Nicole Catino

How Did I Get Here?

When I was 25 I was living in Los Angeles and working as a music coordinator choosing the music that went into movies.  Dream job, right?  For me it was!  I worked with Mariah Carey, Outkast, Solange Knowles and many other famous musicians.  Then I met the man of my dreams.  My life partner.  Finding someone that I could really see starting a family with and creating a life with was extremely important to me.  We got married in 2003 and had our first son in 2005.  HUGE game changer for me.  I couldn’t imagine working 12 hours a day and having someone else raise my child, so I quit my life in music and movies and moved up to Northern California to start what I imagined to be a storybook life for myself and my family.

I was committed to being the good wife and mother.  The kind society tells us about.  Home cooked meals, social coordinator, volunteer at the schools, supportive wife who helped build up her husband’s career and raise the children.  During that time I always felt a lack in what my purpose was.  I started a t-shirt company for children, went back to school for psychology, graduated with honors, began a life coaching practice and all the while thinking that my priority was supposed to be my husband and my children.

I began to lose site of who I was.  I was this ambitious, intelligent, vivacious being that was having a difficult time with being at peace as a stay at home mom that volunteered for school fundraisers and had a little coaching practice that was more of a hobby than a profession.   The resentment started to grow.  I became withdrawn, depressed, I was angry, nothing anyone did for me was good enough and what I doing with my life?!!  Wasn’t I meant for more?  This can’t be it!

Well, in 2015 my life got loud.  My picture-perfect life blew up   Sure, I wasn’t happy with how it was going, but did it really all need to be torn down at once for me to learn what I needed?  Apparently it did.  My marriage fell apart, I lost all financial stability, my mom died, my therapist took her own life and I was left a single mother of two boys, tons of debt, no job and picking up the pieces of my former self.  Who was that anyway?  Now what?

I took a job bartending because it was a way for me to make money quickly while interacting with other people and have fun doing it.  They were my live audience.  I found myself being curious about every single person that sat in those seats.  I listened and asked questions.  I always came back to asking people their birthdate so I could do their charts.   I did charts for dozens of people and studied how it correlated to their lives as far as what they did professionally, their relationship or lack there-of, what they really wanted, if they were happy, what their strengths and struggles are, how they process their emotions and so on.  I found people coming back and wanting to discuss more.  Eventually, people started to come to me to ask me if I would work with them either one on one or with their partner.

It was a profound couple of years for me.  Here I was helping other people find their way while figuring out my own. I did this with a combination of using their astrology chart, my background in psychology and my gift of being an intuitive.  IT WAS ALL IN MY CHART!!  I finally understood what my purpose was.  What I was put on this earth to do.  I am here to assist others in their BECOMING!  I studied my own chart in-depth and I learned what my own innate strengths and weaknesses were.  I learned how to become friends with every area of my life and who I am.  I looked at all the places I held myself back and understood why.  I found my SPARKLE!  I know that my purpose is to assist others in finding their purpose and their sparkle as well.