I'm Deborah. And I Get it. 

Most of us spend our careers trying to manage around fear instead of moving through it. We overthink to avoid making the wrong decision. We overwork to prove we belong. We avoid difficult conversations because we might not handle them perfectly.

But here's what I've discovered: Fear isn't the enemy of good leadership. Fear that's driving your decisions unconsciously - that's the problem.

When you learn to recognize fear-based patterns and make conscious choices about how to respond to them, everything shifts. Your confidence stops depending on everything going perfectly. Your influence grows because you're not managing your own anxiety in every interaction. You make decisions faster because you trust your judgment.

As a certified fear mastery coach, I don't help you eliminate fear—that's impossible. I help you develop the internal resources to move through it, again and again. Because every leadership breakthrough requires stepping into territory that feels uncertain, and the leaders who thrive are the ones who've learned to trust themselves in that space.

What I've learned about fear (and why it matters for your leadership).

The work that matters most.

I don't hand you personality assessments to explain why you are the way you are. I don't give you a system to follow or ask you to journal about your childhood.

Instead, we focus on what's happening right now. What patterns are keeping you stuck? What would change if you trusted your instincts as much as your analysis? What becomes possible when you stop managing fear and start leading through it?

My approach blends fear mastery coaching, practical behavioral change techniques, and the kind of real-time problem-solving that actually works in your world. But honestly, the frameworks matter less than what actually happens: You start seeing your patterns clearly. You build the courage to make different choices. You develop the internal foundation that supports whatever you're trying to create.

Clients describe the work as both grounding and catalytic. Conversations that feel immediately helpful and transformative over time.

What actually happens when we work together

I spent the next five years learning a completely different way to build a career and a life—one that actually felt like mine. No more performing my way through success. No more achieving at the expense of everything else that mattered.

After those five years, something shifted. I had earned the trust and respect of my colleagues and leaders, but more importantly, I had learned to trust myself. I started navigating opportunities based on my own rules—what mattered to me, what aligned with my values, what supported my growth AND my life.

That's when I was handpicked by the Chairman of a Fortune 100 company to direct their executive coaching programs, leading mentoring initiatives in New York, Denver, and Charlotte.

What had changed? I finally understood that fear had been carving the path of my choices. Instead of treating fear as something to avoid, power through, or ignore, I learned to understand it, to master it.

That shift didn't just change my career—it changed everything about how I lived and led.

And that's when everything changed. 

I spent years in the corporate world—Wall Street, mid-town Manhattan, some of the largest financial institutions you could name. I was climbing the ladder, getting promoted, checking all the boxes that meant I was "successful."

And I was good at it. Really good. I learned skills that boosted my career, earned recognition, built the kind of resume that opens doors.

But here's what I also learned: You can master every external metric of success and still feel like you're sabotaging your own best efforts from the inside out. After 10 years of navigating my life and career in ways that looked impressive but felt profoundly empty, I crashed and burned. Not once, but twice.

Here's how I learned what actually matters