#058 – Entrepreneur, real estate investor, and consultant Amina Blake-Foreman, shares valuable insights and actionable tips to help you get on the road to the life that you want and deserve. Amina and I discuss the importance of mental fitness, ways to design the life you want, and what keeps her motivated on her health and fitness journey.
Topics Covered:
- The importance of mental fitness in your health and life
- How to control your thoughts that lead to better results
- Ways to design your life around your short and long-term goals
- How accountability helps keep you on track
Today’s Guest
Amina Blake-Foreman
Amina was born in Trinidad, where she honed her entrepreneurial gifts, selling spices at her local market at the tender age of seven. There she developed traits such as integrity and honesty, which guided her decisions throughout life. Amina later moved to the United States, where graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in 2009 from Central Connecticut State University New Britain, where she majored in Mathematics. In addition, to her university education, Amina is certified in the following areas: KWU Certified Trainer, Real Estate Agent, and Real Estate Broker. She is married with two sons, nestled in New Jersey, where they reside.
Amina joined Keller Williams in 2010 and immediately became involved in MAPS Coaching. In her second year at KW, she was admitted to the Agent Leadership Council, where she excelled; simultaneously, she aimed to grow her downline to 70 people while having 36 in her first line. Amina is recognized as a KW Coach by the Keller Williams MAPS (Mega Agent Productivity Systems) coaching and has held these positions at KW; MC Agent, MC Investor, MC Leader, MAPS Coach, PC, KWU Instructor, and MC Team Leader. She is a student of BOLD, Business Ojectives A Life By Design, and has graduated successfully from BOLD 22 times.
Amina has won several awards, including the #1 Individual Team in Connecticut, with 102 units sold in 2017. In Real Estate, she is a black belt recruiter and has led a billion-dollar volume Market Center. Amina is a real estate Investor and owns several businesses, including VIBE Connections, a virtual internet-based employee company, where she provides leverage to business owners and agents by supplying capable virtual employees to staff their companies. She is a regional social equity ambassador and a national social equity sub-task force leader. Today Amina is the CEO of the RISE Network Partners Team and successfully manages all her other businesses.
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Richard Conner
Welcome to Episode 58. Do you feel stuck and not able to start your fitness journey? Stay consistent or just get out of a rut? If so, this episode is for you. As I speak with entrepreneur, real estate investor and consultant, Amina Blake foreman, and she shares with us valuable insights and actionable tips to help you get on the road to the life that you want and deserve. Hope you enjoy.
Intro/Outro
Welcome to Inspire to run podcast. Here you will find inspiration. Whether you’re looking to take control of your health and fitness or you’re a seasoned runner, looking for community and some extra motivation. You will hear inspiring stories from amazing runners, along with helpful tips from fitness experts now here’s your host Richard Conner.
Richard Conner
Hi, everyone, welcome to inspire to run Podcast. I’m so excited about my guest today. Amina Blake Forman. She’s a good friend of mine and a consultant affiliated with Keller Williams. She’s a real estate investor, entrepreneur, wife, mom, and just all around really great person to know. So Amina, welcome to the show.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Thank you. Thank you so much for having me really excited.
Richard Conner
Yes. So excited to have you here. You know, we’re going to talk a lot about what you’re doing in fitness. And I know you talk a lot about the 5am Club, and just the wonderful work you’re doing there amongst everything else you’re doing. But you know, let’s just get the conversation started and and just learn a little bit more about you and what you do.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Okay, sounds great. So, as you said, first and foremost, I say, I’m a mom, that a wife, I hope my husband doesn’t listen to this podcast. I’m also just a serial entrepreneur, you know, I had my own business from seven years old, I started off selling local spices and was born and raised in the beautiful island of Trinidad and Tobago. And that’s when the bug business hit me. And that just translated into when my real estate career got launched, I was 16 years old and relocated to the United States. And it gave me the opportunity to dive further into my love for business and entrepreneurship. So I’m really excited about the journey have been on and now that I’m able to take all of that knowledge and experience and good fortune as well, because I’ve had some great mentors along the way and use it to help and inspire others.
Richard Conner
That’s really awesome. And just for our listeners, I mean, I met, gosh, it’s been 10 years or so now. And it’s been wonderful just to kind of keep in touch over the years and follow you and follow your journey and your success with all of your different ventures. So just really, congratulations.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Thank you, thank you. And I don’t take all the credit. It’s really about surrounding yourself with people, you know, Jim Rohn said, You’re the average of the top five people you surround yourself with. And I think I’ve taken that to heart.
Richard Conner
Yeah. And, you know, I love that you said that because on the podcast, we focus on three pillars around mindset, movement and motivation. And that is one thing that I really admire about you is your mindset. So, you know, can you talk a little bit more about that, you know, especially as you’re kind of going through business, like, how do you approach the work that you do? And how do you stay motivated? And how you how do you always look to take yourself and your business to the next level?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah, really, the main pillar for me is The Happiness Advantage, you know, really finding joy, finding the good looking at my cup half full versus half empty, always, you know, doing the things spending the time with the people that recharge me taking time, to always give myself a little bit of a pulse check on my mental space, I believe in things like daily affirmations, you know, I not only believe in it and do it for myself, but I make it a huge part of the people that I lead as well. So mental fitness, to me is really, really important. We actually have done mental fitness diets and exercises just for a mental fitness. And because they said that you really can control your first thought. But you can control every other thought that comes after that. So what we’ve trained ourselves to do is to always be conscious of what’s happening in between these two ears, because sometimes you get that negative thought and you might think you can’t do something and that’s okay. However, if we catch ourselves and we use like a little bracelet that will snap to kind of do a pattern interrupt, then you can do the next and see well, what if I can? What would my life need to look like in order for me to be able to do that? So always being aware of our thoughts and spending time, you know, and figuring out what are the things that recharge you and get you into a positive mindset. It might be music, it might be exercise, it might be hanging out with friends, it might be reading a book going on vacation, there’s so many great things, but really being in tune with that and it’s something that I’ve spent a lot of time investing in learning about and truly take because I believe that you know your mindset and is 95% of your success?
