Throughout my life, I have been an active, energetic person. My family has always valued health and wellness. With my mom being a bodybuilder and my father, a gym rat, it was easy for me to mimic the lifestyle.

From a young age I was either snowskiing, playing sports, wakeboarding, wakesurfing, longboarding, hiking, etc while my parents were providing healthy meals on the table. Little did I know, this was the forming foundation to my greatest passion.

With the social pressures in high school and while also being naturally very thin, I began to experience body image insecurity. I was unhappy with my physique and I wanted to change it.

That is when I discovered the world of weightlifting through the lens of social media.

I saw women who were strong and built due to their hard-earned muscle. I saw women who had self-discipline and drive. I saw woman who put in the work and got to reap their results.

Almost instantaneously I realized, that was who I wanted to be - badly.

From that point forward I began to learn about weightlifting and the strategy behind muscle building. I watched videos on Instagram and Youtube as well as researched articles online.

I. Was. Hooked.

It was the first time in my life that I felt true passion and a undying need to not only work towards a goal - but achieve it.

April 2017 is when I finally came to terms with the fact that I could not contain this obsession within me any longer. I decided to follow in the footsteps of all the inspiring women I followed on Instagram and launch my very own page, called Livfiit.

I started then and I never stopped. I carried this new found passion with me into college at Penn State University. Freshman year I learned how to balance a college workload, a training routine, and healthy eating decisions in the dining hall.

In February of my freshman year of college, I realized personal research did not satisfy my cravings for learning more. I decided to take my passionate hobby to the next level by earning some credentials.

There, I started my journey towards becoming an ACE Certified Personal Trainer at 18 years old and later became officially certified at 19.