About Think8 Women
My work with women started when a dynamic events programmer at the Toronto Spoke Club asked if I would start a monthly series of Roundtables for professional women to deal with the challenges of finding their voice and owning their power.
At that moment, Think8Women was born.
Still very involved with writing and producing film and TV, and as President of Think8, a global Business Consultancy, (dedicated to helping businesses and leaders realize their full potential by creating a dynamic whole in life and business) I was keenly aware of the lack of attention to women’s specific concerns. And I was excited and challenged to create a platform to begin this work.
The rest, as they say, is history.
From the very beginning, my goal with Think8Women has been to nurture the courage of every woman to be fully herself; to be able to hold her position in space.
By bringing my unique experiences and perspectives, as a successful leader, partner and mother, I am able to encourage women to find solutions that work for their lives and build courage to speak up and stand up for themselves, regardless of conventional norms, outside pressures, or other’s expectations.
Think8Women addresses the needs of women who want to live their most authentic life. I help them stop, think and reevaluate what is important, what they stand for and how to communicate who they are, in their own voice.
Doing this work validates women’s intuition, abilities and brilliance. It assures every woman that it is possible to be fully present, successful and authentic, in every part of her life.
After one of my Roundtables at a high-end tech company, a senior executive kept shaking my hand, tears running down her face saying, “Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am fifty-five years old and no one before has ever given me permission to stand in my own power as a woman.”
More About Nancy
As founder of Think8Women, Nancy empowers women around the world to unlock their purpose and ignite their creative power. Through transformative one-on-one Immersives, her Roundtables—in person and online worldwide— her retreats, and her book Living On Purpose, Nancy guides women to discover, align with, and live their purpose, bringing clarity, focus, and vitality to their lives.
Born in Denver, raised in Australia, and now based in Montreal, Nancy has lived and worked internationally as a writer, director, and producer for television and film. Her career spanned national and global markets, earning more than sixty prestigious awards and nominations, including an Oscar short-listed film.
Nancy’s creative expertise deeply informs her leadership and strategic approach. Currently, as Co-Founder and President of Think8 Global, a consultancy with offices in Montreal, Los Angeles, Portugal, and the Bahamas, she works with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and organizations to amplify their innate creativity and guide them in designing innovative, impactful, and purpose-driven solutions across every dimension of life and work.
In Your Words
“It's funny, when we first met and you said you align women with their purpose the words were empty for me. Not until this week (that's 3 months after our work) did I fully grasp that when you know and live your purpose, everything else you do (from making a sandwich to being in a relationship to running a business) is an expression of the foundation, the root, of your purpose. And it either aligns or it doesn't. So many questions become immediately answered. Confusion and fear melts away. There is ONLY our purpose, the rest is just noise and distraction.You are rewriting what it means to be a woman, relate to other women, relate to ourselves, forget about ripple effect...your work is creating freaking monsoons!" – Lindsay J.
“I deeply love and appreciate you. Feels like all the work we did together and everything that has transpired was cracking open the shell to really let go...dive deeper, deeper and deeper into the truth - and then reemerge with more power and groundedness. You've single handily left an eternal impact on my heart and soul - and therefore you've had an impact on the many many, many lives I hope to move now and into the future. I want nothing less than to deeply express and HONOUR the TRUTH of the MAGIC of your work and YOU. Thank you for being an example and role model for myself and so many other women. You're incredible!" – Kaela B.
“Nancy has a rare combination of flawless intuition, artful expression, practical reasoning, emotional vigor, spiritual aptitude and vocational opulence that makes her much more than a coach, but a true mentor in the purest sense. Her work is the highly refined facilitation of a life-changing conversation between her deeply compassionate spirit and the voice of her client’s spirit that is dying to be heard: Nancy provided the smothered voice of my spirit a trusting space to fully and fearlessly express itself." – Mara M.
“Being in contact with you Nancy is a gift in my life. Thank you! The work we have done is growing inside. Something shifted deeply and an unfolding is taking place. I started to realize the magic of my Purpose through the eyes and hearts of my clients that I have met since we’ve completed the work. A long way to go to make my life integral and live up to all of this, but also a lot accomplished already. More to come!" – Lyse M.
“Being in your presence is powerful in itself, so I was beyond excited to begin this process with you. You have a way of looking at things from a difference perspective and instinctively knowing how to piece everything together. It gave me such comfort knowing that I could just be myself and trust the process. It has absolutely changed my outlook and will influence all aspects of my life moving forward. When you really sit down and put the time into uncovering what your purpose is, you can’t just turn your back on it. I almost feel that it is my duty now to inspire, make, live and choose greatness.” – Jess H.
“Before the personal Think8 session, Nancy had my adoration and respect but it was in these three days that she became one of the few people in my world that I wholly trusted. She has an incredible capacity for people; someone who collects countless lost souls along her way and gives us unconditional support to move forward.” – Emily W.
In Nancy’s Own Words
I love my life and the remarkable people who fill it. I fully embrace the wide expressions of everything we create at Think8 Global… and I also cherish my former career in film and TV with tenderness and respect.
But my goodness, life has been a wild journey. Hard. Glamorous. Painful. Glorious. But isn’t that the quiet mystery woven into every life?
Building a career in film and television while raising sons as a single mother was not easy. Motherhood never is. Yet from where I stand now, I see three truly gifted, grounded men, beloved daughters-in-loves, and seven heart-tugging grandchildren. I hold them in awe and gratitude.
For twenty-five years, Mark has walked beside me as my closest friend, my business partner, and my cherished husband. Add Mark’s son and daughter, her husband and son, and their twin boys, and you’ll understand why our arms—and hearts—are always brimming.
Over many years of guiding women to discover who they are as they step into their Purpose, I am always overjoyed when they finally see the larger picture of their life. I now celebrate my hardest years, because I know that even the most disparate pieces of my life have actually fit together to form a beautiful congruency. This is also true for every woman who feels uncertain or lost right now. As I so often remind women: nothing in your life is ever wasted.
What I love most, is helping women find the courage to embrace their own greatness. There is nothing more gratifying than witnessing a woman free of fear, standing fully in who she is, living her life out loud-- on Purpose-- amplifying the creativity she brings, not only to her own life, but to the world.
Every woman can arrive at this place of deep certainty—a place where everything she is and everything she has lived, holds meaning and worth. A place that is entirely her own. A place from which she can soar.
This is my greatest joy.