Move Over “Stuckness!”

Tom is passionate about helping people live into their God-given design and experience the fullness life has to offer.

Promised Land Living was life-transforming for Tom. Many people living in discouragement and defeat, believing the lies of the enemy, as though they are wondering in the desert. They are held in bondage and not experiencing the fullness and freedom of Jesus. This is true of most people, including many followers of Jesus. PLL offers a group experience where, as we grow together, we discover our desert (core) lie- that which holds us back from living in fullness. We also discover God heart for us in the Promised Land. The Promised Land is the place God wants us to live, a place of abundance, and fullness and freedom.

Tom has been in pastoral ministry, serving fourteen years in New Hampshire, two years in a Korean-American church and then parttime as Pastor of Discipleship for 13 years. During those thirteen years, Tom served with The Navigators serving in the neighborhood, churches and as a Life and Leadership Coach. He received his Coach Training in 2010 and is currently a Professional Certified.

Tom and his wife, Susan, lead Rooted, a discipleship experience helping people develop the rhythms of the spiritual life at their local church. They have an adult son with special needs living in apartment with support.

Shelley is fully alive when she is partnering with women who are invested in a purposeful process toward their fashioned path! She provides space, stillness, and safety for women to give themselves permission to be present in their lives, to rest, and maybe for the first-time dream about possibilities.

Shelley has been discipling, mentoring, teaching, leading, and training women for nearly 30 years in various Ministry to Women environments. She is a Professional Life Coach, trained through Professional Christian Coaching Institute and a Certified Coach with PLL. She is the founder of Shelley Jacobson Coaching where she gets to help women flourish in steady seasons
and in shifting seasons.

She makes her home in Michigan and is married to her high school sweetheart, Ken! Shelley travels often to be with her three adult children and their families who live throughout the US.

Her four grandchildren bring overwhelming joy and a lightness to be able to notice the extraordinary in the ordinary. Shelley’s happy place is on a beach with toes in the sand and breathing in the majestic expanse of the water.

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts ~ Ecclesiastes 4:9

Pam Mertz has a passion for helping others personally understand the revelation of all we get “in Christ”, this abundant life He came to give us…here! Pam loves to share what God is up to in her life. She is a certified life coach, CPLC through PCCI, and ACC through ICF. Pam has lead women’s ministry for over 13 years and is an RTF trained prayer minister. She also has 33 years in the corporate world of electronic sales. Pam has an appetite for God’s Word and attended a 2-year Bible School and Equipped For Life, in Minnesota. She is a licensed pastor since graduating in December 2011.

Pam loves to share her testimony of healing through speaking engagements as God leads and her first book is underway. Pam is married to the love of her life, Lou Mertz, and is the mother of three adult sons. She lives in St. Michael, MN.

Brenton Dearing, is the Founder & President of Wealth Ambassadors, LLC an Investment Advisory Firm, headquartered in Lake St. Louis, MO with clients around the country. Brenton is a Certified Financial Planner™ Professional and a Certified Mutual Fund Specialist who has been in the Financial Services industry since 1993. He has been a business steward for over 30 years. He has been coaching clients since 2005 and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Brenton has a passion for training an army of givers to collectively give a billion to faith-based organizations. He wrote the book, God’s Eye is on the Sparrow – Experiencing Divine Provision. He received a PhD in Leadership & Personal Development from Klemmer & Associates. Brenton is a Certified Professional Leadership Coach, Certified Professional Life Coach and a Competent Toastmaster (CTM). He is married to Cassendra (a PLL grad) and they have a teenage son, David.

Doreen Steenland is passionate about helping others discover a deep, meaningful connection with Christ, others, and their own unique essence in Christ. She loves helping women understand how they can become free from people pleasing, comparison and the lies that keep them from living in a place of rest where there is nothing to prove.

Doreen is an ICF Certified, Professional Life coach, trained through the Professional Christian Coaching Institute. As a Registered Nurse and a Neuro Confidence coach, she brings nuggets on how to leverage the superpower of the brain, your emotions and your thinking, into the Promised Land Living experience.

She has been teaching, discipling, and mentoring women for the last 25 years with the Word of God; adding coaching to her skill set several years ago.  She is Founder of Living Full Life Coaching and she lives in NJ with her husband Richard, and her three college-aged young adults.

In her spare time, she loves to golf, hike, bike, walk and play tennis!  All things outdoors!  Her favorite place at her home is her front porch!

