Many years ago, after having put all of my energy into constructing a “perfect” life by society’s standards, I woke one day to realize that I felt frighteningly, painfully desolate on the inside, with no connection to who I really was. After many years of introspection, therapy, and coaching, I came to experience a deep, unique sense of self-understanding and connection.  And from this place, I was at last able to create a life aligned with the core of who I was, devoid of the opinions of others, society’s dictums, and “shoulds,” and instead full of my joys, values, and meaningful purpose. I had inadvertently discovered my Essence.

Fast forward to my profession as a coach… The concept of the Power of Essence Coaching and the Power of Essence Course was born from a yearning to spare other women from the experience that I went through and the countless years that it took me to get to the other side. I joined forces with a trusted friend and colleague and together we put structure around and laid out the process for a woman to deeply and effectively discover her essence.

For close to 15 years now, I have taken women of all ages through the essence coaching process both individually and in workshops to support their transformation. Because it has met with such great success, I now weave the process into all of the coaching that I do, be it Life Coaching, Career and Leadership Development Coaching or Executive Coaching.

I have discovered that essence coaching is particularly supportive of women in their middle years of life. At the age of 53, I suddenly found myself slipping under the spell that my “time to shine” was starting to pass me by. This was something that I had started to see over the years with my friends, colleagues, and clients. Quickly realizing that I had inadvertently stepped out of alignment with my essence, I took myself through the Power of Essence Course and with immediacy, powerfully reawaked my sense of resplendence.

Sometimes, it appears as if no one is immune... I consistently see even the most confident of women start to feel the tug of covert and overt messaging telling them as early as in their late-40s to step aside and make room for the younger women coming up behind them.

This perceived “expiration date,” sometimes referred to as the Invisible Woman Syndrome, shows up in a multitude of ways holding women back from professional advancement, actualizing lifelong dreams, experiencing health and vitality, beauty and radiance, creative expression, and even finding deep romantic partnership.

But here is the great news!

Studies show that in fact when a woman hits the age of 60, she is just starting to step into her full capacity for dynamism. Research reveals that there is a New Prime. Society has simply not caught up. Just look around you, not only is time not passing you by, but countless women are thriving well into and far beyond their middle-age.  (Look toward the bottom of the page for more information about the New Prime).

Because of my own personal experience and what I see in the world around me, I have become passionately driven to free women from the false narrative about middle age. Through public speaking opportunities, workshops, retreats, and coaching, I am devoted to start a movement to help women in their late 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond step into their brilliance and take the center stage of their lives for the second half of their lives. 

My Coaching Background
I have worked as a Life, Career and Leadership Development, and Essence Coach for 20 years now, as well as a facilitator of women and girl’s groups. During this time, I have witnessed countless individuals courageously bring heartfelt desires to reality, and I continue to be awed by the power within each of us to make our dreams come true.

My coaching experience, and my life experience, have taught me this: Each and every one of us shares one thing in common, the yearning to live a meaningful life. As a coach, my role is to guide clients toward transforming that yearning into reality. I could not be more honored or privileged to do the work that I do.

My Credentials
I am credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaches Federation (ICF), the accrediting body for the coaching industry, and also credentialed as a certified Life, Career, and Executive Coach through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), the first training organization to be accredited by the ICF. Most recently, I became certified as a Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

My Philosophy and Approach
Regardless of the type of coaching that I provide a client, everything that I do is underpinned by the belief that It is Everyone’s Birthright to Live a Deeply Rich and Rewarding Life. As a coach, it is my job to inspire and empower individuals to claim that right. And from that place, together, we begin a process to powerfully turn yearnings and dreams into reality. Because I believe that we each have the answers within us to powerfully transform our lives, my style is partnership based, rather than directive. Put simply, I meet my clients where they are on their life’s journey, help them clarify exactly where they yearn to be, and then support them to get there.

My clients often refer to me as both an intuitive and action-oriented coach. I call on both of these aspects of myself throughout the coaching process. Specifically, I ask my clients a lot of questions and share a multitude of coaching tools with them that help remove unsupportive self-concepts, perceptions, and “shoulds” to reveal their truth and a clarity that has been within them all along. An analogy that beautifully demonstrates this process is Michelangelo’s explanation on how he created the statue of David. Michelangelo explained that he did not create David, he merely chipped away at the marble that wasn’t David, until David was revealed.

My Process
Typically, I work with my clients during two, monthly, 60-minute virtual sessions, held either by phone or Zoom (it is entirely up to them), and I give ‘assignments’ between sessions to keep things powerfully moving forward. In some instances, clients request weekly sessions, sessions once a month, or even weekly soundbite sessions (20-minute sessions). My clients are my heroes. They constantly remind me of the inherent power within each of us to create a life of great meaning and deep fulfillment.

The New Prime
Are you a middle-aged woman? When it comes to living the life of your dreams, or being at your personal best, or feeling and looking gorgeous, do you feel that time has passed you by?

I have news for you…

Actually, the exact time is now for you to take the center stage of your life. Did you know that in 2018 the New England Journal of Medicine found that women are actually at their most productive – aka, creative, effective, dynamic - when they are between 60 and 70 years old? There is more exciting research being done about this today and there are countless examples of women that have found their stride in the middle years, but society’s messaging has simply not caught up.

Instead, societal messages often dictate that the bloom has started to fall off of our rose, that we have had our time to shine and either we seized it, or we didn’t, and that drive and dreams belong to the generation behind us, telling us that it is our time to step aside and make room for our more youthful counterparts to take the center stage.

In fact, research shows that 7 out of 10 middle-aged women, starting in their early 50s in the US, suffer from “Invisible Woman Syndrome,” a feeling that people are starting to literally no longer see them (both personally and professionally).

And so, we are pitted against ourselves and our yearnings and dreams, pitted against younger women who are just living their lives but silently, sometimes resented by us, and even pitted against one another born of envy toward those that have dared to shine anyway.

What is a woman to do? First, remove the competition, resentment, and envy by recognizing that there is enough center stage to go around for each and every woman at each and every age.

Next, we each need to connect with and learn to harness an innate power within us, our Essence, empowering us to reclaim ownership of our lives to take our center stage, in our way, on our terms, at our exact age.

We are each Sovereigns in our own right, meant to take up our crowns ... and wear them. 

My Story