psychological impact of color and design but what also i like to do is have other experts come on that will also teach us how to feel good about ourselves not just about how you feel in your space but perhaps how you feel about your body your self you and anthony are co owner of body by anthony body being spelled b i and we'll get into why it's spelled that way later and you have this fabulous gym in somerville and i'm going to just start off because everyone always think was yours you were a member of another group i was and instantly i saw this beautiful woman in this purple dress like it was the hat and i seek out people who are fit and take care of themselves and it was very evident that you did so i just walked right up to you i think  steve he was like i love seeing this back and forth stuff between you two do you remember that it was actually kind of cute but we did we met we managed a networking event and then we became friends and i ended up going over to arouse you made me  great meal i mean it's your house you made that was all fantastic is a great i got to see my studio and how i work i got to see your jim i want to start off by saying because i was really impressed by you were jim's in somerville and i went one day to visit you and there was a woman named alice in there and i'm telling the story because it was so adorable and this is a testament to what and how you treat your i guess you call them your clientele this woman had just had a baby five weeks ago and i happen to be chatting with you just to say i had never seen your gym before and i came in and it was so cool it's very organic  arsonists so beautiful and so gracious and you know what's nice about you you're you're not you're not intimidating or anything it's like you're you're welcoming but yet you're still standing may i say and allison who just had a baby w being all over you about how to thank you so much for helping me have a healthy pregnancy and i was so impressed to see first of all she looked amazing she just had a baby and to know that she had been your client through her pregnancy and i don't know if it was prior to her pregnancy but price so she had been ok but i was witnessing this testimonial to you live and seeing what she looked like in seeing the importance and we both the importance of our our physical and mental health but one cannot have you cannot have one without the other am i right absolutely so why don't you tell me why your gym is so different from everybody else's besides the cool name yeah so are we like to pride ourselves saying that we're community of people that inspire other people so we're not your typical gym you can't just come in there and work out on your own everything we do is personalize it's catered we put a lot of time and energy into our programming we offer private training small group training we also in company the whole nutrition command yes that's fantastic a lot of gyms don't know that a new generation is really eighty percent of the success yeah you're right in keeping yourself healthy so we add nutrition coaching we've a whole education program on that we don't diet people we teach people how to live in the real world and eat healthy things that you like that you enjoy and not live so restrictive right be emotionally satisfied with your food too we also offer yoga employees to so we have a little combination of everything we feel that you can't just do one thing you have to really have the overall balance of everything the mind the body the spirit the physical  everything's i agree with that entirely and i mean that having been you know i'm a person who's worked out my whole life and there have been times in my life where probably i'd need really sometimes i'd like to say that exercise has probably saved my life during we did have that connection and i got it but the point is is just to support what you just said during some of the worst times in your life the but when you have no control over what's going on something horrible and we won't repeat what you and i talked about because it was really private and i don't think either of us want to share that but going through a tough time the exercise the diet the state of mind you can have control of with the guidance of someone like you and your and your lovely husband you know you can go into your gym and say i don't know i'm going through a divorce i just lost somebody close to me i'm not spinning out of control on the one thing you can get control of over with help is your diet your exercise right is the only thing we have control over when the world spins out of control and you and i talked about that on the porch salute and i believe so strongly in what you do at your gym and i support it so much because i've experienced all of those things through my my longer much longer life time i have found that i've i've i've gone to exercise or dance you know i dance and dancing was something that i went to during a very dark time in my life i started running during a do very dark time in my life i started using weights all those things and i had wished i guess that maybe i'd known someone like you then but you weren't born yet ok but now that you are born and i know you and i know where your gym is i can utilize that and i just think that i think people really need to feel what you tell them that you know they're looking at you and they're seeing how fit you are and maybe they're a little intimidated explain that your goals you set you have people set goals that are tangible for them not you you're not saying you're going to be miss world universe in two thousand and next year maybe you never know you could be but you're not you're not saying that 's what you have to do to come to the gym now and when you go to your gym nobody's staring at you like she's a she or he's overweight you don't get that it's a very what's the word it's very homey and very supportive and very well thank you that's that doesn't mean we have to do that for you but we will help you get to the version of yourself that you want to get to and sometimes we push past that is a lot of people come in and they will limit themselves so for example i've had so many people say you know i'd be happy losing twenty i'm like you but what  really want yeah twenty is a great start but i know you have more in you and those people who come in say twenty pounds fifty pounds later that they've lost their like i can't believe i'm actually here and i thought it was so life altering it's awesome yeah obviously both of you and your husband who is completely adorable by the way out there sitting in the green room q you're both so passionate like i am about what you do for people and i think that is probably why that organic homey welcome come on in i think stems from the authenticity that you really truly feel towards helping people and you've been and i really don't think you can have authenticity and passion about something you do unless you've been through a nightmare like we all have you been through something bad and you've come through it nobody wants to sit and go and talk to someone who's just had this perfect life and nothing's gone wrong you really don't respect