Tired But Toned

264 | How Going Solo, Getting Diagnosed, And Unmasking Rewrote My Fitness Life

• Tina Wieland • Season 1 • Episode 264

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What happens when your business finally matches your brain, but your body demands a new playbook? I’m opening the door on a messy, meaningful season—going full-time in my own fitness brand, navigating PCOS and Hashimoto’s, and unmasking neurodivergent traits I’d hidden for years. The result is a different kind of coaching model built on autonomy, story, and sustainability.

I talk about the moment I left gym rules behind and had to build everything from scratch—systems, boundaries, and a schedule that respects real energy. Then I trace the health side: gray-zone labs, buying my own bloodwork, finding sky-high antibodies, and the reality of medication swings that make one month feel sluggish and the next wired. If you’ve ever doubted your symptoms because the numbers looked “fine,” this will feel familiar. Regulating my thyroid eased some PCOS symptoms, but the lesson was bigger: capacity changes, and your training must change with it.

On the mindset front, I share what high-masking looked like for me and why adrenaline used to be my productivity system. Burnout forced a reset, so I rebuilt movement with Pilates at the center and light strength layered in when it serves, not when it proves anything. That shift also sparked a new brand direction with cozy, witchy vibes that invite book lovers, gamers, and anyone who never felt at home in traditional fitness culture. Community events like cat Pilates lit the path for experiences that are joyful and inclusive.

The most exciting part is The Realm of You, a narrative fitness space where quests meet choices. Some days you lift; others you breathe, journal, or tune your nutrition—guided by a living story that makes consistency feel like curiosity. I’ve simplified the format into live weekly themes with story drops, so it complements any program without overwhelming your calendar. Intuition and nature guide how I build now, and the work finally feels like it fits.

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Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Toned But Tired Podcast. Today I believe that you deserve a nice big update from me. So this is gonna be a little bit of a brain dump, which I hope you don't mind. Um that's kind of why I like podcasts because they feel a little bit more intimate. It feels like we're sitting in a room chit-chatting, uh, very low effort. So wherever you're at, if you're driving, if you're cleaning, if you're just cozy, you know, settle in and let me share some things that have been going on with me and the vision of myself and my business moving forward. And I hope that this inspires you as well to maybe make some good changes in your life. Alright, so we have a lot of things. I feel like there was a lot of transition going on. I'm still currently going through transition um with a lot of things. Um I think, you know, a couple years ago, 2023, was a big year in the fact that I officially went full-time in my own fitness business. Um, I also got diagnosed with Hashimoto's. It it does run in my family on my maternal side, the thyroid issues. Um, both my mom and grandma on my mom's side got their thyroid taken out, so I kind of wasn't surprised, but it was a heck of a thing getting diagnosed. You could probably go back in this podcast and listen to the episode where I dive deeper into that. Um, but there was a lot of things going on, and I also want to add that I'm somebody who is very impatient. I'm quite the impatient person, and um I want things to happen faster than what they are. But it's funny looking back because at the time of recording or at the end, uh like the last quarter of 2025, and really it's only been about two years, but it feels like so much has happened between now and then. But in the moment when you're going through the change, it feels like nothing is happening. That's the funny thing about time and perception and perspective. Um, but a lot has changed. And I think one of the big things that started all of this change for me was once I went full-time um for my own business, it allowed me to step into myself because what I don't think a lot of people understand is if you work for somebody, I had never wanted to work for somebody. The goal was to always have my own business. Um, you have to kind of follow their rules. So if you're a trainer, um, yes, you can have your own personality and and things, but you're always restricted, right? You're viewed as whatever gym you work for. Um, you know, you're aligned with them. You do have to follow their rules, their scheduling, um, all kinds of things. And this goes for any job in general, and I'm just too creative and I've just too many big ideas, um, I think to be held down. I I think you know, working for somebody is great if it works for you, but that has never been me. I've always been that like, let me take this, put my own twist on it, and run wild. Um, so that's kind of stemmed this whole journey, I think, because once I was able to go full-time for myself, it it really was crazy. It was this whole self-discovery journey where I was like, oh