Creating and launching FIT365 KIDS was a huge risk for myself, my personal career, as well as the needs of my family. Before building and creating FIT365 KIDS, I had already been coaching children for over 11 years and had established a secure and promising management job in our community. I had decided to leave all of that behind in order to pursue a dream in starting a business designed for local children to become stronger, healthier and more confident. I knew that leaving behind a job position that I had thrived at for so many years in order to open a new business from scratch would be a risk. I also knew that if the health of our children in the community plummeted, and the obesity rates amongst adolescents continued to rise, it would pose for an even greater risk for our future as a whole. Our motto goes “Impacting our children today, for a healthier tomorrow”. There were multiple people who said my idea would not work. I had several colleagues mention to me how similar programs were created by others in the past, and failed time after time. I then had to question myself if leaving my current job, which I was well-known for, provided steady income for my family, and promised future growth was worth the risk of starting over, with hopes of changing and improving hundreds of children’s lives. The answer was yes.