When I was young, I knew that my dad wanted me to be an artist, just like his grandmother, whom he adored. I loved art, but first, I loved to dance. At sixteen, I started a dance school and spent the next 14 years teaching dance.

Later, with three kids in tow, at the age of twenty-eight, I went off to college and graduated with a master’s degree in choreography from UCLA.

After graduation, instead of returning to the dance world, I decided to learn more about business. I worked at a variety of jobs mostly chosen so I could find out more about myself and how the world works.

Sometimes I took a job to make enough money to support myself and my three children.

Eventually, I ended up working for 20 years within large financial firms as a Certified Financial Planner.

Although I enjoyed the work, I became more and more driven by my desire to do the next thing I wanted to do in life — write, and teach the concepts I had developed in the course called The Shift.

So I did.

Whether it is in a non-fiction or fiction book, I write with the intention of shifting our perceptions of possibilities.

I started teaching The Shift Course in 1992. All of The Shift Series books are an outgrowth of that first class.

Besides books, since 1999, I have written perception shifting Blogs.

I also have two free email series dedicated to perception shifting, The Daily Nudge, and The Truth 4 Today which perhaps fulfills my dad’s dream of me being an artist, because, in this series, I combine words and art.

I write stories. I shift stories.

I hope the stories I write help shift the stories people choose to live. I am also a coach–on what else–how to shift perception.

To add to the mix, I have two podcasts.Shift The Story and Shifting Stories.

As a child, I tried to tell everyone about the power of perception shifting. I learned that telling people things doesn’t work, but perhaps showing alternatives does.

That is what I hope to achieve in life, whether it is writing, coaching, or living my life.

I learned life the hard way. Sometimes things worked, and sometimes they didn’t, but everything taught me. I have been married, divorced, married and divorced until I finally got marriage right. I am a mother, grandmother, and stepmother.

When not working, I am reading or perhaps working in the garden in Northeast Ohio with my husband, Delbert Lee Piper Sr.

BOOKS
All my books can be found on anywhere you buy or read books, or directly from me at speaking gigs.