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Hi. I’m Jess. You’re here! Yas!

I was invited to a Zen meditation sit on Rutgers University campus back in 2005, and I’ve been exploring mindfulness, healing, and human consciousness ever since. I live in Pacific Northwest, with Jersey roots. I’m passionate about authenticity and living into one’s full purpose in this lifetime, and so my mission is to help people do that within the realms of mindfulness, attachment healing, running sustainable businesses and cultivating holistic wellbeing. My background is fluid, diverse, and I’ve walked many paths these last (almost) 4 decades. From getting a Masters degree in cinema studies, to working for social impact ventures, to serving as a marketing and leadership professional for some of the best in personal development including Brendon Burchard, Jim Kwik and Oprah Winfrey Network, to serving as a Mindful Business Coach today for mindful client-centered service providers and entrepreneurs — I’ve developed a deep skill set to unify business/career sustainability with holistic wellbeing and mindfulness.

I live and breathe digital marketing (the wholesome kind). I love meditation circles and retreats. I savor family and friend time. I can make a killer sales page or email sequence. I absolutely love movies, dancing, and spiritual growth. I do this dance of life with my partner Julio, a masterful therapist and psychedelic educator, and our loud Bengal cat named Papa.

Now you know snippets of almost everything.

 
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More about my professional background…

I’m a Unified Mindfulness Certified Trainer + Coach, and identify as a Mindful Business Coach. My mission is to help you live your life and fulfill your mission, fully resourced with the most effective systems, strategies and resilience.

  • I’m founder of The Mindful Nest, a community and training institute designed to help impact makers and innovators run their ventures with sustainability, longevity and high impact.

  • I have digital marketing and product experience in the personal development client-centered service world - from the start-up level all the way to 6 to 9 figure revenue businesses. I’ve worked in-house with powerhouses like Brendon Burchard, Jim Kwik, Commune, Success Magazine, Oprah Winfrey Network, and Tony Horton, I bring forth a wealth of experience and tactical knowledge to support people in amplifying their message and supporting more people.

  • I’m co-founder of Being Resilient, organizational coaching for burnout prevention and leadership development, working inside organizations including Wieden+Kennedy.

  • I’m Editor-in-Chief of PersonalBrand.com, the go-to resource and service provider for thought leaders who are interested in packaging their knowledge and amplifying their message.

  • I’m co-founder of Recovery Dharma, a nonprofit and peer-led program using Buddhist practices and principles to heal the suffering of addiction.

 
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My origin story

My Experience with Mindfulness. I’ve been meditating for over 15 years, but found that my practice accelerated tremendously once I was introduced to Unified Mindfulness in 2011. I am a student of esteemed mindfulness teachers including Shinzen Young (founder of Unified Mindfulness system and author of The Science of Enlightenment) and George Haas (founder of Mettagroup).

My path of recovery and healing informs my mission as a coach today. Struggling with addiction and the pressures of grad school back in 2011, mindfulness meditation became my adaptive tool kit for emotional regulation. It became my true refuge, empowering me to equanimously navigate discomfort, the unknown, and finally lean into my life (instead of continue running away from pain and ultimately running away from myself).

Mindfulness and attachment repair has helped me shed unhealthy habits and develop new, supportive ways to live an aligned, authentic life. I also am a member of multiple recovery programs, and continue on the path of continuously refining my stone. I believe in the power of creating a Resilience Foundation — the tools, practices and perspectives to resiliently navigate the challenges and triumphs of life, and to pursue our highest vision courageously. My journey of building my OWN Resilience Foundation has inspired me to help fellow impact makers do the same (so that they can go after their DREAMS without stalling out).

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What it’s like now

I have RADICALLY CHANGED, and am a living testament to the power of personal development, attachment repair and mindfulness meditation as avenues for healing trauma, family system wounds and compulsive behaviors / addiction.

First off, I am an impact maker who takes big, courageous steps to support other people. I’ve learned how to ‘get out of my own way’, but not by getting rid of any parts of myself. It’s been a fully compassionate, inclusive path of healing that’s created space for me to be seen more, to lead more, to support more people and to fully engage the marketing and product principles I share with my clients.

