Running & Mental Health
Hi, my name is Meg Takacs. I'm a running coach and tech entrepreneur based in Brooklyn NY. I'm originally from Atlanta, GA and moved to NYC in 2016 on a 10k loan. This was the biggest risk I have ever taken! I really just crossed my fingers, packed up my things, and dove into the fitness app world, hoping I would make something of it.
In November 2016, I helped pioneer the audio fitness as a founding trainer of an app. I helped bring the company's membership base from 200 members, to well over 200,000, which led to a series A investment of 50 million, in the span of 2 years.
In March 2019, I was unexpectedly let go from the company as a part of a company-wode, 40-person, layoff. The night I was let go, I put up a small landing page for people to follow me on my next endeavor. Little did I know, I would wake up to over 6,000 emails! This allowed me to enter the most creative, and freeing part of my career. It was then that I realized, I could start my own app. And so, I did!
Over the past three years, I've acquired over 500 subscribers on Run With Meg. The app is subscription-based ($39.99) and provides running programs, video-guided strength training workouts and race programs for everything from a 5k to a full marathon. My coaching methods have proven customer adoption and the foundation of my coaching is built on teaching the technicalities of running mechanics and injury-prevention. Right now, the app is built on Trainerize, which is a third party platform that white-labels my app. The platform is great, but I'm ready to take it to the next level, and develop a customized app of my own.
Recently, I have hired a marketing agency and am doing a total rebrand! This is exciting because... I'm coming back out with audio-guided workouts. In order to do this, I need a small investment of 150k to pay the app developers I want to work with to build my customized app.
This will work. The demand is there. And I all I need is some help in launching it!
Here is why my app is so important to people: When I created my app, I was going through being fired from a company, and around the same time, I lost a few friends to mental illness. My goal was, and always will be, to flip the "weight loss" script in the fitness industry and give people the tools they need to understand that fitness isn't about calorie counting, or body-image, but a journey of personal transformation, regardless of what level you are. It's important to me to create an outlet for people who are seeking help in coping with mental health issues. I provide elite coaching at an affordable price, which is so important in this day in age. I want to continue this mission and make something BIG out of it!
