Meet Your Coach
Hi, I’m Vicki!
As a wife of over 39 years and a mom of 6, I understand how the seasons of life and hard circumstances can create a cyclone of negative thoughts and emotions. Discouragement, frustration, and defeat were my frequent companions. I loved my family and was grateful for my life, but I didn’t know how to really embrace all that life dealt me.
Borrowing a scene from one of my daughters’ favorite childhood movies, I felt like Jim Hawkins from Muppet Treasure Island singing, “There’s got to be something better. Something better. There’s got to be something better…for me!”
Joining a life coaching program wasn’t just something better. It was something amazing! A true gift from God that allowed me to experience the transformation I longed for but didn’t know how to get. I was taught tools so I could renew my mind and take my thoughts captive (Rom. 12:2, 2Cor. 10:4-5). I learned that I can live each and every day with so much joy - the way God intended me to. This ongoing, lifetime work has brought so much relief, freedom, and victory to my life in all areas.
And I want to help you achieve this too! That’s why I became a coach. This work is too good not to share. I would love to be able to bring hope and belief to you in your unique circumstances.
Fun Facts
I have 6 amazing kids: girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy.
I just finished a 27 year “career” as their home educator.
I’m a Wisconsin girl who feels at home every time she gets to go to Texas.
My love language is time -
Time with the Lord, reading and praying.
Time with my husband, taking long walks.
Time with family and friends, catching up and laughing.
Time with books, reading all the things.
Time with my clients, listening to their stories and believing all that’s possible for them.
The Story Behind the Name
NIKOS
[nee’-kos] noun
Victory, a successful ending of a struggle
When I was first considering a name for my coaching business, I knew I wanted it to have a significant, spiritual meaning to represent what coaching did for me, as well as what it could do for my clients.
As I was looking of Bible verses, one from Romans came to mind. It comes right after a section talking about hardships and struggles:
“…in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” Romans 8:37
The phrase “more than conquerors” is from the original Greek word hupernikao. It’s a form of the word nikos, simply meaning hyper or super victory - to vanquish beyond, to gain a surpassing victory. More than conquerors. Not just conquerors…as if that’s not enough.
That is not just what we can be, but who we are, because of God’s love for us!
Shortly after I settled on the name Nikos, I remembered how as a little girl I liked to look up meanings of names. The name Vicki also means victory or conquer.
While that little girl could have never imagined how she could be a conqueror, she certainly knows now. And she can help you be one too!