Today, I am a Life Coach focused on helping women who are stuck in life get inspired, take action and live their dreams. I have learned from my own personal experience that this work begins with a mindset reset. I started my business to help women step into their fulness and to provide a blueprint for how to do so. It’s important to me that women realize who we are and what we can contribute to our personal world, but also to the world at large. We can move beyond setbacks and limited opportunities of our past, and effect change for ourselves while serving as an example for those coming beside us and behind us. I offer individual, as well as group, coaching programs and have helped many women to experience transformation and fulfillment in life.

What sets me apart from others who do similar work is my own journey. Everyone has a journey and each is distinct to the individual. The women that I can most effectively serve are those who feel stuck in life, lack confidence to make a move or just don’t know where to start. Some people also just don’t know what their issue is. They just know that there has to be something better that what they are currently experiencing in life. My coaching approach is influenced by who I am, as a person, and what my life experiences have taught me – my mistakes, as well as my successes and the lessons that I have learned from them all.

Before starting my business as a Life Coach, I was employed in the corporate world as a Senior Vice President in Human Resources for a major financial institution. I experienced a great level of professional success. However, there were so many years, even as I was being promoted and experiencing success in my career, that my personal life was anything but successful. Married twice, divorced twice, overcame domestic violence and all the trauma associated with that. There were many joy-filled times, but there were also many adversities that ended up clouding my mindset and self-perception. But I learned how to defy the negatives and to embrace who God says I am. It is by experiencing the challenges, coming through the challenges, finding a way to not just live but to thrive, by the grace of God, that I came to realize that my story, through sharing the lessons that I had learned, good and bad, could encourage, inspire, and mobilize other women to rise up from whatever challenges that they had come through and experience success and fulfillment in life.

My Christian faith has played a huge role in my ability to climb out of the hole of guilt and low self-esteem that I once found myself in. Understanding that God created me with purpose and through His Son, Jesus Christ, and His Spirit living in me, I was empowered to throw off the guilt and the shame that I wore like a shroud. I no longer had to live a double life, one in public and another internal to myself, but I could live an authentic life and could help others to do the same. I have learned that there is no such thing as a wasted experience. God will use it all for good and He used all of the challenges of my life for good.

In 2002, I answered the call to enter Christian ministry and I was ordained in 2004. In 2007, I became a certified Life Coach and began to use my work in ministry and my coaching skills to help other women to see their value and their worth. I was able to share my journey with other women who were stuck in the guilt and shame of their past experiences and to help them to find their way out. I have been so rewarded to see women come into their own, to embrace their own authenticity, to face down what was trying to hold them down, and to blossom into amazing individuals – as writers, business owners, ministers, coaches, more fulfilled in their professions and others living more authentically, not hindered by what others think about them. They have learned to own their choices and to walk boldly in that. They haven’t all traveled my path, but something in their lives has stifled their ability to pursue what they desire most in life – success and fulfillment, however that may be defined for them.

My faith played a huge role in my life but there were also others encouraging me and supporting me along the way, as well. The key that unlocked the door for me was my sister telling me “You don’t have to live like this, with your dreams up on a shelf. Live your life.” The support that I got from her and others, coupled with my faith, helped me to see that I could be a support to others.

The service that I offer is a mindset reset, confidence, encouragement to go after your life and career goals. Working with me, women can clarify their desired outcome, their vision; create a plan of action; and prepare to execute for success. Do it for yourself, do it for this generation and the next. Be bold; take a step; get up and try it again. R. J. Smith is credited with it this quote but I learned it from my mother: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.”

What I am most proud of is having conquered some of the challenges that I’ve faced in my own life. I can be open, honest, and even vulnerable, to share my story and to let other women know that they, too, can move past the challenges of life and go on to pursue their dreams. Their story may not be as dramatic as mine, or it could be more so. There may still be thoughts and feelings that are holding them back from building the legacy they want to have for their daughters, granddaughters, sisters, etc. I do what I do to serve as an example to my own daughter and granddaughters.

What I want people, women especially, to know is that they are created with purpose and possibilities. If they are not currently experiencing fulfillment in any area of their lives, if they want something to change, they have to make some changes. If nothing changes, nothing changes.