I’ve always been active since from a young age, owing it to my determination and competitive nature to keep up with my siblings and win. I played multiple sports with siblings, playing basketball and running track in high school, college and beyond. Before going off to college, I got an internship in physical therapy at Kaiser Permanente with a desire to help with healing from injuries.

I decided to major in Exercise Science in college because I couldn’t imagine a lifetime career of sitting still and I wanted to help my Baby Boomer-aged parents to have longer, quality lives. I also took several classes in athletic training, which taught me more about injury prevention and recovery.

After college, I participated in a variety of weightlifting sports such as Powerlifting, Olympic Weightlifting - in which I would compete in my first local meet and get a Silver medal - and Bodybuilding, in which I earned 3rd place.

Realizing how hard competitive sports are on the body, I dove into the realm of nutritional supplementation and quickly learned how important it is to give the body as many natural foods and supplements as possible. Knowing this, I decided to get go back to school and received my second degree in Dietetics in 2009.

I left the corporate scene to start training on my own and bounced around, leasing space from several gyms until I open my own gym, Naturally Defined Fitness, Nutrition & Wellness Services, the first black-woman owned gym in the Denver metro area.

With a background in fitness, nutrition, and injury prevention and recovery I have been able to improve the quality of lives of over 100+ people in the past 20+ years. I have been recognized as one of Denver‘s top 100 health and wellness professionals, I’ve been quoted for my expertise, and published in a couple of magazine articles.

Check out my most recent feature in Shoutout Colorado, a digital magazine. I felt honored by their recognition of me as a local inspirational entrepreneur!