Episode Details

Today we are speaking with the Founder of Train Like A Gymnast, Wilhelmina Fitness Model, Certified Personal Trainer Danielle Gray.  

Danielle is a formerly competitive Junior Olympic gymnast who retired from the sport before college. After graduating from the University of Southern California in Public Relations, she worked full-time at a digital marketing agency and part-time as a gymnastics coach. Once she realized she forgot she was getting paid for coaching, she turned down a promotion at her desk job and pursued personal training and fitness modeling. She founded her own company, Train Like A Gymnast, to show people how much more capable they are. Her training style is challenging, yet approachable with a heavy focus on form, mindfulness, and intention. She is also a Wilhelmina Fitness Model, an iFit Trainer, a Ninja Warrior, an aerialist, among many other things. If you follow her on Instagram, you can see her adventures with acro, pole dance, travel, and walking her cat Zara.

In this episode we discuss:

1)  The power of our stories, sharing authentically, and how we can continue to help others not feel alone in their struggles and stories.  We discuss mental health, suicide, asking for help and how to support others, and how darkness and light can exist at the same time.

2) The process of making decisions to leave one job to pursue her passion of helping people train like a gymnast, to building her company and app, and where the vision of her company is going.

3)  The pros and cons of a lifetime of competitive gymnastics and how that has challenged and prepared her for the work she is doing today. 

Connect with Danielle
Website: www.trainlikeagymnast.com
Website: www.daniellegrayfit.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellegrayfit
Facebook: https://facebook.com/daniellegrayfit
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trainlikeagymnast
Email: danielle@daniellegrayfit.com

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