Author, coach, and lifelong student of consciousness — helping people wake up to the lives they’re already living.
In the Media
O Magazine — featured as the coach in a sponsored coaching series, profiled by journalist Lise Funderburg.
Nancy is a frequent guest on podcasts and a featured expert at summits, where her blend of depth and dry humor makes for lively conversation.
About Nancy
Nancy Boyd has spent her life on a single question: why do so many of us feel like strangers in our own lives — and what brings us home?
She has been part of the consciousness movement since the 1960s, and her work has taken many forms over the decades — coaching, teaching, guiding people through the patterns that keep them stuck. (She was named International Coach of the Year in 2009.) Her books are the most visible expression of that work, but they grow from the same root: the conviction that people already carry the wisdom they’re looking for, and mostly need help remembering it. She writes for two audiences who turn out to be the same people, a few decades apart.
For adults, she writes books about coming back to yourself — Lessons From the Edge, The Code of the Soul, and the Healing the Wanting trilogy. For children, she writes the Stinkerton Detective Agency Mysteries: cozy, funny whodunits solved by a family of skunks in the peaceful village of Berryville. No scares, no villains lurking in shadows — just curiosity, kindness, and the quiet practice of figuring things out: the same life skills her adult readers work to recover, handed to kids early and disguised as fun. The entire series arrived in a single night’s dream — village, skunks, mysteries and all — which Nancy, who has spent her career telling people to trust their inner wisdom, considers a fair point well made.
It is, in the end, all one body of work. The books are simply where the most people can find it.
Nancy lives in Oregon, where she runs Bright Wings Press and remains undefeated at asking one more question.
Featured Endorsement
“There is something deeply moving about someone who has spent decades helping adults untangle the complexities of pain, patterns, and transformation choosing to offer children a gentler entry point into those same life skills. Your transition from mapping the heavy complexities of human trauma to drafting the lighthearted, cooperative mysteries of Berryville feels like a reminder that wonder itself can be a form of resilience.”
— Scott Lorenz, President, West Wind Book Marketing
The Books
For grown-ups:
- Lessons From the Edge — taking the wheel before you go over the cliff.
- The Code of the Soul — a practical guide to upgrading your inner operating system.
- The Healing the Wanting Trilogy — desire, dignity, and what actually nourishes us.
- Unblockable — the last book on writer’s block you’ll ever need.
For kids (ages 6–10):
- The Stinkerton Detective Agency Mysteries — cozy woodland whodunits solved by the grumpiest skunk in Berryville. Funny first, never scary.
Featured Q&A
You spent decades coaching adults through deep transformational work. How does that show up in a children’s mystery series about skunks?
Far more than I planned — because I didn’t plan any of it. The entire series arrived in a dream: I woke up one morning with Berryville fully formed in my head — the village, the skunk family, the characters, the first plots. After twenty-plus years of telling clients to trust what rises from within, my own inner wisdom apparently decided to stop being quoted and start demonstrating. What astonishes me is what it built: every Stinkerton mystery quietly runs on the exact skills I’ve spent my career helping adults recover — observing before judging, staying curious instead of afraid, asking one more question. The rule in Berryville is that curiosity drives everything and fear drives nothing. I’d love to take credit for that as a design choice. The truth is my subconscious compiled my life’s work overnight and handed it back to me disguised as a children’s book series. My waking job is just to protect what it got right.
Interview Questions
On the children’s books
- The whole series arrived in a single dream — what was that morning like?
- Why did you choose skunks? (Or did the dream choose them for you?)
- The Stinkerton books are “funny first, never scary.” Why is that a hard rule?
- What do you hope a parent notices that a child doesn’t?
On the adult books & her work
- What exactly is a “Soul Mechanic”?
- Healing the Wanting asks: how do we make whole the world we see, when for us something is missing?
- Lessons From the Edge is about taking the wheel before the cliff. What signals do people miss?
- You’ve been in this work since the 1960s. What’s the one thing that hasn’t changed?
- Does writing for children change how you write for adults?
Praise
“Nancy is a powerful force! From the moment we connected, I knew that working with her was going to be different. Being in her space allowed something — once heavily shrouded — to be birthed with such ease that I was left in awe. It truly helps to have someone like Nancy in your corner, someone who’s not about the song ‘n dance and not afraid to say what you need to hear versus feed you a bunch of stuff that lacks nourishment. I totally recommend her.” — Adonya Wong
Contact & Booking
Website: nancyboyd.com
Bright Wings: brightwings.com
Press & booking inquiries: brightwings.com/contact
Imprint: Bright Wings Press · Oregon, USA
A list of questions I like to be asked is shared with every confirmed booking, live or virtual. Free, valuable gifts are offered to your listeners on request.
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