After quitting her 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 (herself 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 her basketball players and physical education and health students. I then became a credentialed, trauma-informed transformational Life, Wellness and Health Coach while I carried out her duties as a Wellness Director at a semi-large non-profit medical campus.

In 2010, I founded a 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 first ever program trains educators to become certified Empowerment Coaches in the classroom. I have now been training and coaching educators, parents, couples, and other caregivers for over 15 years using her research-based, trauma-informed, transformational program called the

Empowerment Education® System of W.E.L.L.-Being.

I am now offering her program in a series for caregivers who work with adults.