201-SYNCPodcast_JennyJaucian

[00:00:00] Jenny Swisher: Welcome friends to this episode of the sync your life podcast. We have crossed the 200 episode mark, which is super exciting. And I am excited to bring to you someone who I feel like is a friend, even though we’ve only met once before. Um, but I get to ride my bike with her at least once a week, if not more often, this is Jenny Houshen.

[00:01:17] Jenny Swisher: Uh, she is a body trainer. And I’m super excited to just bring her to you guys to hear more about her story, to hear how she got into fitness. You know, you guys know that I’m a fitness enthusiast, you know, that I love to talk about how movement can really impact your life in a lot of ways. And when it comes to women’s hormones, of course, but also just life in general, right?

[00:01:36] Jenny Swisher: Like it’s, it’s for men and women exercise needs to be embraced as, as part of just our daily routine. So she’s part of my daily routine. She is someone who is on my screen. And, I’m super blessed to have met her and to be, be having this opportunity to bring her to you on the show. So without further ado, Jenny, I would love for you to share with my audience more about who you are and what you do and maybe how you got into fitness.

[00:01:59] Jenny Jaucian: Yeah, well, thank you so much for having me. I’m so honored. Um, as you said, I am a body trainer and I’ve been in the fitness industry for the last 10 years, started off as a group fitness instructor. Then I became a personal trainer, have done so many different things in the fitness industry. Um, but now, you know, I am known as kind of like this on camera fitness.

[00:02:22] Jenny Jaucian: expert where people can stream my workouts, whether it’s on body or on YouTube. I have my own community wellness and fitness membership called empower you. So my mission is really simple. It’s to help women get fit. Through fun and effective workouts. And if I can provide them a little bit of inspiration and motivation and a little bit of life coaching along the way, that would be incredible because, you know, most people start their fitness journey for aesthetic reasons, right?

[00:02:54] Jenny Jaucian: They want to tone down their. Their love handles, they want to reduce their belly fat. They want to feel stronger and or grow a bigger booty, right? It all comes down to vanity when we first start. But what people don’t realize on their fitness journey is that it truly is a mental transformation. In order to get results physically, you have to change what’s going on in your head.

[00:03:23] Jenny Jaucian: It is truly, um, a beautiful emotional and mental transformation, that I’ve experienced. And I want to help others do that as well, because to really get results in fitness. You have to be consistent and to be consistent, you have to change your habits and to change your habits. You have to change your identity.

[00:03:41] Jenny Jaucian: You have to change the way you think about how to live. It’s not some quick fix. It’s not this overnight transformation. It’s really about creating a lifestyle. So how can I share that? How can I teach people what I’ve learned along the way and give them a little dose of behavior change in the process?

[00:04:02] Jenny Jaucian: Um, so that’s kind of what I do in a nutshell.

[00:04:05] Jenny Swisher: Yeah, that’s great. I was making me remember back to my early days, um, and health coaching. And I remember I was going to the corporate gym, like the little tiny gym that was in my corporate office when I was working my full time job. This other guy and I would always kind of fight over the treadmill, right?

[00:04:21] Jenny Swisher: And so I was, I was known as one of the handful of people in the corporate workplace who would go on the lunch hour and they would do the exercise, right? It’s interesting because, you know, this was before I was ever into like body coaching or anything else. This was just me on my own wellness journey, trying to move every day at lunch instead of sitting at my desk.

[00:04:40] Jenny Swisher: And it’s interesting the amount of influence that that had on other people. Right. Like I would, I would go to have lunch with coworkers and they’d be like, Oh, you’re not, you’re not going to the gym today. And then what’s that like, and what do you do and how do you know how to train? And it’s interesting how we can influence people, I think through just.

[00:04:55] Jenny Swisher: The way we show up in the world and our energy. And I, it’s my experience that the people who embrace fitness and whatever that might look like, it’s different for everybody. The ones who do just show up in the world differently with a different energy and that’s contagious. Right. And I think that’s what I love so much about you.

[00:05:11] Jenny Swisher: That’s why I choose your bike rides because I love the energy that you’re putting out there. I love that. I know I’m not going to get just a great workout, but I’m going to get a little bit of some mindset work as well. You’re going to, you’re going to kind of coach me in that, in that area too. So. I love that you said, I like to help women get fit through fun.

