After years of fighting for justice as a criminal defense attorney, Sharon Vidano realized true transformation begins long before anyone steps into a courtroom. Today, she’s a transformational life coach helping women reconnect with love, purpose, and self-worth. Drawing from her legal background and spiritual wisdom, Sharon guides her clients to shift from fear to faith, from survival to self-love, and to consciously create a life they truly adore.

What inspired you to transition from a career as a criminal defense attorney to becoming a transformational life coach? 

After many years in the courtroom, I realized many of the clients returned to court with new cases. The impact I was attempting to make seemed to be short lived.  After hiring a coach myself, I applied many of the mindset tools and strategies to get out of my own way and take steps to living a life I love.  So,  I decided it was time. I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives so they did not end up in court in the first place.

How do your experiences in law inform your approach to coaching and guiding clients through life changes?  

My experience in law has given me incredible tools such as having empathy for the journey that my clients are on. With this heightened insight, I am able to really read the energy where my clients are coming from and guide them gently to overcome the obstacles that stop them from taking their next step.  I know my words must be encouraging and, at times, gently rigorous to shed light of the awareness of clients’ own thoughts.

Can you share a moment when you realized your true calling was helping women embrace love, purpose, and empowerment?  

There was a moment when a client called stating her husband was about to leave her. She asked to meet. She said she didn’t know why she was calling, but that she called because I asked her to call me if she was in need.  Prior to our meeting, I quietly prayed and asked the Spirit to give me the words to do His work and use me to spread His love.  Throughout our conversation, there were lots of tears. It was raw and real. Every bit of coaching was not what one would expect when a husband is about to leave.  The main theme of all the guidance was “Come from Love” “What would love do?”  The client leaned in, even though it felt hard, and she was hurt.  As I knew the whole story between her and her husband, I knew her husband was in crisis. He was a good man, but he was broken at the moment.  As the client came from love with boundaries for worthiness for herself, her and her husband worked and healed their marriage. They are stronger, more intimate, and so grateful, they chose to come from Love.  This showed me I have a larger calling to empower women to make a larger and lasting impact on their lives.

How do you help clients bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be in life?  

We look at where they are now and what areas they would love improvement in their lives. I, then, help my client create a vision of them living the life they love. The invitation is to use all of their senses to “feel” what it is like living the life they love. Now the magic begins.  Once she “feels” that version of herself living that life, she can make one decision at a time to move in the direction of her dream.  Because that version of herself acts, speaks, walks, and  is very different from the version today, she takes one action step with this in mind “do what you can, with where you are, with what you have.”  One step, even a micro step, will move you forward.

What strategies do you use to support women in improving relationships with their partners, children, and themselves?

I invite the ladies to learn to listen to that still small voice that guides them. That is Spirit. That still small voice will let them know they are worthy and loved. They then can create healthy respectful boundaries and always come from Love – ask “What would Love do?” That would be their guiding light.

How has your study of the Laws of the Universe and their connection to Spirit influenced your coaching methodology? 

I learned they are not separate. They are one and by learning the Universal Laws, one learns to communicate and BE with Spirit.  This BE-ingness with Spirit taps into co-creating life. You get to create the life you love.   The more one learns of the Universal Laws, the more one grows in their self-worth, heals, and grows closer to Spirit. Ultimately, this is the Power that is connected to us. I coach clients to learn to lean on that power.

What challenges do women most commonly face when trying to level up in their careers or personal lives, and how do you help them overcome these?

One of the main challenges is maintaining work life balance.  When a woman has a successful career, she sometimes feels there is not enough time in the day to be the career woman, the wife, or the mother. When does she have time for herself?  We craft their vision of a well-balanced life and work to achieve small shifts at a time.  When times feel hard or if it feels like the change or results are not coming fast enough, it is very easy to give up and go back to what’s comfortable.  By being in a structure of support, it is easier to navigate the wobble when circumstances come up.

How do you integrate wellness practices into your coaching to support holistic transformation?  

I invite my clients to the ground in nature. Make time for themselves even if it’s a pause for 1 minute in the middle of whatever is swirling around. The main tool is to integrate breathing to calm the nervous system. Once the breathing is done, and the nervous system is calm, they can go from fight-flight-or freeze, to rest-digest- and create. They then can go back to vision and ask what the next step is.

Can you share a success story where your coaching helped a client achieve a major life transformation?  

I had a client that had left her verbally abusive, controlling husband. Their marriage was so volatile. He controlled her every move. Separated her from her family and friends. She stopped doing the things she loved and wearing the clothes and makeup she loved. She dropped out of college all because her husband did not approve of anything she liked. He wanted all of her attention.  One day she left her husband (but would consider going back here and there),  reconciled with her family, and registered for college again.  She finally decided she wanted a divorce and started to re-build her life.  She met a wonderful young man, but she became very afraid of dating and didn’t know how to be in a relationship. When I started working with her, she felt unworthy, unloved, broken, and mostly unworthy of God’s love. She was afraid she would sabotage any new relationship with her new guy.  As we continued to work together, she grew in her self-love, self-worthiness, and realized she is worthy of the relationship with God and someday the guy of her dreams. She continues to thrive and live her best life.

What advice would you give to women ready to start a new chapter in their lives but feel uncertain about taking the first step? 

 If there is a part of you that is afraid and another part of you that wants that next version of yourself, lean into the part of you that wants a larger life.  Get curious.  It’s one tiny step at a time.  Growing into the life you are meant to live is worth it.  Growth will feel scary, inconvenient, and uncomfortable. That is ok. That just means you are shedding the old you to make room for the new you.  Take the step and do it afraid.