About Dodie

I had no sense of any personal power, and as a result I grew up with low self-esteem and self-worth. My parents never showed interest in my life, no one ever asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was gifted in sports, music and dance but was never coached or cheered on to excel in the things I loved and was good at. 

I let people push me around and make my decisions for me and was intimidated very easily. I was so shy and fearful sometimes I literally couldn’t speak. Later in my teens, I followed the wrong crowd a lot of the time. I constantly strived to be seen or heard by being a good kid or writing my mom long letters about “who I was”. I would write it out nicely with four or five pages all about me and my life so she would know who I was, since she never asked me. I put my letters in a beautiful envelope with the name ”MOM” on the outside and placed it on her bedroom pillow.  I felt invisible and like I was in the wrong family.  She never acknowledged she read the letters or ever said one word about them. 
 

Without guidance and positive role models and people cheering me on as a child I struggled with relationships as an adult. Looking back on it now, I know I was like a blank slate, a person that didn’t know how to really be who I was born to be.

I started speaking up for myself and my family and placing value on my conversions and not accepting being treated certain ways, because these types of relationships gave me the same sad, dark, lonely feeling my recurring dream as a child gave me!  It was not a feeling I could live with anymore. Knowing I no longer could accept being bullied, belittled, devalued, humiliated or ignored set my life on an entire New Course. 

After my marriage ended up in divorce, I realized that I was constantly seeking value outside of myself because I didn’t know who Dodie was. I finally started to realize my value and worth as a human being. Suddenly I knew my purpose was plain as day!  To be the best possible person of ME I could become so others would know how to live their life. I began to feel my life swell with compassion and purpose.  I found my hope and mission and set out to help as many people as I can, to live a life they love.

I took courses and studied for over three years with the Brave Thinking Institute and various mentors and coaches and became a certified Dream Builder Life Mastery Coach and Consultant.. I helped people understand their inner power and unlimited potential. They discovered that their innate power was far greater than any circumstance, situation, or condition in their life. 

I help people design their life instead of living by default.  I help people chart a course to the life they’d love living.   Just as I continue to dream and design the life I'm totally in love with.