them that much you want to meet the person that says this and this happened and now look where i am now absolutely and that's it i think that's the great part about even all of our coaches that we have everybody has you know real people  it's not like we we just wake up every day and we look like this you know you work hard at it yeah you know we go through ups and downs we have times we're not motivated times or like super motivated when we get injured you know and that you know your whole life alters when you get injured you have to be removed from what you know you say doing really sad so we go through these processes we're all normal we're all human beings and it's cool that we can share that and we show our clients that too you know when we don't act like where these people who have never had these challenges or struggles like we're very transparent if i and i think that i don't think i already know that that's how you are because i know you won so many different levels i know you from the gym i know you from going to the networking event i know you from sitting on your porch and crying with you i know you from being so excited about the color of your front door of your house and helping you remotely decorate your living room with the pillows like we you and i talked about any anthony talked about doing something i think is going to be so cute called home body and we were going to spell it home and then body b o d h i want to let you explain what what body stands for but in general what i think you and i want to do in our in our workshop we're hoping maybe in february of two thousand and eighteen is it's very important to take care of your body it's hugely important but then you also need to take care of the space that encompasses that body that's where i come in to try to make somebody feel comforted nursed and healthy and emotionally strong within your space we talked about how color is such a huge impact we talked about that green that's in your gym that just makes me grin with delight and that the the great story about how you and your husband found your house and the door was painted the same color as the jan we didn't paint well i mean i would love i would that was just so fascinating and how much excitement we got over just that but you see what the power of color can do for someone how can an uplift them in such a great way and how feeling good about how you feel really it's not like you said the pounds if you feel good internally and you've been eating right you guys have coached somebody like through her like allison through her pregnancy and she feels good that inner beauty spills out into the outer beauty because we're really beautiful from the inside out not the other way around don't you think yeah so yeah and i think it's the same way with your home you've been to my space it should make you feel good it's really not about how my space walks it's how it makes you feel as you come as a guest it's how it makes me feel when i wake up in the morning and i think that that was was so much fun when you and i were i think we were texting and you're like what about this pillow for the we were going on back and for exactly what he was remotely i was hoping you designed remotely from texting in your you were in your living room and i was helping you to put the pillows where they that we both do really interconnect and overlap in a good way and support what each of us do yeah that's why i think you guys have to come when we're when we get a date for a workshop in february you all have to attend maybe will stream live for the people that educating other people and having them learn something now what i want to ask you about too is when i first met you you had talked about yoga and all of that and how much you like to be you were just getting into it this is really become an int part of your program at body by anthony it's not it's not just the working out with the weights the nutrition and the coaching it's now you've incorporated and the plot ease and all of that and met your teacher to cutest thing ever dorval but you know how are really into the you'll go what happened actually i do know what happened but you know as we said on that point so we talked about it in front of that green door so tell everybody what happened with the so we were doing yoga out of our space right regionals space and i just loved it there was some kind of connection with it i really enjoyed it so as we were doing our space we were very limited with like the times because you really need quiet time jim it gets a little know so there's a studio across the street that i knew wasn't doing great i approached the woman one i took her out to coffee and i said i want your space here you know and if you're ever willing to let it go i'm here and like a fast forward two weeks she approached me again and said let's talk because i'm ready to let it go wow this was in september and by december it was ours oh my god so just in january we actually opened up the studio but what really got me into it was i was training for a marathon last year and i injured myself and i injured my calf and being an athlete i ran through the injury and i was you know in this this place where i was i was so unhappy because i really had my mind set on running this marathon and once i set a goal i don't know anything stop me and then i had this injury that was stopping me and i got to this point where i was in physical therapy my therapist was like you really care on i'm like well i have to do i've already committed and i got to this place where i said wow if i continue running i'm going to injure myself from anywhere permanently and never going to run again you know or i'm going to run it at a time that i will not be happy with and mentally remember talking with you about it and was so upset because it was my first marathon there were so many great things about it so i said you know what this is there something in the universe telling me that you need to slow down and find something new so i do a full on into the yoga space and you know i've started practicing five days a week sometimes multiple times a day researching things doing things at home and really diving into it and i've had some other injuries at the same time just from years of abusing myself so yeah it happened i really don't even and there's something about it that just captured my whole being and i started feeling different i started looking at the world a little differently my calf was feeling so much better you know when i that was the yeah i was going through i've had some shoulder injuries that through yoga i am now able to function at almost one hundred percent before injury again you know to but then also you know learning how to breathe differently and think differently it is really rocked my world yeah you are doing and he was saying that and i can see there's a difference and there's a calmness in you that when the last time we spoke you were so  almost like i would say panicked because you didn't know what to do and you wanted to run this race and you were so torn and upset and this is completely calmed you down yeah in a really good way and giving you something