I was the go-to person for advice in fifth grade. One girl, Tracy, would pay me a quarter after each “session.” In seventh grade, I did a project on Psychology as a career. Ten years later, I graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a degree in Health Promotion.

For some reason, I didn’t think I was good enough to pursue a career in psychology. I don’t know how good I had to be, but I knew I wasn’t. Sure, I made good grades, sure, I was a gifted student, and sure I was responsible, but was I blank enough to achieve my dream, my calling? No.

And that continued until my mid-thirties. Well, when I was 29 I decided I could have my dreams and the life that I wanted. But by then, my idea of self had gotten so convoluted and hidden, that I no longer identified with the calling to be an advice-giver, a counselor. And thus began this journey to my true self.

Even when I rediscovered my calling, I had no idea what to do with it. There was no space for it amongst all my responsibilities, inadequacies, preconceptions, and old wounds. I left it in the box for a time when I was ready.

That time seemed never to come. I never seemed ready. I never knew how to take it out of the box and display it proudly. I gave up on it. Thinking maybe I would trade it for homemaking and homeschooling.

Then my husband found the perfect school for our kindergarten-age son. A private school with a tuition we couldn’t afford. Knowing that it was destined for our son to attend that school, I knew it was time to get to work.

As a Coach

I am a Quantum coach, which means I coach from “Miracle Consciousness;” I trust God to guide myself and my clients toward dissolving their barriers and achieving their goals.

I trained through Quantum Coach Academy and am working toward a life coaching certification through the International Coaching Federation.

My areas of interest are codependency and identity, business, household management, and religious deconstruction.

Besides being a good listener, highly intuitive, and curious, I am trained in powerful modalities such as Emotional Freedom Tapping, Timeline Technique, Reiki, and Hypnotherapy. I have a growing passion for Neurolinguistic Programming. These are all tools that serve to help clients change habits and thinking, release barriers, and improve their concept of self.

As a Person

I’m from Southeast Missouri, but I only sound country some of the time. Wanting to stretch my legs, I moved to St. Louis, Missouri for an internship in 2011, where I met my husband. He later joined the Army, we married, and I was a military spouse for four whole years in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. I had my first son there in 2018, and my second son in St. Louis in 2022. 

On another note, I am a Life Path 8 with a Soul Expression 11. In Human Design, I am a 4/1 mental projector. Lastly, I’m a Libra, so you know I try to be fair.

My Experience

The day after I gave birth to my oldest, someone called to solicit a military spouse education program. I signed up but ultimately decided I didn’t want to be someone’s administrative assistant, I wanted to be the boss. 

Before this, my work experience was personal training, running a children’s weight management program and an injury prevention program in schools, and customer service for an insurance company. I strongly disliked all these roles for various reasons, mainly because they weren’t utilizing my strengths.

I had always planned to work for myself when I had children, yet there I was on (a paid) maternity leave. I realized no one was going to invite me to my dream life. 

When my son was five months old, I quit the customer service job to pursue that dream. I started building up a military spouse blog I had that was popular, but I couldn’t figure out how to monetize it without losing my authentic voice, which was what made it prolific. 

Next, I signed up for Mary Kay to learn how to sell. I moved states a couple months in and never got going again so that was a waste of thousands of dollars of which I am reminded each time I come across the welcome box full of unopened products in my office closet. 

In the summer of 2019, I went back to the blog, revamping it since I was no longer a military spouse, and launched a podcast. The season culminated in launching a self-published book, No Girlfriend Left Behind: A Partner’s Guide to U.S. Army Basic Training, that November, of which I am very proud. I had a vision for a series of books on military spouse-related topics but right as I completed the project, I got the sense that was not the right path for me, which promptly put me in a depression. 

Right after Christmas that year, I put my head down and came up with a pitch for a friend to host a mastermind workshop based around her expertise. This turned into a teaching and coaching business that at its height earned over $15,000 in one month on an online course launch. As I had finally proven myself, I realized the business would not reach future success without my continued self-deprecation in the partnership, so I walked away, not even taking royalties for the course. That was 2021. 

I was much more gun-shy after that and didn’t embark on anything else until finally walking through the door to my calling in 2023. 

During my entire career and entrepreneurial experience, I wondered what I was really meant to be doing. I knew I had a greater purpose but had no direction. I struggled to identify the work I was meant to do because I wasn’t interested in anything specific.

As it turned out, I was the work. In overcoming the challenges life and work brought to me, I was equipped to help others rescue themselves and be their own hope and guide. God shows up in many ways, but I learned it always starts with the self. Even you finding me, started with you.