Have you ever wondered how Smile Sweat Shine started? Let’s throw it back to March 2020…
I had just resigned from my instructor job with FIT4MOM and taught my last official class. We had also just been notified that Illinois schools were closing due to COVID. Then a friend posted this message on my Facebook wall.
Teaching online classes was not something I ever thought I would do. I said I’d think about it, and one week later the first Livestream classes happened. They started as 20-minute workouts on Facebook Live because Zoom wasn’t a huge thing yet (can you imagine?).
There have been some bumps in the road and pauses in classes along the way. A broken foot, a new puppy, an almost lawsuit from the franchise I had worked for. I was also teaching in person classes at a local studio and terrified of going out on my own.
But in January 2022, I went for it and registered an LLC under the name Smile Sweat Shine Coaching. In April 2022, I started using booking software for classes and by October I began renting space from a local Glen Ellyn yoga studio to host in person classes.
Fast forward to today and not only are livestream classes still going with some of the same moms who have been there since 2020 but we also have three in person classes every week, quarterly accountability challenges, a brand new website, a nutrition program, a new instructor on the team, merch….things I never dreamed would happen. Through it all one thing has held constant: the incredible moms who show up for classes. As stressful as running this business can sometimes be and while I have moments where I want to throw in the towel on the whole thing, I truly love what I do and the women I get to work with. I truly believe there are no other classes and no other community that when we have at Smile Sweat Shine.
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