Richard Conner
Yes, very, very true. I don’t know how the saying goes I like to. I like to sit mentioned sayings, but I’m not sure I always get them right. But it’s something about thoughts leads to words and words lead to action. And yeah, so definitely starts with, you know how you’re thinking and having those positive thoughts versus negative thoughts?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Oh, I love that one. It’s um, I use an acronym for it. It’s called point far, PT far. Okay, so the starts with P is your programming, right? So things from your history, your past your upbringing, so your programming leads to your thoughts to t, then your thoughts lead to your feelings, the app you’re feeling leads to your actions, and then your actions lead to the result, which now burns a new hardwiring and a new programming. So it goes back into a circle back to your new programming, then your thoughts, feelings, actions, results.
Richard Conner
That’s wonderful. That was far better than what I came up with. So thank you for sharing that. That’s super great. And, you know, one of the other things that you mentioned around the daily affirmations, and this is something that I try, but admittedly, I haven’t been able to keep this habit, but when I was doing it, it felt right. And you know, there was there’s, I guess, different philosophies about what to do. But you have the spoken affirmations, whether it’s certain times of the day, and then you have the written affirmations, and there’s some science there behind being able to having it really kind of sink in, right, if you write it down, you have better memory of whatever your affirmation is. So what do you do? Or what do you believe in versus spoken versus written and the types of affirmations?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah, I do only written. And I think, you know, they say that when you write something, it goes from your head through your heart, and then two hands. So that’s, you know, for me, the written one, and I do, obviously, the rules of the affirmation, it has to be the three P’s positive, present tense, and personal. And depending on what I’m going through, I would just sometimes start with the thought that I have, which may not be a proper affirmation, and then I gauge that against is this positive? Is this present tense? Am I owning this right now? And is it personal is it about me and what I can control? So I would start maybe I will start with, you know, this job’s too hard, or I can never run a 5k. And then, okay, that is not positive, because the word not is in there, you know, and so, changing, I could never run a 5k to I am a successful 5k. Runner, and then saying that and writing it down, because as you’re writing it, it’s you’re going to be saying it mentally, but what it does, it just feeds it into your subconscious mind. So when a challenge does come up, and that negative thought comes in, you have that databank store that will kind of help you snap into all the positives. So for me, it’s about writing it, I write it out, I have a journal that I carry with me at all times. Even have it right here with me always very close by. And I can open that and find, you know, the affirmation that I wrote this morning or last night.
Richard Conner
Wonderful, wonderful. So you write it into existence? Yes, that is awesome. Well, I’ll definitely have to pick it back up. Again, like I said, getting up early in the morning and doing it. And then also in the evening, I think I would speak it in the morning and write it in the evening is what I was doing. But I have to get back into that habit. But it felt right when I was doing it. Yeah. Very cool. So you know, I’m happy that you mentioned about someone thinking or having those thoughts. If they’re not a runner, maybe they want to run or maybe they want to do something different. And they’re with their health and fitness and running is really a nice opportunity to do so. So whether it’s running or cycling, or whatever the fitness is you, someone may not think that they could do it. So I’d love to talk about kind of your experience, and it doesn’t have to be specific to running. But you are a successful entrepreneur, you’re busy work, you’re busy at home, and you still find time to do all these things related to fitness. And, you know, I’d really love for you to share with our listeners, just kind of how do you approach that? And how, how do you find the time? How do you have the right mindset and you know, some of the things that you’re actually doing there?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah. So we have this famous saying that we’ve learned in organization that says if it’s not in your schedule, it doesn’t exist. So if for some reason, running is important, journaling and affirmation is important. It has to show up in our schedule somewhere that is literally time blocked in the schedule or else it’s just idea. It really doesn’t exist. So So that’s number one for me, if it’s important to me, I’m going to find a way to put it in my schedule. The other thing is, I talked about surrounding yourself with positive people I find that I am most successful, especially In business, but also even in my fitness journey, when I do it with others, because it’s that extra layer of accountability. It’s I’m a people person. And sometimes, you know, not always the best philosophy, but we tend to show up better for others sometimes than we do for ourselves. So that’s something that has really helped me in both business and personal is always surrounding myself and doing things with other people, because I just show up differently. And then the other thing is, when we’re looking at your schedule, it’s one of it’s under your schedule, it doesn’t exist, but also does my calendar, match my goals, someone that I look up to, as a mentor says, you can look at anyone’s calendar, and you could potentially tell the type of lifestyle they lead, you can also tell probably how much money they make by looking at what they’re where they’re investing their time. So I think calendaring it and setting a goal, but then having your schedule in your calendar reflect that goal has been important on my journey, and that I teach others.
Richard Conner
So true, so true. And then what if you have a lifestyle that is just a little fluid, meaning your work hours are non standard, so you kind of have to be flexible? They’re like, how do you manage that, do you? Because I could just imagine if someone puts something on their calendar, and then something happens at work or with the family, that, hey, I missed it. So maybe I’m just not going to do it. How do you build in that flexibility as kind of, you know, life gets in the way.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Sure. And it’s called erased and replace. So great. Family is important. And I get that. So family is important. And spending time with family or being there for family that should also be in your calendar. And we know I’ve happened so you might have family time blocks in the evening, and your workout time blocked in the morning, but for some reason that day your family needed you in in the morning, that’s when you get to play that eraser replace game, okay, great, I’m going to do that I’m going to swap that with the block that I had this evening. And now I’m going to replace and put my work on time this evening, I’m going to be there for my family. So a lot of times people don’t block family things or we, you know, it’s, it’s interesting to me that if that’s important, and if you have goals around your family, those needs to show up in your calendar too. And when you live by that Keller and some people think that if I live by a calendar, and everything’s on there, like that’s a little bit stifling. I actually think that it creates a discipline that then creates some freedom for you. So because it’s freedom of the thoughts, you know, where you should be How appropriate, you need to be acting in that moment, what you need to be doing at this specific time that then leads you to because remember, you’re building the schedule, based on your goals. So that discipline does create the freedom and allows you to have that feeling of accomplishment when those goals show up on the other side.
Richard Conner
That’s really great advice. And I probably need to be a lot more intentional about that I use the calendar for a lot of things, but not as much for family. So that that’s a really good point there. And, you know, interestingly enough, it used to actually create friction at home with all of my calendar events, because I’m off doing work, or I’m off doing volunteering, or I’m traveling so. So I’m realizing that maybe some of the friction was there wasn’t as much family right in there. So all we’re getting is all I’m sending off, or all the work or the volunteer that my personal activities. So that’s really interesting. I’ll have to add that to kind of the way I schedule things. Yeah, yeah. Perfect, perfect. So that so thank you for sharing that. Wonderful, wonderful tips for someone who’s busy, who that may be a barrier for them in terms of, I’m too busy to work out or I just don’t have time I have a family I’ve this I’ve that. But having on the calendar and really kind of being able to adjust and be flexible. I think that’s really great advice. And as you call it, erase and replace, erase and replace, you have so many wonderful sayings, I’m gonna write all of these down.
