Today I'm honored to introduce you to my dear friend Jared Hamilton.

I met Jared in 2016, so 10 years ago, which is wild.

And quickly, I realized he's one of the most kind, caring, honest, empathetic, and hardworking

individuals in the fitness industry.

He's a devoted husband, incredible coach, creator of dieting from the

inside out, and I'm blessed to have him here to hear with me today. Jared Hamilton, welcome to the

podcast, brother. I am honored to be here, my friend. This is awesome. So just to start off,

simple question, who are you? I'm Jared Hamilton. I right now, 34, and born and raised in the Midwest, if you can't hear that. I can't hear it anymore. Ten years ago, I could hear it. Ten years ago, you're like, bro, you sound like a cowboy. At the end of the day, I'm just a regular person with this stuff, the way that I like to view it. like some of the things that I'll talk whenever I'm chatting with clients or people online is, they'll say, like, it's almost like you're a real person with this. And I think that's just, it's sad that the industry is where it's almost like this holier than now or I don't struggle with these things either, because the whole, the whole concept around everything I've created with what I solve, like with coaching and content,

it's because I've been through it.

Every single one of the things that I teach about I've struggled with personally.

So at the end of the day, I'm just a normal guy, but I've found my way with some of this stuff.

And then I just feel like it's my mission to help people get on the other side themselves.

What misconceptions do people on social media have about you?

About me personally?

Yeah.

That's a really good question.

I think it's that from the feedback I'll get from people, it's that like I think some people don't think that either like any come up or like, I've never struggled with other stuff in the past. If someone doesn't know like my story, like, like I was given a Weight Watchers book at 11 and that's when all my stuff started. Um, or I struggled with my own stuff like dieting and my relationship with food all the way up until I was about 20. So a lot of people,

until they've heard like the origin story, they don't realize a lot of that. They're just like,

oh, you just teach this stuff. We're like, no, bro. I've struggled with this more than most people. I think it's one of the, listen, I have many gripes with social media, but one of the great

things about social media is I feel like it's given people an opportunity to be more open and honest with their struggles.

Whereas, I mean, it still happens in social media.

Some people pretend like everything is perfect and they have no struggles.

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