About Me
Who Am I?
Hi, I’m Maureen.
I’m the youngest of six children, a wife of over 30 years, a mother of four grown children, and a woman who has walked through many seasons of change myself.
I know what it feels like when life shifts — when children grow up, careers evolve, parents age, and you quietly begin asking,
Who am I now?
For many years, I poured myself into my family and the people I love. And while I wouldn’t change that, I eventually realized I had lost touch with parts of myself.
My clarity didn’t come all at once. It unfolded slowly — through time in nature, reading, yoga, meditation, coaching, therapy, and sitting with the hard questions while listening for my own answers.
Over time, I began to understand something powerful:
The answers we’re searching for are already within us.
And that’s how I approach this work. Not as someone who has your answers — but as someone who will walk beside you, ask questions, and create space for you to rediscover your true self — the self that has always been there, even if it feels distant right now.
If you’re here, it may be because something inside you is shifting too.
And I want you to know — you don’t have to navigate that alone.
The Story Behind Blue Glass
It was the first month of my coaching training.
I was struggling with a peer coaching relationship and made the difficult decision to stop coaching them.
I was upset. Shaken. Questioning myself.
On my walk to the beach, my thoughts wouldn’t stop.
Did I make the right decision?
Did I break it off inappropriately?
What am I doing investing all this time, money, and energy at this point in my life?
Will I be a good coach?
Will I really help people?
Will I be able to create my own business?
Will it be successful?
Am I smart enough?
You know how when one thing goes wrong and suddenly all of our insecurities come rushing in?
By the time I reached the beach, I paused and took a deep breath.
I spoke to my Higher Power and asked for a sign.
Specifically, I asked to find a piece of blue beach glass.
Green, white, and brown are the most common colors in my area.
Blue is rare. Cobalt blue — my favorite — is even rarer.
Not thirty feet down the beach, I looked down. And there it was.
I felt crazy excited. I bent down and picked it up, almost laughing.
When I held it in my hands, I thanked my Higher Power — and I felt my body soften. More relaxed. More sure.
As my thumb touched the glass, I noticed a few grains of sand resting on it in the shape of a smiley face. By the time my brain registered what I was seeing, I had already moved it.
I wish I had taken a picture. But it doesn’t really matter if I have proof.
That moment told me something I already knew deep down.
I am meant to coach.
All of my experiences — every season of my life — have led me here.
Blue glass makes me tingle. The feeling reminds me of the idea shared by Marie Kondo — that when something truly belongs in your life, it creates a spark of excitement inside you.
That’s how blue glass feels to me. That’s how coaching feels to me.
Coaching isn’t just something I do.
It’s who I am.
Whether I do it as a profession or simply as a way of being in the world, I know that being a coach is part of who I am.
And that is how Blue Glass Coaching was born.