We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jenn Mason a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Jenn, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

I’ve been coaching since 2015 and through my journey I obsessed about doing the next training. I went back to school, I took as many trainings as I could always thinking that it would make me a better qualified coach, Womens health educator and yoga teacher. While all of the training and education did boost my work, I lived in fear of not being good enough with clients or not knowing enough.

I don’t think I’ll ever stop this desire for learning, but instead of equating it as something I have to do to be better, I now see it as something I don’t have to do because I have everything I need within me to support my clients just as I am. Instead of hyper fixating on the next training to “up-level” me, I focus on the skills I already have and work on honing those through practice and embodying the work I do.

Now, I show up genuinely, and not as an expert but as a fellow on a journey like you. I can hold space for my clients and my group sessions because I am actively working on myself.
I am honing in on my intuition and listening to the wisdom I carry from my culture, my ancestors and my life story.

Taking the risk to show up as I am, to take the leap into creating an online store and to start selling ceremonial cacao came from aligning with the things that matter to me instead of chasing after another training. It was in the stillness that I found the thing that makes my work unique and different.
Trusting was the hardest part, listening to my gut despite what other popular coaches were doing and staying true to my values and ethics made the difference.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

I am a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach with a Master’s degree in Integrative Health and Health Science from Saybrook University and a Masters in Women’s Health from Suffolk University .

I specialize in working with heart-centered humans experiencing high levels of stress and overwhelm. While my expertise is working in women’s health, I have worked with thousands of men as well who seek an integrative approach to health and wellness.
In my time as a coach, I have worked with individuals seeking to find balance in their life, align with their purpose, awaken to their core desires and have accountability to reach their goals.

As an integrative wellness practitioner, I help my clients establish daily well-being practices that bring greater calm, clarity, and confidence to their lives. My approach is to follow your lead with how much you are ready to take on, what shifts you want to make, and how much time you have to dedicate to your health and wellbeing. I center my work in compassion and understanding to help us build trust, and accountability.

I find that walking beside my clients helps them achieve real change because they realize they are not alone on the journey. They trust me to hold space for them, and I trust them to be open, honest and real with me.

I use tools like mindfulness practices, yoga, somatic exercises, biofeedback, hypnotherapy and integrative healing practices to help you reconnect to your most alive and confident self.

In addition I am a ceremonial cacao facilitator and offer private cacao ceremonies locally and across the US.
I also provide workshops, retreats and speaking engagements.

At the moment I am training to become a Mayan abdominal belly care provider through The Arvigo Method. As an indigenous woman I feel called to embody and reclaim the work of the healers of my ancestors. It is a constant practice to decolonize how we see and live wellness and what health means to our society, but we start from within by questioning what we have learned and how we have aligned ourselves with practices and beliefs that go against what our body and inner wisdom tells us. As a coach and integrative wellness practitioner, my hope is to help my clients reconnect to that wisdom within them and realign with what is meaningful to them.

If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?

I originally thought I wanted to be a nurse practitioner. I applied to a nursing program and I was waitlisted. I quickly had to pivot and ended up in a PhD program for mind body medicine. In the end it all turned out better that I expected.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

The best thing I did was choose to get my ICF credentials and become a board Certified coach. It made me a very attractive candidate for coaching jobs that gave me the experience I needed to coach different people.

I think there are a lot of coaches who don’t track their work or keep records of their hours. This was a lesson I learned when attempting to qualify for my board certification.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.ceibawellness.com
• Instagram: Ceiba_wellness
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCT8grcc3_jRTU1uqLBDi4gg