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[0:00] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Welcome to Grit, Grace and Leadership, a podcast aimed at helping girls, tweens, and [teens reach] their full potential. As Melinda Gates has so eloquently highlighted, from our televisions to our textbooks, the stories we're told about power and influence almost always center on men. We believe that it is hard to become what you can't see. Our hope is that anyone listening feels inspired, sees a path forward to a life they find fulfilling, and in the process remembers that nothing is impossible. You will hear on the show that each of these women have been knocked down. They come from varying backgrounds, but what they have in common is their grit, grace, and leadership. They've created lives that many only dream of, and they're doing it their way. Today on the show we have LeAnna Marchese, co-owner of Fitness in Motion, an awesome gym that I go to here in Las Vegas. Welcome to the show.
[1:30] LEANNA MARCHESE: Thank you for having me.
[1:31] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Oh, my pleasure. So, LeAnna, I wanted you on the show because you own a gym.
[1:37] LEANNA MARCHESE: I do.
[1:38] ALEXIS MICHAUD: And that's not like what you think of traditionally, women doing. And you are, we're going to have to edit it like a badass, you are the most fit, fun, intelligent, One of the most intelligent women I know and I love working out with you And then I started to learn about your story and I was like I want other people to hear it
[1:58] LEANNA MARCHESE: Thank you
[2:00] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Absolutely. So let's start with just how and where did you grow up?
[2:05] LEANNA MARCHESE: I'm actually born and raised in Las Vegas. I grew up in downtown Henderson, which if you're from Vegas or Henderson You know what the triangle is and we had a house there. My parents were married at a very young age age. I grew up there mostly with my grandparents who also lived in downtown Henderson. I left for school for a bit, wanted to get out of Vegas so desperately. Like most people, it was such a transient town. You come and you go. Then once I left, I realized that I didn't like Nebraska at all. Big switch. Then I just found my way back to Vegas. I came back I can finish school here at UNLV with my family, my friends.
[2:49] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Okay. What did you get a degree in?
[2:52] LEANNA MARCHESE: Business management.
[2:53] ALEXIS MICHAUD: And what did you think you were going to go do with the degree?
[2:55] LEANNA MARCHESE: I had no idea.
[2:56] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Okay.
[2:57] LEANNA MARCHESE: I really didn't know. I wasn't one of those people that, you know, from the age of five was like, I'm going to be a doctor. Like, I really didn't know what life looked like. I come from a family of workers and nobody had gone to school. Nobody had gotten an education. And so I didn't really know. And there wasn't a whole lot of guidance with it. What do you do? It's just like follow your heart. Well, I don't know what that means. Which kind of was what led me into the fitness industry because I've always been an athlete. And I knew I always loved sports and I loved the camaraderie of athletics.
[3:34] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yes.
[3:35] LEANNA MARCHESE: I loved being a leader. I knew that. That I during school at UNLV and a part-time job, front desk job at night, I worked a 3 to 11 shift at 24 Hour Fitness in Green Valley.
[3:46] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Okay.
[3:46] LEANNA MARCHESE: So that's then it just led right into that.
[3:50] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Okay, so what kind of sports did you play as a kid?
[3:55] LEANNA MARCHESE: I did soccer and track.
[3:55] ALEXIS MICHAUD: You did?
[3:55] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yes.
[3:55] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Like with your school and all of that. So what I think is super fascinating is the statistics show that the very few women CEOs we have, overwhelmingly they played organized sports. There's something to be said about it. So tell me about it. Like you told me a little bit about you love being about a part of a team, but what else did it teach you?
[4:18] LEANNA MARCHESE: Well, it, you know, from a younger age, I really think like my son playing sports right now. It teaches them discipline.
[4:25] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah.
[4:26] LEANNA MARCHESE: Sportsmanship, you know, there's, there's relationships that you build on a field that you don't build in normal life. You have friendships. You have the ebb and flow of even just the relationship that I have with my husband. But it's different when you have people that you have to communicate with. And to me, communication is key in any relationship. And so when you have an organized sport, it's so critical to build those relationships with people, to be able to communicate to them and then relay the message. And then I was always, like I said, I kind of have a leader of personality. And so I was always the team captain or the leader of the track team just because that was just a natural role that I've always taken in any position.
