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Hi, I'm Linda
I help women at a point of change shape what comes next.
I’m an ICF Professional Certified Coach and founder of The Soul Spot, a coaching practice for women navigating meaningful change in their work and lives.
Sometimes the change is easy to name. You may be considering retirement, weighing a professional decision, facing an empty nest, navigating a relationship change, or looking at an opportunity you hadn’t expected.
And sometimes nothing obvious has changed. Your life may look much as it always has, but your relationship to it is different. What once felt right, meaningful, or worth the effort doesn’t land in quite the same way anymore.
You may simply know, I don’t want to keep doing this the same way.
In our work together, we slow things down enough to understand what is changing, what you want now, and what choices make sense from here.
Before I became a coach, I spent more than 25 years growing a career, while raising a family.
Much of my career was in public higher education, where I worked in strategy, confidential executive advising, Chief of Staff roles, organizational leadership, and people and team development.
I grew up in a rural community with relatively few resources, and access to education mattered deeply to me. That eventually led me to work that helped expand opportunities for people who had not always had easy access to it.
At work and at home I was often the person turned to when something was difficult, sensitive, or complicated.
I became very good at creating conditions that allowed the people around me to thrive.
I was considerably less practiced at creating them for myself.
Eventually, I had to ask some of the same questions I had helped other people ask.
My career was fueled by curiosity, commitment, and a strong sense of purpose.
It was also fueled, for many years, by perfectionism, self-doubt, over-responsibility, and a pretty remarkable ability to push past what I already knew.
About nine years ago, I started noticing that what had motivated me earlier in my career didn’t have quite the same hold anymore. Some of the ways I had learned to succeed were costing more than I wanted to keep paying.
I found myself thinking much more seriously about what I wanted the next part of my life to look like. So I found a coach who helped me stop rushing for an answer and experiment until I began to see what might be next for me. One thing I tried was a coaching program. It stuck.
I began coaching in 2019, initially alongside my leadership work. Over time, it became clear that this was where I wanted to put my attention.
Experience and Credentials
I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation.
My coaching education and professional development include Whole Person Coaching, Wayfinder Coach Training, trauma-informed coaching, somatic coaching, and mindfulness facilitation.
As a client, you are in control of the tools and styles we work with.
The Soul Spot offers private coaching, focused coaching intensives, six-month coaching programs, workshops, and small-group retreats for women at a point of change.
You do not have to know exactly what comes next before we talk.