[00:05:27] Jenny Swisher: Cause that’s, I see that in you as far as like, you’re always wanting to throw a little dance party and do all the things. But I want to talk more about this topic of, of fitness for you. Has it always been fitness for you? Like, have you always been someone who’s been into this and what has that journey looked like?

[00:05:45] Jenny Jaucian: Yeah. So growing up, I wanted to be a professional dancer. That’s all I knew. I never did any sports when I was two years old. That’s when I got into my first dance class and I told my parents, I think I was like age eight, nine, 10, a very impressionable time that I wanted to be a professional dancer. And I will never forget this.

[00:06:08] Jenny Jaucian: We were at the dinner table, just eating our dinner like usual. And I told them my dream and they said, okay, well, if you want to be a professional dancer, you have to lose some weight. And so that was the first moment where all of a sudden I looked at my body as the problem, as the thing that I needed to change in order to achieve my dream.

[00:06:32] Jenny Jaucian: And I don’t think they said that in a negative way. They didn’t want to hurt me, but it did hurt me. And ever since then, I had been on a mission to make myself smaller, to make myself thinner, to change my body, because if I didn’t, I wouldn’t be successful at the dancer. made me develop body dysmorphia issues.

[00:06:56] Jenny Jaucian: I’d never had an overweight problem. I, you know, looking back at pictures, I was very small. I was, I’ve been a very small person in general. I’ve never really had huge issues. But it was the insecurity of myself that really wrecked me. It was the poor self image that really wrecked me. And so, I had done all the terrible, unhealthy things to try to lose weight.

[00:07:22] Jenny Jaucian: All the fad diets. Starving myself. Eating 400 calories a day. Um, Overtraining doing two hours of cardio a day and nothing, obviously nothing was working. Right. So I had to figure out. Okay, there’s got to be a better way. Obviously, I’m doing it all wrong because I’m not getting results and I’m working harder than anyone else I know.

[00:07:49] Jenny Jaucian: And so that’s what really propelled me into learning the right way to do nutrition, the right way to exercise. So as I was pursuing my dance career, I was also trying to educate myself in fitness and I would go to these fitness classes and buy all the nutrition books and try to learn and implement into my life.

[00:08:11] Jenny Jaucian: And, um, over time. I found myself leaning more and more towards nutrition and fitness and my passion for dance has always been there. But the passion to make it a career started to fade away because I was transforming my mindset around nutrition and fitness during this time. And I was also changing my body slowly, but surely.

[00:08:33] Jenny Jaucian: And so I actually around in my early twenties, I became a beach body coach and a lot of people don’t know that, but I saw T25 on an infomercial and was instantly hooked. I saw Shanti and all of the backup people around him and I was like, I want to do that. I’ve never stepped foot into a gym. I don’t know how to do deadlifts or squats.

[00:08:57] Jenny Jaucian: I don’t know how to do anything, but I want to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so I became a coach, did T25 from start to finish, transformed my body, started helping people on their health and fitness journeys, and in the process became a nutrition coach, personal trainer, and all that jazz. And so that’s how my career shifted from trying to pursue dance and, uh, you know, it moved to fitness.

[00:09:24] Jenny Jaucian: And so Here I am now. It’s, it’s a full circle moment because I started with a Beachbody program to help me get results. And now I’m the trainer helping thousands of other people get results. And it, it still gives me goosebumps to realize, like, I am what Shanti was for me. 10, 12 years ago. Right.

[00:09:49] Jenny Swisher: Yeah. That’s so cool. Yeah. When you said that it brought me back to a flashback of, um, there’s nothing like speed 2. 0, like once you’ve done speed 2. 0 from T25, it’s just, it’s like, I can see you loving that. Cause it’s like a little bit of a mix of like the danciness with the fitness, you know, um, that’s awesome.

[00:10:05] Jenny Swisher: Yeah. I think it’s. I love that though, because I see this no matter who I’m interviewing, whether it’s somebody who’s into like marriage counseling or personal development or, or, you know, hormone, you know, functional medicine doctor or whatever, like usually what brings people to where they are and fulfilling their purpose is the struggle that they’ve had, uh, you know, of themselves, like something that they’ve gone through themselves or, wanting to translate the mindset and That they used to have into what they now have and then helping that with other people.

