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From Forks to Fitness

Dreams Become Reality


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So yesterday I said we received something in the mail that could make an adult woman ugly cry. Well, here it is!!! Yesterday we received our notarized “Satisfaction of Mortgage” letter AND an overpayment check! I’m finding proper words failing me at this moment, so please bear with me as I share something very personal.

From Forks to Fitness Accomplishment

13 years ago, my husband and I bought this house together as college roommates. We had lots of roomies and we found it to be a great place for us at the time. We could all live together and we wouldn’t be throwing away rent money each month. We never imagined we’d later date and marry, let alone have CHILDREN here! Honestly, we didn’t even glance at the school district back then. Basically, it was a house with a roof, lots of rooms and since we had lots of roommates, voila! Fast forward to present day, we’re now married with two kiddos and we’re stuck “upside down” in house debt, so we can’t sell it without losing a barrel of money. So now we pay tuition and drive our oldest to private school every day. We certainly make ends meet, but this is not what we envision for our family. This is not where we want to call HOME and raise our babies.

On this date (April 3!) last year, I signed up as a “discount coach” and ordered 21 Day Fix for myself. I had no intention of starting a business. I just wanted a discount on those nifty little portion control containers and the awesome workouts! Turns out, I had found a program that was so simple and so effective, well, I couldn’t shut up about it, haha! I quickly discovered I was bitten by a bug. That little bug wanted me to pay it forward and help others on their health and fitness journeys, too. So in June, I launched this page and started helping others not only on health & fitness journeys, but in financial freedom as well.

Not only were we able to pay off one of our two mortgages, but we were so aggressive with applying my Beachbody earnings to it that we actually overpaid it without even realizing it! I mean, really?! I sat here yesterday and just stared at the paperwork in disbelief. Blessed does not begin to describe how I feel at this moment.

Are we packing boxes and moving tomorrow? Nah! We do still have a second mortgage. But I’ll be damned if this isn’t a MAJOR step for our future. We’re one step closer to where we want to be.

“Dreams become reality when you take action.”

[“Beachbody does not guarantee any level of success or income from the Team Beachbody Coach Opportunity. Each Coach’s income depends on his or her own efforts, diligence, and skill.”]

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  1. Janet Poyiatzi says

    May 3, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    Jean, congratulations! Your dedication to this program and to helping others change their lives Is inspiring. Thank you for sharing your gifts and blessings to your beautiful family!

    Reply
  2. Marcia says

    May 26, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    I think it’s obvious that you are great at this. You are very inspiring (I’m on the forks to fitness fb page), and your recipes are great.

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    • Jean says

      July 26, 2015 at 1:04 am

      Aww, thank you so much, Marcia!! You made my day.

      Reply
  3. Heather says

    October 11, 2015 at 7:28 pm

    Wow this is really inspiring! We are in a rental house cuz our credit sucks. I’m a very small business owner (cleaning) but this makes me believe that anything is possible. Way to go!

    Reply

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