About Jenn
My own drive almost drowned me.
I'm Jenn Smukler: Board Certified Holistic Health Coach, speaker, and creator of the ALIVE Method. This is the whole story, told the way it actually happened.
About Jenn
I'm Jenn Smukler: Board Certified Holistic Health Coach, speaker, and creator of the ALIVE Method. This is the whole story, told the way it actually happened.
Stress isn't a wave. It's the undertow, pulling quietly until you're too far out to swim back. I know, because my own drive almost drowned me: leading teams, chasing every promotion, looking like I had it all figured out while inside I was running on empty. Two decades in corporate, Amex GBT and Blueground among them. I was the fixer, the one everyone counted on, nominated for performance awards while quietly drowning. I also stopped sleeping, stopped recognizing my own body, and lost the ability to make any decision without spiraling.
What I actually needed to learn, and now build my work around, is how to get calm enough in my own body to hear myself think. How to channel my disarming energy, which has fueled my entire life, to create the space and safety to help and elevate others. So I went back to school at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, became a certified Holistic Health Coach, and created the ALIVE Method.
Ambition and wellbeing belong together. I built the ALIVE Method to bring myself back. Now I share my strategies with individuals and organizations who want to keep chasing more and still have something left to give: somatic techniques, regulation skills, and practical tools that help high performers operate at their best, sustainably. Because regulation is what makes ambition sustainable.
In short
I help women who are used to holding everything together reconnect to themselves again. Many of the women I work with are the go to person at work, at home, and in their relationships: capable, caring, dependable, and deeply accustomed to putting everyone else's needs ahead of their own. Through holistic health, nervous system regulation, and identity based coaching, I help them create sustainable energy, reconnect to what they actually need, and get unstuck from patterns of constant overgiving and overfunctioning. Because success means very little if you no longer feel like yourself inside of it.
The path here
Corporate leadership
Leading teams and chasing every promotion, with Amex GBT and Blueground among them. The fixer, the one everyone counted on.
Back to school at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Certified as a Holistic Health Coach, after learning the hard way how to get calm enough in my own body to hear myself think.
The ALIVE Method
Five pillars: Anchor, Listen, Intentional Nourishment, Vitalize, and Energize. Built to bring myself back, then shared.
Coaching and speaking
Working with individuals and organizations who want to keep chasing more and still have something left to give.
Credentials
Certification
Board Certified Holistic Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Corporate background
20+ years in corporate hospitality, meetings and events, and travel sales leadership
Audience expertise
High achieving women, corporate teams, HR and people leaders, ERG programming
Based in
Hermosa Beach, CA. Available worldwide (I LOVE to travel!)