Get the inside scoop on how the OPC tours came to life, including the key role Balanced Body played in making them happen. Lesley and Brad share what it’s like to be on the road, how they stay grounded during tour season, and why reflecting after each stop matters. This episode is packed with community, purpose, and behind-the-scenes fun. Whether you’ve joined a tour before or are curious about what it’s like, you’ll love hearing what’s in store for this year.

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How the Balanced Body partnership made the OPC tours possible.
Highlights from past tours and how they’ve evolved.
Navigating unexpected changes and pivots while on the road.
The small routines that keep Lesley grounded during tour season.
Why reflecting after each tour helps improve the next one.
The real impact of showing up in person and building community.
A behind-the-scenes look at this year’s OPC tour plans.

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Episode Transcript:

Brad Crowell 0:00

You have to be able to be fluid enough to make changes in the moment when something isn't working or isn't making sense, or not necessarily in the moment you have to catch it, you can assess it after the fact and do the post mortem.

Lesley Logan 0:15

Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.

Lesley Logan 0:58

Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It second half of the how did these tours come to be? And Brad is back as my guest. So this is a different kind of cadence, I guess you'd say.

Brad Crowell 1:10

Yeah, you know, we're shaking things up a little bit.

Lesley Logan 1:11

So we're not answering any of your questions. We're not going to talk about the Be It Action Items we shared with you.

Brad Crowell 1:16

But we are going to talk about that amazing guest you had on this week's episode.

Lesley Logan 1:20

Oh yeah, yeah. We're talking about you, Brad.

Brad Crowell 1:22

It was me.

Lesley Logan 1:23

And also, if you want to come to the tours, opc.me/tour, no matter when you hear this, you will always be able to see what upcoming tour there is or you'll get on a waitlist for the next one to come out. But basically, we do two tours a year. So we left off with how we started talking with Balanced Body about our tours.

Brad Crowell 1:42

Yeah. So I remember we were at a POT, I think.

Lesley Logan 1:46

In Monterey in 2020.

Brad Crowell 1:48

No, I think it was before that. I think it was in Chicago, even before that.

Lesley Logan 1:51

Well, there was a Chicago one that I talked to them and I planted the seed, that was in 2019.

Brad Crowell 1:54

Yeah, but that's the one I was talking about. So we started talking to Balanced Body years prior to their participation, and I remember the conversation with their team. I just remember looking at their operation and literally watching them back a tractor trailer up to the convention center and commenting and going, Wow, you guys have tractor trailers. And the response was, we have three. I was like, you have three tractor trailers? They're like, yeah, look where do you think all these Reformers are gonna go? And they were loading case after case after case of things into the thing. And I was like, wow, it's so much work for you guys to go on the road. And they said, yeah, for us to put on these POTs, it is a massive enterprise to do. Many, many, many people, lots and lots of money. It's so much coordination, so much effort, you know. And I jokingly said, well, you know, I think we can help you guys out with that. And that didn't really come to anything, but I, in my mind, I was like, we could do it for half, you know. And then we got the van, and then we were talking with Ken.

Lesley Logan 2:56

What happened is they changed, on the Contrology, they changed how you can do the wheels, the side wheels, how you can tighten them or not tighten them, and they change it to make it easier for people. And so I said, we're all, we're driving to the POT Monterey anyways, because we're gonna have a booth there as well because we had a booth in the October one which was when you kind of planted that seed.

Brad Crowell 3:15

Yeah, and for us it was only what eight hours, at this point we've driven across the country multiple times. They're like, yeah, we'll just drive.

Lesley Logan 3:20

I said, oh, I'll bring my Reformer. And we weren't even staying at the hotel where the event was. We were just down the street, just because of, like, I needed a really big room.

Brad Crowell 3:27

Yeah, you had to do a weekend workshop thing.

Lesley Logan 3:29

Yeah, I had to, like, host a weekend event and so we needed a big room. And so I had my assistant at the time, like, literally scoping pictures of rooms and we're like, there's no way we can make this room work, because the beds right there. So we had to stay about a mile a half away from the venue. And so Ken Ubered over.

Brad Crowell 3:45

Ken is the owner of Balanced Body.

Lesley Logan 3:47

Yeah, so get this, Ken Ubered over to our hotel, during setup of his humongous convention, to change the little silver situation that goes on the back of my carriage, to change the wheels out.

Brad Crowell 4:01

Yeah, he brought us wrenches.

Lesley Logan 4:02

He just brought a wrench, brought a credit card, so we had also brought our Nespresso machine. Brad made him a cup of Nespresso and so he fixed he like, this is, this is what.

Brad Crowell 4:11

We're just chilling out, you know, and he's working on this Reformer, we're just chit-chatting.

Lesley Logan 4:16

And then Brad's like, oh, man, I'll take you back to the venue.

Brad Crowell 4:18

Yeah. He's like, oh, I'll grab an Uber. I was like, no, you will not grab an Uber. I will drive you, you know. And of course, I wanted him to see the van.

Lesley Logan 4:26

Yeah. So he got in the van. He had to see how big the van was. He had just seen that we brought the Reformer.

Brad Crowell 4:31

Yeah, yeah. Obviously, we brought the Reformer. But he said to me, oh my gosh, I always wanted one of these when I was in my 20s. I always just wanted to drive around the country. And it's so cool that you guys are doing this, and that's when I got a chance to say, well, this is, you know, we do go on tour, and we are taking, we're already taking a Reformer with us, so that we can show off the Contrology Reformer, right? And he was like, wow. And so, you know, I didn't like full blown pitch him in that moment, but it was like one major seed planted, because he could see it, feel it, touch it, understand it, in a way that wasn't us trying to pitch the vision. He could be in the vision.

Lesley Logan 5:09

Yeah. So they actually signed on with us for our first ever summer tour. And so we got to do the west coast because we'd only ever done the East Coast and the middle we'd never done the west coast before we'd pulled them. We want to do a West Coast tour. So we actually did our first West Coast tour. It wasn't very long. It was kind of like a short and sweet thing. I know. We did Las Vegas. We did Los Angeles.

Brad Crowell 5:31

Well, somewhere in there, we missed the 2022 winter tour. But we, 2020.

Lesley Logan 5:36

Oh, yeah, we did a '22 we did a 22, you're right, we did do a 2022 winter tour. And that got bigger, got back up to the size.

Brad Crowell 5:41

Yeah, that was like eight or nine. So we have Cleveland, St Louis, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Atlanta, Greensboro. Yeah. So.

Lesley Logan 5:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That one, that one was really great, actually, because we got back up to our 2019 numbers and so we were able to say, okay, so we've had four tours, and so we're able to show them like, look now that COVID allows us to do this. Look at these nine cities. What if we, so we did our biggest tour ever, which was the West Coast tour. We didn't do Los Angeles. We started at Las Vegas. Did we even do Las Vegas? I know we did Riverside.

Brad Crowell 6:10

For the summer tour?

Lesley Logan 6:11

Yeah. We did Redlands.

Brad Crowell 6:13

Redlands, Long Beach.

Lesley Logan 6:14

Long Beach.

Brad Crowell 6:14

Bakersfield.

Lesley Logan 6:15

Bakersfield.

Brad Crowell 6:16

Central Valley, Hanford, Fresno.

Lesley Logan 6:18

Yeah it was near Fresno.

Brad Crowell 6:19

Modesto.

Lesley Logan 6:20

Modesto. You guys were hitting some of those great I-5 cities.

Brad Crowell 6:23

So that's five. Yeah, we did Fairfield.

Lesley Logan 6:25

Yes. And we did Sacramento.

Brad Crowell 6:27

Sac.

Lesley Logan 6:27

And then we did a tour of Balanced Body, even though we've done it before with Ken, we did a tour so that our OPC members could see how it's all done. It was so fun. They do amazing work at Balanced Body, just being great on the environment. Then we did.

Brad Crowell 6:40

Bend.

Lesley Logan 6:40

Bend, Oregon.

Brad Crowell 6:42

Portland.

Lesley Logan 6:42

Portland. That was so fun, too, Seattle, and then.

Brad Crowell 6:46

Spokane.

Lesley Logan 6:47

Spokane and then we dropped down, had a couple days off in Idaho. And then we got all around St George, Utah.

Brad Crowell 6:54

So we did 11 stops.

