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Leadership In The Making

Leadership is not a title merely acquired or something one steps into once; rather, it’s a capacity that is cultivated. It is something that’s refined over time where each season layers new insight onto lived experience. Jamie was not born into leadership in one single moment. She has shaped hers through service, mentorship, team dynamics, adversity, curiosity, and conscious self-development.

What began as a willingness to volunteer evolved into directing large-scale community programs. Learning from mentors became mentoring others.

And what first appeared as personal ambition matured into a deep commitment to empowering people and building environments where others can thrive.

This section traces the formative arc. The environments, influences, risks, and responsibilities that shaped Jamie into a thoughtful, strategic, and service-centered leader.

Mastermind & Mentors

There are only so many lived experiences any one person can have in a lifetime – but why let that stop one from learning abundantly more through the experiences of others. Books, coaches, and teachers have brought a wealth of sapience to Jamie’s repertoire, but it was when she began engaging passionate mentors that her knowledge and acuity truly compounded.

Partaking in all that VSU SIFE had to offer, Jamie received dedicated guidance on matters of career and leadership. Learning through the wins, losses, and break-evens of her mentor, she developed steadiness in uncertain circumstances and the confidence to aim high even in new territory.

Wisdom takes on its own life as it’s shared from one source to become another’s. The lessons imparted on Jamie while learning to mobilize a community to take action greatly influenced how she developed and managed teams. Building upon what she learned and shaping wisdom for varied application, Jamie discovered the pride of her career: inspiring and empowering people.

Mentors need mentors too. Recognizing personal evolution to come, Jamie hired a mentor for the first time. A dynamic and devoted space accelerated her growth. Personalized lessons opened up expansive possibility which encouraging Jamie to walk in new, unexpected directions.

Ready for an even more immersive development, Jamie joined a mastermind of entrepreneurs and thought leaders. This full year commitment evoked exceptional creativity and sharpened how she approach a multi-passionate career. Exploring additional masterminds of varying formats offered well rounded exposure to what’s out there and cultivated her

Professional Development

The earliest influence of leadership principles Jamie experienced was on the field with her teammates. Nuances between individual needs and team needs would prove to be an intricate balance as she advanced in her career.

Her participation in VSU LCOBA Book Review exposed her to some of the greatest business minds and leadership approaches authored. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Who Moved My Cheese, Rich Dad Poor Dad, How to Win Friends & Influence People, and many more.

Joining the SIFE Leadership Team entered Jamie into a Fortune 500 pipeline putting her face-to-face with recruiters. Invitations to exclusive seminars and roundtable discussions among business leaders in various industries, broadened her knowledge beyond classrooms and lecture halls. Insightful discussions introduced her to the expansive terrain available for her career future.

Not only did Jamie gain exposure to key decision makers and gatekeepers but also she learned the social dynamics of professional and corporate relationships which would prove vital for navigating career growth. At the height of her academic tenure, being actively recruited by well-known companies, Jamie fell ill and withdrew from university effectively rejecting recruitment offers.

Fortunately, Jamie applied what she learned about leadership onto her own mind, reading as much as she could and meditating on recovering. This is how she developed a profound understanding of discipline, mindset, and the mind’s influence over the body… the power of mind over matter.

New experiences became opportunities for Jamie to grow; each one reinforcing her capacity to lead with both structure and empathy.

Community Engagement

Leadership has always been practiced most visibly in Jamie’s life through community. The following initiatives reflect Jamie’s continued commitment to service, not as obligation, but as participation in something larger than herself. While not a comprehensive list of her volunteer work, the experiences below remain especially meaningful to her.

Laumeier Sculpture Park. 2001-present. Participation has varied depending on her time living in St. Louis. A tradition her Grandmother created, Jamie accompanied her Grandma on Mother’s Day weekend to volunteer at the annual Art Fair. Every year, Jamie will select a different station to support. She continues her Gma’s tradition, carrying it forward in spirit.

Relay For Life. 2003. Serving as co-captain, Jamie recruited team members for the 24-hour relay. The event took place at Saint Louis University and left a lasting impression on Jamie.

