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EXPERIENCES · CCH 07

The exchange, one-on-one.

Private coaching with Dr. Shay and our team.

Some bags are easier to open with someone beside you. Coaching is the private room where you do the work at your own pace, guided by someone who has carried real weight and found the way through. It is the H.O.P.E. System, applied to your life.

Read this first

Coaching is not therapy.

Let me be clear, because it matters. Dr. Shay is a licensed clinician, and that work lives at her clinical practice, not here. Coaching through THE Baggage Exchange is a separate, non-clinical service. It is not therapy, counseling, diagnosis, or treatment, and it does not create a clinician-patient relationship. Coaching supports your growth. It does not replace mental health care.

WHAT COACHING IS

Forward motion

Coaching looks ahead. We focus on goals, growth, and action. We name what you are carrying, decide what to set down, and build the next chapter on purpose. You leave with clarity, a plan, and someone holding you accountable to it.

WHAT COACHING IS NOT

Not clinical care

Coaching does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. It is not therapy, crisis support, or a substitute for care from a licensed provider. If clinical help is what you need, that is a different and important door. Dr. Shay and her team will help you find it.

If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, please reach out to a licensed professional, or call or text 988 in the United States to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Coaching is built for growth, not for emergencies.

How it works

The method, made personal.

Same exchange you see across the brand, slowed down and built around you. We move at your pace, one bag at a time.

1

We start with the bag

You name what you are carrying. No performance, no fixing yet. Just an honest look at the weight.

2

We take honest inventory

We sort it into three piles: what is purposeful, what is questionable, and what serves no purpose at all.

3

We repack with purpose

What serves you comes with you. The rest gets set down for good. It does not go back in the bag, not even just in case.

4

We build forward

Healing, Opportunity, Purpose, Empowerment, applied to your real life, with steps you can actually take between sessions.

Who it is for

Built for the woman ready to set something down.

You are carrying more than you say out loud

You function, you show up, and you are tired of doing it under all that weight.

You want movement, not just venting

You are ready to make decisions and take action, with someone in your corner.

You want a guide who has lived it

Not theory from the outside. A method built by someone who carried real weight and found the way through.

Meet the coaches

Guides who have walked it.

You will be matched with a coach who fits where you are. Every coach is trained in the H.O.P.E. System and leads with the same care.

SB

Dr. Shukairo Baker, DNP

Founder · Lead Coach

Known as Dr. Shay, she built THE Baggage Exchange from her own journey of trading heavy baggage for a lighter life. She coaches from lived experience and the method she created.

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Tiki Taylor

H.O.P.E. Coach

Tiki Taylor walks alongside clients with warmth and honesty, guiding them through the H.O.P.E. Journey at their own pace.

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Casandra Surma

H.O.P.E. Coach

Casandra Surma helps clients set down what no longer serves them and build forward with clarity.

Ways to work together

Find the room that fits.

Every path starts with a free 10-minute consult, so we can make sure coaching is the right fit before you commit.

FREE

The Discovery Consult

10 MINUTES

A 10-minute call to see if we are the right fit. No charge, no pressure.

START HERE

The Bag Check

$275 · ONE 75-MINUTE SESSION

A single focused session. Open one bag, get clear, and leave with a next step. A clean way to feel the work before going further.

GO DEEPER

The Journey

$1,500 · 90 DAYS · OR 3 PAYMENTS OF $525

Six sessions over three months, with between-session support and the H.O.P.E. workbook. Steady, private, and paced to you. Our core offer.

ALL IN

The Intensive

$3,500 · 6 MONTHS · OR 6 PAYMENTS OF $625

Twelve sessions with priority access, the full H.O.P.E. Bag, a VIP kickoff, and a retreat or workshop credit. A season of real change.

BY CONSULT

Custom

BUILT AROUND YOU · LET’S TALK

Not sure which fits, or want something tailored? Start with a consult and we will design the right room together.

Prefer a group to one-on-one? The Carry On Workshops are group coaching led by Dr. Shay, the same H.O.P.E. work in a room of women doing it together. A one-day intensive for when you want the room, not the private session.

Payment plans are available on The Journey and The Intensive. These are founding-client rates, held for current clients as the program grows.

Your move

Ready to do the work?

One conversation tells us if coaching is the right room for you. No pressure, no script. Just a real talk about what you are carrying and where you want to go.

COACHING IS NOT THERAPY OR CLINICAL CARE