A Bit About Me
As a mum of 2 in my late thirties; I’ve made the exciting leap from corporate life into the fitness industry to follow my lifelong passion.
With two young children, I know first hand how challenging it can be to balance personal goals with family life. My aim isn’t to take on hundreds of clients. I want to work closely with a select few, helping them find the right balance and prioritise their own needs.
Fitness has always been a big part of my life. From running, dancing, and gymnastics as a child to coaching gymnastics as a teenager, it’s been a constant thread. Even during my corporate career, I wove fitness into my life, taking on various challenges, trying out gyms, diving into online workout programs, and working with my own coaches.
Having coaches has been invaluable, they’ve helped me separate facts from myths and build habits that finally allowed me to take control of my own fitness (though I still turn to coaching when I need it!).
Now, I’m excited to be using everything I’ve learned to help others.
Work. Fit. Balance.
Work
I went into corporate roles aged 18 to prove that you don't have to go to University to build a good career. You can get a sense of my personality from that! From there I spent years developing my journey through trying new things, building relationships and going on a lot of training courses.
For 20 years I worked in large national and international companies in a mixture of roles, from Commercial planning, to Marketing and most recently 10+ years in Product Management.
Throughout my time I have managed teams and have a particular passion for Personal Development, in the last 5 years really focussing on coaching approaches.
Fit
Gymnastics, running, dancing, you name it I did it as a kid! Then when I was old enough I qualified as a gymnastics coach working with children from age 4-14.
As I entered my 20s I fell out of love with sports and whilst I did the odd bit of running or gym classes, I never quite fully found my passion. In my 30s however I found the online fitness community, I met loads of women in the same situation as me, I found that working out and knowing others were there with me really helped my motivation and I went to "meet ups" and really pushed myself out of my comfort zone.
Into my 30's and family life beckoned, I still did some of the online workouts but truthfully the novelty wore off a little bit and I wasn't challenged enough by them. I continued various plans on and off and eventually found a coach that I was intrigued by. I decided to invest in progressing rather than just "lost weight" and then put it back on and throw everything in the bin for the sake of 4 months over winter of eating crap and not exercising.
Coaching really bought a different perspective to all the things I had picked up on over the years, yes some of the information was right but it wasn't always relevant and I was expecting too much perfection. Coaching helped me to lift heavier weights and change my relationship with food, I didn't need to eat bloody cauliflower rice and cut my calories down to next to nothing and I didn't need to spend an hour and a bit every day jumping around like a kangaroo, just to lose some fat.
Balance
The last few years for me has been about balance. This for me is the most important part as it combines all my learnings from corporate life, mum life, fitness and nutrition. Do I get it spot on all the time? No. and that's sort of the point. I've finally realised I don't need to. There will be harder times and easier times and there will be times I'm lighter on the scale and heavier on the scale, but that doesn't always mean happier or fitter.
I can use my qualifications in coaching to call myself out on self sabotage, I can use habit trackers to see the reality of my daily lifestyle instead of telling myself "but I'm eating less and exercising more" and expecting it to magically work but most of all I now spend time with friends, family, the kids, sharing information and knowledge I've picked up about the reality of changing to a lifestyle that works and isn't putting too much pressure on myself to be perfect.