About Kit

My Highlights

The opportunity in challenge excites me.
I am blessed with high energy,
intensity,
a quirky sense of humor,
a sense of curiosity,
and a passion for adventure.
Desire to live a long, healthy, relevant, and vibrant life.

Service is the heart of my life and work. My Superpower is planning.

  • I thrive on helping people to make their lives better — based on their ideas and wishes.
  • I march to a different drummer which serves you as you look for the solutions to your better life. I challenge the status quo and think outside the box, all to help you find your unique solution.
  • I go deep to master as much as I can on the topics that interest me, meaning you get a  diverse perspective for your situations when we work together.

Since my twenties:

  • I’ve seen how a healthy diet, living with purpose, and an active lifestyle contributed to vibrancy and energy;
  • I’ve watched people struggle with their purpose and give up when they hit a “speed bump” in life or retired;
  • and I observed my parents living longer than their parents who lived longer than their parents and concluded I’ll live longer too.

I put those elements together and realized I could live well into my 100s. So I set about to find my purpose, learn to make healthy lifestyle decisions, and to expand my horizons through adventure and learning.

I feel I’m always challenging myself to be and do better, and to find a better way to improve myself. While that’s always a work in progress, I feel I am on my path and well into an energetic, vibrant, and long life with matching lifespan and healthspan and joy — the definition of a self-actualized life.

I bring the same energy, intensity, challenge, and attention to my business as I do my life.

Life Experiences

Travel is a major passion. Historically, I’ve traveled either with one other person or in a small group. After walking the Camino de Santiago (a life-changing experience), I was inspired to take others on travels so they could also experience the transformations it brings. To date, I have taken a small group to “ScIreland” (you call it Scotland, Ireland, and Northern Ireland), and on the Portuguese Camino.

And now, I’m boarding a residential cruise ship to circumnavigate the globe on my home, a 650-foot ship. That’s an adventure most haven’t considered, but it fits my style well.

Work Experiences

I coach from what I’ve learned through decades of experience as an entrepreneur and as a traveler through life. I was a bed and breakfast innkeeper for a busy 11-room inn, an 8-room luxury inn, and a 12-room inn with a full bar and 50-seat restaurant. I had to learn to care for myself so I could offer better care to my guests, as well as providing top-notch customer service. I also was a B&B inspector for the Colorado state association for five years.

Those combined experiences became the foundation of several businesses. When I moved on to coaching for the B&B industry, I emphasized the value of focus and balance. As a B&B real estate broker, I balanced my successful practice with volunteer work and continuing education in both real estate (GRI, CCIM, and CIPS) and more esoteric topics (Feng Shui, Kriya Yoga, American Sign Language, and Spanish).

Public Speaking: for B&B conferences, Mensa Gatherings, Ignite events, Affiliate Summit, and The Montrose Senior’s and Rotary clubs.

As a serial entrepreneur, I have launched several online businesses and projects, including:

  • Discovery Coach
  • Longevity Coach
  • WHY.os Coach
  • Energize Me! workshop
  • Face It To Change It workshop
  • Transform Fear Into Action course
  • ADHD Coach
  • High Performance Coach
  • A global directory of green/environmentally-friendly hotels
  • An educational website for the hospitality industry with articles on why and how to be green and profitable
  • A website that tracked our efforts to green our lives
  • Numerous content-rich websites
  • B&B Broker
  • B&B Educational Courses — in-person and online
  • B&B innkeeper

Volunteer work has included:

  • Docent at the Paws for Art Gallery as part of the Second Chance Thriftstore
  • Ouray County EMT
  • Ouray County Deputy Coroner
  • Ouray County Emergency Communications
  • Red Cross communications and shelter work
  • University of Colorado Recycling Initiative
  • Boulder’s Environmental Fair
  • Boulder’s Walk For Development

All of these pursuits, while also giving back to my community as a volunteer, have helped me hone the insights I bring to coaching and my LIFE programs.