March 2024
Building, healing and enjoying Relationships
In the month of March, we focus on the topic of Motherhood. In that vein, we'll explore what it means to be a mother and offer support to mothers around the world.
In April we will cover the topic of Wellness.
Upcoming Playful Pivot Events
Vicki
Muirhead
Wellness Coach for women 55 and older,
Certified Personal Trainer & Yoga Instructor
Learn About: Improving relationships with your in laws & parents through Conscious Communication
1) Boundaries regarding
parenting styles
2) Expectations on both sides
3) Honoring the inner wisdom of
both parents & grandparents
4) Honoring the No & not making assumptions
Vicki Muirhead
At 71 years young, she is a Certified Wellness Coach, Personal Trainer, and
Yoga Instructor. She is a Mother of three, and a grandmother of five. She focuses
on wellness for herself, family and clients. Vicki’s wellness journey began at theage of 51. She is an example of “It is never too late to start exercising and slow down the aging process”.
Vicki leads by example in her continual quest of learning. Building on certifications that help her to help herself, family and clients. Her focus is to inspire others with her wellness journey.
@yogainfusedmovement.com
@wellnesscoachingforwomen.com
Amanda Irtz
Parenting
Coach & Author
Learn About:
1) Riding the Storm of Parenting - the three kinds of parents.
2) How the nervous system actually does the parenting for you.
3) The generational wealth that parents pass onto their grandchildren.
Amanda Irtz is an esteemed parenting coach, expert, and author with a wealth of experience in serving children and families. With over two decades of dedication to the field, Amanda has become a trusted resource for parents seeking guidance and support in their parenting journey.
As the author of the inspiring book "Clouds that Chase Us: A Journey into Autism," Amanda offers a unique perspective on navigating the challenges and triumphs of raising a child with autism.
In addition to this, Amanda has co-authored two impactful books, "Launch the Legacy" and the newly released "The Change Book." These collaborative efforts highlight Amanda's commitment to sharing knowledge and empowering others through their journeys.
Past Playful Pivot Events
Michele
Wilson
Founder & CEO of Mompreneur Conversations™
TV Host & Executive Producer of The Mompreneur Conversations™ Show
Learn About: Navigating motherhood with children with special needs.
Harnessing Inner Strength & much more.
Michele A. Wilson, a multi-passionate Mompreneur, and Enlightened Leader, is
profoundly dedicated to empowering mothers of special needs children who aspire to launch passion-driven businesses. With over three decades of entrepreneurship experience, Michele has supported over 300 families in nurturing their ventures, providing transformative coaching in time management and productivity. She is the
visionary creator of the Mompreneur Achievement Method Mastercourse*and serves as both the TV Host and Executive Producer of The Mompreneur Conversations™ Show.
Michele stands as a beacon of inspiration for mothers navigating the intertwined paths of caregiving and entrepreneurship, aiding them in reclaiming their identities, redefining
balance, and achieving a fulfilling life.
Caroline
Forrest
Mindfulness & embodiment teacher, facilitator & mentor
Learn About: Honoring yourself through the journey of Motherhood.
1. Honoring yourself and your role as mother
2. Stepping up to connect to yourself and do the work.
3. Opening to trust and empowerment - taking the pressure off!
Topics Caroline is covering are:
1. Honoring yourself and your role as mother. Creating time and space to reflect on the power and magnitude of your body and soul that has brought new life into this world and the ripples of love you are manifesting.
2. Stepping up to connect to yourself and do the work. Starting to take more responsibility for your energy and your unconscious patterning and dropping into self compassion and greater love.
3. Opening to trust and empowerment - taking the pressure off! Trusting that you instinctively know how to be the best parent for your child and can slow down to connect to your intuition. Accessing wisdom, stillness and yet more compassion!
In Caroline's words:
I am passionate about deepening my connection to myself, others and life –opening and listening to my heart and living with truth and authenticity. I have a big capacity to feel and am an avid mindfulness practitioner.
Having taught formally in academic schools for a decade, I now teach and hold space for people in yoga and mindfulness classes, courses, circles and workshops to help them return to their heart. I became a mother a few years ago and this experience broke me apart, opening me to more love, truth and bodily wisdom. I now support those undergoing this transformative initiation.
