Valerie Waters

Red Carpet Ready Transformational Bootcamp is back for fall session!
We start Monday, November 7th. Let’s put some fitness in the bank before the holidays. 💪❤️
Sign up link is in my bio ❤️
Feel free to DM or email for more info!
-

I love September! The last few slow days of Summer but with the bubbling excitement of Fall energy and what that will bring.

I’m still in the middle of a renovation up in the mountains but I welcome the routine of Fall. Clients tend to get back on a consistent schedule and my own workouts do the same.

I’m going to enjoy the Holiday weekend and then I’m ready to put more energy into my renovation so I can finish it up and move back to LA. I’ll be sharing pics soon

Happy September!

Enjoying my coffee while watching the sun come up through the trees and waiting for the Blue Jays to grab their peanuts.

I love this sweet quiet time in the morning. It’s delightfully cool with a soft breeze. The birds are chirping and my pups snuggled close by.

Soon the morning will get busy with clients and my renovation to-do list but, right now, I’m enjoying the moment. I hope you are too!💕

The joy of riding a wave is undeniable. Whether on a surf board, boogie board or even just your body, it is equal opportunity joy.

I had planned to take a surf lesson today but the sets were too big for me to feel safe.

So instead, I chose to ride on my boogie board and had so so much fun.

I call this a touchstone activity. When you can’t do that thing you really want whether that’s because of an injury, fear or conditions, instead of opting out completely, do the thing that gets you closest to that feeling. I promise, my joy was not diminished because I chose to switch floating device.

There are still a few weeks of summer left. Get out there and savor it. And when it’s time to rest, grab a juicy book and crawl back in bed. I just fined The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Paper Palace. Both were delightful.

☀️ #🏄‍♀️

My last day in LA was perfect. I walked my dogs early when the weather is just lovely.

Then I saw a couple of my favorite clients/friends, and for a workout and good bye hug.

Later, I chilled poolside and finished book and after that, capped it off wine and sushi with one of my favorite people

If you didn’t know, I moved to Lake Arrowhead last fall to renovate a little cabin in the woods. I love it but LA was calling and I answered. So I rented a guesthouse for 2 months and had the best summer ever!!!

I’ll be back but bye for now LA. Thanks for the memories.

It takes hard work to reach your goals or even define them. But if you don’t carve out time for yourself and what’s important to you, you put others needs first (kids, boss, partner) and you sacrifice your dreams.

I’m not saying this is easy. But sometimes you have to be your best advocate. It might mean getting up at 5am to train or write or study. It’s hard. I’ve been there.

But not making those sacrifices like sleep or laundry etc, means, that thing you really want (degree, business, new app, health, relationship) gets sacrificed.

So beautiful soul, what’s it going to be? You do get to choose, even if it feels really really hard.

Happy 4th of July!

Remember, we always have freedom of what we pay attention to. So just for today, maybe you tune out the noise of the world, the things that aren’t working in your life and the people you disagree with and focus instead on the beauty and joy all around no matter how small.

Notice the sun on your face or the chirp of the birds. Maybe you, like me can have joy of puppy snuggles in the morning and a great workout or dive into any body of water. Maybe you are with friends and family and you can enjoy meaningful connection and some deep belly laughs. Do not think these are too insignificant to give your attention to.

It’s the small moments of beauty and joy that make our lives delicious. Go forth and have fun!!

Keep your pups inside if there are fireworks in your area. And make sure they feel safe.

🇺🇸

This has been my mantra for more than 20 years. It’s propelled me and hundreds of clients to get to the gym or yoga studio, to go for a run or just do a home workout.

No matter how much you don’t feel like doing it, you will be so happy you did, once it’s done.

Exercise can shake off a bad mood, it can unleash creativity and give you more energy. So let’s go. Push yourself to do your workout. You can thank me later.

Appetizers for dinner are one of my favorite ways to eat on these beautiful summer evenings. A graze board, a glass of wine, good company and warm summer night, I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be.

I just love summer so much and I’m ready to revel in it!

Light the world up with your laughter and joy. Life if is meant to be savored and shared.

Thank you for making me laugh today ! My heart is full. This introvert loves people, just not too many, all at once. One on one with soul baring chats is my jam. Laughter is the icing on the cake.

Wordle 345 2/6

🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Feeling rather proud of myself.

Another amazing day surfing with ! He is a professional surfer, amazing surf coach and just a lovely person.

