Teresa Scott

Stop Apologizing & Punch Through The Bag!

<h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">Currently, I balance my full-time, 14 year career as a Creative Director in publishing with Women's World of Boxing. I train women from New Jersey, New York, Long Island, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens every night of the week and all day Saturday. I have trained hundreds of women and instructed over 3,000 classes. Women across the nation call requesting that I let them know when Women's World of Boxing comes to their city. My mission is to open a women-only boxing gym to promote female empowerment.</span></h3><h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">When I told one of the trainers that I was going to open a boxing gym just for women and offer a summer camp and after school programs for girls, he told me I could never do it. He said boxing was a man's world and that women would never come, and if you got them to come, they would never stay. This brings me to indiegogo.&nbsp;</span></h3><h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">I discovered boxing at the age of 31. I stood at 5'4 and weighed in at 215lbs. My self esteem was non-existent. I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and was at risk for diabetes. The first 3 years in boxing I spent training my trainer on how to train me, learning the 'Sweet Science', building confidence and regaining control of me.</span></h3><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Once my total transformation was complete, I decided to take that year to train to compete. My trainer spent more time with me in that year than he did the entire 3 years I trained with him! When the time came to fill out the necessary paperwork, my trainer became furious and YELLED at me for wasting his time! It took 3 years to develop a good working relationship with him (minus the occasional invites to dinner) up until then. Apparently there was an age issue. He thought that I was 10 years younger than what I was at the time! He SCREAMED that I never told him how old I was! I told him, he never asked.&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">He lost interest and moved on to training a younger girl who had just joined the gym. That was the beginning of my 'Boxing Business Education 101' . &nbsp;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I was on my own, witnessing the unbelievable nonsense that kept women away from boxing gyms, while my love for the sport deepened.&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Boxing&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">changes how one approaches life, navigates through it and engages in it. It&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">provided me with strength, courage, pride, discipline, options, a voice and hope.&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I am determined to create a new world for women and girls, one where they will benefit from the empowering sport of boxing.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The women have stayed, multiplied and some are even eager to compete!&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">They bring their friends, mothers, sisters and daughters. We have outgrown any available space offered by local co-ed boxing gyms.&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">We need our own space, our own rules, our own comfortable boxing world, and the trainer at the gym who told me they would never stay, needs a job.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div>

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