About

Dani Taylor
Head Coach, Vegan Figure Competitor and Champion.

Co-founder of VeganProteins and PlantBuilt

Dani Taylor is a vegan figure competitor and champion, the co-founder of VeganProteins.com and also co-founder of PlantBuilt.com.  As the head coach at VeganProteins, Dani pioneered our training and nutrition approaches and has taught each Vegan Proteins Coach thoroughly.

Dani grew up in a very unhealthy & chaotic environment, eating a diet made of predominantly processed foods and not much else.  She was obese by 16 years old.  After going vegan at age 16, she began to take her health into her own hands.  She found strength training and began to learn more about proper nutrition and never went back.  Over the next few years, Dani lost 90 pounds and gained a whole new life!

After being shot down by many coaches for her vegan lifestyle, she has never let the naysayers stand in her way (or anyone else’s) when it comes to achieving fitness goals as a vegan. Helping people become more confident in themselves via exercise and a healthy diet and mindset is what motivates her on a daily basis. She believes in honoring your body by treating it well and listening to it, while simultaneously challenging it and never becoming stagnant.

She especially enjoys working with women who have always been too nervous to lift weights, and loves seeing the confidence that clients see when they realize their own strength for the first time! She also enjoys teaching women that food is not something to be afraid of, but rather a gift we give our bodies to fuel it all the way through life.

She also specializes in vegan competition prep using evidence-based approaches and many years of personal coaching experience to help people achieve a shredded look to be competitive on stage in natural bodybuilding competitions.

Dani is a Certified Personal Trainer with the NASM, AFAA, Certified in Plant-Based Nutrition with Cornell University and the T. Colin Campbell Foundation, and is Precision Nutrition Certified.

Alice Robeson

Bodybuilding Coach, Pro Bikini Bodybuilder & World-Championship Qualified, NASM CPT, PN Certified, Vegan Strong Ambassador, Professional Athlete on the PlantBuilt Team

Alice is a passionate, natural bikini competitor and fitness professional. She is a shining example of how to thrive on a fit, healthy, vegan lifestyle. Alice hit the ground running as a coach at Vegan Proteins and is proud to have helped her clients transform their physiques and mindsets. Her approach to everything is about finding balance, from learning how to eat for both health and enjoyment to training to gain real-life skills and enjoy the journey – not just to look better.

100% vegan muscle, her entire bodybuilding career has been on a plant-based diet. She’s living proof that plants have all the protein you need to be a competitive athlete and champion. Vegan since 2018, she loves advocating for vegan athletes at the Vegan Strong booth, Mr. America, and sports expos and conventions.

Alice is a certified Nutrition Coach from Precision Nutrition, a certified Fitness Coach from the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), and has a bachelor’s degree in English. She loves competing, cooking, spirituality, hiking, road trips, and spending her downtime with her significant other and family.

Sawyer Hofmann
NESTA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Juris Doctorate, Licensed California Attorney

Sawer has been in love with fitness ever since he could remember; one of his earliest memories is his dad encouraging him to bench press a broomstick and sip his protein shakes. 

Although he has spent time as a practicing attorney, Sawyer has found that helping people achieve higher self-esteem through health and fitness is what most fulfills him. Sawyer specializes in bodybuilding style training and body recomposition because he loves helping people get strong, look amazing, and eat more calories without worry!

Sawyer takes a scientifically-sound approach for every fitness  goal his clients have. There is no room for guesswork when it comes to the foundation of a plan to change your body.

Fitness is at least 75% mental, and takes much longer than most people have been taught to believe. Sawyer believes in finding the sources of self-sabotaging behaviors, as well as sources of inspiration so that together with his clients, he can plan to avoid triggering the former and focus on encouraging the latter. You need to be the hero of your story.

Sawyer’s long term goal is to help clients acquire the knowledge, confidence, and self awareness to manage their physical health and fitness sustainably and independently. I give people the tools and the understanding necessary to be in control of their fitness level. 

When we achieve our goals through sustainable means, we become heroes of our own stories and beacons of hope to others who may be struggling

Also, Sawyer firmly believes that we don’t need to hurt other animals to build muscle, be healthy, and live well, and so he has been vegan since March 2016.

Athena Trombly
Vegan Coach, Psychology major, NASM CPT, brain tumor survivor.

Athena Trombly is an inspiring vegan coach and an amazing human being. Her goal as a coach is to make the process of reaching your goal enjoyable and meaningful. After years of inner work, she’s reached many of her fitness goals, while also finding comfort in her body. Finding comfort in your body does not mean you have let go of having goals. Rather, it means you’re able to accept yourself as you are while striving for goals that are fulfilling to you – not society.

She wants to help people cultivate self-acceptance while also striving for their full potential. No more starving, no more cookie cutter workouts, no more self-doubt, no more feeling not good enough. Let’s kick low-esteem in the ass and reach your goals together!

NASM certified, and more importantly, Dani certified (she passed our very rigorous internship)   you’re in great hands with Athena!

Athena is a psychology major, NASM certified, Vegan Proteins certified, a practicing Buddhist, and a brain tumor survivor. Quite the impressive human. And a great coach.