I think it's in my DNA! My dad was taken from me when I was ten years old and even though I didn't know him I am EXACTLY like him. A jock all the way! I love pushing myself toward a goal, accomplishing it, and then raising the bar to do it all over again. So one day when training a person in the fitness industry approached me and said, "You have a really great look and personality, you should compete." I laughed to myself thinking, "Me in heels & a bikini simultaneously? in what world?" Well it turns out THIS one! I competed from the "challenge" of know ing NOTHING about it and found myself winning first place in my category at my first show at the MuscleMania Miss Universe in Las Vegas! I was astounded and then hooked, not to the competing, but to the sculpting of my body and the science of nutrition. I have a Masters of Science in Health and Nutrition Education degree and I love helping people transform their "can't" in to "can" ...

Nothing compares to the feeling of CONFIDENCE and to know I am a walking billboard of all I believe in means that when people tell me I "inspire" them or they did a work out today because they saw I did too and made no excuses not to, it turns my whole world glowing gold. If I can continually strive to be better than I was yesterday than I am doing my part here on Earth. I have a purpose, and it's to motivate people to NOT QUIT, GIVE UP, or GIVE IN to fear, and if it just so happens my doing so creates a ripple effect than all the better, because if I could GIVE the gift health to each individual I met, I'd be doing what I was meant to do. EatClean, TRAINDirty, and don't settle. Ever.