[5:02] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I love it. I can see it for sure. Okay, so then you end up with, so now we already know, it drew you to career, to your career, you loved sports, you loved athletics. It's been a part of you since how old were you when you started playing?
[5:19] LEANNA MARCHESE: I started playing, I was not, to say I love athletics, you kind of envision like this all-star athlete and that's not actually not who I am at all. I have very terrible hand-eye coordination. So we tried to play through things. If you ever ask my mom if she's here in the gym, ask her about my softball career. It was terrible. Short stepped, couldn't catch the ball. And so it took me a while to kind of find what worked for me. And I think the only real reason that soccer did one was the team. I love the team aspect of soccer. Because track's really, you're on your own. You're very solo.
[5:51] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Isolated.
[5:52] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, very isolated.
[5:52] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Unless you have an issue on a relay team. It's an isolated sport.
[5:56] LEANNA MARCHESE: What I liked about soccer was the relationships with the other girls. But it took me a while to find that groove. I was about, I would say, 12 when I got into soccer. And then that carried me through into high school. And then I thought I was much better at track. Unfortunately, I liked the team aspect, but I'm fast. And so that's probably why I was so good at soccer. Soccer was just good at soccer.
[6:19] ALEXIS MICHAUD: But you have to have coordination to play soccer.
[6:21] LEANNA MARCHESE: You do. And I'm a mean kick and that's about it.
[6:24] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I mean, holy heck, I totally believe it. So I love that you didn't give up. You weren't like, I'm not coordinated. You were like, no, I'm going to keep going. I'll find something that works, yeah.
[6:33] LEANNA MARCHESE: Totally.
[6:34] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Okay. I really like that. I know that's going to resonate with people that are listening. So talk to me about any roadblocks you've had as a kid, as an adult, in life and how you overcame them.
[6:51] LEANNA MARCHESE: Well, a lot of girls just talk to you and maybe won't necessarily open it up. I had some issues as a child. We have the uncle we won't speak of and that was banned from the family. I had a bad relationship with my father. He didn't really know how to raise me on his own. My parents divorced when I was really young and so my mom worked a lot to provide for us because this is when Green Valley just first started. And so she wanted us to live in a better area. So she worked three jobs at one point to make sure that we could afford a home and a life. And so she wasn't around a lot. And I didn't have dad. And so that's what put me at my grandparents' house a lot. And kind of on my own. And so I had a hard time as a child just trying to... I was angry and trying to fit in. And that's it. Again, probably the team aspect comes into play for me because I had people. And I was just you know I had a try I had a idea in the far and I never had a trial is always so I have some fending for dinner and it's a lot of me relied on my friends and and those kind of relationships and so you know big hurdle there and then you kind of you try to find yourself as you go from those teenagers into your young twenties like how I think I think I think a lot of that had to do it you know even through college like not really knowing what my career looks like and what I wanted to do with life because I just I didn't really know where I fit in the world. I didn't. That took me probably until after I had kids to figure out. So the hurdle of life and just figuring out who I am and then... You probably don't even know this, but I was married before. It was the exact opposite of everything I knew. Overly Overly How to say this appropriately but controlling and Dominating and I need to know where you are and what you're doing and then if you didn't you know me enough now Then know that that was no way didn't work at all
[8:56] ALEXIS MICHAUD: No
[8:57] LEANNA MARCHESE: There was a there was no man in my life and then there was a man that was like too much in my life Yes, and it you know It took a short amount of time to figure out that I mean I knew before I probably shouldn't have gotten married and the other day of. So you make these mistakes in life, and so this happens, and then I abort mission.
[9:15] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Totally.
[9:16] LEANNA MARCHESE: I just have to do something better for myself. And so overcome that hurdle.
[9:20] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah.
[9:21] LEANNA MARCHESE: And then I just, at that point, just put everything into my career. I started working constantly, and I was on my own, and I moved out to Summerlin, and I was going to afford this life, and I was going to live in a better area and make my own money, and have a thriving career, And that's what I took off. And everything with my career took off. And I became, like I said, you started finding your way. You know, what makes you better and what fuels you. And then steps in Jess, my current husband, who only motivates and pushes me and encourages me to be the best version of myself.
[9:59] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah. That is so important.
