Living a Healthy Lifestyle with Janelle Brandon

Consumer Behavior Conversations

In this podcast we introduce Janelle Brandon, who is a licensed personal trainer at Sanford Health. She explained to us the experiences and changes she went through on her career path. Janelle graduated from Frazee, MN and started college at University of Minnesota Morris where she met her husband. She decided that University of Morris was too small for her liking. She made a change to transfer to the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. She graduated with a theatre and art management degree and got her first job as a marketing associate through Box Office. She started to transform her career path when she got a job at Lake Agassiz Regional Library. After working there for a year, she made a bold decision to become a Childbirth Educator/Doula to assist women alongside childbirth. It was this decision that made Janelle realize how much she enjoyed empowering others. Within five years, a door opened for Janelle to more experience in the medical field. She got a job at Sanford Health as a supervisor. She was quickly promoted to a manager position where she oversaw education and community programs at Sanford. Janelle’s next promotion was when she finally felt completely passionate about her career. She was promoted to an employee fitness instructor where she led early morning fitness classes. Shortly after that, Janelle got her license to be a personal trainer. Now Janelle has daily clients that she helps by stressing the importance of physical health, as well as mental health. Throughout all of these experiences, Janelle was starting her own fitness journey. After having kids, she realized she wanted to get back into better physical shape, so she started to do long distance running. It was a long journey for Janelle, but she now regularly participates in marathons and triathlons. Throughout the experience she lost an impressive amount of weight. Janelle now lives her life inspiring others to achieve the most they can out of their lives.