HARNESS YOUR
CREATIVE POWER
You can have a full, healthy life with fulfilling creative work, and you have the power to make it happen.
Whether you’re growing your ideal design studio, facing burnout in your corporate brand team, or something in between, it’s likely that you feel pulled — or trapped — between your values and intentions and the forces around you.
As your coach, I’ll give you space to explore your most honest thoughts and feelings, help you develop a strategic roadmap to your big dream life, and provide the encouragement and accountability you need to get there.
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Clients
My clientele includes magazine and book editors, screen writers, creative directors, architects and designers, writers and editorial strategists, small business owners, and creative and media professionals working independently or in industry-leading enterprise organizations.
I tend to hear the following from prospective clients:
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I’m running my own business or career and am experiencing some combination of feeling:
Stuck in my patterns
Often overcome with anxiety and worry
Like I’m not playing as big as I know I can
Confused about or out of alignment with my purpose
Like I’m drowning and need to build some systems
I’d really like help identifying my patterns and creating new habits to break free of them. I’d like a thought partner who can guide me through a values-alignment process and help me implement those values across my creative work and business structures. I’d also like help with those structures! Systems that utilize my strenghts and support my weak areas.
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I’m feeling stuck in a job or career — and yeah, maybe it’s burned me out multiple times — and I need to pivot. Maybe to a new role, a new org, or a new career.
I want to discover my strengths, passions, and support network. I need help working through the cringe of resumes, LinkedIn bios, and outreach emails. I want someone to talk to about priorities (money, time, energy, purpose), and to give me homework, deadlines, accountability, and cheerleading.
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I work a 9-5 .. more like 9-7 and feel like I’m not in control of my life. Sometimes work is so intense that I’ve neglected my creative projects (or worse), and anyway sometimes I feel like I have nothing left to give.
I need help figuring out what relief to seek and then to figure out what got me here in the first place. I want someone to help me with rebuilding my holistic wellbeing and to make new work and life habits for the next chapter, ideally all in support of putting my creativity first.
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I feel stuck, maybe even directionless… I’m endlessly creative but feel unfocused. I flit from creative hobby to creative hobby, often using my creative energy for other people. I want to channel my effort and build my taste and a creatively fulfilling body of work.
I want to unpack what work I actually want to focus on, and maybe even do some experiments to try to figure that out, or editing existing work to better understand what I want next. Then I want help actually making the work (including assignments and due dates), building a supportive creative community, and creating a lifestyle of finding and collecting inspiration.
Which one are you? Let’s chat in a complimentary call:
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“You’ve provided me not only with valuable tools, like how to expand my creative community and talk about my work, but also how to cultivate a creative life I'm truly proud of. Being accountable to someone who can see aspects of myself that I can't has been incredibly helpful. I've begun to see myself in a new light.”
Client Brittany Holloway-Brown, artist and art director
“Working with you to refine my creative ideas and hone my managerial strategy has made me a more effective editor and leader. And it's sharpened my instincts. You're a not-so-secret weapon.”
Client Asad Syrkett, head of editorial content at Architectural Digest Italia
"You’re an intuitive coach that strikes a thoughtful balance between guidance, inspiration, and accountability. Working with you is one of the best decisions I've made while starting my own business. Our sessions help me to maintain context, to reflect, and to grow in a way that aligns with my broader life goals."
Client Marissa Feddema, Hetra
What to expect
People who have worked with me tell me they feel seen, energized, inspired, closer to their own inner wisdom, and with clear plans for next steps.
Coaching includes a range of practical, personal, emotional, and relationship work:
Authentic, frank conversation, always with compassion.
Prompts to create systems and processes for both yourself and your team. Prompts to develop tools and habits that get you on the path to who you want to become.
Encouragement to examine not only how patterns in your work play out in the rest of your life, but how to use that knowledge to shape a healthy, resilient, and fulfilling creative self and community.
Wisdom on managing teams and external relationships like clients and contractors, plus additional insights from my experience in the media, design, tech, and architecture industries.
Challenges to build your personal support system: It takes a village, and I’ll invite you to establish a network of colleagues, mentors, friends, and professional helpers.
Getting gassed up and staying focused: I’ll cheer you on and signal the plays from the sidelines, reminding you of your training and your progress. (I offer interim support for most engagements, most often in the form of texts and voice memos.)
Read about how I think on my Substack,
❧ New Being Being New.
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Format
I offer coaching sessions on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis depending on your priorities, the urgency of your situation, and your budget. We’ll meet by video, and I’ll encourage you to check in over text or voice memo between sessions.
Often, you’ll get specific assignments: Mindset tools to work, journaling prompts, documents to set up, outreach and connecting, and more. We’ll take notes and talk about the big picture, the deep wells, the gritty facts, and the scheming and dreaming. You’ll send that scary email in session.
Let’s chat for an hour about where you’re at and what you’re looking for.
“You have a great knack for meeting me where I'm at while also sharing your own wisdom when I come to you with a ‘weird’ idea or problem. You thrive at the intersection of wild creativity and rubber-on-road planning.”
– ANN FRIEDMAN, bestselling author, journalist, and essayist