Today, I have a kind, supportive relationship with myself, and nurture and cultivate her DAILY. I have beautiful, aligned, and meaningful relationships and support systems. I’ve earned secure attachment by embarking on a meditative, therapeutic and interpersonal healing journey. I chase my dreams with a fiery, loving sense of courage and devotion. I can emotionally regulate myself when fear arises, and accept that life isn’t going to feel flowing and easeful ALL the time. I have access to new levels of innovation and ideation that breathe life into my creative work, my passions, and that support my clients.

The methods and strategies I bring to my clients have directly changed my own life (and continue to do so). I’m a work in progress, and see the resources that I use and teach as lifelong tools for personal and professional development.

My mission today is to help you build the inner resource, courage and tap into powerful systems so that you can do ANYTHING (unapologetically). Your impact matters. Your calling matters. I love sharing this path with people who want to fully engage their lives and service, unburdened.

My focus is 3-tiered - Emotional Resilience, Mindset and Whole Life Systems, all culminating in your TRUEST, authentic exploration out in the world.

It’d be an honor to support you in unearthing your deep inner power, in an unparalleled intimate, compassionate and courageous coaching partnership. Our world needs you, now more than ever. May you be resilient as you show up for the call.

My Approach

This approach addresses my mindful business coaching and mindfulness
coaching programs and offerings at a high level.

 

Whole Life Systems range from personal to professional; mindfulness to business systems.

 

We are an aligned fit if…

 

You value a holistic approach to business, and are interested in tuning up your business systems, mindset, and heart.

Running a business (especially as a solopreneur) takes effort, resilience and SYSTEMS to be sustainable (not just energetics). The systems I teach are holistic, addressing your business and workflows, but also addressing mindset and emotions. Focusing on BOTH sides of this equation helps to decrease stall-out, burnout and allows for your impact work to feel aligned, congruent with your values, and joyful.

I offer mindfulness resources and live group practice sessions, to my clients which are designed to support you with emotional regulation, resourcing and resilience development on your path of personal and/or professional development. I’d say this is a CRUCIAL part of the entrepreneurial path.

These resources can include but are not limited to a meditation practice, spiritual tools and more. It’s normal to have imposter syndrome arise or the inner critic, of course! I will support you through the experience you’re having, with compassion, acceptance and unconditional support.

As a business coaching client, you’re a client-centered service provider in personal development, the healing arts or mindfulness industry.

As a business coach, I support client-centered service providers in personal development, including mindfulness coaches/teachers, spiritual teachers/trainers, life coaches, mental health professionals and people who specialize in the healing arts. But more than that, you’re interested in digital learning and digital marketing to support you in helping MORE people around the world. Many people come to me to expand their business beyond a brick-and-mortar. Many also come to me to set up their business to be virtual and/or in-person hybrid from the start.

If you’re interested in mindfulness meditation or coaching, you’re a human who’s interested in a science-inspired, attachment theory-infused approach to mindfulness.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, business owner, parent, full-time employee, or creative, you may love my mindfulness offerings and approach. I integrate Unified Mindfulness at the center of my approach, which is a science-inspired mindfulness system developed by Shinzen Young. It offers a systematic way to apply and practice mindfulness meditation and daily life practices, so that you can elevate your unique goals in life and address your unique challenges in a targeted way. I also integrate attachment theory into my approach to mindfulness, as I find this framework offers vital, effective resources for building inner resilience, courage, confidence and repairing inner wounds that can hold us back in our adult lives. I also bring in parts work, inspired by Internal Family Systems Method. I call on High performance strategies that help you tap into greater productivity, clarity, purpose, energy and connection.

You are ready to practice and implement strategies outside of our 1:1 and group sessions.

The strategies I share work if you use them. For example, the business strategies I share will require consistency and implementation from you, as well as iteration and optimization on an ongoing basis.

When it comes to mindfulness, this practice style requires consistency, formally as well as in daily life, in order to generate momentum for you.

That being said, I know that consistency is hard to to maintain, and that resistance, road blocks and friction may come up along the way. That’s why I’m here. As your coach, I’ve offer supportive containers designed to teach you strategies in support of navigating your growth edge in life and business, tap into accountability, and retain motivation (even when life gets busy or challenging). Your willingness to engage the process is KEY.

As a client-centered service provider, you offer inclusive programs and services and are NOT perpetuating systemic oppression of marginalized communities.

This is a core organizational value here at The Mindful Nest. I have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to homophobia, transphobia, racism and other types of systemic oppression. I will not work with anyone who perpetuates these aspects of oppression with their services.

