“If I could choose any super power, I would have the ability to open minds, heal hearts, and inspire personal revolutions… Oh, wait – I already do that!”
“If I could choose any super power, I would have the ability to open minds, heal hearts, and inspire personal revolutions… Oh, wait – I already do that!”
Founder, Inner Harmonies
Author of "Becoming 100% YOU"
Author of "Becoming 100% YOU"
“If I could choose any super power, I would have the ability to open minds, heal hearts, and inspire personal revolutions… Oh, wait – I already do that!”
“If I could choose any super power, I would have the ability to open minds, heal hearts, and inspire personal revolutions… Oh, wait – I already do that!”
Founder, Inner Harmonies
Author of "Becoming 100% YOU"
Author of "Becoming 100% YOU"
About Shannon L. Lee
About Shannon L. Lee
From a very young age, Shannon Lee was aware of two fundamental truths: she thrived when she was helping others, and she possessed a decidedly unique perspective. No matter how other folks labeled her – charming, weird, eccentric, zany, incorrigible, creative – people just seemed to naturally gravitate towards her when they needed information, encouragement, or advice. Shannon’s interactions usually resulted in people feeling happier and seeing themselves and their situation in a new, more positive light.
When she was in college, Shannon was given the nickname "the Cosmic Troubleshooter” due to her ability to dive directly into the heart of challenges and find creative ways to support people in quickly moving forward. She was also the Google of her time, with other students often knocking on her door with questions they needed answered in order to finish their late-night papers and projects. Today, Shannon uses her superpowers to help busy people who wish to create harmony in their inner world, while achieving greater success, happiness, and balance in their personal and professional lives.
Shannon has invested in learning a wide variety of modalities that distinguish her as a personal growth and development expert. She is a Certified Trainer and Tension Management Expert (licensed in the ChangeWorks®, Pride-Based Leadership®, and MasterStream® methodologies). She is also an Alchemical Hypnotherapist, Empowerment Retreat Facilitator, and Certified Coach. Shannon is the Founder and Director of the Self-Awareness Institute and Facilitator of the Self-Awareness Weekend, the creator of Inner Harmonies, and the author of “Becoming 100% YOU: Release Your Baggage and Embrace Your Flight!”
When she was in college, Shannon was given the nickname "the Cosmic Troubleshooter” due to her ability to dive directly into the heart of challenges and find creative ways to support people in quickly moving forward. She was also the Google of her time, with other students often knocking on her door with questions they needed answered in order to finish their late-night papers and projects. Today, Shannon uses her superpowers to help busy people who wish to create harmony in their inner world, while achieving greater success, happiness, and balance in their personal and professional lives.
Shannon has invested in learning a wide variety of modalities that distinguish her as a personal growth and development expert. She is a Certified Trainer and Tension Management Expert (licensed in the ChangeWorks®, Pride-Based Leadership®, and MasterStream® methodologies). She is also an Alchemical Hypnotherapist, Empowerment Retreat Facilitator, and Certified Coach. Shannon is the Founder and Director of the Self-Awareness Institute and Facilitator of the Self-Awareness Weekend, the creator of Inner Harmonies, and the author of “Becoming 100% YOU: Release Your Baggage and Embrace Your Flight!”
Shannon’s Philosophy
Shannon is passionate about supporting people in increasing their resiliency and joy –she’s helped countless individuals who felt forced to hide their genius because they were abused, mistreated, or disrespected in the past. Their skills and ideas were dismissed or ridiculed, and they had become disenchanted, disheartened, and disempowered. Shannon champions these individuals and supports them in reclaiming their brilliance and returning to their true selves. She recognizes that the world will be a better place when more people reach their full potential, enabling them to form deeper personal connections, create greater career success, and increase their inner and outer harmony.
Shannon firmly believes that life should be fully embraced and wholeheartedly celebrated, rather than merely endured. There are endless possibilities to explore, amazing experiences to be had, and transformative connections to be made! Shannon feels strongly that this philosophy also extends to our workplaces, which should ideally provide ample opportunity for us to expand and express our expertise, to stimulate our curiosity, to engage our sense of pride, to build community, and to be rewarded for our contributions. In her work with organizations, she assists leaders in developing and effectively communicating their vision, as well as gaining a better understanding of what motivates their team. These insights enable leaders to increase employee engagement and productivity, resulting in greater organizational harmony and profitability.
