Hi, I’m shannon
I feel most at home outdoors - in the mountains, near the water, wandering through forests, or simply sitting outside breathing in fresh air. Nature has always been my reset button. When I’m not coaching, you’ll probably find me chasing a sunrise, staring at the moon, or stopping mid-walk to marvel at the sky. If I ever won the lottery, I think I’d probably go straight back to school for astronomy or astrophysics (still might.) The universe has always been magical to me.
Travel has shaped most of my adult life. I’ve spent over 20 years exploring the world, and for the last six years I’ve been almost exclusively nomadic. Movement, curiosity, and witnessing different ways of living have become core parts of how I understand people and the world.
I’m also competitive by nature and a total sports lover- all sports. I have my favorite sports (and teams,) but give me a meaningful backstory and I’ll happily get invested in a curling match I knew nothing about five minutes ago. I’m fascinated not just by the games/matches themselves, but by the psychology, dynamics, and grit behind what it takes to be a great athlete and teammate.
Also, something I think is worth mentioning in today’s climate: I care deeply about equality and human rights, and believe everyone (EVERYONE) deserves to feel safe, supported, and respected (and fed, and housed, and have medical care, and...) This is something that is reflected in both my life and coaching spaces.
This is the version of me underneath the work: grounded, curious, observant, endlessly learning, and always straight-cheesin’ about something in the sky.
My Approach
Before becoming a full-time coach, I was a corporate sales trainer, I spent 15 years as a certified personal trainer, a few years as a real estate agent, and later as a network engineer in the telecom industry. I’ve lived inside the worlds where high achievement, self-reliance, and burnout are normalized. Those chapters gave me a unique vantage point into human behavior, performance, and the deeper patterns people carry even when they appear “strong” on the outside.
I’ve been a coach for six years, and I’ve been studying personal development for nearly two decades. My early work was rooted in mindset and manifestation, and at the height of that chapter I ended up in a full nervous-system (and health) crisis. The kind that forces your life into a pause you don’t get to negotiate.
It was frightening, destabilizing, and deeply disorienting.
The tools I had relied on up to that point - mindset reframes, manifestation practices, “thinking my way into better…” completely abandoned me in that moment. None of it touched the panic (attacks,) the shutdown, the physical symptoms, or the sense that my body had finally hit its limit.
That experience changed the entire trajectory of my work.
It pushed me past surface-level approaches and into real, evidence-based understanding of how the nervous system works, how patterns are formed, what “survival mode” actually means, and why willpower and positive thinking can’t override physiology.
Since then, I’ve spent years studying and integrating modalities that create true, lasting change at the root level:
• Behavioral science
• Working with the unconscious mind
• NLP
• Hypnosis
• Nervous-system informed change work
• Pattern rewiring
• Identity shifts
I’m certified as a Master NLP Practitioner, in Coaching the Unconscious Mind, Trauma-Informed Somatic Healing, and in Integrative Hypnosis. I’m also a member of the IACT (International Association of Counselors & Therapists). More importantly, I’m a lifelong student - always learning, refining, and deepening my work so I can support clients at the level that real transformation requires.
I’ve also lived the patterns I now help clients unwind.
For years, I was operated in extreme self-reliance, burnout cycles, and hyper-independence. Rewiring those patterns in myself changed everything, and it’s part of what informs the grounded, non-performative, deeply supportive way I coach today.
My work isn’t about pushing harder or “fixing your mindset.”
It’s about helping clients build the nervous-system foundation, identity shifts, and internal safety required for change to stick - so they can create a life they don’t have to fight themselves to maintain.