[00:10:33] Jenny Swisher: So it, it makes total sense for me that, that this is the need that you serve, based on your own story. And I think this idea of self love is something that we should expound upon because I think this is something that is. You’re so right when you hit the nail on the head when you said a lot of women in particular will come into fitness because they want to tone the abs or they want the booty or they want to lose weight by spring break or they for their wedding dress or whatever, right?

[00:11:00] Jenny Swisher: Like it does start a lot of times as that aesthetic goal. But if you know, I’ve heard this said before, if you can’t love yourself where you are now. Loving yourself there is most likely not going to be any different, right? And I see this firsthand with women who are constantly in sort of what I would consider diet culture mentality, right?

[00:11:19] Jenny Swisher: This whole eat less, work harder, it’s never enough, right, is the best way to summarize it. So what would you say, you know, for the woman who is maybe doesn’t see herself as that quite yet, maybe doesn’t have that self awareness, but who is embracing fitness as a 21 day thing, or, you know, a diet culture mentality, how would you maybe help her reframe her, her narrative?

[00:11:42] Jenny Jaucian: Yeah, well, I am a perfect example of hitting my quote unquote dream body and still not being happy with my body. A few years ago, did all the things to try to get myself even leaner and I found myself at the lowest body weight of my adult life. And I still would pick my body apart in the mirror. And so we have to realize that no weight, no dream body is going to make you feel more confident, feel more loved, feel more accepted without changing your mindset with it.

[00:12:24] Jenny Jaucian: Okay, so we have to understand that the thing that we think we’re going to achieve by hitting this certain weight, this thing, whether it’s confidence, acceptance, love, gratitude, appreciation, happiness. All of those things are emotional. They’re not tangible, they’re intangible. So we have to understand that if we want to feel those things, we can actually have those things now.

[00:12:52] Jenny Jaucian: We do not have to delay those emotions for when we hit XYZ goal. Okay? I realize this. A few years back, three years ago, I actually was at a, you know, a bigger weight. I was about 20 pounds heavier than where I’m at now. And I was unhappy with how I looked. That was my truth. But I also knew that This unhappiness was a choice and I had to ask myself, okay, if I were confident, if I were happy, if I loved who I was, what would I be doing today?

[00:13:28] Jenny Jaucian: What would I, um, be telling myself? What would I be wearing? What would I do every single morning when I woke up? And I started to act as if. I was already confident. I started to act as if I already loved my body. And so I literally wrote this down in a journal. And I really recommend every woman does this.

[00:13:49] Jenny Jaucian: What would I do if I already were at XYZ goal? And I told myself in my journal, I would start wearing bright, bold colors every single day because my wardrobe was all black. It was all gray. It was all baggy. It was all all loose because I didn’t want to show my show myself. I didn’t want to stand out. And this version of me that I was imagining in my head, she wore bright, bold colors.

[00:14:15] Jenny Jaucian: She wasn’t afraid of getting attention from other people. She wore clothes that she felt amazing in and it didn’t. matter if she had a little bit of pudge on her waistline, she was confident in herself. Okay. So I started to really list out all those things. She wore bright, bold colors. She worked out in a sports bra.

[00:14:37] Jenny Jaucian: She. Um, you know, took care of her body, she ate well, she drank her water, she prioritized fitness every single day, she didn’t, you know, lean into those excuses and procrastinate. And so I started acting as if I was already at my goal weight, or my goal energy, so to speak. And before you know it, I started to see my body transform.

[00:15:02] Jenny Jaucian: But it wasn’t because of my, of like chronically doing tons of cardio a day. It wasn’t because I was eating 800 calories a day. It was because I decided to change my energy. And when I changed my energy, my choices reflected that. And when my choices changed, so did by physical transformation. So it really starts with being who you want to be and then doing what you need to do in order to become that person.

[00:15:34] Jenny Jaucian: And then you eventually get to have that physical transformation in the end. So, um, I would recommend everyone to start with the energy, figure out, you know, what is the emotion? What is the thing that you really want? Behind the vanity goal and start acting from there first, and eventually you’ll get to that physical transformation.

