Thank you so much to everyone who entered the Level 3 Active Giveaway! And thank you again to Melissa Rountree for helping us host it. Melissa, founder and owner of Level 3 Active, has been our Woman of the Month for September. She wears a lot of different hats outside her online activewear store, and we’ve been so honored to have her on the blog throughout September.
Before we announce the winner of last month’s giveaway, please take a moment to check out our MB interview with Melissa and her Day in the Life feature. She’s absolutely inspirational!
Welcome to a Day in the Life of Melissa Rountree, our September Woman of the Month! She’s the founder and owner of Level 3 Active, a board member on The Elisa Project, a luxury real estate agent, and an instructor at The Bar Method. She’s also a devoted mother and loving wife. As you can imagine, her schedule is jam-packed.
As we learned in our interview with Melissa earlier this month (which you can read here), family is so important to her. It’s a big reason why she decided to join The Elisa Project this year as a board member. She was just about to take a step back from some of her charity work when this opportunity presented itself and she knew she couldn’t pass it up.
This year is the 7th annual ESTEEM show, a fashion show with a twist! It’s all about promoting self-esteem and confidence in young people, so Melissa will be walking the runway with her daughter, while Darlington and I will be joining her and many others.
The event is this Saturday, September 17th, and you can find more details here.
Please enjoy our behind-the-scenes look at a Day in the Life of Melissa Rountree, and don’t forget to enter her Level 3 Active giveaway! Details are at the bottom of this post.
In a couple of weeks, Darlington and I will walk together in the ESTEEM Fashion Show to help benefit The Elisa Project. It’s the first time we’ve ever walked the runway together, and I’m so excited to share this experience with my baby girl. I’ve always loved walking the runway, but to be able to be a part of something so wonderful and share it with Darlington will make it that much more special. As a mother, I’ve realized a strength in myself that I’ve never seen before and a love so profound that it’s beyond words and can only be described in actions. I recently read about a mother jumping in Lake Powell after her two year old fell in. She kept his head above water, though she didn’t have the strength to keep them both afloat. He survived but she did not, and it struck me because as mothers, most of us would give our life for our children.
This is the type of love I could feel and see when my friend Melissa Rountree talked about being a mother. I was pregnant at the time, but I remember vividly our conversation about daughters and our need to be shining examples for them. We both lost sisters, something that will bond us for life. And we have both used our losses to inspire and cultivate a sense of sisterhood in our professions and way of life. So when Melissa asked us to help raise awareness about The Eliza Project and join the runway show, I didn’t hesitate to be a part of this. Spearheading this year’s fashion show, along with my dear friend and Friscovania’s Frights of the Round Table member, Rhonda Sargent Chambers, I’m honored to be in the company of such multifaceted, multipassionate women whom I admire so greatly.
Be sure to check out the bottom of this post for more info about the ESTEEM Fashion Show and about The Elisa Project. But for now, I’d like to extend a warm thank-you to Melissa for her heartfelt interview with Courtney.
