We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jordan Roberts. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jordan below.

Alright, Jordan thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

In December 2021, I had a health crisis from a tick bite which completely changed the course of my professional career. At the time, I was working as a Geological Project Coordinator for a sustainable cement company. Although it was an interesting job & in my field of study from my 8 year education at university, the job left me unfulfilled most days. With the addition of a tick bite causing strange health symptoms on top of an unfulfilling corporate job, I felt overwhelmed, unhappy, worried, & anxious.

This lead to a 6-month health journey of healing my body and mind holistically. During the 6 months of healing I completely transformed my diet, mindset, hobbies, & relationships both to others and myself. I rediscovered my over 20+ years love for yoga, which had already saved my life & sanity a other few times (once when I was a teenager dealing with parental divorce and in my 20s and early 30s dealing with a few difficult heartbreaks!).

As my body healed, I realized it was time to start living for myself, because life is too short to do work you aren’t in love with. So I decided to say “f*ck it* :) – I quit my corporate job in June 2022, and decided I would finally take my yoga teacher training and travel to find my new path. I also dusted off my old camera from when I had dreams of being a photographer as a teenager. So, I booked a one-day ticket, packed a bag, my yoga mat, camera, & a journal and got on the plane to my first stop: Guatemala.

This was the beginning of what would be a year-round trip of soul-searching that took me to Guatemala, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Turkey, Spain, & Portugal. During this trip, I decided I would collect knowledge and teachings from around the world and start my own Holistic Lifestyle Coaching business while doing photography on the side. My new purpose is to help people realize their maximum health potential, and guide them to heal their bodies and mind using holistic techniques and spiritual practises.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’ve always had a side passion for health and wellness. Growing up as the daughter of an NHL hockey player, I was surrounded by health care professionals and high-level doctors always at our house giving my dad different types of treatments (such as acupuncture, chiro, physio, EMF therapy, breath work, hot/cold therapy, etc..) for various injuries during his career. I would always want to watch them. As young as 7 years old, I was asking questions on their techniques, anatomy, and the science behind their methods of healing. From then on, I always had a thirst for scientific knowledge, while also secretly being interested in “the mystical”. I went on to study geology & planetary science for 8 years at university, and then worked in the industry for 4 years after graduation from my Master’s in Vancouver, Canada.

Although I enjoyed that area of study, it wasn’t fulfilling. As I mentioned, I had a health crisis in Dec. 2021 after a tick-bite incident, which sent me on a 6 month health journey of holistic healing. During this time I felt severe overwhelm & anxiety about my health and life in general. This rock-bottom feeling lead me to realize life is too short to be unhappy, so I quit my corporate job and follow my passion for yoga & natural healing.

Since July 2022, I’ve been travelling to different countries, studying a wide range of topics, such as 500-hours of yoga training in Guatemala & India, pranayama (breath work) and meditation in Nepal, Thai Massage in Indonesia, Ayurveda in India, martial arts (muay thai) in Thailand, & Chinese medicine techniques in Vietnam.

I believe that my unique combination my childhood experinece as a professional athletes daughter, 8 years of post-secondary education as an Earth scientist, followed by my ~2 year personal healing journey and world travels on the holistic path, has allowed me to have a deep appreciation for human health, the earth, and spirituality.

Now I have my own Holistic Lifestyle Coaching business that allows me to follow my passion. I help people solve problems with overwhelm, anxiety, disconnection from intuition/self, & suffering with symptoms of mental/physical illness. My new purpose is to help people realize their maximum health potential, guide them to heal their bodies and mind using holistic techniques and spiritual practises. For my clients, I create personalized yoga sequences, Ayurvedic food recipes/nutrition plans, guided meditations/visualizations, journal prompts, goal-setting templates, etc. to help them realize their full potential.

When I work with women specifically, we also address another layer of learning how to embrace their femininity and womanhood, learning to work closer with their monthly cycle, eating and working out differently depending on where they are in their moon cycle. Peeling back these layers of a woman’s intuitive connection with their cycle creates a new feeling of empowerment within. It allows us to reconnect with ourselves, and to nature.