Shannon’s approach is one-of-a-kind: she provides the tools and resources to aid people in uncovering their stuck spots and guides them through their growth spurts. This strategy is based on her foundational principle that the best way to ensure success in your outer world is to create harmony in your inner world. She helps her clients to envision expanding possibilities – moving beyond their preconceived limitations and assumptions – so they can take constructive, proactive action toward their goals and create new opportunities for success and well-being. Her lifelong goal is to help build an empowered global community by increasing individual self-awareness and fostering healthier interactions in our homes and workplaces.
Shannon firmly believes that life should be fully embraced and wholeheartedly celebrated, rather than merely endured. There are endless possibilities to explore, amazing experiences to be had, and transformative connections to be made! Shannon feels strongly that this philosophy also extends to our workplaces, which should ideally provide ample opportunity for us to expand and express our expertise, to stimulate our curiosity, to engage our sense of pride, to build community, and to be rewarded for our contributions. In her work with organizations, she assists leaders in developing and effectively communicating their vision, as well as gaining a better understanding of what motivates their team. These insights enable leaders to increase employee engagement and productivity, resulting in greater organizational harmony and profitability.
Shannon’s approach is one-of-a-kind: she provides the tools and resources to aid people in uncovering their stuck spots and guides them through their growth spurts. This strategy is based on her foundational principle that the best way to ensure success in your outer world is to create harmony in your inner world. She helps her clients to envision expanding possibilities – moving beyond their preconceived limitations and assumptions – so they can take constructive, proactive action toward their goals and create new opportunities for success and well-being. Her lifelong goal is to help build an empowered global community by increasing individual self-awareness and fostering healthier interactions in our homes and workplaces.
Shannon’s Journey
When you interact with Shannon today, you will likely experience her as a wise, witty, and compassionate whirlwind – constantly creating new programs and resources in the human development arena. Life for her wasn’t always this good, however, and her personal journey has inspired and informed much of her professional accomplishments.
Lost in Pain and Darkness
In the Spring of 1997, Shannon found herself in a dark place. She had returned to the States the previous Summer, after an amazing-yet-grueling four years of teaching English in Japan, and the 60- to 70-hour work weeks had taken quite a toll. The transition to life back home required a major adjustment – her social network, cultural surroundings, and professional status were drastically different.
Along with these significant lifestyle changes, Shannon’s paternal grandfather was terminally ill with cancer and wished to remain at home until he passed. Shannon wanted to spend time with him, as well as support him and her parents with his end-of-life care. This was how she ended up living with her parents as a 30-year-old adult and sleeping in the captain’s bed of her brother’s childhood… deeply depressed, stuck, and completely out of touch with her true identity and life purpose. She was physically and mentally exhausted, and felt vulnerable, lost, and overwhelmed.
In addition to the situational stressors and challenges of her life at that time, Shannon later came to realize that she had been chronically suffering from what she calls “Brain-on-a-Stick-Itis” – she lived life completely in her head, disconnected from her body, her emotions, her intuition, and her authentic Self. This was surviving, rather than fully living, and it was not only unpleasant, demoralizing, and disempowering, it had also become a deeply-ingrained self-defense mechanism that kept her heart and mind free from really feeling anything. Of course, this sucky strategy also prevented her from forming close connections to other people. To make matters worse, the discord and dissonance of these severely suppressed emotions had shattered her self-worth, ultimately creating even more trauma, drama, and chaos in her life. By the Summer of 1997, she had reached a terrifying point where she really didn’t see any meaning in life – she woke up one morning and realized that if she didn't do something to change, she wasn't going to be alive much longer.
Light and the End of the Tunnel
Finding herself stuck in that place of pain and darkness, Shannon did something completely unthinkable in her family of origin at that time – she picked up the Yellow Pages and looked for a therapist. That random search led her to Andrea Lambert, who recommended a personal growth intensive she had created, the Self-Awareness Weekend, and a few months later, an Empowerment Intensive that used Hypnotherapy as its main tool. Those two transformative experiences helped Shannon to rehabilitate her feelings, trade in her old limiting beliefs for new decisions about her life and herself, and reconnect with her dreams. Shannon became so excited about the changes she felt in herself and saw in others at those programs that she was inspired to become a Hypnotherapist. She’s been exploring and expanding herself ever since, learning all about self-improvement, human development, and how the mind and emotions interact. Shannon has devoted her life’s work to sharing her unique blend of vision, compassion, intuition, and expertise to support others on their own personal journeys into empowerment.
