About this episode
Laverne McKinnon discusses her journey and how she helps women navigate personal and professional loss.
Laverne McKinnon is a coach and mentor who helps women navigate the moments when work becomes deeply personal—when careers shift, identities crack open, and life no longer looks the way it once did. After being fired early in her career, Laverne experienced firsthand the quiet grief that follows professional loss and reinvention. That experience, along with her own journey through infertility, adoption, single motherhood, and major life disruptions, shaped her understanding of what women often carry in silence. Today, she helps women process loss without shame, rebuild self-trust, and move forward with clarity and courage—without being defined by what they’ve been through. Her work is rooted in a simple truth: what we survive is not who we are, but it can shape who we become.
People in this episode
Host: Tanya Eklund
Guest: Laverne McKinnon
Topics covered
- career transition
- personal growth
- women empowerment
- loss and grief
- identity
- reinvention
Keywords
- coaching
- mentorship
- infertility
- adoption
- single motherhood
- self-trust
- clarity
- courage
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