Lesley Logan 6:55

11 stops, it was our biggest one, and it was so fun. And we got to see how hot it could get. So then the van got a fan.

Brad Crowell 7:05

We also did that whole tour in two weeks.

Lesley Logan 7:07

In two weeks.

Brad Crowell 7:07

It was like 16 days.

Lesley Logan 7:09

It was really.

Brad Crowell 7:10

It was zipped through 11 stops in 16 days.

Lesley Logan 7:13

It was, yeah, there's a heat wave. So I was not, I was okay with zipping through. Then, because of that went so well and Balanced Body was so great with that that they joined us for our winter tour in 2023 and then we really able to like.

Brad Crowell 7:26

But that's when I think things really blew up.

Lesley Logan 7:27

Yeah, I don't think it was our, it was our biggest tour, for sure. It beat the 11 cities, but it wasn't our biggest, biggest. Then, last year, you want to go through them?

Brad Crowell 7:36

Sure. We did Vegas, St George, Denver, Lawrence, Kansas, St Louis, Missouri, Cleveland, Ohio, Saratoga Springs. That was a private event. Boston, t hen Providence, private event. Brooklyn. We had to cancel New York City because nobody was in town. Hershey, Pennsylvania, Greensboro, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, Miami, Sarasota, that's the first time we did the inside of Florida. Then Austin, Dallas, Albuquerque, Sedona. So by far, this was the largest one of the 19 cities.

Lesley Logan 8:10

Yeah, then we did a summer tour with the Midwest. Because if you've noticed, we've been skipping Chicago for a while. So we have been alternating the West Coast, with the Midwest, and so this is how we decided, like, okay, so you need to know, after every single one of these tours, we reflect about, like, what went well, what cities went well? Will we go back, how the people like it, how much effort was it, how great was the host? You know, if we love the host, obviously it's amazing for us to want to go there. If the host works really, really hard, then, of course, we want to continue to work with them and support them. But we also discovered that my voice, as I get older, my voice can only do.

Brad Crowell 8:47

I don't think it's just because you're getting older. We had you working nine days in a row, literally teaching class nine days in a row. By the ninth day you were fried.

Lesley Logan 8:56

And some of these studios, they're acoustic.

Brad Crowell 8:58

You're not a day older than 29, love.

Lesley Logan 8:59

Thanks, baby. Some of these students, the acoustics are not awesome for that, because you have to get your voice to carry and all these things. And so, at any rate, you'd think, well, Lesley, don't you teach all day? No. No, I don't. No, I don't. In fact, when I.

Brad Crowell 9:14

Come on, you do talk, you do talk most of the time, but like this is different than trying to yell in a warehouse, you know, like.

Lesley Logan 9:20

Yeah, and get people's attention in a warehouse, for sure, some of them have music going on, the whole thing. So, at any rate, we've made changes to the tour. So you'll notice with tour schedules since summer of the Midwest.

Brad Crowell 9:31

Well, that, so the Summer Tour was only 13 stops, but we did it in 16 days. Yes, we were flying through.

Lesley Logan 9:36

We made changes that we can only do max six days in a row before a day off, five is more ideal.

Brad Crowell 9:42

But this was a major change for us, where, whereas, like, all right, we have to be very intentional about the breaks that we're putting in. Because one, things Lesley mentioned at the beginning was, how does she maintain her consistency? How does she maintain her you know, how do you do that stuff?

Lesley Logan 9:57

So these tours, because I don't want to do them, because it's a job. We actually truly enjoy doing the tours. We have so much fun. I mean, I get to hug hundreds of people. It's so great. And it really, actually makes me go, oh, I wanna teach all the time. And then I'm actually like, no, actually, I really love my life, but I love that I get to see so many of you that I only see on like, I only get to read words on the internet. I get to see you in person. I could touch you and like you're three dimensional and all the things. We really love doing it, we also want to be able to be as present as possible. And so after every tour, we always reflect back, do we have enough time in that city? Do we have enough time to do this? You guys, I must work out so I do not teach all these people Pilates, and I don't get workouts in. And so every schedule we have to make sure that five days a week, I have time at a gym. I have time to move before I'm teaching giving me space to go the gym at 11pm at night is not space to work out. Also, I have to make sure that I get to have seven hours of sleep, very important. So all the things that I preach about prioritizing myself first, those things happen on tour.

