09/03/2026
🤍 **6 YEARS OF MAKENNA** 🤍
Makenna is my **OG**.
She came on when RYSE was still just a vision. When RYSE was at Crawford Street Gym. When RYSE was becoming a dream — including the night I nervously showed my instructors the plans for a new building and shared what I hoped RYSE could someday become.
She was there when that dream became our home.
She was there as RYSE grew into a community that carried us through some of the most challenging times.
And RYSE has been there for some of the biggest moments in her life, too. We celebrated her getting married — **TWICE 😂** — and then watched and celebrated as she stepped into one of her greatest roles yet: motherhood. 🤍
When I look back on these six years, I realize RYSE isn't what it is today simply because of a building, classes, or workouts.
**RYSE is what it is because of people like Makenna.**
People who believed in the vision before they could see exactly where it was going. People who stayed through the changes, the growing pains, the celebrations, and the storms. People who stood beside me and helped turn a dream into something real.
Makenna has braved the storm alongside me for so long, and my love and appreciation for her standing beside me all these years could never fully be put into words.
Six years of RYSE also means **six years of Makenna.** 🤍
And I wouldn't want to imagine this journey without my OG.
Here’s to everything we've already been through, everything we've celebrated, and all the chapters still waiting for us. 🥂
**Love you, Makenna. Thank you for believing in RYSE — and in me — from the very beginning.** 🤍
