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THERESA ROEMER
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Theresa Roemer with Candice Bar in her world famous closet!
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A NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER
“I was inspired to create the magazine for female entrepreneurs so we could provide proper advice to all of our readers and followers who are experts in their industry. Knowledgeable advice is invaluable. It’s time for the ladies to get some recognition.” -CB
Founder & CEO Candice Bar
ABOUT Candice Bar is a multi-media mogul, speaker, mentor, tv personality and female entreprenuer advocate. Candice is the Founder and CEO of Luxe Enterprise which includes Luxe Media, Luxe Life Magazine, Luxe Life Cosmetics, Luxe Media Studios, Luxe Wear and Luxe Life with Candice Bar podcast. Her show Luxe Life is currently on several major platforms all over the world.
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ALL ABOUT THERESA ROEMER
Theresa Roemer grew up on a farm in Nebraska. While her childhood friends were busy being kids, Theresa did odd jobs to make money. She was always looking for the next entrepreneurial challenge whether it be delivering newspapers or mowing lawns. This strong work ethic has served Theresa well; she is a multi-millionaire with several businesses. Theresa’s passion for health and helping people started as a young age. As a child Theresa was diagnosed with rheumatic fever many times over, which caused her to have a heart murmur; she was sickly and her doctors diagnosed her with a lifetime of physical constraints. Determined to prove the doctors wrong, Theresa began her lifelong journey to stay active, healthy, and physically fit. Theresa opened her chain of fitness centers, Body by Design in Wyoming in 1991 and ran five facilities through 2000, while also providing personal training services through her company Phenomenal Physiques during this time. She took the U.S. Open title in body-building at the age of 40, and in the year 2010 Theresa held the titles of Mrs. Houston U.A., Mrs. Texas U.A., and was the 1st runner up for Mrs. United America concurrently. In 2011Theresa climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for Child Legacy International. In addition to being the CEO of Theresa Roemer, LLC, owning several home goods companies, and being a fitness expert, Theresa is also a highly sought after corporate philanthropist. As an expert in business philanthropy, Theresa works regularly with major motion pictures; television studios, corporations and high profile brands to expand their philanthropic reach to raise millions of dollars through business charity events. Theresa consults with organizations such as LVMH to understand their business goals with fundraising, and then turns those objectives into a reality with her ability to produce high-impact business fundraising events. 5
Interview by: Candice Bar CB: It’s been reported you own the largest closet in the
CB: What are some new projects you have been working
TR: This closet became famous in 2014 accidentally. It was never supposed to be a famous closet. It’s weird that six years later, we’re still talking about it. It’s still number one. Film companies from all over the world are in here filming all the time. They are still fascinated by it. No one has been able to knock me off the throne. When the closet was first created, I was in here a lot, it was heavenly. Now, I think every time someone comes in that they’ve been here before, and they’re like, “No, this is my first time here. This is so fabulous!” I’m tired of it actually, I’m ready to go and build another one. All of the stuff in here will go with me to another closet. I think the designer in me wants to just do another closet.
TR: The beauty care line is called TR beauty by Theresa. We thought we were going to go with cosmetics first, but after a little more research and our followers and everything, I think we’re going to go more into the skin care first. I am an older woman versus the 20 and 30-year-olds out there. I think even though that is the age group that follows me the most, I really am focusing more on the skin care right now because that’s what I’m most interested in.
