Meet Tristin Chiafullo of Cypress

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tristin Chiafullo.

Hi Tristin, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I’ve taken a non-linear path to the work I do today, but in many ways it’s always carried the same thread: helping people create stability, clarity, and strength during periods of change.

I learned early how to adapt, which made me highly independent, resilient, and deeply observant. I became someone people naturally trusted and confided in, and that instinct—to listen, simplify complexity, and create order out of chaos—followed me into adulthood. In my early twenties, I began working as a home organizer, helping clients transform not just their spaces, but their sense of control, calm, and self-trust.

Over time, my career evolved through journalism, communications, real estate sales, and eventually health and fitness. While those roles may seem unrelated on the surface, each reinforced a core belief I now center my work around: environment shapes behavior, pressure erodes agency, and sustainable change requires intention—not force.

My passion for health and fitness emerged from both curiosity and necessity. After watching my parents and extended family struggle with preventable, lifestyle-driven disease, I became deeply committed to the idea that aging does not have to mean decline. I rebuilt my own health and strength later in life and pursued certification as a personal trainer and nutrition coach—not for aesthetics, but to understand how disciplined, intentional choices preserve capability, vitality, and quality of life as we age. Personal agency became non-negotiable.

That work naturally expanded into coaching women navigating major life transitions—career shifts, loss, identity changes, and chronic pressure. Today, my focus is intentional living: helping women, particularly over 40, reduce internal and external pressure, reclaim agency over their bodies and environments, and create lives that support longevity, clarity, and self-respect.

I work deeply and selectively because I believe meaningful transformation happens in contained, intentional spaces. Everything I’ve lived and learned—across reinvention, resilience, and integration—has led me here. My path hasn’t been about climbing a ladder; it’s been about building a life with intention. This chapter feels like the most aligned one yet.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has definitely not been a smooth road. The last several years, in particular, have been a prolonged season of uncertainty, financial strain, and constant recalibration. I’ve had to rebuild more than once—professionally, personally, and emotionally—often without the safety nets people assume are there.

There were long stretches where I kept going based on conviction rather than comfort. I continued to do the work, serve clients, and show up with integrity even when external stability was lacking. The feedback and transformations I witnessed along the way became confirmation to keep moving forward, even when progress didn’t look linear or conventional.

Those years tested my resilience, patience, and faith in a way nothing else ever has. They also clarified what truly matters to me: personal agency, responsibility, and the belief that meaningful work is built through consistency and character, not shortcuts. While the road has been difficult, it shaped the depth, discernment, and steadiness I bring to my work today. I wouldn’t be able to support others through challenge and transition if I hadn’t lived it myself.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
My work centers on intentional living and personal agency. I coach women—primarily over 40—who are navigating periods of transition and pressure to rebuild strength, clarity, and self-trust across their environment, body, and inner life. I specialize in helping women move out of chronic survival mode and into sustainable, intentional ways of living that support long-term health, capability, and peace.

What I’m known for is my ability to simplify complexity and make change practical. I help clients connect the dots between their physical health, daily environment, mindset, and decision-making—because lasting change doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens when those pieces are aligned. My background spans home organization, health and fitness, nutrition, and coaching, which allows me to work holistically rather than through a single lens.

I’m most proud of the consistency and integrity with which I’ve shown up for clients during some of the most challenging seasons of my own life. Even when my path wasn’t easy or linear, the impact on the people I worked with was real and lasting. Helping women reclaim agency over their bodies, their spaces, and their choices—especially later in life—is deeply meaningful to me.

What sets me apart is depth and discernment. I don’t offer surface-level motivation or one-size-fits-all solutions. I work intentionally and selectively, creating contained spaces where real transformation can occur. My approach is grounded, disciplined, and rooted in lived experience. I believe we have far more control over our quality of life, health, and longevity than we’re often led to believe—and my work is about helping women access that truth in a way that’s sustainable and empowering.

Can you share something surprising about yourself?
Something that often surprises people is how quiet and humble my life actually is. From the outside, I think I can appear very put-together and grounded, and while that’s true in many ways, what people don’t see is how much of this path has been walked alone.

I’ve built my work without family support, without a safety net, and after the loss of my father, who was my primary source of emotional support. This work can be deeply rewarding, but it’s also solitary, and choosing authenticity, clarity, and discernment has meant letting go of relationships that no longer aligned. You learn quickly who your real friends are when you stop performing and start living intentionally.

People are often surprised to learn how simple my life is. The richness I carry isn’t about excess or image—it’s about lifestyle choices. Presence. Health. Discipline. A well-lived day. I believe those things should be mainstream, not rare. Being connected to yourself and your environment isn’t complicated, but it does require intention.

That belief is at the heart of everything I do. If not now, when?

Pricing:

• $3000
• $1800
• $800

Contact Info:

• Website: https://stan.store/Tristintentional
• Instagram: @tristintentional_coaching and tristintentional_living
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tristin1203
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristintentional/

Image Credits
All photos taken by me.