About Jodi

My Mission

To inspire and guide successful business leaders to redesign and reorganize their personal lives to more closely reflect their core values and passions.

Jodi Turner Hume, CPCC

After twelve years of continually reinventing myself in the corporate world, I discovered that the thread that tied my strengths together had something to do with the way I listen. I followed my interest in group facilitation to Johns Hopkins University's certificate program where one of my professors was a Performance Coach.

After several in-class facilitations, he commented that I had the unique skill of hearing not just what was said in the room, but to pick up on the subtleties of what was not being said, as well as the skill to synthesize those thoughts in a way that led the group towards new ways of seeing the issue. He encouraged me to consider Coaching, pointing out that those same skills were useful when facilitating the conversation an individual has with themselves.

Before becoming a coach, I had been extremely successful professionally, but wasn't entirely fulfilled. For many years I had a long list of things I would do "some day." Things I would try, things I would change, things I would do in my "next life." A big list of things I would do if I had it to do all over again, as if I'd somehow missed my chance to try those paths.

Then one day, I got really tired of hearing myself use all of those excuses and decided to start checking things off my list.

• Photography classes. Check
• Becoming a lead singer in a band. Check
• Studying group facilitation. Check
• Coaching Training, and starting my coaching practice. Check
• Becoming Certified as a Co-Active Coach. Check

The list kept growing, and the more things I checked off, the more my life looked like I'd always dreamed it would. And interestingly, that did not require any drastic, risky, life-altering decisions such as quitting my job on the fly, moving to Borneo or joining the circus.

I realized that creating the life you want is all about the small shifts: Signing up for a class, calling about a band audition, noticing and appreciating something your spouse does for you. Those are the threads in the tapestry that make up our lives.

I chose to focus on this clientele because I recognize that success can feel like a destination. Realizing you don't like the view from the mountain you just worked so hard to climb can be paralyzing, because everything else looks like a step down. But I know that isn't the case. There are choices and paths you cannot see from your current perspective. I want to inspire you to find those paths.

My personal values, beliefs and philosophy

You always have a choice. You may not be thrilled with your choices, but in every moment of every day we get to chose who we are, what we value, and what we make our priority. That doesn't make it easy or simple, but it does mean that we do not have the luxury of imagining that we are trapped without a choice. There are no victims, only volunteers.

It's never as complicated as it feels. Most of us have a remarkable capacity to overcomplicate the situation by imagining a series of dramatic reactions and repercussions to our choices. Yes, those things might happen, but more often than not, our bold moves toward the lives that we really, truly, deeply want are met with support, or at worst, indifference.

Live your life fully. Most people are clear on what they would do with their lives if they had six months to live. They would make choices in alignment with their strongest, most deeply resonating values. So what if it was a year? Two? Five? Ten? What is the point at which you start to shift from that crystal clear clarity to a fuzzy fog of complications and obligations that talk you out of choosing the life you want?

My major accomplishments

Walking the Talk.  Many of my greatest accomplishments are the things I finally did after talking myself out of them for ages.  For years I'd wanted to be a blues singer, but I had a young son, a job, a business... I'd have to be crazy to take on one more thing.  One day I decided that "in my next life" was a huge cop-out and I started answering ads for singers. Most wouldn't give me an audition since I had never sung in a band, but I kept trying.  Finally, I got an audition, and landed the job as the lead singer for the Mobtown Hipcats. 

My corporate history began at GWWO, Inc./Architects, where I had the unique opportunity to try on just about every business hat there is: Marketing, Finance, HR, Operations, Senior Management, Project Management.  I was the youngest person, and first non-architect in the history of the firm to be named an Associate.  Shortly thereafter, I was named a Senior Associate and later, Chief Operations Officer.   

I was a contributing author to The Spirit of Women Entrepreneurs, which was recently nominated for a national award.  I also contributed a chapter to Stress Relief in 15 minutes or Less.

• Loyola College of Baltimore, BS Psychology;
• Johns Hopkins University, Certificate in Skilled Facilitation;
• Coaches Training Institute, Core Coaching Curriculum;
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, (CPCC)

My hobbies

Singing (blues & jazz); photography (trees & children); mothering with sanity; gadgetry; psychology.

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