Conversations with Cambrie Schroeder

how are you doing so good? How are you? I'm good. It's been forever, I know. Wow, crazy, crazy crazy, So will you give maybe the listeners a little intro as to who you are? What we're starting right off the bat? Awesome? So yeah, I'm Cambridge rode around, the founder out Fit with Cambrie, who helped how inspire women to improve their wellness. Um,

it's for women of all kinds. We want to just feel better and that's the great thing that we aspire to teach is that it doesn't matter what you look like, it doesn't matter your body shape. Health is a feeling, So it's super inclusive and that's something that we really

try to convey our messages and our content and our products. Yes, I remember when you I don't know if I remember when you started Fit with Cambrie, which is Cambrie's brand, and she has you know, so many you have like training videos on YouTube from that I remember from like back in the day, and then you've expanded into like protein powders and different equipment, and you've helped so many young girls transform from like the most insane before and after photos, um, and I want to know like how

you got into that and where this love for fitness and health started. Yeah, So I felt I grew up in Hollywood industry similar like Olivia. We come from similar backgrounds of how many parents who are in the industry and me personally, I felt like I was lacking support and guidance in my life. I didn't I wanted to be healthy and feel good, and I didn't have a

mentor or the tools to get there. And so I went on a journey of trying to find people to surround myself that would help guide me through my personal journey and that I wanted to then help inspire others who might feel alone or lost in their process and be the guidance that I needed for them. So we

started off. I started off teaching dance classes to girls and mouth but though some of our mutual friends, and then I wanted to be able to reach more people besides just my smaller community, and knew that would be through products that could help change their lives. Through just you know, making a nice protein smoothie in the morning. Just by doing that you could start yourself on a positive trend of feeling better. So that's where it started.

You was kind of like trial and error for you, because I think I can relate to growing up in l A and growing up in this kind of world where you feel like you have to look a certain way and put on like a certain image, and definitely I feel like I'm still dealing with it of trying to like fit in and waking up some mornings and being like, oh I I don't look good enough, or now I look this way or whatever it is, and

how did you how do you feel like you? Um, I don't know, just kind of like honed in and focused on the health aspect of it, so it was like healthy to you instead of feeling like, oh, I have to do this for a certain image or look. Yeah, I definitely felt that pressure for many, many years, and I realized it took me nowhere and I never felt good And you never feel good enough and never feel

pretty enough, you never feel accepted enough. So once I kind of understood that that's not where my wellness would lie, I went the journey of understanding that that can be through you and good and how do you feel good? That's about taking care of yourself, nourishing your body, surrounding yourself with people who are living a healthy life style

that you can learn and grow from. So it took me a long time to like go of like you don't want to with having a certain image or be accepted and um, so that's been the journey that I've been on, and I hope to inspire other people to put more emphasis on feeling good instead of looking a certain way. And that's that we all equally have the ability to do yes. And you know what I'm also

really curious about. Obviously you've said you're from l A. We come from very similar like backgrounds and lifestyles, but you moved, you kind of got out of that whole atmosphere, and I'm wondering was that just because you want to change? Was there something that was holding you back? What are the differences that you notice within yourself from leaving Los Angeles. I feel like I needed just a you when you're going through, when you're wanting to change, being in the

environment that was maybe hard to grow in. It's almost impossible to make changes in the environment that could have been toxic for you. So I felt like I needed to remove myself to see things clear, to work and focus on on myself. And that doesn't mean, you know, like I'm never going to move back to LA or New York or be in those places, but it was hard for me to manage some of the social pressures and you know, the culture as I was trying to evolve and grow in that was very hard. Um. So yeah,

I'm saying now time between Miami and Ecuador. Oddly Ecuador my boy, Yeah, oh no way. So he's there and we've just been going like months a month back and forth between Miami and Ecuador, and UM, it's been awesome because I've really been able to focus on expanding. It was Cambrie. We have in supplement line that we currently have, but technologies that we're developing. We have plans for three years in the works of expanding our line of groundbreaking technology.

