April 17, 2025 • 36 mins
In this episode of Talk Wealthy to Me, host Michelle Taylor sits down with Melanie Sinclair, a former collegiate gymnast and Cirque du Soleil performer, now the founder of MS Fitness Studio. Melanie opens up about her incredible journey, including life on tour with Cirque, navigating entrepreneurship with her husband, and how her athletic mindset has shaped her financial and business decisions. You’ll hear how she turned injuries into purpose, how she and her husband approach money from two very different cultural perspectives, and why she believes health is one of our greatest forms of wealth. From building generational wealth to running a thriving fitness empire, this conversation is packed with practical insights and empowering takeaways.
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Topics we cover:
- Leveraging athletic discipline in business
- Building wealth as a couple with different money mindsets
- Functional training vs. traditional fitness
- How to start building a legacy beyond income
- Why hydration (yes, water!) is foundational to success
🔗 Connect with Melanie: msfitnessstudio.com | @msfitnessstudio
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's welcome. Welcome we Talk Wealthy to Me. I'm Michelle Taylor,
founder of Women and Wealth, from breaking money myths to
building wealth and achieving financial freedom. We're here to empower
you to create your own path Talk wealth. Now, join
the conversation and let's change the way women think and
feel about money. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Everyone, I am so excited for this episode of Talk
Wealthy to Me. I am joined by Melanie Sinclair, a
dear friend who has had quite the life. She was
a collegiate athlete. She had a long career all over
the country and world, in fact with Circu Desole, and
is now in the concierge and functional training space as
(00:51):
a business owner and entrepreneur. She shares lots of tips
and interesting facts about all of the twists and turns
her life. Life is taken, and I know you're going
to love this as much as I love her. Enjoy. Hi, everybody,
Welcome back to Talk Wealthy to Me. I'm Michelle Taylor,
your host, and I am thrilled to have Melanie Sinclair
(01:15):
with me today. Thank you for coming, Thank you for
inviting me. Of course, so you guys, Melanie has an
incredible story. She has lived. I feel like a non
lives by now. But tell everybody what you do currently currently?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay? So, I operate a business called MMA's Fitness. Mus
Fitness is a functional training facility. We do personal training
primarily private, semi private, and group training, as well as
performance enhancement for athletes. And we are located currently in Maitland, Florida.
So we're in a new space called Functional Fit Club
(01:53):
and we are expanding and growing and just trying to
reach as many people as possible and change people's lives.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So I know why you ended up in this space,
but tell us a little bit about your journey. You
were a gymnast. Did stark to solat? I mean crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So how far back do we want to go?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
As far as you want to go?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay? Well, I started gymnastics at six.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I was on the US team for about seven years
until two thousand and five, where I then graduated and
went to the University of Florida Gator as a scholarship athlete.
And I went five years at the University of Florida,
graduated in twenty ten. I was uncertain as to what
(02:47):
to do with my life, so I applied and got
invited to Montreal by SIRC through Sole to go to
Montreal to do a workshop. At this workshop, we explored
the opportunity to create this brand new show. It was
actually an act first, brand new act, and then they
(03:08):
put us into a new show, a new creation. So
we did a creation of an act and then we
explored the creation of a new show. And in that
I then got the job. Because you have to do
the exploration side first, which is a workshop, and be
invited to then come back to the to the show.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's wild and so I can't believe it, but I
just went to sir for the first time. I sent
you a message. Yes, but it was incredible and I
was so intrigued. So they like speak a weird language
or no one talks like they make noises and yeah,
(03:50):
it's all very interesting, but you know all about that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, it was actually very interesting and it was way
outside of my comfort zone. During creation, we had to
do things like bouffon, which is like clown like an
acting class for what clowns do. And then we did
(04:13):
I did what did we do? Crump? I had to
learn to you know how people crump in like California.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They're like Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We had to do crumping classes, I had to do
kung fu, I had to learn how to do contact improv,
which I thought was that was the hardest part, because
you're all up in someone's face and moving with them,
and it's like contemporary dance by holding someone's hands and
rolling on the ground and moving with their body and
feeling their energy and sensing where they're going to go next.
(04:43):
And it was really intense. Either way. It forced you
to exit and remove yourself from your traditional form of
being and tap into this alter ego and tap into
this like alternative version of yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And what did you do?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What it was my character? I was an Amazon, So
I was an Amazon. H I know, I'm for love,
but I was an Amazon woman. That was theag the
whole time. I was an Amazon, but almost like a
think of like an anamorph So we were humans clearly,
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and they put a corset on us with a horse tail,
and so often we would morph between being the Amazon
woman and being the horse and being the creature, so
we would do things with our spears, but have the tale,
so we would do we would sometimes. It was just
a really unique character. And the show was called Ameluna
(05:41):
and it was based it was taken from the tempest,
so the storyline kind of went off of that storyline.
And so we had the men that washed up on
shore and we had the battle between them. We had
our princess, and then we had the Queen and the
moon goddess, and it was a whole It was a
whole thing. It was a beautiful show, and like our
(06:01):
cast was so well intertwined, and we grew together because
we were all pretty young at the time. But we
did North America, Europe, and South America, about each continent
for about eighteen months approximately, so this was like this
was I for seven and a half almost.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Eight years wow.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Plus we did a year of Creation in Montreal, so
it was the Year of Creation in Montreal. Then we
toured North America and we started in Canada. It was
an amazing experience. I grew so much, learned so much
about myself. But that was the first time that I
tapped into being in a space where I had no
(06:45):
financial obligations and I was making money and so financial
guidance was like non existent. I didn't even know, didn't
quite develop that relationship with money at that point as yet,
I mean not as of yet, butimes.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So just the way it goes.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Though.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
When you have the means you have not a care
in the world, and when you know better sometimes then
it's like you don't have as much surplus because then
you're married or have kids or whatever it is. It's
just it's funny. How Yeah, what was the best part
of being import Yeah, I mean it's something that most
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of us will never ever do.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
The best part, I'd say, was traveling the world with
my crew I had. We had Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Colombians, Americans, Canadians, French.
There was so many different cultures, so many different walks
of life, so many different mannerisms, tempers, just behaviors in general.