Cheryl Scanlan is the founder and president of Promised Land Living. She has been involved with coaching and ministry during the last 20 plus years. It is a true honor and joy for her to see people set free while going through the Promised Land Living journey. She is a master certified coach (MCC, CMCC, CPLC, BCC) with 7000 hours of coaching experience and has trained almost 1000 coaches. Through her love of the Lord, He has brought revelation upon revelation into His true nature. Through the inductive study of His Word, Cheryl’s heart burned to bring this truth to His people. Freedom, abundance, abiding – these are not distant concepts – these are already ours in Jesus

And I am inviting you to come with me to this place of ALL new! It is a place where you are fully known, deeply loved, eternally secure and made completely new! If any of these changes seem impossible to grasp, yet deep down, something inside you informs you that this is true, then you are in the right place! Cheryl lives in Raleigh, NC. She is married to her loving husband, Tom Scanlan and is the mother of two adult sons.

Steve Mattingly exemplifies his life mission to be a loving facilitator who by support and example helps others fully realize and accomplish their God-gifted, Spirit empowered life calling. “There truly is great joy seeing those I am privileged to coach soar like eagles.”

Comments from Steve’s recent clients include:

“He deeply listens and then asks powerful questions that inspire discovery in such a way that insights turn into
massive results!”

“As an executive coach, Steve helps you get to the core concern quickly. Confident, concise and considerate, while coaching with Steve, you will enjoy and experience new- found respect in the midst of conquering your challenging objectives.”

Having relocated to North Carolina in 1981, Steve resides in Raleigh. He is a certified Professional Coach with PCCI, and an ICF ACC certified coach as well.  In 2013, he joined as an Associate Coach with Cheryl Scanlan’s Way of Life Coaching, LLC, MCC, CMCC, and BCC. Steve is blessed to have two beautiful, creative, independent daughters, two great son-in-law’s, and four awesome grandchildren.

Todd Overpeck loves to help men level up in their relationships with God, their spouses, families and brothers/sisters in Christ.

In the past five years of his involvement with Promised Land Living, Todd has seen this happen firsthand in his own life and in the lives of other men. As a certified PLL Coach Presenter, Todd’s desire is to humbly facilitate and encourage your walk with Christ in true freedom.

Todd is also passionate about Christ-followers’ financial freedom and stewardship. He is a personal finance coach through his Andrews Financial Coaching services, and he is certified by Compass Financial Discipleship Ministry, FaithFI (formerly MoneyWise), and Ramsey Solutions’ Financial Peace. Todd is pursuing further Christian financial counseling certification and coaching education focused on marriage relationships as well.

Todd and his wife, Julie (who has completed PLL), have two adult children in graduate school, Allison and Ian. When he’s not coaching, Todd enjoys hiking and camping with his family, and supporting various soccer, hockey, football and racing teams.

Hard things happen in this fallen world. I believe that we can contend with the Lord and let those things define us. Or we can cooperate with Him and let those same things refine us.  My passion is to journey alongside others to help them gain freedom from lies, and discover the Promised Land that the Lord has for each of us. 

Everyone has a story and the Lord longs to work through each of our stories for our good and His glory. But that is rarely an easy and smooth process.  That’s why I’m honored to be part of Promised Land Living. I’ve experienced firsthand and seen in many others how the Promised Land Living tools and community can literally change your life and help you step into who God made you to be. 

I’m a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I have other certifications as well in leadership, brain-based coaching and other areas which basically mean I love to learn. I worked for many years at Procter & Gamble, in leadership roles in Brand Management, Field Marketing and Sales. I now coach leaders and coaches across a variety of areas, helping people lead themselves, their people and their workplace.

My husband, Jeff, and I have been married for 31 years and have three sons, one in heaven, and two on earth. We recently relocated from Houston, Texas. I love to travel and enjoy nature by hiking, biking and kayaking. I have trained two of my dogs to be therapy dogs and we have worked with Alzheimer’s patients, special needs children, and emerging readers, to name a few.

Faith’s WHY is to help people see their value and live loved!

