"I'm a coach myself and I've worked with a lot of coaches over the past 10 years. I have to say that working with Makenna is like no other coaching I've come across. Before I went on the search for a coach, I had made a values decision that I would no longer work with those who had not demonstrated an awareness of racism and other oppressions, which excluded many coaches I knew of. Then! I needed to find someone who had deep experience in business strategy for entrepreneurs AND expansive capacity building for those who work within the often limiting space of institutions (as I am both a startup entrepreneur and employee of an institution). Since working with Makenna, I have became a more competent, and empowered leader and manager. I've grown as a wife and built stronger muscles to be a deeply supportive parent. Concretely? I'm having better sex, dancing regularly, and even wake up happy sometimes, which is a miracle in and of itself with the stressors I am managing currently! All this? While growing more capable in the equity and healing work that matters most to me. Suffice to say? I signed up for a second coaching package. Here's to the next 10 months! "

"Makenna is not going to be the person to push you, she is a big messenger of non-snakey, weird sales tactics, she is a big proponent of folks making decisions when and if it is OK with them. If you are on the fence about working with her, trust your intuition and really ensure that where you are in your life - financially, with resources, stability and support - feels in alignment before making the jump to work with a coach. The folks that might really be interested in working with Makenna are those that are at this point of really knowing that they want to bring something impactful into the world, but not really knowing how to do it. I also think it can be folks that are bringing something impactful into the world, but aren't sure how to go bigger, broader, wider with it. And then, I even think the folks that are doing the big, broad, wide thing, but want to make sure they are doing it with integrity and relationship to global communities. Makenna's got this wide scope of services and tools she can bring to people at different stages of business AND personal development."

"Makenna has taught me some good tools on how to release some tensions and things in my life and new ways of looking at things. I felt like I had failed at certain things with my business, and I realize now that those were circumstantial. Now I feel really empowered to be able to move forward with them and make good decisions! I always look forward to my time with Makenna. She keeps me grounded, she has been a champion for me and for my work, she is always encouraging and realistic, and is always a really good sounding board, giving me other ways of looking at things! Makenna is extraordinarily well-educated, which is really important to me, and the things she does is backed up with that education and knowledge, which has been refreshing for me. "

"What my work with Makenna did was help me find this place of solidness within myself where I could just see feedback as information and data. Makenna is amazing. She is brilliant and she can see the big picture, and she can also see really tiny details. Which is helpful for really any type of client, and most types of work! Makenna is such a great role model for stretching and taking risks and believing - having that deep faith. But also strategizing! She has a way of combining the woo woo stuff with phenomenal strategies, with her critical thinking skills, and just being able to come up with lots of different options that I am just so grateful for. She has the knowledge base of how different things work and from the people I have seen work with her very well, they are business owners who feel stuck. They feel they aren't growing as fast as they want to, or they've hit a place in their personal life or business that feels like quicksand or mud. And she has a way of bringing in some tools and helping clear that away so that those of us who feel stuck can begin to have some breathing space. Then she works us through the blocks! "