SCIENCE of PEOPLE COACHING with TANYA SAUNDERS
Step into a richer experience of the life you’ve built.
You’ve designed a full life. But how well-resourced are you within it?
Get the FREE Well-Resourced Life Check-in—for driven, multidimensional women who want to enjoy their lives as much as they manage them.
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For women who want the whole beautiful thing—and want to be as intentional about experiencing it as they’ve been about building it.
Meaningful work. Good money. Strong bodies. Interesting minds. Deep relationships. Perhaps a little celestial guidance—and something fabulous to wear while figuring it all out.
Because a life that looks well-designed isn’t necessarily a life that feels well-lived.
And so much of how life feels comes down to the people we experience it with.
Many of us have been doing the work—becoming more self-aware, learning to regulate, investing in our personal growth—and still find ourselves misunderstood by a partner, misread by a colleague, or having absolutely no idea what our kids meant by “k.”
We can know our attachment style, journal through our triggers, memorize our birth chart—and still be learning how to understand the humans we share our lives with.
It's not unusual to have a very well-managed life and still wonder...
Am I actually enjoying it?
I get it. I’ve been doing the work too.
Hi there, I’m Tanya—married for 23 years, mom of three, nurse anesthetist, nervous system educator, breathwork facilitator, financial market analyst, student of human behavior, and more-than-occasional closet editor. You get the point.Â
I’ve spent years studying what happens beneath the surface: our physiology, patterns, choices, and the cues we’re constantly sending and receiving. Some of that curiosity comes from my work. A lot of it comes from being a wife, a mom, a friend, and a human trying to navigate other humans.
What I love is helping other driven, multidimensional moms become more skillful at the human side of the lives they’ve worked so hard to build—understanding themselves, reading the room, communicating with more confidence and influence, and creating more connection with the people they love.
Because a well-managed life isn’t necessarily a well-resourced and richly experienced one.Â
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What a richly experienced life looks like.
Our brains change through what we learn, notice, and practice. Each of my offerings gives you a different way to recognize and interrupt the familiar patterns our nervous systems naturally default to—and, most importantly, intentionally practice and design something new.
My work moves from the inside out:
Self-awareness → Relationship awareness → Intentional action → Lived experience
Notice your patterns. Understand the people around you. Practice new ways of responding, communicating, and connecting.
Less life by Default. More Life by Design.
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 HOW TO BEGIN A WELL-RESOURCED LIFE BY YOUR DESIGN
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START WITH YOURSELF
The FREE Well-Resourced Life Check-In
Discover how resourced you are to experience the full life you’ve built. Consider this your mindful check-in with your body, work, money, relationships, energy, meaning, and fun.
PRACTICE
Breathwork · Lunar Lab™ · Money Psychology
Humans are endlessly curious about what makes us who we are. Awareness reveals our patterns. Practice helps us change the ones that no longer serve the life we’re designing.
GET BETTER WITH PEOPLE
Science of People Coaching
The richness of life happens between people. Learn to read the room, understand what drives human behavior, and become deeply intentional about how you relate, communicate, and influence.
 Tanya merely knew me, and she spoke about the essence of my personality with such compassion and wisdom. She brought onto the light aspects of my career, which was very reassuring and so uplifting to understand that I was intuitively following my natural path. I left our session feeling confident of what I needed to do to stay in alignment with my life purpose. My worries melted away and my heart lit up. I recommend Tanya’s help to deepen your self awareness and growth.”Â
M.P.
I immediately felt that I could open up during my session. It typically takes me a quite some time (if at all) to warm up to people, but at an instant, I was able to share vulnerably and authentically. That's a miracle in itself!.
J.W.
Take A Deeper Look
Breathwork
Our physiology affects our psychology—and both influence how we communicate.
When we’re stressed, activated, or overwhelmed, it can show up in our tone, our words, how well we listen, what we avoid saying, and how quickly we react.
Breathwork gives us a practical way to work with our physiology, notice those patterns sooner, and create more space between what happens and how we respond.
Better communication often starts before we say a word.
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MONEY PSYCHOLOGY
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Few things reveal our patterns quite like money.
How we earn, spend, save, avoid, and define “enough” offers a practical—and sometimes surprising—window into our beliefs, habits, values, and relationship with security.
Money touches nearly every part of our lives, and those patterns often show up in how we communicate, make decisions, navigate relationships, and respond under pressure.
Money gives us something tangible to observe: where our behavior supports the life we’re designing—and where old patterns may still be making the decisions.
What we do with our money can tell us a lot about what we believe.
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PEOPLE COACHING
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A vision you design for your life includes a vision for your relationships. How we communicate shapes so much of what happens between us.
People skills aren’t something you either have or you don’t. They can be observed, practiced, and strengthened.
We begin with the People Skills Index™ (PSI), a proprietary Science of People assessment grounded in decades of peer-reviewed research across psychology, communication, and behavioral science. It looks at the skills behind how we perceive others, navigate social interactions, communicate nonverbally, build trust, and create connection.
Your results give us a baseline—not a label. From there, we identify your strengths and opportunities for growth and apply practical people skills to the relationships, conversations, and rooms that matter most in your life.
The richness of life happens between people. Getting better with people changes how we experience it.
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