Bios

Little-known facts about Elaine

  • elsmallCan devour a  juicy mango over the kitchen sink like nobody’s business
  • Was fortunate enough to marry Tom– the also-juicy, gorgeous and grounded love of her life
  • Dreamed of being a dancer when she was a little girl–Absolutely LOVES to dance to this day
  • Can draw you in realistic detail
  • Spent college summers waitressing in the French Quarter of New Orleans  (next door to transvestite bars and the best jazz clubs ever)
  • Studied art in Tuscany and worked as an ‘au pair’ in Florence, Italy
  • Started her own line of women’s evening wear in Manhattan in the ’70s, sold to stores nationwide
  • Created massive fabric sculptures for corporate and public spaces
  • Believes having children is a surefire fast track to spiritual growth
  • Is a certified Hypnotherapist
  • Looks for the everyday, amazing, miraculous moments and believes there are no accidents. None.
  • Is endlessly curious, a tireless researcher and a self-diagnosed bookaholic
  • Has attended at least 6,528 youth baseball games and is still cheering (Good thing she really likes the game)
  • Is certain that her deep friendships with girlfriends are a major key to a happy life
  • Has turned a  passion for the body-mind-spirit connection into helping clients discover their own true wellness
  • Doesn’t believe she can sing, but according to musician husband, Tom, she can sing just fine
  • Is currently finishing her Master’s degree in Leadership and  Change
  • Is obsessed with the role of emotions and beliefs underneath physical dis-ease
  • In high school, was voted Most Creative and elected to speak at her graduation (all, she says, “a million years ago”)
  • Avoided learning how to type in high school so she’d never be a secretary–pays for it still
  • Is a born negotiator and could handle top executives at 30
  • Never met a single piece of organic dark chocolate she didn’t like
  • Believes that beautifully made pottery is a gift from God
  • Has seen the numbers 33 and 34 everywhere for 20+ years (and so has her husband)–angels are calling
  • Was once a sworn-in, life-long “cat person only” — before Lucky won her over (part Beagle, part Jack Russell)
  • Trainer for More to Life. Read “About Us – Trainers” here.

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Little-known facts about Jan

  • janEarned a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling after having three children
  • Hiked across the Continential Divide 30 miles through grizzly habitat
  • Received Superior ratings from the National Piano Guild for five consecutive years
  • Home-birthed her second and third children (her oldest daughter had her son at home, too, and in the same house)
  • Served as Minister of Music in Bozeman’s First Baptist and First Presbyterian churches
  • Sewed (well, is sewing….) her grandson’s Christmas stocking
  • Her first name is Demetri, but husband, Claud, calls her January
  • Traveled Italy alone in her 50s, along the Adriatic coast
  • Rode a bike from Bozeman, Montana to Jackson, Wyoming, crossing over the continental divide four times
  • Was President of the National Honor Society in high school
  • Sends friends to the best coffee in the world served Tuesday through Saturday at the Spotted Horse in rural Belgrade, Montana
  • With Claud, created the More To Life Program in Bozeman
  • Met Claud at Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park in 1969  (they were and are best friends)
  • Wanted to be a preacher from the time she was 7, but it wasn’t to be in the Baptist church — Answered the calling a way only Life could devise
  • Thrives on theological concepts, and her favorite ideas are in Carse’s Breakfast at the Victory
  • Sold her husband’s black belt at a garage sale
  • Enjoys thinking outside the box
  • Has a first degree in music from Baylor University
  • Was raised with all kinds of extended family in rural West Texas
  • Created original recipe for Tea and Eggroll, a Chinese restaurant
  • Faithfully studies Italian and attends her daughter’s Italian class
  • Keeps a journal for self-acknowledgment and for naming synchronistic, out of the ordinary events
  • As a young woman, was deeply impacted by Alan Paton’s  Too Late the Phalarope
  • Took a seven-week trip around the country in a converted laundry truck
  • Dances with InterPlayers, sings in the car, and plays the piano
  • Co-founded Aspen Counseling Services in 1990, still serving Bozeman
  • Trainer for More to Life. Read “About Us – Trainers” here