And if you’ve spent 20+ years building a career, you do not have to throw all that experience away to answer it.
I’m Monique Addison-Stinson, and I help Christian women over 40 turn the leadership, skills, and experience they’ve already earned into coaching work that serves people and pays them.
Because starting something new at this stage of life doesn’t mean starting from zero.
Maybe your career looks good on paper.
You’ve worked hard. You’ve built the résumé. You’ve become the dependable one, the leader, the person people trust to figure things out.
And you’re grateful for what your career has provided.
But gratitude doesn’t cancel out that little voice that keeps saying:
There’s something else I’m supposed to do.
The problem is, you have a mortgage, responsibilities, people depending on you, and a grown-woman life that doesn’t leave room for reckless decisions.
So no, I’m not going to tell you to quit your job tomorrow and “just have faith.”
That’s not what I believe discernment looks like.
Sometimes the question isn’t, “How fast can I get out of corporate?”
Sometimes the better question is:
“God, what have You been preparing me to do with everything I’ve learned here?”
That’s the conversation I want to help you have.
I spent more than 20 years working in corporate America, with most of those years in sales and leadership.
I worked my way up to District Sales Manager, where a huge part of my job was developing leaders. I coached people, trained them, helped them manage teams, and taught them how to think like business owners.
Then I got laid off.
So I went back to school, earned my degree in Human Resources Management, and moved into the HR industry.
I became an HR Business Partner and also worked in talent acquisition. I trained and developed leaders, worked on performance management and succession planning, and helped leaders build stronger teams and workplace cultures.
And get this…
I actually loved HR.
That’s an important part of my story because I don’t believe every woman who feels called to something else has to hate her career first.
Something can be God’s provision for one season without being His assignment for every season.
My mom’s health started declining.
In 2020, while COVID was hitting my region hard, my employer required me to return to visiting stores in the field.
I had a high-risk mother at home.
I had to make a decision.
And I chose my mom.
I resigned and took another corporate position that I genuinely thought would be different. It was a Christian organization, and I thought, Okay, maybe this is it.
It wasn’t.
The work environment became increasingly difficult, and eventually I found myself stressed, documenting everything, and trying to hold onto a job that I knew was no longer where I needed to be. After talking with my family, I resigned.
No dramatic six-month countdown.
No viral “I quit!” Reel.
I resigned on Tuesday and left on Friday.
And that chapter was over.
Corporate wasn’t the only place where I had spent years developing people.
I was licensed in ministry in my late twenties and into my thirties (about 10 years) and served closely with ministry leaders for years.
Later, when I became a health and stress-management coach, I worked with ministry leaders and helped them prevent burnout (I kept a side hustle, sis).
Then something started happening.
My clients kept asking me:
“How did you become a coach?”
At first, it was just a question.
Then it kept happening.
And eventually I realized the thing people were asking me about was pointing toward the work I was supposed to do next.
That became the beginning of Business Church Life.
I see evidence.
When you tell me you managed a team, I’m thinking leadership development, accountability, decision-making, conflict resolution, and coaching.
When you tell me everybody comes to you when there’s a crisis, I’m paying attention.
When you tell me you’ve been training new hires for ten years and “that’s just part of my job,” I’m probably going to stop you right there.
It just feels normal to you.
That’s why so many women get stuck trying to figure out their coaching niche.
They’re searching outside themselves for an answer that’s been leaving clues through their career for YEARS.
The work I do is about helping you recognize those clues, turn them into something another person needs, and build a coaching business from there.
Because one of the hardest things about being good at something for a long time is that eventually you stop realizing it’s a skill.
I know the online business world can make entrepreneurship look like you need to post seven days a week, dance for the algorithm, share your entire life online, and somehow squeeze CEO life between your 6 a.m. routine and Pilates class.
Girl.
Some of us have PEOPLE to take care of.
I’m a caregiver for my mom too.
So when you tell me you don’t have six hours a day to build a business, I believe you.
When you tell me somebody always needs something, I get it.
And when you tell me you want to build something that matters without sacrificing the people who matter, I’m not going to hand you a business plan that ignores your actual life.
We’re going to build from reality.
One of my clients described working with me better than I could:
“Monique has a way of saying things that make sense without making you feel small. She knows how to pull the best out of you and help you step into your business with new eyes.”
Stephanie Felice, Midlife Mindset Coach
That’s how I coach.
I’m going to tell you the truth.
If your idea is too broad, we’re going to talk about it.
If you’re hiding behind another certification instead of using what you already know, we’re going to talk about that too.
If you’ve spent three weeks choosing colors instead of talking to an actual potential client…well, sis. You already know. 😂
But I’m not interested in making you dependent on me.
I want you to understand why we’re making a decision so you can eventually make those decisions confidently for yourself.
I believe God can use your experience outside the four walls of a church.
I believe serving people and getting paid can exist in the same sentence.
I believe you can care about profit without worshipping it.
And I believe faith-led business should still be good business.
Prayer doesn’t replace learning how to describe your offer.
Being called doesn’t mean somebody automatically knows why they should hire you.
And “God told me to do it” isn’t a marketing plan.
Amen, somebody!
Faith belongs in how we build the business, how we treat people, how we steward money, how we make decisions, and what we’re unwilling to compromise to get ahead.
Because I don’t want to help you build something that looks successful and quietly makes you miserable.
Inside Business Church Life, I teach through my Corporate Exodus Method.
RECLAIM is where you stop dismissing the authority you’ve already earned and identify the skills, wisdom, experience, and patterns you can build from.
REFRAME is where we turn that experience into a clear problem you solve, a transformation you provide, and an offer people can understand and pay for.
REACH is where you stop building in private and start having real conversations with people, beginning with the relationships and credibility you already have.
REPLICATE is where we create the client experience, proof, habits, and simple systems that help you grow without reinventing your business every month.
No 47-step funnel before you’ve worked with one client.
No pretending you need 10,000 followers.
We build the foundation first.
You don’t need to quit corporate.
You don’t need another website.
And you definitely don’t need to sit there for another six months wondering whether you’re qualified.
Start with the evidence.
The Purpose Audit walks you back through the leadership, communication, relationships, problem-solving, decision-making, and experiences you’ve accumulated over the years so you can begin seeing the coaching expertise that’s already there. The Purpose Audit The Purpose Audit
You may be much closer to your next chapter than you’ve been giving yourself credit for.
If you already know coaching is the direction you’re headed and you’re ready to start building the actual business, come inside the Bigger Calling Collective.
It’s where we move from “I think I could do this” to building the offer, talking to potential clients, landing clients, and creating a business you can keep growing without recreating corporate burnout at home.
