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From College Fitness Coach To Creating Insanity: Shaun T's Story Is One Of Motivation | Forbes

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Shaun T, fitness trainer and motivator, joins "Forbes New Money" to share his journey from a college fitness coach to creating one of America’s most popular fitness programs, Insanity. Shaun was born in Camden, New Jersey, and raised in Philadelphia partly until living with his grandparents in Deptford Township, New Jersey. He attended high school there and played football, baseball, and ran track. Since graduating from college (Rowan University) with a B.S. in Exercise Science. Shaun has had a successful career as Fitness Coach/Trainer. He has created numerous popular fitness programs such as: Insanity, FocusT25, Hip Hop Abs, and Insanity 30Max. His latest program, Let's Get Up is a dance focused workout that focuses on happiness, positivity, and burning calories. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to new money where we talk to movers and shakers about how they made it.

0:08.4

I'm Rose Marie Miller here with Sean T the OG Fitness Motivator.

0:14.2

Sean, is there anything you'd like to add to that?

0:16.3

I mean, Fitness Motivator, Transformer,

0:18.6

I mean, I'm gonna let the people know

0:20.0

that we had a little conversation before we started.

0:22.0

I mean, you were doing what

0:23.6

T25 at 14 so I mean you know oh g is good though but I love to call myself a

0:29.0

transformer to help people transform into the best them.

0:33.0

Yeah, and what motivated you to do that?

0:36.0

You know to be quite honest, I think it was very subconscious.

0:40.0

I had a really, really tough childhood emotionally and I think that my needing to have to kind of fight my way through life, especially mentally.

0:53.7

That's why I have a conquer your mind on my arm.

0:57.5

Especially mentally, just made me want to help people transform.

1:02.3

It was just embedded in me as a young person and I always say, you know, through struggle comes strength. Not all struggle is deserving, but if you can utilize it in the best way I think it can like move mountains and that's exactly what I did.

1:17.0

You turned your pain into power.

1:19.0

Hey, pain to power, get into it.

1:21.0

Absolutely.

1:22.0

So could you detail some of the challenges she faced as a child?

1:26.0

So the biggest challenge I face is sexual abuse.

1:30.4

From the time I was 8 to the time I was 12 it was a very tough and trying time I wrote my book about it tears to transformation just all of the

1:40.5

the mental barriers that come along with that, just feeling like everything's your fault,

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