Natalie Ford
Dating & Relationship Coach
Learn About: Improving Relationships Through Conscious Communication & Empowered Polarity
1) Heartfelt, Authentic Communication
2) Deepening Your Trust
3) Inspiring His Sexy Masculine
Natalie Ford overcame 25 years of toxic relationships to create the relationship of her dreams with the most amazing man she ever wished for. She now helps self-aware, courageous women to attract their ideal man and cultivate deep, authentic, love that can last. Natalie helps you quickly and efficiently clear mindset blocks so you can create the relationship you've been dreaming of. She was awarded Dating & Relationship Coach of the Year 2023 in recognition of her no-BS and results-oriented coaching style.
Links & socials are here:
Thursday,
February 29th, 2024
Noon EST
JAMIE
PEER
Transformational
Life Coach
Learn About:
1. Releasing the power of perfection
2. Cultivating self-validation and inner confidence
3. Rediscovering personal needs and values
Jamie Peer, is a retired Army veteran, wife, and mother of three daughters (ages 20, 18, and 10). She found her calling in life coaching and leadership consulting after military service. Her heart-centered approach guides individuals toward determining their purpose and achieving clarity in their goals. Jamie is passionate about empowering others to unlock their full potential, ensuring success, and living a life they love. Her journey through becoming a new mom during a ground war in Iraq in 2003 adds a unique layer of resilience, inspiring countless individuals to embrace success, clarity, and joy in both personal and professional realms.
Monday,
Feb. 12, 2024
7 PM EST
NAVYA PRABHU
Ayurvedic Wellness
Coach
Fighting fatigue & lack of focus through energy management & Ayurvedic
Learn About:
1: Energy management through aligned living
2: Discovering our Dosas
3: How to still the mind and find focus
If you are feeling sluggish in the middle of the day or experiencing brain fog every now and then or finding it difficult to focus on tasks at hand and find yourself thinking of a thousand different things at once...then this is the group coaching session for you! In this live group coaching session over Zoom, you will learn about how the tools of Ayurveda (Ancient science of medicine) helps in connecting with nature and understand its energy cycles which in turn can help us navigate our day via balancing our energies.
About me....I am Navya 🙂 hailing from Bengaluru, India. I have done a Masters in Biotechnology and ended up in the Banking sector. I have always been keen to learn the meaning of life and enlightenment came to me through a series of events that occurred. My major turning point was when I was admitted in Intensive care due to an anxiety attack with pipes pushed through my throat to facilitate me to be alive. Doctors had told my family that the chances of my survival were less and with God’s grace, I was revived!
This changed my life! I started focusing on my physical/mental/spiritual wellbeing. This is how I came across Ayurveda. Ayurveda changed my life to the better by imparting its ancient wisdom on me! This has now helped me in understanding the possible causes of my condition and I am here to impart the same knowledge to you all.. So we can experience “Aligned living through Ayurveda”!
Sunday,
Apr. 16, 2023
10 AM EST
MARY
LOUISE
ROSE
Health Coach
Learn About:
1. The best ways to approach healthy living
2. What your journey to better health should include
3. Creating goals that are attainable
As a health and life coach, yoga instructor, Reiki and AromaTouch practitioner, Mary Louise has been helping people achieve their health goals for over 5 years. Mary Louise has helped clients transform their lives by teaching them how to incorporate nutrition, exercise, and a positive mindset into their daily routine. Her clients consistently report feeling happier, healthier, and more fulfilled.
As a lifelong resident of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, Mary Louise enjoys hiking, outdoor activities, and traveling with her family. She is passionate about sharing her expertise and helping others achieve success on their health journey. If you're ready to take your health to the next level, Mary Louise is here to guide you every step of the way.
Thursday,
Apr. 6, 2023
6 PM EST
TRICIA
BROOKS
Holistic Nutritionist
Health coaching on stopping sugar addiction, bloating & helping gut health
Learn About:
1: Tips for living a healthier life for busy people
2: How improving gut health improves digestion, skin, bloating, and more
3: Stopping sugar addiction & having fun doing it!
Tricia Brooks is a holistic nutritionist, and health coach. She is passionate about assisting people with creating sustained, healthy lifestyles long term while having fun. Tricia believes that simple healthy habits implemented into our very busy lives can cultivate the healthy platform for us to build our dreams and live our fruitful lives.
