About Me
Hi, I'm Savannah.
You're probably wondering who this person is, why she is a coach, and what makes her qualified to help you. All good questions — I would be asking the same thing.
Coaching is an unregulated industry, unlike therapy or counselling where specific education is required to meet a standard of practice. Someone can call themselves a life coach and need nothing. That's exactly why I take it seriously — so that you understand where my expertise comes from.
There is no amount of schooling that could replicate the level of lived experience, perspective, and pattern recognition I have developed. My work is not built on theory alone — it's built on having lived through the exact disorientation, misalignment, and internal conflict that so many people are quietly experiencing, and having found a way through it.
My story started on a boat.
I was born and raised from birth until 14 on a 60ft Bruce Roberts monohull, originally in Ventura, California. We didn't stay there long. When I was 4, we set sail, and over the next 11 years we cruised all the way to the Panama Canal, through it, and up to Belize.
People often assume that kind of childhood must have been lonely, that I must have missed out on normal structure, school, and friendships. But wherever we anchored, there were always other kids, and my mom homeschooled me — although not always pleasantly. It wasn't loneliness that shaped me. It was something deeper. And that directly ties into why I do what I do now.
As my life went on, my parents got divorced, and the boat — my home, everything I knew — was sold. My mom and I moved to a small town in Canada where she was from, and I spent part of my high school years there. That transition was difficult. I struggled to fit in, was bullied, and never fully understood why.
After a few years, I wanted a fresh start, so I moved to my dad's in Virginia and tried to build a life that felt like mine. Three years later, after working consistently, I left again. I wanted to travel, to see the world, and I was searching for a place where I could finally feel calm — where I could think, "I belong here." I spent years traveling and working on boats around the world.
The moment everything shifted.
Then, like life tends to do, everything shifted again. I had to return home unexpectedly, and I hit what felt like rock bottom. I had spent years building a life full of experiences — I had seen half the globe, met incredible people, built independence — but I still felt like I had created nothing that truly felt like mine.
From the outside, I was doing well. I had money, friends, a good job, flexibility, and time. But internally, something wasn't right. Something was missing. In quiet moments, it would surface stronger and stronger. I began to say it out loud: something isn't right. My body was sending me signals I couldn't ignore.
I tried everything — meditation, gratitude, yoga, being present — but the problem wasn't my life. It was the version of me living it.
Over time, I realized this feeling was rooted in something deeper. I never developed the same sense of orientation most people do. No fixed environment. No consistent identity. No long-term reference point telling me who I was or where I belonged. And that's when something clicked.
That disorientation became my greatest advantage.
Most people grow up within a structure that, whether healthy or not, gives them a sense of direction. If that structure isn't supportive — and they don't receive the right help — they become disconnected from their actual inner values. Then comes adulthood: comparison, pressure, expectations. People choose paths that feel safe or acceptable rather than true. Years later, they feel stuck, misaligned, and unsure how they got there.
What was different for me is that I never had a narrow set of options. From the beginning, my life showed me that there is always more possibility. But the tradeoff was disorientation. And because I wasn't deeply attached to any one identity, belief system, or path, I was able to step completely outside of myself and ask a question most people never get to ask honestly: if none of this was given to me, what would I actually choose?
That question became the foundation of everything.
Lasting life direction cannot be constructed without first dismantling inherited identity. When you remove what doesn't matter, what matters has room to stand out. Before you can find your path, you have to step outside everything you think you are.
The Human Orientation Framework
From there, I started rebuilding.
In most coaching and psychological approaches, people are guided to explore values, set goals, and change behavior within the identity they already have. But that misses something critical. If your identity was built from inherited beliefs, expectations, and environments that were never fully yours, then building on top of it will always feel slightly off.
What I discovered — and now teach — is that real clarity doesn't come from adding more. It comes from stepping outside first.
This is what became The Human Orientation Framework — a four-stage process: first, Identity Suspension — intentionally stepping back from everything you've been told you are. Then Inner Attunement — reconnecting with your internal signals, your intuition, your body. Then Self-Definition — deciding what actually matters to you, not what was handed to you. And finally Behavioral Alignment — building a life that reflects that truth through your actions, choices, and environment.
The core of this work is simple, but not easy: you cannot find clarity from inside the same structure that created your confusion.
I didn't learn this from a textbook. I lived it. I experienced disorientation. I lived the search. I lived the moment of realizing that nothing external was going to fix what felt off internally. And I lived the process of stepping outside of everything I thought I was, and rebuilding from the ground up.
That's why I do this work. Because I know what it feels like to have a life that looks right — but doesn't feel right.
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