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How would your life change if you could tap into your full potential? What if you could have anything you want for your life? Today you are one step closer to a new you.

As a Success Coach my goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating. Helping you make radical improvements in your life is my focus. I provide support and guidance as a life coach for transforming the issues that stand in the way of you achieving your goals. Whether you want life coaching help achieving a specific outcome or wish to enhance all areas of your life, I can help you get there faster!


If you're committed to creating a more fulfilling and meaningful life, I look forward to working with you. Contact me today for a FREE CONSULTATION and start your journey toward achieving your dreams and living a life you love!

A Life Coach listens, encourages and counsels people on a variety of ways to improve their current situation. These situations can include but are not limited to:

  • Balancing professional and personal life.
  • Helping to achieve the next level in your professional life.
  • Planning and ultimately executing a more clearly defined life plan.
  • Identifying passions and core needs/desires.
  • Designing strategies for success, both personally and professionally.
  • Career changes
  • Starting a business
  • Major life shifts (new job, new house, new spouse, children)
  • Identification of core values and your ‘true north.’
  • Time management
  • Maximizing your ‘return on energy.’
  • Establishing the best and most efficient ways to give back.
  • Resetting your professional, personal and moral compasses.
  • Eliminating the things that block progress in your life.
  • Taming your gremlin.
  • And much, much more…

How do you know if a Life Coach could benefit you?

  • Do you feel lost? Have you lost your true sense of purpose or direction?
  • Have you lost that feeling of fulfillment in your personal or professional life?
  • Do things seem to overwhelm you more easily than they have in the past?
  • Has your ‘inner voice’ seemingly turned against you? Does it remind you of past failures and is happiest when you don’t try to expand or grow?
  • Is your focus lacking?
  • Are anger and frustration popping up before satisfaction and happiness in your personal or professional life?
  • Do you find yourself communicating less with those important people in your life?
  • Are relationships that were once solid beginning to become strained and distant?
  • Are your ‘big ideas’ become more and more distant in your rear view mirror?
  • Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?

Better Place offers a variety of solution-based approaches to help the individual heal and grow their whole self. All too often, professional consultants only focus on our career. Therapists seemingly focus on home. A true Life Coach understands the symbiotic relationship your “8-5” has on your “5-8” and vice-versa. By delving into the what, we wish to completely discover and understand the why. Coaching is not therapy. But good coaching can have a very strong therapeutic value towards helping you get from where you are to where you always wanted to (but never thought you could) go.

  Great Life Coaches are also Accountability Coaches. We aren’t just interested in talking things out. True change takes work. At Better Place, we hold our level of accountability with a very gently, empathetic hand. We understand if things were going according to plan you wouldn’t be looking into Life Coaching. It is possible to demand accountability with compassion. Let Better Place show you how we do it!

Appointments are available online, in person appointments are available to clients in Michigan. Please contact to set up an appointment. 

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