Q&A with Award-Winning Author JJ DiGeronimo

She is the author of Illuminate Your Path and Accelerate Your Impact.

Let’s get to know JJ as she talks about her career journey, what readers can expect from Illuminate Your Path, why it’s the right time for this book and much more!

Tell us about your career trajectory, from leading teams as a systems engineer to your spiritual awakening journey?

I often say my journey has unfolded in chapters, each one preparing me for the next. I began my career as a computer information systems engineer and spent more than two decades in technology, leading teams, launching initiatives, and working for companies such as VMware, Accenture, and Inktomi. I loved solving problems, building relationships, and helping organizations move forward.

In my thirties, I was navigating the realities many professional women know well. By 2008, I was raising young children while working in a demanding Silicon Valley role, trying to excel at work and be fully present at home. I often felt like I was doing everything I was supposed to do, yet I was exhausted and questioning whether there was a better way.

That experience inspired me to launch Tech Savvy Women in 2008 and write my first book, The Working Woman’s GPS, in 2010. I wanted women to know they weren’t alone in trying to balance career aspirations, family commitments, and their own well-being.

As I traveled and spoke about the book at companies like HP, Dell and Cisco, I noticed another challenge. Many talented women simply had not been taught how to maneuver the professional landscape. They didn’t know how to advocate for themselves, increase their visibility, or strategically position themselves for opportunities. Curious to understand what worked, I spent two years reviewing more than 2,000 books, articles, and studies and eventually wrote Accelerate Your Impact, which is still being used within my companies as a playbook for women.

For years, my work focused on helping women create greater influence and momentum in their careers started with my own desires. Yet around 2016, after building a successful career, writing books, and helping thousands of women professionally, I found myself asking deeper questions.

Who am I becoming?

Why doesn’t the life I’ve built fully fit anymore?

What if uncertainty isn’t something to fix, but an invitation to remember something I’ve forgotten?

That curiosity led me into mindfulness, meditation, EFT, Human Design, Gene Keys, energy healing, family constellations, astrology, sound healing, and many other modalities. What began as a personal search for more peace and equilibrium evolved into a journey of remembering.

Today, I see my career and spiritual path as deeply connected. One taught me how to build, lead, and contribute. The other taught me how to listen, trust, and reconnect with the wisdom that was there all along. Together, they inspired my third and fourth book Seeking and now Illuminate Your Path.

When did you know you wanted to write books to help people obtain a toolkit for inner alignment?

I don’t think I ever consciously decided to write a guide for women and especially not on intuition, alignment, and impact. In fact, I never really thought I was going to write a book at all as I am dyslexic, so grammar and I are not friends.

Throughout my life, I’ve tended to research topics for myself first. Whether I was trying to better balance career and family, understand how women advance professionally, or make sense of my own spiritual awakening, I was usually looking for answers to questions I personally had, which makes sense as I am a 3/5 Human Design.

By 2016, I found myself exploring mindfulness, meditation, EFT, Human Design, Gene Keys, astrology, energy healing, family constellations, sound healing, numerology, and many other modalities. Initially, I was simply trying to create more peace, energy, and equilibrium in my own life after a series of disappointments and personal hurdles.

As I read books, attended workshops, worked with practitioners, and experimented with different approaches, I started keeping notes, collecting insights, and documenting what seemed to help me move through self-doubt, uncertainty, and periods of feeling unsettled.

At some point, I looked at the growing stack of notes, resources, and experiences on my desk and thought, This is too helpful to keep to myself. Friends encouraged me to share what I was learning, but I also felt a genuine desire to let more women know about the research, information, and practices I was using to open doors, trust myself more deeply, and create experiences that felt increasingly aligned with who I was becoming. 

My third book Seeking became a way to introduce readers to many of the modalities and teachers that supported me along the way, which also kicked started the podcast Together We Seek. Illuminate Your Path takes that exploration one step further. After interviewing more than 175 healers, mystics, teachers, and practitioners through the Together We Seek Podcast, I began noticing patterns in how people awaken, question old identities, rediscover forgotten interests, and reconnect with gifts they may have carried all along.

My hope is that readers borrow what resonates, leave what doesn’t, and feel empowered to create their own toolkit for inner alignment and meaningful impact.

What can readers expect from Illuminate Your Path: How Life’s Crossroads Awaken the Gifts You Already Carry?

Readers can expect a compassionate guide for navigating seasons of uncertainty, transition, and self-discovery.

This book is for women who have achieved many of the things they once desired yet still feel a tug toward something more meaningful, more aligned, or simply more authentic. It offers reassurance that feeling unsettled, curious, or even lost at times may be part of a larger unfolding.