She encourages the world to eat more plants, laugh and never forget to dance. Tricia has a recipe book out on Amazon with quick, nutrient dense and easy meals for the busy woman and has a second book coming out in the summer of 2023.
Wednesday,
Apr. 19, 2023
6 PM EST
HOLLY
STANCIL
Career & Transition Coach Founder of Intermezzo Coaching
Learn About:
- Fostering clarity around the roles, organizations, and environments in which we do our most fulfilling work
- Identifying the unique strengths, skills, and abilities that make us "us", and marketing these through resumes, LinkedIn, and networking
- Building career strategies with confidence in preparation for job changes, career advancement, and entrepreneurial ventures
In every role of her professional, volunteer, and family life, she has loved connecting people with their full potential. At Intermezzo, Holly works with clients to find clarity in their career goals, and to tell their story with confidence. Many of Holly’s coaching clients are returning to work after a pause; changing industries or roles; adjusting to new professional, academic, or personal challenges; or rebalancing their priorities in a new life stage.
Holly spent her early career in recruiting, training, and performance evaluation in financial services and consulting. After a 12-year parenting pause, she returned to paid work, eager to help job seekers and employers make more rewarding connections. As a career coach, she feels privileged to walk alongside clients as they shape their futures. She loves helping job-seekers create a clear vision of their goals and strengths, a compelling presentation of their experience and value, and a comprehensive strategy for finding their next great thing.
Holly holds a BA in psychology from the University of Virginia and a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Her memberships include the International Coaching Federation and the National Resume Writers Association. She is a certified emotional intelligence coach and Individual Directions Inventory practitioner; in addition, she coaches a return-to-work program for women, THRIVE Like a Mother through Parents Pivot. She lives in Charlottesville, VA, with her husband, three busy teenagers, and two lazy labradoodles.
Thursday,
Mar. 30, 2023
2 PM EST
ELIZABETH DERBY
Mindset Coach
Learn About:
1: How to build your confidence as a high-level leader and entrepreneur.
2: How to define your vision and goals that feel joyful, so you can intentionally create a more meaningful life and legacy.
3) How to increase ease and flow in your business and career by leveraging the power of the feminine archetype.
There are a lot of hacks and quick fixes for giving yourself a boost of temporary confidence (think getting a great haircut or power posing). But what if you want the kind of deep-rooted long-lasting confidence radiated by successful leaders?
I teach you that it’s absolutely possible to create this second kind of confidence. It’s not out of reach or a random gift from god.
Long-lasting confidence is a muscle, and you can cultivate it in any area of your life using a specific framework.
That framework includes defining your growth goal, acknowledging your current self-talk, and taking small buy supported steps to get there.
I’m a business and mindset coach for high-level women entrepreneurs who want to sustain their success while cultivating a better work/life balance. I help them make the leap from stressed-out service providers to joyful CEOs, growing themselves and their business in ways that are simple, sustainable, and true to who they are.
I specialize in holistic growth, empowered leadership, and giving women the confidence and strategies to break through their ceilings in ways that feel easier and more fulfilling than conventional approaches to business.
CHRISTINA
DEAN
Confidence Coach
Learn About:
1. Understanding Key Differences Between Introverts & Extroverts
2. Creating Supportive Habits for Introverts (Boundaries, routines, etc)
3. Career Alignment (Tools to Help You Find Your Dream Career -- Meyers Briggs, Enneagram, Astrology)
- Overcoming perfectionism/overthinking
- Stopping people pleasing
Christina is a confidence coach who specializes in helping introverted women overcome self-doubt, so they can handle social situations with ease and take empowered action toward achieving their goals. With a background in yoga, meditation, and integrative nutrition, her coaching style blends mind-body-soul practices that nurture balanced energy, personal insight, and decisive action.
Having overcome debilitating anxiety and health issues herself, it is her mission to help women harness the power within themselves to heal and thrive with confidence in their lives. In addition to being a coach, she is the founder of the Whole Soul Confidence Academy Facebook group, yoga teacher, and breathwork facilitator.
ERICA
GREGORY
Success Coach
Learn How to:
1) Creating the career of your dreams. (Entrepreneurship, side hustles, and not giving into corporate culture).
2) Having it all: the career, the family, the life; and how you can too!
3) How to maximize your potential and become efficient in your busy life.
