Sport taught me that talent is never enough.

I started playing basketball when I was eight years old.

By fourteen, I was training at one of France's most competitive women's basketball academies. At eighteen, I left France for the United States, learned a new language and pursued basketball at NCAA level on a full athletic scholarship.

I became a leading point guard and team captain, earned academic honours, was recognised as an outstanding female student-athlete and graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Basketball taught me lessons that still shape everything I do today.

Discipline when motivation disappears.
Resilience when things don't go your way.
The importance of the people around you.
The courage to keep showing up.
And the understanding that confidence isn't something you're simply born with — it's something you build.

But perhaps the greatest lesson came when basketball ended.

For years, being an athlete had been a huge part of who I was.

Suddenly I had to answer a much harder question:

Who am I without basketball?

Then life taught me what performance couldn't.

I earned a Master's degree in International Management and moved to London, where I built a career working with global brands including Nike, Allbirds and Gymshark.

I became deeply involved in leadership, people development, hiring, training and building high-performing teams.

And something became increasingly clear to me.

Whether on a basketball court, inside an organisation or in our personal lives, potential alone isn't enough.

How we understand ourselves, the choices we make, the habits we build and the way we respond to difficulty profoundly influence who we become.

At the same time, my own life wasn't a perfectly straight line.

I went through seasons that forced me to rebuild my relationship with myself, my body, discipline and identity.

Then came motherhood.

Three boys. New seasons. New priorities. And another evolution of who I was becoming.

After my second pregnancy, intermittent fasting became one of the lifestyle tools that helped me reconnect with intentionality around my health.

But what fascinated me wasn't simply fasting.

It was learning to listen to my body rather than constantly fight against it.

That curiosity eventually led me to deepen my education and become a Certified Fast Like a Girl® Coach, trained in the fasting approach developed by Dr. Mindy Pelz.