Evolution Fitness Conference

Exciting Latin & International dance moves, new choreography techniques, and a non-stop, get-down-and-dance, calorie burning, high-energy workout! The Zumba Cardio Party is the hit workout at ALL the top fitness conventions worldwide! This high-intensity workout will challenge your muscles and mind like never before. So let’s get the Party started!

Seats Available: 130

Transform yourself into a tough and agile boxer, gracious ballerina and hip street dancer all in one workout! PILOXING is the first program that blends the muscle sculpting of Pilates, the strengthening and cardio of boxing, and the fun and sensuality of dance into a high energy cardio workout. Using the most current science PILOXING incorporates formats such as interval and barefoot training to burn maximum calories and increase stamina. This new workout is attracting die hard followers including Hollywood celebrities and international stars and has been featured on TV shows such as The Doctors, Access Hollywood, and ET! and in magazines including Shape, Fitness Magazine, Redbook, O Magazine, Elle, Vogue, OK!, People and US Weekly.

Seats Available: 160

Yoga is always a certain challenge for group fitness - try this special class with specific targeting exercises that may be modified for multi level participants. Deep spine muscles fire up by using the flexi - bar and a special breathing technique that stimulate the nerve system. Learn a special yoga teaching technique and combine the benefits of incorporating the FLEXI-BAR®.

Seats Available: 45

This training workshop will give you a perfect solution to the “I don’t have time to exercise” dilemma. Nordic Walking offers a full-body workout from the moment you step outside your front door. The days of taking time to drive to exercise are over. This walking workout with poles increases endurance, strengthens the upper and lower body and it takes stress off the ankle, knee and hip joints. It is suitable for any age and any fitness level.

Seats Available: 20

Join R.I.P.P.E.D. and the Body Confidence nutrition team, for this ‘tell all’ lecture on fat burning secrets that will take your body to the next level. Know Why Dieting Fails; Discover the Power of Blood Sugar Stabilization; Implement Your 3 Step System. You won't want to miss this opportunity to meet the team and find out why this program is so successful with top athletes and celebrities around the world.

Seats Available: 75

Calling all GLEEks! Come learn the GLEE numbers that made you jump off the couch and wish you were in the club. Dance your teen angst away, then let Julz show you how to simplify any music video or TV performance into something your classes can use to melt calories and win at Regionals!

Seats Available: 95

R.I.P.P.E.D® is a "Plateau Proof Fitness Formula" that masterfully combines Resistance, Interval, Power, Plyometrics, and Endurance training in a 50-minute workout. The program is rounded off with a full service online Diet and Nutrition tool. You are guaranteed to lose pounds and inches, increase your metabolism, sculpt lean muscles, and improve overall cardio vascular performance. While at the same time feel your energy and strength go through the roof, and have a blast doing it.

Seats Available: 130

Learn the differences between flexibility for your classes and understanding the benefits of mobility. These terms will no longer be confusing, but a tremendous help in learning to teach increasing range of motion and motor control. You will learn the scientific rational to stretch a muscle or groups of muscle and put them into practice today.

Seats Available: 50

As fitness professionals we pride ourselves in obtaining the best skills for preventing overuse and injury in order to protect our customers. Come learn how to protect the hip flexors, and shoulder and knee joints from unnecessary pain. Take away unique ways to educate the public on the difference between pushing the body and pushing the body over the injury edge. Barre classes can be safe and addictive all at the same time.

Seats Available: 50

Simply put, The Art of Sculpt is muscle work 'haute couture'. If you‚re looking to become a serious sculpt artist, this interactive lecture gives you the assessment tools and the programming skills to hone in on personalized training techniques for clients and group exercise participants with a modern approach to resistance training methodology and practical fundamentals for advanced, result-oriented sculpt design. First, you‚ll learn how the kinesiology of body typing affects exercise selection and programming. Next, Linda takes you beyond sculpting basics. Learn the intricate, finite points of targeted muscle work, body positioning and transitions to effectively combine and create exercise movements and patterns. You‚ll get in-depth, practical information and scientific application to help you design resourceful, unique and exciting resistance training programs. If you‚ve been stuck for new routines, this program is the perfect answer to "Where do I go from here?"

