Marie Smith’s Path from Loss to Leadership has Become a Guidepost for Women Ready to Rise
With Golden Hour Coaching
Marie Smith is a sought-after mindset coach, speaker, and retreat leader who helps high-achieving women reclaim their energy, reconnect with their truth, and rise into alignment with the lives they’re meant to lead.
As a bestselling author, founder of Golden Hour Coaching, and creator of the Golden Flow Framework™, Marie guides her clients from energy leaks to energy leadership—so they can feel good in their bodies, clear in their minds, and grounded in their spirits. She is a certified life coach, health and wellness coach, personal trainer, and Clarity Catalyst trainer, and the co-author of the 2024 Amazon bestseller Heal to Lead: Stories to Turn Your Wounds Into Wisdom, Vol. 1.
Her six-month membership program, Energize Your Life, supports working women in shifting out of depletion and into sustainable vitality using her Golden Flow Framework™: Nourish, Move, Rest, Repeat. She also teaches The CIJ Clarity Catalyst, an eight-week course based on a Stanford University curriculum in mindfulness and emotional intelligence, guiding adults to rewire self-limiting beliefs and build clarity, confidence, and resilience.
Marie’s path to coaching was shaped by both joy and hardship. Raised in a bustling, service-driven household as the youngest of four, she spent summers at Camp Marymount, later teaching horsemanship, swim lessons, and water ballet as a counselor. She also danced with Ballet Memphis and performed at Memphis Children’s Theater. Her parents often fostered babies and modeled compassion, service, and faith.
In eighth grade, Marie’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer—a battle that lasted more than eight years and culminated just three days after Marie’s wedding, held in her mother’s hospital room. That loss deepened Marie’s commitment to living a wholehearted life and helping other women do the same.
After years as a teacher, personal trainer, and mom of five, Marie began quietly feeling a tug toward something more. That inner knowing became clear during a retreat, where she heard the Holy Spirit say, “You have to be a life coach.” She enrolled in the Health Coach Institute within two weeks.
Golden Hour Coaching was born from a moment of inspiration while watching a video that asked, “Have you seen our space at golden hour?” Marie reimagined the phrase as a metaphor for sacred time—encouraging women to reclaim even one hour a day for their own nourishment and clarity.
Marie lives in Nashville with her husband and four of their five children—one has launched! She leads local and international retreats, writes, and volunteers with causes close to her heart—and helps women rediscover their light by first honoring her own.
marie@goldenhourcoaching.com, or on Instagram @mygoldenhourcoaching.