I’m Erica Gregory. A Success Coach for High Performing Women living in Charlottesville, Virginia. I’m a mom of two young kids, Finn, 6 and Reese, 4, and married to my longtime love, David.
In 2019, I quit my cushy marketing job at UVA Health to pursue entrepreneurship, and within the first year of business, I replaced my 9-5 income, all while being the primary caretaker of two babies (and breastfeeding full time!).
During the pandemic, I pivoted into coaching, teaching other entrepreneurs how to start and scale their businesses. In the past four years, I’ve earned over $350,000 as a solopreneur and mom of two, all while working less than 20 hours per week. Proving that I could in fact, have it all... and so can you!
CHRISSY
MARIE
Trauma -Informed
Embodiment Practioner
Our formative years as a child deeply impact us for the rest of our lives. So it is for these combined reason that I'm bringing you Chrissy Marie, an expert on play and the inner child. Chrissy will lead us in a group coaching session on our inner child. Discussing defining and reconnecting to our inner child; play personalities and so much more! We hope you join us for what will undoubtably be a fun and healing experience.
Chrissy Marie is a trauma-informed Embodiment Practitioner, Inner Child Liberator, Advanced Spiral Practitioner, Breathwork Facilitator, and lover of crude humor. She comes alive helping heart-centered high achievers grow up their inner people-pleaser and prosper in their purpose work by making Playfulness and Simplicity a Priority. Her clients say they're drawn to her for her authenticity, and stay with her because they unlock their own. You can find her wandering in nature, dancing at her steering wheel, or rambling about life lessons on her podcast, The Art of Aliveness.
BRITTNIE
BRAUNER
Executive Coach,
Journey to Financial Freedom (JFF)
Learn About:
- The Emotional and Tactical Pillars of Creating Abundance
Brittnie Brauner has been in the coaching realm for 4 years and coaching for approximately 15 months with Journey to Financial Freedom (JFF). She now proudly oversees the entire program of over 155 members. Brittnie and her family reside in central Missouri and love the outdoors, hunting, fishing, gardening and just playing outside. Her greatest mission with JFF is to guide and encourage individuals to a life where they don’t just manage their money but to live a life where it works for them and brings choices into their lives that were just dreams.
LAUREN
PEARSON
Founder, Somerset Advisory
Founder, Wealth Edit
Learn About:
1. Negotiating for Yourself
2. Women Talking About Money
3. Attaching Yourself to Revenue in Your Career
If research is considered a hobby, that would be my thing. This curiosity, which quite frankly can drive those closest to me crazy, is probably what makes me well suited for this profession. To support this passion professionally I have been designated as a Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP™), and it is what has led me to launch The Wealth Edit, a membership community for women to talk about wealth.
The impact of putting a thoughtful plan in place will last for generations, and I understand the depth of this responsibility. What you will see and read from my online footprint is I principally engage in personal financial planning, asset allocation, portfolio construction and charitable gifting strategies for professionals and families. The key marker of these relationships is trust, transparency, and confidentiality.
My work has been recognized, and I am humbled by it. I was named one of Forbes’ “America’s Top Next-Generation Wealth Advisors” in 2017-2019, the Birmingham Business Journals’ “2017 Women to Watch” and “2018 Executives of Influence,” featured and listed in WORKING MOTHER magazines’ “Top Wealth Advisor Moms 2017-2020.”
MELANIE
PERRY
Financial Planner
Melanie D. Perry will help start you on the journey of creating sustainable wealth through wisdom, a healthy money mindset, and more!
As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ , Melanie D. Perry has been helping people create sustainable wealth by making wise decisions for over two decades years through her private practice. She is now with Urban Wealth Management, a women owned firm.
Based on the rise of women entrepreneurs and the importance of educating our youth about money, in 2010 Melanie created Zeallionaire Enterprises, a financial literacy company. Here she teaches purpose driven entrepreneurs to improve their personal finances by mastering their spending and spending plan, conquer debt and protect their wealth enjoy the ultimate life they deserve. Melanie also values the importance of educating youth and created a summer camp and curriculum for kids and teens. She has been recognized by many national organizations for these efforts including the Los Angeles Women's Chapter of the NAACP. Melanie has authored All about the Benjamins: Helping People Create Wealth in the Midst of Financial Insanity and Johnathan and Geneva: The Adventures of Zeallionaire Kid”, her latest book for elementary children.