The Origin Story: From Corporate to Wellness

Aug 21

This story starts as most good stories do - with heartbreak.

In October 2021, I had just been promoted to Senior Software Engineer at Disney at 25 years old. It's what I spent the last 4 years striving towards. This title is what I thought would make me feel "worthy."

Just 2 days after the promotion, my 5 year relationship ended. And one of the things he said that stung deep was: "Outside of your job and your dog, you have nothing."

While this was a hurtful way to put it, there was an element of truth. I had poured my whole identity into my role at Disney (and raising my dear corgi Fuji). Internally, I actually felt hollow and the quiet whispers of that feeling turned into a loud scream the second those words came out of his mouth during the breakup.

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The Journey into My Body

As most of us do to heal from heartbreak, we look for ways to fill the time to move through the pain. I filled it by going to the yoga studio near my apartment every evening, 5 days a week.

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At this point, I was actually pretty lonely. I was living in a city where I didn't resonate with the community so I had ✨free time galore✨

‍ I had been practicing meditation a few years prior to this breakup and had surface-level yoga experience years before. But something about the practice didn't "click" until I became fully aware of my thoughts in meditation.

‍ In this yoga and embodied practice, I heard "you have nothing" echoing throughout. And it got loud. And it got uncomfortable.

‍ But it gave me an opportunity. An opportunity to decide whether I was going to be "nothing" the rest of my life or to reclaim my worth from within.

‍ Fast forward - after years of deep listening through yoga, yoga nidra & meditation - I realized that I was raised to BE my job title my whole life. My parents rewarded achievement with love so that's why I chased it in corporate. They proudly declared my salary at holiday parties as if that's what made me a worthy member of the family. Achieving kept me safe in their tribe. That was the conditioning.

‍ Awakening to the truth that I wasn't my job title or my "achievements," I started to replace the belief of "push yourself harder" with "let's compassionately accept where we are today."

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Body. Mind. Freedom

My relationship with myself and my body was the first key to leaving my job as a software engineer on the east coast to create a purpose-filled life of soul led entrepreneurship in Hawai'i.

‍ I saw clearly what was holding me back and build the trust to explore the inner call to my highest potential (which was NOT becoming a Senior Staff Master Wizard Engineer)‍ ‍

That's exactly why it's the first step in my signature 1:1 coaching program, because I truly believe we have the power to catalyze our evolution.

‍ In my own journey, I leaned on MULTIPLE modalities & areas of support, including astrology & human design, for this identity transition between two worlds. So that's why I designed this program with so much heart, intention, and soul - from my own experience, and from every client I've guided through transformation.

‍ Whether it was family, society, or a mean ex that told you who you were - in this intimate 1:1 coaching, we'll navigate this evolution and create the clarity to your true self, beyond the job title 🌅

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