EP 5. BUILDING A BUSINESS OF YOUR DREAMS

In this weeks episode Sarah and Cass get real about the good, the bad and the ugly of starting a business from the ground up. Hear their personal stories and learn some tips and truths about what you can do to create a successful business and what mistakes they have made that you can avoid. 

An episode that holds a special place in their heart. This is part one so get ready for part 2 coming soon x

As always make sure you download this episode. Plus follow us on instagram @casscoaching + @coachsarahgrida

Your support and love means the world.

Cass + Sarah 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Welcome back to the Formeta podcast, where we chat all things fitness, trends, navigating your 20s, and becoming the best dude. I'm Kathy and I'm Sarah. Now let's jump into this week's episode.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

Welcome back, back, back, back again, again, again, get us back. Your friend. So I was like, better not. But no, guys. Welcome back to the Form Home podcast.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

It's Cassie and Sarah, and we are so excited for today's episode. So excited to be back. I know.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Long time, it feels like long time no see, but literally saw you the other day, but that's why multiple times a week.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Sometimes I'm like, am I dating you or am I dating my boyfriend? I don't know. Obviously, each other. I would love that. We just have to have boyfriends, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

It is weird that we kind of I don't know how to word it without being a bit weird, but like, why can't we live with our friends? Like for life? Why? Who decided that we live with a boy?

SPEAKER_00 1:07

But like, why do soulmates have to be like intimate partners? Why can't soulmates just be your friends?

SPEAKER_02 1:13

Yeah. And we're soulmates, so why can't we just like live together and have kids and stuff? Life would be so much simpler that way. So much better.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

It would be. I will settle for just seeing you girls multiple times a week. Yeah, that's fine by me. You know what I love that we do that I don't think a lot of friends do is still have sleepovers. We're having a sleepover this week! But I feel like adult sleepovers are way better than kids sleepovers, but you just get to a point where apparently that's unacceptable.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

But I love it. I reckon it's more fun because for guys, we're having a little wine cheese night on Saturday night and I can't wait. And the girls are sleeping over my house, and it's gonna be so slow. But it's just more fun. Like, I don't know, we can all drive there, you can all leave when you want, we can go to bed when we want, eat what we want. Where when you're a kid, you've got to do what the mum says.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Love and like being in your pajamas or not having to like leave early because you gotta go home. Literally, I love it. I love an adult sleepover.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

It's so good. We've had a few and I'm kind of here for it. It's so fun. I love that they're my favorite. I love that. Anyways, guys, let's get into today's episode, which is a really good one for all you girls out there, all you women out there. We're gonna be talking women's health and something that gets thrown around a lot on Instagram, thrown around a lot in podcasts as well, and not in a bad way, but there is so many different, you know, stuff out there these days. And so we're just gonna kind of open up about it. Sarah has gone through a few things herself, so it'd be great to hear her story on a lot of it, and also our clients go through a lot of things, so we'll be able to share feedback from them as well.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

It's so funny because I feel like social media has built up all of this stuff about women's health, like women's hormones, but it's actually so under-researched, so I can so understand that it's overwhelming to get on TikTok and Instagram and see all this stuff, but at the end of the day, it's not really backed by professionals. And I guess this podcast is sort of the same thing, like we're not super, we're not doctors, we're not like nurses or anything like that. But as coaches, we really pride ourselves on like qualifications and our education. So just understand, like, first off, we have life experience, which is I feel like is the most important at the end of the day. And Cassie and I have also done our own qualifications, additional um research on everything as well. So obviously, take everything with a grain of salt, you know your body the best, but we're just gonna be going into like standard overview of everything. We can't get too deep into everything today, but it's what we've experienced, it's what we help a lot of girls with. Um, and hopefully this just helps you maybe get a clearer understanding of what your body should be doing. And if it's not, you know, there's usually a reason behind it.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

