It used to feel like a race car covered in commercials with no pit stops.
This is the most honest way I can describe what my life was like in 2015. I was a full-time YouTuber and I made three videos a week. I taught in person all over Boston. I was coaching individual clients, creating my own programming, running my own marketing, chasing brand deals and going on sponsor trips.
From the outside, it probably looked like I had it figured out. Inside, I was quietly burning and began to wonder if this was really sustainable.
Sponsorship income was unpredictable. I tried to build my own fitness app and program — and I hit a wall. There was too much to do on my own, and I didn’t have the infrastructure or support to do it. My YouTube income had increased while I had taken a step back to raise my boys. I loved what I was doing, but I didn’t have a plan. I started to let it go after my first son was born in 2016 and I was convinced that I would be okay to just let my offers and income slowly die out…
Then it was January 2019.
Connor, my second son, was six months old and I was breastfeeding. I wanted to lose the last 10 pounds of baby weight. Someone introduced me to the FAST way to lose fat and I decided to give it a try.
My first reaction was real surprise. The training schedule was virtually identical to what I had been planning for my personal training clients for years. I immediately recognized it as solid, well-documented work. This caught my attention.
Then I started to feel the results. I was eating more food than I had in years. I was working out less than I had in years — and I was seeing better changes in my body than when I was dragging myself to hour-long HIIT classes five times a week across town. The nutritional approach was really new to me and an eye opener. Macros, carb cycling, intermittent fasting — done in a way that actually made sense for a real life with kids and a job and zero time for perfection.
I felt the call to share it with my audience. Not as a sponsorship. Not as a branding deal. Because it worked and I knew it would work for them too. My goal is and always has been to empower women to feel better and NOT be at war with their bodies!
I was eating more and exercising less and seeing better results than when I was killing myself with one hour classes five times a week.
The hesitations were real.
I want to be honest about the fears I had before saying yes to coaching, because I believe many women in similar positions feel exactly the same things.
My first hesitation was selfishness, if I’m honest. I had tried to make my own program and it didn’t work. Joining someone else’s platform was like admitting defeat. Like I was giving up my own stuff.
My second hesitation was my audience. I knew some people would see the word “coach” and immediately think MLM. I wasn’t going to pretend that concern didn’t exist. I knew I would have to be transparent, explain the model clearly and let my results speak for themselves. It felt like a lot of work more than anything else.
My third hesitation was time. I was already overwhelmed. What if this just added another layer to the mess instead of simplifying anything?
What pushed me over the edge was math. The committee structure was really generous. I ran the numbers and figured if I could sign up 20 customers in my first round, I’d make my investment back. This felt doable.
My first round: 70 customers.
Not 20. Seventy.
I couldn’t believe it. My audience trusted me. I’ve been watched for years. They knew I would never suggest something I hadn’t checked and personally believed. When I shared my results and explained why I was excited about this program, they showed up.
That first round told me everything I needed to know. This was no side project. This was a real business.
What is the business really like now?
I want to talk about money here because I think it matters, and I think it’s important to be specific if I’m going to encourage anyone else to consider this path.
Before FASter Way, I was grossing between $8,000 and $10,000 a month (I still had to pay taxes, contractors, expenses from it) from a combination of YouTube ad revenue, website ads, and brand sponsorships. Some months were great. Some months were impossible. I never really knew what was coming next. Everything was noticeable from month to month.
Over the past two years, FASter Way gross income has often been over $30,000 per month (again, this is gross and before taxes and does not take into account contractor payments or business expenses). This includes my VIP community that generates recurring revenue every month — even in months when I’m not actively racing a lap. I still do collaborations with brands because I enjoy them and they really align with what I teach. But I don’t rely on them. This change has changed everything about how I appear in my business.
I went from $8,000 to $10,000 a month in windfall sponsorships to over $30,000 a month in FASTER Way income alone. And I have recurring income now, even when I take time off.
But here’s what I care about more than money.
I am a mother of three children. Tommy, Connor and El. I’m there when they get home from school. I take the summers with them. Going on vacation without my laptop running all the time. I take sick days when needed. I work full time — real, hard, full time — but I do it from home, on my schedule, around my family.
That was always the dream. I just had no idea that the road to get there would look like this.
I was the person who was everywhere all the time, producing content non-stop, burning off energy I didn’t have, running on fumes and brand trips and the fear that if I slowed down everything would fall apart. Now I feel like I’ve built something that can be sustained even when life gets tough. This is the thing that never got me any sponsorship deal.
What I wish someone had told me before I said yes.
You don’t have to build everything from scratch alone.
I tried it. I almost broke myself trying this. I thought that making my own app, my own program, my own everything was the only way to be taken seriously as a professional. What I didn’t realize was that the infrastructure was the hard part — and FASter Way had already built it. The workouts, the nutrition framework, the app, the community, the support system. Everything was already there. My job was to show up, build relationships and coach the women who needed me.
If you love wellness, fitness and nutrition, but sit in a gym and get paid what a gym will pay you — or have unpredictable content revenue and wonder when the next brand deal will come — there’s another way. This company will teach you how to run and grow a real business. You just have to be willing to let yourself do it all.
I am hosting a live certification event on March 19th for women who want to learn more about becoming FASter Way Coaches. Whether you’re a former client looking to help other women achieve these results, or a fitness professional looking for a better system, I’d love to see you there.
Ready to learn more about becoming a FASter Way Coach?
We are hosting a live certification event on March 19, 2026. This is for women who have loved their results and want to help others, and for fitness professionals who want a proven, modern training system.
I said yes in January 2019 while nursing my baby and wondering if my YouTube career was over. I had no idea what was coming. I’m so glad I took the leap. Sign up and get more details here.
