My Mom is a Blogger

Photo from Rosetta's digital camera

I haven't talked about my mom on this blog very often, but she is definitely THE woman behind this woman. My mother had me when she was 15 years old, and put off college for 20 years while she raised my sister and I. She eventually got her BA and MBA, but was never interested in using her skills to make the corporate bigwigs rich. She's been a longtime receptionist, worked in retail, served in the Army, competed as a bodybuilder, worked as a fitness trainer, and did a stint in management consulting at Corporate Executive Board. But over the years, where she really found her passion is in using her entrepreneurial spirit to launch several successful businesses to provide for our family. She's owned a housecleaning service, a financial management practice, and now a fitness training and consulting business.

Her business is called Fitness for Life Consulting, and she has an awesome blog called Living the Fit Life.

I've always found inspiration in my mom because she never took the path that anyone laid out for her. She's a strong woman of color who has made her own way despite being a single parent from a poor neighborhood. She's also a woman of service to her community, participating in community health events and mentoring Latino boys in northern Virginia. She taught my sister and I that education was the one thing that would get us ahead in life and guided us through college. I have been successful in all of my educational goals, and my younger sister is currently a junior nursing student at Howard University in DC. We're trying to get her on the blog scene, too!

So now y'all know. I get it from my mama.