I hold two credentials most coaches don't, and I use both on every client.

When I was 13, my mom Sharina was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It scared me. But what scared me more was watching her sit across from doctors and dietitians who had no idea how to help her. We're Fijian. We don't eat a standard American diet. The generic advice had nothing to do with our food, our culture, or our table. She left those appointments with pamphlets that didn't speak to her life.

So I started researching on my own. At 13. I learned enough to actually help her manage her blood sugar, and over time, she got it under control. That experience planted something in me that never left: the belief that nutrition advice is only useful if it fits the actual person receiving it.

Around the same time, I was competing as an elite high school distance runner, a 4:36 mile, 10:12 in the 3200, 15:58 in cross country. The variable that moved the needle most wasn't another workout. It was food. A whole-food diet built around protein, fiber, and micronutrients changed how I felt, how I recovered, and how I competed. I realized nutrition wasn't just medicine, it was performance.

Those two experiences became one career. I earned my B.S. in Nutrition at CSU Chico, my M.S. in Biokinesiology from USC, my CSCS, and completed my dietetic internship at Cedars-Sinai, which has been named to the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll for 11 consecutive years.

Then I started working with a specific kind of person: high achievers who had built remarkable careers and lives, but could never quite crack the code on their health. People who trained six days a week and still didn't have the body they wanted. People whose labs told a different story than they expected. People who had tried everything, and were tired of things that didn't fit their life.

That's who I built this practice for. And that's the puzzle I solve.