About Maria

After leaving my engagement, I spent years just trying to survive, working job after job. At one point I worked at 8-10 different gig jobs just to get by. 

I barely graduated high school. I dropped out of college. Deep down, I carried the belief that I wasn't smart, capable, or qualified enough to build the kind of life I wanted.

Food and hospitality became my home and comfort zone. It taught me how much I loved connecting with people. But the pace eventually wore me down then I felt the familiar pull again, that I had outgrown the life I was living.

I didn't know what came next. I just knew I couldn't stay where I was.

When I decided I was done with that life, life met me and led me to to marketing. 

I had no experience yet I discovered that I could figure it out. And I quickly became pretty good at it. Good enough that I started my own marketing business helping clients grow at a massive rate while proving to myself, for the first time, what I was truly capable of.

Even with the success though, still, there was still something else calling me. 

Before my business, I watched someone close to me — who worked for me — completely transform their life through coaching. It sparked my curiosity, so I stepped into the work myself. And it changed my life.

It came at exactly the moment I started my business — like life knew what it was doing before I did. (It always does)

Then, just as I was ready to take my marketing business to the next level, my dad passed away unexpectedly.

His death changed the way I looked at everything. In that loss, I realized life doesn't wait.

It's not that life is short. It's that life is truly precious and meant to be lived exactly the way we're supposed to live it, gifts and all.

So I stopped delaying what had already been quietly calling me. And that's what eventually led me here to Coaching. 

If there's one lesson that has shaped my life more than any other, it's this:

Keep following the feelings — all of them — even the ones that don't make sense. They are often pointing us toward the life we're meant to live, asking us to become someone we've never been before.

That's the journey I've walked.

And it's the one I now have the privilege of walking alongside others.