I know what it’s like to chase big goals while life is falling apart.

I maintained a 1,055-day running streak while competing in races, completing my master’s in education, and navigating the death of my mom after her terminal cancer diagnosis. Even with everything unraveling, I kept showing up to train and managed to perform at a high level.

 

Early Success Amidst Chaos

During that time, I won my first ultra (50 miles), earned a podium finish, and nearly doubled my personal best at Ohio’s Backyard Ultra, tying for 5th place at 150 miles. From the outside, it looked like everything was clicking.

 

Facing the Hardest Challenges

After the best year of my running career in 2024, I was forced to do one of the hardest things I’ve ever done: step away. A repetitive stress injury took me from running every single day to taking several months off from the sport I love. What initially felt devastating became a turning point. Without running, I began to see how much I had been using training to push past things I hadn’t fully processed.

 

Prioritizing Mental Health & Value Alignment

I traded my running coach for a mental health counselor and started addressing the areas of my life I had been neglecting—my grief, patterns of substance use, and a career that looked successful on the surface but felt deeply misaligned with who I am. I learned that high performance without self-awareness always collects its debt, and the debt collector was knocking on my door

 

Rediscovering Faith

During this season, I also began working on my relationship with God. I started practicing faith not as something to perfect, but as something to live. I made the decision to be baptized and to begin intentionally giving my life to God, learning how to trust rather than control, and how to sit with uncertainty instead of outrunning it.

 

A New Perspective on Effort and Identity

That process reshaped how I view effort, identity, and success. I learned that you don’t get to outsource life to training and that showing up fully as a human matters just as much as showing up as an athlete. Out of that experience, my coaching philosophy changed.

 

Building a Holistic Coaching Approach

I pursued my UESCA ultrarunning certification and intentionally blended it with my background in well-being and life coaching. Today, my work is rooted in helping athletes build sustainable, long-term systems that support the whole athlete—body, mind, and soul—not just what happens on race day.

 

Who I Work With

I work with athletes who have ambitious running goals and who also want support navigating the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of performance. Athletes who understand that longevity in the sport comes from genuine alignment, not avoidance. Those who want to grow not just as runners, but as people.