Hi, I’m Anne Marie Clear.

I help professional women who love their work and their families and want to manage it all without sacrificing their own needs or their important relationships.

 

Becoming a Mom changed everything.
One day I was Anne Marie and the next day I was someone’s Mom. I was totally unprepared for how becoming a Mom would define my time, my relationships and my life. Being Paul and Richard’s Mom was the easy part. The hard part was being Anne Marie. I loved being a Mom, I just couldn’t figure out how to do that and still be me.

How my son got me to dive headfirst into my new career.
My oldest son Paul came into the world with his own agenda. By the age of two he was an accomplished anarchist and I felt like a complete klutz of a mother. So I started reading everything I could find on parenting. Eventually I became the Parent Education Director for the Healdsburg, CA parenting center. I loved helping parents solve problems with their kids.

I quickly discovered that Moms wanted the support of other women.
The Moms who attended my parenting classes longed for a safe place to talk about their work, their relationships, their struggles and their dreams. So I began leading women’s support groups. I am a firm believer that people need to learn in order to grow, so each week I would teach an education topic that helped the women become stronger and more confident. I led these groups for over 8 years and then …

It became time to spread my wings.
Every time I taught a workshop someone would ask me for my credentials. I felt so embarrassed I wanted to run and hide. Instead I had to stand in the front of the room and tell everyone that I didn’t have a college degree. Finally one day I said enough! I enrolled in college and didn’t quit until I had a Masters Degree in Counseling. My kids were in elementary school and they hated that I was always doing homework. I knew that if I didn’t take care of myself and validate my own goals I would never make it through college. I had to start making boundaries with everyone – including myself. It wasn’t easy. For a while guilt was my constant companion. It felt wrong to put myself first. Then it got easier. Then I heard my son bragging to his friends that his Mom was in college. He was proud of me.

As I grew as a person, so did my business.
Getting my Masters degree built my confidence and gave me the courage to dream bigger. So I started Clear Directions and began helping people in organizations lower their stress and create great relationships. I coached hundreds of working Moms who were passionate about their work and about being Moms. I was so moved by their commitment to their families and to themselves. I wanted to do whatever I could to support them. So we worked together to help create balance in all of their relationships.

Achieving balance is a game changer.
When you are out of balance you make mistakes, hurt people’s feelings, get sick and just plain don’t enjoy life very much. When you’re in balance it’s like you are in the zone – everything magically works! Our personal balance is always in flux so we need to know how to restore it, over and over and over again. That’s what I help working Moms do – restore balance. And then I sit back and grin as I watch their confidence soar, their relationships flourish and a new feeling of peacefulness descend. But there’s more …

The surprise bonus!
When your confidence grows you get a surprise bonus – courage. The courage to take a few risks, dream a little bigger and reach a little higher because you know you can take care of yourself. And the better you take care of yourself, the better you take care of your kids. Everybody wins.

Empower the Mom and the Woman in You!
It took me many years to figure out how I could be a Mom and still be “Anne Marie.” You don’t have to choose! You can have a family and a career. You just can’t do it alone. And you don’t have to. Please join our community today by signing up for my free ezine and learn how you can empower the Mom and the woman in you!