how you started out becoming this positive psychologist life coach.
How did that begin? What were those steps like?
Yeah. So basically, I went through this period of thinking for a moment.
Maybe it's time to retire.
Like, I have these incredible clinical practices, you know, and I'm how old was I?
I guess I was in my early 30s and I came home with my husband.
I was like, I think I'm ready to retire.
Like, I think that's what I'm feeling. Like, something's not feeling right.
It must be time to go.
And he was like, are you sure?
Like, I'm not sure right now is the time to retire.
And it was this kind of joke joke conversation that just spurred this
internal shift in me. I'm like, well, then what is it?
Then something's missing. What is it?
And I'm not wired to settle for a life that I'm not obsessed with.
Like, I'm not wired to live a life that I'm like, it's fine.
It's mediocre. It's it's a livable existence.
Like, it's just not me.
So I knew there was something going on inside of me.
Like, there's got to be a shift. Something needs to change.
So I just started to explore, like, how do I get from
feeling like life is checking the boxes to feeling like alive again and lit up again?
And then I came across positive psychology.
I fell in love with the idea that there's a science of happiness.
Like, how cool is that science?
And I've always been an evidence based provider.
So I'm like, oh, like, this is my jam.
And then I just started to practice what I was learning
and basically took myself on the exact journey that now I take entrepreneurial women.
So this idea of all of us that in waking up to deciding or claiming your life
and then getting so nitty gritty in some of the details of like, what are your what are my habits?
And how am I eating and how am I sleeping and who am I hanging with and spending time with?
And are they the right people in my life?
And how am I feeling inspired and are my strengths?
Like, the best parts of my personality, are those being highlighted in my life right now?
What about my values? What about what I truly care about?
Like, are those being reflected?
And so I started to piece this together.
And then I was like, this is it.
Like, this is the thing that takes people to a thriving life, a thriving existence.
And I started coaching women from a psychology perspective, but just general, more life coaching way of,
hey, if you're not obsessed with your life and thrilled with how it is, like, they're absolutely very tangible,
pretty easy steps we can take to help you feel better.
That's where I started with my professional shift.
And then what I started to realize, interestingly enough, is that most of the clients that I started to work with
were actually entrepreneurs.
And there are women coming into my world who wanted the freedom and wanted the fun and wanted the wealth
and wanted the time and wanted the family and all the things.
But they didn't feel excited about entrepreneurship because it's hard.
It's kind of grindy.
It's exhausting sometimes.
You know, it feels like you're following someone else's path and you don't really know the way.
There's no roadmap for them.
So a lot of entrepreneurial women came into my world and were just like, I want to be happy and successful.
Like, how do I do both?
And so I was like, well, we follow my plan, which is called success by design, and we create happiness
and entrepreneurs who are creating just incredible success and impact.
Yeah.
I mean, you've got a five step plan.
Let's run with it, right?
Yeah, exactly right.
So I created like a formula and I take women through it to get them that foundation of like, oh, this is what it's meant to feel like.
Oh, OK.
So now we get to that next level, which is sustaining it versus creating it.
But that first step of realizing that you can choose an alternative to the life experience you're having right now
is like mind blowing for many people because no one's really starting their days being like, hmm, how can my life be better today?
So it's a fun thing to take people through.
Have you do you own do you have your own podcast?
Because I think that would be incredible.
What do you think you're doing with the podcast?
What would you see like being like the theme or the the message?
I think so one of the other podcasts I work with personally is we take in us.
We call it the hot seat.
I have a panel of a few different entrepreneurs that have been going for decades in their company.
And a new entrepreneur jumps into the hot seat and they say, this is the thing that I'm having trouble with.
And then we all throw ideas at the wall until something sticks.
I think it would be something along the lines that with you, somebody comes in and they're like, yeah, I'm a woman.
I'm trying to begin my business or not necessarily a woman.
Anyone I'm trying to start my business, but I don't know if that's really it for me.
And you just start throwing ideas out.
You're like, OK, what do you like?
You like this?
It's just like a quick instead of doing a whole five step plan for them.
You give them the quick basic structure and you're like, this is what I think might work.
If any of it works for you, we should be in touch some more.
Yeah, yeah, that's a cool idea.
I thought of having a podcast and I'm having a lot of fun being on other people's podcasts and learning about the experience.
But it is in the back of my mind.
I'm like, you know, I might want to do this someday.
We'll see.