Absolutely. The first thing I want to touch on is if you're not having a period to go get that checked because that is not normal. I know when you're younger, you're like, yes, don't have my period this month. That's so good. But it means your body is under stress or it's you know in survival mode, and we don't want that. You know, a period helps us to go cool, our body's healthier, body's feeling good, it's adapting to what we're giving it, and it's kind of like that little check-in every month to go cool, on track, feeling good. So if you're not, definitely go see a doctor to check, maybe get your blood stun, hormones checked, stuff like that. But otherwise, just have a look at your life. Are you super stressed? Have you been overtraining? Are you undereating? Maybe your hormones are at a whack, so you've gone and got them checked and realize that. But just firstly, just all the girls out there, if you haven't had your period in the last month, two, three months, get that checked. It's not going to come back instantly from changing these things. But at least if you're making those cautious efforts to bring it back, then it'll start to come back.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

Don't you think it's so funny? Just from a certain age, you're like, oh yes, I don't have my glitch. And then one day a flip just switches and you're like, hundreds of. Like, I know because I've been through PCOS and and the period struggles and everything. It's real funny because definitely as a teenager, as an early 20-year-old, I was like, Oh, don't want my period. And I literally am like counting down the days now, fully tracking, waiting for my period to come. And when I get up, I'm like, oh, thank goodness. So crazy. Hey. So funny. But I really, really love that point. And I know that like you have been a bodybuilder for a long time. You've done multiple shows. Is that something that you ever struggled with? Like, did you ever lose your period because you're in such a calorie deficit? And I think maybe some girls, especially younger girls, might not link all of these things up.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

I definitely did lose my period both times I competed. First time I lost it maybe through maybe four or five months out of show, which was quite early on.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Yeah, that sounds so early.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

Which was crazy. But I was just eating like 1,000 calories, doing an hour of cardio daily. Like that's just what happens. I did get it back pretty quickly after, but again, I made that effort to get back to eating, cut out some training, cut out most of my cardio, and it did come back. Luckily, I have always my whole life had a regular cycle. So for me to stop it, I know something's up straight away. In general, normally there is something up, but I knew for me it was really out of the blue. And then second show, I only lost it for about two months, so and then it came back. So obviously it's kind of normal with bodybuilding, and I hate to throw that out going like it's no, we'll not have a period, but it is because you're putting your body under so much fatigue and stress. But the main thing is making sure that your coach or yourself, if you coach yourself, to get that period back straight away once you finish show.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

Yeah, yeah, and I think you know, we could go really deep into all the reasons why you would lose your period and how that all works with your hormones. But at the end of the day, to keep it as simple as possible, your body, when it's under so much stress, under so much fatigue, all it's trying to do is go back to your homeostasis, which is like the balance of everything in your body. So, probably for your case and a lot of other girls that lose their not just necessarily bodybuilding, but just lose it in general. Your body is literally trying to get rid of anything that it also has to work additionally on. So it will stop your period because it doesn't want to focus on that, it doesn't want to put your body under more stress because obviously a period is stressful, like I'm sure we've all had bad periods, it's not always fun.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

The shops, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

But um, it's just trying to stop doing anything that it deems unnecessary. So I want you to use that as a reminder. Like, if I'm constantly losing my period, skipping my period, there are some things that I need to work on because my body thinks there's so many more important things to be focusing on right now that it can't even give me a period. And that's a very obviously our period is such a natural thing for women. We do it on a monthly basis, so I would take that as something really, really important to focus on. And I think like starting with that is so good because that's gonna be one of the first and most noticeable things if your body is out of whack with its hormones.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Absolutely, and on that, you so Sarah has a PTOS for all the girls that don't know, and I think it's not normalized, and I don't want it to be normalized, but I think a lot of girls struggle with it and feel very alone because no one really posts about it, no one wants to talk about it, a lot of people don't even know they've got it. How did you kind of figure out that you had it and realized?

