How do you find balance and manage your time having children too? What advice would you give entrepreneurs?

Obviously, it’s not easy! There’s always so much to do ! I think it’s about asking yourself “ what are your goals“; if you have a partner, what are theirs? What are your priorities? Is it having some time to go for a walk? A family outing? A date-night? Having a clear vision of what you want to accomplish and what you need to accomplish, what are your expectations towards your family and theirs towards you ; you can work out a plan around it. I’m fortunate to own the business with my husband so we to get to spend a lot of time together, however we are on work mode so we still set out our plan.

You guys must have good boundaries of when to talk about work and when to disconnect, right?

We do have our rules. When we’re at work then we’re at work and that’s it. Family issues don’t belong in the workspace period. That is extremely important to both of us because, at the end of the day, it’s important for us to create a safe and happy environment for our clients. If they feel tension; it’s no longer a happy place . When it comes to working, I think we’re both so passionate about this that even when we’re talking about it at home, it’s never a heavy conversation where we feel like we’re dealing with work. We’re just talking about the next step.

What short-term goals and long-term goals do you have set for the business?

Our vision for the business has changed since we opened . As we learn more about our business and our clients and how it’s evolving,  in the short-term , we definitely want to come back better and stronger and grow our community . Unfortunately, we have been directly impacted by the gym closures; we had a one-year hiatus because of all the lockdowns. The immediate goal is focusing our clients and delivering them the best service we can . For the long term goal, I want to create something bigger than myself, my husband and I, and BodyFit. I want to create a space  that could impact many clients all over. With BodyFit, our vision, in the beginning, was this trendy place that offered so many different technologies and training, but it has evolved into something so much more. We  created a community of mostly female clientele of women who are so strong and maybe hate training, but still show up. They have so much to do, yet they still show up. The goal has become about impact on a larger scale.

Do you have an idea of how that looks like or do you think that’s going to be something that’s going to come to you naturally as time goes by?

I would definitely want to plan in the future to have BodyFit in different areas and to serve a bigger clientele.

What motivates you?

My family and my kids. I definitely love to see them grow up in this environment. My daughter is this little firecracker where she’s growing up in this environment where even in the last year she talks to us about how when she grows up she wants to be a hairdresser and wants to open her own business. Now, she tells us she wants to hire her friends to work with her because she needs employees. She even started selling some of the toys that she doesn’t use anymore so that she could start funding her business. That is definitely a part of it, to watch them grow up with this type of energy. Another thing that motivates me: our clients. They come with this beautiful energy. These are people who don’t usually like to train and who have never stuck to a gym before in their lives. They show up day in and day out. Some deal with so much pain and so many issues, and they open up to us. Seeing them come even when their worlds are crumbling and they can be anywhere else in the world, and they just show up because they say that this is the place where they have that half an hour for themselves, and it makes them feel happy. How can you not be motivated to feed their energy to push them forward and to just keep going?That motivates me so much, that this could be that safe space for many . I want to be better to make them feel better.