A lot of people get so overwhelmed with the many things that they think they need to do and need to accomplish that they forget to take care of themselves. In this episode, Amber Wise, the creator of Fit Ladies Bootcamp, shares how self-care can be achieved without being too stressed about it. Amber is a Nationally Certified Personal Trainer with NASM (The National Academy of Sports Medicine) and certified in Nutrition through Precision Nutrition. She curated an easy and accessible, 20-minutes a day workout at home membership that is changing the lives of scores of women who are enjoying connection, motivation, and seeing results. She starts off this episode by sharing how she overcame a cerebral palsy diagnosis at two years old and ends by describing practices that she does to feel more restored.

• Why you can’t pour from an empty cup, and why putting yourself first helps you give more to those you love,
• How running help her navigate overwhelming emotions and set her on a path to fitness,
• The power of community support, accountability and inspiration,
• Goals based on productivity gains rather than the ultimate outcome,
• How her morning routine sets her up for success,
• Sometimes all it takes is “Just push play!”

Learn more about Amber’s FIT Ladies BOOTCAMP at fitladiesbootcamp.com

Follow Amber on Instagram @wisefitlife and on Facebook @fitladiesbootcamp

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The Power Of Fitness As Self-Care

Amber Wise is a busy mom who doesn’t let her crazy schedule prevent her from taking care of her health and wellbeing, and she leads a community of women who are putting their self-care where it should be—at the top of the list! Never one to let other people’s expectations prevent her from following her heart, she has created a fitness membership that shares effective workouts that fit into any schedule.

Thanks for joining us. I am so excited to share with you this terrific conversation that I had with Amber Wise, the Creator of Fit Ladies Bootcamp, which is an easy, accessible twenty minutes a day workout, at-home membership that is changing the lives of scores of women who are enjoying connection, motivation and seeing results. They’re all being led by Amber, a beautiful soul with a rebellious spirit who decided to ignore the limitations that society tried to put on her, has forged her own way and is now leading the revolution. Enjoy this episode. I know you’re going to get a lot out of our conversation.

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I’m so happy to share with you my inspiring new friend, Amber Wise. Amber is a mother of four children living in El Paso, Texas, a military spouse and a lover of health and fitness. She is the Creator, Owner and Founder of Fit Ladies Bootcamp, a membership program that helps busy women lose weight in twenty minutes a day from home. It fits in everyone’s schedule and it serves us right where we need it. From busted biscuit to fit lady, Amber is here to help us out. Amber, thank you so much for taking time from your busy schedule.

Thank you, Susi, for having me. I’m excited to chat.

Please share with us a little bit about your own journey to better health, how you discovered that movement or exercise resonated with you.

At two years old, I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. I was told that I would never run. I would never ride a bike. I would never swim and I’d never have a normal “life.” It was through that that it made me want to like to have this rebellious spirit. I’m sure people are born rebellious or not born rebellious after fighting four kids. I wanted to be better than that. I wanted to learn things. At one point, my sister who was 10 or 11 years old, while I was nine years old was like, “You can ride a bike. You can be a normal person.” For your readers, maybe you don’t have cerebral palsy but maybe you’ve ever felt like not as good as other people, not as worthy as other people, not as capable as other people.

That’s where I lived most of my life until my mid to late twenties. I went through a terrible divorce and I started running. I started competing in triathlons. I started competing in half-marathons. I was doing all the “normal things.” I have four children and I’ve had those naturally. Through cerebral palsy and having limited use of the right side of my body, I was able to learn different ways to do things. I’m able to run, swim and ride a bicycle. Now, I help other women with their health and their fitness. That’s the backstory on me. My sister at nine years old helped me to learn to ride that bike. That sparked something inside of me that said, “If I can do this that I wasn’t supposed to do, what else can I do that I’m not supposed to do? What else can we do?”

When I was going through harsh divorce, it wasn’t a bad divorce. It was just bad for me because I didn’t want a divorce. Going through all the emotions and the trauma of splitting my family up, I started running. I kept running and running. That’s how I discovered that I could run half marathon. That’s how I discovered how strong your body is. Working out can be different. It doesn’t have to be a run. It doesn’t have to be weightlifting. It can be cleaning your house or gardening. When we move our body, it is scientifically proven to help our emotions. It raises our mood. It lowers our stress levels. Moods live in our body. If you’re having a bad day, if you’re having a bad mood and you start dancing around to your favorite song, you’re not going to be in a bad mood for long. The body is such a beautiful thing. When we move our bodies, we shake off the emotions.