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Well, it's really a funny story, actually. So I just remember I was getting really, really deep into my hormonal health. Like I had the gym unlock, I had my eating on lock, but I kind of knew deep down I wasn't feeling like myself, I wasn't feeling 100%. So I just went to the doctor and I just asked for blood tests. Um, and I did all of that. She also, because one of my symptoms was constantly skipping my period or I wouldn't have a period, she also got me to do an ultrasound. So I did my blood test, I went and got my ultrasound, and then I came back to the doctors a couple weeks later with the results, and she just sat me down and she told me, You have PCOS. It's P PMO, but um that's obviously what I got diagnosed with. Um and I remember getting really freaked out. I had never heard of it before, I didn't even know what it meant. I thought I was dying.

SPEAKER_02 9:33

Because it sounds like a disease. Yeah. You get so scared, kind of like if you haven't had an STI before and you're like, oh my god. And it's like, it's actually not the end of the world. We can work through it when it just feels like it.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

I was so scared, I could especially when I would have been 22, 23 at the time, and she's telling me I'm diagnosed with something, I freaked out. And I remember the first thing I said to her was, How do I get rid of it? Yeah. And she goes, It's not something you get rid of, you have it. Um, but I had a lot of other symptoms with it, and I was just really going through a phase of like getting off the pill, trying to be a little bit more natural in terms of like my remedies and everything like that. Um, and all they wanted to do was pretty much put me on contraception again for the period, but I had really been working on getting off of that. Um, but yeah, then I just feel like I got given a pamphlet. She sent me on my way, she told me I couldn't fix it. Um, and so I really dived deep and I spent a lot of money and a lot of time trying to manage it with special doctors and et cetera, et cetera. Um, but I feel like I got there, like I'm just really glad that I'm that type of person that was happy to dive deep and do a lot of research. Um, and I know a lot of people don't have that time and luxury or the resources as well. So I really pride myself on helping girls, and I really cater a lot of my Instagram and my coaching towards girls that are going through hormonal issues because I know it can be really, really scary. And unfortunately, a lot of the time the healthcare system doesn't really seem to care. Which is really sad. What I've noticed is unless you're trying to have a baby, then they start to care, which I think is funny.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

But um Because you can't be having that baby if things aren't in check to start with, which people forget about too. It's like you can't just have a baby if you're going through these things. You need to start working it now. If you're like, cool, want to have a child in two or three years, put the work in now, kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 11:35

But also just like I just want to look after my body and be the healthiest I can be. And I'm really, really proud to say that like you wouldn't know that I have PCI now. Like I'm really lucky, I've done a lot of lot of hard work, but I don't have any of the symptoms anymore except for polycystic ovaries. Um, I have a regular period, I got rid of my acne, I'm able to manage my weight well. Um, and yeah, like I just wouldn't know that you know, if I went to the doctor now, you probably wouldn't know. But um, yeah, like it's a long journey, and exactly like you said, people don't know it exists until they get it, and I don't think there is a lot of talk about it. And the same with endo, like I don't know a ton about endo, and I think experiencing it and you know doing a course on it are two very different things. Yes. Um but I think you hear it thrown around a lot, but there's not a lot of research or um there's not a lot of education on it.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

So you obviously struggled with a bit of like weight gain bloating through navigating your journey. How did you kind of go through it? Because I think that's what a lot of girls struggle with most, is like going, cool. I don't mind that I've got it, but I hate that you know, one day I'm super bloated, next day I'm not. Then I've you know gained a kilo out of nowhere, then I haven't. Like, how have you kind of navigated that?

