I could give you the corporate resume version of my story. The one where I share my Thirty-plus years in financial services, growing from teller to branch manager to CEO of my own business and then President of a State Organization for Women for 3 years. Or... I could give you the real story. My unfiltered story. The story of a single mom from the age of 18 who walked away from a steady paycheck as a divorcee with four kids, to build something that was actually hers.

I'm the girl who grew up on the Navajo reservation in a gas company community called a gas camp. My dad worked in the oil-field in the canyons of NW New Mexico and that meant we lived in some of the most beautifully remote country in the Southwest. Growing up in this environment taught me to be curious, resilient, tough and resourceful. I also learned what it meant to want to belong somewhere even when the world says you shouldn't. The reservation was my home and I loved it (I still love it to this day) and the lessons I learned in the canyons have served me my entire life. They were especially important at the age of six, when I learned that I was adopted. This discovery began to shape every opinion I formed of myself from that moment on: including my worth, value, potential, and my place in the world. I didn't understand that our greatest gifts can arrive disguised as our greatest tragedies. (That bit of wisdom took another 30 years to learn).

I spent those 30 years wondering who I was, why I was abandoned and where I belonged, or if I even belonged anywhere at all. So, in an effort to avoid ever being abandoned again, I over performed and tried to please everyone in my life. However, crazy that may seem. I still longed to find my place in the world and in that longing I began to search, I ultimately find my birth family when I was 26. Having biological family has been one of the biggest blessings of my life yet, as amazing as it was to have birth mom and biological relatives in my life, it also gave me another set of people that I thought I had to please. You see, my greatest fear was losing the approval and love of others and being left behind again. Therefore, I did everything I could to always be seen as the "good Karen". The one who achieved all the titles, accolades, credentials, and volunteer awards (along with the battle scars to prove how willing I was to sacrifice myself for any one and any cause).

Finally at the age of 38... after 3 marriages, 3 divorces, and 4 kids I woke up one day and realized that in my pursuit of trying to be enough for everyone else... I had abandoned, compromised and sacrificed the one person's love, happiness and opinion that really mattered. Mine! In that moment of epiphany, I made a choice. I would never abandon myself again and I would always choose me, love me and pursue my own happiness from that day forward.

I began creating a fantastic comeback story of healing, self love and self care, and I have to admit, the rabbit hole of personal development ran deep for me! I was hooked and decided that I was going to use my own journey to help other women who had gone through similar things, because I couldn't be the only one out there - right? But to be completely honest... subcontiously, I knew that somewhere deep inside was a shadow still escaping my reach and holding me back. Even with all the work I had done... hours of self awareness training, teaching, coaching and personal discovery. Somehow, the darkest parts of my broken heart and past remained unreachable and unhealable. Until October, 2025.

My entire world broke apart and broke open in one week. On October 11th, I buried my adoptive dad. Two days later, I lost my step dad and 4 days after that, I lost my biological mother. I'll pause... and let that sink in. I lost all of my living parents within a week and not only was it the most challenging and emotional situations I've ever gone through, but it was also one of the most pivotal times in my life. Time froze, life stopped and allowed myself space and time to grieve and somewhere inside that grief, I found the greatest gift... "Permission to be me!"

Grieving revealed what was really important and how I had allowed outside forces to dictate who I thought I had to become to be loved and accepted as enough. And for the time ever, I also felt like I could let go of the need to hide my story and I could just be me. The loss was devastating but the freedom was liberating. Living in the duality of that moment and emotion was the push I needed to release the guilt, shame and shadows of my adoption and just be me. The child within me could finally see the strong, resilient, brave, curious, tough and resourceful woman that I had become and that was enough!

Here's what I know now, that I didn't know before that October: you don't find out who you are by holding everything together. You find out who you are in the moments when everything falls apart and you see can all the ways that you're still standing... and who's standing with you.

For me, what's standing is this. I have survived great love and loss and I am a better person because of both. I am a woman of faith who loves big, fights hard for whats right, and feels every emotion deeply. I love Human Design, astrology, neuroscience and coffee. I'm a Christian and I believe that God created every one of us on purpose, for a purpose, and I want to understand what that is and do it with a purpose. I trust HIS infinite plan for my life and I know that what I have been through and experienced has made me the woman God needed me to be - for what is coming next. Faith, Science, Coaching, Studying the Stars He created - None of that feels like a contradiction to me anymore. Actually, it finally makes my world make sense for a change. And that is the version of me that the world gets to know now - The whole me!

I've been created, designed, and refined by things I never would have chosen for myself. But I am grateful today for each and every one and I can say without hesitation that I'm done shrinking, hiding or sacrificing any part of myself to make it easier to explain, accommodate, or understand me. I just am who HE says I am. A woman who can serve big, because I've stood in the fire and I'm still standing. I'm the woman who owns her truth out loud instead of managing everyone else's comfort with it. My work now is to help you do the same: uncover who you were created, designed, and refined to be, and give yourself permission to actually become her.

My mission is simple: Help women just like you, reclaim your true identity so you can create a life and future with you at the heart of it.

That's not just a tagline or marketing statement. This is the truest message I can convey. and it's the gift I would love for you to know and experience for yourself.