3 years ago this month, I stepped into my very first gym @thegymgroup_tottenhamhale as a qualified personal trainer..
I had no idea how to run a business, all I had, was a burning passion within me to help women feel strong, empowered and eventually, fall inlove with themselves!
If you’d told me that by 2020 I would have my own personal training studio after surviving a global pandemic and that I had gone on to build a team of three personal trainers and a group of fitness class instructors, I would have laughed at you!
SO much has happened over the last 3 years. Personally as well professionally. Good things, dreadful things and everything in-between.
How did I do it? Honestly… I have always put the business first, and very often this was to my detriment. I lived in shitty house shares to keep my living costs low so that I could afford to study, I’ve invested over 15k in myself for further education, I chose to have no social life, I worked for free and then for peanuts, commuted 2 hours between South and North London and worked 7 days a week, 14-16 hour days, most days. Every penny I made, I invested back into the business. I battled depression, CPTSD, two types of eating disorder, body dysmorphic disorder & heartbreak. (Oh and now long covid! Yay 😂)
This post in NO WAY is to glamourise the process it took to get here or to say it was the right way. It wasn’t very healthy and ultimately maybe there was a better way I could have done things. But for me, the thing I desperately sought was security for myself and I was going to do whatever it took to create that, in the only way I knew how 🤗
I rarely stop to acknowledge everything that I’ve achieved. I’m proud of you for turning pain into purpose, for getting up on the days you wish you hadn’t woken and for never giving up, despite the odds 💜 You are fucking amazing.
