Say “Yes!” to Your Life!

Our culture is inundated with “just say no” campaigns, whether to drugs, over-committing our time or resources, or just playing it safe by limiting our exposure to the risks that life throws our way. Lock your doors, protect your pass codes, your heart, your health. Double down on your security and trust only those closest to you. And be leery even of them, as you never know who will betray you! Yikes! It is no wonder so many among us struggle with mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression!
Help! How Can I Have a Fitter & More Joy-filled Holiday Season?

Along comes the holidays and our schedules begin to fill with obligations, and let’s be real, increased stress. All this talk of the New Year’s Resolutions make you break out in a sweat? For the majority of us, this is definitely the case!
Bang out Your Book Launch: How to Get 50+ Reviews Out of the Gates

After much anxiety and oodles of pre-launch jitters, I made it to the finish line and launched my second book Claim Your Inner Badass on November 17th, 2019. As much as I felt like I was stumbling and fumbling through the launch process, what I was clear about was that I wanted lots of reviews and I wanted them quick in the first week.
Exploring How Men Express Loss and Grief

We all have a unique way to deal with loss and grief, just as we approach joy and happiness in different ways. How one may express emotion may be completely different than another. How we honor and respect these differences is important, especially as we delve into how men express such emotions. I believe it’s due that time this conversation reaches the forefront in our society.
5 Components to Living a Healthy Lifestyle

As a lifestyle and health strategist, I am often asked about how to be more fit and to lose weight. So many struggles with high levels of stress and anxiety, which results in poor lifestyle choices, exacerbating feelings of frustration—even depression.
7 Ways to Boost your Motivation to Exercise

Feeling your confidence lag and commitment to live a fit and fabulous life starting to wane? Here are seven ways you can use starting today to reboot your spirits and motivate you to get yourself all the way to the finish line with your health and wellness goals.
P.O.P. Your Way to Success!

Have you heard of the old expression “luck is where preparation meets opportunity”? I don’t know about you, but I view luck like I do hope—some far-off distant thing, outside of my control.
3 Steps on How YOU Can Be More Confident

You set your sights on attaining a goal, whether its achieving a fitness or dietary change, a new job, finding a great relationships or any other dream that excites you, and within days, even minutes sometimes, your resolve wanes. What happened? And why is it that some people seem to be crushing their goals, while others continue to flounder?
Yeah, YOU! Embrace Your Creative Genius!

When I was growing up, and even well into adulthood, I never, ever would define myself as creative. Creative people were those who could paint or draw. Those lucky ones that could make something out of clay, make a masterpiece out of a bucket of art supplies. Sadly, all I created was a hot mess! How embarrassed I remembered feeling!
Are you Ready to Get Fit?

Usually, the first question that people ask someone who has lost weight is “how did you do it?” What they really want to know is whether you have discovered a new and pain-free way to getting trim and fit. Was it a pill? A special diet? Or how about a new type of surgery? Often times when they find out that the key to success was clean eating and exercise, they are disappointed and say to themselves dejectedly, that will never be me, I could never do that. And I ask, why not?