Our Founder | Born Again Bodies

PAMELA PARKER SCRUGGS

BORN AGAIN BODIES CEO and Founder

Our "WHY"

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Summary

Outside of fitness, Pamela Parker Scruggs is established in her own right.

She has served as Chief of Staff to state legislators, as a consultant for elected officials and she has managed several executive-level events for government and high-tech companies; to include over nine festivals and major events with Grammy-level entertainers, conferences, retreats, cruises, and now manages virtual events.

She is also former Miss Black Austin, a semi-finalist dance winner on Merv Griffin's nationally-syndicated dance show, "Dance Fever", and a Miss Galaxy International winner (Miss Galaxy International was - a substitute pageant for the Miss Black USA pageant which did not run that year) and a semi-finalist winner on Merv Griffin's nationally-syndicated dance show, "Dance Fever".

Why Born Again Bodies for a woman like Pam? Pam believes the dream God called her to do is part of a collaborative solution to change the paradigm of poor health in our communities.

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Pictured - Pamela Parker Scruggs with her dad and four of her siblings. Her father raised six children, as a single man who served in the U.S. Air Force and later in corporate America.

Pictured - Pamela Parker Scruggs leading a group of at-risk youth in a dance fitness class

As a child, Pamela Parker Scruggs' was an at-risk, latchkey kid raised by a single father of six children. Pam's beautiful sweet mother is so dear to her, but the truth is her mother lived most of her life in a place of fear, confusion and torment in her mind, due to low-serotonin in her body. Today, her mother is so much more mentally healthy and at peace, than Pam ever saw her mother as a child; thank God. She has a great father, but being raised by an over-protective single military man, with four daughters, was no cake walk. But, Pam always had a mindset to think higher and find ways to smile and laugh, even under tough circumstances. In spite of the odds, Pam learned how to leap above what was going on externally around her. As a result, she is passionate about helping people get to a place of tranquility and self-acceptance. Dance was one thing that helped her escape the stress that was around her and bring encouragement to others.

As an adult, Pam still loves to use dance, fitness, and motivation to help people leap into their place of balance and peace, but now through faith-based principals. It is what she calls the 'the green grassy knoll'. God gave her the name Born Again Bodies in 1993, she opened the DBA in 2005 and held her first Born Again Bodies class in February of 2006 at Lifetime Fitness in Austin, Texas. Since then, Born Again Bodies did a number of things to impact community wellness and Pam has spoken to a number of audiences on faith and fitness. In 2016, Pam's father became ill and she put Born Again Bodies on a temporary hold. Now in 2020, Born Again Bodies has relaunched. Born Again Bodies has a mission help people get to their individual, corporate and community "place on the green".