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ACE Certified Health Coach • ACE Certified Personal Trainer • Behavior Change Specialist• Certified Grief Educator• Trauma Informed Movement Specialist • PhD Candidate 

You might recognize me from QVC and HSN, national commercials and infomercials, podcasts—and yes, even a national game show.

HI, I'M SHAWN.

I know a little something about looking incredibly high-functioning while carrying a lot underneath.

For most of my professional life, I've performed under pressure.

I became Miss Iowa USA in 1997. I went on to build a career in live television, spending more than 10,000 hours on-air—often unscripted—where my job was to communicate, connect, sell, smile and keep going no matter what was happening behind the scenes.

And I got very, very good at holding it together.

Like so many women, I was performing while feeling like I was covering up some sort of a lie.

I navigated a divorce from an alleged high conflict individual while working in a public facing career on live TV. (They literally paid me to be inspirational and happy). My ex-husband died in an accident when our daughter was four and I was 34. I experienced single motherhood, caregiving, grief, major career transitions and the pressures of being a member of the sandwich generation—all while continuing to work, perform and take care of the people around me.

For a long time, being the woman who could handle it felt like one of my greatest strengths.

And it was.

People seemed to reward me for it.

Until handling everything started costing me too much.

My mental health. My relationships. Then my body said "enough".

It took years for me to heal and find my way back. I suffered unnecessarily because I didn't have access to the right resources.

I knew I wanted to help other women BEFORE they reached their breaking point.

THAT'S WHERE GROOVE RESET BEGAN.

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Who is this for? 

This Course Is For You If:

  • You're navigating a major life change and handling money or decisions differently than before
  • You've had a moment recently where something felt "off" and you second-guessed yourself
  • You want practical tools, not just encouragement
  • You're done with the "I should have known better" voice in your head
  • You want to feel sharp, steady, and hard to fool again — not suspicious of everyone, just clear-eyed

 

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THIS "MAGICAL 5 STEP SOLUTION" WILL SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM. 

 

Eeek. Just kidding! I'm sorry if the "magical 5 step solution" is why you were here - if so, this probably isn't the right website for you right now. If you want a coach after you try the other things, or if you've tried the other things and now IS the time for you to see actual change - I might be the right coach for you.

I tried MANY of the "magical solutions", heck, I even was the spokesperson for a few of them (I'm sorry, I hope you got a refund if they didn't work for you.) I BELIEVED what the "experts" told me. When I started asking questions, I got the feeling I was the problem.  Turns out, they might just have been trying to sell me something that didn't actually solve my problem. In fact, MAYBE they were trying to convince me of a problem I didn't actually have. Sound familiar? 

Now, I've paid my dues and I've done my research. I'm an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and Health Coach (since 2002), Behavior Change Specialist (2023), Certified Grief Educator (2025) and 200HR+ certified meditation teacher (2021). I'ma PhD Management Candidate at Walden University, where my dissertation focuses on grief in the workplace.

My larger body of research focuses on women, work, relationships, health and the systems we live inside.

We used the research to build Groove Reset™.

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I WAS TAUGHT THE ANSWER WAS TO TRY HARDER.

I spent years doing exactly that.

I was a go-getter.

I looked for the better workout.

The better nutrition plan.

The better organizational system.

The next certification.

The next training.

The promotion.

The raise.

The way to be a better employee, mother, friend and human being.

I invested thousands of dollars in training, education, books and programs designed to help me become more successful.

I learned to communicate better.

Work harder.

Be more vulnerable.

Be more productive.

Set goals.

Manage my time.

Bring my whole self to work (By the way, that did NOT work).

And eventually I started wondering:

What if I don't need another strategy for getting more out of myself?

What if I need to stop overriding myself?

That question became even more important after periods of significant professional and financial loss forced me to reconsider what success, health and resilience actually meant.

I began rebuilding.

And this time, I wanted to do it differently.

That's why we developed Groove Reset™.

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I went back to working as a personal trainer and health coach in a gym.

I STARTED SEEING THE SAME PATTERNS IN OTHER WOMEN.

As a personal trainer and health coach, women would come to me wanting help with their bodies.

But underneath the conversation about weight, strength, posture or exercise, I kept hearing something else.

They were tired.

They were taking care of everyone.

They felt guilty resting.

They were overwhelmed at work.

They struggled to say no.

They were worried about disappointing people.

They were pushing through pain and stress because that was what they had always done.

And many of them assumed the solution was to become more disciplined.

I didn't think they needed another person telling them to try harder. I knew that didn't help me when I was struggling.

I'd gathered a list of exercises, tools and information that DID help.

So we created Groove Reset™.

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CREDENTIALS

  • ACE Certified Health Coach
  • ACE Certified Personal Trainer (since 2002)
  • Certified Grief Educator
  • 200HR+ Certified Meditation Teacher
  • Behavior Change Specialist
  • Corrective Exercise Specialist
  • Trauma-Informed Movement Training
  • PhD Candidate in Management, Walden University (dissertation phase)
  • 200HR+ Certified Meditation Teacher
  • PhD Candidate, Management (Walden University)

You have enough pressure, lets take the "gym" part out of it. 

 

My work brings together a training curriculum I developed during my undergrad and master's degree from 1994-2001, and my recent PhD management research combined with actual lived experience after spending more than 40 years in the workplace.

I didn't grow up in a "sporty" family so the gym has never felt comfortable to me. In fact, I got great grades in high school but skipped so many gym classes, I almost didn't graduate. I DID work out and win Miss Iowa 1997 so millions of people saw me in a swimsuit on TV in the Miss USA pageant. I thought becoming a personal trainer in 2002 would help me feel more confident in gyms, and it did. A little. But now you know why I train women online. You have enough pressure, lets take the gym part out of it. 

The original "Make SENSE of life" program became "GROOVE RESET" in 2026. Sense-making is still important, but I'm older now and a lot more "life" has happened. I realize there is no quick plan you can follow to make everything perfect. BUT THERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO TO FEEL BETTER.

 In 2025, I left corporate America and returned to a gym working as a personal trainer and health coach. Many of the women who hired me assumed the solution was to become more disciplined.

We talked during their sessions.

They were taking care of everyone. They felt guilty resting. They were overwhelmed at work. They struggled to say no. They were worried about disappointing people.

They were pushing through pain and stress because that was what they had always done.

They didn't need another person telling them to try harder.

That's why I created Groove Reset™.

Sound familiar? You arrived right on time. 

 

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