Over 25 years ago, I was forced to retire and give up my dream of being in the 1996 Olympics due to chronic back pain. No doctors could explain why I couldn’t stand on my feet for more than 30 minutes. I had no choice but to transition from being an elite athlete, to a competitive coach at the age of 14 years old.
On the outside, it seemed like I was holding everything together but on the inside I was DYING. Riddled with chronic physical pain, and heartbroken that I had to give up my dream. I was overwhelmed, stifled, and stuck.
My self-confidence and my self-worth plummeted. I no longer felt like a champion. As I began desperately searching for answers, I slowly found bits and pieces to the puzzle.
I devoured all the information I could get my hands on tried just about all the practices that I could possibly find...


Over the past eighteen years, that study has become a body of work. I have worked privately with founders, executives, healers, performers, and creatives across long arcs of their lives. I have sat with people through divorce, bankruptcy, exits, illness, the building of legacies, and the unraveling of identities that no longer fit. I have learned what helps, and what does not.
I do the best I can to practice what I teach. What I do is an extension of who I am.
Sometimes I coach. Sometimes I heal. Sometimes I strategize. Sometimes I sit with what cannot yet be named. The form changes depending on what the moment needs. The presence does not.
I hold the room where the truth can land. I play the long game over the quick win.
You have built something real. You have done the hard work. If something in you is ready to be included now, we begin with a conversation.
A Heart to Heart is a private conversation with me on Zoom, time for both of us to sense whether this work fits this season of your life. If we are meant to work together, you will know. And so will I.
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