June 1st! The Jumpstart is here!
Calling all Black History Bootcamp devotees, O.G. Trekkers, new Sisters to the movement, and everyone in need of a jumpstart in this season of your life!
On June 1st, GirlTrek is kicking off a Summer of Jubilee with our biggest walking challenge of the year! It’s the 30-Day Jumpstart, and we need everyone to grab your crews and report to the pavement for duty.
This is not a drill!
No sitting on the sidelines allowed.
The summer of your dreams is calling your name and your journey starts here with GirlTrek’s self-guided 30-Day walking challenge.
It has helped thousands of women jumpstart their health and start a new habit of daily
walking while having fun, discovering new places, and connecting to history and culture.
The Jumpstart Challenge is a GirlTrek classic. It’s seen many iterations over the years. All of them have focused on inspiring women to explore, discover, and experience the world around them on foot.
This year's version is the antidote to the pandemic malaise that so many of you have told us you are experiencing.
We’ve let the weight pile on and the worry compound.
We’ve abandoned our holy practices over the past two years. We’ve been isolated too long, are struggling to build community, and we’re outraged by the daily onslaught of devastating news.
The Jumpstart Challenge will bring you back to the center of your joy.
It will provide you with a daily dose of inspiration, real accountability, and a fun way to measure success.
Tell your friends and family at the BBQ this weekend that it’s going down. That on June 1st one million Black women are setting out on foot in a challenge for the culture and EVERYBODY is invited to participate.
The challenge is simple!
Step 1: Complete 21 treks in 30 days from this checklist. [Organizer Tip! Download copies and pass them out at whatever function you’ll be at this weekend. Then post a few in the neighborhood, slide a few in your favorite neighbor’s mailbox, text a copy to the group text, and put it on the board in the break room at work. Then let your sororities, moms groups, community clubs, employee resource groups, and the checkout lady at the grocery know that we want them to join us.]
Step 2: Throughout this scavenger-hunt style challenge, document your journey by sharing your daily treks on social media using #GirlTrek
Step 3: Once you complete your goal tell us you did it at GirlTrek.org. You earn bragging rights + a coveted pair of GirlTrek Golden Shoelaces.
For added support, Morgan and Vanessa will be personally guiding you through the experience, posting their daily treks on their social media channels, and they’ve challenged the whole staff to do the same!
We’re about to light up the streets with Superhero Blue with this challenge and this is only just the beginning.
The 30-Day Jumpstart kicks off GirlTrek’s Summer of Jubilee!
That’s right! We’re not stopping with the 30-Day Jumpstart. Our goal is to take the momentum that we built this Spring and keep it going all Summer long with:
Saturday morning model walks are led by our Coaching Fellows. Check the map for one near you.
A Monthly National Rally & Roll Call on the first Saturday of each month led by Vanessa and Morgan. It’s like a Bootcamp call on steroids with a juicy topic, movement shoutouts, celebrations, live member testimonies and more! [Dial: 1 (646) 876-9923 CODE: 734464325]
New content! Including a fun photo challenge, a new season of Black History Bootcamp, and an invite to the most epic gathering in the mountains of Colorado, Stress Protest.
Picture it: The sun rising over Flint, Gary and Jackson, and Richmond as women set out on their daily treks. In Oakland and Harlem, the sound of Black women laughing on the block can’t be silenced by gentrification. In Chicago, Crews on the west side, the south side, and every neighborhood in between bring peace and hope to their streets. In St. Louis and, Memphis and New Orleans, blue everywhere. Joy everywhere. Around the world, a diasporic demonstration of healing.
This is what’s possible if you join us on this journey.
On June 1st we begin.
Are you ready?
Sound off on social this weekend!
On your next walk take a picture and post: “I’m taking the @girltrek 30-Day Jumpstart challenge. Step into a new season of healing and join me! Just 21 walks in 30 days. You can do it!”
For the movement and the culture,
Vanessa and Morgan
