Hello! I’m Life Coach Tracy Baranauskas, and I’m the founder of Moving Forward Life Coaching.

I help courageous women, like you, step into their power and share their light with the world!

As a former social worker who worked in the community mental health field for much of my career, I have always found joy in helping my clients discover and embrace their unique gifts and talents. It’s totally my jam!

However, in 2014, after changing positions and moving to a new organization, I received a tough blow that sent me tumbling backwards.

I was fired the day after I went to our board to report several problems with the agency’s director and advocate for clients who were being neglected in the system.

Losing my job at that point in my career felt devastating.

My confidence had taken a hard hit.

Like so many other women, I’d put other people’s needs in front of my own for so much of my life and career that I felt stuck, unsteady, and unsure of how to move forward.

I’d done all the things I thought I was “supposed” to do. I’d stayed in integrity with my values, yet I was dealt what felt like an unjust hand.

Fortunately, the experience eventually strengthened my resolve to help other women who were being marginalized and sidelined, or who were holding themselves back, to regain their power!

I knew I still had so much left to offer the world, and life coaching seemed like a natural fit.

But I wondered: How can I start over and achieve this goal when my self-confidence is so low?

So, I decided to hire a life coach for myself.

I knew I needed the support and help to rebuild my confidence, or I would never move forward with my dream.

Yet even that felt scary. My hand shook as I wrote the check. Money was tight—as I wasn’t even approved for unemployment benefits yet.

It was uncomfortable and unfamiliar. I wasn’t used to investing time and money in myself. I had spent a lifetime investing in other people’s growth—but not my own.

I worried: What if this doesn’t work?

But my desire was greater than my fear. So, I committed to making it work!

I knew I needed someone to hold my hand and help me believe in myself enough to take this giant leap forward.

And that’s exactly what happened.

The life coach I hired helped me renew my belief in myself, my capabilities, and all the amazing possibilities ahead.

Not only did this impact my life in powerful ways but it has also impacted the hundreds of clients I’ve served over the years—and the people they’ve touched along the way, too.

The true impact for me though was at a soul-level.

That first coach helped me tap into my strength and summon my full magnificence. She helped me remember what I was made of—my gifts, talents, integrity, tenacity, and grit!

The thing I love most about life coaching is that it’s empowering.

Coaching helps you think and feel differently than you ever have before, and it expands your vision of what’s possible.

One single thought can radically shift everything and change your entire life.

Today, there are few things I value or prioritize more than investing in coaching. I have worked with 1:1 coaches and/or been in coaching mastermind groups ever since.

Having a coach is like having your very own personal champion who can see through your BS when your goals and aspirations start to feel uncomfortable, hard, or frightening.

My former client, Amanda, once said I have the strongest BS detector she’s ever seen, haha! And I think this is true because I’ve come by it honestly.

I’ve worked through so much of my own limiting beliefs with the help of brilliant life and business coaches over the years who have taught me practices and strategies to manage my mindset when I’m tempted to worry and freak out in moments of expansion and growth.

I have witnessed, first-hand, how insidious the primal brain can be in its attempts to prevent change.

I also know how exhilarating it can feel to bypass this nonsense and step into my power!

And I freaking love that I now get to help other women step into their power and fully embrace their badassery, too!

This is what I want for you, my sister.

Are you ready?

Let’s do this!

Get started by scheduling a complimentary consultation today!