How I Found My Path Into Coaching

For more than 25 years, my career has been rooted in global marketing and brand leadership, partnering with Fortune 50–500 companies and major brands including Nordstrom, Marriott, NFL, Pfizer, T-Mobile, and Labcorp. Drawn to game changers and disruptors, I’ve learned from brilliant leaders, navigated through mergers and transformations, launched B2B and B2C products, designed personalized customer experiences, and led high performing teams. Along the way, I became known as the “go-to” person who could take on big challenges, move quickly, and deliver results—I was consistently called in to solve problems and get things done, fast and well.

On the surface, I had it all together. Inside, though, I was running on empty. Early in my career, a senior leader praised me for having a “very high workload capacity,” and I wore it like a badge of honor. That praise, combined with my ability to juggle multiple projects, teams, and priorities, created an inner voice equating my worth with how much I could accomplish. Over time, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy—one I continue to unpack with my therapist. (This is the beauty of coaching: it can compliment inner healing, helping uncover patterns that drive behaviors and align actions with values).

I thrived on managing multiple projects, deadlines, stakeholders, and direct reports at once, all while being a supportive wife and present mother to a young child. I remember one particularly overwhelming project where a team member wasn’t pulling their weight. Rather than speaking up, I quietly picked up the slack, frustrated at my paper-thin bandwidth, working late nights and weekends. When a senior leader eventually asked why I hadn’t asked for help sooner, it made me pause. I realized my behaviors were getting in the way—I was playing the martyr, letting fear and the inner narrative that asking for help showed weakness dictate my choices.

Eventually, the grind caught up with me. I experienced burnout in ways that were exhausting and deeply disorienting, culminating in a public panic attack during a high-visibility work event. Outwardly, no one noticed—I delivered my remarks as rehearsed—but inside, my body was sending a clear signal: something had to change. It was 25 years of micro-stress responses, triggers and overextending coming to a head.

It was the wake-up call I desperately needed. I was spinning too many plates with old habits and patterns that no longer served me. Real change required looking inward: asking what drove me, what I truly valued, and how I wanted to show up in every part of my life—not just at work. Because leaving a job or a company won’t fix the patterns you carry; real change starts with taking accountability for your own habits.

Through reflection, healing, and intentional practice, I began to reset. I redefined success and fulfillment, set healthier boundaries, and started living and leading with clarity, balance, and purpose. And in that process, something clicked: I wanted to help others do the same.

That’s how Inner Path Collective was born. I created this space to support professionals and individuals navigating the same cycles I once knew—and still navigate—burnout, transitions, uncertainty, or simply feeling “stuck.” My coaching blends corporate leadership strategy with whole-self practices like energy alignment and values-based decision-making. It’s about helping people not just achieve goals, but live and lead in alignment with who they truly are.

Today, I continue to deepen this work as I pursue my International Coaching Federation (ICF) Level 1 ACC accreditation, and I feel grateful every day to walk alongside clients on their journeys.

For me, coaching isn’t about fixing—it’s about uncovering. It’s about helping people pause, realign, and step into their lives with confidence, clarity, and heart.