Sarawak Emerging Startup Entrepreneur Award 2020
Ms. Sandra Sii, Founder of Zumba by Sandra Sii, is a professional Zumba Fitness Coach. She is passionate about coaching her students in cultivating regular exercise and healthy eating habits. Through her trials and errors in the past, she feels compelled to correct the myths and misconception of many regarding healthy living.
To better serve her students from all ages more effectively, Sandra is equipped with Zumba License for All Ages and Zumba Healthy Eating Coach License from Australia since August 2018. Since then, she has served more than 260 students, conducted more than 360 physical classes via more than 180 songs. During the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020, she has also moved her fitness coaching class to virtual sphere, offering more than 300 online courses.
In the past, Sandra poured out all her life to care for her family at the cost of ignoring her health and emotional stress. It was until she encountered marital problems, health issues, and poor self-image, then only she started to love herself and care for her own needs. With her professional practice in Zumba and healthy eating program, she hopes to help more and more students to live happy, healthy, confident, energetic, and restful days.
In recent years, she experienced the grief of losing a few of her family members and relatives who suffered long-term chronic diseases. She is fully aware of the importance of physical and mental health; thus, it becomes her great motivation to start up a health-related entrepreneurship. She believes in the natural healthy way for disease prevention. The students who joined her fitness classes are mostly housewives and working ladies, range from 20 to 60 years old, from Malaysia and Australia.
In her opinion, Zumba fitness course is the solution! Many give up their workout habit due to many obstacles such as lack of discipline or motivation, the pandemic, fatigue, family commitment, and so on. But Zumba fitness is tailored to be a better option even for beginners. Zumba Healthy Diet course aims to resolve unhealthy eating issues.
Sandra shared that the main reason for joining the competition is to get the tutor’s guidance on the weakness areas which she needs to improve, so that she may bring her business to greater height. Meanwhile, she gets to know more entrepreneurs from different fields. This gives her a good opportunity to learn from others as well. “If I can win the bonus, I will use it to develop an automated 24-hour service system and membership system to generate better income and to help more people to cultivate a healthy lifestyle.”, explained Sandra.
In the future, Sandra plans to include healthy eating method as part of the service package in her membership system. On top of that, she also would like to offer helpful tips and information on emotional health, family, and marriage. She loves to coach her students to build up positive interpersonal relationship and holistic wellbeing. The membership system includes instructional videos on cultivating a healthy life, which are craftily prepared by Sandra with much love and effort, with the aim of coaching students to change their lives positively. Health is priceless and it is one of the best gifts for the next generation.
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身为职业Zumba健身教练的Sandra想帮助学生找到一个能此生坚持的规律运动模式和健康饮食习惯，纠正错误观念和迷思，让他们找回、守住健康。
为了服务各年龄层的学生，Sandra特从澳洲获得Zumba所有年龄层的执照和Zumba健康饮食教练执照，从2018年8月创业至今，已服务超过260位学生，教了400堂以上的实体课和220首以上的歌曲。自从3月行动管制后，她也转战网路，提供300场以上的线上课程。
为家庭努力付出，渐渐失去爱自己，让自己快乐的能力，直到婚姻触礁、失去身心健康、不敢照镜子、不敢买衣服时，Sandra才开始懂得学习照顾自己，她希望能帮助学生通过养成健康饮食和健身习惯，成为一个快乐、健康、自信、有活力和每天都能安眠的人。
这几年她的家人亲戚一个个离开或患上长期慢性病，让她意识到身心健康的重要性，成为她创业的热情和动力，并采用最天然的方式预防疾病和缓解疾病症状。过去两年多，她主要服务马来西亚和澳洲的学生，年龄介于20多到60多岁之间，多数是在家或在职妈妈和职业女性。
她表示，健身房线下Zumba课程可解决无法养成长期规律运动、自己运动很难坚持、容易放弃运动的问题；线上24小时Zumba课程解决因疫情害怕出去运动、在家忙碌无法出去运动、下班后太累无法出去运动、难以帮助全家人一起养成规律运动、疫情期间难以帮助小朋友在家运动的问题；Zumba健康饮食课程则解决对饮食健康错误认知、家庭主妇不确定如何帮家人预备健康饮食、不清楚自己饮食方法是否不均衡的问题。
Sandra希望从比赛中，包括上资深老师的课程，得以看到自己的盲点和可进步的空间。同时也认识各界人士，彼此学习。 “如果能赢得奖金，我将会用来开发自动化系统及会员系统，24小时提供服务和达到理想收入及帮助大家养成健康的生活方式。”
未来Sandra计划在会员系统中提供健康饮食，还有维系情感、家庭和婚姻关系的资讯，打造一站式服务，帮助学生们找回和守住自己和家人的健康和幸福。会员系统也将包括21个培养健康生活教学视频，帮助学生纠正错误思想，健康是无价的，也是给下一代最好的礼物之一。
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