Don’t take it from me
Embarking on a coaching journey is an investment—of time, energy, and trust. Choosing the right guide for your transformation is essential, and I honor the courage and forethought it takes to step into this work.
The best way to understand the impact of this journey is through the valuable feedback of those who have walked through coaching with me.
Below, you’ll find the experiences of women who have stepped into their power, deepened their self-trust, and embraced their most authentic selves.
Take your time, read their stories, and know that this kind of transformation is possible for you too.
What was your experience like
working with me as a coach?
“Ten out of ten stars, I would highly recommend anyone to work with you! There are not enough words to even sum it all up. I’d never done anything like this before; I knew from being in a therapy-adjacent profession myself that it was often a process to find someone who was the right fit in terms of personality, treatment model, and how they went about putting that model into action.
I also didn’t know anyone who had ever sought personal support and put all the work into it who then had a positive, lasting outcome to show for it in the end. So, I just kept trying to seek out new information to try to know myself better and do the best I could to apply that in my own life. All of that had helped me change my life in lots of positive ways, but those lingering issues were really starting to become a more pervasive struggle, and I knew it was time to try something different to try to get to what was really going on and learn how to better move forward.
It’s funny looking back because spending money on myself for things that I feel are a “luxury” or at least aren’t outwardly “necessary” has never been my forte, especially as a relatively new homeowner at the time. Yet, signing up to work with you felt like such an easy decision to make. I didn’t even have to try that hard to convince myself to spend that chunk of money on it, which does not track for me!
I had hoped at the time that it would be a worthy investment, and looking back now I can easily say it’s seriously one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Period. It was such a pivotal experience for me, start to finish. You don’t just talk the talk, you actually walk it and live it and share about it with others without trying to first curate the messiness of life out of it, and you do it all in a way that makes people feel seen. Best of all, you taught me how to do that, for my own self.
How to look for the joy and make the joy myself no matter what’s happening around me. How to show up for myself. How to be curious and just listen, only to try to understand, and to stop trying to “fix” and force and instead just start by meeting myself where I am in that moment. How to be my own coach even in my toughest moments when I’m feeling completely unlovable. How to sit quietly with my own self in the same way you did for me during our hardest convo, which makes me tear up just thinking about how much of an impact that one single moment had on my life. You are such a safe fucking space, Jolie, and it has been so damn empowering to have the opportunity to work with you.”
— Brie
“You have been an amazing leader to me during this time. Gentle but persistent, and incredibly vulnerable. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself during this process - it enabled me to match your vulnerability and learn more about myself.”
— Bailey
“I greatly enjoyed the experience. I feel like I finally got tangible tools that I have seen make a difference in my life. And it seems like everything we worked on just seeped into my consciousness. The ability to share little wins, reflections, or other things on voxer has also been such a great resource.”
— Emily
What challenges were you dealing with
before working with me?
“A disregard for my body’s cues and needs. A complete distrust of my own decision making and intuition. A constant battle with guilt and shame.”
- Jordan
“I didn’t have a great understanding of my values, personality, and who I was under all the societal norms. I was unclear on figuring out how to figure out what I wanted to be or where I wanted to go.”
- Sarah
“I knew going into my time with you that there was something that kept coming up for me, but I couldn’t quite pinpoint what the root cause of it was or why I couldn’t “solve” it in the moment or even over time. I had done a lot of personal work in the previous eleven years to get to a better place in a lot of areas, but not being able to understand why the angst kept coming up sometimes was becoming frustrating, and that frustration was only helping to keep me stuck.”
- Brie
“I was acting in a way that was inconsistent day to day, and having relationships that really suffered from that. I felt very defined by my job and like that was my biggest ‘truth.’”
- Bailey
What tangible outcomes
have you experienced from this work?
“This list is long and I will forever be grateful for the guidance and loving support your provided to help make these changes manifest.
I meet myself with curiosity and self compassion. I’ve been a much bigger witness to myself, instead of a bull in the china shop of my own internal world. Something comes up for me and instead of becoming super reactive to my emotions, thoughts, and needs, I simply witness it and think “What is it telling me? How imperative is the message? Is it something I need to just feel or do I need to act on it?” and by being so much less resistant to everything that comes up I feel so much less at war with myself. Without the constant fear and self invalidation, I feel like I am beginning to have this peaceful trusting relationship with my body.
I actually stop to listen to what my body is saying to me. I don’t feel the need to do everything all the time and I don’t disregard my cues. For example, I’ve been listening to my food cravings instead of fearing them. I’ve realized when I am not constantly fighting with the reality of my body, that my body tells me exactly what it needs. I may not always be able to meet its exact needs due to external responsibilities, but I am able to bring a lot more peace to my body by meeting it as much as I am able.
I am more emotionally regulated. I am not always perfect, nor do I expect myself to be. I have really been feeling less resistance and shame surrounding my own humanity lately. I have and employ more tools in emotional regulation and in doing so honor myself more. I am less afraid of my emotional landscape and I apologize for it less. I don't have to be “calm” all the time. I am allowed to be sad, angry, excited, anxious, confused, etc. When I get more reactive than I want, I trust in my ability to repair and show up in that realm too.
I have tools to help when I feel stuck. I feel more equipped to extrapolate and analyze when I am feeling stuck. Stuck for me means consistently misaligned or emotionally uncomfortable. I am able to see what is going on under it all and then I have tools such as affirmations, meditations, and reprogramming to help move me past the obstacle. I notice that I am actually living out my affirmations on a daily basis. I listen 35 minutes of affirmations generally on a daily basis, and I have notice my attitudes and thoughts changing.”
- Jordan
“One tangible win I had from this coaching experience was being able to listen to the smaller voice within that wants something instead of freezing in apathy.
I’ve experienced more movement in life. My energy levels feel different - it feels more stable, and less frantic.
The most impactful part of our work together was internal family systems. Understanding parts work is such a huge tool going forward in terms of self-compassion.
Three months ago, compassion felt like a luxury that I wasn’t entitled to. It wasn’t even on my radar that I had such little compassion for myself.”
- Bailey
“The list here is long, and man does it feel good to say that! Learning the value of meeting myself and all of my parts and nuances with curiosity, respect, and gratitude. Learning that self-boundaries and showing up for myself in the same ways I do for others is the truest form of self love, and seeing myself now do the things I say I’ll do with more consistency and less resistance.
Being better at showing up in a way that stays true to myself and what I want my life to be, regardless of what’s happening in that moment – I feel so much less influenced now by outside factors, like I’m back in the driver’s seat and not just in the back seat and along for the ride in my own damn life.
One of the best outcomes for me has also been when one of my best friends recently said to me, “You seem so much happier lately and your skin has been glowing, and I need to know what’s up.”
I told you during our last call that I felt more content during the past month, and more consistently so overall, than I ever have in any period of my life before. Knowing that my outsides are maybe starting to match the glow-up that my insides have been doing is a pretty awesome feeling.”
- Brie