Lost in Pain and Darkness
In the Spring of 1997, Shannon found herself in a dark place. She had returned to the States the previous Summer, after an amazing-yet-grueling four years of teaching English in Japan, and the 60- to 70-hour work weeks had taken quite a toll. The transition to life back home required a major adjustment – her social network, cultural surroundings, and professional status were drastically different.
Along with these significant lifestyle changes, Shannon’s paternal grandfather was terminally ill with cancer and wished to remain at home until he passed. Shannon wanted to spend time with him, as well as support him and her parents with his end-of-life care. This was how she ended up living with her parents as a 30-year-old adult and sleeping in the captain’s bed of her brother’s childhood… deeply depressed, stuck, and completely out of touch with her true identity and life purpose. She was physically and mentally exhausted, and felt vulnerable, lost, and overwhelmed.
In addition to the situational stressors and challenges of her life at that time, Shannon later came to realize that she had been chronically suffering from what she calls “Brain-on-a-Stick-Itis” – she lived life completely in her head, disconnected from her body, her emotions, her intuition, and her authentic Self. This was surviving, rather than fully living, and it was not only unpleasant, demoralizing, and disempowering, it had also become a deeply-ingrained self-defense mechanism that kept her heart and mind free from really feeling anything. Of course, this sucky strategy also prevented her from forming close connections to other people. To make matters worse, the discord and dissonance of these severely suppressed emotions had shattered her self-worth, ultimately creating even more trauma, drama, and chaos in her life. By the Summer of 1997, she had reached a terrifying point where she really didn’t see any meaning in life – she woke up one morning and realized that if she didn't do something to change, she wasn't going to be alive much longer.
Light and the End of the Tunnel
Finding herself stuck in that place of pain and darkness, Shannon did something completely unthinkable in her family of origin at that time – she picked up the Yellow Pages and looked for a therapist. That random search led her to Andrea Lambert, who recommended a personal growth intensive she had created, the Self-Awareness Weekend, and a few months later, an Empowerment Intensive that used Hypnotherapy as its main tool. Those two transformative experiences helped Shannon to rehabilitate her feelings, trade in her old limiting beliefs for new decisions about her life and herself, and reconnect with her dreams. Shannon became so excited about the changes she felt in herself and saw in others at those programs that she was inspired to become a Hypnotherapist. She’s been exploring and expanding herself ever since, learning all about self-improvement, human development, and how the mind and emotions interact. Shannon has devoted her life’s work to sharing her unique blend of vision, compassion, intuition, and expertise to support others on their own personal journeys into empowerment.
In Her Own Words
“You are 100% YOU when your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions are in complete alignment with your goals and dreams. When you examine this definition and compare it to how you’re living life, how well does it match your current reality? I’ve found that if any one of these components – thoughts, feelings, actions, goals, or dreams – is out of balance or neglected, we feel unsatisfied and ill at ease.”
“When you’re stuck on a mental merry-go-round, circling through the If Onlys of the past and the What Ifs of the future, you’re unable to reach out and grab the brass ring of today.”
“The most enjoyable and rewarding aspect of my work is seeing the “before” and “after” – watching the light bulb go off for people and supporting them to apply their new knowledge and transformation as they continue to create even greater happiness and success.”
“When you’re stuck on a mental merry-go-round, circling through the If Onlys of the past and the What Ifs of the future, you’re unable to reach out and grab the brass ring of today.”
“The most enjoyable and rewarding aspect of my work is seeing the “before” and “after” – watching the light bulb go off for people and supporting them to apply their new knowledge and transformation as they continue to create even greater happiness and success.”
Arenas of Expertise
Shannon’s core skills and experience cross multiple disciplines and industries – she is, indeed, that rare unicorn capable of impacting both individuals and corporations. She effortlessly blends the entrepreneurial savvy of a small business owner with the keen insight and rapport of a therapist; she’s equally fluent in Corporate, Geek, and Heart-Centered communication; and she’s comfortable dancing between the realms of Intellect, Emotion, and Spirit. Whether working with individuals or organizations, Shannon has a track record of analyzing and improving processes and productivity, as well as swiftly spotting stuck spots. She is widely acknowledged for her innate ability to quickly diagnose the root of problems and formulate the shortest path to solutions and results.
Shannon’s spheres of influence and impact can best be summed up by the following four themes: Self-Awareness, Transformation, Resilience, and Leadership.
