My Story — Kimberlee Jennette, Founder, Nurse, Teacher, Writer, Whole-Person Advocate
About Kimberlee Jennette
Kimberlee Jennette is a nurse, whole-person advocate, writer, speaker, and founder of Elitarc whose work explores how we live, care, age, and continue becoming throughout our lives.
Health is never only about what happens inside the body.
A perspective shaped by more than twenty years of care
For more than twenty years, her career in healthcare has taken her from public health and home care to intensive care, organ donation, and transplant coordination. Working alongside patients, donors, families, healthcare teams, and communities during some of life’s most consequential moments shaped a perspective that continues to guide her work. Our environments, relationships, responsibilities, identities, and the lives we are trying to build matter, too.
Over time, that curiosity about the whole person led Kimberlee beyond traditional clinical care and into yoga, mindfulness, wellness, and healthy aging. Different disciplines kept bringing her back to the same observation: people often have more possibility available to them than they can see from where they are standing.
Today, Kimberlee is the founder of Elitarc, a whole-person wellness company built around helping people live, age, care, and lead well. She is also the creator and host of Hardly Over, where she challenges conventional narratives about midlife, aging, identity, and reinvention, and writes The Huddle, a space for ideas, reflection, and practical ways forward.
In late fall 2026, that work will expand to local television in the Philadelphia area with It's Hardly Over, a cable series exploring how people, businesses, communities, and neighborhoods continue to evolve — and what becomes possible when we remain open to what comes next.
At the center of it all is a simple belief: who we have been does not determine the limits of who we can still become.
Whole-Person Advocate
My work began with a question,
not a career.
I wanted to understand what shapes a life — not just how we get well, but how we live, grow, and evolve.
Public health gave me the first answers. I studied the connection between people, their environments, and their communities — and the more I learned, the more clearly I saw the gap between what people needed and what systems were built to provide.
I didn't want to just study that gap. I wanted to stand inside it. That decision led me to nursing.
For more than twenty years, nursing took me into people's lives in ways I never could have planned — intensive care, home care, and years spent in organ donation and transplant coordination, working alongside donors, families, care teams, and communities at some of the most consequential moments of their lives.
The settings changed. The people changed.
The questions stayed the same.
Why do some people see possibility where others see none?
What happens when life gets so full of responsibility that we lose sight of ourselves?
And why, after a lifetime of becoming, do we talk about aging as if becoming is supposed to stop?
Those questions followed me beyond the clinical setting — into the body, the mind, and the breath. Yoga and mindfulness became less a departure and more a continuation: different language for the same pursuit.
Eventually, I saw the thread running through all of it.
People often have more possibility in front of them than they can see from where they're standing.
Sometimes the view is simply crowded.
That belief is at the center of my work now: helping people see themselves and their lives more fully — beyond circumstance, expectation, and the stories that tell us who we are supposed to be.
That is what it means to me to be a Whole-Person Advocate.
That is what it means to be a Whole-Person Advocate.
Philosophy & Beliefs
We are always
becoming.
There is no final version of us. We live, learn, change, and begin again.
Reinvention has no expiration date.
Where you are is information,
not a verdict.
Responsibility and grace belong together. We can take responsibility for what is ours to change without shaming ourselves for everything that brought us here.
A well-lived life is intentionally curated.
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