Nedra Lee Buckmire

I have over 20 plus years of experience in the administrative space, and my last corporate job was for a major media company as a senior executive assistant. I was in that space of planning and coordinating while I was also speaking as a speaker. Around a year before 2014, women just started reaching out to me asking me to mentor them, asking could I help guide them and give them advice in different areas. I wanted to ensure I was giving them excellence in helping them navigate, plan, and mentoring them. A mentor is someone who has that excellence and shares it with an individual coming up, while coaching is different, helping them achieve their goals. So I went through a coaching program because I wanted to help them and ensure I was giving them excellence. They were watching my life and wanted to know how I navigated, so what I already possessed is what drew them to me. That's how I ended up in the coaching and mentoring space. Today, I have Hope Fulfilled Life Coaching, and I lead a nonprofit organization alongside my husband that we've had for the past 20 years. We have leaders under us, and there's a lot of mentoring and leadership development, coaching and training them in their skills, helping them identify areas of excellence and then cultivate that space. I work with everyday people who are wanting to cultivate and develop personal excellence, and more specifically, women. The past several years, I've been pouring into young ladies and am about to go to one of the local high schools to help in their mentorship group.