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Yes You Can
Host Hannah Pratt pulls back the curtain on being an indoor cycling instructor and fitness coach while covering online business, grief, and designing your dream life by taking action and allowing your story to empower you. Yes, You Can is the podcast you need to dream bigger, laugh louder, and feel celebrated and supported in your instructor journey. #yesyoucanpodcast @hannahrosespin
Yes You Can
Masterclass: 5 Keys to Fitness Instructor Mastery
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Ever wondered how some fitness instructors manage to fill their classes every single time and create raving communities of fans?
There are 5 Keys to Fitness Instructor Mastery: musicality, marketing, motivation, coaching & cueing, and mindset.
Inside this audio replay of my masterclass, I review them all, along with some amazing success stories of fitness professionals who have gone through Instructor Magic and levelled up, filled classes, and change lives.
This episode wraps up with an invitation to join the Instructor Magic six-week course, packed with resources and mentorship to guide your fitness instruction journey to success. Whether you're a studio owner or an instructor looking for a fresh perspective, this episode is your ticket to unlocking a world of possibilities.
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Welcome to the yes you Can podcast, a soft place to land for fit pros and aspiring entrepreneurs looking for a motivational cheerleader who's been through it all and believes your best. Life is about being brave and tapping into your magic. Hi, I'm Hannah Pratt, an online coach and vulnerability queen. I'm here ready to share my experiences through grief, life and finding my place on the podium to help you level up. So grab a latte and a notebook and get ready to be inspired through the yes you Can podcast. Hey friends, welcome to another episode of the yes you Can podcast. It has been a minute.
Speaker 1:We took sort of a little sabbatical from the podcast as I had some life changes all really, really positive, and I will talk about that at another time. Another episode Some of you who've been following me on social media would know exactly what I'm talking about, but today we are talking about Black Friday and we are in the midst of my round 12 launch of Instructor Magic. So today's episode is an audio replay of the webinar that I led earlier this week. This is the 12th round of Instructor Magic, so I've been doing this for a long time, but I never fail to feel so excited every time I get to mentor and coach instructors, and so that's what you're going to be hearing is me live on Zoom. There are some fun moments, some great Q&As at the end. Lots of people have already joined Instructor Magic for this round, and so if you're hearing this for the first time and you're like, where have I been Get to it?
Speaker 1:Because Black Friday is, this is the best sale I've ever run on any of my programs. One you get Instructor Magic for 25% off, so $150 off. If you listen to this webinar audio. You will also get the choreography vault using code Black Friday. So this is a course that's worth $175. You get it for as a bonus for this launch, I'm also running 25% off one-on-one mentorship sessions, um, so, for those who did attend the webinar, again they get the one-on-one session. So one-on-one session, instructor magic and the choreography vault all for $447. Um, that is the best deal I've ever run. And, yes, there are payment plans, but you have to get in by tonight, um, no, friday, november 29th, for those bonuses and then till Monday for the pricing discount.
Speaker 1:I also have the one-on-one sessions. You can do a package of three. Normally they are $3.50 per session. They're going down to $2.50. And then, if you buy three, it is $5.50, which is a wild, wild deal. So if you are a studio owner and you want to level up your marketing or leadership of teams, this is a really great investment at the write-off. Obviously. The write-off, obviously. And I love coaching studio owners in these different topics because I've led training for teams many times From a marketing perspective.
Speaker 1:I ran the marketing for Wheelhouse for a year and so I was behind the scenes of all of our workflows, especially with new member retention, and win back. What else? Podium prep If you are an aspiring instructor, you can get this course for less than $100. And this is a training manual, this is a guide. This is everything you need to be able to lead on the bike and also prepare for an audition. And so I've seen so many instructors go through podium prep, invest in instructor magic and absolutely kill it. Become lead instructors in the time that I've known them from not having been on the bike at all.
Speaker 1:So here are a few different opportunities, and if you just want to learn with my free resources, that is totally fine. But I am a person who loves a good deal, especially when it's something I've been waiting to do. So there's all my free resources, including this podcast episode. All I would ask is that you please share it with a friend or provide me with a review on Apple Podcasts. This is, you know, such a passion of mine, but I do need to be able to support myself and pay for my business expenses so that I can do more of it. So your endorsement means so much because it helps me be able to provide more free resources and also level up the quality of the education that I can provide within my courses too. So thank you so much for being here, for being a part of this community. If you have any questions about any of these courses, dm me on Instagram and I will talk to you then. Otherwise, enjoy the Five Keys to Fitness Instructor Mastery webinar replay Awesome.
Speaker 1:So welcome to Five Keys to Fitness Instructor Mastery. There's going to be more folks joining us as we go, and I'm so excited to be with you all tonight. This is the 12th round that I've done a free master class or webinar since I launched Instructor Magic and all of my programs, and it never fails to make me super excited and a little bit nervous. But I know you're all fit pros and so I'm really stoked to just hang out with you for an hour maybe an hour and a little bit and talk about some of the things that have helped me find success in this industry and help you along with yours as well. Okay, I'm going to find my chat Great Polls.
Speaker 1:So, as we get going, I would love to know there should be a poll that just popped up. I'd love to know if you are currently an instructor or coach, if you're an aspiring instructor or if you are a studio owner. So I'll get to you a little bit more. Okay, so we have a lot of instructors. We have a few folks who are aspiring instructors or coaches no studio owners yet, but there's gonna be more coming in. So, amazing, okay, it's changing a little bit. Cool, cool, great. Okay, so I'm gonna keep that up because that does help me, just like when you are teaching to a class.
Speaker 1:Understanding people's level of understanding their education, their experience, helps me with how deep I go into some of these topics. So tons of current instructors and coaches welcome, amazing, all right, so I'm going to remind you why you signed up for this webinar, even though it's easy to do on Instagram. For sure, I want to remind you of what you're going to get out of tonight, so you are in the right place. If you want consistently waitlisted classes, so I want you to know that consistently waitlisted classes are possible for you. Sometimes, talking about wait lists can be a bit of a taboo right. We talk about numbers, but we are all thinking about our registrations for our classes all the time.
Speaker 1:It is a reality of something that helps give us confidence and know, and as one touch point, whether what we are doing is landing with the right people and whether we are promoting ourselves in the right way. So nice. That segues nicely into why marketing yourself is actually a gift to others. That is something I want you to leave this webinar knowing and feeling. I want you to know how to give quick wins to your riders and clients through your playlist structure, and I want you to definitely know some top tips for finding motivation and how to find inspiration.
