I try to be authentic and creative.
People respond best to something they can relate to.
What a beautiful journey…
One of my earliest memories is playing under a desk in a university classroom while my mom delivered a lecture to a roomful of future teachers. Some 25 years later, I was the one standing on the stage of a university auditorium, delivering a talk about gremlins and the creative voice, and there was my mom, sitting in a front row in rapt attention.
From the pencil-ready crowd of the Roanoke Regional Writers Conference to the video mosaic of a continuing education presentation for the International Coach Federation, my mom has been there. Though not in the audience among the precocious students of the Roanoke Valley Governor’s School or at my keynote for the Council of Community Services, she caught up later by way of recordings. Other talks still – like facilitating the roundtable of keynote speakers at the Montgomery County Women’s Conference and presenting to community at the Taubman Museum of Art – she heard about in what was likely excruciating detail in overly-long phone calls.
She and I do love an overly-long phone call.
Should we talk?
I’d love to hear about your upcoming event and brainstorm how I can support your message.
I am here to support you…
My TEDx Talk in 2013? That one my mom watched via livestreaming.
While her influence is relevant every time I step in front of a crowd, my mom is not the only common thread of my workshops, facilitated discussions, and keynotes. Others include my:
- Intense love of sharing every bit of what I’ve learned about creating bigger lives, badder selves, and epic teams.
- Experience with overcoming adversity – especially the kind we all carry inside us as the gremlin voices of self-diminishment.
- Quality that author/trainer/speaker Annette Simmons described as a “bubbly, casual delivery style [that] opens listener’s minds and hearts so wide they can’t believe how much they learned.”
Maybe you’re excited to get your conference attendees back in the same room and are seeking an energetic keynote…
Maybe your remote team needs some glue for greater cohesion…
Maybe the coaches in your association are seeking new and meaningful ways to deliver ancient wisdom…
Reach out to discover how a custom-crafted SB Rawz experience can fit the bill and make you the MVP of your gathering.
What to expect!
Maybe you've never experienced a coaching collaboration before, maybe you're just curious about how I welcome folks into my coaching practice - either way, I made a wee brief video that walks you from first hello all the way into the mechanics of a coaching collaboration!
Community
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Meet SB...
Known equally for her laughter and her cogent questions, SB is the business coach who takes a holistic view and the empowerment coach who brings the work down to earth. While her psychology degree from UNC-Greensboro and coach training from the Coach Training Alliance shaped her understanding of human behavior, her innate abilities to create cohesive pictures out of seemingly disparate parts and see people from the intersection of what is and what could be are what makes coaching with SB a particularly unique experience. From the brick ranch on a creek in Southwest Virginia that she shares with her wife, Theresa, and their pit bull pup, SB collaborates with those seeking their bigger selves and badder lives across the country and around the world.
Here’s the latest from the blog.
Meditation: A Practice in Being with Mundane Awe
Meditation can feel like a thing monks in far-off lands do (or people in San Francisco) yet it can be an easily-accessible practice for anyone who wants to navigate their discomfort a little more skillfully and be in life a little more fully. Bonus: It’s a great tool for navigating holiday stress!
A Rocky Part of Normal
I made you something, a free downloadable zine so that you have your own wise guidance on those days that are a rocky part of normal.
An Always-Available Choice
Sojourner Truth said, “Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier.” Let’s look at what it means to follow her guidance.