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CB: You are a major social media influencer and a lot of
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TR: You know, I think because the world is so full of negativity, it’s refreshing to have someone that’s positive and people need that. I don’t care where you are at in your life, you need positivity. I learned about people not liking you at a young age. I learned it in grade school as I was growing up. More prominently though as a fresh new adult. I was an aerobics instructor, and there was this woman always in my class that just hated me. She would attend my class, but as soon as the class got over with, she would go and complain about me. I was always like, “Why do you come to my class if you are not going to like me?” It always bothered me that she would go to the boss, the General Manager of the Health Club, and just complain about me all the time. It got to the point where I was so focused on her, I’m like, “Oh I have to make her like me!” Finally, he had a conversation with me one day and he said, “I need you to quit paying attention to her.” and I said, “Well, I want her to like me.” and he said, “You’re never going to get her like you. You can stand on your head, blow bubbles out your nose, cross your eyes, and spit spit wads, she is never going to be a fan of yours.” I said, “Well then why did she come to my class?” He said, “Because, realistically, she likes you and she knows she’s going to get the best workout from you, but there’s a personality conflict. So, I need you to focus on the other 99% of the class and ignore her and do your job.”And I was like, “Oh no, no, I could make her like me.” I could never make her like me, and then I ended up moving next door to her. We became great friends. It taught me a lesson. Sometimes people would not choose me as a personal trainer and they would go to someone else. I always knew I was the better personal trainer, but there’s personality conflicts. Now, it has gotten even worse with computers because everyone is 10 foot tall and bulletproof behind a computer board. They can say the meanest things. When I was Mrs. Texas in 2010, there was an article that came out and there was a picture in the newspaper and somebody had a horrible comment about me and my body. It kind of got to me a little bit, and a friend of a friend said to me, you better get some thick skin. If you’re going to be in this arena, you better get some thick skin. To this day, I remember that because it kind of bothered me. I was in the best shape! Not the best shape of my life, but one of the best times. I was at a 8% body fat. I was like, “Excuse me you’re complaining about my body?” I took that to heart. Then, when this person, and he was a guy, he said, “You better get used to this and you better get some thick skin because you have a book that’s coming out too. The more popular you get, the more they’re going to come after you.” You can even ask my assistant, Mr. Fabulous, I really don’t pay attention to comments. Sometimes I’ll delete them just because I have grandkids that actually watch my YouTube channel. I want some of those horrible nasty comments erased so that they don’t have to read it. CB: Let’s focus on the positive. I’m sure a lot of people reach out to you and thank you for your motivation and having this courage to be you. What are some personal stories that people have shared that have touched and motivate you to continue being a person of inspiration? TR: I get tons of them. We collect most of them that come in the mail. People actually take the time to write the letter and talk about how I’ve saved their life and whatnot. During
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this pandemic it has been really amazing to see the comments because a lot of people are depressed right now. That’s why I have said from day one, get out there and just go for walks. Just get outside, shut the TV off. It is very, very touching when someone will reach out to me and talk about how I saved their life. I’ve got a little boy, I call him a little boy he’s like a son to me and he’s a big-time fan, but he’s a friend too. He used to live in LA. He went back home and lives in Minnesota now. He actually called me last week and he was crying. He said, “I’m ready to pop myself off, I’m ready to exit the world.” I said, “Why, you have so much going for you?” and he’s like, “I’m so depressed, and I don’t know why.” I had a heart-toheart talk with him. Through his tears at the end, he was like, “Oh my God, I love you so much, thank you.”
“I think because the world is so full of negativity, it’s refreshing to have someone that’s positive and people need that. I don’t care where you are at in your life, you need positivity.” CB: Sometimes you just need a helping hand, a shoulder cry on, someone to talk to. Did you ever think you would become a sound board for these people?
TR: For all the years that I was a personal trainer. Even though you’re a personal trainer, you’re actually someone’s therapist because you hear everyone’s problems and you’re supposed to solve their problems just like you’re supposed to whip their body in shape. So, I kind of always knew that I had that side to me as a personal trainer. I would not call myself a therapist, but kind of a life coach. As a personal trainer, you’re someone’s actual life coach too. I can remember at times where I was training a husband and wife, and they were both cheating on each other. I could not tell each of them, and I had to keep secrets. I think now, with the help of YouTube and Instagram and all these social media platforms that we have now that I didn’t have then, it just gives me a chance to reach more people. CB: Do you have a daily or morning routine that gives you the strength to reach for more? TR: I guess it’s kind of a routine because I literally get up and do the same thing every morning for the first hour. I get up, see my two little puppies, get my coffee, go outside and give thanks to God for giving me another day to be here. I do a little meditation kind of thing. Back in 2006, I lost my 19-year-old son in a car accident. It made me realize not only then, but even years prior to that when I lost a little brother at 23, that tomorrow is not promised. You know, why did God take my 19-year-old son? He was just beginning life. It’s made me realize that every day when I wake up, I need to give God thanks that I’m still here and I’m still doing his work. You have to get out there and live your best life every single day, because you don’t know when it’s the last one.
“You have dreams, you have aspirations, but they’re not going to be handed to you, you have to work your butt off for them.”
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CB: What is something that people may not know about you?