my gosh, like nobody's holding me back. I don't have this underlying sense of like, oh, well, I can't say this, and I can't talk about this, and I can't fully promote this uh because I'm affiliated with so and so. Uh now that it's just me, it really kind of forced me to look inward to myself, how my brain operates, who I am. Um, it's been one of the hardest but most rewarding journeys, I would say. Um and through this, it it almost feels like I've been breaking myself down to build myself back up again. And the thyroid stuff being the start of it as well. Um, you know, I created systems from scratch as well. I'm not gonna get too much into the business stuff, so don't worry, unless you're interested in it. Um I'm a nerd for all that business stuff, but um, you know, they they don't have this handbook, like there's not really a guide. Like a lot of businesses, like, oh, if you're a lawyer, there's kind of like a structure. Um, for trainers, it's kind of the Wild West. Uh, there are some recommendations, but again, I am um never going with the granny, and I always need to put my own twist on something. So there's some very basic generic suggestions of what trainers should do when they start a business, and they kind of suck. I'm just gonna be honest. So when it comes to tracking clients, check-in forms, building things, building programs, having waivers, um, you know, cancellation policies, things like that, those like just come out of nowhere. So I had to basically create all those, and some of those things I've had to also learn through trial and error and being in the business um and working for myself, and that's also been a really uh big growth journey, just setting boundaries for myself, um, managing my time, making people respect my time as well as respecting theirs, because I'm a recovering people pleaser, so that has been a huge journey. Um, but it's been very rewarding as well. Now, aside from the business stuff, I'm gonna go into the health stuff. This may sound, I'm gonna say this is either gonna sound overwhelming and ridiculous because this is something that I kind of experience. I experience a lot of feelings when I've come to terms with these things, um, or you may feel validated and seen. So whichever is fine. You may feel somewhere in between, but I'm just sharing my own personal experience and kind of how I view the lens um because it's really frustrating. I will say I have a couple different quote unquote labels for myself with like health diagnoses. I think a lot of things that I'm experiencing and that others can relate to, we're still in a growth phase of um medical diagnoses, especially as a female. And um, I believe that some point in the future there's probably gonna be more of a blanket diagnosis because a lot of things I'm experiencing they kind of all come together, they're categorized as different things, but you know, people tend to experience them all together. So it looks like you have 500 different diagnoses and you're a wreck, but it's like it's kind of the same thing, okay. So, first thing we have the Hashimoto's, right? We we have the Hashimoto's. Before the Hashimoto's, I was actually diagnosed with PCOS, and again, I have um more in-depth podcasts on that if you want to dive deeper, so feel free to go back um in the archives. But you know, PCOS is just a blanket term for um hormonal imbalance, and I've always had super irregular periods my whole life, so that has been a little wonky. Then enter Hashimoto's, um, an autoimmune disorder where your body attacks your thyroid. Uh, there's really no rhyme or reason. Sometimes it can be fine and steady for months, even years, and then all of a sudden it can flare up. Um, ironically, my mom got diagnosed at the age of 27, and that's when I was diagnosed. Um, it was post-COVID as well. I did have COVID one time. I am vaccinated two times, so I don't know if that played a role, if it triggered it or not. Um, but there was a period of time for a couple months where I started feeling really brain foggy, really puffy, run down. Um, I was struggling with a groin injury as well. And just from a kind of watch and wait method with the doctors, we saw that my TSH was kind of slowly, my thyroid stimulating hormone was slowly increasing and um it wasn't improving, and I was really nailing down on like you know, great movement, taking care to rest, high-quality foods. Like, I was doing everything and nothing changed. Um, I did have to purchase my own blood work because they said my thyroid wasn't like high enough, the numbers weren't high enough to be diagnosed. Um, upon my own research, it's based on symptoms. The numbers don't always necessarily matter. It was still above optimal range. And wouldn't you know it? My thyroid antibodies, which you should only have, I think one to two or under 10, something crazy like that. Mine were off the charts, so it did show that I had Hashimoto's. So I'm currently still kind of in my medication journey where I'm trying to find the right dose that works for me. This is another part of the chaos, I will say, that my PCOS symptoms improved upon um getting my thyroid regulated. And um I am also on a birth control that I take essentially to control my PCOS symptoms, and I believe that