COACHING MIGHT BE FOR YOU IF...


You're the person everyone thinks is doing great. And in the metrics that matter to capitalism—title, salary, output—you are. But there’s this other thing. This quiet knowing that you’ve optimized yourself into a corner. That the life you designed five years ago is now a cage you maintain with impeccable project management skills.

You’re not having a breakdown. You’re having a breakthrough that’s been delayed by competence.

You want someone who understands that “just quit and follow your passion” is advice written by people who’ve never had student loans or a parent who still brings up that one ‘stable’ career path you didn’t take. Someone who knows the creative industry isn’t just demanding—it’s designed to metabolize your aliveness and rebrand it as “engagement.”

You want to figure out what comes next without torching your entire life. To test new identities before you commit to them. To remember what it feels like to want something for reasons that have nothing to do with how it’ll read in a carefully worded “I’m pleased to announce”...

If that’s you—if you’re tired of performing certainty when what you actually feel is the painful, gorgeous uncertainty of outgrowing a story that no longer fits—then we should talk.
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For  reinvention as a creative process:
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

For reconnecting with your creative identity:
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

For conversations that honor complexity:
On Being with Krista Tippett

Site Full Video: Powers of Ten™ (1977)

Coaching, like Powers of Ten, is an adventure in perspective. This short film by Charles and Ray Eames zooms out by powers of ten, shifting our view from a picnic in Chicago to the outer edges of the cosmos—and then back in, all the way to a single proton. It’s a perfect metaphor for the coaching process: expanding and contracting our lens, discovering new patterns, and seeing the familiar in new ways.