"How can I have all this success and still feel so unfulfilled?"
I support the overwhelmed high-achievers who are frustrated and unfulfilled, even with all their successes. Together, we go deeper than conventional coaching to get them out of their own way and accessing new possibilities that have been unimaginable or felt out of reach for far too long.
Many different paths
bring people to coaching.
Whichever path you're currently on, know that you're on it for a 'good reason.' It's necessary for you to be there. Your relationship towards yourself and the path is like your compass. Quite often it's directing you in circles, unable to move forward. How do we stop circling and start moving forward?
We discover this when we explore inside.
Coaching Programs
A little background
about me.
My path to coaching is an experiential one. Over the course of life, I've learned that suffering is optional. There's a choice. This realization led me to where I am today: Guiding others through the inevitable discomforts and impediments of life by awakening to and befriending themselves through vulnerability and boldness, what I call being 'Vulnerabold."
I've always been a coach at heart--as an athlete, as a manager, as a friend. My mom is an award-winning child psychologist, so I've been around this my entire life. Paradoxically, I was terrified of anything psychology-related. As a college freshman, I attended one Psych 101 class and never returned. Not good for a kid that thought he wanted to study psychology. I switched majors to graphic design, and contributed as such for the first 30 years of my career.
In 2006, things changed. Motivated by a highly-toxic relationship with anxiety that had been ignored for years, I started a grassroots employee wellness program at ACTIVE Network, then based in San Diego, CA, called ACTIVEx. We grew into a global, award-winning program, embraced and beloved by thousands. This led me up the path of personal transformation and deep immersion in understanding how to grow our emotional leadership.
For me, I've always felt the coaching experience to be sacred. I hold the combination of vulnerability and boldness with reverence. If you've wondered why you you find me actively engaging in social media, this is why. There's a favorite passage from Eckhart Tolle in his book A New Earth that deeply resonates with me and accurately captures my position:
"Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world. They are the bringers of the new consciousness. Whatever they do becomes empowered because it is in alignment with the purpose of the whole. Their influence, however, goes far beyond what they do, far beyond their function. Their mere presence--simple, natural, unassuming--has a transformational effect on whoever they come into contact with."
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