Everything you said perfectly illustrates how much we are of like minds and why I was so excited when we met. I have to share the word of what you’re putting together. Your own story of not taking other people’s assessments or restrictions as anything that has to apply to you is an inspiration. That message that you’re sharing with women that wherever they are and whatever they’re working through or around in order to carve out twenty minutes for themselves. It’s not easy. Twenty minutes is a sacrifice in small amount of the time. There are a lot of demands on our attention and of ourselves, especially mothers tend to put themselves last. Everyone else’s needs come first. It’s so easy to put ourselves at the end of the list. I love the mission that you have to reach out and to build this community of women who are working towards this goal and broadening their own perception of what they’re capable of.

Thank you. I love what we’re doing as well. We’ve been doing Fit Ladies Bootcamp for a little bit over a year. The community aspect of it is what women love so much. Twenty minutes can be hard to get in with our crazy expectations of our time. I was looking at a quote from Albert Einstein that said, “Time is an illusion.” He said when we say we don’t have time for something, time is this manmade illusion that we’ve made up. What we’re saying is we don’t want to do it. I was like, “Albert Einstein knew every woman in the future.” Our favorite excuse would be no time. I honestly don’t think it’s ever about time so much as priorities. When we start saying, “Amber is a priority. Susi is a priority in Susi’s life.” When we stop making everybody else’s needs and to everyone, everybody else’s needs come before our own needs. I know it’s cliché because so many people talk about it in our space. The whole cliché of you can’t pour from an empty cup. I feel like we get better.

I became a better mother when I started working out 100%. I became better at my business and a better friend when I started working out. You step into this new persona, this person who says, “I am enough. I can spend some time on me. I’m worthy of my own time. I’m worthy of self-care.” You start working out and then you’re like, “I’m strong. I’m doing this. I’m doing that.” Our confidence gets built up. We show up different in our relationships. This starts with self-care, working out and whatever that looks like for you.

You’re making me think of when I talk about work-life balance. Some people want to say, “It’s an illusion.” I don’t think that’s true. If we’re measuring ourselves to other people’s standards, it’s an illusion. It’s an unattainable goal. We all get to define for ourselves what that balance looks like, how much time and attention we deserve to give ourselves. I love your analogy of, “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” I’ve heard someone describe once. This was a beautiful visual for me. It helped bring it home. If you think of yourself as a tall vase full of water and everyone who you love, care about and support is a glass below you.

You’re trying to tip over and pour without spilling and give of yourself into all of these cups, you do spill. It’s precarious. You feel wobbly. If you stay grounded, centered within yourself and you let yourself be filled, then that wells over. All of the cups below you get filled. You don’t have to give of yourself of yourself in order to be giving to others. You deserve to restore yourself first. I thought that was a helpful visual when I heard it. It’s something that’s always stuck with me.

I’ve never heard it like that but that makes a lot of sense.

I love that with your community. When we talked before, you said you weren’t one of the personal trainers who had to pivot and take it online. Your concept for this Fit Ladies Bootcamp was to meet them where they were so they wouldn’t have to go to a gym. They could join in from home for wherever they are.

I love that you brought up work-life home balance. A lot of times when people ask me how this got started, I’m like, “I have this little baby.” Backstory here for anybody reading, I have a 21-year-old, a 17-year-old, a 16-year-old and a 2-year-old. Put me higher on your prayer list if you pray. I joke that God must have a sense of humor. When my two-year-old was born, being a military spouse as well, we weren’t nearby family, which I’m used to having that kind of support. I didn’t know the area so I wasn’t ready to put my baby in daycare, plus I work from home. I never thought I should put him in daycare. I wanted to be super mom. I’m not sure what I was thinking back then.

I normally tell people, “Here I am with this baby. I need to lose weight. I’m helping people with their weight loss. I need to find a workout system that I can do from home that I don’t have to spend hours in the gym with anymore.” That is the truth. The other truth is before as where my little boy came along, when I was a single mom raising three teenage girls, if I would have had a program like this that I could work out from home, I would have been golden. I was spending time in the gym and I hadn’t developed this program that gets you those results superfast. I was spending hours in the gym away from my family.

