Melanie Redd

I am a 42 year old mother of two to 7 year old, Laila Jade Redd and 21 year old Devereaux Jalen Turner and I am wife to my husband of 10 years, Ronnie Redd. Until 6 years ago, I had a full time career as an Advertising Sales Executive with Time Warner Cable Media Sales, where I was employed for 3 years. For 4+ years before my Time Warner career, I was Senior Advertising Executive at The Dayton Business Journal. Previous to my Advertising Sales career, I was in Telecom Sales. Having a successful career in sales was very important to me and I won awards for my performance. I truly loved what I did and I was good at it. However, my husband and I decided to have a baby after we got married and once that beautiful little girl came along, I quickly realized that the last thing I wanted to do was leave her to go back to work. We decided that I would leave my career and become a full time stay-at-home mom. I saw this as the perfect opportunity to reinvent myself and that is just what I have done.

2 years before I became pregnant with my daughter Laila, I became very serious about my own personal fitness. I lost 15 pounds of extra weight that I was carrying and when I started to feel and look better, people noticed. After constantly being asked how I got in shape, I began advising people on what I had learned about working out and eating healthy.  Advising turned into inspiring and I started to realize that my dream job was to become a Personal Trainer and help other people get healthy and feel as good as I felt! After settling into my roll of stay-at-home mom,started my studies to become certified in Personal Training. I became certified in August of 2011 in Personal Training and I have a CPR/AED certification as well.  I am in the process of deciding on an additional Fitness/Nutrition Certification.

Since September of 2011, I have been doing “in-home” personal training under my company name, Power Glow Fitness, training clients in my home Studio. I help people lose weight and get healthy and strong through a personalized exercise plan which includes basic nutrition counseling. I also run Fitness Bootcamp classes at a local martial arts facility and church. 

This career path was the best professional decision I have ever made!  I am having the time of my life helping people get healthy, lose weight and become stronger, happier people.  I have been very fortunate that my old career in sales has enabled me to make contacts with people who have helped me advance my fitness career and get my name out there.  This has enabled me to do this on my own and has enabled me to build my own professional studio space in the basement of my own home.  Power Glow Fitness Studio is my pride and joy and my clients absolutely love the studio as well.