Person2Person fitness is a name known by many around northern Virginia. It was over 20 years ago that Mandy Person started her personal training business, and it’s still going strong today. Mrs. Person has been running her business out of her basement. In there she has a fully equipped and functional gym, it has everything you would need to be successful— squat rack, bench press, cable machines, free weights, and much more— but this took time to grow. When she started many years ago, she was a mother of one, and did not have all the equipment she does now. This caused her to travel a lot for her work. She would travel over an hour to go to her client’s house and train them. This was difficult for her because she had to take her son with her as well who was very young at the time, but she always made it work! Over the next few years, she grew her business and her family. She was able to get more clients, which meant new and better equipment! She also then had to work around the schedule of her kid’s schools and their needs as well, but she pushed through and overcame those obstacles as well. Now in one day she usually has about 3-5 clients, she trains for an hour, and on each day her clients are different. She has a huge variety of people she helps keep active and healthy! To this day she still does travel to some of her clients’ homes considering her clients might not want to commute, she cares a lot about her clients lives and wants to help them no matter what. Overall Mrs. Person is an amazing “Person” who started her business of traveling to homes with her son to growing and expanding her gym at her house where she trains clients today, but most importantly she is an amazing mother who does so much to support her kids and her business!
That’s such a sweet story! It’s a great example of slow growth, as she started by traveling to clients homes before earning enough to open a gym in her own house. I admire her dedication to help people, being willing to travel to their homes – taking her son with her when she first started and now still offering it if her clients need it. Person2Person is an appropriate name for her business, as she really cares for and wants to help her clients.