meet the breathe team.
Jamie Cole
co-founder + chief breather
Throughout her career, Jamie has been driven by a desire to help people and organizations reach their fullest potential. She believes that growth—personal or professional—begins the moment we embrace our own impermanence and start living with intention and authenticity.
With more than 20 years of experience spanning industries such as retail grocery, wellness, pharmaceuticals, consumer packaged goods, sports marketing, and residential summer camps, Jamie brings a uniquely well-rounded perspective to everything she does.
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Most recently, Jamie became the owner of Skin Deep, a medical spa in Strongsville, Ohio, dedicated to helping people feel and look their best—beauty skin deep and beyond.
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Before that, Jamie and her husband David, along with his longtime camp friend Richard “Woody” Woodstein, owned and operated Camp Robin Hood for 11 years. During her tenure, Jamie rebranded the camp, implemented a modern backend software system, led operations and communications, and helped more than double camper attendance—from 190 to over 440.
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Among her proudest accomplishments was creating breathe in 2011, a women’s health retreat designed to bring together inspiring women for a weekend of connection, relaxation, and rejuvenation. Jamie believes that when women connect with one another, they nourish their souls—and each other—in powerful ways.
Lynne Tapper
co-founder + chief activity coach
As a lifelong endurance athlete with the dual goal of training and racing until her bones turn to dust, Lynne relishes sharing that passion with everyone she meets. Lynne has spent over three decades learning about training, recovery, and nutrition.
This zeal and dedication manifested itself in almost every professional endeavor from the Women’s Sports Foundation, ABC Sports and ESPN and Oxygen Media. More recently, Lynne shared her passion for triathlons as a coach and co-founder of Team Training New England, a regional triathlon training program for beginners. Later, Lynne became the co-founder of Imagine Float, a boutique floatation and wellness center offering float therapy, cryotherapy, infrared sauna, compression therapy and other recovery and wellness modalities.
Through it all, Lynne has used her unique skills of organization and the ability to see the big picture to help bring a project or passion to completion. With breathe, Lynne has enjoyed the opportunity to bring a group of women together over a long-weekend to eat, ride, hike and play. The connections made have transcended over the years which is the greatest validation of this special retreat.