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And to be on tour, traveling the world, having to
combine your efforts, your passions, your work ethics.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Your financials a little bit easier or was that not
the case?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I think it depends on the person in the sport.
Probably with us well, at the time that we were there,
there was no nil, so we weren't getting anything what
these girls and boys and girls are getting now. However,
I was on scholarship, so of course my school was
paid for, my housing was paid for, they gave you
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a snipe in every semester where you and you also
got a your Gator one card and so you can
go to the dining hall. So you can go to
dining hall. We also had a thing called Training Table,
so athletes only would go to the space called training table,
and you had to go as a freshman. Depending on
your sport, they'd tell you how many times you needed
(08:53):
to go there. Football had to go there all the time,
but gymnasts they had us only go freshman year and
then you can go anytime you want after that. But
you're only required freshman year to make sure that you're
getting proper nutrition and you're eating wall. So training table
is a space that we had allotted for food. Then
you had your Gator one with a certain amount of
money on your Gator one for regular expenses of food.
(09:18):
But this is just for food.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Then we had a check that was given to us
per semester for if you wanted to live off campus.
So freshman year you have to live on campus. After
that you can live off campus and they give you
whatever the amount was that they would be spending for
your dorm, they give it to you for an apartment.
So four hundred dollars a month and they give it
(09:41):
to you for the semester, right, and there's plus a
little extra. That's where a lot of people went wrong
is because they give you this check. You have to
be wise enough to be able to take this check
because this is the first time you're getting money from
the university in your hand. Be able to hold onto
this money correctly and pay your rent, utilities, et cetera.
(10:03):
That's where a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Mess up because they would just spend it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
They would spend it. Oh, we got money, you know,
because you don't have time to have a job.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah. No, well it's being an athlete is your job.
So okay, so you are a gymnast. Then you go
to Cirque. Now you marry someone who is from France
and he's an entrepreneur successful in his own right as well.
(10:31):
So the two of you are are in business for yourselves.
What does life look like for you all? Does he
approach money differently than you do?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What does that?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He does approach money different than I do? But he also,
as I've lived another life, has lived another life with
his business and so his experience with money, he learned
from his mistakes with operating his business. In the mistakes
that he made, he makes sure that he focuses on investing,
but he was making enough money to where he saved
(11:05):
enough money to be able to reinvest it. Does that
make sense? Yeah? However, culturally, I think I don't know
if all Europeans. So I'll speak for the French, I'll
speak for my French. They are not big on credit.
I feel like we as a country, we work on credit.
(11:28):
So like you, you put some credit, you tap into
your credit and you pay it off, tap into your credit,
you paid off. He doesn't operate that money. He's like
that way, sorry, And so he's like, if I don't
fully have every single piece of that dollar, why would
I use a credit card when I could just I
would just use my money to just pay it. So
(11:50):
leveraging our system to him is foreign to him.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Wow. Well, you and I have talked about this before
with different opportunity ees that I've brought to your attention
that would require a piece of leveraging one asset to
pay for another and something else. And you've always said, oh, well,
we got to talk to Migil about that. Yeah, Because
(12:16):
and I think that It's so interesting. You know, as
a country, we tell all of our young people and
all of us credit is so bad on one hand,
but on the other hand, it is such a useful
tool to building real, sustainable, generationally impacting wealth. It's just
(12:38):
that no one's teaching anybody the correct way to do
it do it. So the people that are scared of it,
and that's okay. I have a lot of relationships clients, colleagues,
peers that don't love debt, and that's okay. But I
think if you make the decision that you never want
to tap into that, and there's real evidence or a
(13:05):
belief system behind that, that's totally fine. But I think
so many people just hear it and are scared of
it and don't continue to dig in and evaluate how
it can work and why. Right, So, who handles the
finances in your home?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Is my husband?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah? So he does everything? Do you do you guys
sit down and talk through it or is it kind
of like okay, well that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yes. He makes sure that I understand what I'm doing,
that my money that I that I make with my business,
also that I know how to operate it. I am
making whise financial decisions that he doesn't he doesn't want
to baby.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Be Hey, lets you handle your business.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know. So, yeah, I appreciate that because it forces
me also to like get my life together. Yeah, that's
a good thing, stay on top of my.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Are you guys having conversations with your boys about money
and how it works.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And all of that small conversations more so about if
we give them something, what are we doing with it?
What percentage are you keeping in your pick a bank
and what percentage are you allowed to play with? So
that is more what I think. My oldest is like, no, Mason,
you cannot spend this. You need to keep your two
(14:25):
dollars in your bank account. And then Mason's like, well,
I've got two dollars, let's go get ice cream. You know.
So they don't develop. It's a process, but yes, it
is definitely something that we're discussing and slowly, slowly introducing
and getting them acclimated with.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So, so when you guys are having these conversations as
a family, do you look at big goals together? Do
you look at short term goals? What are some of
the tools that you think have made you all successful
because you do a good job. I know you personally,
(15:02):
so I know you do a good job of always
being mindful. I feel like even when we're not talking
about money, somehow it comes up, and you're always approaching
the topic with care. When you approach it, though, do
you look at the big picture? Are you guys looking
more at the small bite size chunks of your plan
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as a family?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I think we start with the big picture of where
we're trying to go and we break it down, so
it does come down to the little chunks, but it
is because of what we're trying to do in the
next ten years or early or five years and.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Whatever, because you've got big plans for your business. Yes,
And as a client and someone who's worked with you,
I think what you're doing is so spectacularly needed, just
because there is an intentionality around it. And we talk
about health as a type of wealth on the show
(16:05):
all the time. So I love what you're doing and
I think that there's such a space for it now.
But also with Miguel, he's in real estate, so it's
hard to juggle one person being an entrepreneur in a family,
but you guys have two, So I always think that
it's so interesting where people either start at the big
(16:29):
goal and reverse engineer what they need, or they start
at the small and build up to this big, giant,
pie in the sky goal. And neither way is wrong.
It's just what makes sense for you. Guys. So what
do you think you took from being an athlete? How
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do you think that prepared you for being a business owner.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I'm that's a that's a great question. I do believe
being goal oriented. Do you believe I handle adversity really well,
trials and tribulations really well. I'm able to pivot exactly,
pivot and not allow myself to sit in that bubble
and fester and beat myself up. But again, I'm human,
(17:19):
But I do believe that being able to set goals
and slash them is huge and a lot of people,
a lot of people are goal oriented. But I do
believe that by giving myself, like we were talking about
with our financial planning, our financial conversations, by starting large
and then breaking it up small, I take that same
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exact thing that I used to do in gymnastics. I
want to be a champion. How do I get there?