TR: Even though I come across to the world like this boss bitch, I’m really a softy. I don’t really let people see that soft side. CB: What has been a major learning lesson for you? TR: I think we are learing everyday. It was in 2011 when I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and I almost died. I think that was a big learning lesson for me. That even when the odds were stacked against me and I should have died on that mountain, I put my faith in God and prayed those last few steps to the top. To God and to my son I said, “You know, I’m doing good in this world, this is all for charity. You’ve got to let me finish this. I’m not done in life.” The next day when I woke up in that hospital, the doctor said, “There is no reason why you’re alive.” I said, “Yes there is a reason.” CB: What are some charity events and organizations that you’ve helped hosting in the closet? TR: That’s what the closet was designed for. People don’t know that, they think, “Oh, she’s just showing off.” No, this was actually built to be a venue for charity events. It was the closet that was going to continually give back. A few of them are Texas Children’s Hospital, Interfaith of the Woodlands, Child Legacy International, Elijah Rising for sex trafficking etc. I don’t normally turn anyone down. If someone asks, “Can we hold our charity event in your closet?” I’m like, “Sure!” People ask, “Well, are you just for certain charity groups?” and I’m like,” No.’ It’s your choice. CB: What are some goals you have set out for yourself that you’d like to see accomplished?
TR: Well, something that I started out to do eight years ago, is coming to fruition finally. Like I said, there is an NDA, so I can’t really talk about it. Time has been on my side through this as I’ve been told, and so that’s going to be happening. There is going to be another book. I’ve got three books out, but there’s going to be another book out called “From Milking Cows to Millionaire”. That’s going to come out in 2021. 2011 was the first book, “Nude Unveiling Your Inner Beauty and Sensuality”. In 2015 I released two of them, “Naked in 30 Days”, where I stood naked in Times Square, and then I wrote my first romance novel “Scoring with Santa”. They’re all available on amazon. CB: You are quite the entrepreneur. You have a candle line, books, your brand, a pillow line, you’ve had clothing and fitness wear lines and gyms! What inspired you to create these different products?
TR: I have no idea! Yes, it’s kind of like when people walk into this house and they’re like, “Wow, how did you have the vision for this house?” And I’m like, “I don’t know”, but when I walked into this house, I envisioned the silver leafed dome, I envisioned the chandelier, I envisioned the Water Wall, I just have a way of envisioning what I want. You speak it into the universe, then you work your ass off and make it happen. CB: Let’s rewind back to the beginning. Where you are
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TR: I started out on a little ranch farm in Nebraska. I was a sickly child. I had rheumatic fever four different times, which left me with a heart murmur. I was told I was never going to be normal. I would never be a normal child; I would never get to run and play outside. I would never get to have children because it would be too taxing on my heart. I mean, they pretty much gave me a death sentence. I just went against all odds. I went against what doctors wanted, my parents wanted and just did my own thing. I guess I was probably pre-determined to be rebellious. I became an athlete as a child. I fell in love with sports, I guess, because it was something I could do that nobody wanted me to do, and I was able to do it. I was blessed with the genetics to do it. Becoming an athlete led me into the fitness arena, which led me into aerobics, body building, owning gyms and personal training. At any given time, I was never through the hard times. I went from being married to my first husband that beat me up every day and almost killed me in a closet the night before I left him to the second husband not being happily married and getting divorced after having two children. Then, working four jobs to try to survive. Having two kids and trying to go to college, and just all those hardships and all those times, you just keep plunging forward because you know there’s more out there for you. You have dreams, you have aspirations, but they’re not going to be handed to you, you have to work your butt off for them. I look back now and sometimes think, “How did I do that? How did I get divorced, have four jobs, 16 credit hours of college, two kids, how do I do that?” Where there is a will, there’s a way. I remember there were times where it just felt like somebody had their foot on top of my head. I never, ever thought maybe I should stop. I would think “Wow I’m about to break through that water and here comes that foot pushing me back down, like, What the heck!” I can remember so many times, even saying to my mom, “What am I supposed to do in life? How am I supposed to get ahead?” And she’s like, “I can’t tell you that. Only, you know.” I was like, “How come somebody’s not telling me?” That’s the easy way out. Isn’t it? You expect someone to tell you, you expect someone to show you, and you expect someone to give it to you. That’s not how it works. It’s all predetermined. If everything in life was easy, we’d all be successful, we would all be rich, we would all be the same and we would all be boring. I always tell people if it’s worth having then it’s worth putting the work in for it. When you look back, you’ll be like “Wow, how’d I get through all that?” Then you know it’s worth it. It’s kind of like having that good body. If it was so easy to have a good body, we would all look like supermodels and we would all be bored with each other. We’d be like “Oh yeah another great body, look what great shape you’re in.” Yeah, because I worked my ass off for it! CB: Who is someone in your life that mentored or helped you?
