Like many individuals, I had bet on the “traditional” roadmap to bring me the security, success, happiness, and fulfillment I craved...  and on paper it did. But here's the truth:

The lay-off turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Just a few months earlier, I had written a resignation letter that I never actually sent. Why? Because, although deep down inside I knew that the position was no longer in alignment with the life I wanted to live and that I didn’t actually want what I was chasing, I hadn’t given myself permission to change my mind. I believed whole-heartedly that the time, effort, and energy I'd already invested was too much to turn back and admit defeat. I bought into the idea that proving my value and abilities meant helping other people feel comfortable and get what they needed, even if it came at the cost of my own discomfort and putting my own needs on the back burner...

So, the Universe stepped in and taught me two important lessons: 

1. things always feel "off" when I don’t listen to (or trust) myself and

​2. it is my responsibility to create—and protect—the life I want to live, no one else's.

In short, the security, success, happiness, and fulfillment I craved were already mine. I just had to be bold and honest enough to claim them.

Since that moment of Truth in 2016, I’ve used my fancy degrees (M.Ed. from Vanderbilt University and B.A. from Boston College), my business (clarity coach, writer, and speaker), my corporate experience (nearly a decade as an administrator at top colleges and universities across the country), and a genuine interest in how and why people are the way they are to help folks around the globe figure out how to move from “what now?” to “this is it.”