6: Chatting with @stefan_bodegrajac

In this episode, we are joined by our first male guest Stefan, an online personal coach.

- Sporting background to fitness journey and path into the gym

- University degree to becoming a PT to running an online business

- Balancing training while running a business, routine and current training split

- Opinions and experiences with online PT vs in person PT

- Training progression from soccer to more of a fitness focus and gym regime

- Current involvement and commitment to sport

- Celebrating other's wins

- Approach to coach and client relationships

- App usage for communication with clients, Trainerize. The kind of features and the components clients have access to within it

- Setting boundaries with clients when your clientele is online based

- Boundaries showing different aspects of one's life online. Not always transparent

- Clientele gender ratios

- Progression to finding your niche within the industry

- Opinion on what differences come with coaching different genders

- Providing the best you can for your clientele by only taking on what you're comfortable and knowledgable on

- Content curation suited to you as a coach and the niche you provide value in

- Authenticity on your account, showing your own personal progression in fitness, mindset, and challenges as a coach

- Promoting what you stand for and believe in. Getting more personal

- Comfortability and mindset change to filming in the gym

- Content looking back on your progression

- Getting out of your head and not worrying about what others think

- Content creation in the gym and respecting other's privacy

- Content variety. Different aspects of fitness

- How he has gone about navigating his platform over the years

- Posting across multiple platforms

- 365 series, a year of posting every day of 2023

- Fear of upsetting family and people closest to us. Family's opinions on career and life choices. Having the courage to do what is best for you

- Injuries impact sports, mental health, and life

- Lessons learned and mindset built through injuries

- Loved one's support with sports, injuries, and career

- Friendship changes that come with lifestyle changes and figuring out who your kind of people are

- Impact that sharing so much of yourself online has on your mental health

- Taking care of your mental health and having a support system

- Vulnerability and fear of being viewed as weak as a male

- Body image, and relationship with food and body

- Weekly inspirations

- Words to younger self

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Lots of love, Sarz and Ez.

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