After quitting my college basketball team, I was driven to find out why I had shifted from passion, joy, and vitality, to burnout, fear, and sickness. I was determined to discover what made young people (myself included) have the best chance of reaching their full potential in life.

I spent thirty years researching, piloting and benchmarking positive youth development and well-being practices and programs with my basketball players and physical education and health students. I became a credentialed, trauma-informed transformational Life, Wellness and Health Coach while I carried out my duties as a Wellness Director at a medium-size non-profit health education and medical center.

I also struggled with my relationships with myself, by friends, family, and my partners along the way. I would have to say that I have come to the planet to learn how to be in positive, connected relationships, ...first with myself and then with others, which is the way it works, I have come to find out. So the majority of my research and practice has been spent learning HOW to have the best relationships, and it is a life long process. But I finally found the keys to creating the highest and healthiest, and am excited to hold the space for others to do the same.

In 2010, I founded a nonprofit, ibmee.org, (I Be Me) to train and coach educators who work in our school systems to break through their epidemics of burn-out, depression, and toxic stress without quitting their jobs. My Quantum Connection Quest program is designed for educators and anyone who parents or works with children and youth (0-18) to become certified Empowerment Coaches. I have now been training and coaching educators, parents, couples, and other caregivers for over 15 years using my research-based, trauma-informed, transformational program called the Empowerment Education® System of W.E.L.L.-Being (EESWB).