Hi, I'm Carri

I help successful women get unburdened.

By every outside measure, I had made it.

Twenty-plus years in high tech. The first principal engineer at the fourth largest software company in the world. Teams across the globe, a passport full of stamps, and job descriptions I wrote myself, because no one had held those roles before me.

I was also a single mom, gone more than I wanted to be, held up by a village that loved my son while I was on planes. I was extremely successful. I was also carrying a quiet guilt, and a hunger for something I couldn’t yet name.

In 2013, on a business trip, a 14-month coaching certification program crossed my feed. Something in me lit up. Almost as fast, a voice answered: There’s no way you can do that. You can’t leave this security. What are you thinking? I let it go.

In 2014 it came around again. The voice did too, with a new argument: It’s not responsible. You have an eight-year-old to raise.

Year three, I was sitting at my kitchen counter in a new town, packing for another multi-week trip, when the program crossed my feed again. Another cohort beginning. I looked around and said out loud,

“If it’s not now, I’ll never do it.”

I clicked yes. Paid in full, before the voice could talk me out of it again.

One commitment drove every decision.

For the next 14 months I ran a full-time career and a full-time certification program while raising my son on my own. Clarity looked like ruthless prioritization, deep concentration, and essentialism, with one commitment driving every decision: I would not trade one part of my life for another.

Being present to see my son grow up was the point. Everything else got measured against that.

Getting clear on what’s important became the foundation of everything I teach. It’s the first thing I do with every client, and it’s still a practice I return to.

My tech career trained me to find the root cause.

Enterprise companies flew me in to troubleshoot: find the root of the problem and address it there. Getting to the root of things is how my mind works, and when I became a coach, I brought that with me.

Client after client, I noticed something. The outside circumstances looked different every time. What was happening inside was often the same: high-achieving women putting enormous pressure on themselves, pushing harder as the answer to everything, sacrificing one part of life to fund another and calling it the price of success.

I wanted to know what we were actually working with. That question took me to neuroscience. Ten years of study and client work later, it’s still the root I return to: understand the brain, and the pressure starts to make sense. Once it makes sense, you can work with it instead of against yourself.

Eleven years of this work

Since then I’ve coached high achievers and led transformational retreats around the world: international, domestic, and online. I’ve guided the same small circle of women for nearly a decade. And right now I’m writing my first book, Unburdened, by hand, page by page.

20+ years in high tech

The kitchen counter yes

Coaching and retreats

The mastermind circle

Unburdened, in progress

What I believe

Your brain is a mechanism, not an enemy. It protects, predicts, and conserves. Faithfully.

You are not broken. Your system is working exactly as it was built to.

New patterns get built alongside old ones. Nothing about you needs repair.

Rest is a skill to build, not a reward to earn.

Balance is available now. Not when things settle. Not someday. Now.

A few things about me

I’ve written by hand every day for more than twenty years; Unburdened is being written the same way. I believe some conversations only happen around real tables in real places, which is why I still gather women on coastlines and in old villages. And I practice everything I teach, imperfectly and daily.

That commitment became Unburdened.

The refusal to trade one part of my life for another is the book I’m writing right now: the work I do with clients every day, written down so it can reach more people. Grounded in neuroscience. Written in plain language. Built around one truth: you don’t have to wait for the right season. Early readers follow the whole journey, the research, the breakthroughs, and the hard days too.

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Ready for more than a book?

I work with women through retreats, coaching programs, intensives, and workshops. If something in you is ready, a Connection Call is a simple place to start: thirty minutes, no pressure, and clarity about your right next step either way.

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