“When we live in transparency, in our illness, We create community. This creates a potential for healing within ourselves and with others.”
Through Shannon’s business, Empowering Life, she provides professional organizing and life coaching to her clients. Her skills have been honed during her seven years as the Executive Director of a nonprofit organization and as a trainer for leaders in the nonprofit sector.
Shannon received a BS from Regis University in both accounting and business with a minor in psychology. She earned her Master’s in not-for-profit leadership from Seattle University.
While living with Inuit people in Alaska as a Jesuit Volunteer, Shannon spent a week with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the pioneer in end-of-life studies who authored the classic book On Death and Dying. This, along with further privileged experiences of walking with people as they die, has fueled her passion for living an authentic life. Shannon lives in Tacoma, Washington.