Meet Your Coach
Martie is an experienced coach with more than thirty years of helping people achieve their dreams, whether that's improving relationships with their teenagers, building stronger communities, enhancing communication with business partners, or pursuing goals that matter most to them.
She believes coaching is about helping people clarify their vision, set meaningful goals and milestones, and stay accountable as they move toward the life they truly want. Martie has a gift for listening deeply, hearing what lies beneath the words, and helping people distinguish between what is actually true and the stories they may be telling themselves.
Before becoming a full-time coach, Martie enjoyed a sixty-year career as a registered nurse, earning her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and serving most recently as the night hospital supervisor at her local hospital. She retired just before the COVID-19 pandemic and launched Dreams to Action Coaching, further strengthening her coaching skills through her studies at CoachU.
Inspired by George Bernard Shaw's words, Martie believes her life is "not a brief candle, but a blazing torch." She is passionate about helping others discover their own purpose, embrace new possibilities, and shine as brightly as they can before passing that light on to future generations.
After discovering ikigai, the Japanese concept of living a life filled with purpose and meaning, Martie created Design Your Life After 60. This signature program helps retirees discover that life after retirement isn't about slowing down—it's about intentionally creating a next chapter filled with purpose, joy, and possibilities they may never have imagined.
She later launched Ageless Adventurers, an ongoing community where graduates continue to encourage one another, grow together, and keep designing lives they love. Today, she is also developing a mastermind program for people who are ready to pursue even bigger dreams and create extraordinary results.
Martie lives in a cohousing community of private homes that she helped design and build. She shares her life there with her grandson and his family, along with one dog and two cats. When she's not coaching, you'll often find her reading mysteries, working crossword puzzles, or enjoying games with her family.
