In this high-energy episode of Sisters-in-Law of Attraction, Sam and Christine welcome a truly special guest: Coach Rob Johnson, the heartbeat and founder of Built Strong, one of Central California’s most community-driven gyms.

Rob shares how fitness has always been his vehicle to connect with people, and how he intentionally created a place where everyone feels seen, welcomed, encouraged, and part of something bigger. From fun nicknames to electric early-morning energy, he explains why the mental and emotional components of fitness matter just as much as the physical ones.

Together, the three dive into habits, motivation, trust, courage, and how small shifts—both in the gym and in your mindset—create lasting personal transformation.

Rob’s philosophy: fitness is the doorway, but people are the purpose.

Nicknames, daily greetings, and energetic coaching—why making people feel known changes everything.

Most struggles aren’t about reps or macros—they’re about motivation, habits, and self-talk.

Motivation gets you started, but habits and environment sustain you.

Courage to show up, try something new, and trust the process is what develops true confidence.

Whether it’s 5 a.m. or midday, Rob’s energy sets the tone—helping people carry high-vibe momentum into their day, families, and communities.

Christine shares how she uses workouts to move stuck energy, tension, and stress from her body.

Sam and Christine connect Rob’s coaching style with the core philosophy of this podcast: small adjustments in thinking, habits, and energy can radically transform your life.

Coach Rob is a 24-year veteran in personal training and the creator of Built Strong, a gym built on connection, encouragement, playfulness, and high-vibration community.

He believes in meeting people exactly where they are—physically, mentally, and emotionally—and helping them build trust in themselves one small habit at a time.

Built Strong is a community-driven fitness center in Fresno, California, led by Coach Rob Johnson. It’s known for its upbeat, welcoming environment where fitness blends with mindset, encouragement, and connection. Members are greeted by name (or nickname!), supported in their individual journeys, and uplifted by a high-vibe atmosphere from the moment they walk through the door.

Whether you’re a beginner or advanced athlete, Built Strong is designed to meet you where you are—and help you grow from there.

• Address: 6716 N Cedar Ave #101, Fresno, CA 93710

• Phone: (559) 777-9303

• Website: https://www.builtstrong.fitness

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/builtstrong_fresno

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BuiltStrongFresno

Big Takeaways

• Setbacks aren’t failures—they’re feedback.

• Small tweaks create big results.

• Confidence is earned through courage and consistency.

• Your energy affects the people around you—choose intentionally.

• Community can transform your relationship with fitness and with yourself.

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• Follow Coach Rob and Built Strong for daily inspiration and mindset shifts.

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• Try the “pause → reflect → reset” approach the next time you get off track.

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In this episode of Sisters-in-Law of Attraction, Sam and Christine dive into the science and practice of rewiring your brain—so you can stop living in worst-case-scenario mode and start living in joy, gratitude, and peace.

Christine shares what she’s learned about negativity bias, why our brains latch onto bad experiences like Velcro and let the good slide off like Teflon, and how neuroplasticity gives us real power to change our thought patterns. Sam brings a deeply personal story about her mom’s third round of breast cancer, and how choosing faith, hope, and trust in her medical team completely shifted the emotional and physical experience of a very scary situation.

Together, they unpack a simple, repeatable process for catching negative thoughts in the moment, gently shifting them, and wiring in new, more empowering beliefs—on purpose.

• 🧠 Negativity bias & survival mode

  Why your brain jumps to worst-case scenarios (even over “just an email” or a routine medical appointment) and how that used to serve us—but often hurts us now.

• 👶 From innocent kids to fearful adults

  How we go from carefree children to adults who anticipate everything that could go wrong, and the role of ego and learned patterns in that shift.

• 🙏 Sam’s mom, breast cancer & radical trust

  A powerful story about asking for a miracle, trusting a new surgeon, and how her mom’s mindset changed the whole feel of a very serious medical visit.

• 😰 The real cost of stress on the body

  Racing heart, sweaty palms, stomach aches, cortisol spikes—how chronic stress impacts even a healthy body, and especially someone already battling illness.

• 🌬️ Breathwork, meditation & the nervous system

  Why simply focusing on your breath can move you into a parasympathetic state (rest-and-digest), calm your body, and create space for a new thought.

