#10 | Anaïs Jazmine, sports coach and entrepreneur
Welcome to POING FORT, the podcast that will give you the weapons of self-confidence. In this first season, 10 guests take off their masks to talk to us frankly about the failures and doubts they had to overcome to achieve their ambitions.
In this episode, I have the pleasure of welcoming Anaïs Jazmine, sports coach, entrepreneur and founder of the "Bellysculpting" method.
From a young age, she dreamed of becoming an art director and fashion photographer. However, destiny had another passion in store for her: sport. Fascinated by the benefits of Pilates, which helped her to reconnect with her body, she decided to train.
When the pandemic hit, Anaïs turned this tumultuous period into an opportunity to reinvent herself. She then launched herself on social networks, shared workouts and offered her first live classes.
Her community grew so well that she created her own sports method and published her first book. The Bellysculpting method" in 2022 and launches its online course platform in May 2023, not without difficulty...
On Poing Fort, she tells us how she dealt with the ups and downs of entrepreneurship as well as the cyberbullying she regularly faces on social media.
MARGAUX: Could you introduce yourself for those who don't know you?
ANAÏS: I am the founder of the BellySculpting method, which is perhaps better known as the flat stomach method. It is a method that I created during the lockdown. I am also a certified Pilates teacher. I launched my sports app, the BellySculpting method, in March 2023 and I am very proud of it.
Before being a Pilates teacher, I was a fashion photographer and artistic director in advertising.
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MARGAUX: You started playing sports relatively young, how did sport come into your life?
ANAÏS: I started playing sports again when I was 18, during my high school diploma, because I had gained a lot of weight. At the time, it was pasta, pasta, pasta, we were students, we did pretty much what we wanted... And then, I signed up to a gym one day, I set foot in and I couldn't get out. I loved the energy there.
Then I started training, I lost weight, I built muscle. I started to understand, and especially to want to understand how muscles work, recovery times... To have a broader understanding of sport.
MARGAUX: You originally wanted to become a fashion photographer. What made you change?
ANAÏS: In 2018, I met Verena Tremel, who is the founder of the Ritual studio and who is in any case, in my opinion, the prescriber of the Reformer (pilates machine) in France. I went to pilates sessions all the time and I realized that I loved it. And my sister said to me: but don't you want to train? I said to myself: why not?
I signed up for the training in February 2020. It was face-to-face until March 2020. The lockdown came, and we ended up doing it remotely.
We had to validate 300 hours of practice, 300 hours of observation and 300 hours of teaching in a year and a half... At that point, we were authorized to give online classes and for them to be valid for the final exam. I simply started giving live Pilates classes on Instagram.
Margaux: Ultimately, with social networks, haven't we been conditioned to consider only one standard of beauty?
ANAÏS: Of course! I am a Pilates coach and, every time, I receive comments where I am made to understand that it is almost crazy that I claim to be a Pilates teacher, given the body I have.
I have a butt, I'm sometimes a little bit in shape, I talk about my weight problems, and I'm honest about it. Because I, too, have binges, eating disorders, because I deal with hormonal issues, with stress, with real-life problems.
I'm a Pilates teacher, I'm not a model or anything icy.
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