WE MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF:


You look incredible on LinkedIn
Clean arc, impressive logos, tidy promotions that make your old professors forward your profile to current students as proof the degree works. But privately, you know you’ve optimized yourself into a corner. The portfolio’s strong, the Slack emoji game is impeccable, the decks are airtight… and yet the life underneath feels like you’re watching it happen to someone else.

You’re not melting down; you’re breaking open
This isn’t a crisis. It's not dramatic. You’re still showing up, still delivering, still the person everyone assumes has it together. But years of being the reliable one—the “we knew you’d figure it out” one, the one who makes it look easy—have delayed a truth that’s getting louder: this version of success is too small for who you’re becoming.

You want support from someone who *actually* gets it
Someone who knows that “just quit and follow your passion” is advice written by people with trust funds and no student loans. Someone who understands that creative industry burnout isn’t a personal failure of resilience—it’s a feature of a system that treats your nervous system like an always-on Slack channel.

You want to figure out what's next without blowing up your life
You don’t need to quit your job and move to Berlin (unless you want to—no judgment). You need to test new identities before you commit. To prototype different futures. To feel desire again that isn’t dictated by brand prestige, an Are.na approved aesthetic, or what will read well in a carefully crafted rebrand IG announcement post.

If you’re tired of performing certainty—on Zoom, in stand-ups, in the mirror—while quietly outgrowing the story you built your career on, 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.