Conversations with the Inspiring Koya Michelle

Today we’d like to introduce you to Koya Michelle.

Koya has been an athlete from a very young age. She has always enjoyed being active, pursuing self-discovery, personal development and growth and empowering and helping other women in her communities online and locally.

Her athletic career began early in life and includes years of playing softball and cheer-leading.  Her passion for and interest in health and fitness continued through her college years as she started spending more and more time in the gym. It was here where she found her passion, transforming bodies and strengthening minds and she eventually turned her focus to personal and online training professionally. Her desire to connect with and to help others is what drives her. To increase her ability to effectively assist her clients, she later pursued professional education and became a NASM CPT.

Koya is committed to helping her clients achieve their fitness goals safely and efficiently. She believes in the connection between mind, body, and spirit and knows from personal experience along her journey in life that loving self, and developing healthy habits can be a launch pad for truly living your best life. She believes in a life of balance, perfect imperfection, vitality, health and fitness.

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
It has not been always been a smooth road but that is life, it is more of a curvy and bumpy road instead of a first-class, direct flight. I would not want it any other way, however, for it is in the twists, turns, valleys, and peaks that allow us to learn lessons, find our passions, develop character, to find ourselves and to grow and develop relationships.

There was doubt, fear, hesitation and other obstacles along the path, but even with a few stumbles my calling to impact others and to share my passion and lessons with other women created strength and resilience in me that allowed me to overcome and to keep moving forward on my journey.

My advice to other women would be to not let emotions rule your life, to not give up at the first sight of difficulty, to not doubt oneself, to leverage the tools and resource available to you, to ask for help when needed and to focus on your why.

Please tell us more about your work, what you are currently focused on and most proud of.
I am an online and personal trainer. I am honored to partner with women all across the country and world and to walk with them along their journey to living a life filled with vitality, focused on health and fitness. I am grateful for being able to help women lose body fat, gain lean muscle, or both, to prep them for competitions but most importantly to live healthy, balanced lifestyles.

I create personalized programs designed to meet the needs of each client and pride myself in a hands-on approach, a partnership. I share resources and provide opportunities to network with those that can further support my clients and to create a community of strong, growing women. I am also an IFBB Pro, an Evogen Elite Athlete, and a Carbon38 and Designs By Anna Kay ambassador and sponsored athlete. I am also very focused on expanding my ability to positively impact those within our local Scottsdale, AZ community and look forward to sharing more with you all in the near future.

Looking back on your childhood, what experiences do you feel played an important role in shaping the person you grew up to be?
Everyone’s journey and experiences help to mold them into who they could become. There are so many experiences and memories that I have that have had such an impact on me, too many to share. My athletic and scholastic successes, traveling to 8 countries thus far in my lifetime, my belief in God, the passing of my father as a teenager, my divorce in my thirties, the love and support of my family spanning my entire life for example, all have helped to mold me into the woman I am today and for that I am grateful.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://koyamichellefitness.com/
• Email: koya.michellefitness@yahoo.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/koyamichelle_fit/?hl=en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KoyaMichelleFitness/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/koya_michelle
• Other: https://linktr.ee/koyamichelle_fit

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