Welcome to Friday’s Featured Female!
This weekly series features inspirational stories from admirable women. IMHO, it’s always good to be reminded of how strength, determination, hard work, heart and ingenuity can impact the quality of one’s life and I’m proud that these women will allow me to share their stories here.
Today I’m not featuring one female, I’m featuring 4 women that I met at FitBloggin’. I met most of these women for just a few minutes but they all had impact on me. I’ll be following all of these women in the future and hope you might too. None of these ladies know that I’m featuring them here so I hope they know it’s in admiration:
1. Antonieta Reyes@TheExtraPounds:
Toni spoke up in the “Maintaining Your Mojo” session and I liked her attitude about her health journey. We met for a few minutes between sessions but a girl with a with a business card like this makes an impression:
To connect with Toni:
Blog: www.theextrapounds.wordpress.com
Twitter: @theextrapounds.com
Instagram: @antonieta305
Facebook: @antonieta.reyes
2. Ashley@FierceForwardForLife:
I was introduced to Ashley by one of my favorite bloggers, Kelly@NoThanksTo Cake. The two of them together made quite a pretty picture. Ashley had such a friendly smile that it was easy to feel like she was your best friend just upon meeting her. She was also one of the small group that ran the 10K with Jeff Galloway so I feel that even though we didn’t talk much, we share a pretty special experience.
Upon returning home, I looked up Ashley’s blog – FierceForwardForLife and realize that not only has she gone upon her own interesting healthy living journey but that she is a community builder (her Facebook page has over 40K Likes!) and jewelry designer. Ashley also seems to be a girl who is definitely her own woman. I need to get to know her better!
Image: FierceForwardForLife.com
To connect with Ashley:
Blog: http://fierceforwardforlife.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FierceForward
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fierceforward
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/fierceforward/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/fierceforwardforlife
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/fierceforward
Jennifer was my Bootcamp Partner. When you spend some swampy, sweaty time doing awkward high fives at 6am in the name of fitness, you bond a little. Last year during Erin@DigDeepPlayHard‘s bootcamp, I met Bobbi@NHerShoes during and since FitBloggin 2013, Bobbi and I have had the chance to work together so I believe in the power of bootcamp partnership potential.
After getting home and checking out Jennifer’s site ItSuxToBeFat, I’ve learned that Jennifer has lost over 100 lbs, is an elementary school teacher and is a runner. Jennifer writes her blog with her sister, Katherine. It seems both Katherine and Jennifer were at FitBloggin’ and I only seemed to have met Jennifer (sorry Katherine). I hope they both don’t mind that I blatantly stole this shot from their site to show just how cute they both are!
Jennifer, Mickey and Katherine at FitBloggin’. Image: ItSuxToBeFat.com
I look forward to following the journeys of both Jennifer and Katherine and if you want to also, you can connect with them via:
Blog: https://www.itsuxtobefat.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ItSuxToBeFat
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ItSuxToBeFat
Instagram: http://instagram.com/itsuxtobefat
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+ItSuxToBeFat/posts
4. Gail@GoGoGail:
Gail was the leader of the “Blogging Over 40” Discussion Session. I was hesitant to attend this group but the discussion was very enlightening. I still can’t get many of the discussion topics out of my brain and I plan to share many of them here in upcoming posts.
Image: GoGoGail.com
Like me, Gail has a Tunes For Tuesday series (I wonder if she has any Duran Duran or 80’s New Wave) and as a freelance editor and writer who’s been blogging since 2006 (under Shrinking Sisters), I think I can learn a lot from this lady!
If you’d like to connect with Gail, you can do so via:
Blog: http://www.shrinkingsisters.com/shrinking_sisters/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shrinkingsisters
Twitter: https://twitter.com/its_gail
Instagram: http://instagram.com/ggspencer
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/its_gail/
Happy 4th of July and I hope you enjoy this special 4 Bloggers From FitBloggin’ special!
I’d love to know which blogger out there inspires you! Have you ever been to a conference and been inspired by someone you saw speaking or someone you met? How did it change you?
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