My passion is having people live lives of their design. Many of us walk through life as if we have to do life and survive it, but we don’t know that we can design our lives to go the way we want. With this passion, I founded Athena Executive Services in 2016, a firm that pairs high-caliber, virtual Executive Assistants around the United States with swamped and successful business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives. Our team works part-time from home, taking many tasks and projects off the plates of financial advisors, C-suite members, plastic surgeons, CPAs, authors and leaders of all kinds, leaving them free to spend their time where they can make the biggest difference. I was born and raised in Seattle and still, the beauty of the Pacific Northwest never gets old. After earning a dual degree in Human Resources and Public Relations from Syracuse University, my career bobbed and weaved all around. From early career years at Landmark (one of the world’s leading personal development organizations), to Big Blue (IBM) and then various solopreneur gigs (because you see, I wanted to work for myself and “be free” and “in control” of my time, which I can now chuckle about). All in all, my career thus far has centered around training and personal development.Alongside my career, for about 25 years I participated at Landmark. I was honored to lead transformational seminars there and went on to be one of the most senior course supervisors. I took the opportunity to work together with other leaders from around the globe, and champion and develop training programs for 500 other course supervisors. I also got to be a part of the organization’s pivot during the pandemic in taking their 50 year model into an online format.My firm, Athena is now well run by two great managers, which allows me to spend more time speaking, being on podcasts, editing the book we will publish, visiting my mom near Palm Springs, learning golf, being on the board of an HOA, and playing a lot of pickleball!I’m lucky enough to live life near the water and I suspect I always will. I spend about 75% of the year near Alki Beach in Seattle, and the other 25% roaming around Pismo Beach on the central coast of California. “While we all woke up today with different amounts of money in our checking accounts, we all woke up with the same amount of time in our time account. 24 hours in a day for everyone, regardless of your background, the neighborhood you live in or the car you drive. Now the question is how are you going to spend or invest that currency called ‘time’?” - Me