hello,
I’m Chelsea!
My Story
I was born just hours before the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. While buildings cracked and the Bay Bridge collapsed, my story began.
While my mom held me as a newborn baby, and watched the news of the earthquake on the tv, she looked at me and said, “Do you see that, Chels? You shook the world!” And that message has stuck with me my entire life.
To me, shake the world means four things:
Every single person has the power inside of them to create massive impact and influence,
A mantra like this can be an extremely powerful driving force and touchstone in life,
Change creates disruption and distruction… but it also creates unimaginable beauty and true freedom, and
We always have a choice.
Pressure, disruption, and change aren’t always things to fear. I believe they’re invitations. They push us to see what’s real, to take responsibility, and to rebuild something stronger and more aligned.
My first career was in financial services. I built and sold a practice, developed a market from scratch, carried the weight of production goals, and learned what it means to lead under pressure. But over time, I realized something most of us eventually do: success doesn’t guarantee fulfillment. And, I began to feel trapped by my own success and choices.
When I looked around, I saw other advisors and leaders doing the same thing - chasing results that looked good on paper but didn’t feel good in real life, and then burning out over and over again.
That realization led me into a deep exploration into leadership development, emotional intelligence, and the Enneagram. These tools gave me language for something I’d felt my whole life: the moment we remember we have a choice, everything shifts. That’s where change begins, and where freedom takes root.
Now, my mission is simple: to help people be free.
Not the kind of freedom that comes from escape (although, that sounds lovely at times!), but the kind that comes from getting really honest, making a choice, aligning your self with your values, and owning your power and results.
My vision is a world where people choose freedom and embody it so fully that it transforms everything around them. Because, when one person moves, everything around them moves too.
Freedom, to me, looks like living in alignment with what’s real, and that means holding myself to the values that guide all of my work:
Integrity → Living in truth and leaning into total responsibility.
Agency → Understanding and owning the power of choice, and taking action to create the life you want.
Vitality → Choosing energy, joy, and aliveness.
Excellence → Raising the standard and creating results that last.
Creativity → Seeing new possibilities and bringing them to life.
Whether I’m speaking to a room of executives, training teams on emotional intelligence, or working with advisors to grow practices that actually feel good to run, my goal is the same: to help people see themselves clearly, lead intentionally, and build lives and businesses that feel both successful and free.
Because when you choose freedom - you shake the world.
