“Wendi is the best thing that happened to your company.”

That quote sounds braggy as heck, but it didn’t come from me. Those are genuine words spoken by an old colleague that I partnered with in the non-profit (NP) world over 14 years ago. He was speaking to the folks who’d hired me to manage a challenging project throughout the Los Angeles region. My job was to manage, teach, and track the progress of 250 adult students in over eight partner sites all over the city. I did it with a smile on my face and helped the organization land more grant funding so that we could continue implementing this amazing program to more people in the future. Before I was hired, this initiative sat on the shelf. Time had ticked away, and the funders wanted their results! I brought that link that the team was missing, and everyone who worked with the contractor before I was hired told me so.

Truth. Not Bragging. truth. not bragging.

There are a lot of people who’ll be super uncomfortable with the story I just shared. Sheesh! For the longest time, I was one of those people! I didn’t know how to take praise when I deserved it. However, I always knew how to beat myself up when I made mistakes… does this sound familiar?

The reason I, and so many of us, struggle with accepting our greatness is because our society has taught us to love ourselves through a shame filter. The shame filter is that mechanism that teaches us to dim our light, play small, and not lovingly share our greatness with the world. In return, we learn to put one another down by making sure the second any of us experience big success, we say something to knock the other back into our limiting beliefs. This is deep and very REAL. We’re about to break this old habit right here and now out of love. This, my friends, is what I do and below are the ways that I do it.

What I do

  • career and health mentor

  • Epigenetics and Spiritual Teacher

  • Public speaker

  • singer, songwriter, and performer

  • content creator

  • Social Media networker

  • Event planner coordinator

  • Small Business Shrink

  • encourager/cheerleader/idea bouncer-offer =)