Enhance Your Well-being with Expert Fitness, Nutrition & Lifestyle Strategies
Makabunu Fitness LLC empowers families and individuals to elevate their vitality via realistic training, mindful eating, and durable life choices. We focus on delivering the teaching, mentorship, and structure necessary to build enduring routines that foster a lifetime of comprehensive well-being.
Our Philosophy
We believe that true health is a sustainable rhythm, not a temporary trend. Our mission is to guide individuals and families toward a balanced lifestyle through intentional habits and holistic wellness.
Meet the Founder
Leslie Mullen-Fields
Founder & Wellness Coach
Leslie Mullen-Fields serves as a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, ACE Group Fitness Instructor, and NASM Personal Trainer, backed by two decades of professional experience. With a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership and a Master of Divinity, she integrates academic rigour with a compassionate, whole-person perspective to support every client's unique path.
She established Makabunu Fitness LLC to provide a necessary alternative to toxic gym culture and temporary fixes. By focusing on movement, education, and meaningful lifestyle changes, she helps people truly reclaim their vitality. Her methodology is deeply anchored in Lifestyle Medicine and evidence-based science, emphasizing nervous system regulation and the psychology of lasting habits.
From guiding high-energy group classes to mentoring private clients and creating the 12-Week Transformation Program, Leslie provides the expertise and warmth required to meet you exactly where you are today while building the tomorrow you deserve.
Our Team
The People Behind Your Transformation
Asantewaa Mullen
Culinary Wellness Director
Asantewaa Mullen brings extensive culinary leadership and a passion for whole-food nutrition to Makabunu Fitness. Her career includes serving as Food and Beverage Manager for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, overseeing operations at New York City's acclaimed Nios Restaurant and Silverleaf Tavern.
She also served as Dietary Supervisor at Interfaith Medical Center, where she gained valuable experience supporting patient wellness through nutrition. As the owner of a successful catering company, she further developed her expertise in menu planning, culinary innovation, and creating memorable dining experiences.
Currently expanding her education in holistic culinary wellness, Asantewaa is committed to helping participants discover that healthy eating can be simple, enjoyable, and sustainable. Through practical guidance and nourishing recipes, she empowers individuals to build lifelong habits that support lasting wellness.
Crystal Mullen
Mind-Body Wellness Facilitator
Crystal Mullen serves as Makabunu Fitness's Mind-Body Wellness Facilitator, helping participants develop the mental and emotional foundation for lasting lifestyle change. Through guided breathwork, mindfulness practices, and stress management techniques, she creates space for individuals to slow down, reset, and reconnect with themselves.
Crystal believes that true wellness begins with caring for both the mind and body. Her calm, encouraging approach helps participants build resilience, reduce stress, and cultivate the inner balance needed to support long-term health and well-being.
These two bios are intentionally similar in length to Leslie's section, making the "Meet the Team" area feel balanced and cohesive across the page.
Our Story
Makabunu Fitness was founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2019 by Leslie Mullen-Fields, a health and wellness advocate with more than 20 years of experience helping individuals and groups transform their lives through movement, nutrition, and sustainable lifestyle change.
But Makabunu Fitness isn't just a business. It's a personal journey.
For Leslie, staying fit has never been easy. It has been an uphill battle, one she has fought with determination, consistency, and an unwavering belief that wellness is worth fighting for. Through every challenge, she learned to appreciate and respect the process. And through that process, she discovered something powerful: wellness is not a destination. It is a cultivated state of mind, and motivation and consistency are its greatest tools.
Leslie became more convinced than ever that exercise is the difference between good health and bad health. She also recognized something most people already know: that knowing what to do and actually following through are two very different things. Life gets in the way. Motivation fades. Accountability becomes everything.
That's why Makabunu Fitness exists. Not to shame, pressure, or push you past your limits, but to meet you exactly where you are and walk alongside you toward a healthier, stronger, more balanced life.
Today, Makabunu Fitness has grown into a family-driven wellness community, bringing together expertise in fitness, culinary wellness, breathwork, and mindfulness to support the whole person, mind, body, and spirit. Our mission is simple: to help individuals, families, and communities build generational health through education, movement, accountability, and love.
Makabunu is here for you.
How Your 12-Week Journey Works
What's Included in Every Wellness Plan
1. Evidence-Based Wellness Education
Gain practical knowledge in fitness, nutrition, movement, stress management, sleep, and healthy lifestyle habits through evidence-based education that empowers you to make informed decisions about your health.
2. Structured 12-Week Success Framework
Follow a step-by-step wellness roadmap designed to help you build healthy routines, stay consistent, and create sustainable lifestyle changes through weekly lessons, guided activities, and practical implementation.
3. Resources That Support Lasting Change
Access digital wellness resources, healthy recipes, meal-planning tools, worksheets, progress trackers, goal-setting templates, and habit-building resources that help you turn knowledge into lifelong healthy habits.
4. Personalized Support Based on Your Plan
Every member begins with the same proven wellness foundation. Your selected plan determines the level of coaching, accountability, and personalized support you receive throughout your journey.
Choose Your Wellness Plan
Every member begins our premier 12-week evidence-based wellness program. Select the level of individual guidance and accountability that fits your goals and lifestyle best.
Contact Us
We'd love to hear from you.
Business Email
makabunufitness@gmail.com