Hey there! I'm Anne, but most people call me Animal.

I'm a fitness and nutrition coach of 6 years and a party girl at heart. Give me a multi-day music festival (aka a step marathon with cuter outfits) and I'm in my element. Everything I do, every workout, every meal, every ritual, is so I can say YES to any opportunity that comes my way. I want to feel good on the dance floor all night long and still be up for the sunrise.

It wasn't always that way. I played sports growing up but was never really an athlete, more a jack of all trades, bouncing to a new one every year or two. I fell for diet culture as early as middle school, chasing every "Get Abs in 7 Days" plan I found in Seventeen magazine and I can still taste the Fiber One coffee cakes and 100-calorie snack packs of everything. Anyone else?

For most of my life I wasn't overweight, I was "skinny-fat": no muscle, soft, weak, and hating how I looked in everything I wore. That lack of confidence sent me looking for anything that made me feel good in my body, and for over a decade I found it on the other side of sober. "Party girl" became my identity. The problem with that kind of confidence is that it wears off the second the buzz does, and then you feel worse than before.

So I tried to find confidence by chasing skinny instead. Low carb, vegetarian, P90X, Beachbody, every 21-day challenge an influencer ever sold me... I never finished a single one.

Then, in my early 20s, I hired my first real coach and everything changed. I learned to fuel my body without obsessing over calories or rules. I stuck with a program for 4 weeks, then 8, then 12, and two years later I loved the process enough to make a career out of it. Slowly the drinking fell away too, because I'd finally found a version of feeling good that didn't come with a hangover.

I never stopped being the party girl. I just learned how to show up to the dance floor strong, fueled, and pain-free, with a body that can keep up with my spirit into my 30s and beyond.

I've had seasons of training hard six days a week and seasons where walking was the whole plan. I've built results through grad school, through starting a business while working full-time and raising a family, through heartache, injury, and illness, mine and my clients'.

What I've learned through all of it: a balanced, healthy, and FUN life isn't complicated once you get there the right way. Real discipline doesn't restrict you, it's what makes you free. And simply having a fit body was never the goal... it's the vehicle that gets you to everything you want to say YES to.

Now I eat and train according to whatever season I'm in, and I teach my clients to do the same.

My mission is simple: to empower women to build strength and confidence, and to live freely and authentically while creating positive generational health outcomes, with wellness education that's accessible and protocols that are actually simple, so more women become Built for YES!

If you're ready to ditch diet culture, start taking up space, and feel confident enough that you're always ready for anything, from the dance floor to the mountaintop, you're in the right place.

Down for anything. Fit for everything. Let's go.