She is a no-nonsense Southern Mom of two who likes to table-scape, create miniature fairy gardens, and who trained her kids to make HER bed every day from the age of 5 until they went to college. She can be spotted around Birmingham speed walking faster than most people can jog or singing and dancing in the aisles at the grocery store to some sweet 80’s grooves (practicing her moves for her next career as a backup dancer for J.Lo., of course).

Quirks include: drinking coffee in the shower to wake up in the morning before she works out, cutting all the itchy tags out of her clothes, and having lip balm within reach at all times.

She loves to travel and be on the water or near the water when vacationing. Favorite destinations include the Gulf Coast, Charleston, Seattle, St. Lucia, and Ireland. She is constantly working on how to travel lighter and her ultimate goal is to pack only a carry-on bag, no matter how long the trip (this is a long term work in progress because…umm…how do you know what you will want to wear on a Thursday when you are packing on a Sunday?).

Julie looks at life as a continuous learning opportunity and sees every interaction, every experience, every moment as a chance to learn something new or make something better. Her clients describe her as wise, warm, empathetic, insightful, and action-oriented.

Lisa is a Jewish vegetarian married to a carnivore of Southern Baptist heritage. (She passionately believes that diversity is the spice of life.) Ten years ago, she and her husband ran a social group for couples who were “childless by choice.” These days, she spends most of her free time with their two daughters. (She’s really glad they changed their minds about having kids . . . most of the time. )

She’s fascinated by each person’s story and can count on her husband to plead, “please don’t start conversations with random people today” as they enter any situation that involves standing in line, sitting at tightly packed restaurant tables, waiting for a movie to start, standing in an elevator, etc. She is a continuous learning junkie with books overflowing from every shelf in the house and yet- to-read sections of the NYT scattered throughout. She has started countless Coursera courses (and has even finished a few). Her email box overflows with interesting newsletters, and she is almost always participating in a personal and/ or professional growth program. (Some of her favorites have been: Tiago Forte’s Build a Second Brain program, Farnam Street Learning Community, Holstee, Style Yourself Chic, the Million Dollar Badass Mastermind with Rachel Rodgers, and the Nearness. She highly recommends all.)

If Lisa wasn’t an organizational psychologist (a job she loves), she would be a professional makeup artist. Or maybe a children’s librarian. The common thread connecting these three career paths is the desire to help others manifest the very best versions of themselves, recognizing and capitalizing on what makes them unique.

She is a huge fan of parenthetical asides. (Obviously.)