[00:15:57] Jenny Swisher: Yeah, so good. I was thinking about when we launched this podcast, um, over 200 episodes ago, I remember telling my husband, like, who am I to create a podcast in women’s hormone health, right? Like, I’m at, at the time, I’m like, I’m not a doctor. I’m not, you know, I’m not an expert. And he was like, What he, that was the same exact thing, right?

[00:16:16] Jenny Swisher: It was like, well, how do you want to show up? Like why, what is it that you’re, what mission are you on and why are you on it? Like, why, you know, who are you wanting to serve? And I’m like, well, I don’t necessarily want to be somebody’s doctor, but I want to encourage women to self advocate for themselves in the doctor’s office.

[00:16:31] Jenny Swisher: I want to help them equip them with the knowledge that they need of their bodies so that they know what to ask and what to do. And he’s like, okay, well, you sound pretty confident in that, like step into that. Right. And I was like, how do I step into this role? Right. And so. There’s not to say that there wasn’t like hesitancy, but there was this decision, right?

[00:16:49] Jenny Swisher: It’s ultimately a decision of like, am I going to keep continuing with that less than mentality? Or am I going to step into the enough mentality of no, I, I do have enough knowledge. I do, I am enough, right. When it comes to my body or whatever it is, um, it’s the same for everything. So I love that just sort of the.

[00:17:08] Jenny Swisher: You know, stepping into it maybe before you’re ready. And I I’ve interviewed other people here on the podcast about different things regarding body dysmorphia and, um, just the way we think about our bodies and body image. And the one thing that continually pops up when I talk to people who have overcome that is the same.

[00:17:26] Jenny Swisher: It’s the same concept of whether it’s affirmations or wearing the bright color, colored clothing or, or the different things that you see that self doing at a more confident level. And then magically, right. It happens, it happens because you’re living it and because you’re finally breathing it and you’re believing it.

[00:17:42] Jenny Swisher: So that’s, that’s, that’s amazing. When it comes to, you know, I want to talk more about nutrition because I’d love to just, if you’re willing to share, you know, what, what different. Adjustments that you have to make along the way. And I would also just love to know as a, as a trainer, as somebody who I know I’ve interviewed at least Joan, I’ve talked to other trainers as well, who were like, I eat like more than you would believe.

[00:18:03] Jenny Swisher: Right. So I want to encourage my women who are listening. Like this is a true female trainer that we’re talking to here. Who’s on camera. I want us, I want you to share with us, you know, obviously you’re not eating 400 calories a day, so I would love for you to share whatever you’re willing to share about your nutrition as well.

[00:18:19] Jenny Jaucian: Yeah. It’s been a journey for sure. Um, you know, I was that person who was always reducing my calories to dangerous levels. But at this point, I am a good balance between tracking and also intuitive eating, finding the flow because tracking is so important and necessary to educate yourself on just nutrition in general.

[00:18:49] Jenny Jaucian: right? So many people are deficient in protein, right? We all know this. And so tracking maybe your protein, um, if it’s just that, or just tracking your overall calories, it just helps you understand where you’re at so that you can create the necessary changes to reach your goals. So I definitely use my tracking app if I need to, to make sure that I’m hitting my targets.

[00:19:16] Jenny Jaucian: I make sure that I’m getting enough. Adequate amount of protein, about 0. 7 to, you know, one gram of protein per body weight. And then once I have that down, I just fill in the gaps, and I make sure I eat until satisfaction. I don’t count calories right now, and I normally don’t ever. But if I see the weight teetering in the direction that I don’t want, then sure, I’ll start, I’ll go back to tracking and just see if I’ve slipped up a little bit.

[00:19:46] Jenny Jaucian: So I, I definitely give myself grace, but I am someone who has the philosophy of real food first. I make sure that most of my diet comes from unprocessed, real, whole foods that I make myself about 90 percent of the time. I get my sugar from real whole food sources, raw honey, fruit, etc. Um, but it’s mostly plant based with a great source of protein in each meal and lots of vegetables.

[00:20:16] Jenny Jaucian: That’s pretty much the simplicity of my diet

[00:20:20] Jenny Swisher: plan. Yeah. I love that. Simple is the key. Well, I wrote down the phrase getting enough because I think the that’s the token phrase, right? And that’s, that’s where I see most women struggle is not getting enough protein, not getting enough, especially women who train women who are into whether it’s home workouts or fitness training of some sort, not eating enough and then putting themselves into the state of low energy.

