I’ve been in the room. A lot of rooms.

I’m Vera— entrepreneurial consultant, life coach, and student of the sacred. I take complex and ancient spiritual wisdom and philosophy and make it something you can work with in your life. My work lives at the intersection of hard-won experience and deep spiritual intelligence.

Before I could teach anyone any of this, I had to learn it. That took years, a lot of dismantling ideas, long periods of integration, applying change, listening to my own intuition, applying rationality, and ultimately having a willingness to move through things most people spend their whole lives avoiding.

The Professional Background

I started in Fortune 50 strategic transformations and change management. The kind of work where you're brought in to help massive organizations navigate massive shifts. You learn quickly in that world that the official problem is never the real problem. That the org chart doesn't tell you where the power actually lives. That people resist change not because they're irrational but because something true in them knows what's really being asked (and often, they’re either asked to change or be let go).

I’ve always had an itch for innovation. From there, I moved into Web3 and crypto, specifically governance work at the frontier of a completely new economic paradigm, where the rules were being written in real time, and the stakes were high. I learned to make decisions without a map. Learn things only I could see were useful, and hold complexity without collapsing it into false certainty.

That work led me here. To the frontier of consciousness and spirituality, seeking answers to life’s greatest questions. After the collapse of FTX and, touching an SEC investigation I never thought my young career would, I dove into esoteric spirituality, plant medicine, and the world of transformation. Coaching and Spiritual Direction became a logical next step.

Today, I hold two pillars in my work. The one that you see online (@veratheteacher) which is creative, spiritually alive, and seeks to help individuals in their own quest of life’s questions and success. The other is still professional, supporting federal crypto and blockchain policy.

But across Fortune 50 boardrooms, crypto governance calls, and individual philosophical conversations, the most important variable is always the same. The clarity of the person at the center, an illumination of the system, and an empowerment towards the future.

The Spiritual Path

I didn't come to spirituality easily. I grew up secular, identified as an atheist, and spent my early adult years running at full speed through achievement and ambition. The soul has a way of getting loud when you're not listening.

Through years of real darkness (trauma, grief, profound transition) I found my way to something solid. I moved through contemporary New Age spirituality, the great Christian mystics, Kashmir Shaivism, shamanism, and Orthodox Christianity. I currently attend a Methodist church, study Eastern Orthodox Christianity, global mysticism, The Fourth Way, and am an active apprentice of the Sweet Sundance Medicine Path. I'm completing a formal Certification in Spiritual Direction through The Center for Nonreligious Spirituality.

I don't treat spirituality as a weekend retreat. It is the infrastructure.

The Life

I live in Southwest Montana with the love of my life. I write, photograph with a Leica, study, and do the work I believe I'm here to do.

Credentials

Professional
Fortune 50 Strategic Transformation & Change Management · Web3 / Crypto Governance · Small Business Consultant & Advisor · Certification in Venture Creation, VCU DaVinci Program · B.S. Political Science + Business & Nonprofit Management, VCU · London School of Economics · Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership · Leadership Fairfax Emerging Leaders · AmeriCorps Volunteer

Spiritual Study & Training
Certification in Spiritual Direction (in progress) · Student of The Fourth Way (Rochester) · Apprentice, Sweet Sundance Medicine Path · Onami 40-Hour Trauma Repair Training · ISTA Level 1 (CO & UT) · Shamanic DeArmoring · Study: Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Global Mysticism, Kashmir Shaivism, Quantum Physics, Theosophy, Shamanism

I write about the process of becoming, transformation, spirit, and everything in between in my publication, The Living Work.