Becoming an Iron Maiden, Self Defense for Women, Overcoming Grief, Finding Your Faith, and More…
The Jordan Syatt Podcast
Jordan Syatt
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
In today’s podcast I speak with the incredible Paloma Pilar and we discuss:
- How she trained to do a weighted pull-up (with 53 extra pounds)
- Dealing with the grief of losing a friend who took her own life
- Starting jiu jitsu as a woman
- How she found her faith
- And more…
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Jordan Siet podcast. |
| 0:01.7 | Before we get into today's exciting episode, which is incredible, you should listen |
| 0:05.1 | the whole way through. |
| 0:06.0 | I have a quick announcement. |
| 0:07.1 | If you're watching the video, you can see I'm sitting here with my buddy, Mike Vacanti. Mike, you want to say hi? Hey, y'all, happy to be here. Mike and I are the host of the How to Become a Personal Trainer podcast. It is a free podcast, obviously meant for personal trainers, to help you become a great coach. |
| 0:21.5 | Learn coaching psychology, nutrition strategies, coaching strategies. We want to help you become a great coach so your clients can get better, more sustainable results and also to teach you how to build a successful online coaching business. If you want to listen, we upload every Tuesday to the How to Become a Personal Trainer podcast. The link is in the show notes |
| 0:38.1 | if you want to go check that out. And that's it. We'd love to see you there. Love to see you there. |
| 0:41.7 | Enjoy the episode. Today I'm honored to introduce you to my dear friend Paloma Pilar. Paloma is an |
| 0:49.6 | extraordinary fitness coach and legitimately one of the strongest people I've ever met. You'll hear more about that today. She's infinitely warm, kind, funny, energetic, and thoughtful. And I am blessed to have her here with me today. Paloma, welcome to the show. Hello, George. Hello, it's great to see you. It's so good to see you. I feel like it's been a long time. |
| 1:12.3 | It's been at least a couple of years. I think, yes. I think 20, 23. 23. I think like summer 23, I think. Yes, yes, that's crazy. So this feels so good. I'm so glad. So for everyone who doesn't know you, and also for me. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | Tell me about yourself, who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing? So this feels so good. I'm so glad. So for everyone who doesn't know you, and also for me, |
| 1:28.3 | yeah. Tell me about yourself, who are you? Where are you from? What do you do? How'd you get into fitness? Like, I want to hear your story, fitness and otherwise. Okay. So just dive right in and there's no rush. I just want to hear your story. Okay. I appreciate the no rush thing because I do love context. Yes, yes. |
| 1:44.5 | It's so funny. |
| 1:45.7 | Like the Who Are You, Where Are You from question, I think is thing because I do love context. Yes, yes. |
| 1:45.5 | It's so funny. |
| 1:51.8 | Like the Who Are You, Where Are You From question, I think is always loaded for me because, so I'm a military brat. |
| 1:52.7 | Okay. |
| 1:54.9 | My mom is an Air Force veteran. |
| 1:55.5 | Okay. |
| 2:03.0 | And so where I'm from is very, it's not, it's circumstantial, right? |
| 2:06.4 | So I was born in Alaska, actually, which is always really funny. |
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