Speaker 1:Motivating is definitely the thing I am known most for, besides somewhat feral energy when I teach and when I coach, so that is going to be something that we are focusing on quite a bit. You are also going to get an invitation to join instructor magic with a bonus If you so anybody who joins instructor magic, we'll get a bonus one-on-one session with me and the choreography vault included as a part of my Black Friday launch and as a little thank you, because my one-on-ones are so, so fun and even though we do live video calls throughout Instructor Magic, I love mentoring others. That's why I'm here. If you stick around, regardless of what you do, if you enroll or not, you'll get emailed my signature PDF template on how to motivate through classes. This is a part of Instructor Magic and a part of the motivation module, which is an entire 12 video lesson part of the course helping you get to a new level of soul shaking inspiration, with a bit of incentive to hang out. Of course, as I already said, I'm going to invite you to join, if it feels right, the program that is designed to get you to waitlist classes, with an exclusive bonus for those who stay with me to the end of the call and enroll.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to make sure I can see my chat here. I would love to know before we even get going and I'm pretty sure I can see messages from everybody Say hi, let me know where you're from. I love to see the variety of countries. I have some people who mentioned that they're going to be joining from Europe and Brussels and international places. So please let me know where you are from. It would be. Yeah, it'd be great to see where we're at globally and I'm just going to make sure that you can do that because I see some hands up. And I'm just going to make sure that you can do that because I see some hands up Lower hands Great, amazing. Okay, so, distracted, I can get distracted as well. It's time to pull your notebook, turn your phone on. Do not disturb, shut off distractions so you can get the most of your time, our time together. And yes, of course, please take photos and make sure to tag me on social media at Hannah Rose Spin. I would love to. Yeah, I'd love to see who you are online, because I know that I've had a lot of conversations with folks as we've been going.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I'm going to introduce myself. Some of you know me and others may not, and I always love to, when I'm learning from somebody, know where they're coming from with their education and experience. So I am a former DJ, which translates beautifully, obviously, to making tons of playlists every single week. I've toured across Canada, I've opened for folks like Steve Aoki, and I'm also the creator of our DJ 101 online course, which is what sort of prompted this idea of sharing my knowledge online with people who I could help as an instructor. My classes have been waitlisted as quickly as 28 seconds. I'm known for my wild energy, motivation and playlists. I am the founder of the Instructor Magic Academy and, as a marketer, I've launched three 10K Instagram accounts and one. Manitoba communicator of the year in 2018 and future leader of Manitoba in 2019.
Speaker 1:Oh, the chat is disabled. I'm seeing this. Let me see if I can fix that. It says all questions. Okay, let me see if I can fix that, cause some people are saying that they can't chat for some reason. Sorry about that. Friends, I can see the two questions that have come through, so let me know in the Q and a if you where you're from, because I can see that. So I'm just going to pop that up so that they come through. Okay, sorry, I'm not sure that's why that's happening.
Speaker 1:Weird, one of those things is like a. It's like a class. Okay, amazing. So I'm seeing California, ontario, arkansas, toronto, london, ontario, malaysia, philly oh, this is so good. Australia, edmonton, pa Okay.
Speaker 1:So there's Moncton. Okay, so I'm seeing all this. I wish you could see all this. Let me see if I can fix this somehow. Grand Prairie, oakland, unreal Okay, singapore.
Speaker 1:Upstate New York we can see this too, okay, thank you, amy. Thank you, I'm like. She's like can we see this? Can we see this? This is. This is literally like class disruptions 101. Right, like when something happens it's unexpected and you're like, well, how do I handle this? You just have to roll with it and laugh. Montreal Okay, unbelievable, so excited that you all are here. Thunder Bay so there's, we've got an international community. And this is one of the coolest things about doing these webinars or having people inside my courses is getting to know where you all are from, because I've coached them everywhere around the world, and one of the things that I do day to day is as an educator is not just do this online, but I'm actually in a college classroom. I am a college instructor. I teach public relations and marketing, and so when I talk about marketing, it's coming from a place of understanding where people are from and how the principles of promoting yourself and creating a personal brand are synonymous around the world. So you're in the right place. So my key to instructor magic my journey Now.
Speaker 1:I'm known for making people feel big things in my rides and my classes. It was not always this way, though, when I first started out, even when I had a master's degree in communications leadership. Always this way, though. When I first started out, even when I had a master's degree in communications leadership, my first few months on the podium and the microphone felt like the most anxious of my life. I don't know if anybody else can relate, but I questioned my decision to become an instructor for months, as I was struggling to fill my classes, as I was getting to the point of surprise anxiety around stumbling over my words and whether I could coach complicated choreography and spending hours on playlists. And if anybody else felt this way or feels this way currently. I would love to know, because I have heard this time and time again of people who are amazing, have the technical ability but for some reason don't believe in themselves, and then anxiety sort of robs you of this beautiful confidence and your presence and the magnetism that does actually fill your classes.
Speaker 1:So I couldn't believe how easy my favorite instructors the ones who inspired me to become one made it look. Instructors the ones who inspired me to become one made it look. I was almost desperate to speed up the process to get from beginner or one year in two years in to dominating our schedule and being a lead instructor, and so I did. I took an educational approach, a research-based approach around. Looking at my favorite instructors, the ones who I respected the most Angela Davis I didn't know Christina at the time, but she's a part of the instructor community and absolutely look up to her. Others, like Rowan Aida, my good friend, cortland Fazakas, who just joined, who is a masterclass instructor inside Instructor Magic and just launched a podcast.
Speaker 1:I believe every instructor and coach has the potential to make an impact on the lives of their clients but often aren't taught the fundamentals beyond bike setup, ride templating, playlist, bpms and the things that you should be coaching and queuing in a ride. We're not taught about disruptions in a certification. We're rarely taught about motivating and how to find quotes and draw inspiration from lyrics and deliver that in a way that makes somebody feel like they can do anything in your class and they leave your class saying I need to come back and all of my friends do too. But when you're left on your own, when you don't have that professional development, you often feel something like lost in your instructor journey, anxious, as I mentioned, scared, overwhelmed with lackluster class attendance which, as you, as we talked about before, numbers are reality of often how we're measured by our success, how we're given better class times and for sure, can make us feel really self-conscious when we don't know why something's not working. And the less confident you are, the fewer people will come and around you go, and for some of you, this is something you're talking about right now or working with right now, because I'm talking to people all the time in the DMs who are experiencing this.
Speaker 1:I realized there was five keys. I can make a roadmap, I could boil it down to five keys to this mastery, this template, and copy and paste this. Every time I did a ride in creating that magic in the room that I always loved and I've taught them to more than 400 students around the world, not including the webinars, where there's been thousands and thousands of people who've joined, just like you, for fit pros like Megan. So if any of this is feeling like, okay, wow, this is exactly where I'm at, or maybe I I've experienced this, or I've become a lead instructor, but I still feel that anxiety sometimes. So Megan Moody is one of the people who have who's graduated from instructor magic. Um, she signed up for instructor magic after teaching teaching 30 classes and wanted more development. She went back through the curriculum and uh, time and time again because you get like lifetime access. She reached her a hundred class milestone and started training at soul cycle, leaving her initial studio and, after joining the soul cycle instructor training, made it and became a soul cycle instructor. And here's just some of the conversations that started, from left to right to down here and now she's featured in SoulCycle ads. So I've seen this arc of people who start saying I want to learn more, I want to master this, and then getting to the point where they are literally the face of a brand like Megan and she's absolutely wonderful. So getting into it.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about one of the first five keys mastering coaching. Coaching is the difference maker between instructors who can deliver complex choreography and those who are plateaued. Is a sequence that is, you know, 32 counts, whether that is a sequence that might be at a faster pace and harder, and whether you have new riders or clients or veterans who have done 1300 rides with you. Being able to lead that room is one of the things that makes every single person in with you feel seen, heard and validated, and when they feel that they come back right, they become raving fans. It's also the secret sauce to communicating and what it is that you want Not just cuing, but like asking and inviting and offering the exact step-by-step of how to get to the level of effort and output that you want. It's that secret sauce to communicating for energy and effort and describing also why it's important, because when we're asking somebody to do something really hard, it is is having the why behind it. Having being able to connect it back is incredibly important. It's, and when you see that really tight coaching, you know it, because not only is the instructor or coach really confident, but everybody in the room is in sync. Even when there's a variety of ability, even when I mentioned there's new friends in the room I would say friends, new riders, newbies, whatever you want to call them and veterans they have an option and an understanding of what they can do. So here's a few tips for oh, I forgot about this.