What is it going to take? How do I break
up my training? What is necessary? How many days a week,
what's my rest look like? What am I eating? So
I break that in to break that up into the
exact same concept. Now with my business. Okay, now I
have to look at the entire thing as a whole
(18:01):
and then break it up to something as simple as like, Okay,
how much time can I spend with my family? How
much time am I spending on my business? How much
time am I with clients? How much time am I
doing admin? How much time am I doing you know?
Because it takes that and I think some people are
it's an innate gift and some people it's a yes.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But it's interesting you say that because I feel so
many athletes in general have built that muscle over time,
so as long as they know how to apply it
to other areas of their life, it's such a valuable
part of their personalities. And when you think about anything,
the power of compounding, I talk about that often as well.
(18:43):
Doing small actions over and over and over again are
what the building blocks are to success, as long as
they're good habits. Instead of getting really excited about something,
going all in realizing it is beyond your expectations of
what it would feel like, not sustainable, and then scaling
(19:05):
way back, and it's almost like that push and pull
instead of just staying slow and steady, which I think
is what you did. So, how was there like a
wake up call when you were at cirk You had
all of the extra money that when you're that age
with no responsibilities, seems like it's a game changer. What
(19:27):
drove you or was there something or someone that you
met that said, no, you need to open an IRA,
you need to learn what you're spending budget or did
you figure it out on your own?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Actually, one time when we were on tour, our accountant
came and did a tax meeting, and in a tax
meeting he discussed iras and I was like, I saw
a few people of some of my older showmates had iras,
and I was like, what is this? Like, why am
(19:59):
I missing out on this? Okay, I need to open one. Okay,
let's do this. However, in addition to that, Miguel. So
when I met Miguel in twenty fourteen, twenty thirteen, twenty
fourteen in our fur actually I light, it's not when
we met, it's when it's after I had MJ. Okay,
(20:19):
we're about to go back on tour. He's like, let's
invest in property. And I was like whoa, whoa friend?
I what we were about to go back on tour,
and Miguel was like, let's invest in a property and
I was like, pump the brakes. I wasn't ready for it,
but we did it. And when I did it with him,
I saw that I had not a lot of money
(20:41):
left in my bank account, and I.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Was not feel good.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It doesn't my my like inside sunk. I was like,
there's not a lot of security and moving forward, like
what if something happens? You know. I dropped to like,
I mean we put a pretty penny down so and
we paid cash. So that's where I was like, that's
also brings us back to, you know, using leverage. Yeah,
so we paid for a condo and all my money
(21:05):
was gone almost and so then I was like I
have got to look at money differently because that feeling.
It was hard because then, you know, I have a child.
Now we yes, the property is being rented out and
it will create eventually, but it took time, you know.
So in the interim while we're going back on tour,
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it was scary because now you have to pay for visas,
you have to pay for all the things for the
kids to travel or for MJ travel. Now I have
somebody on tour that I have to take care of,
so now financially, I'm taking care of this person. So
it was like, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Do you think boys have that feeling? Because so many
women that I know have and that's why we always
are more likely to hold on to cash more than
we need. Right, there's a level of comfort. You open
your accounts, you see that cash there, and it makes
you get the warm and fuzzies and that's great. That
(22:06):
feeling is so tricky though, because you want to have cash,
but you don't want to have too much. So in
that regard, I've never heard a man say to me, well,
I love seeing that number in my account, so I
don't really want to go beyond it. And it starts
young my niece. She has a car fund and she
(22:32):
knows what her line in the sand is that she
never wants to go below it. And it's even like
spending twenty dollars on something at the mall and in
my mind I'm thinking, well, you can just go babysit.
I'll come babysit for a date night. You'll make it
right back. But it's that line in the sand, and
you get that sinking feeling as soon as you cross
(22:53):
over that line. It's just interesting ask Miguel, ask Jim
if he ever gets that sinking feeling.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't think I've ever asked that out.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, I'm just interested to see if it's just more
prevalent with women. Yeah, that it's a comfort thing for us.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But so the property started giving you cash flow, which
huge help, and then you saw the power in putting
your money to work for you. Do you still have
that property?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We do. We have four others on top of it.
So then we leveraged in cash the money from them
to reinvest into another.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But that's how it's done.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So what is if you could go back and talk
to the Melanie that was that college, let's say junior,
or the Melanie that was fresh into her career at CIRK, Like,
what are some lessons that you've learned that you would
want to say, don't do this, do this. I know
(23:54):
you said investing earlier, but is there you know, Hindsight's
twenty twenty. Is there anything that sticks out that you
can think of that you would want to go back
and freeze time and change ooh.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Your road to financial security or financial freedom will not
be linear. That there's ups, that there's downs, there's pivots,
and to be curious and try things like you said
that it's it if you're taking one actionable step a
day that in the long run will get you to
(24:30):
whatever monumental goal that you have. So to be curious
and remember that there are going to be it's going
to be a journey. And so I think that just
being okay with knowing it's going to be a journey
because it looks like it's this daunting task and it's overwhelming,
and I think I had fear of stepping into it
(24:52):
because it was overwhelming the unknown. Yeah too, That is
great advice.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Even for somebody who's been you know, feels that they've
been in control of their finances for a long time,
there's always something new to be curious about, to look into,
to have the conversations. And that's so much of what
Women in Wealth is all about in this podcast is
(25:18):
really having the courage to do something different, explore, be
curious because it's never going to be a waste of time.
Even if you're looking into something that you end up
thinking that isn't the right path. Now you've built a
(25:41):
little bit more of the muscle, you understand a little
bit more of the conversation, and you're making educated decisions
about your journey with your money, and that's all anybody
can ask for. So to your business now, I think
is so amazing you. What made you decide to go
(26:05):
into this space.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
The physical space or fitness in general.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well, because anybody can. You could have just become a
personal trainer. But I think for you, the type of
training that you do that is so based in keeping
people safe, paying attention to injuries. I mean that all
comes from the journey you've been Absolutely what was there
(26:32):
some turning point or how did you decide to go
into something so specialized.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
My background I through gymnastics, through circ through injury. I
recognized that my body was not operating the way it
was treviously that way it should have. I had so
many ailments, I had so many surgeries, I had so
many injuries.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It was just.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
It it's not it's not realistic to continue life that way.
