Hi, I’m Jules!
I am a former professional athlete turned brain-body educator.
For years, my world revolved around performance. As a pro athlete, I trained hard, competed harder, and built my identity around pushing limits. But that level of intensity came with a cost. Over the course of my athletic career, I experienced more than 20 concussions. Most were minor, from hard falls and collisions… and one completely changed my life.
That major concussion left me in a really difficult place. Colors were dull, sounds were muffled, my reaction time slowed, and my eyes stopped working together. It felt like I was living in a fog. For months, I struggled to feel like myself again. But during that time, I had the privilege of working with one of the best neurologists in the country, and it completely shifted my understanding of healing and neuroplasticity.
Ironically, the only thing that truly helped me recover was the very thing I’d spent my whole life doing: movement. Through exertion therapy and carefully guided training, I began to rewire my brain. I learned that when we safely challenge the brain and body together, we create powerful pathways for adaptation, healing, and growth. That experience became the foundation for everything I do today.
After retiring from professional sports, I pursued my curiosity in human health and performance from every angle. I earned a Master’s in Health Informatics, which gives me a unique skill set that directly supports my brain-body work:
Data-Driven Understanding of Health: My training allows me to analyze complex health data, understand patterns in physiology, behavior, and outcomes, and translate that into actionable insights. This is directly relevant to brain-body research, cognitive performance, and somatic health.
Bridging Research and Practice: Health Informatics teaches me to translate research into real-world interventions. I can use data to understand how practices like movement, cognitive exercises, and somatic therapies impact outcomes.
Systems Thinking: My background emphasizes understanding complex systems and workflow optimization. This is essential when designing scalable, evidence-informed brain-body programs for classrooms, therapy settings, or group training.
Interdisciplinary Credibility: While Health Informatics is not strictly neuroscience, it provides advanced training in evidence-based health science, the ability to analyze and interpret physiological and behavioral data, and the know-how to design and evaluate interventions scientifically. Combined with my self-study in neuroscience, somatic training, and lived experience as an athlete recovering from concussions, this gives me a solid foundation to develop safe and effective brain-body programs.
Along the way, I became a Certified Somatic Practitioner, deepening my understanding of nervous system regulation and mind-body healing. I’m also a dedicated self-student of neuroscience, continually exploring how movement, attention, and emotion shape brain plasticity and performance.
I am also a former graduate level instructor in the Health Informatics Master's program at a top university.
Today, I combine everything I’ve learned, from elite athletics and concussion recovery to advanced data science and somatic practice, to help others strengthen the brain-body connection in ways that are playful, practical, and deeply human.
My work is:
Inspired by neuroscience and lived experience
Grounded in health science, data, and somatic practice
Designed to help people move, think, and feel better