SPEAKER_00 13:00

I think it's about understanding that it's a long game, right? I went through so much trial and error, um, but it is, it's just like trying to work on things slowly over time. I really did get off all of the contraception and everything like that, and that helped me balance out my weight. And at the end of the day, I think there's so many girls with so many different symptoms around it. Like, I'm really lucky, like um, I don't have like a lot of hair growth, like a lot of girls might experience facial hair or a lot of additional hair growth. That's not something that I had to manage, so I wouldn't be able to speak on that, you know. And I'm sure like that's a that's a really big struggle. Um, I just really struggled with my acne. Yeah. Um, yeah, bloating, like a little bit of weight gain. But once I got off the contraception, all of that extra weight kind of seemed to go. But again, like I was already really focusing on the gym and on my nutrition, so that could have been a lot worse if I hadn't already been actively working towards those sort of things. Um, the missed periods was really, really regular, and you know, one day I do want to start a family, so that was like a concern always in the back of my mind. Um, but yeah, I just I went to a few doctors um and I worked with a PCOS nutritionist.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

And he took me through multiple things, and I think it was good, but I don't think again, like it was very expensive, it took a lot of time. I don't think that's a resource a lot of girls have. Um, but again, doing some background research, it's really common that going gluten-free um and dairy-free or at least lactose-free, is very beneficial for girls with PCOS because they're quite inflammatory foods. Um, so obviously for the bloating and everything, that really helped. But really sticking to a whole foods diet is so beneficial, and that's what I really noticed. But like I said, it's the long game. So now I don't live a gluten dairy-free lifestyle completely. Obviously, I try to stay whole foods, I try and make a lot of the food at home, keep it pretty simple. Um, but I went pretty crazy with the food. I wasn't eating onion, I was they call it like a low FODMAT diet. I did that for a long time, and and that sort of helped reset my gut imbalances, which has to do with the bloating and everything like that. Um, and overtraining as well. So I noticed, and this is even quite recently, is that again, you have to do your research on what your PCOS is like, what your body reacts to, but my body already has quite high cortisol. Yeah. So I'm easily stressed, and then any outside factors that can increase your stress just make it worse, right? So I really try and decrease coffee. I only try and have one a day, if not nothing. Um, you know, kind of get in off the um energy drinks, etc. The Diet Coke, which has been the hardest part, RIP. I do love a cheeky Pepsi Max. But again, it's very good. It's the long game, and I um went off of that stuff and I really looked after my body for a long time that my body and my gut was able to reset. So now when I have those things in moderation, it doesn't impact me. Yeah. What I did notice is it's quite funny, and I'm sure we've spoken about this on another podcast. But before I got a PT, before I started being serious in the gym, I was doing a lot of cardio hit workouts and then still struggling to lose the weight. But it's because I was constantly increasing my cortisol so much that my body was just con retaining fat and and water weight and being bloated. Um, and obviously before I dived into all of this, got diagnosed with PCOS, I didn't really understand it. But sometimes less is more, and again, this is just my story. Everyone is so different, but you really have to learn to listen and work with your body. Like I remember when we did HIROX last year, yeah, and I was doing six days of training, running three days, I was doing three strength sessions that always had a conditioning component at the end. And I remember I was probably the fittest I'd ever been. I did really good in the HIROCs, I was really proud of my time, but I remember feeling like I hated my body the most during that time because I was putting so much stress on my body. I was also in a calorie deficit, and this goes to show guys like you can be qualified, you can be a PT, you can feel like you know everything, and sometimes you still do things to your body that don't work or don't um fit with you, but I really didn't like how I looked, and that's because I was doing that overtraining. Um, I think I did lose my period for the month of the high rocks, like I was due for my period and then I didn't get it because my body was under so much stress. Um, and then so yeah, post-high rocks, I'm so glad I did it. I'm really proud of myself, but it also made me realize like that just isn't good for my body. And again, like I said, we can be PTs, we can know everything, and sometimes you still do silly things because I would look at high rocks athletes and go, wow, I want to body like them. Let me change my training to do what they do, and I will look like them, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Like the best I've ever looked at is training in the gym four or five days a week and like staying in a pretty simple calorie deficit. Yeah. So sometimes overdoing it more is not, you know, always better. So that's sort of my journey. I know I know I went on a bit of a ramble, but I think especially when you have these hormone imbalances, it's really tough to hear, but it is the long game because your body is like an amazing vessel, and you know, however old you are, like we're only 26, but my body has been living like this for 26 years, so you're not gonna be able to change something overnight, and I think it's really important to do the long game, but the long game also teaches you sustainability, so instead of just a quick fix and then thinking it's all better and then going back to your old ways, me working on my PCOS for three years and being really consistent with that has let me have a stable body, a sustainable lifestyle where I can have gluten and dairy occasionally and it not impact me. You know, I get my periods every single month on time now, like managing my stress and my cortisol, you know, and also my body, I like my body, like I'm training for things I enjoy my training. I'm not stressed or like in fatigue all the time because I've learned to work with it, and that's taken me a long time to do that.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Absolutely. And I think girls, regardless if you've got hormone imbalances or not, it's like every female when they start in their health and fitness journey, you've got to realize it's not about losing weight, leaning up, toning up. It's going, what is like Sarah said, the bigger picture? Like, are your hormones in check? Do you have the confidence in the gym? Do you actually like yourself? You know, do you know the education around nutrition? Have you got your bloods done in the last six months and get it, keeping that, you know, regular and topping that up every six months and stuff like that? Because that is what's actually gonna help you to lose the weight and tone up. It's not about putting yourself in a calorie deficit, doing all this cardio when you literally don't have any education on nutrition, you have imbalances with your hormones, you hate yourself, you look in the mirror and just want to like pick yourself apart straight away. Getting those things under control first is actually gonna be so much better. And I generally really hope you guys realize that because we can get so caught up in skinny talk, wanting to lose weight, but it's not gonna help you in all of these things out of track out of track. And regardless if you've got hormone issues or not, get those things in check, or hormone imbalances, not issues, get those in check because it's gonna make the biggest difference.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

