NEW fitness journey!!

For those who know me you know I've trained and competed in ironman triathlons and half ironmans, marathons, endurance events etc. Last year I was in a bike accident and injured my tailbone. While I can still do most workouts I can't seem to get back on a bike and I don't really miss it.. For the last 6 months or so I've been running, doing Insanity, Focust25, and now Body Beast. I hadn't lifted in years and I forgot how much I enjoyed it. 
I love to do things that are out of my comfort zone and scare me... Because I love to learn and test my own limits. Soooo I'm scared to announce because of haters, but I've never let them stop me before.. I am now training for my first ever bikini competition! I'm so excited for the change and to take my fitness and nutrition to a different level. Ill be sharing my progress, journey and continued progress! Day 2 of biking prep legs and run is done....i have been lifting with Body Beast

6 days a week but now I am adding 6 days of running!! Yikes! I can't wait to see all the changes to come!! Sooo excited to watch the progress.

I am weird. Be weird. Dream bigger.

I am not your typical Beachbody Coach. In the sense that I wasn't a customer PRIOR to becoming a coach. I was a FITNESS nut, enthusiast, whatever you want to call it... I had not ALWAYS been in love with fitness. I come from an obese family who doesn't make fitness a priority, but through a major depression and 30 pounds of weight gain (30% of my body weight) in a matter of a few months, my addiction to eating was becoming more than a problem. At the age of 19 or 20 I had overactive kidneys.. meaning that due to the lack of focusing on my health I had kidneys of a severe alcoholic. This is something that I rarely share. Those blood results were scary to get back and being that I was in college and lived on a college campus I know the doctor did not believe me for one second that I wasn't a drinker.

My journey to find health and fitness was ROCKY... I stumbled a LOT. I lost weight and gained. I used pills, working out too hard and eating very little. Again all tough on my organs and my insides no matter how lean I looked on the outside once I dropped the 30 pounds. I had one friend who really supported me. He would work out with me, run with me no matter how slow my pace and really brought the world of triathlon, fitness and my healthy lifestyle to me. However, it took 3 years of constant battling to battle my depression and find my happiness again. It was a long hard road.

Fast forward about 5 years and fitness had become my way of life. It was what kept me sane, happy, passionate, goal driven.... and I went from running 1 mile to completing my first sprint triathlon, to an olympic, to a marathon, half ironman and on to completing an ironman. People look at me now like it is all easy, but I started like everyone else.... normal. The craziness didn't come for awhile. haha

I graduated college with a degree in business, got to work in the financial industry and HATED every last minute.... I rarely say I hate something, but I was dieing each day. How does someone make it through life being this miserable? I had found my happiness in workouts. In fitness. In health. I had come alive, but everyday, 40 hours a week I was being led to feeling depressed again. For me to come alive I needed passion. That is when I realized I had received my degree in the hopes of earning money, good money, believing back then that money would the stress that comes with living paycheck to paycheck. What I found was that no amount of money can bring happiness. Happiness comes from within. Happiness comes from passion. From doing what you love. From having goals. From progress. From confidence and I just couldn't find that in myself working for someone else day in and day out without progress. I searched for years to find my passion...... all the while it was staring me in the face. I would workout before work, train for my ironman, workout after work.... get people pumped and excited to meet for daily/weekly workouts and dated the middle of the day being stuck at work....but how was I going to make this my REALITY? How could I mash my passion for fitness, health and love for helping others in to something that earned me income? I know it isn't all about income, but I wanted to be that saying... when you LOVE what you do, you never work a day in your life.. I wanted that, but I also wanted to have my cake and eat it too.. I wanted to be financially free. I wanted to love what I was doing and not have the stress or burden of living paycheck to paycheck.

DOES this exist? I hoped, dreamed and believed it did which is why I never stopped searching..... I searched for years. Most of what I found would put me in the same situation I was in.. working for someone else, by their rules, their schedule and it didn't really allow me to help others by my own design, in a way that worked for me.... that is when I found Beachbody... some 3 years after searching daily. No joke, that hope that something else is existed is what got me through my work days.

When I found Beachbody it was MY DREAM COME TRUE. It checked out. It was/is everything I had ever wanted!! To work from home, to have freedom to design my own life, to control my time, my schedule, to  help others, fitness, fitness, fitness and health..... and bonus they provide me with people to help. This seemed to good to be true. My dad was worried that I was going to spend thousands and have to hold product on hand. I didn't need to have any product on hand since Beachbody handled all the shipping and handling. I did my research on Shakeology and while skeptical, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and integrity that went in to producing Shakeology.... The reason I gave the opportunity a shot, having not done the programs myself yet... was that Beachbody answered everything for me. I knew it wasn't going to be a cake walk, but it allowed me to go after everything I ever wanted in life and MORE. Things that I had stopped dreaming about because they never seemed a possibility. I DREAM all the time now. Then I write it down and get to work. My dreams are limitless... there are so many and for the first time in my life I have COMPLETE confidence that I can make them a reality.

