We had the good fortune of connecting with Sai Rivero and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Sai, is your business focused on helping the community? If so, how?
Muscle3X’s mission is to create awareness in the community that to live a healthy lifestyle people don’t have to starve or go through those crazy diets. Nearly 42% of the population is considered clinically obese in the US. Obesity brings a lot of risks to our health including Type 2 diabetes, High blood pressure, Heart disease, Stroke, Sleep apnea, Metabolic syndrome, Fatty liver diseases, Osteoarthritis, etc. People know what they have to do, but they don’t engage in activities that prevent them from being overweight due to the inflexibility of programs and diets. For example, people start a diet program and lose weight, however, once that program is discontinued, they go back to the same weight they were before or higher. Muscle3x is more than that, we change people’s behavior and lifestyles. We don’t believe in diet, we believe in lifestyle change. We educate clients on the importance of having balanced nutrition, counseled them, and motivate them to keep going.
Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My husband and I started our entrepreneurial journey in 2011. We started out giving individuals with disabilities the tools they need to be functional and eventually successful in the community by giving them employability skills training. Meaning that we trained them on everything they needed to obtain and maintain a job. We help them by creating a resume, training them on the job, and eventually coaching them to maintain a job. We still do that. Simultaneously, we also established a behavioral health center to help individuals in distress. We currently owned that business as well. It is called MGM Behavioral. At MGM we provide mental health therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. We also have psychiatric services and applied behavior analysis. At MGM, I became a board-certified behavior analyst and learned how human behavior can be changed if the contingencies are there. So, I started working with children with autism and ADHD in helping them change their behavior by changing the environment and providing them with positive reinforcement. We had tremendous success doing that. So now, we are applying the principles of positive reinforcement to help individuals lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. This is how muscle3x was developed.
Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
my husband and I love Miami, Brickell area. We also love the beach. Definitely, we will take our friends to the beach and eat in Brickell. Any Italian restaurant will do it.
Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
MGM Behavioral is our mentor, since 2011, MGM Behavioral has helped individuals with a disability function and be an integral part of the community. MGM behavioral has taught us everything we know about changing human behavior.
Website: www.muscle3x.com
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