Wendy Smith

Life and business coach

Wendy Smith is a life and business coach whose contribution to Live With Purpose focuses on women navigating midlife change. Her biography describes decades of experience in social and humanitarian work, together with social science study and training associated with grief recovery and coaching.

Wendy's chapter includes service on boards and committees in education, aged care and community development. She also describes returning to a university ambition in her thirties and completing a Bachelor of Social Sciences, which opened further opportunities in education and community projects.

From Raw to Radiant connects that professional background with a personal search for belonging. Changing relationships, work pressures, caring responsibilities and shifts in identity can all alter what once felt certain. Wendy reflects on the difference between how a life appears from the outside and what a person needs internally.

Her contribution is written for readers reconsidering worth, purpose and authenticity in a new stage of life. Wendy brings community experience and her own account of change to the question of how someone can recognize their needs and begin to make room for them.