TR: I’ve been asked this question a million times. I can’t think of a mentor in my life. I talked about the general manager of the health club, so you could say he was someone I looked up to maybe. Yet, I didn’t like him because I didn’t like what he was saying to me because I was like, “No, I can make her like me!” I look back and think, maybe it was my mom because she was so tough on me. I don’t want to say hate her, I dislike her because of the physical abuse, the mental abuse, and verbal abuse. She did teach me some really hard lessons, but I never looked at her as a mentor. I was my own mentor. I didn’t meet my real dad until I was 18, so I don’t know if it came from him, and now he’s deceased, but I don’t remember him ever being a strong, hard ass kind of person either. I don’t know, I really don’t know. I think a lot of it comes from the school of hard knocks. Having a hard childhood, being sickly, being told I would never be what I wanted to be.
Like I said, almost dying in the closet one night, seven years of abuse from a husband, just losing my brother at 23, he was 23 I was 26, losing my son at 19, losing both of my fathers. I think a lot of hardships have been what has helped me become who I am. I think instead of being a victim, you need to be a victor. Instead of sitting around whining and crying, think this is what happened to me, my grandfather sexually abused me, but I’m not going to sit here and cry about it. I’m going to be a bigger, better person because of it. We’ve all had bad things happen to us in our lives, some worse, some not as bad, whatever, but everyone that you talk to can probably name at least something. I could be sitting in a corner crying like a baby on so many anti-depressants and drugs and everything, because I lost my child, but I know God had the plan. I can’t question it.
CB: I like how you talk about faith.
Would you say your faith has guided you along the way?
TR: You have to have faith. I can remember right after my son was killed in the car accident I couldn’t go to church because at the time my husband and I weren’t married. We were just living together. I’d asked my husband for his church to pray for me. They said that they couldn’t pray for me because I wasn’t a member of the church yet. I thought wow how rude that is! : I would think if I walked into just a random church and ask them to pray for me, they would. For the longest time, I couldn’t even go to church after my son was killed in that car accident. I thought, wow, the church won’t pray for me. I was so mad at God. I needed some answers, and I couldn’t get any. I just thought, “What have I done wrong God, in life, for you to punish me like this.” I felt like I was being punished. For the longest time, I mean, I’ll bet six months went by, I couldn’t even go to church. I wouldn’t go to church, I was so, so mad. My husband would always say, “Hey, I’m going to go to church, do you want to go with me?” And I’d say “Nope, no thanks.” Then, one day, I don’t know what happened, he said, “I’m going to go to church.” I said, “Okay, I’ll be already in about 10 more minutes.” I thought to myself, why am I going to church? I don’t know what it was, but then from that point on, I just started going to church and I would cry the minute I walked in. I’d say to my husband, is there ever going to be a day that I don’t cry when I come to church? He said no probably not, and that’s okay.
CB: You and your husband are both busy, successful entrepreneurs. How is it balanacing your busy schedules while maintaining the husband and wife relationship?
TR: No, and you know what, it’s always funny because when you’re a successful woman, you intimidate a lot of men. I’ve always been successful. I don’t care what I’ve done, I don’t care what venue I’ve been down, I don’t care what I’ve been doing, I’ve always been successful. Before I met my husband, I was single for 16 years. You know men would say, “Oh yeah I’m your greatest fan.” Yeah, I bet you are. You don’t need me. You’re right, I don’t need you. I want you. don’t need you. I think that was the thing that most stood out for my husband was my sense of independence. I didn’t need him, I didn’t need his money, I didn’t need anything about him, but I wanted him. To this day, I can say to him, “You know what? Thank you so much for letting me be me.” He is not intimidated. He has never felt threatened. He just lets me do my thing, I let him do his thing, and then we do our thing. That’s what a healthy relationship is all about. You see these relationships where somebody loses themself like, “Oh, she’s so into him, she’s lost herself, he runs the world” and she’s like “Ok.” know people like that, but that is not how it is. I do my thing, he does his thing, and then we do our thing. It is just magic. That is the way it should be. END OF INTERVIEW
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