Brad Crowell 10:57

People always ask us how do you maintain your routine when you're completely jacking up your routine?

Lesley Logan 11:02

Yeah? Well, you can speak to this. You guys use a really cool app that plans out everything, because he'll kind of drive late at night while I'm sleeping, so I can go to bed early, and I'll wake up and it will say like you're working out from this time to this time. Then you're driving here to get coffee, and then you're driving here to do this thing, and so that I have time to do my thing for myself while you're sleeping.

Brad Crowell 11:22

Yeah, so we take shifts, because just the nature of our brains and our bodies, I usually stay up late. Lesley usually gets up early, especially when, when it was the COVID trip that was crazy, like the van almost never turned off. We just kept going.

Lesley Logan 11:36

We were so nervous about touching anything.

Brad Crowell 11:37

I sleep, you drive, and while you were sleeping, I would drive, and we'd just go, go, go.

Lesley Logan 11:42

That was very different. That was also just like a very different time in the world. We were, like, afraid. We still wondered if you got COVID from gas station handles and we were going to see people at Christmas, and we had to do like, a three-day hangout at your parents' house.

Brad Crowell 11:55

But the point is that we were overlapping on purpose while one was sleeping, the other was driving. Now it's a little less. The maximum amount of driving that we're trying to do in a day is, like, no more than eight hours. And that's still a lot, you know, so we've started to slow it down, which has since then made the tour longer, but it makes it a lot more enjoyable so.

Lesley Logan 12:17

We also get to like, see places now, because and we have the dogs, well, now we just have one dog. We should tell them funny stories about the dogs before we wrap this episode up. But we like make sure that they get walks, and we take it through really beautiful habitat preservations that allow for dog walking. We get to see some really cool thing.

Brad Crowell 12:33

We stopped in Kansas by, like, one of those big tank memorials and threw the ball. I mean, you know, like this, all these things that we do. Then the Winter Tour 2024 with the support of Balanced Body. And we had some other sponsors, too. Yeah, we had 21 locations, 21 stops. But in order to meet these new requirements of no more than six days in a row of teaching, how do we drive eight hours or less a day? How do we make sure that we've got time to do some workouts. By the way, we're interested in seeing White Sands National Park on this trip. Can we do that, you know, like stuff like that. How do we work all that in? Well, it ended up making, making the trip 34, 35 days. But we actually went the longest. We drove 80, over 8000 miles.

Lesley Logan 13:17

Yeah, we got to go to some great places. And also, if you're like, this sounds so amazing, guys, everything works out for you. Just so you know, pretty much every tour there was a dud city.

Brad Crowell 13:24

Oh yeah, we had to cancel. It would have been 22 cities on the Winter Tour, and we, unfortunately, had to pull one because we just had no one participate.

Lesley Logan 13:33

And we and talk about like the last time was that perseverance, we paid people to scour emails and Instagram handles for three hour drive away to be like, okay, well, what if we get these people from this state to come in? What if this people from this state come in? They could do with this.

Brad Crowell 13:47

I mean, I would drive and just call, literally, I would call studio after studio after studio.

Lesley Logan 13:51

And we had people say, and it was a lovely house. And she's like, no, people are just last minute. We're like, girl, it's 48 hours before. This is as last minute as we, no, we're not driving up there. So again, we don't take it personally. It sucks. We always do reflect, like, what could we have done better? Was it the time of day? You know, we've had cities that have done really, really well two years in a row, and then have a dud year, and we're like, oh, what happened there? And it's like, oh. So this next Winter Tour, we're flipping two cities because we're like, oh, you know, we did them before Christmas and then after Christmas. And this year we switched that, and that didn't go well for either one of them. So you start to learn the seasons of things, and you have to know that it's not personal, but the reflecting after every tour really helps us make each tour even better. And we're six weeks, five weeks away from our eighth tour, and it's gonna be epic. It's gonna be amazing. It almost feels like a vacation.

Brad Crowell 14:38

A little bit more time-condensed, so we're a little over three weeks, but we're at doing almost 19 stops. So that's, that's intense.

Lesley Logan 14:46

Three of them include Canada.