else to love another passion quite frankly it's you know what though it's such a big thing in my life now and i notice when i'm not practicing the anxiety starts coming yack again so you really have to say ok i need to make this a part of my every day because it really does change my anxiety level i'm such a hyper person like me you should learn from me to take it down and tell you where i'm even starting in november i'm starting my yoga teacher training so i want to become a teacher and actually teach and help people in this space to now i'll tell you i don't do anything as training like coaching wise whatsoever i do more the nutrition the sales of it i was the first time like now i want to teach this i want people to understand important and how life changing you can be and again even our members that we work with now constantly tell me at least even practice once or once a week because it will change your life i have to try you know i'm like sitting here thinking i need to try this no though like a minute not i thought i was going to first of all i thought i was having a heart attack i thought that i couldn't breathe anymore i think really and then i sort of feel like i was having a panic attack it was awful i felt like somebody was suffocating me and i'm somebody such a bad taste in my mouth that in then i never went i never did it again i said i tell people i almost died i went to the hot yoga and it was horrible so i want to try to come is what i'm saying and i want many different levels that i mean different ty introduces you to the practice of yoga you know and what's great about that what we do in all of our yoga classes is we always start with an intention so we always have the teacher walks you through guided intention and likes and intention for whatever you want to say and they walk you through you know the meditation of it right and then you practice and it's all about you it doesn't matter you know if you're flexible if you're not flexible it doesn't it doesn't  but it's now you know go into the whole whole lifting space too it's the same thing with our lifting yeah graham not everybody's going to come in and be able to do what somebody next to you can do because you're all on your own journey except about every day being a little bit better be a know personal improvement and making sure that they are specifically goal oriented to yeah absolutely again it's always about you it's about what's good for you not for everybody else you're not in competition let's you choose to be so but i mean in general you're taking care of yourself not to compete with someone else or up the street with a neighbor you're working out whatever it is you're doing you're decorating your house whatever it is you're doing you're making the space for your body your nutrition all of that is for you what is it that makes you feel good as an individual and then like i said earlier i think that shines through in everyday life in everything that you do in your contacts with other people in business in your personal relationships i know how important exercise is for me my husband works out all the time as well and you know what it just keeps us fresh and invigorated and we feel good about ourselves and each other and i think that just translates through the whole rest of the day the week your life absolutely and don't you feel like look i have to ask you when you couldn't exercise during that period and you were so upset you felt terrible i was miserable it is voice yes and so it's those natural endorphins that you get that literally there's chemistry in your brain that changes when you work out and there's no drug out there in the world that can i can give you that same feeling natural high it is it's wonderful now if i don't work out for a couple days you know and you feel it i mean you see it you just like get this like gloom a little bit you really do it's like doom and gloom and everything maybe something that would happen to you you're thinking is going to be a negative outcome as opposed to your being more optimistic and you know that's going to work out that's going to be fine that's flat tire no big deal where we're fewer not a great space that flat tire could be the end of the world it's amazing it's just it's the way you focus things that's the way you frame things and that's those endorphins and as you know because we sat there with your living room fixing pillows and color colors do the same thing exercise does exercise does colors literally change colors can decrease your respiration colors can uplift you colors can calm you down colors can stimulate you it's in that's what's so cool about what we both do is that there is such a cool interesting organic natural overlap because you're taking care of this body this temple and you're taking there of the temple that houses this temple basically is what we've talked about and asked and i've seen it happen i've i've changed the color in somebody's space and i've seen them just glow or just be you were so excited about your pillows once we pulled the colors from that painting you were so happy and again anything like that is going to be a positive anything that's going to make someone feel good about where they are how they feel what they look like and i don't mean it from a conceited point of view it's not about that it's being your best self because your best self really is all you can be everybody else taken you know hey that's it it's like who else are you going to be i know i quoted someone famous i don't think i made that up but if i did i'm brilliant and if i did i quoted somebody famous and i don't know who it is somebody google it look it up rescue squad is one hundred percent volunteer it's all local people we support all of summerville parts of actually all over are in the middle of the night and on the weekend our record until tomorrow ok all right so this squad works on purely donations and this equipment expensive their training is expensive so we decided months and months ago we wanted to run a obstacle run in somerville and when is this happening i'm in a community rush because we don't have a lot of time saturday tell me had in somerville i go to somerville challenge five k dot com there you go you can donate money you can run the race you can sponsor an athlete that wants to run in but our money is going towards the somerville e m t squad we're really on this initiative to raise as much money as we can so they can continue to give the service in a timely fashion and as educated as they can so it's next week and it's crazy it's an obstacle runs of five caps a koran you could walk it you could run it it's just going to be a lot i mean in downtown somerville downtown somerville yeah ok and if we only have the wedding next week my husband's daughter is getting married so when we can attend that so we want to come though for sure it's going to it's the first one english plan on doing this painted shoes that i these are called i pimped my pumps this is what i do in my shoes i hand paint all my shoes and this one to me just feels uplifting the blues the greens the organic you have green in your studio you love nature i'm dedicating