Aug 28, 2020
In today’s episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk, speaks with Jessica
Perez-Beebe, an IFBB Pro who faced adversity growing up, yet found
how to live a healthy abundant life after finding personal
development and
self improvement and who now uses her athlete mentality in her own
business to mentor entrepreneurs and leaders.
As always, Celeste kicks off the episode by having Jessica share
her pre-stage ritual with listeners. From there, Celeste and
Jessica quickly recap Jessica’s competing history during which she
goes on to share how her experience coaching herself into nationals
was what she considered “a disaster.”
First, however, Jessica explains how she originally got into
bodybuilding after previously being active in the CrossFit
community, as well as owning her own strength &
conditioning gym, yet was looking for another goal to help her stay
focused while also trying to grow her business.
To Jessica’s surprise, she placed in the top 5 at her first
national show yet at the time she hadn’t even considered the
thought of becoming a pro in the sport. After leaving her coach at
the time due to plans of moving abroad with her husband, Jessica
decided last minute to compete at USA’s self-coached, which was
where she discovered the necessity to have a coach despite her
years of knowledge and education in the industry, emphasizing that
“you don’t know what you don’t know.”
Next, Celeste asks Jessica about her decision to move overseas,
which ultimately led to her 3.5 year break from competing. Jessica
explains that her and her husband had a shared vision of being
location independent, traveling for months or years at a time,
renting houses here and there, all while being able to manage their
businesses or work remotely. Jessica shares that her and her
husband ended up becoming overnight parents to her niece Lily, yet
despite her coming into their lives they went ahead with their
plans to move.
Jessica sold her business sooner than originally planned and they
decided to bring Lily with them and gift her the experience of
travel from a young age. Jessica confirms that her decision to take
Lily along was the right one, as Lily was able to grow up in an
environment with parents who set positive examples and
displayed
what a well rounded and fulfilling life can entail.
Celeste then asks Jessica how the living abroad and being a nomad
affected her commitments to health and fitness, to which Jessica
explains that her experiences were different from a typical
vacation as it was an opportunity to immerse herself in various
cultures, learn new customs and ways of living, as well as
constantly having to adapt. Celeste then has Jessica elaborate on
the role nutrition and fitness took during Jessica’s time in other
countries.
After discussing Jessica’s time abroad and what sparked that
decision, Celeste asks about Jessica’s role as a performance coach.
Celeste asks how Jessica has taken her experiences of travel and
being a professional athlete to work with her clients on mindset
and how to live more fulfilling lives.
Jessica emphasizes the importance of focus and commitment and how
that translates from bodybuilding to business. She teaches her
clients about removing the distractions to focus on one thing at a
time, and how that translates for one to be successful in
business.
Jessica explains that even the most successful entrepreneurs start
their day off with fitness, to which she shares that she loves
working with athletes in particular, knowing that they already have
instilled life habits of dedication and focus. Celeste then
transitions the conversation to Jessica’s daily habits and has her
share with listeners her daily non negotiable’s. Jessica shares how
the to-do lists are something she no longer uses, yet implements a
practice of writing down two important things that must be
accomplished the next day.
This opens a discussion between Celeste and Jessica about the
concept of the to-do list and Jessica shares what she feels is
necessary for athletes or entrepreneurs to do to “level up” and go
from amateur to pro. She shares how she feels that the smaller
habitual things on the to do list distract from the bigger, more
important tasks that will really take one to the next level. The
two women discuss their opinions on how to best set yourself up to
win the day while setting intentions and how to focus those actions
and intentions to help accomplish the big vision or goal.
Switching gears, Celeste asks Jessica about her beginnings in the
world of personal
development and how she realized that things like the law of
attraction and inner work could help her lead a more abundant life.
Jessica talks about how from a young age she was always curious and
how she found ways to detach from the violent and fearful
environment she grew up in to seek out how to better her life.
She shares that from a young age she knew she was meant for more
and how that desire and skill carried over into her adult life and
competing career, trusting that she could create what she focused
on. Branching off of Jessica’s beginnings in truly
achieving what she focuses on, Celeste asks Jessica about finances
and how she manages her mindset around money in terms of budgeting
for competitions, as well as how she works with clients about their
mindset with money as well.
Celeste moves on to ask Jessica about the sudden passing of her mom
and how that affected her life decisions moving forward. Jessica
recounts the story of how she found out about her moms passing
after coming home from an out-of-town event for a job she didn’t
enjoy working under a verbally abusive manager, where she felt like
she wasn’t harnessing her true potential, and how she took this as
a sign to fearlessly pursue the life she had dreamt for
herself.
