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Since 2016 I’ve been helping others set goals and achieve them.

Have you ever described yourself as burned out?

Found yourself wondering where your passion went?

Are you ready to find hope again?

What about dare to even dream?

It’s possible.

If any of this resonates with you, you’re in the right place.

I work with the overcomers, the hopers, the dreamers; the ones wanting transformational change but not knowing where to start. I guide them into finding what is already within so they can bring it to the surface.

Through my coaching, resources, clarity, and encouragement, you will move from the fringe to faith, unearth the hoper and dreamer already inside you, and deeply love your life!

Right here and now.

A Few Things About Me ...

My husband and I met breakfast club style at a table in our high school cafeteria. Turning to a friend he said, “Some day I’m going to marry that girl.” And he did. Nowadays we express our love by compromises over the thermostat and the status of tucked in bed sheets.

Life with three kids is a beautiful blur where I only have time to wash my hair on Saturdays. If the weather is cooperating in our hometown in the Chicago burbs, you can find me and the kids sipping root beers on our front porch.

Wife & Mom

Coach of Professionals

Since 2016, I’ve coached some of the hardest working, underrated, and oftentimes burned out, professionals to exist— educators. From classroom teachers to other coaches as well as highly demanding leadership roles like principals and district level directors, setting goals and achieving impact has been my daily work. 

I knew it was time to expand my coaching reach beyond the world of academia when many other contacts in my sphere were requesting coaching conversations. If you’ve got goals or dreams or even just hope to find them, I’m your person.

Communicator

Writing and podcasting has been an exercise in breaking out of anonymity and expressing myself creatively outside the 9-5. At the office, I have honed the craft of communication through the lens of leadership.

Learning a second language was the most formative experience in developing my communication skills. It first led me to a teaching stint in Spain and then 13 years of teaching high school Spanish stateside.

You know you can communicate with anyone when you have lived abroad, navigated the world as a foreigner, as well as guided 150 angsty adolescents in their second language on the daily.

Clarified Butter

If you’ve got a complex web of sticky spaghetti ideas begging to be untangled, you’ve come to the right place. Clarity is right around the corner.

It’s hard to argue, butter is delicious. And even better once clarified. Colleagues and clients call me their “clarified butter” for my reputation in clarifying their brainstorming butter.

I distill your thoughts to their purest essence and then assist you in putting them into action.

My story. . .

For most of my life, I was a lukewarm Christian, living a Jesus-adjacent rather than Jesus-immersed lifestyle. But all of that changed for me. In the heart of the pandemic, when most professionals were quarantined in their homes, front line workers— many of which educators like me— went back into the field scared for our lives. Faced with my mortality and where my career fit into any of it surfaced many questions within me. This was the hinge-point that got me serious about my future and my faith.

In the liminal space of my car, commuting 2 hours a day while the world, my people, and I reeled in chaos, the Sacred COMMUTE™ was born. What once was my own gauntlet of the gridlock instead transformed into gifted grace and I haven’t looked back.

Since then I’ve built hope and dared to dream beyond my scripted career trajectory. While still working a traditional full-time job outside of the home, I co-founded Grounded Learning LLC, a professional learning consulting business which facilitates and creates content for educational professionals. One arm of this work includes co-hosting its affiliated podcast the Grounded Learners Guild.

With a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education and Spanish, I spent my early professional years in the classroom. Nowadays I leverage my two master’s degrees in Curriculum & Instruction and Educational Leadership to do my most favorite work: coaching adult learners and professionals.

I am trained in a variety of coaching frameworks such as the Impact Cycle, Growth Model, Differentiated Coaching, and Coaching for Emotional Resilience to name a few. Since 2016, my daily work has been coaching professionals to set goals and achieve them.

You may have also seen me quoted in Catlin Tucker’s 2019 book, Power Up Blended Learning: A Professional Learning Infrastructure to Support Sustainable Change.

While the pandemic is thankfully in our rearview mirrors, I don’t want to forget what that pivotal time meant for me or any of us.

We all are changed. We are different. And we are tired. Many of us burned out and wondering what options we have with this new outlook on living. And that’s why I knew it was time to share my story and my life’s work with others and with you so you can find your own hope and dare to dream again.

Let’s work together

Are you ready to dare to dream again?