Whole-Brain Strategic Coaching for Female Founders and Corporate Communicators
This isn’t just about your brand, It’s about you,the brand owner.
One-on-one coaching at Rural Gone Urban is designed for women who are ready to build, refine, and run businesses rooted in reality. This is not an endless advice loop or an abstract mentoring program; it is an active working partnership where Brooke Clay Taylor brings her entire strategy, communications, and operations background directly to your business. Whether you are a rural founder scaling an enterprise or a corporate leader navigating an operational pivot, every session focuses on immediate, practical action steps that move your organization forward.
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Teach a Woman to Fish
Real advisory work goes beyond inspiring conversation to deliver tangible mechanics. A strategy is only as effective as the daily operations supporting it, which is why process for the sake of process has no place in these sessions. When you step into a coaching partnership, you receive dedicated access to high-level brand strategy, positioning, and operational problem solving designed around your exact capacity and business model.
Every session centers on the people on both sides of your brand, aligning the daily effort of your team with the experience of the customers paying for your product. By examining the internal mechanics under the hood of your business, we eliminate friction, sharpen your public narrative, and equip you with the skills and tools to lead with complete independence. -
High-Capacity Strategy for Real-World Friction
Working sessions are tailored to address the immediate bottlenecks facing your organization. Founders and communications leaders use this time to map out full brand positioning frameworks, audit internal workflows, refine corporate messaging, build modern digital media strategies, and navigate high-stakes business transitions. Instead of handing you a generic checklist, Brooke works alongside you to craft custom workflows, campaign architectures, and action plans you can execute immediately.
Designed for Visionaries and Doers
1:1 executive coaching is built specifically for female small-to-midsize business owners in rural industries, founders with strong heartland ties, and corporate communications directors who need a high-capacity sounding board. If you are ready to stop guessing, eliminate unnecessary corporate complexity, and align your brand vision with operational strength, this partnership offers the exact space to make it happen.Our multidisciplinary team analyzes each objective, designs a tailored roadmap, and implements with rigorous oversight.
Dedicated Focus, Immediate Results
Coaching engagements are structured as focused, deep-dive working sessions to maximize your time and investment. Before we meet, you submit a brief overview of your current operations, brand goals, and immediate friction points, allowing Brooke to dive directly into solution mode the moment your session begins. You walk away from the table with clear priorities, refined messaging, and an operational roadmap tailored for your business.
The Strategy and Grit Behind Your Next Pivot
Brooke Clay Taylor brings a rare blend of heartland grit and big-agency strategy to her role as a brand consultant and executive coach. Holding a bachelor's in agricultural communications and a master's in international agriculture from Oklahoma State University, her professional experience ranges from rural Oklahoma to urban Nashville, Austin, and the Boston Harbor. Managing national and international client accounts taught her how to navigate high-stakes corporate environments, giving her a dual perspective that enriches every advisory partnership.
She leverages that background to help female founders and corporate communicators build lasting relationships with the people who matter most: their customers. Rather than creating systems for the sake of having a process, Brooke helps business owners establish solid internal operations, modernize their digital media execution, craft targeted influencer programs, and deliver media training that turns passive followers into active brand advocates. Bringing the work ethic of a farm hand and the creative brain of an agency veteran, she ensures your brand story resonates whether standing in an Oklahoma pasture or walking the aisles of a metropolitan Whole Foods.
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Reagan File Bonnette • Stringer Oil & LP Gas
Collaborating with Brooke has been nothing short of transformative. As cliché as it may sound, it genuinely feels like partnering with your closest friend. Her life story is a testament to resilience and inspiration, and the gifts she brings to our workplace are truly remarkable. In the 60 years our company has been in business, we had never considered branding. We were unaware of how pivotal it could be for our industry until Brooke unveiled its immense potential.
Her extraordinary ability to grasp the emotions and needs of a business, even without setting foot on the property, is nothing short of magical. Whatever self-imposed limitations we had, she encourages us to shatter them, offering unwavering support and brilliant guidance every step of the way. Thanks to her, we now have key elements like a stunning new logo that receives compliments on a weekly basis. I am immensely grateful to have worked with her and for her insight into how crucial branding can be for a company.
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Brittany Coffee Parker • BC Parker Co.
Working with Brooke is 100% worth. She has coached me through the launch of a mentorship program, website re-brand and launch along with several social media campaigns. She’s all in all the time and it’s easy to want to work with a small business like that. I would recommend Brooke to anyone that needs strategic communications guidance.
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Sheri Glazier • Dirt Road Dietitien
Brooke's creativity & way with words is truly unmatched. She has a remarkable ability to take your ideas and transform them into a compelling brand that deeply resonates with your audience—driving engagement, growth, and new opportunities for your business.
She is responsive, easy to work with, and always a dose of humor in between. She's been instrumental in the development & growth of the brand.
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Mary Kate Pedigo • The Saguaro West
Brooke is never short on ideas and is always on the verge of the next great brainstorm. Grab a notebook, and write that down.
She’s passionate about her work, her family, and the people around her.
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Stephanie Gibbs • Tulsa Blooms
You don’t know what you don’t know when launching your first business. Brooke used her real-world experiences, expansive network, and creative ideas to guide me through the process.
I never once felt like my small businesses was a small idea even knowing after some of our sessions Brooke was joining a call with a national client.
Alex Lowery
As a coach (and now friend), Brooke has made one of the biggest, most meaningful impacts in my life — both professionally and personally.
I had actually known of Brooke for years through mutual connections and fellow Texas A&M grads. I followed her story from afar and always admired the way she showed up — bold, grounded, and full of purpose. When I finally decided to work with her, I had no idea just how much she would change my life.
In our first sessions, I was completely overwhelmed. I was juggling multiple businesses, raising two little boys, taking care of animals, showing up for my marriage, and doing my best to just hold everything together. Brooke stepped into that chaos with so much calm and clarity. She helped me create structure and systems that actually work for me — not just another productivity hack, but real, sustainable change.
That alone has been life-changing.
But it didn’t stop there.
Brooke has helped me systemize and scale across the board. She’s walked with me through launching multiple brands — my personal brand, Rural Changemakers, and a podcast to go with it. We’ve built digital downloads, outlined courses, and streamlined my offers. She’s helped me rethink how I structure my businesses and spend my time. And through her encouragement and connections, I’ve stepped into rooms I wouldn’t have entered on my own.
Her coaching is a beautiful blend of mindset and strategy — part therapy, part action plan. She sees me. She gets how I operate (shoutout to all the Type A, Enneagram Ones out there), and she uses that insight to help me move forward with clarity and purpose. Every session is filled with tangible takeaways, encouragement, and just the right amount of challenge.
I truly cannot say enough good things about Brooke. I could write an entire book about her. She’s thoughtful, brilliant, encouraging, and kind. If you’re on the fence about working with her, let this be your sign: do it. She will help you align, build, and grow into the version of yourself that’s been waiting on the other side of clarity — and she’ll do it with so much heart.