79. Kayla Itsines

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Fitness, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

"I've been doing this for three years now and I'm still not used to it. I still get nervous. I worry, am I saying the right thing? Do they like me? Am I funny enough?" —Kayla Itsines

With nearly 10 million followers on Instagram, and 22 million on Facebook, Kayla Itsines is arguably the world's most famous fitness personality and trainer right now. She's the co-creator of the Bikini Body Guides (BBG) workouts (those 28-minute, deceptively tough workouts everyone's posting about on Instagram) and the brains behind the Sweat app, and she is a bona-fide global sensation. But Kayla, who is from Adelaide, Australia, doesn't think of herself as famous — and that was definitely never the plan. She just wanted to be a personal trainer and to help women, and along the way she built a multi-million dollar business, a massive reputation, a super supportive community, and a team of 100 employees.

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What you'll get on this episode:

Whether being today's most popular and influential trainer and fitness personality was the future young Kayla Itsines saw for herself, and how she turned her lifestyle into a business (2:25)
Whether Kayla enjoys being an entrepreneur (5:15)
The a-ha moment that made Kayla realize she had found her place (7:15)
Why Kayla gets nervous before her boot camps (8:15)
What Kayla's family thinks of their Insta-famous relative (10:20)
Why Kayla decided to call her workouts Bikini Body Guides, and what that means to her (11:00)
How Kayla and her fiancé, Tobi, met (11:45)
How Kayla hires, manages, and oversees a 100-person team, and what a day in the life looks like for her (15:25)
Why Kayla doesn't want someone taking over her Instagram (17:30)
How Kayla created the BBG workouts (18:00)
Whether there's pressure that comes with having a massive following, and whether Kayla likes being famous (20:45)
Kayla opens up about what her relationship with her body is like (27:25)
Kayla shares what her diet is like (29:50)
Kayla's tips for building body confidence (31:10)
Whether Kayla is bothered by negative comments (32:50)
Kayla's best Instagram advice (35:20)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Aftershocks.
0:08.4	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show.
0:10.4	I'm your host, Allie Feller, and today I'm thrilled to welcome Kayla Itzina's to the show.
0:15.7	Kayla, of course, is the superwoman behind the wildly popular bikini bodyguides workouts and the sweat app.
0:22.1	But considering she has nearly 10 million followers on Instagram alone, you probably knew that already.
0:28.3	I am thrilled to report that Kayla is as kind, lovely, and genuine in real life as she is online.
0:34.3	It was an honor and a pleasure getting to record this episode together in New York,
0:37.8	while Kayla was in town to teach a series of boot camps.
0:41.0	On this episode, you'll learn more about how Kayla became a global sensation,
0:45.1	how she and her fiance Toby met and became business partners,
0:49.3	and why even with 100 employees on her team, she will never let someone else reply to her comments
0:55.0	on Instagram. So yes, if Kayla responds to your comment, that's really Kayla responding to your
1:00.3	comment. Like I said, she is the real deal. You ready? Let's do it.
1:08.9	Kayla, welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. Thank you so much.
1:12.1	I'm so happy to have you here all the way from Australia. Yes, so we're from Adelaide.
1:16.6	All right, so before we jump in, we do what's called a warm-up, because you warm-up before your workouts.
1:21.1	So I do warm everyone up. Tell us who you are, where you're from, and what you do.
1:25.6	So I'm Kayla at CNS. I'm from Adelaide, South Australia. I am the co-creative of the BBG programs.
1:31.6	My programs are in the sweat app. I've been a personal trainer for almost 10 years now. Well,
1:37.5	and I'm here in New York to run two boot camps on Saturday and Sunday.
1:41.6	All right, so before we get into all the fun stuff, we need to talk about your last name,
1:45.1	because I was so excited that we were doing this, and I'm telling everyone I'm like,
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