[00:20:42] Jenny Swisher: And then they wonder why their energy is so low, right? But I think it’s a difference in mindset, like not to bring it back full circle, but most of what I hear is I’m probably eating too much, or I know I’m eating too much, right? This whole idea of. Of too much or too little and really, and I, and at the end of the day, it’s hearing you and hearing Elise and I know I’ve preached it right.

[00:21:04] Jenny Swisher: Like it’s really about eating enough. It’s about getting enough of the right things. So unprocessed foods, whole foods, all the things for me, people ask me this question. And I always say I have a protein goal each day. Um, if I’m tracking, I’m tracking protein and fiber. And those are my two things that I’m tracking because if I obsess too much about like what my macro should be and my carbs and all the things, I will literally send me into major anxiety.

[00:21:28] Jenny Swisher: And I found that women who, I mean, it works for some people and that’s great. And I’m not here to shame it, but I have found that a lot of women struggle when there is a science put to what they should eat as opposed to sort of that intuition and general guidelines. And I agree with you that like.

[00:21:42] Jenny Swisher: Measuring and tracking for a short period of time to say, say, am I getting enough? Am I getting enough of the right things is a great way to sort of just check in with yourself, but turning it into like, you know, nitpicking on a teaspoon, a teaspoon of nut butter versus two is, can sometimes be a little crazy.

[00:21:57] Jenny Swisher: So. I want to ask also, um, because I know we want to touch on, on cycles thinking and your experience with that. But before we get to that, I think I do want to ask this question of, you know, we’ve talked about nutrition. We’ve talked about, our mindset and, and preparing for changes along the way in our life.

[00:22:13] Jenny Swisher: But I want to talk about fun because that is sort of your token, your token thing. And honestly, I’ll just be transparent and say, this is my number one weakness, right? Like I remember I saw one of my, uh, my doctors recently and they were like, you need, like, we need some more fun. Like Jenny is always serious, Jenny.

[00:22:30] Jenny Swisher: Right. So I’m, I always used to joke around with my, my coaching team that. Whiteboarding is fun for me. Like, I think that’s a problem, right? So I need to, I need to like step into your world. Right. I need to do like the dance parties are so out of my comfort zone, but let’s talk more about what bringing fun into your life can do for that role reversal with our mindset.

[00:22:51] Jenny Jaucian: Yeah. It’s all about figuring out ways to stay consistent on your fitness journey. For me, I had a negative association and relationship with fitness because to me in my early twenties and teens, I associated fitness as punishment or consequence for, you know, my bad habits over the weekend and I had to punish my body.

[00:23:12] Jenny Jaucian: And so I started to create that relationship and going to the gym. Was less and less appealing to me because I didn’t want to punish myself. I didn’t want to hate my body and destroy it. And so what really helped me create consistency when I didn’t have it early on was making it feel. Like a dance because I grew up as a dancer and I gravitated towards music and, you know, moving to the beat and getting this energy from the people around me.

[00:23:45] Jenny Jaucian: So I gravitated towards, you know, Chalene Johnson’s like turbo kick. Boxing at the gym or hip hop fitness dance classes. That was what helped me get into the door. And as soon as I got into the door and was able to be more consistent, then I was able to start branching off to maybe the strength training workout classes, or the HIIT workout classes that weren’t so rhythmic based.

[00:24:11] Jenny Jaucian: And so, I think enjoyment and fun Is one of the key elements that will help you stick to fitness long term, uh, because we all know if it’s not a lifestyle, you’re, you’re just going to make excuses. There are so many things in the day that’s going to pull us in different directions and fitness will be the last thing on your priority to do list.

[00:24:32] Jenny Jaucian: But if you can associate when I sweat. I have the best time when I sweat. I feel so much better afterwards. You’re not going to be pulled by willpower anymore. It’s going to just be something that you want to do. You’re going to be intrinsically motivated to move your body. And so when you can find that intrinsic motivation, You never need to use willpower.

