By Patrick Sochacki
UNIVERSITY CENTER – On this week’s episode of Instructed: Peggy Sue Barber has been a professor working in the Lifelong Wellness department at Delta College for 27 years. Julia Gauna has been a student at Delta College for 2 years in the Health Fitness Specialist program.
Barber and Gauna have formed a special bond based on their lifestyle choices of veganism and personal fitness.
“I just love her” and “she’s the best” are the most common phrases Gauna used in our discussions before the interview, during the interview and after the interview when referencing Barber.
It is very clear how Gauna truly feels about Barber and it was heartwarming every time Julia was willing to gush about the awesome changes she has made in her life thanks to Barber’s influence.
“She’s my personal trainer/coach for bodybuilding,” says Gauna. “She kind of helped me get into exercise, health, fitness and kinda helped me find out what I wanted to do with my life [and] with my degree. Also, her fit camps made a big impact on my life, I made all new friends and I have just made amazing memories.”
As for Peggy Barber, when asked about her favorite part of teaching, she said it’s the students that she has taught.
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“I love the diversity,” says Barber. “I love that I have to deliver a message to different people in sometimes different ways.”
In the podcast, there are moments where Julia Gauna discusses her admiration and love for the way Barber operates as a person, coach and mentor, along with Barber discussing veganism, her history with fitness and her life as a whole.
“Relationships are super important,” says Barber. “There’s a particular student I had 20 years ago in class, in health-fitness management, and they have to do a portfolio and they have to write down their goals. I tell them they have to be realistic and measurable, just like anyone you set a goal and you want it to be achievable… He wanted to own his own personal training business in L.A. and he wanted to be a fitness model. I said ‘you can do that.’ Now to this day, every day we are on Instagram, we follow each other, we’re on there. He owns 90210 Personal Training in Los Angeles. He’s been on the cover of probably 15 novels and Muscle Fitness magazine. He did what he said he was gonna do.”
If these messages speak to you or you’re just looking for a new podcast to listen to, then check out Instructed episode 2, currently out on Stitcher and Apple Podcasts!
