My Story
I spent the first twenty years of my career in boardrooms, not retreat centers.
I started in finance and international media, in audit at Price Waterhouse, then in finance and licensing roles at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Time Warner, and USA Networks, moving between New York and Mexico City. In 2006, I founded Fully, an ergonomic furniture company built on a simple bet: that a business could scale aggressively and still lead with conscience.
Over the next fifteen years, I grew it into a $100M+ e-commerce enterprise and the largest B Corp furniture company in the world. In 2019, it was acquired by Knoll and later folded into MillerKnoll. Even in that chapter, the part of the work I found most meaningful wasn't the growth curve. It was building the leadership team around me.
"The years after selling the business were harder than I expected. I'd spent fifteen years building something, and I didn't fully know who I was without it."
That's where psilocybin found me. Not as an escape, and not as a wellness trend I'd read about, but as something that opened a door decades of meditation practice alone hadn't been able to open. I don't think of psilocybin as a shortcut or a cure-all. What I can say is that the experience helped me access parts of myself I hadn't been able to reach before, and it set me on the path toward the work I do now.
I trained and became a licensed psilocybin facilitator in Oregon and Colorado through InnerTrek. Since 2021, I've also worked as an executive coach, helping CEOs, founders, and leadership teams lead with more authenticity and presence, drawing on both 25+ years of meditation practice and my own experience sitting in the CEO seat. I've now personally guided more than 400 individual and group psilocybin experiences, through retreats with Odyssey, private client work, and practicum retreats for facilitators in training.
That last thread, training other facilitators, has become one of the most meaningful parts of my work. I now serve as a Lead Educator with InnerTrek, helping emerging facilitators develop not only the skills of the work, but the judgment, self-awareness, and presence it asks of them.
The work I do now looks very different from the work I was doing twenty years ago, but it doesn't feel disconnected. I'm still interested in what helps people grow, what keeps us from acting on what we already know matters, and what becomes possible when we're willing to look at ourselves more honestly.
I came to those questions through my own life first: building something I loved, losing my sense of who I was without it, and slowly learning to listen for what was underneath all of it.
I keep coming back to this work, in my own life and with the people I now have the privilege of walking alongside.
