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Before I taught women to reunite with the innate intelligence of their female body, I spent decades helping patients navigate healthcare, physicians build practices, entrepreneurial businesses grow, and leaders improve systems. Today, all of those experiences shape how I help women understand and work with the most sophisticated system they'll ever navigate — their own bodies.Â
But here is the irony...
In becoming this high-achieving entrepreneurial woman whose career love affair has always included healthcare, fitness, and philanthropy that funded things like cutting-edge cancer research, I became the unhealthiest I'd ever been. (Hello, long days and later nights paired with Hershey's kisses and red wine to soothe my nervous system.) I completely divorced myself from my body and saw it simply as a vessel for my brain, performing in accordance with how the world outwardly measured my success — who cares what's going on, on the inside!
Then everything converged at once. On the heels of recording our largest revenue year in two companies' history, leading a massive fundraising campaign for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), suddenly losing a business partner to pancreatic cancer, overrestricting my food intake, consistently going overboard on cardio, and never giving myself the appropriate rest and recovery I needed — all of it collided with the season I now know as (peri)menopause.
Underneath all of it was hormone insufficiency. Real. Building. The kind of thing that gets brushed off as "you're just tired" — until it can't be brushed off anymore. Mine couldn't. My body forced the issue, and I experienced an Acute Addisonian Crisis.
A complete hormone collapse.
And here's what I need you to hear: not one part of standardized medicine was reading my hormones as the signals they were. The system is trained to medicate the symptom and wait. Nobody's taught hormone literacy — nor the deep intelligence of a woman's body and what it's actually saying.
So no, I'm not a special case. Just the opposite. If it happened to me — with my access and resources — it's happening quietly, every single day, to women who've been told their labs are "normal" and their symptoms are just age.
I share this because I was doing everything the culture calls "right" for a modern woman, and the road to 'health' can still be a confusing path. Which is why after hitting such a serious health low at 47, I finally decided to focus on defining...
What health really means to me as a woman.
A lot of my learning—becoming nationally board-certified, functional-medicine-trained, and combining 30 years of experience in healthcare and fitness, including the season of my own life that conventional medicine missed entirely: menopause — came through the hundreds of women from across the country who found me through word-of-mouth referrals.
I applied the science I was learning and focused on building frameworks like The Signal Edit™—teaching hundreds of women to look beyond standardized labs, regulate their nervous system, balance their hormones, resolve chronic health conditions, feel and function better in their bodies. This is the work I call hormone literacy: the deep intelligence of a woman's body, finally read, finally listened to instead of silenced. The more I learned and witnessed about women's health, the more I saw how crazy it is for us to ignore our hormones, ignore our differences in physiology, and try to shove ourselves into a box that works for men.
And now in my mid-50s, when the world is screaming at me about the horrors of perimenopause and postmenopause — I am in the best shape – mentally, physically, and spiritually – that I've ever been. That's what happens when a woman finally focuses on her hormone health. Everything gets better. My energy, my focus, my mood, my body composition, my libido, my marriage, my family, my friendships, my work — not one thing improved. Everything did!
Getting You Functional Answers
If you're here, you've likely done everything asked of you — followed the advice, taken the prescription, waited for it to work. That's how standardized medicine is built: a reactionary model that medicates the symptom and waits for illness to fully surface.
It's like patching a leaky pipe with duct tape: the flow might stop for a while, but the underlying structure keeps failing, silently, until it breaks.
I work differently. I run the labs the doctor doesn't — and I read the patterns standardized medicine keeps missing. This is functional medicine: looking at the whole system, across six body systems — hormonal, immune, digestive, detoxification, energy, and nervous — to find what's actually driving how you feel and function. Not to hand you another protocol, but to teach you what your own data has been telling you all along.
Every plan is N-of-1 — built from your labs, your history, your strengths and challenges — because a woman's physiology was never going to fit inside a box designed for a man's. This is doable. It's sustainable. And it's yours: I'm not here to rescue you from your body. I'm here to teach you to read it — respect it — and act on it — so you don't need rescuing again from a system that wasn't designed for women's wellness.
An Education in Functional Medicine
When my own body collapsed, I discovered how little standardized medicine was equipped to explain it or change it. So I went and got the education that would. Not a weekend certificate, Board-certified, exam-based, medically accredited training on how a woman's body actually works and why it stops.
