Our Story
About Balance Wellness Ventures
Born from lived experience. Built for women who deserve more than generic advice.
Char Gardner
Founder & Wellness Consultant
"Balance starts with choosing yourself."
Her Why
A Journey That Changed Everything
Char has always lived a fitness lifestyle. For as long as she can remember, movement has been part of who she is. She believed that staying active and eating mostly right would be enough to carry her through anything life could throw her way.
And then midlife arrived.
Hot flashes showed up uninvited, alongside one of the greatest blessings of her life: her energetic five-year-old son, whom she adopted. Suddenly, her days became a balancing act between hormonal shifts and kindergarten energy, all while raising her older son as a single mother. Balancing her hormones became just as vital as balancing her family life.
At 50, I realized that balance starts with choosing yourself. And that is why I created Balance Wellness Ventures.
Every day, 6,000 women enter menopause. Accomplished, financially stable women find themselves dealing with hot flashes, weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, and declining confidence while the wellness industry keeps pushing one-size-fits-all generic solutions that fail to address what is actually happening inside their bodies.
What sets Balance Wellness Ventures completely apart from any competitor in the market is simple: Char does not guess and she does not provide quick fixes. She delivers a fully customized, holistic roadmap tailored specifically to the midlife female body.
The Process
The journey begins with a recommendation for a full blood panel workup from your primary care physician. Because before anything else, we need to know what is going on inside so that we can build you back up from the foundation.
Char's approach blends many ancient methods, including traditional Chinese medicine, with modern wellness practices. She integrates natural hormone support achieved through specific foods, collagen supplementation for skin, bone, and hair health, and blood type eating protocols that honor how your unique body processes nutrition.
Holistic detox programs reset the system before layering in sustainable nutrition and fitness routines. Every single method recommended has been rigorously tested. Char lived it first, then shared her approach with a circle of close friends, family, and early clients who achieved the same transformative results.
The Vision
Balance Wellness Ventures is a home-based consulting practice offering personalized health and wellness guidance drawn from products, routines, and strategies that have been personally tested and lived. Clients receive authentic, experience-based advice tailored to real life, especially the unique challenges and opportunities of midlife.
The platform is expanding to include self-paced courses on wellness, a supportive membership community, expanded virtual consulting, and a curated marketplace of products that have been vetted and proven. The goal is to reach women across the country who are searching for authentic guidance.
Complementing the consulting practice is Fit Suites, an upcoming boutique gym designed specifically for women over 50 who feel underserved in traditional fitness spaces. Combining virtual consulting with specialized in-person training, Fit Suites will focus on hormone-conscious programs, strength training for bone density, mobility work, and holistic longevity.