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About Me

Having successfully learned to balance health and wellness while working in the corporate world, I share my own health secrets, get-fit tips and the cooking expertise that has inspired countless women to end their love/hate relationship with food and turbocharge their health to become holistically hot in way that’s fun and fearless. No crazy diets or all-juice cleanses required.

I pride myself not only on helping my clients adopt a healthy diet but also on empowering them to live a life they truly love.

I’ve been featured as a wellness and cooking expert on eHow and Shape.com and Vital Juice and am a regular contributor to MindBodyGreen, Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Life, Gal Time and The Well Daily; I regularly publish on my own blog, Where I Need to Be.

After spending a decade and a half as a junk-food vegetarian, I began a love affair with whole foods nutrition in 2006. An exercise and outdoors fanatic, I’m an avid runner and yoga enthusiast with a passion for adventure and trying new activities. I love to travel, ski and have completed several triathlons and half and full marathons, including the Nautica New York City Triathlon and ING New York City Marathon.

I received my nutrition training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the world’s largest nutrition school, where I studied every dietary theory from traditional philosophies like Ayurveda to modern concepts like Paleo. I’m certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP) and have a BS in journalism from Northwestern University and an MA in Marketing from New York University. I’ve taken cooking classes at the Natural Gourmet Institute.