Speaker 1:Slide Inside Instructor Magic. I wanted to mention you get access to our Masterclass Vault. So I have. I've run 12 rounds of this live rounds where people join, take the course for six weeks and I hire external coaches to come in and deliver masterclasses. One was Christina Giroux and Cortland Fizak, as I mentioned, on advanced coaching and room leadership. These are two prerecorded webinars just like this and focused on coaching in addition to my own lessons on it. So here's how lessons on it. So here's how we do it. Here's a few tips. You're scraping the surface of what I teach inside my courses and programs Cueing choreography within eight counts.
Speaker 1:This is going to feel impossible when you have a sequence that you need to build up to, but the key is just that Building it up, layering it. When we see these videos on Instagram that focus on really advanced level choreography, especially if it is, especially if it's out of the saddle at one 30. And so for those of you some of you are a few aspiring instructors when we're talking about a one 30 BPM, we're talking about really fast. So the racing 128 to 130 out of the saddle long sequences where you're maybe walking it here, pulsing it wide, sending it back, swaying, reaching all of these different things that we do with choreography should have been cued and mastered within the ride earlier on. So then you build up this sequence. I have Felicia Purpleheart, felice Paris, who did an advanced choreography masterclass so one of the ones that you would get access to and she walked us through what she calls the burger method and that is literally layering everything to the point where you, when you get to that final track, everybody knows a sequence from before. Right, we're not just laying it all out there, but when you so, when you give it a name, when you call it the warrior hand walk or something like that, at that point you say warrior hand walk plus two down, two up, and then they all of a sudden have in their mind, okay, I need to do this sequence plus two down, two up, and there it is, so layering it and breaking it down and then cueing it really quickly.
Speaker 1:One of the things that I've noticed from the people who are master level instructors and those who are maybe working through cueing choreography or working through the confidence to be able to do it, is they spend too long on introducing what's about to happen, and when you spend way too long sitting in the anticipation of what's about to happen, you lose momentum, and momentum is our absolute friend in keeping the energy up in classes and ensuring that we have up, it's completely up to us whether the energy goes up or down. We are this like maestro, basically, and that's how it should feel. So when you cue choreography, you say two down, two up and four, three, two, one, using four, three, two, one, especially when you have newer riders, because as soon as they hear that four, then they know something's coming Right. But even with your veteran riders it's a nice little heads up that something's about to happen one way or another. And for sure, as you get more practice at this and you make a note of always cueing choreography within those eight counts, whether you say two pumps, two tap backs, slow pump, slow dip, cross, go, that was within eight counts. Or two left, two right, single arm dips, four corners, something like that, people start to listen for what you were about to say. So, in the opposite way, when you're taking too long to explain something and some of you might be saying, hannah, you're taking long to explain this when you're taking too long to over-explain something as it's coming up, what we're about to do, it looks like this You'll start to see confusion on people's faces as to when it's about to happen, versus if you are quick and concise and to the point. It's almost like they become faster at hearing, understanding and implementing. Like they become faster at hearing, understanding and implementing. So eight counts, super, super important.
Speaker 1:Layering and breaking it down, offering options is one of the things that I absolutely love to do. One of the things that I'm most proud of is in my room that I have people who are in their seventies, truly even my rise and wrap rides the most explicit rides that I lead, or explicit AF rides. I have 72 year old people who come to my rides. I also have a 16 year old with her mother, and so when I am offering options, I'm not only offering options for ability, but also age, but also injuries, but also pregnant people and people who might be coming back to the gym or to a studio after injury. So offering options and for sure there's some schools of thought that say you should call it a modification so that people feel who have injuries feel more included I like to say options and I've never had a complaint about it to say you know, option one, option two, option three. I'm not calling it advanced, I'm not calling it beginner, I'm saying this is your option because as an advanced rider, sometimes I don't feel like doing those advanced things, and so there's permission there to still participate and therefore it's not a if you can get up and do it or if you're in the saddle it's a. I'm going to do the warrior hand walk in the saddle and I still can sway to left to right, or I could be up out of the saddle, and I'm constantly reminded that either are okay Finding new ways to say what you mean.
Speaker 1:So this is going to be an exercise in some self-awareness and maybe recording yourself. One of the things we do in my program is you can record a video and submit it and I can review it, and it's going to feel awkward. Some of you right now are cringing and some of you are saying absolutely not, and I know that because I felt like that too until I started coaching on wheelhouse live and every one of our rides was recorded. Therefore, I just had to get over it and I realized there were certain things I did without even noticing some words I would say, and so I had to be really intentional with every word that came out of my mouth having a purpose and if it didn't pause, own the silence and allow people to just absorb what I was saying, or feel it, or just be in their bodies. So finding new ways to say what you mean not only gets you out of repetition and those words that you might have, your crutch phrases, things like that say add it in. People might not know what add it in means. So you might need to say reach down at a quarter turn of resistance from where you are. So you might need to say reach down at a quarter turn of resistance from where Maybe the effort should feel like they are reaching that brink, maybe the effort should feel like they're actually just recovering in a climb instead of sitting down and pausing, because we know that, again, momentum is our friend in rides. Let me know if this is landing. I would love to see. I guess in the Q&A is where I would see this. So let me know if this is landing. Oh, we are going to go back to my screen. I don't know why that did that. Okay, we're back. So getting into musicality, let me know if this is landing, as I mentioned in the Q&A.
Speaker 1:Mastering musicality, letting me let me know if this is landing, as I mentioned in the Q and a mastering musicality. So a lot of people, a lot of studios. A lot of training programs will have their own way of playlisting. I have had hundreds of cycle bar instructors in my programs, so I know the template backwards and forwards, and I know that you have to start in a flat seated like 110 to 120 quicker pace without doing choreography. What I'm talking about when I say mastering musicality is playlisting like a DJ. So as a DJ, I would be looking at the dance floor and thinking about what songs would bring the vibe, and thinking about what songs would bring the vibe, the energy that I wanted to see, not just the BPMs. Bpms often didn't have anything to do with it, but for leading a group fitness class, we obviously need to know what our tempo is for sure. But when I talk about energetic profiling, this is my method to create playlists really quickly that provide you with the energy you want. So each track has a purpose that is designed to support whatever message you want to communicate and how you want your clients to feel or your writers to feel, and my method is called energetic profiling. So it's beyond BPMs and choreography and it's all about the energy Pause.
Speaker 1:I would love to know in the Q&A how many of you spend hours on your playlist right now. So I'm saying over 30 minutes per playlist. Yeah, I'm seeing hands up, guilty, karen. Two hours, one to two, from start to finish, yeah, yeah, and that might not seem like a lot, but it absolutely stacks up over time, right? And the worst part is sometimes you will put together a playlist and you will spend an hour on it and still not fit two days. Okay, that's a lot. So sometimes you'll put together a playlist and feel like it's not even exactly where you want it to be. So this has been a constant thorn in the side of many of the people who've taken my courses, to the point where we actually have a challenge where we make playlists in 30 minutes, two hours minimum, yeah, and some days are harder than others and it feels tough to stay in momentum. I totally get that. So I have a podcast on quit wasting time on your playlist and focusing on other things instead and we have a challenge where we make playlists in 30 minutes and we're okay with it.
Speaker 1:And once we do it in a way that matches this template that I'm going to give you or I would give you inside Instructor, magic is it becomes easier and faster. It doesn't become a question of just finding the right BPM. It becomes a question of what is the track going to do energetically? Am I going to get cheers the minute it comes on? Is it going to make people feel like they want to dance? Is it going to provide a baseline where people are wanting to grind because it's a Drez remix or, sorry, resmys remix or Drezzo remix, like that sort of thing is what we focus on.
