Over the past fourteen years I've worked with entrepreneurs, executives, creatives, and professionals navigating moments of growth, pressure, and reinvention. Inside a Chinese medicine practice — with people at the crossroads, the burnout, the moment when what got them here stops being enough.
I was doing this work long before I called it coaching. The name changed. The work didn't.
I studied how humans operate before I ever studied medicine. My undergraduate degree is in cultural anthropology — the formal study of human behavior, patterns, and meaning-making across cultures. I then spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Grenada. I've lived in Spain, Taiwan, Mexico, and grew up in Mendocino. That breadth isn't incidental. It's the reason I see what I see.
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Design & interiors
I ran my own commercial interior design business — working with clients who understood that how a space feels shapes everything that happens inside it. That instinct for environment, context, and the way physical surroundings influence human behavior never left me. It lives in everything I do.
02
Mexico & reinvention
I moved to Mexico alone with my daughter and built a life there from nothing. Then came Chinese medicine school — and once I started my practice, something I developed for patients became a product line. It found its way to Violet Grey first, one of the hardest stores in the US to get into. From there it grew into stores across the US, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. I ran it for ten years alongside my practice, with clinics in both New Mexico and Mexico City for three of them. All of it at once. All of it solo.
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14 years in practice
The burnout was mine too. The nervous system meltdown. The endoscopy that confirmed it. I'm a doctor of Chinese medicine and it still happened — because knowing something and living it are two different things.
I had built practices in New Mexico and Mexico City, was running a product line across six countries, raising my daughter alone. From the outside it looked like momentum. From the inside something was quietly fracturing. The body keeps an honest ledger even when the mind is very good at overriding it.
What came out of it was simple and not easy: I learned to honestly listen to myself at a deeper level. To recalibrate when needed. To push when needed. To tell the difference between the two — which is harder than it sounds when you've spent years overriding your own signals in service of everything and everyone else. That capacity is what I bring into every session. Not as advice. As a lived practice that I return to every day.
I'll help you think through strategy and find a clear path forward. And I'll ask the questions most coaches skip: How are you sleeping? What's your energy actually like? Where is something quietly out of balance?
Not as a wellness coach. But because I've learned — in my own life and in 14 years of practice — that you cannot sustain performance when the foundation is cracked.
When you can see your situation clearly, the right moves become obvious. That's what we're working toward.
Has appeared in
Vogue
Town & Country
Forbes
Elle France
Elle Mexico
Doré
"Real leadership — the kind that lasts — comes from knowing yourself clearly enough to act from that place instead of from pressure."
High performance isn't about working harder or achieving more. A true high performer is someone who is genuinely flourishing — in their energy, their relationships, their sense of meaning, their mental clarity, and their results. All of it together. That's what makes it sustainable. And that's exactly what this work is built around.
What clients say
In their own words.
Dr. Janine's approach exceeded all of my expectations. She is intuitive and supported the uncovering of a wisdom within me that sparked a new approach and vision for my work. Her background in design, healing, and launching an international product line provided unparalleled guidance. I cannot speak highly enough of this coach.
— Meghan Godin
Dr. Janine is an absolutely remarkable coach. Her skills are evident in every session. There have been moments where she helped me in ways I would not have thought possible.
— John Thompson
I work with people from
Finance
Real Estate
Design
Hospitality
Wellness
Entrepreneurship
Thinking on high performance & the life that sustains it.
Occasional writing on clarity, leadership, and what it actually takes to reach the next level — without losing yourself in the process.
Let's talk
A conversation is
a good place
to start.
Book a complimentary 30-minute call. We'll talk about where you are, what you're building toward, and whether this feels like the right fit — for both of us.
No pitch. No pressure. Just a real conversation. Most people leave with something useful.
