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Turn Your Experience Into Income — Without Burnout.

Charlene Ridley with straight black hair and a bright yellow shirt sitting on a dark green couch, smiling at the camera near a microphone in a recording studio with a green wall behind her.

Let’s design a roadmap to your next level.

You know there’s more.

You’ve worked hard. You’ve followed the rules. You’ve built a career. You’re grateful but you’re over being:

  • Overqualified but underpaid.

  • Burnt out and stuck in the same cycle.

  • Thinking about starting a business but not knowing where to start.

  • Or maybe you’ve started — but it feels like you’re throwing spaghetti at the wall and nothing is sticking.

You’re not behind. You need a guide that can help you create more. And that’s where I come in.

You’ve got a lifetime of valuable experiences, passions, and skills. Now it’s time to package it, monetize it, and build a business that aligns with your life — not the other way around.

Build a Business That Aligns with Your Life

Turn Your Life Experience Into Income — Without Guesswork

Through Unpause Your Dreams®, my 6-month signature coaching program, I’ll help you:

  • Monetize your experience → package your skills into high-value offers.

  • Create multiple income streams → coaching, consulting, speaking, digital products, and more.

  • Position yourself as the go-to expert → in your industry, company, or niche.

  • Build without burnout → because your business should serve your life, not take over it.

Investment: $5,997 (pay-in-full) or 6 monthly payments of $1,000

Start Your Business with Ease

Many times goals fail because the approach ignores the person behind the goals.

That’s why I created my proprietary HEART Goals™ framework, designed for those who want to build thriving businesses without sacrificing what matters most.

H — Holistic → Create goals that honor your whole life.

E — Energizing → Set goals that light you up instead of draining you.

A — Aligned → Build offers and income streams that reflect your values.

R — Realistic → Choose achievable milestones that keep you moving forward.

T — Task-Driven → Break your big dreams into doable, focused actions.

This isn’t about hustle culture. It’s about designing a business that works for you.

Testimonials

Testimonials

Joy R.

Money & Business Coach

(Former IT Consultant)

Lila D.

Retreat Course Creator & Business Coach

& Yoga Studio Owner

With HEART Goals™, we don’t just set goals — we create a roadmap that honors your values, fuels your motivation, and builds a business that supports your life.

Meet Your Coach

Charlene Ridley sitting on a green sofa working on a silver laptop in a living room decorated with indoor plants, shelves with decorative items, and a vintage record player.

Charlene Ridley, MBA

Coach since 2016.

Coached hundreds of people globally (all across the United States to China, Germany and South Africa).

Digital Product Creator and Course/Workshop Creator.

Featured Side Hustle Expert in GoBanking Rates.

Serial Entrepreneur, Speaker and Non-Profit Board Member.

25 years corporate experience with management consulting, product design, process improvement, marketing, data analytics, and operations.

Coaching full-time since 2022 (left a high paying consulting manager role for coaching).

 FAQs

  • That’s exactly what coaching is for. You don’t need all the answers—you just need to stop doing it alone. I’ll help you identify your best-fit path (Coach, Course, or Digital Product) based on your skills, experience, and lifestyle.

  • Not necessarily. Certifications can help with confidence, but they’re not required to coach. What is required? Integrity, clarity, and results. I’ll help you decide if certification makes sense for your goals—and how to build a business with or without it.

  • That depends on your consistency and capacity—but many of my clients create and sell their first offer within 30–60 days. We don’t sit on ideas—we test, refine, and get them out there.can make all the difference.

  • I work with women who have full lives—jobs, kids, community engagements. Coaching typically includes 60-minute sessions weekly or biweekly, and action steps you’ll take between calls. You’ll never feel rushed, but you will be held accountable.

  • I get it and honestly have felt this way before too. I built my coaching programs around a combination of what I felt was missing in programs I took early on and what I’ve seen clients struggle with while coaching. I provide strategy, structure, and support designed around you. I don’t call you out, I dig in with you to uncover and resolve your blocks so that you can actually launch your business.

  • My values are rooted in faith, and if you ask for prayer or scripture-based guidance, you’ll get it. If not, I’ll still coach you with integrity, empathy, and truth.