that kind of um also works better because of the Hashimoto's. And this is where I'm kind of getting into how things kind of intertwine, right? Um, I think when your thyroid levels are normal, because it regulates everything in your body, that probably helps regulate your uh reproductive hormones, and then it probably helps absorb medication better. So we're we're working all together, right? That's good. The only issue which many people suffer with is the swinging between um underactive thyroid and overactive because of dosage. Uh, and in your thyroid meds, it can change because in the colder months your thyroid gets a little more sluggish, so you may end up needing slightly more medication, um, or vice versa, and it can just swing. And for me, it seems like um every three to six months, I'm kind of like, okay, um, you know, this is okay. And then I'll kind of swing into underactive. I'm like, ooh, it gradually happens so slowly that you kind of write it off, and that's the frustrating part. Um, I'll just be like, ooh, I'm really puffy, and I have to eat less and less, or I gain weight, and I have to keep doing more and more working out. And I'm very grateful, I think, with my healthy habits, it's really only like a plus or minus of five pounds, maybe seven pounds, if I'm, you know, if that's really on the extreme end uh with my weight. But as a trainer, you know, I try to be very mindful, so it's frustrating because you're like, I'm doing everything right. Um, and you kind of gaslight yourself and you're like, is this real? You know, maybe I'm just overreacting. Um, well, I got a dose increase about three months ago, and I think I slowly swung into slightly hyper. I got blood work this morning. We're gonna see if my observations are correct. Um, but you know, I'm feeling a little more on the anxious side now. I can kind of eat more, I stay leaner. It sounds great, but like I said, I have this low level of like anxiety. It feels like people turn the dial up. Um much more regular bathroom things. Like I can't tolerate a lot of food right now. Like if I eat food, it goes right through me. Um, but I'm hungry and um my muscles kind of feel weak, like like I'm just using up all the resources in my body way faster than I should. So it's it sounds fun. It's nice to stay lean, but like I have no energy to do things. So here we are. Um, so we're gonna see. And and on top of it, my body is very sensitive to changes. I actually did um a DNA test. I'm gonna talk a little bit about that in a bit because it's very interesting. Um, that told me even more and pretty much confirmed everything I've been feeling about my health. Um, but my body is very sensitive to small changes. Um, so that would make sense as to why, like, if doctors are like, oh, it's not that big of a deal, I don't understand why you're experiencing this. And in reality, I am experiencing a bigger um shift than what is perceived because my body is sensitive. Okay. And then the third thing on top of all this is I briefly mentioned it here and there because I don't want it to be the main focus of me. Um, but it is important, is neurodivergence. So I believe that I have aw DHD, a combination of autism and ADHD. Maybe, I know I'm again, I'm gonna sound crazy, maybe a little bit of chronic PTSD thrown in there from the childhood. Um, but I've done a ton of research on it. Um, I've taken a couple tests that are similar to the ones they use for screenings, um, and I've tested pretty high on those. Um, I I choose to remain self-diagnosed because I would consider myself high functioning, high masking, um, aka you can kind of blend in with society. The problem, um, especially with females, females exhibit um neurodivergence a lot differently than what men exhibit and and children, which the main focus, the general media you see right now is mainly around children and males, white males and white boys, I should say. Um, and and you know, as always, females are different. And um something that's been really validating for me, if you're somebody that's kind of curious yourself, is I personally liked to go on Reddit. Again, I know it sounds maybe a little strange. You could really go anywhere, but I just like Reddit because it's a place that people kind of brain dump stuff. Go into female um neurodivergent subreddits and read their personal experiences. And if you notice that you are aligning really strongly with these things, um, you know, it could be worth checking out. And here's also something that I want to say uh whether you choose to label yourself or not, um I truly believe, again, it's a spectrum. You can maybe experience some of these things and not technically be, you know, say, oh my god, you have neurodivergence of some sort. Um, but some of the tools that they use for everyday life can be really helpful. Um, so I've essentially kind of been in this unmasking journey. I've realized it's one of those things that you don't realize you've been experiencing until you know what it is. Because I didn't even know it was a possibility for myself, and it was a journey of many months, um, almost over a year now, of like being like, hmm, coming to kind of terms with this. And the more you look back, you're like, oh my gosh, yeah, this is what I