Specialty

Educational Psychologist

Licensed Professional Counselor

Mental Health Service Provider

Enneagram Coach

Entrepreneur

Hey there! I'm Shelley Prevost.

I am an Educational Psychologist (Ed.D.), Licensed Professional Counselor with a Mental Health Service Provider designation (TN #1835), angel investor, TEDx speaker, and workshop facilitator.
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In 2010, I left my clinical practice and went to work as an internal service provider for a venture capital firm. I served as the Director of Happiness and resident shrink for four years before starting my own hardware technology company. In 2018, after recovering from deep burnout, I felt a strong calling to integrate my experience and passions in psychology, business, and leadership development to eradicate burnout and help others recover from it. This led to the creation of Big Self School.
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I am a student of the Chestnut-Paes Enneagram Academy and am committed to integrating the Enneagram into my coaching. The Enneagram is a personality system that reveals our drives, motivations, mental traps, blindspots, and growth paths for psychological growth as a human and as a leader.

Meet your coach

Melissa

D.

Success story

"My experience in the bootcamp with Shelley has helped to propel me forward in a few different aspects of my life! I'm forever grateful for her and her work with discovering my Big Self. I am always a work in progress, and will be for the rest of my life, but one of the biggest discoveries I made was all about SELF-AWARENESS. This is something that I believe most people never gain over their entire lifetimes, the lack of it allows people to just get by, settle for less, live small and/or never ever live up to their own potential.Emotionally, I can look at myself with fresh eyes, not beat myself up over life choices, past relationships or career choices because I know I'm here due to the choices I've made along the way and with what information I had up to that point. I accept myself more now after "studying" myself."

Marlena

P.

Success story

"Your work in Big Self has been so helpful to me and could not have come at a better time. In just these few short weeks I have felt more grounded, secure, and enlightened and it has enabled me to move beyond obstacles that I have been struggling with for years. I feel as though I am coming around the bend and on the verge of a great many things. The final frontier is really the internal journey and worth the time and investment. My spirit and potential has been re-awakened, the future is bright, and your work has been such a blessing to me. Thank you."

Lauren

D.

Success Story

“Shelley’s workshops are a wonderful respite in this current storm. She has a calming, nurturing presence and works hard to include and encourage everyone’s perspectives and experiences in the group. It is a relief to share the anxieties of this crisis with others who are all experiencing it slightly differently, but there are common themes across all of us. Shelley helps weave these together and guides us to explore the fears and emotions behind our anxiety and offers ways to help bring us to a calmer state. She is also very real and present, even online, and shares many of her own concerns, anxiety, and vulnerability which is refreshing. Thank you Shelley for your guidance, love and support!”

David

Dominguez

Co-founder and editor of The Packinghouse Review. Professor at Reedley College

I worked with Chad when he was the founder of C&R Press. Chad and his staff helped me actualize it’s potential through the editing process. He wanted the best work possible representing the press and its authors. During this time, he was patient and generous and never tried to change the vision I had for my work. In addition, he was exceedingly open to my input, especially when we discussed the design layout and cover art for my book.

Peter

Anderson

Author of the critically-acclaimed novel, The Unspeakable

Writers have every reason to entrust their work to Chad Prevost. As both editor and publisher, he is not only a canny entrepreneur, but himself in touch with the writing life. He knows exactly how and when to intervene in order to bring a piece of writing to its fullest effect, and, once the work is completed, how to promote and market it enthusiastically, ethically, successfully.

Alexander

Long

C&R Press

Working with Chad [at C&R Press] was a refreshing & reaffirming experience. Never once did I feel like another name in a catalog or a figure in a ledger. Chad worked with me steadily, patiently, & empathically during each phase of what became my second book of poems. I was still very green as a writer who was publishing, & Chad's guidance & experience helped me grow in ways I don't think I'd have gotten any place else with anyone else.

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Become the leader

you were born to be.

Success without stress.Rediscover your Big Self.

Big ideas + True self = Big Self

Groundbreaker

All-in

We do this by helping you harness 10 main concepts of Big Self work.

At Big Self School, you'll go on a deep dive into the following core areas:

Adaptability

Boundaries

Boldness

Self-Care

Meaning

Clarity

Values

Self-Knowledge

Communitcation

Patterns

Coaching for those bold enough to take the small steps.

Leadership coaching with a focus on burnout recovery.