About

Hi, my name is Alexis, but I’m known as @MissTrenchcoat all across the internet! I’m an online entrepreneur who helps ambitious women plan for a balanced life and business. I design productivity tools, classes and courses based on the latest productivity science and research to help you get all your big thoughts, plans, dreams and ideas out of your head and onto paper so you can get down to business creating your dream life!

I have been obsessed with the topic of productivity since I was young because I am naturally a very lazy person (if you can believe it!) and for me, productivity & planning were tools I could use to get ahead with less time or effort. If you knew me growing up, I would have seemed like a textbook over-achiever and I’m still considered by those who know me to be a high-performer, meaning my capacity to execute on work and solve problems is very high. When people want to know my secret, I tell them- it’s no secret! I am a devotee to my planner and the study of productivity and I’ve made it my life’s work to take everything I’ve learned and share it with you, my loyal friends and followers! I know not everyone has the time (or interest) in making productivity a full time study, but I have seen how understanding certain tools, strategies and skills can transform a life forever!

So, you might be wondering, how does someone go from being a lazy over-achiever to entrepreneur? Well, since you asked…

Growing up, I was lucky enough to have family members who worked in tech, so I grew up around computers even at a time when most families still didn’t own one. I love computers and the internet so I started dabbling with online platforms, building websites, and then blogging hit the scene! I started my first real blog in 2008 after graduating from college and then started a YouTube Channel to go along with it in 2009 (I told you, I’m OG internet here)! As time passed, I honed my crafts of writing and video creation in my spare time while I worked a traditional corporate 9 to 5, growing an audience online and loving the creative freedom of the work. Eventually, as I made more and more connections within my community and saw how my content was positively affecting the women who read my blog and watched my videos, I started to see how my blogging and youtube side hustle could turn into a legitimate business, and others around me did as well. Friends, family, and co-workers often told me they saw me working from home running my own business, an idea that wasn’t completely foreign to me. Ever since I read The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris sometime back in 2010, I understood that an online business was a legitimate career path that would give me ultimate time and location freedom, and you can imagine that the lazy over-achiever in me really loved the sound of that!

So, in 2014 I left my secure career at a Fortune 50 to run my own online business full time and replaced my income in 6 months. Since then it has been my mission to help other women take back control of their time and manifest the life they want to live. For many of the women I serve in my community, productivity, entrepreneurship and online business play a significant role in giving them time and location freedom to pursue more important and meaningful aspects of their lives like motherhood, family, travel, spirituality, and community service. I think we have all seen first hand how women can often be so hard working and self-sacrificing taking care of others that they put their own wants and needs last. This is a trend that I desperately want to end because expectation and societal pressures are literally causing women to work themselves into death and disease. I know there is a better way for women to do it all and lead the fulfilling lives they desire by prioritizing themselves and managing their time, energy and expectations!

That is my mission, my passion, my research and my business. Over the past years working for myself online, I have created a profitable passive income business that gives me the time, financial and location freedom to do this important work and get the message out to women across the globe! So that is why I am so glad that you are here on this journey with me, and I sincerely hope you stay in touch with me to learn everything I have to share and help me spread this important message to other women that they too can manifest their dream life with a little clarity, planning and self-discipline!

So, if this sounds like you, Welcome! I’m glad you found Strange & Charmed! You can follow me via Twitter & Instagram @MissTrenchcoat or follow S&C on Bloglovin if you prefer! You can also Subscribe to the blog by entering your email into the widget on the sidebar!

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xoxo,

P.S.: If you want to get your hands on my latest Tools, Strategies and Skills, head on over to TheCharmedShop.com and check out my collection of printable planners, productivity and business master classes, books, and courses! No matter where you are on your productivity journey or what your goals, there is something wonderful waiting for you on the shop!