But there's so many people, not just athletes, that hurt.
They hurt and they feel like there was only one
form of training. I fell upon this training when I
was injured in CIRC through a pet that I had
and he introduced it to me. It was done to me.
(27:23):
I worked with him for four months and when I
say I didn't have to have surgery, I went back
to Cirk probably in the best shape of my life.
I fell in love with it. I learned more about it,
I studied up on it, I got certified. I believe
in it. I eat it, I sleep it. I preach
it too, folks, and I think that it is the way.
(27:45):
So when I left CIRC, I knew that people needed
to know, and it didn't just need to be athletes.
People need to know that YouTube can live pain free.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
And there's still so much of it that there are
normal exercises that everybody knows exactly. There's jump roping.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I can't jump rope, you guys, I Melanie and I've
had plenty of chuckles because I can only jump rope
going backwards.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yes, but she's so good at it. It was so funny.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
But I guess you know. It is the normal type
of training, just with a twist. Yes, And I love that.
I think there's such a call to action for so
many of us now to start paying attention. It's not
just doing what we've always done, but really listening and
understanding your body. And you know, there's this whole movement
(28:44):
of people that are new to this functional space, and
I think that you're just on just perfect timing for
all of this. It's so cool. I didn't know you
were had so many injuries, and.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh my goodness, that was the worst, the worst. There's
there's a tie, there's a there's a a tie. I've
had four knee surgeries. I tore my a CL, but
when I tore my ICL, I also messed up my
meniscus in my medial MCL. I'm sorry, And so that's
(29:24):
one that was pretty big. And I was in France
at the time, so I still had to do an exhibition,
so I competed. I then I was there for a
few more days, and then I had to travel back
and I think that's when my you know, the swelling
finally set in and I had to travel back, and
then you're in elevation, and so there was little things
associated with that that made that feel worse. My head.
(29:45):
I did a new skill called a mariniche, and I
when I did it, I got lost so you're swinging
on the bar. You tap, you have your tempo, and
you hollow. You tap, and as you go forward, you
then drive your heels and let go of the bar.
In front of the bar, you flip and you catch
and reverse, and then you swing back and reverse. Okay,
(30:09):
so that's how it's supposed to go. I got lost,
so I instead of tapping and releasing right here in
the front of the bar, I continued vertical and then
I released, thinking I was in front of the bar.
I do the flip as you would normally do in
front of the bar, and you reach through because you
think the bar is behind you, but the bar is
(30:29):
underneath you. And so I came down straight on top
of the bar and I scalped myself. Oh so my
whole forehead like and my hair all came off my
forehead and it scrunched right here. M I had a
plastic surgeon put my forehead back together. I know that
one was pretty true. My mom My mom was like.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Okay, and that was that's wild. I know it was
still guys, she can still throw backhands, rings and back
tucks and all of the things. My little girl as
a cheerleader and She's had some uh little lessons with
her to try and teach her how to do backbends
and backwalk overrs. Easy stuff because Sloan is only six,
(31:13):
but I've made her throw some tumbling passes and it's impressive.
I mean, you're I guess it never goes away.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I feel like if you keep yourself active.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
That's true because I used to be able to do
a backhandspring and muscle mids, and if I did a
backbend I would most definitely scout myself and pull my
forehead down.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's been too long. Well, I think that what you're
doing now and and you know you've said the word pivot,
and I think it's so interesting to watch someone's journey
and see there's the common thread of you are an athlete,
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but you take the discipline of being an athlete that
served you at the college level, at the professional level,
and now as a business owner. And it's the little
building blocks that have built such a strong foundation. I
am so proud of you. Where can people find you?
(32:18):
Especially locally, so you do conciers training or you come
to someone's house, but you also do virtual stuff. You
have location. How do people find you if they want
to learn more about the type of training that you.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Do well, we can go to msfitness studio dot com.
You can find us on social media at MS Fitness
Studio and also we are located in Maitland, Florida by
Functional Fit Club, so we have a brick and mortar location.
We have the virtual options, private, semi private, and group options.
(32:53):
So we're trying to make sure our outreach is broad
and that we can actually be able to tackle everybody's goal.
For the most part, who have the intention of feeling better,
living stronger, attacking those goals, whether it be through weight loss, toning, strength,
mobility especially.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So, what is the one thing that someone needs to
be doing, Like, you know, you hear ten thousand steps
a day or exercising three times a week, But what
is that one thing that everybody should be doing to
keep their body in the best, you know, best shape possible.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Drinking water? Yeah, honestly, drinking water. I know, I love
like fitness, but literally the people who are dehydrated struggle
the most well.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It impacts like every everything. And tell me if this
is true. Someone told me that when you're drinking water,
you know, everyone always says you should drink one hundred
ounces a day or there's all these different rules. Yeah,
or eight glasses or whatever it is. But I have
heard that there's like electrolytes that you can put in
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the water so that your body absorbs in the salt
or salt, because if you don't put that in your water,
it just goes through you. So what's that? How do
we do it?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
As your first like, do you just I'd have to salt.
I'd have to yeah, is it gross? I mean it's
is it super slighty?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
There's just a little not like the ocean guys, but
it's just a little sprinkle.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I'd have to look at the ratio. I believe it's
a tablespooner. So and that's success all day. And that
in addition to the amount of water that you're supposed
to be drinking per day. But that's a great one
to start with because that absorbs into your body. And
then moving forward, the amount of water that just drink
on top of it is what allows your body to
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actually be hydrated.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
So drink water. Yes, don't be afraid to leverage your
cash and communicate with your spouse and build the empire together.
Save lots of good stuff. Yeah, yes, Where do you
want this business to be in the next five years?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
MS Fitness? Yeah, I want MS Fitness to be self sufficient.
I want MS Fitness to be operating fully out of
MS Fitness studios with a team of trainers and me
being able to tap in when I need to. So
I want it to.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Be this having enterprise value. That it's not just you.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It's a tium.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
It's a big, well oiled machine and you're just there.