[00:24:57] Jenny Jaucian: You never have to push yourself. It’s going to be a pulling energy rather than a pushing energy. And so that’s why I think finding ways to make fitness fun is so important. I love pickleball over the, on the weekends. I sometimes just don’t like to do traditional cardio. Like, you know, I, I’m a cycle instructor, but sometimes I just don’t want to be on a bike for 30 to 45 minutes.

[00:25:19] Jenny Jaucian: Okay. I like to move my body in all of these different directions. And so if I can find a way. To, you know, have people around me such as like a pickleball partner, like my boyfriend and just make it more fun or go to a dance class. I’m going to try to do that because that’s gonna, that’s going to pull me towards exercise.

[00:25:37] Jenny Jaucian: And at the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter what you do. It’s. Doing it that that’s what’s most important.

[00:25:43] Jenny Swisher: Yeah. My, my mom, um, got really into Zumba several years ago, you know, Zumba, maybe it’s still all the rage, but it was all the rage at one point. And she got really into it. And that was, that was what kept bringing her back to doing it.

[00:25:56] Jenny Swisher: Right? Like she really struggled with. Going to the gym and gym memberships or working with a trainer and all the things, but when she found Zumba, it was like, oh, this is fun. This is fun for me. So this is making exercise fun is truly the first step. Um, I won’t say that I ever started that way. I started with P90X, which I don’t know if anyone has ever said is fun.

[00:26:15] Jenny Swisher: But I started with it and I always make the joke that my husband and I should have popped a bag of popcorn. And just watched it the first time because we were literally watching Tony and Drea and all these people on screen doing things that we were like, what is that? Like a one, one arm pushup. I don’t even know.

[00:26:29] Jenny Swisher: Um, but for me, it’s everybody’s different, right? Zumba for my mom is what brought her back for me. And it totally makes sense in understanding my personality better. Now, P90X was the thing for me because it was a challenge. It was like something that was like, Oh, like there’s people who can do this. Then I’m going to do this.

[00:26:46] Jenny Swisher: Right. So. I think that’s, that’s, that’s key to this whole equation is finding what’s fun for you. Find what finding what brings you back. So I want to ask you about this cycle syncing venture that you tried and that you’ve played with. This is actually how we got connected on, on Instagram was like, I got tagged in one of your reels by multiple people.

[00:27:05] Jenny Swisher: They were like, look, she’s, she was doing cycle syncing. So that’s how we connected. But I know you mentioned even just to me when we first chatted that. This was something, you know, that you, you incorporated and saw a huge difference with. So I would love for you to share, you know, what you played with and why and, and all of that experience, if you will.

[00:27:22] Jenny Jaucian: Yeah. So I have had very painful cramps for most of my life. I usually have to pop in some Advil or Tylenol, ibuprofen to just get through those heavy days. And there was like a point just this last year where I literally got nauseous and threw up because my cramps were so painful. And so when I heard about cycle, cycle syncing, I, I mean, I had to give it a shot because I didn’t want to deal with this pain every single month.

[00:27:57] Jenny Jaucian: And so I started learning about it and really makes sense with all the different phases. It makes sense to tailor your fitness. Uh, with your cycle, it makes sense to tailor your nutrition for all of the changing of hormones and the nutritional deficiencies that might happen during your cycle. And so I started implementing after, um, I listened to a workshop from someone who is explaining it.

[00:28:20] Jenny Jaucian: And. It was incredible. I think the moment I started dialing down my nutrition with the different phases, um, the next period that I had, I had virtually no cramps. It was incredible. I took a break from like the high intensity workouts. I took a break from, um, the heavy weightlifting on the menstrual phase.

[00:28:43] Jenny Jaucian: And I just was able to move my body in a very easy, gentle way. And I really felt. So connected with my body. It was very interesting. It was almost like this meditative experience because I was really in tune with my body and just listening to what it needed. And, um, yeah, it was, it was amazing. So I still follow it loosely.

[00:29:07] Jenny Jaucian: But, um, sometimes I can’t follow, like, I can’t tailor my fitness the way I’d like to because I’m an instructor. I have to teach a HIIT class when my period strikes. I have to do those things. But, like, if I have the choice, I’ll definitely try to tune into my body and honor what it needs during those different phases.

