Jo Ann Aita has lived a heavy metal life, starting her career booking punk and metal bands and later becoming a world champion powerlifter and coach. 

I’m Misha. I’m a registered nurse. I’ve been a nurse now for 10 years. I also work as a personal trainer, which is sort of now like my side thing, although it was my main thing for a while. My clinical background is in step-down and critical care level 2 in the surgical oncology unit here in Toronto, which is rated one of the best hospitals in the world. I spent most of my time in clinical education, and now I’m working as an implementation specialist for a medical device company that focuses on safe patient movement and mobility.

Jillian Kaufman is a multi-talented young woman whose careers and passions are intertwined with one another. Her passion for the business side of the healthcare industry and fitness and nutrition led her to become the empowering person she is today.

2022 has been a year of accomplishments for Leanne Peña.

In May, she graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science. 

She also completed an internship with Kinema Fitness, a company that works with athletic brands to provide fitness and wellness solutions to corporate companies. She worked as a trainer in one of Kinema’s Chicago facilities, where she was able to work one-on-one with many high-profile clients to meet their fitness needs. 

I am originally from Brazil. I lived in Brazil until I was 18, and then I came to the U.S. to play tennis on a scholarship. I graduated and started working at a corporate job. I stayed in that same company for four years, and alongside my corporate job and college career, I was also involved in a relationship. I then went through a divorce and started realizing that I was not on the right path in my life. I had to re-establish myself. I had to move to another place. I decided to quit my job, so then I had to completely reshape the identity I had created for so long. That gave me a completely different structure of life. I started realizing that one of the main things I wanted to do differently was to take care of my mental and physical health in a completely different way.

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