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You deserve 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.
Most clients tend to identify with one of the following scenarios:
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This person is running their own business (e.g. design studio) or career (e.g. screenwriter) and maybe feel stuck in their patterns or out of alignment with their purpose. With these clients, I work as a thought partner, guiding a values-alignment process and implementing those values across the client’s creative work and business structures, all while helping them build around their strengths and develop systems to support their weaknesses.
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This person is stuck in a job or career — likely one that has burned them out multiple times — and they need to pivot. Maybe to a new role, a new org, or a new career. I work to help these clients discover their strengths, their passions, and their network. We work through the cringe of resumes, LinkedIn bios, and outreach emails. We talk about priorities (money, time, energy, purpose), and I give lots of homework, accountability, and cheerleading.
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This person works a day job and feels like they’re not in control of their life. Maybe work is so intense that they’ve neglected their creative projects, or maybe they have a creative job but are burned out and with nothing left to give. With these clients, I look first at getting them relief and then examine the underlying patterns that got them there. We work on habit formation and holistic wellbeing — all in support of putting their creativity first.
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This person feels stuck, maybe even directionless. What should they be doing? What is their aesthetic? They want to make a creatively fulfilling body of work but don’t know how. With these clients, we focus on actually making work (including assignments and due dates), building a supportive creative community, finding and collecting inspiration, and editing work they’ve already created.
Which one are you? Let’s chat in a complimentary call:
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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 relational 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,
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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.
“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.”
– ASAD SYRKETT, head of editorial content at Architectural Digest Italy