Honor Our Neighbor 5K. 2010. Apprenticing with the event host, Jamie gained a behind-the-scenes perspective into the amount of detail that goes into hosting a large community endeavor. Nearly 200 participants in attendance, this event raised money to help with mounting hospital bills for one of Valdosta’s beloved neighbors.

Vinings Community. 2011-2014. A newly launched organization focused on localized community engagement that required consistent weekly set-up and tear-down operations. Jamie joined the Crew team – responsible for stage layout, IT systems, and audio-visual coordination – which needed the most support. Within six months, Jamie was invited to co-chair Crew and serve on the Leadership Team. Through focused recruitment efforts, she increased Crew membership by 50%.

Trees Atlanta. 2011-2013, Jamie joined the mission to protect and improve Atlanta’s urban forest by planting new trees throughout the city. Alongside experts and fellow volunteers, Jamie participated in various events, getting her hands in the dirt for hours of this physically intense yet soul-enriching activity. This experience introduced Jamie to many areas of Atlanta and fostered a deeper love for nature.

ServeATL. 2012. A community beautification initiative to clean up and improve neglected spaces all around Cobb County, GA. Jamie contributed 500+ hours of service to the Communication & Mobilization Team reaching out to community businesses for their participation. The full day event rallied 200+ volunteers to 20 project sites.

Breathwork Facilitator Volunteer. 2023-present. Jamie supports close-knit community members in nervous system regulation and embodied awareness. She particularly enjoys helping friends move through creative blocks using the power of guided breathwork meditations.

Service has never been separate from leadership in Jamie’s life, it has been the proving ground for it.

Applied Learning & Experience

Fitness & Lifestyle Coaching. In early 2009, Jamie was approached to train a couple of friends for an upcoming 5K race. Soon, she held short workshops for reintroducing an active lifestyle, only charging a nominal fee for attendees. Returning to Valdosta, GA in 2010, she continued to coach.

As one of Atlanta, GA’s newest residents in 2011, Jamie was inspired to continue her work at the intersection of health and entrepreneurship by launching her own business helping others improve their overall health and wellbeing.

Building upon her collegiate experiences, Jamie contracted with a couple local big box gyms while she procured a few dedicated clients. Initially focused on physical fitness, she soon learned how her clients felt confused from the inundation of conflicting information being thrown around. This further sparked
Jamie’s desire to help people.

For her clients, she gladly included general nutrition and lifestyle guidance. Soon, she met clients who were only interested in the lifestyle coaching. This led Jamie to create personalized brochures outlining moderate adjustments capable of producing meaningful transformation.

As Jamie witnessed renewed confidence arise within her clients, she continued adding value while keeping her prices unchanged. This would become a valuable lesson about opportunity cost and over-giving to the point of diminishing returns.

To supplement income, Jamie took on part-time jobs that aligned with an active lifestyle and didn’t interfere with working with her clients. She retained the flexibility needed to maintain her coaching. The uptick of income helped her thrive in a big city and furthered her career development.

In 2013, Jamie decided to harness her Marketing degree and took on a full-time position. She retained two clients over the next year until she moved to Houston, TX in 2014.

Collegiate Internships

Representing BTR at the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, Jamie gave presentations of both business gains and client successes resulting in invitations to private entrepreneurial networking events for both she and BTR.

Upon graduating MSU, Jamie received a job offer from the owner with the request to continue balancing both marketing initiatives and training clients.
However, Jamie reenrolled at VSU.

VSU Campus Recreation. Marketing Intern 2005-2006. Bridging her athletic background with her business marketing focus, Jamie set her sights on interning on campus at the “Rec Center.” Her primary responsibilities were event signage and writing the weekly and monthly newsletters. Little did she know at the time, this foundational experience would help her break into the Print industry.

Not only did this role keep Jamie plugged-in to campus events but also provided her with student market research that would later help in her marketing capstone project for a local restaurant business owner.

