Hi! I’m Elizabeth

and I’m most strongly motivated by the people who don’t believe in me.

Yes. You read that right.

I know that’s not the right answer. I know all the right answers! It’s the deep compassion for helping people reach their goals that makes me love my job. It’s the counter-cultural importance of emotional safety that compels me to this work. But when the days are hard and the smallest tasks feel like the most insurmountable challenge, proving the naysayers wrong is what motivates me on. I persevere because I’ve been told I wouldn’t amount to anything. I persevere because I’ve been told I’m too loud, too opinionated, too much. I persevere because I’ve been told worse. I persevere because the emotional abuse I’ve received has granted me hard-won post-traumatic wisdom, and I will not be silenced from sharing it.

This is important. It’s important because I’m not here to give the right answers. You can find those in Sunday School or wherever platitudes are sold. I’m here to talk about the raw and the authentic. I’m here to help people who have been hurt: be seen. I’m here to help the people who have been dealt the wrong answers: figure out how to move forward into the life they long for. You and me together? We’re going to start in the reality of where you are and we’re going to move together to reach your goals.

I’ve done this from the stage and over cups of coffee.
I’ve done this via zoom and with my entire team.
And in the same way I create a safe space, I can empower others to hold safe spaces, too.