The one thing I forgot to mention is I got started to help people with health and fitness, however I never imagined for the first time as a financial guru being able to help people build confidence, skills and abilities that allow them to create financial freedom.....It isn't why I got started, but it is my most favorite part of what I do. Watching moms, dads, friends FIRE THEIR BOSSES and make their dreams their reality. To live a life in their control, by design and inspiring others.

I am so thankful that 2 years ago I made the scary decision to commit to my goals, to my dreams and give it my all. If you had asked me 2 years ago where I would be in 2 years I probably would have told you finishing my masters.....but now I can say in the next 2 years I will continue to INSPIRE thousands and do my part to make this world a happier place.

If I told you YOU would be the same in 5 years financially, physically, etc would you be SATISFIED?

I know my experience and my take on things, but I can't begin to know yours or how you feel. What your day to day is like.. So here goes my thoughts. If someone told me that I would be the same in 5 years financially, physically, emotionally, personally, professionally I would not be SATISFIED. THIS is ME. I am ADDICTED to progress, to goals. I like to be moving forward, growing, becoming better, learning, experiencing life and staying the same just isn't my thing.

 In 2007 I graduated college and started a job in the financial industry. During the interview I was asked.. where do you see yourself in 5 years? I saw myself owning a home, earning 100k a year, being able to support myself financially. You see I came from a broken home where $5 was too much to ask for a soccer tournament and brought my mom to tears. I never wanted her to feel hurt from not being able to provide monetarily because her love has made me who I am today, not her money, but that being said I wanted to be able to provide for her in the long term so that she never has to cry over money. That question really had me dreaming and the interviewer seemed impressed by my answers and thought. I was DREAMING of progress, growth, making things happen in my life so that I could love, enjoy, inspire.... fast forward a few years and it was NOT going as I had planned. The boss who loved my interview answers wanted someone with my drive and dreams, but he also had a family and any pay increases for me meant a decrease in pay for him.... so instead he used my motivation for his goals, but NOT for my own. I was broken, defeated and depressed. IS this really all there was to life????? Working day in and day out for someone else who could care less about my goals as his family and his income were more important (rightfully so) but what an awful way to live. I brought this up to him. I told him if you allowed me to build my own clients, to fail, to grow, to progress that I could actually do better for your company. He was afraid I would take my success and leave him....his FEAR caused him to FOCUS sooo much so on losing me to success that he instead lost me to lack of progress. But that is for another topic on law of attraction and on what you focus on your bring about.... so I THREW myself in to training for an Ironman. I had a DEEP burning DESIRE to feel that I was making progress, that I had goals and a GOAL to FOCUS on.. competing in a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and a 26.2 mile run all in one day should do the trick. This was my band aid to cover up the lack of growth, goals and desire for my job.

 I continued to look for answers, for jobs, for something that would help me find PURPOSE, passion and give me what I really wanted.... to work for myself. To work from home. To make my own schedule. To help others. To feel self motivation and excitement for what I DO each and everyday. To struggle. To improve. To become better. To inspire. To love. To stumble. To progress..... TO DO... instead of to be COMPLACENT in an office working for someone, clocking in and out each day. Now don't get me wrong some people love their jobs or love being complacent and that is okay, but for me COMPLACENCY was killing me, was breaking me down and I was drowning in this so called life.

 I didn't stop searching and one day found this incredible opportunity. I was scared.... I was excited. I almost quit because I had NO IDEA what I was doing, but I was ATTRACTED to my DREAMS. To the possibility of more. To progress. To growth.... to learning consistently!!! I dove in and I didn't give up.. every road block, every frustration thrown at me was more reason to grow, to learn, to become better. I wasn't born an expert and I still have a long ways to go, but that DREAM has led me to this moment. Where I can help others dream bigger, envision more for their life and help them start on the path to reaching dreams they never thought possible.

 I have dreams that are BIG. The crazy thing is I KNOW I will get there. The dream started with firing my boss. Which was done 1 year and a half in to becoming a Beachbody Coach. Then it was buying a house, which we did in San Luis Obispo, CA. Next I wanted to take Paul to Hawaii... done and done. Now my dreams are even bigger. I want to earn a million dollars a year and travel the world. Working from where ever my heart takes me. I will get there.... it will take me time, growth, failure, but I will get there. My income is a direct reflection of the amount of people I help and I just haven't helped enough people yet....but I will. 

Stay tuned as my journey continues.