Brad Crowell 14:48

Yeah. So we're, we're doing our best here to get to do our first international tour. I mean, we are going, so.

Lesley Logan 14:55

We're going. Just so you know, these tours also are a huge investment. There's a reason why we have a sponsor with Balanced Body. They really help us actually be on the road for that long because when you're on the road for that many weeks, you're having three plus meals a day on the road. All that adds up money, the gas, depending on what state you're in, is insane, right? So there's that we do. We try not to use a hotel at this point because we have the van, the investment we've made in the van, you know, to make it so we can live in all of that kind of costs money. And so there are things that have failed on tours where, like, like, those stops that haven't made money or haven't, haven't, had been canceled, but having a sponsor that allows us to, like, really be on the road for that long, so that we can do these stops and we can see all of you, but to get to Canada, we're investing thousands of dollars to make it happen.

Brad Crowell 15:41

Yeah, had to pay an attorney to help us with paperwork and it was like.

Lesley Logan 15:44

Because you can't just work wherever you want to work. You can't just do that. So we're super, super excited to be one of the first people that actually do a big Pilates event. There have been other Pilates events in Canada. I don't want to discount those ones that are happening in Balanced Bodies in Montreal.

Brad Crowell 15:59

It's like, it's the thing that's exciting about this is it'll be our first international tour.

Lesley Logan 16:03

Yes, yes. I know people are like, when are you going to do a European tour? So I used to think it was like two years away after what we're doing for Canada. You guys, I gonna tell you right now, that's a five year plan. Because, like.

Brad Crowell 16:13

Yeah, we so we're thinking about, how could we do this, you know, in Europe and Australia. Because, like, eventually for us, that's the vision. We want to go see those places. We want to spend the time, I think, for us to drive around Australia, to do it right, it's going to take us five to six weeks of driving, like, that's a lot.

Lesley Logan 16:28

And we're going to have to rent a van there. We're certainly not going to take one. I was thinking about put some magnets on it. But also, there are actual laws about what we can do, and we don't do these things quietly. So, so if you live in Australia or Europe, and you want us to do tours there, you should definitely reach out. We keep a list of people who love to host. And we do need hosts. These tours, they happen when there's hosts. But also, and that goes for anyone in the States as well. You can actually put your place on there. But also, we're gonna need legal help, because, like we're talking immigration attorney help, which is not cheap, by the way, very expensive, so that we can actually do these things. So what we thought would be like in two years, I'm realizing, is probably a few years in the making. But we want to make this happen. We want to be part of it. That's why we're actually telling you the behind the scenes on how these tours work. So opc.me/tour is where you go for tickets, but opc.me/host is where you go to apply to be a host. Okay, so funny stories about the dogs. First of all, we used to do these tours with three dogs.

Brad Crowell 17:29

Three.

Lesley Logan 17:30

And then Gaia's last tour was Summer Tour 2024.

Brad Crowell 17:33

Well, her first last tour.

Lesley Logan 17:35

Her first last tour was Winter 2022.

Brad Crowell 17:38

So, was it winter?

Lesley Logan 17:40

Oh, yeah, Winter Tour 2022.

Brad Crowell 17:42

It was Winter Tour, you're right.

Lesley Logan 17:43

And then it was, her first last tour was Summer 2023 then her second last tour was, was winter 2023 and then.

Brad Crowell 17:52

Her actual last tour was Summer '24.

Lesley Logan 17:53

You guys, before we started, she, you guys, she did not want to go. We were, the van was loaded up, the boys were in it. The boys, because the boys, once we start loading the, putting stuff up to load in. They are like, in the van.

Brad Crowell 18:03

Yeah, they do not want to be left behind, so they're sitting in the van watching us.

Lesley Logan 18:07

It is hot as fuck outside. And they're like, no, I need to be in the van. I'm like, okay, but the doors are wide open. I can't be in the van. And they're freaking out. They're, they're just, you know, very nervous. And she, so we have the whole van loaded up. The boys are in the van. We go Gaia, and she comes and looks at the door.

Brad Crowell 18:22

She comes out onto the front porch, stares at us.

Lesley Logan 18:26

And she goes back inside.

Brad Crowell 18:27

Turns around and goes back in the house. She's like nuh-uh.