Seats Available: 70

Dance formats are HOT! But, let’s face it … many dance programs leave members on the outside looking in. Ever noticed members casing the studio; hanging out on ellipticals and watching through the windows? They want to be part of the fun but fear they won’t know the moves or won’t be able to ‘move that way’. Enter Hip Hop Hustle™ where we encourage you to find an alter ego and let it shine. Discover the ‘secret sauce’ to making dance work for you and your nay saying, non-dancy types. Find creative ways to sneak dance into any class you teach and how to add the “SO WHAT” factor to help people break out of their comfort zone! Whether you think you can dance or you’ve always been a wallflower, it’s time to put on your dancin’ shoes.

Seats Available: 100

COREBAR™ HIT represents both High Intensity Training and the "Best-Of" songs from the previous COREBAR™ releases! COREBAR™, a revolutionary weighted bar, has been a huge success in Scandanavia for the last five years—Rock concert, or workout? It's time to get hooked, have fun, train hard, and feel great!

Seats Available: 70

Flashback!! The New Old School Workout!!! The music takes you back, but the workout takes you forward! This low impact, basic dance-fitness class is designed for anybody! Yes, that means you! If you think you are uncoordinated and have been afraid to a try dance-fitness workout, rest assured that Milo’s training method will get you moving without worry. You'll have so much fun, you'll forget all that! The workout is intense, but you can work at your own pace and level. You'll get out of it, what you put in. This class is uplifting, inspiring and always gets rave reviews from students around the world.

Seats Available: 150

Functional Integrated Resistance & Stabilization Training is a comprehensive workshop that will show you how to develop and execute an integrated workout that your students will be talking about (and feeling) for days! Building integrated exercises for all fitness levels, transitions, progressions and regressions will be just part of this fun and interactive workshop.

Seats Available: 50

Most people think fitness can be nothing more than a hobby. What if there were ways to maintain your lifestyle and follow your true passion—HAVING YOUR OWN FITNESS BIZ. Whether you are looking for an idea that will earn you a little extra income or one to build life-changing profits, it helps to know what options you have. Learn more about the various fitness and wellness business opportunities available. Isn’t it time to follow your dream? Find out how to be a part of the action and buff up your clients and careers in one strong sweep!

Seats Available: 75

Take your body, mind and heart out of its comfort zone and go breathless in this state of the art Tabata inspired cardio workout. Breathless body is a thoughtfully designed interval drill based program.

Seats Available: 85

Never thought mind-body formats could be your thing? We’ve been there. We know we should do it, but some of us need to find a class that meets us where we are and encourages us to explore where we need to go! Thank you, PiYo™ Strength! Designed to be a mind-body inspired workout that moves, discover ways to embrace the mat and bring pilates and yoga benefits to those that might have resisted in the past. Not sure you can be quiet for an hour? Ain’t worth it unless you’re dripping? Trouble keeping still for more than 2 seconds? We’ve gotcha covered. Experience a no equipment, strength workout with a side of core and flexibility that will leave you rocked from head to toe. Whether you decide you want to teach the format or take away pieces to use for core classes and cool downs, PiYo™ Strength will make the mat your friend.

Seats Available: 100

Knowing how to progress or regress any exercise will allow you to teach successful classes to all populations. There is a simple formula in understanding assessment to change the intensity to fit any need. To be safe, effective and challenging is the goal to great classes, now let’s learn how.

Seats Available: 55

Nordic Walking is an enhancement of regular walking. First learn some simple steps in regular walking to majorly improve your Nordic Walking technique. Then you will be ready to try out Malin’s walking workout featured in the April 2010 issue of Fitness magazine. As presented in her book Outdoor Adventures: Nordic Walking (Human Kinetics May 2009), this specific session is without poles.

Seats Available: 30

Personal Wellness proudly presents the “How to lose body fat while you sleep” program! A revolutionary program that transforms a fat storing body into a fat burning machine! This is a proven program that empowers your body to start working for you instead of against you! You can have the trim, healthy fit body you want and still enjoy eating. Instead of starving your body, instead of dieting, you can reach your desired results by following sound, proven healthy principles designed & tested by Personally Fit LLC. In a motivational and educational format individuals will learn techniques to rev-up a sluggish metabolism, secrets to tone and firm their body, strategies to increase vitality and energy, proven steps to decrease unwanted body fat even while they sleep!

