From a very young age, my school friends would come to me asking for advice. For some reason, they wanted to divulge their deepest fears and concerns with me, and I would say something comforting without judgment. They’d run off happy and feeling relieved about their situation.

This continued as an adult. To this day I find myself in public, just minding my own business, only to have strangers walk up to me and tell me their darkest, deepest secrets. Expressing the challenges they have with their spouse, boss, etc. Some of them would even admit to cheating on their partners – a stranger that I’d never met in my life!

And like I always do, I simply acknowledged them with compassion and non-judgment.

People feel comfortable around me, to the point that they feel safe to share some of the most vulnerable parts of themselves.

At the time I couldn’t connect the dots, until later when I was 34 years old.

I had lost my high paying job in the mortgage industry during the worst implosion in history. The company I worked for and their competitors were closing down and going bankrupt across the country.

It all happened so fast. My colleagues and I were glued to this one website called implosion.com (or net, or something like that) every day. We witnessed hundreds of companies shutting down their doors, including the one we worked for that eventually went bankrupt.

I was newly married, unemployed, and was about to lose my home to the biggest real estate crash in history.

I slowly began to lose my confidence and motivation to do much. I no longer had passion for anything that I enjoyed, and I know this sounds cliche…

I did not know what to do with my life.

I pursued different career paths only to be short lived. I would either hate them or I didn’t make enough income to pay the hefty mortgage payment I was stuck with. I applied for jobs left and right, but struggled to find employment when the recession hit everyone hard and the job market was flooded with applicants. Even Starbucks didn’t hire me!

I became lost, very depressed and out of solutions for my problem. I was a complete mess drinking a lot of wine and binge watching t.v. until late, late, very late…parts of the night. I was basically letting life pass me by. And that went on for over a year.

Then I met my first life coach.

And within 5 months of working together, I cleared away so much crap I was carrying that I didn’t even KNOW was holding me back from my full potential.

I healed more things with her than I did with any past therapist I’ve had. And let me tell you, I was one of those people who admits to going to therapy for yeeaaarrrsss. I had issues that were never resolved until my coach supported me with her beautiful, loving and caring presence that allowed me to have the safe container to dive deep and fully heal.

Through her coaching I cleared away my self-limiting beliefs, I gained my confidence back, and for the first time I was actively being a leader in my future rather than letting the circumstances of my present and my past rule me.

I felt truly empowered for once in my life.

What also happened during this journey became pivotal to my life path. With the help of my coach, we put each career option I was considering on the table to constructively research if they were a good fit.

I realized that none of the career options were a match. So with my coach’s guidance, we took inventory of my gifts and talents and more importantly, I made a list of the things that I was passionate about, what I was good at, what (if any of those) crossed with what the world needs, and what I could get paid for doing to uncover what I was here to do in this lifetime (my Ikigai).

That’s when she asked if I would explore coaching as a career. It fit all of the criteria I was looking for, and she truly believed that I would be good at it.

Suddenly, I looked back at my life to realize that this work of helping others to overcome their challenges is the core of my being – it’s the way I show up. And it is the gift that I’ve been given in this lifetime.

My purpose in this world is to be a mirror and a guiding light for others to heal.

I realized I’m very intuitive. I have this inner knowing about situations that comes naturally – this is where my claircognizance comes in.

I noticed that I can sense what others are feeling around me – clairsentient.

I also seem to know what to say and what people needed to hear in that moment, as though someone else was talking through me to give the perfect message to the end receiver – the channeling.

It became clear that I had gifts that were meant to be used in a much bigger way.

I quickly signed up for a one year coach training and leadership program through Accomplishment Coaching in San Diego. It was the BEST decision I had ever made.

It was so transformative. Not only did I get coached on my own fears and self limiting beliefs by some of the industry’s top master coaches, but I also received the tools and structure to coach my clients through the toughest conversations.

It was a beautiful thing. I felt empowered in my own life by getting coached, and I learned the skills to be fully present to my clients in the same way in order for them to have their breakthroughs too.

After graduating in 2009 and already having over 100 coaching hours under my belt in the first year of opening my practice, I haven’t looked back since.

Mina Satori is a Business Coach & Consultant, Marketing Strategist, and an Ontological Coach. Her innate gifts of Claircognizance, Clairsentience, Channeling, and Energy Healing allows her to support her life’s work, transforming lives the world over.

With her caring, creative and intuitive approach, Mina gets to the real core issues her clients are struggling with. She then brings them into an empowered state of awareness to choose the best course of action that’s right for them. They uncover the perfect solutions and obtain the results they’ve always been searching for.

Mina received her formal coach training from Accomplishment Coaching, the finest coach training and leadership program in the world approved by International Coach Federation (ICF). She is a former President of the ICF Orange County chapter, which provides continuing education and sets the standard for professionalism and ethical guidelines for coaches globally. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and continues to receive mentoring and coaching by world-renowned experts and thought leaders in history.

Mina’s prior career endeavors include mortgage lending, sales and marketing, business operations, and small business management. She is a seeker of knowledge and an autodidact on just about any topic. She is tenacious at advancing her own business acumen through seminars and training in all areas of entrepreneurial leadership. Mina is a self made chef, a photographer, and web designer. She is extremely passionate about herbalism, psychedelic therapy, quantum physics, neuroplasticity, biofeedback, alternative health and biohacking her way to optimum performance.

She is a grateful mother to an incredibly smart and brave toddler, and she loves having adventures with her little partner in crime.