World-Class Trainers + Mental Health Coaches

REAL Human was co-founded in 2014 by four health visionaries to create a full spectrum community for the mind, body and spirit. For 12 years, the team provided functional fitness + mental resilience at our Cincinnati gym and expanded beyond the green turf to online training, conference keynotes + workforce development within human-centered organizations.

She translated those scientific insights into real-time resilience training and has coached two NFL teams, four military branches, dozens of corporations, hundreds of health-conscious leaders, recovery peers and treatment professionals and thousands of other real humans just like us, looking to optimize their personal energy for more flow and less drag in life.

Jen doesn’t just coach real-time resilience, she lives it, having navigated stress-related burnout in a post-9/11 culture of constant go-go-go (collapse). Jen knows first-hand how chronic stress, concussion and trauma impacts the nervous system communication and presents physically with autoimmunity, chronic pain and burnout.

From her personal journey and professional work in the mental health, concussion and addiction communities, Jen educates how no amount of bootstrapping can sustainably reignite a nervous system after experiencing burnout. Even more, how continuous overriding the system may ‘work’ short-term, but long-term, only creates faster pathways to burnout.

Jen committed to training, research and application for nervous system regulation and capacity restoration by bridging the science and lived experience to make nervous system education practical, accessible and actionable.

In 2016, she developed and tested the Self Care and Resilience™ program, a holistic stress management and nervous system resilience program that reduces perceived stress, improves coping skills, establishes energetic boundaries and alleviates compassion fatigue. This collaborative work is featured across local and national news outlets, the data outcomes presented at the American Academy of Health Behavior and International Society of Traumatic Stress and training facilitated around the globe.

As a sought-after international resilience coach, speaker and facilitator, Jen brings warmth, humor, and depth to conversations about trauma-informed care, burnout prevention and posttraumatic growth. She finds full-circle meaning supporting military reintegration, justice-involved humans, trauma-informed care in corporations, somatic restoration and youth empowerment work across the country.

Jen is committed to rehumanizing our society through state grants like Hey, I’m Here Ohio, a diverse youth-led movement on a mission to grow resilience within youth. As a certified peer support specialist, Jen believes in the power of peer support and is an ally to youth advocates, veterans in transition, and a capacity trainer for community health leaders across the prevention, recovery and treatment continuum. Jen’s motto is to serve those that serve others and guides space holders to hold trauma-informed spaces and embody the skills needed to lead, connect, engage all voices to create sustainable change.

Overall, Jen is deeply committed to building systems of care where nervous system literacy and whole human health are the norms, not the exceptions. She holds the steady belief that when we manage our personal energy, we increase sustainability for ourselves, for our communities and for our planet.

For her own restoration, you will find Jen camping with her family, hiking + biking the trails, kayaking local rivers, backyard gardening, nerding-out on emerging science, sport-balling (coaching, playing and spectating) and crafting seasonal projects.