Faith Wright is the founder of “Faith Ann Coaching” where she helps women take action steps that are obedient to Christ despite limiting beliefs so that they can glorify Him all the more. Faith speaks on biblical success and identity in Christ to ignite women to take messy action. Faith hosts a podcast called “Thoughts of Faith”, a guest writer for The Limitless Lounge – a monthly digital newsletter curated for leaders at every level, and a contributing author for The Life Coach’s Tool Kit Ready-to-use Strategies, Principles, and Activities (releasing December 2023). Faith is also a Coach Caregiver for Full Strength Network- a network of counselors and coaches that serve church staff and their families.

Born and raised in Missouri, Faith moved her life to South Carolina to obtain her bachelors in Psychology from Erskine College and obtained her masters in Organizational Leadership from Anderson University. Shortly after, Faith moved to Raleigh, NC where she still resides.

Faith’s top strengths on Gallup StrengthsFinder are Belief, Achiever, Learner, Connectedness, Significance. Faith enjoys travel, walks in nature, coffee with friends, and a good book.

Favorite verses:
2nd Timothy 1:7- “For God did not give us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and sound mind.”
James 2:17- “Faith by itself, if it does not produce action, is dead.”

Lara loves walking alongside others to live with intention, adapt with wisdom and discover greater fulfillment in the life that God intends for His children. Through her coaching practice, she helps others define their path, develop their vision and walk their journey. She attained her CPLC through Professional Christian Coaching Institute, is an associate certified professional life coach with the International Coach Federation and co-founder of Planning for Purpose Life Coaching, LLC, along with her husband, Jasper. In their 25 years of marriage, God has given them three sons who bring them great joy and continuously stretch them to be better parents and people. They live in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

Lara has been called to support the development of the prayer ministry within their local church and to serve in the women’s ministry as a vision team lead. She is blessed to work with and pray for many brothers and sisters in Christ who love and serve with her.

Earning a bachelor’s degree in Biology concentrating in genetics and development, she spent 18 years in academic research at a renown non-profit Children’s Hospital, where she researched and published several peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. This experience has given her keen insight into how God created and wired His children for special work. Her minor in Psychology supports her path into life coaching and ministry.

Her happy places are the beach, the mountains and the garden, where she can take in the glory of God’s creation.

Laura is passionate about helping people draw closer to God by making His Word come alive for them, relevant to help us today. She has spent many hours at the feet of Jesus, inductively studying the Bible and learning how to be a “Mary.” She loves to share everything the Holy Spirit teaches her through Promised Land Living, her book “Your Daily Companion to the Bible,” available on Amazon, and seminars she leads so participants can discover all that God desires for their life.

Laura is an Executive Certified Coach trained by Coach Approach Ministries, an ICF-approved training. Since 1987, she has been active in church and ministry with leadership positions using her Spiritual gifts of teaching, speaking, organization, and administration. Having spent a 30+ year career as a Financial Investigator, she finds it refreshing to have her vocation and ministry more aligned with one another as she continues her journey through the Promised Land.

Laura lives in Texas with Brad, her husband of 38 years. They have navigated the uncharted waters of an empty nest, now enjoy being first-time grandparents, and look toward Brad’s retirement from police work in a few more years, God willing. In the meantime, Laura continues coaching and writing. She has traveled to the Holy Land, followed the footsteps of Paul in Greece and Turkey, and continues to enjoy traveling when time and money allow.

As a life-long follower of Christ, Vicki thought she understood what trusting in God and walking with Him daily meant, until her world as she knew it came crashing down. As everything she’d taken for granted in her life began to slip through her fingers, God graciously connected her with Cheryl Scanlan and Promised Land Living. With the lessons and tools she learned during the PLL journey, she was able to face the unexpected with a deep sense of peace as she placed her dreams and her family into the hands of a faithful, trustworthy God.

Vicki’s dream is to see Christians joyously embrace how they’ve been uniquely created and how God has used their life experiences to prepare them for their calling. Her role is to help people gain clarity on their calling and how it may be fulfilled through a particular career path that ignites their passion, maximizes their strengths, and provides a sense of fulfillment. She also works with businesses to equip leaders to hire, place, and develop their employees in a climate of trust and a shared desire to make a difference.

She is a Certified Career Services Provider, a Highlands Personal Vision Coach, a Certified Professional Life Coach, a certified DiSC and EQ trainer and facilitator, and a Strengths Champion coach.

Vicki loves leading mission teams to Peru every year with her husband, Kent, and when it’s warm she can frequently be found at Lake Amistad on the border of Texas/Mexico where he is a fishing guide, sitting on the porch watching hummingbirds and reading. She also love creating jewelry and scrapbooking.