I Wanted Evidence That The Work Was Working

You already know how I feel about evidence.  Document everything.  When it comes to things like coaching or retreats, it's often hard to measure results.

Transformational coaching is powerful. I know this because I have lived it and I have watched women completely rebuild their lives inside of it. But there has always been one thing that has quietly bothered me about the coaching industry, and it's that most coaching has no measurable data.

You feel better and you think more clearly. You sleep differently. You show up in your relationships and your work in a new way. Those results are real,  but when someone asks you to point to the shift, to quantify what changed, the answer is often "I just know."

I have always wanted more than that for the women I work with.  I wanted more than that for myself, because I wanted evidence that the work was working.

That is why I am now including the Viome Full Body Intelligence Test and a DUTCH test as a built-in component of every Mind Body Intensive program.

Imagine what it feels like to be this client...

She is 45 and has a career that she worked her whole life for, and should be proud of. A husband, 2 kids. Her home that looks exactly like the life she worked toward. From the outside, she has everything.

From the inside, she is running on empty and she cannot explain why.

She wakes up tired after a full night of sleep. She reaches for coffee and keeps reaching. She notices she is snapping at her kids in ways that make her feel ashamed. She and her husband are cordial, functional, and somewhere in the last few years they stopped being intimate in the ways that actually matter. She is successful at work but she feels like she is performing a version of herself that she built a long time ago and no longer fully aligns with.

She has tried the things and thrown money at every problem. Clean eating. Therapy. A few supplements her friend recommended. A retreat that felt transformative for about three weeks. She is not depressed exactly...she is not falling apart. She is just quietly, persistently not okay, and she is exhausted by the effort of pretending otherwise.

Her labs come back normal. Her doctor tells her she is fine.

She is not fine.

Here is what I know after two decades of working with humans: What she is describing is not a mindset problem, and It is not laziness or ingratitude. It is a biological and emotional system that has been running in survival mode for so long that it has forgotten what it feels like to actually thrive. Her body has been keeping score for years.

That is exactly who the Mind Body Intensive was built for. And these two tests are how we finally stop guessing and start seeing.

What the Viome Full Body Intelligence Test reveals

The Viome test analyzes three biological samples: stool, saliva, and blood. From those samples it maps your gut microbiome, your oral microbiome, and your cellular and mitochondrial health. It returns over 50 personalized health scores covering digestive efficiency, immune activation, inflammatory activity, cardiovascular health, brain and cognitive function, biological age, and how effectively your cells are producing energy.

For a woman like the one I described above, this test often surfaces things that explain everything.

Her gut microbiome may be producing inadequate levels of serotonin and dopamine, which means her low mood and emotional flatness are not purely psychological. They are biochemical. Her inflammatory markers may be elevated, which explains the fatigue that sleep does not fix and the brain fog that makes her feel slow in meetings she used to run effortlessly. Her biological age may be running several years ahead of her chronological age, which means the way she has been living is aging her faster than the calendar is.

This is not abstract. This is data. And data gives us a place to start.

Inside the MBI, we use your Viome results to personalize your nutrition approach, identify which foods are actively working against your biology, and build a supplement and lifestyle protocol that is designed for your specific microbiome, not a generic wellness template. We track these markers over time so that when you say you feel better six months from now, we can show you exactly what changed and why.

What the DUTCH test reveals

DUTCH stands for Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones. It is an at-home test that measures your sex hormones including estrogen in all three forms, progesterone, and testosterone, as well as your adrenal hormones including cortisol and DHEA. It does not just measure hormone levels. It maps how your body produces hormones, how it uses them, and how it eliminates them. It also includes a cortisol curve, showing how your stress hormone rises and falls across the day, which tells us a great deal about how your nervous system is actually functioning versus how you think it is functioning.

For that 45-year-old client, the DUTCH test told a story she had never been able to name.

Her cortisol curve shows that her body is producing a flood of cortisol in the morning and crashing by early afternoon, which explains why she is wired and anxious before 10am and then running on fumes by 3pm. Her progesterone may be low relative to her estrogen, which contributes to the irritability, the sleep disruption, and the feeling that her emotional responses are disproportionate to what is actually happening. Her DHEA, which is a building block for both estrogen and testosterone, may be depleted from years of chronic stress, leaving her with low libido, low motivation, and a sense of flatness that she has quietly started to accept as just who she is now.

