Valentina Gaylord is a visionary leader, transformational CEO, 3x founder, global entrepreneur, holistic health coach, elite fitness expert, author, international speaker, and passionate advocate for human potential. Diagnosed in 2012 with debilitating autoimmune diseases, including Bell’s Palsy and Hashimoto’s disease, Valentina transformed her personal struggles into a powerful mission to empower others. Her revolutionary Whole Body Wellness approach harmonizes the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical body, inspiring thousands to reclaim their vitality and purpose.
As the CEO, founder, and owner of three award-winning luxury boutique studios, Valentina set new standards in the fitness industry. Under her leadership (2012 – 2022), her studios earned numerous “Best Of” accolades, awards, and the prestigious Mindbody Visionary Award, celebrated for their innovative programs and exceptional service. This legacy of excellence continues with the 2026 launch of her new fitness brand—a visionary approach that integrates intentional movement, mindfulness, and holistic principles. Her new brand represents a spiritual evolution in fitness and well-being, guiding individuals to align their minds, souls, and bodies while embracing their highest potential and transforming their lives.
Valentina’s expertise draws from collaborations with leading naturopaths, hormone specialists, and intuitive healers. Her holistic methodology has established transformative solutions for misunderstood health challenges, inspiring individuals to reclaim their personal power and live authentically.
A devoted mother, Valentina finds joy and balance as she supports her two children—both Olympic hopefuls in gymnastics and figure skating—alongside their father, Olympic Gold Medalist Mitch Gaylord. Her family has been her most significant source of strength, empowering her to thrive personally and professionally. As a global citizen with dual citizenship, Valentina draws inspiration from her global lifestyle, dividing her time between the United States, France, London, Malta, and the Mediterranean, where art, culture, and philosophy enrich her life and work.
Through her debut book, Well Being (Hay House Inc.), keynote speaking, mentorship programs, and European retreats, Valentina continues to redefine thriving in a fast-paced, modern world. Her message resonates across generations, industries, and cultures.
Join her on this transformational journey—because your most beautiful, vibrant, and empowered life awaits you.
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Kirkus Review, May 2025
Upbeat, engaging strategies to feel empowered in the face of illness.
A look at many aspects of chronic illness from an author who’s been there herself.
Gaylord, who’s been diagnosed with both Bell’s palsy and Hashimoto’s disease, first takes readers through a brief overview of her own time living with chronic illness, discussing things those with similar afflictions have experienced, including feelings of hopelessness (when she writes about days when she could hardly bear to look at herself in the mirror, many readers will immediately relate) and the medical quagmire of befuddled doctors and conflicting diagnoses. She then goes on to address various means of coping, including strategies for improving mental, spiritual, and emotional health during whatever ordeal the reader might be facing. Accompanying each of the book’s segments are brief inset meditations encouraging readers not only to reflect on the different parts of their medical journeys but also to write down their thoughts, chronicling their experiences as a way of feeling more in control. One of the book’s final sections centers around the physical elements of chronic illness, in which Gaylord dispenses some common-sense advice on subjects like clean eating: “If you fuel your body with processed foods filled with chemicals, GMOs, and antibiotics, your body will become problematic,” she writes; “nourishing your body with mindful and colorful nutrients will become essential to your journey.” Much of this advice is winningly heartfelt, though the author repeatedly indulges a weakness for cliches and overgeneralization: “Love is beautiful, soulful, and inspiring,” Gaylord writes in one such passage. “It is graceful, kind, gentle, and patient, and it is precisely what your soul needs in more ways than one.” Still, readers experiencing chronic illness (either as patients or caregivers) will appreciate the text’s unbeatable optimism.
Upbeat, engaging strategies to feel empowered in the face of illness.
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Midwest Book Review, December 2024
Synopsis: Being diagnosed with a chronic illness can be stressful, confusing, and scary -- especially when the path to healing seems to be nowhere in sight. Valentina Gaylord knows this firsthand because she has lived it. She survived a terrifying series of health challenges that started when she was stricken with Bell's Palsy and launched on a years-long journey to recover her health -- which, after exhausting every avenue that conventional medicine could offer, she finally did by turning within.
With the publication of "Well Being: A Story of Healing from Autoimmune Disease and a Guide to Charting Your Own Path to Wellness", Gaylord dissects the course of her own decline from exuberant wife, mother, and fitness entrepreneur to pain-riddled, exhausted, and desperate victim of disease. She details the dedicated and educated response she brought to her debilitating illnesses as she battled to restore her health. And as she tells her story, she invites you to chart your own path of healing in body, mind, and soul.
Drawing on her personal experience and intensive research as well as her work with clients in the boutique fitness studios she founded and owned for over ten years, Gaylord shares exercises and techniques that put mindset, emotional wellness, and spiritual awareness at the forefront of health. In each chapter, she offers thoughtful questions and carefully crafted journal prompts to help you:
Pay attention to your body and listen to its messages for you
Unravel the mysteries of your own health challenges
Start to write your own healing story
Find your way to true well being -- not just renewed vitality, but a new sense of fulfillment
Critique: Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Well Being: A Story of Healing from Autoimmune Disease and a Guide to Charting Your Own Path to Wellness" by Valentina Gaylord is deftly laid out in five major sections: My Story and the Start of Yours; Mental Wellness; Emotional Wellness; Spiritual Wellness; and Physical Wellness. Ideal for the non-specialist general reader wanting an informative, effective, and 'reader friendly' guide to a positive personal transformation, this hardcover edition of "Well Being" from Hay House publishers is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and college/university library Self-Help/Self-Improvement and Health/Well-Being collections.
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