About Us

Family on the Edge is a coaching practice founded by Carol Satterlee, CPC, and Lisa Fairchild, MA. Family on the Edge was founded on the premise that the quality of your relationships has a direct impact on your life. Since its inception, Family on the Edge has been dedicated to helping individuals, couples and families improve their lives by improving their relationships.

Your coach will guide you through a results-focused process of inquiry and personal discovery designed to increase your personal awareness and accountability. We help you tap into your internal compass and unexplored opportunities and perspectives, which will expand your view of life's possibilities, and help you achieve your heart's desires.

I believe the quality of one's life is felt and measured by the relationships we have and take responsibility for.  Besides the obvious relationships we have with people, we also have a relationship with our careers, life purpose, community, nature, spirituality, etc. I strongly believe the most important one, however, is the relationship we have with ourselves.  It is from here where we own our power to make every choice that ultimately will create the life and relationships we desire.

Coaching focuses on providing objectivity. This is one of the most difficult perspectives to receive from family members and sometimes close friends. Objectivity is the key to tending to and mending relationships. And this is how I believe my coaching can support others.

My family, like many, has experienced its share of challenges and even crises.  What I know for sure is when the core of our family, that is myself and my husband are respectful, clear and consistent with our family values and behaviors, when we have known how to ask for help, how to admit our own shortcomings, expressed our own needs, and taken responsibility for our "own stuff", then we know we have done our best as individuals, spouses, and parents. Our reward has been the strong and fulfilling relationships we have with one another and our children.

I received my coach training and certification through International Coach Academy. I am also trained and licensed to coach life and career transitions through Transition Dynamics Enterprises, Inc. I am an active member of Business Networking International (BNI) since 2006 and a member of the Silicon Valley Coach Federation.

I am from the Bay Area in California, happily married with two children who have been my primary teachers of life, love and joy. My life’s motto: “Live your life with no regrets.” My passion is to guide others who choose to do the same.

Coaching is my second career and one that I chose during a period of great challenge and transition that really shook up my world. As is often the case, our most difficult times can be the ones that propel us to new heights. That was certainly true for me. After 20 years of rewarding work in Human Resources, my divorce provided the opportunity for me to redefine my work and in many ways my life. Then, as God or the universe works in amazing ways, I was referred to Carol Satterlee who I hired as my “what do I want to do with my life” coach.  And here I am- living and loving my work and my business partnership with Carol.

I received coaching certification through Coach U and am a member of the International Coach Federation. As a coach, I assist individuals to “mind the gap” between the life they have and the life they imagine. In addition to our coaching, presentations and workshops, I am actively involved in my church where I am honored and privileged to serve in a leadership capacity and I am a member of a local Business Networking International (BNI) chapter.

Having the utmost respect and admiration for marriage and families, I am thrilled to be participating in making the world a better place one relationship at a time. Being a mother to my now adult son and the “other mother” to my two stepdaughters is one of the many blessings in my life and one that fills me with gratitude.

Being a Family and Relationship Coach allows me to have my life’s work align with my values of family, integrity and contribution and utilizes the skills and experience. What could be better than that!