Mindset Over Mistakes

A single typo exposed a much bigger truth: your mindset decides what a mistake means. I’m Lorraine Michaels, a personal trainer and health coach, and I’m bringing you a story from the trenches of real life business building. After spending the day meeting local health and wellness businesses and inviting people to my one-day fitness event on May 30 in Fort Mill, South Carolina, I got an email that made my stomach drop. The word “fitness” was misspelled on my flyer. The irony was loud, and the temptation to spiral was immediate.

From there, I unpack how quickly one small error can turn into toxic self-talk, perfectionism, and quitting. We trace the chain from thoughts to words to beliefs to actions, and why a growth mindset is essential if you want long-term results in fitness, faith, and life. I also explain how I support women 35 and above who want to restore metabolism, improve energy, and get hormones on track, and why I collaborate with the right providers for blood work, lab monitoring, and other medical guidance.

If you’ve ever felt like a “hiccup” disqualified you, this is your reminder that you’re more than a moment. Listen, then subscribe, share the show with a friend who needs a confidence reset, and leave a review. What’s one mistake you’re choosing to learn from instead of letting it stop you?

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Transcript

Mindset Sets Your Life

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Hello, welcome back to the Armor Up podcast. I'm your host, Lorraine Michaels. And here, as you know, I am a personal trainer, a health coach. We talk about faith, fitness, all things, and also mindset. We've we primarily focus on fitness, right? It's the Armor Up podcast. We shifted. But with that, with fitness, you have to have a mindset. You have to have a growth mindset because you can't beat your body into submission, or you know, you can't beat your body into health. It just won't respond. That being said, I can't wait to talk to you today about mindset and how your mindset matters. The thoughts you think become the words that you say, they become the beliefs that you believe, your thoughts create the actions and ultimately the life you're gonna live, or the life that you're not gonna live, right? Today was a day where I went out into my community and the surrounding areas to introduce myself to them, to other businesses that are in the health and wellness space, that are in um functional medicine or spas or chiropractors in the health and wellness space where my clients would probably be going or need to go. And so, as you know, I am a personal trainer and I'm a health and wellness coach. And so I work with women 35 and above who are looking to restore their metabolism, get their hormones in check, and make sure they're at optimal levels, make sure their metabolism is working correctly and again, optimal. And so I cannot do all things. I am an expert in fitness, in personal training, in mindset, health and wellness. So I am a health coach. Uh, I am not a dietitian. However, I do have nutrition certification within my um personal training. So I have nutrition and I have the fitness and nutrition aspect of my coaching down, right? I am an expert in that field. I have knowledge in medicine, so hormones and blood work and all those things. However, I do not treat that. So what I do is I partner with providers that do treat medical, um, they monitor labs. I work with companies that are in the health and wellness space. So peptides, um, if you need to get your blood work done, your hormones checked, all those things. I work with providers and companies that do that as well. And so what I was doing is I was going out into the community, introducing myself, telling them about my one-day fitness event that's coming up May 30th in Fort Mill, South Carolina. And I gave them my flyer that I created. I created it, AI didn't, and I created it on Canva and I put it in front of a bunch of people, and I got a bunch printed. And I met a lot of great people. I'm gonna go out again tomorrow and talk to more people, more business owners. And one of them emailed me on my way home and said, Hey Lorraine, it's Heather. You came to such and such place. I got your information to our COO. It was so great to meet you. I just wanted to let you know that there was an error on your information card. There was a misspelled word. I thought it was a play on words, but I just wanted to let you know. Lo and behold, I pulled out the flyer and I misspelled the word fitness. The person that literally's job is fitness. I misspelled it. I flip-flopped the N and the E, so I spelled fitness F-I-T-E-N-S-S. And at that moment, I could have responded in two different ways. I could have been so down on myself and called myself stupid and idiot. How did you make this mistake? I could have, you know, just said, forget this. I'm not going to any more businesses. I'm not going, you know, I'm not going to go out tomorrow. I now what am I going to do? Or I could have laughed about it and moved on. And that's what I did. I laughed about it. And I immediately thought of my friend, Lindsay Schwartz. Lindsay Murray. She does not go by Schwartz anymore. Lindsay with Powerhouse Women. I love you, girl. And I'm so glad that you shared that story about when you published your book and the day that it was released, and it was doing phenomenal. And then your publisher calls you to congratulate you and also tell you the horrifying news that there was an error on your book that you just printed. And you had the same visceral feeling of, oh my God, are you serious? And so um I had two options. I could have freaked out and buried my head in the sand and thought all these negative thoughts about myself and what people are gonna think of me, or not. And I called my husband and I told him what had happened, and I was laughing about it. And he said, What are you gonna do? I said, I'm gonna go out tomorrow and I'm gonna talk to more people and I'm gonna keep giving out the flyer because I'm human. And yeah, there's a little bit of irony in that. I misspelled the literal word that I envelop, that I embody fitness. And you know what? It's funny. It's funny because I showed this flyer to multiple people before I printed it, and no one caught it either. And I got it printed, and I'm still gonna go out and talk to people and give out these invitations because I'm not perfect. And I'm still gonna show up and I'm still gonna provide that value. I'm still an amazing personal trainer. I I'm not I'm more than a personal trainer. I am a coach, I am an elite level trainer, and that's what you're gonna get. You're gonna get that elite level um training and how I work with you, it does not reflect the fact that I misspelled a word. And so I want to come to you today to encourage you, to encourage you to have the right mindset of just get out there and do what you were called to do. In the health and wellness space, I'm called to help women feel more confident in their body, to introduce or perfect their fitness and help them feel strong, help restore their metabolism, help them with their hormones and getting in front of the people that are going to help them with blood work. I'm going to help you with your nutrition, I'm going to help you with fitness and confident in your own skin. That's what I'm doing. And it doesn't matter that I misspelled the word fitness because I'm more than that. And so are you. So don't let a little hiccup stop you from doing what you were meant to do.