What are one or two of your greatest business and/or community achievements?

My greatest business and community achievement is building a wellness platform rooted in inspiration, consistency, and genuine care for people. Through fitness training, wellness education, youth programming, and community initiatives, I get to help people live happier, healthier, more intentional lives in ways that feel realistic, encouraging, and sustainable. I truly love meeting people where they are and walking alongside them as they build habits that strengthen their bodies, boost confidence, and support long-term health and longevity.

One of my favorite extensions of this work is Festival de Fit Fête, which I created as both a recurring downtown fitness and wellness series and a large-scale community celebration. The goal is simple: make wellness fun, visible, and welcoming for everyone across Acadiana. By bringing together movement, education, local businesses, and community resources, the festival creates connection, celebrates local culture, and encourages healthier lifestyles in an exciting, inclusive way. Everything I do is guided by the belief that the body is a temple and that caring for it is an act of self-respect and love for the community I’m honored to serve.

What’s your favorite thing about what you do for a living?

What I love most about what I do is the heart behind it. I get to lead with love, show up with intention, and serve people in a way that feels deeply aligned with my purpose. I have the privilege of encouraging people to choose themselves, believe in their potential, and realize they’re capable of more than they ever imagined.

I also love helping people see that a healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to be complicated or intimidating. By breaking wellness down into simple, everyday choices, I help replace fear and overwhelm with confidence, excitement, and a little fun. Watching people grow stronger, trust their bodies, celebrate their progress, and carry that energy into their families and communities is what makes this work so joyful and meaningful to me.

You’ve expanded from training individuals to corporate wellness and community programs. What’s one program or moment that showed you your work was changing someone’s life beyond the gym?

I wish I could reduce it to one moment, but every single day that I have the opportunity to work with my clients (who I affectionately call my “FitFam”), every time I have the ability to get with them, our training sessions don’t feel like a job to me, because it’s almost like I’m a fitness trainer and a therapist.

So I get to have those really intimate moments with my clients where we’re talking about more than just working out and just how their exercise has improved their day. To hear their success stories of not how much weight they lost, but how they’ve gone to the doctor and they’ve heard that success report about how their health is becoming better. Their lifestyle is changing. That – every day – just really, really warms my heart.