes I have moments where I'm kind of like I just want this thing to exist now, Like why is it taking so much longer than I want it to take? And then I think about that first meeting and then, yeah, discussing it with Tristan, and it has come so far Like really really far.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I guess you have a whole extra almost year of this having lived in your head, whereas for me this idea was birthed in May. So I'm like, oh yeah, it's coming along quite quick. For you it's been much longer, and then either way.
Speaker 1:October the previous year was when I first started thinking about it and either way between the two of us.
Speaker 2:I'm not surprised that you would like it to be in your hands as a. Why does it not exist? I do have, like you of me just waking up to a message of you being like a brand big new idea brand new idea.
Speaker 1:I know sometimes I have to hold myself back on like what's next?
Speaker 1:no, but I do think I I feel like honeycomb Studios will hopefully be out in the world in the next month yes, I agree, which is great. And now whenever I see the new things come in, I'm like, oh, of course it couldn't have been released last month, because all of these things didn't exist, like duh. So I get it, and I feel super grateful that Nikki and Kate have almost become like business advisors as well in some ways, because they also just have, you know, questions that we need to know the answers to and things. So I do appreciate that, but I'm just excited for it to be, yeah, a thing also because I genuinely believe in it and I'm like I want to see how people communicate on this thing and I want it to be oh, my God, I have not even thought about.
Speaker 2:I think I haven't even let myself get excited about getting to see people interact on it, on it. I don't know how much we've discussed it, but yeah, I can't. I'm very excited for that. It's amazing. Oh, yes, I think it does, and I mean there's even we've said it, there's already been situations where people we know I'm like, oh, I wish we had this resource that I could give you for you to use it. Yeah, because you could do with this resource. Yeah, because you could do with this resource. Also, I'm going to turn on the light because it's getting really gloomy there, it's gray skies and it's starting to rain again.
Speaker 1:Should we start talking about the?
Speaker 2:apparatus. Yeah, we can wrap this episode, wrap it up. Yeah, all right, episode 10. That is so crazy to say yeah, thanks for listening and, yeah, 10 episodes. I'm pretty proud of that, thank you. So hopefully you guys will have something in your hands, not literally, but soon enough.
Speaker 2:Within the month we hope to present you guys with, uh, what we've been talking about from episode one, which is very exciting. Um, and next week's episode is going to be a bit more almost informative. We're going to be talking about classical equipment, so some terms that we might have been saying that may have just gone over your guys' heads, very understandably. So it may be a shorter episode.
Speaker 2:Obviously, we haven't recorded it yet, but we're going to look to start almost batching our episodes when we film, just because it's going to allow us to be more consistent when we film, just because it's going to allow us to be more consistent. So we will be talking, we'll, I think, have a sort of personal life update, business update, focused episode, and then the week after we'll try to be a bit more informative. Um, so that is what you can expect coming forward and I think, if there's anything anyone wants specifically give, give us ideas, because this was inspired by my mom mentioning that we need to talk about what is a reformer, which obviously we might just not think about that. So if any friends of mine or friends of Rosie's, if you want to send us feedback, we would love that.
Speaker 1:Feedback, ideas, yeah, good stuff Cool.
Speaker 2:All right, bye.