So I've really been able to put my focus on my passion and not be distracted by things, you know that that are hard for me to manage right now. I love that. Okay, So I think that this is a pretty general question I see a lot with any time I'm having somebody that's created their own business come on or on my YouTube, people are always wondering how

do you start? Like where do you start? And let's say somebody wants to create any sort of line of something that they're passionate about, what were your first starting steps to get to where you are now? I think the important thing with wanting to start and starting to be a business owner, which is also has become like a trend almost right now, like a lot of people and there's like starting their own brands and and I

think that's great. But I have a vision of wanting to be like a you know, I have a dream of point I p O and having a corporation. We have a full staff of a huge company. And there's a difference between being a startup and you know, wanting to just like launch a like you know, whatever it is you want to launch and wanting to take it to the growth of being a public company. That's the transition that I've been in because I have been a startup.

I started with Cambrie when I was eighteen and twenty five now, so I've been in the journey of you know, anyone can these days start a company. So what is it that makes it different of taking it to that next level? Which is the journey I've been going through. And the biggest thing that I can say is is surrounding yourself with experts who in the field, who who can help guide you because doing it alone and doing anything alone, it's challenging, and the more supporting guidance you

have the better. Also, just perseverance. Every day is a challenge. Every day is a challenge comes up that you know could almost take you out. So having that resilience to just wake up and be that like, have that entrepreneur mentality this is this is this is plan A and there is no plan B. So that's in my day to this. What's the hardest thing's been through with that process. There's been everything from like because we do rigorous testing

on our supplements. We put them through like a lot of testing before they make it out of the warehouse. So there's been batches before We've been sold out for you know, six months, and the cash flow stops because we're sold out, but still there's there's salaries to maintain and the financial pressure is still there and there's nothing

to sell. So and then the batch comes back and it's contaminated with something and we have to for the whole batch away that that is stressful just thinking about it. But that's probably one of the hardest things that I've I've been through is is not knowing UM. Also with the with COVID, and there's been a lot of issues in recording, and we get our products from all over the world, resources quality from all over the world, so there's been a lot of issues with logistics, UM things

that are out of your control. Which you're entrepreneur, you want to be in control of everything, which is just impossible. So I think that learning to for me, I see this as a lifelong journey and to let control the day today has been been part of the plan here. That's amazing, honestly that you keep persevering through it, because if that happened to me, I would have a panic attack, genuinely. So I know that you have to have a strong

mentality to get through it. And I remember when this has to be years ago now, but your YouTube videos when you would be fit with Cambrie like packaging the protein powders to ship them out in your apartment. So do you still ship them out yourself or now do you have like a factory or manufacture something? That I love that you've been able to see the growth and the thing because, like Olivia saying, we started, I bought

one protein at a time. So buy one protein, I would sell it, ship it out my self, pack it up and then you know, so ten of time, hundreds of time, and then I had, you know, had to figure out you know, okay, it can't be sending my whole dage packaging boxes. Now we have a full we have a full warehouse, ship impact facility. It's crazy how much we've grown and expanded, so tens of thousands of units a month. That's so insane. It is really fun that you've been able to document it too, so you

can go back yourself and look at the growth. And then people that have been on the journey with you for a while. What makes your product different than the rest, and what research are you putting in that's different from somebody else's protein powder. So it's also been a challenge because there has been now a trend, as I'm sure you've seen, of a lot of like gut health supplements

and like a bunch of protein. It's like a whole trend right now, and that's been hard to face because I've needed to grow the people inside of my company to help guide me, to give me better direction. But anyways, what makes the Gaber Supplements different is we have a board of in house experts who help develop the formulas the highest quality potency that can really have an effect

on your health. I noticed that a lot of companies put such small quantities that doesn't really it's a lot cheaper to do that way that it doesn't have much effect on on your health. Whereas we we are adamant on having super high potent, the highest quality formulas that really can improve your health. For example, our greens powder. A lot of people just think, you know, greens are healthy, and greens are greens are amazing and so essential to

have in our diet. But if they aren't combined with fiber. They sometimes just go right through you and can cause like stomach senses, sensitivities and irritate your your gut. So a lot of people think, like I'm gonna be healthy, drink a bunch of green juice a bunch of stomach pains. So we made sure to formulate our greens powder with a fiber blend inside so that your body can, your gut can more easily and more effectively absorb the nutrients

that you're ingesting. So we really make our products well rounded. For example, our protein powder, we combine with healthy fats and carbs in the right amount of protein for women to digest, because you know, some proteins are so much protein it as your stomach ache, you're feeling completely sick afterwards.