One of my next goals for the future is to bring mindfulness, yoga, & nutrition to where I used to work in the corporate world. I feel these practices hold powerful potential to help companies create a better sense of community that promotes self-awareness, growth, love, & connection. This type of support in the corporate world will undoubtedly help employees be more productive, in-tune with themselves to make more strategic business decisions, and better balance their career and home lives. And I can attest, I wish something like that existed for me when I was struggling in corporate life.

Lastly, another dream I have is to create a safe space online, such as a podcast, to have conversations with inspiring minds to discuss topics bridging gaps between science and spirituality.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Although I know it’s cliche, the biggest lesson I had to unlearn was you have to conform to societal norms to succeed, and make decisions based on what others want for you. I spent 32 years not even realizing I was making decisions for others and conforming to how “society” makes you think you have to live, rather than actually asking myself what I want to do.

After my rock-bottom health crisis, I realized it was time to ask myself these questions…. What makes YOU happy…? It’s f*ing terrifying when you realize you don’t truly know the answer to this. It took some time to cultivate an answer….and yes, the answer is always evolving.

So, when I decided to take the road (literally!) less travelled, it was the best thing to help me dig deeper towards what makes me happy. It sparked a new inspiration to live from my heart rather than my head. It was time to shed the “it’s too late for me to completely change my career” narrative. I decided I would absorb new knowledge from around the world and construct it into a harmonious mix of teachings and personal experience, with the goal of creating my own business, helping others heal and “unlearn” conforming to the pressures of modern society.

My time on the road away from family and friends and the stresses of “corporate life” gave me time to actually get clear on what I want from this life, and how I can be of service. And ironically, the common thread that I noticed throughout all the countries I travelled was that the happiest people had the least material items. They were the least “conformed” to societal norms we find in North America. The regular pressures of society give the illusion that we need MORE to be happy, when in reality, humans can be much happier with less, as long as they are surrounded by family, community, love, and some aspect of connection to spirituality/religion/”source”, etc…

It was a true inspiration to see how a large portion of the world lives, while we are stuck in a consumerist bubble in North America, just waiting to implode from stress, depression, loneliness, and anxiety. Now my goal is to bring the sacredness of how other parts of the world view life back to North America, and inspire others to live from a place of joy and creativity rather than survival and scarcity.

Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?

After working in the academic and corporate world on geological scientific research for over 12 years, I always felt like my “scientist persona” couldn’t admit there was a “hippy” girl interested in “the wu”/the mystical/the unexplained trapped in my body at the same time. It seemed although I always noticed strange & beautiful synchronicities occurring in my external environment that reflected my internal practises/thoughts, but I felt like I couldn’t share it with colleagues for fear of them misunderstanding me or thinking I was stupid and weird.

Then I discovered a few books such as “Becoming Supernatural” & “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself” and other research by my favourite neuroscientist, Dr. Joe Dispenza. Learning about his meditation and heart-brain coherence research was life changing. It gave me hope there can be a bridge between science and spirituality…as if there was finally scientific proof for how I saw and experienced the world.

This is now how I think about my business and how I live my life on a daily basis. As Dr. Joe Dispenza talks about, when I changed my mindset from unhappy and living in a state of survival to inspired and living in a state of creation, it seemed like dominos would naturally fall in my favour. I found the right people and practises that helped me heal my physical symptoms. I had new educational & business opportunities appear. I met very interesting people at key moments in time. It was like everything was simply “meant to be”.

Now, I try to live every day from a state of appreciation and sacredness, and I invite my clients to do the same. This perspective change greatly enriched my daily life. It helped me to see the beauty in the mundane, feel at peace with monotonous tasks like dishes and laundry, and find ease in the mystery of the unknown of what’s NEXT. How about, what is NOW? How can I soften, NOW? How can I live with more self awareness and be in a state of gratitude with each moment? & TRUST ME, I know it’s not always perfect, and yes, it can be much easier said than done, but practising consistently with conscious awareness does cultivate results with time & perseverance.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @jordan.roberts.wellness and @inner.compass.photography
• Facebook: Jordan Roberts
• Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jordan-roberts-014886162

Image Credits
Hannah Jakobi (@wandering_hannita), Brian Cullum (@briancullum), Trisha Dalli (@33tld)