We were lucky to catch up with Jess Lynn recently and have shared our conversation below.

Jess, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear stories from your time in school/training/etc.

My training experience has been ongoing. They say when you have been perfecting a skill for 10 years you become a master at it, but I think the best instructors are those who never stop learning. Choosing the hard path and wanting to challenge yourself is how you grow as person, so I am constantly trying new things or participating in continuing education. I also love meeting others in the industry and swapping tips, taking each other classes and learning from my peers. There is a very special camaraderie within the wellness space.

Jess, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I started as an entrepreneur in my early 20s in retail and marketing. In 2009, I expanded into hotels and restaurants in the New York area, the Hamptons, and Miami. Being a go-getter lead to health complications, including burnout and adrenal fatigue. I decided to switch gears and enter the health and wellness space.

I am a certified fitness instructor trained in a variety of modalities including pilates, Lagree, yoga, barre, aerial arts, rowing and personal training and more. I am a health and wellness coach specializing in burn out prevention and recovery from adrenal fatigue.

To learn more about my education, please refer to my bio and current projects at this link:

https://msha.ke/jesslynnfitness

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

One of the hardest parts of being an entrepreneur is failure. Human nature to be scared to fail but we have to dig deep to overcome that fear. The reality is that most small business do fail. However, if you have the courage to face your fears, even if things don’t work out as you originally planned, you still learn from the lessons and the experience. Most people look at me as someone who either just got lucky, or had things handed to them, or everything just comes so easy. For people who have been with me along my journey, can verify that it has been anything but glamorous for the majority of the time. I have built my wealth and lost it a few times. I have spent nights sleeping on a friend’s couch while closing a store and selling my home. No one sees that but that is reality. They see where you are now and think it was an overnight success. I have had more than my fair share of struggles but I always take a time out, regroup and get back out there. Those same struggles are what give me great insight to understand how my clients feel.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

The hardest lesson for me to unlearn, is that I always thought I could do everything on my own. Whenever things didn’t go my way, or I found someone else on my team was lacking, it gets very easy to blame.

When I worked in a seasonal hotel, and realized that no one had to be there, but that I was the one who needed everybody else, I actually picked up the book “The Five Love Languages” which at the time was geared for romantic relationships. What I found was that the lessons in the book or applicable to any situation, any dynamic in any relationship. So what I did was try to understand my team, my employees, and what was important to them, which was very humbling. I can say that had the greatest positive impact and I am still friendly with many of my employees and co-workers from the last 20 years.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://msha.ke/Jesslynnfitness
• Instagram: @jesslynnfitness
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jesslynn131
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesslynnfitness

Image Credits
All photos are mine