About
My greatest transformation wasn't becoming more successful. It was learning to trust myself.
For years I believed clarity would come from finding the right answer. What I eventually learned is that clarity comes from understanding the fears, beliefs, and emotional patterns influencing the question in the first place. Once I began seeing those patterns, I stopped needing certainty to move forward.
The professional part
I'm a Filipino-American registered nurse and family nurse practitioner with more than 14 years in healthcare and more than 9 in leadership, including director-level ambulatory nursing leadership at a major academic health system. I was a Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellow, co-founded a wellness company devoted to nurse joy and well-being, hosted a national nursing leadership podcast, and speak regularly on leadership, well-being, and self-trust.
I tell you this partly because credentials matter when you're trusting someone with your crossroads, and partly because it's the setup for the more useful truth: I spent years being exactly the person I now coach. Accomplished on paper, respected in the room, and privately running every decision through committees of other people because I couldn't quite believe my own read.
The other part
Tarot has been a part of my life for more than 10 years — first from the other side of the table, consulting psychics and tarot readers at my own crossroads. In 2022 I picked up the deck myself, and since then I've given more than 200 readings for professionals stuck at crossroads — primarily in healthcare, tech, startups, and corporate. I use the cards the way I'd use a good question: as a tool for reflection, never prediction. There are no absolute yeses or no's in a card. What there is, reliably, is a doorway into the conversation someone actually needs to have.
Years of those conversations taught me something that changed my work: whatever question people brought to the table, underneath it was almost always the same one. Can I trust myself? The readings were already coaching. Eventually I built the practice that conversation deserved, and the framework I'd been seeing all along got a name: Emotional Silent Killers, the invisible patterns that shape our decisions the way physiological silent killers shape our health. Gradually, without symptoms, until the effects surface somewhere unexpected.
That framework became my coaching practice, and it's becoming a book: In Between.
What I believe
- You can't change a pattern you can't see.
- Fear and clarity can exist at the same time.
- Self-awareness and self-trust matter more than certainty.
- Most people aren't looking for answers. They're trying to untangle fear.
- The goal is never more dependence on an expert. The goal is greater trust in yourself.
If any of this sounds like your season
The free 15-minute intro conversation is where every engagement starts. Come with the question you keep circling; leave knowing whether this is a fit.