I'M A COACH.

 

 

I help women in survival mode to prioritize themselves so they can invest their time and energy in ways they love.

Born and raised in the mountains of Southwest Colorado, my life and career has taken many twists and turns and do-si-dos.

 

I grew up with a love of lip sync dance parties, exploring nature, and handstands in the city pool. I've always been fascinated by human interactions and even at a young age, I loved any opportunity to experience what made others light up. I've been told I have contagious enthusiasm (my 89-year-old Grandpa calls me "a sparkplug")!

 

I left my small town for college at CU Boulder as a Business student with the hopes of someday opening my own flower shop. Within my first month of college, I was sexually assaulted. My life trajectory took a sharp turn and after a period of grief and numbness, I began to care deeply about social justice. That's when I started working in nonprofits.

 

My nonprofit career invited me to get up close and personal with people in their suffering, healing, learning, growing, and dreaming of a better life. I've worked in nonprofits in small rural areas as well as bustling urban cities like San Francisco and New York City. My work in nonprofits took me into hospitals and courtrooms as a domestic violence advocate, inside San Quentin State Prison to support inmate rehabilitation programs and to share my experience as a sexual violence survivor in a Restorative Justice class for inmates. I wrote grants for affordable housing in SF's Tenderloin district, and I raised over $9 million in funding for a nonprofit that teaches job skills and helps unemployed and underemployed San Franciscans find good jobs. I led an organization providing support and advocacy to survivors of sexual violence at 29 and I also worked at a nonprofit that taught citizen witnesses of human rights abuses to harness the power of video technology.

 

After working in nonprofits for over 13 years, I took a course at Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, and for the first time ever, I realized that I was worthy of living a life that filled me up too, not just a life about fighting injustices. I wanted to fight FOR something, not just AGAINST. It was then that I discovered my "good"ness was already in me, it wasn't something I had to prove in my career path.

 

Mama Gena's Mastery course sparked a[nother] totally new direction for me. I moved from NYC to Portland, OR in 2014 (after winning a drawing - ask me to tell you that story sometime!) and followed my passion to work with flowers. It was time to do something that was fun for me - that finally felt like enough. After my stint in floral design, I joined the corporate Customer Experience team of a natural grocer, where I advocated for customers and coached employees on how to delight their customers.

 

In the Spring of 2017, I made the choice to hike the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail with my partner at the time (yes I have seen the movie Wild). I stopped hiking after I walked 800 miles and raised $10,000 for The Breathe Network, a nonprofit that I serve on the Board of that connects survivors of sexual violence with healing arts practitioners that offer sliding-scale, trauma-informed, holistic support. Shortly after I stopped hiking, I moved back to New York City to join the staff of Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, where I enrolled women in courses, spearheaded Student Affairs, and project managed all communications.

 

In early 2019, I started my Co-Active coaching journey (I completed all five core coaching courses in four months!) and I fell in love with the experience of supporting others to create the life of their dreams. In August 2019, I founded Compass Rose Coaching and I now serve a global network of individual coaching clients. In June of 2020, I completed (and enjoyed!) all requirements to earn my professional coaching certification - I'm now a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.