Fear Brain to Breakthrough: My Humanistic NLP Certification
My brain had all kinds of fear-based objections as I prepared for a nine-day training with the one and only John Overdurf. But I’m a coach, and I know a thing or two about dealing with the fear brain… so I did the work.
How to Make Yourself Visible to Senior Leadership When You’re Allergic to Office Politics
Many of my clients are conscientious, hardworking, type A women in male-dominated industries. When they hear the word "visibility," they wince.
If that's you, good. Your instincts are sound. But before you fix your visibility, figure out which visibility problem you actually have.
How to Get Your Team to Do the Work They Keep Avoiding Without Micromanaging: A Sales Manager Case Study
If you've spent your career in a male-dominated industry, "not playing politics" often becomes code for staying quiet, staying small, and letting other people take credit for work you did.
I coach women who are done with that self-defeating loop. They want to lead in a way that's honest, that earns positive influence, and that doesn't cost them their integrity to get it. Here's a case study of what that looks like in action and words.
Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982: How to Be Gracefully Assertive Without Losing Your Mind
I teach my coaching clients a concept called Graceful Assertiveness. It requires extending an ocean of grace back to ourselves as we do the courageous work of undoing generations of conditioning. Conditioning that taught women to feel like, and accept being treated like, and paid like second-class citizens.
What It’s Really Like to Work With an Executive Coach (A Tech Leader’s Honest Account)
If you’ve been curious about executive coaching but have hesitated because you’re not sure what it entails or whether it would help you, here's what former client SJ Crawford shared on LinkedIn about working with me 1:1.
Four Salary Negotiation Tips for High Achievers With Impostor Syndrome
If you're technically excellent, hold yourself to a high standard, and feel a low hum of guilt about wanting more (because a bigger career might disappoint the people you're currently keeping happy) this one's for you.
How Sarah-Neel and Grace Left the Rat Race, Claimed Their Voices, and Earned More
Here are the stories of how two of my clients built the connections and relationships that blew the door open to what came next. In the process, they became their own bosses, grew their self-advocacy skills, and made more money than the systems they left ever imagined for them.
The Three Votes Framework: A Career Playbook for Women of Color in Male-Dominated Industries
If you're a woman of color with career ambitions in a male-dominated industry, you intimately know the resource everyone says you're short on: power. But you still govern your own choices, especially when the system is built to make you feel like you don't have any. So how do we put this power into action? I call it the Three Votes Framework.
Don’t Just Take the Package: A Guide to Exit Negotiations
Navigating an exit isn't just a corporate transaction—it’s a declaration of your sovereignty. Whether you are planning a major career transition, looking to turn a toxic situation into an opportunity, or preparing to become your own boss, you deserve a space to strategize your exit safely and authentically.
How to Beat the Negotiation Double Standard: Three Steps for Women and Minorities
Winning in an unequal system simply requires a different, more nuanced kind of effort. If you are a woman or a minority preparing for a pay negotiation, here are three strategic pivots to make.
Why Women Are Already Great Negotiators (Even If You Don’t Feel Like One Yet)
Women sometimes tell me, “But I don’t know how to negotiate for myself,” as if it’s a fact as obvious as the sky.
I don’t buy that for a second.
As a coach who’s helped women earn over $3 million and counting in additional compensation—the issue is not that women are somehow inherently inferior at negotiation.
The real truth is that we’re operating in systems that penalize us for using negotiation skills, and we’ve been socialized to doubt what we already do brilliantly.
How I went from 50% Underpaid to Helping Women Make Millions More
I had “Gold Star” credentials and was multilingual, yet I had neither the language for advocating for my own potential nor the confidence to do it.
In hindsight, I saw I was caught in Chronic Overachiever Trap (aka the Good Girl Trap).
Leading Through Crisis: Using Trance to Regain Grounded Authority
In my executive coaching practice, I blend no-nonsense communication frameworks with applied neuroscience tools to support my clients in changing behavior patterns that have gone unconscious. This combination has helped my clients advocate for themselves, leave toxic jobs, start companies, and negotiate better offers.
The 3-Step Diagnostic to Reclaim Leadership Authority and Confidence
When you think of the word "authority," what is the first thought that comes up for you?
For many high-performing women leaders I coach, "authority" is a loaded word.
Here’s why that makes sense. We’ve spent years navigating structures where authority was questionable or its misuse eroded our trust. Conditioned to be self-effacing and humble, we often view traditional authority as brash or bombastic.
Fire Horse 2026: The Year Ferrari Leaves the Golf Course
A Ferrari isn't "broken" because it’s bumpy on the grass. It’s just designed for a different terrain.
In this post, I break down:
Why "intensity" is a superpower in the Year of the Fire Horse (2026).
The 3 questions to ask if you're being "fixed" instead of "utilized."
How my clients negotiated their way off the grass and onto the race track.