More About Jillian… The Timeline
1977 - 1995
1995 - 1998
1998 - 2010
2011 - 2014
2014 - 2024
2024 - Now
Born in Salem, Oregon, raised in the Portland area from age two. Childhood wasn't easy — by 13 I was dealing with real depression and wanting out, I was hungry for anything that might explain life. I explored paganism, nearly converted to Greek Orthodoxy at 14 (I blame a Greek past life for that one), and read everything I could find on the metaphysical.
At 15, I found Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss — a psychiatrist's account of stumbling into past-life regression therapy he didn't even believe in, that ended up healing his patient anyway. Something in me recognized it as true: life is about the lessons we're here to learn, growing the soul through challenge, coming back again and again until we graduate from Earth School.
Meanwhile, I was obsessed with being an actress since I was 6. I think this was my performer soul type at play, that and my desire to understand people from the inside out. I followed my dreams all the way to Boston University as an acting major.
Partway through, a knowing hit me out of nowhere: this wasn't my path. Which really rocked my world because I had been building up to it my entire life, just to finally get the message: “Nope”. The Universe backed it up — I got cut from the program, along with a third of my class, and landed back in Portland to figure myself out. After a lost year, I decided I needed to anchor my life to something, and so I anchored it to my core truth, the reincarnation framework I was uncovering. Now ready to activate life again, I moved up to Seattle to give the acting gig one more try.
Moved to Seattle in 1998 and worked at the University of Washington's Cardiothoracic Surgery department — first as a secretary, then doing data management. Steady work. Not exactly soul work. Chased after the acting work, landed in several plays and small films, but it never really caught fire.
Feeling that something was missing in this daily-grind kinda life, I decided to follow the one thing I felt passionately about. So, in 2001, I left it behind for Ireland, to work at the Glencree Peace & Reconciliation Center as a Youth & Schools intern. No safety net, no obvious next step — and it became the happiest stretch of my life up to that point and for long after.
I came home in spring 2002 and went back to school, double-majoring in World Religions and Psychology at Marylhurst. Still searching for my missing piece, I spent part of 2004 in Peru studying Incan religion and Peruvian shamanism, which led to an Ayahuasca ceremony that rearranged my understanding of reality. Total spiritual revelation, mixed with some genuinely unpleasant vomiting. 10/10 spiritual experience, 2/10 physical one.
I decided to continue the exploration of what it meant to be a human being and I went back to UW — continuing my psychology coursework while returning to Cardiothoracic Surgery, this time as a Clinical Data Manager. But again, that feeling that something was off doing a day job was there.
After finishing up my Psychology degree, I knew it was time to finally get on with it and follow what my soul had been telling me: help people navigate the path their soul chose, so they could live the highest version of their life. That job didn't really exist yet — the closest thing was life coaching. So I got certified through Seattle Life Coach Training and hung out my shingle.
For the next few years, I had a front-row seat to real transformation — clients starting businesses, finding love, healing wounds they'd carried for years. Alongside coaching, I trained as an energy healer through Seattle Psychic Awakenings, Reiki, and Barbara Brennan's work, developing my own intuitive guidance with my guides. Combining energy healing with coaching turned out to be turbo fuel for my clients' transformations.
I ended up doing energy healing work for years afterward — often for free — on everyone from skeptical surgeons and lawyers "just checking it out" to devoted practitioners, and people navigating things as serious as coma recovery and dissociative identity disorder.
Coaching and energy work kept going, but something was still missing — a sense that I hadn't fully stepped into it yet. My soul tapped me on the shoulder: "Girl, you've got some lessons to learn before you're ready for this." So I did something that surprised everyone, including me — I took a part-time job in HR.
That job turned into a decade running strategy and people operations at places like Nike and several software companies, eventually leading an entire HR department. Stepping into my own authority, healing my relationship with money, picking up skills I had no idea I'd need later. Turns out the Universe was training me — how to lead, how to build systems that support real people, how to make something built to last. All focused on people.
After ten years, my soul started knocking again, louder. I felt the pull to get back to the real mission: helping people understand how reincarnation works and use it to live with intention. When the Universe arranged for me to get laid off — right when I'd been wanting to leave but couldn't bring myself to abandon my team — I knew it was time.
I'd already started my YouTube channel in 2023; by 2024 I was restarting my coaching and spiritual work alongside it. That fall, I made a video — a big-picture overview of how reincarnation actually works. It was close to my heart, and I assumed almost no one would watch it. Instead, it took off unlike anything I'd made before. I cried. The thing that mattered most to me turned out to be the thing people actually wanted to hear. I finally accepted what I'd been circling for years: reincarnation is at the heart of everything I do.
So, that's the story so far. Not a straight line — more like a soul that kept tapping me on the shoulder until I finally turned around. I am still building what the next chapter looks like. Workshops, group coaching, a membership community, a book, maybe a stage somewhere — I've had a sense of it coming since at least 2011, long before any of it existed. But I do know this: I'm not here to have all the answers. I'm here to help you find yours. If any of this resonates, I'd love to help you figure out what your soul's actually working on.