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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

E120: James Smith: How To Create The Life You’ve Always Wanted

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

James Smith is a bestselling author of Not A Life Coach and Not A Diet Book, and a personal trainer and fitness influencer with a unique philosophy that makes his message unlike any fitness advice you’ve ever heard before. 


James combines hard truths, he’s not afraid of saying words like ‘fat’, and an extra level of connection and empathy with his clients, he begins by asking them how many hours a week they can commit, and works around them. He has high expectations that work around you.


James is a special guy, and he didn’t hold back in this conversation. Fitness is a world where there’s a lot of bad advice, a lot of contradictory opinions, and it can be hard to tell the wood from the trees. For the plain facts on how to take your fitness to the next level, James is the fitness expert for you.


James:

https://www.instagram.com/jamessmithpt

https://twitter.com/jamessmithPT


James’ book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Life-Coach


Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos


Sponsor:
Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Craftd - https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

Transcript

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0:00.0

I've spoken about quite a few things today that I've never really spoken about.

0:02.9

James Smith, the world's fastest growing online personal trainer, but he's much more than that.

0:08.6

Like a driving instructor, I should not exist in your life in six months.

0:12.4

Why is it so acceptable for people to invest money into fitness professionals and

0:16.4

them still be there three years later? So if you do your job well enough, your client leaves.

0:20.3

If people were truly happy, I would have been shut the hell up then.

0:23.5

And I wouldn't have experienced so much growth from pointing out the inadequacies.

0:27.3

I don't like people that present the solution without education.

0:31.1

It breaks me to think of the tens of thousands of people who gave up on their ambitions

0:35.1

because they went the wrong way for advice.

0:37.0

And when they failed the plan or don't finish it, they blame themselves.

0:40.7

Where the hell have you come to the conclusion that you would not succeed following your passion?

0:44.9

I just wish that maybe early on someone had said to be,

0:48.2

okay, you're not doing well here but this doesn't mean you're not intelligent.

0:51.3

There is something else that you could do very well up.

0:53.6

Quick one, can you do me a favor if you're listening to this and hit the subscribe button,

0:58.6

the follow button, wherever you're listening to this podcast? Thank you so much.

1:02.0

James Smith, the world's fastest growing online personal trainer.

1:07.2

But he's much more than that. He's an author of three books, his third one's about to come out.

1:12.2

He's unapologetic. He is outspoken and he says it how it is.

1:17.6

And that's meant that he now reaches millions of people online every single week.

1:24.0

I had an expectation on James. I've seen him on social media.

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