Testimonials
“To say Alanna has helped me doesn’t begin to cover it. I feel so much more confident knowing that when I have a business OR personal challenge, I have someone with such insight and knowledge to help me discover how to be the best me! I have found that when I feel stuck, frustrated, discouraged or just plain blah, Alanna can help me up my game and launch forward, removing my own blocks and fears. You can’t succeed without her!”
– Keri Newell, Los Angeles, CA, Owner and Co-Founder of Can’t Succeed Without It
“I started seeing Alanna at the time I was thinking about starting my own fitness company. Alanna helped me gain the clarity I needed that connected me to my purpose, and even coached me to come up with a business name. She also led me to some great business resources that helped me to get my marketing and website going. I really believe that by utilizing Alanna’s coaching skills I became empowered to jump start my business. Now I have a successful business where I get to help women transform their lives – through exercise and loving their bodies.
On the personal side, I was also on the fence about marriage. She helped me to clear the channels of confusion by using some of her coaching and NLP techniques. It resulted in me getting in alignment with my true desire of getting married, and a few months later I got engaged !! Amazing!!”
– Sherry Driggs, Santa Monica, CA, Personal Fitness Trainer
“If you want a change in your life or need help getting through a problem, life coaching is for you. A Life Coach wants to help you become the successful person you want to be and they want to help you do it in a measurable amount of time. Alanna works with you to find your goals and then helps you to achieve these goals, giving you tools that you can use for the rest of your life.
Once a person understands how the mind works and how powerful thoughts truly are, it is then that you can achieve what was once thought impossible. Alanna shows you and guides you through these steps allowing you to find the answers, they are never just given. It is through finding the answers that you gain the most, and that is what life coaching is all about.
Alanna is full of youthful energy and has the most sincere passion for her craft, and that gives her the edge in a successful life-coaching world. If your dream is to make a change and become successful, then life coaching with Alanna is the choice to make.”
– Eric Johnson, West Covina, CA, Entrepreneur
“We all go through it at some point in our life the feeling of being stuck…. I was feeling it in both my career and personal life until I met Alanna. Her non-judgmental, warm, calm and easy-going personality made it so comfortable for me to trust and confide in her.
She has provided me with the tools to set and reach achievable goals; to bring awareness to my potential and to just believe. I am a very independent, self-reliant and sufficient woman, not to mention the eldest of five. All my life, I have done things myself. Alanna helped me recognize that it is perfectly fine to ask for assistance.
Like she expresses in her mantra, “Everyone is on their own path at their own pace.” At the age of thirty eight, my path and pace brought me to a fortuitous encounter with Alanna to help me get unstuck.”
– JL, Torrance, CA
“Thank you Alanna for helping me be responsible for my actions and for what gets heard. Thank you for meeting with me and helping me look at me and how I can suit up and show up and work on my own communication and managerial skills. I appreciate you so much, I wish everybody had the chance to have you as a coach…I am very lucky.”
– Cheryl Gorman, Anaheim, CA
“Alanna is my guardian angel, she has helped me understand things about myself that I never understood and helps me feel more confident and stronger than I have ever felt. With her guidance I have learned that I am the one that is in control of my life and it’s going to be as easy as I make it out to be. I deserve to be happy, have a healthy relationship, be surrounded by positive people in my life, and have a job that I am truly passionate about.
Alanna has helped me be more patient and trust myself more which has helped me get closer and closer to where I want to be in life. She is more than just a coach she is a friend and an inspiration. This is my degree in mastering my life and there are no colleges, no degree that can give you the self- understanding you receive from working with Alanna. This should be everyone’s inspiration to stand up and conquer their own life because at the end of the day regardless of the obstacles that may come your way the knowledge and self-understanding you take with you lasts a lifetime and that’s priceless.”
– M. Rodriguez, Rhode Island
“I want to share how transformative our last coaching session was. It came at a critical time in my growth and your use of NLP made all the difference. I FINALLY feel like my head and heart are in sync. And, for the first time I am no longer defined by how others see me or by my work or other externals. “I AM ENOUGH” is no longer a theory. I REALLY feel it, even when I have been in situations where, in the past I would have questioned myself or felt like I needed to detach to cope. Instead, I am experiencing a confidence never felt before and I am able to be fully present and walk away feeling whole. What a difference! You are a blessing.”
– Kathleen O’Sullivan, Pasadena, CA, Managing Partner, Think-Up! Inc.
“I feel more than lucky, more like blessed, to have Alanna help me think and grow through changes in my career and my life…
In 2009 the recession forced me to recreate my career path, my life structure, and how I want the next years to unfold. The business I had built for 20 years had flat lined. I lost almost all my clients, my relationship, my car, everything I thought my life was about. Alanna gave me tools to help rethink, rebuild, re imagine how I wanted my next career and life to be. I have started 3 new businesses in the middle of a depression and have just received major funding for one of them. She has helped me align my talents, interests, and dreams, into business ideas that are now a reality.
I learned how important it is to have someone cheerlead for you, to give you caring support like family to help you get through changes . Alanna gives you so much more than “everything will be ok”. She brings her expert knowledge, natural healing talents and proven tools to get you to the next step in your life.”
