HOW I GOT HERE

I am a recovering perfectionist. The ultimate protege of the girl boss era, I understood the assignment, and consistently hustled past my body’s limits to check the boxes that society had promised would bring success, and happiness.

By 33, on paper, I achieved many of the things I set out to do - I got the big job, I lived in my dream city, I married the love of my life, and still…something was off.  When I got ‘there,’ it felt nothing like I expected. I knew in some deep, and quieter, part of myself that this version of me could not sustain the bigger dreams I had for our future life, and the Mom I hoped to be. I was so out of alignment that my body wouldn’t physically allow me to continue. 

My metaphorical life raft was the wisdom and insights I had learned through the decade-long spiritual voyage I pursued in tandem with my corporate-ladder-climb. The hours and resources I had invested studying under teachers from countless spiritual modalities, and earning a yoga certification, were reorienting me to a truer, more congruent version of myself. I had gotten an internal upgrade, and was better able to listen to what the soul-level part of me craved.

In the end, I followed my intuition, and ditched the mountain I had painstakingly climbed to reach my dream job as a Senior Leader running communications for a sports brand, and shifted to a part-time role. We got pregnant with our magical son, and during that season I completed multiple certifications in the Akashic Records, and a course in Human Design (two systems geared to point you back to the ‘real you’), and followed the breadcrumbs to launch my business.

In the liminal space of new motherhood and working with clients, the dots started connecting for me. I experienced the undeniable interconnectedness of the physical and spiritual worlds. The conversations about strategic vision, mission, and KPI’s taking place in the boardroom, were translatable to the chats new Moms were having in the park as they worked to recalibrate to their new reality. The scenes, stages, and costumes were just different. Someone just had to translate the language.

We all crave a sense of purpose, meaning, fulfillment, and an accompanying game plan that will enable us to achieve it. The trick is, to get there, we have to invest the time to identify what this specifically means for each of us. If we don’t, we’ll waste our precious time, energy and resources running at targets that were never made for us.

My practice was born from part necessity, part my own unique gifts that I brought to the world. It’s the intersection of everything I learned counseling C-Suite Executives and Senior Leaders on communications strategy at companies like Microsoft, Under Armour and Old Navy, and the depth and timeless wisdom in my spiritual studies.

As humans, we really need both. The soul introspection to help us stay in alignment and point us to the places to apply our ambition, and the devoted action to apply the unique soul purposes we all came to the world with.