From Wellness Coach to Working Actress: The Plot Twist I Didn’t See Coming

Somewhere between the matcha, the mom life, and the morning school drop-offs, I realized something big: I didn’t want to coach anymore. I wanted to create.

Living my rom-com era in real life. From matcha to scripts, and finally back in my zone!

After years of working as a certified holistic nutritionist and wellness coach, I hit a wall. I was burnt out from trying to be everyone's accountability partner, everyone's source of motivation. And truthfully? I missed being a storyteller. I missed the stage. I missed me.

I was an actor long before I was ever a coach. It was my first love—the thing I did organically as a child, what I studied at Tisch, my first career, and what I had to let go of when life got louder, messier, and more demanding. I had a major health scare and then I met my husband, moved to San Diego and became a mom. I built my wellness business online as I raised my babies.  It was the reason I started my Instagram account, it gave me the opportunity to work from home and be creative.  I wasn't my dream, but I was good at it, I was helping people and it was fun...until it wasn't.  

As my business grew, and my Instagram grew, and my children grew, I started to get opportunities to work with brands and create content. Then during the pandemic, the entertainment industry in L.A. shifted and auditions moved from in person to online. Living in San Diego was no longer holding me back from the acting career that I had put on hold. And after a decade of thinking that this season of my life, motherhood, had to exist without me working as an actor, I saw my dream come back into frame.

In 2021, I started saying yes again. Yes to auditions. Yes to scripts. Yes to making Reels that made people laugh. Yes to showing up in my fullest expression—even if it didn’t fit the neat "wellness expert" box.

Now, in 2024, I’m filming UGC campaigns, acting in commercials, creating content I love, and finally living the life that feels aligned with who I truly am: a working actress, content creator, and rom-com mom who is all about matcha, movement, and main character energy.

I’m not abandoning wellness. It’s still woven into how I live. But I’m not just wellness. I’m not just a mom. I’m not justanything. And neither are you.

This new season of my life feels like the comeback montage in every good romantic comedy—the part where she figures it out, gets back on stage, and starts shining again.

If you’ve ever felt like you had to give up on the thing you loved... let me be proof that you don’t. You can rewrite your story. You can come back to yourself. And it might just be better than you imagined.

This is my rom-com era. And I’m just getting started.

Xo,

Meg