#95: How I Became a Personal Certified Trainer, Fitness Coach and Fitness Influencer: Talia Deluca

Published: Feb. 7, 2022, 1:36 p.m.

Talia Deluca is a Fitness coach at Anatomy, an intimate and integrated health and wellness gym and community in Miami, Florida, she is an ACE certified personal trainer and Talia is also a fitness influencer with over 23.2k followers on Instagram and over 213.7 k followers on TikTok. In this interview, she talks about: - Her journey with body image issues and an eating disorder in her teenage years - Going to Boston College during the pandemic and her advice on making the most of college - Being physically assaulted and her journey since then - How she got into personal training and becoming a Fitness Coach - Her thoughts on developing fitness as a habit, when you should hire a personal trainer and what healthy fitness goals are - Her fitness influencing social media journey and becoming a sponsored athlete with companies like Legion and RawGear. Approximate Time Stamps: 1:04 Tell us about your childhood and growing up 3:15 Did you like fitness and social media growing up? 6:42 Talia talks about her eating disorder 9:42 What advice do you have to young people getting comments on their body? 14:30 How was your transition to BC? 16:52 How was going to college during Covid? 20:25 What advice would you give to someone in college going through a tough breakup? 23:03 Talia talks about being physically assaulted at BC 28:09 How has the healing process been since the assault? 31:44 What got you into personal training at BC? 34:45 What was your mindset/motivation to do a personal training certification? 35:35 Do you have any advice for someone trying to get their personal trainer certification? 37:37 Did you feel self conscious becoming a Fitness Coach after BC? 40:30 How did you become a Fitness Coach at Anatomy? 42:13 How do you juggle the Miami craziness living in Miami? 44:15 Any tips for people trying to incorporate fitness into their schedule 49:20 When should someone get a personal trainer? 54:28 Is weight loss a healthy goal? 56:34 Any other thoughts on fitness? 58:00 How did you start your fitness influencing social media journey? What made you start a TikTok account? 1:00:20 How do you set up business sponsorships and become a sponsored athlete? 1:02:20 Where do you get the creativity for creating videos for TikToks/Instagram? 1:04:24 How do you not burn out from social media? 1:06:31 Anything else on your mind? 1:10:41 Have you conceptualized getting over 1000 likes on a post or having millions of people watch a TikTok? ___ Talia’s Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taldeluca/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talia_deluca?lang=en Talia’s Website: https://hoo.be/taldeluca ___ Grateful Living Info: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4