Lesley Logan 18:30

And we forced her, we forced her to go on this tour. And she was at this point, sleeping 20 hours a day, just anyways, she was having a hard time with her back legs. We're carrying her everywhere, which we've been doing the last two tours.

Brad Crowell 18:41

And we had to lift her in and out of the van.

Lesley Logan 18:42

Lift her in the van, and then, okay, so on this her on her final, final, last tour, she had an accident in the bed, and that was really unfortunate, because we're on the road now. We've got a dog, but that has to get washed. We don't always have time for a, like, a wash and, like, I don't know what you call this, like a fluff and fold. So I'm in Kansas City teaching a class, and while I'm teaching, Brad leaves to go bathe her. So he finds a place that he can bathe her, and he has to leave because it's hot out. He has to leave.

Brad Crowell 19:12

So the timing of things, we have a very tight timeline.

Lesley Logan 19:16

He leaves the car running with the dogs in the van and the boys.

Brad Crowell 19:20

Wait. So, hold on. You're teaching the class. You're teaching the workshop. I have, literally, I have 90 minutes to get up and out, find a place, turn it around, wash the dog, get back. Right?

Lesley Logan 19:34

Yeah. So he pulls up to this dog place.

Brad Crowell 19:37

Well, the first one I pulled up to, it says on Google Maps that they have a thing in there to wash them. They don't. And I was like, are you, are you kidding? I just wasted 10 minutes coming all the way over here, and you don't have what I need.

Lesley Logan 19:49

Yeah, so, so then he now has to go the next one, right? So he goes to the next one. He leaves the car running because it's hot out. It's like 90 something degrees. He leaves it running. And the boys are in the passenger seat, watching Brad take Gaia into the van. They're not okay with this. The pack is not together, somehow, though, while he's washing Gaia, so she's in this tub.

Brad Crowell 20:10

So they're in the van, I'm in the store. But the the van's running so that the AC could be blasting. And August.

Lesley Logan 20:18

Pressed the window button.

Brad Crowell 20:19

He goes to the driver's seat, and shoves his nose, but he touches, he steps on the window button, and the window goes down, and sure enough.

Lesley Logan 20:27

Jumps out.

Brad Crowell 20:28

Two dogs jump out of the van.

Lesley Logan 20:29

And they go up to the store, which has those doors that open by themselves.

Brad Crowell 20:32

So before that happened, I'm in the back of the store, and I'm washing Gaia, right? She's covered in shit. All of a sudden, up at the front of the store, I hear, oh no, oh no, right, and this now there's multiple people yelling oh no. And then this lady's running down the store, and she's yelling, hey, sir, sir, I think your dogs just got out of the van. I'm like, holding the hose, and it's one of those timer things. So, like, I'm like, all right, I guess I'm gonna have to get more of that once I figure this other thing out. So I throw the water that's already it's still coming out. I just throw it and like, I'm like, Gaia, you stay. And she's looking at me, like, how could I possibly go anywhere? Right? And so I'm running out towards the van right at the same exact time the double doors of this big dog store open, and both August and Bayon come running into the store.

Lesley Logan 21:21

Yeah, they ran into the store. So thankfully, they ran into the store and not, like, down the street. I don't even know what we would have done. At any rate.

Brad Crowell 21:28

Yeah, I was, like, I was, because there was a parking lot. Like, there was hundreds of cars. It would have been terrible.

Lesley Logan 21:33

Yeah. So they ran into the store, so Brad has to get them.

Brad Crowell 21:36

So now I got all three dogs in the back, in the dog washing area, because I'm like, screw it. You guys are with me now. We're just gonna all hang out here. Finish washing Gaia. I blow dry Gaia down. And they were like, hey, can we get you a leash? Because the leashes were in the van. It wasn't like that, you know, so, and I was like, that would be so helpful. So they helped me, like, get the dogs on a leash. And, you know, we troop out of it, and everyone's happy because, you know, the dogs came to be with the pack.

Lesley Logan 22:04

Yeah, so.

Brad Crowell 22:06

Oh, and then I had to zip back just in time for the end of the workshop so that I could do the raffle.

Lesley Logan 22:10

And I'm like, wrapping up this workshop, and he's not there. And I'm like, where the fuck is he? Because I can't, I don't know what I'm raffling off like I had to check people into this next thing. I had no idea this was going on. Anyways, oh my God. So this tour we.

