jewel mlnarik, SIH* (@juellez, she/them)

Certified *Somatic Intuitive Healer. Pronounced "muhl-NAR-ick".

somatic guide through transition, transformation & healing

As a business doula & transformational coach, I guide visionaries and their teams through the transitions that redefine us—career pivots, new ventures, reclamations & reinventions. These thresholds demand our being, beyond our doing. That's why, after 25 years of leading strategy through change, I now work where true transformation begins: in the body, safe from over-thinking.

When I'm not holding space for others, I love foraging my way through the woods, playing with my puppy, making music, and crafting communal experiences. If you'd like to collaborate or connect, please reach out! jewel mlnarik


Work with Me

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Download contact card    ©1979-present Jewel Mari Mlnarik. Eureka Springs, AR.    Speaking & Events CV | Art & Music CV | Professional CV | Acknowledgement

Speaking & Events CV

I speak and facilitate at conferences, retreats, team offsites, and professional organizations. Sessions are experiential, leaving audiences with real-life practices they can use the same day—and a new relationship to what they've been trying to think their way through. Current workshops:

  • Over-Responsible: How to Quit the Leadership Habit That's Quietly Running You
  • Embodied Entrepreneur's Guide to Marketing & Sales
  • Embodied Prosperity: Healing Financial Trauma

Now booking for 2026-27 → Invite me to Speak


Speaking & Facilitating


Community Events Leadership

Art & Music CV

Performances, Shows & Publications

  • Solo Shows @ Riverview Resort and Cafe & Heart of Many Ways, Eureka Springs | 2025
  • Homemade Jams with Resonate Choir, group music show @ Alberta Abbey (sold out) | March 2024
  • Farewell Portland, solo show with guests @ Barrio, Portland OR | Nov 2023
  • Benefit Concerts, group shows @ Barrio, Portland OR | June-July 2023
  • The Next Step, group show @ Buckley Center Gallery, Portland OR | Oct 2022
  • NWAA Benefit Concert, Portland OR | Oct 2022
  • Watch Your Step, group show @ Buckley Center Gallery, Portland OR | Mar 2020
  • jewels live, solo shows @ Barrio, Portland OR | 2019 - 2021
  • Lightleak 101, group show @ Camera Works Gallery, Portland OR | 2013
  • Strangers in a Strange Land, group show @ Streff Gallery, Marylhurst University, OR | 2012
  • Wanderlove greeting cards & jewelry, sold online & in boutique stores, Portland OR | 2011-2013
  • My Beloved, photographic novella, Volume 1 | 2011
  • Talk to Strangers: Portraits of America, solo show @ Echo Restaurant, Portland OR | 2009
  • “Lady with Big Dog and Candy” & “Flat Tire, I-80” photos published in Laurus | 2000
  • Group Show @ Rotunda Gallery, Lincoln NE | 1999

Collections

  • RACC Portable Works & Visual Chronicle Collections of Portland, Oregon

Professional CV

Prior to my expansion into coaching and the healing arts, I was a leadership transition consultant, fractional COO, and cross-functional "project whisperer" adept at engaging teams & channeling chaos into meaningful and profitable experiences.

30 year evolution: Designer → Developer → Architect → Director, Technology → Director, Projects → Founder → CEO/COO → Consultant → Transformational Executive & Somatic Healer

  • Guided CEOs & founders through leadership transitions, exits, and reinventions
  • Led global, cross-functional teams through high-stakes change
  • Built & developed talent: recruiting, coaching & growing leaders across remote & hybrid teams
  • Founded & stewarded professional communities
  • Took ventures & experiences* from idea → launch → profitability

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Land Acknowledgement

I believe that we are of the land and intertwined with the land. I'm eternally grateful to the stewards of the lands I have lived, cried, and bled on and the lands that have inspired, held, nurtured, and sustained me.

I currently reside in the White River watershed, just outside of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. I'm privileged to reside on the ancestral lands of the Osage, Quapaw, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Caddo who tended this land for thousands of years before European settlers began displacing and trying to erase them. I also acknowledge that a portion of the Trail of Tears runs through our town, and that the Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw and Seminole Nations passed through what is now known as Arkansas during this forced removal.

This website is hosted on computers residing on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, the pre-colonial inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula, and an integral and active community in the Bay Area and beyond. I pay my respects to the pre-colonial ancestors of the land we occupy, utilize, and visit—and to the descendants, elders, relatives, and Spirits of their communities—and affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples.