Episode 222

#222 - Interview with fitness trainer Trea Da Fit Artist

Fitness and creativity go hand in hand, and no one embodies that more than Trea Da Fit Artist. As a fitness coach, trainer, and music artist. Trea understands the unique physical, and mental demands. That creatives, entertainers, and performers face. In this episode, we dive into his journey, how his father introduced him to fitness. How working out became his therapy, and how he turned his passion into a career. Helping artists stay at the top of their game. From breaking fitness myths, to discussing the discipline behind both music and training. Trea shares his insights on how movement fuels creativity. Also, how to maintain the balance in a high-energy lifestyle.

We also get personal, talking about grief, and resilience. Finding fitness became a powerful outlet for self-improvement. Trea opens up about his music aspirations. Balancing fitness and creativity, and the importance of pushing through struggles. To reach That personal success. If you’ve ever wondered how physical health can impact your creative flow. Or how to build sustainable habits in a demanding industry, this conversation is for you.

Check out Trea’s work at Next World Fitness:

https://www.nextworldfitness.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sculpt-n-create/id17951629895

Social media handle:

@nextworldfitness

Transcript
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Trea Da Fit Artist

how it, you know, how people kind of navigate it and, and some certain perceptions are of, of people in the space.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Thank

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But, uh, on the music side is really, i like, like said, really it's just me, um, just really in the, like, I would say infant stages for is me creating the music and so forth, haven't recorded anything yet, but definitely researching, learning and developing as I go.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So once I do, you know, record, I definitely, uh, be in a more uh better space if if that makes sense yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, I mean, yeah, 100%. And the the fitness side, right, for you, is very much like a level of discipline, you know, to be able to have like that strict curriculum, because something that gets, I think, altered a lot is people think it's easy.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, it's easy easy to be able to go to the gym every single day. It's easy to be able to follow a regimen, you know, get the right wraps in and And it just happens overnight. You know, you you go on Instagram, you start flexing, you know, you'd be showing off them abs, you know, you're like, ah, but that's a lot of hard work.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Uh-huh.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And it's a lot of discipline that goes into that to get to get there, you know,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right. Definitely. ah And yeah, a lot of folks think if I just download this app, they got the workouts on it or look at a YouTube.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

and Dude, I see all those commercials all the fucking time on YouTube.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And I'm just like, please stop, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like, we knew Wage Watchers was a lie, like, in the eight like the end of the 90s. We're just like, we out.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Definitely, man. And when they, like I said, they they they see that and to a degree it helps, but. ah you know for looking on youtube and stuff like that to a degree it helps it definitely gets them off the couch so to speak but it is not necessarily meaning that it might be fully because conducive to their goals because once they don't start it and they might see some results and so forth but once uh but in the long run three three months six months from now when the results may may wane or plateau

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

so

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Trea Da Fit Artist

They kind of started thinking like, oh, I haven't lost the weight that I was losing in the beginning and still i haven't reached my goal. What's going on? I don't need this workout, you know, so forth.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And that's where pretty much where they where we come in.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you You lose, you yeah, you lose like your purpose of your journey. You lose the reason why you're doing this.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Did you, I mean, you obviously got into fitness for a reason. Was it like for mental health or you needed that discipline in your life? Like what would got you so into fitness that you wanted to make this a career?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Great question. So I've been pretty much of a ah active or athletic type of guy growing up and so forth. And my dad was a big gym goer as well. So basically, you can kind of just think about me first first first memories of me, you know, of being on his back while he he do push-ups and stuff like that and took up until the point where he, you know, gap me got me into the gym, got me my, I'm going on back a little bit, but got me into my my first weight set round 15 and so forth.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

No, sure.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But, ah and so, in and you know,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Wait a minute, you started weightlifting when you were 15? Damn.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah, I had a, it was just, Touch and go playing, playing around with it.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

and

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, I had a fairway sit around around that time. Yes, sir. ah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

So you've been you've been doing this for a minute, like a real ass minute, okay.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Well, I'm going to get into that. So, like I said, you know, when you 15, you just really just finding out and discovering yourself in in the gym and so forth. So that's I would say most of what that really was about.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But ah but yeah but like I said, ah up until that time, or all the way up until like, I say, 19. My dad was diagnosed with cancer on my 19th birthday.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And appreciate it.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I'm sorry dude.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

It's all good. And go

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Did he pass?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, it's been about going to be 11 years and 11 years month. Yes, sir. on the twenty third of this month yes sir so uh but uh but up until that time he he survived almost eight nine years after that diagnosis but let's say when he first got diagnosed um you know he kind of got even more on a on a ah health quest and so forth you know you're reading all these you know books what would jesus eat and he was doing all type of things you know and so forth but

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

After that, I

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Trea Da Fit Artist

One thing he did was got me and my my our family into the gym. So my mom, my sister, and him got us a gym membership. That was my first gym membership there. Now, they a worked out maybe two weeks, maybe a month, and then they were gone.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But I stuck with it. You know what I'm saying? Now, I got to admit that when I first started, I go in there two weeks strong.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

julia ah first

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Might not see me two or three weeks, but I kept going. And it wasn't really until like I started seeing results. people started complimenting me, asking me questions, wanting to work out with me.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

That, that, that would, that would get, got me more, uh, I would say more into it and, uh, and, uh, and, and taking it more serious for me working out.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And then fast forward that I used to work at Levi's.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

at the board that I used to work at Levi's this one minute.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

This woman asked me, uh, she asked me like, you are you doing all this working out and so forth? Have you thought about going to the, ah being a fitness trainer or a personal trainer. And at that time I didn't. So I looked into a research to see if it was something think I could do.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And, and pretty much the rest is history from there. So started, started off like that. And I would, I would say, so from the hummer beginnings, starting with my dad to it, it multiplying or snowballing into me becoming a fitness trainer now.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, i it's interesting because i lost my dad when I was 21.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

He died of pneumonia and COVID complications during like the first wave.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Sorry. Sorry to

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, and like but you know like that feeling of like losing someone that means so much to you in your life, but... Being able to where you have somebody that kind of gets you on your feet, you know, gives you that mindset and that attitude to like push forward. Like if this is what you want to do in life, this is what you're passionate about, you know, do something with it.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

How ah I can't even imagine what that would have been. Like, I understand, like, you know, he lived for eight years, but still being able to continue even when he wasn't around anymore.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

That's hard, especially when you're grieving.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

man It's funny you said that because the day that he passed, I went to the gym the next day. Worked out. you know i'm saying what did

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

oh

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and My workout partner, when I told him, he knew he was sick because he knew my dad too as well. and they done I said, you know my dad passed. He was stunned, taking a bat.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you

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Trea Da Fit Artist

He's like, what? What you in here for? was like, man. If you really knew my daddy, that's kind of how he would want it. ah You know, because I remember his side of folks, my aunties, them, and everything, so, so stuff.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

They came to the house here in Mississippi. He's from ah Alabama. And they came to the house, you know, just to really, like, see him, you know, and just really in his presence and so forth.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And before they came, he was like, I don't want y'all to – I don't want i want no crying.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I don't want y'all. I don't want crime.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I don't want no won no pity or anything like that. This is just a regular family get together. That's basically how he said he wanted it to carry on like that. And that's pretty much what we did. So in that same vein, that's how I acted, you know, and and that was my way of dealing grief in a way.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So a lot of folks like a lot of folks, maybe, you know, maybe smoke, maybe drink, maybe, you know, do other things, you know, eat or like that.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mine is my therapy is is in the gym. So that was one way of me coping with that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And it ah it also brings you know memories to you as well because...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

right right

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Right, you know, because your dad was the one that got you introduced into this, you know, and even with everything that's going on, i mean, especially with a cancer diagnosis, and he's like, nah, let's just keep going.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

right

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Let's just keep seeing where this takes us.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

right right

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And to eventually that, like, leaving to you, like, making that, like, get to teach people the same type of attitude and respect that your dad put into you.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I think, look, parents are not perfect, you know, and like you said, yeah everybody grieves differently. You know, some people do it with the drink, you know, or just yeah ghosting and pretty much dying themselves for a year.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

But. You know what that person wants from you, you know, you know what they expect from you.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And I totally feel you like, man, like my dad was an immigrant. He came here from Africa, he came here from Morocco.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, he was very resilient. He believed in hardworking, you know, taking care of your family, being kind to others, always trying to see like putting yourself in other person's shoes.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

All

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And even though he's not here anymore, like that is very much the attitude of like me and a lot of my other siblings, you know, that is who, that is what makes us us more than anything else, right?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

right. Right. Yeah, I definitely, ah you know, agree. And you know other folks, they was really like thinking that we like like if some some folks think you should grieve a certain way or one way.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Like I should be just down on my luck and you know, in in a dark room, just soaking ah in it. that that That never had been me, you know, and so forth. So, and I do credit it a lot to to the ah to the gym as well, but that being my, my um not only just to look a certain way, feel a certain way, but it's also, like I said, again, my my therapy.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Used to be games back then. You know, you want to knock a head off or something like that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

e

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Trea Da Fit Artist

You met mad or something. You would take it out on a video games and stuff like that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

shit

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But you I traded that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, i know it should talk I know what you're talking to about.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

e

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. So that that that that that's that's what ah what it used to be. But I traded it.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you You know, you know, you know, it's hilarious. I remember like a lot of people don't remember this, but back in the day, we didn't have like, you know, the deep, you know, we don't have the D pad.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

We just had the up and down left and right.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

So if you'd be if you'd be playing those race games or especially like, you know, and NBA, like, you know, like um basketball or football or stuff, it was a little harder to get around.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Uh-huh.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Bro, you fingers feel like they got arthritis for days because you'd be sitting with their controllers. You're like, you know, you're trying to do both thumbs, you know, trying to get it.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah that Yeah. Right, right. Right, right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And like, they don't understand the pain no more because it's just got a thing they could just swivel around.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Nah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

20.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Nah. So that means you around my age then. ah Yes, I'm 38.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I'm 26. um twenty six

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay, go ahead. ah twenty say Oh, 26. Oh, wait. Okay, I'm 38. So i'm I'm all the way up there to, to you know, where the the Nintendo came. You know what I'm saying? So.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

No, I like Nintendo GameCube is like Nintendo GameCube and PS3 was kind of like my.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay. All right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

But you remember like the PS, PS2, Sega Genesis.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

oh yeah i'm talking about one the ps i got a ps1 now you see what i'm saying so i still yeah still got my sega i still got my uh my nintendo is is not working no more it just it was working it just you know that time had it to not work but uh but yeah i still got all them systems i mean well last system i got was ps2 so um i haven't been playing games like that since i started working out and got busy and grown got get my son and stuff like that so

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Damn, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

A lot of things like that, i haven't played games like that as much. But I played through him when he he plays and so forth.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

it It was just honestly, like, I totally get where you're coming from. Like video games back then was just like such a surreal experience.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I'm not trying to be nostalgic, but you got to remember something like we had an opportunity where if we couldn't afford a game, we just went to Blockbuster and we rented out video games, so right?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Oh, I see you. You old enough to remember blockbuster. Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, dude, like we used to go out and rent video games like we were broke as fuck and like we got no money.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and It was ah okay. All right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like I'm a kid, like a young ass kid and I'm around all these like older kids.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

e

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

So having that was just like amazing. You get to like be in your own world, you know, and you're like, yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

it It's having honestly like it's not just grief is having that outlet. You know, we are human beings.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I say this so many times like the basics of being human is violence, sex, It is violence, sex, um and like desire.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right. Yeah. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

us that we're like, nah, it's:

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah And we, and we, and we thrive on being social as well, you know, even though social media kind of kind of put ah the, kind of put ah a distance in between us, but we still thrive to be social, you know?

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

yes. yes

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And I think back then, ah I'm a millennial. So back then, you know, we they say we the last of the, of the people who do experience that with before all this stuff came in

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I honestly... I disagree. I think your generation and my generation, early Gen Z, are like the last...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

early Gen Z. Okay. Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Early Gen because I was born in 99. So, like, I have...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

,:

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay, yeah. Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

eally affordable until, like,:

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

So...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

We can kind of relate on that level, which is which is bananas, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay, all right, cool, yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Because again, like I'm in my 20s.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

mean.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You're in your 30s, right? like Would you ever think somebody in their twenty s would be like, you went through that shit too?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, everything.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I'm like, yeah, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah yeah and and it's just it's if i i when you growing up you hear people be saying like back in my day and you like man you know yeah then when you get older now you saying back in my day you're like oh like this this this i see what they talking about you know what i'm saying because it's vastly different my son 18 he's gonna be 18 tomorrow so i i can see a a whole lot different man i mean he was born in 07 he was born 07 and youtube two came out in 05

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Shut the fuck up, bro.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Completely different.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

so i'm saying so he don't even know what it's like to be without youtube and all this stuff like that when we had to find like information when we had to yeah we had to go get we had to go go travel to get our information we it wasn't on our phones or anything like that yeah definitely man definitely aol i don't know if you remember aol but uh that dial up man

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Libraries. Mm-hmm. And we had to use we had to use a library computer for the internet. Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

my My brother, so I grew up literally like 45 minutes outside of New York City.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

okay

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

ave wideband until about like:

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like people don't understand this. Like, you know, like they think upstate is like beyond Albany. But there was a time like literally right so outside of New York City.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm

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Trea Da Fit Artist

hmm. Mm hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

we just had one carrier, which was Verizon.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

for like one side of Rockland to the other is like a 28 minute drive. Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay. Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

So it's like just one carrier, you know, and like you wanted internet, it's $89 before tax a month.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

So yeah like, I'm like, also like ah being around people that are 18, 17, 16 years old, it's like, just open up your phone and you just,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

do whatever you want. Like there's no, you know, yeah there's no physical stores. There's no like trying to go out with, by the way, going out with people is insane.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Cause like people come up with the most fucking ah amazing excuses in the world. like Nah, dude, I'm tired, man. Like I'm busy with my game. I'm like,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Oh, and then if they do go out, they they ain't communicated with each other. They're just around each other, but not communicating with each other.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

No, no, no, they're doing- what they're doing- dude, I love this shit, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

You know what I'm saying?

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You're literally sitting there and you're all like drinking and they're

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah. but See, my my son.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

like... What?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

What? What? where Huh?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah most definitely man uh uh when i was taking my son to the doctor and and he was uh the doctor was talking about his son and that which was around the same age maybe a year younger than my son and he was saying him and his friends had went to like a school dance and so forth and good the the guys it was a it was a girl he wanted to dance with instead of walking up to her to say do you want to dance he text her

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

No judgment though. Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

He texts her to say, do you want to dance? that That's how much that disconnect right there for socializing here. And, you know, like, ah you kind of thinking, you know, that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

but that You know what? I would love Dave Chappelle to make a bit about this.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you know You feel me? Like, Dave Chappelle be like, my my daughter be coming home and she come from the dance and there's a guy that she likes and...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. I feel.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

He texted her. but Like, what?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I'm saying, man.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

it's crazy man like you know i don't know i guess the fear of rejection is real but at the same time like i said most the time you talking to people is in group chat it's on facebook snapchat and all that stuff like that you don't really know how to interact with people outside of school you know what saying so where it was really so it's a really different time from when i grew up when you grew up and so forth where really that's all we had to do you know what saying if we weren't playing games we was outside man you know doing but you know doing whatever so

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

more social. But got you got:

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

It's just, you know, like I was telling you this earlier, like I ah could sometimes be a little bit fruity as it, you know, I'm just a little bit, I'm very masculine, but I can sometimes be flamboyant and something I like, I've noticed, especially even with guys, you know, when you compliment straight men, I've noticed like there's almost like

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Thank you. You know, like they're a little caught off guard and like, oh, my God, there's like this like lack of appreciation.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

It's we're almost we're I'm not trying to like, you know, like say like, you know, but there is a problem where men don't feel as determined and, you know, have that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

That feeling of like feeling good about themselves, you know, feeling that they're attractive enough.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And for me to come along as a gay man and being like, girl, you looking flattered.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And they're like, oh, my God, thank you.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

We could see that shift of where, you know, used to be where that just used to be a part of our culture, where men, women used to just be able to interact with.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And then like there's almost, again, bro, this only happened over a year and a half.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, think about any time in your life that in a year and a half, the entire world completely changed.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. I mean, it's really so ah fast. you know what saying? Like, each year is like we we age or it goes fast. Like, every year is like kind of like we moving in dog years in a sense, you know, where –

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, gay yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ety s And then when it got to:

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah And then the teens nobody really saying the 10s. You know, we can.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

They say or:

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, the:

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Same thing for the eighties, same thing for the seventies. yeah I got a fro right now, you know, and everything. So stuff like that. You can think about those arrows.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

do you know do you know what i love about the seventy s more than anything in the world?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

What's that?

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Motown and Soul Funk

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and mo say Okay. Okay. That was a,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

because it Because it gave birth to a lot of like hip hop and rap, old school hip hop and rap that we had in the 80s and 90s.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, what is just so beautiful about that is like through those decades, you can see how the artists, creators from the 70s inspired like Wu-Tang Clan, you know, in the early 80s.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right. Yeah, right, right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And eventually like you had in the 90s, trying to think, um...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Talking about like a 90s rapper something like that?

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

ah I don't know why I got salt and pepper stuff stuck in my head, but like this It's

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Oh,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's still the eighties, early eighties, late, late, early, maybe mid to late eighties and then to the nineties and eighties.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

not LL Cool G. LL Cool G was also in the 80s.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. You,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Damn, I really am an old, like I only just know old school, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

you, you, you, you got, you got, uh, you got Snoop Dogg. That was maybe in 92, 93, uh, Fat Joe.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Um, let's see.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, Fat Joe was amazing.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Um, who else? and Who are we in the nineties? Um, so it a lot of people,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

ah Sir, ah we wait, wait, sir, but not laughs a lot, sir.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

um

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Sir, mix a lot.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Sir makes a lot.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Sir makes a lot.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and Yeah. Okay. Uh, I like big butts.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

He was a weird mother.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

He was a weird motherfucker.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

but Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, R. Kelly. I know a lot of grievances, but come on, R. Kelly.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. I mean, I mean, it is what it is. You know what I'm saying? Like that. I mean, some people can't, you know, some people say you need to separate.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

My mind is telling me no, but my body, but my body.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Sorry. he just like that.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Honestly, like that is what the 90s was about, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right, right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

It's just when you go through that tunnel and channel, it's just like if I'm going to relax on a beach, that's what I want to be listening to.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it was a golden year, you know, i mean, um you know, for especially, know, you know, my kind of stuff like that. You use a lot of ah black actors and so forth and everything in that area that's, you know, you still a see to this day, you know, and everything like that. Now, it's like some of the newer actors, know,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

don't have that staying power as the ones did in the nineties and so forth.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

that they empower as a the advantage, so forth.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So you'll hear them. You might know who they is. Oh, that's that dude. Or, oh, she sees in that. And so, and she did that, but you don't know her name, but the ones in the nineties, you kind of remember them. and And I guess, cause I was young at the time. I grew up with them and I know him ah versus ah the people coming in behind it. But,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

It was just a different time, man, for everything, man. Like like like I said, ah you know, for kids, TV show for kids and everything like that. You know, Nickelodeon, they definite definitely was thriving.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah love Love the Double Dare. Are you afraid of the dark? ah You know, things, shows like that and everything. What else Omar Gooden was in? I can't think of it right now. it might That might be still Double Dare he was on.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But but people don't know Nickelodeon had game shows. Nickelodeon don't even have that anymore, you know, stuff like that. So it was like a, it was like an MTV for kids, you know, and so forth.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

No.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

We even in the early:

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

They were not made for the parents like these people that were making these shows. Like, yes, they were perverts and they had a lot of mental issues and problems like we definitely know that now.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right. Right, right, right. Yeah, rain and Steppy come to mind.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

But.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Thank God Diddy didn't touch any that shit with his oil.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Beavis and Bo...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

But the reality was, like, we had TV shows as kids, like, even though they were inappropriate, like, we gravitated towards that shit.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And, like, I, like, you know, having memories of, like, Ed, Edd and Eddie, okay?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like, probably one of most inappropriate shows for kids.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And I just was like, I'm not leaving this TV.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Uh-huh.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I'm watching this shit through.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah. So I, I, I, by the time Eddie and Eddie came, I was like, maybe like a young adult, but you know, close to it.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

We had the proud family. you remember the proud family?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Okay. I'm in prior family.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

don't know.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Uh, uh, yeah, definitely in prior family.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Like, like I said, Ren and Stimpy come to mind. ah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

uh beavis and butthead that these in the 90s here uh beavis and butthead um rocko's modern life is another one because his friend was a a woman slur he called it because he was a cow you know you call you know they call cow heifer and everything and that's what his friend name was it was a cow he called him health health or whatever but stuff like that you know and everything um it's just crazy so

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

There was a, i don't know if you, there was, um maybe this was after you Tom, there was a show of this kid that was in a house full of like monsters. Ugh.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

uh oh i know what you're about it was the three of them three main ones one one had one eye uh one long eye and um ah scripts uh dog i know what you're talking about uh it was like three main monsters scream if you're afraid of the dark or something like that ah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Something, yeah, like it was.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, like black almost. Yeah, hold on.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

scared of the dark something like that better look it up

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Foster home for imaginary friends.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay, man, ain't heard of that one Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Foster's... Yeah, well...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

ah Again, we're just giving great examples of, like, the shit that nobody can get away with anymore.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right, right, right. ah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like, you know, like...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I have, like... I have friends that have kids, and just to see the stuff that they're watching, I'm like...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Thank God I had my childhood, like, 20 years ago.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Oh, yeah ah yeah. I tell my niece son that all of time, man. Like, man, and she even, like,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Ugh... They're watching our shit, though, dude.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

that that's the ah i just about to say that just about to say that yeah yeah yeah yeah that's what i'm saying she she she likes some of that that stuff that we grew up on and everything but my son here was here in there but he mostly on the newest stuff but uh you know everything still i'm still gonna work on them you know have them go down memory lane on some stuff but

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like, they're watching Powerpuff Girls. And I'm like, wait, what? What is happening? Hello.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, man, it definitely, man, was it was a time to be alive, you know, growing up. Being an 80s, I'm an 80s baby, born in 86, but growing up in the 90s, so that definitely was a time to be alive, man, for kids-wide. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I think it also gives a upper hand because if we look at ah our country right now more than ever, I talked about this before. Being able to have our own freedom and being able to represent who we are as people is so important to us because even though of how young I am, a lot of people, even my age, see on like the past 20 years of how much has been banned, stripped, taped, cut, and repasted over and over again to the point where like,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

right

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Fuck this shit. I want something, you know, I want something more real. I want something that feels more genuine, you know,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

and like Even going with... We were talking about with fitness, right? You have the same thing.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm. Mm. Mm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

The amount of times you walk into LA Fitness and you see those bullshit coaches that I so swear to God are on steroids, okay?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

like i don't And they're just like, all right, give me five. right, you're doing great work. I'm like, are you really trying to make people feel more shit about themselves?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like... I'm not trying to judge, but there's like no like genuine approach or anything. You're just doing this just for a freaking paycheck, you know, and I get that. But like you're there to help people.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

OK, like we've talked about before, like this is an outlet.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

right Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

This can be somebody's therapy. This can be somebody's way of like disciplining themselves. And then you're taking their money and giving them pretty much like bullshit for 45 minutes.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. ah want to see how I want to kind of address that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I know, because that's kind of heavy shit.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You're like... how is this but it's not it's not everybody, but you have that in the crowd, and that is something to take into account.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

i Because I don't like to talk about my fellow fitness trainers and and stuff like that, you know, kind of Yeah, yeah. Yeah. yeah so So when we get certified, so now you now you do got a lot of them just come off the gate saying, oh, I'm going to train some family because they got to a level of a result or success with their whatever goal they have. So like, okay, I did this. I put it in time.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I can help others. And then you say that, quote, unquote, ah fitness coach and so forth. But just because you got yourself to a result don't mean you can help. others get to a certain result.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But with that said, the ones that do have like a certification in certain aspects, and and yeah it can be a rep reputable certification as well. ah But I would say when when we when we go through those certification process, they don't really tell you how to be a trainer.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

They don't. They just tell you mostly how not to get sued. I say that all the time. It's just basically proper form, this or that or whatever. But get a person to from point A to B or point A to Z.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

uh it doesn't do that so it's a lot of a lot of people out there really just winging it and not not really knowing what what it takes or structuring out into getting a a person to their said goal so you can have a lot of that going on where they they they kind of ah mimicking stuff that they don't sing or stuff they already don't do and they're telling this other person to do it but yeah you you you living like a bodybuilder you you telling this person in the squad uh 200 pounds and everything and she and her goal is not to to to you know gain a whole lot of muscle she won't just lose some weight so you having her doing these deadlifts and all that stuff like that that they don't that don't make sense so it's just like you just basically just teaching them what you did that's basically what you're doing but uh but you know but with the ones that are you know are certified and so forth they got a level of

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Trea Da Fit Artist

maybe some way of structuring it, but like said, at the same time, they don't really have that. If they haven't been in the gym and gone through the process they self and so forth, having that practical knowledge, it definitely gets to a point where they just kind of guessing to see what's what. what and then and then true enough what you had said earlier too some of them is in the for the paycheck something quick and everything they don't really have that grit and grind or that passion to really see you know the to really see this to its fruition and that that give us a bad rep so that's what that's why i said that earlier when we was talking know we usually get that that bad rep because there's a lot of them out there really and just out for the check thinking they can help everybody when you can't so i i mean i turn people down

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Trea Da Fit Artist

if I, if I know I can't fully help them, you know, in a certain way. So I think all that is important, you know.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, it is.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, I'm currently being trained to work in the automotive industry.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And in our school, we have like an open garage every three weeks. So I went there yesterday and there's very much also like, again, the same attitude being an auto technician where you have your ASCs, you get your certification, become a master tech.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

But yesterday, like I was changing out my water pump on my car for like the first time and going through that process and like being frustrated, you know, because like I've never done this before, you know, and trying to like figure out to do like the right approach.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And my teacher said something, you're going to get frustrated with a customer's car because every single time you approach and you get that experience, you can run into different situations.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And the only way you're going to learn is you keep on getting yourself in the field, working, you know, again, in your case, clients, in my case would be cars.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I mean, I

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

But as you keep on doing that, that's what makes you a better technician. yeah You need all of your certifications, right?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

mean,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Obviously, I mean, you know, you want to make sure you get insurance, you know, if you get fucked up, but that experience,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Trea Da Fit Artist

but yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

That is how craftsmanship with your body, with your hands works.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

i mean i mean is

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

It's not just a piece of paper.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

but Definitely. I mean, it's a reason why when you go to the doctor and so forth, they call it a practice instead of saying, ah you know, that this is what they do and they fully knowledgeable. in it And then even then they still revert back to looking at a book. You know, if a certain thing going on, they're going to go online sometimes and look at stuff. So it ain't always they just, you know, got it up here. So it's by practice and experience.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

um So. Yeah, so I definitely agree with that, man. ah with Like I said, definitely need that practical knowledge. So with the certifications, they are really just like, I would say, biased to what they want you to learn.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But they don't really tell you, like I said, they don't tell you everything that you need that you're going face coming into working with different type of clients. So. You really, you know, it just like i said, it just really a piece piece of paper. But ah so you really going to come into contact with the people like, you know what, this person got this certain ailment.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

This person had this certain genetic makeup and so forth. So those things that that that the certification companies ain't telling you or whatever. You're going to have to really just figure out pretty much on your own.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and everything like that. So it comes with the experience. that I get why they usually tell you to be, have that practical knowledge before getting the certification. Cause I have had people call me, uh, just like, i just got my certification. Can you help me?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Which I think is an untapped market, but they, they'll call me and like, uh, you know, can you help me, you know, become a, you know, come a trainer. I don't know what to do and how to do. So you'd be surprised but by how many people, you know, do, you know, get started and don't really know what to do or where to go.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So, um But, yeah, it definitely comes with that experience and more and more knowledgeable than what you have, you know, get certified and in a certain space. But experience is going to be the best best and true teacher.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You have to almost be able to look yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, what do you really want to do?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Because, you know, there is this level of almost ignorance as famous being famous, you know, being viral and, you know, get getting to like the highest class.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you know, and having like coolest cars, you know, got the coolest whip and got that Miami Vice house, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like that is all wonderful and nice, but wouldn't it be nice for you to be able to have those little successes that you're proud of, you know, and have made you a better person and in like, even if it hasn't given you, you know, ah all of the luxuries and the most incredible things in the world,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

But it's given you the pleasure and joy of what you are capable to do.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

i feel like that is like the ultimate thing to strive for. Because like, yeah, if you don't necessarily like become like the most successful, but you kind of are the most successful for yourself.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Well, you definitely, see especially since you went out on a whim and trying something. Most people don't go for their dreams or goals that they want to achieve in life. They kind of mostly stay stuck in the comfort zone or what they perceive is the thing they're supposed to be doing versus the thing that they really truly want.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And what they gravitate towards. so

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You you could be could be so scared of everything and never do anything.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

right i i mean agree man uh you know i i and you know it is sometimes too is is like like i said it can be fear uh one don't want step out comes on you're scared you're gonna make an ass out yourself or you're gonna you everybody gonna shame you for it stuff like that all that can be be uh precedent but I think, too, is like the the perception of what society want us to do and be our parents, our you know, our family and all that stuff like that. They want us to be a certain way. But but other than what we want to do and that kind of we kind of get locked into that box and so forth. cause We want that acceptance from everybody, but not being true to ourself in the process.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yes, exactly. And imagining... Imagining seeing our dads, you know, in this hypothetical scenario where you could have, like...

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Just a minute, you know, maybe two minutes. I genuinely feel like if I had that ability, I know but he would be proud of how far I've come.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Because all of the times that I could have given up, because let's be honest, you know, shit happens.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You get into fights. People move in different directions. You have death that happens. You have

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

run out of money? you know that that that's That shit happens a little too often than it should be.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah. Like be life.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah. But still we know that even though they're not around anymore, they're still in a way looking down at us and seeing what we're accomplishing regardless if they're not if they have their hand on our shoulder.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right. Yeah. I like that, man.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

They're always there.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. I mean, long. And then, you know, like said, long as you keep them in your mind and your heart, they always be living with, you know, through you, you know, and so forth. So, Keeping that memory, you know, alive, I think very is very important and necessary to the evolution of of yourself and on your journey.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

You know, whatever they, you know, your dad is still to you and whatever mine is still to me and so forth, that carries on. And when you think about it, it's not just ah the financial situation. things that we leave on to our kids is the knowledge too, the knowledge and experience that we we we pass on. So, again, and me starting with him, with the fitness and so forth, and me carrying on now as ah as a fitness trainer, now I can pass that on to my son, and hopefully he passes it on to his, you know, and everything. So things like that can definitely ah traverse. And so, like I said, that's keeping his memory alive through and through, even when I'm gone.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So, yeah, so I definitely agree with you on that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

It's ah amazing because you yeah have where your parents, in your case, your dad, instills something in you that it's almost so ingrained.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you know it it's It's not just a skill that's been given to you.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

It's almost like as a parent, you realize, I think you kind of realize this as a parent too, what you can give over to your children. You know, we like to complain like, oh like I can't be a great parent because of like all this stuff that's happened before and I'm gonna mess up.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Everybody messes up, bro.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right. Definitely.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I'm sure your dad messed up. My dad messed up plenty.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Like, but Yeah, that's just a reality situation. But you're able to take those aspects, those good parts that you have and instill them in your own family, your own kids, and let that continue on.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Because when your kid looks at you, they can see their grandfather they never met inside of you.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right. the I like that. Yeah. I mean, good or bad, you know, you won't you don't learn something from it, you know, from your parents and so forth. Whether you may not fully agree, may you not like what they did, you think they could have did a little bit better, ah you definitely learn from it in some kind of aspect.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So, You know, it ain't just you should just be praising the good things. You look at the bad things for what they were, you know what Don't dwell on them, but, you know, learn from them and try to make try to make better decisions in that regards and learning from your parents' and mistakes and so forth. And yeah yeah like said I said, I have made mistakes as well, so i hope hopefully that my son don't make the same mistakes mistakes I made.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And um hopefully I'm trying to instill in him to be where he don't make some of those same mistakes. I know he's going to make his own class of mistakes, but least he yeah so um but at least you know ah he i want him to do better than did so that if we if they keep improving and and pass that on my name generations and stuff like that will will definitely be even better for it

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

For sure.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

yeah he has something to be proud of and something to look forward to. we've We've said this earlier, the thing about any type of craft or art or ah be martial arts or even training can be a part of that in regards to fitness because

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Trea Da Fit Artist

hmm

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

we We tend to love to do things.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

right

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you know We love to to make things. We love to make experience. I'm sure you've had people that you've trained with that it probably brings a smile on your face when you see them and they're doing great. And they're like, hey, how you doing, man? Like, how you doing? I'm like, I'm doing the best, bro.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You feel great because, you know, you help somebody along that journey as well. And the thing about the mistakes that we make, right? Because again, we are human beings.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

We still have those other achievements. We still have those other people that we have changed.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

That that that feel that like positive energy, they feel that good vibes, they feel like this connection to it.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

um I mean, definitely, man, you don't really know who watching either. You know what saying? You know, so, you know, that that's that's the thing. You know, I can post something on on on on Facebook or something like where I'm talking about fitness, whatever I'm talking about.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And I might get one or two likes. Maybe don't get no likes. But you know what I'm saying? That's the name of the game.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I ghost and post, bro. I post and I'm out.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, so yeah, i't I don't worry about it too much no more, you know, and everything.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I'm out. yeah

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Because I realize that once they see me around and everything, like, oh, you you doing this and everything. So I know they watching. They might not be posting or liking stuff like that. They watching. So they they are seeing it even though they not, I guess, quote, unquote,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

specifying that they seen it but they they are looking at them right

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you remember what we said earlier as we represent the best version of ourselves where like i do post on instagram but the thing is like i just got a lot of stuff that's going on where you want to know what's going on with the podcast right here you're listening to it you know and it's just kind of the same thing for you too right it's where you kind of want to know what i'm doing as a trainer well

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah definitely

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Here's kind of what I do.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right, right, right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

All right. Like, here's just a little bit of, and it it takes, again, of like it's almost having trust that people will take that message and pass that along.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And does everybody have the capability? No. But there are people that have that capability to do that.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And that's why we're doing this, is to reach those people.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Even though it's like out of 5 million people, it may be 100,000, maybe it's just 10.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

But those 10 are just as important.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Man, definitely, man. ah Yeah. So and what we're doing is going is documented. So it definitely can live on even way past us. So even when you just stop doing this, is it it lives on. So.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

It's definitely, ah you know, being a help because it's things we don't look at in the past that helped us now that I'm being created already.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Thank you.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So definitely, man, being in this content creation space um it is something, you know, rewarding, you know. So it ain't just about, ah I guess, you know, it ain't just about getting the content ten out there to to you know you know make money or get you know get some kind of level of of people viewing you and so forth but it's also to be genuinely the people you helping you know reaching them in some sort of way where to keep them going and toward their journey where to be you how you doing with through labs how i'm doing with through fitness and so forth it definitely keeps people going and going about their day and living i would say living life even more and that much more better and enjoyable

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

For sure. And looking at and history, right,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I love sometimes watching those old interviews, you know, like even the ones in like the 70s, because that is almost a time capsule.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right. That's what I'm saying.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You're what? Yeah, you're watching those people talk. And and here's the wildest part, man. Sometimes you watch those interviews and you're like, they're talking about the same problems we'd be dealing with right now.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm

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Trea Da Fit Artist

hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And you you could almost be like, damn, we we actually are like continuing on.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

In a way, our past teaches us how to be better in our future.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Our present is our strongest gift because we're able to create that future.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, we we have the time loop wrong. You know, we think it's just straight and it ain't going any other direction.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah. i agree. I mean, you know, um, I think we dwell too much on the past. You know, you should look at the past to help you to traject your future.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But, ah you know, but, yeah, we sometimes we just stuck in a moment, you know, and everything just on our day to day. We and not really like trying to look go go forward and what we can be and what we can do, you know, and so far. I think a lot lot of that is missing, you know, in in people, you know, it just go to work, go home, start again, you know, and repeat. But there's no living your life in the way that you you want always wanted to do it or how you see fit, you know.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah. it In regards to corporate, the elephant in the room is corporate America has done a lot of damage in this country, even though they've made a lot of money for this country.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And it has taken ah very heavy toll on a lot of people. When you take people that are working nine to fives in a corporate environment, they're

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

five days a week, sometimes they use gym to let out their anger and rage. And it's sometimes the most beautiful thing that you can see. And sometimes it can bring tears to your eyes because you have this person that literally, you know, like severs their life where they give part of their life to something that they don't really care about. They're just there for the paycheck.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And then they come home and they've got all these feelings and emotions and they don't, They don't know what to do with them.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And sometimes that's like literally like pulling so fucking hard. You can feel like, you know, the the veins starting to pop out, you know.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah not Oh, not that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

It's sad, but I think it's beautiful.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

be okay oh Yeah. Yeah. I always say you it just really found your out outlet, basically. You know, hopefully it's a healthy outlet. So I always say fitness is a is a nice addiction. You know, as as if once you get get it integrated into your lifestyle. But, you know, finding that outlet, like I told you earlier, the you know video games was one of them.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah just just being active, really, you know, playing ball. i you you know, play basketball too as well. And just being really active, that was really my outlet to to let go.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, I think also where you're having people like this, they're gravitating towards things that give them real sense of purpose.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Because again, like they're spending those eight hours doing something that they really don't want to be doing.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you know And some people are fortunate enough that they don't have to deal with that situation. And they're just able to either get into fitness or martial arts or you know yoga or tai chi, whatever it may be.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

without that but i do think it is interesting that the more that you industrialize people and more that environment changes around it the more and more people want something that is organic you know natural like takes them back to to nature or or gives them like some ground is that is that a good analogy like a good common ground

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

so Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, ah tranquility. You know, I get what you're saying. ah Yeah. So it just, and you know, like I said, it just really being on what they, what that is for them. And sometimes they, you know,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Unfortunately, they do go to drugs and alcohol and stuff like that in a sense. but um But, you know, really finding that outlet, even finding something that you're good at, you know, or whatever, you know, it can be some little small little thing, but, you know you know, you want to get out, have some kind of way that you can decompress and everything.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

one hundred 100. Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

That's so, so important, you know, ah not just for your physical health, but your mental health as well.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Having a healthy outlet, i you you're still right. A lot of the times you run into industries. I worked in the food industry for seven years, and that got me addicted cigarettes. Because everybody in the food industry is smoking cigarettes and doing cocaine.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

i It's because you're expecting from human beings like the workload of robots.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

yeah I tell people...

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Oh, I've been there.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

like But when you go to a restaurant, like just respect, be nice. Like if there is a problem, don't be a fucking asshole.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Cause I swear to God, like there's somebody in the kitchen that's going to get screamed at and it's going to be your fucking fault.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm. yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And it's, it's not fun, but you know, that like, ah what I'm getting at is too, I'm able to now like go out and almost feel that pain.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Oh yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Oh.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Where, like, I'm able to go to a restaurant and like, I understand that, like, I'm not making the food, but kind of respect the staff that's, you know, coming to the table, the ones that are on the cold pass and the hot pass and passing things along.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You have that added knowledge that you can maybe pass on to other people, maybe allow people to be a little less um inconsiderate, you know?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. ah It's crazy. I mean, i I remember I used to work at Pizza Hut, so I do know a little bit about that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, Jesus.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. So ah and then, ah yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, gee. Oh, Jesus. ah That must have been. Do you work weekends?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah For is what? Pizza Hut?

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

When you were working in Pizza Hut.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. You know, I think it's Pizza Hut. So so friday friday Friday and Saturday, though you know, Friday, National Pizza Day. So Yeah, it it gets crazy, man, around that time. But, yeah, so working in that space, i used to work at Levi's too as well. so And that was definitely a job I didn't want to be at. And, you know, it just really like days in, days out, you're doing the same thing. People want you like they wanted you to work, like again, like you said, i work like a robot, can't talk to nobody. about it Like, man, we here 12 hours of the day, and you expect nobody to say nothing to nobody.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

You know what I'm saying? So, you know,

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

it's Crazy, real.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

man, I'm telling you, man. So I had to go, man. It was killing my, I was getting depressed being there. So I definitely understand that. So that's why I tell people, man, you know, if you going for your dreams, it's something you want to do, man, if you got to work, go ahead, do what you do, but then work on your dream afterwards, you know.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and find some kind of way to work around it so you can't leave that said job and everything. Because nobody just want to be, you know, you don't want to have your life just, and nothing wrong with anybody working a nine to five, but you don't want to be at a at a place that you hate 30 years out, you know, and everything.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ain't got nothing to show for it afterwards, you know, and so forth.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So you at least got to want to at least like or love where you at, you know, and everything for the most part.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

oh for sure.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah Mm-hmm. Yeah, so.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

i i wanted to touch on with you because for know that you mentioned you do a little bit of music on the side. i i kind of I kind of like that balance of where you're able to have your main hustle.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, what's bringing in the bread, what's taking care of your expenses, something that you actually like passion and care about.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, for me, that's kind of why I moved to the automotive industry.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Okay.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Um, you know, I love electronics. i love working on cars, even though I get frustrated sometimes.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I'm just like, all right, I'm going to get through this. But it's kind of the same thing also in your case where, you know, you found this passion and love for fitness. You've been able to be a coach and trainer and be able to do all of that.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Um, and also be able to have that side hustle with them, with your music. No,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

but yeah yeah oh is it something you want want me to elaborate on um um

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, I wanted to hear like hear that journey for you. like You're able to have basically something that takes care of yourself that you love and then also have that passion project on the side.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Oh, okay. Yeah, now, I will say to Zed that mean when I got into music, it's something I always wanted to do, by the way. Like, shoot, since I was like 16 when I worked wrote my first lyric in in art class and so forth and and so it's something always wanted to do so but uh didn't really start doing it until around when covid happened when everybody just really discovered theyself or discovered something or discovered theyself in some kind of way so i like man i always been wanting to each and two i i write something here and there but i just said let me go all out with it and everything but

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, wow.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

As I get it, got into it and started like researching more and seeing how, you know, the the music introduce industry work. I realized there's a lot into it other than just the talent alone.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So I feel like if so, what I what I came up to is if I'm going to go into it because I do want to, you know, not only like I want I love doing it. but i want to make money from it too as well so if gonna go go into it and how they saying with spotify and and how how spotify paying for they saying ain ain't a whole lot of money in music and so forth so if i'm gonna go into it i need i want to make sure i go into it the right way so and it takes a lot of dedication and uh and commitment to just make music as well as it does running a fitness business is as well so those are two dead dedications that

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

can pull away from each other so my my uh my approach to it is yeah and so my approach to it is that i like said once i started getting stuff recorded i'm just gonna get something out there a little by little and let everything transpire as it transpires uh and go from there and then once i can get myself to a spot where

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

hmm. You got to balance. You got to balance them.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

where my fitness business is running without me, like I have other trainers and so forth under me, and they doing the coaching stuff like that, and I'm just really the face and the salesperson of it and everything and the marketing version of it, then I can fully pour more into the music space. But still, like I said, but as of now, I'm definitely going to be putting out stuff throughout the times and stuff like that as I get that going, if that makes sense.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, 100%. And you're you're right.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I mean, you you have to ever Every single person, and many ways, has to figure out a way to survive.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you know And we all have those things that we're passionate about. But I love your approach because you're doing it a way look like... i I've loved this as as long as I can remember. you know When I was in arts class, I had this passion and love to start creating lyrics and making music.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

but you also have a career that you'd be able to build for yourself. It doesn't involve corporate, that just involves you, something that you love.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And being able to have that balance with that, you know maybe eventually, like you said, just shifting over to one side, still having that fitness, still be a part of your life, but more on the side burner.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

That gives you options, man. you know People forget like you put one fucking apple in the the basket.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

like

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

yeah

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, like it could have a worm in there. It could be bad, you know, like you don't know.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Right. I mean, you don't know how it can take off, you know, in there.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

right

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And the way I and the way I look at it, me working with artists and entertainers, you know, is like a whole ecosystem of, you know, a circle and so forth. So I'm I'm working on the work, you know, you know, my specializing working with artists and entertainers, so specifically music artists, musicians, actors and models and other creators as well.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

But

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

i like I like the part of models.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

We gotta talk about which kind of models.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Why you say that?

