Not just a guide. A Fellow Traveler.

Welcome. I'm glad you're here.

For over 20 years, I've been privileged to walk beside leaders as they navigate the space between who they've been and who they're becoming. My clients don't need more achievements—they need to feel alive while achieving.

Living Real emerged from my own unraveling—five deaths in five months taught me what my clients had been showing me all along: The life you want isn't somewhere else. It's right here, waiting for you to stop performing long enough to feel it.

Business psychologist. Mother to teenagers and younger children. Runner. Someone who spent years teaching presence while rushing past her own life. Now learning, alongside you, that small shifts that actually stick change everything.

Coralie Hooper is a seasoned facilitator and learning expert who’s spent more than 30 years helping organizations and individuals navigate growth, change, and leadership with clarity and heart. It was Coralie who first brought the idea of relevance to the table for this episode—what it means, how it shifts with age, and who gets to define it. 

Drawing on her global experience (from Deloitte to American Express and beyond), she’s especially skilled at cutting through noise to get to what really matters. Off the clock, she’s a mother, wife, crime fiction buff, an amateur actor, and a singer in her local choir.

Madison is a People Coach trained in Integral Coaching. She builds custom curriculums for clients seeking accountability to the changes they desire by first helping them more clearly see how they orient towards change. 

While her degree is in Spanish translation, her career has taken her into diverse corners of the workforce including Consular Affairs at the Mexican Embassy in DC, coworking spaces with WeWork in NYC and mindfulness drumming with Rhythmetrix in Denver where she currently resides. Her passion project, We(UsedTo)Work, investigates the nature of work as it evolves in the lives of those making a living and seeking fulfillment in a post pandemic landscape. 

As an athlete, musician and yoga nidra teacher, she has a zest for life that breeds a multi-faceted skill set, serving as both a world of possibilities and a curiously limiting burden as she considers the bigger questions surrounding how we pursue a fulfilling life.

Nick Giarratani is an educator, musician and writer enjoying the expat life in Tokyo, Japan. 

In addition to his full-time job as a faculty member at Temple University Japan, Nick regularly performs at music venues and festivals in the Tokyo area and has been published by Japanrailtickets.com, Molecule, A Tiny Lit Magazine and Asahi Weekly.