[00:29:31] Jenny Swisher: Yeah, that’s one of the biggest questions that I get from people who take my courses. A lot of women are fitness instructors. And so they’ll say, well, how do I do this if I’m a fitness instructor? And I always say, well, it’s kind of like saying that, you know, I have the same question pops up for people who are like marathon runners or they’re training for something.

[00:29:46] Jenny Swisher: And they’re like, well, what happens if like my period starts on the training day? Right? There’s, there’s a lot that’s without, that’s out of our control. You can’t necessarily change your class on body, or you can’t necessarily, uh, change when that race is going to be, but the, the other days, right, when you’re not scheduled, those are the days that you can sort of tap into your energy and you can say like, how am I really feeling today?

[00:30:07] Jenny Swisher: Is this workout going to give me energy or deplete my energy? And I also love what you had to say about the nutrition, because that’s been a big piece for me too. Um. Incorporating more cruciferous vegetables like during ovulatory phase, making sure that I’m detoxifying all that excess estrogen, um, seed cycling has been a big thing.

[00:30:23] Jenny Swisher: And we talk about it here on the podcast a lot and really ultimately. The two testimonials that I receive from women who learn cycle syncing through my course is usually number one is thank you for giving me permission to listen to my body. Right. Because we’ve become as women, we’ve become so conditioned to just the every day I exercise every day.

[00:30:43] Jenny Swisher: This is what I do as opposed to how do I really feel? And would I be better served today with a long walk as opposed to the hit class or, or vice versa? Do I really need the hit class today? Right. So, I think it’s this, this intuition thing. I find that women have sort of lost touch with. And when we can kind of re tap into that.

[00:31:04] Jenny Swisher: Whether it’s, you know, dealing with painful periods or for, in my case, that’s migraine headaches, right? Like tapping into like, why am I feeling this way? And what are my hormones doing this week, as opposed to maybe next week or whatever, and how can I tailor my, my training and my nutrition to that?

[00:31:19] Jenny Swisher: That’s awesome. So, um, what’s next for you? Like you talked about how you have this, this 30 day fitness challenge coming up. You’ve got to empower you, but tell us, you know, outside of the body trainer, Jenny, like who are you and how do you work with people and all that kind of stuff?

[00:31:34] Jenny Jaucian: Yeah. So I, I mean, my mission again is to reach as many women as I can to help them fall in love with fitness and just fall in love with themselves.

[00:31:45] Jenny Jaucian: And so I. Created a fitness and wellness community membership to really support women in their health and fitness journey, because, you know, I can bring the awesome fitness classes, but I can’t bring all of the different nuances when it comes to learning about your cycle, learning about hormone health.

[00:32:06] Jenny Jaucian: And so I created empower you so that. Women can get amazing workouts from me, but they can also get access to industry experts who are, you know, specialized in different aspects of health. So, um, I’m really trying to grow my membership and, um, build this community up. I, uh, also do nutrition coaching,

[00:32:28] Jenny Jaucian: but yeah, we have this really exciting 30 day challenge starting in January to just help women kickstart the new year. You know, everyone is always on a high wanting to achieve their health and fitness goals in the new year and change, change their bodies and change their health. And so I’ll just be riding that wave, um, by providing a 30.

[00:32:50] Jenny Jaucian: 30 day workout calendar for people to follow. And what’s amazing about it is, uh, whether you’re a body member or not, I’ll be providing a calendar for non body members and for body members. So if you are, you know, a body member, you don’t have to leave the platform. I’ll actually be creating a 30 day workout calendar using my previously recorded workouts.

[00:33:14] Jenny Jaucian: Because I have gotten so many requests on Instagram asking me to create a fitness program. And I’m like, you know, that’s my ultimate dream. Right. So I’m just waiting for the body gods to grant me, grant me my own program. But in the meantime. I’ll be using the previously recorded workout classes. So that’s coming up in January.

[00:33:37] Jenny Jaucian: So if you are interested, you can join empower you and we’ll open our doors in the new year. So we’ll make sure to put all the details down below.

[00:33:47] Jenny Swisher: Perfect. Yeah. Well, as always guys, we’ll link it up in the show notes for you so you can swipe up to join. But the one thing that I love the most, um, about your approach is, is that you really are addressing the whole woman, right?

