WHITESBORO, N.Y. — Clearly Connected, LLC owner Candice Sturtevant expanded her wellness business with a second location to house her dance-fitness classes, as well as other offerings. Clearly Connected Wellness in Motion opened Nov. 10 at 337 Oriskany Boulevard, just a few doors away from Clearly Connected Life Coaching & Wellness Center at 327 Oriskany […]
WHITESBORO, N.Y. — Clearly Connected, LLC owner Candice Sturtevant expanded her wellness business with a second location to house her dance-fitness classes, as well as other offerings.
Clearly Connected Wellness in Motion opened Nov. 10 at 337 Oriskany Boulevard, just a few doors away from Clearly Connected Life Coaching & Wellness Center at 327 Oriskany Boulevard. Along with housing her VXN Dance-Fitness classes, Sturtevant also rents the studio to other carefully selected providers that offer a unique blend of classes and services that mesh well with Clearly Connected.
That not only provides additional offerings to Clearly Connected clients, but also is Sturtevant’s way of helping other entrepreneurs. “They’re able to grow their own business underneath my wellness center brand,” she says.
Currently, Lead with Rhythm, owned by certified drum-circle facilitator John Bertrand, uses the space, and Sturtevant has plans bring in Zumba and yoga services. “It will never be your typical fitness center or gym,” she says of the space.
Clearly Connected Wellness in Motion will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house on Dec. 15 with the Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce.
The 900-square-foot studio is well suited to host classes. Once home to a liquor store, “the entire place was gutted and remodeled,” Sturtevant said. She leases the space, as well as her other location, from Scot Hayes, who operates New York Sash in the same plaza, and worked with the landlord to design the space.
At her wellness center, Sturtevant offers life coaching, therapy, massage, reiki, and nutritional-support services. She’s worked hard to craft a calming atmosphere at the center that was making it challenging to host her high-energy dance classes there.
Although the services are all related, she says, they’re two different vibes, which is what prompted her to pull the movement side of her business out into its own location.
Sturtevant has used her own experiences and wellness journey to craft a space that offers people the services they need. Her life-coaching business is full time, and she also leads classes two nights a week, manages both buildings, maintains her own website, and does all her own content creation.
Sturtevant, owner and CEO of Clearly Connected, LLC, Clearly Connected Life Coaching & Wellness Center, and Clearly Connected Wellness in Motion, is a graduate of the Legacy Training Institute and is a certified integrative holistic life coach and healer.
She launched Clearly Connected, LLC in 2017 and established her private life-coaching practice in 2018 on Main Street in Whitesboro. She moved to her current location in 2019, expanding to include the wellness center. In 2020, Sturtevant was certified as a VXN Dance-Fitness instructor.