Marissa Campise
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Marissa Campise is the winner of HuffPost Living's "Total Energy Makeover" with Ashley Koff, RD. She is a Principal at Greycroft Partners, a Venture Capital Partnership that invests in digital media companies.

After graduating with honors from Yale with a B.A. in History, Marissa began her career in structured finance as a collateral analyst with Deloitte and Touche's Securitization Transaction Team, producing marketable ABS/MBS securitizations. She later worked in both the Capital Raising and Investment Banking department at Matrix USA LLC , a top ranked, EVA based research methodology firm.

Her past work experience also includes analyst at Social Leverage/Lindzon Capital, developing E-Learning courses for the Adult Education Center in New Haven, and working briefly as a London Based Research Associate within the QSAR group (Quantitative Strategies, Analytics and Risk) of a boutique financial services firm.

Marissa is also the proud co-founder of a fair trade certified, eco-friendly tea venture that emphasizes artisan tea and teaware. She is a recent graduate of Sonic Yoga’s 200 hour teacher training.

Blog Entries by Marissa Campise

HuffPost 'Total Energy Makeover' UPDATE: Smart Living Tips for the Home

Posted October 27, 2010 | 09:47:00 (EST)

This past month was a ton of fun! Ashley Koff and team visited my home to help clear my apartment of energy drainers. Scott and Ashley gave me five smart living tips for my home.

Five Smart Living Tips I Picked Up:

1) I had to remove devices...

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Total Energy Makeover UPDATE: Learning Mindfulness Through Simple Steps

Posted September 29, 2010 | 19:17:00 (EST)

Ashley Koff, RD paired me up with Pooja Mottl from Mindfully 21 to help shape my workout. Aside from yoga, I'm bored by my traditional cardio routine and welcome anything that will make it more exciting. I loved Pooja right away. She is super energetic, hilarious and smart about her...

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Total Energy Makeover: Free Yoga in NYC Tech Startups

Posted July 26, 2010 | 08:00:00 (EST)


I've noticed that after I practice yoga I do some of my best work.

It's unfortunate that with the increased workload and stress of having changed jobs and apartments this past year, I haven't had the chance to attend more in-studio classes. Not surprisingly, as my yoga...

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Total Energy Makeover: No Dairy, No Allergies, No Hesitating

Posted June 4, 2010 | 12:56:00 (EST)

The makeover continues and I am seeing the results from the first month up to what I am working on most recently. I recently went to Candle 79, NYC's amazing vegan organic restaurant, to learn to cook (or as Ashley calls it "assemble") some vegan dishes that I...

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HuffPost 'Total Energy Makeover' Update: Going Dairy Free

Posted March 31, 2010 | 12:55:00 (EST)

In addition to seeing Dr. Frank Lipman, I'm also reading his book Revive, a life-saving manual that helps readers understand what causes energy depletion and offers ways to combat it. Specifically, Dr. Lipman outlines a six-week, 42 step process that makes it easy for committed readers to start...

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Personal Energy Investments

Posted March 10, 2010 | 17:57:00 (EST)

The goal of this makeover is to slowly move from things that have a destructive effect on my life towards things that benefit it. As described in previous posts, I have started to do this by incorporating the advice given to me by Ashley Koff RD, Tara Stiles, and Dr....

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Balance Beats Obsessing

Posted February 25, 2010 | 11:48:15 (EST)

I found myself obsessing over small and large things, in ways that further threw my life out of balance. Walking through my crush's friends list on Facebook, wondering whom else he might be seeing. I could easily be doing this in the middle of the night instead of sleeping, or...

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What I'm Learning Through Yoga (VIDEO)

Posted February 10, 2010 | 11:45:00 (EST)

I work with different entrepreneurs, all smart, talented and creative. For every 1,000 ideas they have, one or two are good. So it's important to find the good ones as quickly as possible. The entrepreneurial world is ripe with energy and talent. The ideas and excitement that flow from this...

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HuffPost Energy Makeover: Lifestyle Details, Old And New

Posted February 4, 2010 | 09:54:00 (EST)

Recently, Huffpost Living gave us readers the opportunity to tweet about how our own personal energy crises affect our lives, relationships, and careers for the chance to win a total energy makeover with Ashley Koff, RD, as our Energy Makeover coach. I tweeted my case and then submitted...

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