We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jennifer Andrea a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Jennifer , appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
I get my resilience from my childhood upbringing. Growing up in a single-parent environment with my mother, I witnessed firsthand the strength and determination it takes to navigate life’s challenges alone. My mother was a hard worker, always doing whatever it took to provide for me and encouraging my independence. She trusted that I would always make the right choices, instilling in me a strong sense of self-reliance. Without my father around, I learned early on the importance of pushing forward despite obstacles and having perseverance. This early experience gave me a deep-seated tenacity to pursue my goals.
For example, after leaving Hawaii, I pursued higher education and embraced opportunities that expanded my horizons, such as traveling to Europe, which gave me fresh perspectives on the world and its people. My career in the healing arts emerged unexpectedly from a personal healing experience in my mid-20s—a profound moment that felt like a divine download, guiding me toward my professional path. Despite taking a 17-year break from completing my Bachelor’s Degree due to following a different path, my determination never wavered and I eventually graduated in my late 30s with a degree in Psychology and Social Entrepreneurship.
In 2018, I earned my Manual Lymphatic Drainage/Lymphedema Certification with the Dr. Vodder School, overcoming initial setbacks and returning to complete it 6 months later. In 2021, I added a Transformational Mastery Life Coach and Health Coach certification, as an opportunity to evolve my services and skills during the pandemic. Throughout it all, I’ve always felt driven by an inner force that pushes me to keep striving for success. Even when faced with challenges, I’ve picked myself up and kept going. This resilience, shaped by my early experiences, continues to fuel my passion and dedication to helping others.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I am a 24-year Women’s Health and Wellness Practitioner (CLT, CMT), Mastery Level Life Coach & Certified Health Coach, and Usui/ Holy Fire Reiki Level II practitioner dedicated to empowering women who are navigating change and transition in the areas of health, relationships and career to reclaim their power through self nurturing. My journey began on the island of Oahu, where the friendly Hawaiian culture instilled in me a deep respect for holistic practices, and a multicultural perspective and sensitivity for all people. After moving to Oregon in my mid-20s, I discovered my passion for the healing arts and began teaching holistic breast health self-care education and making herbal body care products. I also began a profound self-love journey in healing a toxic relationship pattern that I later wrote about in a book anthology called “Awakening the Power Within: Inspiring Stories of Transformation and Triumph.” I was then guided to pursue a massage therapy license specializing in manual lymphatic drainage. Over the years, my practice evolved to include post-op recovery for breast cancer and other types of cosmetic procedures. My overarching business name since 2000 is Ho’ano (to manifest your vision) Wellness for Women.
In 2022, I created a subsidiary called Her Path Her Vision – Transformations for Women by Jennifer Andrea Coaching which supports women in listening to the wisdom of their bodies, trusting their intuitive voice, and owning their power through holistic offerings that inspire and empower women to reconnect within. I believe what makes my work with women unique is deeply rooted in connecting with the body. Drawing from my extensive experience providing various body oriented modalities and services, this unique approach integrates my 24 year knowledge of intuitive healing, emotional and energy work with an emphasis on helping my clients integrate more self-love and self care and helping clients make the connection of their self-nurturing in how it can transform different aspects of their lives. The state of their emotional well-being and what is present in their physical health can often have a direct correlation. By taking on an embodied approach, I am able to address the full spectrum of my clients’ experiences, fostering holistic healing and transformation. Combining this with my empathy, rapport with others, and passion and dedication to help empower women in being the best version of themselves, this has offered me the ability to help women journey within to access their inner wisdom and offer tools to support their commitment to self-care and self-love practices to build strength and confidence in themselves.
I am excited to offer a new range of services including lifestyle wellness balance assessments, personalized coaching sessions, guided meditation, breath work, and hands-on treatments, including body/energy healing services tailored to address individual needs and goals. These services help women harness the power of their intuition and being supported with powerful questions of self inquiry offers a transformative experience to help guide women through any life, health, relational, or career change and transition. I offer a series of monthly self-care workshops that focus on integrating body-based rituals and processes to help women restore health and to guide their personal growth through self-care practices. My website lists online and in-house signature coaching programs, digital materials, events, free resources, affiliate partners, past media accolades, personalized healing sessions in Los Angeles, and half-day VIP offerings that are designed to inspire and elevate one’s journey of self-discovery and wellness. My goal is to provide a space where women can feel seen, supported, rejuvenated, and empowered to step into their best selves and live their best lives. My motto, “The more you love and care for yourself, the greater the correlation to your optimal health, healthy relationships, and the manifestation of your dreams.”
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
The three qualities that have been most impactful on my journey are the following:
My values and integrity have been the guiding forces in my work. I prioritize personalized client care, ensuring that each client feels seen, heard, and supported. I am thorough and honest; if I don’t know something, I say so and help my clients find the answers. By focusing on teaching self-love and empowerment, I stay true to my passions. This approach has helped me build trust with my clients, as my commitment to them reflects my core values and integrity.
