Jenni Bruning Brown grew up on the College of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, visiting her father’s workplace whereas he labored as a professor on the college. It was the pure alternative, then, for her to attend UNL for her undergraduate years.
After incomes a bachelor’s diploma in psychology and a regulation diploma from UNL, Brown earned her Ph.D. at Stanford College in California. Whereas there, she began up a health enterprise and ran it for nearly a decade.
Headshot of Jenni Bruning Brown courtesy of Fly Health.
In 2015, she needed to return to Lincoln to recreate what she’d carried out in California’s Bay Space — a health enterprise that targeted on wellness and the way purchasers felt, versus specializing in numbers. So, she opened the doorways of Fly Health at 201 N thirteenth St., only a few blocks from UNL’s Metropolis Campus.
“We’re not a studio that focuses on weight or form. You are by no means going to see a scale; we’re by no means gonna have a weight-loss problem,” Brown mentioned. “The concept is to make everybody really feel like any person, from the minute they stroll in to after they depart.”
To Brown, Lincoln was missing a health studio that wasn’t a big-box health club that targeted on competitiveness in group courses. Their cycle room doesn’t have TV screens to indicate everybody’s progress, simply phrases of encouragement throughout the partitions.
Her want to make friends and purchasers really feel included and welcomed regardless of their scenario grew out of her relocation to California. When she began college at Stanford, she needed to quickly construct a neighborhood round her.
Creating that neighborhood helped her construct her first health enterprise as a result of she realized that the social and psychological elements of well being and wellness had been simply as essential as number-based objectives.
For the reason that preliminary studio opened, Brown has franchised places in South Lincoln and North Dakota and has new places set to open in Omaha and Colorado.
“It is working in the best way that I needed it to. I have not been to a (Fly) studio but the place I have been like, ‘Oh geez, these individuals are targeted on the fallacious issues, or these folks appear type of poisonous, or this one thing feels off right here,’” Brown mentioned. “Each time I’m going I am identical to, ‘Wow, it feels nice. It feels nice right here.’”
To Jenna Brende, assistant supervisor at Fly Health, the tradition of the studio initially drew her in as a consumer in 2019. After coming again to Nebraska following time overseas, Brende was requested to affix the group.
“We actually do not give attention to what you appear to be, however extra how you are feeling in your physique and feeling sturdy in your thoughts and physique,” Brende mentioned. “All of us really need what’s finest for these round us, which I feel is a extremely stunning factor.”
As a educated sports activities psychologist, Brown is aware of simply how key the psychological a part of an individual’s health journey may be. Bodily objectives are essential, however being certain that individuals really feel good whereas they’re on that journey is important.
“For me, the psychological half is all the pieces. Should you’re not feeling good doing what you are doing, you are not going to maintain doing it, and being properly and wholesome is an extended sport,” Brown mentioned. “When folks depart right here, we wish them to really feel stronger internally, and the exterior clearly is a part of that. However, we wish them to really feel like they’re simply in a position to take issues on, and their confidence is best.”