I’m Darla.

I have a coaching brain and an organizational brain, and I've spent years figuring out how to use both at once. On our calls, we get into the big stuff — what's working, what isn't, what you actually want and what's in the way. In between, I'm in it with you. Building the systems, making the plans, doing the thinking you don't have time for.

This isn't therapy. It's not a course. And I'm not a virtual assistant you delegate to. I'm a partner — one who asks the hard questions and then helps you build the infrastructure to answer them.

I also happen to believe that the reason most of our lives feel unmanageable isn't a personal failing. It's that nobody teaches us how to do life — and the world benefits when we stay too overwhelmed to notice. I like to peel back the layers that society, the patriarchy, capitalism, and life heap onto us until everything feels harder than it should. When we clear some of that, we find more room.

And room, it turns out, is where everything starts to shift.

Credentials I hold:

• Bachelor of Communication in Journalism from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF)

• Trained by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC)

I’ve coached over 1,200 hours and some might say I’ve lived 1,200 lives. Careers I have had in this lifetime:

• IP law firm and human resources director in Philadelphia

• Food and lifestyle writer for a major newspaper in urban America

• Private chef in Dubai

• Director of a meat cooperative in rural America

• Farm volunteer in Georgia

• Director of catering for a sustainable food empire in Atlanta

• Sales director (I apparently like directing…)

• Co-founder of a non-profit aiding farmers

• Aspiring book author all over the world

• Conference presenter across the US

• Head of communications and fundraising at a grassroots NGO in Jordan

• Mother to an only child, and wife to a humanitarian photographer who travels the globe

• And I may have co-created the pilot episode of a documentary series about food, fashion, and music in small-town America