100%. I think sometimes we really forget that the simple things work and the basics are basics for a reason. Like at the end of the day, you know, if you feel like you're not feeling like yourself or your body's not looking how you want it to look, instead of going 10,000% just into eating in a calorie deficit and training six days a week, I would almost say don't start there. Focus on your sleep. Are you getting quality sleep and enough sleep every single day? How is your stress? Are you constantly overly stressed? Because now we need to implement some stress management tools. Like, are you drinking enough water? Yeah. So silly. All the little things make such a difference. Are you getting your steps in? Like are you going outside? Like seeing the sun, like breathing some fresh air. Like they're almost more important basics. And um, you know, at the end of the day, like if you think about our ancestors, yeah, they were physical, but they didn't have the gym, they didn't have like 30 minutes on the stairmaster, etc. etc. Like they were focusing on these basics, and at the end of the day, that's what your body really needs and really thrives off, and then you can sort of add all the extras on top of there. But you mentioned it as well. I think staying on top of your blood tests is so important because me and my doctors wouldn't have known what I had if I didn't get a blood test. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

And just little things too, like low iron, is your thoraid in check? You know, are your hormones in check? All of these things can make a biggest difference. I know for me, I get low iron. And so if I start to get really tired and fatigued, you know, at two o'clock, if you're always tired, it's like maybe you are low in iron, not saying everyone is. Sometimes you're just tired at two o'clock. But it's sometimes common. And you think, oh, just do that next week or do it next week. And it's like, okay, well, now you're adding in all this extra chocolate at two o'clock to push you through when you could just go get your blood stun up your iron a little bit, and now you've got the energy. Same with your thoride, you know, you can be over and underactive, and that could play a big part with weight loss. And if you are really over, it's like, well, get that checked so we can bring it down, and vice versa. So don't take it lightly, go get your bloods done.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