If you run gendered programs that exclude transgender people from joining, this is an example of transphobic policies. This perpetuates transphobia, violence against trans people, and is not trauma-informed or inclusive.

Example: Men’s programs that exclude trans men. Women’s programs that exclude trans women.

We are a good fit if you’re down with inclusivity, and in facilitating truly trauma-informed spaces that support your clients in participating in inclusive spaces that are safe for all.

I have boundaries and parameters that inform whose businesses I support and what types of initiatives I help scale in impact and revenue. I choose not to support or scale healing arts initiatives that can cause harm, perpetuate systemic oppression or that role model this precedent in our industry. I share this in a way that honors my own values and priorities as an impact maker, and my awareness of the potential impact of my role in supporting my clients’ initiatives.

You care about your impact in the world.

Is your personal development rooted in making a greater impact in the world? What motivates you to grow and evolve?

With your business, are you passionate about your impact, and helping others? Is that your top priority? If so, we’re an aligned fit.

People with a ‘Get Rich Quick’ mentality are not a good fit for my programs. My approach is so much about building a solid ecosystem professionally, to hold sustainable scaling and growth efforts. This takes time, energy, resources, commitment and patience.

I will provide you with strategies that have supported me and my clients in getting results (revenue and impact), and that serve as industry standards. Your growth trajectory is dependent on factors outside of my control. You center your endeavors on the purpose driving you, the mission and message you carry (and not on making quick money).

You recognize that your growth (personally and professional) isn’t about you. It’s about the ripple effect beyond you.

I believe in the potential of our growth to make a significant impact on other people. I believe in refining our impact on the planet and in relationship, and know that mindfulness and personal development are key pillars in that collective process.

That’s why I’m committed to helping people fuse their personal development and collective responsibility on this planet in all my programs, from mindfulness to business: I do this by offering a combination of philosophies and methodologies that support people in unlocking their authenticity, while applying their self-clarity and growth toward supporting others, leading equanimously, healing their relationships, courageously facing their wounds and shadows, and addressing the most pressing issues of our time.

You’re curious.

Curiosity is the name of the game! Being curious, and having an open mind, is important as you embark on the path of growth, and your growth edge in business. This attitude will expand and develop over time, and give you access to unseen wisdom and opportunities. It’s a key pillar of mindfulness and is tremendously supportive as you adopt new ways of living and serving. Curiosity is also the balm to support when aversion or resistance arises along the way. My focus with all my clients is on establishing a mindfulness practice that cultivates this attentional quality (and the attentional skills of concentration, sensory clarity and equanimity), which are tremendously resourceful on the path of exploring new modalities, services, business systems and endeavors.

 

My stance on diversity, equity and inclusion

 
 

At The Mindful Nest, we’re committed to helping client-centered service providers make their greatest impact. Here at The Mindful Nest, we promise to champion diversity, build an inclusive culture, and do our part to create a more equitable world. To that end, we choose to work with people who align with inclusivity, and whose impact is not perpetuating systemic oppression.

We choose not to work with anyone whose impact perpetuates racisim, sexism, ableism, ageism, homophobia, transphobia or systemic oppression.

We can’t promise we’ll always get it right, but we’re committed to inclusivity and supporting business owners who stand with inclusivity, too.

Our commitment to equity and inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience is very important to us.

 

My clients report

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Spontaneous joy just shows up throughout the day, peppering life with a layer of sweetness that makes any mundane experience suddenly fascinating and sacred.

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Awareness and sensory clarity catapults to new levels, giving you MORE access to your life. Remember: When we have complete experiences (whether those experiences are challenging or joyful or somewhere in-between), we are cultivating GREATER CONTENTMENT. This is the power of equanimity, and can motivate us to practice with devotion.

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Creativity and spontaneous ideas bubble up, regularly. Thinking never felt so good. Expressing these insights and flow outwardly becomes a way of life. This leads to more authentic expression of your mission and values, the capacity to serve from the heart and connect more deeply with your audiences, communities, clients, friends and family, and so much more.

Let’s Explore Alignment

I invite you to first review my programs under Mindfulness and Business tabs on my website. After reviewing, please click below and apply for an Alignment Call to further explore ways that I can support you in achieving your goals. Thank you!