ABOUT MICHELE

Michele

Michele has one L, not two. That small spelling difference became part of her signature identity, her humor, and the voice behind Your Moral Compass Counts^®.

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Michele smiling, holding glasses with green beans blurred out the background.

One L. No Hell.

It is a playful way to remember the spelling, but it also says something larger about Michele: she notices the detail, owns the difference, and turns it into a point of connection.

Professional background

A legal mind with a long-standing interest in behavior.

Michele grew up in Orange County, California. She attended California State University, Fullerton and then the University of California, Davis, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She later earned her Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.

As an appearance attorney, Michele worked across several areas of law, including family law, workers’ compensation, criminal matters, and other courtroom settings where quick analysis, preparation, and advocacy mattered. She also served as a Judge Pro Tem and was admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.

Her legal background sharpened what had already become a central interest: behavior. What motivates people? What patterns repeat? What happens when ego, pressure, power, conflict, or vulnerability enters the room?

The turning point

From courtroom observation to a larger calling.

Over time, Michele found herself increasingly drawn to the question of male behavior: why men so often dominate the headlines, how boys can be better nurtured, why girls and women around the world still face inequity, and how women can recognize genuinely good men.

An experience involving judicial ethics became one of the moments that clarified Michele’s next chapter. She began to see that her legal training, psychology background, life experience, and curiosity about human behavior were all pointing in the same direction.

Eventually, Michele stopped practicing law so she could focus more fully on the questions that would become the foundation of Your Moral Compass Counts^®.

Behavior is Michele’s central subject: what people do, what those choices reveal, and how character shows itself when it counts.

What Michele cares about

Boys becoming healthy men

Michele wants boys to be nurtured, loved, emotionally supported, and raised to become healthy men who can express emotion, show respect, and build meaningful relationships.

Women recognizing good character

She asks how women can identify men whose goodness is not performative, but visible through empathy, accountability, humility, courage, and consistent behavior.

Humor, hope, and honesty

Michele’s work is serious, but her voice is not stiff. She uses humor and direct language to open conversations people often avoid.

Her ideas

Original language for familiar behavior.

Michele created Your Moral Compass Counts^® as a four-point philosophy for putting character into practice through Integrity, Empathy, Accountability, and Courage.

From that foundation, her concepts explore what good character looks like in men, how ego can block accountability, how women can reclaim voice and presence, and how everyday choices shape relationships.

Your Moral Compass Counts^®

The core philosophy for thinking about integrity, empathy, accountability, and courage.

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True Good Man^®

Michele’s framework for thinking about good men through character, compassion, humility, respect, accountability, and emotional availability.

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egotestïcle^®

Michele’s pointed language for ego-driven male behavior that can block honesty, vulnerability, humility, and repair.

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The Silent Y^®

A concept connected to voice, confidence, authority, and the courage to speak clearly about what matters.

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Personal life

Family, caregiving, and the people she loves.

Michele has a son and a daughter, both now adults, and she has a loving relationship with both of them. One is a pediatric dentist, and the other is a transactional attorney whose work focuses on sports.

She was married for many years. Although the marriage ended, Michele and her former husband get along well. For the past several years, Michele has also been a caregiver for her elderly mother. Her father, whom she remembers as fun and kind, died at only 65.

Michele is also an animal lover, especially when it comes to dogs, Labrador Retrievers, Yellow Labradors, and yes, cats are cool too.

A parenting moment she never forgot

In 2012, Michele was told by a former Chief of Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, “Michele, you did an exceptional job raising your children.”

Michele remembers that comment because the nurses told her they had never heard the doctor say that to another parent. It remains one of the personal moments that matters most to her.

Store and products

Problem-solving products with Michele’s point of view.

Michele’s shop features products built around her original concepts and observations about behavior, including male behavior and one concept created especially with women in mind.

The tone is intentionally playful: part humor, part insight, part “finally, someone named it.” The products are designed to spark recognition, laughter, conversation, and maybe even a personal shift.

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One last bit

Acts of goodness count.

Acts of goodness, kindness, compassion, vulnerability, tolerance, decency, humility, sensitivity, and civility count. Hate hurts the heart.

Your Moral Compass Counts^®.

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Humor, hope, honesty, and character.

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