I teach people to master speaking skills. I am a writer, podcaster, dance performer, and outspoken advocate for empowered living, learning, and aging.
My work benefits from more than 40 years of experience and learning personal growth work, communication and speaking skills, embodiment, dance, performance, film & tv acting, entrepreneurship, and more.
My Super Power U Podcast features long-form interviews with inspiring women (and a few special men) revealing the Super Power behind their success. I've been featured in Wired Magazine and on CBS News and Swiss RV, and appeared as a featured performer, guest star, & series regular in over 100 television, film, radio, and news pieces.
I have presented at: the International WomanSpeak Festival in Sedona, SXSWedu in Austin, Under 20 Summit in NYC, Innovation Education 2016 in Palo Alto, The Passion Co. SHINE Event and The Journey Talks in San Francisco, and PG Retreat in Colorado Springs. I love to inspire audiences to embrace their vitality and passion and reclaim empowered living regardless of the stage of life. In spite of taking up dance at age 50, I am a World Champion Pro-American Rhythm Ballroom dancer.
Other recorded and on stage presentations: CreativeLIVE Online, The Harker School in San Jose, Uncollege in San Francisco, Charles Rivers Ventures in Palo Alto, Quantified Self at Stanford University, Quantified Self Conference in San Francisco, and the HSC Conference in Sacramento.
MY ACTING JOURNEY
My first career was in film and television and I got acting credits in hundreds of television episodes, films, and movies-of-the-week on MGM, Universal, Warner Brothers, CTV, Alliance Communications, Atlantis Films, CBC, CBS, and 21st Century Fox and worked with household names like Norman Jewison, Angela Lansbury, Bruce McDonald, Adam Beach, Kathy Bates, and David Carradine.
HISTORY
A champion of radical educational reform, I co-founded a network of 350+ families in the San Francisco Bay area who independently educate their children outside of traditional school; the group sets new precedents for community-based, independent learning for high-ability kids. My Free Learning Dinner Salons brought together diverse groups of VCs, angel investors, innovative educators, and startup entrepreneurs, and Innovation Ed 2016 brought together hundreds of individuals and organizations committed to transforming learning.I had an early advisory role at Uncollege, and helped create the curriculum for their academics camps and The Gap Year program.
I independently educated my own now grown children, and speaks on Meta-Learning and the Future of Education (SXSWedu, Under 20 New York Summit, Thiel Fellowship Retreats, Creative Live, HSC Annual Conference, etc). I have been featured in Wired Magazine and on CBS News and Swiss TV for my role as a prominent leader in the Quantified Self and independent learning movement growing out of Silicon Valley.
BALLROOM DANCE
I began dancing late in life but remain passionately committed to growing and developing as a dancer; I World Title in Pro-American Rhythm Ballroom Dance.
