About Embrace Ur Journey Coaching

Hi, I’m Joyce.

I’m a wife, mom, entrepreneur, special-needs mom, advocate, and someone who has spent years helping other women figure out what can actually work in real life. A lot of what I bring to coaching comes from living through the same kinds of complicated seasons, decisions and responsibilities that many of the women I talk with are trying to navigate themselves.

Long before Embrace Ur Journey Coaching, I created My Stay At Home Adventures, where I have spent years helping thousands of moms think differently about budgeting, saving money, groceries, earning income and managing everyday life. One of the biggest things that work taught me is that there is rarely one perfect system that works for everyone. A budget, app, routine or strategy still has to make sense for the person using it and the life they are actually living.

I also co-hosted Mom Autism Money, a project focused on the financial realities families can face while raising autistic children. That gave me another opportunity to have conversations about money, caregiving, services, planning, advocacy and the very different realities families can experience even when their children share the same diagnosis.

My own family has also taught me how complicated life can become when you’re raising children who need additional support. There are schools, providers, appointments, paperwork, insurance, programs, phone calls, waiting lists and systems that families are often expected to understand while they are already trying to take care of everything else.

I had to learn how to navigate many of those systems for my own children. I learned how to ask questions, look for resources, speak up when something didn’t feel right and keep advocating when the process became frustrating. Somewhere along the way, it stopped being only about my own family.

Other moms started reaching out. Schools and people in our local community have connected families with me when they don’t know where to begin. Sometimes someone will literally hand another mom the phone and say, “Talk to Joyce.” They may need a resource, help figuring out what questions to ask, or simply someone who understands how exhausting it can be when you’re being sent from one place to another trying to find an answer.

I don’t pretend to know everything, and I’m not here to tell another person what they should do with their child, their finances, their family or their life. What I can do is listen, share what I’ve learned, help someone think through their options, point them toward resources when I can and help them sort through what may realistically make sense for their situation.

That same approach is a big part of how I coach. Years of working with moms have taught me that people usually don’t need another person handing them a formula and expecting them to make their life fit inside it. They need support that takes into account their priorities, responsibilities, goals, family and the season of life they are actually in.

I’m practical, and I care much more about what can work in real life than what sounds good on paper. Sometimes progress means making a big change, and sometimes it means getting clear about one thing and figuring out the next realistic step. Both can matter.