“Founder | Transformational Coach | Former Diplomat | Holistic Healer — SF native and speaker on global spiritual ecology & decolonization.”
Bio: Former diplomat turned holistic educator, Stephanie has over 16 years’ experience working on peacebuilding, human rights and youth projects on four continents. She specializes in social cohesion and rebuilding trust within ourselves and in communities. Her life shifted when she had a surfing accident, and it soon became clear she was destined for greater things than diplomacy and politics. She lived in the Republic of Georgia when the Russians invaded and has lived in several post-conflict countries such as Bosnia, Colombia and South Africa. Prior to her work with the U.S. Agency for International Development, working as a Crisis, Stabilization and Peacebuilding Officer (U.S. Diplomat), she worked as an human rights and environmental activist and journalist. She has extensively mentored with elders from the Colombian Andes for over twelve years and is learning a new way of being.
A San Francisco native, Stephanie works as a guide, interpreter, and co-creator with clients of all ages to understand themselves, their nervous systems and triggers, and behavioral patterns to recover their inherit joy so life’s challenges are seemingly less turbulent. With her company Catalyzing Inspiration, she is honored to build a network of social change agents striving to catalyze more beautiful and impactful futures.
About me: I grew up sailing single-handed boats in San Francisco Bay - I learned to drive when I was about 4-6 years old in a 1967 Porsche. I wanted to be a vegetarian when I was 13 but wasn't really supported. I became vegetarian at 13 and vegan in 2011. My dad is an architect who designed the Shell Oil Building as well as many stadiums. I am staunch environmentalist and has mentored/coached human rights and environmental activists protesting Shell Oil in Nigeria. I speak three languages fluently - Spanish, English and French - and have learned Bosnian, Georgian, Russian and German.
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