After completing an advanced certification program in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) and sitting for a rigorous certifying examination co-developed by the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), I began practicing nationwide— in person and via telehealth. Since March 2021, I've tested, interpreted, and refined my methodology with hundreds of high-achieving women (and a few men, too) who found me through other women's transformations, not an ad.
But I didn't stop at the acronyms. I learned early that teaching people the connection between what they consume and how they feel wasn't enough on its own — so I trained deeper, in the specific systems that break down when a woman lives for years in chronic-stress physiology. Every credential below was chosen to answer a question my clients' bodies were asking.
Board Certifications
- National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBHWC) — one of the first in the United States, accredited by the International Consortium for Health & Wellness Coaching and the National Board of Medical Examiners. Foundational training in Motivational Interviewing, Positive Psychology, and evidence-based behavior change.
- Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P) — trained to interpret 70+ functional lab tests and apply clinical nutrition, with advanced certification as a Functional Blood Chemistry Analyst: clinical mastery in reading blood chemistry as the body's signal panel.
- Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) — board certified through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP). An earned designation requiring verifiable formal training in integrative and natural health modalities, and a demonstrated commitment to professional standards and ethical practice within scope.
Professional Certifications
- Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC) — earned in the founding cohort of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, in collaboration with the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM). Adjunct faculty at FMCA for two years.
- Fast Like a Girl Certified Coach (FLAG) — first cohort trained under Dr. Mindy Pelz, in fasting's effect on female hormone balance.
- Professional Food Addiction Coach (PFAC) — a board-approved, trauma-informed program grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and functional medicine.
Advanced Clinical Training
- Certified Peptide Practitioner — trained in peptides as targeted molecular signal correction.
- Reversing Cognitive Decline — through FMCA in collaboration with Dr. Dale Bredesen, author of The End of Alzheimer's and founder of the ReCODE Protocol.
- Methylation & Clinical Nutrigenomics — with Dr. Ben Lynch at Seeking Health, on DNA, genetic predisposition, and how food and behavior influence gene expression.
- LEAP Therapist (Lifestyle, Eating & Performance) — identifying food sensitivities through testing and guiding clients to manage the findings.
Specialized Coursework
- Mastering Thyroid
- Mastering Functional Blood Chemistry
- Functional Endocrinology: Connecting New Research with Practical Applications
- The Gluten, Leaky Gut & Autoimmune Connection
- Dietary Supplement Specialist
- Group Fitness Instructor (ASFA)
Stay Close to Nature—Stay Far From Disease
My practice centers on Test, Don't Guess, and the idea that our bodies function best when in rhythm with nature. I'm a firm believer in the healing power of whole food, sunshine, and steps; I use them as my pharmacy first.
My Guiding Principles
I'm grounded by faith, not fear. Our bodies are remarkably intelligent, highly regenerative, and always working to support us without our conscious thought. The body's innate intelligence is always moving resources on our behalf every moment of every day, keeping us alive despite the chronic assault of our modern lifestyle. When we give the body what it needs and remove what it doesn’t, it will most often perform at a high level. I'm your advocate and am confident in my ability to help you help yourself.
On the Path of Better Health
Simplicity reigns supreme. Why complicate things when we can return to the timeless fundamentals of fasting, eating quality whole food, drinking clean water, regular movement, sunshine, good sleep hygiene, supplementation as needed, and friendship? Many of which are free. This is how we were designed to live, not in siloed sickness, but together in wellness.
My hope is that, regardless of your age, you'll choose to join me on this path of becoming one of the 6.8% of metabolically healthy women in America who feel, function, and look better as you age.
A few more things about Me:
I'm a wife
My Partner Joe
My ride-or-die person. My partner in life, love, and business. Thank you for always being in the front row, loving me as I am, and cheering me on. I love doing life with you!Â
I'm a mom
My Why
I'm healthier, more alive, and far wiser than I ever imagined I could be during the season of life called menopause.Â
By incorporating the principles and practices of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN), Fast Like a Girl (FLAG), Professional Food Addiction (PFAC), and Peptide Therapy into my life, I'm growing well, not old. Â
As I look out over the horizon, I'm incredibly grateful for the energy I have to give to the things that matter most to me: my family, friends, and community, and to raise awareness through a healthcare paradigm that teaches YOU just how powerful your body is, built to be.Â
I’m a grandma
My GrandchildrenÂ
The two who filled the space in my heart, I never knew was empty. You are the best reminders of innocence and love that Noni could have ever asked for. I love you to the moon and back!