Dr. Denise Hart’s Personal Motivation and Passion For Mentoring
- She is the owner of Mentoring From The Hart LLC, a life coaching company that inspires others to use mentoring for personal centering. Her clients have written books, starred in movies, played professional athletics, run marathons, and started businesses.
- Her vision has taken her all over the world, where she has worked in everything from boardrooms to orphanages helping people achieve their dreams.
- She is an award-winning counselor, being named Iowa School Counselor of the Year from Iowa School Counselor Association.
- A successful entrepreneur, she has started and grown many businesses. She currently heads a farming operation in the Midwest and mentors many young farmers and entrepreneurs helping them manifest change.
- In addition to private coaching, large group trainings, and retreats, she's interviewed and researched hundreds of celebrity figures. Her dissertation is titled, “Life in the Public Eye: A Narrative Investigation of the Impact of Mentor Relationships of Celebrity Figures.”
- She has donated her time and talents to many organizations including The Boys Club, The Girl Scouts, Future Business Leaders of America, FFA, 4-H, and The American Diabetes Association.
- But most importantly, she cares about her clients as she supports them as they find their personal centering and achieve their life purpose.
More About Denise
Denise was fortunate to have many great mentors in high school and college. Her college major was business administration, but her minor was theater. She acted in and directed plays at the University of San Diego and had an agent. Denise did some commercial and extra work, but realized quickly that acting and modeling were not for her. Friends and professors in college had celebrity connections and Denise has very fond memories of going to parties with Gladys Knight, Tom Cruise, Dan Fouts, Hank Bauer, Robin Williams, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, and President Reagan. At a dinner party at her friend’s house in La Jolla, President Reagan advised her to stay out of acting and politics and find a career making big money in business.
After graduating from The University of San Diego, Denise took President Reagan’s advice and moved to Iowa where she began careers in agriculture and real-estate. After living in Iowa for a few years, Denise went back to college to get a teaching certification and a Master of Education in School Counseling. Denise worked in Iowa schools as a high school business teacher and counselor for over ten years and had the opportunity to see the profound influence mentoring had on the middle and high school students she advised. Denise was awarded Iowa School Counselor of the Year from the Iowa School Counselor’s Association.
In 2012, Denise started life coaching and was referred by a lifelong friend to work with a celebrity and two professional athletes. These clients referred her to other clients. As Denise began working with celebrity clients and reconnecting with influential friends from the past, she was invited to multiple celebrity events including award shows, movie premieres, conventions, The World Series, and private parties. Over the last ten years, Denise had the opportunity to interact with and interview over 200 celebrities.
In Denise’s career as a counselor and life coach, she heard narratives and thought- provoking insights from celebrities and non-celebrities about their mentoring experiences. In listening to the stories of others, Denise realized that there are difference-makers in people’s lives and sadly, others whose presence only leaves pain and heartache on those they touch. In 2020, Denise received her Ph.D. from Drake University. Her dissertation was titled, Life In The Public Eye: A Narrative Investigation Of The Impact Of Mentor Relationships Of Celebrity Figures. Denise continues to learn from both positive and negative mentoring stories of others and analyze how mentoring impacted the lives.
