The Fit Pro Journey - Business Coaching for Fitness & Health Coaches
By Ria Zervos - Business Coaching for Fitness & Health Coaches
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The Fitness Pro Journey is the go-to weekly podcast for personal trainers, health coaches, and fitness professionals ready to start or grow a profitable online coaching business—without the fluff, burnout, or bro-marketing tactics.
Hosted by Ria, a former Fit Pro turned business mentor with over 22 years in the fitness industry—from club program manager to trade show organizer—this show is packed with no-BS advice, industry insight, and real talk from someone who’s done it all. Since launching her coaching business in 2018 (and going full-time in 2020), she’s helped hundreds of Fit Pros build sustainable, client-attracting businesses online.
Each episode delivers raw, actionable strategies to help you launch your first offer, attract your dream clients, show up confidently online, and build a business that actually fits your life—with a little humor and tough love along the way.
Whether you’re brand new to online coaching or ready to scale your existing fitness business, The Fitness Pro Journey will help you ditch self-doubt and unlock your full potential.
Tune in every week and take the next step in building the coaching business you’ve been dreaming of.
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#172 Stop Doing What Isn't Working: The Truth About Growing a Fitness Business Online
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May 18, 2026 |
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#171 Are Fitness Jobs Being Cut? What the 'Open to Work' Trend on LinkedIn Means for Fit Pros
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May 11, 2026 |
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#170 Stop Letting AI Speak for You: Why Fitness Pros Are Losing Their Authentic Voice
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May 04, 2026 |
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#169 Why Most Fit Pros Struggle to Explain What They Actually Do
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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#168 The Birthday Lesson That Changed My Business: Why Staying Open Creates More Opportunities
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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#167 What I Learned Watching Fit Pros Try to Build Online Businesses
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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#166 How This Fitness Coach Signed Clients Without Social Media (ACN Client Story)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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#165 We’re 3 Months In… So Why Isn’t Your Business Working Yet?
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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#164 The Real Struggles Fitness Coaches Shared With Me This Month
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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#163 From “The Chubby Girl” to 22 Years in Fitness: The Story That Started It All
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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#162 Why Fitness Coaches Struggle When Starting an Online Coaching Business
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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#161 Stop Relying on the Algorithm: How Fit Pros Are Booking Clients Offline
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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#160 Fit Pros Aren't Just Selling Workouts
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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#159 If Your Business Can’t Survive a Missed Post, We Need to Talk
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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#158 The Dirty Little Secret in Fitness — Self-Doubt & Showing Up Online with Katie Pulsifer
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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#157 February Is the New January (And Why This Is When People Need You Most)
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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#156 What’s New in 2026 for Growing a Fit Pro or Health Coaching Business Online
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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#155 Planning Your 2026 Business From Alignment (Not Pressure)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#154 What I’m Focusing on in 2026 to Build a Coaching Business Offline—and What I’m Teaching My Clients
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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#153 If I Were Starting My Online Coaching Business in 2026, I’d Do This
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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#152 The December Slow-Down: How I Pause, Plan, and Prep for the Year Ahead
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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#151 Behind the Scenes: My Business Failures, Hard Lessons, and the Future of Online Fitness Coaching in 2026
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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#150 Micro Habits That Help Online Fitness Coaches Build Real Connections (Without Living on Social Media)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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#149 Should You Launch a Black Friday Offer? Gratitude, Strategy, and Building Real Connections
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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#148 How Online Fitness Coaches Can Find Clients Offline (Without Posting Every Day)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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#147 What I’ve Been Saying for Years About Online Coaching for Health & Fitness Coaches (and Why It Still Works)
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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#146 How to Create Profitable Black Friday Offers for Online Health & Fitness Coaches
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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#144 How to Fall Back in Love with Your Fitness Coaching Business
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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#143 Should You Leave Instagram or Stay as Fitness Coach
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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#142 Online Fitness Coach Burnout? Here’s How I’m Refocusing My Business Before November
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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#141 Quitting Social Media - There's are other ways.
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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#140 You’re Not a Content Creator. You’re a Fitness Coach
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Day 3: Starting Conversations That Convert (Without Feeling Weird)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Day 2: Mapping Your Network to Find Warm Leads
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Day 1: The Real Reason Your Content Isn’t Converting (It’s Not You)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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#139 6 Degrees of Clients for Fitness Pros
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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#138 Stop Relying on Instagram: How Fit Pros Really Get Clients
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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#137 From Conversations to Clients: How to Turn Interest Into Income
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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#136 Q3 Reality Check: How Fitness Coaches Can Reset & Plan for Q4 Success
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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#135 Is Your Business Ready for September? How Health & Fitness Coaches Can Reset, Refocus & Sign Clients This Fall
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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#134 3 Proven Ways to Find Your Next Health & Fitness Client Offline (That Most Coaches Overlook)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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#133 From Generic to Magnetic: Anthony’s Breakthrough Online
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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#132 How One Fitness Pro Turned Clarity Into Clients
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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#131 Phase 3: How Real Connections Create Paying Clients (Not More Posts)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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#130 Phase 2: Content Strategy for Fitness Coaches Who Want Clients, Not Just Likes
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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#129 The Real Reason You’re Not Getting Clients Online (And How to Fix It Fast)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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#128 What If Getting Clients Online Was Way Simpler Than You Think?