My advice : “Always align your work with your values and integrity. When your work reflects who you are and what you believe in, you’ll find greater satisfaction.”
My ability to empathize and intuitively understand my clients’ needs has been a cornerstone of my practice. My empathetic nature, combined with intuition, has enabled me to connect with women on a deeper level, guiding them through their personal journeys of self-discovery, healing, and transformation. These skills have made my work not only impactful, but also deeply personal and meaningful.
My advice: “Cultivate empathy and listen to your intuition. These qualities will allow you to understand and meet the needs of those you serve. When you lead with empathy and trust your gut instincts, you create a space of safety and trust, which is essential for true healing and transformation.”
As a highly sensitive person, I have a heightened awareness of my environment and the emotions of others. This sensitivity has increased my ability to empathize deeply with my clients, understand their unspoken needs, and be compassionate. My sensitivity has allows me to notice subtleties that can be missed, making my approach to wellness both intuitive and personalized.
My advice: “If you are a highly sensitive person in business, use this to your advantage. Your heightened awareness is a gift that allows you to connect deeply with others and provide care that truly meets their needs. Make sure to set boundaries to protect your energy and practice self-care to prevent burnout. Trust that your sensitivity is not a weakness but a strength that makes you exceptionally effective in connecting with the people you serve or educating them about the products you hope will change their lives.”
These qualities—adherence to my values and integrity, honoring my sensitivity, and leveraging my strengths as an empath and intuitive—have shaped my journey as a compassionate, thoughtful women’s health and wellness practitioner and life empowerment coach. By embracing these traits, I have created a unique and impactful approach to wellness that not only reflects my strengths but also serves as a powerful model for others to recognize and harness their own potential to make a meaningful impact.
Who is your ideal client or what sort of characteristics would make someone an ideal client for you?
My ideal client is a woman who feels lost, stuck, exhausted, or in a state of freeze, often struggling with low self-worth and self-esteem, typically giving more to others than to herself. She is in a transition and knows it is time to love herself but is re-learning how. She is sensitive, empathetic, and highly intuitive. She has often been drawn to people who didn’t have her best interests at heart, finding herself in toxic relationships with narcissistic, emotionally or verbally abusive partners. By giving to everyone but herself, she neglected her own needs, which has contributed to health issues. Now, she is learning how to prioritize herself and she strives to make an impact in her work and be the best version of herself.
My ideal client falls into two groups of women. The first group includes young professional women in their 20s and 30s who seek to develop the skills needed to step into their self-worth and power as they make decisions for their life, cultivate healthy relationships, and navigate their career paths. The second group is women over 40 who are embracing change in the areas of health or relationships. They are seeking to find themselves again and building strength and confidence as they navigate healing, recovery, or a transition. Through the embodied healing and empowerment services I offer, these two groups of women begin to tune in with their values, desires, and needs and have tools and resources to support them. When a woman connects back with her body, she can learn to listen to its wisdom and trust herself again, this being the guiding force in coming home to herself and her purpose.
As previously mentioned in this interview, I launched Her Path Her Vision by Jennifer Andrea Coaching, a subsidiary of Ho’ano Wellness for Women.
My services offer integrative coaching programs, workshops, personalized healing packages, VIP mini-retreats, and digital empowerment products. I provide a wide array of online, in-house, and hybrid support utilizing body and energy healing services, including Swedish Massage, Reiki, Manual Lymphatic Drainage, as well as mindset and behavior work through Life and Health Coaching, and tools to support the nervous system and emotional healing. It was during the pandemic, I acquired these new skills and training to better support and guide women on their transformative journeys, truly reflecting the work and ideal clients that I am committed to assisting with.
Having personally walked the path of learning to listen to my body, trust my voice, and own my power by setting healthy boundaries and restoring my health through self-care practices, sharing my story in November 2023 in an anthology co-authored with 13 other women titled “Awakening the Power Within: Inspiring Stories of Transformation and Triumph” was truly remarkable. It became an Amazon International bestseller. I encourage any woman on a path of self-discovery and healing to read these courageous stories, as they provide tools to give hope and inspiration. My ideal client can trust that she is being supported by someone who has experienced and overcome her own healing transformative journey, has a vast amount of self awareness, skills and experience working with women and who is committed to a partnership that is focused on empowerment, healing and personal growth. By harmonizing mind, body, and spirit through restorative modalities and practices, she will acquire tools and insights that will ignite her inner strength, confidence, and resilience and expand her love of self.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.jenniferandreacoaching.com & https://www.hoano.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herpath_hervision.coach
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/jennifer-andrea-coaching-for-women-woodland-hills-4?osq=Jennifer+Andrea+Coaching
- Other: https://linktr.ee/jenniferandreacoaching
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Erin Maher Scabuzzo
Don Hajicek
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