Laura Hoggins | How to Get Fit and Feel Strong.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Personal trainer Laura Hoggins (@laurabiceps) joins me to talk about making the transition from marketing executive to personal trainer and how weight lifting and strength training changed her life.
Lift Your Self by Laura Hoggins.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn's show. Who am I? I'll never tell. I'm not Gossett girl. I'm |
| 0:13.6 | Emma gonna ward in her and I'm your host. And in this episode I'm joined by |
| 0:17.7 | personal trainer and strength coach Laura Hoggins. Although head to |
| 0:22.2 | social media and you'll see she's better known as Laura Biceps. |
| 0:26.2 | Now strength is the operative word here, but we'll get to that in a minute. |
| 0:30.0 | I actually met Laura many years ago. I was a beauty editor for a magazine and she was a marketing exec at L'Oreal. |
| 0:37.0 | We have quite a few mutual friends actually. |
| 0:40.0 | But our paths haven't crossed for years. |
| 0:47.0 | Via social media, I was vaguely aware that she was into fitness, to use air quotes. But I didn't quite realize so much so. |
| 0:50.0 | Then a few weeks ago, I took a class at Soul Cycle. I had my first ride at Soul Cycle which was amazing by the way. |
| 0:56.0 | If you haven't listened to the episode with Soul Cycle CEO Melanie Whelan, then I advise you take a few skips back on the podcast feed and find that she was amazing |
| 1:06.1 | but guess he was on the bike next to me Laura we started chatting after class and Laura told |
| 1:12.4 | me about everything she'd been doing, |
| 1:14.1 | leaving her really successful marketing career, retraining as a personal trainer, |
| 1:18.7 | focusing on her physical health and how lifting,'s lifting weights changed her life. |
| 1:24.7 | It's something she believes in so much that the opening line of her book, |
| 1:28.0 | Lift yourself is lifting changed my life and I believe it has the power to change yours too. And trust me, |
| 1:34.6 | within the pages she makes a compelling case while sharing her own experiences, |
| 1:38.8 | insight and expertise. What I find so interesting and inspiring about Laura's journey is how she has followed her gut and trusted her instinct just as much as she has made physical transformations for herself and for others. |
| 1:52.0 | On paper, Laura was doing just fine, rising up the corporate ladder, |
| 1:55.3 | earning welfare age and on a career trajectory that would, let's be honest here, set her up pretty nicely. |
| 2:01.1 | So to decide to retrain to create a plan where she could make the |
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