Seats Available: 80

“What’s intense, easy to follow and is a fantastic workout? Zumba Toning® – The Workout. Learn how to sculpt and tone your body by incorporating the hottest and most challenging choreography using the Zumba Toning Sticks. The Zumba Toning Workout will get your heart and muscles pumping while you are dancing to the new Zumba routines. This class is your opportunity to expand your fitness knowledge in a fun and brand new way!

Seats Available: 150

R.I.P.P.E.D® is a "Plateau Proof Fitness Formula" that masterfully combines Resistance, Interval, Power, Plyometrics, and Endurance training in a 50-minute workout. The program is rounded off with a full service online Diet and Nutrition tool. You are guaranteed to lose pounds and inches, increase your metabolism, sculpt lean muscles, and improve overall cardio vascular performance. While at the same time feel your energy and strength go through the roof, and have a blast doing it.

Seats Available: 75

Feel the proof that you can burn calories, sculpt your muscles, improve flexibility, and strengthen your connective tissue in less than 60 minutes. This training formula is one that many European Athletes' actively use - physical therapy at its best. Join the class and test what it means to train deep utilizing the amazing XCO-Trainer®! This workout guarantees power, strength, motivation and energy. Combine the perfect combination of power, athleticism, and brain work, fine-tuned to fitting music - nothing for sissies!

Seats Available: 80

With Barre programs popping up on every street corner like coffee shops in Seattle, it’s time for you to launch your own program. Learn how to develop and build a stand-alone program right in your facility. Take away the basic format needs, the ability to differentiate your program and the confidence to build your classes.

Seats Available: 40

Ever wonder why you or your clients aren't getting the results you want? Having a dreaded mid-life body crisis. Find out the physiological, hormonal and psychological reasons and solutions to common weight gain, hot flashes, mass shifts, health risks, energy and sex drive issues.

Seats Available: 50

Join Equinox Fitness Clubs "All Star" instructors for this calorie burning, muscle-pumping workout. Several of Equinox's innovative and cutting edge group fitness programs will featured in this master class. From integrated sculpting to Tabata drills we promise you an incredible workout experience that only Equinox can deliver!

Seats Available: 155

Seats Available: 8

Acoustic Yogahhh! Acoustic music has layers, depth, clarity, character and most of all…breathing room. Come experience this simple, uncluttered approach in a Yoga flow that is yummy for the mind, body and soul partnered with the perfect soundtrack of stripped down hits. Say, ahhhh…

Seats Available: 60

Breakthrough solution-based programs (PEAK 10 and LOSE TO WIN) that will increase your personal training revenue and turn a group exercise room into a successful profit center. Peak 10 is an 8-week group fitness fat loss program that uses our unique “Climb to the Peak” system of metabolic circuits designed to challenge, inspire and transform lives of your club members. Lose to Win is an 8 week small group fat loss program that will support, educate and train new members looking to lose 10-20lbs working with a trainer in a small group. In this workshop, you’ll find out how Breakthru Fitness brings in over $100k a year with these programs, selling out well over 100 spots per session. Presenting the COMPLETE SYSTEM--- training program, business package and opportunities with Peak 10 and LOSE TO WIN, showing participants how they can bring these programs to their clubs. Peak 10 and Lose to Win are replicable, scalable, and most importantly, true profit opportunities. Why are we in it? Driving Profits while Transforming Bodies and Lives! See how we do it.

Seats Available: 70

Pregnancy is a vital time for moms to stay in shape. Join Lauri Reimer, prenatal exercise specialist, and learn about the advantages of exercising during pregnancy. Lecture includes physiological and anatomical changes of pregnancy, ACOG guidelines, latest research, benefits and limitations of exercising during the childbearing year. Learn several safe and effective pregnancy-specific take-home exercises as well as modifications for pregnant students in prime time classes.

Seats Available: 30

Make every class you teach the talk of the town by simply changing your approach to class preparation, delivery and post-class clean up! Powder Blue formats (Turbo Kick®, Hip Hop Hustle™ and PiYo™) are known for their laid back, fun approach to fitness that pack studios world-wide. The success is no accident. Come learn the 7 simple steps used by Powder Blue instructors that help create a party-like atmosphere designed to take your classes from backyard, Bar-B-Q fun to an Oscar After Party, WOW experience that will leave guests talking. From initial planning to day of preparation, as well as examining hosting duties and when to ‘shut it down’, you will take home a goody bag that will keep on giving. Want to pack your classes? Don’t miss THIS party!