I know it sounds so woo-woo, but it makes the biggest difference, even just once a year, and I think also it's so beneficial to go and get your bloods done so you can focus on what you need to instead of trying to manage everything, and some things probably don't need help. Absolutely. Earlier this year, I went and got my bloods done, and my naturopath said I have high estrogen. And again, you don't know these things until you get them done, but that's like she was just saying that's why like it's hard to build muscle mass. Like, okay, so now I need to really focus on protein and um oh this is why you know girls usually hold extra weight in these certain areas because they have high estrogen and you know, all of those things, and it's like, okay, that makes sense, and now I can just focus on that, decreasing my estrogen instead of me just assuming that it's other things and trying to work on them, but then not get in anywhere, you know? So I think it's so important and it's so helpful for you if you can just tunnel vision what you need to focus on instead of trying to do a million things, like that's how you're gonna get to where you want to be. 100%.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

And that's why it's good to really learn your body because your body's gonna be different to, or I know my body, for example, is different to Sarah's, different to our friends, different to our clients, and everyone needs different things. And when you look at these people on Instagram and you're like, oh, she's being able to do all this hierox stuff, maybe that's just how she can because of you know, she's got some things in check, whatever, she's got that sorted in that sense, and not that you don't have that sorted, but maybe you are someone like Sarah and you're you know navigating the PCOS at the moment and getting your hormones in check. Once that is, you might be able to go push like that girl on Instagram with her Hyrux sessions, but everyone is so different, and I really want you girls to really start to listen to your body. Wake up in the morning and take a second. How am I feeling? Am I feeling good? Beautiful. Are you gonna have a good breakfast? Are you gonna get your steps in today? At the end of the day as well, how did today feel? Were you a bit tired? Oh, maybe when was the last time you got your blood stun? Maybe you're feeling like I've actually got all this energy today, beautiful, your post-period, stuff like that. So get in tune with your body because it's gonna be so different to everyone else's, and that way you can see when we can start to flag things when they are a little bit off or when they're on and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

And I think it's so important to not compare yourself to other people in this sense. Like, you know, for some girls that might not really understand the world of bodybuilding, you're gonna look at their bodies and go, Oh my goodness, I wish I looked like them. But you don't know that their hormones are out of whack. You don't know their stress is high, they're super fatigued, they don't have a period. Same with all these Hyrux people. I was probably going, wow, they look amazing, so strong. But at the end of the day, I don't know, you know, what they're struggling with as well. And I think it's real oops, I just hit them up. Getting passionate over here. I think it's really hard until you start diving deep into it, especially again, like Sarah when she was younger and Sarah now are two completely different people, and there's still things that I want to achieve with my body. Um, I'm not saying I'm 100% happy with where I am at, but learning to work with your body and love your body makes you feel so much better than how like if my hormones were out of whack and shit.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

But literally again, think about working with it.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

I love that.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

You're gonna have to cut this. No, no, it's all good. Just cough over there. Um but it's really about working with it and going, you know what, I'm on my period this week, so I'm not gonna be pushing all these hierarchic sessions, or I'm feeling really good, you know, like just got my bloods done, everything's came back perfect, food's been really on track. I'm gonna go push, you know, a half marathon run on the weekend because I can. But really work with your body. There's no point putting it under more stress if it's already stressed because you're just gonna make it feel worse. You're gonna feel worse, you're gonna go into, you know, and I hate to bring it up because, you know, trigger warning for girls, but you can go into those binges into in um, what do you call it, into episodes and stuff like that. I know I've been there post-com. I, you know, obviously didn't eat chocolate or anything like that for a year, and then incorporating it back in, it was really triggering for me. I would go to Cole's after work and then sit in the car park and eat blocks of chocolate. Like I'm not kidding, like four or five in a night, and then head home because I was so embarrassed. But it's because I was trying to still work against my body and going, well, I want to stay lean, so I need to keep doing all this cardio. And it was like, that's not the goal now. The goal is to put muscle back on so you can get your period back and get your hormones feeling in check. But I was so caught up in wanting to feel skinny, but at the same time, I was just bloated all the time because I was eating like 2,000 calories of chocolate a day. So it's really going, you know what? My body right now needs to actually eat some more food, put on some muscle so I can get my hormones feeling better. I can still eat chocolate, but I don't need bars and bars of it. And if you are struggling with things like this, I would definitely more go see a psychologist. They can really help you because all the times when you're feeling like binging or you know, going for the chocolates because you're trying to fill a different void. If you're stressed all the time and you go for chocolate, it's because you're stressed. How can you deal with your stress in a better way? Or if you feel like you're always tired and that's when you go for the hot chips, it's like, well, how can you deal with your tiredness more and stuff like that instead of filling that void straight with food all the time?