So we really want to make we take me being a woman and working with a board of experts who understand the needs of women, we have created products that will help the specifics the specific needs of women with their gut health with protein and take wanting to you know, building muscle um. All of our products are super well rounded in that sense that we look after the needs of women, their gut health and and their hormones there, the ability of their hormones to build or not build muscle,

and how much protein it needs to get that done. Okay, So I feel like there's a lot of science behind this, obviously, and I think for me, I like to like at least attempt to have a healthy lifestyle, but I don't know the ins and outs of everything. What's the importance of having protein? Do you have protein every day? What's like?

What do you tell people in your guide on fit with Cambrie, like what a day of eating should look like, because I think some people have a misconception that like, carbs are really bad and you should only eat really lean sort of protein and no carbs at all and no refined sugar. And what would you say is like, I guess maintainable as well, because I think when you restrict yourself that much, it becomes a little unrealistic totally. So the first part of the question I love that

you asked is why do you need protein? Like, but what does that do for your body? And when you learn about what protein does for your body, you also almost want to drink it more because you're like, Okay, I really I want these effects. But protein is based off of amino acids. And amino acids are the building blocks for so many things of our body. Our hair is built up, amino acids are nails. Every organ in our body needs amino acids to function properly. So people

they protein like, oh, I'm just gonna get mussel. It's to optimize every part of your body. So if you're looking, you know, you want to have feel good and maybe have like thicker hair and stronger nails. Protein is essential. So protein is essential in every meal, regardless if you're working out or not. Mhm. And then with just overall eating um and something that could be maintainable for people to apply into their day to day life is to

just focus on having well balanced meals. Protein, carbs, fat, fiber. Like you said, people sometimes they're afraid of eating. Cards and carbs are so essential for not only build it helping to build we muscle, to build we muscle mass, but also for our gut health. Carbs help our body absorb nutrients better. Specifically, my favorite is oats. Oats are

the best. So if you can have, you know, a breakfast with oats, it will help your digestion so much and combine it, you know, with a scrip of protein or a side of eggs. Try to get in every food group. The more variety you can have in your diet, the better. The more range of vitamins you can get in, the better. Um. And that's the thing about health as it doesn't need to be an overwhelming, daunting, you know journey.

It can be just one day at a time, learning to adding a little more protein, drink a little bit more water. Sometimes even having a rest day or sleeping or taking the morning off that can be considered a healthy choice. So it's really about listening to your body, understanding what your body is feels like it needs in that day. Maybe you need a big your breakfast, maybe you need to not have such a big breakfast. Really, learning and understanding your body is is super important on

your health journey. Yeah, and you've been pretty open throughout the years about how you kind of restricted your diet when you were a little bit younger or over exercising. How did you find that healthy balance m hm. So that's one of the great things is that I I've been open of my journey. I used to struggle with horrible cystic acne um, thinning hair, low energy, and it came from a lot of different things of wanting to restrict, which fell into the habits me maybe restricting or overeating.

And through my journey of learning what true health is, I've been able to find balance in understanding that health. I think my my perception of what I wanted to be maybe thin or beautiful, has changed. Instead of it being this on the physical aspect of you know, wanting to look a certain way, it's changed to how I want to feel. And when you live your life based and choose your healthy choices based on how you want to feel, it changes completely because if you want to

feel good, that might mean having toast with bacon. Um, well bacon. You know, we don't want to have every single day, but some days we need to treat ourselves. And learning that I've been having bacon literally every single day for like two weeks, and I finally said this morning, I was like, Okay, I need to stop, which is

just so random and funny, but I'm obsessed but bacon. Like, you know, there are properties in moderation of foods that you people might think like it's not healthy to have, but changing your mentality of you know, there are health benefits maybe in bacon once in a while, keyword once in a while. I need to like take that advice for myself. That's so funny, But how can you learn?

