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Meet Linzi Martinez of Happy Healthy Stronger in Boca Raton

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Linzi Martinez.

Linzi, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
My name is Linzi Martinez. I moved to Boca Raton, Florida, from PA with my three kids, 3, 5 and 7, completely alone. I lived in a small cottage town and wanted more for myself and my children.

I soon begin teaching classes for fitness just to fill in when the instructor was needing someone as I have always been certified because I had been a competitive gymnastics coach for 25 years through school. From that moment on, I was hired privately by so many people that it was almost full time. I have trained celebrities like Chrissy Evert and Madison Keys and Siggy Flicker for Housewives of New Jersey… and more. I created dynamic fitness programs, created lifestyle meal plans and took care of all their nutritional needs as I am a nutritional therapist.

This was beautiful. I felt amazing, finally in a career that was just giving a far cry from my marketing career back in PA. However, I wanted to reach more people, to create a bigger impact and thus created my first TV show Called Happy Healthy Stronger on an on-line network called WRPBItv. Interviewing all the local businesses that were taking care of our community with love and passion and lecturing my viewers on foods and suggestions for feeling ridiculously alive! When I hit 100,000 viewers, I wanted to reach even more people and I wanted to get out of the studio and into the community to share with my viewers. I decided to create a makeover series with the local business to show our viewers how amazing these companies are and how they can really take care of themselves as they watch it all unfolding for six weeks!

I hired a staff and brought on 26 sponsors, 5 title sponsors and made a casting call for our area to cast three individuals that need help with getting their weight and health back in check big time! With over 400 entries, we found three amazing people that ranged in issues from hypertension and diabetes to smoking and arthritis! They all needed to lose over 50 pounds each. We followed them for six weeks though personal training, diets, blood work and all thing with beauty like hair, waxing and clothing and created a daily post on social media for our local viewers to come along on their journey.

Additionally, we had raised enough sponsorship money to have a camera crew follow us throughout the six weeks thus allowing me to produce a three-part television series which has won Best Documentary, Best Host at the Miami Web Fest, and was officially selected at the International Film Festival of Manhattan and received honorable mention there as well. It continues to circle the film festivals awaiting the potential next award!

I was so excited and thrilled Producing, directing and hosting was now my “thing” I adored every second of it! Which led to my next project, The Prime Time. I TV series Pilot that was created around the idea that life began at 50 and highlighted all the benefits and advantages women have at this age along with the age-related issues that we most humorously address! My partner and I wrote, produced, directed and hosted the show which was fully sponsored and well-received having aired on July 7th, 2019, on NBC – I cried!!!! The Prime Time was officially selected at the International Film Festival of Manhattan and has been nominated for Best documentary in Miami with results to come in May 2020 at the Festival!

Now my wheels are still turning. I have created a new amazing athletic line called Body on Fire will be announced and released by the end of spring 2020 and a new 30-day program to give people the opportunity to work with me globally!

I am honored, grateful and blessed to be living my life with all of my dreams on my path… every day is like a vacation and I hope to inspire people to do what they love and what they are passionate about and the finances will follow shortly thereafter but mostly, they will alleviate the “Thank G-D its Friday mentality and replace it with a feel of being ridiculously alive every hour of every day.

Has it been a smooth road?
It was not a smooth road, LOL!!!!!! Personal training and nutritional therapy was a great one on one! Up leveling to the first TV show was a breeze too! Come my producing my own TV series with 26 sponsors was terrifying! I attempted joining forces with a network only to be hugely uncomfortable with the amount of sponsorship they were requesting from our community… and after six months broke free and decided to build an audience through social media first by posting a health and wellness video almost every day for a year!

Additionally, I went back to school to get another certification that was better than the one that I currently had to be ready and current! I needed to provide value to my sponsors so I could feel they had an amazing return on their investment. When that year was up – I launched my dream! Dealing with 26 sponsors, a staff, camera crew and a 400-person event with vendors for the Grand Finale was accompanied with tears, fears and weight loss lol! Yet somehow, through all the stress was this AMAZING SENSE of self-worth and love for life that was so overpowering, it often left me crying with happy tears. When it was complete and CBS came to our Grand Finale, watching my three contestants walking down the catwalk- over 20 lbs. lighter each, diabetes-free and feeling like they were on top of the world… well it was all worth every second of every hour that I did not sleep!

Alright – so let’s talk business.  What else should we know about you and your career so far?
My company is ME! I am Linzi Martinez Enterprises! I am an award-winning TV producer and host. I am a Celebrity personal trainer and nutritional therapist and the owner and designer of a new athletic wear company called Body on Fire to be released by the end of Spring. I also own a photography company called Photography by Linzi where I capture from the other side and get super creative!

I am proud that people can feel my passion for what I do, grateful that they trust me to give 400% and know that I am completely authentic. I am grateful and honored to be in this position. But if I were to be honest, I am most proud of creating a career that gives hopefully makes a difference in someone’s life – I can’t ever imagine doing anything else. What I believe sets me apart from everyone else is my energy – I am truly a positive, happy and passionate person and I believe ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!

Is our city a good place to do what you do?
This city has allowed me to live out my dreams, to help so many people and to enjoy life more than I could have ever imagined! Waking up every day looking at this beautiful scenery everywhere and feeling the warmth in the air is a game-changer – everyday feels like a vacation and when you feel like that – you feel like you can do and be anything! Every day is a happy day here… from the people to the opportunity to create – I am so very blessed and grateful to be living here and I tell it to the world every day!!!!

Linzi we see you are providing a complimentary service to your viewers during these hard times can you explain?
I have been offering free personal training in a Facebook group called In-Home Fitness Train-Tighten-tone. It’s my way of giving back to my online community who have made my life so special…  I provide people with a form of exercise to increase their serotonin levels, increase their immunity, lean out and even create a six pack if they want! Classes are twice per day. I love every second, it gives me tremendous happiness to know that I might me making a difference in someone life, especially now. I am so grateful to be able to do this.

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