Meet our awesome team
We're all about health, fitness, veganism, and eating dark chocolate every single day. Wanna work with our amazing vegan personal trainers? Learn more about how you can get the results of your dreams here.
Karina Inkster
(she/her)
Owner and Head Fitness Nut
Founder of the K.I. Health & Fitness, Karina is your go-to vegan health and fitness coach, providing a friendly kick in the butt that inspires and motivates you to live your best, healthiest, most plant-strong life.
Author of 5 books, podcast host, TEDx speaker, 23-year vegan, and lover of chin-ups (and dark chocolate), Karina works tirelessly to ensure her clients skyrocket their energy, confidence, and plant-based health superpowers.
Karina (or Coach K, as her clients call her) holds a Master's degree in Gerontology, specializing in health and aging.
Learn more about Karina (and what she's up to when she's not kicking clients' butts) here.
Kaylin Foisy
(she/her)
Coach and Executive Ninja
Kaylin graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in English and is also a graduate of the Langara Film Arts Program, where she studied writing and production for film and television. Along with being a personal trainer, she’s also certified in yoga, pilates, and active aging, and has been working in fitness for 20 years.
By day, she is a Speaking Rater for CELPIP. In all other waking moments, she is head baker and owner/founder of The Knotty Pretzel Baked Delights, the little home-baking business she runs with her partner-in-crime, Jim. They can be found slinging pretzels, fritters, muffins, squares, and many other 100% vegan treats at the farmer’s market and local events, and have been known to cater a gig or two as well.
Kaylin has been vegan for 20 years and loves finding different ways to move her body each day, which led her to become a personal trainer. Her true passion lies in working with people who experience barriers to fitness, and she's proud to represent this community herself. She appreciates getting outside for a walk in the forest, alongside a lake or the ocean, and camping is her ultimate happy place. She lives in Powell River with her husband Jim and 2 of their 7 children.
Izzy Katz
(she/her)
Communications Head Honcho
Izzy Katz keeps the No-Bullshit Vegan podcast running smoothly, and shares with our online audience awesome vegan content every week.
Izzy is a Main Street Vegan Academy Certified Master Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator. She works with clients worldwide at all stages of their vegan journey. Growing up vegetarian, Izzy became vegan in 2012 following her move from Manchester, England to Vancouver, Canada.
Izzy holds a Law Degree from Manchester Metropolitan University and works with the Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum team at the SFU Stephens Family School of Medicine. She is also the Reservations Manager for the United Players of Vancouver Theatre Company.
In her free time, Izzy can often be found strength training, playing the piano, enjoying live theatre, or dedicating time to her passion for animal rescue. She has previously served as an Assistant Organizer of Vancouver Meatless Meetup, Director of Volunteers for Earthsave Canada, and as both a Foster Parent and Foster Coordinator for VOKRA, a Vancouver-based cat rescue organization.
Izzy lives in beautiful White Rock, BC with her vegan husband Carl and sassy rescue kitty Buttercup.
Your workouts have really carried me through some hard things in the past two years; going to the gym after work was like my safe space and "me time". I started my fitness journey like most people with a body composition goal in mind, but now it's become more about my mental health and feeling super strong. I just wanted you to know how important I think your work is.
Also, I've worked with some other coaches in the past and you have really set the standard and made me realize what a coach should actually do. Thank you for listening and making me feel "seen".
Wendi
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