Her Story
About Mona
Mona HinmanBriscoe is an adult fitness instructor and business owner based in Castle Pines, Colorado. With more than a decade in the health and wellness industry, she teaches various forms of yoga in which she is certified, along with spin and strength training classes, and plans to add Reformer Pilates. She also owns a business providing on-site movement and wellness programs to children at schools, including yoga, dance, soccer basics, and bodyweight strength training. Prior to focusing full time on fitness, Mona spent years in corporate America in upper management within the telecom industry, overseeing more than 500 remote employees until her role ended due to workforce transition to AI. Her athletic background includes playing professional roller derby, where her team achieved world champion status, and she competed with a partner as finalists on Season 22 of The Amazing Race. Mona attributes her success to perseverance and grit, maintaining a keep going, keep growing, keep changing, keep evolving mentality, and she values flexibility, adventure, and constant movement in both her work and personal life.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Mona
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to perseverance and grit. I have a keep going, keep growing, keep changing, keep evolving mentality.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Keep evolving. If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Learn from others, continue to grow yourself personally and professionally, find balance. We live in a very go-go-go society, and you have to take time to decompress from that, whatever that means for you personally.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The physical impact on my body is challenging, especially as I age. In the fitness industry, there's no salary, so time off is unpaid which impacts income and makes it hard to travel.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Flexibility, adventure, movement. I'm always moving, I'm always in motion in some way.
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