[00:33:59] Jenny Swisher: It’s not just follow this 30 day plan. It’s not just fitness focused. It really is mindset coaching. It is. Um, there are times where, and I’m sure I’m not the first person to tell you this. There are times where I’m like crying on the bike, like, and I’m not an emotional person, right. But I finish a ride with you or sometimes even a strength training workout with you.

[00:34:16] Jenny Swisher: And it’s just a different experience because I’m getting that sort of inner work. In addition to the outer work, um, actually found you through strength training. First, um, I did some like. The bootcamp classes first. And then when we finally got our bike, uh, eventually I was like, Oh, this is, this is like a whole new world, right?

[00:34:33] Jenny Swisher: Like I didn’t realize how amazing the bike experiences. So awesome. You guys will, I will make sure that I link all this up in the show notes for you again, to make it nice and easy. We’ll link up, you know, her Instagram as well, her social media. Is there anything else that you think that I missed that anything else you’d like to say to my listeners before we wrap up?

[00:34:51] Jenny Swisher: Hmm.

[00:34:55] Jenny Swisher: I think

[00:34:55] Jenny Jaucian: I just want to emphasize, or I guess reemphasize that everything that we want to achieve. We already have it within ourselves. I always say, you know, at the end of my cycle rides to claim your crown. And what I love about that kind of tagline that I’ve created is, you know, we all have. This inner queen inside of us, we all have this, um, imagined version of ourselves that we’re trying to achieve, right?

[00:35:29] Jenny Jaucian: And so in order to achieve that next level, we need to raise our standards. We need to, uh, Raise the ceiling for what we think we’re capable of. And as I always say, you have to step outside of your comfort zone. You have to do the scary thing. You can’t always do the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.

[00:35:50] Jenny Jaucian: And so when I say claim your crown, I. I really, what I really mean to say is raise your standards and expect more for yourself because there is more in you. There’s more in you. And we usually hold ourselves back because we’re afraid to fail. We’re scared of the unknown as much as we want something different.

[00:36:15] Jenny Jaucian: We don’t do it because. It’s uncomfortable, right? It’s uncomfortable to lose the weight. It’s uncomfortable to lift heavier. It’s uncomfortable to put yourself out there on social media, right? But those are the things that will ultimately help you get to that next level. So every single day, find ways to do the scary thing and realize that.

[00:36:44] Jenny Jaucian: There is no failing except for not taking any action. You have to take messy action no matter what. And when you take messy action, the road becomes clearer. You’re going to understand whether that action was right or wrong, and you can always pivot. There is no such thing as failure by taking action, so just keep doing it, keep trying, keep failing, keep moving forward, but never just stay stuck.

[00:37:13] Jenny Swisher: That’s a great way to end it. I just think, you know, to reiterate that too, just that Sometimes people don’t realize that the hard is often what you don’t expect. The hard could be that your spouse isn’t supportive of you on this new venture.

[00:37:26] Jenny Swisher: Like, why are you working out? You know, like, um, why, why are you doing this? I’m going to sit on the couch and watch you and make fun of you. Right. Or, or in my case, like my, my parents and my family were just like, well, who are you now? Like now you’re just stepping into being this healthy person, right?

[00:37:40] Jenny Swisher: Like, unfortunately, society doesn’t glorify, right? Like we don’t glorify that. It’s more about the. The pizza and the fast food and the convenience thing. So when you step into this, what I consider to be sort of like the 1 percent of the world who is really like, I want to live with intention. I want to live with my maximum energy.

[00:37:58] Jenny Swisher: There’s a lot of hard that you might not be expecting. And it goes beyond just. Your mindset. Sometimes it goes beyond just what you think of your body. Sometimes it really is the community around you. Sometimes it really is the, you know, the, the people that are influencing your every move. So I love everything that you’re up to, Jenny.

[00:38:15] Jenny Swisher: I think this is amazing. We will definitely, um, link everything up for people so they can find you everywhere and join your membership, but thank you so much for taking time out of your day today to share with us your story, to influence these people, to really hop into living their best lives. Thank you so much.

[00:38:29] Jenny Swisher: And I know we’ll keep in touch. Of course.

[00:38:31] Jenny Jaucian: Thank you, Jenny.