Using my personal framework that I coined “IYP3”: Into Your Person, Into Your Power, Into Your Purpose, I major in helping women master their mindset, energy, and influence so they can speak up, step up, and unlock their next level of power, purpose and impact. As a Behavioral Health and Women’s Performance Coach, my mission is to educate and empower women and girls by helping them identify and overcome the obstacles in their life holding them back from living their most fulfilled life—a life that is soulfully aligned, full of purpose, power, and prosperity. Together we break generational patterns, broken mindsets, and learned patterns and behaviors that keep women playing small instead of fully launching into a life that they may only dream about today.    

It is my core belief that  we can be, do or have anything we can think, dream or imagine. The ability to create that life is not found outside of us, but by tapping within. I utilize tools and strategies related to self-discovery, self-esteem, self-help, self-empowerment, and self-love to shed the layers inhibiting women from living their most powerful, most purposeful life. Exploring the 5 dimensions of health and wellness (physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and intellectual), women shed the physical, mental, and emotional weight that’s holding them back from living their best, most bold, most intentional life. 

I believe, wholeheartedly, that God has called me–putting me on the frontline to share my voice, my skills, and my life–the bad and the beautiful–to help position women and girls to live a healthy, happy, healed, and whole life.   Professionally speaking, I have accumulated decades of knowledge through degrees, certifications, trainings, and professional work experience.  However, what makes me most qualified to serve is that I am a certified overcomer of the very issues I serve and support other women with.

I had no clue the childhood trauma I experienced and the impact it had on my life. I thought I was I was just wired like this!! Through deep, deep, deep inner work, I learned that I endured multiple major traumas as a child:

• Mother died when I was 13
• Immediate family members in and out of correctional institutions
• Drug addiction
• Emotionally unavailable dad (side note – he most definitely loved and adored his baby girl)

These experiences had a major impact on how the rest of my life unfolded. I was the people pleaser, caregiver, martyr,  victim, etc. I lived my life seeking love and attention with an ego that was determined to protect me at all costs. Eventually, the toxicity that was repressed for decades took a toll on me-depression, emotional eating disorders and other chaos plagued my life. In fact, chaos became my normal so much so that I was addicted to suffering.

But in all the madness, I managed to birth two children, who through some wondrous act of God, managed to become amazing human beings, despite some of my challenging parental tendencies. My daughter, Dominique, is a pharmacist and blows my mind in every way in watching the person she has become. My son, PJ, is equally gifted–fighting through adversity to pursue a childhood dream. He is currently a Division I basketball athlete at the University of Central Florida. He is brilliant, gifted, compassionate, and respectful.

Some of Aprill’s professional accomplishments:

• MBA, National-Louis University
• ISSA Certified in Fitness Nutrition & Sports Nutrition
• AFFA Cert. Group Fitness Instructor
• Certified Life/Success Coach (Success Coach Institute)
• ISSA Certified Transformation Coach (2021)
• Cert. Project Mgr & Prog. Mgr, AT&T
• AFAA Cert. Personal Trainer
• Certified Diversity & Inclusion Specialist, Cornell University

I have served my community in numerous capacities and have had my service acknowledged with the following accolades:

• Advancing Indy Women In Leadership Program
• Springfield Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty
• Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership graduate
• Big Brother Big Sister of Central Illinois mentor
• Noontime Toastmasters Club, president
• District 186 Youth Leadership Saturday Academies, organizer/leader

In all, the accomplishment I am most proud of and that deems me highly qualified to serve others is that I am a CERTIFIED OVERCOMER of the very issues that I serve and supports others in. I am in love with life. I believe in the possibilities. I am backed by God. And, I am ready.  I am grateful and thankful for my journey.  And I am even more grateful to use my platform to serve and support other women and girls.  Both Because She Matters and Fab, Fit, Fem and Free are two programs that I was divinely inspired to create. I am confident that they will both help many women and girls conquer the world, one action and one step at a time. 

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