Speaker 1:One of my examples is track one. So when I'm talking about momentum, I am, I'm really serious about it. So track one is a quick win in my rides. It's no more than three minutes and 30 seconds. It's designed to set you and your riders up for success. It's the concert starting lights down, low, champagne pop and should feel like it. We've all been to concerts I, many of you have probably been to the heiress tour and there is a moment where the lights come down and it all gets quiet and people know something is about to happen. It is so different than if the superstar were just to walk on kind of casually. The lights would come off after they've already walked out and they start with a mediocre song that nobody knows. That's not what we want. We want eras to our energy, where we are literally having the lights come down and all of a sudden in this confetti moment of energy, and that's how I start my rides. So we keep it limited at the time length of three minutes and 30 seconds so that we don't lose that momentum.
Speaker 1:People are coming from work, they might be starting their day and the minute that you can give them a quick win, so a track where it is makes them feel like they've already done so much work and they're in it and that, oh, this ride is flying by the more you have them wanting to come back. So try the quick win, the best motivational tracks. So this is out of track one. We're talking about track seven, skipping through things that would be inside. My programs are oh, what's your favorite warmup track? I have a lot of favorite warmup tracks and I do have a ride opener playlist. So for this one I'm talking about like ride opening, for sure, and then my warmup tracks. So it would be like the re track one. I have some amazing remixes and mashups from that make people feel like they're at a party. I want the party atmosphere for the minute they walk in a party. I want the party atmosphere for the minute they walk in.
Speaker 1:So, talking about motivational tracks, I think and believe and have experience with this, in that the best motivational tracks are not the ones with the best lyrics and the most profound lyrics, but they let you shine and aren't competing with what you're saying. So there is silence. There is a moment where there aren't any, there isn't a singer singing, nobody is saying anything, and except for you. The time of when you would have a motivational track is after the energy has been established, after jitters are gone, whether it's a new rider, somebody who's hitting a milestone, somebody who's just shaking off their day and you're reaching a new level of depth in the ride. Right, people have established the choreo, the strength, the rhythm, the resistance, the tempo, and now they're gassed, probably, and they need to dig deep from a place of purpose, and you're going to lead them there when you put them in super strategic too. So not just how and what they should be.
Speaker 1:After weights, after a heavy climb, the final track maybe it's for me, the track after weights or midway to 65% weight through the ride is absolutely my favorite time we have already won. So, example, track six. And now we need that different energy that I mentioned to draw from Jogs, races, edm, climbs. It can be anything. Really, it's better if it's not something that makes people want to sing, because then you lose sort of their focus and tension, because then you lose sort of their focus and tension.
Speaker 1:My favorite motivational track is Paradiso. So this is a song with absolutely no lyrics. There's no singer on it. It is an amazing EDM track and I can send you all many different videos of me leading it where I've developed something called the wave motivation. So we have this heavy beat one, two, one, two and then all of a sudden it drops away and during that intro I'm talking about either leading people into a climb or into a race, depending on how I'm approaching it, and I'm saying this beat is about to go away and that's okay, we don't need it. Stay with me, stay with me. Yeah, paradiso is amazing.
Speaker 1:And the minute it drops away you can hear the flywheels going, you can hear people breathing and, very quietly, that music starts to build again and I am meeting that silence a little bit with the volume of my voice. I change how much I'm projecting, I pause and I say I want you to picture this melody building like a wave of water taking the form of a wave and you're standing at the shore watching it approach, feeling that wind, starting to feel the spray on your legs, on your feet, on your arms, and as it's approaching, and then you start to amplify your voice and start to meet where that melody is volume-wise. And as it's approaching, you realize this wave of water is bringing only good things with it Joy, feelings of love, community, connection, purpose, joy, acceptance, validation. And as it starts to lift you up and you become weightless, you realize this wave of water is washing away any feelings of loneliness, of disconnection, of imposter syndrome of fear, of grief, away just for a moment. And that is how I bring in the motivation of Paradiso, and I created this and you can create this too. You can create a story of Paradiso, and I created this and you can create this too. You can create a story, a narrative, an imaginary situation to bring them through, to walk them through, and anybody no matter whether they are 16 or 72, can relate to that feeling of desiring more, of wanting more, of yearning for more. I finished the wave motivation by talking about how you can access those feelings anytime you need to, but you need to believe that you deserve them, and so it's a whole motivation around belief in oneself, in self-love, in feeling good enough, and by the end people are cheering and it doesn't matter that there was nobody singing. So practice these types of motivations when we are.
Speaker 1:I'm about to go into motivation and I have a PDF download for you. This is one of the areas where most instructors that I know, even if they have been teaching for a long time, struggle with that authenticity of motivation, so I'm really excited to dive into it. So let's talk about what motivation is, not just to establish it, just to get out of the way. And I'm just for a pause for a second. One of my random university courses that I took was actually preaching one-on-one. I played professional volleyball at a university that had a biblical element to it, and I had to finish my college degree and this was the only course that fulfilled my credit hours. So I did not have desires to be a pastor, but I did find it really interesting, and so a lot of how I motivate in the front of the room is bringing principles of how to not to manipulate people through emotion, um, but rather how to draw out that inspiration.
Speaker 1:So what mastering motivation is not. It's not your diary or your vulnerable testimony. So this is where some instructors feel like they need to go in order to get that like soul shaking, wow. And the hard part is, yes, absolutely, tell stories, talk about themes, talk about your own experience with something you know. Like things like, there's been times in my life where I questioned whether I could keep going on until I felt that sunshine on my arms or saw the pinhole of light. So we're letting people in very briefly, right, yeah, exactly, it's, people will.
Speaker 1:So Tori just said it can be feel cringy when people go too deep, and absolutely right, because it takes us out of this collective moment of going deeper within ourselves and we start to feel like we are witnessing somebody's somebody's diary really, and so we're doing a disservice to the clients in the room, the writers in the room, the people who want to learn from you, but in a way that they can apply to themselves. We also motivate from scars, not wounds, so sometimes there's things I can not talk about because I'm way too close to them. We motivate from the point of being able to share lessons and education and how to get through something from a thematic place versus being in the middle of it and being in a place where you are in that moment experiencing with it. Right, it's not your writers or clients place to take you through it, absolutely. Hannah said it feels disingenuous. Yeah, absolutely, and one of the reasons is people will regurgitate things that they've heard others say.
Speaker 1:A pre-rehearsed speech that never changes. Even the wave motivation I just did is not exactly the same all the time. I change it. It's sort of a template for myself, but it is not completely pre-rehearsed. When I hear you can do anything you set your mind to or you can sorry, you can have anything you want. For me, as somebody who's lost people in my life, I'm immediately thinking about the pain of grief and that not being true. Right, I know it's not true. You can't have everything you want in life. There's so many things that limit that and a spin instructor or a fitness instructor telling me that feels like it's pouring lemon juice in the wound. So we can talk about things, but in a thematic way, which I'm going to talk about in the next slide.
Speaker 1:Or a million motivational messages that conflict, right, if we have things that are. We're saying all these different quotes and people are getting all this different motivation. Rarely will they be able to tell you what exactly it is that they learned or what they're coming away from. So, mastering motivation, it is a story you tell throughout your ride that invites riders to dig deeper within themselves, have breakthroughs and see themselves connecting with your prompts. Connecting with your prompts it's often in the form of questions. Those prompts I mentioned, repetition of strategically placed words and catchphrases used in climatic moments. It's often inspired by a phrase. So I have the method called the quote method or a theme, and when we're talking about things that you can share and people might be saying well, how do we talk about ourselves or experience without making it all about us, and how do we connect people if we're not being super specific? I'm so glad you asked Themes. This is the way to communicate authentically and to think about something that you connect to and allowing others to also connect.
