The story
She showed me what it costsMy mom, Sueanne, was brilliant and blunt and the most alive person I have ever known. She built a real career, a real identity, a real life — and then she got sick. And as she moved through chronic pain and one complex health condition after another, she was still giving all of herself to everyone around her. No matter how she felt. That was just who she was.
When she died there was medical paperwork waiting for answers. Bills left unpaid. A life full of things she was going to get to when she felt better. That time never arrived.
She told me she would never ask me to carry what she had carried. She wanted me to live fully. To not put myself last. To not wait. I heard her. And then, for years, I did it anyway — in a different costume, in a different industry, with a different set of accomplishments that looked nothing like hers and felt exactly the same.
The career
I have spent 15 years in environments where big decisions get made and real money moves. I started managing a family's $15 million real estate portfolio and local pharmacy — which taught me more about business fundamentals than any MBA could. From there, strategic pursuits for an international construction management firm — including proposals for the Burj Khalifa, the World Trade Center, and nearly every major bridge you have driven over in this country. Then a national full-service law firm. Then eight years inside one of the world's premier global professional services networks, advising Fortune 100 companies, CEOs, and private equity firms — specializing in sales and business development across restructuring, major technology implementations, and transformation work.
I know how power moves. I know what it takes to build at that level. And I know exactly what it costs when you are doing it from a version of yourself that was built to impress rather than to thrive.
To say I understand professional services and big business is putting it lightly. I know how power moves in those rooms. I know what it takes to win at that level. And I know exactly what it costs when you are doing it from a version of yourself that was built to impress rather than to thrive.
The turning point
On my 30th birthday a doctor told me my fertility was compromised — that the stress I was living under was showing up in my cells. I went back to my home office, lay on the floor, and cried in a way I hadn't let myself cry in years. I was doing everything "right." It felt like nothing.
That was the moment I could no longer turn my back to what my mom had tried to tell me.
What followed was real work — on my patterns, my nervous system, the subconscious wiring I had inherited and built and carried without realizing it. I left corporate. I rebuilt my relationship with my body. I got pregnant almost immediately after resigning, as if my body had been waiting for permission to exhale. My daughter Calla arrived in June 2025 and made every unlived thing feel urgent in the most beautiful way.
How Soulbloom was really born
I started my business in business consulting and coaching — for powerful women building and running businesses. That piece I never second-guessed. What I kept adding to it was what I knew my clients needed beneath the strategy: the pattern work, the subconscious reprogramming, the nervous system piece that no amount of tactics could replace.
And then came astrology. I studied it at a master level, from every angle, with the devotion of someone who had finally found the language they had been looking for their whole life. And that is when everything clicked — because I realized I had been sitting on the most precise strategic tool in existence and had not fully used it.
Including in my own work. I had been offering single sessions, shrinking from the full arc of transformation I knew was possible, pivoting my positioning every time something didn't land instead of reading my own chart and understanding exactly why. The moment I stopped and did — every question I had been carrying about my business was answered with startling precision. The timing. The positioning. The exact clients I was wired to serve. The pattern that had been making me almost-launch for years.
All of it was written in my chart the entire time. The work people kept asking me why I wasn't doing — Nicole, this is your gift, this is your genius, the thing everyone sought me out for — was the work I had always been meant to do. I just had to find my way back to it, and stop being too busy to make the change.