“Happy Living Expert”
Celebrity Chef and Fitness Trainer

Private Chefs of Beverly Hills (on Food Network)
Bravo’s Workout

1. My favorite vacation getaway?
Santa Fe, New Mexico. The desert offers a peaceful solitude that not many other places provide. When you can look up in the sky and see every single star ever made, you know you’re somewhere special. It’s also the only place I have heard a coyote howl and a desert lute play in one sitting… and that happened when I was completely sober!

2. The best gift you’ve ever (given/received)?
Received: My dog/ best friend/ domestic living partner, Sammy. I know your dog is not like any other dog… but my dog Sammy is really like no other dog I have ever met. He’s a little monk, so peaceful and wise, he always anchors me down when I get too high strung.

Given: I named a star after my boyfriend, Calen. I also gave him a telescope so he could find the location. I knew he loved space and wanted to go there one day… though I couldn’t get him on a NASA shuttle, I figured having a star at least got him in the sky in a cute sort of way. We had broken up three weeks before, but I had already purchased everything so I gave it to him as a sign of good sportsmanship. We got back together soon after that and even lived together. We’re no longer together, but we still get along as friends.

3. What’s currently on your Tivo/iPod?
On my TiVo: Sponge Bob SquarePants and Oprah.

I-pod: Most everything you would find on a 16 year-old girls’ play-list coupled with a few self-help audio books.

4. Your advice for achieving happiness/ideal body/success?
Let Go, Let God. Keep Everything Balance and do as many things that make you feel “yummy” as you possibly can.

5. Your guilty pleasure this week has been: Skinny Cow mint chocolate ice-cream sandwiches.

6. Right now you are so into: The men’s section of Forever 21! Holy Cow… it’s so cheap and yet so frickin’ cool! No one knows you only paid $20 for the jacket; they just compliment it. It’s a like having a dirty little secret.

7. When you need to de-stress: I visit my therapist and take aspin class, something about the crying/sweating combo that really works it out.

Bonus question:
When you were 15… 2 words, “Loud and Proud”

Check out more about Jesse at: www.jessebrune.com