Sharon Y. Brown, PCC, MS
Collaborate Change Owner and Founder
Plant-Based Coach, Life Coach, Energy Medicine Practitioner
Welcome! I’m Sharon, a coach, healer, and social justice advocate, dedicated to helping you transform your life through the power of coaching, plant-based nutrition, ancestral wisdom, and holistic healing.
Honoring my ancestors is deeply important to me, starting with my parents, Esther and David. They were loving, hardworking, and deeply valued Christianity and the higher education they were not able to attain. Their sacrifices, along with the strength of our extended family, church, and community in New Jersey (where I still live), shaped the values of integrity, honesty, and care for others that guide me today. I’m profoundly grateful for my parents’ and ancestors’ resilience, resourcefulness, and love, which made my path possible. Through family stories and genealogical research, I’ve discovered more about my ancestors and feel especially guided by my paternal great-grandmother Addie and an unknown West African ancestor who I sense was a healer in her village.
I identify as a Black/African-American, cisgender woman (she/her), and hold many roles—partner, mother, Mima, coach, mentor, educator, and lover of people, plants, and animals. Warm, compassionate, and spiritual, I am committed to social justice, continuous learning, indigenous healing traditions, and the power of plants as medicine and nutrition.
My journey as a life coach began in 2007, when my corporate job felt suffocating. Life coaching transformed my life and worldview – first as a student, then as a trainer and mentor. Our coach training was taught through a social justice lens, and our student body, teaching teams, and extended faculty were intentionally diverse. The co-learning in those spaces was incredibly rich, meaningful, and humbling for me. The experiences deepened my social justice knowledge and enhanced my coaching, training, community work, and prison workshop facilitation – all through a social justice lens.
My calling to shamanic energy medicine was persistent, despite initial religious and cultural misgivings that proved to be unfounded. In 2023, I fully embraced energy healing and was certified through The Four Winds after six-months of training. The profound shifts I’ve experienced and witnessed through this loving energy healing practice inspired me to integrate this more fully into my holistic offerings.
My plant-based journey evolved as I researched dietary changes to heal conditions that conventional medicine couldn’t. I also began growing organic food in containers on my patio, and I was surprised to be able to grow up to 13 different vegetables in a small space. I get so much joy from being in relationship with the plants that will nourish me and my family. Witnessing loved ones suffer from chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, I feared a similar fate and experimented with many different diets. Discovering the Food Revolution Network’s evidence-based approach to food as medicine transformed my health during the six months of my training to become a certified Plant-Based Coach in 2024.
I’m passionate about supporting others, particularly in Black and Latino communities, to improve their health outcomes through plant-based nutrition and lifestyle changes. Through my work as a plant-based coach and as a Plant Powered Metro NY organizer based in New Jersey, I plan to share this life changing knowledge and support through churches and community serving organizations that are committed to justice and health equity.
I enjoy quality time with family and friends, growing food in small spaces, spending time in nature, reading, writing, and serving others. My spirituality, intuition, and connection with plants and ancestral wisdom guide me in my purpose as a healer, coach, and advocate. I live authentically, sharing my gifts in service to my family, friends, and communities – both local and virtual. Together, we co-create transformative partnerships that ripple out to change lives. I look forward to collaborating with you on this journey of change!
