Her Story
About Randi
I've always been super active growing up, and going into college, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, so I just went to college for athletics. I was a first-generation college student, and during my first semester taking prereqs, I met a communications professor who really took a big impact on me. I thought there was absolutely no way I was ever speaking in front of anyone, but he made me do impromptu speaking and helped me overcome my fear. I ended up taking every single class with him and majored in communication, mass communication. After graduating, I was asked to come back and coach, and they offered to pay for my master's degree, so I coached my team that I was part of for 4 years and got my master's degree. I loved being able to use my experience as a first-generational college student to help those students coming in. I was able to help recruit for 13 different athletic teams to that same school that I call my alma mater. After finishing my master's degree and coaching for 3 seasons, I thought it was time for me to spread my wings and fly and do my own thing. I stayed within the fitness industry and also stayed within community engagement, using that communications background to help build whatever platform I wanted to stand on. I go back and forth between women and youth. I love training and coaching women because I am one, so we're all like-minded. You're a busy entrepreneur, you're a busy mom, we don't have the time, and I love showing other women to use the time that they have to really accomplish their goals and balance that with their everyday life. I also do strength and conditioning for young kids and acro training for dance. I'm that competitive mom, and we want to give our kids the best experience and service. I work with kids anywhere from about age 6 all the way up to probably 18. Anytime I've tried to dabble out of the fitness industry, it's just reassuring that this is where I'm meant to be.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Randi
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Just do it, really. There's a lot of unknown, especially in today's world, but just do it. You'll figure it out along the way. You don't want to think of something and regret not ever going for it. Especially if you are involved and can make those connections, somewhere out there is willing to help you in the capacity that you need, even if it's just temporary. So I say just go for it.
02What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think some of the challenges are timing, meeting those timing deadlines or due dates. Right now, specifically working on this non-profit organization, we want things to go fast, but it's kind of a hurry-up-and-wait situation. We're ready but the IRS hasn't gotten back with us, or we have to wait a certain amount of time. So keeping up and keeping patience with some of those deadlines is challenging. Also, the referrals are a challenge. A lot of people don't know the type of training that I specialize in, so it's very new, so getting those referrals coming in when it's still fairly new concepts to everyone is difficult. Really, the only thing we can do is just continue to get your name out there and continue to hit the ground running, creating those avenues for those referrals. That's part of the reason why we're going out and doing classes in the park, free classes here, a partnership with an event venue to have some classes out there as well. Partnerships are a big thing for us right now, and that's what we're discovering is gonna work really well for us in this interim.
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