Letting Go

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 Hello Fit Fam,



As I move further away from my fitness career and shift to a new path, I am finding all the passion that I spent years cultivating through degrees, certifications, and jobs feels like a waste! But looking back at June 2024 through now, I am reminding myself that it is not! I have grown and discovered a whole new path I did not see before. I have taken transferable skills that helped me grow and become a diverse professional in my new career path. Starting over doesn't mean you failed and doesn't mean you are "behind". I am just in a New Phase!

I am in the phase of repurposing what I built back when I first started this blog as a young graduate student who was going to take over the fitness world. I went around the block and loved fitness in so many capacities. I loved it in the educational sense. I loved it in the career sense. I still love it in the personal fitness journey sense. It is, however, not my guiding light like it once used to be. I got let go from a job back in 2024 and made a huge career shift! I went from Fitness to Digital Marketing. That was big for me! I had to relearn myself so that I could present my hard-earned skills in a new light. I was able to apply to many jobs and was fortunate to land at a digital marketing company that taught me the basics of the digital marketing world! I then took it upon myself to grow beyond my wildest dreams and pursue a remote job, which allowed me the work-life balance I longed for. With this new job in hand, I have moved even further from Fitness. I have started to see it fall out of my day-to-day. I still maintain a small amount of it in my social media and personally, but I am not who I once was. 

I am not able to run half marathons, I am not teaching 6 times a week, I am not educating new personal trainers, I am not actively pursuing fitness knowledge on a daily basis. Instead, I am learning about how to optimize websites and build landing pages that are searchable and crawlable by LLMs, AI, search engines, etc. I am speaking a language that used to make no sense to me but now is like second nature. I love what I do, and I love my journey. The growth I have seen over just 3 simple years has made a world of difference for me, for my family, and my mental health!

I want to continue to use my voice in the digital space to encourage, promote, and share my story as I see so many other colleagues and friends going through similar transitions in their lives. So at minimum if you are lost, I mean truly lost on what to do next, reach out to me. I don't have the answers but I have been there, not knowing what tomorrow was to bring. What jobs would accept me? How to grow as a professional, how to make a huge transition. I might not be able to get you the job but I can absolutely be a person to talk to. Use your network, use your community to just talk, share, and grow together!


Find Your Fit!

- Liz - 

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