was doing. Um, I was essentially masking again, this is super common for females, especially high-functioning, masking for years and years and years, um, because it felt like I was broken. Like I felt like I just wasn't trying hard enough. If I tried harder, I would eventually like the things would click that came so easily to people. So things that come easily, which I if if you're not neurodivergent, I don't expect you to understand this because it is like it's black and like it, it's it's night and day. You it's hard to wrap your mind around it because you've never experienced it. Um, so I want to extend Grace to you. Um, it's okay if you don't understand and you're like, what is she talking about? But um things that come naturally, this is the best way I can describe things that come naturally to you know a neurotypical person. Um, maybe like making eye contact, the light conversations, um, just regular everyday things, and this is a mixture of autism and ADHD things, you know, neurodivergent people may have to think think about it. Um, and it may not stick for them. So a lot of things of like how you should hold yourself, and you know, there's a lot of things I took literally that weren't meant to be taken literally, or making eye contact and presenting yourself in a certain way, and you need to act this way and not that way. If you act that way, it's bad, and people will not like you. Neurotypicals are pretty good at sniffing out neurodivergence, like they'll they'll just not like you for some reason and they don't know why. Um, I've experienced that as well, and and it's like, so you're you're kind of in this journey. I could make a whole podcast about it, but that has also been a part of my journey, and I think between my business and that, I've been trying to find systems in my life and routines in my life that work. Um, and I think between the hormonal swings and also the journey of unmasking and trying not to put on a front and knowing when it's healthy to mask in social scenarios versus trying to mask out of like safety of um you just want to fit in, you know. Um, learning to lean into my authentic self, that rolled into a lot more um progress in my business as well. Um, but it also produced some burnout. It is normal for adults who are neurodivergent to experience burnout, especially when you're unmasking. It's almost like your nervous system lets out a big breath and it's like, oh my god, I can finally breathe. We've been on high alert. I can tell you that I realized I ran on adrenaline. Um, you know, I just kind of, it was one of those things, again, I didn't attach anything to. I would, um, you know, that feeling kind of when you get excited and hyped up. Maybe you can't relate, maybe you can. Um, like butterflies in your stomach, you're energized, whether it comes from a stressful place or a happy place, you know, you have that energy burst, right? Like, oh my god, I gotta get this done. I literally ran off of that. That's a little bit more on the ADHD side, but I ran off that. That is how I function almost every day, whatever it was, that's how I learned to survive. I learned that when I have that adrenaline rush, that's when I'm most focused. That's when I get things done. Um, obviously, that's not healthy. That would be like pushing your foot on the gas forever with your car and never stopping. Okay, eventually it's gonna burn out. So I did experience and I'm still kind of working through some burnout in that extent because it's such a stark contrast to be running like that. Like I basically learned how to navigate my environment and survive and adapt based off the knowledge I have. And now that I have more knowledge, I'm learning to kind of unmask in a healthy way. And it's funny because things that didn't bother me before do now. And again, there's a huge thing with even there's a ton of studies around skill regression when it comes to people that are neurodivergent when they learn that they're neurodivergent, you kind of revert back and you lose skills. Um, so it's been challenging in that aspect. Um, I've had to be a move a lot slower, and this kind of flows into the life I've been living right now. Um, things have been a lot slower. I have not been able to work out as hard as I would like. I'm basically teaching my classes. I'm forever thankful for Pilates, it has been my saving grace. Um, so I teach Pilates, um, mobility abs. I'm working towards adding in back uh one to two strength training days a week. It's gonna be very light. Um, but I used to deadlift 200 pounds, and now it's like, you know, some light machine days would kill me. And I don't know if that's more of the neurodivergence side or more of the hormonal side. Um, again, it's very common for people with neurodivergence to have autoimmune disorders like I'm experiencing. So I think it's all kind of connected. Um, but I'm kind of working towards that, and and I've been really learning my body because I am a very creative person and I'll have all these ideas, and then I'll push, push, push for like a couple hours and then I crash. So I've been really trying to navigate that as well. Um, my levels of like how much can I push and learning to stop before it gets to the point of burnout and incorporating