Ep.76 - Ashley Borden: Celebrity training, empathy and recovery.

An A-list master trainer, author and lifestyle consultant, Ashley Borden has faced both personal and professional challenges in her life to overcome them all and forge an incredible entrepreneurial career for the benefit of others. From a teenager with eating disorders, she's recovered to push her clients with understanding and empathy. It's a list that's included Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, Reese Witherspoon, Rumer Willis, and she's also appeared on TV show Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian.  In this episode, we learn how it's never too late to create the best version of you.   Watch the full episode on YouTube    Ashley Borden grew up in fitness. Her mother owned health food stores, while her father owned sporting stores. Both parents were into fitness so Ashley grew up around movement and an understanding of wellbeing, but she was a dancer at heart.   She suffered with eating disorders in her teenage years – compulsive exercise, compulsive eating, anorexia, bulimia – and overcame them through treatment and a change of perspective.   Ashley wanted to learn how to move properly and be more athletic. After discovering how to do this, she felt the need to help others achieve the same understanding of how to have a good relationship with their own bodies. It didn't take long for her to create her career through doing what worked for her and clients she was instructing.   Ashley Borden is a fitness and lifestyle consultant for some of Hollywood's most famous faces, publications and television shows.   She's incredibly driven and goal focused. Ashley created her own space within the fitness industry, having overcome personal struggles and passed on this experience and these insights on to her clients.   With over 40,000 hours of personal training experience, Ashley is also a published author and has appeared on television programmes such as Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian. She has trained the likes of Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, Reese Witherspoon and more.   For more information visit ashleyborden.com   Episode highlights - Learning how conventional career paths don't have to be the only route to success. Ashley forged her own education through hiring and learning from others. The importance of removing any negative speak when referring to yourself or thinking about your body. How to ensure you keep your self respect when it comes to picking which clients to keep or which to stop working with, and how to avoid negativity. Why it's important to remove personal relationships with your clients to avoid any negative association through a lack of boundaries. When to know if something's too much to do on your own, and why you might have to hold off on potential plans instead of struggling to cope. Why following a fitness programme is so important and how strength training is so important to anyone wishing to achieve their goals. How to monetize opportunity by looking at the bigger picture as a platform, for things like television appearances or segments in other media outlets.     Join Matthew Januszek in conversation with Ashley Borden…

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