Hello and welcome to this very special episode of the podcast where I'm actually live inside

sweatbox with Shirley McCoy who I will let introduce herself in a second but one of the reasons

I have Shirley here or why I invite her on the podcast is that she wrote an awesome email or letter to her

younger self, which I guess resonated with me for a number of reasons, partly because I know

Shelley quite well and I've seen her go through half the journey she was sort of talking about

and partly because it made me think about a few things, especially how things on

social media can look like everything is always easy and successful, but actually how many

failures and doubts there are behind that and how many things that you go through along the way

to get to this, well, I wouldn't say you're at your end point. No, but like, yeah.

But definitely getting to a pinnacle point in my journey so far.

And I think that's what inspired me to talk to my younger self because I think back then,

this was a pipe dream.

This, I say this as in where I am right now, was a pipe dream.

And I thought, oh, when someone asked me, they said, oh, Shelly, it was actually my business mentor.

His name is Mike.

He said, he was in my clinic room at the time.

And he said, so what's the five-year plan?

Granted, small confession were seven years,

but success is not linear.

And I think my not linearness caused me an extra two years.

But he asked me what my five-year plan was,

and it was always to own my own gym.

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