Seats Available: 80

Experience and learn about this total body workout, utilizing resistance and body weight, which masterfully combines the components of R.I.P.P.E.D.--- Resistance, Intervals, Power, Plyometrics and Endurance along with Diet suggestions to help you attain and maintain your physique in ways that are fun, safe, doable and extremely effective. The deliberate combination of the R.I.P.P.E.D. elements and how they are precisely organized in the R.I.P.P.E.D. class format provide the basis for the One Stop Body Shock System, by stimulating both, different energy systems and muscles in each workout segment. Along with driving, motivating music, participants jam through R.I.P.P.E.D. with smiles, determination and strength. No boredom here, for all levels, R.I.P.P.E.D. is effective, it’s tough yet doable; R.I.P.P.E.D. will absolutely challenge your levels of fitness and endurance!

Seats Available: 80

Mainstream Mat Meld is an eclectic blend of yoga and Pilates, intertwining both movement and breath from these disciplines without losing the integrity of the philosophies on which they were based. In this workshop, you'll learn how to use the ABC's and BLUprint of Mainstream Mat to create a solid foundation for teaching fully integrated yoga and Pilates classes. The Mainstream Mat Meld program--the Beginning, the Continuum and the Renewal is a creative, mindful exploration that can challenge any level.

Seats Available: 50

Come experience the 30 essential exercises that any great instructor will have in their back pocket when it comes to programming a strength training class. Core, compound and single joint create the goals and changing intensities will establish the progressions. This will be the start to endless options for incredible classes.

Seats Available: 70

Join health and wellness experts from Personal Wellness as they share the latest research in slowing the aging process and show participants a scientifically proven, clinically tested, government approved secret formula that is proven to: • Increase productivity • Decrease the risk of heart disease • Increase a sluggish metabolism • Increase energy • Decrease body fat • Increase strength • Decrease the risk of osteoporosis • Decrease stress • Decrease anxiety • Slow the aging process This unique presentation will show participants “The secret formula” that will allow them to have the healthy, productive and vibrant life they have always wanted!

Seats Available: 70

Exciting Latin & International dance moves, new choreography techniques, and a non-stop, get-down-and-dance, calorie burning, high-energy workout! The Zumba Cardio Party is the hit workout at ALL the top fitness conventions worldwide! This high-intensity workout will challenge your muscles and mind like never before. So let’s get the Party started!

Seats Available: 130

The CORE is considered everything but your legs and arms although your legs and arms are critical to CORE function!  Your core involves a three dimensional cage and below an integrated pelvis both very reactive and great at compensating, often causing significant reactions in all parts of the body .  Therefore, It is essential to understand how to assess and address its function.  This course will cover a live demonstration of function, assessment and exercise recommendations specific to the core.  

Seats Available: 70

A significant muscle strength and endurance class! Blast your body with functional strength, exquisite technique, balance training, and stretching while taking your moves one step further to an advanced level using the Flexi-Bar. Learn new strength training moves and positions that form and strengthen the body’s core

Seats Available: 50

This dynamic vinyasa-style class will journey through fundamental and innovative yoga postures to build a solid practice based on strength and spirit. Through logical sequencing, anatomical considerations, and appropriate modifications and variations, this class will focus on core strength, balance and flow, allowing you to challenge your body and open your mind.

Seats Available: 40

The business of health and fitness is much more difficult than it looks. Making the right career choices and whether or not to go into business for yourself or work for someone else is tough. In this lecture Robert Sherman will help bring insight and new ideas to the side of fitness that is challenging for creative thinkers. You will learn methods of differentiation to set yourself apart and how to look for new markets so your skills can be best utilized. Success is different for each one of us, and learning to create “YOU” as a brand may be your next step.

Seats Available: 70

Join the amazing fitness-dance instructor, Cuba Swift in this fun filled dance workout designed for all levels. This unique concept combines Latin, AfroCuban and Urban Hip Hop rhythms together with Cuba Swift’s creative teaching methods. Cuba’s high energy personality and clean teaching style will ignite the passion and fire in you to break loose on the dance floor! Choreography that combines Salsa with Hip Hop is the perfect combination to burn calories, break a sweat and have a good time in your workout.