• 🌟 Gratitude as a physical intervention

  How genuine gratitude connects you to something bigger than yourself (God, Source, higher power) and has real, physical benefits for your health and mood.

• 🧩 Your limbic system & subconscious mood

  What happens in the limbic part of the brain when you start “thinking about what you’re thinking,” and how that slowly shifts your underlying mindset.

Christine breaks down a simple process inspired by neuroscience (“neurons that fire together wire together”) to help you intentionally rewire your brain:

1. Notice

   Catch the negative thought or body sensation in real time.

   • “My stomach just dropped.”

   • “My brain just went straight to worst case.”

2. Reflect / Shift

   Get curious instead of spiraling.

   • Where am I feeling this?

   • What am I actually afraid of?

   • How can I say what I do want instead of what I don’t want?

3. Reverse & Marinate

   Consciously choose the new thought—and sit in it.

   • Say the new, positive version out loud.

   • Let it “marinate” for a few breaths so it actually has time to sink in and form a new pathway.

Over time, these tiny, repeated choices are how you unstick old Velcro-thoughts and build new, supportive ones.

You may not be able to control the outcome of every situation—but you can choose your thoughts, your focus, and your energetic posture toward life. That choice has real emotional, spiritual, and physical impact.

• Share it with someone who tends to go straight to worst-case scenario.

• Try the Notice → Reflect → Reverse practice once today and see how it feels.

• Follow/subscribe to Sisters-in-Law of Attraction so you don’t miss future episodes on joy, gratitude, and practical mindset tools.

Thanks for listening. We’re so glad you’re in this community with us. 💛

As our children grow, we grow right alongside them. And every new stage requires a shift—not just in how we parent, but in how we see ourselves.

In this episode, Sam and Christine continue their conversation on pivoting through life transitions, especially in motherhood. Sam introduces her P.I.V.O.T. framework to help navigate the emotional and personal changes that happen as children move from littles to teens to young adults:

P — Purpose

I — Innovate

V — Value yourself

O — Opportunity

T — Test your limits

Whether you’re deep in the busy teen years or looking ahead toward launching your birdies, this conversation invites you to step into your next chapter with intention, joy, and a whole lot of grace.

You are allowed to evolve.

You are allowed to take up space.

You are allowed to become the main character in your story.

We’re so glad you’re here. 🤍

In this episode, Sam and Christine dive into one powerful word that can reshape how we move through life’s transitions: pivot. From the early days of parenting tiny humans to guiding teens and launching young adults into the world, every season requires us to shift, adjust, and grow.

Sam shares her journey learning to “pivot” as her children entered new stages, and Christine reflects on supporting kids becoming more independent—while rediscovering who we are outside of motherhood. Together, they explore what it means to stay flexible, build resilience, and release the need to hold on too tightly.

Whether you’re in the thick of raising littles, navigating high school emotions, or stepping into an empty nest for the first time, this conversation is an invitation to see change not as loss, but as evolution.

Come join us in the lane of joy, gratitude, and high-vibe living. We’re so glad you’re here. 💛

Episode 5 – Be Intentional With Your Time (and Your Energy)

In this episode of Sisters in Law of Attraction, we talk about one of the hardest lessons in staying high-vibe: being intentional with your time and who you spend it with.

Christine shares what life looks like with two teenage daughters who are constantly moving—school, sports, friends, homework—and still wanting home, comfort, and connection. It’s the pull between “I’m grown” and “I still need you.” Nights vanish in a blur of tasks, and suddenly it’s bedtime with no real time together.

Her reminder to the girls—and to all of us—is that time won’t magically appear later. It only gets busier. You have to plan for connection. Bake cookies, bump the volleyball, watch a show, sit on the couch and talk. If you don’t choose it, it disappears.

We connect this to rituals: Sam protects her early-morning gratitude time; Christine keeps her evening bath, even if it’s 7 p.m. instead of 5. These small, consistent choices are how you protect your peace.

Then we go deeper—into energy. Every interaction is an exchange. After time with someone, do you feel lifted or drained? Sam shares how she’s become intentional about reaching out to people who inspire her and limit time with those who pull her down. It’s not judgment—it’s stewardship of your own energy.