[10:01] LEANNA MARCHESE: And not to say that that relationship has been perfect at what time is marriage. You know, the ebb and flow of that. So there's been hurdles for him trying to find himself and me trying to find myself and to land at a spot where we felt like it was comfortable enough to have kids. And then find your way with kids. It's a whole new existence.
[10:17] ALEXIS MICHAUD: And then working full time as a mom.
[10:19] LEANNA MARCHESE: That's right.
[10:20] ALEXIS MICHAUD: For class full time.
[10:21] LEANNA MARCHESE: Right.
[10:22] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Then you go home to your other full time job.
[10:24] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yes.
[10:25] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Like life is never smooth.
[10:26] LEANNA MARCHESE: No, it's not easy.
[10:27] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah, ever.
[10:28] LEANNA MARCHESE: And there's always a nothing because the biggest misconception with what we do, like anybody who's thriving, you know, especially with females, like there's so much pressure. Pressure. I got to be perfect at this and perfect at that and perfect, you know, perfect body and my kids have to look perfect and my, you know, that's not ever going to be the case.
[10:43] ALEXIS MICHAUD: No.
[10:43] LEANNA MARCHESE: It's just too much pressure for that.
[10:43] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I know it. Oh man, boy, do I absolutely agree. I was standing in a parking lot. I had lunch with my cousin and oh, a good friend from school. We all went to college together and we had a really brief conversation about does anybody actually believe Instagram? I'm on social media. I'm pushing the happy because I want it to be a break for people. I want, like I pick up magazines, not time or anything else. I pick up House Beautiful or whatever because I want an escape. I'm not gonna show you all the hard, but if you wanna go to lunch, I'll tell you about it because none of it's been easy, not one lick of it. But would I do it all over again? Heck yeah, have I been knocked down to the point where I didn't wanna get up? Yes, I have. You know, and so have you. I wanna back up though to what you said about going to college. If nobody around you went to school what drove you to get there
[11:38] LEANNA MARCHESE: Part of it was pressure society's kinda changed okay but I also because I didn't know what I wanted to do and I knew that I wasn't going to work in the industry here I did I had I didn't know it's for a lot of people which wasn't for me and so I knew that I don't have to tell you hospitality at your cocktails or anything like that I thought I knew that I just wanted to I wanted more for my life and I wanted it and I didn't know how that looked but I knew I needed to do it for me. That was the path. And I wanted to kind of change the pattern of the family as well.
[12:08] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yes.
[12:09] LEANNA MARCHESE: Set an example for my own children.
[12:12] ALEXIS MICHAUD: For sure. But you were so young but you already were thinking that through. And maybe too I wonder if you saw your mom working the three jobs. You were like I don't want this. I'm so grateful for her but I don't want this.
[12:23] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah. My mom's credit. When I went to school here, we took classes together. We went to CSN.
[12:29] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Really?
[12:29] LEANNA MARCHESE: And we took class, we took some courses there together. So she actually got her associate's degree.
[12:34] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah. Your mom is awesome.
[12:34] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah. Yep. So she was in her, probably, what? She was in her 40s at that point.
[12:39] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah. I knew that she wanted to do it. I have a friend who's in, I think she's in her early 50s and she's going back to finish. Yeah. I'm like so proud of her. It's awesome. Yeah. I love it. I love it. So, so talk to me a little bit because then you go to work for the gym for 24-hour fitness and you stay for a while, don't you?
[12:55] LEANNA MARCHESE: Oh yeah, I was there for 13 years.
[12:55] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Okay, that's long in today's age. That's a very long time.
[13:01] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah. I'm also a creature of habit.
[13:01] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Okay.
[13:01] LEANNA MARCHESE: I changed a lot as a child, homes and schools, and so I will nest in.
[13:07] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Totally. You want, like, the stability.
[13:07] LEANNA MARCHESE: [unclear] But yes.
[13:07] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Familiar.
[13:07] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, so even though I didn't necessarily I necessarily always liked what was going on with my job and the surroundings with that. I stayed because it was comfortable for me.
[13:26] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I get it. And where did you start and where did you end before you left?
[13:30] LEANNA MARCHESE: It was a front desk receptionist and part time. And then I finished. They did a little restructuring. At one point I was the district operations manager for Las Vegas. So I ran Las Vegas, the clubs. And then I ended up, when they eliminated all the operations positions out of the company and became way more of a sales based company. That's not my thing. I don't sell anything. Yeah. And so and not well at all. So I found myself into the Summerlin, the Super Sport Club out in Summerlin and made that my home. It was the biggest club they had, and so it was the most challenging.