Amina Blake-Foreman
The only way you can erase them to replace them play that fun game is you have to have it has to exist for us to be able to race and replace. So it starts with blocking it in and then kind of playing a little bit of chess with pieces.
Richard Conner
Perfect, perfect. So So let’s switch gears a little bit and talk about movement and talk about how do you get moving like what what excites you in terms of fitness? What Where do you feel like really accomplished and yeah, tell us a little bit about that.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah. So first I have to talk about hiking because you know, that’s that’s my favorite. Because to me, it’s it’s it’s just that feeling of getting to the top and I do hike where you can actually get to a point where some of my favorite trails are the ones that we can get to the top and just kind of sit there for a moment and take it in. So hiking is definitely one of my favorites for movement. So most outdoor activity It doesn’t take too much inspiring for me to get moving with that. But you know, when the winter months comes around the things like that, I have to work a little harder at it, because hiking is just easier for me to do. And being out there, cycling is easier to be out there. That’s when I really lean heavily into the peer groups and the peer accountability. And I actually have a group chat, we are group chat, Beast Mode, shout outs, any beast mode, people that are listening to this, we have our beast mode, we’ve been going for three years strong, because we actually started before the pandemic. And it was just a way of accountability for doing we have a very low standard of just 30 minutes of movement, per day. And it’s like you check in and if for some reason, a beastmode member haven’t checked in, in a couple of days, where it’s sometimes it gets a little intense with, with the trash talking, and so forth. So, but it just surrounding yourself with people that have similar goals that will hold you accountable, and that let you hide, those are the things that really keep me moving. And I know sometimes if I miss a day, and I don’t get moving, and I see everybody else posting their movement activity, I’m like, I mean, you’ve got to get it, you got to get it because you know, if you don’t put make a post tomorrow, they’re gonna be on you. So I really think a community around it has helped me a lot. So doing the things I love. And, and then the other thing is making for me making the workout because I’m not the like, most like fit gym rat, like gotta get going type of a person. I know, it’s important for my health. So I’m prioritizing it for that reason, too. And, and thinking of my loved ones and wanting to be around for a long time to be there for them, you know, but for some reason, I think having that community or making that workout experience something that’s fun for you. And one of the things I really enjoy outside of work is music. So some of the things that I would do sometimes at night, I will create a really awesome playlists of music that I love and realizing and timing out and make sure okay, it’s 45 minutes, it’s an hour. And I’m excited sometimes to do my exercise, not because I’m excited about the exercise, but because I’m excited about the playlist. So I have all these little tricks that I do, surrounding myself with people being outside get into that place, I feel like that sense of accomplishment that day, I may not have gotten to my my ideal weight or my ideal fitness goal that day, but just feeling that sense of accomplishment that day. That’s why hiking is definitely my favorite. Those are some of the things that really helped me with movement.
Richard Conner
I love that. Thank you, Mina, for sharing that and just kind of thinking through a lot of the things you’re saying about. Let’s start with hiking. So you and my coach would get along very well. He’s He’s always hiking and he’s encouraging me to hike up to the and Iran DAX, which I think I promised maybe about a year ago and haven’t kept that promise yet. So yeah, that’s still on the list to do. But you do get along great. But that’s really great that that’s one of your favorite forms of movement. And you know, you’re you’re getting active, you’re getting outside, which is good for you and something we don’t do enough. It’s something we haven’t been doing as much over the last couple years. So all that’s wonderful. And, you know, I have a few questions for you about the accountability group, because this is truly important to have people keep you accountable. So if no one’s watching you, and maybe I can skip a workout, right? No one’s really going to notice and it’s my choice, but if someone’s watching you and they’re going to kind of call you out on it that could be motivation in itself to kind of keep going so that’s really wonderful. So is it 30 minutes every day? Like if someone doesn’t see someone else check in I don’t know do you have like accountability buddies where folks like I’m paired with somebody and I just make sure that each we each other but everybody just looks out for everybody? How does that work? Everyone
Amina Blake-Foreman
looks at for everyone there’s only six of us in the groups. And if you miss a day they don’t get on you for that because we know why happens but by second and third day that’s when the trash talk starts coming out and all that stuff so it really allows you to not slip too far.
Richard Conner
Got it? And then how do you is everybody required to I would say declare their goals their fitness goals is that like where you start doing so they know this is what I mean is looking to do so I’m gonna make sure she stays on track.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yes, we declare on goals and then in between because this has been going for a while now like they just ended a challenge. Someone said you know what, hold me accountable for 30 minutes a day and I think it was so many less adult beverages and they had like this. And for every time they did not meet the goal, they were putting $50 in a pot. It was his own personal challenge but whoever showed up and hit their goals got the money. So they we just create these random things, whatever just keeping it fun and interesting. And, you know, and then have one time one person who was like, you know, missing a lot of days when the money came in, she wasn’t on the on the giving end, she was on the receiving end, she was definitely motivated by that money pot. And we’re like, wow, she’s on the leaderboard. And so, we do all sorts of fun challenges. And it’s, you know, it’s not static, we just, we just keep it light, keep it fun, and, you know, keep motivating each other.
Richard Conner
Oh, that’s really wonderful. That’s great. So, you know, let’s talk a little bit more about that kind of on the well, we’ll finish let’s finish up with the movement piece. And then I want to talk about motivation, because you touched on a little bit. So for the movement piece, I heard hiking, I heard cycling, what else is in there,
Amina Blake-Foreman
Zumba. I love Zumba. I’ve done a lot. I actually started with. I started with Zumba, then went through the pandemic, there was a lot of online Zumba sessions. But because of my love for music, it’s a great match for me. So that’s why I think some people have like a vision of what movement should look like for them. But make sure it aligns with the things that’s fun for you too, because that’s when you’ll actually be more consistent with it. So So Zumba classes are great. I love that. I don’t know if we’re supposed to say certain brands, but I do have my cycling bike that everyone prays. I have my special instructors on there that play the type of music that I love that I follow. So I really work to create a little bit of an experience for myself with it, because it’s just not something like I would rather work than work out because of how high my motivation is on the business and entrepreneurial side of things. So I have to work a little harder on the workout side of things and make it fun making inspiring make it something that aligns with what I’m interested in so that I can be more consistent.