SPEAKER_00 28:56

100%. That's what I was getting at. Like managing your lifestyle and your food and your hormones, working on those things instead of pushing for a specific physique, you are gonna feel so much better and love yourself so much more. You'd actually be surprised. It's not actually always about what you look like on the outside, it really is about the inside, and they talk about your gut health, your gut being your second brain. So you wanna make sure that you're looking after that, and that's not always necessarily with food. That's obviously managing the stress, the water, the sleep, everything like that.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

So I think the most beautiful people in the world that I know is because they're beautiful on the inside, and I know that's so cliche, but I don't know all the Victoria's Secret models out there, so not gonna come at them. They're probably beautiful people too. But and I'm not saying my friends don't look like Victoria's Secret models as well. But when I think of beautiful people, if someone said to me, like, who's one of the most beautiful people you know, I'm thinking about people's inside straight away. I'm not even thinking about who, quote unquote, the prettiest person is or who the fittest is or who the tonest is. I'm thinking who radiates that sunshine of just like they love themselves, they're confident and not in an egotistical way, they're just that person you want to be around. And they could weigh 70 kilos, 90 kilos, 20 kilos. I don't care because they're such a beautiful person. And that's what you want to reach for. And they're the people that have their hormones in check, they're looking after themselves, they're working with their body, you know, they're not tearing it apart, they're getting the help they need if they are going through stuff, and that's where you want to get to. And it takes time. We're not gonna put it out there of like, oh, just do it today, girls. It's that easy. It's taken me and Sarah years to get to where we are, but you've got to kind of put that action in saying, go, you know what, today is the day I'm actually gonna finally step up and take care of myself and work with my body. Maybe that is investing in a PT. Maybe that is getting a nutritionist, maybe that's going to the doctor and getting things sorted, maybe that's getting a psychologist. But you've got to take the action and then stay on that journey and know it's gonna be hard, it's not gonna happen overnight. It's probably gonna take you a few years. But if you say fuck yeah, I'm in for the long run, you're gonna get the results you want.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

A hundred percent. And getting in that good headspace by managing everything on the inside allows you to eventually get to a spot where you don't have to think about that anymore, and you can invest that time into doing your physical, your outside body, like exactly like you were saying, you're thinking about people that you think are the most beautiful from the inside, and they probably do look great on the outside because they look after themselves in all aspects, but like you said, it's not gonna happen overnight, you have to do one thing at a time. But I do think you know, all of you guys listening as well, think about your favourite people, think about who you think are the most beautiful people, and they're gonna be people that have amazing personalities that look after themselves, that give to others, and they're gonna be beautiful on the outside as well because they radiate that energy.

SPEAKER_02 31:54

In and out is what we want. I was gonna say something really cool then, and I screwed it. But pretty much, I don't know it anymore. But we hope you guys have taken from this episode to go get your blood stun if you haven't. I sound like a you know blimmer medical person.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

Giving mum mum energy, but guys, it's do it, it's life-changing now. Like you don't want to get to a point later on. Like, I really 100% I'll say doing that, getting diagnosed with PCOS was scary at the start, but I'm so glad I did it when I did because three years later, which I know sounds like a long time, but it's but it's not it's flown by. Like I said, like I'm in a way better position mentally, physically, emotionally than I was back then because I just took the jump, I went and got tested, found out what was wrong with me, and then I've been able to make that a priority, and now I'm at a point where I'm like, I wouldn't even need to go to the doctor.

