Member since June 2025
I am a veteran Wellbeing and Leadership Coach, certified by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and The International Coaching Federation.
I have spent my career at the intersection of research, behavior change, and coaching, with a mission to help women build what I call "courage capital" - the deep confidence in our value and strengths that we need just as much as financial capital to do big, brave things.
Through The Uplifters Podcast and my coaching practice, I've discovered that what stops most women isn't lack of money, support, or knowledge - it's the limiting beliefs that tell us we're not ready, not enough, or that it's too late. I have created a uniquely holistic and proven approach to coaching that blends practical, science-backed techniques with energy coaching to help women overcome these barriers.
I have partnered with companies like Weight Watchers, Best Buy, Truist, Edward Jones, US Bank, and many more to create meaningful and transformative experiences. As a facilitator on a mission to make wellbeing accessible to everyone, I have coached thousands of group sessions, teaching participants across socio-economic levels to leverage the wellbeing techniques once reserved for the wellness elite.
Personally, I am based in Brooklyn, NY, a 21-time marathoner, a news-wife, and Momma to a 200-year-old sourdough culture, a fluffy pup, and two spirited, creative teenage girls.
My very favorite thing in the whole world is witnessing another person feeling seen and heard. Beyond that, I'm charged up by making food and art out of what is close at hand, listening to quirky female singers, one-song dance parties, baking sourdough, long-distance running, and wandering without a destination.
Courage Can Compound Over Generations.
My great-grandmother, Mary Malva Morris, lived within the rigid boundaries of early 20th-century womanhood. After barely surviving the Depression as a migrant farmer and losing her husband and young daughter, she might have accepted defeat. Instead, at 50-something, she saw Barbie dolls as a business opportunity and became the "Doll Lady of Canton Trades Day," building an entrepreneurial empire when banks wouldn't even issue credit cards to women without their husbands' permission.
Mary's courage became a family inheritance. Her daughter, my grandmother Rosemary, adopted me when I was 6 and she was 45. For 50 years, we were best friends and playmates. I watched her grow and expand through every decade: becoming an entrepreneur in her 40s, pursuing creative goals in her 50s, and challenging her body physically through her 90s. She started running in her 70s and did headstands until her last days. She always said, "Growing old isn't for sissies." From the very beginning of my life, I saw the second half of life as a time of freedom, growth, and possibility, thanks to Grandma.
I've worked in motivation, coaching, and behavior change for over 20 years. I've spent pretty much my entire adult life trying to understand what makes people do what they do.
But in 2021, at age 46, life threw me for a loop. I'd spent my entire life saying yes to other people's invitations. From where I went to college, what I studied there, and where I moved afterwards. I said "okay" to jobs, promotions, marriage, and kids. When I was laid off from the company I'd been with for 18 years, I was feeling two things acutely: wildly, abundantly free and scared out of my ever-loving mind.
After half a century of hustling to make other people's dreams come true, it felt like time to figure out what the heck I really wanted to do.
That was terrifying.
What if it didn't work out? What if it was too late? What if I didn't actually have anything valuable to add to the world other than helping other people succeed in their goals? Maybe it was better not to ask than find out that those things were true.
In the vast open space of that summer and layoff, just post-pandemic, I knew two things for sure:
-I didn't want to get sucked back into the void of a corporate structure
-I wanted to have a positive impact on the world with my life
But how?
I did what women have done for all of humankind: I asked a friend. But, not just any friend: a smart, successful friend who had navigated big change and found more purpose and impact. I left that conversation clearer and more confident. So, the next day, and the day after that, I did the same thing. I began to notice patterns in the diverse stories these women were sharing with me. So, I put on my professional researcher hat and built a great big dataset.
I've now interviewed over 150 women for this project—including M'Lis Ward, the first Black female commercial pilot in America; Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon; Alli Schroeder, the first female Canadian baseball player; Amy Cohen, a housewife who became the force behind groundbreaking traffic law changes after her son was tragically killed by traffic violence; Terry Grahl, founder of Enchanted Makeovers, who ensures that women and children in the shelter system are surrounded by beauty and dignity, and many other trailblazers, purpose-led founders, and business executives.
All of these women have faced extraordinary obstacles. Some of them didn't have a lick of experience to stand on, and yet they've created lives of extraordinary purpose and meaning.
When I looked at their diverse stories all at once, some remarkable patterns emerged. In fact, these women all seemed to be doing the same things. Maybe there was a recipe I—all of us—could follow if we want to have lots of purpose and meaning in midlife and beyond!
Courage Can Compound Over Generations.
My great-grandmother, Mary Malva Morris, lived within the rigid boundaries of early 20th-century womanhood. After barely surviving the Depression as a migrant farmer and losing her husband and young daughter, she might have accepted defeat. Instead, at 50-something, she saw Barbie dolls as a business opportunity and became the "Doll Lady of Canton Trades Day," building an entrepreneurial empire when banks wouldn't even issue credit cards to women without their husbands' permission.
Mary's courage became a family inheritance. Her daughter, my grandmother Rosemary, adopted me when I was 6 and she was 45. For 50 years, we were best friends and playmates. I watched her grow and expand through every decade: becoming an entrepreneur in her 40s, pursuing creative goals in her 50s, and challenging her body physically through her 90s. She started running in her 70s and did headstands until her last days. She always said, "Growing old isn't for sissies." From the very beginning of my life, I saw the second half of life as a time of freedom, growth, and possibility, thanks to Grandma.
I've worked in motivation, coaching, and behavior change for over 20 years. I've spent pretty much my entire adult life trying to understand what makes people do what they do.
But in 2021, at age 46, life threw me for a loop. I'd spent my entire life saying yes to other people's invitations. From where I went to college, what I studied there, and where I moved afterwards. I said "okay" to jobs, promotions, marriage, and kids. When I was laid off from the company I'd been with for 18 years, I was feeling two things acutely: wildly, abundantly free and scared out of my ever-loving mind.
After half a century of hustling to make other people's dreams come true, it felt like time to figure out what the heck I really wanted to do.
That was terrifying.
What if it didn't work out? What if it was too late? What if I didn't actually have anything valuable to add to the world other than helping other people succeed in their goals? Maybe it was better not to ask than find out that those things were true.
In the vast open space of that summer and layoff, just post-pandemic, I knew two things for sure:
-I didn't want to get sucked back into the void of a corporate structure
-I wanted to have a positive impact on the world with my life
But how?
I did what women have done for all of humankind: I asked a friend. But, not just any friend: a smart, successful friend who had navigated big change and found more purpose and impact. I left that conversation clearer and more confident. So, the next day, and the day after that, I did the same thing. I began to notice patterns in the diverse stories these women were sharing with me. So, I put on my professional researcher hat and built a great big dataset.
I've now interviewed over 150 women for this project—including M'Lis Ward, the first Black female commercial pilot in America; Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon; Alli Schroeder, the first female Canadian baseball player; Amy Cohen, a housewife who became the force behind groundbreaking traffic law changes after her son was tragically killed by traffic violence; Terry Grahl, founder of Enchanted Makeovers, who ensures that women and children in the shelter system are surrounded by beauty and dignity, and many other trailblazers, purpose-led founders, and business executives.
All of these women have faced extraordinary obstacles. Some of them didn't have a lick of experience to stand on, and yet they've created lives of extraordinary purpose and meaning.
When I looked at their diverse stories all at once, some remarkable patterns emerged. In fact, these women all seemed to be doing the same things. Maybe there was a recipe I—all of us—could follow if we want to have lots of purpose and meaning in midlife and beyond!