Richard Conner
Yeah, and it’s really interesting, what you mentioned about, you know, finding something that’s fun, because obviously on a running podcast, we mostly talk about running, but it’s really about you know what you can get into what you enjoy, because if you don’t enjoy it, then yeah, for sure, it doesn’t make sense to do it. And, you know, thinking about running, we tried to get folks to a point where they gave it a good try, right? After 30 days or 60 days, and you did that couch to 5k. And at the end and you did your first 5k. And at the end of the end of it, you’re like, No, this isn’t for me, you know, that’s fine, I’m gonna go cycling, I’m gonna go hiking, I’m gonna do Zumba. Like, all of that is great, but being able to inspire others to really kind of prioritize their health and fitness, and take up something that’s going to help them to help them do that and keep moving.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah, no, I agree. And it’s, you know, it’s a goal of mine, it’s on my vision board to be able to run a marathon someday, I’m not there yet. And that’s fine. I enjoy being a guest on this. So maybe my next time I come on is to tell you all about my experience in running a marathon. But the way I envision myself going through and creating the plan around that is similar to how I’ve even started a fitness journey, I’m gonna have to find the who’s I’m gonna have to surround myself with some people, right, you being one of them, of course, which is like surrounding myself with the people making sure it’s fun making sure that I have the playlists for when I go out running, making sure that I’m doing it in a way that there’s a community or there’s a challenge. So it no matter what it is, once you set the goal, the purpose of the goal is to create the plan, we can now create a plan that would allow us to get there in a way that’s authentic in a way that motivates us and is a way that you know is fun for me because fun and happiness is a big part of my world.
Richard Conner
That’s really wonderful. Let’s talk about the marathon for a moment. brought that up. So glad you brought that up. So I must make a confession. And if you know the listeners listening, you’ve been with us for a while they know my story. So I am sort of a long distance runner, but not really that long. So five K’s 10 k’s and just over the last two or so years, half marathons. And I’ve really been thinking about doing my first marathon, potentially in 2024. So not 2023 I have my my own goals for 2023 already set but for 24. I don’t know I’m thinking maybe a full marathon is in the cards, and kind of like what you were talking about making it fun and exciting. I want to if I do a marathon, I want to pick one that’s going to be fun and exciting for me. So over the last few weeks, I’ve seen a lot of my you know running friends and folks I follow online have done the New York City Marathon and I’m like, huh, relatives relatively local, a lot of fun. One of the most famous marathons in the world, you know, there’s a lot of others of course, but if I do one that might be either one I do and 24
Amina Blake-Foreman
Hey, you’re gonna be very close to where I am today. So that would be fun. And hey, I, I truly believe that you can be anywhere you choose to be in five years. So, you know, I know that my life today does not look anything like it looked five years ago, you know? So I am putting Mark I even have on one of my someday goals. I don’t know the timeline on that. One is to be able to do an Ironman. Like, why not? Because if we don’t have these big goals, we’ll never take the actions eventually get there?
Richard Conner
For sure, for sure. Do you think having those big goals could scare somebody away? Or like how do you think about this is my big goal. But here are the small milestones and I need to work on to kind of get there. How do you think about that?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah, we have learned a technique called goal setting to the now. So you start with that big someday goal. Like, it’s so big that it might not even happen sometimes in your lifetime. And then you go to five years, and you ask yourself a question like, What do I really need to accomplish in five years, that it will put me on track to eventually accomplish that someday goals? If someday for me is running an Ironman? Like, what do I need to accomplish in five years, maybe my five year goal would be to run a marathon? Great. So if I want to run a marathon in five years, what would I need to do or accomplish in one year, in order to put me on track to be able to run a marathon in five years, which will put me on track to be able to do an Ironman someday? Okay, well, maybe I will need to run a couple of five K’s crate. So now I go to my calendar. And I figure out how I can maybe get, you know, 565 K’s done this in the next year. Right? And then you ask this question itself a question. Okay, maybe my first 5k is coming up in February. Well, what do I need to do this month, that will put me on track to be able to run my first 5k In February, which will put me on track to be able to do marathon in five years, which will put me on track to be able to do an Ironman some days. So you see how you take that big goal, and then you chunk it down all the way to? Well, what do I need to accomplish today, that will put me on track to be able to do what I need to do in a month and you go backwards, and that today might be doing 30 minutes on a treadmill. So you went all the way from an Ironman in some day to 30 minutes on a treadmill today, which might mean 40 minutes tomorrow, and then you keep chunking up. So you chunk it down, then to go up.
Richard Conner
That’s so wonderful. You are educating me today. So now I need to start thinking about what is my goal for 2024? How do I kind of backtrack to today? And what do I need to do between now and then? I don’t know this, this New York City Marathon is becoming more real by the moment. I love it. Oh, that’d be wonderful. That’d be wonderful. I mean, this conversation has been so much fun. This is so wonderful. You know, some of one of the questions that I ask all of my guests on the show is, what is the one thing you would say to inspire our listeners to run or to prioritize their health and fitness?
Amina Blake-Foreman
This is so easy. Now it’s making me think what, what immediately came to my mouth is prioritize living in the moment and your happiness. And if you focus on showing up as the best version of yourself. And if you really focus on having that positive mindset, using happiness to your advantage, looking at your cup half full versus half empty, you get the mindset, right. And when you get the mindset, right, we know that’s 95% of the journey. So really focus on living in the moment, living without regrets really showing up as the best version of yourself today, and then I think the rest is becomes easy.
Richard Conner
That is so wonderful. You shared so much with us. You’ve educated us, you’ve inspired us, what can the Inspire to run community do for you? Oh, it’s important to you.
Amina Blake-Foreman
I would say you know, I always like to give before ever even thinking of asking, but I would say you know, health is part of wealth. And we know that money is good for the good that I can do. And I’m super passionate about helping people my life mission is to help as many people possible live a better quality life and I do a lot of that through real estate and helping people build wealth through real estate because it allows you the ability to have passive income to build generational wealth and If you know anyone along that journey that we can help we could support and help them build wealth for themselves or their family, buy, sell invest, then let us know. And we’d love to be part of that journey. And with you or with someone that you know,
Richard Conner
perfect, perfect. How can our listeners find you and follow your journey online?
