My Story

Started Dancing at 2.5. Never Stopped.

I have danced in over 17 countries, taught in youth prisons and homeless shelters, and competed at the highest levels of West Coast Swing. What I have learned is that dance is not just movement — it is self-expression, confidence, and identity.

After years of studying the psychology of performance, I developed the Magnetic Movement Method — a system that combines elite technique with the mental tools most dancers never access.

Whether you are a social dancer wanting to stop shrinking or a competitor aiming for the podium, I will meet you exactly where you are.

17+

Countries Danced In

8,000+

Dancers Coached

20+

Years Dancing

Key Moments

2025-current

Traveling & teaching while being a mom & wife

My life is full with nurturing my marriage, being a mama to three beautiful children, homeschooling and West Coast Swing. In addition to my online coaching I typically travel 1-2 times a month to teach and judge in-person at events and workshop weekends.

2025-current

launched Elevate Your Swing

With Confident on the Dancefloor being incredibly successful, students requested I blend my technical WCS coaching and mindset training. I launched Elevate Your Swing as my signature coaching platform that supports the whole dancer. Attracting passionate westies from all over the world, the community continues to grow and thrive. Training both the technical aspects of the dance with the emotional ups & downs, it has become an inspiring, supportive and safe space for Westies to become the dancers they dream to become.

2024

Launched 1st WCS & Mindset Coaching

Knowing the subconscious work made all the difference in my dance and the dance of students, I created the Magnetic Movement Method. I shared the foundation of this method when I launched Confident on the Dancefloor. The first ever coaching program for West Coast Swing dancers dedicated on the mental and emotional aspects of navigating the circuit of WCS (socially and competitively).

2019

Started our family

With the arrival of our first son, my professional partnership with PJ dissolved, remaining good friends. This was the start to my journey of figuring out how to be the mom and wife I want to be while nurturing my love for movement while supporting others in becoming the dancer they desire to be.

2014-2019

Int'l Teaching & Partners w/ PJ Turner

I professionally partnered with PJ Turner where we navigated a long distance partnership. Over the course of 5 years we got the joy of sharing our love for WCS as instructors, judges and performers all over the US and internationally in Germany, France, Australia, Israel, Sweden (just to name a few).

2017

Married my love

I had met Nicholas King early on in my WCS journey, we dated long distance for 4 years and in 2017 we tied the knot. He too is a Champion WCS dancer and getting to share the love of dance together is incredibly special.

2014

Competed in Champions 1st time

The subconscious belief work had made all the difference. In just 3 years I went from struggling to make a Novice Prelims to finaling in Champions, at Swing Diego. I drew Jordan Frisbee and we placed 4th! It was my first time ever competing in Champions- to say I had won the lottery was an understatement.

2012

Subconscious Work for my dance

My mom at the time was doing clinical hypnotherapy. I shared I was ready to move home and give up on my childhood dream of being a professional dancer. During this conversation, the memory surfaced on my childhood mentor telling me "You'll never amount to anything as a dancer". In that moment, I realized I'd taken that comment to heart and made it something I believed. Ever since that point, I had struggled with my dancing. Always feeling like I could almost break through, but never really did. This was the catalyst to doing a TON of deep inner work with my subconscious beliefs and rewiring them.

Late 2011-2012

Almost gave up on WCS

Having lost almost all my motivation, hope, living alone in a city I knew no one and exhausting my finances, I was at a crossroads. I'd poured EVERYTHING I had into training my WCS, and even though my coach's said "you're doing everything right", I could not make it past a Novice Prelims and I was ready to quit.

2011

First WCS Competition

I attended Swing Diego and competed in Novice Prelims. I didn't even make Novice semi-finals, but I was in LOVE with WCS and I knew this was the dance I wanted my career to center around. So I decided to move out to San Diego the next month, by myself, and do what I had to do to train and become a Champion.

2010

Started Country Ballroom

I moved back home after leaving The Young Americans, unsure the direction of my dance career. I then found the Country Ballroom circuit. I trained in all 8 styles for approx 8 months, competed at Worlds in Pro-Am Intermediate and placed 2nd. I could see a career in partner dancing.

2008-2010

Toured & Taught Internationally

I toured all over Europe with the Young Americans, teaching "at-risk" youth different dance acts. We would perform both with the youth and for the youth and their communities. This is where I fell in love with using dance as a "tool" to connect with individuals and their deeper selves- using to dance to build confidence, self-trust and taking creative risks.

2007

Joined the Young Americans

Since the age of 2.5 I trained in Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tap, Lyrical and multiple other forms of solo dance styles. I graduated high school and moved to California to join a dual Performing Arts Company/Performing Arts College (at the time).

2000

Was told "You'll never amount to anything as a dancer!"

This was a life changing moment (although I didn't know it at the time). My mentor of almost 10 years shook her finger at me and said "You'll never amount to anything as a dancer". Little did I know I took this to heart, and started to believe it myself.

1991

Started in "Mommy & Me" Classes

At the age of 2.5, my parents enrolled me in "Mommy & Me" type combo classes where I was first exposed to ballet and tap. This is where I would spend the next 10-ish years of my life. At the studio 4-6 nights a week training in multiple solo dance styles.