THE HEART BEHIND THE WORK

Helping You Move from Survival to Soul-Led Strength

There was a time when I believed that if I just worked harder, gave more, achieved more, or became "better," I would finally feel enough.

Instead, I found myself exhausted, second-guessing my decisions, carrying responsibilities that weren't mine, and searching for answers outside myself.

It took years to realize something that changed everything.

I wasn't broken.

I had simply learned to survive.

Long before I became a coach, author, speaker, or teacher, I was a young single mother trying to find her footing. At nineteen years old, my car was repossessed while I was still figuring out how to keep the lights on.

I did not learn abundance from a book.

I learned it from the absence of it.

I learned what it feels like to wonder how you're going to make it through another month. I learned what it feels like to carry fear quietly while still showing up every day. I learned how easy it is to become disconnected from your own inner voice when life teaches you that survival has to come first.

But I also discovered something else.

Lasting change doesn't happen because someone tells you to think more positively or work harder. Real transformation begins when we gently uncover the hidden patterns and beliefs that once helped us survive but now prevent us from fully living.

That understanding became the foundation of my work.

Over the years, I've had the privilege of facilitating workshops, speaking to groups, and guiding people through conversations that invite reflection, healing, and meaningful change.

Whether I'm standing in front of a room of fifty people or sitting across from one person in a coaching session, my intention is always the same:

To create a space where people feel safe enough to reconnect with themselves.

Today, I help high-functioning, soul-aware people who have spent years being "the strong one."

The ones who overthink every decision.

The ones who have spent years carrying everyone else's emotional weight.

The ones who look successful on the outside while quietly questioning themselves on the inside.

The ones who are tired of second-guessing themselves and ready to trust their own wisdom again.

Together, we explore the hidden energy blocks and unconscious patterns that quietly influence the way we think, feel, choose, and live—not because you're broken, but because there's wisdom waiting beneath the patterns that no longer serve you.

Through compassionate coaching, practical tools, and meaningful conversations, I help my clients reconnect with the part of themselves that has always known the way forward.

Because I don't believe there's anything wrong with you.

I believe many of us simply learned to adapt to experiences that taught us to doubt ourselves instead of trust ourselves.

My mission is to create spaces where people can reconnect with who they truly are beneath the noise of conditioning and rediscover the soul-led strength that has always been within them.

Over the years, I've had the privilege of becoming a Certified DreamBuilder® Coach, a Life Mastery Consultant, an author, and a speaker. I've studied transformational principles through the Brave Thinking Institute and have dedicated my life to understanding how our beliefs, emotions, experiences, and energy shape the lives we create.

But more than any certification, my greatest teacher has been my own journey—and the incredible people I've had the honor of walking alongside as they've reclaimed their confidence, their peace, and their authentic selves.

Outside of coaching, you'll usually find me spending time with my family, enjoying the outdoors, dancing whenever I have the chance, tending my garden, or creating stained-glass art. Those moments remind me that transformation isn't just about healing what hurt us—it's about creating a life we genuinely love living.

Whether you found your way here because you're exhausted from overthinking, longing to feel more at peace, searching for greater purpose, or simply ready for a different way of living, I want you to know you're welcome here.

This isn't a place where you'll be told you're broken.

It's a place where you'll be gently reminded of who you've been all along.

Welcome home.

— Mai

Who this is for

You are not here to live on the hamster wheel of self-doubt.

• You have been laid off — or you can feel it coming.
• Your marriage ended, or it is ending, and you are rebuilding from a version of yourself you do not fully recognize yet.
• You are raising children on your own and there is nothing left over at the end of the day for you.
• Retirement is close, and quietly resting is not the adventure you had in mind.
• Your life looks good on paper, and underneath it there is a discontent you cannot quite name out loud.

You are not a victim and you are not broken. You are a woman who can feel that one shift would change everything — you simply cannot see yet what the shift is. That is the work I do.

The long way round

Lack was the only thing I was ever taught to expect.