Amina Blake-Foreman
You can find me on my fanpage. It’s my name, Amina Blake Foreman type of data between Blake and foreman. I am at my friend, Matt. So you just hit follow on my page, and then we can interact. And I would, that’s the easiest way to communicate with me. And I look forward to seeing many of you send in requests and start communicating with me on that platform.
Richard Conner
Wonderful. Thank you so much. I mean, so we’ll have that information in the show notes to make it easy for listeners to find and follow you online. I mean, uh, thanks again for coming on the show, sharing your wisdom and inspiring us all. I really, really appreciate it.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Thank you, Richard. Thank you for having me. And I’m looking forward to seeing you run that New York City Marathon.
Richard Conner
I’ll be there. All right, I mean, thanks again and have a great day.
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Welcome to Episode 58. Do you feel stuck and not able to start your fitness journey? Stay consistent or just get out of a rut? If so, this episode is for you. As I speak with entrepreneur, real estate investor and consultant, Amina Blake foreman, and she shares with us valuable insights and actionable tips to help you get on the road to the life that you want and deserve. Hope you enjoy.
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Welcome to Inspire to run podcast. Here you will find inspiration. Whether you’re looking to take control of your health and fitness or you’re a seasoned runner, looking for community and some extra motivation. You will hear inspiring stories from amazing runners, along with helpful tips from fitness experts now here’s your host Richard Conner.
Richard Conner
Hi, everyone, welcome to inspire to run Podcast. I’m so excited about my guest today. Amina Blake Forman. She’s a good friend of mine and a consultant affiliated with Keller Williams. She’s a real estate investor, entrepreneur, wife, mom, and just all around really great person to know. So Amina, welcome to the show.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Thank you. Thank you so much for having me really excited.
Richard Conner
Yes. So excited to have you here. You know, we’re going to talk a lot about what you’re doing in fitness. And I know you talk a lot about the 5am Club, and just the wonderful work you’re doing there amongst everything else you’re doing. But you know, let’s just get the conversation started and and just learn a little bit more about you and what you do.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Okay, sounds great. So, as you said, first and foremost, I say, I’m a mom, that a wife, I hope my husband doesn’t listen to this podcast. I’m also just a serial entrepreneur, you know, I had my own business from seven years old, I started off selling local spices and was born and raised in the beautiful island of Trinidad and Tobago. And that’s when the bug business hit me. And that just translated into when my real estate career got launched, I was 16 years old and relocated to the United States. And it gave me the opportunity to dive further into my love for business and entrepreneurship. So I’m really excited about the journey have been on and now that I’m able to take all of that knowledge and experience and good fortune as well, because I’ve had some great mentors along the way and use it to help and inspire others.
Richard Conner
That’s really awesome. And just for our listeners, I mean, I met, gosh, it’s been 10 years or so now. And it’s been wonderful just to kind of keep in touch over the years and follow you and follow your journey and your success with all of your different ventures. So just really, congratulations.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Thank you, thank you. And I don’t take all the credit. It’s really about surrounding yourself with people, you know, Jim Rohn said, You’re the average of the top five people you surround yourself with. And I think I’ve taken that to heart.
Richard Conner
Yeah. And, you know, I love that you said that because on the podcast, we focus on three pillars around mindset, movement and motivation. And that is one thing that I really admire about you is your mindset. So, you know, can you talk a little bit more about that, you know, especially as you’re kind of going through business, like, how do you approach the work that you do? And how do you stay motivated? And how you how do you always look to take yourself and your business to the next level?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah, really, the main pillar for me is The Happiness Advantage, you know, really finding joy, finding the good looking at my cup half full versus half empty, always, you know, doing the things spending the time with the people that recharge me taking time, to always give myself a little bit of a pulse check on my mental space, I believe in things like daily affirmations, you know, I not only believe in it and do it for myself, but I make it a huge part of the people that I lead as well. So mental fitness, to me is really, really important. We actually have done mental fitness diets and exercises just for a mental fitness. And because they said that you really can control your first thought. But you can control every other thought that comes after that. So what we’ve trained ourselves to do is to always be conscious of what’s happening in between these two ears, because sometimes you get that negative thought and you might think you can’t do something and that’s okay. However, if we catch ourselves and we use like a little bracelet that will snap to kind of do a pattern interrupt, then you can do the next and see well, what if I can? What would my life need to look like in order for me to be able to do that? So always being aware of our thoughts and spending time, you know, and figuring out what are the things that recharge you and get you into a positive mindset. It might be music, it might be exercise, it might be hanging out with friends, it might be reading a book going on vacation, there’s so many great things, but really being in tune with that and it’s something that I’ve spent a lot of time investing in learning about and truly take because I believe that you know your mindset and is 95% of your success?
Richard Conner
Yes, very, very true. I don’t know how the saying goes I like to. I like to sit mentioned sayings, but I’m not sure I always get them right. But it’s something about thoughts leads to words and words lead to action. And yeah, so definitely starts with, you know how you’re thinking and having those positive thoughts versus negative thoughts?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Oh, I love that one. It’s um, I use an acronym for it. It’s called point far, PT far. Okay, so the starts with P is your programming, right? So things from your history, your past your upbringing, so your programming leads to your thoughts to t, then your thoughts lead to your feelings, the app you’re feeling leads to your actions, and then your actions lead to the result, which now burns a new hardwiring and a new programming. So it goes back into a circle back to your new programming, then your thoughts, feelings, actions, results.
