About Me — Sharon Odom
Mother, Fitness Enthusiast & Author
Hi there, I’m Sharon, the mother of 4 (including 26-year-old triplets), a digital marketer, and author of “The Click: How I Lost 90 Pounds & Finally Found Fitness … After 60”. I joined Medium in July 2023 to read a few stories and now feel ready to tell a few of my own.
Early Days
I started out as a mechanical engineer. That lasted 6 years. After 3 jobs I realized that engineering wasn’t it. From there I went into computers, which I absolutely loved.
After 16 years in IT, I left Corporate America to pursue online marketing and never looked back. I joined forces with other marketers to create books, courses, and other information products for small businesses and offline marketers.
Marriage & Motherhood
In the meantime, I got married, we had triplets (yes, 3 babies born at once) and life was as crazy and chaotic as you could imagine. Especially since we lived in Los Angeles, far away from our families. In other words, no help!
In 2003 we moved to Houston to be near family. It was about this time that I started fighting a battle that a lot of baby boomers face in middle age — weight gain. I had never lost the weight after the triplets were born, and frankly I wasn’t that thin…