Talk about work-life balance, that’s hard. You talk about twenty minutes people not having time. I was giving two hours to the gym daily. That’s not good for your body. I started researching it. If you’re a gym fanatic, do you boo? For me, it was putting undue stress on my body, especially with the right side being weaker. It caused me a whole host of issues that didn’t need to happen. Those twenty minutes a day was formulated because of Ezra but that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Even if you don’t have a baby at home, if you’re trying to achieve some type of work-life home balance and putting in some personal care in there, then this is golden. Twenty something minutes a day and you’re surrounded with women that are supporting you and cheering you on while you’re on the journey. I think it’s a win-win.

I love that you brought up that fitness and exercise doesn’t have to fit some model that we have. I am down in Southern California too. People jump into training for triathlons, marathons or something like that. That’s not anything that’s ever appealed to me. It’s hard to make that a goal when you can’t see from here to there. I encourage people to start where they are. Start with a walk around the block if you haven’t been out taking walks. Start making the change and see how your body responds and how you start to feel better.

On the other side of that, some people get to that point like, “I’m committing to exercise.” They dive into an intensive program and they hurt themselves. When they get psyched out and they get back on the sidelines, they give up on exercise because they’re not “exercise people” going on. It’s not going to work for them and they’re not going to look any more deeply. That’s why I was so excited about this completely approachable and attainable program that you’re putting together because it’s what has worked for you. You see how it works for the ladies who are part of your program. They keep inspiring the evolution of it. It’s terrific.

We’re in a time more than ever that we want and need to feel connected and have community. I didn’t start this with COVID but I think that it is more relevant now than ever. Not because people are afraid to go to the gym but also it’s because we feel disconnected. When you can bring people together, feel connected and have a common goal that you’re going for. We have twenty-minute workouts in our bootcamp. I don’t mean to keep going on about the bootcamp but as you can tell, it’s like a proud mama. You always want to look at this picture of my baby.

I’m proud of the women in it. It’s not just me that has had phenomenal results. They’ve had phenomenal results. You can get connected in whatever way. Maybe it’s not Amber’s Fit Ladies Bootcamp but maybe it’s another workout community or maybe it’s a group of women that you start a little Facebook chat or however you want to communicate. We’re stronger and better together. Unfortunately, where we’re at when we’re talking about this is in a place where it feels so divided, everyone feels so divided. Not as close and not as much of a community. When you do things with other people, statistics tell us that we’re way more likely to succeed and keep going. There’s something about that community, especially for women.

I was thinking too when you go to the gym, maybe other people have experienced differently than I have but I don’t connect with other people there. You might see the same people because you go at similar points of the day and you get into this routine. I’ve never seen community come together from the gym. Perhaps a couple of acquaintances might grow into friendship but to share the process of the journey, to cheer people on and to be part of a larger group is so tremendously powerful. It’s easier to keep coming back to community and accountability there as well. When people expect to see you around, you’re more likely to show up. It’s that little extra boost that it takes to keep you participating and showing up for yourself as well as the people that you come to care about.

That’s what’s different. When you go to a gym, you don’t have that community. It’s not available. I always use the analogy that people were like, “What keeps people motivated in an online community?” I’m like, “For one, we have some accountability built in. For two, it’s an experience.” What is a popular sports team in Southern California? Tell me, Susi.

We don’t have a great record with sports. We used to have the Chargers but LA took them away from us.

My husband is from Houston, Texas. He is obsessed with the Houston Texans. I didn’t even know they existed before I married him. I did not know Houston had a football team. He wears JJ Watt jersey. He wears another man’s name on his back. We’ll fight someone over this man. It’s because he feels a part of something. Even if you’re not in it, even if you’re not playing the pro football and he’s not getting the paycheck for it but you feel a part. It’s nice to feel like you belong somewhere. If you can find that in a workout community, somewhere where you feel like you belong and you’re a part of something bigger than you, that’s jam up, as my dad I would say. Now you’re cooking with Crisco is another Southern topic.

Louisiana gives me some great new tags. I love it. In my experience in the work that I was doing before I got into holistic health but part of what informed this mission that I’m on is seeing when people lose their community, they feel so isolated. They withdraw into themselves. They’re not as engaged. Their cognitive situation as we get older. We don’t have that social connection. You can start to have more cognitive decline. You’re not moving. We thrive in community.

We are social beings, especially a place where you feel accepted, where your wins are celebrated. All of those things are so tremendously powerful holistically. You were talking about how powerful exercises and resolving stress. We get into this inertia. We start feeling bad. Maybe we’ve hurt ourselves. Maybe we’re recovering from something we’re not active. We start feeling worse about ourselves. It’s harder to get off of the sofa. This community is a beautiful inspiration. That’s what I love about it.

We need community. I 100% believe in community. I see the way children are suffering with virtual learning. We’re no different than them. We need that community. We need to be around other people just as much as they do.

We’re seeing it crystallized in them as they’re doing studies and kids growing from this digital age, the isolation and not having all the social engagement face-to-face. You can have social engagement online. It’s almost come to a point where you have to put effort into finding a community that you feel that you resonate with. However, thanks to technology, now community knows no distance. You can connect with people around the world or in Texas while I’m in California. That’s so powerful. Sometimes in our immediate vicinity, it’s hard to find people who motivate us, who lift us up, who expand our horizon or idea of what’s possible. To find people who you resonate with and who inspires you is so powerful to get those little mindset shifts going.

Because you said inspiration, it made me think of what we were talking about with time. How do you get yourself to go and start? Many of my ladies have said, “You have to push play.” That’s the hardest part. You push play on the video. If you’re a reader and you’re like, “How do I make myself do this? How do I motivate myself? How do I inspire myself to get working out?” Statistically, months into COVID, I look and people had gained 20-plus pounds already. A lot of people are like, “I need to lose weight. I need to get active again but I don’t even know how.” For some reason, it is so much easier for us to build those bad habits in us. It’s like a pain in the freaking behind to build the good habits.

One of the things I always say is, “You have to start.” Start with something. I’ve given this advice before. Put your workout clothes, your shoes, everything right next to your bed so you will have to trip to get out of bed if you’re not putting it on. Do that. Go for that first walk or push play on the video and make yourself do something. The other part of that is people don’t want to start working out because they’re not guaranteed results. This analogy I use a lot is if every time you hadn’t drank a milkshake, you developed love handles and that muffin top, you wouldn’t drink that milkshake anymore. If every time we worked out, we had this lean mean fit lady body, then we would work out all the time. It’s a no-brainer if you know.

That’s why it’s important to get into a program that you know is going to work, that has a track record for working. It’s easier to say, “You can look at this before and after of this person who’s done this program.” “If that person can do it, I can do it.” Having the right program but then having the faith in yourself and in the program, it’s going to work, help a lot. Many people are like, “I’m not that person.” This negative language starts and feeling like there’s something wrong with them or they’re not the “athletic type.” They’ve just done their own programs, they’ve tried the wrong things, we want quick results. We’ll get mad over a microwave dinner taken too long. That’s in us. It’s not a bad thing necessarily. You have to know that about yourself and say, “What do I need to do to get the results? How can I reframe what those results need to be so that I can stay motivated, stay encouraged and keep inspiring myself to show up daily?”

You touched on while you were sharing that the inner gremlin, where that voice comes up and says, “You’ve tried it before. How is this going to be any better? What are you doing taking this time for you? There’s so much else on your list. The laundry is going to have to wait. This is going to slide. You’ve got other things to do.” That voice, that gremlin, if we change the way that we hear it and we hear it as a voice, that inner point of view, maybe that bruised inner child, it’s an effort to protect us. “If you fail, you’ll be disappointed. Maybe it’s better not to start.” It’s almost like a little protective gremlin.

When we try to ignore it and tune it out, we try to hit the mute button, it’s that head-to-head struggle. If we can change the way we perceive that, get a little curious like, “Why wouldn’t it be worth the effort? Why do you look at that example of when things didn’t work and not this example of when things did? How can we shift the perspective and say, “Thank you for trying to protect me? I’m going to make this choice. My gym clothes are right here by the bed. It’s a different day and we’re going to do this for us.” It’s so powerful to start shifting our perspective and empowering ourselves to have new outcomes.

