Hello Miss Norah Jean!
This sweet babe was born 11 weeks early and weighed only 1lb. 15oz. For almost three months she fought hard in the NICU. You may remember her big brother, Lathaniel. He’s a fighter too! I know there are so many woman suffering from being trapped in the NICU with their precious babes. That’s why I asked Dallas if she wouldn’t mind sharing her story.
This HMP is especially special to me because, well, she kicks my butt into shape weekly!! lol Meet my friend and personal trainer, Chelsea Moody!! Chelsea is the momma to two babes, Landon 6 and Lochlan 3. She’s been married to her husband, Lan for over eight years.
I’ve known Chelsea through social media for quite some time but it wasn’t until I met back up with her (in person) at the gym that I got to know her better! She was training a group of amazing ladies. She was always so positive and upbeat and that’s what drew me to her. However, I was very pregnant with Rocco, our third baby, and during my last month of pregnancy, I took off from the gym. Her and I didn’t see each other for several of months.
My sweet neighbor, Brittany, texted me out of the blue and asked me if I wanted to join her for a workout class. I was like HECK yes! Well, there she was! Chelsea was teaching the class! I swear to you, God just knows who we need and when we need them in our life! I’ve been training with Chelsea for about six months now. The positivity and energy that she brings to our class every single day is so inspiring and uplifting!
I sat down with Chelsea for a little interview and got to know her even better!
HMP: When you were younger, were you always athletic? It seems to come so natural to you!
Chelsea: NO! I was never athletic as a child and never went to the gym. In fact, I grew up on good ol’ country cooking! I’m talking bacon grease and extra butter with a side of fried everything! I wasn’t encouraged to workout or to participate in sports. My senior year of high school, I couldn’t fit into my size 13 juniors jeans, so I wore pajama pants to our family’s Christmas gathering because I didn’t want to go up a size into the ladies section! After that horrible moment, I tried to be more conscious of what I ate and started running in PE. Once I met my husband Lan, I started loosing weight. However, I was fad dieting and you know once you get happy, you eat MORE! Now here I am in college and I found out I was pregnant with my first baby, Landon. I gained even more weight during his pregnancy. After I had him, my doctor suggested I get the IUD Mirena. After having the IUD, I started getting horrible headaches and it caused me to gain even more weight. I went to my doctor and they removed it. I felt better immediately!!
HMP: When did you really start making fitness a regular part of your life?
Chelsea: I started taking a bootcamp class and then three months later I found out I was pregnant with Lochlan. Once I had Lochlan, I was over 200 lbs. My friend, Christie and Casey from Be the Change Fitness offered me a free month to workout with them. I went to their bootcamp style class and fell in love with the environment and the encouragement they gave me! The accountability was everything!! It made me like fitness!! Everyone was so positive and the challenge drove me to keep going and pushing myself!
HMP: How did you become a personal trainer?
Chelsea: After several months of working out at Be the Change Fitness, the ladies needed another trainer. They came to me and guided and encouraged me to get my certification.
HMP: What drove you to start L3 Fitness?
Chelsea: My family and I moved a year after I started training with the ladies. With my young children and their schedules, it became too much of a drive. When we moved to Social Circle, Ga. I started training at our local gym and met so many amazing ladies. Staci Lawrence and I quickly became friends in the gym and outside too. I saw something in Staci! She has this special drive and she’s so encouraging. Plus, she’s such a good momma! I started L3 Fitness from my home gym - out of my garage! It grew faster than my garage could fit all these ladies! I went to my church and asked if I could use their new space to train. They loved the idea and I’ve been training from there for the past six months. It’s become my ministry! We pray before we workout and I want to create a safe and encouraging atmosphere! We push each other and these ladies know they can come to class with their hardships and we will listen.
HMP: What drives you?
Chelsea: My family! Starting with my children, I want to be the mom that can run and play in the yard without running out of breath! I want to hold and carry my boys around without feeling like I can’t! My family doesn’t have the best genes or life expectancy and I just want to be as healthy as I can to live a good, long life!
HMP: Where do you find your support system?
Chelsea: I have so many people that encourage and support me. God!! I start my morning with God to keep this positive attitude! And when I’m lacking, I turn to my husband and my ladies. Those are the people I surround myself with! They help me be a good mother, a strong woman and good wife. It’s also really important to get rid of the people that drain you or keep you down!!
HMP: What do you enjoy doing in your time off?
Chelsea: Going on adventures with my family. Simple things like a bike ride through town or camping. Everything in my house is all about super heros, outdoors and bugs! I have two boys so we keep it adventurous!!
