The coaching experience is so much more powerful when you are working with someone who has already been where you are trying to go. The clients who have the most powerful transformations with Sophia are business owners, CEOs, and professionals (doctors, dentists, lawyers, etc), who want to have a better work/life balance. Here are a handful of experiences Sophia has been through that continue to deliver value to her clients today:

Exhaustion- Sophia hit burnout for the first time in 2011, and that was before adding kids to the equation. She has done the work to override addiction to productivity while still experience growth at work

Stalled Revenue- totally normal for a business to plateau. She's been there more than a dozen times. She'll guide you back into growth

Money issues- whether you are scared to ask for more money from clients, avoiding looking at your bank account or bookkeeping, or keep setting the same revenue goal year after year and not hitting it---been there. She'll help you solve it

Motherhood

Being Mom comes with a huge mental load always ticking away in your brain. AND so does being a business owner. Put those two roles onto one person and PHWEW. That is A LOT. It's something you cannot truly understand the heaviness of unless you have walked it.

Sophia has created a simplified, streamlined life for herself and has helped dozens of mothers find a new ease for moving through their days and weeks.

Traveling Husband

Brandon is a cinematographer that leaves for a month at a time a couple times a year, and many times throughout the year for a week. She has mastered the on-again-off-again balance of solo-parenting and having support while running a business and still showing up for her kids powerfully.

Complicated Families

You may think you can compartmentalize that complicated relationship in your life and just get down to business, but no. You cannot.

It doesn't matter whether it's a difficult parent, spouse, child, or in-laws, if you are regularly irritated about a relationship in your life, it takes up brain space in your mind and leads to exhaustion.

Sophia's biggest growth in her business occurred after she finally did the inner work to not have relationships in her life constantly distracting her.

Almost no one has a smooth, easy, care-free relationships with every member of their family. We all must learn how to find a healthy way to move through complicated situations so we can focus our energy and attention on the life we desire to create.

Clients are regularly shocked by how a difficult relationship they may have spent years addressing in therapy gets cleared up in just a couple sessions with Sophia. If you are ready to break old patterns and get shit done, bring it to her.

Uprooting her life

Sophia and her husband had a dream of living in the mountains of West North Carolina (outside of Asheville), however, her entire family and 30 years of relationships she cultivated were in the Tampa Bay Area, where she was raised. In 2025, when their kids were 11 and 6 years old, they listed their house on the market and blindly moved to a new town where they knew no one and quickly rebuilt a new community.

It takes guts to walk away from what you have known, what feels safe and familiar, and venture into the unknown.

Clients often come to her with an inner knowing that they need to end their marriage, sell their business, close a major revenue stream, quit their job, or any other major risk. She knows how to guide you through major life transitions.

Time & Task Management

Sophia was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 34. For the first 14 years of being in business she had to overcome the challenges of constantly running late, everything taking longer than she expected, feeling overwhelmed when the to-do list got too long, and so many other time management problems.

She was forced to figure out how to overcome it before she even had language and an understanding for why it was so hard for her. Now, all those tools she created to help her be on time, get shit done, and stop getting distracted help her clients thrive.

Overachieving

Some of you may resonate with the 1990's pipeline of "gifted kid" to ADHD diagnosis later in adulthood. Sophia was that straight-A, overachieving, award-obsessed student who went college on a full ride, only to learn that none if actually mattered when she hit burnout at 24 years old and started questioning it all.

As a millennial first-born daughter with siblings four and five years younger than her and parents who were facing very difficult life circumstances, Sophia was that "10 years old going on 40 kid."

Overtime, she has learned how to maintain that innate feeling of deep responsibility while balancing it with softness and rest.

Turns out, you actually CAN be a type-A woman who learns how to adapt to some of those "type-b" traits with the right tools.

And so much more- This is just a small sample of obstacles Sophia has already overcome and knows how to guide her clients through, some of which took her years of banging her head up against a wall to figure out. Leverage that experience for your benefit and hire her as a guide.

Prior to discovering how to make life coaching her full-time endeavor, Sophia spent several years in the media industry before leaving to run her photography business full time. She combined forces with her husband (a cinematographer) and they grew their business into an award-winning photography and video production company for several years before realizing it wasn't a business model that could bring either of them joy long term.

Sophia took her photography business down to part-time and spent four years working for a non-profit that served the business community. During that time, she enrolled in coach training. She went through Ziglar, Inc because she wanted to leverage their four decades of experience in the coaching space. She then spent two more years to become a master-certified Ziglar coach.

Additional Tools

Since then, Sophia has continued to pursue more education and certifications for tools that she finds can serve her clients. She has also been trained in Fairplay (creating equity in the home for parents so mothers are not carrying all the mental load), subconscious thought rewiring methods, Human Design, Enneagram, Clifton Strengths, and other tools she loves to bring out of the toolbox depending on the clients' needs.