
At 31 years old I walked off stage after taking a bow to an elated audience, completing another Opera performance of Roméo et Juliette.
I went home to an empty apartment I had been given by the company. The washing machine was broken, I had no groceries for a late dinner, and, back home, I had missed another loved one's birthday.
It was a life-changing decision.
The same devotion I had once felt for music began to show up in this work.I fell in love with coaching the way I had fallen in love with singing—not as a job, but as a practice of listening, presence, and truth.
Supporting others through their own moments of reckoning became a way to bring my creativity, discipline, and humanity into service. What started as personal work became a calling.

