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  Once upon a time, Tiffany had a dream of starting a fitness revolution and open up a health center. She started her adventure by getting her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition at Central Michigan University. After graduating, she obtained her Certified Personal Training Certification through the ISSA and began building a business in Mt. Pleasant. This business was named “Tiffany’s Boot Camp.” She was very successful and had a life event that forced her to close her operation and move north back to Charlevoix, Michigan. 

Upon arriving in Charlevoix, she swore off dating to focus solely on her re-opening business and her friends. She obtained work at a local gym, where they were kind enough to allow her to host her class and do personal training. She was also working 2 jobs at the time to fund her operation and her entrepreneurial endeavors of her own. 

Not even 30 days later after swearing off dating, Cristopher Faught walked into her life. She was very hesitant and he, persistent. After several weeks, she said yes to a date. The two hit it off and fell in love over an Italian restaurant dinner. This led to a life time of dating together. 

One day while dating, Christopher asked her what she wanted to be when “she grew up?” jokingly, because they were already in their early thirties. She replied “ I want to own a gym and help people fall in love with fitness and health. I want to help prevent disease and injury.”

  Christopher replied, “Why don’t you do it?” She said, “You think I can…” in which he said “Absolutely.” From that moment in time, Tiffany and Christopher, with the confidence and support of her friends, set their goals and began the mission. The mission to open a fitness facility. She participated in the Green Light Business Venture and won 2nd. place, where she pitched her business plan and gained even more capital to open of $2,000. In addition, she gained a few investment donations from community supporters, her girl squad, and boot camp, and a few loans. 

She decided she had enough cash to begin looking at space. Tiffany researched and found space in East Jordan Michigan, to open. It was 1500 square feet of space. It needed major work and repair and renovation to bring her dream to life. Tiffany and Christopher started right away on the space doing all of the construction & renovation work themselves. Her boot camp and community volunteers soon came to speed things up with the painting of the place and setting of equipment. There was one problem. 

They had no equipment and new equipment is expensive. A new challenge, Tiffany went searching. She eventually found the school where they were updating their equipment and decided to sell us a package deal to include flooring. A deal Tiffany did not pass up. After 2.5 months of long nights, and even longer days, Tiffany had her place ready to open. Tiffany hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony with the Chamber of Commerce and the doors were finally open as TBC Wellness Center LLC. Now her next challenge… How to get members? Tiffany and Christopher worked on marketing, a website, social media sites, and eventually put TBC Wellness Center on the map in East Jordan, Michigan through google maps.  

 The minute we came live on google, the minute everything started taking off at a fast pace for Tiffany. Members were coming in and joining and working out. She had finally accomplished opening a gym. Now she set her sights on expansion. She knew she didn’t have enough space to accommodate everyone. She was 50 members strong and another 45 boot camp members. She knew there was a need for more space. She got lucky and found an adjacent space in the same building to begin renting. This too required remodeling and construction activities. Tiffany and Christopher went after it again to get things done. They turned this into their aerobics room where she can do personal training and boot camp classes, giving more space to weightlifting on the other side. 

Eventually, the need for expansion showed its ugly head again. This time, our weight room was packed, or aerobics room was cramped, and we were running out of room fast. As luck would have it AGAIN, an adjacent space opened up that used to be a fiber mill shop. Tiffany and Christopher dove right into it head strong once more, investing everything they could afford back into the business for the community after the banks laughed and told us no.  We even got loans from the Faught family members believing in our dreams.  So here we went, we took off determined and dedicated to accomplishing something which seemed impossible. 

This next space was was nasty, greasy, walls were knocked out, lighting didn’t work, the HVAC was a mess, gross smells coming from the sink pumps, and the there were plumbing problems! Tiffany and Christopher rolled their sleeves up again and transformed the space, working 120+ hours a week and with having hired gym member help in doing security install, wall sealing, painting, lighting, and so much more. Once the space was sealed up and the lights on, the space was ready for flooring.    

 Tiffany had pre-ordered flooring to arrive just in time for us needing it. The flooring arrived and they began laying over 4000 square feet of flooring by the time they were finished. Tiffany had also recruited her boot camp team and other volunteers to come help cut the rubber and lay it. It wasn’t for the boot campers and volunteers, we would not have been ready for closing on the Saturday July 29, 2023 to move equipment.  Thanks to them, they helped TBC Wellness Center knock it out. On Saturday July 29, 2023, Tiffany closed her doors temporarily to relocate and move equipment. 

She had 10,000s of pounds of equipment to move in 1 day. How did she accomplish this? Our community. The gym members rallied to her cause and other volunteers! What would have taken a week, took less than 6 hours. We took down every mirror and re-hung it and moved every piece of free weight equipment into the room, including a massive crossover. She counted over 16 volunteers! It was an amazing day. TBC Wellness Center LLC. officially re-opened the following day on Sunday July 30, 2023, with a new weight room, kids’ room, and bar area addition of 4000+ square feet. But wait… what did TBC do with the old weight room? 

 They transformed that too! They upgraded all of their cardio equipment, and added pin-select weight equipment, spin bikes, and so much more for a more relax environment for other members not wanting to be in the mix with the hulks! TBC Wellness Center has so many supporters helping creates something fabulous. To this very day, TBC Wellness Center remains in operation and reinvesting every dime earned back into the facility. 

They’ve hired, (2) amazing employees who are rock stars with such high energy and passion for people being healthy.  They have been instrumental to the success of our operations and our community.   All of her staff are certified or are in progress of certification.  This is not the end of the story for TBC Wellness Center… there is new vision and a new mission.  

Our mission is to remain the #1 fitness facility in Northern Michigan that delivers innovative health solutions that fuse traditional training approaches with proven and modernized scientific research to strengthen people from all walks of life within our community. We are dedicated 110% in promoting that it's possible for people to achieve a higher quality of life with the ability to enjoy their health, free from medications, free from debilitating health conditions, and free from disease. 

In addition, we aim to help our community prevent substance abuse, support recovering addicts, help to reduce mental illness impacts, reduce sick care visits to hospitals, and physical ailments our society encounters through unhealthy habits, routines, and diets. We support this objective thorough cultivated fitness routine group classes, individual personal training, physician prescribed and tailored post-rehabilitation programs, general memberships, nutrition, program design and execution, and accountability of each member participating inside the facility. Our certified training staff is committed and focused on supporting any and all of your fitness objectives and goals. Ask us for help and you will get our very best! 

We have our sights set now on new Charlevoix, Gaylord, and Petoskey locations.  Keep a look out for us coming to town with the same quality service provided in East Jordan.

We are community focused, with a results driven team to help deliver a higher quality of life in our surrounding communities. Just remember, you have to do big things… to get your big dreams.