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Why does EVERYONE wants to be a coach?

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I know a few women in my area who have competed 1-3 times and now market themselves as coaches. Is this truly enough experience to justify charging others for coaching? I'm not trying to be a hater, but I have noticed that EVERYONE wants to be a coach these days.

Is it seen as easy money or something? Why is this?

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u/Forsaken_Dragonfly66 — 5 hours ago

Is Taliyah Joelle still a Gymshark athlete?

I noticed that she’s been wearing a lot of Oner lately. I just looked at her IG bio and it no longer has Gymshark athlete in it

u/Important_Tank_5380 — 11 hours ago

Taliyah Joelle on Reta? I think yes.

I am at my wits end with this situation. Taliyah Joelle obviously used (and continues to use) Reta to achieve these results on her most recent cut. I have no issue with using peptides. But the fact that she is lying to her followers and, more importantly, her customers, is just wrong.

People recently started calling her out on it and she went on a comment deleting/blocking spree. Only to pop out with a post saying that, yes, her plan (which she is selling) is the main reason for her weight loss but the extra weight loss was because of her wisdom tooth removal. Sure, Jan…then why didn’t you say that in your previous 10 posts selling your coaching plans?

Now you’d think she’d either stick to this story or just quiet down on using her body as her coaching advertisement. But no. Merely two weeks later, she is back to claiming that it’s her plan. No mention of the wisdom teeth. Oh but now it’s because she “doesn’t keep good snacks around the house”
And my personal favorite: she limited her activity level. But two posts ago, she was saying it was because she was sticking to her plan and getting over 10k steps per day? Sister - which is it? If you’re going to lie, at least stick to one story.

And for the people who are going to ask how I know she’s on Reta - these glps cause a rapid weight loss as well as an unnatural subcutaneous fat loss. Her upper arms and glutes have completely depleted like never before. This is because of Reta. Someone who has been building muscle as long as she has, would not see this kind of muscle/subcu. fat loss in 4 months on a cut. They just wouldn’t.

u/Wide-Business-8322 — 2 days ago
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Bianca Taylor is a fraud and a bully

I am reposting this, since Bianca is working overtime to silence me. I'll keep this simple. I worked with Bianca Taylor professionally. What I experienced was fraud, a coordinated smear campaign against my personal life, and a business built on a foundation that couldn't survive fifteen minutes of scrutiny. The account going dark recently wasn't a coincidence. I'll explain.

For context, Bianca decided recently that she wanted to be a rapper. I am a music producer/A&R who has worked with everyone from Dr. Dre to Chris Brown. These are documented, verified credits. Bianca paid me to produce and write her album. I did everything on the project, she did not do anything but perform. Not a single lyric was written by her. She contributed absolutely nothing to the song she is releasing now, and is underpaying everyone involved.

Anyways, onto why this is being posted here:

The followers

Her primary account, biancataylorm, 1.1 million followers, was audited by Modash, a third party analytics platform. 86% fake. Bot accounts on daily rotation. This is the same account her recruiter was pitching to prospective $10,000 coaching clients as proof of her reach and credibility. The Netflix documentary gets name dropped in that pitch too. The same metrics Bianca uses to essentially scam her clients into high ticket fees, and the same metrics used by both her and her lawyers to try and bully me into a bad contract.

She deactivated the account within hours of being confronted about the audit results and informed of legal action. A 1.1 million follower account she spent years building. Gone in hours. People don't do that unless they know exactly what's in there.

The credentials

$10,000 coaching programs. Her qualifications: an ISSA personal trainer cert you can complete online in about four weeks, and a six week eCornell plant-based nutrition certificate. No degree. Not a registered dietitian. Not NASM, NSCA, ACE, or ACSM certified. The $10,000 price point is premised entirely on an audience she manufactured.

The contract

When I delivered work for her project her attorneys sent over a contract that had been heavily redlined to strip my publishing rights and expand recoupment to include all of her marketing, promotion, and video costs. Expenses I had zero involvement in and zero visibility into. None of that reflected what we had agreed to verbally before I started working.

I pushed back on every point. I was professional, I responded to everything within 24 hours, I documented every exchange. I held the legal positions I was entitled to hold.

What she did next

This is the part that goes beyond a contract dispute.

While negotiations were ongoing she ran a campaign through my personal network. People I had introduced her to, who would not know her at all if I hadn't made those introductions, started going cold on me. A mutual contact confirmed in writing that Bianca had been discussing our situation with her, framing it as us just not being able to agree on terms. Clean. Sanitized. Nothing about the publishing rights grab, nothing about the bad faith redlines, nothing about the verbal agreement she violated.

She used gendered language in recorded communications to try to pressure me into signing terms I hadn't agreed to. Saying that I as a man, make her as a woman feel extremely uncomfortable...merely because I told her "im not signing that". That recording exists. It is 9 minutes long. I have posted a couple of screenshots of the transcript of that message.

She sent her two lawyers to threaten me with "enforcement action" on a contract that I never signed. When she realized she had nothing on me legally, she began to attack my personal life.

A friendship I had for nearly a decade ended because of what she told that person about me. Someone whose entire career I had a direct hand in building. Gone, because Bianca got there first with a story that person didn't bother to verify against nine years of firsthand experience.

