“We learn to fight like bad people in here. We fight dirty. We kick balls into throats. We have no mercy. Get used to it.” Welcome to Krav Maga –…
Adina Gillett

Adina hails originally from sunny southern California, but please keep reading. After realizing that her shiny Poli-Sci degree from UCLA meant that she had no job skills, Adina fell into a Technical Writer career thanks to a broken road of sketchy temp jobs. She spent most of the 90’s in high tech until she had her first low tech pregnancy. Adina exited the high-tech world to focus on keeping her two human children alive, and to nurture her third child – Improvisational Comedy. Adina spent most of the next two decades as a company member of Jet City Improv as a performer, teacher, corporate workshop trainer, and director of full-length improvised plays. Somewhere in the middle of that, Adina accidentally became a Hypnotherapist, and currently owns her own practice. Somewhere to the left and across from that, Adina joined the Assistance League of the Eastside – an all-volunteer non-profit that produces critical philanthropic programs to aid local women and families suffering from hardship and violence. When Adina isn’t doing any of those aforementioned things, you very well may find her playing tennis, tending to her goats Scooby and Flapjack, or lamenting that she lives in unincorporated King County which means she can never run for Mayor of Redmond, because she’s pretty sure she could eventually win that.
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There was a time in my life when being shaken awake at 3:00 am likely held a promise of some sort of fun shenanigans. But since having kids, more often…
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Ah, Vegas: the sparkling adult playground offering up every conceivable vice, theatrical performance, bucket list activity (hang out of a helicopter and fire machine guns at desert targets, anyone?), exorbitantly…
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As a 47-year-old woman, I’ve kept myself occupied and even salaried by a colorful variety of pursuits: retail, HR, technical writing, speechmaker, fundraiser, actor, mediator, comedian, and most recently, hypnotherapist.…
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We all have our pet peeves. Slow drivers in the fast lane, loud chewers, fascist pussy grabbers in the White House – you know, little irritants. Recently, at a leadership…
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Body Perception
The Nitty Gritty of Squeezing the Titty: There’s Much More to a Mammogram Than Saving Lives
I know what you’re thinking: Adina has to go get a mammogram, and she’s likely pretty put off about it. I mean, who wants to get a mammogram? For starters,…