live your one bold, beautiful life

In 2013, I was living in New York City interning for an Israeli cybersecurity firm. In 2026, I work remote as change consultant who lives in a small Texas town.

This site explores the in between….

My experiences working in the Technology and Yoga industry.
What I have seen and learned within the field of change and transformation.
The crossroads that led to career pivots, moments where I lost it all, but through grace, patience, and persistence would find my purpose.

However you are, thank you for being here, now.

JESSICA VALENTINE NELSON

Executive Coach • Speaker • Facilitator • Author, Work Wisdom

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Whether you are looking for recipes, learning journeys, or resources to support your path, I invite you to welcome your whole self here.

This is GuidedbyJessValentine, a platform filled with resources to light your way forward. From whatever messy middle, new beginning, or chapter you’re beginning in your life or career.

Hi, I’m Jessica!

15+ years of professional experience leading change, designing transformational programs, and enabling clients to be a strategic force multiplier.
10+ years as a 500-hour Certified Yoga Instructor, assisting teacher trainings, facilitating programs, and teaching regular classes. Founder of Full Body Studio, an elevated pop-up educational experience in Bastrop County outside of Austin. Teaching style rooted in somatic experience with a steady, spicy, and savory movement experience that leaves you feeling full and whole and less burnout, stressed, or overstimulated. Taught yoga at the world’s largest cybersecurity conference, RSA in San Francisco, California and Executive Women’s Forum in Phoenix, Arizona.
5+ years as a ICF-Certified Coach. Led retreats in Ojai, California, supported private corporate clients, facilitated workshops, individual coaching and transformative small group programs.

previous companies and clients served

I believe meaningful transformation begins when you create space and have the courage to pause, pivot, or process fully.

My life and career has offered wisdom, lessons, and challenges along the way. My hope is that through my platform, Guided by Jess Valentine, brings you value and wisdom to be use your unique lived experience and elements in your life to

When I stopped living my life to please others and began to choose being my whole self, the right people, places, and spaces started to show up and anything misaligned began to slip away…sometimes subtly, other times swiftly.

I share the tools and resources to guide people back to their personal power and professional assets.

I am here to remind you to never give up. I often get texts, calls, voice notes when a friend or former client goes through a shift….a breakup, a job loss, the loss of a loved one, someone on the fence of leaving and leaping while not wanting to abandon their true selves…

My website is designed to educate and inspire you to live YOUR one bold, beautiful life, to the fullest.

Through Guided by Jess Valentine (website/IG/TikTok/Pinterest), I bring you resources to support your mental health, work-life integration, things I love, recipes I create, and what seasonally inspire me.

WHAT YOU NEED TO REMEMBER

To stop playing small to make others comfortable.
To stop procrastinating or avoiding your spiritual gifts.
To stop hiding who you are or what you love.
To embrace the parts of you that make you special.
To own the pieces of your life and career journey that maybe didn’t make sense before.

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