The Studio was born...

We're nearly there, very nearly at the 12 month mark since we opened the doors and what a journey it's been! You see a lot can happen in a year - one minute your training clients out of a commercial gym and the next you own a thriving 2000 sq ft studio. Roll back 18 months...

Arrrgh PANIC! We've got the keys, we're stood in the middle of what is now a totally different space, and we look at each other...

"What the hell have we done?" we both said at the same time! What do you do with 2000 sq ft, in a mill? Grin from ear to ear like a pair of big kids is what we did, and then went to the pub to celebrate!

The next day my husband (Tim) got all his bits and bobs together and laid them out neatly on what used to be one of the unit's internal doors, stepped back, took a moment and looked around at the job ahead of us! Three months it would take us - we had NO IDEA! Sometimes it’s best not to know what lies ahead and just enjoy the ride, so we did just that. Well, almost...

Midnight finishes, early starts, every single weekday and every single weekend Tim and I worked and worked and worked, despite Tim's 40 hour a week job and me still training my clients. Sanding floors, staining and waxing them on our hands and knees with rags, painting columns, painting walls, chipping old paint off windows that clearly wasn’t wanting to come off, sourcing equipment, using pallets that bits of kit came on and making tables out of them, scaling the country picking up cool items that would make this awesome space even more awesome, until before our very own eyes, The Studio was born...

But it wasn't without casualties... injuries happened, well one particular when i nearly chopped my finger off cutting carpet tiles for the changing room, but that's another story for another day! Life was the main casualty - life as we knew it was no more. It was put on hold to give what we then referred to as "the studio" or "the mill", and what would eventually become known as The Studio @ The Mill, you see that's what happens in real life, you can't do everything at once and expect it all to work out all of the time. Sometimes, some things end up taking a back seat. Just like my training did.

Why? Well for one I was shattered and probably got more than a workout just pushing that damn

industrial sander around and crawling around staining the freshly sanded floors, with help from the FIL on that I must add, so a massive THANK YOU to Steve for sanding floors for 2 weeks solid, and to my Dad for helping with the dreaded hammerite paint on the columns and keeping me company in the freezing cold!

But the main reason for letting all this get in the way of my training is I'M A REAL PERSON, and that's what happens in real life. What matters, is how you deal with it...

Anyway, I’ll tell you a little bit more about me and my personal journey in my next blog…

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