Mariya Petrenko is a recovering overachiever, who once discovered that following all the rules does not guarantee all the happiness, and even on the contrary, can rob the person of individuality and power.
She is on a mission to help women go from the race to acquire new degrees, incomes and achievements, to living the life of fulfillment, where realizing and living your purpose, speaking your voice, and playing with your talents becomes the driving force.

And yes, this life may well include degrees, incomes and achievements, but as a side-effect of worth, purpose and satisfaction coming from within. Do you notice this difference? In this transformed state we don’t get a degree or stay busy to “earn” our worth. We don’t push ourselves to prove that we are good enough. No. It’s quite the opposite. We realize that we are precious, valuable and worthy, and that our passion to doing what we love, along with saying “no” to unimportant stuff is what takes us to the new heights. Various degrees and achievements only confirm what we already are. 

On her path of achievements Dr. Mariya Petrenko did obtain advanced degrees in Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, had graduate and postgraduate NASA fellowships to study forest fire smoke in model and satellite observations. She then shifted her focus from science to scientists, in order to bring about more satisfied, fulfilled and confident achievers, who would be as happy as it gets, and it would spill over in the form of high-quality science 🙂 

She also enjoys using her communication skills to work with teams to teach about energy leadership, and explore various ways of creating the environment of integrity and trust, and achieving incredible results.

Mariya is an iPEC-certified professional life coach, and master-practitioner of Energy Leadership Index (ELI) assessment. 

She lives in Maryland with her husband and 4 children, is an Orthodox Christian, a Scanner according to Barbara Sher, an ISTJ according to Meyers and Briggs, and a 3-5 ELI energy type (as of a a couple years ago).