About Jennifer
Passionate about helping you
I don’t teach resilience from a textbook. I’ve lived it.
For almost two decades, I’ve dedicated my career to nutrition, fitness, wellness, healthcare, and helping people become stronger—but my own life has tested everything I thought I knew about the human body. I have fought my way back from weighing 285 pounds and losing more than 140 pounds, and later faced one of the greatest challenges of my life: a devastating spinal injury involving multiple lumbar disc herniations and severe nerve compression that dramatically changed my ability to walk and function. I chose to fight for my body. Without surgery, I used education, patience, corrective movement, progressive strength training, nutrition, and sheer determination to rehabilitate myself—one step at a time. Today, I strength train, swim, walk miles of beach and stand tall on my paddleboard again. Well Nest with Jenn-Audrey was built from that journey. I know what it feels like to lose strength, independence and confidence—and I know the extraordinary feeling of taking them back. I didn’t simply recover. I came back stronger than before.
Expertise and experience
Professional Qualifications
Education
Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition Science, providing a strong academic foundation in nutrition, health, and the relationship between lifestyle and overall wellness. Her education continues to shape her whole-person philosophy—recognizing that lasting wellness comes not from one isolated change, but from supporting the body through nutrition, movement, and sustainable healthy habits.
Certifications
Jennifer is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, The BioMechanics Method Corrective Exercise Specialist (TBMM-CES), and Certified Health & Wellness Coach. She also maintains current BLS, CPR, and AED certification. Together, these credentials allow her to combine personal training, corrective exercise, biomechanics, behavior change, and wellness coaching into a comprehensive approach tailored to the individual.
Experience
Jennifer brings years of diverse experience across personal training, nutrition, weight management, wellness coaching, healthcare, and wellness leadership. Her background includes personal training from 2009-2026, former YMCA Wellness Director, CEO of Changes Fitness & Nutrition wellness center, and directing a weight-management center. She has also worked alongside holistic and functional medicine practitioners in multidisciplinary environments encompassing functional medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic care, and physical therapy. This broad professional experience has given Jennifer a unique perspective on whole-person wellness and the opportunity to work with individuals of varying ages, abilities, health histories, and stages of their wellness journey.
Specializations
Jennifer specializes in functional strength, posture, balance, mobility, biomechanics, corrective exercise, healthy aging, and sustainable nutrition and wellness strategies. She has extensive experience working with adults over 50 and older adults, helping clients become stronger and more confident while addressing individual movement patterns, limitations, and goals. Her focus is not simply on how much someone can lift, but on helping the body move efficiently and building strength that translates into everyday life.
Approach
There is no one-size-fits-all path to wellness. Jennifer begins by looking at the whole person—how they move, how they nourish themselves, where they are today, and where they want to go. Training and wellness recommendations are individualized, progressive, and designed to meet people at their current ability level. The goal is to create realistic changes that can become part of life rather than another temporary program.
Values
Jennifer believes wellness should create freedom, confidence, strength, and a deeper connection to life—not restriction or perfection. Her philosophy is rooted in resilience, compassion, personal responsibility, and respect for each person's individual journey. She believes in nourishing the body, continuing to move through every season of life, spending time in nature, and finding the flow that makes life meaningful. Move • Nourish • Flow.