My Story
I've never had a particularly straight path.
I started my career in the design industry and eventually moved overseas, spending nine years in England and six in India, where I built my own business. I loved the adventure of it, creating something from nothing and discovering that I was capable of far more than I had known.
When my family and I returned to the United States, I had two young boys and was starting again in many ways. I was rebuilding my career and also beginning to look more closely at other parts of my life. After twenty years of marriage and a great deal of effort to make it work, my husband and I made the difficult decision to part.
There was a lot to figure out during those years. I was raising my boys, establishing a new life here and building a career again. I went on to hold senior leadership roles, helping companies grow, developing new businesses and building strategic partnerships. I loved much of the work, particularly the parts that involved people, ideas, design and creating something new.
In many ways, I was still doing what I had always done: moving forward, working hard and building a life I was proud of. But I was also beginning to think differently about what I wanted that life to include.
During the pandemic, I read an article about purpose written by a former senior executive who had become a coach. Something about her story stayed with me. I began researching coaching and eventually trained with iPEC. It wasn't part of a career plan. I was curious, so I followed it.
My interest in health developed in much the same way. After returning from overseas exhausted and depleted, working with a functional medicine practitioner changed my health and made me curious about the connection between how we care for ourselves and how we experience our lives. That curiosity eventually led me to study integrative health with IIN.
These days, I live in the Pacific Northwest, close to the water and surrounded by woods. I spend a lot of time outside, usually walking with my dog. It's where I do some of my best thinking and, often, where I figure out what's been on my mind in the first place.
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There is something exciting about having all of that experience behind us
and still having so much life ahead.
What I Learned
Looking back, I can see connections between the different parts of my life that I couldn't see while I was living them.
I've built businesses and led teams. I've raised two boys. I've lived in different countries, started over more than once, made decisions that worked beautifully and others that taught me something. I've experienced the satisfaction of achieving something difficult, and I've learned that being good at something doesn't necessarily mean you want to spend the rest of your life doing it.
Maybe that's why I find this stage of life so interesting.
We arrive here knowing more than we did when we were younger. We know what we're good at. We've learned what matters to us, and probably a few things that don't matter nearly as much as we once thought they did.
I'm not particularly interested in the idea of reinventing ourselves. I'm much more interested in what we choose to do with everything we already know.
I've spent a lot of my life learning how to build. These days, I'm just as interested in choosing what's worth building next.
My Approach
The people I work with are accomplished and capable. They don't need me to tell them how to live their lives, and I wouldn't presume to.
What I can offer is a place to step out of the noise for a while and think about what you actually want now. What still matters. What gives you energy. What you may have outgrown. And what you might choose if you gave yourself permission to think a little differently about the years ahead.
Sometimes that means making a significant change. Just as often, it's about looking differently at the life you already have and deciding what you want more of.
You have the benefit of everything you've lived and learned.
What do you want to do with it?