Shanna has been a trainer for over 12 years. She also has a vast athletic background that had a unique yet scary start. A lawn mower accident when she was 2 years old left her with only 4 toes on her right foot and she considers it a blessing. It was the reason her parents put her in gymnastics at a very early age and why she has never taken her physical abilities for granted. The doctors predicted that she would never walk again and if she did it would never be normal due to balance issues. They thought gymnastics could possibly give her the practice she needed to correct the issue. The forward thinking doctors were right. She was a gymnast for 13 years; she also played softball, was a cheerleader and competed in the State diving competition 2 times during high school.   When she was 15 she became a strength conditioning coach for cheerleaders and gymnast. When she was 19 she started a mobile training company that focused on teaching cheerleaders how to tumble. At the age of 20 she was an AFAA certified personal trainer and worked at various gyms throughout college. And at the age of 25 she became a certified Boot Camp instructor, started her own fitness company called TrueBalance, and became a triathlete. By 27 she was a CrossFit Level 1 certified coach, with a dream to open the first CrossFit gym in Olmsted Falls, Ohio.  She is absolutely amazed by the complexity and physical ability of the human body, she loves and understands the importance of positive thinking and dreaming, and her true passion in life is to help others reach their Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) using the AdvoCare opportunity as a the vehicle.

My goal in life is to help you achieve your health goals. By doing so I have the ability to help  create an enormous opportunity for you to take control of your life. I want you to seek a life that is consumed with spending time home with your  loved ones. I want you to know the feeling of being able to play with your kids whenever you want to. The key to living the life you love is closer than you can imagine. I have spent a good portion of my life working for someone elses dreams, why? Because society tells us to! I say throw caution to the wind and take a stand to finally live your dreams, live life on your terms. Do it today, do it now and don't look back, you will never regret it!

I have been on this amazing blue planet for twenty-nine years now. I love the way that the world has shaped who i am as a person. I have always had a passion to lead others to greatness. I feel that people, regardless of their past difficulties or ease, have placed invisible constraints on themselves further deterring them from achieving there true potential. Working for my self as an independent contractor for little over seven years i have been able to develop my leadership skills. I often find myself craving more knowledge from books so that i always have a fresh way of thinking. I feel that leaders, like myself, are never truly satisfied with the status quo and are constantly looking to improve their skills. I have always worked along side people in an effort to know what really drives them and then use it to help catapult them to the next level. People often try to down play their “gifts” or “talents” because the fear of being ridiculed.  I find the key to making people great is removal of that fear and in turn it removes their shackles of mediocrity.

I also love the ability to work hard and break a sweat. Life will always be comprised of downs and ups. It is how you handle those moments that build who you are. My wife's smile helps me remember why I keep moving forward through many struggles. I have learned that you have to not sweat the small stuff but you have to sweat to change the small stuff.  I have been labeled as a “doer” I have made it a goal  to always be actively engaged in something while at work. I have filled my life with active and eventful things to keep a piece of that inner child alive.  By doing this  I have always been able to look at the funnier side of things. I think as soon as we all realize the humor in life the better, because life can be pretty boring and short if you don’t.

In closing i would like to point out that i am a thinker ( as if you might have noticed). I have always wondered how things work and always look for a better way of doing things. the statement “ if its not broke don’t fix it” has always been, to me anyway, a deceptive way of thinking. It has more meaning in the simple fact that it promotes a sort of stagnate thinking. Sort of like that musty smell that billows into your nostrils upon opening the door to your grandparents camper after sitting all winter. (I am sorry if you never have experienced this, but you must get out and try it.) I feel we should rewrite that phrase into “ well if its not broke, lets break it to see if we can fix it better than before.” I have no shame in failing, I learn more from mistakes than I do from my successes.