We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Alicia Brule a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alicia , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Do you think your parents have had a meaningful impact on you and your journey?

What did my parents do right? What a loaded question! I have so many answers, but I’ll go with the most important one. They raised me with and around love. Love is not just an emotion, but also an action word. Loving someone or raising someone with love takes action, walking that same walk that you talk. It has impacted my life and career in many ways. It taught me how to share that same love I felt with others including my clients. Grace was not always given to me as I often feel like my parents and I grew up together with them having me young in age, but through their love I have learned to give grace. As a young adult, becoming a mother, I didn’t always make the best decisions. But I knew that no matter what I had family around me who loved me thanks to my parents and the foundation that was built.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

By title, I am certified personal trainer, but that entails so much more. I sometimes become a personal therapist for my clients, a sounding board for their ideas and a breath of fresh air to begin or end their day. I am their biggest cheerleader and constant encourager along their fitness journey. I specialize in strength training and women’s health. I am most proud of the beliefs I share regarding fitness. Fitness is not just a 30-day thing, something you can do one time and move on. It is a lifestyle, a way to live to very best life, longer. Fitness is not just about you look on the outside rather how you feel on the inside, the outside appearance is just an added bonus. I also believe that your fitness journey is your own race to run, and comparing yourself to the person in the lane next to you will do no good. Yes, they can be inspiration, but focus on your own journey and the way you feel when those clothes fit you how you want them to and you have more energy throughout the day. The main thing that sets me apart from others is that I care. I’m not saying I that others don’t, but this isn’t just a job for me, this is my lifestyle. I have a fierce passion for the wellbeing of myself and others, I have taken and will continue to take the time to educate myself so that I can serve those who need me best.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Resilience! Wow, what a word. To me, that word means continuing to show up in the face of adversity regardless of what it looks like. Most recently, over the summer I experienced a whole lifestyle change, quite the 360 if you will. I was moving locations with my children, new place, new schools for them and whole new city that we were going to live in and we can’t forget that I was also re-locating my personal training business that was just taking off. Let’s also add, I was a one woman show, but very blessed to have friends and family supporting me. Nonetheless it was time to move my feet and jump directly into the unknown. Man was I nervous, everything around me was changing and I didn’t know how it any of it would turn out. Would it work? Would my clients follow me? Would my in-person clients be okay with switching to virtual? So many questions, so much adversity and every chance to give up, but I did not. I got myself (and still in the process of) re-established and everything has turned out exactly the way it was supposed to. God’s plan is perfect.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

Lessons, in my young life, I have learned many and some that I actually had to unlearn. While I’m still working on a few, the biggest one would be is to not box myself in. I don’t have to fit in, I don’t have to look “the part”, I can be myself and that is 100% acceptable. When I first started my journey into personal training I felt like I had to pick one niche or service and I don’t. Yes, it’s best to start out with one so I know which direction I’m going in, but once I get there I can spread out! I can choose one lane or multiple lanes. I am unlearning to limit myself.

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Clara Jackson