About
Capricia Cunningham is a Peer Support Specialist, Clinical Associate, resilience coach, and founder of Lady of Influence Collective LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. Drawing on professional and lived experience, she helps people recognize their strengths, reclaim their voice, and move forward with purpose. Her approach combines compassionate listening, self-direction, realistic goals, and accountability. Capricia created The Phoenix Rise™ framework—Rebuild, Rediscover, Reclaim, Rise—to guide reflection and action through life transitions. She is the author of The Phoenix Process, The Phoenix Rise, Claim Your Crown, and Bubbling Guts of the North. She also contributed the chapter “The Phoenix Rise: Starting Over Doesn't Mean Starting From Nothing” to Transform Your Life (2026 Edition), currently in presale. Capricia has been featured in The CXO Time's “Top 50 Global Leaders 2026” edition and recognized by Influential Women as founder, professional community resource specialist, and peer support specialist with Lady of Influence Collective. She brings a grounded perspective on resilience, identity, boundaries, and rebuilding. Her message reminds audiences that a new beginning can draw strength from everything they have already learned.
Podcast Experience
1-5 podcast appearances
Expertise
Primary focus: Resilience, personal reinvention, and practical support through life transitions. - Resilience and rebuilding: Recognizing the experience, strengths, and lessons people carry into a new chapter. - Peer support and lived-experience leadership: Listening without judgment, encouraging self-direction, and helping people feel seen and supported. - Women's empowerment and identity: Reconnecting with voice, worth, boundaries, and purpose during change. - Goal-setting and accountability: Turning an overwhelming list of concerns into one clear priority and manageable actions. - Community resource navigation and advocacy: Drawing on professional experience helping people connect with healthcare, housing, public benefits, and community support. - Guided journaling and self-reflection: Using prompts to explore personal strengths, values, choices, and realistic next steps. - Purpose-driven entrepreneurship: Building Lady of Influence Collective and translating a service-centered mission into coaching and published resources.
Speaking Topics
Preferred Format
Both audio and video