3: Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach and Kinesiology Professor Leslie Trujillo, USC, and What it Means to Be a Strong Woman

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This episode is an interview with co-host Leslie Trujillo. She is a Strength and Performance Coach, a Kinesiology Professor and Coordinator of the CHAMPS Program for Student-Athletes at Los Angeles Harbor College. Listen in as she talks about her early years, her experience at USC and with Pete Carroll, and what it means to be a strong woman.

Time Stamps:

(1:13) Welcome back to Convo’s with Coaches!

(1:28) Coach C’s Bio

(3:00) Welcome Coach C

(8:53) The early days

(14:01) USC

(16:56) Hard decisions and transitions

(21:28) Running a business

(23:44) Mindset and business

(24:42) Todd Durkin Shoutout!

(25:56) Identity change

(30:56) Strength and Conditioning at the high school level

(38:18) Wallace D. Wattles, “The Science of Getting Rich”

(39:35) Gratitude

(40:46) Trust building as a female strength coach

(44:26) Different styles of coaching and the ego

(49:47) What does it mean to be a strong woman?

(53:47) What is it to be champion?

(57:51) To my younger self

(58:05) Dear Her Project

(1:01:49) To my future self

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