Hey there!

I’m Coach Kat.

Life Coach using CliftonStrengths®.

I’m a Boomer here to help Gen Z and beyond recognize and express their strengths, and start creating unique lives by choice.

Read My Purpose and Mission Statement

Hey there!

I’m Coach Kat.

Life Coach using CliftonStrengths®.

I’m a Boomer here to help Gen Z and beyond recognize and express their strengths, and start creating unique lives by choice.

Read My Purpose and Mission Statement

Me and my dad. 🙂

Early Life and Family.

I am a young baby boomer.
I was born in Minnesota near the shores of Lake Superior.
My mother only spoke Finnish until first grade, and my relatives continued to speak Finnish when they didn’t want us to hear their discussions.
My mother dressed me in “Garanimals” in the 1970s.
My favorite pants in the 70s were a pair of bell bottoms that were patriot red, white, and blue.

My family (circa 1967)

Childhood Adventures

I was a prolific crafter most of my childhood, starting with sewing at age 5.
I played guitar in a duo for someone’s wedding at age 8.
Summer vacations were spent at our riverfront cabin in Wisconsin with no indoor plumbing, where we bathed in our sauna house with rainwater.
I loved to fish as a kid.

Me and my dad. 🙂

Early Life and Family.

I am a young baby boomer.
I was born in Minnesota near the shores of Lake Superior.
My mother only spoke Finnish until first grade, and my relatives continued to speak Finnish when they didn’t want us to hear their discussions.
My mother dressed me in “Garanimals” in the 1970s.
My favorite pants in the 70s were a pair of bell bottoms that were patriot red, white, and blue.

My family (circa 1967)

Childhood Adventures

I was a prolific crafter most of my childhood, starting with sewing at age 5.
I played guitar in a duo for someone’s wedding at age 8.
Summer vacations were spent at our riverfront cabin in Wisconsin with no indoor plumbing, where we bathed in our sauna house with rainwater.
I loved to fish as a kid.

Growing into my Teenage Years

I was a competitive pianist as a teenager.
I was also good at fixing things and was the go-to technology person.
My best friend, Kathy, and I talked on a Princess phone.
I was trained as a ski instructor in high school.
I moved to a new state and high school during the middle of my Junior year.
In my Senior year at my new school, I was the editor of the school newspaper, elected to student council, and a record holder in track and field.

Those were the good old days…;)

Toasting my future life with my grandmothers.

Leaving the Nest

I attended Tufts University and received two degrees: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
I broke the high jumping record at Tufts University my Freshman year.
My friends and I wrote long letters to each other when we went away to college in the 1980s.
I was a successful Computer Engineer after college.

At 28, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I received chemo and radiation and got married halfway through my treatments.
I gave birth to and raised four children, who were my greatest blessings and reward for my remission.
I helped build the world’s largest rotating and revolving globe in Yarmouth, Maine in 1998 as part of my Computer Engineering job.
I was a stay-at-home mom for 16 years after having my fourth child.
After 19 years of marriage, I got divorced.
I spent two intense years learning how to truly love myself and become “happy with and happy without”.
I remarried in 2011.
In 2015, I endured open-heart surgery for a much-needed valve repair.
I became a personal development coach in 2018.

The Framework for an Easier Life

I like to say I did things the hard way in order to eventually discover the easier way, which I finally did in my 40s. I am now in my 50s and have been using my framework for easier living for over 15 years and sure wish I had discovered it sooner!

It’s a framework that allows me to have a higher and more consistent quality of life EVERYDAY. It is built on such a solid foundation of life skills that when crisis does come knocking (which it still does), I can survive it better and overcome it faster.

It’s a framework that has been used through many, many cycles of growing pains as I push to evolve into the next version of the woman I want to be.

It is designed upon ancient wisdom, sound habits, modern technology, and innovative manifesting.

It can be adapted to anyone’s unique nature and desires, and used at any age.

Had I utilized it at age 28, my life would have been so different–in the best way!

(I have no regrets because I did the best with what I knew back then, regardless of how much potential I squandered.)

The Power to Just Become You

Instead, I now see that my pain is YOUR gain. I am ready to give back to YOU and share my framework–in the hopes that you can create YOUR OWN PERSONAL FRAMEWORK for a unique and thriving grownup experience.

I can pretty much guarantee that if you build and embrace your own framework NOW, your future life will be much better and your true potential will be realized more quickly than I met mine.

(What did I do between 1999-2011 on my Personal Resume? I raised four wonderful children who are now adults. SO MANY lessons learned during that time as I taught my kids to be independent enough to leave me!)

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