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Arizona mountains, walking in nature, organic food, longevity research, writing books, stories, and poetry, educating others on wellness, making all things beautiful, being a voice for abused animals, being with family and good friends, watching Jimmy Fallon for a good laugh, listening to all types of music, dancing, and bringing the best out of every space and every person that crosses my path ... feeds my soul and brings me great joy in my life!
My Story
At the young age of five, I was inspired by my mother, Sharron, who, at the time, was an interior decorator and display artist for The Bay department store. When my mother wasn't looking, I would move all the pillows, items, and objects around the living room, to my liking.
Usually caught in the act, I would argue with my mother that everything was in the wrong place. Little did I know, I not only had an eye for design, but I was also reading imbalanced energy in the room. Later in life, I would find out that I was a natural at feng shui energy placement.
My first job was selling clothes for a retail store, while living in Alberta, Canada. I quickly moved into management and fell in love with the marketing aspect of business, and the creative process of merchandising, and window displays. I went on to manage two more clothing stores and a music store, until landing a job for The Bay Department, where I was in charge of store merchandising and display. Yes! I followed in my mother's footsteps.
Entrepreneurial Bug
At the age of 28, I got the entrepreneurial bug. I made a bold step and opened my own freelance styling business. My contracts ranged from importing jewelry from Mexico to brand and market to retail stores, to designing weddings and dried floral designs, to trade show displays, and landing a great gig, working side by side, with a Vancouver photographer, Tony Hurley, as his photography stylist designing sets and outdoor scenes for his stock photography portfolio.
It is never too late to go after a dream. At 30 years old I trained and received my certification as a petite model. I then turned around and worked for the agency as a fashion show director for a couple of years. I taught modeling, and self-development classes, and choreographed tearoom and fashion shows, throughout North and West Vancouver, B.C. My students ranged in age from 4 years old, to 65 years of age.
After the modeling school closed down, in 1999, I landed a unique project for a boat owner, at the Bay Shore Marina, in Vancouver, B.C. Word got out and my restyle boat business took off. A couple of years later I staged our own house for resale, and it sold on the first showing. Our realtor shared with me that he had never heard of any other stagers in Vancouver, and felt I was a true pioneer. He referred me to a realtor in North Vancouver.
This led to operating a successful home staging business, where my team and I, had the opportunity to stage a wide range of million-dollar homes, in the West Vancouver and North Vancouver, area. My company and I were featured in several newspapers, with a front cover story in West Coast Homes (see story), alongside Dekora, and Revamp Staging, which had both just launched their staging businesses, in 2003.
It was during this time, that I witnessed stressed and unhealthy home-based business owners, who ironically, were the majority of my staging clientele. Some of my clients avoided, even dreaded, going into their home office space. I saw the correlation to my client's performance in their business, and their health, due in part to the condition of their environment, the chaotic energy my clients were living and working in, and the many toxins that they were exposed, too.
Adversity Finds A Purposeful Path
Around this time in my life, my sister, and I, both in our late 30's, had been experiencing great adversity in our life. Over a 10 year period, we lost 11 family members to cancer, most in their late 50's, early 60's, two of those being our mother and stepfather.
As devasting as it was, I got suspicious of the why. Why had everyone passed to cancer? Visiting my mother in the morgue, I cut a piece of her hair and sent it to a lab to be tested.
A couple of weeks later I received the lab report.
I was aghast at the many chemicals found in her hair sample; asbestos, formaldehyde, lead, mercury, aluminum, and the list went on. This sparked a passionate journey in longevity research, and I have never looked back.
In my part-time travels, I trained as a life extension practitioner and natural health product consultant, and worked side by side with my nutrition teacher, teaching nutritional workshops, on weekends. I was determined to learn everything I could to live a healthy life. My dream was to eventually write for a magazine.
Meanwhile back in my staging life, my clients began calling me after I staged their home for resale. Most shared that they didn't want to leave their home and office space, they loved the energy and ambiance. My clients literally begged me to set up their new homes and offices the same way I staged them for resale, once their homes sold.
Later after my clients settled into their new homes, once again, I began receiving calls that their businesses were taking off. Seeing a niche market in the home base business, lifestyle sector, I sold my staging business to specialize in helping busy entrepreneurs setting up their living and working spaces for healthier living, and further training in environmental wellness, feng shui, and numerology.
Eventually, this led to helping my clients not only restyle their spaces, but I began helping my clients with the creative marketing of their business and helping them transform their lifestyle for healthier living.
Synchronistic Encounter
With my ongoing passion to learn about living well, one Saturday morning, I attended a large health seminar. Synchronicity would have it that I sat beside the editor of Alive Magazine, who was Rhody Lake, at the time. She just so happened to be looking for a longevity research writer for her front cover story. I told her about my life and the mission I was on. She hired me on the spot. My dream of becoming a writer came true.
I wrote for Alive Magazine for 3 years and then moved on to write for a variety of health magazines across Canada. I eventually integrated my health studies into my consulting business and began teaching 'Interior Wellness Workshops'.
After working with a wide variety of home-based entrepreneurs over the last 15 years, I was inspired to write my first book and create a blueprint for creating a happy, healthy, and prosperous home office workspace, to help my clients, worldwide, flourish in their life and business.
On February 18, 2018, I birthed my first book, "Is Your Home Office Positioned for Stress or Success?" A 10 Step Blueprint To Make You Happy, Healthy, Productive, and Profitable In Your Work Space. MY BOOK
Evolution Of My Business
My interior styling & Fengshui consulting business has evolved to online services, where I now work with clients locally, and internationally, and help you transform from the inside out, to live your true potential, so you can enjoy a long life, and a successful business, in spaces that feed and align with your soul's plan.