Brad Crowell 22:24

Chaos.

Lesley Logan 22:25

This tour will be not chaotic. Future tours will not be chaotic because we have one dog.

Brad Crowell 22:30

Yes, he's very chill. He just wants to lay next to you.

Lesley Logan 22:33

He's very chill. Just wants to lay down. He wants to just be there. So I think it was so this is where we're at. No more shenanigans. Real easy. Roll in, roll out. You guys. We have two tours this year. We have a summer tour in the West Coast, into Canada. Please tell your friends, come make a trip out of it. We're doing some really cool cities. We're going to places you're going to want to travel to, and obviously, East Coast, the South check our Winter Tour list. And if you are living anywhere in the world and you want a tour stop, feel free to go to opc.me/host but opc.me/tour get tickets for you and your friends.

Brad Crowell 23:06

If you want a tour stop, meaning you would like to host us, go to opc.me/host. If you would like information about the tour itself, go to opc.me/tour.

Lesley Logan 23:16

And all of the classes and workshops are for all levels, so your friends and your family can come. These are not made to be only for teachers. There are CECs for the teachers. And again, our headlining sponsor for these next two tours is Balanced Body and Contrology. Oh, and now we have a contour kit, because we're bringing a Reformer, a mat and a Spine Corrector, so you guys can try those things out.

Brad Crowell 23:40

Not a chair?

Lesley Logan 23:41

No, we didn't buy the chair.

Brad Crowell 23:42

Oh, I thought we did.

Lesley Logan 23:44

No, we talked about that.

Brad Crowell 23:44

All right, failed. Well, that's fine.

Lesley Logan 23:47

I would love another chair. But we discussed that.

Brad Crowell 23:50

It is big. It's just a lot.

Lesley Logan 23:53

We discussed it. It was not the right thing to buy it until the van's more set up,

Brad Crowell 23:58

Yeah. So anyway, come try out all that fun stuff. So what would you say would be a Be It Action Item for this episode?

Lesley Logan 24:06

Oh, just go buy a ticket to our upcoming tour, because you're gonna have the best time. You're gonna be in community. If you feel lonely, or if you feel burnt out, or if you feel exhausted, then you come on this tour and you, I fill your cup. I prioritize you, I answer your questions. You get to see people you pass as two ships. You get to maybe meet up with people you had no idea love Pilates the same way you do. These literally bring people together. And it doesn't matter how you started Pilates, how many years been doing Pilates, if you teach who trained you. I don't give a fuck. Being in community is the be it action item. It's important.

Brad Crowell 24:45

Cool. So my Be It Action Item is when it comes to projects like this, don't be afraid to make changes after you've decided this is how it should work, right, because, for example, if we didn't sell tickets to a spot why are we driving there, right? And that's a bummer, and that's frustrating, but you have to be able to be fluid enough to make changes in the moment when something isn't working or isn't making sense, or not necessarily in the moment, you have to catch it, you can assess it after the fact and do the post mortem, right? For example, from the Summer Tour '24 to the Winter Tour '24 we decided you clearly shouldn't be teaching nine days in a row. That is not healthy, right? So therefore we put a hard stop six days maximum on the way out to Philadelphia. We only taught one stint of six days. Everything else was five, four days in a row before we took a day off on the way back from Philadelphia, same thing, we only had one stint of six days because we were making adjustments and making changes. So, yeah, but I still agree with you that you should come join us because of community. It is so important, especially now with our virtual world, with loneliness being higher than it's ever been, with social media not helping any of us actually function in our own lives. Even though we've been sold this story that somehow it's gonna connect us better, it fucking doesn't, and it's just making us lonelier. So what we're trying to do is actually bring together people in real life, so that we can support each other and be around each other, because we need it. So we would love to meet you, come join us on these tours.

Brad Crowell 26:22

Yes, all right, loves, until next time, Be It Till You See It.

Brad Crowell 26:25

Bye for now.

Lesley Logan 26:27

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Brad Crowell 27:10

It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell.

Lesley Logan 27:15

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Brad Crowell 27:19

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Lesley Logan 27:26

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Brad Crowell 27:30

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