[14:02] ALEXIS MICHAUD: And it was the nicest in town.
[14:02] LEANNA MARCHESE: It was.
[14:02] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Except for like Green Valley Athletic Club on the other side, or whatever it used to be called.
[14:06] LEANNA MARCHESE: Exactly. Yeah. I mean, because Sporting House was gone.
[14:09] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Well, you remember the Sporting House?
[14:09] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yes. Yeah. I started actually with my very first spin class I ever taught was at that Green Valley Athletic Club.
[14:14] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah, it was so nice. I mean, when that thing came around, we were like, oh, fancy. Okay. So now you've been, you've been in fitness, your whole, I mean, your whole life, you've been in athletics or fitness, which is awesome because you're, you're such a role model to your kids. Yeah. Who are like, so darling. So, I mean, oh my gosh, when your daughter comes in. Your daughter is questionable. No! She comes in the gym! She's like, she's like, I don't want to say a celebrity because we don't need to aspire to be celebrities, but when she walks in, everybody lights up and gets so excited to see her.
[14:45] LEANNA MARCHESE: She is. I... The personality difference between the two. He was such a mellow kid and she is spitfire, which mom's like, well this is karma, because this is you.
[14:56] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah, right?
[14:56] LEANNA MARCHESE: Exactly.
[14:56] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I can totally see that. So, okay, so the next question for you is, based on your experiences so far, is there anything you aspire to in your next chapter?
[15:07] LEANNA MARCHESE: Oh, another question mark.
[15:07] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Right?
[15:07] LEANNA MARCHESE: I don't even, yeah.
[15:07] ALEXIS MICHAUD: That doesn't have to be a next chapter.
[15:12] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, exactly.
[15:12] ALEXIS MICHAUD: So it's just, you can say no.
[15:12] LEANNA MARCHESE: Like, I love where I am right now. We actually were having a conversation. It made me really honest with you. Our lease is up in a year. Okay. This is the second round with this and you know it's in the heart of Summerlin and so they keep raising the rent and raising the rent and at some point you're like, well how high can the rent be that we just continue to stay here? Totally. But then And we're both, Rachael and I were sitting there and we're talking about what would we even want to do? I love fitness. I get to walk into a gym and I wrote that to you and it's not always just changing the physical aspect of somebody. It's a mental thing.
[15:54] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yes, it is.
[15:55] LEANNA MARCHESE: So every spin class I get to teach or every client I have that 30 or an hour minute or 30 minute or 60 minute interaction with, I'm changing their life in some small way every day guys vent about their fight they had with their husband or their child or they're like oh no I'm gonna stop venting I think I'm taking my I don't ever I don't ever take it to heart I never share anybody's business yeah I just yeah I don't take it's hard because I do actually I love all my cuz I never I never sit so heavy with me I okay love these these interactions I have with mostly women but even the men come in and they're It's like, I just need somebody to talk to and men don't communicate. Sorry. Very well. It's like, you just want somebody to say something to and I love that about my job.
[16:45] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Right. Without having to hear the super heavy stuff that therapists have to hear.
[16:48] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, yeah. I don't want to fix them. I'm just a sound board.
[16:51] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I'll tell you that I was so enthusiastic to get started with you. I had had trainers in the past and then I just turned into a workaholic and I chose to not make fitness a priority, which I have to own it. I don't hate anything. I hate that I made that choice. My whole body started to hurt. My back started to hurt. I would wake me up because I didn't have a strong core or I was sitting in a desk for 14 hours a day. I mean, all of it. And so I went in to see you with enthusiasm. And then I would say six, seven, eight weeks in, I would wake up and be like, I'm so glad I have you because I wouldn't do it today. And I felt that way for like six weeks, you know? And so the accountability that you provide is powerful. But the way I feel is I'm going to continue with this for my whole life. I'm going to be a better person, a better parent, a better wife, a better human, because my house is in order. And that's because of you. And you've made it so, I mean, it's hard and painful, but you've also made it so easy. So I just like, I love spending that time with you and I love that you push me and not that it's relevant, but if every trainer I've had, I've said she's totally different. You very much assessed my fitness level in a casual way and then slowly pushed versus beat me up and I'm pissed because again, my back hurts, my rear end, everything hurt. You know, like I really liked how you did it. You're amazing at what you do.
