"Some Simple Actions to Live Younger Longer" is the title of a talk to be given at the Emerald Coast Meditation Society Nov. 6 by Bill and Rene Cole, owners of a Destin real estate company and an anti-aging company.
The free meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. with a 30-minute silent meditation at 480 N. Co. Hwy. 393, Santa Rosa Beach, one-half mile north of Hwy. 98. The ECMS is ecumenical and does not follow any religion.
The Coles met at a spa in 1980 in Overland, Kansas, where Rene led the spa’s aerobic program in the evening, after teaching fulltime during the day, and Bill was asked to turn around a failing club. Within 90 days the spa became profitable. The two married three years later and worked together for five years in the spa business, while also starting their own weight management company and relocating to Indianapolis.
A few months after their daughter, Ashley, was born, they relocated again, this time to Sandestin Resort to pursue resort sales. Then in 1993 a local endocrinologist asked Rene to help him get his patients healthy. He had come to realize that he needed to offer them more than just medication. For years, Rene helped people lose from 15 to 200 pounds, working at two area hospitals.
In 1999 Bill became vice president of real estate sales at Sandestin, and in 2001 regional director of sales for the Gulf Coast of Florida and Mexico. Because of constant travel, Bill eventually invested in a startup resort community in Georgia, which did not survive the Great Recession of 2008.
For the last five years the two have lived and worked in Destin, owning their own real estate company and an anti-aging company dedicated to helping people “live younger longer.” They live their belief that “Your thoughts and words create your actions, your actions form your habits, and your habits build your character.”
The evening will conclude with a short guided meditation. The ECMS meets on the first and third Thursday of every month except July and August. Anyone who needs meditation instruction should arrive by 6:15 p.m. For information contact Nancy James, nancyjames@embarqmail.com
The free meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. with a 30-minute silent meditation at 480 N. Co. Hwy. 393, Santa Rosa Beach, one-half mile north of Hwy. 98. The ECMS is ecumenical and does not follow any religion.
The Coles met at a spa in 1980 in Overland, Kansas, where Rene led the spa’s aerobic program in the evening, after teaching fulltime during the day, and Bill was asked to turn around a failing club. Within 90 days the spa became profitable. The two married three years later and worked together for five years in the spa business, while also starting their own weight management company and relocating to Indianapolis.
A few months after their daughter, Ashley, was born, they relocated again, this time to Sandestin Resort to pursue resort sales. Then in 1993 a local endocrinologist asked Rene to help him get his patients healthy. He had come to realize that he needed to offer them more than just medication. For years, Rene helped people lose from 15 to 200 pounds, working at two area hospitals.
In 1999 Bill became vice president of real estate sales at Sandestin, and in 2001 regional director of sales for the Gulf Coast of Florida and Mexico. Because of constant travel, Bill eventually invested in a startup resort community in Georgia, which did not survive the Great Recession of 2008.
For the last five years the two have lived and worked in Destin, owning their own real estate company and an anti-aging company dedicated to helping people “live younger longer.” They live their belief that “Your thoughts and words create your actions, your actions form your habits, and your habits build your character.”
The evening will conclude with a short guided meditation. The ECMS meets on the first and third Thursday of every month except July and August. Anyone who needs meditation instruction should arrive by 6:15 p.m. For information contact Nancy James, nancyjames@embarqmail.com
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