Seats Available: 120

Find out how author Sean Foy and partner Diane Paetz have been helping athletes to corporate employees get fit fast, with this unique total body training system based on his highly acclaimed 10-Minute Total Body Breakthrough book. The ideal blend of cardio, strength, stability and flexibility training make this workout the one to DO!

Seats Available: 80

As fitness professionals we pride ourselves in obtaining the best skills for preventing overuse and injury in order to protect our customers. Come learn how to protect the hip flexors, and shoulder and knee joints from unnecessary pain. Take away unique ways to educate the public on the difference between pushing the body and pushing the body over the injury edge. Barre classes can be safe and addictive all at the same time.

Seats Available: 60

Nordic Walking is an enhancement of regular walking. First learn some simple steps in regular walking to majorly improve your Nordic Walking technique. Then you will be ready to try out Malin’s walking workout featured in the April 2010 issue of Fitness magazine. As presented in her book Outdoor Adventures: Nordic Walking (Human Kinetics May 2009), this specific session is without poles.

Seats Available: 20

Breakthrough solution-based programs (PEAK 10 and LOSE TO WIN) that will increase your personal training revenue and turn a group exercise room into a successful profit center. Peak 10 is an 8-week group fitness fat loss program that uses our unique “Climb to the Peak” system of metabolic circuits designed to challenge, inspire and transform lives of your club members. Lose to Win is an 8 week small group fat loss program that will support, educate and train new members looking to lose 10-20lbs working with a trainer in a small group. In this workshop, you’ll find out how Breakthru Fitness brings in over $100k a year with these programs, selling out well over 100 spots per session. Presenting the COMPLETE SYSTEM--- training program, business package and opportunities with Peak 10 and LOSE TO WIN, showing participants how they can bring these programs to their clubs. Peak 10 and Lose to Win are replicable, scalable, and most importantly, true profit opportunities. Why are we in it? Driving Profits while Transforming Bodies and Lives! See how we do it.

Seats Available: 30

This dance fitness workshop fuses a variety of international dance styles and rhythms, and is great for instructors who teach dance-based classes, such as Hip-Hop, Latin, Disco, African and other styles. Learn the tools to create a total-body workout that blends aerobic training and muscle toning. Join the AFAA team of presenters: Lisa Hamlin, Jamie Brittain, Michele Blake, Tiffany Hamlin and Darwin San Luis for a high energy explosion of dance skills and drills.

Seats Available: 70

Transform yourself into a tough and agile boxer, gracious ballerina and hip street dancer all in one workout! PILOXING is the first program that blends the muscle sculpting of Pilates, the strengthening and cardio of boxing, and the fun and sensuality of dance into a high energy cardio workout. Using the most current science PILOXING incorporates formats such as interval and barefoot training to burn maximum calories and increase stamina. This new workout is attracting die hard followers including Hollywood celebrities and international stars and has been featured on TV shows such as The Doctors, Access Hollywood, and ET! and in magazines including Shape, Fitness Magazine, Redbook, O Magazine, Elle, Vogue, OK!, People and US Weekly.

Seats Available: 100

This class is now part of the Milo Dance Contest offered on the Expo Floor - 3:00!

Selecting the appropriate exercises and which products make the most sense has always been challenging until now. Learn the secrets to S.M.A.R.T. training: specific, measurable, activation, reaction and technique focused. This method will provide the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

Seats Available: 50

Join R.I.P.P.E.D. and the Body Confidence nutrition team, for this ‘tell all’ lecture on fat burning secrets that will take your body to the next level. Know Why Dieting Fails; Discover the Power of Blood Sugar Stabilization; Implement Your 3 Step System. You won't want to miss this opportunity to meet the team and find out why this program is so successful with top athletes and celebrities around the world.

Seats Available: 80

It’s true - music makes the people come together (thanks, Madonna!) Most people are motivated by music and turn it up when it’s time to work out. Group Fitness rooms are equipped to get loud and members expect good tunes when they hit the floor. Whether you’re teaching kickboxing, cycling or strength, the music you choose and the way you use it (or don’t) can take your class from good to great! We’ll discuss recent research about music’s effect on exercise intensity, review music structure and how it can be used to help with choreography breakdown, repetition tracking and more, as well as ideas for selecting your soundtrack and cueing without getting lost in the music. Whether you’re new to teaching and haven’t quite mastered the phrase thing or a vet looking to be inspired, this workshop is for you. We’ll finish with a fabulous TurboKick® class that will highlight just how much music matters.

