Hey everyone, welcome to The Balance Show.

We're your co-host, Taylor, Chloe, and Steve.

Each week we'll be answering your questions, diving deep into popular topics,

and most importantly, helping you find

your balance. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Can somebody else do the and part? That's the worst.

And Steve. What's up everyone? Welcome to our podcast, The Balance Show. Today is our second episode ever. Quite a fun one. It is a live Q&A from my Instagram at Teche. A lot of the questions that we have received are about our apparel company Balance Athletica.

So, without further ado, let's just dive right in.

So the first question is, what inspired you guys to start Balance Athletica?

So the inspiration came from three different avenues.

The first one, my kind of outlook on it,

I really wanted to start living a more balanced lifestyle. I was really heavy into bodybuilding and restricting food, counting macros, getting my cardio in, just not really feeling like I was

living. I was really missing out on that balanced lifestyle. So for me, it was a no-brainer when balance

the name came about. Another huge source of inspiration for us was just promoting the idea of inclusivity.

So we saw a huge opportunity just to be able to represent more individuals.

We saw a huge demographic of especially women who were just not represented,

whether that's plus size or just different backgrounds.

And so we wanted to be the company that people could look at and see someone

that looked like them or represented them. So a huge thing for us was inclusivity. And with those two things

taken into consideration, both the balanced lifestyle and the inclusivity factor, we knew there was a gap in

the market as far as price and quality. And, you know, a lot of products have really high

quality clothes, but the price is, the price point's just way too high for those people. So we,

we kind of wanted to close that gap and provide high quality clothes at a, you know, more affordable

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