JESSICA PEREZ-BEEBE

In today’s episode, host Celeste Rains-Turk, speaks with Jessica
Perez-Beebe, an IFBB Pro who faced adversity growing up, yet
found how to live a healthy abundant life after finding personal
development and
self improvement and who now uses her athlete mentality in her
own business to mentor entrepreneurs and leaders.

As always, Celeste kicks off the episode by having Jessica share
her pre-stage ritual with listeners. From there, Celeste and
Jessica quickly recap Jessica’s competing history during which
she goes on to share how her experience coaching herself into
nationals was what she considered “a disaster.”

First, however, Jessica explains how she originally got into
bodybuilding after previously being active in the CrossFit
community, as well as owning her own strength & conditioning
gym, yet was looking for another goal to help her stay focused
while also trying to grow her business.

To Jessica’s surprise, she placed in the top 5 at her first
national show yet at the time she hadn’t even considered the
thought of becoming a pro in the sport. After leaving her coach
at the time due to plans of moving abroad with her husband,
Jessica decided last minute to compete at USA’s self-coached,
which was where she discovered the necessity to have a coach
despite her years of knowledge and education in the industry,
emphasizing that “you don’t know what you don’t know.”

Next, Celeste asks Jessica about her decision to move overseas,
which ultimately led to her 3.5 year break from competing.
Jessica explains that her and her husband had a shared vision of
being location independent, traveling for months or years at a
time, renting houses here and there, all while being able to
manage their businesses or work remotely. Jessica shares that her
and her husband ended up becoming overnight parents to her niece
Lily, yet despite her coming into their lives they went ahead
with their plans to move.

Jessica sold her business sooner than originally planned and they
decided to bring Lily with them and gift her the experience of
travel from a young age. Jessica confirms that her decision to
take Lily along was the right one, as Lily was able to grow up in
an environment with parents who set positive examples and
displayed
what a well rounded and fulfilling life can entail.

Celeste then asks Jessica how the living abroad and being a nomad
affected her commitments to health and fitness, to which Jessica
explains that her experiences were different from a typical
vacation as it was an opportunity to immerse herself in various
cultures, learn new customs and ways of living, as well as
constantly having to adapt. Celeste then has Jessica elaborate on
the role nutrition and fitness took during Jessica’s time in
other countries.

After discussing Jessica’s time abroad and what sparked that
decision, Celeste asks about Jessica’s role as a performance
coach. Celeste asks how Jessica has taken her experiences of
travel and being a professional athlete to work with her clients
on mindset and how to live more fulfilling lives.

Jessica emphasizes the importance of focus and commitment and how
that translates from bodybuilding to business. She teaches her
clients about removing the distractions to focus on one thing at
a time, and how that translates for one to be successful in
business.

Jessica explains that even the most successful entrepreneurs
start their day off with fitness, to which she shares that she
loves working with athletes in particular, knowing that they
already have instilled life habits of dedication and focus.
Celeste then transitions the conversation to Jessica’s daily
habits and has her share with listeners her daily non
negotiable’s. Jessica shares how the to-do lists are something
she no longer uses, yet implements a practice of writing down two
important things that must be accomplished the next day.

​This opens a discussion between Celeste and Jessica about the
concept of the to-do list and Jessica shares what she feels is
necessary for athletes or entrepreneurs to do to “level up” and
go from amateur to pro. She shares how she feels that the smaller
habitual things on the to do list distract from the bigger, more
important tasks that will really take one to the next level. The
two women discuss their opinions on how to best set yourself up
to win the day while setting intentions and how to focus those
actions and intentions to help accomplish the big vision or
goal.

Switching gears, Celeste asks Jessica about her beginnings in the
world of personal
development and how she realized that things like the law of
attraction and inner work could help her lead a more abundant
life. Jessica talks about how from a young age she was always
curious and how she found ways to detach from the violent and
fearful environment she grew up in to seek out how to better her
life.

She shares that from a young age she knew she was meant for more
and how that desire and skill carried over into her adult life
and competing career, trusting that she could create what she
focused on. Branching off of Jessica’s beginnings in truly
achieving what she focuses on, Celeste asks Jessica about
finances and how she manages her mindset around money in terms of
budgeting for competitions, as well as how she works with clients
about their mindset with money as well.

Celeste moves on to ask Jessica about the sudden passing of her
mom and how that affected her life decisions moving forward.
Jessica recounts the story of how she found out about her moms
passing after coming home from an out-of-town event for a job she
didn’t enjoy working under a verbally abusive manager, where she
felt like she wasn’t harnessing her true potential, and how she
took this as a sign to fearlessly pursue the life she had dreamt
for herself.

