Hi! I'm Emilee Wilson - your new health & accountability coach. Here's a quick snapshot of my experience and education in all things health and fitness.

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• 16 years as a personal trainer / health coach

• BA Psychology & Human Services

• Mac Nutrition University Education

• ACE Personal Trainer

• ACE Group Fitness Instructor

• ACE Behavior Change Specialist

• BioMechanics Corrective Exercise Specialist

• Functional Aging Institute Trainer

• Tabata Bootcamp Instructor

• 400+ clients from 8 years to 82 years old (all fitness levels)

• One on one, group fitness, in-person, and virtual training

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Now if you really want to get to know me or you just want some FREE coaching - check out my podcast FIGHT LIKE HEALTH that was over 100 episodes centered around all things health and fitness (you can click the link or it's available on Spotify, Amazon Music, and iTunes).

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I cuss. Kinda a lot. I'm working on it (no improvement so far to be honest). 

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So all of that is some surface level "about me" but I'd love to share who I really am and what I really believe and teach to my clients. 

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I am a 36 year old mama to 3 boys (16, 9, 5) so we got every flavor, age, and stage of boy going on over here (and no I'm not okay). I am also in the Air National Guard where I serve as a First Sergeant (essentially I am also a mom to all my members and I absolutely love it!). I have been in the military for 14 years and my husband Adrian also serves alongside me in the Air National Guard - on the full time side he is a K9 handler for the Toledo Police Department. We live in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere Napoleon, OH surrounded (literally) by cornfields and blissful blissful silence. 

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I have been a coach since 2009 which is wild to say because I am just as passionate and love it just as much 16 years later. My own journey didn't begin because of some motivational, inspirational reason - it's actually rooted in one of the hardest points in my life and today I'm grateful for that because I feel like how imperfect my own journey has been has allowed me to show up for all of you a million times better and more authentically than if this thing was handed to me on a silver platter. 

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When I was 18 years old I enlisted in the Air National Guard. I was a senior in high school and had my whole life planned ahead of me. I was going to join the guard, get my cushy $20K bonus, come back from training, start college, and graduate debt free - then live happily ever after. 

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*record scratch*

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LOL - that did not happen. A month before I was supposed to leave for basic training, at 19 years old, I found out I was pregnant with my oldest son. I had always been in sports growing up but I certainly didn't know anything about actually being healthy. My pregnancy ended up being EXTREMELY unhealthy and I ate like absolute garbage (no way to sugar coat that - and if I did I'd probably eat that too). I gained a ton of weight and it actually led to me developing dangerously high blood pressure during my pregnancy. 

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This ultimately even led to me being emergency induced at 34 weeks - my brain and my liver were swelling and I was on the brink of seizing. I barely even remember having my son and it wasn't until 3 days later when I was fully awake and aware of what had even happened. I remember waking up in the hospital and people running into the room,"She's awake!" 

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It hit me like a ton of bricks. I missed it. 

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The first diaper change. 

The first bath. 

Being fully present and remembering every moment of my son entering this world. 

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I missed it. And he was immediately taken to the NICU which was mandatory for his gestational age. He thank God was a healthy baby, just small at 4lb 15oz. 

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I'd never felt so disappointed in myself. Ashamed. Sad. And I remember having my moment of looking at him the first day we were home from the hospital and saying,"I promise I will take care of myself and you for the rest of my life." 

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That began my own journey of getting into exercise - which I had no idea what the hell I was doing. Eating healthy - which again, NO CLUE. I can count on one hand how many times I saw my mom even cook growing up. 

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But I just slowly started figuring it out. REAL SLOW. And I became the strongest, healthiest I had ever been in my life. And then people around me saw me progressing and started to ask me to help them do it too - and I did. And I loved it. 

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Sounds like happily ever after right?

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At 21 I went through a divorce from my son's father who was my high school sweetheart. He'd joined the Marine Corps and we moved to North Carolina. When that didn't work out, I found myself packing me and my son into a rental car and coming back home to ... nothing. I had no job, no car, no place of my own to live in. 

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So I came home and the next day I had 2 jobs and had enrolled in college full time. I was determined to give my son the life he deserved. 

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What this led to was my UNHEALTHY relationship with exercise and food. 

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I can't describe how big of a failure I felt like. I felt like all I had to offer this world was what I looked like and it was the only thing that would make someone else care about me and see my value. 

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I became addicted to the gym and exercise. I became terrified of eating and gaining a single pound. 

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I lived in the mental hell of always feeling like there was more weight to lose, picking myself apart. Never feel good enough - even after reaching the goal I promised myself I'd be happy with. I always just moved the target. Because it wasn't about what I looked like - it was about my relationship with myself. 

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What changed?

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In 2013 my dad - who was the person I was closest to in this world - unexpectedly passed away for completely preventable health reasons at 56 years old. And my dad wasn't in the shape he was in because he was lazy, it was because he spent his entire life dedicating everything he did to everyone else. He never prioritized his health or himself. 

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It hit me like a ton of bricks - what the hell does it matter? What does it matter if I don't have abs or look a certain way or have some damn meat on my bones? 

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What matters is that I am HERE, ALIVE, HEALTHY, HAPPY - that I don't miss my kids weddings, and birthdays, and graduations.

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We are so much more than this shell. 

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Now - don't get me wrong here either. I'm all about making progress and all that jazz and being proud and hey, we're human at the end of the day. There's nothing wrong with having an aesthetic goal. But I know there's way too many of us who have put so much stake into weighing a certain amount or looking a certain way that we've completely gotten away from what actually, truly matters - which is living a high quality life. 

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After going through this I had to go on a long journey of diving into actual human habit, behavior, perception, and mindset research. How do you stop trying to "start Monday" and get out of what I call the Hampster Wheel of Hell which involves continuously restarting your journey and not being able to stick with it long-term. 

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And one of the keys to getting off the Hampster Wheel of Hell - is to stop trying to do it alone. We've really developed this mindset around being independent means being strong and not needing anyone and just being disciplined and blah blah blah. 

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Well, that's not how humans operate and thrive. We thrive in support, community, care. We thrive in someone else giving a shit about us. We thrive in having resources and education that's actually helpful and not just random people going on the internet. 

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That's why I made the Accountability Dome. I want this to be the place that I would have loved to of had on my own journey. I want this to be the place where you get to prioritize YOURSELF. The slogan here is,"The Life You Deserve." because it's so easy to forget that you do in fact DESERVE A HIGH QUALITY LIFE AND THAT MEANS WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAKE IT THAT. 

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If it's time, money, effort, energy - you DESERVE to pour those things into yourself. Don't miss the weddings, the graduations, the grandbabies. Don't spend time in doctor's offices and hospital rooms when you could be on beaches or hiking mountains. 

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But don't feel like you have to figure all that out on your own. 

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I really hope to learn about your story and how we can help you have it be a long, strong, healthy one. 

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Love, 

Coach Em 

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