A Bit About
About Me
&
My
Philosophy
Okay, let's get to the "been there, done that"
stuff first.
I am a lifelong entrepreneur. I started my first
company after college (UCLA) - a celebrity photography business called
"Gotcha." I then began a marketing and advertising firm with a partner
in Marin County, CA. We ran that for 9 years serving clients
like AutoDesk, Birkenstock and Continental Airlines. It was fun for a
while, but...
My body broke under the stress of the ad
business and, from my hospital bed, I decided it was time for a major
life change. I jumped off the side of my life for a year. I lived in the
woods of Colorado & then I was a beach bum on the island of
Grenada. I also sat in on quite a few medical school classes
there.
When I came back to the States, I continued my
education in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming - is also the foundation
of Tony Robbins' work), and got a Master's certification. I began my
coaching practice in 1992. NLP has given me an invaluable set of tools
to help my clients get beyond old beliefs & on to new ways of
thinking & acting that work better for them.
While I have worked with clients in the US Army,
Oppenheimer, Oracle, FedEx and other big corporations, for the past
five years I've focused on working with ADD-ish entrepreneurs (most
are ADD-ish!). I've spent many years building the skills &
strategies to help those of us whose brains are wired differently.
It's my life's work.
I am also a passionate motivational speaker. I
get excited sharing ideas that open up minds!
For fun, I'm a singer-songwriter, kayaker,
traveler, photographer, eclectic reader, meditator, weight lifter,
improvisational comedienne, dancing fool, writer and
traveler.
I am also a lifelong learner - keyboards,
guitar, techie toys, giving/taking seminars, alternative medicine, mind
research, NLP, & a whole lot of other cool stuff!
Mini-Philosophy
I believe that I can help just about anyone make
virtually any change they want in their life - as long as they have a
strong desire and are willing to take the actions to make it
so.
I know that we all learn more when we're having
fun. I've seen that when we can laugh at our own stuff, we gain a new
and clearer perspective that gets us unstuck and ready to learn even
better ways of going beyond whatever was holding us back. I get my
clients to laugh as often as possible!
I think Adult ADD is a great gift and that with
some tweaking with what we say to ourselves, some strategies to overcome
challenges with organization & focus, and ways to develop our unique
gifts - we can change the world in ways that in-the-box thinkers never
will. To paraphrase Einstein, "You can't solve a problem at the level of
thinking that created it." And have we got some bigtime problems to
solve!
I believe in much more than this, of
course.