Throughout my professional and personal life, I’ve noticed people getting stuck in the same place, focused solely on the external — what was said and done to them and how they were treated — leaving them frustrated and waiting for something outside themselves to change.I know this because for a long time, that person was me.

After years in corporate America I pivoted to real estate — and over the next decade rose from leasing agent to Chief Customer Officer. I thought reaching that title would feel like true success. It didn't. My professional achievements felt hollow, my values misaligned or worse, blank. And at the same time I found myself in an abusive and chaotic relationship. I was truly dismayed at how I ended up in this place, and a question emerged: is this how I want to live the rest of my life?

I had spent so much time surviving life that I had never stopped to ask what I actually wanted my life to look and feel like. Not imposed or borrowed goals. Not someone else's definition of success. But mine.

I know how it feels to lose yourself — to grief, to a career, to a story someone else handed you. Time in therapy, on the yoga mat and in the books asking the hard questions taught me how to create my new path forward. My lived experience and a relentless curiosity about the human condition is what brought me to coaching.

The Reframe is the work I've done on myself — and what I'm meant to share with you. Not so everything becomes perfect because life is never perfect. But so you are well equipped with a deep trust in yourself to navigate whatever comes — and to keep designing the life you actually want.