Meet Our Founder
Sophie Campise is a former D1 athlete turned wellness expert with over 15 years in the industry.
She has a master's degree in Sports Management and Entertainment Operations, and a law degree with a certificate of specialization in International and Comparative Law.
She has 500+ hours of formal post-degree study in the wellness industry, with certifications ranging from Buddhist Studies to Kundalini Yoga and breathwork to Reiki, psychedelics facilitation, and ontology.
She has devoted her life to exploring the intersection between human performance, fulfillment, and overall well-being.
“The more people evolve, the less a wellness industry that is hyper-focused on the physical body - or a single modality - is going to cut it. It will simply stop working.
People are going to need to address total wellbeing – mind, body, spirit, emotion – consistently … just to feel okay on a daily basis. And they are going to need accessible, sustainable support to do that.”
Hear from Sophie.
My background is in sports. I was a D1 athlete in college at the University of Texas and at the University of Alabama. When I was 18 years old, I was fully in the midst of my dark night of the soul.
It was a chaotic, confusing, lonely, and sad time, riddled with ups and downs, depression, anxiety, extremism and getting myself in unsafe situations. Culminating with me ending up in jail.
At the time, late-teens was relatively early for someone to be going through such a massive awakening. There weren't a lot of examples around me to look to for what I was experiencing. And there wasn’t a lot of proper support … and I say proper because there were a lot of things given to me, but they didn't actually support me. I was given pharmaceuticals. I was sent to traditional psycho-therapy. I was punished and threatened to be kicked off of teams … which didn’t work because I wasn't actually doing anything wrong. I was fully in the midst of rapid evolution and growth, going through my dark night of the soul, and trying to make sense of the world around me and my place in it…
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I was smart, I was well-educated. I was a high-performer in athletics at one of the top universities in the nation. But I was confused and struggling and suffering hugely.
I looked around me and was surrounded by otherworldly individuals who were performing at the top of their sport – Olympians and soon to be NFL and NBA players – and they were struggling too. I was experiencing firsthand what it was to feel like I had a lot of potential, but I felt like a fraction of myself. I felt like I was barely scratching the surface of what was possible for myself and my life. And I saw it with everyone that I was surrounded by.
How could there be this much talent in these people and myself, but so much suffering, addiction, anxiety, depression … so much harm being caused to self and to others? How is it possible to be at one of the top university athletic departments in the world, yet I felt like I was barely making it most of the time.
All I could hear in my head over and over again was … “there has to be something I’m missing.”
And that was the initiation to my destiny.
Supported evolution and transformation, human performance, purpose, true fulfillment, feeling okay on a daily basis. I wouldn’t stop until I had answers to these questions and concrete, practical solutions to the problems.
That was over 15 years ago.
Fast forward, I got my master's degree in Sports Management and Entertainment Operations, and then went to law school at Tulane Law School in New Orleans where I studied International and Comparative Law with a focus on human rights law and asylum law.
As an athlete, I was 24/7 tapping into high-performance, productivity, how to push beyond boundaries, how to push beyond what we think is possible. It was go, go, go, and it was physical mastery to the max day-in and day-out.
When I moved to New Orleans, I began a journey of finding myself outside of sports for the first time. I started to formally explore the subtle … subtle energies and the non-physical aspects of overall wellbeing. I started formally studying different avenues of wellness and wellbeing. Starting with traditional Buddhist meditation, then it expanded into yoga, plant medicine, psychedelics, shamanism, breathwork, reiki, energy healing, and ontology.
The more aspects of myself I explored, the more I started really seeing how simply performing at your peak is not the answer to feeling okay on a daily basis, and it wasn’t the answer to feeling fulfilled in life.
High performance and physical performance was one aspect, but it was not the end-all be-all, and I hadn't been taught the other things yet. Every time I explored a different modality, I found something else that supported my total, overall wellbeing.
I started Ren to be everything that I didn't have and that I wished I would have had when I was 18 years old going through my dark night of the soul and rapid evolution.
Ren is here so that people have ACTUAL, proper, practical, realistic, and accessible support and resources during life, evolution, or periods of transition and transformation.
Ren is there to decrease harm during these chaotic and confusing times. To decrease the amount of time it takes to progress through the transformative time.
Ren Wellbeing has evolved into a resource – an indispensable resource – for someone who is going through life or major transformation. Life often feels like chaos and insanity, and if often feels like we are just trying to keep our heads above the water. Where do we start when we are in these places?
Or for someone who is sensitive and awake and needing support and tools for how to navigate everyday life and their careers and relationships, Ren is here.
Or for a person further along on their path of evolution, who is craving more access to more support but can't afford full consistency with their support system.
As more and more people continue to go through massive and rapid transformation and evolution – whether it's through life experiences that hit them on the head, or psychedelics use, or a deep meditation practice – they need more access to more tools and more support. And people will continue to be in need of more than just a physical-focused wellness industry.
Ren is here to help people elevate their support system.
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Creation Process: “I create things from a space of stewardship, meaning I do my best to keep myself out of the way so that the vision can come into form in its purest essence.”
Standards: “I have high standards for quality and authenticity, and I have the courage to stick by them. I am not afraid to turn someone or something down if I don’t feel that it meets the core values of what we stand for.”
Human Design: “My Human Design! I’m a 2/4 Projector. By design as a projector I am here to improve systems and make life easier and more effective for people. As a 2/4 I learn and pick things up quickly … but I also have to navigate the delicate balance between the hermit (the 2) and the networker (the 4). One of my biggest shadows is when I get too into my hermit side. I have to push myself beyond the hermit in me and embrace the networker to really be living in alignment.”
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“My promise to anyone that uses Ren is that they will have tools that will actually support them in their process of awakening and transformation.
And I promise that these tools will decrease confusion, decrease unnecessary suffering, decrease overwhelm and harm caused to themselves and their relationships … and I promise Ren’s tools will increase their ability to navigate their life path in the way that I believe it should be … which is with curiosity, a learner's mind, effective action that fulfills true goals… and wonder.
When we are in effective action during times of profound transformation, absolute magic and gold is created. True alchemy. I want to show people HOW to access that, and how to fully take advantage of the magic and power that is available to them in these profound times of transformation.”
Work with Sophie
Unlock the full potential of your wellness routine
Now with more to offer than ever before, the Ren Wellbeing app makes building consistency in your wellness routine seamless so that you can stay committed to your best life, every day.
Wellness on-the-go: Live, expert-led sessions and classes to choose from daily wherever you are in the world.
Customize your schedule: Export any session directly to your Google or IOS calendar so you never miss a session.
Notifications and reminders: Get notifications and reminders for sessions and upcoming events, ensuring you stay on track with your wellness goals.
And more: Don’t see a session or practitioner that you love? Let us know and we will get it on the calendar.