We’ve all been in the conversations that kill the vibe. The constant complaining feels like bonding, but it drains your spirit. Protect your vibration. Keep company with people who remind you who you are becoming, not who you used to be.

Jen Sincero writes that people around us are mirrors. The ones who inspire us show our potential. The ones who trigger us reveal what we still need to heal. The ones who drain us show where we’ve stopped protecting ourselves. Paying attention to those reflections is how we grow.

This isn’t about perfection; it’s about awareness. The more you notice how you feel after interactions, the easier it becomes to choose wisely. You can’t stay high-vibe in low-energy rooms.

At its core, this conversation is about priorities.

Time won’t slow down.

Your relationships won’t maintain themselves.

Your energy isn’t infinite.

So this week, try two simple shifts:

Be intentional with your time—plan one meaningful moment and protect it.

Be intentional with your people—notice who fills you and who empties you.

That’s the real work of the Law of Attraction: choosing where your attention and energy go. When you do, you stop living by default and start living on purpose.

You deserve people who lift you, moments that refill you, and a life that feels like yours.

We’re so glad you’re here.

I’m Sam.

I’m Christine.

And this is Sisters in Law of Attraction

Episode 7: Resilience — Just Get Back Up

In this episode of Sisters-in-Law of Attraction, Sam and Christine go all-in on resilience: what it actually looks like in real life, why it matters, and why you cannot live a big, joyful, high-vibe life without it.

We talk about the moments that knock you flat — losing a job overnight, watching your financial safety net disappear, getting hit with a major health battle for the third time, hearing “no” when you’ve poured your whole heart into something — and what it takes to stand back up anyway.

Christine shares the story of when the company she and her husband worked for shut down with no warning. Overnight, their income vanished. The house, the kids, the plan — everything was suddenly at risk. She walks through what resilience looked like in that moment: not pretending it was fine, not collapsing into panic, but going into immediate problem-solving mode. What fire needs to be put out first? How long can we float? What do we need to earn to keep the house? Who do we call? Where can we pivot fast? She talks about her husband leaning on the reputation he’d built over years, and her own pivot into work that let her still be present for their kids. Survival, yes — but also clarity, ownership, and forward motion.

Sam talks about watching her mother face breast cancer for the third time. By any measure, this would be a “fall apart in the corner and cry” moment. Instead, her mother chooses a different frame: I’ve beaten this twice. I can do it again. I trust my doctors. I trust the treatment. I choose faith. That’s resilience, too. It’s not pretending you feel great. It’s refusing to surrender your mind.

We also get into resilience as a practice, not a personality trait. People love to say “you’re just strong,” but strength isn’t magic. It’s reps. It’s training the mind to pivot. It’s catching the spiral before it becomes your story. It’s saying: I can visit fear, grief, anger — but I will not live there.

Sam and Christine talk about teaching this to their kids. You can’t bubble-wrap them. If you protect them from every failure, the first “no” will destroy them. Resilience comes from hearing “no,” feeling it, and getting back in the game anyway. Whether it’s Sam’s daughter crying in the car before giving a student government speech after a breakup (“balls on, tits up — go do the thing”), or Sam’s son navigating rejection in high-stakes internship interviews, the message is the same: you’re allowed to be hurt. You’re not allowed to quit on yourself.

We also explore the connection between resilience and purpose. Comfort feels safe, but constant comfort can quietly drain you. When you stop stretching, you stop growing. When you stop growing, you stop feeling useful. And when you lose purpose, you lose energy and joy. Resilience is what keeps you moving toward the life you’re here to live — not the small version, the full version.

Finally, we return to a core theme of this show: your thoughts create your reality. Resilience is the muscle that lets you rewrite the story in real time. I am not ruined. I am not done. I am not a victim. I’m being redirected. I’ll pivot. I’ll try again. I’ll get back up.

You do not need a perfect life to live high-vibe. You need discipline, faith, and the willingness to keep standing up when life knocks you down. That’s resilience. That’s the work.

Episode 6: with Brian Hanna

In this episode of Sisters-in-Law of Attraction, Sam and Christine sit down with special guest Brian Hanna — an endurance runner, athlete development professional, and MBA candidate — to talk about what happens when you stop choosing comfort and start choosing growth.

