Hi everybody welcome back to the Be There in Five podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. Be There in Five is a long-form millennial zeitgeist and pop culture

focused podcast and I appreciate you being here this week and today we have a

mash-up of two-series kind of one is under the influencer where I interview

influencers about their experience moving through the industry especially those that have been in the game for a while and

had to evolve and this is a new category I haven't taken on in the space of fitness and

specifically having your own brand and clothing line related to active wear, but also Beth's in show because this person happens to be a podcast listener and I truly can't even believe it but I knew I needed to

have her on the show for this series. Our guest today is Cassie Ho. She is the

creator behind Blagalottis and the founder of PopFlex Active. I first was introduced to her with her Pop Pilates

video or videos on YouTube where she would play pop music and teach you how to do

Pilates when I was like way too intimidated to go into a studio but

wanted to understand it from the safety of my own home and if you've been here a

while you guys know me and like fitness content I'm so picky about how

I'm motivated and what I'm drawn to and there's a lot of I don't know garbage

out there and I think online fitness videos and she was just so kind so

positive not shamey, made it really accessible and she was like one of

the very few fitness influencers I followed back in the day when I was you know

Getting wedding ready and stuff like that and you are you're ready as you are for your wedding but at the time I

Honestly was just trying to fit into this red jumpsuit for my

rehearsal dinner that I got on a clearance rack that just like wasn't my size I'm not saying

it's right not saying it's healthy I'm not saying you should do it but during a time

of my life when I was like,

maybe I could be a little stronger

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