Introductions

Hey, my name is Lindsey Oliver. I'm a commuter from Dudley and I'm majoring in Marketing and minoring in Business Communications. I guess you could say I’m a good mix of athletic and girly, and when exactly one dominates over the other usually depends on my mood. I love to dance and play sports; I played softball for ten years, field hockey for four and dance for five. Although I don’t play any varsity sports in college or dance regularly, I still love to go out and play catch, shoot hoops or toss around a football and I always attend Zumba on Tuesdays. Sometimes when I’m feeling ambitious, I’ll even hit the gym. On the other hand, I’m like any other girly girl who loves getting mani/pedi’s and going shopping. My dream job is to work for a large, world-wide company, such as Reebok. I could see myself marketing for them in sales, advertising and promotion. A close friend of mine has a cousin who has worked for Reebok at its main headquarters for about seven years now and she has done extremely well for herself. I recently met her and she told me all about her business travels to countries such as Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic, China, Thailand, etc. In college, she majored in Marketing and Sports Management and actually works for a company owned by Reebok called Rockport, which she called a brown shoe company. After learning about what she does for a living I couldn’t help but think, “Wow, that sounds perfect for me.” She then went on to tell me that she was currently trying to convince her boss to allow her to travel to Milan, Italy for two weeks to take a class on shoes. I almost died!

The entrepreneur that I admired the most was Brynn Jinnett, the founder of The Refine Method workout. She is a former professional ballerina, who actually performed in the movie, The Black Swan, and she is also a Harvard graduate. After teaching at many different studios, she had grown sick of the trends of her workouts that ballet classes had put her through and questioned their efficiency and effectiveness. She decided to travel the country and study how professional athletes train, "I wanted to know how the body works, and how you change it well and safely and efficiently," says Jinnett. The Refine method consists of resistance training and intense cardio. After teaching the method for about six months, New York Magazine named it “Hottest New Workout of 2011.” I admire Jinnett because she had a thirst for knowledge and change; she didn’t want to teach the assumed ballet workout class that she had gone through so many times, she wanted change, effective change.