Five years ago my sister was looking for a place to work out where she could bring her toddlers to. Currently living in greater Greensboro, North Carolina. At the time she was unable to find a place nearby to fit her needs. So she decided to take matters into her own hands and created her own workout group. Franchising off of the Fit4Mom program she created Fit4Mom Piedmont. A group that would meet regularly at varying locations to hold workouts. These workouts often implemented the kids in strollers or gave them a place to be dropped off while their moms would work out. My sister absolutely loved this business with all her heart and grew it to impact dozens of moms over the years. Over COVID she kept up the dedication and converted her basement into a home gym and would hold zoom workouts to make up for the lack of physical meetings. However, due to her kids outgrowing it she officially sold it a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully was able to sell it to one of her longtime members who she was sure would take great care of it. My sister and I love talking business together since our minds are quite similar. In that we both are good at seeing holes in the community around us and love finding ways to bring value and impact. She even helped me set up the legal side of my scooter business when I was getting started.
I have always loved reading about people who see a problem within their community and finding a problem to fix it. This is a super interesting story and should be very inspiring to all of us, that you can do whatever you put your mind to. Even within COVID, a huge problem that caused a lot of businesses to crash, she found a way to work around it, and still made it accessible to all, and that is a true entrepreneur.
This is such a great idea. I often hear about the challenge that your sister was having through other young moms. It is so hard to take care of yourself when you have young ones to take care of as well. It shouldn’t have to be either or!