Celia Lopez (@celialopezfit) is a personal trainer and the founder of the Placemade Workspace (@placemade.co) (https://placemade.co/). Placemade is Canada's first fitness and health inspired co-working space.

One big gap in the fitness industry is practitioners no understanding how to operate their business. As much as we'd love to be able to do what we do for free, that's not feesible. Enter Celia Lopez and Placemade. After operating her own personal training business for years and learning things on her own the hard way, she saw an opportunity to fill this void and be able to help other trainers figure it all out by creating a co-working space to educate, collaborate and grow together.

Celia shared her story as to how she got into fitness and how Placemade came to be. We also spoke out some other ways the fitness industry might benefit as a whole in terms of qualifications for trainers. We spoke quite a bit about how to conduct yourself in a sustainable manner in your business. The same way you would with your fitness. You can't go all out forever, so the methods have to be sustainable.

It was a wonderful conversation with many takeaways for fellow trainers and trainees alike. As always, the things we learn in the gym seamlessly transition to the rest of our life.

You can get in touch with Celia on IG, or connect with Placemade on IG or at https://placemade.co/. If you live in Toronto, Placemade is located at &8 Richmond St. E.

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