About Mitzi

For most of my life, I built my identity around being the smart one, the dependable one, and the person who always had the answer. Achievement wasn't just something I did—it became who I believed I was.

Before I became a coach, I spent more than twenty years building a career as a scientist. I co-authored more than fifteen peer-reviewed publications, including papers in Nature Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, and the Journal of Virology. I didn't leave because I wasn't successful. I left because I realized that success and fulfillment aren't always the same thing.

When that realization hit, I had no words for what was happening. On paper, my life looked exactly the way it was supposed to. Coaching and therapy both helped, but neither fully explained why I felt caught between the person I'd spent decades becoming and the life I knew I wanted to build.

That experience became the foundation for S.U.C.K. Better.

Today, I help women who have spent years being capable, responsible, and dependable—but who have quietly lost touch with themselves along the way. They often come to me after decades in the same career, after raising children, or during another major life transition. They're not looking for someone to tell them who to become. They're looking for the courage to stop ignoring what they already know.

One of the things I hear most often is, "I've felt this for years, but I've never been able to put it into words." That's the work I love most. Helping women name what they've been carrying, understand why they've felt stuck, and begin building evidence that they can trust themselves again.

My approach is practical and action-oriented. I don't believe affirmations alone change lives, and I don't hand people vision boards and hope for the best. Every conversation is designed to create movement. My clients leave with decisions they've made, actions they've taken, and evidence that fear no longer gets the final vote.

Fear doesn't have to disappear before you move.

It just has to stop making the decisions.