I'm Josh Ellis. Medically retired U.S. Marine Corps infantry combat veteran. California State Fire Marshal Certified Fire Officer and Instructor II. Jiu-Jitsu Brown Belt. Certified Integrative Health Coach through the University of Health and Performance. Multi-event, multi-system trauma survivor. Husband to Kortney. Father to three. Devout follower of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ — among many other things.
Life keeps handing me new terrain to learn. Nineteen days on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border earned me the health coaching certification — one more tool for a season that calls for flexibility to keep building what actually matters.
Help veterans and first responders who've been through it — trauma, stagnation, a victim mentality that traps a good man — reconnect to purpose, community, and values. Through my own testimony, real mentorship, and the mat.
You've been through something. Maybe more than one something. This isn't therapy and it isn't a hype program — it's one-on-one coaching that helps you stop running the same tape and start moving toward something again.
Integrative Health and Resilience Coaching for veterans and first responders, combining trauma-informed mentorship, values reconnection work, and Jiu-Jitsu-based practice to address stagnation and reestablish a sense of agency, purpose, and community.
Organizational structure and leadership consulting, drawing on military, fire service, and industrial experience — applying cross-domain pattern recognition to problems that don't have a textbook answer yet.
A portion of this work feeds the Berit Jiu-Jitsu Collective — a nonprofit I started in January, providing Jiu-Jitsu as a prophylactic and restorative therapeutic for veterans and first responders through a collectively bargained group membership model. More on that soon.
No contact forms. No intake questionnaires. If this is speaking to your situation, reach out directly and we'll have a conversation.
j.ellis@jellis.systems