And that's scary for a lot of people to think
about making sure they're building a business it's self sustainable
without them, but it is the ultimate goal. Well, I
adore you. Thank you so much for coming on and
(36:04):
chatting with us. And yeah, guys, if you have never
looked into this type of training, I strongly suggest you
do so google my friend here. She has tons of videos.
She downplays the amount of success that she had as
an athlete, and I want to find some circ videos.
Maybe I'll look to But I hope you enjoyed this
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Everyone, I am so excited for this episode of Talk
Wealthy to Me. I am joined by Melanie Sinclair, a
dear friend who has had quite the life. She was
a collegiate athlete. She had a long career all over
the country and world, in fact with Circu Desole, and
is now in the concierge and functional training space as
(00:51):
a business owner and entrepreneur. She shares lots of tips
and interesting facts about all of the twists and turns
her life. Life is taken, and I know you're going
to love this as much as I love her. Enjoy. Hi, everybody,
Welcome back to Talk Wealthy to Me. I'm Michelle Taylor,
your host, and I am thrilled to have Melanie Sinclair
(01:15):
with me today. Thank you for coming, Thank you for
inviting me. Of course, so you guys, Melanie has an
incredible story. She has lived. I feel like a non
lives by now. But tell everybody what you do currently currently?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay? So, I operate a business called MMA's Fitness. Mus
Fitness is a functional training facility. We do personal training
primarily private, semi private, and group training, as well as
performance enhancement for athletes. And we are located currently in Maitland, Florida.
So we're in a new space called Functional Fit Club
(01:53):
and we are expanding and growing and just trying to
reach as many people as possible and change people's lives.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So I know why you ended up in this space,
but tell us a little bit about your journey. You
were a gymnast. Did stark to solat? I mean crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So how far back do we want to go?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
As far as you want to go?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay? Well, I started gymnastics at six.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I was on the US team for about seven years
until two thousand and five, where I then graduated and
went to the University of Florida Gator as a scholarship athlete.
And I went five years at the University of Florida,
graduated in twenty ten. I was uncertain as to what
(02:47):
to do with my life, so I applied and got
invited to Montreal by SIRC through Sole to go to
Montreal to do a workshop. At this workshop, we explored
the opportunity to create this brand new show. It was
actually an act first, brand new act, and then they
(03:08):
put us into a new show, a new creation. So
we did a creation of an act and then we
explored the creation of a new show. And in that
I then got the job. Because you have to do
the exploration side first, which is a workshop, and be
invited to then come back to the to the show.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That's wild and so I can't believe it, but I
just went to sir for the first time. I sent
you a message. Yes, but it was incredible and I
was so intrigued. So they like speak a weird language
or no one talks like they make noises and yeah,
(03:50):
it's all very interesting, but you know all about that.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, it was actually very interesting and it was way
outside of my comfort zone. During creation, we had to
do things like bouffon, which is like clown like an
acting class for what clowns do. And then we did
(04:13):
I did what did we do? Crump? I had to
learn to you know how people crump in like California.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They're like Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We had to do crumping classes, I had to do
kung fu, I had to learn how to do contact improv,
which I thought was that was the hardest part, because
you're all up in someone's face and moving with them,
and it's like contemporary dance by holding someone's hands and
rolling on the ground and moving with their body and
feeling their energy and sensing where they're going to go next.
(04:43):
And it was really intense. Either way. It forced you
to exit and remove yourself from your traditional form of
being and tap into this alter ego and tap into
this like alternative version of yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
And what did you do?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What it was my character? I was an Amazon, So
I was an Amazon. H I know, I'm for love,
but I was an Amazon woman. That was theag the
whole time. I was an Amazon, but almost like a
think of like an anamorph So we were humans clearly,
(05:20):
and they put a corset on us with a horse tail,
and so often we would morph between being the Amazon
woman and being the horse and being the creature, so
we would do things with our spears, but have the tale,
so we would do we would sometimes. It was just
a really unique character. And the show was called Ameluna
(05:41):
and it was based it was taken from the tempest,
so the storyline kind of went off of that storyline.
And so we had the men that washed up on
shore and we had the battle between them. We had
our princess, and then we had the Queen and the
moon goddess, and it was a whole It was a
whole thing. It was a beautiful show, and like our
(06:01):
cast was so well intertwined, and we grew together because
we were all pretty young at the time. But we
did North America, Europe, and South America, about each continent
for about eighteen months approximately, so this was like this
was I for seven and a half almost.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Eight years wow.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Plus we did a year of Creation in Montreal, so
it was the Year of Creation in Montreal. Then we
toured North America and we started in Canada. It was
an amazing experience. I grew so much, learned so much
about myself. But that was the first time that I
tapped into being in a space where I had no
(06:45):
financial obligations and I was making money and so financial
guidance was like non existent. I didn't even know, didn't
quite develop that relationship with money at that point as yet,
I mean not as of yet, butimes.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So just the way it goes.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Though.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
When you have the means you have not a care
in the world, and when you know better sometimes then
it's like you don't have as much surplus because then
you're married or have kids or whatever it is. It's
just it's funny. How Yeah, what was the best part
of being import Yeah, I mean it's something that most
(07:28):
of us will never ever do.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
The best part, I'd say, was traveling the world with
my crew I had. We had Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Colombians, Americans, Canadians, French.
There was so many different cultures, so many different walks
of life, so many different mannerisms, tempers, just behaviors in general.
(07:55):
And to be on tour, traveling the world, having to
combine your efforts, your passions, your work ethics.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Your financials a little bit easier or was that not
the case?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I think it depends on the person in the sport.
Probably with us well, at the time that we were there,
there was no nil, so we weren't getting anything what
these girls and boys and girls are getting now. However,
I was on scholarship, so of course my school was
paid for, my housing was paid for, they gave you
(08:33):
a snipe in every semester where you and you also
got a your Gator one card and so you can
go to the dining hall. So you can go to
dining hall. We also had a thing called Training Table,
so athletes only would go to the space called training table,
and you had to go as a freshman. Depending on
your sport, they'd tell you how many times you needed
(08:53):
to go there. Football had to go there all the time,
but gymnasts they had us only go freshman year and
then you can go anytime you want after that. But
you're only required freshman year to make sure that you're
getting proper nutrition and you're eating wall. So training table
is a space that we had allotted for food. Then
you had your Gator one with a certain amount of
money on your Gator one for regular expenses of food.
