Let’s create change from a place of curiosity and joy
…but first, let me tell you where I took a more stressful path.
I started my career making all the “responsible” and “rational” choices, getting a degree in Accounting and working at a big firm. But four years and a CPA license later, I was sitting across from my mom in a New York diner as she told me, “Wow, you look translucent.”
It wasn’t a compliment.
The lack of alignment between my career as an auditor and my truer desires had teamed up to drain the color from my face. I was stressed, burned out, and felt like I wasn’t truly living.
So, I doubled down, hoping a change of scenery would help. My firm sent me to Australia, but soon after, I found myself in a Sydney ER at 3 a.m., experiencing my first panic attack. My body and mind were warning me I was on the wrong path.
It took seven more years before I finally left corporate life. The journey that followed wasn’t easy, including career changes, cross-country moves, coming out to myself/family/friends, and navigating a difficult relationship.
While I became more and more willing to turn my life in a direction that felt more truly me, I didn’t handle change cycles gracefully.
But over time, I learned to truly listen to my body, let go of limiting beliefs, and unhook my self-worth from work.
Now, being on the other side, I approach life’s changes with confidence, joy, and curiosity. And I want this for you too.
Let’s dive into your “shoulds” and “I could never justs” and reconnect you with the life you’re truly here to live.
Let’s work together to create a life better than you’ve ever dreamed.
Why “Nine Lives Coaching”?
It’s an invitation for all of us to keep iterating and growing and becoming. We never stop evolving as long as we’re listening deeply and embracing curiosity.
Since my last name means “cat” in Italian 🐱, I like to describe myself as a literal cat person.
There’s an idiom that I’ve possibly taken more than personal offense with; “Curiosity killed the cat,” but did you know there’s a second part to this proverb?
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”
What has most often been thrown about as some foreboding warning about the dangers of exploration and experimentation, in actuality, in its full form, holds an incredibly uplifting message.
If we’re following our truest curiosities in life, they may take us far afield of where we’ve “expected” to be. Those expectations may die a little death and what grows up in its place can be more beautiful and aligned for us than we could have imagined. Then, we can let it happen again. And again. And again. As far and through as many lives as our curiosities will carry us.
