Today we’d like to introduce you to Elva Trevino.
Elva, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
My life has been full of challenges and triumphs just like everyone else. This is why I help so many women so that they can see their inner strength in them to pour back into the people and things that they love. We all have another layer of us waiting to be discovered and released.
I grew up severely asthmatic and an athlete despite that. At 27 years old, I had the biggest health scare of my life learning about my autoimmune disorder. Instead of letting these challenges defeat me, I got stronger. Mentally, physically and spiritually. I raced in my first 70.3 mile half Ironman triathlon in the first eight months of finding out I was sick. It grew me and made me realize that there were so many people who would never cross their finish lines unless I got bold, spoke up, and showed them how to become stronger in and out of the gym. I ended up having 13 surgeries on my kidneys, two tubes out of my back for nine months while simultaneously dealing with my father’s cancer, my nine years daughter, and building two brands. No one knew at the time what I was facing, but it created a fire in my heart, my actions, my work ethic and my voice as I spoke across stages and in small gatherings as to why we needed to rise up and change for our families. My voice gained traction in the Latino community as it needs to. Many of our cultures are setting us back when we should be raising the standards as to what leadership in every area of our life SHOULD look like.
I began to influence in more ways than just by being a personal trainer. In August of 2018, I branched off to create a new movement called Champions Club that’s been showing women how to rise in faith, fitness, finances and family. Four pillars that mean the most to me. I’ve been working with some of the most influential people in the world across multiple industries to help their teams, churches and organizations to lead by example too. Currently, Champion Club is helping women in 13 countries through our online training, and we are opening our first official studio in just a few weeks, primarily catering to women (90% Latin American women). If we help the women first, naturally it’ll carry over into their family dynamics.
God is truly working through me in a way I’ve never experienced before. Everyday I wake up I’m grateful for the perspective to have gone through some of the most difficult hardships because it’s kept me fighting for others just as hard as I’ve fought for my own breath at times. Honor, integrity and not wasting a single second of our potential in this lifetime is something that fuels me daily. Imagine how many untold and unwritten champion stories there are that could be inspiring the masses. We’re all pushing through together and just getting started.
Has it been a smooth road?
The strongest people I know weren’t given easy lives. But when you change your relationship with fear and failure, you start to look at “struggles” as opportunities to grow. You start to look at these opportunities as a fun way to learn something new and prove to yourself that you can push through anything. Grit is something our generation is losing perspective of and something that I try to teach my daughter. Being in and out of hospitals for 22 months put me into a financial ruin. It slowed me down tremendously but luckily someone who loved me told me to stop being stubborn, and let go to what needed to be taken care of by the doctors. Because I listened to that advice and fully surrendered my own understanding, my healing began. Although it was a long journey and emotionally the hardest thing of my life to fight through getting to the point where I nearly lost my life and had to assign a POA, I overcame learning more patience, perseverance and most importantly that God’s got our back, always.
We only go through challenges, because there’s something through that that we HAVE to learn. That experience along with so many other obstacles have HELPED ME TO HELP MORE PEOPLE where I may not have been able to relate to them so deeply before.
Please tell us about Champions Club.
Champions Club is about a movement of women who have come together to drive each other into the most confident, must aligned and most fit they’ve ever been. Fitness is the first gateway, but through our community and culture, women have a safe place to come as they are, in every age, shape and form, and to grow in all areas together. We have had women get off of antidepressants, get job promotions, launch businesses, find God, mend family turmoil, strengthen marriages, find the confidence to travel, have babies, enjoy their children more because of newfound life and perspective and most importantly redefine their normal. We are HUGE advocates for mental health awareness. What we teach them in the gym, through our online training, and virtual and in person meetups helps these women to have breakthroughs in their lives. They’re building themselves into Champions. So much more than just a group of women who work out together.
I’m most proud of what it’s attracting. The selflessness to help the next family over, the community and how much we’ve already given back in time, servant leadership and monetary donations. And we’re just starting! People need this sort of LIFE accountability. This is so much larger than a single name, or a single story. We’re a team helping teams.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
This industry just like most is moving fast into the virtual world. BUT that will never beat face to face interaction as far as personal relationships go. I love that and the ability to teach women face to face. I’m not one to follow trends. We’re creating a movement and innovating from the front (with tons of projects that we’re working on behind the scenes). Our country and our culture needs help, so no matter where people are in the world or their financial status, being able to EDUCATE others quickly is what’s going to continue to allow us to move at the speed of light.
Contact Info:
- Phone: 2817942181
- Email: AdvoElva@Gmail.Com
- Instagram: Champions_Club_
Image Credit:
Bryan Anderson
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