"The only time people make any real change in their life is when they’re so sick and tired of the way things are going... No one makes extraordinary change in their life when things are just fine."
Anne Mahlum
EFR 608: [SOLIDCORE] Founder Anne Mahlum on Reinventing Pilates, Ending Homelessness, and Aligning Actions With Intelligence
This week’s guest is living, thriving proof that to live the life of your dreams, you need to know yourself, be courageous, and act in alignment with your intelligence. Let’s explore what that means and how you can start doing that right now.
We all know that personal and entrepreneurial growth and development isn’t a walk in the park. It requires you to lean into discomfort, listen to your intuition, and make really hard choices… but the payoff can be life-changing!
Anne Mahlum is an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, athlete, and the Founder of [solidcore], a fast-growing boutique fitness company she founded in 2013 and quickly scaled to more than 80 locations in 27 states. She’s also the Founder of Back on My Feet, a national non-profit organization that’s using running as a vehicle to help those experiencing homelessness change the way they see themselves so they can change the direction of their lives.
In this discussion, Anne and Chase delve into Anne’s impressive entrepreneurial journey, her candid opinions on personal growth and development, and why the self-care movement needs a major rebrand. Plus, Anne shines light on how she’s curating and creating branded experiences through authenticity.
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Key Highlights
Anne shares the strategic process behind her massive business growth over the past eight years, highlighting why she sourced private funding to grow and scale her business as well as why she decided to step down as CEO of [solidcore] and Back on My Feet.
The success of [solidcore] and Back on My Feet can be attributed most to Anne’s willingness to break the organizations’ ties to her as the founder. She realized that the more systems she has in place that allow her to step back, the more her companies can grow, expand, and help others.
Anne candidly shares her hot take on self-care culture and the ever-present “you deserve it” language. Is it actually healthy?
Anne speaks on the power of knowing yourself and acting in alignment with your intuition and intelligence. How do we get to where we have the clarity and courage to say “hell yes” or “hell no” to something? How do you decide to act against something that you’ve already decided you’ll do, especially when you know that decision to say no will propel you forward?
Meaningful change is uncomfortable and often painful. When we’re in that painful discomfort, it can be easy to want to give anything for it to go away, but when we’re on the other side of it, we’re often very grateful for the growth we experienced.
Powerful Quotes by Anne Mahlum
I know what I’m trying to do right now and I know what my goals are and I’m laser focused on getting that done. So, I won’t look for the excuse, I won’t look for the Friday, I won’t look for the “I deserve to” because I’m gonna get off my path right now and I’m not gonna put myself in that position.
The only time people make any real change in their life is when they’re so sick and tired of the way things are going... No one makes extraordinary change in their life when things are just fine.
It’s that pause and reflection of how you’re spending your time, the habits that you’ve created – Are they serving you? Are they serving the people close to you? Can you be doing things differently? – and also celebrating the things that you’re doing correctly.
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