Being a Light Summoner + Coach, I support + guide highly-sensitive, heart-centered people to find peace and harmony in the peaks and valleys of life, creativity and self-employment.

 

 
 

Light summoning is BRIGHT work ::

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My clients are creative folks who often have forged their own way to success and I am no different. Many hiring managers pegged me as a "Job Hopper" making it incredibly challenging to get hired from a regular application management system. I much more preferred the label of Opportunity Seeker. I had no interest in changing and was hungry for every opportunity that came my way. And so it was, from sports and entertainment to media and communications, back across to marketing and sales, I stitched together a life and career that seemed pegged by continuous professional growth and capitalized off of a robust network of personal and professional connections.

In the eyes of my friends and family, I had everything I could possibly want - a house, a career, a husband, a cat, two cars, a small crafty side business and a pretty rad Facebook Timeline. 

Outside - I had seemingly curated my best life.

Inside of me, something wasn't connecting.

I felt a calling deeper than the work I was currently creating in the world.

In 2009, I committed to launching my own business and that I did - teaching storytelling and scrapbooking classes. I had so much fun and felt so honored to hold creative space for so many women.

But that higher calling kept ringing the line of my intuition.

In 2015, my body started to fail me, and the crafting business no longer felt aligned 

Here is where sh*t gets real - once your human vessel starts to retaliate against you, it's clear that big shifts are in store.

In January of 2016, I had been experiencing allergic reactions and hives all over my body for almost six-months. I found myself at rock bottom looking for answers. I found myself back in a job that I left almost four years earlier AND trying to save a marriage that I feared lacked a sincere partnership, on top of the severe distress in my entire body. 

I received a diagnosis of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis coupled with a host of food allergies - Milk, Eggs, Gluten and Nuts, or the MEGaN Free diet - which led to intense clarity and restored balance to my body. I started to navigate a complete transformation of body, mind, and spirit, including starting a divorce. 

Over 2017, I sold the house, finalized divorce, changed my name back, moved again and started to accept responsibility for my years of financial distress and  fiscal mismanagement. I also decided to part ways with Corporate America in the most drastic change I could come up with. 

 

Yes, it’s true. I became an Indoor Axe Throwing Coach in my hometown of Philadelphia.

 

Oddly enough, it was in this space that I was presented with the gift of stillness. The ability to honor sacred time with my higher self to invest in the deep work of healing years of emotional trauma. 



When I wasn’t hurling axes, I spent 18-months  in a coaching-apprenticeship supporting heart-centered women in healing their mindsets and their hearts to bring their biggest dreams into the world. In this work, my main focus was helping clients craft their personal story to share with their audience. After supporting over 100 women in this quest I decided to take the work a step further and create my own podcast to document stories of resilient humans rising from the ashes. Rising Together was born in 2018, as a tribute to each of our own individual journey's on this physical plane. A lifelong storyteller, holding space for other people to share their path of traversing some of the most challenging and heartbreaking experiences in the world has been a complete humbling experience. I feel so grateful to share each of these amazing humans with you so that we can expedite each other's learning and celebrate our collective resilience.

In May of 2018 I took Rising Together on the road. I sold all my belongings and hit the road out west from Philadelphia with stops in New York City, St. Louis, Chicago, New Orleans, and Nashville. After coaching nonstop for 18-months, while travelling for six of them, I returned back to Philly in January of 2019, freshly sober and ready to go even deeper with my self-healing journey.I chose to go slower and in doing so was awarded with some foundational tools that have helped me serve myself and my clients even more deeply.

Now, today, I host both private coaching engagements and membership circles where creative folks can find support and accountability to continue their big work in the world.

My deep calling is to help outrageous humans cut the bullshit and start bringing their light, passion and purpose to the world. By showing up, standing up, and stepping out you can gain deep self-awareness, heal your old hurts, embrace your next chapter, develop habits for lasting work-joy, and share YOUR beautiful unique light with the world.


Passionate. Versatile. Ambitious. Friendly. Anything you’d want in a creative accomplice, you’d find in abundance in Megan Collier.
— Kevin Gunn, Creative Director

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