Richard Conner
That’s wonderful. That was far better than what I came up with. So thank you for sharing that. That’s super great. And, you know, one of the other things that you mentioned around the daily affirmations, and this is something that I try, but admittedly, I haven’t been able to keep this habit, but when I was doing it, it felt right. And you know, there was there’s, I guess, different philosophies about what to do. But you have the spoken affirmations, whether it’s certain times of the day, and then you have the written affirmations, and there’s some science there behind being able to having it really kind of sink in, right, if you write it down, you have better memory of whatever your affirmation is. So what do you do? Or what do you believe in versus spoken versus written and the types of affirmations?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah, I do only written. And I think, you know, they say that when you write something, it goes from your head through your heart, and then two hands. So that’s, you know, for me, the written one, and I do, obviously, the rules of the affirmation, it has to be the three P’s positive, present tense, and personal. And depending on what I’m going through, I would just sometimes start with the thought that I have, which may not be a proper affirmation, and then I gauge that against is this positive? Is this present tense? Am I owning this right now? And is it personal is it about me and what I can control? So I would start maybe I will start with, you know, this job’s too hard, or I can never run a 5k. And then, okay, that is not positive, because the word not is in there, you know, and so, changing, I could never run a 5k to I am a successful 5k. Runner, and then saying that and writing it down, because as you’re writing it, it’s you’re going to be saying it mentally, but what it does, it just feeds it into your subconscious mind. So when a challenge does come up, and that negative thought comes in, you have that databank store that will kind of help you snap into all the positives. So for me, it’s about writing it, I write it out, I have a journal that I carry with me at all times. Even have it right here with me always very close by. And I can open that and find, you know, the affirmation that I wrote this morning or last night.
Richard Conner
Wonderful, wonderful. So you write it into existence? Yes, that is awesome. Well, I’ll definitely have to pick it back up. Again, like I said, getting up early in the morning and doing it. And then also in the evening, I think I would speak it in the morning and write it in the evening is what I was doing. But I have to get back into that habit. But it felt right when I was doing it. Yeah. Very cool. So you know, I’m happy that you mentioned about someone thinking or having those thoughts. If they’re not a runner, maybe they want to run or maybe they want to do something different. And they’re with their health and fitness and running is really a nice opportunity to do so. So whether it’s running or cycling, or whatever the fitness is you, someone may not think that they could do it. So I’d love to talk about kind of your experience, and it doesn’t have to be specific to running. But you are a successful entrepreneur, you’re busy work, you’re busy at home, and you still find time to do all these things related to fitness. And, you know, I’d really love for you to share with our listeners, just kind of how do you approach that? And how, how do you find the time? How do you have the right mindset and you know, some of the things that you’re actually doing there?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah. So we have this famous saying that we’ve learned in organization that says if it’s not in your schedule, it doesn’t exist. So if for some reason, running is important, journaling and affirmation is important. It has to show up in our schedule somewhere that is literally time blocked in the schedule or else it’s just idea. It really doesn’t exist. So So that’s number one for me, if it’s important to me, I’m going to find a way to put it in my schedule. The other thing is, I talked about surrounding yourself with positive people I find that I am most successful, especially In business, but also even in my fitness journey, when I do it with others, because it’s that extra layer of accountability. It’s I’m a people person. And sometimes, you know, not always the best philosophy, but we tend to show up better for others sometimes than we do for ourselves. So that’s something that has really helped me in both business and personal is always surrounding myself and doing things with other people, because I just show up differently. And then the other thing is, when we’re looking at your schedule, it’s one of it’s under your schedule, it doesn’t exist, but also does my calendar, match my goals, someone that I look up to, as a mentor says, you can look at anyone’s calendar, and you could potentially tell the type of lifestyle they lead, you can also tell probably how much money they make by looking at what they’re where they’re investing their time. So I think calendaring it and setting a goal, but then having your schedule in your calendar reflect that goal has been important on my journey, and that I teach others.
Richard Conner
So true, so true. And then what if you have a lifestyle that is just a little fluid, meaning your work hours are non standard, so you kind of have to be flexible? They’re like, how do you manage that, do you? Because I could just imagine if someone puts something on their calendar, and then something happens at work or with the family, that, hey, I missed it. So maybe I’m just not going to do it. How do you build in that flexibility as kind of, you know, life gets in the way.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Sure. And it’s called erased and replace. So great. Family is important. And I get that. So family is important. And spending time with family or being there for family that should also be in your calendar. And we know I’ve happened so you might have family time blocks in the evening, and your workout time blocked in the morning, but for some reason that day your family needed you in in the morning, that’s when you get to play that eraser replace game, okay, great, I’m going to do that I’m going to swap that with the block that I had this evening. And now I’m going to replace and put my work on time this evening, I’m going to be there for my family. So a lot of times people don’t block family things or we, you know, it’s, it’s interesting to me that if that’s important, and if you have goals around your family, those needs to show up in your calendar too. And when you live by that Keller and some people think that if I live by a calendar, and everything’s on there, like that’s a little bit stifling. I actually think that it creates a discipline that then creates some freedom for you. So because it’s freedom of the thoughts, you know, where you should be How appropriate, you need to be acting in that moment, what you need to be doing at this specific time that then leads you to because remember, you’re building the schedule, based on your goals. So that discipline does create the freedom and allows you to have that feeling of accomplishment when those goals show up on the other side.
Richard Conner
That’s really great advice. And I probably need to be a lot more intentional about that I use the calendar for a lot of things, but not as much for family. So that that’s a really good point there. And, you know, interestingly enough, it used to actually create friction at home with all of my calendar events, because I’m off doing work, or I’m off doing volunteering, or I’m traveling so. So I’m realizing that maybe some of the friction was there wasn’t as much family right in there. So all we’re getting is all I’m sending off, or all the work or the volunteer that my personal activities. So that’s really interesting. I’ll have to add that to kind of the way I schedule things. Yeah, yeah. Perfect, perfect. So that so thank you for sharing that. Wonderful, wonderful tips for someone who’s busy, who that may be a barrier for them in terms of, I’m too busy to work out or I just don’t have time I have a family I’ve this I’ve that. But having on the calendar and really kind of being able to adjust and be flexible. I think that’s really great advice. And as you call it, erase and replace, erase and replace, you have so many wonderful sayings, I’m gonna write all of these down.
Amina Blake-Foreman
The only way you can erase them to replace them play that fun game is you have to have it has to exist for us to be able to race and replace. So it starts with blocking it in and then kind of playing a little bit of chess with pieces.