Evan has an incredible amount of patience and helped me get comfortable in the water again. It’s been 3 years since I’ve surfed and I wasn’t good 3 years ago. So, I’m basically starting over, with a creakier body and no paddle strength. And yet….It is still so incredibly fun!!!! have two more days of surf lessons and I’m already dreaming of coming back in September.

If you find yourself in kauai and have dreamed of learning to surf, book some sessions at I promise you will love it! 🏄‍♀️🌴🏄‍♂️💕

First time back in Kauai in 3 years and it’s as magical as I remember. Everything is so lush and beautiful.

The ocean has been divine but even just walking around here feels so good. I’m so grateful to be back here! 🌴💕

Just watched 4 episodes in a row of this new HBO series Julia, about Julia Child.

What an absolute delight this show is! Now I’m watching old clips with her and thinking I need to make one of her famous recipes!!

The HBO show does a great job of showing why home cooks everywhere fell in love with Julia.

Pic credit: HBO

I love this woman ! We hadn’t seen each since pre-pandemic, and then it was like no time had passed.

It was just so fun to sit and catch up! I’m so grateful for our friendship and for the world opening up again. I missed days like this. I’m more of a one on one or small group person and deep soulful conversation is my jam! 💕

Having a snow day up here in the mountains and I love it!! Staying cozy in front of my 🔥 when I’m not outside playing in the snow.

Taking advantage of the quiet to rewrite my intentions and use the magic of 2/22/22 to create even more joy in my life.

If you haven’t already, take a few minutes (or more) to dream and write those dreams down. And then write a couple action steps you can take this week to move you in the right direction.

Less than a year ago, I made a vision board on my phone. It has pictures of cabins in the woods. I now live in one like it. This stuff works!! So dream and then take inspired action and watch your world change.

#2/22/22

I still love this. Sometimes I have to go slow and take more time warming up. Fitness & Workouts] helps me flow into movement when I’m creaky.

Fitness & Workouts]

2 years ago today I brought home this love bug and have completely in love ever since.

Sophie was so quiet and shy in the beginning and happy to just snuggle in close while I read a book or watched a movie.

She is still an A+ snuggler but now she is more adventurous and quite social. She loves everyone! Dogs and humans. She makes me laugh every day and I feel like I live in a constant state of love.

Sophie and her big sister Kaya are the joys of my life.. It wouldn’t be the same without them.

Sophie, I’m so happy I’m your momma. We were meant to be together.

Easy like Sunday morning.

I love my new morning view. I love taking time to just sit and watch the sun through the trees.

I will sit here while I write my gratitude list (feeling very grateful these days) and then do my morning pages. I’m confident my gratitude practice and my journaling propelled me to this new life.

My soul longed to connect more with nature and lean into “slow living “. I’m not all the way there yet but I am consciously making decisions to create a life that allows more time in nature and more time with my pups, Sophie and Kaya who are an endless source of joy.

I have also taken on the renovation of this little cabin in the woods, so it’s not all easy. But I grab the moments where and when I can. 🌲

Happy Halloween from my gold medal champions of love and affection!

Kaya my gsd and Sophie my rescue pup, make my life so much more fun. I love them to the moon and back.

, thank you for the training tune up for Kaya and showering them both with love and affection. I am so grateful. And I love their delightful costumes and photo ops.

I have learned to calm myself and many storms have passed.

The grace and beauty of getting older and having done the work.

There is so much joy and beauty to experience. Maybe minimize the news for a bit and go outside.

Thank you for the love on my previous post. Interior design has become a passion for me.

This is the first room I made over at beginning of lockdown because of course I needed a place to train and all the gyms were closed.

I took a very janky garage and turned it into bonus room. For me, it’s a gym and a laundry room but it could be a kids play room, an office or a game room. It has its own mini split A/C which is so necessary here in the Summer. Sometimes I would just relax in there because the A/C worked so well!

I particularly love my wall bars that allow me to do so many different exercises and attach my bands for rows and more!

I have vinyl plank floors for style and easy cleaning and then a rug for warmth and of course!!

I’m moving!

I bought this home March 2020 with no idea what was about to unfold. By the time escrow closed, I wasn’t even sure I could get movers to move me. Obviously we all know how quickly the world changed.

I found myself locked in a house in a neighborhood I didn’t know and would not really get to explore for a year. My plans to join a gym to meet people was shelved since they were all shuttered.

