About Me

Hey there, I'm Rachel.

I built a business around joy - and I still lost mine at 4pm every day.

I have two master's degrees. A background in fitness, behavior change, and performance. I checked every box people tell you will make you feel good. And I was still running on endurance instead of energy, still white-knuckling through my own Tuesdays, still waiting for the moment I'd finally arrive somewhere and feel it.

Then everything changed. Five years sober. Fifty pounds released - not chased, released. And at 54, finding the love of my life, in a season I'd been told was supposed to be about slowing down, not starting over.

None of that happened because I found more discipline. It happened because I stopped treating joy like a reward I'd earn someday and started treating it like a strategy I could build today.

That's the difference I talk about now. Not positivity. Not hustle dressed up in nicer language. An actual, practical, neuroscience-backed way of operating that changes how you think, decide, connect, and lead - starting with the real, busy, complicated day you're already in.

If this sounds familiar, you're exactly who I built this for.

You're successful by every external measure. You're also quietly exhausted. You know the concepts - you've probably taught them to other people. But joy hasn't become a practice yet, and some days it feels like something might be wrong with you for that. It isn't. Nobody ever showed you the mechanism underneath it. That's what I do.

What I do now

I'm the author of Joy Is the Strategy and the creator of the ENJOY Method - a framework for making joy a daily practice, not a personality trait. I host the Joy Unfiltered podcast, where I have unfiltered conversations about what it actually takes to choose joy on the days it doesn't come easily. And I speak - to executive teams, leadership conferences, and rooms full of people ready to stop running on empty.

I'm not a coach. I'm not selling you a 12-step transformation. I'm the person who's been exactly where you are, found the mechanism, and now spends my life handing it to anyone ready to use it.

Joy isn't the reward for a life well-lived. It's the strategy that builds one.