HMP: How do you balance it all?
Chelsea: I just need me time! When my children are asleep, we put down the technology and talk! My husband, Lan, is my biggest encourager. If I ever want to do something, he will think about it and help me come up with new ideas to make it better! Also, we will just check away from everyone else and have a date night! Those are my favorite!!
Chelsea: As far as my class, I hope that I portray that I’m not a super human. I’m just an everyday girl. I struggle with food and waking up to be active! I want my girls to know that I’m right there with them! As long as you get it in your head, every day, just an hour or thirty minutes of SOMETHING active! Everyone can have an active lifestyle and keep it going! I want to encourage you to just be active and find time for yourself! As a momma and a wife to a man that works ALLLLLL the time (very long days), that is how I stay sane. Most of the time it’s just me and my children.
And now, Three Fun Facts about Chelsea:
1. I like to rap to Eminem, jam to Brittany Spears, and belt it out to Whitney Houston’s “I wanna dance with somebody”!
2. I’m a thrill seeker and love anything that gets my heart pumping! But I’m deathly afraid of haunted houses and refuse to watch scary movies!
3. I LOVE to read! In 2017, I actually read 100 books in a year!
Are y’all ready for our giveaway?!?!? I’m SO pumped about it! We worked really hard on this project and I’m really proud of it and excited for one you to win it!
Chelsea and I created this amazing workout packet! You will win three day’s of workouts from Chelsea along with super helpful tips on nutrition and diet from us both! These workouts paired with my Thirty Nights of No Thinking, Just Healthy Eating e-cookbook is PERFECTION!!
These giveaways have been so important to us Holy Mother-preneurs! Her are the reason they help us AND you:
1. The giveaways help get our name out there to your friends! I have absolutely NO shame in telling you this is one of the main reasons we started these giveaways! lol I want to get my name out there and help another mother-preneur do the same!
2. It creates community! We are hard at work building up the HMP (Holy Mother-preneur) community to reach ladies that need encouragement and support with living a healthy lifestyle. We are creating classes on a monthly basis that are open to anyone that aid in different subjects such as: learning the ins and outs of social media for your business, taking curated photographs to post on social media, health and wellness tips and so much more to come!
3. You get a VALUABLE gift for FREE and it’s our way of saying THANK YOU for spreading the word about our business! We appreciate you!!
Check out this sweet doll, Emberlyn! Isn’t she the cutest?!?! I photographed her mommy and daddy’s engagement, wedding and maternity sessions and now I get the honor of documenting her little life too! (Click on any of those links to head down memory lane with me!) My heart is bursting because I am just so blessed to have this job and get to meet clients that become friends!
They are a beautiful family!
P.S. Couldn’t miss out on Jade and Jamie’s first baby girl, Roxie
I’m so pumped to introduce our next Holy Mother-prenuer (HMP) of the week, Kari Willis! Kari and I met each other on Instagram! We would chat back and forth. One day, out of the blue, I asked her if she would like to meet up for coffee one morning. We set it up for a Friday morning AND I didn’t show up! Y’all I totally stood her up! I felt absolutely horrible! Thankfully she was kind enough to reschedule and meet me that next morning. I realized how much we had in common. And just like with Kari, I believe God just knows when you need a person in your life!
Kari is the momma to two sweet babes, Anslee who is 11 and Cooper age 9. She has two bonus babes, Brooke 17 and Hanna 16! She works two jobs. Kari is the manager at a funeral home in Covington and she runs a side hustle as a wellness coach with Beachbody. While her and I were sitting doing her interview, I could see and feel her passion for what she does! She LOVES teaching other mothers that they can make their fitness goats a reality no matter how busy of a momma you are!
HMP: What drew you to start up with Beach Body?
Kari: The convince of working the program into my life and my schedule I work a full time job and I’m a mom. I love the flexibility to do the workouts on my time and whenever, wherever I have internet! It was never my intention to become a wellness coach. I needed something MORE and something that fit my life. I loved the group of women who needed MORE too! I don’t really make much at this time at my little side gig but what I do get from it is knowing that I am helping enrich another women’s life!
Being a mother to a preteen girl, I want to be an example and show her a healthy lifestyle. There is just so much pressure to look good but for all the wrong reasons. I know it all starts with me being a strong women and putting my insecurities behind me. I want to create a healthy lifestyle and mindset for my children. I need to be the one to set that healthy example.
HMP: Where do you find your support system?
Kari: In like minded women who also want to put their health and wellness a priority. Ladies that I’ve met on this wellness journey, they hold me accountable and push me. I get to do the same for them! It’s so important who you surround yourself with. I know there are a lot of people in my life that just don’t get what I’m doing! That’s okay because I have this amazing support system!
