about coach nat
Coach Nat is a multi-talented individual, juggling roles as a wife, mother, entrepreneur, coach, and author! Her success includes owning multiple businesses, coaching and mentoring the next generation, educating others how to unlock their true potential, and how to build and scale their dreams! Her primary gifts are leading, empowering, and equipping. This is something she has done for over twenty years. With coaching as an anointing, Coach Nat loves to help people achieve greatness, cultivate teams and cultures, and ultimately bring people together to do extraordinary things!
She understands firsthand what it is to build and empower in business, on the field, and in people. In business, she grew her first company to six figures in the first six months! In the world of sports, she has won three championships— one as a player and two as a head coach, showcasing her tenacity and winning mindset. She has led from the front not only in her sports career and businesses, but also in her service to her country in the military.
Her Faith in Jesus is the cornerstone of her life, and all things flow from that. Natalie also believes that discipleship is not only a declaration but a deep relationship. She believes in order to show the love of Jesus, you must bless and serve others, fellowship by committing to one another, minister with integrity, and proclaim the Kingdom with excellence!
Her most important role is being a wife to the love of her life Steve, and a mother to her precious boys, Maximus (9), Marcus (7), and Maverick (4).
more about coach nat
Everyone has a beginning to their story, and more importantly, a testimony that allows others to know how Jesus transformed their life. One of the most beautiful things about testimonies are they don’t have to be packaged with perfect ribbon or the nicest paper. They are real and they allow God to be glorified in all the pain and beauty.
Natalie has had many careers and has worn lots of different hats in her life. She was a go-getter (as her family likes to say) since she a was young child. As a young adult, she was a manager at a local retail store at only 16 years old. She was the captain of her high school varsity lacrosse team and first chair in her school’s marching band. Sports and music were her love language growing up. As she transitioned into college, an unexpected offer to play lacrosse at the collegiate level presented itself and a last minute acceptance to that new university started her new journey as a collegiate athlete. Like many young adults starting their life in the big world, Natalie was not immune to the hard lessons. She played lacrosse, worked two jobs to pay her way through college, had a full time academic schedule, all while playing hard in her social life.
She worked hard and partied just as hard. It eventually caught up with her and life altering circumstances forced her to re-evaluate her life choices. One of those circumstances was a severe car accident that left her car totaled, but Natalie completely unharmed. At that moment in her life, she stood on the corner of that intersection and gave her life to Jesus. She knew that there was no other way she survived what she had if it wasn’t for the divine protection of God. This rattled her to her core. She spent the next two nights shaken by God as He showed her the new path she was to walk down. Never in her wildest decisions did she ever think to do what she was about to do next….
join the military.
Natalie made that decision, but she wouldn’t leave for another 10 months. God promised her to finish what she started and that was her commitment to her college team. The last year she played, her team won the Regional Championship that took them to Nationals for the first time in the Universities history. She joined the military a few months later and would go on to serve her country for almost 12 years. With it being war time, the schedule was high tempo and deployments were more common than not. It was a wealth of knowledge, pain, beauty, and real wisdom that forever changed the trajectory of her life.
While serving and not deployed at the time, Natalie stumbled upon a coaching opportunity as a lacrosse coach for a local high school. She loved the sport but had never coached. She thought, why not, I’ll give it a try……she hated it. She said she would never do it again. All of sudden, the next season came around and she found herself being asked to do it again. She painstakingly accepted.
That season….those girls….changed her life. God revealed to her in that season what coaching and empowering really meant. And if you can learn that lesson with high school girls…. you are set! She was forever moved in what serving others really meant. This deep conviction didn’t come from the military. It came from a group of kids. Her calling. She learned what it means to bless someone else when they could never repay you and what that really looks like. That would be the last season she coached that team and those girls, but the impact they had on her will always have a place in her heart…. and her future.
Her marriage to her husband took her across the country to a new place where they would start their new life. Like any new season, life can feel rocky and not very consistent. With her husband gone a lot with deployments and training, she had to find her footing in this new place a bit on her own. And during that, coaching found her. Again.
During this time, she was still serving in the military, coaching, and starting a family. Life was hectic but beautiful and fruitful!
Life moved quickly into starting her own businesses and officially stepping away from the military. Her love for the next generation and mentoring them became even stronger. God was starting something new. You could say it started a while back, but was just now starting to take shape. Maybe the difference between your anointing and your appointing. During this time, the high school team she was coaching went undefeated and won the Regional Championship. This was another pivotal moment for her and how those girls changed her life. It was a defining moment for her and realizing the gifts God gave her. It wasn’t about the win, or the sport…. It was about them. All of them. And she will love them forever.
The following year she won another championship being the head coach for the Virginia National team. She also received Coach of the Year that year. In the hardest way, God was calling her out of that season of her life. Even though she knew this was right, it was painful. She leaned into God and what He was telling her…..
It was time to coach the coaches.
With over 15 years of coaching experience and building 3 businesses at this point, God was calling her higher. It was time to teach others how to build a legacy. The thing about legacy is, it has nothing to do with you. With the heart of service and empowering others… the real truth is to LOVE the people you are called to serve. This ultimately becomes your legacy.
Coach Nat isn’t perfect and nothing about her life is perfect. No one’s life is. But she does chase Greatness! And she has succeeded! She has fallen short on being the best mom, wife, and coach. But she loves hard and will never miss a chance to tell you she loves you.
Believe her when she says it.
Her calling and anointing is for the generations. For the future! Her life will always be at the feet of the youth. Whether that is washing them herself or training and equipping others to do the same. God has placed in her heart to pioneer a new way, BACK to what it’s all about. Jesus.
God is in the business of generations. Legacy. His deep love for His children means He will chase them to the ends of the earth. He is always looking for the pioneers who are ready to say “yes” to Him!
Natalie says yes! Say yes with her!
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