About · Catherine PizarroI wasn't trying to become a coach.
I was trying to solve a problem.
I spent decades building systems for companies, projects, teams, and portfolios.
Then I realised I had never built one for my own life.
Grit & Grace began as an attempt to solve that problem.
Not with motivation.
Not with reinvention.
With structure. The same structure I trusted everywhere else.
FounderCatherine Pizarro
Grit & Grace · Fort Lauderdale
25+ years — Legal operations
Executive MBA, Case Western Reserve University
Executive Coaching Certificate, Weatherhead School of Management CWRU
Bilingual — English & Spanish
Founder, Grit & Grace — 2026
AboutThe Platform & The Person
For 25 years I ran other people's operations with precision. IP portfolios, litigation support, legal technology the kind of work where the stakes are high and the margin for ambiguity is zero. I was good at it.
What I did not have was a system for my own life. I had goals without architecture. Priorities without a framework. A direction I could feel but not name clearly enough to execute against.
Grit & Grace is what I built when I finally applied the same rigour I gave to everything else to myself. Not a wellness account. Not a course. A framework for women who are done running everyone else's systems and are ready to build one for their own life.
"Not a wellness account. Not a course. A framework for women who think clearly and are ready to choose what comes next."
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