At a time when too many Americans are grappling with social uncertainty and the impact of declining resources for women’s health and fading support for advancing women in the workplace, Pittsburgh native Roz Clark Smith is doubling down on her commitment to transforming the landscape and shoring up her efforts to empower women.
Smith, a skilled communicator, proficient problem solver and sought-after life coach, uses her expertise to teach women to overcome obstacles and grow their capacities to experience and enjoy meaningful, productive and prosperous lives.
“Here’s the thing, none of us need permission to be who we are, and a lot of times people are like, ‘Okay, I need to get this certification, and I need to do this, and I need to do that, and they’re busy being busy instead of showing up in their zone of genius,” explains the self-described solopreneur.
“I work with high-performing women who feel trapped in the lives that they’ve created. So I help them to reconnect with their dreams, their passion and their sole purpose and help them to build a business and a brand around telling their story, sharing their story and sharing what they know, so that they can do their soul’s work and their life’s work and yet still be paid well for it,” Smith added enthusiastically.
Smith’s own journey to becoming the woman she is today was also loaded with twists and turns that movies are made of. While she values serving high-net-worth women who feel trapped in the lives that they’ve created, she was once one of those women. “ I was married to a very wealthy and successful man, living in a mansion in Los Angeles, but I was secretly rolling quarters in my kitchen to scrape together enough to buy groceries.” Eventually Smith, a world-class and celebrated opera singer – who also assisted top-tier entertainers navigate the intricacies of the industry to realize their dreams of stardom – would leave her husband and that life behind to relocate with her son to Savannah, Ga, a city she had never even visited and knew very little about.
“I could tell you the story of how I married a lazy blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but that story doesn’t serve me, nor does it inspire anybody else. So I can tell the truth. I can tell the truth about it being 50 Shades of crazy. I can tell the truth about being in a $1.2 million home, rolling quarters, trying to pay for dinner because I was married to somebody who was irresponsible. I could tell that story. And yet, the story I have to tell is ‘Girl, how did you get out of it? How did you survive? How are you winning?’ That’s the story that matters,” explains Smith.
And while she remains one of the nation’s premier dream doulas and transformation coaches, she began her career focusing on a special talent – that of being a internationally renowned classical soprano before leaving that part of her life to
My passion is the women. I am changing the lives of women who are destined to change the world. … I’m not what they call ‘a gatekeeper.’ I’m going to give you stuff [and] if you take just one thing and say, ‘Girl, I’m good, I’m going to run with this,’ I’m okay.” And then if you say, ‘Oh my gosh, this is what I need, how do I take the next step?’ Then I can tell you the next step,” explains the affable coach and teacher.
In addition to the six-week accelerator program, Smith also offers clients an opportunity to work with her in an advanced Awake mastermind over a 12-month period to maximize their transformation for optimal personal and professional success.
When I leave, I don’t want you thinking
about how good I was – I want you to be
excited about how great you are.
~Roz Clark
Life coaches use varying techniques to empower clients to make positive changes and reach their full potential, including but not limited to: identifying goals and aspirations, exploring obstacles and challenges, developing strategies for success, build confidence and self-awareness.
Smith’s sessions are uniquely designed to help clients gain clarity and momentum on their quest to make significant life changes, overcome self-doubt, and find purpose and direction.
“The best way to work with me is to go through my storytelling framework, because in telling our story, we get to assess what part of it we’re responsible for. We also get to shift the narrative if the narrative is not serving us [and often] we are reliving that every single time,” explains the accomplished women’s advocate. “Yet, when you can get to the point that you can tell your story with no emotional charge attached to it, you can start talking about the process of becoming through that story, that’s when you start winning. The first story is the story we tell ourselves. We can tell ourselves a victim story … or we can tell ourselves ‘Man, I have lived through so much shit, and I am still the bomb.”
Smith’s own story of triumph after leaving a thirty-year marriage with a young children in tow, and no means of support is more than an inspirational tale, it is a reality that millions of women find themselves in, often struggling to survive and fight their way out. But as this truth teller and dream maker says, “There’s some grit in that, there’s some boldness in that, there’s some bad assness in that, and that is what I want us to lean into.”
For more information or to contact Roz Clark Smith please visit https://www.rozclark.com/
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