[18:22] LEANNA MARCHESE: Thank you.
[18:23] ALEXIS MICHAUD: So thank, well thank you. I mean, I've recommended you to a lot of people. They gotta get in to see you, but they're all workaholics as well So the people that really needed the most It's my doctor friends.
[18:33] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, it's a release. It's like there's a chemical release that happens with fitness that makes you a better human.
[18:39] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yes, so it's not just an outward appearance.
[18:39] LEANNA MARCHESE: No. "I want a tighter butt," like, nobody does, but no, there's a, yeah, there's a betterment to the mental.
[18:44] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yes, when you do this. I know, I know it makes me, I'm more patient, calmer clear everything that is important. So, and it's not about vanity anymore. It's about strength and I want to be a really good old lady one day and I can't do that unless I'm healthy. So, um, so just in life doesn't have to be work. What's been the most pleasant surprise along the way and what lessons maybe presented themselves in those surprises?
[19:13] LEANNA MARCHESE: What's it on the phone?
[19:21] ALEXIS MICHAUD: You did say the relationships. The relationships with your clients.
[19:23] LEANNA MARCHESE: Speaking of mom mode, I wrote this up last night. I was really tired after a baseball game. I mean, it really is. It's the people I've got, I've been able to meet. And I have every end of the spectrum that I get to train. From the stay at home moment to I have a VP of entertainment at MGM properties. Like, I get everything.
[19:46] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Law enforcement?
[19:46] LEANNA MARCHESE: Those are my favorite when I see them. My cop friends have the craziest stories. But it really is just like it's a treat. Every single person I get to meet has a different story and I love to learn about humans. I love to get to know people. And it's so rewarding.
[20:06] ALEXIS MICHAUD: It is rewarding.
[20:06] LEANNA MARCHESE: And you know what, I didn't write a whole album. I know you haven't been able to experience one of my spin classes. My law enforcement friend Ashton that you've met, he makes me crack up because he's like, you know, you're like a church. Your spin classes are, you're a gospel. And I preach, and I don't, and at this time, it's not a weird way, but I get on that bike and I have a microphone and I get into people's souls. And I find every ounce from their body that I can pull. But I only, you know, and people always, I'll look out and sometimes they're crying in the middle of spin class, not because they're in pain, but because they just, they get a release.
[20:47] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Totally.
[20:48] LEANNA MARCHESE: They just find something inside and they push to a different level and so he's like, you get in there and you get on your bike and you're putting that microphone in. And it's just like to be able to reach that, to have somebody come off of a bike after or just been constant say to me, I don't have to take my antidepressants now because I have you. It's a powerful thing.
[21:07] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yes. Those things, it's a powerful statement right there.
[21:11] LEANNA MARCHESE: I mean, you can do anything you want. Or you help me get through my dad's death or whatever it may be. There's just these moments where you're just like, I get in the car afterwards and I'm like, man, I am so blessed to be able to have this impact on people's lives. How many people can say that?
[21:27] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Right. I mean, even if you're a doctor and you heal, did you get to their soul?
[21:30] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, and I said like outside of curing cancer like I really feel like I have one of the best jobs on the planet
[21:36] ALEXIS MICHAUD: What's the quote? It was so powerful. Was it?
[21:40] LEANNA MARCHESE: Food is the most overused
[21:44] ALEXIS MICHAUD: You had it outside. Yeah. What was it food is the most abused?
[21:50] LEANNA MARCHESE: And fitness is the most Utilizing it was like fitness is the most underutilized anti-depressant. Yeah, it is
[21:57] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yeah, I've got family members that suffer from depression and when they start to exercise regularly the power that it's provided to them has been
[22:05] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, it runs deep through my family
[22:07] ALEXIS MICHAUD: It's the most overutilized drug and exercise is the most underutilized antidepressant, man
[22:13] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, and it's always to mean it's always helped me I I get into these slumps and I was telling them yesterday It was in the middle class and you know, I said I need you It was a song I was playing and I said I need you as much as you need me I'm like I would be very honest to me when I get into these ruts I've been off this week. I'm forgetting things. I've been forgetting everything. I've cried a couple times over things that are just simple. Like things I would normally never cry over. I've just kind of been in a rut. And then I get on that treadmill. I get in front of that class where I lift those weights and it becomes my clarity. My little happy drug and then I can move on. But we all do it. I am in the same boat as everybody else. Else. I'm just as human as everybody. And we all have the valleys. I mean valleys can last a couple days, couple years.