A team-building weekend retreat at an obstacle course was an instrumental experience in teaching Jamie how to navigate immovable characteristics in coworkers. Her newfound perspective as she reflected on the events for months afterwards would prove to be foundational in building her conflict resolution and mediation techniques.

Unfortunately, Jamie had to resign her internship in tandem with taking a medical leave from school. She was scheduled to graduate six months later.

Academic Organizations

SIFE. While attending VSU, in 2004, Jamie joined Students In Free Enterprise (now ENACTUS), a non-profit student-led organization serving the community by teaching free market concepts and empowering residents in financial literacy.

It began when she volunteered to paint the backdrops for an economics skit for fifth graders and was then asked to co-chair the project. She went on to chair two more projects that semester. In the next academic year, she ran for and won the Middle School Program Director seat which brought her into the Leadership Team. Due to her success developing project ventures, budgeting and forecasting costs, leading project chairs, and serving over 300 hours per semester, she was nominated and elected Leadership Programs Director.

Jamie oversaw 30+ short and long-term community projects and 380+ student volunteer members. It was in this seat where she truly became an effective and caring leader.

Computer Club. Joining the Gateway STEM Middle School computer club broadened Jamie’s tech horizons. Mastering her typing skills and the basic office and internet applications, she then gained exposure to multimedia and creative software where she launched her first educational website about the game Pogs.

This foundational learning prepared her for the design and modeling software she would later utilize in her high school major, Architecture (Auto Cad and Ct+).

Not only did she learn a lot about software technology but also she cultivated confidence and self-efficacy to figure out and solve anything.

Science Club. Jamie participated in this fun and whimsical club for one school year only. Due to an already busy schedule, she focused on her other interests. Disgruntled to this day that the club did not allow anyone to build an active volcano model.

Young With Service at Heart

As a conscientious and cheerful child, Jamie was eager to lend a helping hand. One of her proudest posts was as Big Sister; whether she was assisting her mom or playing with her siblings. Instantly loving her brother and sister as soon as they came home, ready to protect and guide them as needed.

Happy to help teachers, coaches, and troop leaders, if it gave her the opportunity to be active and involved, Jamie quickly volunteered. This propensity to opt-in was quickly noticed by Jamie’s Grandma who taught her how to couple a service-centric heart with activities of interest. These early lessons in being proactive would continue to guide Jamie towards pivotal career-accentuating experiences.

Amid Jamie’s preteen years, she visited Laumeier Sculpture Park to volunteer biweekly as Student Art Assistant for elementary aged children, K-5. Simple tasks such as setting up the kids’ workstations before they arrived taught Jamie to consider the user experience and apply forethought in what’s needed according to the lesson plan. Jamie would also assist her Grandma in the gift shop and later, she began volunteering for the Laumeier’s Annual Art Fair.

Occasionally, Jamie served at the YMCA as a Student Volunteer for children’s summer programs. These were usually very active and high energy pursuits which suited a hyperactive youthful Jamie in expressing some of her abundant endurance and a fun application for teaching what she learned in sports.

As far back as she can remember, Jamie started participating in organized team sports very young. Perhaps her parents saw the perfect outlet for a hyper and social child. Throughout childhood, adolescence, and into higher education, team activities were a pillar in Jamie’s life. In camaraderie with peers and/or on the field, Jamie developed a keen appreciation for community, working well with others, and supporting each other to become successful together.

Education & Extracurriculars

Jamie’s academic journey has never been linear. It has been layered. From engineering and athletics to political theory, business strategy, and somatic study, each institution and discipline added dimension rather than redirection.

Periods of illness, transfer, reinvention, and return did not interrupt her path; they expanded it. Curiosity has remained the constant thread driving her to understand systems in all their forms: mechanical, organizational, social, and physiological.

This section reflects both formal credentials and formative environments that shaped her interdisciplinary thinking.

Continued Education

Nearing the final sprint of a two-year initiative to offboard her client’s entire decade-long digital asset catalog, including complex metadata migrations, Jamie anticipated a corporate pause after her six-year tenure at We Are Alexander concluded. True to form, she leaned into exploring the intersection of seemingly unrelated vocations.

