About Me

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Like many of her clients, Jacki has faced and pushed through struggles in different chapters of her life – from weight gain to battling cancer to balancing self-care with parenting and work. 


Inspired by the results she works hard to attain, today she guides others to push past their limiting beliefs and to take action, working with private clients and guiding other health coaches in how to grow their businesses. . 


Many of the roots of Jacki’s early relationship with food came in a can or package. Growing up, meals often boiled down to the time crunch convenience of processed frozen entrees. The convenience factor kicked into higher gear in college, with lots of ordering out and eating out. 


The pounds piled on her petite frame. “I would see myself in pictures. I looked really heavy. I didn’t have a lot of muscle.”  When Jacki lost 50 pounds around age 20, at first she attributed her success to giving up potato chips and other high calorie, low nutrient choices. Only, the weight loss quickly revealed an unexpected and serious health issue – thyroid cancer.

How It All

Got Started

After Jacki’s cancer went into remission, she followed a “train insane to maintain” plan with three to four hours of daily workouts, healthy foods in the wrong proportions, and then Friday through Saturday eating and drinking whatever she wanted. “I looked really fit,” recalls Jacki, but fitness is as much about what’s happening inside and what’s sustainable. 


“If I ate crappy the night before, you couldn’t talk to me until I got done working out. I was grumpy, irritable and needed to work out to feel like I did something to counteract what I shoveled in my mouth,” she says. 


In her late 20s, Jacki left teaching math full-time with fitness classes on the side to focus on fitness full-time but even then, what she thought was a healthy mindset bears no resemblance to her lifestyle now. 


In her early 30s, while her daughter was still a toddler, Jacki believed she was in her prime. She had lost her pregnancy weight and began competing in fitness competitions. A coach approached her at the gym and said, “If you ate healthier, imagine what you would get out of your training.” The words struck a nerve. 


A nutrition guide helped her dial into her nutrition, recalibrating her diet to include 30% protein, 30% fat and 40% carbs with three main meals of 300-400 calories each and three snacks of 100-200 calories, depending on her activity level. Long gone are the three-to-four-hour workouts and roller coaster eating shift from weekday to weekend. 


”Now my exercise is maintaining muscle mass as I age. Before it was all about calories in and calories out and maintaining my weight, at times I was burning muscle because I wasn't eating properly.” Her focus doesn’t stop with workouts and nutrition; it also centers around sleep, hydration, stress management and optimizing surroundings. Jacki takes a similar approach when guiding her private clients. In 2019, she deepened her impact by beginning a coaching program for other health coaches to teach them how to scale their businesses. 


When comparing her life now to 20 years ago, Jacki says, “My moods are significantly better. My mental clarity is better. My energy level is better. I sleep better,” shares Jacki, who has ADHD. “When I’m eating better, that mental clarity makes a difference in my ability to focus. I feel better than I ever have.”

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