Before creating The Clarity Philosophy, you may have known me as a public speaker, a coach, a meeting planner, a travel agent, a mom or half of the Les Frenchies Travel YouTube team.  Truth be told, I have re-invented myself many times over the years.  What I do, and how I spend my time, has changed, but who I am behind the roles is as constant as the day is long.

I learned very early in life that questioning myself was important. I am a hyper-rational and practical person with a need for things to make sense.  And so, after years of noticing patterns, I brought a great deal of critical thinking and understanding to myself and others.  I paid attention to the roles I play and stories I tell myself.  I analyzed the judgement of others as well as my own judgement.  I watched myself and others live as though things that didn’t matter, were important.  And watched voices be silenced, while deep down inside we wanted to scream. I watched ridiculously wealthy people be miserable, paupers enjoying life, and everything in between.  I’ve watched people settle for loveless marriages or look the other way at abuse, not quite believing there was anything better available.  I’ve seen people live as if their souls have been sucked out of them, betraying their own longing for the benefit of others. It broke my heart.  And that’s what led to the creating the Clarity Courses.

The Clarity work I do is based on those observations. The more I noticed, the more I made sense of things.  I started shifting to a life on my own terms, and people noticed. And then, people in my community started asking me to work with them.  A congressional candidate, a real estate developer, the founder of a non-profit, and on and on.  I am NOT a therapist.  I wasn’t a coach.  I was just someone to talk things through with.  I held a mirror for them to see themselves through my eyes, to see what I learned and believed about them, through what they told me with both words and non-verbal communication.  For more than a decade my “side job” was talking with people who struggled with impostor syndrome or wanted more out of life.

It wasn’t until someone asked me if I could help women re-entering life after being in prison that I organized my thoughts into a system.  How could I teach someone to re-learn who they are, when they were used to being “nobody”.  Could I help them learn how to teach others who they are today in a way that would give them a genuine chance in life without feeling like a fraud.  Honestly, the work I did to create the training was as powerful for me as the work the ladies did putting their lives back together.

What all of this has taught me is that success has little to do with how wealthy or powerful we are.  It has everything to do with how satisfied we are with how we live our lives, the choices we make, and in the end, if we like the person we see in the mirror.

That kind of success is the goal of my clarity work.