Seats Available: 80

R.I.P.P.E.D® is a "Plateau Proof Fitness Formula" that masterfully combines Resistance, Interval, Power, Plyometrics, and Endurance training in a 50-minute workout. The program is rounded off with a full service online Diet and Nutrition tool. You are guaranteed to lose pounds and inches, increase your metabolism, sculpt lean muscles, and improve overall cardio vascular performance. While at the same time feel your energy and strength go through the roof, and have a blast doing it.

Seats Available: 90

This creative muscle strength and endurance workshop will establish the tools and moves needed for a co-contraction of muscles that will guarantee higher protection of the spine and joints. The added benefits of incorporating the XCO-Trainer® and reactive impact will be demonstrated while new moves, dynamic class formats, creative transition, and effective training principal are just a part of this highly informative workshop session.

Seats Available: 60

This training workshop will give you a perfect solution to the “I don’t have time to exercise” dilemma. Nordic Walking offers a full-body workout from the moment you step outside your front door. The days of taking time to drive to exercise are over. This walking workout with poles increases endurance, strengthens the upper and lower body and it takes stress off the ankle, knee and hip joints. It is suitable for any age and any fitness level.

Seats Available: 30

Whether we sit, run, lift, throw – squatting becomes the foundation of how many other movements are built.  However, each squat is different – a squat isn’t a squat which isn’t a squat- in function there are millions of different types of squatting.  Many of the rules we as fitness professional have been exposed to is based on the sport of squatting not the FUNCTION of squatting.  To understand squatting, you must understand the principles of function.  What drives us to squat – is the key to what kind of squat you need.  Please join us for a hands-on learning experience that applies the principles of function to assessment, rehabilitation and conditioning of the squat.

Seats Available: 50

Recently featured on ABC7 eyewitness News, you won't want to miss this fun, easy to follow, high-energy, low-impact class that combines the body sculpting and muscle toning moves of ice skating with exciting clubt beats and sounds, all while learning how to skate and glide on or off the ice! This workout definitely falls into the 'what's new and hot' category. Combining his background in ice skating, boxing, and the martial arts, Jonathan has taken this workout to top trainers and fitness instructors in the L.A. area. EFC is proud to highlight this novel workout concept for the first time ever at a educational fitness event.

Seats Available: 80

COREBAR™ HIT represents both High Intensity Training and the "Best-Of" songs from the previous COREBAR™ releases! COREBAR™, a revolutionary weighted bar, has been a huge success in Scandanavia for the last five years—Rock concert, or workout? It's time to get hooked, have fun, train hard, and feel great!

Seats Available: 60

“What’s intense, easy to follow and is a fantastic workout? Zumba Toning® – The Workout. Learn how to sculpt and tone your body by incorporating the hottest and most challenging choreography using the Zumba Toning Sticks. The Zumba Toning Workout will get your heart and muscles pumping while you are dancing to the new Zumba routines. This class is your opportunity to expand your fitness knowledge in a fun and brand new way!

Seats Available: 120

p>As fitness professionals we pride ourselves in obtaining the best skills for preventing overuse and injury in order to protect our customers. Come learn how to protect the hip flexors, and shoulder and knee joints from unnecessary pain. Take away unique ways to educate the public on the difference between pushing the body and pushing the body over the injury edge. Barre classes can be safe and addictive all at the same time.

Seats Available: 40

Simply put, The Art of Sculpt is muscle work 'haute couture'. If you‚re looking to become a serious sculpt artist, this interactive lecture gives you the assessment tools and the programming skills to hone in on personalized training techniques for clients and group exercise participants with a modern approach to resistance training methodology and practical fundamentals for advanced, result-oriented sculpt design. First, you‚ll learn how the kinesiology of body typing affects exercise selection and programming. Next, Linda takes you beyond sculpting basics. Learn the intricate, finite points of targeted muscle work, body positioning and transitions to effectively combine and create exercise movements and patterns. You‚ll get in-depth, practical information and scientific application to help you design resourceful, unique and exciting resistance training programs. If you‚ve been stuck for new routines, this program is the perfect answer to "Where do I go from here?"