Today we’d like to introduce you to Adrienne Mcghee.
Hi Adrienne, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I wanted to join the gym twelve years ago out of curiosity. Throughout my life, I have been a slim and very fit figure lady. Discipline, commitment, and determination have always been the driving force of my career. Served as a diplomat at the Korean Embassy in Australia ( a proud graduate of the University of New South Wales in Australia), dominated the ever-flourishing IT industry as a Marketing Communication Manager of Cisco Systems (mind you, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Cisco Systems ruled the entire world of IT). As life continued, one of my friends asked if I wanted to come with her to her gym. I have been a ballet dancer since I was 7, but the gym was not one of my fortes, but I decided to go with her to check out the shenanigans she was talking about. Then there, a fitness director named Jamil ( who happened to be one of the best coaches in the Bikini category back then) approached me with this typical ( I thought:) line “you have one of the most beautiful figures I saw, but you need a little fine-tuning.” I thought Oh well, let me try since he looks like he knows what he is talking about.
There I started competing in Bikini competitions (NPC shows). I won through national shows but found more joy in training other people and changing their lives. My experience from competing days has given me the knowledge that only a few trainers who got their licenses from school could apply to clients. So I started my career as a professional trainer. One day, one of my clients asked me if I could meet her at her gym, one of Anytime Fitness locations. I fell in love with the cozy and private environment. I asked the owner if I could join and utilize his gym to train my clients under contract. Two years later, he asked me to be his partner for the franchise, and the rest is history. Now I am the Co-owner of 2 Anytime Fitness franchise locations and raising my college son (yes, he is my Mini Me and freshman at FSU), getting all my joy and happiness by changing people’s lives forever.
Please talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned. Would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Since I started competing, the national shows have been smooth sailing. My career has been my blessing, and I believe, by God’s grace, I got a top-notch work ethic.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
Anytime Fitness is a franchise gym like Planet fitness or Crunch. It is 24 hours operating facility; I am an expert on total transformation. I have helped people lose over 3000lbs throughout my career and have a 100% track record of total transformation. If you come to my gyms, you will see the pictures of my client’s comparison pictures all over.
How would we have described you growing up if we knew you were growing up?
I was born in Seoul, South Korea. My dad was a retired general, and my mom was a typical Asian tiger mama:). I went to Australia in 1991 and studied Drama and Commerce at the University of New South Wales.
Image Credits
Phill-PCS Phtography Zach-Ztich Phtography