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, yeah.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Uh, I, you know what? I ain't, I ain't think of it like that, man.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I mean, the, the one that they gotta have a certain, you know, look about them, you know, I would say fashion models, runway models, maybe something like that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

oh yeah

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Print models, you know, stuff like that. But, um, But yeah, so with that said, they, you know, like like if I'm in the in that market with them and so forth, so I'm making music and so forth. So that person, got oh, you oh you you coach and and try and stuff like that? Or, and I got a community to as well, man, let me, I want to, you know, be in a, you know, in a network you you get you got going on and so forth or vice versa.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Um, training somebody and then they say oh you you do this uh you know you you make music stuff like that i need some you know do this let's collab on this so it all goes back into each other you know what i'm saying so that's how i look at it too and then it won't be it's not too far it's not too far left side so it ain't nothing vastly different it ain't like i'm going from training to starting a restaurant business you know what saying stuff like that it's not

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I know it was entertainment.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

it's not yeah it's not vastly different yeah it's not vastly different you know what saying so uh so it definitely complements each other in that way so that's how i'm approaching that too as well so it's not it's not keeping me off off track and it's still in in the vein of what i'm trying i'm i'm wanting to convey and push forward

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I know what you

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

you mean. You have an artistic mindset.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And... you know i feel like I feel like most people have ways of tapping into it, but you got to put work into there, like really put in work there because you know you you could dream from today until tomorrow, but like if you don't have like a plan that works for you free choice.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

yeah got free choice

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Mm-hmm.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, that bullshit of like, no, no, you know, you got to you got to do what makes money. There are things that you're passionate about that makes money.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Right.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You just have to be able to find those and put them together. And don't think there is an easy fix for every single person.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I don't think like you there's like a one quick.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Yeah, you do this and do that. And you'll you yeah have to figure that out on your own.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Yeah, definitely. it may it's it to Like you said, to each his own, man. And, you know, someone will argue that I don't want to make my hobby. I don't want to turn my hobby into, you know, making money.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

and so forth.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You don't have to.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I mean, yeah, you don't have to, you know, and so forth, but you got to find something that you enjoy. You know what saying? I feel that that's my opinion, you know, because if you're doing something just for the money and you don't really fully fully enjoy it and to a to a degree, you you ain't going to it long, you know, and everything. Now, if you, if you're something you passionate about doing and so forth, ah regardless of the money,

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Trea Da Fit Artist

you' you'll be doing it forever. And that and that goal that takes me back to what you were talking about with certain trainers and stuff like that not taking it serious. They end up falling out because they're not taking it serious. It's a hard-off industry to be in.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

So but you know if you don't fully love and you're doing it as a cash grab, you're going to buy out soon. you know That's why I see that you just got to really like, if it's not your hobby, you got to at least like or love what you're doing.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

All in all...

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I think maybe you get more than just this life. Maybe you get multiple afterlives. Who cares? In reality, you get this one. I think that you got to make the best with what you have and be able to do whatever you want with it.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

There's so much that is in our hands. It's in our own minds.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

You know, the idea of I can't. there It's not I can't. It's I won't or I don't want to.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. da yeah yeah Yeah, it's really about framing your mind in a way. ah what you want, you know, because a lot of people come to me, you know, I can't do this or I don't have the time and so forth.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

ah Okay, you're making a lot of excuses of how you you can't do something. Let's make some excuses ah of how you can, you know, and that's how I try to flip it.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Thank

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Trea Da Fit Artist

yeah and And it takes the same level energy and thought process to say a reason why can't I can't do it because this, but I can do it because of this.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

And and you when you think of it that way, It'll help you move in a whole nother, uh, on a, on a whole nother frequency and getting stuff done and actually truly reaching your goals.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

A hundred percent. i I was going to ask you, man, ah do you have any you haven't got any social media links, um website, YouTube?

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah. Uh, now like for youtube i don't really do my big my name my business is the next world of fitness i don't really i got got that youtube but it's not really active so uh as i get this podcast out sculpt and create that that's the uh youtube i'm gonna be having stuff on uh hopefully ah having something having something out uh tomorrow excuse me but um yeah so you can follow me find me on uh my name is next world fitness oh that's ah at nextworldfitness.com uh social media i'm on instagram at nextor next world next world fitness um tiktok at trader fit artists uh twitter nxt world of fitness if you're on twitter or you want to call it x um

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Trea Da Fit Artist

facebook uh you can look up my my page is next word fitness but i'm also my personal b is profile that's tray 86 and if i'm is i'm leaving out anything i think that's think that's it for the most part but if you go on if you go on ah um uh w you know on nextworldfinance.com my socials are on there as well and all my other information too yeah definitely

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Easy easy way to find it and anybody is a little lazy you could just check description box below and there'll be all those wonderful clickable links for you fidgeters out there.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I appreciate that.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Listen, I got to say, Trey, like I've had other fitness coaches on and, know, I genuinely believe that it's an art, you know, you being able to like diversifying, just being able to work with different types of people and especially the years of experience you've had.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

That takes a lot of passion, lot of blood, sweat, and tears.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

And it's it's just incredible, man. and I mean, I wish you the best of luck in your music career as well. Like, I think you're headed to good things, man.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I appreciate it.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

I really do.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

I thank you, man. Thank you, man. And I appreciate you, you know, for having me on. um and i like and ah And I like this. It your particular podcast. is my I really I listen a little bit at your podcast, but.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

me being on it ah you know and everything i ah thoroughly enjoyed it man you know and so forth this is the first one i like where it's like a you know comedy and everything going back and so forth so it it just wouldn't fully uh into uh you know what what i got going on but it just really like man to go back in memory lane and and talk about those time i thoroughly enjoyed it joined this podcast man it was fun man oh yeah definitely man yeah

::

Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, yeah.

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Lost in the Groove Podcast

Oh, yeah.

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We did it old school style, he you well man. For anybody out there, if you want to check out more of the podcast, you can find us on everywhere and anywhere. Lost the Groove pod.

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So with that, we'll catch you motherfuckers on the next one.

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Trea Da Fit Artist

Peace out.

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Peace out.

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Dave lennon

Lost in the Groove is my space to explore the real, raw, and unexpected. I started this podcast because I was tired of feeling like nothing ever changes. My therapist once suggested, I write letters to the government to express my frustrations. Then I thought, "Why not create a podcast instead?" Here, I can talk about what I want, with whoever I want, no matter their beliefs. For me, it's about having honest conversations,. Breaking down walls, and getting people to think beyond the surface.

I grew up in a blue-collar family in the suburbs outside New York City, raised as an Orthodox Jew. Leaving the religious community in 2017 was a pivotal moment for me. It allowed me to embrace my identity as an artist, and chart my own path. Who I am today, and what this podcast represents, is deeply tied to my journey. Leaving a community that was a cult; still is. Discovering authenticity, creativity, and independence in myself.

I’m a car enthusiast, an artist, and someone who thrives on creative expression. From old-school rap, and psychedelic rock. To vintage muscle cars and European classics. I’m all about the things that inspire passion.
My co-host, Karissa Andrews, joins me for American Groove. Our segment on stoner culture, and life’s weirder twists. She’s an incredibly talented makeup artist, aesthetician, and candle maker. She brings a spice, pizazz, and realness to every conversation.

This podcast isn’t about chasing fame or conforming to trends, it’s about the experience. I want listener, whether they’re driving home, cooking, or just unwinding. To feel like they’re part of something real. Lost in the Groove is my way of staying true to myself, while connecting with others. learning, and having fun along the way.