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CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT
MARIE
MARIE VEGA-BYRNE
Marie is the founder of Beyond Rubies Coaching, a transformational coach, speaker, and Chief Possibility Officer.
After more than 35 years in the corporate world of real estate and title insurance, her life and work have taught her that people can be successful, capable, and accomplished and still reach a point where they wonder, “Is this all there is for me?”
Today, she serves women, particularly in midlife and beyond, who have spent years meeting responsibilities, taking care of others, and doing what was expected of them, but are beginning to ask, “What about me? What do I want now?”
Through coaching, speaking, workshops, and transformational experiences, she creates space for women to uncover what has been shaping their choices, strengthen their self-trust and mental fitness, reconnect with their own voice, and intentionally choose what comes next.
That is the heart of Beyond Rubies Coaching and her philosophy, Unlock the Brilliance of You. She believes our brilliance doesn't disappear because of age, mistakes, setbacks, or the stories we have carried. Sometimes we simply need the courage to see that it has been there all along... and give ourselves permission to live from it.
Marie's Book Summit Presentation:
I Was Living a Life I Never Chose
Theme / Summary
How awareness, choice and influence change everything.
Marie's Book Contribution:
Some Secrets Don’t Die... They Get Inherited
Theme / Summary
Marie's story explores what happens when family silence outlives the people who created it. Through the stories of her two grandmothers... one carrying a secret for more than a century, the other for nearly five decades...Marie begins to see that families pass down far more than names, traditions, and photographs. They can also pass down expectations, survival strategies, roles, and unspoken messages about what must be hidden, endured, protected, or carried alone. Her journey is not about blaming the generations before her. It is about understanding the circumstances that shaped them... and becoming conscious of what those circumstances may still be shaping in you now.
