17 -Les Alfred - Health & Wholeness
Les Alfred
Les is the creator of Balanced Black Girl and host of Balanced Black Girl Podcast. She started her career in fitness as a personal trainer and fitness instructor in 2012 and launched her first blog The Balanced Berry in 2014 to share her love of fitness and nutrition with others. As a personal trainer and nutrition coach, Les spent over five years helping women reach their wellness goals in a balanced, sustainable way.
After taking some time off from fitness in 2018, she pivoted to introduce Balanced Black Girl Podcast which is a dedicated space for conversations about health, wholeness, and self-improvement from the perspectives of Black women.
Balanced Black Girl Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/balanced-black-girl/id1438982040
-Listen to the podcast episode-
Thanks Les for giving so many tips from relationships, to finances to re dreaming what a successful life looks like with balanced. Make sure to check out balanced black girl podcast and balancedles on Instagram for more health, wholeness and self-improvement.
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-Key Points-
Les talks about how she got into fitness accidentally
Being productive is not being busy
Enjoy life outside of to do list
What I truly want in my life are space, freedom, flexibility
Challenge yourself and create that space NOW
My biggest AHA moment was that I could approach my task differently, say no, ask for clarification, prioritise
You can can start with smallest things to do them differently i.e. taking a different way home - this is how movement in your life happens
I try not to have more than 6 tasks per day
Life with balance is tricky everyone is different
Give yourself space to move on
Allow yourself to transform relationships with people around you, if they don’t meet your needs, just shift.
In a process of rebuilding my own confidence I thought I was different, I tried to change myself but to be more confident means coming to myself
Yes I am dating now but I am picky! some things are non negotiable; it’s pandemic times so choose wisely i.e. who you could quarantine with
It’s very important to know where we are with our finances - visibility is key
Growing podcast must happen organically, people need to discover you
Les Alfred
“Becoming more confident actually means coming back to myself and not feeling like I need to change or fix myself”