Paycheck to paycheck. The car repossessed. Utilities shut off. Mortgage and utility payments that somehow never arrived on time, no matter when I mailed them. I used to joke that I must have been Bonnie — as in Bonnie and Clyde — in a past life.

What I understood about money and worth I had absorbed in childhood, the way most of us do. When what you hear repeated is lack and limitation, that is what you come to know and believe. And I knew, somewhere underneath all of it, that there was more to life than this.

The first crack of light came from a book — Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life. It did for me exactly what the title said it would.

Then in 1996 I lost my closest friend of sixteen years to pancreatic cancer, and the question I had been circling my whole life came all the way to the surface: is there anything larger than us at all? I spent two and a half years asking. Praying. Reading. Getting quiet enough to hear an answer.

What I found was energetics. That the energy we think with, the words we choose, and the intent behind what we do all shape the experiences we end up having. I began to perceive things I could not explain — energy fields, details about people I had never met. I trained in crystal healing, sound therapy, and color therapy, and around 2006 I opened an energy balancing studio in Scottsdale, Arizona.

And then, honestly, I got in my own way for years.

There was ego in working alongside some of the most prominent attorneys in Phoenix. There was ego in deciding this work was somehow lesser, so I went and got my real estate license — a way to be seen as normal. As a professional. I stepped in and out of this space for a long time because I did not believe I could make a living inside it.

I wrote and published a book, The Light That Shines Through the Fields of Fear, and built programs under the banner Release Your Fear, Reclaim Your Life, because I had come to see greed, guilt, shame, and self-doubt as four faces of the same fear. In 2015 I was directed to the Brave Thinking Institute, where I became a Certified DreamBuilder Coach and a Life Mastery Consultant, studying under Mary Morrissey. I have not regretted a minute of it.

I like to say that I see life in a rainbow — and that my life did not really begin until 2004. I am not special. Every one of us can reach the same current I reached.

A rooted, radiant way forward

Abundance was never only about money.

Money is one channel. There is also abundance in your health, in your relationships, in your time, and in the way you earn your living. Almost everyone who comes to me arrives believing money is the only form — and that belief is usually the thing standing in the doorway.

Health Wealth Love

There is one source of abundance and many channels of receiving.

Abundance and lack are two sides of the same coin. Once you can choose which side you spend your time with, the rest starts to come naturally. We are as abundant as we believe we are allowed to be — and I have come to understand that as a birthright rather than a reward.

I talk about this in gardens, because that is how it actually works. Clear the old weeds. Plant new seeds. Then trust the life that is already trying to grow through you. What seeds are you planting in the garden of your mind — and are you tending the soil, or leaving the weeds to quietly take all the growth?

How the work happens

How I work with you

Empowering, insightful, transformational — and down to earth, with a fair amount of humor.

You are the expert on your life. The answers are already in you. My job is to ask the kind of questions that let you find them — that is what evocative coaching means, and it is why I do more asking than telling.

It is a system, not a mood. I use a proven, repeatable process you can run on dream after dream, for the rest of your life.

We work with the whole person. Mind, body, and spirit, alongside real and specific goals. Your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual life are not separate departments.

I will hold you accountable, and I will also nudge you. Kindly. But growth does not happen inside the comfortable spot, and I would be no use to you if I pretended otherwise.

Every path to God is honored here. How you name the higher power is entirely yours. It makes no difference at all to how I coach you.

We celebrate everything. Every step, however small. Each celebration shifts your energetic vibration, and your vibration is what is doing the attracting. People, places, and opportunities start arriving in genuinely unexpected ways.

My promise

What I can promise you

Come with an open mind, do the work, and borrow my belief until your own arrives. In twelve weeks you will have uncovered the specific stories you have been telling yourself — the ones that have kept you precisely where you are.

That is the part no one can do on your behalf. It is also the part that changes everything.

The book

The Light That Shines Through the Fields of Fear

I wrote this for anyone who has been led through the fields of fear, distrust, and confusion, and who would like to find the way back to their own light. It is about recapturing the essence of our humanity, living our truth, and building a life of joy — even if you have no idea yet where to start.