Richard Conner
Perfect, perfect. So So let’s switch gears a little bit and talk about movement and talk about how do you get moving like what what excites you in terms of fitness? What Where do you feel like really accomplished and yeah, tell us a little bit about that.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah. So first I have to talk about hiking because you know, that’s that’s my favorite. Because to me, it’s it’s it’s just that feeling of getting to the top and I do hike where you can actually get to a point where some of my favorite trails are the ones that we can get to the top and just kind of sit there for a moment and take it in. So hiking is definitely one of my favorites for movement. So most outdoor activity It doesn’t take too much inspiring for me to get moving with that. But you know, when the winter months comes around the things like that, I have to work a little harder at it, because hiking is just easier for me to do. And being out there, cycling is easier to be out there. That’s when I really lean heavily into the peer groups and the peer accountability. And I actually have a group chat, we are group chat, Beast Mode, shout outs, any beast mode, people that are listening to this, we have our beast mode, we’ve been going for three years strong, because we actually started before the pandemic. And it was just a way of accountability for doing we have a very low standard of just 30 minutes of movement, per day. And it’s like you check in and if for some reason, a beastmode member haven’t checked in, in a couple of days, where it’s sometimes it gets a little intense with, with the trash talking, and so forth. So, but it just surrounding yourself with people that have similar goals that will hold you accountable, and that let you hide, those are the things that really keep me moving. And I know sometimes if I miss a day, and I don’t get moving, and I see everybody else posting their movement activity, I’m like, I mean, you’ve got to get it, you got to get it because you know, if you don’t put make a post tomorrow, they’re gonna be on you. So I really think a community around it has helped me a lot. So doing the things I love. And, and then the other thing is making for me making the workout because I’m not the like, most like fit gym rat, like gotta get going type of a person. I know, it’s important for my health. So I’m prioritizing it for that reason, too. And, and thinking of my loved ones and wanting to be around for a long time to be there for them, you know, but for some reason, I think having that community or making that workout experience something that’s fun for you. And one of the things I really enjoy outside of work is music. So some of the things that I would do sometimes at night, I will create a really awesome playlists of music that I love and realizing and timing out and make sure okay, it’s 45 minutes, it’s an hour. And I’m excited sometimes to do my exercise, not because I’m excited about the exercise, but because I’m excited about the playlist. So I have all these little tricks that I do, surrounding myself with people being outside get into that place, I feel like that sense of accomplishment that day, I may not have gotten to my my ideal weight or my ideal fitness goal that day, but just feeling that sense of accomplishment that day. That’s why hiking is definitely my favorite. Those are some of the things that really helped me with movement.
Richard Conner
I love that. Thank you, Mina, for sharing that and just kind of thinking through a lot of the things you’re saying about. Let’s start with hiking. So you and my coach would get along very well. He’s He’s always hiking and he’s encouraging me to hike up to the and Iran DAX, which I think I promised maybe about a year ago and haven’t kept that promise yet. So yeah, that’s still on the list to do. But you do get along great. But that’s really great that that’s one of your favorite forms of movement. And you know, you’re you’re getting active, you’re getting outside, which is good for you and something we don’t do enough. It’s something we haven’t been doing as much over the last couple years. So all that’s wonderful. And, you know, I have a few questions for you about the accountability group, because this is truly important to have people keep you accountable. So if no one’s watching you, and maybe I can skip a workout, right? No one’s really going to notice and it’s my choice, but if someone’s watching you and they’re going to kind of call you out on it that could be motivation in itself to kind of keep going so that’s really wonderful. So is it 30 minutes every day? Like if someone doesn’t see someone else check in I don’t know do you have like accountability buddies where folks like I’m paired with somebody and I just make sure that each we each other but everybody just looks out for everybody? How does that work? Everyone
Amina Blake-Foreman
looks at for everyone there’s only six of us in the groups. And if you miss a day they don’t get on you for that because we know why happens but by second and third day that’s when the trash talk starts coming out and all that stuff so it really allows you to not slip too far.
Richard Conner
Got it? And then how do you is everybody required to I would say declare their goals their fitness goals is that like where you start doing so they know this is what I mean is looking to do so I’m gonna make sure she stays on track.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yes, we declare on goals and then in between because this has been going for a while now like they just ended a challenge. Someone said you know what, hold me accountable for 30 minutes a day and I think it was so many less adult beverages and they had like this. And for every time they did not meet the goal, they were putting $50 in a pot. It was his own personal challenge but whoever showed up and hit their goals got the money. So they we just create these random things, whatever just keeping it fun and interesting. And, you know, and then have one time one person who was like, you know, missing a lot of days when the money came in, she wasn’t on the on the giving end, she was on the receiving end, she was definitely motivated by that money pot. And we’re like, wow, she’s on the leaderboard. And so, we do all sorts of fun challenges. And it’s, you know, it’s not static, we just, we just keep it light, keep it fun, and, you know, keep motivating each other.
Richard Conner
Oh, that’s really wonderful. That’s great. So, you know, let’s talk a little bit more about that kind of on the well, we’ll finish let’s finish up with the movement piece. And then I want to talk about motivation, because you touched on a little bit. So for the movement piece, I heard hiking, I heard cycling, what else is in there,
Amina Blake-Foreman
Zumba. I love Zumba. I’ve done a lot. I actually started with. I started with Zumba, then went through the pandemic, there was a lot of online Zumba sessions. But because of my love for music, it’s a great match for me. So that’s why I think some people have like a vision of what movement should look like for them. But make sure it aligns with the things that’s fun for you too, because that’s when you’ll actually be more consistent with it. So So Zumba classes are great. I love that. I don’t know if we’re supposed to say certain brands, but I do have my cycling bike that everyone prays. I have my special instructors on there that play the type of music that I love that I follow. So I really work to create a little bit of an experience for myself with it, because it’s just not something like I would rather work than work out because of how high my motivation is on the business and entrepreneurial side of things. So I have to work a little harder on the workout side of things and make it fun making inspiring make it something that aligns with what I’m interested in so that I can be more consistent.
