My Story
As a child, I lived in a world of wonder.
I painted on walls, filled journals with my emotions, and found freedom in self-expression. Creativity was how I made sense of the world. A gift I gave myself every day.
Years later, I followed a different kind of calling: the pursuit of knowledge. I earned my bachelor’s, then my master’s, and eventually a PhD in Community and Social Psychology. I pushed my mind to the edge of its capacity until my body finally intervened.
My body said:
Enough.
Then led me back home to movement, rhythm, and flow.
TRANSFORMATION isn’t just a word I use.
It’s how I live.
I lived in my head
From the early, overly heady ways I coached flexibility and pole dane on YouTube in 2019…
Now I live in my body
…to performing as a fully embodied artist at PoleCon in 2024.
I’ve moved through seasons of contraction and expansion. Grown a community of over 40,000 across my platforms, and taught creative movement to hundreds of people all over the world including clinicians, mothers, students, and change makers.
I’m a mother. A former academic. A lifelong explorer of beauty, freedom, and truth.
I live artistically in every moment. Poems blossom from my fingertips first thing in the morning. I’ll pause mid conversation to capture light through leaves. Always guided by breath, life. These practices inform strategies that I share with individuals and organizations, guiding people to lead from creativity.
“Before there were words, we spoke creativity.”
— Kristen Nichole, PhD