Speaker 1:Everybody can connect to the theme of resilience, of needing, of failing and getting back up again, of going through something that was hard and surviving it and feeling like a survivor. Change, oh my God. Change can be wonderful, right, stepping into a new version of yourself, but having to say goodbye to a previous one, feeling uncomfortable with new things, even though you're excited about them. That can speak to somebody who is going to university for the first time. That can be somebody who is moving after 20 years and staying in the same house or retiring Again this huge wide variety of connection points, opportunities. So something that scares you but feels exciting. How do you know when it's time for you to to just leap into that and try it and be okay with failure, pain, grief. So maybe it's grieving that previous version of you, maybe it's losing something you hoped you never would. Maybe it's just feeling that raw emotion and, as an instructor, you can say it's okay, we've all been there. Every single person in this room has survived 100% of their worst days and they're here, still standing, still riding, still grinding with you, still surviving Some of those things I just did when I said still, that is a way of communicating in your motivation, repeating words so that it helps people remember what you said.
Speaker 1:Celebration, my goodness, feeling like you can celebrate your neighbor and actually celebrate yourself being brave enough to be say yes, I am amazing at this thing. Even when I introduced myself at the beginning of the webinar, it can feel a little weird to be like I've done all these things right, but at the same time, I know it's important to celebrate my wins so that others feel like they can too, and and so that you can trust me that I know what I'm talking about and people look up to us in that room. So we're not celebrating ourselves. They can't either. Acceptance and kindness to yourself, to others, progress over perfection, community and connection bravery Everybody can connect to bravery. Feeling like there's a moment where they'd rather run and hide and instead they know, in order to get to that other side, where their greatest potential exists, it requires a moment of being brave, and then you can relate that back to what's happening in the room. Maybe it's adding resistance, maybe it's taking the harder option for them that day. Maybe it's asking themselves am I uncomfortable or am I unable?
Speaker 1:We use phrases like that, along with these themes and music, so that you feel super comfortable delivering this in a way that does feel authentic to you and feels like it's natural, and yet it's the most amplified version of who you are. When you do it right, you get no notes like this. This was one of my many writers who shared something after class and I felt very proud of it, along with other DMs I've received of people who've explained that their lives have been changed as a result of this group fitness thing we do. This was one of my alum who was amazing technically at what she did. I reviewed her videos and I could see how she was hitting all these points queuing really well, was confident, but was lacking that deep motivation and the connection to her clients. I had another alumni that I did a one-on-one with recently, reagan, and she was nervous about motivating and felt like it was awkward, and so we talked through that to the point where she started getting DMs that she had never gotten before from people.
Speaker 1:Since we're talking about DMs, let's get into marketing. So this is the place where a lot of brilliant, wonderful instructors and coaches and studio owners to struggle because it feels cringy and like you're promoting yourself. But here's the thing If no one knows how amazing you are, how could you possibly positively impact or change their life? You are doing a disservice to the people who could be benefiting from your magic, your coaching, your support, your motivation, your playlists, your presence, when you don't invite them in. It's like planning a party and not sending out invitations. I have to remind myself of that when I invite people to join instructor magic because that can feel hard too. And then I realized I remember all these testimonials I see all the time and I'm like, okay, I'm going to open the invitation and people can say yes or no.
Speaker 1:Themes, co-leads and events are also forms of marketing. So when you need to inject energy into your class numbers, using popular themes to attract new writers and clients, this is a very obvious. I know that, but it works for a few reasons. It's not just putting a theme out there and making the class different. It is the psychology of seeing it actually on their app or on their computer and seeing something that looks different on the schedule. So when you have a theme week or you brand something, not just a musical theme, but it's actually incorporating the entire room element. So you might have pink pony club ride and you've actually, like, made the lights pink somehow. Or you have what I like to do and what I teach inside my programs is how to do advanced ride concepts. So I'll do a workshop, so I'll have the confidence workshop or something like that on the schedule and I'll actually have little sticky notes on all of the different bikes with an affirmation that talks about confidence, and all of the playlists will be about confidence, and I might even have a podcast that I recommend or send out after the ride. That's all about confidence. So these are things that work really well to differentiate yourself on the schedule, but also to get help people get to know you better.
Speaker 1:Social media is important Absolutely it is. It's how I connected with all of you tonight. I did a little test and I only sent this out to Instagram. If no one knows how amazing you are, how can you change lives? That's the continued question. Social media is a way for people to see that you're amazing. It's a virtual connection with riders and clients. It's the convo after class, it's the high five, it's the hug you need to have it. Rarely will somebody be super successful when and they're not brave enough to be on social media?
Speaker 1:For instructors, visual platforms are obviously best easy content videos from rides. You can set up a little tripod that's focused only on you and you can use those clips Instagram, tiktok, for sure Great platforms, facebook, if you want capturing those behind the scene moments, working with somebody at your studio to get a reel it's the most annoying thing, for sure, when you're done teaching, but having somebody just come and film you really quickly from a combo after class, when you're sweaty, when you're actually looking like you just taught. That is authentic and usually when we're scared to promote ourselves, it's because we're scared of feeling inauthentic. So go on stories, be funny, show your personality, because when I travel and I look at people's schedules when I'm looking at studios, I immediately go and look at somebody's Instagram and see what they're like. So post your playlists. I want to see the humor. I want to see the makeup free appearance. Of course, I'm speaking as somebody who's completely made up right now, but often I'm on my stories and being funny and whatever, and that's part of how you get me as an instructor.
Speaker 1:So own your unique style and communicate that through social media. You don't need to be the instructor for everybody, so don't try to be. You can clean up your biography, including your buy and your profile picture, and be clear on the intention behind your social media profile. Sometimes it feels awkward because you have an audience of people who are like Aunt Sarah from you know 10 years ago, who's following you, or your old school teacher, or an ex's family or whatever. You have people who are not focused on group fitness, who are following you and then you feel weird about posting because it's people who you actually don't interact with on a daily basis but who are following on social media. So you can start a new spend account. I have I did that for sure and I have a very private personal account that I share other things and it makes it feel very like there's a lot of permission there, right To share. If you're not currently teaching, consider making a public profile and building that first. This will help studios see your unique value, because most of us know as instructors that studios do want us to promote the things that they're doing too, not just their own classes, and then show, don't just tell.
Speaker 1:Grab content, specifically videos, and use them frequently. Let's talk about mindset. We're getting to closer to the end of our webinar and into the Q and A. This is one of the most important things. Mindset and presence and confidence and energy are part of mindset and part of the entire first module of instructor magic mastering your domain, where you talk, where I give you tools and tactics of how do you walk in the room, how do you walk in the studio Visualization exercises to get yourself in the right frame of mind before you arrive. So the training that I have on this I have Ryan Jones, former SoulCycle instructor and talent development at SoulCycle, who does a whole thing on comparison syndrome and posture syndrome and how to overcome that with his 10 years at SoulCycle. So visualize success before every ride, literally, or class if you don't teach spin literally. Think about having your best class and what that looks like from the minute you walk in the studio, the minute you step into the room or into the parking lot, even who you're going to see, how great it's going to feel, how excited you're going to be when you open the door and high five people how that's going to feel. Imagine the faces in front of you, imagine yourself delivering everything perfectly without stumbling, without any tech issues or anything like that.
