12. Joanna Weintritt from Fitness Soul

Joanna is a Fitness Instructor and PT who has been in the fitness industry for 15 years, teaching different classes and presenting at fitness conventions around the world. In 2014 Joanna and her husband Leszek opened Fitness Soul Studio, a fitness and wellbeing hub based in Tennant Street in Leith, offering a wide range of fitness classes, programmes, services, workshops, wellness getaways and more. Joanna tells us about building the amazing community at Fitness Soul, what inspires the energy in her famous Zumba classes, and about achieving her own fitness goals in learning to swim and completing Ironman. We talk a lot about cold water swimming, how it helped Joanna’s depression, and how Joanna and Leszek are hosting cold water swimming sessions at Granton beach that anyone can sign up to. The BBC documentary Joanna talks about is The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs: A Soothing Swim. You can find out more about Fitness Soul at fitnesssoul.co.uk.