I am from an incredibly small (around 3,000) town on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. It is famous for being the “coldest spot in the nation”. The wind blew EVERY DAMN DAY of my life - not kidding.

I met my husband in Missoula, Montana where I received my BA at the University of Montana in Business. He came there for college (and the hunting) and found a wife. We fell in love, and I moved to Wisconsin.

At 23, my husband and I took over the management of our family’s health and racquet club. Neither of us were remotely interested in fitness and frankly, this was years BEFORE fitness was even a thing.

Within my first month, I landed in the position of managing the business office and facilitating club systems after 3 hours of training. I self-taught payroll taxes, balancing the checkbook, providing amazing customer service, and managing staff who were often 20+ years my senior.

In our 34 years there, my husband and I grew the club from a 10 court tennis facility with a group fitness studio to a 90,000 square foot racquet and athletic facility featuring a fitness and free weight area, cardio deck, pool, pilates studio, yoga studio, cycling studio, full gymnasium, pro shop, bar, physical therapy, massage studio, and nursery.

In 2019, we were blessed to sell and I embarked on my journey to become a business and life coach because I missed interacting with my staff, my members! I have always loved coming beside and encouraging others to be better, to want more, to dream bigger.

My philosophy is if you are going to do something, do the best that you can do, so I found HPX Academy and became a Certified High-Performance Coach (CHPC) which made me one of a small, elite group of coaches chosen to be certified each year.

Since that initial certification, my heart had led me from being a CHPC and into becoming a mindset coach. This area of life coaching resonated with me from my own journey of discovery.

After the sale of our business I was very much adrift. I no longer had all of the responsibilities to prove to myself that I had value. I needed to look within and decide that I liked who was there.

In that journey I have learned that you are not your thoughts. I have learned that the voice in your head (your inner critic) never shuts up, and for the most part is wrong. I have learned through mindfulness to become aware of my thoughts, and decide which I am going to listen to.

I have learned to trust myself, trust my journey, my voice. I have learned to clarify for myself who I want to be and what that looks like, for me.

Then, each and every day I set my intention to do my best to live into that woman. And, on the days that I fall short, I have learned to assess where I felt short, extend grace and compassion, and keep going.

As a mindset coach, I have the honor of taking what I have learned in my journey and walk beside someone else who is striving to be their best, but just don’t know how.

Through our coaching, you will learn strategies that will serve you the remainder of your life.

I cannot explain the joy of asking questions and getting someone to that place where they make the connection that they had never seen and have an AHA moment.

If nurtured that moment can go on to change lives.

What are you waiting for?