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Today I woke up before sunrise on a beautiful lake in the Sierras of California to write this blog to you because that’s who I want to be. There was a time when this was a far away dream and now, it is real.

My sweetheart is making coffee and the sun is rising from behind… Continue reading

I have started and stopped this blog several times. In fact, I was almost done when I trashed it. Perfectionism? Surprisingly not!

Have you ever started something and then held back?
Have you ever wanted to say something from your heart so badly but couldn’t quite tap in as deep as you desired?
Have you ever felt like… Continue reading

Last November, I was at an event having dinner with my entrepreneurial friends standing in the buffet line when my boyfriend texted and said, “There’s been an accident.”

My heart instantly dropped. I had a terrible sinking feeling. (He was on a motorcycle trip with his very best buddy.)

A few seconds later, “They say Ryan broke… Continue reading

Believe it or not, there was a time when I wasn’t truly empowered and freedom = empowerment, empowerment = freedom – so to say I wasn’t empowered is to say I wasn’t truly free.

The funny thing is, at the time, I actually thought I was. After all, I began supporting myself at age 16, graduated… Continue reading

The other night I was reading through old journals that documented my decade long quest to find my true life’s work – the thing that would set my heart and soul on fire and I stumbled on my high school yearbook! (I haven’t looked at that in at least 20 years.) I was the Copy… Continue reading

We set out over the holidays on a trip to Barbados and Grenada, without any real knowledge of either. We went to shake things up, for the adventure and surprise. This is how most of our trips are.

All we knew was our destination – paradise, but the journey itself with all its unknowns and “risks”,… Continue reading

It all started when William, my beautiful white Persian cat, began scratching at my bedroom door at 4am. To dothat, he had to break through another door that was supposedly closed. The little guy was determined.

Since Tony and I could not get back to sleep after Williams furry intrusion, we decided to bundle up and… Continue reading

Last Saturday family and friends gathered to surprise my niece with an engagement party in San Francisco shortly after her boyfriend proposed to her on the beach. It was one of THE best moments EVER to see her beaming and crying with joy when she saw all of us greeting her as she walked into… Continue reading

It was Thanksgiving. We had just eaten A LOT of turkey and I was cornered by three extremely well meaning, loving women in my family concerned I was not making enough money in my business to survive, let alone thrive. They even suggested going back to corporate as I ramped up. (For those of you… Continue reading

We received news last night that a couple we know is getting a divorce. Typical I realize but they were the last I would have suspected this would happen to. They are part of a circle we are in of 8 (four couples). We call it the Motorcycle Club because we ride together and out… Continue reading

I just returned home from the islands of Hawaii where my honey and I worked, played and lived for 15 days. We stayed on Maui, Molokai and Kauai. It was extraordinary! I am incredibly grateful I can run my business from anywhere in the world without skipping a beat. I had client sessions while gazing… Continue reading

Stories. We love to hear them… so much so, we tell ourselves stories about who we are all day!

Your life is a story… a beautiful one. It’s sometimes messy, sometimes tidy… but always and forever, yours.

When we come into this world, we are blank slates. We enter this gorgeous ball in space, unabashedly ourselves –… Continue reading

Exactly one year ago today, I was moving out of my dream home where I shared a life with the man I loved. Honestly, it was pretty devastating for both of us. We had deeply invested our hearts and four and a half years of our lives.

At the time, I was also launching my second… Continue reading

When I was 16 years old, I began supporting myself independent from my parents. Those close to me had doubts I would get my college degree. The cards I was dealt before I was 16 left me with “dangerously low self esteem” (that was actually what one of my counselors wrote in her notes) and… Continue reading

Recently, I experienced a minor emotional setback. I woke up in a funk, from something that happened the night before.

I had a BIG day ahead and knew that energy would definitely not foster what I wanted to create – so my goal was to navigate myself back to serene and beautiful waters as quickly as… Continue reading

As I dance through my Leonie Dawson 2015 Create Your Shining Year Workbook and reflect on 2014, much comes to surface.

For me, 2014 was a year of letting go to make room for the new, and “the new” did emerge and actually take root.

Some years we only have the energy to let go. Others, the… Continue reading

“The Truth: It whispers in the morning,
grumbles during the day,
and shouts to us at night.”

Are you listening?

– Wendy Collier

You know that sinking feeling when you are in a situation – either social or professional, and you are in and out of being present because something within you is feeling off? You may even have the… Continue reading

Have you forgotten who you are and what is possible? Have you gazed at the stars recently? Taken a walk through the woods? Looked into the eyes of your child… or lover? Reveled in the miracle of life? Watched a hummingbird up close? Looked at a photo of the earth from space?

If this universe can… Continue reading