Emily is the Founder of Soar to Greatness Now LLC, a spiritual teacher and healer, Self-leadership expert, and the author of two books: “How to Permanently Erase Negative Self-Talk: So You Can Be Extraordinary” [2015] and “CLIMAX: Why Great Leaders Need Love Affairs (an enlightening leadership fable” [2020]. Emily is trained in the evidence-based Internal Family Systems (IFS) Self-leadership and healing model and uses IFS (as well as other modalities) to guide couples and singles to heal from the past so they can achieve greater intimacy and spiritual depth in their relationships. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur in 2012 and finding her life’s calling as a relationship coach and healer, Emily was a pharmaceutical rep for Pfizer for 27 years. Emily has a B.S. in Nutrition from Cornell University.

Jim Griffeth

Jim retired from a 37-year career as a high-tech executive, visionary and entrepreneur, having founded companies and helped lead teams at established technology companies to achieve extraordinary results. As an electrical engineer with a Harvard MBA who was imagining a very different kind of retirement, Jim was surprised and delighted to discover his calling to a second career coaching couples to achieve their dream relationships. Like Emily, Jim is experienced in coaching couples using the Internal Family Systems model; his coaching is informed by having had years of healing IFS therapy himself.

Jim and Emily’s Story

Jim and Emily met the old-fashioned way – through an online dating app. Their relationship accelerated quickly because they shared the language of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) healing and self-leadership model. The IFS framework allowed Jim and Emily to safely have difficult and vulnerable conversations early in their relationship, thereby helping them build deep intimacy very quickly. Then, as Jim brainstormed with Emily about how to talk about getting relationships right, he realized that he could add tremendous value to her business. So, Jim and Emily joined forces to create www.epicloveinstitute.com, with a mission to help couples and singles over 40 achieve the one thing that really matters: intimate connection and the great sex that comes with that.