Self-Awareness
Since first attending the Self-Awareness Weekend in July of 1997, Shannon has dedicated her life to the pursuit of evolving and expanding her own personal growth, and has also continued her professional development to enable her to better support her clients. She has co-facilitated the Self-Awareness Weekend since 2008 and became an Empowerment Retreat facilitator in 2010. She is also a ChangeWorks!® trainer, which provides a powerful system that reveals how a person will respond to specific situations, predicts the behavior they will adopt, and suggests courses of action to increase their productivity and success.
Transformation
Shannon Lee is no stranger to change – by the time she was 8 years old, she had moved 8 times and lived in diverse areas including Nevada, the California Bay Area, Hawaii, Japan, and Northern Virginia. She has reinvented herself and rebooted her life multiple times (see “Resilience” below), and her personal journey has informed and inspired her work in leading others to transform their lives.
Resilience
Shannon has bounced back from multiple traumas and adversity, including deep personal losses and periods of recovery from a stroke and a major car accident. She plans to share the insights and strategies she gained from these experiences in her second book project, “Becoming Resilient.”
Leadership
In her early days of employment, Shannon experiences the full gamut of leadership examples, from the glaring to the glowing. She worked in Japan in the 90’s, where companies expected unquestioning loyalty and excessive dedication in high-pressure working conditions – and “death by overwork” was a documented conclusion at the coroner’s office. At the other end of the spectrum, she was privileged to work at a family-owned company whose much-beloved President not only invested significant funding for a picnic extravaganza for employees and their families, but was also good-natured about getting pegged in the face with a water balloon (I was aiming for the VP of Marketing)! These experiences, combined with observing her father’s discouragement during his career as a Complaints Investigator for the federal government, have inspired her to become one of a handful of trainers in Pride-Based Leadership® and dedicate part of her life’s work to improving corporate cultures.
Shannon’s spheres of influence and impact can best be summed up by the following four themes: Self-Awareness, Transformation, Resilience, and Leadership.
Self-Awareness
Since first attending the Self-Awareness Weekend in July of 1997, Shannon has dedicated her life to the pursuit of evolving and expanding her own personal growth, and has also continued her professional development to enable her to better support her clients. She has co-facilitated the Self-Awareness Weekend since 2008 and became an Empowerment Retreat facilitator in 2010. She is also a ChangeWorks!® trainer, which provides a powerful system that reveals how a person will respond to specific situations, predicts the behavior they will adopt, and suggests courses of action to increase their productivity and success.
Transformation
Shannon Lee is no stranger to change – by the time she was 8 years old, she had moved 8 times and lived in diverse areas including Nevada, the California Bay Area, Hawaii, Japan, and Northern Virginia. She has reinvented herself and rebooted her life multiple times (see “Resilience” below), and her personal journey has informed and inspired her work in leading others to transform their lives.
Resilience
Shannon has bounced back from multiple traumas and adversity, including deep personal losses and periods of recovery from a stroke and a major car accident. She plans to share the insights and strategies she gained from these experiences in her second book project, “Becoming Resilient.”
Leadership
In her early days of employment, Shannon experiences the full gamut of leadership examples, from the glaring to the glowing. She worked in Japan in the 90’s, where companies expected unquestioning loyalty and excessive dedication in high-pressure working conditions – and “death by overwork” was a documented conclusion at the coroner’s office. At the other end of the spectrum, she was privileged to work at a family-owned company whose much-beloved President not only invested significant funding for a picnic extravaganza for employees and their families, but was also good-natured about getting pegged in the face with a water balloon (I was aiming for the VP of Marketing)! These experiences, combined with observing her father’s discouragement during his career as a Complaints Investigator for the federal government, have inspired her to become one of a handful of trainers in Pride-Based Leadership® and dedicate part of her life’s work to improving corporate cultures.
Inner Harmonies
Inner Harmonies
3760 Market Street NE, Suite 410, Salem, OR 97301
t: (503) 873-2400 f: (503) 967-7868
t: (503) 873-2400 f: (503) 967-7868
© 2018-2025 Shannon Lee ~*~ All Rights Reserved
Inner Harmonies
Inner Harmonies
3760 Market Street NE, Suite 410
Salem, OR 97301
t: (503) 873-2400 f: (503) 967-7868
Salem, OR 97301
t: (503) 873-2400 f: (503) 967-7868
© 2018-2025 Shannon Lee ~*~ All Rights Reserved