Erin is a well-being Advocate, Project Manager, and Visionary
Erin was born to parents who embarked on their own holistic journey in the 1970s by practicing a macrobiotic lifestyle and farming organically. When she was just a couple of years old, she was tagging along to summer camps and events organized by her parents to promote a macrobiotic lifestyle and heal the body.
They were trailblazers on many levels and chose to raise their children differently than other families around them.
When Erin was eleven, her father decided to take her and her siblings out of public school. Her adolescence and teenage years were spent working in their health food stores, selling at farmers’ markets locally and in New York City, raising organic vegetables on the farm, and helping to take care of the family.
Life became her education; she met visitors on the farm from all over, such as Cambodian and Lao refugees, an exchange student from Wales, and a bike messenger from New York City. “School” also included making change at the farmer’s markets and helping her father with Lotus 123 spreadsheets.
She continued on a holistic path, moving at nineteen to Northern California, where she studied massage therapy and holistic health counseling and worked in a herb and vitamin store, which would become a significant part of her training. There, she became the Chinese herb buyer and assistant manager working alongside Western herbalists and acupuncturists.
This position led to working in the Natural Products industry for nearly 20 years as a clerk, buyer, manager, sales rep, and nutritional product educator for top supplement brands.
Erin has completed training in online and social media marketing and purpose-driven entrepreneurship. She has assisted small businesses, writers, non-profits, and health practitioners with online marketing and content management.
She has continued to assist the family business over the years by making fermented foods and vending with her family at festivals.
Erin has studied dance extensively since she was a teenager, including Jazz, African, Brazilian, and Cuban Salsa dance styles.
She has lived on both the East and West coasts of the United States and in Baja, Mexico, and considers herself a nomad. Erin is just as comfortable in a big city as she is living off the grid using a compost toilet. She loves to explore and connect to vibrant communities where music, dance, well-being, and sustainability are part of living.