Monica Marusceac, MBA, BCH

Monica is the Founder and CEO of NoVA Hypnosis, as well as a Leadership Coach and Board Certified Hypnotist who draws from her training and experience as a Marine Corps combat jet pilot, a Major in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, and a commercial pilot to help executives and business owners unleash the warrior inside and become unstoppable. With two decades’ experience as single seat jet pilot and military instructor with hundreds of hours teaching and presenting to senior military staff, Monica leverages world class Marine Corps leadership training, as well as her experience as an officer in combat arms, to help high performing men and women conquer their fears and take their lives to unbelievable levels.

As the second of only three women in the world to fly the infamous AV-8B Harrier single-seat jet in combat, Monica has faced fear countless times, both in the air and on the ground, and come back stronger, more emotionally agile and mentally tough, skills she inculcates in clients through the use of applied neuroscience techniques such as neuro-associative coaching and therapeutic hypnosis in order to address unknown, deep seated fears and limiting beliefs. Not in the least “airy-fairy,” Monica nonetheless leverages the interrelatedness of mind, body and spirit during her work for maximum results. Your unbounded success is her only objective and she will utilize every possible tool in her vast arsenal to give you what you need, want and desire.

A student of the “science of achievement” her whole life, Monica leverages her life-long record of achievement to help her clients consistently get results. From childhood, as an immigrant in New York City, Monica’s work ethic and determination to succeed landed her in elite institutions such as Manhattan’s top math and science high school, Stuyvesant, and Cornell University, where she graduated with a degree in Economics and International Relations. Following graduation, Monica was accepted as an officer in America’s elite fighting force, the United States Marine Corps, where she attended flight school in Pensacola, FL and Corpus Christi, TX. There, her exemplary performance and commitment to success resulted in “Wings of Gold” and a position as an AV-8B Harrier pilot, an elite community of pilots open only to those aviators with the highest performance scores coming out of flight school.

Monica served in two operational Harrier squadrons, VMA-513 “Nightmares” and VMA-214 “Black Sheep,” both highly decorated combat units with a long history of success. Upon successful completion of two ship-board deployments where both times she was the only female pilot in her unit, Monica transitioned roles and became a formal military instructor where she trained and instructed Navy and Marine Corps senior officers and their staff on the Marine Corps Planning Process and the Rapid Response Planning Process. Over the course of her active duty military service, Monica has successfully completed hundreds of flights in the AV-8B Harrier jet, including hundreds of vertical landings aboard aircraft carriers at sea and has instructed hundreds of senior military leaders and their staff. She now combines these skills and experiences in with her training in neuro-linguistic programming, clinical hypnosis, and strategic coaching, to help her clients challenge their old belief systems and operate outside their comfort zone with ease.

Since 2010, when a health crisis caused her to reevaluate her priorities, Monica has also relentlessly invested in mastering the “art of fulfillment,” which is the pursuit of joy and fulfillment in the process of realizing our life’s mission and purpose. She now skillfully balances authentic living with the “science of achievement” throughout her personal and professional life. Monica is a wife and the mother of three children, two boys and a girl, the owner of two exuberant Siberian Huskies, an avid scuba diver, snow boarder, and traveler who spends a third of the year on business and personal travel, as well as a long-time student of Tony Robbins. She has attended and served in a leadership capacity at over ten Tony Robbins events, and in her work with clients she integrates the wealth of knowledge she has acquired from Tony Robbins on her way to becoming a Senior Leader with her military background. This diversity of training and experience, coupled with a passion for living an authentic life, allows her to connect immediately with almost everyone and to get them results reliably and efficiently. After spending years in traditional therapy or coaching, clients are amazed at the rate of results from working with Monica.

No matter what your issue, Monica will teach you how to stop overthinking and overreacting to life’s challenges and instead, to become the high performance single-seat jet pilot of your life, arriving at your ideal professional and personal objectives, on target and on time, with the same courage, focus, and finesse it takes to land vertically on a moving aircraft carrier in the middle of a turbulent ocean. Regardless of the conditions of your life, you can and will elevate your performance standards through Monica’s unorthodox yet refined approach that weaves together traditional, strategy-focused coaching, Marine Corps leadership principles, and neuro-associative learning techniques such as hypnosis to help you eliminate the hidden mental and emotional blocks that have been holding you back for too long.

Whether through in-person sessions or online sessions, Monica’s approach combines loving compassion with grit and determination, warmth with candor and frankness, openheartedness and understanding with crystal clear clarity of purpose and mission focus. Whether male or female, as a high-performing individual committed to achieving your greatest successes with authenticity and grace, you will feel understood and supported, relishing your interactions with Monica as you come away from each encounter laser-focused on achieving your desired results and outcomes, not anyone else’s. With each session, you will gain clarity and renewed passion for making your best and most ideal life a reality today, not sometime later, in the future. Working with Monica the same way an elite mountain climber partners with an experienced guide to scale the highest mountains, you will surprise yourself as you push past your limiting beliefs and achieve levels of performance you have never dreamed of, all while discovering and connecting with your true, authentic self.

Because the pace of change is very fast and the approach is so intense, Monica’s happiest and most successful clients are high performing men and women with prior experience breaking barriers and charting their own course, people who know what it feels like to live outside their comfort zone on a regular basis and want to continue doing so at an even higher level and with greater authenticity and fulfillment. This includes male and female corporate executives and business owners who have plateaued in their professional performance or are in the middle of a major life transition, senior military officers transitioning out of the military and searching for renewed meaning and purpose in their lives, and elite athletes experiencing set-backs for the first time in their lives who want to reverse the trend and set new records. If you do not fall into one of these specific categories but still desire to work with Monica, you absolutely can if you have a high performance mindset and are willing to do the work necessary to succeed. Monica’s most successful clients are those who remain open to all possibilities and are willing to question their preexisting beliefs and challenge the status quo in their lives. This work is an interactive and dynamic process and anyone expecting to be spoon-fed information passively and “hypnotized” into success and happiness need not apply. On your journey to massive success, expect to be challenged and be prepared to challenge in return because only people who are fully engaged in the process experience massive breakthroughs and meaningful, lasting change.

Every journey starts with a single step. The first step to your amazing, unbounded life starts with an Initial Assessment with Monica. This is a 2-hour interactive experience, either in-person or online, where you meet with Monica one-on-one for the purpose of establishing your strategy for success. This strategy session includes a review and discussion of the comprehensive Client Intake Form and Mindset Inventory already completed after registering, an initial values and needs assessment, review of your DISC profile (you are welcome to bring the results of any other personality or psychological assessments already taken) and a mind-mapping session to get everything in your head out in the open where it can measured and evaluated. Upon leaving the initial assessment, you will have a comprehensive success strategy document in hand with which to chart your own course or to use as a map during follow-on work with Monica. All follow-on work is customized and determined collaboratively at the Initial Assessment. Variables considered include ideal length of sessions, meeting venue, in-between session assignments, frequency of meetings, and personalized meditation recordings. All follow-on work can be done a la carte or as a discounted package of multiple sessions delivered over a pre-determined period of time.