ABOUT
What happened to Jade Teta
If you knew me from the metabolism world... the workouts, the hormone programs, mind, muscle and metabolism... and you have wondered where I went, here is the honest answer: I did not disappear. I went deeper.
The psychology was always there. I finally led with it.
Here is what most people missed: the psychology was in my work from the very beginning. It was mind, muscle, and metabolism... the mind came first in that phrase for a reason. I just did not lead with it. For years, metabolism was out front and the deeper work sat quietly in the background.
But I kept hitting the same wall. No matter how good my information was, no matter how hard we worked the habits and the workouts, it did not hold. People changed for a while, then slid back. Over time it became impossible to ignore: the problem was almost never the plan. It was the person underneath the plan.
So I kept moving the most important part forward... from metabolism, to mindset, to the thing underneath mindset: identity, the story a person carries about who they are. The work was always mine. I finally just started leading with it. And when I did, I saw changes I had not seen in twenty years of doing it the old way.
I have been remade more than once
My life has not been one collapse. It has been a series of them, in stages, over many years... and each one made me more honest.
The first and one of the deepest came twelve years ago, when my marriage to Jill ended. She is one of the great teachers of my life, and we are best friends to this day. I tell that whole story in my book You Grow Me. That ending taught me what I now teach: growth asks you to become more honest, more humble, and more yourself... even when it costs you.
Much more recently, that came for my career. I had spent years in a corner of the health and fitness industry built on high-pressure, hard-sell marketing that never fit me, and I had quietly wanted out for a long time. Then the world got loud. Watching what happened around COVID, I saw a field I loved become more interested in picking a side than in quietly doing good medicine for the person in front of it. Then a perfect storm hit my work and my businesses at once. It was painful. But I no longer believe it was an accident. That old professional life was collapsing because I had already outgrown it.
So I went back to school. I started a PhD in transpersonal psychology... the study of consciousness and human transformation... and wove it together with everything I already knew about the body. The biology and the belief. That is Next Level Human.
The credentials, plainly
- Doctorate in Natural MedicineND
Naturopathic doctor, licensed in California and Washington. - Twenty years as a clinicianclinic
Functional and integrative medicine. - Degree in biochemistryscience
Where the body half of the work began. - Advanced work in psychology and philosophytraining
Plus a stint as a couples counselor. - PhD in progresscurrent
Transpersonal psychology, specialising in consciousness and transformation. - Continuing education providerCEU
IFM, ACAM, A4M, PLMI and others. Contributor to the Textbook of Natural Medicine.
Nine books
Nine books, including Next Level Human, Next Level Metabolism, Human 365, You Grow Me, Antidote to Asshole and Next Level Tribe.
The four I would hand a stranger first: You Grow Me (with Emily Gough), on what love actually asks of two people. Next Level Human, the model behind all of this. Human 365, a year of daily practice. Antidote to Asshole, on what to do with the people who hurt you, yourself included.
The daily work lives at Next Level Human.
The free rooms, the six-minute quiz that names the story running you, The Human Game, and the practitioners I train. Start there.