Deb
Striker
I help women who have survived everything figure out what they survived it for.
I’m the person you call when everything is in motion, the ground has disappeared, and you need someone who can see the whole board and refuse to let you talk yourself out of what you actually want.
“You didn’t survive all of that just to stay small.“
I didn’t come to this work
from a place of comfort.
I came to it from the bottom of things. From the kind of circumstances that don’t make it into polished origin stories… abusive relationships, financial collapse, single parenthood with zero support, three years of housing instability, and a caregiving role for a dialysis-dependent family member while still working, still parenting, still showing up every single day.
I have rebuilt my life from nothing. Multiple times. Not theoretically. Actually. The kind of rebuilding where you don’t have the luxury of waiting for perfect circumstances, because the circumstances are never going to be perfect, and you are running out of rope.
And yet. Every time I reached the end of it, I somehow managed to make more.
I spent a lifetime unlearning the conditioning that told me being smart and wanting more made me selfish and arrogant. That’s a specific kind of work that doesn’t get talked about enough… the work of reclaiming your own intelligence, your own ambition, your own hunger for a life that actually fits the woman you are becoming.
Along the way I built a handcraft business from zero to $30K monthly, taught myself web development and SEO from scratch, co-founded an LLC, produced thirteen large-scale community events and leverage points in real time, shipped stained glass internationally as a working artist, and raised two kids as the sole responsible adult, most recently while living nomadically across 35 locations.
I am telling you this not to impress you. I’m telling you this because when I tell you everything is open to change and it can be figured out, I mean it in my bones. That lands differently than when someone says it from a place of comfort and safety.
I have been at the end of the rope. I know what it actually takes to keep moving when the ground disappears. Not from a textbook. Not from a certification. From almost six decades of building things, losing things, and building again anyway.
The things that are
genuinely hard to replicate.
Pattern recognition that works fast.When someone describes a complicated, emotionally loaded situation, I can see the structure underneath it within minutes. The leverage points. The real priorities. The thing that’s actually driving the stuck feeling. Most people can’t do this for themselves when they’re inside the situation. I can do it with them in real time.
You don’t have to perform here.Something about the way I show up makes people feel safe to say the true thing instead of the acceptable thing. Strangers tell me their real stories. I don’t fully understand why, but it happens constantly, and it’s where the real work lives. It’s not something you can manufacture.
I hold complexity without flinching.Multiple moving pieces. Competing priorities. Emotional weight and practical logistics simultaneously. I think in systems naturally. I can carry the whole map of your situation while you catch your breath and hand it back to you when you’re ready to see it clearly.
I can see what you’re actually capable of.Separate from what you’re currently doing with it. That gap — between who you are and what you’re allowing yourself to be, is usually where all the interesting work lives. I have zero interest in helping you build a smaller, safer, more acceptable version of what you actually want.
This work is not for everyone.
It’s for her.
- Smart, capable, the person everyone leans on
- Looks like she has it together from the outside
- Creative — but that part has gone quiet
- Done waiting, but not sure what she’s done waiting for
- Neurodivergent, or suspects she might be
- Has tried coaching, therapy, self-help.. and still felt unseen
- Ready to look deeper without being managed or fixed
- Willing to say the true thing when given the space to
- Drowning in possibilities she can’t choose between
- Exhausted from holding everyone else’s life together
- Like something recently cracked open and she can’t go back
- Performing a version of herself that fits everyone else
- Paralyzed by her own intelligence
- Quietly starving for a life that actually belongs to her
- Waiting for permission that’s never coming
- Like she survived all of it & still isn’t living
You’ve kept everyone else’s life running.
When do you get to live yours?
The FERAL Intensive is a 90-minute private session where we cut through the noise, find the real bottleneck, and build a clear, doable path forward without turning your life into a productivity prison.
You’ll leave knowing exactly what you want, what’s been stopping you, and the one move that unlocks everything else.
I am not meant for the faint of heart. Neither are you. That’s the whole point.