ABOUT
I’m skeptical by nature but not afraid to sign up. Give me a name tag and drop me in, I want to know how other people are doing this. Over a lifetime I’ve studied every smart thing I could get my hands on in the technology of happiness and spent my best years as a human Guinea pig in this science experiment, transforming the insides and the outsides of my own life over and over again. From artist to entrepreneur, building companies, following dreams, bulldozing doubt, and reflecting on these exercises as part of the bigger conversation. An education in what matters most, unlocking the power to choose and cultivate our own human experience, as we are each drawn to it in our own divine way.
The more I discovered and practiced new tools and experienced the dramatic results of doing things differently in my own life, the more I wanted to randomly grab strangers off the street and teach them to do the same. I’m that person, I find a little spot that makes the perfect taco and you can’t shut me up, I want everyone to try it. Following a program for having it all in business is following a program for having it all in life, and yes, this is an inside job and there’s nowhere left to hide. We cannot enjoy the fruits without those roots. Every effort to shortcut around my own rotten thinking has resulted in disaster. Likewise every uncomfortable minute spent confronting it has created space. Inside that space is the power to choose powerfully versus the impulse to react impulsively. That pivotal moment, that quiet tight weird awkward pause, holds the power that defines different futures.
My passion to coach is in the knowing that anyone with a functioning mind and a strong commitment can practice these principles in their life and experience incredible results. The creating of abundance is not limited, and the example that we set in the living of it honors the potential in all of us. A candle that lights another candle, creating more light in the world and setting off fireworks in the darkness.
I'm here to assist you as coach in every meaningful way I know how.
BIO
A native New Yorker and drama major at the famed High School of Performing Arts.
Founding member of the seminal all female punk band Lunachicks, Silver spent over a decade touring the world, performing, recording and empowering people of all shapes and sizes.
Upon retiring from music she blossomed as an entrepreneur opening the first of her three Brooklyn restaurants, Roebling Tea Room in 2005, quickly becoming a neighborhood institution and one of a handful credited with cultivating the now dominant aesthetic of the Williamsburg food scene. In 2017 the New York Times noted the closing of this “Williamsburg Brooklyn pioneer” as “undeniably nostalgic”.
In 2017 Silver founded her newest company Doc’s Natural organic foods, with an intense passion for wellness and a commitment to offering healthier eats for busy lifestyles.
A long time student of meditation and yoga, Sydney has been a lifetime devotee of Eastern sensibilities since her first meeting with Gurumayi Chidvilasananda in Upstate New York when she was only 16. Although her life would take many turns, her early interactions with the Guru left an indelible print that could not be undone.
Having survived a debilitating addiction to drugs in her early years, as well being a cancer survivor, Sydney’s intense commitment to share her story of transformation and repurposing of hardship into achievement has led her naturally to a career in coaching, writing and public speaking.