After years of building and stabilizing digital ecosystems, Jamie found herself turning toward the equally intricate mechanics of the body and its physiology.
Stress, resilience, recovery, and creative flow were not abstract concepts; they were lived experiences. What began as personal curiosity became structured study through a Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator Certification.

Through studies of advanced nervous system literacy, Jamie recognized the convergence of an individual’s internal regulation states with their leadership, creativity, and performance. Deeply immersed into a network of somatic healing practitioners, Jamie quickly recognized a chasm between entrepreneurs with a mission on their hearts and the necessary systems infrastructure to support them.

Over 200 hours of coursework and applied practicum, Jamie expanded upon the fundamental knowledge she gained through the Pause Breathwork curriculum with an additional hundred hours of supplementary research, workshops, and related online courses.

What began as personal inquiry ultimately revealed a professional through-line: high-capacity visionaries require high-capacity systems. In that realization, Jamie recognized the connective thread running through her life: operational architecture, technical fluency, community leadership, team development, entrepreneurial experimentation, and a dual foundation in both business and wellness.

This convergence became the groundwork for launching Soul Elements — not as a pivot, but as an integration into her next chapter of leadership.

Valdosta State University

Graduated 2010 with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the AACSB-accredited LCOBA business school. Focus of study: Marketing and Management. Attended VSU in two rounds due to a health scare in 2006 which required Jamie to take a medical leave from her studies to recover at home. She returned to VSU in 2010 to retake unfinished courses and complete her degree.

New to Georgia and VSU in 2004, Jamie found her place as a Blazer among the NCAA DII Women’s Soccer team. She also began an enriching adventure participating in the world-renowned student-led academic and socially conscious organization, SIFE, Students In Free Enterprise, now known as ENACTUS.

Jamie enjoyed an active campus life playing intramural Soccer and Volleyball, attending study groups, meeting friends for various student endeavors, and volunteering. She landed one of two Marketing Coordinator Intern roles with the VSU Campus Recreation center.
In her senior capstone project, Jamie and five other students worked with local Fazoli’s franchise owner to devise and implement a marketing plan to meet the owner’s objectives. Their business plan helped increase the student foot traffic by 70% and overall sales by nearly 20%.

After graduating, Jamie moved to Atlanta, GA.

Missouri State University

Graduated 2009 with a Bachelors of Science (BS) from the School of Health Sciences. Focus of study: Exercise & Movement Science (aka kinesiology)
with an emphasis on Sports Nutrition.

After nearly a year of recovering from an undiagnosed mysterious illness, Jamie dedicated her return to university in pursuit of learning how the body functions in hopes to understand how to prevent future illness. Her long history of sports and athletics provided her with the direction. It would be a decade until Jamie found the right doctors who could offer a diagnosis.

In her first year, residual weakness made academics a challenge but she worked to grow stronger through cycling 30 miles weekly, eventually building up to 100 miles a week. She also returned to intramural sports sporadically. Jamie’s heavy academic schedule, with just as many hours in labs as in the classroom, bolstered her confidence in resuming an active lifestyle. Additional practicum experience bridged her passion for fitness and service as she applied her gained knowledge in local primary schools working with kids with Autism.
In her final year, Jamie secured a dual internship with Big Time Results, an in-home personal training business, as the Marketing Intern and Personal Trainer intern.

Webster University

Admitted into the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Focus of study: Political Science. Jamie seized this as an opportunity for educational enlightenment, seeking to expand her intellect.

Enthralled with the romance of higher education, Jamie opted for as many non-core curriculum classes as she was permitted. Philosophy, Theology, Ethics, Legal Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Criminology, Art History, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking, and more. A first-generation college student, Jamie was in attendance for the experience. She reasoned that there would be plenty of time for degrees and career later. She was here for the learning.

As an active participant in campus life, Jamie tried to squeeze every drop of possibility into every day. Though she was accepted as a walk-on for the NCAA DIII Women’s Soccer team, soon the schedule conflicted with maintaining her much-needed jobs, so she declined admission. When her schedule allowed, she would often sub-in for friends’ club soccer, volleyball, and softball games.

