415. Jaime Filer: Navigating Trauma, Coaching, and Self Healing

Grow or Die Podcast

Justin Mihaly

Healthandwellness, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Mindset, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Education, Supplements

4.6 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of "Grow or Die", I sit down with fitness coach and mental health advocate Jaime Filer. Jaime shares her personal story of overcoming significant trauma, including the loss of her father, and how these experiences have shaped her approach to coaching and personal development. We dive deep into the power of emotional healing, the importance of behavioral changes in coaching, and how to harness trauma as a transformative tool for growth. Jaime also reflects on building strong relationships, cultivating self-awareness, and integrating biohacking techniques to manage anxiety and stress.

Timestamps:

- [00:00] - Episode teaser.
- [3:40] - "Your following does not matter" - Jaime discusses the importance of referrals and meaningful relationships in building a successful coaching business.
- [4:44] - The significance of empathy in coaching.
- [7:23] - Exploring trauma in the bodybuilding industry and why it attracts broken people seeking validation.
- [10:04] - Jaime shares how she began healing from her eating disorder by focusing on external habits before diving into deeper emotional work.
- [13:07] - A life-changing experience with psychedelics: how Jaime used ketamine and psilocybin to gain perspective and shift her priorities in work and relationships.
- [16:32] - The shift from "quality time" to "quality energy" in relationships.
- [20:59] - Overcoming desire and staying focused on personal growth.
- [24:10] - Jaime reflects on how emotional and mental healing improved her business, relationships, and self-awareness.
- [29:00] - Grieving loss: Jaime discusses how her father's death shaped her mindset on healing and moving forward.
- [35:03] - Turning emotional pain into purpose and how it shaped Jaime’s coaching approach with clients.
- [39:52] - Jaime’s biohacking goals: how she regulates anxiety using techniques like cold plunging, meditation, and mindset work.
- [42:16] - Anxiety explained: Jaime talks about the difference between living in the present versus anxiety about the future or past.
- [48:51] - Jaime shares how she transitions from work to personal life and the importance of setting boundaries between the two.

Links & Resources:

Follow Jaime On Instagram: @jaim91

Work With Jaime: https://link.trm-engine.com/widget/form/dO75X81zale0h0x4qBjW

Train Revenue Multiplier: https://go.trainerrevenuemultiplier.com/

FREE Anti-Gym Anxiety E-book: https://ebook.jaimefiler.com/free-ebook

Follow Me On Instagram: @jmihaly_

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Work With Me: https://www.togethermorefit.com/founder

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I lost my dad when I was 19 and it was traumatic and it because it wasn't the
0:04.6	Lou Gehrig's disease that that should have been what killed him because it's not
0:09.6	something that I mean it can be like a six-month lifespan from diagnosis to end of life.
0:14.0	He passed away in a house fire because the firefighters did not bring his ventilator with him
0:20.4	when they took him out and if you bring someone who can't breathe on their own out of a
0:24.4	house and you don't bring their breathing machine with them they suffocate they asphyxiate.
0:30.0	Right so that's...
0:32.0	Right, there's no other capital T, right, so that's my capital... Right. That is true. That is true.
0:33.0	Capital T, right. So that's my capital T trauma.
0:36.0	I'm sorry you had that experience.
0:38.0	That's, I don't genuinely, I don't typically say I'm sorry to people who I'm very sorry you
0:45.2	have that experience that is very heavy it was heavy it was yes but it was and I
0:50.6	could have let that experience be heavy and blame everything like again if we are
0:57.1	Going into in an alternate parallel universe if I never let that image, that story, that narrative go, life would look so different.
1:08.0	Absolutely.
1:09.0	It could have looked like drugs, it could have looked like alcohol, it could have looked like sleeping my way through a million men
1:14.8	just to get close to a masculine presence again.
1:20.3	So what I feel badly for are the people who cannot heal bringing this conversation almost full circle from that
1:28.5	Why are you see you know you're stuck? How do you you know that you're still emotional eating you know
1:35.6	that you don't let people in you know that you can never forgive your mother for
1:41.4	not being there or whatever it is. So forget letting go
1:44.8	of someone who's talking shit behind your back like you don't have control over
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