I may be a stress reduction expert and business growth coach for entrepreneurs now … but it hasn’t always been this way.

Like you, I’ve felt the non-step pressure of chasing “success,” pleasing my patients, and having time for Mommy and Me yoga dates with my 4-year-old.

There was a time when days off, my morning yoga flow routine, and healthy lunches were nonexistent.

My brain used to tell me, “You don’t have time for this. There are other things that are more important.”

It took one missed phone call and a life-changing diagnosis for me to finally snap out of it.

A couple of years ago I sat in my office late at night and picked up my phone. I realized I had several missed calls from a family member and I knew something was up. I called them back and heard the devastating news that cancer had been found again, this time in many places.

I’d been too busy to answer the phone all day.

Meanwhile, I had just healed from a rectal cancer surgery, and was processing a Lynch Syndrome Diagnosis (a genetic mutation that puts me at high risk for several different types of cancer). I had been trying to ramp back up and I was working most evenings and weekends teaching a class, workshop or training.

In a flash I saw my life in 20 years. Still sitting in my office late into the evening, teaching most weekends, with my daughter much older and possibly resentful of many memories and moments missed.

As a physical therapist and yoga instructor, I knew this, and yet I wasn’t living it (sound familiar?).

I realized I needed to make a monumental shift in my life for my health, soI can be the mom, wife, friend, and entrepreneur I truly desire. So began my path of learning and investing in my own coaches and programs.