Hello Creative Friends.....

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My name is Shari and my story has not been a straight path.  It's been a winding road full of peaks and valleys-- and a few plot twists.  Before becoming a mindset and business coach I had an eclectic career that has given me a very unique set of skills and experiences, coupled with some life tragedies that have shaped me to my core.

I started out in sales in the natural food & health industry when it was in its' infancy and then climbed the corporate ladder to become a marketing executive in the industry. I was a part of forging the path for many now multi-million-dollar brands. As this industry changed, I decided to change and take a new path in product research in the area of neuroscience and natural therapies.  I worked with research teams, universities, governments, doctors and alternative health practitioners. Studying & testing how to correct neurotransmitter imbalances, improve well-being, enhance mental performance and improve focus with natural medicine, mindfulness, psychology, self-therapy, food, detoxing, and non-traditional therapies.  I created educational programs to teach doctors, health practitioners and even patients. 

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After being laid off from my job, I realized that I didn't want to go back to the corporate world, so I started consulting. I started consulting other natural health companies and health practitioners in marketing, creating education courses, product development, leadership, operations and building a brand. Soon, entrepreneurs, non-profits, coaches, and creatives, not in the natural health industry, started reaching out to me for the same support. My consulting evolved to include the years of neuroscience and human behavioral research I had done previously, to help my clients with leadership, mindset and productivity. I was working with New York Times best-sellers, Olympic coaches, and CEOs.  On paper all this looked impressive, but there was always a tug at my heart, that said, "Shari, you were meant for more than this."  I just never knew what that meant.

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It wasn't until both my parents died unexpectedly a few years apart, a health scare with my son and then my business mentor and his wife committing suicide, that I would unknowingly start figuring out what I was meant to do. I discovered loss and grief have a funny way of breaking you wide open so you can see what's not real in your life and discover what is. After all this happened, I had to step back from my life and work because I felt like I had a rug pulled out from under me. My perspective on life, success, happiness and fulfillment was all under question.  I was feeling depressed, overwhelmed, and lost. I couldn't see my future path ahead of me anymore. The stress from all this caused me to lose 60% of my hair and get a rash on most of my body. I was a natural problem-solver, but I couldn't figure out how to solve THIS problem so I could succeed, be happy and find peace in my new normal.  

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So instead, I just kept asking myself, "what matters most to me?".  For a long time, I had a hard time answering this.

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Slowly after focusing on healing my grief, diving deeper into my faith and exploring how to find happiness again, I started to see what mattered most to me. I discovered it was my family, my freedom to be me, exploring my faith, finding authenticity, feeding my curiosity, finding fulfillment, shedding unauthenticity from my life, creating true connections and connecting to my true creative self.  The "creative self" that craves creative expression and creating a meaningful life. I had ignored my creative nudges for years and that inner voice that said, "Follow Me." I finally decided to step into my true creative self and turn my creative nudges and the things that mattered most to me, into a reality. 

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Over the next few years, I took tiny steps and big steps towards what truly mattered to me and filled my soul, which led to many unexpected successes. I started a tiny urban flower farm, I started working as a producer on a TV show, I started working with other creative clients, I started helping non-profits grow their impact, I remodeled two houses, I began consistent mediation, prayer & journaling practices, I launched a holiday food drive that ended up feeding 800 people, I took a 4000-mile road trip with my family, and I went on a 6-day creative solo retreat in the mountains.  These creative steps helped feed my soul, heal my soul, give me passion again and show me that living from my true creative self is what I'm meant to do.  I now focus on creating happiness and success from the inside out--not the other way around. Through all this I became an Emmy-Nominated producer and currently I'm also writing a book with my son about our journey with his health.  All of this happened, because I decided to step into my true creative self.  I had no idea that one decision and focusing on finding success from the inside out would lead to so many beautiful experiences. 

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How has this transformed how I help other big-hearted creatives & entrepreneurs?  I realized that it's what's happening on the inside of us that's dictating our ability to achieve success, happiness, fulfillment, faith, and even peace. I still help my clients create "outside" success and grow their big ideas but now we also focus on helping them tap into "their" source of success, happiness and peace on the inside of their true creative self. This is a powerful process that transforms you forever.  This process allows my clients the access to their true creative self so they can create a stronger FOUNDATION to build their best life, business and state of mind on. A foundation that can support them in good times and bad.