Maybe it's the business you built. The book you've been trying to write for years. The career you've somehow outgrown. Or the caregiving that eats your day before you even get to it. Either way, you know exactly what needs to happen next. You're just not doing it.
You're the one holding everything together, and some days you just want to run away and open a bookstore, or join the circus.
A Free Personalized Take Your Place Playbook
Think of something you know you want or need to do, but haven't done yet. Your personalized Take Your Place Playbook will help you see what may be holding you back, what you already know, and what choice is yours now.
No judgment. No pressure. Just a thoughtful reflection created from your own answers.
Begin with your free Take Your Place PlaybookIf you're a woman carrying too much and wondering what happened to the hopeful, capable woman you used to be, the Circus of Hope can help you find her again.
If you know something needs to change, but fear, exhaustion, or old expectations keep making you smaller, you do not have to figure it out alone.
Here, you'll regain clarity, rebuild trust in yourself, and gather real proof that you are more capable than you have been led to believe.
You'll begin making choices that honor your own needs, hopes, gifts, and ambitions, and take your place in the Center Ring of your own life.
Are you ready to see what's possible again?
At the turn of the last century, female circus performers were some of the highest-paid, most admired women in the country. They had power, agency, and respect that most women of their era were denied. They faced failure, jealousy, and a world that doubted them, and they built extraordinary lives anyway.
I fell into their stories during what was supposed to be an afternoon of research and turned into a week. My husband still brings it up. I've been a little obsessed ever since, and I built this work on what they knew.
For more than 25 years, I've helped women recognize their gifts, move through what is holding them back, and take meaningful action on the ideas that matter most to them.
My work began with books. I've published more than 400 client books, ghostwritten 65, and mentored women on six continents. Along the way, I learned that the best strategy rarely helps when fear, exhaustion, or self-doubt is running the show.
That is why my work blends practical guidance with deeper inner clearing. One minute we may be looking at your business or your next decision. The next, we may be listening for the old belief that keeps you from acting on what you already know.
I bring steady attention, honest questions, and a stubborn belief in what is possible for you. Hope isn't a strategy, but it's what makes strategy possible.
I'm at the stage where retirement was an option I chose to set aside. Older women showed up for me at the most pivotal points of my life, and I know what that changes. This work is how I close the circle.
When I'm not working, you'll find me reading, baking something involving far too much butter, or drinking Earl Grey tea in the Andean mountains I call home.
For more of my story, click hereYou may look capable and accomplished from the outside, yet privately know that something needs to change. You might belong here if:
You do not need a perfect plan. You do not need to feel fearless. You only need to be willing to see what may be possible from here.
Ready to see what's possible again?
Begin with your free Take Your Place Playbook