Every Sweat Matters!

Happy Sunday everyone!!!!

Back in January I had the pleasure of meeting Katy Ursta, she is a fellow Beachbody coach. What is amazing about Katy is her story. Katy was just a normal person, teaching, raising her family and then forever her life was changed by a diagnosis. She was diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Katy had to endure chemo every other week yet she still found a way to push play and workout. This wasn't so she could lose weight, this was to develop mental strength and clarity to fight this awful disease.

Leukemia is a blood cancer and causes more deaths to children and young adults under the age of 20. Over a million Americans currently are living with blood cancers. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed and every ten minutes someone dies from a blood cancer. Currently, there is a five year survival rate for children under the age of 15 that has gone from 3% to 92%.

So what does all of this mean? Why am I writing about Katy today. Katy is amazing. She had been an inspiration to me for a long time and was an honor to meet her. Being a Beachbody coach is so much more than helping people improve their health and fitness. We are a family, a community dedicated to improving the quality of life of others. We believe everyone matters.

Katy has been nominated for Woman of the Year through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Soceity (talk about an honor)! So what we are doing is helping Katy on her quest to run her campagin that goes from February 26th-May 8th. During this time, we will be sweating, we will be working along her side to raise money to help improve research. We are on a quest to end cancer. It is time for people to stop losing their life to this awful disease.

What can you do to help? First, you can purchase a shirt from her campaign. A part of the proceeds will go towards her goal to raise $100,000!!! We will be working out with the hashtag #everysweatmatters to help raise awareness for her campaign! You can purchase a shirt at this link! http://everysweatmatters.bigcartel.com/

Another way to help Katy is to make a donation here at http://www.mwoy.org/pages/wpa/pgh15/kursta

Lastly, take a few minutes and watch this video. This is Katy, her story matters, she gives hope to so many people and I want to do everything I can to help her campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pHZgqcQX8Q