Speaker 1:Begin to invest in coaching and ask for feedback from riders through surveys and what they love most about you and what they want more of. You've already taken a fantastic step by registering and showing up or watching this at a later date, because this is an investment, even if it's free. It's an investment of your time, right? So great job on doing that. It is not easy to say I want to get better at this thing. I want to learn more, where are my opportunities? And when we ask for feedback, sometimes I see people post on social media be like what do you love, what do you hate? We're not inviting hate. We're not inviting dislikes. We want to know what people want to see more of. So we're going to phrase it like that we're not going to focus on the things that a might not be everybody's cup of tea, because you're never going to make every single person happy, but we want to know what they want more of right and what they love most about you, so that you can start to really focus in on developing those aspects of your coaching even more in an advanced way.
Speaker 1:Evaluate your data. I have this worksheet and spreadsheet on this in my programs because there's always going to be ebbs and flows and sometimes in the dog days of summer, when I even don't have wait lists for some of my rides, it feels hard to say well, is this me, when everybody else in the studio is experiencing it? It's not just a you thing, and sometimes it is a time slot thing. Sometimes it is people going back to school or going to the cabin or whatever it is. We're about to hit the holidays. January is going to be a wild time in studios and this is the perfect time to start developing some of these things I'm talking about Knowing what works and what doesn't can be analyzed, repeated and used to your advantage.
Speaker 1:So not just the time of the season, but also like if you do a theme ride, track it see how many people came to that theme ride, how waitlisted it was, whether people gave you positive feedback or not. Sometimes people will ask for a wild theme ride and I'll look at my previous class and be like I don't know if a nickelback ride would hit. I don't know if it would. Based on what I've done in the past, and sometimes I think, yes, it would, I totally would do this your success is only limited by the energy and effort. With the resources and opportunities that you have and the latter is something you can often create for yourself Once you know how Energy and effort those are things that don't cost anything. Resources even this just showing up, having a Zoom, is fantastic and there's more opportunity if you want to continue on. And again, none of these previous keys matter if you don't begin to take this journey of yours seriously and realize that you deserve to be up there. You deserve to have a fantastic raving group event. This is Janet, one of my favorite riders. She celebrated her 70th birthday with me and you can see all the towels up here.
Speaker 1:Because once you start to see yourself as your greatest self, once you start to expect that, no matter what, your rides are going to be wild with energy, that you won't have to ask people to cheer, that people are going to recommend your classes, and you're going to get to the point where, maybe a year from now, maybe six months from now, maybe three months, maybe you're already there. You feel complete confidence and excitement before every ride and every opportunity that you have to lead a class in front of others. So today you've learned this is a precursor to our Q and a. So get your cues ready how motivation, marketing, musicality, coaching and mindset can help you level up, fill classes and change lives. I've talked about my story and how I'd love to help you get there. So if you could have the roadmap to consistently waitlisted classes in just six weeks, would you be pumped? And I'm hearing a virtual hell, yes. So I'm going to talk about Instructor Magic for a minute or two and then we're going to get into our Q&A. Oh, hell, yeah. So this is the I'm about to put in the chat, the webpage for Instructor Magic, which you can peruse now or later.
Speaker 1:It's a six-week online course that you have lifetime access to, with an online community as well, with people from all over the world. Just like you, I'm still looking at all of these different places and I'm just blown away. We have folks from the Netherlands, singapore, australia, new Zealand, china, tons from the US, tons from Canada, mexico and, on Brussels, belgium. It's wild, and some of these are. I have DMs like this, like hundreds of them. When people say it works, it's working. You also get access to not only my own teaching so, of which there are 70 different lessons and resources and playlists and remixes that you can press the easy button on, but also these prerecorded masterclasses with people like Jordan, the healthy bun head, who talked about social media and inclusivity in in fitness classes. Cortland Christina, ryan Jones, rowan Aida, who's been at the experience Mexico multiple times and did a whole one on your personal brand and goals and is so she's just as amazing as you think.
Speaker 1:So when you join, and if you join within 24 hours, you get a one-on-one session with me, plus all of these other things. So six modules of five to six weekly video lessons. You can attend live, so we have our live Zoom classes every week, which is super exciting for six weeks together and then you can join any future rounds as well. And again a one-on-one mentorship session with me when you pay in full or 20, and 25% off the course and the choreography vault as a bonus. So the choreography vault is a 10 video me on the bike training, where I literally go through how to lead choreography, how to cue it, how to put a sequence together. I'm in wheelhouse, I'm being filmed and you can use black Friday to get 25% off. So that's $150 off the course.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm seeing questions already come in, which is amazing. Um, so it is not a basic certification. If you are already on the bike, this is for you or already teaching classes and yes, you can join, of course, if you're not teaching spin classes. I have yoga instructors, I have boxing instructors, I have many who teach other modalities and apply this. It is for you if you want to use social media marketing to build passionate followings and wait lists, because I teach marketing at a college. We do talk about personal branding and all of that, especially if you want to ever launch a business of your own and offer workshops and things like that, if you want to heal self-doubt and use class templates and formulas that level up your abilities, that are proven and done, if you want to learn how to deliver impactful, soul shaking classes that change lives, if you want a personal instructor and mentor who believes in your success and these are just some of the many screenshots of testimonials I have. I'm seeing questions come in, and so can you start putting your questions in. Oh, amazing, okay, small gym. We just purchased 16 bikes and are opening a spin studio inside the gym.
Speaker 1:Decided to take on this new challenge with only a few rides under my belt and please don't watch it, okay, well, I think you should join and start your magic. Sure, because this is the exact program you would need, but there are so many things. Building community would be one of the first things I would talk to you about, and it says Hannah, but I don't know if that's you, so there might be something weird with the registration, but I'll just end on this. So, unlike other six-week or intercycling certifications, or even workshops and events and things like that, it's rooted in a technical roadmap that I've tried, proven to get you to waitlist classes. It's made for new instructors, established ones, veterans for sure get a ton out of it because we go into advanced stuff and studio owners it's the most affordable personal development, professional development course on the market and I'm very proud of that because I know it is not accessible for everybody to fly to an event to pay thousands of dollars for a course or mentorship and then not have that continued opportunity to learn from people in your community. So 25% off is a part of my Black Friday sale. All of my courses are on sale, but Instructor Magic is my signature one. I love this one.
Speaker 1:Somebody realized that they only watched the intro to an entire module and took how many two pages of notes from the intro video. So there is a ton of information and the one-on-one session with me Okay, so let's get into. Let's get into the questions. So I have two that I'm seeing so far. How do you suggest? So one of them is clue is what to do. So definitely, if you were teaching this all on your own, I would recommend develop.
Speaker 1:Investing in a course like this, whether it's mine or something else's. It's just having the resources and the community there is very helpful. I have tons of studio owners inside Instructor Magic Ashley Liberty, who owns Onyx Movement in oh I'm blanking, but she's out west and has a really successful studio. I have multiple others who can talk about the marketing and the membership retention, which is also something that I know many are curious about. Membership retention is not just the responsibility of the studio owners, it's also the instructors. But that might involve pricing yourself accordingly, right. It might be offering intros, it might be having your instructors do different things, like milestone celebrations and welcome sequences with first-time clients and things like that, who are trying. So lots of things to talk about.
Speaker 1:If you could ask a specific scenario, I can definitely help you there. How do you suggest moving a studio of power riders and transitioning them into a rhythm or a hybrid style with choreography? So very interesting. Can you share? If that is is like what is happening, like everybody's moving over to like there's not going to be any power, I would start with making sure things like people being on the same lead leg is happening. So power riders might not be, riders might not be. There we go. Where's my Q and a? Sorry friends. There's a few little things I'll work out for the next time. So how do you suggest moving studio power so?