more cozy restorative activities, you know, looking at what is essential that needs done today, what absolutely needs done today, what can push off for tomorrow. And it's it's really hard when you want to be someone who I I am very motivated and I'm not lazy, and that's something that I I mean nobody has told me that, but there's a lot um of stigma around there with people who are neurodivergent, people who have autoimmune conditions. You don't look like anything is quote unquote wrong with you. So if you do decide to rest, if you do decide to do less um and not push through, you are viewed as lazy, and um that's something I don't want, and it's hard, it's so funny because there's so much I do want to do, and and there's been times that I've pushed through because I've been told, you know, just suck it up and pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and that's just how life is. But you know, it truly for me, I mean this from the bottom of my heart, in all honesty. If I would do that, I would probably end up in the hospital. Um, and again, I know it's really hard to wrap your head around that if you've never experienced it. It's it's freaky. I still like am in shock by it now, um, for the fact of how little movement I'm doing compared to what I was, um, and what makes me so sore and trying again to find that balance. Um, nutrition has been great. I've been working on that, supplementing with a couple things, and again, so that's just been a big journey. And it's been almost like an identity thing because I was always that strength training. I was drawn to bodybuilding. I love that style of training. Um, I was kind of that underdog where I didn't, you know, do sports, but I pushed myself in a healthy way and I was able to train to strength train. And now um I'm I'm kind of taking it gentle, but I'm very thankful for fitness in that sense that it is very dynamic and you don't have to stick to one thing, and you can evolve and you can go through the phases, which is what I'm so passionate about teaching to my clients. Um, and as I evolve, I'm hoping maybe the people I reach evolve as well. Now, with that being said, um, the last thing I kind of want to transition to of things that I've been experiencing has been my brand and what I've been building. So, you know, through this whole journey of learning all this stuff about myself and having to kind of slow down, pull back, I don't think this is gonna be a forever thing. I think I'll probably be able to build capacity again, but I'm kind of nourishing myself where I'm at, um, trying not to be impatient. But um I've definitely leaned into more, I'm in the middle of it, it hasn't quite fully launched yet. I'm more of a magical branding. Um, so I'm leaning into kind of mystical, witchy vibes, not full-on witchy, because I still want to honor kind of just like my general fitness clients, but I also want to add that magic fantasy um realm for my my cozy gamers, my cozy book readers, my book club girls, uh, people who just like magic, witchy stuff, Halloween, um you know, that maybe want to get into the fitness space, but don't feel like there's a spot for them. And that's what I'm trying to incorporate because that's a big part of me and and things I enjoy. And I think it helps to have novelty, um, especially with neurodivergent brains. Again, not everybody's gonna be neurodivergent, but I think uh the messages that I convey and and the way I've taught people has helped neurodivergent people through fitness, because I don't think that stereotypical fitness necessarily works for neurodivergent brains, as well as many other people out there. And you know, if you feel like traditional fitness hasn't worked for you, it would be worth looking into how I teach because I do think I take a very different approach, and it's funny because I feel like I've subtly have adapted that over the years, and that's why I got into the fitness space. I saw what I liked, but then I put my own twist onto things to make it work for me because a lot of that stereotypical stuff would never last for me. It kind of gave me that icky feel, so I wanted to create a space that was a little bit different, and with that, you will see that through my workouts. Um two big things is I've been creating a lot of community. I think there's a need for community. It's funny because I consider myself not necessarily introverted, but maybe a neurodivergent thing. It's very draining to be out in social environments. Um, when I'm teaching though, it's very energizing for me, but it does still take that energy out. Um, but I do believe there's that need for community events. So what I've been starting to do is I'm actually partnering up with a lot of local small businesses to come together to offer a unique fitness experience. And I've been loving it. Like cat Pilates was the first thing that I was working on. Um, and it's been a hit. You know, doing Pilates with little kitties running around at a cat cafe, and half of the proceeds benefit the cats. It's been wonderful, and that's made me expand to other things. I have a lot of fun things coming. Um, I'm not gonna say what those are exactly now, but there's other furry friends in the mix that I'll be able to partner up with. Um, different