JUNE 16th, 2026
Ali Novitsky, MD
Transform 10 · A Note From Ali
Your July
Reset
What's changing, why we're changing it, and the reflection that decides where you start this month.
First, the why
We're bringing out the lifeboats.
Here's the honest version. This is our 10th round, and we built it big. Intimacy, career, GLP-1, menopause, coaching calls twice a week. My eyes were bigger than my stomach, and I'll own that.
What we kept hearing in your check-ins and in Bridget's one-on-one outreach wasn't that the content was bad. It was that you couldn't find it. Too many platforms. Skool, the app, Facebook, the podcast. A beautiful buffet, and no idea where to pick up your plate. That's not connection. That's confusion wearing connection's clothes.
So I spent my family vacation with all of your data in front of me, and I made a decision: we're cutting the thing that's hurting us most. The platform sprawl. Everything comes home to one place.
Everything lives in the Fit Collective app (Trainerize) plus the private podcast. Your calendar, your workouts, your coaches, your threads. One log-in. Nothing you were promised disappears.
Subscribe to the private podcast: tap here · password Transform10. Every replay gets linked there. Everything from Skool is already moving over. If you can't find something, you ask us. That's the whole rule.
June
Nothing changes.
Everything scheduled for June stays exactly as it is. The only addition is one call I want you circling:
Saturday, June 27 · Workout + Coaching (2 hours)
If you come to one thing all year, come to this. It's how I run the coaching calls I lead everywhere else, and I think you'll feel the difference fast.
July · The plan
We're choosing connection over content.
July is different on purpose. We're going back to basics, but if you've kept up, we're not sending you backward, we're taking you deeper. We weighed two ways to run the month, and we're going with the full reset. Here's exactly what that means.
The Lifeboat Drill July program, with every topic and the session structure, lives here: alinovitskymd.com/transform-drill
The full reset
- Live July calendar wiped clean.
- Two weekend morning calls — workout + coaching, 2 hours each.
- The Drill: Mon / Wed / Fri, 12 sessions, live 7am ET (week 3 is a catch-up break).
- Each session: 10 min level 1, 10 min level 2, 10 min level 3, then a 10-min topic, then Q&A.
- Workouts on Vimeo so you can fast-forward to your level. Topics snipped into your app + podcast.
- 16 live hours with me this month. Bring your family, ages 7 to 90.
- Includes the Transform 10 e-book — every topic, yours to keep forever.
The one thing that's different: there's no downside here. You keep everything. The only trade is that I'm coaching all 16 hours myself this month, instead of rotating through the other coaches and specialty calls. The coaches aren't going anywhere, they're taking a well-earned summer breather and are still right there in the threads. So for July, it's all me. That's the whole trade.
August gets built from what July teaches us. Almost certainly a hybrid. And to be clear: I will never take away something you love. What you're craving comes back. July is a reset, not a subtraction.
You're not losing anything
Your coaching is still right here.
- Mindset — Christy is coaching you in the mindset thread. Want something more individual? Ask her right there.
- Nutrition — Bridget, plus Jennifer in the nutrition Q&A. The full Nutrition Training Program lives in your app.
- Menopause, intimacy, GLP-1, career — submit a question to the thread, anytime.
- Admin / "where do I find…" — the Ask Mazzy thread, or email Mazzy. Email is always the fastest answer.
- Staying: your daily checklist, the 14-day emotional regulation series, every download from Skool. All of it, migrated.
Confused about anything? That's allowed. The only thing that isn't allowed is staying confused and not telling us. We can't help what we can't see.
DistressRx · Self-Guided Reflection
The Lifeboat Drill
This is the work we did together on the call, written out so you can do it on your own, slowly, whenever you're ready. There's no worksheet to finish. Read one movement, close your eyes, breathe, and let one thing rise. That one thing is where you start July.
Before you begin
Find a few quiet minutes. You don't need anywhere special. Sit, soften your shoulders, and take three slow breaths, and on each one, notice whether you actually let yourself exhale. Most of us hold the bottom of the breath the way we hold everything else. You don't have to control anything here. You're safe. Nothing has gone wrong.
Your safe place
Picture the one place you'd go if you could go anywhere. It can be a real place or your own living room. Look around it. And if you don't see anything, that's completely normal, there's nothing wrong with you. Listen instead. Feel the air on your face. Notice a smell. Use whatever sense answers. Mine is standing in Utah, looking at the Red Rocks. Find yours.
