About Carol

I believe a woman can create a life she loves at any age.

Hi, I'm Carol Whitaker—author, entrepreneur, private coach, wife, mother, grandmother, and a woman who has learned that a full life can still ask you to grow.

For more than 20 years, I have been writing, coaching, and encouraging women to believe in themselves, trust their own inner wisdom, and create lives that feel meaningful, purposeful, and truly their own. I am also the author of Ridiculously Happy!, published in 2014.

I have been married to my best friend for 35 years, and together we have raised three wonderful children. I am deeply grateful for my family, my faith, and the life we have built.

But I also know what it is to reach a point where something important has changed.

Earlier in my life, I faced major health challenges that asked for a strength I did not know I had. After I came through them, my business partners and I built a general contracting company together, and I continued my work as a life coach alongside it.

When that business closed, I grieved both what we had built and the future I had imagined for it. And I found myself facing a question many capable women eventually meet:

Who am I when the role, work, or future I counted on is no longer the same?

That question changed me.

It taught me that life does not always hand us a clean, easy transition. Sometimes we have to pause, tell ourselves the truth, grieve what is complete, and decide—on purpose—what we will create from here. That experience shapes how I walk beside every woman I coach.

Today, through Carol Whitaker Coaching, I work privately with accomplished women who are ready to make an important next-chapter decision. Some are rethinking a career or business. Some are navigating an empty nest, a relationship shift, a change in health or confidence, or the realization that they have spent years putting themselves last. Many are successful by every visible measure—and quietly ready for something more.

My work is not about helping you blow up a good life.

It is about helping you decide what deserves your attention now, make a clear plan, and follow through on the changes that will make your life feel more aligned, meaningful, energized, and yours.

Through The Next Chapter Private Coaching Intensive, we work together one-to-one over three months of weekly phone sessions. We make the important decision in front of you, create a clear 90-day plan, and move you through your first three meaningful milestones.

This is not about starting over. It is about making a thoughtful decision about what comes next.