Title: Owner

Company: Arlene Spann S.W.E.A.T.S.

Location: Upper Marlboro, Md.

As a woman in today’s world, Arlene Griggs Spann attributes her success to setting goals and when she feels she won’t accomplish them, she reassesses what she is doing. She prepared for this career by obtaining her license as a wellness and weight-loss coach and became certified in Food Management. Her greatest strength is her knowledge, which she can transform her mind and refocus to see food in different ways. The one aspect of her working condition Ms. spann would most like to change is to be able to produce more products.

Ms. Spann, a native of North Carolina resides in Maryland. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, author, teacher, and speaker married to businessman Jerome Spann. She is the founder of Arlene Spann S.W.E.A.T.S., a business she created from her struggle of being unhealthy and overweight to her success of losing over 50 pounds. Ms. Spann uses this success as an example of how an obstacle can be turned into an opportunity to inspire and empower others.

Ms. Spann chose this career path because of her own firsthand knowledge with cholesterol and diabetes.