The woman who said yes
In a crowd in that safe place, find the version of you who first said yes to this program. Go stand face to face with her. Even if you don't think you've grown, you have. Ask her what she wanted.
If it was a physical goal, go underneath it. Keep asking why until you reach the last one. "I want five pounds of muscle." Why? "It looks good." Why? "I'll move better." Why? "Because I'm getting older and I don't want to break something if I fall." That last why is the real one. If you can't reach yours today, tag it. It might be exactly what you come back to.
Say the true thing out loud
We join a program sure it's going to work, and then sometimes it doesn't go the way we pictured. Maybe you want to say you're disappointed. Maybe you want to ask what you're even doing. Or maybe you've discovered you want this more than you realized. Whatever it is, it's normal, and in this space it's allowed. Say it.
Notice the drift
If you've felt disconnected or buried, go back to the very first moment you felt yourself drifting. Early on? Later? Did it just become too much? Did it stop feeling like yours?
Here's the part I need you to hear: drift is not random. The way you respond to stress is doing a job for you, it's pulling you out of what your nervous system reads as danger. It just used an old map. Find your type below, and notice how it walks you off the boat.
Assertive
You pushed through on willpower until there was nothing left to show up with. Burnout looked like discipline.
Isolation
You went quiet. Stopped posting, stopped reaching out. You told yourself no one would notice.
Control
You couldn't do it perfectly, so you stopped. It became all or nothing, and nothing won.
Validation
Nobody was watching or cheering, so the motivation quietly drained out of it.
Impulsivity
Something newer and faster grabbed you, and you chased it instead, then realized it wasn't working either.
Catastrophizing
You decided you were too far behind to catch up. Why bother starting again?
You have a dominant type, and you carry traits of all of them. So if a second one rings true, that's not a contradiction, that's being human. The point isn't to diagnose yourself. The point is to see it.
What was left on the boat
When you drifted, something went missing. The strength, the steadiness, the people, the feeling. Maybe the negative self-talk crept back in. Maybe everything got a little more doom-and-gloom.
Did your goal change?
This is the one I most want you to hear. We often drift not because we failed, but because our goal quietly changed and we didn't notice. You're still running toward a finish line that moved, so of course it stopped feeling exciting. If you came in six months ago wanting one thing and you've changed, that's probably not your goal anymore, and that's allowed.
Forgive, then climb back in
Drift is data, not a verdict. Skool was data. Feeling disconnected was data. I got the data, and I get to pivot, and so do you. You didn't fail. Your pattern did its job. It was trying to protect you, it just used an old map.
The only way back onto the boat is to set down whatever resentment you're holding against yourself first. If that doesn't land for you, if B was working and you're on the right track, this isn't your work today. Your work is the next movement: how do you want to be pushed?
One hand on the rail
You don't need the whole boat back today. You don't need to be all the way in. You need one hand on the rail. That's it. And honestly, you already have more than one, you subscribed to the podcast, you got yourself into the app faster than I expected. Be proud of that.
Your re-entry ritual
This isn't the last time you'll drift. You'll drift again, that's the human experience, not a flaw. So the work is knowing your way back before you need it. I drifted from my dad for a year once. The re-entry was one of the hardest things I've ever done, and it stung on the way in, and then it felt so much better once I was through it. Re-entry usually does.
The first move is the pattern interrupt, the earliest cue you're slipping. Mine: I don't want to be around people because they're not validating me. That's my tell. The truth underneath it is that I've stopped trusting my own opinion. Once I name it, I can catch it.
Your lifeboat
No one gets back in alone. Look around and notice who or what is in your lifeboat right now, a person, a ritual, this group, a specific tool. And if you don't like what you find to grab onto, that's the work. That's what we build this month.
The only real risk in this group is staying silent about what you need. Because when you ask, everyone shows up to answer. Use the crowdsource thread. Use the coaching threads. "I need validation today." "I'm blocked and can't push play." "I'm injured, I can't move, talk me through it." Whatever it is, we're here.
A message to your future self
You visited the woman who signed you up. You're standing here as who you are now. Leave a message for the version of you who still wants so much: when I start to drift, this is what I know I need, and this is what I'll do.
The water rises and falls. You don't start over. You just get a little faster at finding your way back to the boat. Honor whatever came up, big aha or quiet nothing, both are exactly right. When you feel ready, share what surfaced in the group. I read everything.