Ep 52: Rediscovering Untapped Potential with Danielle Gray

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today we are speaking with the</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Founder of Train Like A Gymnast, Wilhelmina Fitness Model, Certified Personal Trainer Danielle Gray. Danielle is a formerly competitive Junior Olympic gymnast who retired from the sport before college. After graduating from the University of Southern California in Public Relations, she worked full-time at a digital marketing agency and part-time as a gymnastics coach. Once she realized she forgot she was getting paid for coaching, she turned down a promotion at her desk job and pursued personal training and fitness modeling. She founded her own company, Train Like A Gymnast, to show people how much more capable they are. Her training style is challenging, yet approachable with a heavy focus on form, mindfulness, and intention. She is also a Wilhelmina Fitness Model, an iFit Trainer, a Ninja Warrior, an aerialist, among many other things. If you follow her on Instagram, you can see her adventures with acro, pole dance, travel, and walking her cat Zara.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">In this episode we discuss:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">1)  What it feels like to trust yourself, trust in your body and even trust yourself in business.  When you don’t trust yourself it can look like bailing, pausing for a long time, overthinking, afraid of failing and lots of mind chatter.  When you trust yourself it’s silent, this feeling or knowing of “I’ve got this.”</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2) “Be willing to stay with the suck.” Don’t push the uncomfortable feelings away or avoid them.  Nothing will change by doing that.  Learn to feel the emotions and face the discomfort head on, knowing that everything is temporary.   Our uncomfortable moments can lead us to positive changes by removing something that isn