(09:18):
But this is just for food.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Then we had a check that was given to us
per semester for if you wanted to live off campus.
So freshman year you have to live on campus. After
that you can live off campus and they give you
whatever the amount was that they would be spending for
your dorm, they give it to you for an apartment.
So four hundred dollars a month and they give it
(09:41):
to you for the semester, right, and there's plus a
little extra. That's where a lot of people went wrong
is because they give you this check. You have to
be wise enough to be able to take this check
because this is the first time you're getting money from
the university in your hand. Be able to hold onto
this money correctly and pay your rent, utilities, et cetera.
(10:03):
That's where a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Mess up because they would just spend it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
They would spend it. Oh, we got money, you know,
because you don't have time to have a job.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah. No, well it's being an athlete is your job.
So okay, so you are a gymnast. Then you go
to Cirque. Now you marry someone who is from France
and he's an entrepreneur successful in his own right as well.
(10:31):
So the two of you are are in business for yourselves.
What does life look like for you all? Does he
approach money differently than you do?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What does that?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He does approach money different than I do? But he also,
as I've lived another life, has lived another life with
his business and so his experience with money, he learned
from his mistakes with operating his business. In the mistakes
that he made, he makes sure that he focuses on investing,
but he was making enough money to where he saved
(11:05):
enough money to be able to reinvest it. Does that
make sense? Yeah? However, culturally, I think I don't know
if all Europeans. So I'll speak for the French, I'll
speak for my French. They are not big on credit.
I feel like we as a country, we work on credit.
(11:28):
So like you, you put some credit, you tap into
your credit and you pay it off, tap into your credit,
you paid off. He doesn't operate that money. He's like
that way, sorry, And so he's like, if I don't
fully have every single piece of that dollar, why would
I use a credit card when I could just I
would just use my money to just pay it. So
(11:50):
leveraging our system to him is foreign to him.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Wow. Well, you and I have talked about this before
with different opportunity ees that I've brought to your attention
that would require a piece of leveraging one asset to
pay for another and something else. And you've always said, oh, well,
we got to talk to Migil about that. Yeah, Because
(12:16):
and I think that It's so interesting. You know, as
a country, we tell all of our young people and
all of us credit is so bad on one hand,
but on the other hand, it is such a useful
tool to building real, sustainable, generationally impacting wealth. It's just
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that no one's teaching anybody the correct way to do
it do it. So the people that are scared of it,
and that's okay. I have a lot of relationships clients, colleagues,
peers that don't love debt, and that's okay. But I
think if you make the decision that you never want
to tap into that, and there's real evidence or a
(13:05):
belief system behind that, that's totally fine. But I think
so many people just hear it and are scared of
it and don't continue to dig in and evaluate how
it can work and why. Right, So, who handles the
finances in your home?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Is my husband?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah? So he does everything? Do you do you guys
sit down and talk through it or is it kind
of like okay, well that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yes. He makes sure that I understand what I'm doing,
that my money that I that I make with my business,
also that I know how to operate it. I am
making whise financial decisions that he doesn't he doesn't want
to baby.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Be Hey, lets you handle your business.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know. So, yeah, I appreciate that because it forces
me also to like get my life together. Yeah, that's
a good thing, stay on top of my.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Are you guys having conversations with your boys about money
and how it works.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
And all of that small conversations more so about if
we give them something, what are we doing with it?
What percentage are you keeping in your pick a bank
and what percentage are you allowed to play with? So
that is more what I think. My oldest is like, no, Mason,
you cannot spend this. You need to keep your two
(14:25):
dollars in your bank account. And then Mason's like, well,
I've got two dollars, let's go get ice cream. You know.
So they don't develop. It's a process, but yes, it
is definitely something that we're discussing and slowly, slowly introducing
and getting them acclimated with.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So, so when you guys are having these conversations as
a family, do you look at big goals together? Do
you look at short term goals? What are some of
the tools that you think have made you all successful
because you do a good job. I know you personally,
(15:02):
so I know you do a good job of always
being mindful. I feel like even when we're not talking
about money, somehow it comes up, and you're always approaching
the topic with care. When you approach it, though, do
you look at the big picture? Are you guys looking
more at the small bite size chunks of your plan
(15:26):
as a family?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I think we start with the big picture of where
we're trying to go and we break it down, so
it does come down to the little chunks, but it
is because of what we're trying to do in the
next ten years or early or five years and.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Whatever, because you've got big plans for your business. Yes,
And as a client and someone who's worked with you,
I think what you're doing is so spectacularly needed, just
because there is an intentionality around it. And we talk
about health as a type of wealth on the show
(16:05):
all the time. So I love what you're doing and
I think that there's such a space for it now.
But also with Miguel, he's in real estate, so it's
hard to juggle one person being an entrepreneur in a family,
but you guys have two, So I always think that
it's so interesting where people either start at the big
(16:29):
goal and reverse engineer what they need, or they start
at the small and build up to this big, giant,
pie in the sky goal. And neither way is wrong.
It's just what makes sense for you. Guys. So what
do you think you took from being an athlete? How
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do you think that prepared you for being a business owner.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I'm that's a that's a great question. I do believe
being goal oriented. Do you believe I handle adversity really well,
trials and tribulations really well. I'm able to pivot exactly,
pivot and not allow myself to sit in that bubble
and fester and beat myself up. But again, I'm human,
(17:19):
But I do believe that being able to set goals
and slash them is huge and a lot of people,
a lot of people are goal oriented. But I do
believe that by giving myself, like we were talking about
with our financial planning, our financial conversations, by starting large
and then breaking it up small, I take that same
(17:41):
exact thing that I used to do in gymnastics. I
want to be a champion. How do I get there?
What is it going to take? How do I break
up my training? What is necessary? How many days a week,
what's my rest look like? What am I eating? So
I break that in to break that up into the
exact same concept. Now with my business. Okay, now I
have to look at the entire thing as a whole
(18:01):
and then break it up to something as simple as like, Okay,
how much time can I spend with my family? How
much time am I spending on my business? How much
time am I with clients? How much time am I
doing admin? How much time am I doing you know?
