Confession time: I’m a fitness junkie.
My desire to workout started in high school. For reasons my sedentary parents and video-playing brother could not understand I was obsessed, yes obsessed, with health clubs and hole-in-the-wall gyms.
Something about these environments enthralled me.
While earning my Bachelor’s Degree in the highly marketable subject of Sociology at Purdue University in Indiana, I had a part time job in the weight room of our co-recreational facility. (That was a strange place for an overweight pizza loving 19 year old girl to wander into, let alone work, back in 1992.)
After graduating my husband and I opened and ran 3 small health clubs in the South Florida market. I was a (sometimes overweight) personal trainer who also taught group fitness classes.
During this time I also worked for the Egoscue Clinic which specializes in health through motion. Something about taking responsibility for my own body and its physical health through motion connected on a deep level with me.
Sometime in 1999 I became enamored with mountain biking, road cycling, and adventure racing. Eventually I began racing and spent 3 years touring on the road racing circuit.
After two major hip surgeries I discovered Crossfit, and I find it to be the most effective, fun, comprehensive, research-based, functional, and enjoyable workout structure I have yet encountered. (Caveat: It isn’t for everyone!!)
I earned my Master’s Degree in 2008 from the University of Phoenix, and I’ve held a number of corporate leadership jobs. My role as a corporate leader was always to help increase individual, team, and department performance by coaching individuals.
The same principles apply in leadership and corporate performance as in weight-loss coaching; we react to the world as we think it is; not necessarily as it is. I teach people how to remove the beliefs and thoughts that are preventing exceptional performance.
Fitness and leadership are my two passions. I believe that it takes great leadership to lead ourselves, and I aspire to be an example and coach for those who wish to lead their own lives.
You might think that with my love of working out that I would be a very skinny person with no weight issues, and you would be wrong. Oh so very wrong.
I sincerely mean it when I say that your weight has far less to do with eating less and moving more and MUCH MORE to do with your mind set, and how you think.
