Today we’d like to introduce you to Chris Jackson.
Hi Chris, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I grew up around discipline and service. My parents worked in healthcare, so responsibility, structure, and showing up for others were baseline expectations, not buzzwords. I started working at 14 and never really stopped. Hospitality became my proving ground. Over three decades, I worked every layer of it across Texas and California—bars, restaurants, training, operations, and large scale events. I learned how people move, how systems break, and how pressure reveals character.
In my early 20s I moved to Los Angeles with very little money and a lot of ambition. Those years were humbling. I lived lean, worked nonstop, and slowly mastered my craft. Bartending wasn’t just a job—it became a study in psychology, energy, leadership, and endurance. Eventually I was trusted to train others, design programs, and run operations, but something still felt incomplete.
That shift came through yoga. What started as physical relief became a complete recalibration of how I understood health, presence, and performance. I went from student to teacher, eventually leading classes across major studios in Texas, California, and Mexico. Yoga didn’t replace my past—it integrated it. The discipline of hospitality and the regulation of the nervous system finally met.
Today, I operate under DCFB Wellness Inc., an umbrella focused on sustainable performance, clarity, and service based leadership. Through wellness facilitation, education, and experiential offerings—including hospitality and training—I help individuals and organizations build systems that actually support human beings, not burn them out.
Everything I do now is about integration. Taking hard earned real world experience and refining it into something that helps people move better, think clearer, and build lives that don’t require recovery from their success.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It hasn’t been a smooth road at all. Like most entrepreneurial paths, it’s been defined more by friction than flow.
One of the biggest challenges wasn’t logistics, money, or even failure—it was pushback. When you decide to step off a familiar path, especially one most people around you are still on, it creates discomfort. Early on, friends and family questioned everything: why I was spending money on a website, why I needed an LLC, why credit mattered, why I was taking risks instead of staying comfortable. To them, it looked reckless. To me, it was foundational.
What surprised me most was where the resistance came from. You expect skepticism from the outside world, but when it comes from the people closest to you, it hits differently. There’s an assumption that those nearest to you will automatically support growth, but often they’re the most unsettled by it. Not out of malice, but because change forces comparison. When someone breaks the mold, it quietly asks others why they haven’t—or can’t.
I don’t see that as jealousy so much as fear and unfamiliarity. When you challenge generational patterns, when you choose a different route, you disrupt what feels safe and predictable. That disruption creates tension. And tension looks like doubt, criticism, or withdrawal.
I’ve learned not to take it personally. I’m not trying to be better than anyone. I’m simply choosing a different path—one that aligns with how I want to live, work, and contribute. Growth isn’t loud, and it isn’t always celebrated in real time. Most of the time, it’s misunderstood while it’s happening.
The obstacles have taught me resilience, clarity, and patience. They’ve reinforced that if you’re not experiencing resistance, you’re probably not changing much. And for me, that friction has been confirmation—not a warning—that I’m moving in the right direction.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
DCFB Wellness is built around one core idea: helping people reclaim agency over their lives by becoming more regulated, more capable, and more intentional in how they work and live.
At its core, DCFB Wellness is a wellness and performance umbrella that integrates nervous system regulation, movement, mindset, education, and real world skill building. We don’t sell shortcuts or rigid formulas. We create environments, experiences, and frameworks that help people think more clearly, move better, and make decisions from a grounded place instead of survival mode.
What we specialize in is integration. Most people don’t need more motivation—they need better systems and better self awareness. Through movement practices like yoga and mobility, mindfulness and breath work, experiential training, and applied life education, we help people reconnect with themselves first. From there, everything else becomes more workable: careers, relationships, finances, and confidence.
A big influence behind the brand is the concept of Ikigai—the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what can support you financially. Too many people are taught that life is supposed to be a tradeoff: grind now, live later. I don’t believe in work life balance as a real concept. I believe in building a life you don’t need to escape from, and then aligning your work with that life.
We’re known for being practical, grounded, and human. This isn’t performative wellness. There’s no one size fits all path. I don’t tell people who to become. I help them build the awareness and tools to become who they already are underneath the noise. That might mean changing careers, redefining success, or simply learning how to be present again. Sometimes it’s about expanding what someone already does rather than abandoning it entirely.
What sets DCFB Wellness apart is that it’s built from lived experience, not theory. I’ve spent decades in high pressure environments, hospitality, leadership, and teaching. I understand burnout, grind culture, and the cost of chasing stability at the expense of fulfillment. Everything we offer comes from that intersection of real world experience and conscious practice.
Brand wise, what I’m most proud of is that DCFB Wellness doesn’t promise transformation—it supports it. We don’t position ourselves as the solution. We position ourselves as a guide, a mirror, and a resource. The work still belongs to the individual.
What I want readers to know is this: you are not as locked in as you think. Your degree, your job title, your past choices—they don’t define the ceiling of your future. Most work, at its core, is about people. The more regulated, self aware, and aligned you are, the more valuable you become in any room you walk into.
DCFB Wellness exists to help people remember that—and to give them the tools to act on it.
How can people work with you, collaborate with you or support you?
There are several ways people can work with me, calibrate with DCFB Wellness, and support what we’re building, depending on where they are in their own journey.
For individuals, working with DCFB often starts through experiential touchpoints—movement sessions, wellness facilitation, guided practices, or educational experiences that focus on nervous system regulation, clarity, and self awareness. These are designed to be practical and accessible, whether someone is brand new to wellness or already deeply engaged in it.
For professionals and organizations, DCFB works through workshops, consulting, and experiential programming that helps teams and leaders reduce burnout, improve communication, and operate more intentionally. This can look like on site sessions, custom programming, or long term collaboration focused on sustainable performance rather than short term motivation.
For those looking to go deeper, calibration with DCFB is about alignment rather than consumption. That might mean mentorship, skill development, or participating in longer arc offerings that help people integrate what they’re learning into their real lives. We focus on giving people tools they can carry forward, not dependencies.
Supporting DCFB doesn’t always mean becoming a client. It can mean attending events, sharing the work with people who need it, collaborating on aligned projects, or simply engaging with the ideas and practices we put into the world. DCFB is built on community, trust, and resonance more than volume.
The best way to work with us is to start where you are. There’s no prerequisite level of success, fitness, or self knowledge. If the philosophy resonates, the right entry point tends to reveal itself naturally.
DCFB Wellness isn’t about selling a lifestyle—it’s about helping people remember they have agency. Everything we offer is an invitation to participate in that process, at whatever depth makes sense for them.
Pricing:
- • Pricing varies by offering, scope, and level of customization
- • Services range from accessible group experiences to bespoke consulting
- • Most work is project or container based rather than hourly
- • Rates are designed for sustainability and long term impact
- • Focus is on sustainable exchange for both partie
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Dcfbwellness.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrnamaslay
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/61585109068041/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dcfb-wellness
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MrNamaslay1
- Yelp: https://m.yelp.com/biz/dcfb-wellness-rowlett
- Other: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZDbGebA1FRkmkUzV7?g_st=ic
