How to Build a Team with Ciara Madden

**Jamz Supernova** (0:01)
Hey, I'm Jamz Supernova, and welcome to my DIY Handbook.
So I've learnt so many things throughout the years on my journey as a freelance creative, and sometimes I just really wished I had a place where I could go to hear the experiences, the processes, and the decisions of other people like me. But most importantly, I really wanted to hear the lessons and the mistakes.
So that's what this is. Each episode, I'll be sharing a lesson that I've learned along the way. I'll be honest in sharing my stories of when things haven't gone right and the solutions I've worked out. I'll be joined by a host of inspiring guests who have either been on a similar journey or had the answers right away. We'll be discussing how to build a team, persistence, the power of know, evolving, and so much more.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:43)
Disclaimer, this podcast was recorded at the end of 2020 and the first few months of 2021

**Jamz Supernova** (0:52)
So I made a pledge on this podcast to be completely and truly honest with you. Now, everything that I do, I do not do alone. Jamz Supernova is not one person. I have managers, I have agent, I have a publicist, I have radio producers that work pretty much day in, day out to help me do what I do. So I've always been fascinated with the fact that sometimes we might see someone online and not really know all the back end that goes into making them successful. And having a team has always been so important to me right from the beginning of my journey. Now, it hasn't always been plain sailing, but I thought I'm at a place in my life where I'm able to identify what I need, what I want and who can help me get there.
And what I can do for them as well. Now, someone who knows that perfectly well is an amazing personal trainer by the name of Ciara London. Ciara London, during March 2020, set up her very own virtual gym during a pandemic on her Instagram, 8500 women subscribed to be trained by her and her set of trainers. She's now going on to open a gym and at the end of last year, I caught up with her to find out about her journey of building a team. So Ciara London, I have to start by saying that I am an absolute fan.
I didn't realise, don't laugh, because I didn't realise at the ripe old age of 30 that I could be influenced and I've been influenced by you. You have, you changed my life.

**Ciara Madden** (2:11)
Thank you. Do you know what, honestly, that's really nice to hear because the word influence or influencer, I've always found really cringe.

**Jamz Supernova** (2:23)
Yeah, it's been tainted, I guess, along the way.

**Ciara Madden** (2:25)
Yeah, and I feel like this year, it's funny because you're someone who I respect and actually, there are a lot of women, generally women, who have sort of said the same thing to me and they're also women I respect. And it's like, it's so nice to hear that from people who you're like, you're doing your thing, you know, and you're doing your thing over here and you're doing your thing over here. And it's so nice to hear that.
You feel like you've been influenced by me in a positive way without it being a cringey influencer style. I don't know if that does that make any sense?

**Jamz Supernova** (3:01)
Yeah, yeah, no, 100% no, it makes complete sense. I mean, like, you know, for me, I've been working out with you since, you know, March or April 2020 And working out consistently, I mean, I've never worked out this much in my life.
And that's kind of what it is, is having sort of, you know, someone that you can kind of look to or be part of a squad is what you've created and be part of something and stick to it. I think I wouldn't have stuck to it had it have just been me in the gym on my own. So I guess the first question just to sort of like set the scene is like, where did your fitness journey begin?

**Ciara Madden** (3:36)
Like from young, young, young, young, young, and my mum was always like, my mum runs marathons. So she's 60 and she still goes out running like a few times a week or swimming. She's pretty active. And from a young age, found it quite important that me and my siblings were active.
You know, like I'm from a working class family, like I'm Irish, my dad's a decorator.