The Shift Toward More Freedom in Fitness with Loz Marie
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Fitness Education Online Podcast I For Personal Trainers, Fitness Professionals, Gym Owners & the Fitness Industry
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Hey guys, real quick, this week's special is 50% off our training older adults package, registered with OzActive for 22 CPDs. Link is in the show notes if you're interested. Hello everyone, welcome back to the Fitness Education Online Podcast. I'm your host, Bex, and today I'm joined by Loz Marie, a personal trainer of 15 years who now helps fitness professionals grow their income and create more flexibility by expanding beyond the traditional gym model. In this episode, we chat about career progression in the fitness industry. What opportunities exist for coaches who want more impact, more freedom, and more sustainability in their work. So I'm very excited for this chat. Welcome, Loz. How are you doing today?
Um great, thank you. Thank you so much for having me here today. Of course. No, it's very exciting. I'm excited to jump into it. But before we do, just let the listeners know, you know, who you are, a little bit about you and what you do.
Yeah, so I am Lauren Marie or Loz Marie, whichever one you want to call me. Uh Loz is the majority of people do call me Loz. Um and I am a mum of twins. Um they are now seven years old. Uh motherhood has been a very big journey for me and a big eye opener. Um definitely has changed the way I have viewed careers in general. Um, but I live in the southwest of Australia in a beautiful place around uh Margaret River region. Um, very blessed and grateful to be here. Um I now am back in gym work, so my um whole career within the fitness industry has been a little bit of a roller coaster, if I must say. Um, but I am back in the industry, which I absolutely love. It is my passion. Um I it's my happy place being in the gym, but I am only there for
Four hours, sometimes six hours a week if I'm filling in for sick leave. Um, but then I then spend the majority of my time with my kids at home. Um, and then I obviously have an online um platform and an online business that I run as well, which just gives me a little bit more flexibility and freedom of choice.
Amazing. Oh, it sounds so good. It's so cool that what you've built for yourself has obviously allowed you to have more of that flexibility and time with your family, which is so important and I think that's something that we're seeing just becomes so much more I guess important and needed and for lack of a better word, craved by so many people working in the fitness industry because I'm sure we'll go into your story around this shortly, but you know, there's so many PTs out there that are just absolutely grinding away in the gym, you know, spending most of their life in the gym and really missing out on that time, you know, with their family or being able to have more flexibility and more work life balance.
So it sounds like, yeah, the way that you've built um your career and your lifestyle and obviously, you know, all your experience in the industry has allowed you to do that, which is amazing. So yeah, excited to get into that a little bit more. And, you know, you mentioned you've been in the fitness industry for fifteen years, which is awesome. What did your early career as a PT look like? And what were some of those challenges you faced trying to make it sustainable long term?
Mm, this is such a good question and one that I reflect on all the time. Um, I actually wish that I chose this career after school. Um I'm actually from England and in England in year ten you could leave school. I school just was not for me. I just didn't want to be at school.
What inspired Loz Marie to transition from traditional gym work to a flexible online fitness business?
But in year twenty you could leave. Um and being female back then, I feel like I'm you know, I'm not even old, I'm in my um early thirties, but back then, as a female, you could only choose nursing or hairdressing. Um so I was like, Well, I'll choose hairdressing. So I kind of just fell into the hairdressing um path but it wasn't for me and it didn't light me up. I hated it. I actually really hated go going to work. Um so in two thousand and seven I started my career um in fitness and I qualified through WAFA which was WA um fitness um association in WA.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:20
2
What inspired Loz Marie to transition from traditional gym work to a flexible online fitness business?
3:20–13:35
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How did early career challenges shape Loz’s approach to sustainable coaching?
13:35–29:19
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What role does motherhood play in redefining a trainer’s work‑life balance?
29:19–35:44
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