{"id":2138,"date":"2018-07-25T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyhikersfitness.com\/?page_id=2138"},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T15:34:52","slug":"our-trainers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyhikersfitness.com\/our-trainers\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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My Life In A Small Nutshell \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>

I was born 67′ (shh) and I grew up in the San Fernando Valley in SoCal. I was adopted and lived a great life (for the most part).\u00a0 I was always told I would be the wife and a mother and my brother well\u2026 the millionaire he would obviously become.\u00a0 Now I am not saying this to put anyone down, this was the generation and the times of when I grew up. Nothing more than that!\u00a0 Truth be told this was always difficult for me because I agree I wanted to be a mother, but I wanted to be a Hippie when I grew up\u2026. I wanted to build a place where people could find themselves again\u2026 I wanted to love and be loved but with the person of my choosing\u2026 I wanted to just be ME\u2026.<\/p>

Then there was that one, most defining aha moment in my life\u2026 \u00a0I remember the day, I was around 12, it was a Friday night, in fact and my grandmother (the Famous Aunt Pearl) pulled me aside, maybe because she saw me struggling or maybe because she knew\u2026 because she was just that good (which is probably the case)\u2026 but she looked me straight in the eyes and told me not to listen to others, that I could be anything I wanted, if I just tried, I was to always be honest, live my truth and put in a lot of work\u2026 WOW did you hear that\u2026. Well I did at 12 and from that day forward I did just that.<\/p>

So of course, in trying to find my way I worked all sorts of self-starting jobs, starting very early in life.\u00a0 I was a nanny, and dog trainer, a want to be cowboy, a want to be horse trainer, I was even a profession clown for kid\u2019s parties for a while\u2026 yep its true \u2013 Windy the Clown. I did all of this before I even graduated High School btw.<\/p>

But then the truth or reality set in.\u00a0 I graduated from High School just by the skin of my teeth, and had to beg to get into college\u2026 Literally beg and yes, I got in.\u00a0 Society, my parents and well everyone in those days ingrained in my head if I did not go to and graduate from college would never amount to anything. So, I went, but I figured out early on, well after a bout of drinking and telling Psych professors that they were nuts if they wanted to medicate children to behave (yep I did that in my first class on my first day of college) that the college life and living in the box was just not for me!<\/p>

So, the next few years were all trial and error.\u00a0 I worked as a secretary, a telemarketer, an office manager and volunteer, I was even unemployed for a while, I even delivered newspapers.<\/p>

It was in my early 20s I decided that the one thing I knew for sure was that I wanted to be a mom.\u00a0 So, I took the traditional route got married and poof in under 6 years, I had 2 miscarriages (devastating) and then I gave birth to 3 wonderful kids, I moved in for \u201c2 weeks with my mom\u201d to figure things out, I got divorced, and yep your guessed it I was then officially a mother of 3 kids under 5 to the best of my ability without any help from anyone, not a clue of what to do and not a penny to my name.\u00a0<\/p>

I must say here that the decision to parenting alone was one I made fully aware of the consequences btw, to ensure my kids stayed safe on many levels but mostly I did not want them hurt by bringing anyone else into my life that could possible leave and hurt them in the process. As a result of these actions I also took over as a watchful eye over my mother and father (living in 2 different locations).<\/p>

It was during this time of my life I began to remember that I could also be an Entrepreneur\u2026 (well really, I had to do something from home, so I did not have to put my kids in daycare)\u00a0 So, I set out and started a business form home and off I went content, money generating and happy go lucky human.\u00a0 Or was I?<\/p>

Several years later when my kids were all in their teens, I was lucky enough to be invited to an adult retreat center for weight loss. Now I want to be very clear here I did not know that\u2019s where I was going, I just thought I was helping a friend by going and supporting her.\u00a0 It never dawned on me even though I was at my heaviest 315 lbs that I needed to change.\u00a0 I built a barrier to hide from those things I did not want to be recognized for and a wall for those things I wanted to hide from and that was my weight!\u00a0\"\"<\/p>

Luckily and incredibly something changed inside of me that week:<\/p>