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I just love coming here. I love helping people meet their fitness goals and get in shape. Wherever they are on their journey, I get pleasure out of seeing their success.”
— TERRI MAYLE
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Danielle Hendrix
Continued from page 20 come work for him, Mayle knew it was an opportunity she couldn’t turn down.
ECONOMIC ENTHUSIAST
Mayle was born and raised in New York. She once considered teaching — like her mother — or going into social work. But after she took an economics class her sophomore year of college, she fell in love with finance. “I was in school at (New York University) and got a part-time job on Wall Street on a trading desk when I was a junior in college, and that was it,” Mayle says. “I said, ‘I have to do this; I have to figure out a way to get onto a trading desk.’ That was a long, long time ago. … Wall Street was becoming a hot, hot career, so it was really difficult to get to where you wanted to go. I think I had eight jobs in my ‘20s
BALDWIN PARK LIVING | SEPTEMBER 2021
trying to forge that path.” She worked her way up the ladder and ended up spending most of her career living in Manhattan and working on Wall Street. Eleven years ago, she took a job-relocation opportunity to Orlando and moved to Baldwin Park. “I called a friend who knew somebody, and (they) said, ‘Here’s where you should live — College Park, Winter Park, Baldwin Park or Heathrow,’” she says. “I came to see Baldwin Park, and I fell in love with it. It’s a wonderful block. It was new at the time when I bought it, so everybody was moving in around the same time, and I found it very friendly and family-oriented — just a really great place to raise my son.” Mayle transitioned into more of a management role in Orlando, but she found she missed the day-today trading operations and being client-facing. “You do a lot of managing people and managing business, and it’s very different,” she says. Mayle lost her job right before the pandemic hit. She had been working since she was 17 years old and decided it was the right time to retire. She soon discovered she had a lot more free time to focus on other interests. “I’ve always worked out, and I’ve done various things — I run, I ran a half-marathon a few months ago, I did boxing down here for about five years, I’ve done CrossFit, I’m now at F45 (Fitness),” she says. “I’m just a very well-rounded fitness person, and I love exercise. But I also had a pretty crazy career, because I managed a trading business and had 10 people working for me trading equities and options. During market hours, it was extremely intense, and working out was always my outlet. It was always a priority for me.”
HEALTHY AND HAPPY
Mayle always has been good about figuring out how to make fitness a lifestyle rather than a task. And when COVID-19 hit, fitness became even more of an outlet for her. Although everything was shut down, she still could work out. Little did she know, though, fitness was
about to take on a new meaning in her life. Mayle and Rochette met a few years ago, when she became his first personal-training client. The two became fast friends, and when Rochette opened StudioFit in November 2020, she followed him there. “He is just awesome,” she says. “I have worked with and had people working for me for many years, and he is awesome. He is so positive and so focused that when he tells me, ‘I have an idea to open a gym,’ I know it’s going to work, and I know I want to be on board. He opens here in the middle of COVID, and the gym takes off, because everybody loves the idea of personal training.” At one point, Rochette brought up the idea of bringing Mayle on board the StudioFit team. Her passion for fitness and people was exactly the kind of energy he wanted. Mayle started with one client, and her client base has since grown. “This isn’t a job for me; this is a passion,” she says. “I just love coming here. I love helping people meet their fitness goals and get in shape. Wherever they are on their journey, I get pleasure out of seeing their success. And it also helps me stay extremely fit. I’m in here every five days a week, working out on top of it. … I need to be doing something all the time. I’m very active, my mind is active, my body is active, so this kind of fills that need for me.” Although a transition from finance to fitness may seem odd, but for Mayle, it was an easier transition than retirement. “You never know where you’re going to find yourself in life, (so) stay open to opportunities,” she says. “I had not pictured this as my next step. It just clicked. … People are coming in here because they want to be healthy, they want to be better, and we’re helping them get here. “To help people make it really their lifestyle is my goal — not to just come in here for an hour and work out but really just think about how to stay healthy,” she says. “So many people my age are on so many medications. … My father is 96, and he’s still on his rowing machine. That’s how I want to live.”
