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.