About Me

Why I Do What I Do

My mission is to help you do what you REALLLY want to do with your life…to live your wildest dreams. To live fulfilled and happy and inspired, so that you can go inspire others. I want to empower you to be a rockstar in your own life, relationships, and business. To know that you CAN do ANYTHING you want in your life, and to be here to push and support you when you get too scared to do anything about it. I want this for you so bad. So you can be happy. And then spread that happiness around creating a trickle effect of happy people walking around happily doing happy things. And then maybe you teach this to your daughters, so they grow up wanting to play drums or program computers or own their own businesses. What I love about being a coach is that I get to be there with you when you are realizing and living your dreams, when you are doing something you never thought possible or something that you were told you couldn’t do. The world needs passionate, inspired, and creative women trailblazing, pushing the envelope, charting their own paths, and making waves. My mission is to inspire YOU to be that woman.

“And Now…A Dramatic Reading of This Bio”

Who I Be

I plop myself onto my couch and think, “ok…THIS is it.  THIS is the time I’m going to write my bio, once and for all.  I mean, I don’t want some boring ass, run of the mill bio.  And it must be perfect and it HAS to encompass all that I am and it must be clever and witty and cheeky, yeah?  And it must speak to EVERYONE!  And everyone needs to love me. YOU CAN DO IT SALLY!”

With “Eye of the Tiger” playing on iTunes, I’m feeling pumped up.

Ready to go.

Here I go.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd…I’m going.

Right after I check Facebook.  (45 minutes go by).

I come back to Word.  Write a few.  Go back to Facebook.  Decide I’m hungry so I go make a snack.

“I mean what kind of person can write on an empty belly?”

And

“I wonder if anyone texted me.  I should check.”

I check. (10 minutes go by).  I write some more.  Erase some more.  Then decide it’s too late to write, turn on Skins, and veg out on the couch.  And as I’m vegging out, I get up to go pee.  And that’s when it hits me.  I flush, run back to the computer and………

So…I may use too many exclamation points!!  (Or is it marks?).

And I love CAPS LOCK.  Actually, that’s not true.  I don’t love caps lock.  I love writing words in capital letters.  But seriously, how often does any person actually hit the caps lock key?  I would guess maybe one in every 50 times of needing to capitalize a word, and it was probably by accident.

This here blog is also a website.  A blogsite.  A weblog.  If you will.  It’s purpose is to talk about things that I think rock.  Like……my life.  And telling you what’s going on in it at any given moment.  Business, and how to be awesome at it.  Being an entrepreneur (although that word sounds way more fancy than I actually feel…unless by fancy you mean lip synching in front of my mirror spilling red wine on the floor while trying to remember the lyrics to Bone Thugs N Harmony’s “Notorious Thugs”).  Loving love.  And relationships.  And sex.  And talking about love. And sex.  And relationships.  And thinking about what other people are talking about love.  And sex.  And relationships.  Being shy about, and giggling that I just said sex so many times.  Anticipating an email from my mom saying something like “maybe you shouldn’t talk about sex so much on your business blog.”  To which I’d respond, “yeah…I thought about that, and…stop reading my diary MOM!”  Followed by “You’re not the boss of me!!”  Followed by “Can I borrow a thousand bucks?”

I’ll also talk about my dog a lot.  Whose name is Coach, but not because I’m a coach.  But because I like Friday Night Lights.

So…what do I DO?  (You ask)

I coach you to success…HUZZAH!

No seriously.  If I didn’t hate the word life coach, I’d tell you I am one.  Because I am.  You can call me Coach (just don’t call me late for dinner…k?)  I have this crazy intuition where I can feel what it is you’re thinking or feeling, all the way on the other end of the phone.  It’s freaky!  And totally cool.  And it helps you see the things you can’t see for yourself.  Which makes me awesome at my job.  Also, I help you rock in your business.  My knack for helping you sort through all your businessy type problems is shiny and sparkly and deserves a twinkle and a DING! sound.

