What do you do when you lose your dream? You grieve. Hard. And then you dream again!

I spent nearly a decade working for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). I deployed to crisis and disaster zones across the globe and had the privilege of representing the best of the American people to those in crisis. It was a dream job and I couldn’t have imagined a better professional path for myself. That all came crashing down when USAID was unconstitutionally dismantled.

For most of my life I’ve had people tell me that I should be a life coach or that they thought of me as their “unofficial life coach”. Those seeds became the start of a new dream.

I am formally trained by Co-Active Training Institute, an International Coaching Federation accredited coaching school. I also have a master’s degree in Diplomacy and International Relations. Both degrees affirmed my love of nuance, people, and life-long learning.

Perhaps more important than my education, I have personally experienced unwanted change and have found my own agency and joy in the aftermath. I coach from a place of knowing that life can be brutal and yet it is possible to find goodness after loss.

When I’m not coaching I am most likely exploring the world, cooking for my friends, reading fiction, training to run a race very slowly, studying Spanish, scuba diving, championing my nieces, or volunteering at my church. Somewhere in there I do a few loads of laundry.

I live a big, full, joy-filled life and I’d LOVE to empower you to live one too!