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About Amy Schoen
Amy Schoen is a DC based national expert in dating and relationship life coaching where she is passionate about helping marriage-minded individuals to find their life long mates and early stage couples to create the relationships that are fulfilling and satisfying that lead to greater commitment and marriage. As a life coach Amy strives to help her clients to feel at peace with their life choices so they will have no regrets about how they are spending their time, energy and resources to achieve their life goals.
Amy’s story is one of perseverance. She was divorced in her mid thirties and successfully remarried at 42 to a man who is a much better choice! Her husband and her also struggled with infertility and eventually Amy gave birth to her son at the age of 48, after exploring all their options to bring a child into their family.
Amy had several successful businesses before dedicating her life’s work to relationship life coaching. After earning her MBA from Georgetown University, she owned and operated an upscale clothing boutique for 13 years in Bethesda Maryland and had an image and wardrobe business, as well. Here, Amy helped her clients to discover their best image giving them the confidence they needed to accomplish their life goals. After closing the boutique in 2003, Amy continued as an image/wardrobe consultant and established Amy’s Eye for Style consulting service.
Amy has the gift of visualization. As a life coach, she has transferred that gift to helping her clients visualize and then verbalize the kind of life they truly desire. She has been a certified professional life coach since 2005 with Coaches Training Institute of San Rafael, California and then completed their Relationship Systems training, furthering her knowledge about helping couples strengthen their bond. In addition, Amy participates as a member of the International Coach Federation, especially in the DC area.
Coach Amy enjoys utilizing her creative talents of writing and speaking through the medium of the web, video and the telephone to share her message of how to best find and connect with your true love. She is the author of Motivated to Marry® - Now There is a Better Method to Dating and Relationships and Get It Right This Time- How to Find and Keep Your Ideal Romantic Relationship.
She is also a contributing author to SelfGrowth.com’s book 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Vol. 2 featuring top experts such as John Gray and Jack Canfield. Amy writes a bi-monthly “Ask the Coach” relationship column for Viva Tysons magazine and posts regularly for her blog www.motivatedtomarry.com. Her freelance articles have been featured in Insights magazine, Life After 50 (Southern California), Washington Woman, Washington Families and the Washington Jewish Week.
Coach Amy has been quoted and featured in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Sun Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Business Journal, the Bethesda Magazine and the Gazette Newspapers and has been interviewed on WUSA TV, CBS radio, WASH FM, WMET AM, WBIG AM and Montgomery County’s cable Channel 16 and Channel New 8 “Let’s Talk Live”.