In my professional life I have coached countless women in the areas of health, business, confidence, and personal growth. I have started and operated two successful six-figure businesses and have had the pleasure of both speaking on stages to thousands as well as inspiring small groups at intimate retreats. I have shot a pilot for a television show and was once invited by ABC Daytime to audition to be a talk show co-host. I have won awards, been featured in magazine publications, and been celebrated as a high-achieving leader.

However, during much of that achieving what nobody knew was that in my personal life I was so broken down that I spent years isolated and stuck, afraid to be vulnerable because it felt too risky. I feared success because I felt like an imposter who was unworthy. My high-school sweetheart turned husband and I nearly divorced because marriage got messy and hard and nothing really prepared us for that season. I have experience devastating abandonment by those I thought would always stay. I’ve struggled with my purpose and identity. I’ve made huge mistakes and felt like a failure, full of shame. I’ve believed I was unusable by God. I’ve struggled with confidence and coped with the rigors of life's disappointments in unhealthy ways.

That part of a bio is way less sexy though; it’s easier to leave out the junk. I thought it was important to note that while there has been great success and achievement, there has also been deep struggle.

This is what I want you to know from someone who has scaled the exciting heights of accomplishment and journeyed the miserable valleys of breakdown: NOTHING is wasted and every single part of your story is redeemable. God has a plan to work your ENTIRE story out for good. I know this because it’s been true in my own life and the lives of so many others. I am a believer that God’s plan for your life is bigger and more beautiful than anything you could ever imagine.

So who am I? I am a redeemed risk-taker and driven dreamer willing to show up however God calls me. I am the kind of gal who goes all in to whatever prompting is set before me, like that time I decided to get my degree in culinary arts because I love food and believe a really good meal shared with others around a table can transform lives. I am a wife of over 20 years to a man I’ve grown up with who has endured alongside me in the beautiful and hard refining process of marriage. I am a mom to three amazing teenagers who have taught me more about God’s unshakeable love for me as I see my own unshakeable love for them stretch and expand daily. I champion women stuck in shame to anchor those shaky legs on the Truth that will set them free, encouraging them to step forward and boldly walk in their divine purpose. And yes, while I am a coach, speaker, and writer I am also an overcomer, a conqueror, a survivor of the enemies efforts to enslave and entrap me. I am a woman continuously contending for my best so that I can help others break free in their own lives. I am saved by grace and full of gratitude daily. And like Jesus modeled so many times throughout His own ministry, I believe almost anything can be made better with a good meal shared around a table with good people.