Meet Dani

Professionally*

Dani Rukin, CPCC, PCC – Founder and owner of Shoot for the Stars Coaching, Dani is a certified and credentialed, Personal and Professional Life Coach, coaching Creatives and Entrepreneurs to live their BIGGEST and BEST lives with Courage, Creativity, and Authenticity.

As your Coach, she helps you identify what you want, WHY you want it, and what you’re going to do about it, creating effective structures of accountability and producing powerful results. And, she does it with laser precision while injecting plenty of humor and fun along the way. Working with Dani is saying YES to living into the future that you WANT to be creating and saying NO to wishing, waiting, and hoping!

Coaching with Dani is for anyone wanting to live an EXTRAordinary and accomplished life filled with lasting peace, joy, and happiness. Check out her web and blog section and don’t miss her Rave Reviews section!

She is a graduate of the highly acclaimed Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC). She has her Professional Certified Coach credential (PCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is an active member of the ICF. She is also a member of the very highly regarded International Association of Women in Business Coaching (IAWBC). She holds a BA in English Literature from San Francisco State University – so many books, so little time!

She also currently has an ongoing drop-in coaching support group for any woman wanting to live her BIGGEST and BEST life with Courage, Creativity, and Authenticity. Women have been raving about these groups saying they leave feeling energized, empowered, and armed with a PLAN!! The group meets every other week in Los Angeles. For more info, check the “Groups” tab here on the site or contact Dani and she will send you more information.

Personally

There is so much that I am passionate about – I have bicycled throughout Europe and backpacked for months at a time in Mexico and Southeast Asia where I was continuously in awe of how profoundly simple and beautiful life is for so many. As well, I find the same opportunities for adventure and synchronicity wherever I reside, whether in bustling New York City or sunny  and mellow Southern California – every day feels like an exciting journey and I am always reminded of how important it is to stay “awake” because I don’t want to miss any of it!

When I am not coaching, I spend my time taking classes in improvisational comedy and acting, going to see live music and shows, singing Karaoke and playing Rock Band, attending Buddhist meditation and other spiritual and writing retreats, playing Ultimate Frisbee, DANCE !!, running in the park and on the beach, singing and playing my guitar, taking weekend getaways, appreciating good food and drink with great friends, and, while in NYC, spending time with my 92 year old neighbor lady watching Jeopardy and drinking Sprite spritzers while learning how “not to sweat the small stuff”.

I am the former Director of OUTdancing (2001 – 2006), NYC’s premiere LGBT latin, ballroom, and swing dance program at Stepping Out Studios in Manhattan where I spent hours each day engaging in one of my passions of many years: DANCE!!
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Dani currently lives in Santa Monica, CA near the beach with her furkids, Rocco (a “well-built” “Chiweenie”) and Donny (a handsome and burly rescue cat from the streets of the Bronx).

*Additional professional-related background:
Having spent many years in employment and training management, staffing and recruitment, career development, and human resources management, both in New York and San Francisco, with such organizations as the New York Software Industry Association, MBA Info Tech, the Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Management Group, and The ARC-SF, Dani has had the unique opportunity to coach and train scores of working professionals in the midst of career transitions; challenging and supporting them to do and become more than they thought possible. She developed and conducted workshops on career coaching and other various career-building and career-related issues at NYU (New York University) and CUNY (City University of New York) – both at the graduate and undergraduate levels.