About Bridgette

Bridgette has enjoyed a diverse range of experiences throughout her life. As she ages, Bridgette continues to explore new opportunities that challenge and expand her horizons. She hopes to inspire others to do likewise. As you journey through life, she encourages you explore your passions to discover new avenues for growth and fulfillment. If your passion hasn't revealed itself to you, then consider trying out new hobbies or skills to widen your horizons and learn more about yourself. We only get one life to live and it's important to explore as much as possible to truly understand our deepest desires and aspirations. And live them out to the fullest by embracing new experiences and challenging our limits.

Fitness / Running Coach

When Bridgette embarked on her running journey over two decades ago, she could not have foreseen the profound future impacts. Her initial goal was merely shedding excess body weight. Yet, throughout her journey, an unexpected and profound transformation occurred. This metamorphosis, emotional, mental, and physical, ignited a fervent desire to inspire others to undertake the same transformative journey. Bridgette came to realize that her relationship with running was ordained, a divine appointment structured to elevate her to a platform where she could positively impact other people’s lives.

In the early years of the Millennium, she pioneered a fitness entity named MAC Fitness (Making-A-Commitment to Fitness). This enterprise channeled energies towards driving individuals to integrate walk/run plans into their daily routines to foster healthier lifestyle transformations.  Unknowingly, her innovative venture grabbed the attention of another community-based running program, who was eager to bolster their minority runners' representation. Come 2003, she joined forces with Luke’s Locker (situated in Dallas) and USA Fit, with a vision of inspiring more minorities to embrace running as a viable option for a robust lifestyle.

She elevated her career by serving as a walking/running coach for the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America’s Team Challenge initiative. In 2010, Walton A. Taylor, MD, FACS, sought to incorporate a physical fitness regimen to his “All About Life Breast Health Center” project in Dallas, TX. Bridgette was chosen to craft a strategy that trained participants to concentrate on nutritious food intake and regular physical exercise.

Author

Bridgette is the acclaimed author of five notable books, namely, Imagine Living Healthier: Mind, Body, and Soul, Destined to Live Healthier: Mind, Body, and Soul, Broken In Plain Sight, The Chip Maker, and Yes! I Am Fed Up. Now What? 4 Self-Driven Steps to MOVE Your Well-being and Work Forward (which debuted in November 2021). Her profound writing also graces The Ultimate Runner, a publication by Ultimate HCI Books, the producer of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Her inspirational story, "Never Give Up: My Journey to Become a Runner", which chronicles her transition from couch to the endurance racing circuit, has motivated countless individuals to consider running as their choice of fitness modality to achieve and maintain robust health. Additionally, Bridgette is a proud co-writer of the uplifting collection of personal leadership stories, Color Outside the Lines: Stories of Extraordinary Leadership.

Throughout the years, Bridgette has been fortuitously granted myriad opportunities to pen health and fitness articles for both print and digital media publications, faith-based newsletters, blogs, and alike. Notable platforms include Cruz Magazine (London-based), Inform Magazine, Gospel Today, L.I.V.E., etc.

Speaker / Facilitator

For almost two decades, Bridgette Collins has enlightened, inspired, and encouraged audiences across the U.S. A devotee of health and fitness, Bridgette conveys her message of choice and transformation to enable individuals of all ages to comprehend the significance of adopting and maintaining healthier lifestyle patterns. Leveraging her proficiency as a half marathon coach and previous personal trainer, she has the capacity to expand viewpoints, revolutionize attitudes, and stimulate behavioral modifications with her thought-provoking insights. Her books, workshops, radio programs, magazine articles, and teleseminars serve as resourceful platforms empowering people from all walks of life everywhere.

Bridgette's wisdom and actionable insights deliver strategies for wellness, inspiring audiences to take charge of their health and lifestyle decisions. Her presentations, brimming with useful recommendations and tools, are a veritable treasure trove. Bridgette's dynamic and engaging approach transcends mere information delivery; she inspires active engagement from her listeners. With live demonstrations and interactive activities, a session with Bridgette is not only stimulating but also leaves a lasting impact.

Over the years, she has been fortunate to have numerous platforms to disseminate her message of choice and transformation, acting as a guest speaker for an array of organizations ranging from the Galveston County Gulf Coast Black Nurses Association Annual Scholarship Banquet to Mt. Hebron Missionary Baptist Church’s W.I.N.G.S. Women’s Retreat and the Life Beyond Trauma Dissociation and Sexual Trauma Conference. Additionally, she lent her insight to Word of Life Ministries, a Wellness Event at Joshua Chapel AME, The Black Vegetarian Society of Texas (in Dallas, Texas) and others. Her wide-reaching impact has seen her hosting workshops for a variety of health fairs and organizations, including a tenure as the board member of the Greater Southwest Black Chamber of Commerce. In the early 2000s, she spent nearly two years sharing fitness advice on the Sunday service gospel broadcast on 105.7FM, helmed by the late Rev. Adrian Drake and Dr. Sheron Patterson. If you're in need of an impactful keynote speaker, an accomplished facilitator, or an inspiring presenter, look no further than Bridgette Collins. She brings a dynamic message of choice and metamorphosis that encourages your event participants to reshape their thinking and extend their viewpoints for overall better health: mental, physical and spiritual.

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