Stacie Valley is a decorated entrepreneur and resides as the owner of The Happy Journey Company LLC, and her journey has been a very colorful one. Having graduated with a BBA in Accounting from Prairie View A&M University, Stacie has held many rewarding roles within her accounting career. However, to accompany this career, she discovered and courageously sought her passion for motivating others through fitness, nutrition and personal development.
In 2008, she began hosting celebrity interviews by way of a friend from her acting class that convinced her she had the chops to do it. On July 18, 2008, Stacie interviewed the late Hector “Macho” Camacho on the night of his boxing match. Later that year, she became certified as a Group Fitness Instructor by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) and immediately saw these gifts of communication and wellness as her calling in life. She shares that this calling led to her creation of the Life & Fitness Show in August of 2009. Although the show was recorded in the living room of her parents’ home in Beaumont, TX, she held onto a bible scripture that encouraged her to never despise small beginnings. In fact, she pitched this talk show to one of Oprah Winfrey’s casting directors during a 2010 casting call in Dallas, TX, for Oprah’s mini-series titled “Your Own Show”. Receiving a call back audition from this feat was all the ammunition she needed to pursue this dream.
In 2011, Stacie obtained her Zumba Fitness Instructor Certification, purchased her first LLC to authenticate this calling and confidently branded herself as a Health and Fitness Professional and Lifestyle Media Personality. She has hosted several professional events and conferences and has provided fitness instruction to many corporate clients. Her most rewarding project during this time was her creation and development of The Dream BIG Dallas Show, a talk show designed to help others achieve their dreams and to win in life.
From 2013 to 2020, Stacie was hired by Life Time Fitness as a Group Fitness Instructor and recounts this experience as some of the most memorable times in her life. She admits that Life Time Fitness will always be her “home”.
In 2016, Stacie launched The Happy Journey Company LLC. In 2019, she obtained her Fitness Nutrition Specialist certification through the National Association of Sports Medicine (NASM) and continued to renew her group fitness instructor certification. Still with a belief that she could, Stacie obtained the Frisco Athletic Center and Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis (CBRE) as corporate wellness clients.
In April 2022, Stacie became certified by the CaPP Institute as a Personal & Executive Life Coach.
In February 2023, she reached a milestone by partnering with Real News PR to record and host the pilot episode of The Stacie Valley Show. This is a love project that she defines as her “purpose” in life because it marries all her gifts and reveals her passion for encouraging others to live healthy, happy & whole lives.