Amy Parvaneh used to rely on her SoulCyle instructor for motivation. Now, her two children are the ones on the bikes, encouraging her to push through the pain of her new sport, running.
“When my kids are yelling, ‘Mom, you can do it,’ there’s no way I can let them down,” she says. “I might be sweating buckets, but I’m getting up that hill.” Ms. Parvaneh, 41, is a single parent and helps care for her retired parents who live next door. As the founder and CEO of Select Advisors Institute, an Irvine, Calif.-based sales coaching and marketing consulting agency to financial organizations, she has long relied on exercise to alleviate stress and calm her mind.
Pre-pandemic, she estimates she spent $1,000 a month between SoulCycle, hot yoga and her gym membership. She spent an additional $600 a month on tennis, dance and taekwondo lessons for her kids, Hudson Scotti, 9, and Valentina Scotti, 6. “When Covid hit and everything closed, we felt trapped,” she says. “I needed exercise to fuel my brain.” She tried doing yoga at home, but says not going outside frustrated her. “It felt like a day of never-ending work and schooling,” she says.
In late March, she piled her kids and their two bikes into her two-door car, drove from her home in Newport Beach, Calif., to a trailhead and told them, “Start riding.” She chased after them. “They cried and screamed. But now they actually look forward to it,” she says. “And I hated running. I don’t think I’d run 1 mile in years.” Ms. Parvaneh says her runs have given her time to reflect on new work projects and strategies, and come up with fresh business ideas.
Good! A strong single woman! What a vision. What side of the planet are you from? Hopefully not Kitchener Ontario. Haha! Do it!
How is this a new thing? It is like re inventing a wheel?
We did this with our 3 little guys during the entire summer. Loved it. With school back in, it’s a bit tougher.
My 8-year old gave me a firm 'No' when I proposed this.
Amy Parvaneh SelectAdvisors 41 & single? Tweet me! 🤙😘 i heart running too (after bets) mature
so cool
I stopped reading as soon as I saw she was spending $1600 a month on working out. Not only is that financially irresponsible it just shows how dumb the rest for the article was going to be. For context I could go to my local equinox and also pay for 7 other people a month to go.
Quit glorifying single mothers.
And another married woman and mother of seven children can be equally effective Supreme Court justice. We should all be celebrating excellence no matter what the size shape or color in which it is packaged. Excellence is excellence!
Those socks are on point.
Doing stuff with kids?
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