Meet the founder
Rochelle
Life Coach · Educator · Mother · Community Advocate
Be intentional. Do more than survive. Thrive.
"Be intentional in all you do and you will do more than live or survive. You can thrive."Rochelle, Founder
From as far back as I can remember, I have had a heart for people, for connecting, educating, and walking alongside others no matter where they are in life. Children, adults, those with special needs, those navigating health challenges, those who feel unseen or overlooked. I have never been able to turn away from the opportunity to show up and help someone rise.
I didn't build Thrive With Purpose because it sounded good on paper. I built it because I lived the very things I now help others navigate. My life has been my classroom, my family has been my greatest teacher, and every challenge I've walked through has given me something real to offer the people I serve.
That is what I am here to be for you. Not a distant professional reading from a script, but a real person, with real experience, who genuinely wants to see you become the best version of yourself.
I am a mother of nine children, some with special needs, some who have faced health challenges, and some who learn differently than the world expected. Raising them has been the most demanding, the most stretching, and the most rewarding work of my life.
When you have a child who doesn't fit the standard mold, who struggles in ways that others don't always see or understand, you learn quickly that patience isn't just a virtue, it's a lifeline. You learn that love isn't passive. It is active. It shows up at 2am. It advocates loudly. It adapts without giving up.
I was and still am their fiercest cheerleader. I learned to communicate with all kinds of learners, to connect across every ability level, to find the approach that works for this child, right now, in this season. Those skills didn't stay in my home. They became the foundation of every service I offer.
That's the role I want to play in your life. Not to do the work for you, but to stand beside you and remind you that you are more capable than you know.
My husband Darrell and I married young, maybe too young. Neither of us was fully ready. But we made a commitment to each other and, in turn, to our children and to the family we were building together. That decision defined everything that came after.
We have had health scares, disagreements, financial stress, and the weight of raising nine children through every season life could throw at us. There were moments of distance, times when we were growing in different directions and had to choose: grow apart, or learn to grow apart in order to grow together.
What got us through wasn't perfection. It was flexibility, adaptation, and a willingness to compromise: to talk when we didn't want to, to listen when it was hard, and to keep learning each other even after decades together. We have different interests, different hobbies, different ways of seeing the world. And we have learned that those differences aren't threats. They are what make us a team.
I don't offer couples coaching from a textbook. I offer it from 31 years of lived marriage, the real kind, with real struggle and real love and real commitment. I know what it takes to stay. And I know what it looks like when two people choose each other, over and over, even when it's hard.
Everything I have walked through, every challenge, every season of stretching, every moment of holding someone up while quietly holding myself together, has brought me here. To this work. To this calling.
I created Thrive With Purpose because I believe people deserve more than just getting by. I believe in intentional living, in showing up with purpose in your relationships, your parenting, your healing, your everyday choices. Not because life will be perfect, but because you deserve to participate fully in the one you have.
My education, my certifications, my training all matter. But it's the life I've lived that makes me effective. I understand what it's like to navigate a child with special needs. To hold a marriage together through hard seasons. To be the stable person in the room when everything feels unstable. To keep going when it would be easier to stop.
I know what it means to defer a dream. I returned to school almost 25 years after my family journey began, earning my BA in Psychology while actively homeschooling, supporting Darrell through his own studies, and walking alongside my children as they pursued their college degrees and beyond. A dream deferred is not a dream denied. Sometimes it simply waits until the roots are deep enough to hold it. That degree, that story, is part of everything I bring to this work.
That is the heart of this work. That is why I show up every day. And that is exactly why I would love the opportunity to show up for you.
Lived experience is the foundation. These certifications are the framework that makes it structured, ethical, and effective.
All services provided by Thrive With Purpose are coaching, education, and facilitation in nature only, not clinical therapy, licensed mental health treatment, or medical services.