It is not who she is, but it's what her hormones are doing.

Inside the MBI, we take your DUTCH results and use them to inform every layer of the work. We look at your stress response patterns and build a nervous system regulation practice that is calibrated to your actual cortisol rhythm, not a generic breathwork protocol. We look at your hormone metabolism and identify what lifestyle, nutritional, and therapeutic interventions give your body the best chance of rebalancing. Where it is appropriate, we coordinate with a vetted practitioner in your area who can support you clinically. The coaching work and the biological data inform each other the entire time.

Why these two tests together change everything

Viome maps the gut, cellular, and mitochondrial layer. DUTCH maps the hormonal and adrenal layer. Together they give us a picture of what is happening in your body that most women have never seen before, and more importantly, they give us a foundation for a transformation that is measurable.

When you tell me at month four that you are sleeping through the night for the first time in years, we will be able to point to what shifted. When you say that the anxiety you have been managing for a decade has quieted, we will have data that supports why. When you arrive at your retreat in the Dominican Republic and you feel present in a way you had stopped believing was possible for you, we will know what the work actually did.

That is what I mean when I say I wanted evidence. Not just your word that things changed. Proof.

What the Mind Body Intensive includes

The MBI is a six-month private transformation container. It includes weekly one-on-one coaching sessions with a custom workbook, direct text support between sessions, vetted in-person practitioner sessions in your area, and a private 3-night, 4-day retreat in the Dominican Republic to complete the journey - including sound healing sessions, massage, consultations with an herbalist, movement practices, and anything else necessary that will culminate our work together. The Viome Full Body Intelligence Test and the DUTCH Complete test are now woven into the foundation of the program at no additional cost.

We begin with your data, and build your protocol from there. We track what changes.

If any part of you resonates with feeling like something's got to give, and you want to FINALLY figure out what you need, this is the program for you. I want you to know that there is a biological and emotional explanation for why you feel the way you feel, and there is a path forward that does not require you to push harder or want less.

If you're interested in exploring this program more, please click this link to fill out an application and we will respond within 24-hours.

Retreat News

We had an AMAZING time on our Girls Trip this past weekend in Cocotal.  There were 5 of us, we ended up extending the trip to all inclusives after the Villa, and we had an amazing time - especially on the boat and at the Riu party.  Everyone LOVED Alejandro, our in house chef, bartender, and magical human. Sometimes, you need unending joy and sometimes you need unending silence.  I offer both through girls trips and retreats and I am def not mad about it.  We had such a good time that the villa is booked for the second trip next year, and half of the rooms have already been snatched up.  Past girls trip guests get $1000 off and this time, it's a FULL WEEK at Villa 76 in Cocotal for $2500.  Also - it's during Carnival, so we will scoop a table at the parade in Punta Cana!  February 15-21, 2027.  Respond to this email if you want to join us on this one!  Remember - this is not a retreat.  It's a catamaran trip, ATVs, and new for this year -  whale watching, a day trip to Miches and un dia en el rio with a local family.  You will get ALL the Dominican experiences, not just the touristy ones.  Plus, you get to hang out with me.  You'll leave with a story for sure.

Investment Retreat

This is something different than anything I've ever done before.  I have so many people wanting to relocate and desperate for help. They don't know where to live or whether to rent or buy.  They don't speak spanish or they have kids who need schools.  There are a million construction projects, everyone is telling you that an apartment is $5,000 down, and you don't know what's a scam and what's for real.  You want to visit properties but don't know who to trust.  You are Dominican and want to own a piece of your motherland, but you dont have $20k liquid right now to invest.  You want to invest in DR, but you don't know where to start.  This is all I hear in my DMs all day.

So we created a solution.

This September, we are hosting an investment retreat.  5 days of property tours, mindset workshops, private sessions with a financial advisor and economist, realtors, attorneys where you can ask any and all questions about residency, legal protections for your investments, and also spend real time with investors and the expat and immigrant community in DR. Plus, have some fun with me and my friends who have made this place a home.  We will have a BEAUTIFUL  private villa and chef, and you'll get to see what it's really like to live here.  Then, you can decide if investment is for you.

If you're interested in joining us, fill out this inquiry form, and a member of our team will reach out to you about next steps.

Thanks for reading all these updates! All the other kids are just having AI do this stuff, so forgive me for keeping it human.

With love, 

Daniele