Q: Describe what has shaped you into who you are today?
A: Most honestly, my mother. My mother is a strong independent women who has always been so authentically herself. She is a child of Holocaust survivors, born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany before her parents immigrated to Brooklyn. She overcame tons of obstacles during childhood and thanks to her perseverance and crazy entrepreneurial spirit, managed to open her own clothing boutique in NYC which she had for 15 years. Now she's a visual artist crushing life at age 65. She's also the healthiest person I know and will outlive us all. She was experimenting with taking my sister and I off of gluten and casein before those were cool buzz words, and she truly was my first health and wellness education teacher (though at the time, I didn't want the knowledge!). Her independence, passion, perseverance, and insistence that her body is her temple have all informed the strong, health-conscious, independent woman I am today. - Shayna, Personal Trainer & Actor/Singer
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