Cindy Smarsh has been counseling, coaching, speaking, and writing for over 35 years helping people create meaningful lives personally and professionally. Her professional roles included being a marriage & family therapist, a grief counselor, youth specialist, and executive director of a non-profit counseling center. In those various roles, she also spoke publicly regularly, provided corporate trainings, did radio talk shows, and had her own column in a local newspaper for five years.

In her mid 40s, she found herself at a personal crossroad, unhappy, unsatisfied, and unsure what to do. Believing she could thrive in midlife and beyond, she dove…