About Margie

A little more about me...

I am a human with a lot of warmth and delight to share with the world.

That’s me up there, in my natural state. If you and I Zoom, or go for a walk in nature together, that’s the me you’ll see - comfy, smiling, excited to find out what’s about to happen.

I came to coaching because I have a strong desire to be helpful in this world, and I believe that coaching is one of the best ways for me to do that. I love the moment when a client hears themself say something and is amazed by what it helps them realize about themselves. I truly believe that accessing our own inner wisdom and learning to trust ourselves more and more every day is one of the most radical acts any of us can do. I also believe it’s how we transform the world to be better for everyone.

I have completed the Wayfinder Life Coach Training through Martha Beck, Inc., and am working toward my certification. I have not figured out life perfectly, which is one of the reasons why I love coaching. Coaching doesn’t require me to have any answers - my clients already have them all for themselves. I come into our confidential, held space, with tools, curiosity, no agenda, and no judgment. My clients do all the rest, and it is magical.

A little more of the details…

  • B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, 2001, with a major in Religious Studies and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies.

  • J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, IN, 2005.

  • Graduate of Conscious Feminine Leadership Training through Women Writing for (a) Change, Bloomington, 2019.

  • Graduate of Wayfinder Life Coach Training through Martha Beck, Inc., 2023.

Formal Education

  • Terre Haute, Indiana: childhood

  • St. Paul, Minnesota: college

  • Maui, Hawaii: after college

  • Bloomington, Indiana: law school through the present.

Places I’ve Lived

  • Currently two very sweet cats.

  • Previously other cats of varying sweetness.

  • The horses during my camp counselor days.

  • My day is made by all dogs of the world.

  • The squirrels, birds, deer, groundhogs, foxes, and others that pass through our backyard.

Animals

(An incomplete list)

  • Whatever latest thing my teenager is teaching me about

  • Mindfulness and meditation

  • Trail running, with an eye toward running longer and longer and longer

  • Healthspan thinking, including the importance of weight lifting for women, especially as we age, and the importance of talking more about menopause and the other ways that our bodies continually change throughout our lives.

  • Reading (both fiction and non-fiction)

  • The nature around me

  • In the winter, knitting and figuring out how to make the gray days feel better

  • Clay in community

  • Quantum physics

  • Doing what is mine to fight for basic human rights for all people in Indiana, including the rights to make our own decisions for our own bodies and how we express ourselves

  • Trying to take cool pictures of things.

Interests