Ep 60: How Fitness Guru Cassandra Nuamah Turned Her Side Hustle into Her Dream Business
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Cassandra Nuamah, better known as Coach Cass, is a certified personal trainer, group, exercise instructor and health and wellness coach. She is master trainer with KUKUWA® African Dance Workout and a source of inspiration for many. After dropping more than 50 pounds, this one time advertising professional pursued her certification as a wellness and fitness coach and began devoting her life to helping others. Originally from Ghana, Coach Cass and her Mother Kukuwa (the founder of founder of kukuwa fitness.com) also organize yearly Fitness and cultural excursions to different countries in Africa and teach Fitness and dance classes locally and internationally. When she’s not teaching us to get in fitness formation, she’s proudly infusing her Ghanaian culture into everything she touches. For years, Cassandra tried to juggle her advertising career with her rapidly growing fitness side hustle. Find out what caused her to finally say goodbye to a 9 to 5 and hello to her purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a |
| 0:05.4 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm your host, Nikala Matthews. |
| 0:11.6 | So let's get started. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey, guys, welcome back to the show. Today in the guest chair I have Cassandra Noama, aka Coach Cass. Coach Cass is a danceaholic, Travelista, and Fitness Guru that makes healthy living and positive energy contagious. She is a certified personal trainer, group exercise instructor, |
| 0:43.7 | and health and wellness coach. |
| 0:45.5 | Now, I have actually known Cassandra since we were in undergrad, |
| 0:48.6 | her at UVA and me at U Penn. |
| 0:51.0 | And post undergrad, we were in the New York City streets together grinding |
| 0:55.1 | working these low-salary media and entertainment jobs just trying to make it and be |
| 1:00.1 | successful we had that hustling work hard play hard mentality and it has been |
| 1:05.3 | amazing to watch her literally transform in front of my eyes from someone who |
| 1:10.2 | was just working regular job just like me to someone who has gone out on her own as a health |
| 1:16.0 | and wellness coach and entrepreneur. |
| 1:18.1 | I've also watched Coach Katz physically transform, losing over 50 pounds, keeping it off, and inspiring and giving others |
| 1:26.2 | the tools to do the same. |
| 1:28.0 | Do you know how encouraging it is to know someone from the days when they were interning |
| 1:32.1 | and didn't know what their full-time |
| 1:33.5 | job would be or where they would live after undergrad to figuring out their passion |
| 1:38.0 | and creating a life and career that they love, that's what it's like to know |
| 1:42.0 | Coach Cass. |
| 1:43.0 | Originally from Ghana, Coach Cass and her mother Kukwa, aka the founder of Kukawa Fitness.com, |
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