– John Vitale, Los Angeles, CA, Entrepreneur
“Just making the steps, talking about it and setting intentions, removes a few more threads and I feel a little more free….it’s a nice feeling. I am forever grateful that I’ve had this opportunity with you. I am seeing the changes and I really feel you there with me when I make decisions. Thank you a thousand times!!”
–B. McMillan, San Diego, CA, Makeup Artist/Hair Stylist
“I’m Geri and I love my life! Did I always feel that way? No – But at the young age of 80 I am working on issues that have kept me “stuck” most of my life. Now I feel free, happier, and actually younger! How did this happen? I started working with Alanna, life coach extraordinaire. I look forward to working with her every week as it is exciting to be able to look at issues differently. It is freeing and challenging. Thank you Alanna.”
–Geri Polin, Los Angeles, CA, Client Extraordinaire
“Thank you for letting me share my expression of thoughts, you can say it is a bi-product of your doing. Many thank you-s for the things you said to me today, the tools you gave me AND the decision you made long before we met, to become a Life Coach for others. Those decisions you made XX years ago are now affecting my life today in a positive way. I’m truly grateful. Today you gave me a precise evaluation of my dilemma from an outside perspective…communicated to me with clarity, honesty and conviction…joined with complete down-to-earth realism…an added touch of unselfish patience…a tad of humor…followed by an utterly profound but easy-to-apply solution: “Cynthia what is the gift in that?” You provided all of this on one short phone call. Damn you’re good!”
– Cynthia B., Glendale, CA, Business Owner
“Alanna is a great life coach and very skilled at what she does. She has the ability to make you feel like she is a friend and allows you to feel comfortable even at the first meeting. She is generous with her time and has the willingness to share personal experiences, to provide examples to positively contribute to your coaching experience. Life coaching and hypnosis helped me identify negative emotions, thought patterns, and make a conscious effort to release them. It allowed me to replace the negative habits with positive ones that little by little brought positive emotions and thought patterns back into my life. She makes what seems impossible possible again!”
– Kris, Los Angeles, CA
“It feels good to know that there is someone on your side rooting for you, someone who genuinely cares and really wants to help you find your own way. Alanna has that passion for helping others, she is as real as they get. I can sometimes be a very black and white kind of person when it comes to viewing life, Alanna is helping me recognize the many different shades of gray in between. This makes me smile, what a wonderful thing to discover.”
– Deena M., Los Angeles, CA, Entrepreneur
“Taking the Energy Leadership Index Assessment was profoundly simple. And out of this simple test came information that was spot on about where I was in my life. Everything was relatable and understandable. Going through the debrief provided me with a better outlook on current circumstances using simple techniques. The work that now needs to be done is all about working smarter, not harder, and it’s all coming from a place of ease.”
– J.A., Los Angeles, CA, Entertainment Industry
“I woke up this morning and did my usual meditation. Then I felt inspired to implement the 25-30 neuro-reprogramming. So I decided to journal 1 page of financial/abundance/success statements and I plan to do this everyday for 30 days. I’m sure I wouldn’t have done this on my own if it wasn’t for yesterday with you. THANK YOU!”
– Julie K., Beverly Hills, CA, Esthetician
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for our breakthrough session! Since then, I find myself approaching my food choices in an entirely new way, all choice and freedom and no “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts” — no sense of it being a chore or obligation. I have been absolutely PROPELLED to do exercise that feels great to my body and spirit. And that old anxiety I used to wake up in the middle of the night with? It has shown up, but as soon as it starts, it re-forms into thoughts of abundance, calm confidence, and using what I need of the challenges that are presented to me, and letting the rest just go, knowing I’ll handle it. I’m very excited about the rich, healthy outcomes you have helped me design for my life!”
– A. Lord, Santa Monica, CA
“I started working with Alanna when I was in both a personal and professional crisis. My marriage was ending – leaving me a single parent and sole provider for my son and there was a strong possibility of losing my job. I had spent time working with a couple of different therapists over the years but never really felt like I had gained anything from the experience. I felt they were dwelling on past/negative issues. Working with Alanna taught me how to move forward and learn from situations. She taught me how to pull myself out of my depression one day at a time by focusing on the good in my life and what I am grateful for. I had heard of the law of attraction and she really taught me how to practice it. Through exercises she assigned me I was able to identify what is really important to me and what I want to achieve in my life so that I was able to break the unproductive patterns. Now it’s a year later and I have a more positive outlook than ever and I’m able to maintain that attitude on my own. If I ever feel myself reacting to a situation I remember the tools she taught me to help get through it. I definitely recommend her to anyone searching for personal growth as well as those going through difficult times.”
– M.K., Los Angeles, CA, Designer
“Alanna has a way of exposing in a gentle, graceful and direct way, the wisdom and gain of any situation. She has a knack for knowing just what to say to not only bolster my confidence but to also assist me in seeing the benefit of any situation. As a result, the most horrible crisis, under Alanna’s guidance, transforms into the most beautiful gift.”
– April Fitzsimmons, Los Angeles, CA, Actor and Writer