This blog is part of a special Women Making History Series lifting up women who are working in and with communities to make history in our current time. The series is organized and written by Strategic Community Partners’ 2021 Urban Alliance Youth Intern, Jo-Anna Ballard, and will run throughout Women’s History Month (March).

Monica Marie Jones is a professional life coach and the founder of Monica Marie Jones Coaching. Through her coaching, Monica helps her clients plan and prioritize their lives in order to achieve their visions of success. Her work focuses on identifying the behaviors, mindsets, and positive changes needed to support her clients through major transitions in their lives and their careers.

The inspiration for Monica’s role as a life coach comes from her own experience during her childhood and early career. She knew early on that she wanted to take the skills she learned from the experiences and challenges she had in her life and use them to help others. In her current work, nothing gives Monica more joy than seeing her clients win and achieve the success they dream of.

As an entrepreneur and consultant, Monica loves the freedom of working on her own schedule and at her own pace. However, she is also a strong advocate for planning. She loves to plan her weeks out to help make sure she knows what needs to be done and when. She even creates a “happy list” of activities she’s looking forward to.

In addition to her work as a life coach, Monica also loves supporting youth and nonprofits through trainings, workshops, and mentorship. For her, success is being engaged in work that is so meaningful that you do not feel like you have to change who you are in order to do it.

Women Making History: Monica Marie Jones