About Me

Education: Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University
Certifications: AAPTE, Resistance Training Specialist-1, Resistance Training Specialist-Mastery

This might be a long winded version of my background, but I feel it’s important to share a glimpse of the journey thats brought me here today.

My mom always told me that she was convinced I was a boy during her pregnancy—a baby that just wouldn’t quit moving and kicking. My earliest memories involve some sort of activity, soccer, basketball, softball, volleyball, and cheerleading (major fail); but as soon as a soccer ball touched my foot, it marked my life forever.

I played soccer through grade school, high-school, and college. I was in 5th grade when I asked my mom to play in a competitive league, but at the time my area didn’t have a girls team, so I asked to play on the boys team. This took a lot of conversations between adults, but I made it! I made my mini mark as the only girl in the boys league until I finally found a girls league 2 years later. I was convinced I was on my way to the big leagues now: the USWNT. I didn’t really understand my level of delusion at the moment, but I was deeply convinced. Life had other plans for me regardless, and after years of a life consumed by soccer games, soccer practice, and team dinners, a severe ankle injury forced me out of my dreams during the height of college recruitment season. So, Now what? ……. What do I do? ……. Who am I if not a soccer player? Who am I without this thing that molded me, guided me, held my hand through life?

I honestly had no answers to any of those questions. All I knew was that I needed to move. I remember walking into the gym for the first time in my life feeling scared. Intimidated. Nervous. Big dudes all around the gym floor. Dudes everywhere. My nerves swelled. But then I thought, “Wait… you’ve done this before!”

I fell in love with the weight room. It was a newfound challenge for me, transitioning from a team-oriented sport to an individual activity that entirely relied on me. I fell in love with the mental and physical challenge. I fell in love with feeling strong, and soon enough I fell in love with looking strong.

Like anything that lights a fire within me, I dove in head first and soon enough found myself deep into the rabbit holes of the biomechanics, physics, and anatomy that drives movement in the gym. I had opened pandoras box and I was fascinated. I made it a mission to understand these topics inside and out with the initial mission of optimizing my own training and understanding my body more, and I did. After hundreds of hours of seminars and several in-person clinics I felt like I had gotten to a point where I knew my body inside-out and understood its several nuances.

But this just didn’t cut it for me. I really wanted to help people. I wanted to take everything I learned and help someone walk through their journey. Explore their needs, their body, their nuances. Ultimately I wanted to make their fitness journey just a little bit less scary and be a steadfast guide through a space that can be intimidating.

I really love the nerdy science behind it all. But ultimately, it’s all a refined set of tools for me to help people feel good and live healthier lives in the safest way possible for them. I’ve spent several years in the product management space within corporate , and if it taught me one thing, its how to put your customers at the forefront of everything you do — how to drive value. My goal is to flood my clients with value, teach them how to live a sustainably healthy lifestyle, help them reach their fitness goals, and paint some smiles along the way. If that sounds like you, I’m glad you’re here.

Yours Truly,

Ashley (Trainer, Athlete, Entrepreneur, and most importantly, mom of two mini schnauzers)