It’s a big deal, the non-scale victories. I love what you said. It goes back to what do you mean it didn’t work? What does work mean? If it works, means we have to lose 20 pounds and we don’t do that in the first month, it didn’t work. What if the desired outcome isn’t necessarily the weight but our mood gets better? Our energy levels get better. We feel better about ourselves. We’re building confidence. That’s what I say when people are having a hard time. “I’ve tried this or I’ve tried that and it didn’t work.”

You have to question. What are your outcomes here? What are your expectations here? If you can move it to something that you can see quicker, then it’s going to keep you motivated. It may take a while to lose 20 pounds depending on your body. I’ve worked with hundreds and hundreds of women. Some women can lose 10, 20 pounds in two months. Some, it takes six months. If we can say, “You’re staying active. Your mood has increased. Your waistline is getting leaner. You’re happier. You’re waking up excited.” If you can change what ‘it works’ means and have a different expected outcome, then you can go so much farther.

I love your encouragement to put some different goals on the playing field. We tend to work for one ultimate goal. When we get there, we will celebrate. We need to get those little mile markers along the way and decide upfront how we’re going to reward ourselves, “I have more energy. I have more patients with the family. I have more resilience. I sleep better.” All of these come from moving our bodies. How are we going to celebrate that and root to the end result that you’re looking for?

I think that there are some things we can control and there are some things that are DNA and that take more time. If we celebrate our productivity goals rather than our outcome goals, then we’re going to be so much further along than the average woman. If you get off of this, reading this and say, “From now on, I’m not going to say I want to lose 10 pounds in a month. I’m going to say what production goal can I set and meet. I can’t control what my body does but I can control what I eat. I can control how much I move. My new goal is I’m going to work out three times a week. My new goal is I’m going to give up candy.” You can’t say it didn’t work because you’re like, “I didn’t work.” That’s the only thing. You then have so much more control and you can get your power back and feel more confident about the goal setting process and the fitness and health journey that you’re on.

Let those wins start building on each other and moving you forward, get that momentum working for you as you break out of inertia. Tell us a little bit about how people can work with you.

The service I offer is a subscription-based community. You can go to FitLadiesBootcamp.com. It’s easy to remember. You can enroll for the membership. Depending on what date this rolls out but we open it up the last few days of the month and then it closes the first few days of the month. It’s open for about 8 to 10 days. You can jump in then and start a new month with us if that’s something you’re interested in. I work one-on-one with people but I only will work one-on-one with people after they’ve been in my bootcamp. We want to make sure that we’re a good fit and that they’re going to put in the work. The first step if you want to work with me is to try out the bootcamp. Jump in. There’s no contract, so you can cancel any time. I usually schedule a call with the new members. We do a little face-to-face call, go over their goals and we get to know each other better. If I think it’s a good fit, then I’ll extend an offer to work one-on-one with me.

People can jump in about any time around the top of the month, which is great as we’re wrapping up 2020 and setting our sights on the potential of 2021. I’m so happy that this is available and easy. Try it out for a month and see if this is a habit that you want to make stick and keep on working with Amber. You can connect with Amber online and social media. See what’s going on. Feel more empowered and happier with yourself as we move into the New Year. You’re a miracle worker. I love to bring it back to stress and see how people support and restore themselves. Are there any practices that you go to feel more restored?

I have created habits in my life that keep me feeling fulfilled. I’ll share those with you. The first thing is I have a strict morning routine. I say strict but I love it so much. It’s an appointment with myself. It’s like, “I get to be with my best friend.” That sounds super cheesy but years of personal growth had gotten me here. What I do is I get up in the morning before my children, before work starts, Zoom calls, recording videos and all the things that are going to happen throughout the day. I get up before that. I write out five things I’m grateful for that happened within the last 24 hours.

Gratitude is huge in our house. I’ve pulled the car over on the side of the Interstate and told one of my kids they had to get out if they couldn’t think of something they were grateful for because it’s been so ingrained. I know that sounds terrible. They’re older so you can’t call CPS on me. It worked. My kids are successful. If they’re in a bad mood, it’s always been my go-to to say, “What are three things you’re grateful for that aren’t the basics, health, house, family, food?” I love those things but we need to challenge our brain to look for things that are going right for us. It’s a reprogramming of your brain. It’s five things in the last 24 hours that have happened that you’re grateful for.