Because it takes that and I think some people are
it's an innate gift and some people it's a yes.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But it's interesting you say that because I feel so
many athletes in general have built that muscle over time,
so as long as they know how to apply it
to other areas of their life, it's such a valuable
part of their personalities. And when you think about anything,
the power of compounding, I talk about that often as well.
(18:43):
Doing small actions over and over and over again are
what the building blocks are to success, as long as
they're good habits. Instead of getting really excited about something,
going all in realizing it is beyond your expectations of
what it would feel like, not sustainable, and then scaling
(19:05):
way back, and it's almost like that push and pull
instead of just staying slow and steady, which I think
is what you did. So, how was there like a
wake up call when you were at cirk You had
all of the extra money that when you're that age
with no responsibilities, seems like it's a game changer. What
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drove you or was there something or someone that you
met that said, no, you need to open an IRA,
you need to learn what you're spending budget or did
you figure it out on your own?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Actually, one time when we were on tour, our accountant
came and did a tax meeting, and in a tax
meeting he discussed iras and I was like, I saw
a few people of some of my older showmates had iras,
and I was like, what is this? Like, why am
(19:59):
I missing out on this? Okay, I need to open one. Okay,
let's do this. However, in addition to that, Miguel. So
when I met Miguel in twenty fourteen, twenty thirteen, twenty
fourteen in our fur actually I light, it's not when
we met, it's when it's after I had MJ. Okay,
(20:19):
we're about to go back on tour. He's like, let's
invest in property. And I was like whoa, whoa friend?
I what we were about to go back on tour,
and Miguel was like, let's invest in a property and
I was like, pump the brakes. I wasn't ready for it,
but we did it. And when I did it with him,
I saw that I had not a lot of money
(20:41):
left in my bank account, and I.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Was not feel good.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It doesn't my my like inside sunk. I was like,
there's not a lot of security and moving forward, like
what if something happens? You know. I dropped to like,
I mean we put a pretty penny down so and
we paid cash. So that's where I was like, that's
also brings us back to, you know, using leverage. Yeah,
so we paid for a condo and all my money
(21:05):
was gone almost and so then I was like I
have got to look at money differently because that feeling.
It was hard because then, you know, I have a child.
Now we yes, the property is being rented out and
it will create eventually, but it took time, you know.
So in the interim while we're going back on tour,
(21:27):
it was scary because now you have to pay for visas,
you have to pay for all the things for the
kids to travel or for MJ travel. Now I have
somebody on tour that I have to take care of,
so now financially, I'm taking care of this person. So
it was like, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Do you think boys have that feeling? Because so many
women that I know have and that's why we always
are more likely to hold on to cash more than
we need. Right, there's a level of comfort. You open
your accounts, you see that cash there, and it makes
you get the warm and fuzzies and that's great. That
(22:06):
feeling is so tricky though, because you want to have cash,
but you don't want to have too much. So in
that regard, I've never heard a man say to me, well,
I love seeing that number in my account, so I
don't really want to go beyond it. And it starts
young my niece. She has a car fund and she
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knows what her line in the sand is that she
never wants to go below it. And it's even like
spending twenty dollars on something at the mall and in
my mind I'm thinking, well, you can just go babysit.
I'll come babysit for a date night. You'll make it
right back. But it's that line in the sand, and
you get that sinking feeling as soon as you cross
(22:53):
over that line. It's just interesting ask Miguel, ask Jim
if he ever gets that sinking feeling.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't think I've ever asked that out.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, I'm just interested to see if it's just more
prevalent with women. Yeah, that it's a comfort thing for us.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But so the property started giving you cash flow, which
huge help, and then you saw the power in putting
your money to work for you. Do you still have
that property?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We do. We have four others on top of it.
So then we leveraged in cash the money from them
to reinvest into another.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But that's how it's done.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So what is if you could go back and talk
to the Melanie that was that college, let's say junior,
or the Melanie that was fresh into her career at CIRK, Like,
what are some lessons that you've learned that you would
want to say, don't do this, do this. I know
(23:54):
you said investing earlier, but is there you know, Hindsight's
twenty twenty. Is there anything that sticks out that you
can think of that you would want to go back
and freeze time and change ooh.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Your road to financial security or financial freedom will not
be linear. That there's ups, that there's downs, there's pivots,
and to be curious and try things like you said
that it's it if you're taking one actionable step a
day that in the long run will get you to
(24:30):
whatever monumental goal that you have. So to be curious
and remember that there are going to be it's going
to be a journey. And so I think that just
being okay with knowing it's going to be a journey
because it looks like it's this daunting task and it's overwhelming,
and I think I had fear of stepping into it
(24:52):
because it was overwhelming the unknown. Yeah too, That is
great advice.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Even for somebody who's been you know, feels that they've
been in control of their finances for a long time,
there's always something new to be curious about, to look into,
to have the conversations. And that's so much of what
Women in Wealth is all about in this podcast is
(25:18):
really having the courage to do something different, explore, be
curious because it's never going to be a waste of time.
Even if you're looking into something that you end up
thinking that isn't the right path. Now you've built a
(25:41):
little bit more of the muscle, you understand a little
bit more of the conversation, and you're making educated decisions
about your journey with your money, and that's all anybody
can ask for. So to your business now, I think
is so amazing you. What made you decide to go
(26:05):
into this space.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
The physical space or fitness in general.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well, because anybody can. You could have just become a
personal trainer. But I think for you, the type of
training that you do that is so based in keeping
people safe, paying attention to injuries. I mean that all
comes from the journey you've been Absolutely what was there
(26:32):
some turning point or how did you decide to go
into something so specialized.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
My background I through gymnastics, through circ through injury. I
recognized that my body was not operating the way it
was treviously that way it should have. I had so
many ailments, I had so many surgeries, I had so
many injuries.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It was just.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
It it's not it's not realistic to continue life that way.
But there's so many people, not just athletes, that hurt.
They hurt and they feel like there was only one
form of training. I fell upon this training when I
was injured in CIRC through a pet that I had
and he introduced it to me. It was done to me.
(27:23):
I worked with him for four months and when I
say I didn't have to have surgery, I went back
to Cirk probably in the best shape of my life.
