Here’s what I learned as a trial lawyer that most people never figure out:

Facts are not fixed. They’re subject to interpretation, context, and change.

When I stood in front of a jury defending someone whose life was on the line, the “facts” often looked insurmountable. The evidence seemed overwhelming. Logic said we couldn’t win.

But my job wasn’t to accept the facts as presented. My job was to believe beyond them.

To look at what seemed impossible and ask: What if there’s another way to see this? What if we’re missing something? What if the “impossible” verdict is actually within reach?

That mindset, that willingness to believe in impossible things even when all evidence points the other way, is what made me effective in the courtroom.

And it’s what I bring to my coaching work with you.

Because here’s the truth: The “impossible” things you want? They’re only impossible if you believe they are.

Let me tell you a story that proves it.

The Math Student Who Solved the Unsolvable

In the 1930s, a graduate student named George Dantzig was studying mathematics at UC Berkeley. Jobs were scarce, and everyone in his program wanted the same thing: to become the professor’s research assistant.

The professor made an announcement: Whoever got the best grade on the final exam would get the coveted position.

George studied like crazy. So hard, in fact, that he stayed up until the middle of the night before the exam and overslept.

He rushed to class late, grabbed the test, and hurried to the back of the room.

The test had eight problems. George worked through them fairly easily—good, he thought, maybe he still had a shot at that job.

Then he looked up at the blackboard and saw two more problems written there. He copied them down and started working.

And he couldn’t solve them.

He kept thinking: Somebody in this room is going to figure these out. What’s wrong with me?

He worked and worked, but couldn’t crack them before time was up.

The professor offered extra time—students could take the test home and return it by Friday. George took him up on it.

For the next four days, George worked obsessively on those two problems.

Somebody is going to solve these. Why not me? Why not me?

Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. He barely slept. Finally, by Thursday morning, he solved the first one. By Friday morning, he had the second one solved too.

He turned in his test at 11 a.m., right at the deadline.

On Sunday morning at 7 a.m., there was a knock at his door.

It was his professor, practically jumping with excitement.

“George, you’ve made mathematical history!” he said. “Wait—you were late to the test, right?”

“Yeah,” George said nervously. “Did I do something wrong?”

“No,” the professor said. “It’s just that those eight questions? That was the test. But those two problems on the board? I put them up there as a fun challenge. I told the class that if they wanted to have something to chew on for the rest of their lives, they could work on those—because they’re two unsolved mathematical problems that even Einstein couldn’t solve before he died.”

George stared at him.

“If I had known they were supposed to be unsolvable,” George said slowly, “I never would have tried. I would have told myself I couldn’t do it. I wouldn’t have made myself available to the solution that was already within me.”

What This Means for You

Here’s what George Dantzig’s story teaches us:

The moment you decide something is impossible, you cut yourself off from the solution.

Not because the solution disappears, but because you stop looking for it. You stop believing you can find it. You stop making yourself available to the ideas, connections, and insights that could lead you there.

George solved those problems because he didn’t know he wasn’t supposed to be able to.

He didn’t have the limiting belief that it was impossible.

So he kept working. He kept asking “why not me?” He stayed open.

And he found what everyone else had decided couldn’t be found.

Facts Are Subject to Change

This is what I had to understand as a trial lawyer: Facts aren’t truth. They’re interpretations.

The prosecution would present their “facts”—this evidence, that witness, these circumstances. And to the jury, it looked airtight. It looked impossible to refute.

But facts are subject to reinterpretation. New evidence emerges. Context shifts the meaning. A different angle reveals something everyone missed.

My job was to believe beyond the facts as presented. To stay open to possibilities no one else was seeing. To look at the “impossible” case and ask: What if there’s another way?

And that’s exactly what I help my clients do now.

When you come to me saying “I can’t,” “It’s impossible,” “The evidence is against me,” “People like me don’t get to have that”—I hear what you’re really saying:

You’ve accepted someone else’s interpretation of the facts as fixed truth.

But it’s not.

Stay Open to the Possibility

I don’t know what “impossible” thing you’re facing right now.

Maybe it’s the career change everyone says is too risky. Maybe it’s the relationship you think you don’t deserve. Maybe it’s the dream you’ve been told is unrealistic. Maybe it’s the healing you’ve been told won’t happen.

Here’s what I know about you:

The same access to solutions that George Dantzig had? You have it too.

The ability to believe beyond the “facts” that I used in the courtroom? It’s available to you.

You have the power and potential to be everything you want to be, to give everything you want to give, and to build a life you truly love.

But only if you stop deciding ahead of time what’s impossible.

Your Work This Week

Here’s what I want you to do:

1. Identify your “unsolvable problem.” What have you decided is impossible for you? What have you stopped trying because “the facts” say it can’t be done?

Write it down.

2. Ask: “What if I didn’t know this was supposed to be impossible?”

If you approached this problem like George approached those math problems—without the limiting belief that it can’t be solved—what would you try? What would you do differently?

3. Stay open.

There is always a solution available for any problem you’re facing. ALWAYS.

Your job isn’t to have all the answers right now. Your job is to stay open to the possibility that a solution exists—and to keep showing up, keep asking “why not me?”, and keep making yourself available to the insights that are trying to reach you.

The Verdict

As a trial lawyer, I won cases that looked impossible because I refused to accept the “facts” as fixed.

As a coach, I help women achieve dreams that looked impossible because we refuse to accept limiting beliefs as truth.

The “impossible” things you want? They’re only impossible if you believe they are.

So stop deciding ahead of time what you can’t do.

Stay open. Keep working. Keep asking “why not me?”

Because sis, the solution you’re looking for? It might already be within you.

You just have to believe it’s possible.

Ready to turn your “impossible” into possible?  Let’s chat. It all starts with a clarity session.