Throughout the book, I introduce six phases that many women seem to move through as they awaken to new aspects of themselves. These phases help readers recognize where they are today, what might be calling them forward, and how they can trust their experiences a little more.

Readers will also discover stories from my own journey, insights from more than 175 guests from the Together We Seek Podcast, reflection exercises, journal prompts, and examples of modalities that others have explored along the way. And for readers who want immediate knowing, I have created a quiz to determine the phase of their awakening! https://quiz.jjdigeronimo.com/

My hope is that readers walk away feeling more inspired, more trusting of themselves, and excited about what may be emerging within them.

Why is now the right time to release this book? What type of research went into it?

I think this book is arriving at the right time because many women are reevaluating what fulfillment, purpose, and meaningful impact look like in this season of their lives. They’ve spent years showing up for everyone else, accomplishing goals, and meeting expectations, only to realize they may have lost touch with parts of themselves along the way.

What makes this book different is that it doesn’t tell readers what to believe or which modality to pursue. Instead, it offers a framework for recognizing where they may be in their own journey and provides examples, practices, and perspectives that can help them move forward with greater trust and curiosity.

The research behind this book is a blend of lived experience, observation, and conversation. It includes nearly a decade of personal exploration, insights gathered from hundreds of women at retreats, events, and within the Together We Seek community, and more than 175 interviews with healers, mystics, teachers, and practitioners through the Together We Seek Podcast.

As I reflected on these conversations and my own experiences, I noticed many people seemed to move through similar periods of feeling unsettled, becoming curious, seeking new experiences, releasing old patterns, emerging with greater clarity, and eventually illuminating gifts they may not have recognized before.

I’ve also always been drawn to the moon and its gentle reminder that growth isn’t linear. Some phases invite us to rest, others encourage us to seek, release, emerge, or shine more brightly. That realization inspired me to organize the book around six phases that align with the moon’s natural rhythm.

Ultimately, Illuminate Your Path is less about awakening to something outside of ourselves and more about remembering what has been within us all along. My hope is that readers feel seen, discover practical tools that resonate with them, and trust that they already carry more wisdom, light, and guidance than they may realize.

What do you hope are some of the key takeaways?

I’d love for readers to recognize that crossroads, pauses, and transitions may not be interruptions to their path, but opportunities to illuminate it.

Many of us were taught to celebrate achievements, promotions, and milestones, yet some of life’s richest experiences emerge through periods of curiosity, reflection, releasing, and beginning again. The book invites readers to see these seasons through a different lens and perhaps become a little more compassionate with themselves along the way.

Readers may also discover that the whispers they’ve been hearing, the interests that continue to resurface, and the people and experiences appearing in their lives are worthy of their attention. Sometimes these nudges are simply inviting us to explore what feels meaningful, energizing, or aligned in this season of our lives.

Another takeaway is that our gifts don’t need to look mystical. Gifts can be found in deep listening, writing, teaching, creating beautiful spaces, connecting people, leading with heart, nurturing others, or helping someone feel seen and understood. Often, the experiences we once questioned become the very experiences that illuminate what we are here to share.

Perhaps the greatest invitation within Illuminate Your Path is to trust what resonates, release what doesn’t, and remember that there is nothing to become. There is simply an opportunity to recognize the wisdom, intuition, and light that may have been with us all along.

What are you currently reading and what’s on your TBR (to be read) list?

I tend to read in themes, and this year I’ve been exploring books that deepen my understanding of personal growth, consciousness, inner healing, and creating meaningful experiences for others. I also listen to many books while traveling.

Some books I’ve read or listened to in 2026 include:

• The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest
• Stop Letting Everything Affect You by Daniel Chidiac
• The 15 Success Principles for Self-Realization by Sara Landon
• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
• The Chiron Effect by Lisa Tahir
• The Compass Within by Robert Glazer
• Scale Solo by Pia Silva
• The Dream, the Journey, Eternity, and God by Sara Landon
• Heal Your Inner Child by Rhea Jacobs
• The 11 Spiritual Roles of the Soul by Sara Landon
• A Hypnotist’s Journey to Avalon by Sarah Breskman Cosme

My reading tends to span several areas including leadership, personal alignment, consciousness, spirituality, inner healing, and community building. I enjoy books that challenge me to think differently, help me understand myself more deeply, or offer ideas for creating meaningful experiences through Together We Seek, retreats, and gatherings.

My current TBR list is always growing, but it includes books on consciousness, Human Design, Gene Keys, astrology, and creating transformative experiences that help people feel more connected to themselves and one another.