Meet Kelley Inexperienced Johnson: A Power within the Wellness World and Inspiration To All

In our new month-to-month profile sequence, Meet the Trailblazers, Fitbit is searching for to amplify variety on the earth of wellness and health by that includes the voices of POC trailblazers on the helm of those industries—industries which have discredited voices like theirs for too lengthy. 

For our September profile, we’re highlighting the unbelievable work of Kelley Inexperienced Johnson, an authorized life and mindset coach, an Worldwide meditation teacher,  licensed NLP and EFT practitioner, hypnotherapist, host of the “Hey Pretty!” podcast, and writer to her ebook Completely Imperfect. We’re excited to share the dialog we had with Kelley about how she acquired began in wellness, her model, and different spectacular life work.

From the southside of Queens, New York, Kelley Inexperienced Johnson is the founding father of Kelley Inexperienced Media LLC, a private teaching and consulting model targeted on wellness, feminine empowerment, and self-love. Kelley conjures up her shoppers by sharing her life-style and mindset and introducing the follow of self-love together with offering steering and sources to these hoping to amplify their self-worth in life and enterprise. 

“It’s been a blessing leaving my 10 yr company journey directing human sources and communication departments,” she says. “I’ve all the time cherished serving to individuals and knew that if I left the confines of my desks and cubicles I might assist change the world and manifest my dream life.”

This journey additionally included a stunning meet-cute, as Kelley lately married her husband, whom she met on a Zoom name whereas main a meditation throughout the pandemic. Discuss concerning the sudden! 

Maintain studying to study extra about Kelley, her enterprise, and the way she’s paving the way in which for girls in her group.

FITBIT: How did you get began within the wellness business and life teaching? 

KELLEY: I’ve a background in Human Sources and a level in Enterprise Administration and though after school I jumped into the company workforce, I’ve all the time wished the liberty to journey and make an impression around the globe. So when company life didn’t really feel prefer it was for me anymore, I thought of how my experience and love for serving to individuals in Human Sources might be utilized to peoples lives as an authorized life coach. 

Then as soon as I noticed there are such a lot of different therapeutic and transformational modalities like neuro-linguistic programming, meditation, hypnotherapy, and extra, I acquired tremendous excited and made positive to indulge my curiosity in acquiring certifications in these, to supply much more optimistic change for my shoppers as properly. 

As somebody who was bullied rising up, I skilled lots of self-doubt and a insecurity in my interior and outer magnificence. I want I knew about varied mindset and mindfulness sources to assist me change my view of myself and the way I confirmed up on the earth, which is without doubt one of the explanation why it’s so necessary for me to assist others, particularly ladies. 

FITBIT: Are you able to inform me about your private teaching {and professional} consulting model, Kelley Inexperienced Media? 

KELLEY: I assist bold ladies launch their psychological blocks to allow them to rework their mindsets and confidently take aligned motion of their lives and careers, all whereas training wellness and carrying out their targets. I additionally work with manufacturers and organizations main wellness workshops to enhance the efficiency, morale, and firm expertise of their workers. If there’s a model or enterprise that desires to debate self-care, bettering one’s mindset, manifestation, or be led in a strong meditation or hypnosis, they may you’ll want to expertise a life-changing session.

FITBIT: By means of your life and mindset teaching work, you give attention to ladies (particularly Black and POC ladies) empowerment, self-love, and self-care. What drew you to this work? 

KELLEY: By experiencing my very own lack of self-love and overwhelm as a consequence of an absence of self-care, I knew it was necessary to assist others keep away from the pitfalls I’ve had in my life. Taking part in unhealthy relationships, not prioritizing my psychological or bodily well being, and residing an unfulfilled life will not be one thing I would like for different ladies.  

At one level I used to be such a individuals pleaser at work that I averted all of the bodily indicators that informed me to relaxation. I used to be at work ignoring the indicators of my physique and ended up having a panic assault sooner or later. I used to be wheeled out of the workplace on a stretcher and dropped at the hospital at the back of an ambulance. It was rather a lot and I made a decision to by no means let that occur once more.  

As Black ladies, we regularly go above and past for others and neglecting our personal wants. However sufficient is sufficient. It’s time we study a greater way of life and take motion on what we study. And for this reason I’m so drawn to this work. 

FITBIT: Why, in your view, is it so necessary for there to be a protected area like yours that explores self-love and therapeutic, for Black ladies and ladies of colour? 

KELLEY: I really feel prefer it’s necessary as a result of I didn’t have that after I wanted it most in life. Rising up, meditation was considered as bizarre or depraved and was frowned upon in my group. Even remedy wasn’t one thing that was talked about as a result of as a Black girl, I’d usually hear my elders telling youthful generations that “church was sufficient” in case you’re having issues, and that if we went to remedy individuals would assume we had been loopy. It wasn’t a cushty matter to debate, so my therapeutic and self-love journey was extraordinarily delayed sadly. 

I wish to assist alleviate the disgrace and stigma surrounding wellness so individuals can comfortably entry the instruments, sources, and protected areas that we have to heal and develop. There’s a lot emotional and even bodily trauma within the Black group, if in a roundabout way, generationally—and it’s time to maintain breaking these generational curses. Black Girls deserve to like themselves, keep away from settling for much less, and begin manifesting a life they love. 

FITBIT: Are you able to inform me about your first ebook, Completely Imperfect?

KELLEY: My first ebook is a set of poetry and prose. It takes the reader on an alliterative journey to the intricate depths of the human psyche. From childhood hardships and ever-pervading self-doubt to the tumultuous waves of each love and hate, this assortment of gripping poems and inspirational tidbits invitations you to a reflective and cathartic expertise.

Infused with beneficial knowledge, each bit reminds the reader of life’s solely fixed: change and life’s key to happiness: self-love.

FITBIT: Not solely are you a life coach, however you’re a NLP practitioner and scientific hypnotherapist, public speaker, podcast host, writer, and meditation instructor. What would you say is essentially the most fulfilling a part of your work? 

KELLEY:  I’d say essentially the most fulfilling a part of my work is listening to from my shoppers about how their views of themselves and their lives have modified for the higher. I like listening to how they love themselves extra, how they’ve cultivated extra peace of their lives, and the way they’ll manifest with ease and love the optimistic transformation their lives are taking. It’s unbelievable and I’m so grateful to do that work.