Dr. Corey Winn’s Stories, Lessons & Insights

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Dr. Corey Winn. Check out our conversation below.

Hi Corey, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What are you most proud of building — that nobody sees?
What I’m most proud of isn’t the podcast, the foundation, the coaching brand, or any of the visible milestones. It’s the internal architecture of courage I’ve been building — piece by piece — for my daughter.
I grew up in a loving home with parents who gave me stability, consistency, and safety. And while I’m endlessly grateful for that foundation, I also watched them stay in the same jobs for more than three decades. I’ve wondered whether they stayed because it was comfortable… because it was familiar… because stepping into the unknown felt too risky.
When I decided to build The Carl Edward Foundation, to leave the certainty of traditional physical therapy, and to create HER Quantum Rise, it wasn’t just a professional pivot. It was a declaration: We get to choose courage over certainty. We get to reinvent at any age. We get to follow the pull of purpose even when it asks us to leap.
The thing nobody sees is the quiet intention behind every step I take — I’m modeling possibility for my daughter.
I want her to grow up knowing that her life is not defined by the lane she starts in. I want her to feel, in her bones, that she never has to shrink into safety when her soul is asking for more. I want her to look back one day and say, My mom went first. My mom showed me what’s possible. My mom leapt — so I can too.
That invisible legacy — the one built through every brave decision — is what I’m most proud of.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Dr. Corey Winn, founder and CEO of HER Quantum Rise, where I partner with high-achieving women and leaders to step into their next-level identity and build lives and businesses that match the power of who they’re becoming. My work sits at the intersection of luxury consulting, identity evolution, and strategic business expansion — designed for the woman who knows she’s meant for more and is ready to rise with intention, clarity, and ease.
HER Quantum Rise is where everything comes together:
my expertise, my intuition, my leadership, and my deep belief that women are capable of creating extraordinary lives when they stop settling for roles, rules, and rhythms that were never designed for them.
What makes my brand unique is the way I blend high-level coaching, elevated identity work, and strategic consulting in a way that feels deeply personal and profoundly transformative. I help women build businesses, wealth, and impact from a place of alignment — not burnout. Women come to me when they’re ready to stop overfunctioning, stop dimming, and finally create a life that reflects the fullest expression of who they are.
Right now, I’m expanding my private consulting practice, launching experiences and programs for women ready to step into their next chapter, and continuing to grow the foundation’s statewide impact.
At my core, I’m a woman who leads with vision, alignment, and conviction — and I help other women rise into that same frequency so they can build the lives, businesses, and legacies they know they’re meant for.
Alongside this work, I’m also the founder and CEO of The Carl Edward Foundation. A mission in honor of my uncle who lived 55 years with a spinal cord injury, where we provide grants and funding toward adaptive equipment, home modifications, and accessibility solutions for individuals with spinal cord injuries and progressive neurological conditions. It’s the philanthropic expression of my heart — and an extension of my 15-year background as a Doctor of Physical Therapy and the love I will always have for my late uncle.

Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
For most of my childhood, I carried the belief that I was too much — too bold, too loud, too expressive, too excited for the small frame I showed up in. I learned early on to shrink myself, to soften my edges, to make my presence more comfortable for the world around me. I thought that being “a lot” was something I needed to apologize for or rein in.
It took me nearly four decades to understand that the very things I was told were “too much” are the exact things that make me powerful. My volume, my energy, my boldness — that’s my signature. That’s my magic. That’s the frequency that allows me to lead, to create, to build, and to help other women rise.
Today, I no longer dim or dilute who I am. I don’t pause for permission or look outward for validation. I move from alignment, not approval. I trust my own voice first. I honor the boldest, truest expression of who I am — unapologetically.
The belief that I had to be less is long gone.
The truth is, I was never “too much.”
I was exactly who I was meant to be — I just needed to grow into her.

What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
One of the most defining wounds of my life came from a moment when someone very close to me told me I had no value to offer — that my expertise didn’t matter. Hearing those words from someone I trusted shook me to my core. It triggered intense self-doubt, not because I believed they were right, but because I realized in that moment how much of my power I had unconsciously handed over to someone else.
It was a painful wake-up call — the kind that forces you to look at yourself with radical honesty.
For a short while, I spiraled. I questioned my path, my identity, and everything I had been building. But ultimately, that wound became a turning point. It asked me to choose:
Will you collapse under someone else’s limitations, or will you reclaim your own voice?
I chose reclamation.
I invested deeply in my growth — not to prove myself to them, but to reconnect with the truth of who I am. I anchored into my expertise, my lived experience, my leadership, and my inherent worth. I stopped looking outward for confirmation and learned to trust my internal guidance above all else.
That moment became the catalyst for my quantum leap — into HER Quantum Rise, into becoming a founder and CEO, into stepping fully into the woman I always knew I could be.
And this is part of why I do the work I do now. Every woman I coach has faced a moment where someone’s words cut too deeply, not because they were true, but because they reflected a place where she hadn’t fully claimed her power yet. My work is about helping her rise in those moments — not by bypassing the wound, but by transforming it into clarity, conviction, and identity-level strength.
I didn’t heal by denying the hurt.
I healed by meeting myself in it — and choosing to rise anyway.
That wound didn’t just shape me.
It revealed me.
And the woman I became on the other side of it is the one leading today.

Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? What’s a cultural value you protect at all costs?
Integrity is the value I guard with everything I have. It shapes how I lead, how I work, and how I move through the world. For me, integrity isn’t just about honesty — it’s about alignment. It’s the commitment that who I say I am is who I consistently show up as.
In my companies, in my coaching, in my foundation, and in my relationships, integrity means:
• I honor my word.
• I follow through on my commitments.
• I lead with transparency, even when it would be easier not to.
• I choose the aligned path over the convenient one.
My clients, my team, and the women who work with me know they can trust my standard — that if I commit, I’m all in. That I don’t cut corners. That I don’t compromise the mission, the vision, or the people I serve.
Integrity is the frequency that holds everything I build.
It’s the foundation of the way I lead, and it’s the value I will never allow to slip, no matter how big the vision becomes.

Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
I hope people say that when they were in my presence, they felt profoundly seen.
That no matter who they were — a woman I was coaching, a patient I was treating, or a client supported through our foundation — they experienced a level of compassion, presence, and care that made them feel understood at a soul level.
My deepest intention in this lifetime is to witness people fully. To create environments where their desires, their fears, their goals, and their truth can exist without judgment. Where they feel safe enough to rise, brave enough to heal, and supported enough to pursue what they’re truly here for.
Compassion, to me, is not passive. It’s active. It’s listening beyond the surface. It’s setting aside assumptions and honoring the lived experience of the person in front of me. It’s meeting them exactly where they are and helping them move toward where they want to go — whether that’s a breakthrough, a transformation, or simply a moment of relief.
If the story people tell about me is that I helped them see their own brilliance, that I made them feel valued, that I held space for their humanity and their ambition, and that I guided them with empathy and intention — that is the legacy I want to leave.
At the end of the day, I hope people remember me not just for what I built, but for how I made them feel in the process: seen, honored, and supported in becoming the fullest version of themselves.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.drcoreywinn.com
• Instagram: @coreywinndpt
• Linkedin: @coreywinn
• Facebook: @coreytannerwinn
• Youtube: @coreywinndpt