I threw myself into learning to train people via a zoom which was a god send and amazing and also I spent many hours on Pinterest and YouTube learning about design, renovation and styling. I have to tell you it was a joy! And I got super passionate about it, taking a few online courses to better understand.

I love what I created here. Go to next slide to see where I started.

I love this house! But as the world opened back up and traffic returned, I realized I don’t love Woodland Hills. I miss the west side and all my peeps and favorite spots. I miss the cool breeze.

I think if the pandemic taught us anything, that is life is precious and short. So when I thought of moving, I asked myself, “if not now, when?”

I don’t have to stay. I can let someone else love this house. I’ve gotten so much good feedback and that fills my heart.

And now we have multiple offers and it is time to let someone else enjoy something I had the most fun creating at a crazy weird time.

So on to my new adventure!

I want to share my bathroom renovation!

Usually what I share is fitness, motivation or my doggies but I’m so proud of my bathroom that I have to share! Especially since no one is coming over right now!

I bought this house in Woodland Hills in late February. Closed escrow in mid-March. So I think you can imagine there was some anxiety involved.

It turns out, quarantine is a perfect time to move since I could just stay home and use Pinterest and Instagram to help me design my home. In the past I didn’t trust my instinct or design style and very much relied on my celebrity client’s, designer styled homes.

My home is neither the scale or in the budget of these other homes and what I learned was I prefer a simpler but still beautiful style.

I mostly used Instagram to find my inspiration. Often, the links are posted so I could find the tile and vanity or something similar by following the links.

I made some mistakes along the way but learned you can also return almost everything and I got good at doing just that.

I’m so completely thrilled with my new guest bathroom! I sort of think of myself as a designer now! I love this new creative outlet. We all need things that bring us joy!!

While this is just a small guest bathroom, you have to click through to see the before! Please leave a comment if you like it. I don’t normally share this kind of stuff but I’m just giddy with the results. 🥰

I have finally left quarantine for a couple days!

I have really loved time in my new home and embracing a quieter but very happy life. I can honestly say, while my heart hurts for the world, personally, I’ve thrived during the shutdown.

But I am a beach girl at heart and since Kauai is not in the cards right now, I decided (quite spontaneously) to stay in Malibu for a few days. My intention is to get in the ocean each day, take beach walks or hike and just remember how happy I am when I’m in or near the ocean.

The change of scenery is nice too! I love my home home but Woodland Hills is very hot right now!! Sitting here on the rooftop at is just divine!!

Today is my birthday and I’m snuggled on my couch with new puppy Sophie and reflecting on the year behind and dreaming and the year ahead.

I have much to be grateful for and I love this journal my sister gave me, to get it all down.

There have been many years that I have been a little (or a lot) blue this time of year but not this year. Even though it was a bumpy year, I do believe my gratitude practice carried me through. Each day, I focus on things I’m grateful or that bring me joy. It can be as simple as a lovely text I received from a friend or client. It could be a glorious sunset or it could be this sweet puppy Sophie or my other soul puppy Kaya.

The key is turn my attention towards all the good in my life and give less emotion or weight to what’s not great. That doesn’t mean I ignore it if it’s something that needs to be handled, whether that’s health or finances or relationships, it just means I dwell less.

For me, this is real progress. So for today, Happy Birthday to me and thank you so much for stopping by.

Say hello to Sophie!💕

I’m so completely enamored with this desert beauty. I’ve been staying at the and I just love it. Only two nights and days but it feels longer because of the zen like quality.

I’ve spent a lot of time dreaming, reflecting and journaling. I’ve been in a cocoon since my cancer diagnosis end of December 2018. I do believe I’m ready to emerge, hopefully butterfly-like.

🌵

I’m in Tucson AZ, for the weekend and I almost forgot how beautiful the desert can be. It feels about 80 degrees right now at the magic hour. It’s incredibly peaceful.

I’m staying at the beautiful designed by the couple that brought us

I’ve been following them for a while and just so impressed with what they’ve created here. I feel incredibly inspired by the beauty and design and completely zen at the same time. Tonight is for introspection and just soaking it in. Tomorrow is for hiking and then sitting quietly while I create new workouts for my next Red Carpet Ready Bootcamp, starting October 20th.

I was in a creative lull after my surgery and treatment for bladder cancer and then my move. I finally feel settled and when I sit still, I feel my creativity coming back. It’s such an exciting time in the fitness industry and I want to bring forth something special.

But for right now, I’m going to sit and take in the beauty of the magic hour here in the Arizona desert. 🌵