When women come to me for career coaching, their stories often sound surprisingly similar: they’re smart, capable, and ambitious—but somewhere along the way, they feel like they’ve hit a wall. They’re not lacking in skill or work ethic. What they’re missing is support that truly understands the unique challenges women face at work.

Generic career advice often misses the mark because it doesn’t account for the real, sometimes subtle obstacles women navigate every day. That’s why career coaching for women is different—and why it can be so transformative.

The Reality Women Face in the Workplace

Let’s get real for a moment. Women face challenges that often go unspoken, but they’re very real:

• Being overlooked for promotions while being told to “wait your turn.” In fact, McKinsey’s 2024 Women in the Workplace report found that while women make up nearly half of the entry-level workforce, they only hold 29% of C-suite positions.

• Doing the work but struggling for recognition. Wo

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When I started my journey of self-employment, it was with my kids. They were newborn and 16 months. It was in the midst of the economic crash of 2009, approximately one year after we purchased our first house, which conveniently was about three months before the bottom fell out.

My husband and I are not wealthy people. We were both raised by hard working, middle class parents and had jobs at the age of 14. Relaxing is not something that comes easy to either of us, and as parents, we just want our children to have comfort, security, and confidence.

 So much of what we desire for our kids shows up in the decisions we make in our professional lives. My husband is from Ohio – he honestly is the epitome of Midwestern values. Get up early, work hard, don’t complain, and do your best every day.

I am a word nerd and have always been writing. One Saturday, when I was unknowingly pregnant with my daughter, in a move I still blame on an internal nesting instinct, I created a free Google site, ...

As working moms, stay-at-home moms, mompreneuers, whatever you identify with, we're all struggling to reconcile our identity.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

I am a mom first and foremost. It's what gives my life meaning and makes me feel the most valued.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

But I'm also a business owner and a coach to many. This work is very often what gets me up in the morning.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

I love having something to plan for and think about and own that's just mine.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Sometimes I love having a reason to sneak away for a few hours on a Sunday.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Working and building my business was what truly brought me back to myself after having kids. It was such an out-of-body experience, something I was totally unprepared for, to have this fractured identity where I was all of a sudden literally existing to keep tiny humans alive.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

The journey of starting and growing my business has been completely exhausting but I'm thankful everyday for what it'...