This is me in a nutshell:

This is me in a nutshell: I’m a constant learner, lifetime entrepreneur, personal development coach, corporate speaker & trainer, a passionate podcaster, and your average philosopher…I am also a mother, wife, world traveler & coffee enthusiast.

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~ From Psychology Major to Podcaster & Personal Development Coach~

I started podcasting in 2016 & have 3 podcasts & 260 episodes under my belt.

I have a strong voice & perspective plus 22 years of hands-on experience to share. As it turned out, podcasting was my medium. I fell in love with podcasting in 2016 and over the last 6 years have created three public podcasts with more than 260 episodes. My longest-running podcast, Women in the Business Arena, was in the top 2% of all business podcasts. I did a one-season show called The Feminine Lens and just started a brand new podcast in September of 2022, called Reclaiming Ourselves. I learned to take my podcasting platform into audio courses and have been able to provide a powerful learning platform for personal development.   

I landed a TEDx talk in 2017 & it helped me deal with one of the hardest experiences in my life.

In 2017 I applied to be on the TEDx stage. After being selected over hundreds of applications and multiple interviews, I was accepted to do a talk on women’s empowerment. On the day of my first meeting with the TEDx team, my mother abruptly passed away. My talk took a turn over the next few months to include my mother’s story. My experience on the TEDx stage helped me embrace my grief and navigate my mother’s death with grace. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and I am thankful for that amazing opportunity.  

I have worked with thousands of people from all different walks of life.

My broad and extensive background has crafted my content. Having worked with thousands of people from different walks of life, I have seen the common denominators that accelerate personal growth & lead to transformation. I will let you in on the secret: the success of both individuals and businesses is rooted in understanding ourselves & raising our emotional intelligence.

Last year I wrapped up individual coaching (after 20 years) & stepped full-time into podcasting, speaking & training.

I loved one-on-one coaching, and it allowed me the opportunity to test my content hands-on with thousands of people. But over the years, I came to love podcasting, speaking & training even more! So after decades of working with people one-on-one through coaching, I said goodbye so I could focus 100% on my work as a podcaster, speaker & trainer.

I am a certified trauma-informed trainer and it couldn’t be more relevant to the work I do now.

To truly improve ourselves & accelerate personal growth, we need to understand our trauma, both individual and collective. Reacting to trauma is normal. When something impacts our nervous system causing harm, shock or surprise – as humans we respond to it. A normal reaction creates flight, fight or freeze “momentarily” and after the impact is over we begin to process the information and integrate the trauma so we can move back into a calm and responsive nervous system. But in today’s world, not only do we not understand how to work with our nervous systems and integrate trauma, we are bombarded by more and more trauma. Integrating trauma requires psychological and physical safety. Trauma has a huge impact on our personal growth & development. Being trauma-informed means I can provide education that builds psychological safety, doesn’t create more harm, and empowers all people.

I was born in New York, raised in Texas, and have had the opportunity to travel around the world. I attended 13 different schools from kindergarten to 12th grade, and have lived in 40 different houses over my lifetime. I was raised by a single mom and learned to be on my own at a very young age while raising my younger sister. I have experienced both socio-economic privilege & have lived in poverty. In my early life, all I understood was instability and uncertainty. It was challenging, but it shaped my resilience.

In college, I needed an extra physical education credit and fell into a class called Stress Reduction through Movement. This class shifted my personal healing journey and set the foundation for my life’s work. This class was rooted in somatics and an understanding of how the body keeps score, holds trauma, and impacts our emotions, behavior, and actions. I began to realize for the first time how I had “normalized” my trauma and how active my nervous system was – this affected my relationships, my health, and my experience of life. All the work I have done both personally and professionally has carried a thread of somatics & this is why my personal development work is so transformational. 

It is a fact that our world has been built for extroverts. We are all rewarded for being extroverts, go-getters, and achievers. If you ask most people their definition of success, you can see how their answers are biased toward extroverts. Introverts are consistently left out of avenues and opportunities for success, acceptance, and rewards. Being a business owner and speaker AND an introvert has been a life challenge. I had to learn to build my own lanes, operate differently, and accept myself in order to succeed. I had to honor my needs and balance my time in the limelight with my time alone. It has been a powerful & wonderful learning experience. 

I have always been a deep feeler. Some people might call me an empath and I have spent my adult life learning to have more “feeling” boundaries, so I don’t take on too much. I can tackle anything in the emotional realm. Conflict is my playground and challenging relationships are my specialty. Being able to embrace so many emotions (both mine and others) has allowed me the ability to hold space for the people I serve. I understand what it takes to integrate and become more whole. 

I truly know what it feels like to have the rug pulled out from you, to have your life burn to the ground, and to rise from the ashes. I lost so much as a young child, but in my 20s, I experienced something even more challenging. My first husband was an addict and within a few short years of our marriage, my whole life fell apart – I was left without a home, bankrupt, and navigating life as a single parent. My first husband eventually took his own life and I was left to help my daughter pick up the pieces. Losing everything humbles you, and learning to build from nothing strengthens your resilience in ways I can’t describe. I became who I am today because of what I went through and I feel blessed.

My nature is to observe and learn, but my real gift is in extrapolating what I have learned into new ways of thinking. To extrapolate is to be able to project, extend or expand known data into an area that is unknown. It has allowed me to be on the cutting edge of change and to be a leader in my field. The topics I teach are not new, but the way I present and educate them is different. I have had the opportunity to work with thousands of people testing my hypotheses, and refining and evolving my work to have more impact.