About Deb

I'm a writer, creative catalyst, and the founder of Moxie.

I've spent my life studying what makes people come alive—and what keeps them playing small. What I've found: the things that get you to success won't get you to aliveness. That requires something else entirely. Courage. Imagination. And the willingness to keep choosing yourself, even when the path isn't clear.

I've been called "a creative guru" by The Washington Post. I've written for The New York Times, Fast Company, Glamour, and Ladies' Home Journal. I spent years leading seminars for thousands, designing transformational curricula, coaching executives, and running an innovation think tank at Hallmark.

I've also ridden a Maharajah's polo pony through a jungle in India. Lived in Dubai in my twenties. Been married more than once. Gone bankrupt. Started over.

The receipts aren't the point. The point is: I've built a life by choosing aliveness over safety, again and again. Sometimes it was graceful. Often it wasn't. But I'm still here, still growing, still wild.

Moxie is the culmination of all of it—my love of beauty, my belief in reinvention, and my conviction that the most vivid version of your life can begin now.

I'm currently writing my first book, Dare to Grow Wild: The Art of Becoming Fully Alive—about what it actually takes to live, not just succeed. I also serve as Director of Coaching, Content & Client Experience at Aligned Wealth Management, where I work with accomplished families navigating questions of meaning, legacy, and what comes after achievement. Different context, same question: Now that I've built this life, how do I actually live it?

If any of this resonates, I'd love to have you in the room.