We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kenzie Williams. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kenzie below.

Hi Kenzie , thanks for joining us today. We’d love to hear about the best advice you’ve ever given to a client? (Please note this response is for education/entertainment purposes only and shouldn’t be construed as advice for the reader)

I work at a retirement community with 55 and older adults. The best advice I’ve learned from my clients is: “It doesn’t matter how old you are, it matters what you do at the age you’re at.”
“Stop waiting for the perfect timing, because most likely if that perfect timing hits something else will come up.”
“When things don’t go our way we become upset, but we don’t see the bigger picture.”

Kenzie , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I have been dancing, cheering, and doing gymnastics since age 2. After cheering in college and deciding to focus more on school. I knew I needed to do something to stay active. I started working out and tried everything from HIIT and CrossFit to strength training.I fell in love with lifting weights and decided to turn that passion into a career. During college, I become a Certified Personal Trainer at a gym in my college town. I attended Tennessee Tech and obtained a degree in Nutrition & Dietetics to not only help people with fitness but nutrition as well. After college, I completed a dietetic internship and worked at a doctors office. That’s where I began to train older adults and found my passion. After moving back to where I grew up, I found a job at a retirement community in Mount Juliet, TN as a certified personal trainer. I decided to expand my knowledge and love for health and become a health coach as well. Currently, I am building up my online business and working at a retirement community combining my love for health, nutrition, and fitness into my career.

Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?

I think what helped me most build my reputation in my market is being kind to others and being passionate in my career. I try my best to be helpful and think of how others feel. This really helped get my name around the community that I work at. I would even go out of my way to help people. The other thing that helped is my passion for what I do. If you love what you do others will be excited to purchase services/products from you. Being passionate about your career creates a sense of purpose and happiness.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

A lesson I had to unlearn is “failure is bad.” Growing up and being a competitive athlete, we are always told failure is bad. I used to beat myself up if I failed. After getting out of college and not being able to pass a test that would give me the job I went to school for, I felt like a failure. I felt like my life was over and I couldn’t see a different future. I planned out what it was I was going to do in life and had my mind made up of this since my freshman year of college. After failing, I couldn’t look past it for a long time. Little did I know rejection is protection. If I would’ve passed this test I never would have gotten back into personal training or became a health coach. Valuable lessons come from failure. I’ve had to learn it’s okay to fail. Failure has made me learn more about myself and new ways to do things.

Contact Info:

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