\Two years of academic exploration led Jamie to become serious about deciding on long-term plans for building a career. She transferred to VSU and changed her major to Business Marketing.

Gateway Institute of Technology STEM

Graduated 2002 as an Engineering & Robotics major with a focus of study in Architecture. Well known for her leadership as a varsity starter for Women’s Soccer and Women’s Softball, Jamie helped secure District Championship trophies.

Among friends, Jamie was known for her published creative writing pieces and constant doodling in her sketchbooks. Jovial and social, it was tough for teachers to keep her at her assigned desk.

Jamie’s animated and lively energy kept her occupied outside of school as well. Always engaged in some physical sport: club soccer, boxing training alongside her Golden Gloves champion mother, Aikido training where she often reigned as that week’s Randori champ, as well as frequently cycling and skateboarding with friends.

In her quieter moments, Jamie painted and sculpted with raw materials at home. In 2001, she was accepted to a summer program at the Art Institute of Chicago and received an academic scholarship but was unable to attend.

Jamie spent many hours focused on computer software functionality and began teaching herself JavaScript, CSS, and HTML; an interest derived from learning Ct+ in school and designing her first visual automation. Technology, a fascination that would later become the forefront of her career

Gateway STEM Middle School

Graduated 1998. Having exceeded the state’s standard requirements and the school’s extended requirements, Jamie prepared for the GIT high school academic accelerated summer program.

During her middle school tenure, Jamie dabbled in several school organizations before electing Computer Club and Science Club. Since the school didn’t yet offer sports programs, she tried out for private club soccer groups to find her home team. Additionally, she participated in Karate and Kickboxing training among her age group as well as picking up rollerblading and ice skating.

Volunteering and service work became a staple in Jamie’s life due to her Grandmother’s influence. She visited Laumeier Sculpture Park biweekly as Student Art Assistant for kids K-5 as well as helped every year in the Laumeier’s Annual Art Fair on Mother’s Day weekend.
As an outdoorsy kid, Jamie could be found playing street games with her friends and frequenting exhibits at Saint Louis Science Center, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis Zoo, Missouri Botanical Gardens and sometimes simply riding bikes around Forest Park.

Already an avid reader, writer, doodler, and painter, even indoors, she was often preoccupied with her hobbies though she did also enjoy watching movies with her family and friends.

Early Aptitude & Tech Curious

At a time when the average home was still mostly analog, Jamie began reading technical documents introduced by her Grandfather. Whether for games, toys, electronics, or appliances she wanted to use, reading the full user manual was the prerequisite. Very early on, she became comfortable interacting with and troubleshooting electronics and digital devices.

At age six, Jamie began teaching herself how to use any computer she could get her hands on. She traded writing her stories on a typewriter for her mom’s word processor. By age eight, she learned to navigate MS DOS and using Diagram Master to bring her stories to life, she created and printed her first digitally illustrated book. Soon, elementary school offered computer classes which expanded her exposure to various software.

Famous in her family for reading maps proficiently, Jamie became the backseat navigator through reroutes on family cross country road trips. But later, once digital GPS devices were available, she became the backseat GPS technician.

During these younger years, Jamie attended dance classes, gymnastics, and played soccer.
Noteworthy: In the 3rd grade, Jamie tested at the 6th grade level academically but ultimately her parents decided to keep her amongst her peers.

Awards & Certifications

Recognition has followed service, leadership, and disciplined study throughout Jamie’s journey. The following awards and certifications reflect formal acknowledgment of her contributions and continued commitment to excellence.

Awards

U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award — 2005, 2006, 2007
Service Leadership Award, VSU SIFE — 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
SIFE United States National Competition — 3rd Place Bronze Medal (Top 3 of 800+ participating universities)
Regional SIFE Championship Winners — 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Gateway Architectural Design Award — 2002

Certifications

Certified Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator — 2023
CPR, AED & First Aid Certified — 2007-2013
NSCA Certified — 2009-2013
YMCA Inclusion & Adaptive Support Certified — 2007