About Erica Gifford Mills
Founder, Balanced Symmetree
Erica Gifford Mills is an international empowerment and life coach. She is also the founder of Balanced Symmetree, created to help busy women open their hearts, let go of their pasts and find their passions to build and grow rooted lives. As seen on Apple News and Google News, Erica was named one of the 2023 Top 10 Female Mindset & High-Performance Coaches Disrupting the Self-Help Industry.
Erica holds a double master’s in management and human resource management and is certified in life, business and empowerment coaching using integrative, holistic, and business leadership techniques. She is a talk radio host, international speaker, and award-winning author and co-author in several books on topics such as personal development, leadership, finding and creating balance, living one’s passion on purpose, accepting change and handling transition, and women’s empowerment.
Erica knows firsthand what it means to create balance and live her passion on purpose. Spending 30 years in the legal, regulatory and compliance arena with government, legal offices, and corporations, Erica took the jump to go after what her heart and soul truly needed. She stopped doing what she was “supposed to” do and started her own business, Balanced Symmetree, to empower women to be the best versions of themselves through workshops, speaking engagements, and individual and group coaching sessions.
Erica’s most joyous accomplishment is that of a mother to an amazing son. She enjoys hiking, volunteering, kayaking, and spending time with her family. Erica currently lives in Wisconsin.
Professionalism and Experience
First and foremost, Erica is a proud mother and a lifelong learner. Her favorite title, after that of “mom” is coach. She respects and admires each individual’s decision to continue learning and growing personally and professionally.
Erica believes assisting others in pursuing their dreams and living a balanced life that sets their soul on fire, at all ages and stages of life, is incredibly important and rewarding.
Change is constant as is growth. Erica works with her clients on a professional and personal level to achieve the growth and mindset changes. Her goal is to help her clients re-imagine their lives and let go of negative thoughts and behaviors that undermine their progress, so that a renewed and fulfilled life can emerge. With experience in personal empowerment, business, fitness, meditation, mindfulness and life coaching tools and techniques, along with a history of client success, her individualized, integrative and holistic approach will help her clients attain their goals.