HMP: What do you enjoy doing in your time off?
Kari: I love watching my daughter, Anslee, do her thing on the softball field! That’s where we currently spend most of our time! I love being with my family and my sweet golden doodles. We are all about Georgia Football and just recently went to the game! However, my husband is an Alabama fan. We live in a walking community where there are some phenomenal restaurants and shopping. I love walking to town for the shopping and to grab a bite to eat! My husband, Scott and I enjoy kayaking!!
Three Fun Facts about Kari:
1. I LOVE all things college football. I love being in Athens on game day, but if not Athens, I love gathering with friends, serving up good tailgating snacks and yelling at the TV! YES, I can get loud! lol GO DAWGS!!
2. I love things to be in order. I especially love a plane. Like. . .almost to a fault. It’s sometimes hard for me to adjust when somehting unplanned happens, but I’m learning to roll with it!
3. Living so close to town allows us to walk to fun activiiteis downtown, dinner, shopping, festivals, etc. hen I can let the pups tag along - EVEN BETTER! Our two golden doodles, Joy and Holli, are always sure to bring a smile to those we meet!
As you know, Kari works along side Beach Body as a wellness coach. BeachBody offers an incredible line of products to aid in a healthy lifestyle! Kari is givingaway a variety pack of Shakeology! Shakeology is packed with nutrients and is considered a superfood shake that offers a defense! In it you will find probiotics, prebiotic proteins, antioxidants and so much more! It helps support digestion, curves cravings and boosts your energy levels. It has SEVENTY super foods and is overall a very clean shake!
Also, up for grabs during our amazing giveaway is my e-cookbook, Thirty Nights of No Thinking, Just Healthy Eating! My e-cookbook is FOUR weeks of healthy meals that your babes will love too! I am also throwing in the meals plans and GROCERY LISTS!! Between the Shakeology & my cookbook, GIRL, you are all set for a healthy MONTH!!
Here’s how to enter:
1. Head on over to my Instagram account: @hollylrobbins or the Facebook group Holy Mother-preneur
2. Find the photo of Kari, that’s where you will ENTER to win!
3. Follow the directions there. Good luck doll!
Don’t forget to share, share, share! We are working so hard to create that fabulous brand awareness BUT more than anything I know there are so many amazing Mother-preneurs that could benefit from being a part of our TRIBE! Click here if you want to get in on that!!
I’ve been super emotional and on the verge of a panic attach the past 8 days! Why? Because I just purchased FIVE HUNDRED cookbooks!!!!! I’m doing it y’all! It wasn’t an easy purchase as this is a very big debt to take on as a startup business. I have so many folks that believe in me and this brand so I’m choosing to be FEARLESS!! I’ve prayed over it and I have many folks in my corner praying for me too! I’m so grateful to anyone that has said a little prayer for me. They give me peace and excitement for what is to come!
Recently I started up a Facebook group for ALL Holy Mother-preneur’s to join! Here is the link. We currently have another contest going on featuring our HMP of the Week, the executive director of Beautycounter, Ashley Flores! The giveaway is valued at over $110.00!!! You can enter over on the FB Group or on Instagram too!
Earlier this year, I had this yearning to start a TRIBE! However, I was still very depressed after having Rocco (our third baby). Postpartum depression just took over my entire life but God was still there working away at me and preparing me for this new venture!! That’s when Holy Mother-preneur came to life!!
And let me tell you, this isn’t just “ANOTHER” group!
Why in the world did I start this group?! Well, first off, let’s call us a TRIBE instead! I needed it! After speaking with other ladies, I found that they needed this too! We need our TRIBE!! Have you ever heard the saying the people you spend the most time with are who you become?! IT’S SO TRUE!!
Our first “tribal” meeting will be held on Friday, October 12th from 7:30am - 9:00am. I picked this time because it’s right after school drop off and I thought “What better way to head into the weekend with a bunch of new friends and new ideas to lead us all into a new week! There will be coffee and quiches. The topic will be - ALL over the place! Let’s just get to know one another! I would love to hear what you want to learn more about so I can start planning our next tribal meeting. Children are welcome! I will set up a play area for them at our office. For future meetings I would like to keep them child free if possible so we can all focus. lol
With the holiday selling season just around the corner, on Friday, November 2nd at 7:30am, I will be teaching a class on photographing products for your business for social media and we will discuss hashtag usage too! I’ve already opened up seats for this class so be sure to RSVP here!
I am so pumped and I hope you are too! See y’all soon!
