We LOVE a good story, especially when it’s a heartwarming one. Below, you’ll hear some amazing stories from incredible business owners, practitioners, and creatives and artists.

Morgan Shapiro

I have a remarkable client in his 70s who approached me with a desire to improve his quality of life and get stronger. Struggling with structural scoliosis, he had been told countless times that weightlifting could worsen his condition. However, determined to overcome these obstacles, he placed his trust in me and we began our training journey together. Read more>>

Emily Hamann

The idea for Out Of The Closet came about when a friend who was recently transitioning at a later age was lamenting that even though she was now buying women’s clothing, it all skewed masculine even though she wanted to feel feminine. At the time, I was selling clothing regularly and had a trunk of feminine clothing in her size, so we played dress-up, and she walked away with a new wardrobe. The joy in her eyes as she tried pieces on, coupled with the joy I felt seeing my clothing have a new life gave us the idea to start a free community closet focused on gender affirmation. Read more>>

Edgar Sermeno

Probably the best stories are told in the gym. Everyone in this world goes through those dark moments and they have no escape. Well the gym becomes their escape. The people they meet become their motivation so now the gym has way more meaning. Everyone uses the gym in different ways. But i am so happy that the gym has helped them when they are down and need a true friend to be there. The other stories we get in behalf of the gym is meeting their future wife / husband. That’s big because now they have met their future wife/husband. Read more>>

MARCUS BOYD

Hello I’m Marcus Leonardo Boyd I am a 7x Award Winning Autism Activist, I’m an entrepreneur I use my Autism as a tool to help bring change and work with government officials to bring differences to Autism. My story is just like everybody else’s the struggle, the trial and tribulations but even being different and unique giving up was never an option. I start to put my best foot forward at all times and in my journey I made a lot of mistakes but those mistakes taught me life lessons. To learn about my pain my flaws in my story in this interview. Read more>>

Yehonatan Banayan

A heartwarming story that comes to mind is working with one of our very first clients. I remember her initially calling us up because she had had enough but she was not sure if she was ready to go forward in her healing process. A part of her had begun to find comfort in being ill and she was not sure if she was willing to give that up. After speaking, she agreed to proactively work on herself to find a way to feel better, if she did not have to give up her mental health issues just yet. Read more>>