ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Creation and development of Heart Puja, an event that opens and heals hearts
- Founded The Healing River Alliance, a Bastrop, Texas networking organization
- Founded Toastmasters Gavel Club in Bastrop, Texas Federal Correctional Institution
- Designed and facilitated over 300 hours of life-skills and self-awareness classes at Bastrop FCI for 20 – 40 inmates, in 10-week sessions
- Recruited over 50 guest speakers and Toastmaster members to support prison programs
- Presented a LifeSkills Workshop as part of the training for The Delaware Mentor Program, a transitional school for women inmates
- Assisted 100 + Austin, Texas clients through the process of purchasing and selling residential real estate
- Taught marketing, communication and sales skills to real estate students
- Developed a small business, assisting real estate agents and brokers with systems organization and goal obtainment
- Managed 40 accounts for an advertising specialties company, building undeveloped territory into a top producing market in 2 years
SKILLS
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Works well within a network of participants in a project
- Mediation and conflict resolution training and experience
- Public speaking and professional presentation skills
- Strong organizational abilities with exquisite attention to detail
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
- Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer, June, 2013
- Current undergraduate student at Naropa University, with a focus on Peace Studies
- Sexual Healing training with Dr. Juliana Dahl, Boulder, Colorado, May, 2000
- Mediation certification training, ADR Services, Austin, Texas, 1996
- Real estate courses, Alicia Smith Institute of Real Estate, Austin, Texas, 1984-1994
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Training, NLP Resources, 1989
- Effective Speaking & Human Relations, Dale Carnegie Institute, Austin, Texas, 1983
- Classes in creative writing, psychology, interior design, photography, real estate, and journalism, Austin Community College, 1976-1984
- Classes in business and sociology, University of Texas, 1974-1975
- High School diploma, Kress High School, Kress, Texas 1970
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY ~ Currently a Spiritual Entrepreneur
- Private Practice in emotional healing and intimacy consulting, Boulder, Colorado, and Austin, Texas, June, 2000 – present
- Project manager for property renovation for a retired UT professor, Austin, TX. Completed July, 2007
- Residential Counselor to adult developmentally disabled population, Boulder, Colorado, 1998-2000
- Sales Agent, Carolyn Ney & Company, Realtors, Austin, Texas, 1995-1997
- Contract employee and volunteer, Bastrop Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop, Texas, 1988-1996
- Sales Agent, Prudential Owens Realty, Austin, Texas, 1993-1995
- Account Manager, Bell’s MedCorp, Austin, Texas, 1989-1992
- Faculty/ Marketing Rep., Alicia Smith Institute of Real Estate, Austin, Texas, 1987-1989
- Owner, Real Estate Agent Support Services, Austin, Texas, 1987-1989
- Sales Agent, Marsh & Box Realty, Austin, Texas, 1984-1987
- Partner/ Marketing Rep./ Photographer, Tiffany & Menasco Productions, Austin, Texas, 1982-1984
COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Volunteer at Horses Make Miracles, Longmont, CO, 2012 – present
- Board Member for Boulder Bridge House, 2012
- Volunteer horse handler with The Medicine Horse Program, Boulder, Colorado, 2002 – 2003
- Chaplain Associate, Boulder Community Hospital, Boulder, Colorado, 1998-2002
- Child Attendant, Travis County Children’s Shelter & Assessment Center, Austin, Texas, 1994-1995
- Vietnam Wall Memorial Attendant, Parks and Wildlife Department, Washington, DC, 1993
- Founder, Rainbow Trailblazers Gavel Toastmasters Club, Bastrop FCI, Bastrop, Texas, 1991
- Group Facilitator for prison populations, Bastrop, Texas; Wilmington, Delaware; and Austin, Texas, 1988-1996
- Founding Member and Club President for two terms, Frontier Toastmasters, Austin, Texas, 1988-1997
- Group Leader in a support group for people with AIDS and their loved ones, Austin, Texas 1988-1989
- Support for teenage girls, Middle Earth Teen Shelter, Austin, Texas, 1978-1980