Jessica found the lesson in a tragic event, shifted her mindset
and used that to propel her forward. Jessica then talks about her
plans for her pro debut and how injuries and show cancellations
forced her to modify the original plan, yet that she never saw
quitting as an option. Her and Celeste walk through the various
challenges she faced before stepping on stage at the NorCal show,
yet Jessica emphasizes the importance of finishing through with
goals she sets for herself. Jessica looks at her perseverance as
something she has trained herself for, to “go all the way.”

Although not showing up with her best physique to date, Jessica
was still proud of the fact that she followed through with the
plan to step on that stage having overcome so many obstacles.
Next, Celeste asks Jessica about her plan of action moving
forward for her 2020 season, now already having one show under
her belt. Jessica explains her reasoning behind switching teams
and coaching and why she had to make a tough decision in order to
level up and shares what her and her new coach Damian, from The
Pros, have planned for the rest of this year.

The women quickly touch on the importance of divine timing and
trusting that goals
will come to fruition when they are meant to be. While talking
about the concept of time and patience, Jessica emphasizes why
“the juice is in the journey” not just in competing but in
business as well. Jessica shares that although winning an award
or medal is gratifying, the real reward is in the process and
journey along the way.

Celeste and Jessica then emphasize the importance of habits and
consistency and how that helps not just in bodybuilding but in
many other aspects of life, business included. The women then
make more connections between bodybuilding and “real life” when
they touch on the concept of how one’s imperfections can lead to
longevity as it pushes them to constantly strive for
improvement.

By emphasizing consistency one can omit what can feel like
inevitable ebbs and flows since habits will take over and create
that certain behaviors become natural. After talking all things
consistency and discipline, Celeste asks Jessica to give her best
advice for both the first time competitor and for the girls on
their road to pro.


CONNECT WITH JESSICA: 
https://linktr.ee/jessicaperezbeebe
​https://www.instagram.com/jessicaperezbeebe/


CONNECT WITH CELESTE:
https://instagram.com/celestial_fit
http://www.celestial.fit/

EPISODE TIME STAMPS:
[1:30] Jessica shares her pre-stage ritual with listeners.
[2:42] Celeste and Jessica go over a quick recap of Jessica’s
competing history.
[4:20] Jessica explains how she felt coaching herself was “a
disaster” going into USAs.
[9:40] Celeste asks Jessica about her move overseas; why she
decided to do so and what inspired the move.
[12:20] Jessica explains how she became an overnight parent to
her niece, Lily.
[13:30] Jessica shares what it has been like to have Lily share
her and her husbands life dream in terms of their vision of
traveling and living abroad.
[16:30] Celeste asks Jessica how traveling and living abroad
impacted her lifestyle or
commitments to health and fitness.
[20:00] Celeste asks about the priority nutrition and fitness had
during Jessica’s life while living abroad.
[21:50] Celeste asks Jessica what she’s learned as her
experiences as a professional athlete, traveling the world, and
how she teaches that to her clients when it comes to living
fulfilling lives.
[27:10] Jessica shares some of her non-negotiable’s and daily
habits that she believes have attributed to her success.
[31:10] Jessica elaborates on her thoughts on manifestation and
setting yourself up to win the day.
[33:00] Celeste shares her thoughts on setting oneself up for
success in terms of identity, as well as on to-do lists with
intentions behind the items on the list.
[40:00] Celeste asks Jessica about her first encounter with
personal development work and how to translate that to living a
more abundant life.
[46:30] Celeste asks Jessica about mindset around money when it
comes to competing; both while being in prep and during her off
season.
[49:00] Jessica shares how the passing of her mom impacted her
life’s decisions moving forward.
[56:20] Jessica talks about how she approached her pro debut
despite the numerous show cancellations.
[57:30] Jessica recounts her experience at the NorCal show and
how the thought of giving up never crossed her mind despite the
multiple challenges she faced to get to the stage.
[60:20] Jessica explains why following through and accomplishing
goals she sets for herself is so important and how she felt of
her placings because she persevered.
[64:40] Celeste asks Jessica about her plan of action for her new
goals and visions.
[68:00] Celeste shares insight on the importance of staying
patient and goals/visions will come to fruition when the time is
right.
[71:20] Jessica explains why “the juice is in the journey” in
competing and business; how consistency translates into habits
that can be applied to multiple aspects of life.
[74:00] Celeste and Jessica discuss how our imperfections lead to
longevity both in competing and business and again emphasize the
importance of consistency.
[79:00] Jessica shares her best advice for the newbie competitor
and for girls on their road to pro.