Your Intentional Path to JOY Starts HERE.

Hello! I'm Marissa.

As a 30-year entrepreneur who has built five successful companies, I understand what it takes to thrive in both business and life. My journey spans from corporate boardrooms to bestseller lists, from building industry-leading cultures to facing life-altering challenges as a cancer survivor.

Today, I channel these experiences – as an entrepreneur, speaker, bestselling author, leadership expert, mother of two grown sons, and hospice volunteer – into one powerful mission: awakening joy in others.

I know, with unshakeable certainty, that joy is accessible to everyone – even in our darkest moments.

The path to joy begins with two transformative choices:

  • Embracing our worthiness of a joyful life

  • Courageously doing the work to clear what stands in our way.

These aren't just choices – they're gateways to transformation.

My soul purpose is igniting breakthrough moments for individuals, leaders, and organizations.

I guide them to confront growth obstacles head-on, awaken to their highest potential, and step boldly into their most fulfilling journeys.

This unique integration of the soulful and the strategic creates transformative experiences that guide my clients toward their most joyful lives.

While each person must walk their own path, they don’t have to walk alone.

Are you ready to step into your most joyful life?

A Calling to Lifelong Evolution & Growth

At the heart of my work lies a deep love of learning—not just as a professional pursuit, but as a personal spiritual calling to evolve and grow. With a Master's Degree in Organizational Development and certification in Instructional Systems Design, I've transformed this passion into practice, building four successful training companies. As an ICF-certified Coach, I am trained to create safe spaces for my clients to explore everything that holds them back from their full potential.

My journey includes certifications in emotional intelligence (EQi certification), core personalities (the Enneagram), and Conscious Facilitation.

Each step in my growth journey serves you, and is woven into the fabric of our work together, creating richer possibilities for the leaders I serve.

My Personal Values

A leader’s personal values must mirror the values they apply to the work they perform in the world.

When I work with clients, I commit to remaining true to these values to ensure the creation of the highest outcomes for those that entrust me with their journey.

  • Learn how to get out of my own way, follow the signs, and invite the highest outcomes. Enjoy always being at “base camp.” Approach life with humility and a “beginner’s mind,” knowing that there is always more to learn, and more growth to attain. Detach from the outcome; the growth is always in the journey.

  • Earn and honor the trust of others. Trust in myself, the process, my inner voice and intuition, the higher power, the flow of my life and how to move with it. Trust in abundance, in the rebirths and seasons of my life, in the process of co-creation with Source and with those that are on my path. Know that coincidences and synchronicities are pre-destined.

  • Choose compassion for myself and others. Release anger and resentment. Always be in the service of forgiveness. Commit to a life that alleviates the suffering of others.

  • Connect with others in a way that ensures they feel seen, heard, and significant. Embrace transparency and vulnerability to prevent walls and barriers which impede trust and deep connection. Choose inclusion and integration over exclusion and division at every opportunity to activate unity and harmony.

  • Always be a place of emotional, spiritual, psychological, and physical safety for others in need. Do no harm.

  • Remain grateful for my health, my body, my mind, my voice, my ability to feel deeply, the lessons in my pain, every breath. Remain grateful for all that love, guide, & support me, and trust me to do the same in their lives.

  • Move through life “awakened.”  Remain grateful for the opportunity to create and manifest the highest outcomes that align with my soul purpose and my joy. Be mindful of the impact that my thoughts, words, and actions have on my life and on others, and endeavor to maintain their alignment.

Testimonials

“Marissa's ability to guide her clients to the answers that are right for them is incredibly well tuned and I can’t wait to see what’s next. I would highly recommend Marissa to any one who would like to improve their leadership skills or is looking for a coach to guide them through the challenges of owning or managing a business.” 

- Ron Hodgkins, CEO

“Marissa has been so much more to me and my business than a business coach. She has become an essential partner in my business' success. She has helped me to tap into the inspiring story of my company, my own value as its leader, and to rewire the usual patterns of client-consultant engagement in a game changing way. I thought I just needed some practical help, and she certainly provided that in dozens of ways in terms of introductions and networking, vendor recommendations, hand-holding in the sales process, partner relationships, and so much more. But what I didn't realize was how much help I needed with mindset and internal narrative. Marissa's package of positivity, confidence and radiance has become the voice in my head, battling and ultimately replacing the shadows that too often haunt and sabotage entrepreneurs and their companies. It was shocking to me how much our internal narrative governs our impact on prospects, clients and partners - and what a dramatic transformation was possible not only for my business but my life. I'm forever grateful to Marissa, and wish she could work with everyone I know!” 

- Katy Talento, CEO

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