Jan 12, 2022
Today we are speaking with
the Founder of Train Like A
Gymnast, Wilhelmina Fitness Model, Certified Personal Trainer
Danielle Gray. Danielle is a formerly competitive Junior Olympic
gymnast who retired from the sport before college. After graduating
from the University of Southern California in Public Relations, she
worked full-time at a digital marketing agency and part-time as a
gymnastics coach. Once she realized she forgot she was getting paid
for coaching, she turned down a promotion at her desk job and
pursued personal training and fitness modeling. She founded her own
company, Train Like A Gymnast, to show people how much more capable
they are. Her training style is challenging, yet approachable with
a heavy focus on form, mindfulness, and intention. She is also a
Wilhelmina Fitness Model, an iFit Trainer, a Ninja Warrior, an
aerialist, among many other things. If you follow her on Instagram,
you can see her adventures with acro, pole dance, travel, and
walking her cat Zara.
In this episode we discuss:
1) What it feels like to
trust yourself, trust in your body and even trust yourself in
business. When you don’t trust yourself it can look like
bailing, pausing for a long time, overthinking, afraid of failing
and lots of mind chatter. When you trust yourself it’s
silent, this feeling or knowing of “I’ve got
this.”
2)
“Be willing to stay with the suck.” Don’t push the uncomfortable
feelings away or avoid them. Nothing will change by doing
that. Learn to feel the emotions and face the discomfort head
on, knowing that everything is temporary. Our uncomfortable
moments can lead us to positive changes by removing something that
isn’t working.
3) Suicidal ideations and the struggle and
mental health journey that involved feelings of suicide.
Danielle was incredibly vulnerable sharing her experience as well
as the avocado tattoo that she got to remind her that the light can
always hold the darkness, even when the darkness doesn’t go away.
Feelings are temporary and seeing, feeling and recognizing them has
allowed Danielle to learn to move through her emotions as opposed
to avoiding them.
4) Danielle’s words on how to learn to let go
of the need to control her emotions, and this quote was so
powerful, “When you try to control what is outside of your control,
it ends up controlling you.” By learning to feel her emotions
as opposed to avoiding them, it has allowed her give others
permission to do the same and realize that they are not
alone.
Connect with
Danielle
Website: www.trainlikeagymnast.com
Website: www.daniellegrayfit.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellegrayfit
Facebook:
https://facebook.com/daniellegrayfit
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/trainlikeagymnast
Email: danielle@daniellegrayfit.com
Work with Danielle:
Fitness App: www.trainlikeagymnastapp.com
One Day Workshops, Destination Retreats, Online
Courses, and more: www.trainlikeagymnast.com
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