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Dear diary,
Every stop on the Pilates journey - finding your studio, becoming qualified, landing the job, opening your own, and building a network - in one place. Follow the trail below.
Today is the day I found Pilates. My friend dragged me to a reformer class and I've never felt so alive. I need to find another studio near me - immediately.
I love it so much I'm daydreaming through meetings. What if I could actually do what I love and work in a Pilates studio? But where does anyone even start?
Diploma in hand. Insurance sorted. Time to get my foot in the door and teach my first class.
I love this so much I want it to be mine. My own space, my own clients, my own playlist. There's two ways in - build one from scratch, or buy into a proven brand.
The lights are on. The mats are out. Now I need bums on reformers - and a plan to fill the timetable, week after week.
One studio became two. Two became a network. Turns out the reformer class was just the beginning of the empire.
And then one morning I sat in the empty studio before anyone arrived and realised I'd already done the thing I set out to do. Maybe it's someone else's turn to turn the lights on.
…and the story continues. ✦
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