About Me

I wasn’t always strong.

I wasn’t an athlete growing up—hated sports, ran the wrong way in 2-hand touch family football games, and was consistently the last one picked for every team in school.

I did start seriously dancing when I was 16. But I was never as good as the girls who had been at the barre their whole lives (they were frickin’ amazing—still are), and when I skipped the line to the professional level because of my singing and acting, I couldn’t come close to what the other dancers could do.

Fast forward through 10 years of following confusing online programs, putzing around with friends at the gym, taking random group classes, and working with trainers hoping something would finally click...

I deadlift 350lbs, 2.23x my bodyweight. I bench over 200lbs, squat 250lbs. With the kettlebell, I pistol squat 40kg, pull-up with 44kg strapped to my waist, and press 28kg.

More importantly, I’ve ended years of chronic pain. You can read about that journey here.

This stuff is hard. It’s hard for everyone, in different ways. But it’s especially difficult for those of us who felt we didn’t have a place in the gym (and by extension, our bodies), because being strong and lifting weights wasn’t *for us.*

I’m here to help you move past that noise. I’m here to help you build that list of shit you can do now that you’re really proud of; it wasn’t handed to you, and no one asked you to do it, but you did it because you wanted to, and even though every time you tried a new skill it was hard and it sucked, you went through and you DID it anyway.

I’m here to help you one day write, “I wasn’t always strong, but now...”