Who is Nancy Monson?
A spiritual advisor and coach, a lover of the great outdoors, a successful business woman with a long list of degrees, certifications and trainings. Nancy is also someone who takes on big tasks in her professional and personal lives and conquers them with grace, confidence, and skill.
She is the youngest child of hillbilly dirt farmers from Missouri who immigrated to a gold rush town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas during the Great Depression. She saw firsthand how hard her parents worked—from migrant farm workers, to her father finding full-time employment with a local utility company. She discovered her spiritual faith by example as well, having witnessed the faith held by her devoutly Christian parents.
Her spiritual interests were further spurred by a co-worker who said to Nancy on her first day on the job, “I’m spiritual, but not religious.” This took her on a journey to explore other traditions, including Native American, Tibetan Buddhism, Vedic, and Pagan. It also led her to personal growth and human potential workshops where she tapped into her infinite potential and began releasing her limiting beliefs.
Through her work at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, she was introduced to Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Successful People. Nancy felt a deep calling to learn what he was teaching, and through a few miraculous events, she was able to bring the 7 Habits program to the Lab and teach it to the staff.
The program was off-the-charts successful
with a waiting list of six months. Nancy loved teaching the program. It was a highlight of her career, and when she first realized her calling was to be a personal growth instructor.
In the corporate arena, Nancy has helped hundreds of senior leaders, executive teams, and boards, using her unique combination of strategic and pragmatic skills. This know-how gave her the ability to mentor women leaders as they navigate their own personal transformations.
It’s Nancy’s sense of the big picture, and her wonder and interest in the people on this planet, that brings her to the work she offers women, assisting them through the thick and thin of their professional and personal lives. She adds to this her advanced degrees, coaching skills, and all of her myriad business and transformational methodology certifications. Her experiences, from 25 years of outdoor leadership and wilderness adventures, help her lead women on midlife-rebirth wilderness pilgrimages.
For the past twenty years, Nancy has been guiding women who struggle with challenging career and life transitions as their spiritual mentor, teacher, and healer. Her greatest fulfillment comes from confidently instructing women dealing with difficult and challenging life changes to create truly powerful, authentic and soul-directed lives.
Nancy treasures the outdoors, and spends as much time as she can hiking in the Sierra mountains near her Nevada home. In her years of travel and outdoor adventure, she also has hiked in the Andes, Himalayas, Alaska Range, Brooks Range, Cascades and the Rockies. She has backpacked in one range or another during every season of the 
year, learned to climb frozen waterfalls, and camp on snowy glaciers. Her biggest accomplishment was climbing Denali, the highest peak in North America.
And at 67 years of age, accomplishing a long held dream, she completed her first 50K mountain race which included 7,000 feet of elevation.
She believes nature is immensely healing and transformative, taking us to a deep place of inner connection with our own true nature.
In addition to authoring the #1 International Best Seller, Midlife Rebirth: Awaken to the Wise Woman You Were Born to Be, Nancy has had the honor of being a contributing author in four International Best Selling anthologies. You can find links for each of these books on the Wise Woman Resources page.
Come Out of Hiding and SHINE!
Bloom Where You Are Planted and SHINE!
Step Forward and SHINE!
Women of Courage, Women of Destiny
Visit her author page on Amazon.
Nancy holds an MBA in Organizational Behavior from UC Berkeley’s Hass School of Business, an MA in Vedic Studies from the Maharishi International University, and a BS in Mathematics from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She also has completed trainings with special emphasis in Human Design, Evolutionary Leadership, life and relationship coaching, spiritual guidance, Tantric counseling, Deep Emotional Release™ bodywork, Culinary Nutrition, Menopause for Athletes and Reiki energy healing. Nancy is also a facilitator of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People personal empowerment course, and a coach of the Women, Power, and Body Esteem transformation program for women.
When Nancy isn’t hiking or backpacking through the wilderness, she enjoys trail running, mountain biking, cross-country skiing, and creative cooking of healthy, organic meals.