Chapters
0:00 | Believing in himself and his weaknesses
0:49 | Learning to sell his value
1:53 | Free books and fitness videos
2:25 | Finding his own training methodology
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Full transcript: Sonam Bligh on London Real
0:05 …you learn about yourself on this course? Believe in myself a lot more, and you highlighted my weaknesses, which I still have to work through today. I’ve got a lot of resistance in certain areas of being a personal trainer and selling myself, really. I mean, I can do the training, but it’s the selling that’s quite difficult. But you also showed me what I’m good at, and people were kind enough to say nice things, which boosted my self-esteem, because it’s all about self-esteem at the end of the day. It’s all about how you feel about yourself. And this course, yeah, it showed me a lot of weaknesses, but it showed me a lot of positives about myself, which was really cool, which had a big impact on me.
0:49 Yeah, yeah. I mean, I love what I see with you, and I remember we talked at the summit and you’re like, yeah, I’m doing this, and I see you and you’re really engaging with people. Like I said, I know you provide value to your clients, but you were like, yeah, I’m not as busy as I wanted to be. And I was just like, well, that doesn’t make sense. London PT market, a guy that knows his stuff and has also got fights behind him, and you have deep knowledge, you’re not just somebody who’s saying I do this. And so I was always telling you that on the course.
1:20 And look, we’re all hesitant to sell ourselves, and we’re in England, you’re not supposed to do that to a certain extent. But you have so much value to add. So that’s what I tell everybody on this course, that if you don’t do it, then you’re not going to be able to give all this value out there to people. And so I think I was pushing you on things like core product and pushing you past, because as a personal trainer you have this mentality of, an hour of my time is worth X. But that’s also true with lawyers, with doctors as well. And so to get this whole concept of a product and then an ecosystem is something we were working a lot on with you.
1:53 And through that, I mean, I can rattle off the things that I’ve now achieved. I’ve got a couple of free books, I’ve got a video series, I’ve got over 25 fitness videos. The course has really just pushed me, and the momentum’s there now. It’s awesome. And I wouldn’t have done any of the stuff I’ve done if I hadn’t been on the course.
2:25 So even though it’s really tough going at times, Chris Albert asked me what’s my methodology. So I was really going into kind of behind the scenes, what people really need to get out of a session when they’re training, and it’s made me look at things a bit more intelligently, and in a way that’s different from other personal trainers as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something unique about you.