avenues of coziness, um even maybe some painting in there. So I have a lot of fun events all the way up to spring led up there. Um, so I plan my goal is to do two of those a month for right now. So that's been really fun. And then my other kind of passion project that literally came out of nowhere one day when I was doing dishes. I know it sounds crazy because everybody's always like, um, yoke. Like when I hear those stories, I'm like, yeah, like the idea literally just came to you out of nowhere, but no, it literally just came out of nowhere. Um, is the realm of you. So I have been this has been my little baby. It's been again my little passion project. Um, and I invite you to join. Right now it's free. Um, I had it in a beta for a little bit with some close people, they just paid me$9 one time, and then I decided to make it free. Um, and I think it will eventually become something that's paid in the future. Um because I do put a lot of time and effort into it, but I'm not quite sure where I want to go with it yet. And I haven't worked out the kinks, so you know, I don't want to do a disservice to you and have you pay for something that's um not quite where it needs to be, but your feedback would be valuable to make this the best that it can be. I don't think there's anything out there like this. So, what the realm of you is, it's hosted on school, which is kind of like Facebook groups without Facebook, no ads or anything annoying, which is lovely in this social media era. But school is S-K-O-O-L. I love the platform, it's very simple. The only downside I would say with school is it's like a separate thing that you have to log into compared to other social media, but it has an app on your phone, it's really easy, user-friendly, you can use desktop. I love it. So school. Um, school with the realm of you, there's a little forum, and then there's a classroom with different modules. And my original plan was the realm is this magical fantasy realm of dragons, and you know, anything magical you can think of. The the realm is endless, the possibilities are endless. Um, the first thing I did was I created a four-week quest, a starter quest that you're kind of called into the realm, and each week you progress through. It's very detailed. There's a lot of written lore, so it kind of reads like a story. Okay, that is part of it. I want you for my you know, nerds out there and my readers and my book club girlies, I want it to read like a story. Um, you have this lore, right? That's gonna bring you back every day and excite you. But on top of it, the fitness and health component that comes in is um I'm making it a little bit of like choose your own adventure DD style where you're going to be faced with choices each day where you know the story progresses, and then maybe you have three options. You know, you run into a gate. What do you do? There's option one, option two, option three, and it will depend on what you're feeling that day. It may be a workout, it may be a meditation, maybe it's something with nutrition, maybe it's a reflection, and I love that because it allows you to kind of honor a path that works for you. There's something out there for my workout junkies who just want to strength train and do crazy circuits and stuff. There's something out there for more of my restorative girlies that want more meditation, reflection, stretching, um, all that. And then there's another option for maybe if you're looking for for something that's not movement related, but focuses on your health, whether it's mindfulness, journaling, reflection, nutrition. Um, so there's different paths and it changes depending on the day. Um, I varied a little bit and it's really cool in that aspect. Um you can, you know, hatch a dragon, collect a dragon egg in the first four weeks is really, really cool. Um, but then I kind of noticed that it was a lot. I think the way I laid it out for the first four weeks is good, but moving forward, I realized it wasn't sustainable to constantly pump out content like that as a one-man show running a business that has you know autoimmune issues and struggles, um, but a super creative mind. So I was like, how can I simplify this? And it kind of sat there for a while, but now I have this new idea. So the next installment is Moonvale Rights. I have the story written out and everything. Um it's you know, you enter the Moon Vale, it's it's a magical, mysterious forest. There is a moon, um, and there's a vampire and werewolf little kind of side love quest. Well, I wanted to simplify again for everybody, and what I've decided to do, I'm running it next week. I'm very excited. Um, I'm gonna be running these challenges live. So, and they'll be updated within the course as well. So, within the group chat, each week I'm gonna be making a post of like, hey, this is week one. And instead of focusing on like, oh my god, you gotta click in every day, and here's all these workouts and this and that, week one will have a general theme, right? We're gonna have a general theme for that week. So, you know, you can do this alongside a workout program. Or if you're somebody who is starting slow and just needs something simple, you can do it standalone as well. I don't want you to feel like you