I fell in love with it. I learned more about it,
I studied up on it, I got certified. I believe
in it. I eat it, I sleep it. I preach
it too, folks, and I think that it is the way.
(27:45):
So when I left CIRC, I knew that people needed
to know, and it didn't just need to be athletes.
People need to know that YouTube can live pain free.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
And there's still so much of it that there are
normal exercises that everybody knows exactly. There's jump roping.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I can't jump rope, you guys, I Melanie and I've
had plenty of chuckles because I can only jump rope
going backwards.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yes, but she's so good at it. It was so funny.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
But I guess you know. It is the normal type
of training, just with a twist. Yes, And I love that.
I think there's such a call to action for so
many of us now to start paying attention. It's not
just doing what we've always done, but really listening and
understanding your body. And you know, there's this whole movement
(28:44):
of people that are new to this functional space, and
I think that you're just on just perfect timing for
all of this. It's so cool. I didn't know you
were had so many injuries, and.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh my goodness, that was the worst, the worst. There's
there's a tie, there's a there's a a tie. I've
had four knee surgeries. I tore my a CL, but
when I tore my ICL, I also messed up my
meniscus in my medial MCL. I'm sorry, And so that's
(29:24):
one that was pretty big. And I was in France
at the time, so I still had to do an exhibition,
so I competed. I then I was there for a
few more days, and then I had to travel back
and I think that's when my you know, the swelling
finally set in and I had to travel back, and
then you're in elevation, and so there was little things
associated with that that made that feel worse. My head.
(29:45):
I did a new skill called a mariniche, and I
when I did it, I got lost so you're swinging
on the bar. You tap, you have your tempo, and
you hollow. You tap, and as you go forward, you
then drive your heels and let go of the bar.
In front of the bar, you flip and you catch
and reverse, and then you swing back and reverse. Okay,
(30:09):
so that's how it's supposed to go. I got lost,
so I instead of tapping and releasing right here in
the front of the bar, I continued vertical and then
I released, thinking I was in front of the bar.
I do the flip as you would normally do in
front of the bar, and you reach through because you
think the bar is behind you, but the bar is
(30:29):
underneath you. And so I came down straight on top
of the bar and I scalped myself. Oh so my
whole forehead like and my hair all came off my
forehead and it scrunched right here. M I had a
plastic surgeon put my forehead back together. I know that
one was pretty true. My mom My mom was like.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Okay, and that was that's wild. I know it was
still guys, she can still throw backhands, rings and back
tucks and all of the things. My little girl as
a cheerleader and She's had some uh little lessons with
her to try and teach her how to do backbends
and backwalk overrs. Easy stuff because Sloan is only six,
(31:13):
but I've made her throw some tumbling passes and it's impressive.
I mean, you're I guess it never goes away.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I feel like if you keep yourself active.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
That's true because I used to be able to do
a backhandspring and muscle mids, and if I did a
backbend I would most definitely scout myself and pull my
forehead down.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's been too long. Well, I think that what you're
doing now and and you know you've said the word pivot,
and I think it's so interesting to watch someone's journey
and see there's the common thread of you are an athlete,
(31:56):
but you take the discipline of being an athlete that
served you at the college level, at the professional level,
and now as a business owner. And it's the little
building blocks that have built such a strong foundation. I
am so proud of you. Where can people find you?
(32:18):
Especially locally, so you do conciers training or you come
to someone's house, but you also do virtual stuff. You
have location. How do people find you if they want
to learn more about the type of training that you.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Do well, we can go to msfitness studio dot com.
You can find us on social media at MS Fitness
Studio and also we are located in Maitland, Florida by
Functional Fit Club, so we have a brick and mortar location.
We have the virtual options, private, semi private, and group options.
(32:53):
So we're trying to make sure our outreach is broad
and that we can actually be able to tackle everybody's goal.
For the most part, who have the intention of feeling better,
living stronger, attacking those goals, whether it be through weight loss, toning, strength,
mobility especially.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So, what is the one thing that someone needs to
be doing, Like, you know, you hear ten thousand steps
a day or exercising three times a week, But what
is that one thing that everybody should be doing to
keep their body in the best, you know, best shape possible.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Drinking water? Yeah, honestly, drinking water. I know, I love
like fitness, but literally the people who are dehydrated struggle
the most well.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It impacts like every everything. And tell me if this
is true. Someone told me that when you're drinking water,
you know, everyone always says you should drink one hundred
ounces a day or there's all these different rules. Yeah,
or eight glasses or whatever it is. But I have
heard that there's like electrolytes that you can put in
(34:09):
the water so that your body absorbs in the salt
or salt, because if you don't put that in your water,
it just goes through you. So what's that? How do
we do it?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
As your first like, do you just I'd have to salt.
I'd have to yeah, is it gross? I mean it's
is it super slighty?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
There's just a little not like the ocean guys, but
it's just a little sprinkle.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I'd have to look at the ratio. I believe it's
a tablespooner. So and that's success all day. And that
in addition to the amount of water that you're supposed
to be drinking per day. But that's a great one
to start with because that absorbs into your body. And
then moving forward, the amount of water that just drink
on top of it is what allows your body to
(34:58):
actually be hydrated.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
So drink water. Yes, don't be afraid to leverage your
cash and communicate with your spouse and build the empire together.
Save lots of good stuff. Yeah, yes, Where do you
want this business to be in the next five years?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
MS Fitness? Yeah, I want MS Fitness to be self sufficient.
I want MS Fitness to be operating fully out of
MS Fitness studios with a team of trainers and me
being able to tap in when I need to. So
I want it to.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Be this having enterprise value. That it's not just you.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It's a tium.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
It's a big, well oiled machine and you're just there.
And that's scary for a lot of people to think
about making sure they're building a business it's self sustainable
without them, but it is the ultimate goal. Well, I
adore you. Thank you so much for coming on and
(36:04):
chatting with us. And yeah, guys, if you have never
looked into this type of training, I strongly suggest you
do so google my friend here. She has tons of videos.
She downplays the amount of success that she had as
an athlete, and I want to find some circ videos.
Maybe I'll look to But I hope you enjoyed this
(36:26):
episode of Talk Wealthy to me as always like share, subscribe,
and let's change the way women think and feel about
money together.
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