Meet Brittany Allen

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Brittany Allen. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Brittany below.

Hi Brittany , you’ve got such an interesting story, but before we jump into that, let’s first talk about a topic near and dear to us – generosity. We think success, happiness and wellbeing depends on authentic generosity and empathy and so we’d love to hear about how you become such a generous person – where do you think your generosity comes from?

I grew up in a house with scarce financial resources. I attended inner city public schools. I started my first job when I was 14 years old. I remember my best friend and I splitting the cost of our first pair of “MUDD” jeans and shared them! I remember my parent’s boiling water over the stove so that my sisters and I could take warm baths. Due to this I was highly motivated to work hard in school, college and get a job that would ensure I would never had to worry about money again. Due to being money motivated and extremely hard working, sales pretty much found me after college. I made A LOT of money. Time and time again I was put in difficult sales positions and continued to excel, but that’s not attributed to my work ethic or sales ability. Quickly after I got into sales, I decided to start tithing which was an extremely difficult decision for me because I wanted to control where I was giving my resources too- i knew so many people I could bless directly… but after I starting tithing God continued to stretch my resources more than I could ever imagine. I never missed a quota… I was able to give to the church and still have plenty to give to my family, help friends in need, pay off our house, cars and student debt. Years later, God had prepared us to be in a spot to take a HUGE risk. I quit my high paying sales job to open a 10,000 square foot gym focused on large group training with an emphasis of faith and community: FITCAMP180 Yukon. Three years later, with almost no marketing budget the entire time and 80% of gyms our size failing by this point, we are profitable and able to continue to give back to our community. I truly believe this generosity is possible because we have stewarded our resources time and time again so God continues to bless our finances. I have learned time and time again, that the more you open your hand, pour out your resources, they will be refilled and multiplied. I remind myself that over and over when things get tight, when the world tells us the economy sucks, I continue to do what I was called to do and that is be generous with my resources, my time and my money and God will provide over and over.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I walked into FITCAMP180 Edmond in 2020 for what was called the Covid Come Back Challenge. A friend invited me to join her for $20. At the time, I had been furloughed from my recruiting and sales position and had free time on my hands, so I said yes.

I thought I was in decent shape—but I left that first workout completely humbled. My body wasn’t the only thing that felt different, though. Something inside of me was awakened in those walls. After working harder than I ever had, being cheered on and high-fived by complete strangers, and then sitting on the mat to pray together as a community, I knew this gym was different.

That same tug in my soul showed up workout after workout. It felt like God was calling me to spend more time at FITCAMP180. Within six months, I had convinced my husband to give up his free corporate gym membership and join me. I started working part-time at FITCAMP180 Edmond, and I recruited everyone I knew to come experience it for themselves.

Within a year, I was convinced that the world would be a better place if more people could experience what I had found at FITCAMP180. I was better on every level and I wanted the world to experience that same feeling. I did something most people would probably call crazy. I quit my six-figure, comfortable job, emptied our savings account, and said yes to opening a 10,000-square-foot gym in Yukon, Oklahoma with no plan and a whole lotta prayers.

On October 31, 2022, FITCAMP180 Yukon was born.

Since then, God has worked miracle after miracle inside those walls. This was never a strategic business decision, and most wouldn’t call it a wise one either. It was an investment in the souls of our community—and the return is something we get to witness every single day.

Our prayer is that when you walk through our doors, you don’t just reclaim your life physically—you find restoration mentally, and most importantly, you come to know that there is a God who loves you deeply and is still writing your 180 story. We have three locations individually owned and operated throughout greater OKC area.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Humility, Grit and Purpose. There are so many things I learned about myself as a person, but also a leader and business owner and being someone that was so used to being a top performer and being good at anything I was doing… opening my own business humbled me and the quicker I humbled myself and asked for help, the faster my business grew and the lighter the load was on my mental health. This is absolutely easier said than done, but your pride will your biggest obstacle.
Grit- Owning a business is TOUGH, mentally, spiritually and physically. It requires tough skin and even if you’re naturally a strong person you will recognize quickly how sensitive and vulnerable you really are when it’s YOUR baby (business) you are growing. Criticism feels like a bullet to the heart and day after day you fight doubt, perfectionism, decision fatigue and a level of exhaustion you’ve never experience. Taking the time to breathe, separate your identity and value from the business and chopping away at your never ending to do list, one bite at a time will be the only way you survive. Purpose- Your WHY has to be bigger than all the noise, the doubt, the exhaustion. If you don’t have a purpose in why you are doing what you are doing, that pain of trying to do the thing with be too much to bare.

Looking back over the past 12 months or so, what do you think has been your biggest area of improvement or growth?

The biggest lesson I’ve learned this year was recognizing how dangerous it is to be a true people pleaser. I didn’t realize how badly I sought approval and affirmation until opening a business and it literally almost took me out. I was forced to take some steps this year to help me remember my identity and who I am without my business. I was forced to stop making decisions out of emotion and desires to please, but make logical decisions for my business based on data. This type of growth has not only impacted my business in the best of ways, but it has brought me back to being the wife, daughter, sister and friend I was before I was a business owner.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.fitcamp180.com
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