Meet Our Coaches
Our coaches are required to have a background in direct sales and all have graduated from an International Coach Federation Accredited Coach Training Program. We know that personal and business coaching is the ideal way to identify the blocks that are separating you from success, allowing you to create a vision and plan that supports your WHOLE life.
Below, you can learn more about us and our varied backgrounds and coaching styles. No matter who you work with, we promise you'll come to see your coach as a valuable partner who will hold you accountable and support you in creating the life and business of your dreams!
So pick a goal…let's go for it! Click here to contact us and learn more about how one of our coaches can support you!
Julie Anne graduated from Erickson College, an ICF accredited program. She combines her training in leadership, her natural communication skills, her coaching training, her experience as a direct sales professional, and her dynamic, sometimes outrageous personality into a very direct, entertaining and fun training & coaching style.
Julie Anne prides herself on her ability to incorporate solid training concepts around personal development, coaching skills, direct sales leadership, party presentation and host coaching into her coaching experience.
As a former Direct Sales professional, Julie Anne worked a party plan business for several years, consistently holding three parties per week and winning national awards yearly. She also worked within a network marketing structure building a National team through internet networking. For the past 6 years, she has focused entirely on coaching and training other leaders within the direct sales profession. It was the contact with the women in her community that drew her to direct sales, and that connection between women that still keeps her excited about direct sales. Her passion in coaching and training lies in sharing tools and concepts that will support those who are willing to work in finding maximum success in their own direct sales businesses.
Julie Anne graduated from Linfield College with a BA in Theatre and a BA in English. She's lived abroad in both Paris, France and Berlin, Germany. Julie Anne is a single mom of two teenage boys.
Julie Anne’s coaching philosophy:
“My coaching style is direct and honest. I believe very strongly that energy follows thought and that, until we are very clear about our values and what we truly want in our lives, our thinking is unfocused and very often even works against us. My foremost intention is always to guide my clients to their most important, core values. I then partner with them to help them define what living those values means for their lives.
From this foundation, we are able to define their deepest desires and intentions for their lives and businesses and move forward proactively within that partnership. It's an absolutely exhilarating journey and one which is ever changing and fulfilling, not only for my clients, but for me personally as well.”
Here’s what one of Julie Anne’s clients had to say:
"Before coaching I was nowhere! Meaning I had all these dreams and goals for my life and business but I did not know how to execute them, nor did I believe I could. I really had a low self esteem in this area, which lead to more failures than successes. I was at Supervisor level with only three directs and nine in-directs, in my business.
Coaching with Julie Anne was one of the best things that happened to me. It gave me the support, encouragement, and tools that I needed to become more successful in my business and life. I not only came out of my shell, but I gained the confidence to step out of my box and do my Stampin' Up! business full-time. As of this moment I am a Manager with eight directs and 27 in-directs, plus I am on Mark to earn the cruise with my company for the first time.
While working with Julie Anne, I felt I had someone who believed in me 110% no matter what, from the get go, no questions asked. I could tell her anything from business to personal life things and she listened with such an open heart. I was given great insights and was taught to think in new ways. The best thing is I felt very accountable to her! I think everyone needs to be accountable to someone, and that person should be someone who is not afraid to call you out when you need it!"
Christie Hagerhjelm, Stampin' Up!®
Sharon Pira is a professional certified life and business success coach. She combines her direct sales experience with her extensive coaching training to offer transformational principles and tools as the foundation of her practice. Combining years of corporate experience with intensive training in solution focused coaching, her coaching skills focus on how to work through obstacles to co-create with clients the honest solution, whether it involves a life issue, a career move or a business decision.
Sharon earned her degree in business development from Cypress College in Cypress, CA. She is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and served 2 years as the Lead Coach and Coordinator for the Elite Leadership Program for the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance.
Sharon's coaching philosophy:
When I discovered coaching for myself it truly changed my life. Within months of investing in regular sessions with my coach I truly felt more powerful, purposeful and yes… happy. I’ve experienced what it’s like to have someone there for me100% – no judgment or pressure – just total acceptance, wisdom and encouragement to live the life I desired.
It was through this transformational experience that I decided to dedicate myself to becoming a coach and helping women discover the path to a truly fulfilling life. Since that time, I’ve gained the Direct Sales training and experience that ensures I bring all I can to our coaching sessions.
My promise to you is that our work will create some positive shifts in your life and your work that you will treasure forever.
Here is what a client has to say about Sharon:
“I just want to say that hiring a personal coach seemed like a bit of a luxury, but it was money extremely well spent. It's true that it "takes money to make money”. In just three months I tripled my sales which more than paid for the coaching fees. Thanks again Sharon!”
L. McCormick, Taste of Home Entertaining
Nancy comes to coaching with over ten years of direct sales consulting and leadership experience. Starting strictly as a hobbyist, Nancy quickly saw the earning and lifestyle benefits of direct sales and moved into a part time and then full time/leadership position with her company. After experiencing a lack of clarity in her life and business, she consulted a coach and began implementing what she'd learned to regain the harmony between her personal life and her business while consistently growing her team and her personal business. It was Nancy's successful experience with coaching that led her to want to support others by becoming a coach herself.
Nancy has a BA in French from Hollins University and studied abroad in Paris, France for a year while in college. Prior to starting her direct sales business, Nancy worked for seven years in investment banking as a licensed stock broker. She is married and has one son (17) and two daughters (12 and 9).
Nancy's Coaching Philosophy:
"My coaching philosophy is results oriented. First I help you identify your values and determine your goals. I assist you in the all-important process of jettisoning the unimportant 'fillers' that decrease your energy and efficiency. Then through an honest and dedicated partnership, I help you gain forward momentum to achieve your goals, both personally and professionally."
Here’s what a client has to say about Nancy:
"GREAT NEWS! Yesterday 3 of my Team members signed recruits!!! This is a record!! With the signing of these 3 new recruits, 2 of my Team members promoted to Sr. Consultant and one of them to Team Leader! AND as of today, I'm an Advanced Director! Thanks so much for all of your support, coaching and ideas! I really know that it's because of the systems that I've been working to put in place that this is all happening! Build it and they will come!"
Lisa Doughty, Advanced Director, The Pampered Chef