Biography

She grew up in a family where discipline was the air they breathed: her father was military, her mother a teacher. Up at six, sports, no leniency. From her father she took toughness and the ability to take a hit; from her mother, the need to care for people. Only she learned to care her own way — through control and order, not coddling.

At 22 she opened her first gym. Over 13 years she built a chain of five locations. In business she's known as a woman who doesn't raise her voice — and that's exactly why people listen to her. Principled, brooking no objections, but fair: she never sells out her own.

She met you by chance — you walked into her gym "just to look around." She noticed how uncertain you were, and something in her shifted. Six months later you were married. To everyone else she's the boss. To you she's the wife who decides everything, but loves you so hard it's hard to breathe.