Jenny Ferry is Founder & Chief Empowerment Officer of Crest of Your Life, a specialty learning & development firm dedicated to empowering young professional women to transform their lives by building an authentic foundation for a wildly successful life. She has enthusiastically coached and mentored twenty-somethings, including college students, recent college grads and young professionals, for the last ten years.

As a seasoned business consultant and expert in the field of learning & development, Jenny has interacted with Fortune 100 companies, including American Express, Exxon Mobil, & Johnson Controls, on high-level projects from the East Coast to Silicon Valley, from London to the Pacific Rim. She’s also spearheaded global initiatives in leadership development, strategic planning and executive coaching within non-profit organizations.

Jenny received her Master’s degree in Higher Education from The University of Arizona where she not only developed and implemented innovative programming for high-ability undergraduate students, but also served as an instructor and administrator. Jenny also graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.

As a member of the International Coach Federation, Jenny maintains a high degree of professionalism in her coaching and mentoring practice. She received professional coach training through The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), the largest in-person coach training school in the world and the only to teach CTI's ground-breaking Co-Active® model of coaching.

While Jenny is best known for her down-to-earth coaching and mentoring style, her clients share that her biggest impact comes from her philosophy of “rockin’ life upside down” – by challenging young women to step up to their bigger life with creativity, enthusiasm and boldness.

At Crest of Your Life, my mission is you.

I’ve always loved the ocean. And for most of my childhood, it was just a quick bike ride from my back door. I grew up in a quintessential coastal New England town in a sea captain’s house built in the 1800s. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t escape the nautical influence.

But my twenties start and end in Australia. With only a year of coursework under my belt, I had no idea what would happen putting my college education on hold. But it’s not every day that an incredible opportunity to travel overseas pops up.

Thrilled to learn my application was accepted to do volunteer training and outreach work for a global non-profit organization, I headed halfway around the world. And little did I know it would set the stage for a rewarding career in learning and development. Let the adventure begin!

Now, the sweet thing about Australia is that it’s a sub-tropical paradise with an abundance of beaches. When I wasn’t volunteering, I was windsurfing, or meeting some radical German surfers with serious wanderlust in search of the endless summer. A year later my adventure grew to include the South Pacific islands of Fiji, New Zealand, and the tiny French colony of New Caledonia.

Once I was stateside again, I knew I was destined to live in a warm climate. Next stop, Arizona. Phoenix was like a lunar landing complete with giant saguaros, glorious rays and the proverbial dry heat. Clearly, it was another adventure. This time in a glitzy urban environment awash with good-paying jobs.

My whirlwind twenties came to a close with a self-imposed ten-year “reunion” to the Land Down Under. I snorkeled on the Great Barrier Reef and sailed a catamaran to a tiny bird sanctuary. It was pure bliss! I was also engaged to be married and was planning an elegant wedding at the beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Arizona Biltmore resort.

So, it sounds like everything worked out just like a fairytale for me, right? Well, nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, I was definitely immersed in adventure, as you just read. But, honestly, that was just the serene facade for the raging storms of insecurity, lack of confidence and low self-esteem that swirled below the surface.

Most of the time I felt like I was barely buckled into an emotional rollercoaster waiting to de-rail. Yet, I courageously put on a big bold smile to face the world. No one really knew how tumultuous my inner world was.

Why such turmoil? Like you, I was just slinking through my own "quarter-life crisis" - a time when confusion, disappointment and uncertainty can seem like the norm. It's also why this period is known as the "turbulent twenties." And it's an all too common experience.

Of course, absolutely nothing turned out the way I expected. I started out with an intricate plan. My life was all mapped out. Yet none of it happened. Not a scrap of it. Perhaps I set myself up for all this unnecessary suffering. I was seriously over invested in my own expectations. Depression seemed like the only possible default.

Either way, taking the victim stance was not an option for me. Something deep within me wouldn’t allow it. But where was I supposed to place my thoughts and feelings to gain stability and security? How was I supposed to develop confidence while trying to figure out who I really was? I just felt clueless.

One day, I tripped over the keys to change. Hung over the day after a Rolling Stones concert, I met some quirky Christians at a pool party. Not your run-of-the-mill religious folks, but genuinely loving people who helped me see that deepening my spiritual life was the beginning to understanding truth…and myself.

As a starting point, I chose to see the glass as half full rather than half empty. I also learned that getting outside myself and wholeheartedly helping others is the stuff real living is made of. I began taking risks in order to position myself for more learning and growth. I embarked on an intense personal quest for truth. And like any quest, sometimes there were hits, sometimes misses.

As a result of decades - literally - of trial and error plus some well-guided coaching and mentoring, the 5 simple keys I share in my free guide are exactly how I decide to be. You see, the ability to consciously choose how you show up in life is the determining factor to success.

Life by design. Your design. How cool is that?

And that’s exactly how I landed where I am today. At peace with who I am, content with my life and living each day enthusiastically with no regrets. Right now, I have to admit: I’m truly living my life purpose of empowering young women so they can rock life upside down! Or whichever way they want.

I am an enthusiastic urbanite, living with my daughter in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. And even though I’ve loved desert life for almost two decades, the ocean always calls. So I relish spending part of the year in coastal California where I can luxuriously divide my time between getting in some quality girlfriend time, nurturing my inner fashionista or searching for the perfect wave.