Jessie Stemo is the CEO, Owner, and Head Coach of Power and Grace Performance. Since the start of her coaching journey in 2016, Jessie has been the driving force behind the Coach Development & Data-Driven Programming initiative.

Jessie Stemo has been weightlifting since 2014, and coaching since 2016. She is proud to have represented Team USA internationally more than 10 times.

Rio is a 2023 World Championships silver medalist in the 4x400m mixed relay, 2022 European Champion in the 4x400m relay, and 2023 World Championships bronze medalist in the men’s 4x400m relay. 

He also went to the same primary school as What Counts co-founder Jacob, and so we recently sat down to have a chat and catch up on where life has taken all of us since then.