SPEAKER_02 32:55

Well, even when I first met you, like we had to go to gluten-free and dairy-free restaurants, which there's nothing wrong with. I've got a lot of friends that are like that, but you were so caught up in like, oh, I can't have that, or you're tracking everything to the tea. And again, nothing wrong with those things, but now you like just got married and you just drank the whole night and looks the exact same from when you first started the day because you'd put the work in and then you get to kind of have those benefits of going, you know what, I can eat out now, I can drink, I can enjoy myself. You don't do it all the time, but here and there, instead of before, where you had to track everything to the tea and you couldn't eat half the things out there.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Absolutely, and that's what building a sustainable lifestyle is like. Like I put in the hard work and it wasn't that fun and exciting for a period of time, but now I'm at a point where I I can have a glass of wine and it doesn't impact my body the same way it used to. And like we just went out for coffee and we had banana bread, whereas before I wouldn't have done that, would have been checking the ingredients, but I had that because I know, yep, it's just a once-off. I'd rarely ever do that. Yeah, and it's not gonna impact my body.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

No, I love it. So, girls, get your bloods done, put in the work if you feel like you're in a stage right now where you are, you know, doing some binging or feel like you've got PCOS who are navigating that or anything, just anything internal that you know is off, keep the keep doing it, keep working towards getting better, keep working on the solutions. It's gonna pay off, especially if you're in your 20s, you're gonna thank yourself in you know, two or three years, like Sarah said. Put the hard yards in, and if you need help, reach out people there to help you use those people.

SPEAKER_00 34:28

Should we quickly go over? I wrote down some symptoms that girls might be feeling. And again, this is not to diagnose anyone, but I think sometimes we get so caught up in the hustle culture or your body's been feeling a certain way for such a long time you think it's normal. But these things are not normal. So love it. Again, we're not telling you that you're sick in any way. But just yeah, maybe it's something to look out for. So I just wrote down a few, these are not everything, but some symptoms that you might be struggling with that could show that you have some hormone imbalances, are being constantly fatigued, having a low mood all the time, thinning hair, bloating or poor digestion, like not going to the toilet regularly, frequently ill. And this is really common. Um, I know a lot of my clients are teachers or nurses, and so they think they get ill all the time from there, which can be true, but also multiple times a year is a lot. I think we should only begin sick one to two times a year if you have a healthy immune system. Insomnia or constantly waking up multiple times during the night, not being able to stay asleep. Stay, I know this is contradictory, stable or constant weight changes. So if your weight is constantly going up and down by significant amounts all the time, that can be um a reason for a hormone imbalance, or not being able to lose weight. So into like stable weight, like you feel like you're in a calorie deficit, you feel like you're working out and all of that stuff, but your weight's not moving, that can definitely be a sign of a hormone imbalance. We've spoken about this, but irregular periods or losing your period, um, chronic stress, and this can be shown through like an elevated heart rate constantly. This can also feed into like appetite, high appetites or loss of appetite. Um, and also usually we find out that people have chronic stress because of their sleeping pattern. Um, so that and also low libido. Yeah. So not one to yeah, we should notice that our libido is gonna be constantly changing through our cycle. That's very normal as women. But if you feel like you have low libido or none, pretty much, like trans I had none constantly, that can be a sign as well. So, like we said, we're not diagnosing anyone. Um, but maybe look out for those ones.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

No, I love it. So, guys, make sure you do download this episode. If you have a friend or someone that is maybe struggling with these things and you feel like you got something from this episode and that they will as well, definitely share it to them. And if you're the friend that got sent it, hey, we appreciate you. Welcome. As always, go follow us on Instagram at cast coaching and coach Sarah Greena, yes, Sarah Greena, and our form her podcast, where we do drop new episodes every single Friday. So make sure you stay tuned, download so you know when we uh drop a new episode, and we'll be back in your ears. Bye!