One, it puts you in a great mood. Here I am laughing at Ezra. We’re potty training. I’m laughing at Ezra peeing all over the bathroom or whatever weird thing is going on in our house. First thing in the morning, I’m like, “I’m so grateful. Ezra made me laugh while he was peeing all over the floor where he tried to pour his own orange juice and built a gallon of orange juice all over the ground.” Most people would be like, “That’s terrible.” For me, it was hilarious because here he is. He’s trying to help. He’s a helper. Rebellion is born in my DNA. Helping is born in his DNA.

You find five things that you’re happy and grateful for. It puts you in a great mood for the day but then also it’s training your subconscious brain to look for the good all day. You know you have that appointment for the next morning with yourself that you’re going to have to evaluate your day. Your brain constantly starts looking for things that you’re grateful for. We can do a whole TED Talk on that. That’s what I do. It makes me feel fulfilled. I write out my ten-year goals, big goals that I have. I write them out in present tense. I follow it with the goal that I’m most focused on. I don’t want myself change any of those for a whole year. We stay committed to those goals, no matter how it looks. I don’t get to change my goals. I pray about my goals at the beginning of the year. That’s what I decide what I’m going to do.

One of my goals is to be a phenomenal wife. Even if my husband is working my nerves, that was my goal for the year. “At least for 2020, Amber is going to be a phenomenal wife. 2021, I can be the witch of the West.” For 2020, that was my goal. That’s what I’ve decided. I’m going to be a good wife, no matter what. It keeps me focused on what’s most important to me. In this information age, we’re constantly being bombarded with what’s important to us like, “Where do we spend our time and what should we do?” If you look at your five goals for the year, you know where to spend your time. You don’t have to say every new thing that pops up.

If fitness and health are not on your top five, then maybe you don’t want to join a fitness program. If destressing and having a more peaceful life is on your top five, then you ask yourself, “Does working out feed into any of these goals? Does joining a mastermind feed into any of my goals?” Anything that comes across my desk I say, “Does it feed into my goals?” If so, I’ll take a look at it. If not, then I can say, “It’s not something I’m interested in.” I know that sounds like real business-y and not soul cleansing but that works for me. That keeps me focused on what’s important to me. I don’t know if you do any work with Enneagrams but I’m a hard three. I’m an achiever. I need to know where I’m going in life. That keeps me fed.

I work out. I don’t just work out when I feel like it or when I have the energy to. I work out because that is my goal. My goal is to be active, healthy and live a long life. There’s no way I’m not going to work out. I work out 5 to 6 days a week. Those things and prayer. I’m huge into prayer and meditation. There’s so much to be said about getting still and listening to our breath. If I find myself stressed, I’ll do some deep breathing. I find that a lot of times stress comes from being over committed to things that were not getting fulfilled by. If you have that top five list for the year, it can keep you centered and less stressed.

I love that top and you’re in time for me to start choosing five in 2021. There’s always some new, “This could be great. This could serve this.” Things tend to crowd each other out. It’s easy to get swept off course in this always on information era. I love connecting and rooting into the things that are going to move you towards your most important goals. That’s powerful. It was nice to share the mic with you on the gratitude. I was part of a presentation and sharing exactly that how we’re wiring our brains to look for happiness. To reinforce that happiness is important because bad experiences are like Velcro and good experiences are Teflon. It’s our biology. It’s how our brains have been programmed to learn. We train our brains to put priority on those beautiful aspects of life that otherwise they go by so fast, we lose track. I love your gratitude practice. That’s a tremendous way to start the day.

Thank you.

Amber, thank you so much. This has been a treat. Thank you for carving out some time to share with us and share some inspiration. I look forward to seeing where 2021 is going to take us.

Thank you so much for having me on, Susi. I adore you. This has been awesome.

Thank you. I’m looking forward to more future collaborations.

Important Links:

• Fit Ladies Bootcamp

About Amber Wise

Amber Wise is the founder of Wise Fit Life and the founder of FIT Ladies Bootcamp. After many years of coaching and mentoring to help her clients have confidence, live authentically, and take back their health, she decided to form an epic community of women where she could show them, in 20 minutes a day, they can have CONFIDENCE and can fit their workouts into their life rather than the other way around!

Her mission is to come alongside women and to give them the tools they need to reach their goals. She does this through showing up daily and pouring love, wisdom, her story, and her expertise into this amazing community!