Speaker 1:So, starting with things like the lead leg right. So rhythm cycling is all about being in sync with each other. So you might want to have like left right, left right Be the first thing that you get everybody doing. I've taught power classes as well, and when you are queuing things like energy and effort, you might be queuing to numbers. So start to even transition from those numbers into like metaphors and things like um, imagine that you are climbing up a hill and there's a moment where the minute you stop or pause, you are going to start to roll backwards. I need you that level of effort on the dial so you start to get away from the numbers and metric stuff and instead start incorporating things like how it should feel.
Speaker 1:And then I would start with things like dips, because a dip is happening on that lead leg. So you have the lead leg right, you're dropping your elbows and it feels more natural than sending your arms wide for the first time. Elbows in is much more rhythmic and easy to start with. Then you can build even tap backs. Those are very simple, right? So tapping it back and just moving, shifting your weight to the back of the saddle. With one tap back dips. You can do things like single arm dips, so having everybody move left to right at the same time. You can talk about how everybody should be in sync together, and I would start even by those power classes. Try to do more of a bit of a motivation and see how that goes. Hybrid style with choreo yeah. So let me know if that feels good to you as a starting point. Same lead leg, starting with dips, getting away from cues that have everything to do with numbers and more about how it should feel in their body.
Speaker 1:Trying a motivational track and see how that lands, and especially one that people know the lyrics to, would be helpful. Um, maybe out of the parody so, and more into like diamonds by Rihanna or another one that's well-known. Emma says I find sometimes super popular songs feel disingenuous to me, but I know writers love it. Any advice to incorporate more feel disingenuous to me, but I know writers love it. I need advice to incorporate more. So I would say, emma, it's like I do think that you need to play the songs that you love, because if you don't feel connected, like I feel like I'm about to break everybody's heart.
Speaker 1:But I am not the biggest Taylor Swift fan in the world. I am a Taylor Swift fan but I am not a person who's ever, with the exception of a few albums, been like I want to ride to this song. So what I've done to appease the masses who have asked for it is done Olivia Rodrigo versus Taylor Swift versus Billie Eilish and so I chose a few favorites and made that a part of the theme Popular songs. That's a bit of a subjective term, like some things are popular to others. Again, country music is not my thing, but I do have rise and rap, I do have throwback rock rides. So people come to my rides because they know these are the types of genres that I play.
Speaker 1:So you don't need to be everything to everybody. If you feel like the what's popular you know, a Charlie XCX song or something that's that others are loving is something that you're not, that's okay. It doesn't need to be something that you, that you fight against. I would sort of lean into things that you do and try and incorporate and do some complimentary sort of collaborations like that Billy, taylor, olivia, and seeing how that lands Okay, yay, okay, myra, yeah, I don't know why it says, I'm like there's no way there's seven Hannah's on this call. So my cycle studio is two years old and anytime in time frame seems impossible to wait list any time frame.
Speaker 1:Okay, other than promoting on social media, are there other ways you can solve? So sometimes it is growing pains, sometimes it is studio numbers. Sometimes the fact of the matter is there's not enough riders and there's too many bikes. That would be partly up to your studio to be supporting with, because they need to make sure that there's enough people coming through those doors From the numbers perspective. I would suggest co-leads, I would suggest asking or pitching to your studio if you can do a karma or like a give back sort of campaign which would bring in a ton of new people. So lower class fees, excuse me, for a $10 ride, a $5 ride or something like that. That would bring in a lot of people through the door quickly.
Speaker 1:An open house bring a friend, refer a friend. These are all ideas that you can pitch and I don't think you're the studio owner, I don't know. Sorry, there's so many weird like things to say, hannah, that I don't know who was who, but I'm just answering. So I would say not just social media, because that's one thing I would say tell your friends, like I taught a nine 30 today, and I think there was 30 people in it and our max is 41. It's winter just hit. I know for sure there's reasons outside of me that why I wasn't full, but I would say tell it. I'm like tell your friends, bring your friends next week. This was so, so fun. I'm literally encouraging that for sure.
Speaker 1:I am also, then, creating waitlist, like energy, where I am talking about how excited I am to leave the ride. I'm doing selfies with sweaty selfies with my riders afterwards. It doesn't feel like I'm begging people to come. I'm making it seem like if they miss out, it's going to be disappointing to them. I post my playlist after my rides and people will say, oh, you played Rihanna and Chapel Rowan in the same ride, or Beyonce and Chapel Rowan in the same ride. I can't believe it, and so that feels that fear of missing out. It fuels it.
Speaker 1:Instead of three bikes open, two bikes open or 10 bikes open, I rarely do that. If you'll notice on my social media, I never really post about bikes being open. I rarely do that. If you'll notice on my social media, I never really post about bikes being open. I'll invite people, sometimes quietly, but you don't need to be saying you know I want there's, where are you. We don't want to guilt people. We want to make them feel like they missed out on an amazing event. So there's lots of things you can do, from the two years old and timeframe to waitlist, co-leads, teach with somebody else, pair up. You're bringing then your clients and their clients together on a time slot. But a lot of that is inside the program, so we work through that for sure. Hopefully that helped.
Speaker 1:Okay, when I'm at a Requesting you to change your schedules, which in turn results in my class time changing. Okay, I'm just reading the longer question. I'm feeling that other answers Interesting. Yeah, so that is a bit hard, and that is again. Some of these things are going to be on studio owners, right, we don't want to switch the schedule too many times so that the changes affect who you are and where people can find you.
Speaker 1:The hard part is that you will find that your diehards will often follow you to a new time slot if they're able to. Of course, there's times where they can't and they are unable to make it to a daytime ride or something like that, but I would say the squeaky wheel does get the grease, and so, if you haven't already registered this feedback to your studio owner or manager, I would say something. I would say I love this time slot and I would love to keep it because I feel like I'm building momentum In light of some schedule changes. Can we make this a priority, and is there anything you need from me to make that happen? Love to keep it because I feel like I'm building momentum in light of some schedule changes. Can we make this a priority, and is there anything you need for me to make that happen? Sometimes we just have to request what it is that we want in order for it to do, because otherwise you are going to. If it's something that's out of your control, starting again does feel like it can happen. I do enjoy miss changing my schedule every six months or so, except for the Sundays and so, but I have the perspective that my people will follow me and find me, and so it can. But when you're newer or when you're at a lower seniority, it can feel harder. So I do empathize with you. Dm me on Instagram and I'll send you a voice note as well.
Speaker 1:Okay, how do I make new or beginner riders feel involved in my classes? New to rhythm cycling? So that is amazing, I would say. I love new riders so much because imagine that this is the first time they're getting to meet you and they could be your fan or your community member for years to come, like member for years to come. So take this opportunity to make them feel like the biggest VIP ever. When I'm aware of a new rider, I had one today, jeff. He was on bag 31. I had a note saying who he was. I went up. I obviously made sure he was like set up correctly, which our people team usually does, but I shouted Jeff out at every opportunity. So the entire room knows at this point when I say new rider, they just start cheering because otherwise I'll just get on them. But we say hell yeah for Jeff on one, two, three, and then people say hell yeah, they clap, we high five each other all the time. So that's part of the dynamic.
Speaker 1:Already I talk about starting something new. Being brave enough to start something new. As a part of my motivation, I might have started from the bottom by Drake as one of my dogs. I might talk to everybody. Remember your first ride. Remember how confusing it felt to find the rhythm and to learn this new lingo and to be swept up in this energy. Remember how exciting it was, how hard it was, how blown away you are. Somebody in this room is feeling that right now let's celebrate being brave enough to try something for the first time and joining the wheel pack and people just go wild. So those are some things like just from a welcoming perspective, from a new perspective to the movement I talk about.
