- January 29, 2025
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Hailey Nolin loves to be a “yes” girl.
She loves to say yes when help is needed — when someone asks her to find a solution to a problem, whether it be a matter of fitness, nutrition or just daily life. It’s about helping making their lives better and easier, she said.
“I know that I love when people do that for me, and they say, ‘What can I do to help you?’” Nolin said. “That just means so much to me. It means the world to me, even if they don’t do anything. It’s the thought that matters, and the weight is lifted off my shoulders just by someone thinking to ask me that question.”
Helping others was the inspiration for her to launch her own fitness and nutrition coaching business in 2021. A coach at East Ormond Beach CrossFit, Nolin said she loves to help educate people on healthy lifestyles.
In November, she quit her full-time job to focus all her time on her business.
“It really just fuels my fire to help others in whatever they need in their life,” Nolin said. “The reason I do one-on-one coaching with people is because everybody’s different.”
Fitness has always been a part of her life. Growing up, she was consistently on different sports teams — gymnastics, basketball, weightlifting, the latter of which was thanks to her stepdad, who encouraged and trained her in the sport.
After graduating from Seabreeze High School, Nolin took up CrossFit, which led to her interest in nutrition. As she was regularly doing such a high-intensity workout, she found she needed to eat more food.
It made her passionate about teaching others not to be afraid of food. After all, her favorite food group is cookies.
“When people come to me and they want food advice, if I say that to them, they’re almost shocked and then they don’t know what to do with that information,” Nolin said.
Her love of food also connects her to her late grandfather, who died about four years ago. When she was a kid, she would walk to her grandparents’ house every day after school. Her grandfather was Sicilian, and a cook good.
“Every time I think of picking up produce, I think of him,” Nolin said. “Because I think, ‘Oh my gosh, he could do so many things with this tomato.”
Previous Standing O nominee Ashley Young, who nominated Nolin for this year's recognition, said Nolin is always in a good mood.
I want to list all the adjectives to describe her character and personality: creative, compassionate, quirky, honest, resilient, curious, bubbly, optimistic, ambitious, frugal, and fun. Although she is all those things and so much more, it really comes down to how Hailey makes me feel. She gives me hope." — ASHLEY YOUNG, 2024 Standing O
Describing her as creative, compassionate, quirky, honest and optimistic, Nolin is “always encouraging and an absolute ray of sunshine,” Young said.
“You’re almost waiting for her to slip-up … but there isn’t a mean bone in her body,” Young said. “I love being around her and want to be like her. So happy to have Hailey in my life.”
When she meets new clients for her business, she always asks them to do a “destination postcard,” a visualization of where they want to be at the end of their fitness journey. What does hers look like?
“I think that my destination postcard would like me being happy, which I’m happy now, but I want to continue to be happy,” Nolin said. “... I think would have me swimming, being able to be healthy and feel good — my joints feel good, no ailments, no pain.”
Nolin’s boss at EOB CrossFit recently told her most people only have the ability to make a strong impact on about four people. Nolin wants her number to be closer to 100, or even more than that.
Helping her community through fitness and nutrition gives Nolin purpose, she said.
“It makes me feel like I’m contributing to this small town that we live in, in a good way,” Nolin said.
Visit Haileynolin.com.