The woman who originally referred me to Bianca had the exact same thing done to her. I believed it at the time, distanced myself, and had to go back and apologize when I had my own experience with Bianca and realized what had actually happened. There are posts on this subreddit going back years that document the same pattern from people who had nothing to do with me or each other.

This is what she does. Repeatedly. To multiple people. And then she moves on. There was a post in here detailing getting scammed by her, which she paid $7,000 to have removed, something she openly bragged to me about. She is trying to erase all evidence, including deactivating her IG for a week, then reinstating it with an 18+ restriction so it can’t be viewed while logged out.

The bottom line

If you're thinking about her $10,000 program, the platform it's built on is 86% fake. The credentials behind it are two online certifications. The documentary gets used as a sales hook.

If you're a creative considering working with her, the contract you eventually see will not match what you discussed. And if you push back, the dispute won't stay professional. It will follow you into your personal life, through people she got to you through, and it will be framed in a way that's very hard to defend against because officially nothing is happening.

I have the audit. I have the contract. I have the documented back channel communications. I have the timestamps. Everything I've written here is factual and documented.

Bianca spends a lot of time carefully posturing herself as a spiritual, enlightened individual. The reality is she is bitter, angry, petty, bossy, and controlling. She has spent the last month posting things on IG with captions like "Being a boss bitch means being hated." while she has been the full on aggressor in every possible way.

She'll know this is me. That's fine. The truth doesn't require anonymity, and a bully is nothing but a coward.

As I mentioned before she is working overtime to remove all of my posts and reviews, so there’s a chance this will disappear AGAIN.

Be very very careful of these “influencers” and “coaches” who use their fake metrics and fake positivity as their selling point.

u/Massive_Target — 2 days ago

Gina Scafoglio post on ex husband (??) Justin Lovato

I feel like these two may be “niche” but I’ve been following Justin since his Venice days when he was married to his ex Steph. He moved to Austin and got realllyyyyy woowoo but tbh SOME of his stuff helped me through a traumatic relationship/pregnancy (some was just too much for me). Then he met Gina on a podcast and she was living with him within a month or two. Anyways, him and Gina broke up maybe 5 months ago but seemed to be on good terms until she just posted this. He deleted his IG too and some other people have posted they are not associated with him anymore either. I really wanna know what happened. Based on Gina and the other posts I saw, it sounds like he was inappropriate with people he was supposed to be mentoring or even guiding through meditation (which are typically assisted with a hallucinogenic). I hope that’s not true. If it is, I hope everyone involved is okay. I hadn’t really seen his posts in the past few months but it did seem to be….off? Idk how to explain it. But if my speculation is right, he’s disgusting and should face consequences for his actions. I am jsut a casual follower of these people so if any of my info is wrong, please correct me!

u/GuaranteeExcellent73 — 2 days ago

Jen Johnson Fitness is back, now shilling peptides

I think this is now her fourth pivot from ‘TikTok funny gym milf’ to merch creator to fitness plans. Now we are all in on peptides.

u/yeezushchristmas — 1 day ago

Brittany Perilee

She comes up on my feed and markets herself for post childbirth.

How sustainable is her body?”
Can you actually just do constant exercises to make your ribs smaller?

u/Zestyclose-Peace-700 — 2 days ago

Sportswear

Why are all sports bras just tiny pieces of fabric that barely covers your nipples.

Each website is the same -women's best used to be my favourite for budget friendly bras, now they advertise this as high support?

Can anyone recommend a brand that doesn't cost fortune but doesn't only offer leggings and shorts that give you wedgy and bras that will hold boobs on a run?

u/SmokeMysterious1170 — 2 days ago

PED abuse

maybe it’s not abuse or maybe it is, but so many of these bikini / wellness influencers and competitors have I think ran too many cycles of PED’s. Voice changes face changes, everytime I see their face pop up here and there I’m like holy shit I barely recognize them, and they’re in their 20’s barely early 30’s!!!

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u/Sure_Weird_9063 — 2 days ago

The Sculpt You app Update⭐

I’m a lifetime Sculpt You member, and I honestly miss the old app so much.

The original app was what made me invest in a lifetime membership. It was simple to navigate, easy to track my lifts, and the gym programs felt like actual strength-training programs. I loved that they were built around progressive overload, changed monthly, and encouraged lifting heavier while still following a structured plan. I always knew what I was doing, could easily see my progress, and felt motivated to keep improving.

I’ve really tried to give the new app a fair chance. I’ve spent time exploring it and wanted to like it, but it just hasn’t clicked for me. I find it much harder to navigate, and it doesn’t give me that same structured, progressive lifting experience that made Sculpt You stand out. Because of that, I honestly don’t find myself using it as much anymore.

Am I the only one who feels this way? I would absolutely love if they brought back the old workout format or at least offered it as a “classic” option alongside the new app. I feel like a lot of longtime members would appreciate having that choice, especially those of us who joined because of the original programming and workout experience.

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u/Ok_Task_9978 — 1 day ago

I think I missed a few chapters lol (I also think it's hilarious that his last engagement post is still up 🤣)

u/Responsible_Sir_317 — 3 days ago