It was 2015, and I had just graduated from Elon University with two degrees, two minors, and a résumé built for exactly the life everyone expected of me... Internships in sales with PepsiCo and Constellation Energy, a foot already in the door of corporate America. I knew that once I stepped onto that path, it would be hard to step back off. So before I let the 9-to-5 close around me, I chose to follow my heart instead.

That decision had been forming for years. My freshman year, I read A World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus, and it cracked something open in me. How could I not use my privilege and education to uplift communities the world had left behind? By spring of my senior year, I'd applied to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer. While I waited for my acceptance letter, too impatient for my own dharma, I moved to the highlands of Guatemala at 21 to volunteer with a nonprofit. I fell completely in love. With the culture, with a life of service, with the work of uplifting underserved women and children. I didn't know it yet, but I'd just met my life's work.

When I was placed at my official Peace Corps site in 2016, my body gave me a different kind of initiation: I was diagnosed with Celiac's Disease. It became the beginning of a parallel education—one in the gut-brain connection, in how emotional stress lodges itself in physical tissue, in the price of ignoring what the body is trying to say. The following year, I started my Holistic Health Coaching Certification with IIN, chasing an understanding of healing that went beyond the physical.

By the time my Peace Corps service ended, I knew I wasn't finished. I gifted myself a 200-hour yoga teacher training, and it delivered me somewhere I never expected: a women's-only initiation, deep in the jungle, immersed in sacred feminine temple arts. That's where I fell, irreversibly, in love with women's work.

I brought what I learned back to the U.S., and in 2018, I began offering women's gatherings—small circles at first, built on nothing but instinct and love. What they've evolved into, I could never have dreamed up. I have worn every hat and played every role: the least knowledgeable one in the room, and the leader of the group. I've built a path devoted to authenticity, to profound connection with Self and with the world.

Today, that work looks like international retreats, pilgrimages to sacred sites, workshops for 50+ at festivals, and weekly classes at my home studios in Denver, CO and online. But underneath all of it, I'm still doing the same thing I was doing at 21 in the Guatemalan highlands: bringing people together.

I love connecting with community & my calendar is open.

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With love and gratitude,

Kat