What keeps Vina up and about

Vina Morales has every reason to feel energized these days. Aside from her TV shows and mall tours for her new album Nobody Does It Better, Vina is busy with so many other things like doing concerts that take her around the world, franchising her beauty salon Ystilo, and promoting the energy drink in the market for women called Enerva.

Ask anyone who among the TV and movie female personalities he would consider fit, and chances are Vina Morales would be in the list.

A few years ago, Vina decided that if she wanted to be an outstanding stage performer, she would have to be fit.

On a regular basis for several years now, Vina goes to the gym to exercise, plays badminton and goes swimming. Vina believes that a performer’s energy must be totally visible to the audience to make an impact on them. Her TV and live performances will attest to the fact that even with other performers onstage with her, no one can upstage Vina.

She is pure energy, the female version of Gary V.

That’s why when Ed Tarog, president of Nature’s Best Products, Inc., told her they were launching an energy drink made for women and they wanted her to endorse the product, Vina was excited. However, she asked to try the product first before agreeing to be its endorser.

Vina loved it at first sip. She likes the taste of the product, "sweet, but not too sweet," the convenience (one sachet is in powder form so it’s easy to bring along) and the price (P6 per sachet). Now that she is using the product regularly, Vina says Enerva gives her the energy she needs after working long hours and revitalizes her when she feels tired. During the shooting of the TV commercial, Vina drank the product right before she faced the cameras since she knew the storyboard and the director would demand her to do a lot of physical activities. Needless to say, she did everything flawlessly and effortlessly.

Vina is very happy there’s an energy drink for women because she believes women work as hard, if not harder, than men. Vina says, "Mahirap para sa babae maging low-batt," because every woman is a working woman. Women have a thousand and one chores to do in the home and at work, if she also happens to be working in an office. Enerva will help women continue to work longer and better and relieve some of the stress that comes with working hard. Most women don’t mind this as long as it’s for their families.

Another big stress-reliever for Vina is reading the Bible. She believes that if one fears God, everything will follow. She also tries to be a good steward of God’s many blessings. Family is also a priority to her and when she is free, she tries to spend as much time with family and her little pamangkins which she calls her angels. Ystilo also occupies her time and the salon now has 32 branches, mostly franchises. Whenever possible, she tries to be hands-on with the business and has always been entrepreneurial, even when she was still based in Cebu where she first got her feet wet in business. She was one of the region’s distributors of an international soft drink.