Like I think a lot of but ask me because they see I'll post something and like a workout outfit, and I have no answers because I've done absolutely no studying or research. So I'm just kind of like pushing the questions onto you, but learning to listen to your body and figuring out like this is what I need this day, and this is what I don't need to do. Mm hmm totally. So it I was before this in a phase of training to be a professional boxer where I was working out twice a day in sane diet

and sane routine, and I reached a complete burnout. And so I have been on the extremes of all the spectrums and then like not wanting to work out because I don't have the motivation to understanding that health is, you know, having good active daily physical activity to get your heart rate up, to get the blood circulation, focusing it on more on how you're going to feel. But practice, if you can practice, for me, what helped transition from

to find balance in listening to myself was scheduling. I needed to first make a schedule for myself that I felt was achievable and manageable. So, for example, UM, I recommend people to do to to do at least to do two to five maximum workouts a week UM, and then schedule in your rest days the weekends. I love to rest, um even the weekends I like to go out and have a treatment with my boyfriend. And and so making a schedule that you feel like when you

look at it your week it looks balanced. There's health and wellness and relaxing and enjoy So it really helps when you can map it out and make a plan in a schedule to kind of follow. And see. Obviously you've always been absolutely drop dead gorgeous, but looking at you on this zoom and I haven't seen you in so long. I mean, you seriously are like glowing from within, and your hair it's so bright in here. I'm like,

I'm trying to figure out. No, you look so good though, and your hair looks so like thick and long and healthy and I and your skin actually looks flawless from the zoom, and so I just want to know, like, what does a day in your life look like in terms of what you're putting in your body and the types of exercises you're doing and the length of those, just because I think that will be really helpful a for me, I'm selfishly asking, and then be for people

listening that don't really know where to start. So my I'll go through just a typical day. So I wake up at six thirty, I have well I'm having another one today, but I have Glowing Greens which is our Greens powder with my favorite juice, okay, with a fruit like a banana or an apple pre workout. So before your workout, you want quick fast side your sting energy boost of that's easily accomplished through sugars um and the green.

Our Greens powder has caffeine from green tea, so you have a more effective workout when you have a little bit of fuel and energy in the caffeine from our green teeth. So I have that pre workout. Post workout, I have a protein smoothie with our protein powder, fruit, almond, butter ice, you know, just a nice protein smothe oral

to protein pancakes or protein waffles or protein oatmeal. That's my morning routine always if i'm not working out, I just take away the fruit from my green so I'll have my greens with whatever breakfast I'm having, I don't have the extra piece of fruit. Then workout wise, I love to do resistance training. Weight training. It's some of the best ways to boost your metabolism and the best way to get shape and tone to your tonality to

your body. So it definitely focus on weight training instead of like cardio or you know a lot you get a lot more result from doing heavyweight training. I found from all of the different classes and all the different styles of training I've done. So I do an upper weight day super heavy like arms and chest and upper body and court, and then another day I do lower body legs, foody calves and court. So at least one upper day, one lower day, and one in one cardio

day a week, so three days a week. If you can do that one upper day, one lower day, one cardio day, that's the perfect recipe for your workouts. And then if you want to go on a walk or hide the other day or whatever. But I always I always get in those three days. For lunch and dinner,

it's always the same. I do a portion of protein lots of greens of salad or vegetables, a carb rice, keen wa bread, um pasta, and then for snacks, I listened to my audy of how I feel, um apples and almond butter, one of my favorite dark chocolate, dark choc with me all the time and love dark chocolate. It's amazing because it's a high potency of antioxidants. And what antioxidants do is it helps your body eliminate toxins that could be sitting in your liver and kidneys. So

aging happens when there's stress on the body. And what's so interesting is that aging can happen at any age. I know I'm going off onto a different topic, but please, aging can happen at any age um with when you have stress on your body. So that's an important concept I feel like for all of us to know is aging doesn't only happen when you're sixty. It can happen when you're eighteen years old, depending on the lifestyle, how

much strain you're putting on your body. That's why there's some eighteen there's some twenty year olds that look a lot healthier than other twenty year olds because of the lifestyle choices. So that's something that I've learn about chocolate is it's a great way to get rid of any built up toxins if it's you know, of course, like dark chocolate, not like a TwixT bar or something. Right. Oh, that's kind of nice, so people will love to hear that.

