Featured IAW Member | CEO, SHERO Life & Empowerment Coaching
Jennifer Perri has lived through the kind of seasons most women do not talk about out loud.
Abuse. Divorce. Single motherhood. Financial hardship. And then – Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a health crisis that forced her to completely redefine what strength looked like.
She came out the other side with a business, a mission, and a message that is changing lives.
You do not have to stay trapped in the chapter that hurt you.
BORN FROM THE HARDEST SEASON
SHERO Life & Empowerment Coaching was not built from a business plan.
It was built from survival.
Over 25 years ago, Jennifer went through a divorce from an abusive husband while raising two young boys on her own. She was working multiple jobs. Rebuilding financially without a roadmap. Trying to hold herself together while everything felt uncertain.
“I began meeting women who were not only struggling financially — they were struggling emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. They had lost confidence in themselves.”
That realization changed everything.
She did not just want to help women survive. She wanted to help them reclaim themselves completely.
SHERO was born from that belief: every woman is the shero of her own story.
WHAT SHE DOES
Jennifer’s expertise sits at the intersection of empowerment coaching, financial education, mindset transformation, and personal reinvention.
For more than two decades, she has worked with high-achieving women who look successful on the outside — but internally feel disconnected, exhausted, or stuck between who they were and who they are becoming.
Many are navigating divorce. Some are rebuilding after trauma. Others are leaving careers or relationships that no longer fit.
“My coaching is not surface-level motivation. It is strategic, emotional, practical, and transformational.”
Jennifer coaches from lived experience — not theory. And that difference matters deeply to the women who work with her.
THE TRANSFORMATION THAT NEVER GETS OLD
The most challenging part of this work, Jennifer says, is helping women untangle years — sometimes decades — of conditioning, fear, shame, and self-doubt that have quietly shaped how they see themselves.
But the rewards? Watching women come back to themselves.
It is the moment someone who felt broken begins to speak with confidence again. It is watching women stop apologizing for taking up space. It is helping someone rebuild financially after believing they never would.
“That transformation is incredibly powerful because it extends beyond one woman. It impacts her children, her relationships, her career, her leadership, her business.”
HER MESSAGE TO EVERY WOMAN HOLDING BACK
Jennifer has one core piece of advice for women who are waiting — for confidence, for certainty, for permission.
Stop waiting.
“Confidence is built through movement, resilience, healing, and learning to trust yourself again.”
She also challenges women to redefine success on their own terms — because success without peace eventually becomes unsustainable.
And her most powerful reminder: “Your story could become the exact thing another woman needs to hear in order to believe she can rebuild too.”
WHAT COMES NEXT
Jennifer is expanding SHERO into a larger global platform — with new programs, a community specifically designed for women on the other side of divorce, speaking engagements, television appearances, and media opportunities that bring these conversations to more women worldwide.
Her vision is simple: no woman should have to navigate change alone.
“There is strength in rebuilding, courage in choosing yourself again, and incredible power in realizing that your next chapter can still become your best one.”
Connect with Jennifer at https://jenniferperri.com/ or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennperri/
