She’s Hercules with Sarah Paquet

For Head Trainer and Owner of She’s Hercules Women’s Wellness Center, Sarah Paquet, she believes that physical fitness is important, but so much more goes into physical fitness than people realize.

After starting her business in 2019 in a one-car garage, Paquet started slowly by training friends and family, and then it grew into women who could not afford big box gym training but still needed the help.

“While working at a big box gym, only those who could afford help would receive help,” she explains. “I could not proceed with training or a boot camp unless they could afford the personal or group packages. I wanted to help all women in need of physical fitness.”

Located on 125 Wyandotte Street West in Downtown Windsor, Paquet’s gym offers many services, including personal training, partner training, boot camps and classes such as boxing, HIIT, Zumba, morning madness, and ‘Butts and Guts’.

“I believe physical fitness is important but so much more goes into physical fitness without realizing it,” she shares. “When you feel good, you will look good too! There are so many people that base their happiness off an appearance. When you take time to care for your mind and body, you become a better version of yourself without even realizing it.”

Describing herself as resourceful, motivational, and a hard worker, Paquet works alongside a group of incredible women, including Personal Trainer Sara Mauldin, Office Manager Shelby Marshal, and Instructor and Champion Deneige Chaffey.

“I get to get up every day and make a difference. I want to make a positive one,” she says. “I stay motivated because everyone needs someone to be their cheerleader to be in their corner. I am that someone, and so are my staff.”

Paquet’s advice to anyone looking into getting into fitness is to talk to people in the business.

“Everyone started somewhere and probably didn’t know as much as they do now. Don’t be shy to put yourself out there.”

For 25-year-old Artist, Audio Engineer and Producer, Brett Blake, what inspires him to continue down his journey of music is the inspiration he gets from other artists that he aspires to be like one day.

At the age of eight, Blake became indulged with music after staying home sick from school one day with his brother.

“My brother showed me a concert video of The Blue Man Group and I saw them making these really cool sounds on tubes, and other various objects and that kind of expanded what I originally thought music was,” shares Blake. “Then I got a bit older and heard the song Around The World by Daft Punk and realized that you don’t just have to bang and strum on objects, but you could also make a new song by tweaking around tonal properties on synthesizers and make music through electronics. The weirder the process, the better the music.”

“One thing I heard a lot growing up was “The worst someone can say to you is ‘no’.” but when you have ADHD, that “no” can be crippling.”

After being involved with music for some time, Blake is currently working on the idea to create the platform, S|H|A|P|E Entertainment. where artists can put out all their work, no matter what their medium is and get paid for their work.

“I use Ableton Live which is such a good tool to just put ideas down but a lot of them go unfinished and go into an idea graveyard called my hard drive. There’s really no rhyme or reason, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” Blake explains. “But the thing about making music is that you have to chase it. There’s no sitting down and waiting for that inspiration to come to you in a dream.”

Sharing that he has ADHD, it can make it hard for him to really think in a typical way, which makes it either really easy to come up with ideas or really hard for him.

“Sometimes thinking of the ideas is easy and trying to articulate them is the hard part. And then there’s an ADHD term called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and that causes a lot of anxiety to actually putting yourself out there,” he explains. “

Describing himself as hilarious, awesome and humble, Blake shares nothing really empowers him or keeps him motivated, because it’s all about the kind of work you gotta put in yourself.

“Sometimes life hits you hard and you get rocked and you gotta take a rest and take a step back from what you do, but rest and recreation is a part of the grind and loving what you do is also a huge motivator,” Blake says.

To learn more about S|H|A|P|E Entertainment and to listen to some of Brett’s creations, click the links below: https://bit.ly/3DS2b2G