Today we’d like to introduce you to Cailyn Duval.
Cailyn, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I am in love with my story. Everyone’s is so unique and we should all love ourselves and how we got to be where we are now!
My name is Cailyn Duval, or Cail, and I am a 26-year old Fitness Instructor, Health Coach, and avid health and wellness influencer. I currently reside out of the beautiful city of Houston, TX, but was born and raised in small town Lafayette, LA. Ever since I can remember, I’ve always had a love in my heart for all things “healthy”. My passion for exercise, a healthy, clean diet, and motiving others to be the best version of themselves started back in my teens. Although my love for the field of health and wellness was bursting at the seams, I always seemed to keep quiet about my passions growing up. I was easily swayed in the direction’s others wanted me to go. It wasn’t until I became comfortable on a microphone as a full-time fitness instructor/personal trainer, that I was able to gather the confidence to shout from the rooftops how I feel, and share to others how I live my life. This new confidence gave me the courage to recognize that my heart did not want to go to grad school after college graduation, but instead, to follow my passion of health and fitness and help people achieve their goals in any way that I can. This is how my health and wellness blog/social media outlet, Pump&Crunch, was born. The “Pump” corresponds to “fitness” and the “Crunch” to “food”. Pump&Crunch is a platform that I’ve created to spread knowledge on quick, easy, affordable ways to stay healthy and live a balanced lifestyle that you’re proud of. In my spare time that I’m not coaching group fitness classes at Orangetheory or CycleBar, I’m developing new healthy recipes, writing workouts, photographing my food, editing, blogging, and creating new content for my followers. It is the love of my life!
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
Pump&Crunch is an outlet of information for those seeking knowledge on ways to better themselves in a positive, healthy way. The art that I create is in the form of nutritional recipes, exercise and fitness motivation, and last but not least, body-positive tid-bits on how to live a balanced “healthified” lifestyle. I am constantly developing new ways to help busy people stay healthy in any way that I can. I offer online meal prep programs, where I assist people in learning how to grocery shop smart, healthy, and affordable. My followers are provided with weekly grocery lists and a step-by-step menu to go along with it. And since I wish I could, but I can’t be everywhere at once, I also personal train some of my clients virtually. We set realistic goals in an achievable time frame, and then get to work on convenient and effective at-home workouts created by myself. I also share my personal, honest experiences in my own wellness journey, positive and/or negative, in hopes to touch or help at least one person out there following my journey.
What do you think it takes to be successful as an artist?
As a health and wellness influencer, I define success as helping just one person. If I can assist one single person in taking a step towards the healthy, balanced lifestyle they’re seeking, I am doing my job. I find that I feel the most rewarded, not by the amount of money I make, but by the responses I receive from my followers. Whether it be a recipe I post on my Instagram feed that people can’t wait to try, or people reaching out relating to a blog post I published about the anxiety I experience; I don’t want anyone to feel that they are alone on their journey, and honest relatability is key.
The qualities or characteristics I feel are essential to the success as an influencer are positivity, equality, enforcing zero judgement or comparisons, and an uplifting honest, personality that will draw people to you. When you are your most true, beautiful, pure self, that’s when people want to know what you’re up to. That’s when people want to follow you. That’s when people look up to you. That’s when people respect you. When you love and truly support yourself and your journey first, the success will follow.
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
My recipes, fitness journey, quick guides, meal prep program, virtual personal training, and many more can be found on the Pump&Crunch website, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or YouTube Channel. My outlets are flooding with health and wellness inspiration, photos, videos, stories, testimonials, and new information constantly, and are out there waiting for your discovery. If you’d like to be the first to hear about what’s new from Pump&Crunch, head to pumpandcrunch.com to follow along and subscribe to my monthly newsletter!
Contact Info:
- Address: Pinterst URL: https://www.pinterest.com/pumpandcrunch/
- Website: www.pumpandcrunch.com
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: instagram.com/pumpandcrunch
- Facebook: facebook.com/pumpandcrunch
- Other: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGRmfW8A1cK9iS0DkGImRw?view_as=subscriber
Image Credit:
Photos of food: Cailyn Duval
Photos of me: Aly Hester
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