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Hello friend! You have come to the right place to get your mind, body and business in order to live the life you were intended to live! Here you will find the tools, the community of support, and fun side humor to raise the joy in your life while decreasing the mental clutter. Here’s a little more about me:
My path here today has been anything but linear. In my 20’s I was a stay at home mom with 3 kids 3 and under - with one of those kiddos being a newborn who was born at 29 weeks and had many needs. My husband worked for a farmer and then worked on our own small farm at night. We were poor, broke and overwhelmed.
Out of desperation to help our financial situation, I began selling cosmetics for a national brand. Failing wasn’t optional. Also not optional was doing it half-way. I somehow managed the chaos of small children while simultaneously building a business. Within 6 months I had earned a company car. I would go on to earn three more in a five year period. My area grew significantly and at one point I trained and mentored over 200 people.
But I was unhealthy. I was overweight and stressed all of the time. The business required that I was “on” all of the time. In addition, I often felt responsible for the success or failure of others and that began to take a toll. Although I had several people working for me, my house was a disaster, and my time with my family was not quality. Most of all, I was not the person I wanted to be.
Like a crazy person, I just decided one day that it was enough and quit. Just. Like. That. I spent the next year and a half working on my physical self, but also my emotional triggers. I cooked non-stop for my family and enjoyed even cleaning the bathrooms. I played tennis, road my bike, trained and ran some half-marathons, and enjoyed nature. I volunteered at my kids’ school and built a massive community park. This was a time of much healing for me and I was blessed that we could afford for me to do that at that point.
However, one day as I was ironing the sheets on my bed so I could make it look like a catalog photo, I repeated back to myself what I was doing. I am ironing the sheets on my bed. It was time to get out back into the world. But what would I do?
I knew that I was always quite an intuitive person, so I enrolled in a graduate program at Adams State University for their Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. I was so unsure if this was the right thing because even when enrolling, I never saw myself as being a therapist for the rest of my life. But I knew I had to start SOMETHING.
The personal journey I started a few years previously went into overdrive. There are no words to describes the painful journey of looking deeply in the mirror at yourself and those around you. Subsequently, Matt and I went through some very difficult times in our marriage. I was changing drastically and he would need to change with me. We almost didn’t make it. I am forever grateful that he chose to change with me.
After leaving graduate school I kept a private practice for a while and then got hired on to develop and execute an organizational culture change program at a utility. This work received national attention in the utility world and I began consulting with other organizations while also working on a doctorate degree in Organizational Leadership. Eventually I also oversaw the brand creation and strategic deployment plan of a new fiber optic for the company. When it appeared that the company no longer needed my services I resigned to finish my doctorate degree.
Here I was again at a crossroads. What do I do now? I knew I wanted to create my own thing. My own business. This is how the idea for Locavores came about. It took 7 months from idea til the doors opened! In the 3 years we’ve been open, the business had grown, thrived and evolved.
In recent years, I have met up with many women who say, ‘whatever you do is successful, I could never do what you have done’. This hurts my heart so much. They are often in the same place I was, not in their best physical health working at jobs they hate, or searching for the thing that fills their soul. While I didn’t understand it then, I know now that my journey in business success and in creating a mind and body I want (although the body thing is a work in progress!), has prepared me for this next chapter helping others do the same. This is the work my life has been intended for. I look forward to helping your find and thrive in yours!
