MY STORY
It all started back in 2011…
I had just graduated from college, was dealing with my very first heartbreak, and was forced to face the repercussions of my unhealthy eating habits. I was troubled with daily anxiety and for the first time felt trapped in my body. I felt lost in every sense of the word.
Beer Bongs, 7-11 late food night runs, and endless amounts of Jägermeister left me at the biggest I had ever been. To this day, I still don’t know how much I weighed. All I knew was that this person who could drink any frat boy under the table and who prided herself on her beer pong skills, was severely unhealthy. Sports had been a fundamental part of my upbringing. How could someone who had been active year round be SO overweight and unhappy? In this time of crisis I turned to the one thing that had always given me structure and mental clarity…MOVEMENT!
I quickly threw myself into my own fitness regime. I took to the pavement and found that running was my safe place. I made an empowering playlist (packed full of Beyoncé) and took it one step at a time. I had got to the point where 7 miles on the daily seemed like nothing. I soon added in some of Shaun T’s “Insanity” and signed myself up for my first full marathon. After surviving those grueling 26.2 miles, I felt like I could do anything! Support and fitness questions from friends and family poured in and that was when I knew that this could not only be a passion for me, but a way of life. Fitness was my salvation. Once my journey began, I never looked back.
I moved to San Francisco, completed a 6 month personal training program and set out to turn my passion into my career. I landed a personal training job in a large corporate gym where I built my business, crafted my training style, and learned the in and outs that encompass the fitness world. By my fourth year, I was training up to 10 sessions a day on top of managing a team of 20 trainers. I was working tirelessly as the flame for fitness began to die out. I had to do something before my job truly began to feel like “work.” I wanted to cut the corporate gym fluff out of training and actually HELP people again. As much as growing within the company had always felt like the path I was headed down, I knew I needed to take a step in another direction.