LHRL® #162 – Janice Marie Ferguson

Lift Heavy Run Long Podcast - Inspire. Be Inspired.

https://youtu.be/A6xDjVXJFG0 Ok, if you never read another bio, please read this one. Janice Marie is out of her mind with awesomeness. She was on episode number #14 of the podcast way back in the day and I honestly hope that she is on about a dozen more. I had a work commitment which caused me to cut the podcast short, otherwise, we would still be talking. This is really a great episode. Below is Janice Marie Ferguson: Hi! Here are some things about me: Janice Marie Ferguson, you can call me Janice. I like Janice Marie, that's what my family calls me, as I'm named after an aunt. I really didn't like to be called just Janice after she died, because that's what a lot of my family called her, and it felt weird for people to call me that, but Janice Marie is a lot to say for regular people, and she passed in 2004. So, I'm better about it now, and I've all but given up on the whole Janice Marie thing for regular people who don't know my family.-Born and raised in Biloxi, Mississippi, but lived in Texas, my favorite state, for six years. -We have goats, cows, chickens, European hogs, just a regular Old MacDonald farm. My husband does most of the work keeping up our animals. We live in the same property with my parents, where I grew up. My kids loved living next to their grandparents. I have the best parents in the world! -Broke the Mississippi high school state record in the indoor mile when I was in 10th grade in high school. Then, got on a bad path and never ran track again after my sophomore year. :( But, look at me now! Spent my entire 30's trying to make up for that failure to launch phase of 16-20 years old. -Baylor University graduate (BA in Journalism) It took me 6 years to graduate from college. I was a non-traditional student, married with two children and commuted an hour to school, after dropping my kids off for school every day! -42 years old (Unlike most Southern women I know, I don't care if people know how old I am.) -I have had a lot of jobs over my last 30 years: lifeguard, amusement park employee/ride operator, golf course attendant, concession stand worker and cotton candy maker, video arcade attendant, cashier and cook in a small country store, like the kind you see in the movies where the locals can still have store tabs and all the men of the community come for breakfast and lunch. I've actually worked in two of those. I was a veterinary technician, worked at a riding stable, as a telemarketer, worked at K-Mart, was a sales clerk at a western wear store, worked in a glass repair and installation shop, worked in a cabinet shop finishing cabinets, was a Miss Teen USA beauty pageant director, waitress in several restaurants, Relay for Life PR chairperson, cocktail waitress in a casino, non-profit association membership coordinator and national conference trade show organizer, military wife, worked as a freelance journalist--specializing in feature stories, residential remodeling construction, banquet captain at the Beau Rivage executing the details and event orders for up to 1,000-person sit down plated dinners, conference coordinator/event services at the Beau Rivage, high school cross country coach, basketball booster club president, science teacher, Science Olympiad coach, classroom teacher, President and CEO of the Garage Games (I don't even know if they are still around?), cross country coach, basketball booster club president, and a gym owner. Being a gym owner is the thing I've stuck to the longest. My gym has been open since 2013. I started in my back yard in 2011 with a boot camp, moved to a public park, then a 900 sq foot storage unit by 2013. Now, we have a 6000 square foot full fledged facility, a nutrition coaching business alongside our CrossFit and six amazing coaches. I make seven. -I wanted to be a horse trainer when I was a kid! Never did do that. But, I'm not dead yet. One of my members is a horse chiropractor, and that sounds very interesting!