have this, you know, a hundred different workouts to keep up with. So, you know, week one will have a general focus. And then you're going to throughout the week, I plan on doing like a Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I might update the story, it'll deepen a little bit more Wednesday, and we're gonna build upon whatever the week one theme is, right? And then Friday will kind of be a wrap up and a reflection. So it's a little bit easier, um, more intentional. We still don't lose the story, we don't lose the magic. Um, but we get to really zone in on one key thing each week, and I uh, you know, four full weeks of whatever it is. So I'm really excited about that. That feels a lot better for me. For me, my brain execution, that is something that's really important to me. I will tell you that I will not execute on something if it doesn't feel right. If something feels wrong, I'm gonna wait until it feels right for me. And I believe that should be the case for you too. I am, you know, a believer of messy action. Um, but even if the action is gonna be messy, it should still feel aligned to you because if it doesn't feel right, the energy is gonna catch up to you and it drains you. I don't know about you, but that's the case for me. It would be very draining. So that is what is going on, and I'm really really, really excited. Um, we have 12 members currently in the realm. Um, again, this is free right now, and I'll probably keep it free for a while, probably early into 2026. Um, I'm not gonna set any dates on that because until again it feels right and I get feedback and I feel in a good groove, will I begin to charge? And there'll be a heads up for that. And I think the group will stay free um because I love the community and I think I'm still going to give a lot of free value. If anything, if there's just like these kind of full quests and challenges, I think those will be paid for, but again, they will be very reasonably priced as well. So, again, this is just kind of things that are have been floating in my mind. So that has been what has been going on. Um, I've been in a very deep journey of introspection and change, and it's all been good things, and I feel it's funny because I've kind of leaned more into my intuition. I've been using tarot cards. Um, I also would say, not that it really matters, but like my religion. I uh was raised Roman Catholic, very strict, but now I do believe in a higher power, but I don't necessarily associate myself with one thing. I I don't associate myself with a religion. Um, I respect everybody's own religion. Um, if anything I would say to help me visualize my practice, I kind of lean more into nature, if that makes sense. I lean into the sense that the universe I actually made a podcast on this as well. I don't think my views have changed very much since then, but um, I kind of just lean into that the the universe has energy and there's this sense of energy. Um I look to nature for lessons and see how it flows because I believe we're all connected. Um, like my tarot cards, for instance, um, I like to use it as a reflection tool and um kind of take that energy and message as guidance. And for me personally, I've noticed that when I get that good feeling about energy and I lean into the energy, um, which often is going against the grain of what is traditionally accepted by a lot of people, it just flows better for me, and things turn out better than me trying to force myself into what everybody else is doing and force myself into that way. Um, same thing with business. A lot of the things that are frowned upon in business, I do, and it feels good for me, and it ends up working for me. When I force myself into the sleazy traditional business tactics, um, it doesn't work and it doesn't go well for me, and I end up getting drained and it's no fun. So, so this is also your your uh message to find what works for you. Don't stop that pursuit of um finding what works best for you, your brain, your body, your life. Because when you do find what works well, I think that energy will flow with you and things will work out for the best, and everybody's different, you know. Um, I was never built to be that like stereotypical person. I think I was one of the you know the the side people. I'm a unique, I'm a unique combination of things, so I think my approach needs to be unique and it works for me. Um, but yeah, so I'm gonna wrap up this episode, just a little brain dump to kind of bring things full circle to where I've been at. I've been wanting to make this episode for a while, so it feels really good to kind of get that out there. And if you made it this far, thank you for listening to my update. Um, and check out the realm if you haven't already. I'll drop a link in the show notes. Like I said, it's free. So, you know, I'd love to have you there if you're into that magical fantasy stuff, because I feel like there's not a space like this in the fitness space right now, how I'm doing it. Um, so it'd be great to have you a part of that journey. But alright, thank you for tuning in, and I will catch you in the next one. Bye for now.

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Tina Wieland

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