Speaker 1:You know, everything in this room is optional, except for your good vibes, your energy and your celebration of your neighbor and yourself. That's my, that's what I say at the beginning of the rides. There's going to be moments where you want to take recovery, and that is up to you. You know what you want and you need. If you need my help, let me know, otherwise I'm going to be cuing you and you just try it. Follow along. You have to pick up the tempo and the resistance first, but for you, start on the choreography. So, newer riders, I'm going to be looking to you to find those beautiful climbs, races and jogs and then joining us and trying it when it feels right for you. Everybody knows, then that, like there's no expectation to be coming along and doing things perfectly. I talk about progress over perfection. I ask people to celebrate each other's milestones, not just the time that they hit the milestone, but the time in between. So there's a lot of celebration that's happening.
Speaker 1:Dealing with song requests that you don't connect with, oh gosh, yeah. Sometimes I just say no, just say no. I literally just say I get this. I have a funny bit with my a friend and a writer who always asks for Nickelback. I've used them as an example and they're Canadian bands, so I feel like we can just some people love them, some people don't. A lot of people in Canada don't, for some reason. It's just a thing, and and so she'll always request it and I'll be like I'll do it for your birthday. So sometimes I'll literally just lean into the fact like I love you. I don't love the song, I will play it for a milestone ride for you. So let me know when you're celebrating your 500th ride and I'll be there for you.
Speaker 1:I also ask for song requests on Instagram and sometimes I'll just be like listen, I love this song. It won't work for one of my rides because and here's why give me five. So asking people for multiple song requests also helps take the heat and the focus off that one that they want you to play, and then just remember that you are the leader here. So, even though it's fun to take requests and we love it it makes people feel great Sometimes you can just play a song that you know that they love, that you also love, and say this one is for Julia, and then I honestly don't get that many song requests.
Speaker 1:But I did at one point and I would rather people tell me what themes that they want and then you can work within that theme. So maybe it's a rock or maybe it's a two artists versus each other, and then you can pick the songs that you like and not work on them. Theme rides, okay. So I love artists versus artists. I love like Beyonce versus Jay-Z. I love like Chapel Roan versus Billie Eilish, I love like versus. So then again you get to pick and choose through their entire discography. I love doing genres because then you can have, you know, throwback anthems, you can have rock rides, you can have those workshops, those ride concepts I was talking about before. So things like like workshopping confidence or workshopping inner belief or something like that. So it's tons of different themes. I even have a prompt, a free guide that you can use to help chat GPT, come up with themes for you and name them. There's, I do explicit AF, so explicit only music. We do like tons of different things that are themed in the feeling versus the artist, and then it helps you be more nimble and flexible versus having to adhere to like one artist's music. So those are some.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm just scrolling through all the questions. Oh, interesting. Okay, aaron, love the questions. How do you satisfy the buildup? I'm not sure what that means. So, if you can, just because some of them are still coming up with Hannah, if you can let me know what that means, I will. It might be related to something I was just saying, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:So what is your best advice on bringing writers back in studio that may have tried once and didn't love the class or experience they received with another instructor? Love it so. So that might be a. That might be a from a studio perspective. I'm not sure. I have had people I've connected with on Instagram who I knew tried another instructor's class. I've literally reached out and been like hey, I know you've been to wheelhouse. I think you would love rise and wrap. It's like all throwback hip hop tracks and it is full of millennials Millennials and the energy is absolutely wild. Would you want to be my guest? So I'll just ask them if they want to be my guest. I'll.
Speaker 1:It's getting to riders back in studio that might've tried once and didn't love the class or experience. It's a bit hard because I feel you need to know that and I don't know how you would know that unless you were in a studio owner. So maybe let me know, but that would be something. Or you can talk about who you are on social media and the type of classes you love to run, the types of classes you lead, types of people that love your classes, and then they'll probably see themselves in that. But I think that that would be some of the ways to get to connect with them, assuming that you know who they are, because you knew that they didn't love that class.
Speaker 1:How do you connect with a room where writers not being paying attention or wanting to connect the way you intended, okay, so this is great. So one of the things that I find to be most effective and again there's an entire module on energy building is celebration of each other is a really great way of getting people involved, whether they're quiet or introverts, whether they are not used to being connected and like having their eyes up. First of all, we say no devices in the room. So I'll say put your phones on, do not disturb, just like I did tonight. Put your phones on, do not disturb, making sure that your devices are here because we want to connect with. If we wanted to be alone, we wouldn't be at wheelhouse. And then I get them to high five each other and I'll say gas up your neighbor. And so even the people who are quiet.
Speaker 1:When I say you know how are you feeling? Or something like that, they will cheer for each other, the person beside them, their neighbor. And sometimes I'll even use it as a point of connection, like look to the right, look to the left, realize that human sitting beside you might have walked in here today needing your energy and your connection. They need that light inside of you. So when I'm asking you to turn, reach down and turn it up and give me your all, I'm actually asking you to give that person beside you your all, because they need it today. And then all of a sudden. I'm asking them to help me. I'm asking them to help me this, like make this thing happen for their neighbor. So that is a way, easier way of getting getting connection from people. I'll also have things like in the choreography we'll do four up, four down and like four claps. So I'm getting them to like have that, that to be in sync with us. I might also have them do like looking at us, I'll say eyes up, and I'll see this go up here and immediately everybody is focused. I might talk about the mirror and have that be as a point of motivation. So there's lots of things you can do. Erin, hopefully that was helpful.
Speaker 1:How often do you change your playlist, or do you wait for your regulars to master your songs? I change my playlist every class, so there's a new playlist every single class. Sabrina, and that's one of the things I love most is being creative with my playlists. There is going to be songs that I will use again and again and they'll come back into rotation and we'll do them differently than we did last time. I might be using yeah by Usher, which is one of my favorite songs to dance to, as a slow climb one week, and then I'll be doing it as a rhythm interval the next time, or a climb or a race. So I do change up my playlist quite a bit and that's part of the things that I teach inside the course which I would love to invite you to to join my. My regulars don't master the songs, usually because they don't know what's coming, and that keeps them guessing and it helps them feel like they're still experiencing something new for the first time.
Speaker 1:Any suggestions on being more aware of your upcoming milestones for clients who can make sure to celebrate them and make them feel special? That's amazing. Um, this is, again, it's something that your studio should definitely be helping with. However, I love to put a question, sticker up on on my stories and say what are you celebrating this month, what are you celebrating in the vault and what are you celebrating for yourself and seeing what people say, and then saying follow up by. I want to make sure that I know. When you have a milestone coming up, let me know, because if your studio allows it, maybe you could have them up with you to actually be on the podium. Maybe you could have them be like, do like, be a center in a photo or something like that. I love having podium riders with me, especially if they're celebrating a big milestone, so simply ask.
Speaker 1:In this stretch, I would also say, like I, we talked about celebrating today and we talked about celebration of yourself. Let me know what you have coming up by sharing with me in the DMS Cause I want to make sure that I'm there for it and I'm witnessing it and I'm celebrating every step of the way. So those are some answers to those questions. I just ripped through them so quickly. Everybody, I'm going.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, we have Okanagan, australia, philly, malaysia I cannot believe this and there's so many more who are watching the replay, who told me that it's like 2 am their time. So, since there's no more questions, oh, I'm Rachel. I'm thankful for this workshop today. Yay, Thank you so much. Thank you. So we're going to end it everybody. Oh, aaron, how do you often do you give motivational moments in class? I sprinkle throughout, and so in the motivation module, you learn all of that and I bring it home during the motivational track, which is really fun. Thank you everybody, so much for spending the time.
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