Cara and Jill have a friendship that inspires me and a business that has helped empower hundreds of women through movement and mindset work. Their business, Movement Duets, started out as a joint venture between the two and their partners, but it became obvious quickly that it was Jill and Cara who were meant to grow it into its potential. After a few years online they opened a gym space in Salem, Oregon, and they join me today to have a candid conversation about some of the growing pains involved in building a business with a partner.
Resources and References
Cara’s favourite book: Sex at Dawn
Jill’s favourite book: The Stand
Time Stamps
0:45 Introduction to Jill and Cara
1:50 Reading from the Movement Duets Instagram page
4:00 How Jill and Cara collaborate on written pieces
5:35 The story of Movement Duets
8:10 Why exclusively online training wasn’t the right choice for Movement Duets
11:38 The Movement Duets gym space and vision
16:25 Real Talk – the first 6 months of gym ownership
21:08 The difference in the Movement Duets approach to weight loss
21:44 The issue with equating health to weight loss
22:30 Fitness and Feminism
25:44 The best part of working with a partner
29:30 Challenges of working with a partner
36:30 The novel way Cara and Jill have engaged early founders of their gym to network with and support each other
37:00 Because Amber is nosy
53:30 Some perspective on parenting from Quokkas
57:55 Cara tells us about her recent abdominoplasty
1:05:00 Up next for Movement Duets
1:08:30 Next week on Living Deliberately