Welcome to Evolving Steps
Faith-Based Life Coaching

Inside-Out Transformation Coach

Helping women break unhealthy patterns, habits, and cycles through meaningful personal growth and transformation, while serving others beyond women as well.

My own journey showed me why this work matters.

I had to recognize how past experiences and patterns were affecting my life and relationships.Through my own growth, I learned that lasting change isn’t just about changing what we do. It begins with understanding what’s happening beneath the surface.Evolving Steps was created to help women slow down, gain clarity, understand their patterns, and take intentional steps toward meaningful change.

The Work Starts Within

Through personalized coaching, we explore mindset, confidence, relationship patterns, and other areas of personal growth that may be keeping you stuck.Together, we’ll identify what’s holding you back and help you take intentional steps forward.

Take Your Next Step

You don’t have to figure it all out at once.If you’re ready to begin breaking patterns and move forward with intention, let’s take the next step.

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Serving women in Lafayette, Louisiana and surrounding areas. Virtual coaching available.

The Work Starts Within

"Real change starts from the inside out".

At Evolving Steps, we partner with women who are ready to understand what’s happening within, recognize unhealthy patterns, reshape their mindset, and take intentional steps toward meaningful change.

What We Work Through

Together, We Do the Work

Each session is personalized to meet you where you are and where you want to grow.Together, we explore the patterns, habits, and cycles that may be holding you back, uncover what is happening beneath them, and identify practical steps toward meaningful change from the inside out.

The Goal

The goal isn’t simply to change what’s happening around you.
It’s to understand what’s happening within you so you can respond differently on the outside.

What happens on the inside can influence how we think, respond, relate, and show up.

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My name is Marlene, also known as Coach Marley
Inside-Out Transformation Coach and Certified Christian Life Coach.I’m a mom, grandmother, speaker, teacher, leader, and born-again believer in Jesus Christ.

About

My own personal journey has shaped the work I do.I struggled with patterns, wounds, and experiences I had never fully dealt with. I carried them into my marriage, my jobs, and other areas of my life without realizing how they were affecting the way I thought, responded, and showed up.I knew I wanted to grow, but I didn’t always know where to begin.
It’s one thing to receive encouragement. I needed help recognizing what was happening within me and learning how to break unhealthy patterns, habits, and cycles.After my divorce, my focus shifted. I became determined to grow from within, become more self-aware, and become a healthier version of myself.

"I’ve learned that your identity, confidence, and mindset can influence how you show up, how you care for yourself, and what you choose to accept from others".

What I once needed in my own journey is part of what drives my work today.I’m passionate about creating a safe space where women can slow down, look within, gain greater self-awareness, and take intentional steps toward meaningful personal growth.Through coaching, I help women grow in self-awareness, strengthen confidence, reshape their mindsets, and become more intentional about how they live and show up in their relationships and everyday lives.

Coaching Sessions

Scheduled in-person coaching offered within selected service areas, with mutually agreed-upon locations. Virtual sessions available.Sessions include, but not limited to, individual coaching sessions, coaching packages, or group coaching experiences.

"Small Progress, Not Perfection"

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Evolving Steps provides faith-based life coaching for women focused on meaningful personal growth and transformation.

Coaching Availability

Evolving Steps serves women in Lafayette, Louisiana and surrounding areas, with virtual coaching available.In-person coaching is available in selected service areas by appointment.

Business Hours:
Monday–Friday: 8:00 AM–8:00 PM CT
Saturday: 8:00 AM–6:00 PM CTMessages are typically responded to within 24 business hours.
Email and text support may be available between sessions for coaching-related questions.

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