My early life was shaped around loss, healing, and navigating grief. I was two when my father passed away from brain tumors. I was put in grief counseling and therapy to help cope. Although I didn’t understand it then, I became very conscious of my surroundings and learned the language and tools needed to process and articulate the world around me. Throughout my upbringing, I stood up for injustice and wouldn’t let people escape from facing their harm or pain.

Then and now, I empathize with and understand the need to find fulfillment and balance in a stressful world. I struggled in high school with ‘enoughness’ and could relate to hard feelings around low self-worth, value, and a need to find one’s place in the world. I obtained my Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at Indiana University and graduated feeling fearful and unclear about my next steps—so I to moved to New York and began a career in fashion marketing and PR.

Fast forward to 2016 - after nearly a decade in corporate marketing, I was struggling with my identity, depressed, burnt out, anxious, and unsatisfied. I had had enough and began exploring and researching psychology and its other modalities. Coaching called out to me; it answered two permeating questions: What do you do with all of this self-discovery? How do you move out of that stage of discovery and INTO action? In the summer of 2016, I felt past my fear and my family’s resistance, trusted myself, and leaped into Coaching for Transformation, a program through Leadership That Works, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I felt like I had finally arrived - and experienced the full power of being courageous to support my entrepreneurial aspirations. I graduated, got married, honeymooned, and went back to my last corporate job - only to be told that I was being let go for budgetary reasons. The layoff was the biggest gift, allowing me to dive headfirst into my coaching career, and The Salt Collective was started with vigor in June 2017.