Jessica found the lesson in a tragic event, shifted her mindset and
used that to propel her forward. Jessica then talks about her plans
for her pro debut and how injuries and show cancellations forced
her to modify the original plan, yet that she never saw quitting as
an option. Her and Celeste walk through the various challenges she
faced before stepping on stage at the NorCal show, yet Jessica
emphasizes the importance of finishing through with goals she sets
for herself. Jessica looks at her perseverance as something she has
trained herself for, to “go all the way.”
Although not showing up with her best physique to date, Jessica was
still proud of the fact that she followed through with the plan to
step on that stage having overcome so many obstacles. Next, Celeste
asks Jessica about her plan of action moving forward for her 2020
season, now already having one show under her belt. Jessica
explains her reasoning behind switching teams and coaching and why
she had to make a tough decision in order to level up and shares
what her and her new coach Damian, from The Pros, have planned for
the rest of this year.
The women quickly touch on the importance of divine timing and
trusting that goals
will come to fruition when they are meant to be. While talking
about the concept of time and patience, Jessica emphasizes why “the
juice is in the journey” not just in competing but in business as
well. Jessica shares that although winning an award or medal is
gratifying, the real reward is in the process and journey along the
way.
Celeste and Jessica then emphasize the importance of habits and
consistency and how that helps not just in bodybuilding but in many
other aspects of life, business included. The women then make more
connections between bodybuilding and “real life” when they touch on
the concept of how one’s imperfections can lead to longevity as it
pushes them to constantly strive for improvement.
By emphasizing consistency one can omit what can feel like
inevitable ebbs and flows since habits will take over and create
that certain behaviors become natural. After talking all things
consistency and discipline, Celeste asks Jessica to give her best
advice for both the first time competitor and for the girls on
their road to pro.
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EPISODE TIME
STAMPS:
[1:30] Jessica shares her pre-stage ritual with listeners.
[2:42] Celeste and Jessica go over a quick recap of Jessica’s
competing history.
[4:20] Jessica explains how she felt coaching herself was “a
disaster” going into USAs.
[9:40] Celeste asks Jessica about her move overseas; why she
decided to do so and what inspired the move.
[12:20] Jessica explains how she became an overnight parent to her
niece, Lily.
[13:30] Jessica shares what it has been like to have Lily share her
and her husbands life dream in terms of their vision of traveling
and living abroad.
[16:30] Celeste asks Jessica how traveling and living abroad
impacted her lifestyle or
commitments to health and fitness.
[20:00] Celeste asks about the priority nutrition and fitness had
during Jessica’s life while living abroad.
[21:50] Celeste asks Jessica what she’s learned as her experiences
as a professional athlete, traveling the world, and how she teaches
that to her clients when it comes to living fulfilling lives.
[27:10] Jessica shares some of her non-negotiable’s and daily
habits that she believes have attributed to her success.
[31:10] Jessica elaborates on her thoughts on manifestation and
setting yourself up to win the day.
[33:00] Celeste shares her thoughts on setting oneself up for
success in terms of identity, as well as on to-do lists with
intentions behind the items on the list.
[40:00] Celeste asks Jessica about her first encounter with
personal development work and how to translate that to living a
more abundant life.
[46:30] Celeste asks Jessica about mindset around money when it
comes to competing; both while being in prep and during her off
season.
[49:00] Jessica shares how the passing of her mom impacted her
life’s decisions moving forward.
[56:20] Jessica talks about how she approached her pro debut
despite the numerous show cancellations.
[57:30] Jessica recounts her experience at the NorCal show and how
the thought of giving up never crossed her mind despite the
multiple challenges she faced to get to the stage.
[60:20] Jessica explains why following through and accomplishing
goals she sets for herself is so important and how she felt of her
placings because she persevered.
[64:40] Celeste asks Jessica about her plan of action for her new
goals and visions.
[68:00] Celeste shares insight on the importance of staying patient
and goals/visions will come to fruition when the time is right.
[71:20] Jessica explains why “the juice is in the journey” in
competing and business; how consistency translates into habits that
can be applied to multiple aspects of life.
[74:00] Celeste and Jessica discuss how our imperfections lead to
longevity both in competing and business and again emphasize the
importance of consistency.
[79:00] Jessica shares her best advice for the newbie competitor
and for girls on their road to pro.