Today she brings her mission into higher education as a Student Success Coach at Western Governors University, supporting students working to complete their degrees and build sustainable paths forward. Prior to coaching full-time, she spent 18 years in the corporate world across the finance and insurance industries. She entered professional coaching in 2012 and, through 2025, offered life, academic, career, and parent coaching in private practice at LBM Coaching, LLC, serving teens and adults of all ages. During those years she also coached for organizations expanding access to high-quality coaching globally, including BetterUp, Lyra Health, and Modern Health.

Her overarching mission across industries has been to promote self-determination, values-based goal pursuit, evidence-based decision-making, and psychologically safe environments that foster well-being. She approaches all of her work as a social responsibility initiative, ensuring those she supports walk away understanding the biopsychosocial contributors to thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and how to act to positively influence outcomes for themselves, others, and their communities.

She discovered the power of coaching through her doctoral studies, investigating why some high-risk youth overcome barriers to success while others do not. That research led her to coaching as a way to combat marginalization and trauma with resilience building and empowerment.

• PhD in Psychology with Forensic Psychology specialization
• Expertise: Criminal desistance and positive reform
• Dissertation: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Identity Change on the Path to Long-term Criminal Desistance
• Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Administration
• Associate of Arts in Criminal Justice
• Board Certified Coach, Center for Credentialing & Education
• Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation, Registered ICF Mentor Coach
• Over 400 hours of ICF-approved coach-specific training
• National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach

• A Hispanic/Indigenous American who grew up one of seven kids in poverty
• Experienced all 10 assessed Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Spent her teens involved in delinquency and heavy substance abuse
• Worked at least two jobs at all times since age 14
• Dropped out of high school junior year, then decided to create a new path for herself at 17
• Secured her first corporate job at 18 and bought her first house at 21
• Earned her GED at 24
• Became a first-generation college student at 25 to study why she made it out and transformed her life when so many others had not
• Worked 70+ hours weekly for nine years juggling full-time corporate work, full-time school, full-time family life, and the life-coaching work that became her life's calling
• Met the love of her life at 27 and co-raised four securely attached, thriving children, breaking the cycle of poverty, abuse, and criminality for her kids
• Earned her PhD in Psychology at 34, representing every young brown girl managing risk and trauma outside her control. We have no idea what we are capable of until we decide to build the good within and for ourselves. YCI coaches are here to guide youth to that awareness and support their efforts to overcome and thrive too.