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Guest Information
Terri Britt is a former Miss USA 1982, spiritual coach, intuitive healer, TEDx speaker, and author dedicated to helping women rediscover their worth and live with greater peace, purpose, and abundance. With more than 25 years of coaching experience, she has guided people from all walks of life—including executives, entrepreneurs, educators, and families—toward deeper self-love, emotional healing, and spiritual alignment.
Terri is the founder of the Women Leaders of Love, a global movement empowering women to step off the “hamster wheel” of stress, comparison, and self-doubt so they can lead lives filled with joy, balance, and meaningful impact. Her teachings focus on worthiness, inner healing, and aligning with one’s authentic self to create lasting transformation.
An award-winning author, Terri wrote The Enlightened Mom, which received Best Spiritual Book honors at both the New York and San Francisco Book Festivals. She also authored Message Sent: Retrieving the Gift of Love and co-authored the bestselling Women Gone Wild: The Feminine Guide to Fearless Living. Her work blends spiritual wisdom, personal growth practices, and inner-child healing to help individuals reclaim their voice and live authentically.
Beyond her coaching and writing, Terri is also a business owner with her husband, Charlie Britt, co-running Jumping Goat Coffee Roasters in the North Georgia mountains. Named one of Life & Style magazine’s Top 10 Impact-Driven Leaders to Follow in 2024, Terri continues to inspire audiences worldwide through her speaking, coaching, and teachings on worthiness, love, and conscious living.
Her mission is simple but powerful: to help people recognize that their worth is not something they must earn—it is something they already possess.
Testimonial
Terri Britt
Inside the You Are Worthy Network, I had the honor of sitting down with the incredible Terri Britt—former Miss USA 👑 turned Spiritual Coach, Intuitive Healer, author, TEDx speaker, and transformational leader. And this conversation goes far deeper than titles and success.
Terri opens up about her journey through pain, including the trauma of being molested as a teenager, years of people-pleasing and codependency, and the inner struggle that followed—even at the height of winning Miss USA. She shares the powerful truth that she didn’t fully embrace the crown… and even considered giving it back.
But this is where the story shifts. 🔥
Through deep healing, self-discovery, and spiritual alignment, Terri transformed her life—and now dedicates it to helping others break free from stress, struggle, and self-doubt so they can live with peace, joy, balance, and abundance.
And what makes this conversation even more beautiful is hearing Terri’s heart for what matters most ❤️
Her deep love for her husband, her passion for their coffee business, JumpinGoat Coffee Roasters ☕, and the joy she carries for her family shines through in such a real and powerful way. It’s not just what she teaches—it’s how she lives.
Question & Answer
Terri, you were crowned Miss USA in 1982. What did that experience teach you about success and fulfillment?
Winning Miss USA was an incredible experience, but it also revealed something important to me. I had spent much of my life striving for achievements thinking they would make me feel fulfilled. When I finally won, I realized that external success alone doesn’t create inner fulfillment. That realization eventually led me on a deeper journey of healing, self-love, and understanding my true worth.
You often talk about “worthiness.” What does being worthy really mean to you?
Worthiness means recognizing that you are valuable simply because you exist. You don’t become worthy when you achieve something or fix everything in your life—you’re worthy right now. When we truly accept that, we stop performing for approval and begin living authentically, which opens the door to peace, joy, and abundance.
You’ve shared openly about difficult experiences in your early life. How did those challenges shape your personal growth?
For many years I carried unprocessed pain from past experiences, including abuse that I had suppressed. That pain showed up as anger and emotional chaos in my life. Healing began when I started doing deep inner work—learning to acknowledge my feelings, reconnect with my inner child, and give myself the love and compassion I had never offered before. That process transformed everything in my life.
Your work often focuses on intuition and listening to inner guidance. How did that show up in your own journey?
One of the biggest turning points in my life happened when I listened to an inner knowing that told me to leave college, even though it seemed illogical at the time. Following that intuition set off a chain of events that eventually led me to the Miss USA pageant and many opportunities afterward. I’ve learned that when we honor that inner voice—the guidance of our soul or spirit—life begins to flow in extraordinary ways.
Today you coach women and lead the Women Leaders of Love community. What is your mission?
My mission is to help women get off the hamster wheel of stress, striving, and self-doubt. When women learn to truly love and honor themselves, they reconnect with their worth and align with their purpose. From that place, they can create lives filled with peace, balance, abundance, and miracles—not only for themselves but also for their families and communities.