We open with the idea from Michael Easter’s book The Comfort Crisis: our ancestors chased comfort to survive, but today our constant comfort is making us weaker, more anxious, and less connected to purpose. Brian chose to push against that. One day, he just started running. Since then he’s run six marathons, two ultramarathons, and more halves than he can count.

Brian walks us through the difference between a marathon and an ultra. A marathon, he says, can end in tears of joy. An ultra ends in a different kind of tears — the kind that come from grit, pain, and choosing to take one more step when everything in you wants to quit. After 26.2 miles, it’s not just about the body anymore. It’s about who you’re willing to become.

He shares how it started: watching his older brother go from half marathons to a 50-mile race in Leadville, Colorado. Seeing that transformation lit something in him. He began running in high school, drifted, then came back to it during COVID. While the world shut down, Brian decided to speed up. He used that global interruption to ask, “Who do I want to be on the other side of this?”

From there, the conversation moves into discipline, faith, and purpose. Brian talks about the mindset shift from chasing motivation to practicing discipline: showing up daily, doing the hard thing when the easy thing is right there. He shares a core belief — it’s better to be consistently good than occasionally great. He also talks about honoring his body as a gift from God and pushing past comfort as a form of spiritual stewardship.

We explore how comfort can quietly rob us. When life is too easy — food delivered, work from home, constant entertainment, no need to leave the house — we stop testing ourselves. We stop needing each other. And when we stop engaging with challenge and community, anxiety and depression creep in. We lose purpose. We numb instead of grow.

Sam and Christine connect this back to what we see everywhere: people retreating, self-protecting, staying home, staying small. We tell ourselves it’s safety, but often it’s fear. Brian argues that purpose comes from the opposite. Purpose lives in the reps of doing hard things. Getting up before dawn to train when the bed is warm. Running in the cold rain because you said you would. Choosing “the hard right over the easy wrong.” How you do anything is how you do everything.

The episode closes with a powerful reminder from Theodore Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena.” The credit belongs to the one who shows up, gets scraped, bleeds, tries, fails, and tries again — not the “cold and timid souls” who avoid risk and never find out what they’re capable of. That’s Brian’s challenge to all of us: stop waiting to feel ready. Get in the arena. Do something hard on purpose. Not to suffer — to wake up.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, unmotivated, disconnected, or anxious, this one matters. It’s not about running 50 miles. It’s about deciding you are not here to sit in comfort. You are here to build resilience, find purpose, and lift others by the way you live.

Episode 5: Facing Fear and Finding Freedom

In this heartfelt episode of Sisters-in-Law of Attraction, Sam and Christine take a deep dive into fear — the silent force that keeps so many of us from living the lives we’re meant for. Fear can show up as control, self-doubt, imposter syndrome, or anxiety about the future — but at its core, it’s resistance. And resistance blocks the good that the universe is trying to deliver.

Through personal stories and real conversations, Sam and Christine explore how fear disguises itself as practicality and protection, yet often limits growth and joy. Sam shares a moving story about a woman who lost her job and learned to see it not as a setback, but as a gift of time — a chance to pause, reflect, and realign. Christine opens up about her own experience with health anxiety and how she broke free from years of spiraling worry by shifting her thoughts and embracing trust.

The hosts discuss powerful mindset tools — from Joseph Campbell’s “cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek,” to Byron Katie’s The Work, which asks four simple but transformative questions to challenge fearful thoughts. They remind us that while fear is human, it doesn’t have to be our operating system. With awareness, faith, and discipline, we can rewrite the stories in our heads and change how we respond to life’s uncertainties.

Sam and Christine also touch on motherhood, control, and the purpose of living with joy. In one touching moment, Sam recalls a bedtime prayer with her son and the lesson she shared with him: “Your job is to lift others.” It’s a powerful reminder that our purpose is rooted in gratitude, love, and bringing light to those around us.

If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in fear — waiting for the other shoe to drop, doubting your worth, or trying to control every outcome — this episode will remind you that peace is always possible. You just have to change the tape playing in your mind and choose trust over fear.

Join Sam and Christine as they share laughter, vulnerability, and wisdom — helping you step out of the cave of fear and into the light of possibility.