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Life and Work with Brooke Jean

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Brooke Jean.

So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
Ever since I was a young girl, I knew I wanted to help people. It started with making them laugh, maybe even performing a little Madonna number for them and evolved into listening to their stories as life became more complicated. Growing up in a family with siblings, you who have real-life struggles only enhanced my mission to serve in this way.

 Getting pregnant in college became an unexpected and beautiful detour to my life plan. I knew I needed a stable career that would provide ongoing opportunities and financial security so I joined the Target Team as an HR Manager working my way up the corporate ladder.

 It’s a crazy thing, how life’s unexpected pivots are really always preparing us for what’s to come.

 I learned A LOT about myself being a young working single Mom and I am so grateful for the opportunities Target provided.

 I was running the Super Target next to the Aurora Theatre the night of the shooting and a great deal of my early morning logistics team was in that theatre room.

 That event changed me, my team and the community.

 I got to witness such brilliant resilience and people coming together in ways I had never experienced before.

 And thats when my calling came forward so clearly.

 I wanted to help people heal and grow.

 It was the scariest thing I have ever done, but after getting married and lying on a beach for ten nights in Maui, I knew now was the time for me to do my own healing and connect to my larger purpose.

 I left Target and took six months to be in therapy, do yoga and shed the corporate skin. In those moments of healing and stillness, I realized my vision was to take my innate passion for helping and blend it with all the leadership/ business coaching and training I had just worked though.

 So, I went back to school, got my Masters in Counseling Psychology and launched my business two days after graduation.

 The rest is just a beautiful story of a girl actualizing her dreams and feeling so damn lucky to be doing this meaningful work.

 I am a proud wife, mother of 2, and kick-ass Mompreneur who wants to show women that they too are worthy of their own healing and transformation and for pursuing their wildest dreams. Oh, and don’t worry, I still get my dance on.

Has it been a smooth road?
Nothing worth having comes easy, I truly believe that.

 Aside from my unexpected twists and turns, my obstacles are around healing from past traumas and overcoming poor ways of dealing with my internal struggles over the years.

 Let me keep it real.

 How I dealt with my struggles before involved perfectionism and hiding behind success, eating disorders, drinking too much and engaging in risky and reckless behavior.

 If you are out there struggling with anxiety, depression, or any mental health struggle that is getting in your way of living your best life, I see you and want you to know there is a way out, even when it doesn’t always feel that way.

 Tapping into our own resourcefulness and resilience is the key. Normalizing the struggle, knowing your worth and surrounding yourself with amazing people are also imperative. Look at your current struggle and ask yourself, “What’s the assignment here?” “What could this be preparing me for?” Or “What’s the opportunity.

 Ask for help, we all need it sometimes.

 You are so worth the process of healing and becoming, sister,

So, as you know, we’re impressed with Brooke Jean Counseling & Coaching – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
My mission is to help women TRANSFORM during time of transition by way of healing and becoming. To inspire and empower women to know they too are worthy of transformation. To guide them to break through barriers to re-discover who they really are and to create new and meaningful outcomes for their lives.

I work with women becoming mamas, getting married, going through divorce or leveling up in their professional realm.

I do this by offering counseling services such as talk therapy, group therapy, Brainspotting, ACT and grief work (just to name a few).

I offer life and leadership coaching for women in transition or who want to start/ grow businesses/ evolve their leadership.

I have an online course to help Moms get rid of their Mom Guilt.

And if the opportunity is meant to be, I’ll do some healthy team culture consulting for those women-led organizations that want to improve culture by tending to the psychological needs of their team.

Women come to me feeling lost, stuck, forgotten, heartbroken, you name it, but through this process come out more authentic and stronger than they ever could imagine. I am getting fired up just thinking about the alchemy I get to witness everyday.

Transitions can be such a tough time because the brain wants to predict what’s coming and when we can’t, we get uncomfortable and create scary stories. My intention is to help you wait in the “not knowing” state to get crystal clear on who you are and what you want out of life.

Do you think there are structural or other barriers impeding the emergence of more female leaders?
Don’t even get me started! We have come a long way but have a long way to go.

 We are in a system that tells us what we should and shouldn’t do and how we should and shouldn’t do it, feel about it, etc.

 My biggest concern in the systemic issue is that our deeply innate gifts are not recognized and leveraged to their potential in the workplace. For example, intuition is my superpower, but is that something I can openly share in a business meeting? I do, but it’s not always well received or popular. Our ability to intuit, to sense, to feel, to connect and to just “know” get overlooked by logic, reason, and old ways of being, which in my opinion can often be led from fear, previous programming and unhealthy beliefs.

 We need radical thinking and bold changes in the system that makes space for all people’s gifts, not just what has been perceived as successful for the last 100 years.

 We need to sincerely care about our people’s mental well-being. We need to slow down and really listen to each other.

 Also, it’s time we accommodate working Moms.

 As a working Mom myself, I can promise you I can dance circles around many of my male counterparts because I have HAD to manage my time, energy and resources in ways they perhaps have not (not all men!!)

 I am a firm believer that as women, we should NOT have to choose family OR career. We can and should have both if thats what we want. So if you’re a leader out there, think outside the box and come up with reasonable accommodations for that working Mom on your team.

 I have an online community on Facebook to support working Moms, the group is called Mommy’s Mental Health Matters and I created an eCourse called Kick Mom Guilt to the CURB! to support mamas.

 What gives me hope is that we are having this discussion and I am talking to more leaders about this than ever before. And women are coming together fiercely which is so cool and we can make magic happen if we keep speaking up, living in our truths, doing our own healing and shining bright in this world.

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