Where I've been and where I got my moxie
Honestly...I'm pissed off about the limiting of women's voices, goals, joy and power! I am driven to work with those women who are saying, as I have done "Enough! Enough of the rule-following and the 'shoulding' on myself and the shame about looks and expectations and love and self-expression and everything else! I want to be free to make my life and my work what I want the to be! I want to feel free to go for any dream I have, instead of stopping with self-doubt and fear!"
Once upon a time, I asked: Why is it that women labor,, day after day, under intense rule-following borne of a totally manufactured and stifled self-image? What will it take to break us out? Now that I have tools to do so, I work to free us women from that hypnotic lifestyle. |
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My efforts to stand free of the "social shoulds" started in high school and morphed into a life of empowered questioning and self-exploration; of ever freer self-expression, risk taking and a life - and work - full of passion, discovery, personal fulfillment and business empowerment!
I am an actor. A singer. A speaker. A performer. A teacher. Standing on stage and allowing myself to feel out loud, live out loud, taught me moxie. It taught me what it feels like to live outside of self-judgment and shame. It taught me the great joy of being visible - which as a Good Girl is not particularly celebrated. Acting taught me the power of emotion, and how to skillfully manage the difference between reacting and responding.
It taught me to connect with others deeply, emotionally, joyously, truthfully, in order to live more meaningfully and with greater wisdom. It taught me that emotion is the one shared human language that can be spoken, when learned, with great impact and healing.
I have studied interpersonal Communication for over 30 years. Communication...that art form that is the most difficult for us humans. That art form that no one teaches us, yet we are expected to just know how to do it through nebulous instructions like "nice" and "polite".
This is so not okay with me! So I teach others how to speak up, how to be visible, how to understand and better their communications, whether they're on stage or in a business meeting. I have made - according to one of my clients - good speakers into great speakers. According to another client, I changed her life when we worked together to break the chains stopping her from sharing her story with her clients!
Like so many of us women, I want to be of service in changing this world. And the best and most fun, rewarding thing I know to do is to help other women find their voice, their purpose, their passion, and their freedom from the social shoulds so that they can use their lives to full effect, and we can change our businesses, our work, our lives, and our world.
I am an actor. A singer. A speaker. A performer. A teacher. Standing on stage and allowing myself to feel out loud, live out loud, taught me moxie. It taught me what it feels like to live outside of self-judgment and shame. It taught me the great joy of being visible - which as a Good Girl is not particularly celebrated. Acting taught me the power of emotion, and how to skillfully manage the difference between reacting and responding.
It taught me to connect with others deeply, emotionally, joyously, truthfully, in order to live more meaningfully and with greater wisdom. It taught me that emotion is the one shared human language that can be spoken, when learned, with great impact and healing.
I have studied interpersonal Communication for over 30 years. Communication...that art form that is the most difficult for us humans. That art form that no one teaches us, yet we are expected to just know how to do it through nebulous instructions like "nice" and "polite".
This is so not okay with me! So I teach others how to speak up, how to be visible, how to understand and better their communications, whether they're on stage or in a business meeting. I have made - according to one of my clients - good speakers into great speakers. According to another client, I changed her life when we worked together to break the chains stopping her from sharing her story with her clients!
Like so many of us women, I want to be of service in changing this world. And the best and most fun, rewarding thing I know to do is to help other women find their voice, their purpose, their passion, and their freedom from the social shoulds so that they can use their lives to full effect, and we can change our businesses, our work, our lives, and our world.
