Her Story
About Neidy
I work as a transformational strategist, using my background in transpersonal psychology and business to help women understand where they are in the process of change. One of the things I've found in doing my job is that most people say they want change, but sometimes they're not quite ready to do the whole work it will take to get to the goal they really want. So my job is to sit with them, place their behaviors and their dreams side by side, and help them design goals that are strategic and in service of the actual project or goal they have. I've been coaching most of my professional life, but as a coach proper, I've been in this business for three and a half years, almost. What inspired me to do coaching full-time were those messages from the future that one gets - I began repeating the same story in my mind over and over again: you're a better consultant than an employee, you're a better coach than you are anything else. In 2022, due to a surgery, I had to sit down for a long time, and I began asking the correct questions. The answers came in the form of understanding that I was done with what I called the rat race, and I was done with systems that did not work for me. I began asking myself, who else might be in this position? What other women my age, or maybe younger, older, might be having the same questions about their journey? Before I knew it, I had a name for my company, I had registered my company, I had placed my experience and the transferable skills into perspective, and the rest is history. Throughout my career, the most important thing I've done is building competent teams - being able to see people and their strengths before they do, and with that, really getting some projects and some programs off the ground from zero in some cases.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Neidy
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best advice I've received came from my professor Dr. Lisa Tish at ITP, who wrote a book called Jambalaya. One of the things she says in the book is that we are the ancestors of the future, and what we do with the life that we have matters. It matters now, it matters in the future. That has stayed with me to the point that it's part of the work that I do. In every conversation with my clients, yes, we talk about the strategy, we talk about everything that is important in terms of operations and the project management itself to make things happen, but we also talk about the importance of living our legacy today. That came out of Luisa, really.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say get to know yourself, get to know your strengths, get to know your stage of readiness for the work. And, quite honestly, understand that people are where they are, and it has nothing to do with you. Don't take things personally. I think it's important to understand that we might be immensely gifted as coaches, and we are. However, people need to walk their own path, and they need to make their own decisions, and sometimes those are not the ones that we had on our agenda for the clients. They need to choose.
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