about

Welcome to my world!

I am so pleased that you have found your way to my website. Thanks for stopping by to spend a bit of time with me.

I am passionate about supporting new coaches to develop successful coaching practices with ease and joy. I'd like to tell you a little about me and what led to this "calling" of supporting you in developing your coaching practice with ease and joy.

My life has always been lived by synchronicity. Even though I did not know it at the time, there were so many events leading up to my being a coach. Like most coaches, I have always had a fascination with the stories of others, and have loved to listen to people.

I can still remember my first unofficial coaching engagement, and that was over 25 years ago. I was working at a college in Missouri as a residence hall director, and I also helped out with youth retreats at the Newman Center. One day, the director called me at my office and asked if I would help him get organized. I was only 23 years old.

At that tender young age, I was responsible for a residence hall of 650 students and 13 staff members. I had to be very organized! Anyway, that's why he asked me to help him. I did meet with him for breakfast each week for about a year, and we went over his calendar and appointments. And he got more organized.

What I did then was coaching, although I never called it that. And that has been true of much of what I have done in my life - this feeling of having a purpose in supporting others to achieve their dreams, their goals, what has been truly important to them.

My friends always asked for my advice before making decisions. I had (and still do have) what I called a 'strong intuition.' If someone would tell me three or four options that they were considering, somehow, I could tell which one would really work out well for them. Time and time again, I was able to listen to another, hear which choices were important to that person, and support them to pursue those choices.

In the fall of 2001, I left my 60+ hour per week Estate Planning job, exhausted, with no definite plans for the future. I decided to take the last quarter of the year to get my life in order, to clear out every drawer and closet in my home, and figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my life. In the middle of this 'sabbatical' I got a call from one of my friends.

My friend called me and said, "You are a coach! You've been coaching us all for so many years, you just need to get formally trained." And when she said this, something inside me opened up, and I knew that what she said was right for me. The interesting point about this friend is that earlier that year, she had mentioned that she learned more about herself from having one dinner with me than she had during her week at the Deepak Chopra Center! That really got my attention.

And the rest is history. I looked on the ICF website, and at that time there were 24 accredited coach training schools. I picked the one that said "spiritual coaching." I wanted a profession that would nurture my soul as well as my mind. I faxed in my registration (in those days we did not register through the website) on Thanksgiving day.

If you would like to read more about me, I have three bios to share with you. Just click on any of these links to receive a copy.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or insights you would like to share with me.

By phone, you can reach me at 520-299-0001.

I have a local clock on the contact page, so that you can see what time it is for me. From April-October, we are on US Pacific daylight savings time, and from November-March, we are on US Mountain standard time. Arizona does not change time at all. Quite an oxymoron for someone like me who embraces change so wholeheartedly to be living in a state that does not change at all!

If you wish to email me (My preferred method of communication, since I am on the phone so much of the time), click here.

I would like to share with you one of my very favorite quotes with you. This is the message that I feel each coach gives to his/her clients.