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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#127 The Truth About Growing an Online Coaching Business to 6 Figures
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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#126 Why You’re Not Getting Clients Online (Even if You’re Doing All the Things)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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#125 The Truth About Building an Online Fitness Business in 2025
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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#124 10K Followers? Cute. I Made Bank With 400.
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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#123 How I Turned My Online Side Hustle into My Full-time Job Without Hustling 24/7?
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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#122 Fitness Pros: Build Better Systems & Stop Overwhelm – Featuring Tracy Hoth
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May 26, 2025 |
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#121 Before & After: A Fitness Coach’s Real Breakthrough
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May 19, 2025 |
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#120 From Rock Bottom to 6-Figure Breakthrough (ft. My Husband)
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May 12, 2025 |
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#119 Tried Online Coaching in 2020 and Failed?
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May 05, 2025 |
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#118 Is Your Job at the Gym Safe? Why Now Is the Time to Build Your Online Business
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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🎉 Happy Birthday to Me! Half a Century, Zero Regrets: 50 Lessons from 50 Years 🎉
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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#116 Build Your Fitness Career in 12 Weeks 🏋️♀️ with IDEA's Mentorship Program
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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#115 Building Confidence as an Online Coach: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Self-Doubt (Without Being Online 24/7)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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#114 “What the Heck Do I Even Post Today?” – Fixing Your Content Struggles for Good (Without Being Online 24/7)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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#113 Stepping Back Without Falling Behind: Why Posting Less Won’t Break Your Business
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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112 - Why Posting Daily Isn’t Enough (And What to Do Instead)
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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#111 If You Don’t Have a Business Outside the Gym, You’re Screwed (Again)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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#110 How to Build an Online Fitness Business—Without Leaving the Gym
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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#109 Your Next 5 Clients Aren’t Even on Instagram: How to Sign Clients Without Chasing the Algorithm
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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#108 What If They Judge You? Do It Anyway!
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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#107 The "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon" Method for Finding Clients
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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#106 The Real New Year Starts Now: How to Win in 2025 Without Being Online 24/7
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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#105 From Burnout to Building a Coaching Business
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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#104 What's New in 2025 for Building Your Fitness Biz on Social Media
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#103 Going Full-Time Online as a Health & Fitness Coach: Building Momentum and Overcoming Challenges
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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#102 Making 2025 the Year You Go Full-Time as an Online Health & Fitness Coach
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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#101 As Health & Fitness Coaches You’re Changing the World—Not Just Paying Bills!
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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#100 Santa’s Sleigh and Your Health & Fitness Business Goals
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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#99 Are You Building Your Business or Just Chasing Certifications?
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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#98 Changing the Game: How Two Coaches Evolved with the Online Coaching Industry
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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#97 Setting Game-Changing Goals for 2025: A Blueprint for Online Health & Fitness Coaches
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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#96 Embracing Sales & Marketing in Your Online Coaching Business
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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#95 The Power of Investing in Yourself: My Journey from Group Programs to 1:1 Coaching
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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#94 Transitioning from In-Person to Online: Tips for Fitness Coaches
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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#93 How to Use Pinterest to Drive Traffic to Your Program
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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#92 Should You Do a Black Friday Launch?
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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#91 Prepping for Black Friday: What Content Health & Fitness Coaches Need for November
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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#90 Stop Hiding Behind Tactics: The Real Reason You're Stuck
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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#89 Why I Took a Social Media Break Before October — And How It’s Shaping the Rest of My Year
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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#88 How to Attract and Retain Clients as an Online Health & Fitness Coach.
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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#87 How to Get Off the Emotional Rollercoaster and Actually Build Your Business
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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#86 Your Mindset is a journey: Navigating the Ups and Downs as a Health & Fitness Coach
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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#85 10 steps to signing your next Health & Fitness client online
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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#84 Will 2024 Be Your Year or Will You Wait Until January 2025?
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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#83 What does consistency really mean in your business as Health & Fitness Coach Online?
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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#82 Online Health & Fitness Coaches Feeling Like You're Doing Everything?
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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#81 What’s Stopping Health & Fitness Coaches from Starting Online.
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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#80 Creating your Signature Health & Fitness Coaching Program
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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#79 The BIG Mistakes Online Health Coaches & Fit Pros are making in the Beginning
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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#78 How To Change Your Mindset around Selling
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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#77 How to Sell Your Health & Fitness Coaching on Social Media
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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#76 Stepping into the 3rd quarter
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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#75 Fitness Entrepreneurship and Overcoming our Fear
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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#74 Mid-Year Momentum: Key Business Insights for Health and Fitness Coaches
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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#73 5 Ways to Batch Your Health & Fitness Online Coaching Content.
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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#72 Should you use Storytelling to sell your Health & Fitness Coaching
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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#71 From Passion to Profit: 7 Steps to Launch Your Fitness Coaching Career
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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#70 Beyond the Gym: Welcoming New Challenges
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May 27, 2024 |
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#69 Top Strategies to get Fitness & Health Coaching clients in 2024
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May 20, 2024 |
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# 68 Beyond the Gram: Leveraging Instagram as a Marketing Tool for Fitness Coaches
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May 13, 2024 |
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#67 The 1 Platform Health & Fitness Coaches should be on Pinterest
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May 06, 2024 |
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#66 How To Avoid the Hustle Burn Out
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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#65 Maria's journey - From Start to Success
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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#64 How Much Should You Charge for Your Health & Fitness Coaching?
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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#63 How to Start Your Online Health & Fitness Business?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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#62 The Consent Comparison
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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#61: Growing Your Online Health & Fitness Business While working Full Time
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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#60 Lead Generation - Lead Generation Unlocked: Strategies and Tactics Revealed
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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59| Building Blocks: How Former Student Samantha Created her Fitness Business
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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#58 Client Success Story Allison Callahan how she built her Fitness Business
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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#57 Designing Your Health & Fitness Online Business & Signing Clients.
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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#56 Navigating the Journey to your Ideal Client
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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#55 Anniversary Reflections: A Year in Podcasting
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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#54 How Clear are You on Your Health and Fitness Coaching Business?
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Why your Online Health & Fitness Business is NOT Growing
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Business Audit, when was the last time you did an Audit?
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Mastering your Content in 2024
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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What is shifting in 2024 in the online Health & Fitness space.
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Are you wanting to go Full Time with your Health & Fitness Business in 2024?
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Shifting your mindset around how you help people.
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Make an extra $500 before the end of the year.
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Posting what everyone else is posting is keeping you broke as a Health & Fitness coach online.
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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4 Steps to growing your online fitness / health coaching business simple
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Moms either you work crazy hours or you leave the Fitness Industry
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Mapping out 2024
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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November is not too late to start your online Health & Fitness Coaching Business
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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What you and Taylor Swift have in common and NOT in common.
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Struggling to sign clients online
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Should you do a Black Friday Sale?
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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What Content should you have for November.
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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How you will sign your next client.
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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How to launch your online Health & Fitness coaching Program
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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When to Shift, Pivot or take a moment to breath
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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What you are NOT doing that is stopping you from growing
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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How To Create Your Health & Fitness Business Around Your LIFE
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Too Many Health & Fitness Coaches Online
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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The 1 Thing you need to start doing TODAY for your coaching business
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Types of Content & Why it Matters
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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The Comparison Trap is Holding You Back
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Surrendering to the Outcome
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Clients Results from going through the CAB Blueprint
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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6️⃣ steps to move you closer to a Full time Online coach.
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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How to take time off from your business
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Balance and Boundaries in your Health & Fitness Coaching Business
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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What the Fitness Industry did NOT teach you
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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TOP 3 MISTAKES HEALTH & FITNESS COACHING MOMS MAKE WHEN SELLING
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Finding Your Ideal Client
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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How to sell without feeling icky
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Where is your MINDSET around your business?
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Why You’re Not Selling Your offer
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May 29, 2023 |
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How I started Online – There’s more to the story
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May 22, 2023 |
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Lessons I learned when my coaches passed away.
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May 15, 2023 |
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How to Build Your Health & Fitness Coaching Business without burning out
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May 08, 2023 |
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Do you have a plan for your Fit / Health Coaching business
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May 01, 2023 |
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Should You Hire a Coach
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Happy Birthday To ME 48
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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11. What’s NOT going to attract new clients
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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10. Your Program Vision Breakdown
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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09. Throwing the Rules out
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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08. Finding Balance as working mom
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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07. Content that Converts
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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06. What 2022 was really like
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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05. Finding your ideal client
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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04. The Types of people in your audiences
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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03. 4 Steps to growing your online fitness / health coaching business simple
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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02. How our Mindset can make or break us
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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01. Welcome to the Fit Pro Journey Podcast
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Feb 14, 2023 |