My Story

Meet Captain Deb Marlor,

Your “Sailing Life Coach.”

From a young age, Captain Deb felt a deep connection with the sea. As a young adult, she began to learn about sailing, taking classes wherever she could. Her sailing school classroom was truly one that was far more than a certificate.

She enjoyed the sport and became intimately familiar with all aspects of boating and its relationship to the environment, experiencing wind, weather, and lightning. A life skill that fostered a deep sense of accomplishment. This was the start of a life-long journey of spending time in the ocean. She became a captain and took her love of sailing to the next level.

Captain Deb’s Journey

Captain Deb and her husband sold their home and now live aboard their Beneteau Oceanis 38 sailboat, called Simplicity, full-time. They sailed the West Coast of the United States from Seattle, Puget Sound to the San Juans, to San Diego; from Houston, Texas, to Florida, stopping in Pensacola, Key West, and on up to Maine and the extensive Bahamian Islands including the Abacos, Eleuthera, and the Exumas.

The next phase was South to Turks & Caicos, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, St. Kitts, Monserrat, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent – The Grenadines including Bequia, Canouan Island, and Grenada. Sailing S/V Simplicity over 25,000 nautical miles and living aboard for the past 7 years has truly changed the perspective of Deb and Hugh.

The Oceans – Pacific and Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Abacos Sea, Caribbean Sea.

Captain Deb is now dedicated to helping other people who love the sea to feel confident on their vessels, offering courses for every skill level. Her students find her teaching style to be easy, fun to learn from, and engaging.

“She inspires confidence every step of the way”.

Taking time to reflect

She escaped to Lake Tahoe to work at a ski resort. She was required to wake daily at 4:00 a.m., walk into the marketing office, and make 200 calls each morning to radio and TV stations throughout California.  After those calls were made, she moved downstairs each day to the Ski School desk. Each day sking with great coaches. Not only did that impact her skiing, it developed strong connections with athletes that inspired her. She learned how to ski well with that first coach, and it had a great impact on her future development. After attending a seminar by Werner Erhard in the late 70s, she realized for the first time that she could have a journey of personal growth and rediscover her purpose in life. She began to look at other courses and was inspired to start her career in tech sector. That career was fast-paced, traveling the United States, proving to be a top performer, year after year.

She moved into management

training sales teams, and continued to have great success.  In this time period, she met her husband, married, had two children, lost their home and a small business, moved across the country, and almost died.  She started over as a salesperson, again proving again to be a Top Performer, but realizing that she wanted more. She began to work with a professional coach, focusing on vital tools and skills to empower herself to be more open and present, strengthening relationships in her personal and professional life. She joined sessions that were large workshops and small group interactions that allowed her to collaborate and consider new ways of thinking. Years later, as the pressures of running a business, supporting a family, and when she needed to apply this knowledge the most, it took a backseat to stress and anxiety.

At times, she would find herself

unsure of how to stay focused on her goals, or letting her internal dialogue prevent her from speaking with employees, customers, and partners. Here she was—a founder, president, and CEO of her own company—the exact definition of success, and yet, she felt something was missing. For almost (two years) of stress and anxiety, her physical body and mental health fell apart, and all of her spiritual and healthy habits seemed to slowly slip away.

As an award-winning entrepreneur

with over 35 years of demonstrated success in creating and developing sales teams, leading demand generation activities for Fortune 500 sales teams, generating millions in revenue for channel sales programs, and strengthening client pipelines, she made the decision to sell her company.  She returned to the basic foundational root system that allowed her to grow, prosper, and continued her personal and transformational journey. Deb and her husband sold their home and moved aboard our Beneteau Oceanis 38 sailboat, called Simplicity, full-time. They sailed the West Coast of the United States from Seattle, Puget Sound to the San Juans, to San Diego, from Houston, Texas, to Florida, stopping in Pensacola, Key West, and on up to Maine and the extensive Bahamian Islands including the Abacos, Eleuethra , and Exumas, traveling 20,000 nautical miles along the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic East coastlines.

She was fortunate enough to meet a great life partner

who has been supportive through all of these challenges. They moved together, bought a home, raised two children—including one with special needs. In 2014, we sold our home. In 2016, sold her business. Through all of the ups and downs, we were able to work together to achieve our goals of living a life we love on the Ocean, on their vessel Simplicity. Wanting to feel happiness and joy on a daily basis, she was no longer willing to wake up another day and dread what she was doing for work or live my life without intent. She had a deeper sense of purpose for life and felt a burning desire to step into it. She knew that she truly wanted to work with successful people women and men, parents like herself, wanting to make a difference. In 2018, she trained hundreds of hours to become a life coach.
Today she is —your Sailing Life Coach!

Today, Deb work’s with successful people

who have a passion, desire, discontent to transit where they are in their life, to living a life they love. Coaching those who know they have a business within and they are not ready to retire, those who have navigated life such as career changes, partner changes, divorce, death, life circumstances, conditions and situations that can drop one to their knees. With her compassion and experience she has supported hundreds to living a life they love.

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