February 25, 2021

EP. 47 — Angela Manuel-Davis

International fitness evangelist and motivational coach Angela Manuel-Davis joins Jameela this week to discuss how the pandemic is empowering us all to grow, the idea of “not cheating on our future with our past”, how her experience not qualifying for the Olympics made her successful today, and how fitness isn’t about vanity, but about helping you be strong (both physically and mentally) in who you were made to be. Check out Angela’s on-demand fitness company Aarmy at aarmy.com 

Transcript

Jameela: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to another episode of I Weigh with Jameela Jamil. I hope you’re well. I have a great episode for you today. I thought we could all do with a motivational speaker. I thought considering that we are almost in March, which means it’s now a year of this bullshit that we could all do with a little just boost a reminder that everything might just be OK. And it’s something that I try and remind you of at the beginning of this podcast. But she’s much better at it than I am. I met her because I was dragged practically with a gun to my head to her her class. At the time, she was a cycling instructor at Soul Cycle. She is no longer doing that. She’s moved on and started her own company called AARMY, which she will tell you all about in this episode. But I mean, I. I hate I hate sweating and I hate moving. I hate getting out of bed. I hate moving my knees. I really particularly don’t love bicycle’s because I just don&#

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