Richard Conner
Yeah, and it’s really interesting, what you mentioned about, you know, finding something that’s fun, because obviously on a running podcast, we mostly talk about running, but it’s really about you know what you can get into what you enjoy, because if you don’t enjoy it, then yeah, for sure, it doesn’t make sense to do it. And, you know, thinking about running, we tried to get folks to a point where they gave it a good try, right? After 30 days or 60 days, and you did that couch to 5k. And at the end and you did your first 5k. And at the end of the end of it, you’re like, No, this isn’t for me, you know, that’s fine, I’m gonna go cycling, I’m gonna go hiking, I’m gonna do Zumba. Like, all of that is great, but being able to inspire others to really kind of prioritize their health and fitness, and take up something that’s going to help them to help them do that and keep moving.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah, no, I agree. And it’s, you know, it’s a goal of mine, it’s on my vision board to be able to run a marathon someday, I’m not there yet. And that’s fine. I enjoy being a guest on this. So maybe my next time I come on is to tell you all about my experience in running a marathon. But the way I envision myself going through and creating the plan around that is similar to how I’ve even started a fitness journey, I’m gonna have to find the who’s I’m gonna have to surround myself with some people, right, you being one of them, of course, which is like surrounding myself with the people making sure it’s fun making sure that I have the playlists for when I go out running, making sure that I’m doing it in a way that there’s a community or there’s a challenge. So it no matter what it is, once you set the goal, the purpose of the goal is to create the plan, we can now create a plan that would allow us to get there in a way that’s authentic in a way that motivates us and is a way that you know is fun for me because fun and happiness is a big part of my world.
Richard Conner
That’s really wonderful. Let’s talk about the marathon for a moment. brought that up. So glad you brought that up. So I must make a confession. And if you know the listeners listening, you’ve been with us for a while they know my story. So I am sort of a long distance runner, but not really that long. So five K’s 10 k’s and just over the last two or so years, half marathons. And I’ve really been thinking about doing my first marathon, potentially in 2024. So not 2023 I have my my own goals for 2023 already set but for 24. I don’t know I’m thinking maybe a full marathon is in the cards, and kind of like what you were talking about making it fun and exciting. I want to if I do a marathon, I want to pick one that’s going to be fun and exciting for me. So over the last few weeks, I’ve seen a lot of my you know running friends and folks I follow online have done the New York City Marathon and I’m like, huh, relatives relatively local, a lot of fun. One of the most famous marathons in the world, you know, there’s a lot of others of course, but if I do one that might be either one I do and 24
Amina Blake-Foreman
Hey, you’re gonna be very close to where I am today. So that would be fun. And hey, I, I truly believe that you can be anywhere you choose to be in five years. So, you know, I know that my life today does not look anything like it looked five years ago, you know? So I am putting Mark I even have on one of my someday goals. I don’t know the timeline on that. One is to be able to do an Ironman. Like, why not? Because if we don’t have these big goals, we’ll never take the actions eventually get there?
Richard Conner
For sure, for sure. Do you think having those big goals could scare somebody away? Or like how do you think about this is my big goal. But here are the small milestones and I need to work on to kind of get there. How do you think about that?
Amina Blake-Foreman
Yeah, we have learned a technique called goal setting to the now. So you start with that big someday goal. Like, it’s so big that it might not even happen sometimes in your lifetime. And then you go to five years, and you ask yourself a question like, What do I really need to accomplish in five years, that it will put me on track to eventually accomplish that someday goals? If someday for me is running an Ironman? Like, what do I need to accomplish in five years, maybe my five year goal would be to run a marathon? Great. So if I want to run a marathon in five years, what would I need to do or accomplish in one year, in order to put me on track to be able to run a marathon in five years, which will put me on track to be able to do an Ironman someday? Okay, well, maybe I will need to run a couple of five K’s crate. So now I go to my calendar. And I figure out how I can maybe get, you know, 565 K’s done this in the next year. Right? And then you ask this question itself a question. Okay, maybe my first 5k is coming up in February. Well, what do I need to do this month, that will put me on track to be able to run my first 5k In February, which will put me on track to be able to do marathon in five years, which will put me on track to be able to do an Ironman some days. So you see how you take that big goal, and then you chunk it down all the way to? Well, what do I need to accomplish today, that will put me on track to be able to do what I need to do in a month and you go backwards, and that today might be doing 30 minutes on a treadmill. So you went all the way from an Ironman in some day to 30 minutes on a treadmill today, which might mean 40 minutes tomorrow, and then you keep chunking up. So you chunk it down, then to go up.
Richard Conner
That’s so wonderful. You are educating me today. So now I need to start thinking about what is my goal for 2024? How do I kind of backtrack to today? And what do I need to do between now and then? I don’t know this, this New York City Marathon is becoming more real by the moment. I love it. Oh, that’d be wonderful. That’d be wonderful. I mean, this conversation has been so much fun. This is so wonderful. You know, some of one of the questions that I ask all of my guests on the show is, what is the one thing you would say to inspire our listeners to run or to prioritize their health and fitness?
Amina Blake-Foreman
This is so easy. Now it’s making me think what, what immediately came to my mouth is prioritize living in the moment and your happiness. And if you focus on showing up as the best version of yourself. And if you really focus on having that positive mindset, using happiness to your advantage, looking at your cup half full versus half empty, you get the mindset, right. And when you get the mindset, right, we know that’s 95% of the journey. So really focus on living in the moment, living without regrets really showing up as the best version of yourself today, and then I think the rest is becomes easy.
Richard Conner
That is so wonderful. You shared so much with us. You’ve educated us, you’ve inspired us, what can the Inspire to run community do for you? Oh, it’s important to you.
Amina Blake-Foreman
I would say you know, I always like to give before ever even thinking of asking, but I would say you know, health is part of wealth. And we know that money is good for the good that I can do. And I’m super passionate about helping people my life mission is to help as many people possible live a better quality life and I do a lot of that through real estate and helping people build wealth through real estate because it allows you the ability to have passive income to build generational wealth and If you know anyone along that journey that we can help we could support and help them build wealth for themselves or their family, buy, sell invest, then let us know. And we’d love to be part of that journey. And with you or with someone that you know,
Richard Conner
perfect, perfect. How can our listeners find you and follow your journey online?
Amina Blake-Foreman
You can find me on my fanpage. It’s my name, Amina Blake Foreman type of data between Blake and foreman. I am at my friend, Matt. So you just hit follow on my page, and then we can interact. And I would, that’s the easiest way to communicate with me. And I look forward to seeing many of you send in requests and start communicating with me on that platform.
Richard Conner
Wonderful. Thank you so much. I mean, so we’ll have that information in the show notes to make it easy for listeners to find and follow you online. I mean, uh, thanks again for coming on the show, sharing your wisdom and inspiring us all. I really, really appreciate it.
Amina Blake-Foreman
Thank you, Richard. Thank you for having me. And I’m looking forward to seeing you run that New York City Marathon.
Richard Conner
I’ll be there. All right, I mean, thanks again and have a great day.
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