We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jenn Adamson a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Jenn , thanks for joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

Yes! Have you ever had one of those moments where your soul whispers, ‘This isn’t it’—and you finally decide to listen?

That was me, sitting in my corner office with a six-figure salary, impressive clients, and a calendar packed with high-level meetings… and yet I felt completely disconnected. My body was tired, my spark was gone, and deep down, I knew I couldn’t keep pretending.

So I made a huge pivot—leaving corporate to explore a path completely opposite from my practical, polished career. After some soul-searching, I felt called to become a registered nurse (yes, I still practice a few shifts a month—another story for another day!).

Years later, that decision placed me on the frontlines of a global pandemic, leading a team of 75 nurses through the chaos of COVID-19—holding space, making hard calls, and remembering what purpose actually feels like.

That moment—or more truthfully, that series of moments—changed everything. I realized I wasn’t just here to climb a ladder. I was here to help people rise. And that’s what I do now, every day.

Jenn , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I help high-achieving, heart-led leaders (mostly women and a few smart men!) who are burnt out and stuck in survival mode rediscover their spark, reclaim their time, and lead with clarity, confidence, and ease—without compromising their ambition or their wellbeing.

My path into this work wasn’t linear—it was lived. I left a six-figure corporate career when I realized it no longer aligned with who I was becoming. That pivot eventually led me to nursing, where I led 75 nurses through the chaos of the COVID-19 crisis. Holding space for others in their most vulnerable moments, while navigating the system under extreme pressure, taught me everything about emotional resilience, purpose, and the importance of embodiment in leadership.

During that time, when the world was on lockdown and hospitals didn’t allow family visits—even for dying patients—I often became the last person someone saw before they passed. Some of them, in their final breaths, shared their heart’s biggest regrets: that they wished they had let in more love, created more connection, and truly lived more. That stayed with me—and it shapes everything I do now in my coaching practice.

Even in the midst of that work, I could feel something deeper calling me. I’ve always been obsessed with what makes people light up—what helps them feel fully alive. So I blended my leadership background, trauma-informed coaching, and high-performance training into a unique method that helps powerful men and women drop the perfectionism, listen to their bodies, and trust their inner voice again.

From there, my clients start creating from flow instead of force. They make bold moves with less burnout. And they stop shape-shifting to fit into roles that no longer serve them.

What sets me apart is my ability to hold safe, powerful space for transformation—where mindset, embodiment, and strategic clarity all come together. My clients say I’m the person they call when they’re ready to come home to themselves and take brave, aligned action.

I offer private coaching, group programs, transformational trainings and workshops, and speaking engagements—and I’m most proud of the lives I’ve watched change in real time: the leaders who finally launched their dream business; the executives who stopped second-guessing themselves and stepped into their power; the mother who reclaimed her time and identity after years of burnout; the husband who listened when his spouse begged him to figure out a solution to work less hours so he could spend more time at soccer games and family dinners.

What I want you to know is this: You don’t have to sacrifice your joy or wellbeing to lead powerfully. You get to have both. And my work exists to help you remember exactly how.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

For most of my life, I measured my value by how much I could do. I was praised for being high-achieving, hyper-responsible, and always pushing through—whether it was in my corporate career, leading during a global health crisis as a nurse, or even early on in building my coaching business. I wore “hustle” mode like a badge of honor.

But during the height of COVID, when I was leading 75 nurses and holding space for dying patients whose families couldn’t be there, something shifted. I saw how fragile and sacred life really is. And in those quiet, heartbreaking moments—when patients whispered their regrets, I realized I had been living out of alignment with what I most believed.

Rest isn’t something you earn. Worth isn’t something you prove. These are your birthrights.
Unlearning that hustle-as-identity loop changed everything: how I lead, how I coach, how I mother, how I live.

Now, I help other high-performing leaders unlearn it too—so they can stop surviving and start truly living without compromising their impact.

Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?

Yes, absolutely. While I haven’t finished all of them cover to cover yet (my ADHD brain has me wanting to read multiple books at once), books like Effortless and Essentialism by Greg McKeown, and Who Not How by Dan Sullivan have deeply influenced my entrepreneurial thinking and coaching philosophy. They speak to something I believe in wholeheartedly: that true high performance doesn’t come from overexertion—it comes from alignment, clarity, and consistently operating in high-quality energy. I’m fascinated by champions—whether it’s elite athletes, high-performing teams, or standout organizations—and I always want to know: What makes them the outliers? Time and again, it’s not just strategy. It’s leadership that values things like emotional and social intelligence, innovation, rest, resilience, and the ability to have honest, even uncomfortable, conversations. Those are the principles I’ve integrated into my coaching—because that’s the foundation that allows my clients not just to achieve, but to sustain success in a way that feels authentic and energizing.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.jennadamson.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjennadamson/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamjennadamson
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamjennadamson/