Your New Life Is Waiting. Are You Ready for It?
It’s easier than you think to show the world your positive and courageous spirit, especially with me by your side.
Through my unique life coaching program, you’ll heal from past pain and live a more fulfilling personal and professional life.
As an experienced life coach, I specialize in helping entrepreneurs overcome addictions and trauma. This coaching serves as a next step after completing therapy or as a supplement, but it is not a substitute for professional therapy.
My goal is to help you move past your past and embrace a future of happiness and purpose.
Read on to learn how more about my story and how I can help you gain clarity, find joy, and discover your true potential in all areas of your life.
I get you. Here's Why
I’m Denise G. Lee—your partner in coaching, a confidence booster, and a strategic planner dedicated to guiding you toward greatness.
As an entrepreneur life coach, I specialize in helping successful business owners like you heal from past wounds, manage stress effectively, and gain clear insights into your challenges. As an introvert and a certified project manager, I strive to deeply understand your unique problems. Together, we’ll create a realistic plan tailored to your business and life stage.
I understand how a lack of clarity and overwhelming stress can disrupt your path. Through my coaching, you’ll gain a better understanding of yourself and make decisions with confidence. I know that opening up about your personal life can be daunting; you might worry about being judged or think, “Denise doesn’t understand my pain.”
Let’s break the ice. In the next section, I’ll share a bit about my own journey. While our stories may differ, you’ll find that we share common feelings of being misunderstood and low.
A Rocky Childhood and Unsteady Early Adulthood
I was raised by Sierra-Leonean immigrants. On the surface it looked like we had obtained the American dream, complete with a little white-poodle I named, ‘Buster.’ While everything looked picture perfect from the outside, complete with family portraits and expensive furniture, the emotional walls inside each of us were moldy and decayed.
Although I raised in an upper middle class neighborhood, myself and my two older brothers felt a complete lack of safety and security within our upscale home. We did not complain, partially because we didn’t understand nor had the words to explain the pain we all felt.
While my father was absent pursuing his obsession with women and money, my mother desperately clung onto me for love and attention. Because of her own unresolved trauma issues, my mother abused me sexually, physically and verbally. Instead of blaming her, I blamed myself for not having the smarts to run away from her quick enough.
The Journey Down Addiction Alley
The rage from not having my emotional needs met did a great job (so I thought) of masking away the pain. I withdrew from people and enjoyed watching hours of pornography and romance novels. Little did I know that my compulsion to consume lust-filled content would later bloom into a full-blown sex addiction.
To make matters worse, low self-esteem led me to engage in uninteresting personal and professional activities, reinforcing the notion that my dreams and wishes should take a backseat to the approval of others. I clung to jobs and relationships that gradually chipped away at my confidence, leaving me with little foundation to construct anything meaningful, as I felt hollow and empty inside.
I attempted to mask the pain through sarcasm and comfort eating, perpetuating a cycle of deception with myself and others. My actions kept me entrenched in old and destructive patterns.
This emotional quicksand needed to come to an end. I required a strategy not only to overcome anxiety but also to break free from the compulsion to please others in every aspect of my life.
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Steps Away From Sanity and Towards Healing
After many years of trying to fix my problems alone, through freebies and low cost programs, I was nowhere close to a solution. Moreover, I refused to risk anything beyond $500 unless I was convinced it was the “holy grail,” or perfect solution. Continuing this strategy while expecting different results was sheer madness. I knew I needed more help.
After much thought, I invested two mid-priced group business coaching programs. Both were enlightening as it forced me to expose my unresolved traumatic memories. These programs confirmed my prior lack of investment in myself because of my deep fear of failure.
Next, I took a deep dive into trauma and anxiety therapy, post-traumatic stress disorder, cognitive-based therapy, and spiritual self-help programs.
I realized my compulsions, obsessions, and anxieties were linked to trauma. To heal, I had to face past sexual, physical, and verbal traumas.
During my healing journey, I learned to appreciate the best parts of myself and quiet the negative, critical thoughts. I gained the ability to trust myself and believe in my success. If I could heal, so can you.
My Coaching Philosophy
In many personal and professional development programs, you can feel like just another number, rather than a person with unique challenges. This reality became clear to me through my own experiences.
That’s why I created a trauma-informed coaching program designed to identify and eliminate the insecurities that may be blocking your path to success. I recognized a significant need in the market for business owners who seek an entrepreneur life coach who truly understands the complexities of trauma recovery.
I utilize various techniques in my coaching, including cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness practices, to help you gain clarity and resilience. If you’re ready to escape the quicksand of negativity, I’m here to guide you in digging your way out. Together, we’ll uncover the roots of your challenges and create a tailored plan for growth and healing.
Warning
I firmly believe that there isn’t just one way to grow a business. I’m here to offer honest feedback and guidance, even when it means telling you when your actions may be hindering your success.
How I Got Here | About Denise G Lee
In 2013, I left an almost decade long career managing multi-million dollar projects as a certified project manager (PMP) at FEMA and Census Bureau. And I knew if I could pull that off, I could handle jumping into the fire of running my own business.
So I did!
While still working with those agencies, I grew a personal training business that I started with my own two hands from nothing to being highlighted on TV and winning free mobile advertising by Capital One.
The power to transform and grow emotionally is within YOU.
Feeling good about yourself is intrinsically tied to growing your business.
Past pain can block you emotionally and spiritually, stifling anything you want to accomplish.
Let’s work together to uncover the roots of those pains, dismantle beliefs and ideas which no longer serve you and evolve into a happier, calmer and more successful person.
The emotional healing process is MORE than possible. Inside you there is a voice that wants to grow, learn and change. You are capable of transforming not just yourself, but your community as well for the better.
Now is the time to step out of the shadows of being insecure and step into a brighter, brilliant and bold light of courage, optimism and bravery.
Today is a new day to be the best version of yourself.
Becoming your best self means committing to heal, grow, and learn.
I left the personal training industry to become the entrepreneur life coach that you need to help you bring all of the gifts that you can provide to others in business and in life.
However, I am still connected to the business world. As a certified PMP, I use my project management skills to help your business improve its efficiency, while making you more money, each and every day.
Now is a new and better day. My mission is to help you escape destructive thoughts which make you feel depressed, insecure, anxious and afraid.
Let’s work together to create a custom plan designed to improve how you work, live and play. This WILL change your world.