About Anna

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Anna's career began as a journey down a rabbit hole beginning with the U.S. Navy and subsequently became a white water rafting adventure in public accounting. Now floating in calm waters with her chosen career as a Professional Business and Life Coach, specializing in Ideal Weight Coaching, she sees how different life could have been if she had chosen her future years ago, rather than have allowed her future to choose her for so many years.

Diagnosed with Meniere's syndrome while in the Navy, she retired with a medical disability. Using the educational benefits awarded to her, she earned a BS in Accounting at Mississippi State University. She then obtained her CPA license and worked in the public accounting industry as a tax accountant for many years.

Waking one morning, and asking herself, "Is this all there is to life?", she remembered a quote by Stephen Covey: "The best way you can predict your future is to create it!"

Within weeks, she applied for graduate school at the University of Texas at Dallas and began work on an MBA in Organizational Behavior and, concurrently, an MS in Management and Administrative Sciences. She graduated summa cum laude in her undergraduate and both her graduate degrees.

Using her education and knowledge of life, business and corporate culture, she discovered that coaching was a rewarding way to help others with their journey through life, whether that life be a straight line, a serpentine journey, or a white water rafting adventure.

The stress of professional life packed on as much as 40 extra pounds, so she began a “secondary” career as a "professional" dieter, yo-yoing up and down throughout her career. She tried many diets and even expensive hypnosis sessions, but nothing worked permanently. Then she looked inside herself for answers. She began to notice automatic eating behaviors. Working backward, she discovered the triggers to those behaviors and working backward even more, she discovered that her childhood programming was the culprit. Through trial and error and a lot of research, she discovered techniques that eliminated her use of food for emotional comfort. “Food is no longer the enemy!” she says, although she still enjoys her Haagen-Dazs.