04/26/2024
April 25th: TLDR = Keep your fighting spirit! 🙏🏼 🔥 ✨ FYI… LONG POST AHEAD! 🙈 👀 😊
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April 25th will always be a commemorative day for OMJ FITNESS and me, as it was April 25th, 2022, when a fire happened next door to us—just five days away from our scheduled opening, what was to be April 30th, 2022. A mere two days before, on Saturday the 23rd, the contractors had finished their final fresh coats of paint application, and the day prior, Sunday the 24th, all of our technology had gone into the space, too (our audio equipment and sound system, the computer, and our printer).
That morning, two years ago today, I’ll never forget how I awoke to several missed calls and texts from the downstairs owner of Pizza Pizza, who was feverishly driving to his store—panicked, naturally—and phoned me to rush over there too. Delirious and half awake as the sun shone that Monday morning, I arrived at Yonge and Eglinton and the fire scene. There were seven fire trucks all around, lots of broken glass was everywhere, caution tape blocking off Yonge Street from both cars and pedestrians, and terrible smells of embers—all with CP24 there, too, covering the blaze live. I was crying and screaming—in complete disbelief. Some of you shared those moments with me via my FB updates and IG livestreams from that awful day. But—I got through it—with your help.
I thank the Universe for everything I have learned personally and professionally and for all my support since starting my gym. Since beginning OMJ, it feels as if I’ve gone to school for business, construction management, insurance and law. 🏫 😂 🔨 ⚖️ I want to take the time to appreciate this moment and share that it’s essential to acknowledge how monumental it was in inspiring me to think positively in challenging situations and to be indeed able to channel the famous expression, “Mind over matter.”
To friends and family of OMJ FITNESS, thank YOU! ☺️ Let’s keep working hard, feeling good, positively changing our lives, and growing this business. 💯 Now is the time to LEVEL UP—and please buy your packs, passes and memberships! 😂 xoxo
📸—Nattie and I in the sun earlier on, and Meditation tonight at . ☀️