Awareness
Notice the pattern beneath the problem. Are you overgiving? Waiting to feel ready? Doing another training instead of the thing you’re avoiding? I’ve been there.
Nursing was my first education in responsibility. Learning to care for myself changed what I wanted to do with it.
I started with hospital alarms, 12-hour shifts, and very little energy left for my own life.
I knew how to take care of everyone. Taking care of myself was another story.
I began working in acute-care nursing in New York in 2013. As a charge nurse on a 38-bed unit, I coordinated care, supported other nurses, and stayed composed through a steady stream of alarms, questions, and decisions. On the outside, I looked capable. On the inside, I was running on empty.
A car accident in 2015 made me slow down. What followed was a very personal education in boundaries, self-care, meditation, aromatherapy, Reiki, and integrative health. I eventually brought that work back into the hospital, offering bedside sessions and facilitating hospital-wide meditations.
Then came entrepreneurship. Turns out, being good at helping people doesn’t automatically teach you how to build a business. I learned that part through plenty of trial, error, and uncomfortable conversations.
Today, I help founders connect what they’re learning about themselves to how they actually live, lead, communicate, and work.
THE LESSONS I BRING WITH MEMy work draws on nursing, integrative health, and years of helping people put change into practice.
Acute-care and charge nursing, followed by integrative health nursing and bedside mind-body practices.
Training that became part of my personal exploration and integrative health work.
Individual readings focused on self-understanding, decision-making, and everyday application.
I love a big realization. I also want to know what you’re going to do with it when you get back to your day.
Notice the pattern beneath the problem. Are you overgiving? Waiting to feel ready? Doing another training instead of the thing you’re avoiding? I’ve been there.
Get clear about what’s yours to carry. Have the conversation. Set the boundary. Make the decision. Caring deeply doesn’t require making yourself endlessly available.
Build the habits that make progress repeatable: outreach, sales conversations, follow-through, and time to recover. Your business needs more than your best mood.
It’s the work of turning what you know into how you show up—with clear commitments, useful boundaries, and a structure you can keep practicing.
I live in Topanga with my partner, Clifton Smith. We co-founded Faces of the Future, where our different strengths meet: my focus on emotional integration, communication, and follow-through, and his work in business architecture, financial structure, and systems.
Building a relationship and a business together gives us plenty of opportunities to practice what we teach.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHERDuring the 2025 Los Angeles fires, I helped coordinate TopangaSAFE’s community communications, train local chat admins, and organize daily meetings. It brought me back to something I knew from nursing: when people are overwhelmed, clear information and shared responsibility make a difference.
Tell me what you’re navigating in your life or business. We can start with the conversation that fits.
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