[22:59] ALEXIS MICHAUD: The last question that I ask everybody is so far in life what do you know without a doubt? You had said people have the ability to change.
[23:18] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah, so that's my, we have a family motto. And it is to be the change and it comes off of the same, you know be the change you wish to see in the world
[23:27] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Yes
[23:29] LEANNA MARCHESE: Without a doubt we can make life But other people's lives better by being the change right?
[23:39] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I'm sure you must see I mean what you just described a bunch of your clients, but You must literally see the person that comes in depressed or the person that comes in substantially out of shape or the person that maybe comes in a little bit fit, but it's in a weird place. And then they just mentally start to shift when they get their bodies together.
[23:57] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yep. And this could be, yeah, any aspect in your life, but I was talking with a client who wanted to start with me and she's like, quit everything. I quit everything I start. Every diet, every fitness regime, everything that's ever come to my own personal health, I've quit on. And I was like, well, one, you're not gonna quit on me because I'll drive to your house and I'll pick you up. And she started off with my spin class, and then she nervously broke the barrier to step inside the gym. And so she has a couple different ways I get to touch her life right now. And we were working out, and she said, I'll never be able to step up on that box. I'll never be able to do that. And week three, she went on a little box. And then week five, she went on a medium box. You know week seven and we just hit she stepped up this morning on the block she said she would never be able to step up on. Not the big tall one that I think is [unclear] but jumping on. Yeah, she's short, so it's the one below that. Just very short nugget legs, but you know, to the fact that she's just right there in less than two months, a small, you know, like a change.
[24:54] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I was wondering if you were, like, if you were remembering the weeks accurately, 'cause I'm like, that's no time at all if she can do that in seven weeks.
[25:09] LEANNA MARCHESE: Nothing. In less than two months has been able to to change her mental thought process on fitness. I can't, I can't, I just can't. And she just said, she goes, it's about, it's me. Should I quit on myself? Clearly. Because I'm a self-sabotager. And I quit because I just feel like it's too hard, or too I just lose interest. And I'm like, she has a daughter and her daughter's overweight. And she's like, it can't even necessarily be about me anymore. It's got to be about what I'm doing for my kid.
[25:47] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Isn't that the truth?
[25:49] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah.
[25:50] ALEXIS MICHAUD: That is the truth.
[25:51] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yep.
[25:52] ALEXIS MICHAUD: That is powerful. LeAnna, I hope you stay doing this because you are amazing at it.
[25:59] LEANNA MARCHESE: Thank you.
[26:00] ALEXIS MICHAUD: Holy cow! And I'm so grateful to have met you. The podcast is about women with great grace and leadership. You obviously possess all those things, on top of which we're lucky enough that you are a Las Vegas resident and you make the community a better place to be as well. So we will attach all the information for Fitness in Motion in that episode so people can find you. I know you'll, I mean, you already get up at like four, so I don't know how many more clients you can take, but you are a powerhouse and I really appreciate the story that you told. I didn't know a lot of those things that you brought up. I know a lot of listeners are going to relate and I want them to be able to listen and see that there's a path.
[26:40] LEANNA MARCHESE: Yeah. So you said it's easy to pop on Instagram or Facebook because I like you. I like to post very positive things. Yeah. But life isn't always positive. No. There are going to be negative things that happen in your life. But what do you do for you to make your life better? To make your kids life better? To change a generation. Exactly. And the ones that come. We can sit back and complain about what's happening. We can actively get involved.
[27:07] ALEXIS MICHAUD: That's it.
[27:08] LEANNA MARCHESE: That's all we have.
[27:09] ALEXIS MICHAUD: That's all we have.
[27:10] LEANNA MARCHESE: Thank you.
[27:11] ALEXIS MICHAUD: LeAnna, thank you.
[27:12] LEANNA MARCHESE: Thank you.
[27:18] ALEXIS MICHAUD: I want to thank LeAnna for coming on today's episode. Our quote that will wrap us up is about fitness or anything else in life. Quote goes, Of course it's hard. It's supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.
