Lesley Logan vowed she would never create a Pilates teacher training program, until a problem in the industry became impossible to ignore. In this episode of Be It Till You See It, she opens up about why she finally broke her own rule to build upLift. She breaks down how the program bridges the gap between manual-based choreography and teaching the real body in the room, and why a truly comprehensive education gives instructors endless career options, intuitive presence, and a way to ditch imposter syndrome for good. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co mailto:beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you’re enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/#follow-subscribe-free. In this episode you will learn about: The shortage of comprehensively trained Pilates instructors across the industry.Why memorizing choreography fails when working with real bodies.Shifting from memorized manual scripts to teaching actual people.How layered education builds true confidence and teaching intuition.Why comprehensive certification gives instructors total schedule freedom. 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And she said, "Oh, you know, she's got some asymmetries." Y'all, the person had one leg. My training didn't tell me what to do with someone with one leg, so on the fly, I had to figure it out. Lesley Logan 0:15 Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 0:59 All right, Be It, babe. I said I would never do this for years. I, if you asked me if I was going to create a Pilates teacher training program years ago, I'd literally laughed at you. It was no, because also I had eLevate, and before I created eLevate, I had people asking me, "Aren't you going to create your own program?" I said, "Never. I would never. I've already done that." So you can remember, actually, in 2018, somebody, maybe it was 2019, somebody asked me, I was in my studio I remember, so it was before 2020. And she's, you just need, you should have a program. And I said, "Oh no, I was a teacher trainer before. I did that. You know, I'm on the next thing." And then when I created eLevate, as well, I'll never create a teacher training program because I have eLevate and I can just help people in eLevate. I can take the ones who are already certified, and that just felt like enough. And it wasn't enough. And today, I'm going to tell you why. Lesley Logan 1:44 So, it was really quite an unexpected beginning. Because here's the truth: I actually really have never, has not been on the vision board. I created a teacher training program for new teachers. People are partially trained. People who want to bridge, not once, not even a little bit. I have been so happy doing what I'm doing. My eLevate mentorship program, which I'll do another episode on with that, is so you have two to compare it by. You know, I was happy mentoring teachers through eLevate. It's been, it grows, it sells out two years in advance. So as far as upLift goes, it's not difficult, and it's also, so more importantly, it's the most fun thing to watch them get better at what they're already doing, and so, you know, in my head, like, that was the plan. This is what I'm going to do. This is my retirement project. I want to help teachers who are already certified, already trained, become the type of teacher that they really want to be. To ditch the imposter syndrome, to deepen the work that they're doing with their clients already. And I, I didn't just wake up one day and decide I'm going to build a 600-hour program called upLift. So that isn't the story that you're hearing. But truthfully, there was just a problem I couldn't ignore. Lesley Logan 2:51 So here's what kept happening: I had studio owners that I was coaching with Profitable Pilates who were struggling with the same thing that people who did eLevate were struggling with. We were struggling with the same things that people outside of both of my programs struggling with, which is finding good teachers. Over and over again, all I would hear is, I can't find comprehensively trained teachers. And, you know, I go on tour, I meet people that are going through trainings all the time, and what I kept hearing from them is, why didn't anyone ever tell me this? How come I didn't know that? I'm only able to do my program. I started this program, and then the person quit doing the program, or I moved, and I have to start over. And so, you know, I just felt like there's this hole, maybe not vacuum, but like a hole, that just needed to be dealt with. Lesley Logan 3:37 One of my eLevate teachers, she has her own studio, and she was actually running her own program. And she started telling me the exact same thing, but she came at it from a different angle. And this angle is kind of similar to the people who graduated from eLevate who got so busy teaching, so they got everything eLevate wanted. They wanted from eLevate. Now they're too busy, and they wanted to hire teachers, and they're struggling. But this person showed her own studio. I knew her from Profitable Pilates. She did eLevate, so I knew her from there. And she wanted to start a program so that she could teach people from the beginning what eLevate did. And she got through the program halfway through, and she just was, you know, it'd be really great if you could, you could help us out here because truthfully, so many programs that are going on out there, including the one that this person had licensed, they really are good at graduating teachers who know choreography inside and out. But when a real body walks through the door that has a different learning style or a different understanding or different background that doesn't fit the textbook, they kind of freeze or they get frustrated. They don't know really what to do, and it's not that they don't know how to teach. It's as they weren't taught how to work on the fly. Lesley Logan 4:56 Most programs and most studios are actually kind of requiring a pre-planned class, and so that flow looks good on paper. In fact, a lot of people are buying flows these days. That flow looks good on paper, but it doesn't work when a regular comes in with a broken arm or a consistent client brings their best friend who's never done Pilates before. Lesley Logan 5:19 So, you know, with the problems that the studio owners I coached for their business had, with the problem that eLevate created, which is amazing teachers who are super busy who needed teachers, and just teachers and studios in general needing comprehensively trained teachers who can handle real bodies, I really couldn't dodge the question anymore. I had to sit down and go, is this a problem I can actually solve? If you know me, you know I wasn't about to copy something that already existed. The world actually does not need another version of what's already out there, and I truly mean that. S
