Meet Shea LeJeune | Mental Health Coach, Speaker and Author.

We had the good fortune of connecting with Shea LeJeune and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Shea, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
I began loving psychology as a teenager. I was obsessed with personality profiling, birth order, love languages—anything I could get my hands on that had to do with psychology or sociology, I was there for it.
Most of my actual time, though, was spent studying the arts. Dance, writing, drawing, music—those were the things that felt natural to me, the places where I knew I was good at something. I started my own business at 10 years old teaching dance and ran a successful business for eight years. After dancing professionally for a short season, in my late teens and early 20s, I decided to go to Bible school.
After Bible school, I got married and started having kids. A degree in art therapy, theology, chaplaincy or psychology definitely crossed my mind, but we didn’t have the time or money. We were parents now. We had five kids in six years, and they became my whole world. I knew becoming a mother would be incredible, but I didn’t realize how much that transition would feel like sacrificing a career. Thankfully, in my late 20s and early 30s I found purpose by volunteering in my local church. I taught classes, lead discipleship groups, and began a significant life of volunteer ministry. I knew that I was making a difference outside of the home, and this gave me energy for my work as a mother. Around that time in my life, I took on a part-time job teaching dance at a local studio for a while. I worked as an administrative assistant for a studio and wrote the curriculum – streamlining services and making the studio run better. As I continued in dance, focusing mostly on ballet, I realized that my favorite part of class were the last five minutes. During that time I led the students through breathing exercises, mental health check-in, and giving them tools to handle stress.
In my early 30s, I had a significant encounter with God that gave me new purpose and identity. I began to understand that a huge part of my calling was to call out the strengths and gifts in others—to help them heal, step into greater freedom, and live more whole, and healed lives.
Less than a year later, I discovered a life coach training program, and it felt like the perfect fit. It brought together my love for counseling and psychology with my creativity and spiritual calling. Coaching became a way to live out my life’s purpose in a clear and intentional way, while also allowing me to run my own business and manage my own time. I also began writing (again) and painting, my creativity bloomed, and flourished, as I grew my own business.
I wasn’t locked into anyone else’s schedule. I could adjust my hours, be present for my husband and kids, and still use my gifts to serve others. In many ways, life coaching allowed me to weave together all the threads—faith, psychology, creativity, and motherhood—into work that feels rewarding as well as profitable.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I began loving psychology as a teenager. I was obsessed with personality profiling, birth order, love languages—anything I could get my hands on that had to do with psychology or sociology, I was there for it.
Most of my actual time, though, was spent studying the arts. Dance, writing, drawing, music—those were the things that felt natural to me, the places where I knew I was good at something. I started my own business at 10 years old teaching dance and ran a successful business for eight years. After dancing professionally for a short season, in my late teens and early 20s, I decided to go to Bible school.
After Bible school, I got married and started having kids. A degree in art therapy, theology, chaplaincy or psychology definitely crossed my mind, but we didn’t have the time or money. We were parents now. We had five kids in six years, and they became my whole world. I knew becoming a mother would be incredible, but I didn’t realize how much that transition would feel like sacrificing a career. Thankfully, in my late 20s and early 30s I found purpose by volunteering in my local church. I taught classes, lead discipleship groups, and began a significant life of volunteer ministry. I knew that I was making a difference outside of the home, and this gave me energy for my work as a mother. Around that time in my life, I took on a part-time job teaching dance at a local studio for a while, at another period. I worked as an administrative assistant for a studio and wrote the curriculum – streamlining services and making the studio run better. As I continued in a basic dance, teaching job, focusing on ballet, I realized that my favorite part of class were the last five minutes. During that time I led the students through breathing exercises, mental health check-in, and giving them tools to handle stress.
In my early 30s, I had a significant encounter with God that gave me new purpose and identity. I began to understand that a huge part of my calling was to call out the strengths and gifts in others—to help them heal, step into greater freedom, and live more whole, and healed lives.
Less than a year later, I discovered a life coach training program, and it felt like the perfect fit. It brought together my love for counseling and psychology with my creativity and spiritual calling. Coaching became a way to live out my life’s purpose in a clear and intentional way, while also allowing me to run my own business and manage my own time. I also began writing (again) and painting, my creativity bloomed, and flourished, as I grew my own business.
I wasn’t locked into anyone else’s schedule. I could adjust my hours, be present for my husband and kids, and still use my gifts to serve others. In many ways, life coaching allowed me to weave together all the threads—faith, psychology, creativity, and motherhood—into work that feels rewarding as well as profitable.
After four years on the grind of building my business, I can honestly say that it is 10 times harder than I expected. But it have also been far more rewarding than I could’ve imagined. It has grown me, it has broken me, it has taught me. Owning a business has been one of the most challenging, growing, and expanding experiences of my life, and I know that I will continue to learn, continue to grow, and continue to understand the business part of my business, more and more. While the creative aspects and the coaching comes naturally – marketing, sales, and understanding how businesses work is not something that I had any knowledge of prior to starting my business four years ago.
My personal journey has been one of overcoming severe debilitating anxiety, understanding how to live with less stress, even as a parent at five kids, and learning to prioritize my mental health and personal peace. I take care of myself, not by taking a bunch of self-care time. But by getting out of my own head and serving my community, which brings me so much purpose and belonging. I need friendships, deep, lasting community, And a bigger purpose than myself to serve -These are the things that bring me joy outside the home. All while understanding that my most significant calling is to raise my children well! If I do not show up as mama, and do so, with all of my heart, nothing else matters. Whether I’m coach, CEO, author, public speaker, influencer, whatever, no other title matters more than being a good mom to my five kids. And I am willing to make every sacrifice to do that well!

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
When I have family in town, I will take them to the Greeley mall for shopping and delicious Mexican food. I will also take them to downtown Greeley and get coffee as Zoe’s, and walk to a diner for food. I want to go to Mariposa for flowers and enjoy a walk to the gazebo at Lincoln Park. We will spend time on Sunday at Christ Community Church and check out lattes at Cocos EveryDay Cafe to round out our time.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
There are far too many people, books, counselors, and mentors to mention in one article. I can say that I did not get here on my own, and it took a lot more self-discovery than I ever thought. However, it wasn’t in the way that I expected, because discovering myself was not a deep search into my soul, and pausing to reflect and think through things. I got to know myself a lot more when I got my hands dirty, got out into the world and served people, coached others, I learned so much from the people that I gave my life to teach, mentor and love. I want to dedicate this article to my husband, who has been my rock, my true love, and my lifelong partner. He challenges me every single week to be the person that I can be, instead of the person that I would be, if I did not choose to continue to grow, learn, heal, and expand my world into whatever God has for me. Our life is so beautiful, and we live it together!

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