Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, fat loss expert turned high performance coach.

When odds are stacked against us, how do we shift and create everything from nothing?

How do we level up when we aren't feeling it yet or we've had a big setback?

On this podcast, I'll be talking to some of the most inspiring and courageous men and women on this planet who, at their

worst, learned how to achieve success greater than they ever dreamed possible, leveling up

and creating everything from nothing.

Today on leveling up, I've got my friend JJ Virgin.

If you don't know who she is, you might have been sleeping

under a rock. If you know anything about fitness, nutrition, health, and wellness, she has come up.

She's a four-time New York Times bestselling author. JJ Virgin, thank you so much for being here

today and chatting with me. Oh, my pleasure. Happy to be here. Yay. So you are, you're everywhere. Anyone that knows anything about health, fitness, wellness, nutrition, has seen your books, has seen you.

But that's not always who you were. I know that there's a lot more to you before that got you to where you are right now today.

Can you take us back to who you were before all of this?

Should I go all the way back to the bad picture when I was five with the cow when the bad glasses and all that? You've got that? Yeah. You can go back there. It's like, it's so funny because, you know, those pictures still live in your mind every single day, you know, when you've got, like, someone did your makeup

and your hair and you're still looking in the mirror going, yeah, there's the glass,

the cat eye glasses and the pouty face and the bad hairdo, thanks mom.

Yeah.

And I think, honestly, for all of us, it is all of that that keeps us remembering our beginnings

and keeping us humble.

And, you know, like there is no amazing, cool person out there who's been successful who hasn't had to just keep getting back up again when things knock them down.

And so I just figure I just have got up more than a lot of other people.

I love that you just shared that because I think some people, especially when they're in their own rock bottom spot or they're feeling kicked down, they think it's only them. And I love that you just pointed that out because you're right. Nobody that's been successful hasn't had that happen many, many times. Many, many times. It's always like, and it's so funny, here's the big fat lie of success. as soon as I get there, it will be easy.

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