Hi, I'm Kayla!

Certified Professional Life Coach
B.A. in Psychology
Creator of the Reveal → Release → Remember → Rise Framework
Creator of the T.I.M.E. Freedom Framework
President of the Toastmasters of Springfield, OH chapter
Founder of the Young Professional Women's Group in Dayton, Ohio

Certified Professional Life Coach
B.A. in Psychology
Creator of the Reveal → Release → Remember → Rise Framework
Creator of the T.I.M.E. Freedom Framework
President of the Toastmasters of Springfield, OH chapter
Founder of the Young Professional Women's Group in Dayton, Ohio

I know where you are. I spent a long time there.

The universe had been sending me signs that I wasn't where I was supposed to be. I ignored them. Then, in early 2023, I got one I couldn't ignore. I lost my job.

My first thought was terrifyingly practical: how am I going to pay my rent? I knew I didn't want to go back to corporate, but I had no idea what I wanted instead. So I did what I knew how to do. I got busy.

I filled every open block on my calendar. I took on the next thing, and the next thing, and the next. Every filled square felt reassuring, like proof that I was doing something about my life. But busyness is not direction. I was moving constantly without ever stopping long enough to ask where I was actually going.

I eventually landed in technical writing and franchise consulting work. I was good at it. But being good at something and being fulfilled by it are two very different things. And I wasn't fulfilled.

I was exhausted. I was disconnected from myself. The things that brought me joy had slowly disappeared from my life, and I honestly couldn't remember the last time I'd done something simply because I loved doing it.

The pace was taking a toll. I became depressed and anxious. I gained 60 pounds, developed a string of health issues, and eventually needed surgery. And somehow, I still kept going.

Then, in early 2025, I remember sitting in my car after getting home and asking myself:

IS THIS IT?

The question seemed to come out of nowhere. I had been moving so fast for nearly two years that I hadn't stopped long enough to ask. But then it hit me hard. Is this what being an adult feels like? Is this just my life now?

I had worked so hard to create a life for myself and my family that I wasn't actually present to live it. I was on autopilot. And eventually I realized I had a decision to make. I could accept that this was simply how my life was going to feel. Or I could find out if something else was possible.

So I started looking underneath all that busyness.

I began questioning things I had never really questioned before.

Why was I doing all of this?
Which decisions were actually mine?
Which ones came from fear?
What did I believe I had to do?
What parts of myself had I hidden, ignored or outgrown?
What did I value? And what did I actually want?

That deeper work led me toward life coaching. I found coaching through a podcast, started reading everything I could get my hands on, and eventually enrolled in a coaching academy. It was one of the biggest leaps of faith I'd ever taken in myself. For once, I wasn't choosing the safest answer.

I was trusting myself. And I loved the work.

During my training, I had opportunities not only to learn and practice coaching but to be coached myself. I came into one of those sessions with what I thought was a time problem. I didn't have enough of it. I was doing so many things, but coaching was one of the only things that actually brought me joy. My coach asked me a ridiculously simple question:

"Why are you doing all of these things?"

I paused. And what came out of my mouth was: well, I have bills to pay. Of course I did. But underneath that perfectly reasonable answer was a much bigger belief: there is never enough, so I can't afford to change anything.

I had mistaken decisions made from fear and scarcity for facts about my life.

And once I saw that, one domino after another started falling.

I realized I had built this life

My calendar wasn't something that had happened to me. My choices had created it. At first, that realization was uncomfortable. Then it became incredibly freeing.

Because if I had built this life, I could build a different one.

I started challenging beliefs I'd carried for years. I looked honestly at the roles and labels that had once protected me but no longer fit who I was becoming. I got clear about my values. I started setting boundaries. And I began putting things that genuinely mattered to me back into my actual life.

I returned to aerial silks after years away because I value fitness wrapped in fun. I started reading again, really reading. I joined Toastmasters because I wanted to become a stronger public speaker, even though speaking terrified me (and still does!). I began creating workshops. I started building something that felt like mine.

At first, this work became my T.I.M.E. Freedom Framework, a practical way to make room on my calendar for the things I said I valued. But eventually I realized time was only one piece of something much bigger. Because before you can make time for what matters, you have to know what matters. You have to see what's keeping you stuck. Let go of what no longer belongs.

Remember who you are and what lights you up. And then have the courage to build your life around what you've discovered. That became:

REVEAL. RELEASE. REMEMBER. RISE.

And it became the foundation of Ever Rising Coaching.

I didn't just get my time back. I got myself back. My joy. My passions. My direction. My ability to make decisions based on what I value instead of automatically choosing what feels safest.

And I learned something else along the way: rediscovering your purpose isn't a one-time conversation or a one-week exercise. You don't find yourself, check the box and move on.