Check Out Megan Conner’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Megan Conner

Hi Megan, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I was born in NC but grew up in Texas, lived in NYC, Nashville and the Florida Keys! Nashville has drawn me back to it’s heart with the fitness and music communities and the PEOPLE. My people have always been here.

I have been writing, singing and producing professionally for over 18 years but has really been doing it my entire life. I’ve had publishing deals both in Nashville and New York City and has landed songs with Rascal Flatts, Chris Young, Craig Morgan’s latest single, Kylie Morgan, The Swon Brothers, Danny Gokey and many independent and international artists as well. She has had numerous songs in movies, TV series and ads with the latest being placed in Superbowl 2024 and songs all over TV for college football this season.

Aside from music, I am a fitness instructor, running coach and personal trainer. Fitness has been something steady while pursuing the very unsteady world of music. Fitness is something you train for, work towards, have goals and then get them. The music biz is completely opposite. I’ve run the Boston Marathon twice, many other marathons and half marathons and now help other people reach the start and finish lines through my running coaching.

Through fitness, I met my friend Kim Betts about 10 years ago. Little did I know I would one day give her a kidney… back in August of 2024 she reached out asking if people would test because she was running out of time and needed a kidney. I said – heck yeah! I found out we were a perfect match, so after months of testing I was able to tell her the day after Christmas that I could give her one of my kidneys. Our surgery was Jan. 16, 2025 and it’s been a success on both sides!

I’ve always lived life big. I jump out of planes, scuba dive, travel the world when I can and say yes to anything that could possibly leave a positive mark behind or inspire others along the way. I want to look back and say I did it well.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
My life has never been smooth. I grew up comfortable, never needing anything but still having to work for things. I had to help buy my first car, pay for college… and when I moved to Nashville there was a point where I couldn’t pay the rent. A paycheck to paycheck life has been my main struggle, but somehow I always end up finding people along the way who make life better. I grew up with an alcoholic stepfather who was a functioning alcoholic but ended up losing his life to liver cancer when I was 22. Seeing someone you grow up with every day reduced to 100 grey pounds laying in a bed has a big effect. That made me realize we get one chance at this life, so I better make it a good one.

I’ve overcome sexual abuse and harassment from that same person for over 20 years. Every thing I’ve overcome only makes me stronger, and I’ve found if you’re just a genuine person and try to do good – good always comes back in some way. It might not be the exact way you think, but it’s always there if you just stop and look.

I was worried about being a kidney donor and missing work while I recover. Working for yourself in a client based business – if you don’t work, you don’t make a dime, but with the government grant program and a friend who set up a GoFundMe and Meal Train – I’ve been blessed beyond measure! See that good – there it is!

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I think I covered most of my musical accomplishments earlier – cuts by Rascal Flatts, Chris Young, Craig Morgan, the Swon Brothers, Danny Gokey, Kylie Morgan and more…

But also my fitness career has been chalked full of great things! I was one of Nashville Scene’s Best Personal Trainers one year, named the best running coach in Nashville through NFM’s Best Of, on the cover of Nashville Fit Magazine, 2 time Boston Marathon finisher, accomplished distance runner and triathlete turned coach.

I’m so proud of every achievement but these days I get more proud from my client’s achievements. When they hire me and invest in themselves, I am going to invest in them too. It’s so much more than just finding a program online to follow – I try to walk through life with these people as they work to achieve their goals. Many of my clients have become close friends, and I get so much joy seeing them accomplish what they set out to do.

We’re always looking for the lessons that can be learned in any situation, including tragic ones like the Covid-19 crisis. Are there any lessons you’ve learned that you can share?
I pretty much lost everything from Covid. I had just gotten out of my publishing deal before it hit and once it hit, I had to shut down all in person personal training. Although I lost so much, I also took it an opportunity to reset. I headed down to Florida during the pandemic and flipped all of my clients online. I launched online fitness classes and had so many people join in around the country and even the world. It opened up an entire new opportunity being to train online.

I ended up moving to the Florida Keys for a couple of years and really took a step back from the music business. I learned how to scuba dive and became a divemaster and underwater photographer all the while training clients online. During this time I landed my first radio single with Craig Morgan’s “That’s How You Make a Man” and was able to experience all things music from another side of it. I traveled back to see him perform my song at the Grand Ol’ Opry and The Ryman. After a year of traveling back and forth, I decided a move back to Nashville was in the cards to reconnect with my community.

I didn’t know, a little over a year later I’d be giving a kidney to one of my old fitness friends…

I lost 2 family members to Covid and my business in Nashville I had grown from the ground up for 6 years. I’m still rebuiding and trying to find my way back, but there’s deep beauty in every loss if you just look. I realized those people who are meant to stick with you, will, and those you’re supposed to find along the way will come even if your path changes.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://www.meganconner.com and http://www.thewanderingworkout.com
• Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/meganconner
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/meganconnerfitness