{"id":36096,"date":"2017-12-14T09:18:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T14:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=36096"},"modified":"2017-12-18T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:11:42","slug":"fit4mom-franchise-owner-40-forty-honoree-helps-moms-find-voices-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/fit4mom-franchise-owner-40-forty-honoree-helps-moms-find-voices-community\/","title":{"rendered":"FIT4MOM franchise owner and \u201840 Under Forty\u2019 honoree helps moms find their voices, community"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Eastern Mennonite University graduate is one of this year\u2019s \u201c40 Under Forty\u201d honorees recognized by the Tacoma, Washington-based Business Examiner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristy King, who owns a <\/span>FIT4MOM franchise in Olympia<\/span><\/a>, Washington, was named to the list of business and community leaders under age 40 who \u201chave made great accomplishments and significant contributions to their businesses, industries and communities,\u201d according to an Examiner press release.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2017 honorees were celebrated<\/a> at the Foss Waterway Seaport Museum in Tacoma on Oct. 11. <\/span><\/p>\n

King describes her experiences leading to business ownership as \u201ca little bit random.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

At EMU she earned a degree in environmental science, completed an independent study alongside a botanist at Shenandoah National Park, and spent a month on cross-cultural in Mexico with the <\/span>School for Field Studies<\/span><\/a>. She also invested herself heavily in theater, and, immediately after graduating in 2002, interned at the Washington (DC) Shakespeare Theater Company. <\/span><\/p>\n

Still later she earned a master\u2019s degree in environmental studies at Evergreen State College, along the way working for a science education franchise. She currently has a part-time administrative job at a software development company and mothers her two young children \u2014 and runs her business.<\/span><\/p>\n

An \u2018alluring\u2019 offer<\/b><\/h3>\n

When her first child was three months old, King became a beneficiary of FIT4MOM\u2019s mission of helping moms \u201cmake strides in fitness, motherhood, and life.\u201d As a new mother in search of community \u2014 and in spite of feeling \u201cpretty uncoordinated\u201d and lacking confidence \u2014 she attended a Stroller Strides class at the franchise.<\/span><\/p>\n

She quickly realized that the class name is a misnomer. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStroller Strides is a full-body, intense workout that you work fun for baby into, but while you\u2019re singing them a song, you\u2019re probably doing a standing oblique crunch or some other thing. It\u2019s not a walk in the park, which is what many, many people think it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, she said, \u201cI fell in love with it, got my butt kicked, and quickly figured out it wasn\u2019t just a workout program.\u201d Instead, FIT4MOM is also a way to connect with other moms, and build confidence and strength. <\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually King acquired FIT4MOM Olympia, at its previous owner\u2019s invitation. It was \u201cvery, very alluring,\u201d she said, although \u201ct<\/span>here was some definite wrestling with timing.\u201d She was, after all, in the third trimester of pregnancy with her second child. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I did it, and I\u2019m still alive, and my kids are still alive and thriving,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

King also leads her own class at FIT4MOM Olympia \u2014 Body Back, a \u201chigh-intensity workout\u201d that moms come to without their babies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The work is a way to give to others what she has received, both from FIT4MOM and elsewhere including at EMU, where professors pushed her, supported her, helped her problem solve \u2014 and cultivated her belief in herself. <\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s what she hopes to do for others.<\/span><\/p>\n

A \u2018behind-the-scenes leader\u2019<\/b><\/h3>\n

King calls herself an \u201coff-the-charts introvert,\u201d a \u201cbehind the scenes leader.\u201d That\u2019s something she began realizing about herself and developing when she was a student involved in theater.<\/span><\/p>\n

At EMU, King said, she spent most of her waking hours doing theater. She stage managed black box theater performances and MainStage and senior shows, and began to realize that she could contribute, could \u201crun these things, without having to be in front of a whole group of people, on stage, without having to be front and center.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her appreciation for that growth process crystallized, she reflected recently, when she returned to campus a decade after graduating to stage manage <\/span>Sarah and the Dinosaur<\/span><\/i><\/a>, a play written by Ingrid DeSanctis and the late Sarah Pharis Dwyer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden I came back in, and I\u2019d say I kind of had this moment of \u2018Wow, this is where this came from,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a way of coming back to my roots that also helped me to see how far my roots had taken me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

King also credits DeSanctis, a professor of theater at EMU during King\u2019s years there, with challenging her to move beyond her comfort zone. \u201cShe really helped me figure out the strengths that I didn\u2019t know I had, and become more confident, and find my voice a little more,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s what college is all about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a gift she sees herself extending to others through FIT4MOM Olympia, she said. There, she can \u201cpush with love, pull with compassion, and know when to trust and step back,\u201d she said \u2014 so that moms can find their own voices and a place in a community that is \u201cwaiting and ready to embrace them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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