So I have dark chocolate every day. Um, dark chocolate every day, and you know snacks I've always Then it's great if you can mix a fat in a car, that will keep you a little fuller for longer. So if you're gonna have a fruit habit with a handful of nuts, um, if you're gonna have banana, maybe it was some dark chocolate, it will really help keep you fuller for longer and not spike your blood sugar levels

and then they crash sooner. So you just have more stability all throughout the day, and your body can burn more all throughout the day, and you can optimize feeling better. Got it? Okay, Well I'm curious because I feel like anytime I surround myself with maybe certain friends or certain partners or whatever it is, you can either gain motivation or fall into a different type of habit. And I know you've been dating your boyfriend for quite a few

years now, right, Yeah, gonna be three years in August. Wow, So does his lifestyle align with yours? And if it doesn't, then how do you maintain it on your own? And if it does, well, then I guess that's great. Thankfully, my current boyfriend and hopefully future husband do align on a lot of things, including nutrition and wellness. So that has been a huge blessing because we really do help. He helps keep me in check if I'm not really motivated.

We help motivate and inspire each other, and that's made it a lot easier. Previous relationships have definitely not been the case, and m definitely not one of the best times of my life for my health too, so that there's no coincidence that your relationships do influence the decisions. So I definitely would recommend having support system that lives the life that you want to aspire to have, because

otherwise it's just another challenge that's really hard to face. Yeah, through though, it is possible to make healthy choices with people who don't necessarily want to live that lifestyle. For example, my family, they're not super into health and wellness. They love like treats and you know, my mom wakes up and has like a Snickers bar and pat and I grew up with like, you know, tons of processed foods,

and I was always able to make it work. So I just had my independence and like I would have my little hard of the pantry that was like my snacks and my healthy, little weird things that nobody understood, and I just made it made it work. Yeah, what type of things are you kind of working on or upcoming or is there something you're really focused on? I know you said that with it with Kambrie. You have like three years down the line of product and stuff

that you're thinking of doing and planning right now. But is there anything else here like specifically focusing on. We really are focusing on expanding the product line. Like I said, with the supply chain issues, we have to plan where like three to five years in advance of inventory of planning the next products. So we have awesome products coming out with new technologies that help your body absorbed even better. So definitely look out for our new products. They're gonna

be right now. Our current products are great stable day today. You know, everyone can have no matter your lifestyle, no matter what you're doing, your job, you're in school, or not to help you just feel better. The products that we're developing are like groundbreaking technology. So that's super exciting. I feel like it's gonna it's gonna take a catapult us, you know, to the next level. That's super exciting. Um, we're working on I do cleanses and detoxes, but we're

working on cleanses with more focused on specific goals. So instead of like you know, wanting to look good for summer, which can come with you know, maybe restrictive eating because summers two weeks away. Shoot, whatever we're gonna do, We're focusing on cleanses that can help improve your health for example, or next one it's going to be how to eat for your gut and that's something that can be applied all year long that will really that will really have

long term effects on your health. So we're working on specific cleanses and foods to incorporate in your diet that will improve your hair, your health, and UM, that's super exciting. Yes, are you still doing the because I remember the cleanses you're kind of talking about. You would do it like you'd sell them on your website or sometimes they'd be like free with like with the emails and you you

still do that. Yeah, so we still do that. And we're working on a new one called UM focused for your Gut Health, so that one will be coming out soon to help teach people what foods UM some tips on to incorporate easy tips. For example, one of the tips is add variety to your diet. So I know a lot of people can get from my experience for myself and the habit of having the same thing for breakfast, same thing for lunch for like you know, or until you're sick of it and then you want something else.

So the more variety you can get in your diet, the better for your gut and your health, because you're the microbiome the bacterias, and your gut can expand and you'll have more variety of bacteria and your stomach, which will help your gut be stronger, will give you more access to different vitamins and nutrients. So it really is focusing on having a nutrient dense diet that will your body can absorb and that will come out and how you feel, how you look, and and and a lot

of improvements in your life. Wow. Okay, well I feel like I've learned a lot this episode. If people want to buy your products, you sell on fit with Cambrie dot com. Correct, but with Cambrie dot com. For anyone who's in my audience listening or Olivia's audience, you can you just code women twenty five off your first for just how exciting. Well, thank you so much for coming on the podcast and you know, teaching about anything to

do with health and wellness, especially for me. I'm so passionate about it, but I have no idea what I'm talking about, So this is great, not only selfishly, but for those listening as well. Thank you so much for giving you the opportunity to speak on this platform. And I'm so happy to see that you're doing well and I hope to see you soon. I know you too. Okay, bye, guys, thanks for listening. Hi,