I’ve been involved in medical research. Then, after becoming too sick to continue in academia, entered the corporate world in underwriting. During that time, doctors threw every medication at me they could think of, with no results. I was told I’d have to learn to “live with it”.
So I took it upon myself to figure out another way, because I couldn’t spend the rest of my life feeling the way that I did. That’s when I discovered that changes to diet and lifestyle make a huge difference.
I felt compelled to know more, and to help others experience the huge improvements I did after the medical system hadn’t helped at all.
Meanwhile, my corporate cubicle experience was wearing on me. I felt like a square peg trying to fit in a round hole. Deep inside I knew I couldn’t stay there, even though I could have been set with a stable and prosperous career for the rest of my working days.
I left my secure corporate job, to everyone’s surprise and disagreement, to go back to school in Toronto, Canada for another four years to become a naturopathic doctor. $150k of debt later, I moved to the west coast of Canada, where I practiced as a naturopathic doctor in a variety of small coastal and northern communities.
After several years of clinical practice, I met my now husband, who was temporarily on the west coast for a work contract. As his contract was ending and he had to return to his home back east, my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. All the signs pointed to leaving the west coast and moving back to my roots, where my parents were born and raised.
I tried starting a brand new naturopathic clinic from scratch in my new home in Quebec. However, the language barrier, along with challenging and limiting regulations for naturopaths in the province, made the experience difficult and unsatisfying.
Once my mother passed away, I tried to push forward with my clinical work and find a way to force it to work, only to be met with a brick wall that was the worst health crisis I’d ever encountered.
I see now I needed to have this experience to understand the next, deeper layers of my growth and evolution. It’s what put me on the path to learning all about deeper roots of the unconscious mind, inner healing, and my unique neurobiology as a highly sensitive, neurodivergent person.
I decided to pivot to online work in 2019, with one foot in and one foot still in physical clinical work. The pandemic allowed me to cut all ties with my naturopathic doctor identity and my clinic, and step into the world of virtual work.
Over the past six years working online, I’ve made several pivots to my niche, as I discovered what I enjoyed the most and who responds best to my approach. And as I continued to refine and perfect the very methodology I pieced together for myself that got me from struggling in a major health crisis to thriving with joy, ease, and fulfillment; when nothing I knew as a naturopathic doctor was cutting it.
Now, I guide high-achieving visionaries, change makers, and thought leaders who are wired differently, like me, to finally stop fighting their true nature.
Because that’s where the turning point is. That’s where I discovered what flow-state really is. Where you no longer try to force, control, or chase opportunities. They naturally unfold with ease; in ways that blow my mind on the regular.
The Vantage Success Method I created is a culmination of my life experiences, education, personal journey, and professional knowledge that’s proven to help sensitive, gifted, and neurodivergent leaders reprogram outdated unconscious patterns, activate their full potential, and step into effortless success and recognition.
Now that I’ve pivoted into the work that truly fulfills me, and I work with my neurobiology and not against it, the difference is like night and day. I feel energized, joyful, and satisfied, even when life challenges come my way, because that’s an inevitable part of life. I sometimes wonder why I tried to lead my life any other way. And now that I know, I’ll never go back.