Formal Qualifications

2022
Registered Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor AusActive Registration ID: 231590

2014
Graduate Diploma International Community Development

2012
Bachelor of Arts major in Anthropology

2010
Certificate III Fitness Gym Instructor
Certificate IV Fitness Personal Trainer

Additional qualifications

Current AusActive CEC’s
2025
Fundamental Mat Pilates
Intermediate Mat Pilates
Australian Institute of Fitness

Nutrition for the Health Professional
Australian College of Fitness & Bodywork

2025
HLTAID011 - Provide First Aid HLTAID010 - Provide basic emergency life support
HLTAID009 - Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation

2022
Core & Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga Trinity Continuing Education

2019
Mindfulness Teacher Training
Mindfulness in Australia

Teaching, Tech and Fitness

The next 5 years of my career were based in Asia, where I taught kindergarden and elementary school English while training as a spin instructor and launching my fitness brand AFIT Taipei (you can’t make this up!) It was a wonderful period where I tested my ability to coach and inspire both adults and children, and achieve outcomes within communities across language barriers.

I still revert back to these learnings as a kindy teacher to this day with my toddler, and the realisation that as adults, we really aren’t that much different.

After coaching group fitness and working as a Personal Trainer, I stumbled into the tech industry which heralded my transition in to the world of start-ups and scale-ups in the Asia Pacific. I worked as an SEO marketing specialist, then Project Manager, launching some incredible web applications to a global market. It was fast paced, well paid, and I met some incredible people who still to this day I think of as family.

The next few years were all about learning, and I had found my niche in being a marketing contractor in the tech industry. With every new role I would learn a new tech stack, new ways of working, with a whole new cohort of people, management styles, values and processes. Every three, six, nine or twelve months of my life is completely new. And yet, in amongst the ebbs and flows, there was always two things that remained unchanged and unshakable: my yoga practice and my connection to nature.

Life on and off the mat

I returned home to Australia in 2018 to complete a Project Management contract in Noosa, managing a small team of developers and designers for the websites of boutique hotels in the area. After the contract ended, I had a friend say they were heading to Brisbane, so without any other job prospects in Noosa, I packed my things and went to Brisbane. I worked in Paddington at the F45 for a few months over summer while the owners of the business were away on holidays, and while I planned my next steps.

I would sit in the innovation lab overlooking the Brisbane river, using their free MacBook computers that contained every possible creative software you could imagine. I designed the wireframe for a new app while applying for full-time work. I’ve always loved job applications. I like the idea of casting a net out and seeing what comes back. I love getting interviewed too, and looking into the lives and worlds of others, assessing their business needs but reading between the lines on what the business really needs, and who they need.

I had several interviews and was about to sign on a new role as a Project Manager for yet another tech company, when I started to feel sick to my stomach. There was something wrong. I had been here before, and the thought of going back down this path again made me queasy. I couldn’t do it. Something else had to be done first.

Call it a great retargeting budget or call it fate, but I was presented with an opportunity to study an MBA at the Australian School of Management at UNSW Sydney. So I applied. An interview with the head of school two days later and I got it- a Women in Leadership Scholarship to do my MBA in Sydney. It must have been a sign that times were changing. I booked a one way flight with my last remaining savings and flew to Sydney that week. This move has been my biggest regret to date, but I have learned in a few short years that there is always a reason for the challenges we face and that reason may not be so obvious.

In sickness and in health

Having completed post-grad qualifications before, I had wrongly assumed that MBA was full-time- meaning 2-3 days on site, if I chose. I hadn’t realised that it was Monday - Friday 9-5pm full time for a year and a half. I made the calculations of salary loss, travel time and HECS fees and realised even with my scholarship I was running at about a 250k loss, for a possible 30k salary increase, let alone the HECS indexing over time. I realised quickly that I didn’t need an MBA to figure out that it wasn’t worth the sunk cost, so after the first month of my MBA, I took a leave of absence and lost my scholarship. It was a hard call, but it had to be done.

In that first four weeks of my MBA one thing did happen of note. I met my now husband and we fell madly in love, in what became the most tumultuous yet fulfilling years of my life.

I moved to Wollongong, south of Sydney NSW, amd took on some incredible casual roles completely unrelated to my marketing career that threw me into the not for profit, education and public sector, finishing up in yet another marketing role for Australia’s oldest charity.

In the midst of the craziness and confusion of COVID-19, I started a project to build a community garden in my town called SPEC NSW INC. aka Stanwell Park Eco Centre.

I took on an incredible 15+ strong volunteer team to make this dream a reality, learned all about Development Applications and Incorporated Associations, and, after investing a fair amount of personal capital and two years of my time and receiving investor funding for this and additional sites, the project fell apart. I couldn’t do it all on my own, and had to let it go. I failed. Again.

The calm before the calm

I decided to go back to full-time work in tech, working remotely from my beachside town while I saved up to buy my first Investment Property. In 2022, I married that wonderful man I met on the MBA, an ex-special forces soldier and would-be entrepreneur, who now owns the successful PAST Outdoors. I also bought my first investment property and became a property investor, almost overnight.

Simultaneously I was working for a scale-up based in Sydney, and found myself pregnant with my baby girl. Upon returning from maternity leave, the company I worked for decided to change policies and do me over on holding my full-time position open. It was a hard blow, a week before xmas, with a newborn baby, a home loan on my own and no income.

Fast forward a couple of years to 2025 and I now work for my husband at PAST Outdoors as Head of Marketing & Communications, where we get to kit out hikers, campers and travellers across the globe on their outdoor adventures. Its the absolute best, knowing that we’re getting people out into the beauty of nature, and making sure they stay safe out there. We have some major projects coming up so watch this space!

If you’re still here, you’re now asking yourself, with so much learning, movement and challenge, how does one even manage to function at all? How did you do it all, and still invest in property, maintain a relationship and start a family?

Simple answer.

I always come back to my health and fitness.

By grounding down and drawing on yoga and meditation practices, I find stability in the uncertainty, right now.

By having set fitness goals, planning, delivering and executing on those goals in small and meaningful ways, I gain traction in my life, today.

By recognising I have a choice to choose the next moments of my life, I snap out of my fight-or-flight response and realise that actually, everything is ok.

We are all ok, in the here and now.

Want to learn how to create a sense of stability and calm in your life in amongst the chaos?

Join us today.