Welcome to the Shaline show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author celebrity fitness trainer and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

Hey, thanks so much for joining me today on the Shaline show. I'm always honored. You're here really

Really it's a privilege to spend this time with you. Thank you guys for you know reaching out to me on Instagram and on Snapchat and letting me know

What episode you love and why you loved it? Do you know that I love it?

When on Instagram you send me a drug message

I can see that you shared to the world all the people that are following you you tell them like listen to this episode and here's what I got from it

I love that. I love it love it love it

So thank you never stop doing that. I try to share those as often as I can in my own story

Without you know flooding my feed with that

But it really means a lot to me and I always will respond back especially love

I know I've said this before but I especially love when you tell me like what was your aha moment or what really spoke to you

That just helps me it fuels me

today's episode is dedicated to you it is an episode about self-awareness

I'm gonna ask you to dig deep and

Ask yourself some difficult questions because I want to figure out that the people we love are

accepting

mediocrity

making excuses

Pretending it's okay and in the process allowing your dreams to die and

And I refuse to let that happen on my watch

When my grandfather William Melvin was 14 years old and living in Detroit

He went to work at the factory like a lot of the kids his age did they dropped out of school

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