Sometimes the people who know us best are the ones who end up on the podcast. Today I am joined by someone who has been in my professional and personal life for over a decade, and honestly, getting her in front of a microphone has taken far too long. Hayley Kyle is the founder of The HAPi PT, a women's health and fitness coach who left a stellar career in hospitality tech to do something she had always been passionate about: helping people feel stronger, healthier and happier. In this conversation, we trace Hayley's journey from growing up in her parents' hotel, where the guests always came first, through a decade of building and scaling hospitality SaaS businesses, to the pivot in her 40s that led her to retrain as a personal trainer and launch The HAPi PT. This one is full of honesty, warmth and some genuinely brilliant reminders that we are often the only thing standing in our own way. What we talk about We cover a lot of ground in this episode, including growing up in hospitality and what it taught Hayley about commitment and putting others first, her years as a competitive swimmer and the moment she stepped back from the Commonwealth Games trials, and what that lesson has followed her ever since. We also talk about her career journey from account manager to Customer Success Director and then Director of Value Creation, navigating a private equity acquisition and what happens when your values stop aligning with the business around you, the moment she decided to back herself and retrain, and why it still took six months even with financial security in place. We get into her philosophy of something over nothing and the 22 minute concept, and why tiny consistent actions compound into something remarkable over time. And we close on what it really means to invest in yourself, not just physically, but as a leader, a parent and a person. About Hayley Hayley Kyle is the founder of The HAPi PT, a women's health and fitness coach on a mission to simplify wellbeing in a world that often makes it far too complicated. After spending over 15 years building and leading successful businesses in hospitality technology, Hayley made a bold career pivot in her 40s to focus on something she had always been passionate about: helping people feel stronger, healthier and happier. A former competitive swimmer, mum of two and self-confessed believer in something over nothing, Hayley specialises in supporting women who are juggling careers, families, hormones, stress and the endless pressures of modern life. Her approach challenges the idea that health has to be extreme, all-consuming or centred around becoming smaller. Through The HAPi PT, Hayley helps women shift their focus away from chasing perfection and towards building strength, resilience, confidence and long-term health. You can find Hayley at https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-kyle-22hk22/ A line that stayed with me "Nobody tells you how much you can earn or whether you can be good at what you do. The only person who does that is you." Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts If this episode resonated, please do leave a review and share it with someone who might need to hear it. And if you haven't yet, come and find me on LinkedIn where I share more conversations about change, leadership and navigating whatever chapter you are in right now. #PivotsAndPlotTwists #ChaptersOfChange #CareerChange #PersonalGrowth #Podcast
