T
Time
Reclaim it. The first commitment is to your own calendar. You can’t build the work you want on the scraps that are left after everyone else takes what they need.
About Nancy
Hey, I'm Nancy
Women come alive when they stop performing, and start building work that's actually theirs.
For more than two decades, I have helped women find that work, name it out loud, and build the careers and communities that come from it.
25 yrs
Teaching business, TCC
200+
Podcast episodes
MBA
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
In community, in person
Hi, my name is Nancy
I'm a podcaster, community builder, business educator, and coach based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I host Sharing Passion & Purpose, a podcast of honest conversations with women who are boldly living out their passion and purpose. I'm the creator of Conversations with Passion and Purpose, a monthly live podcast and networking event for women in Tulsa. And I work one-to-one with women who are ready to stop circling the work they were made for and finally do it.
I teach business at Tulsa Community College, as I have for twenty-five years, and I have coached women through major career transitions in the staffing industry. I'm also a contributing writer for Tulsa Kids Magazine. The throughline of my work has always been the same. Help the woman across the table get specific about what she wants. Then help her go build it.
How I got here
I hold an MBA from the University of Tulsa and a business degree with an accounting focus from Oklahoma State, and I teach business at Tulsa Community College, as I have for twenty-five years. Long before the podcast, before the community, before any of the public-facing work, I was the woman in the classroom and on the phone, asking the questions that helped other women figure out what they were actually doing with their working lives.
In all of that work, I kept noticing the same thing. Most women weren't stuck because they didn't have ambition. They were stuck because no one was asking them the right questions. No one was helping them get specific. No one was holding the room steady while they figured out what they wanted, named it out loud, and got moving.
So I started doing that myself. First over coffee. Then in small circles. Then on a podcast, with women whose names you might not know yet but whose stories will stay with you for years. Then in a roomful of women who paid to be there.
“Specific beats inspirational. Community beats willpower. Honest beats polished. That's the whole thing.”
What I stand for
My work is grounded in a few things I will not bend on. Inspiration without an artifact is just a feeling. What you actually build is what counts. Nobody builds the life they want alone, and the women in the room with you matter more than the next book you read. The honest conversations go to the places most rooms will not.
I will tell you what I think. I will also tell you what I don't know. Then I will ask what you think.
The framework
The THRIVE framework.
Six commitments women make to themselves. The order matters. I have built my body of work around them.
H
Habits
Build the small ones. Big goals are made of unglamorous daily reps. Start with three minutes. Compound from there.
R
Relationships
Curate them. The women in your life either pull you toward who you’re becoming or quietly hold you in place. Both matter. Notice which is which.
I
Investment
In yourself first. Money, time, attention, learning. If you won’t bet on you, no one else will be willing to either.
V
Values
Know what you stand for, and let it point you forward. Your values are the filter; the vision they create is the destination. "This thing, this size, by this date" is what they make specific. The specificity is the discipline.
E
Engagement
Engagement is about being fully present and engaged in your actions and decisions. When you love what you do, engagement is easy.
Three soft places to land.
Start wherever feels right. The work is the same either way.