About Olivia

Olivia is not just a survivor, but a thriver. She grew up in Miami Beach and began practicing yoga at age 15 and discovered boxing after college. Her daily commitment physically trained her mind mentally, resilient, to flow through the fight, find ease through resistance no matter what challenge life presented her with. After attending French Culinary Institute post Boston University, she worked at Food & Wine Magazine and then went in house for the Altamarea Group, a globally renowned hospitality group, owned by Ahmass Fakahany, former President & COO of Merrill Lynch & Co., and chef Michael White to develop and execute a PR framework for the fast growing group. Expanding on her daily role at Altamarea Group as Brand & Communications Director, Young co-founded OY & Co., and Pound for Pound, hospitality consulting and brand development firms.Despite her food focused career filled with Michelin starred feasts, Young was committed to her daily 5am wake-up and fitness regimen at local studios.Olivia’s daily focus on a balanced lifestyle thru food + fitness is her lifelong passion and much of which inspired her to open box + flow in NYC, the first fitness studio focusing on the integration of fight + flow. “THE COMBINATION OF BOTH EXERCISES BROUGHT HER A LEVELED EMPOWERMENT, CHANNELING HER STRENGTH + SOFTNESS. IT WAS THIS BALANCE, PHYSICAL + MENTAL THAT LED HER TO SEEK MORE IN HER PROFESSIONAL LIFE.”

Olivia was driven to help heal others as she had been healing — but without knowing, what. She opened her first studio on Bond Street without having taught a class and her second studio four years later, February 2020, three weeks before Covid shutdown. The doors of her studios said, “Everything You Need is Inside,” and yet, she didn’t even know what that meant at the time — it wasn’t until after she closed her studios that she was called to dig in. Never having done “drugs” before, on a Colonic Table in Chelsea, everything in her life feeling stuck, she heard her calling and it wasn’t long before she jumped into a 3 year journey of “facing herself to free herself,” as the walls of her studios said, to learn why she’d felt shut down most of her life, but costumed it well with over achieving. Olivia began to uncover 30 years of subconcious sexual trauma, that which was holding her back from living a life filled with love from within. As she dove deeper into the work, she uncovered many modalities along with plant medicine that helped her save her own life and now writes, speaks and coaches others to do the same, to stop existing and start living, to overcome the pain their experiencing and find the love that has always been there, just hiding. Today, she is proud for the journey she has taken, the darkness she has seen, because she can fully live in the light, trusting that which she has always preached but never fully believed -- and finding self love and self trust begins within.