How What I’ve Learned Can Help You
Author. Entrepreneur. Podcast host. Hospitality coach. And lifelong builder of businesses and communities.
For more than 30 years, I’ve helped launch and grow ventures across marketing, education, wellness, performance venues, home care, online businesses, and outdoor hospitality — from small owner-operators to franchise systems and Fortune 500 partners. I’ve built schools, developed teams, and supported leaders in turning vision into sustainable, profitable reality.
Today, my focus is outdoor hospitality and experiential destinations — helping owners increase revenue, strengthen operations, and position their properties for growth, expansion, or a successful exit. I’m especially passionate about properties that integrate well-being, wellness modalities, and restorative experiences in the great outdoors — offerings that elevate the guest experience while driving higher value per site.
Through writing, coaching, podcasts, and industry roundtables, I connect owners, investors, service providers, and buyers — surfacing opportunities, building relationships, and helping great properties get the visibility and strategic support they need to scale smart and sell well when the time is right.
At the heart of it, I’m a business developer who believes that nature, thoughtful experiences, and strong systems can transform both people and businesses.
If you’re building, buying, growing, or preparing to exit an outdoor hospitality property — especially with experience and wellness at the core — I love being part of conversations where growth and integrity go hand in hand.
Through partnerships with institutions such as Success Motivation Institute and The Pacific Institute, I’ve helped business owners and teams create measurable change in problem-solving, goal-setting, and achievement. Along the way, I’ve also earned numerous coaching certifications that deepen my ability to guide transformation.
I’ve studied world religions, the traditions of hospitality, and personal development. These lifelong studies shape the way I see the world: as a place where transformation is always possible when we step into clarity, courage, and imagination. My writing reflects this passion. I am the author of Grace and the Art of Hospitality, Zen and the Art of Experiential Outdoor Hospitality, Happy Secrets, Re-Vision Your Life: Workshops, Intensives and Coaching, and Think Fast, Talk Slow, Shoot Straight: The Gift Subscription Book for Female Entrepreneurs.
I believe deeply in the healing and transformative power of nature. Having lived in mountain towns across Colorado — and now returning to Cherry Creek North in Denver — I’ve seen how the outdoors can restore clarity, expand imagination, and spark meaningful action. Whether through writing, coaching, podcast interviews, or leading masterminds and roundtables, my work is about helping others uncover clarity, release what no longer serves them, and step into what is truly possible.
At heart, I am most interested in freedom, service to others, joy, my children, integrity in business, mental health and wellness, play, designing thought, encouraging entrepreneurs and artists, the elegant design of our universe, laughter, kindness, learning, and developing new businesses. These passions not only inspire my work but also guide the communities I build and the leaders I serve.
