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84 || FITNESS MAGAZINE || NOVEMBER 2015 every athlete I even had, because they were my test subjects. When you first come in you make a ton of mistakes, it%u2019s not a bad thing and it%u2019s how you learn from them and how you turn your mistakes into positives. Have my early mistakes taken the business to a whole other round? Off course it did! Because it taught me how to be careful and how not to have the same situations pop up again. I have been very blessed to have a phenomenal career. I have worked with some of the most prestigious athletes in the industry. You also learn something from every athlete, we all make mistakes, we are human. It%u2019s just learning not to do them on a consistently basis and turning the negatives into positives.MFM: What do you see in yourself, which separates you in a positive way from the rest of the health and fitness industry?KO: Well, again, not anything being the wrong or right way, I think each of us have a certain something that we bring that helps us to differentiate ourselves. With me, it%u2019s my energy and I have always been very passionate, I just didn%u2019t have a place to put my passion in. So growing up in Louisiana all we had was sports, and that%u2019s what we did. Our passion was in sports and once you are done with sports you fumble around until you find something. I was very lucky to have found this, because it was a very good place for me to put my passion in. I am very passionate about my people, I care about them, and I think as trainers and as human beings we strive to do everything we can to put as much of ourselves into people and help them achieve their goals. I know that if you are passionate about what you do, you can build a successful business. MFM: Could you provide us a one to two sentence fitness tip for our Tuesday Twitter Fitness Tip, it can be on any subject nutrition, lifting, cardio, motivation etc. KO: No matter how you train, there are a hundreds of ways to train and a hundred ways to diet. If was going to give a tip about anything, it would be to believe in yourself. Never doubt yourself, never be disrespect to your beliefs, and never put the opinion of others above your own. Listen to advice that you are given, learn as much as knowledge as you can but always learn to develop your own thought process and stand behind what you do. Most importantly, ENJOY it! Love what you do because if you are not doing something you love, why do it? So love it, enjoy it, have fun with it, and don%u2019t make it larger than life. Make it fun and if you do that you will always succeed. If your own opinion is the core of your belief, you will always be grounded and keep yourself at a good place.