And silliness aside (and this is where I get really real…like staring seriously into your eyes while saying…), my mission really is to help you do what you REALLLY want to do with your life.  Live fulfilled and happy and inspired and completely kick-ass.  To empower you to be a rockstar in your own life, relationship, sex, love/all the above.  To know that you CAN do ANYTHING you want in your life, and to be here to push and support you when you get too scared to do anything about it.  I want this for you so bad.  So you can be happy.  And then spread that happiness around when you’re at the grocery store, or work, creating a trickle effect of happy people walking around happily doing happy things.  And then maybe you teach this to your daughters, so they grow up wanting to play drums or program computers or own their own businesses.

So hire me.  So we can get movin…yeah?

I have lots of stories that I’ll share with you here if you keep your eyeballs on my site (at all times…don’t you EVER look away…YOU HEAR ME?!)

Here some things might help you decide if I’m the kinda gal you want to trust with your life.

(As I think… “If tap dancing is in their list of the top 10 reasons to hire a coach…I think I TOTALLY have this in the bag.)

1)      I rock.  Literally.  Like I spent the last 6 ish years playing bass and guitar in bands, touring the country, rockin arenas, blowin minds.  And the most fun part of it for me (other than the outfits.  And makeup.  And hair) was when a girl would come up to me after a show with wide eyes saying, “I had NO idea a girl could do that.  I want to do that!”  To which I’d reply “You can TOTALLY do it!  You can do anything you want kiddo!”  Smile.  Wink.  And then I’d give her my pick.  And my email address.

2)      I gots mad brains ya’ll.  Previous to switching to coaching full time, I used to write crossword puzzles for a living.  And still do.  For fun.  And cash.  Inquire within if you want to know more…which I’m guessing you do.

3)      I’m legit.  Legally certified.  As a coach, that is.  I am a CPCC certified Coach (certified through the ICF) and trained through The Coaches Training Institute.  Big ups to my homies at CTI.  And before that, I graduated with Honors from UCSB in Sociology with an emphasis in Personal Realtionships/Sex Stuff (that’s the official UCSB catalog term)

4)      I was never a dog person.  Until I decided to get a great dane.  And now I’m the kind of dog person that sticks my fist down my dog’s throat if I think he ate something he shouldn’t have, and let’s that guy sleep in the bed.

5)      I volunteer at Girls Rock Camp, which teaches middle school and high school girls confidence, self-esteem and expression through learning how to play instruments and rock out in a band.  It’s AMAZING.

6)      I love olives.  And cheese.  Favorite flower is tuber rose.  Shoes size 7.5.  Drink one cup of PG Tips tea every morning.  No chocolate please.  Ick.

7)      I’m a party-trick-a-holic.  If you’re not careful, I’ll challenge you to an arm wrestling match, a game of darts, a moonwalking contest, a ping-pong match, a beer pounding contest, or a fight.  (Hmmmm I’m not exactly sure how this qualifies me to be your coach, unless you want to have our sessions in a pub, which might be against ICF’s ethical practices, but I’ll have to check on it)

*Disclaimer…I, Sally, solemnly swear to never have beer in my belly when I’m coaching you.

And as I sit here, on the couch, I think,

“I wonder if that bio was any good.  Did it say what I wanted it to say?  Does it get across everything I want to get across?  Was I too vulnerable?  Not vulnerable enough?  Should I send it to my friend for his opinion?  Is that stupid for wanting an opinion…I mean it’s MY bio?  Hmmmmmm….should I just post it anyway?  Am I crazy for asking so many damn questions?  Said friend once told me that all brilliant people are crazy, does that mean I’m brilliant?

Shit.  Well if I’m brilliant I should make sure I have a brilliant bio.

Back to the drawing board.”

Welcome to my world. Welcome to my thoughts. Welcome to my words.

Hang on to your hat…it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.