Pursuing Your Passion with Jonny + Libby Diaz PH175

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jonny Diaz is a contemporary Christian singer and songwriter with a number of chart topping albums, including More Beautiful You which has appeared on several Billboard magazine charts, but his heart wasn't always set on being a musician. He originally planned to focus his efforts on baseball, and attended Florida State University on a baseball scholarship. As the fourth of four brothers to attend college on a baseball scholarship, two of whom have played professionally, a career in baseball seemed a natural fit. However, while Jonny was in school, he also began to develop his musical talent. Ultimately, he discovered that by working hard and pouring his time and energy into his passion for music, he was able to turn something he loved into his professional career. Libby Diaz grew up in Florida and fell in love with movement mechanics at a young age when she began using functional fitness to elevate her soccer training. She went on to play collegiate ball at Florida State University, and after graduation she slowly grew her hobby of leading fitness classes for friends into her own business. She started small, with an outdoor boot camp, and as her clientele grew she began renting space from other facilities until it became clear it was time to go all-in and pursue her passion. Together Jonny and Libby opened Fit Factory Nashville, a huge functional fitness gym with an incredibly close-knit community.

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0:00.0	I think the biggest thing that I take away are these transferable skills where it's like you would think like
0:06.7	touring the country and kind of hustling and making it happen in that way is like specific to music but it's really not like that's going to help us in the future with our gym it has already like as we
0:16.6	kind of bootstrap a gym and kind of figured that whole thing out and then even with
0:20.6	our kids just like kind of of that idea of like just one step at a time, like all you have control of is your next step.
0:28.0	And that was all the music ever was too. It was just like, all right, what's my next step? What's my next step what's my next step because I never like it took me probably
0:36.8	five years of doing music full-time to actually admit that I was a musician
0:41.2	so I was like well I'm doing music until I have to get a real job. And then like maybe five years later I was just like, okay, I guess I'm a musician now. I can actually own that. So yeah, it's been fun to see how those skills kind of move into different areas as well.
0:59.2	Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former
1:05.2	Cross Fit Games athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the
1:10.1	gap between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your
1:13.4	healthiest self. Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with this
1:17.6	week's episode. So guys this week I sit down with Johnny and Libby Diaz.
1:23.4	Johnny is a contemporary Christian singer and songwriter who has a number of chart-topping
1:27.6	albums, including More Beautiful You, which you may have heard.
1:31.2	And Libby turned her passion for fitness into a business with their gym fit
1:34.8	factory in Nashville. I had met Johnny several years ago at an airport and more recently I had
1:39.8	the chance to work out at their gym and they've both become good friends. In this
1:44.4	conversation we chat about how they turned their hobbies into thriving careers,
1:48.2	how they navigate the challenges of owning their own businesses, and how they
1:52.3	create balance in their lives as parents and busy entrepreneurs.
1:55.2	So I hope you enjoy getting to know them as much as I have.
1:58.0	Before we dive into the episode, we do want to make it clear that this podcast is for general information only,
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