COACHING & MENTORING
Build the clarity and courage you need to create a life and career that are genuinely your own.
You know you have more in you than what’s currently coming out. Maybe life has started to feel like you’re performing a version of yourself that no longer fits. Maybe a career has run its course, a creative practice has stalled, or an idea won’t leave you alone but won’t get off the ground either. Either way, you’re standing at a threshold.
My role as a coach and mentor is to help you understand what’s getting in the way, develop the tools and perspective to move beyond it, and take real-world steps toward becoming more fully yourself. Together, we’ll work from the outside in and the inside out, uncovering what matters to you, challenging the beliefs and patterns that limit you, and turning self-awareness into purposeful action.
WHAT WE CAN WORK ON
Creative: finding your voice, building a practice, and making the work you keep putting off.
Career: navigating a transition, a reinvention, or a next chapter that actually fits.
Business: turning an idea into something real, or helping an existing one grow into what you imagined.
Life: getting clear on what you want, what you need, and what you’re ready to let go of.
All of the Above: most people come for one of these and discover they’re connected to all the others.
INWARDS & UPWARDS: THE PRACTICE
OF UNBOUND SELF-EXPRESSION.
The world has plenty of ideas about who we’re supposed to be, what we’re supposed to want, and what a successful life is supposed to look like. Most of us absorb more of those ideas than we realize.
Some are useful. Some aren’t. All served a purpose.
Inwards & Upwards is about getting curious about all of it.
We’ll look at the stories you’ve inherited, the rules you’ve adopted, the roles you’ve taken on, and the assumptions you rarely question. Then we’ll experiment with what happens when you loosen your grip on some of them.
Creativity is a big part of that.
Not because everyone needs to become an artist, business leader, or entrepreneur, but because making room for vulnerability, curiosity, play, experimentation, and possibility can change what you see and what you believe is possible. It helps us get beyond the answers we already have and imagine ones we haven’t considered.
That’s what I mean by unbound self-expression. Not simply expressing what’s already inside you, but giving yourself enough freedom to discover what’s there in the first place.
The practice is organized around five interconnected ideas:
IDENTIFICATION: recognizing what matters, what gets in the way, and what wants to emerge.
INSPIRATION: finding the people, ideas, experiences, and possibilities that expand what you can imagine.
EXPRESSION: turning what’s inside you into something tangible, whether that’s a creative practice, a business idea, a career change, or a different way of living.
CONNECTION: building relationships and environments that support who you’re becoming.
NURTURE: creating the conditions and practices that allow it to grow and become part of your life.
These aren’t steps to complete. They’re dimensions of a fully expressed life, and they often overlap, circle back, and evolve as you do.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
Inwards & Upwards defines the five dimensions we work on. How we work is simple.
ASSESS: Where are you now versus where you want to go?
ALIGN: What needs to happen to bridge the gap?
ACT: What’s the plan, and the process to get there?
ADJUST: What’s working, what’s not, and what’s next?
I bring a framework built from a lifetime of creating, teaching, advising, experimenting, failing, and figuring out what actually helps. We’ll identify your North Star and your non-negotiables, giving you a clearer sense of what you’re moving toward and why. Then we’ll put that vision into action and navigate the obstacles along the way, whether they’re practical, emotional, creative, relational, or simply ideas you’ve carried about what’s possible for you.
It all starts with a discovery call, a conversation about where you are, what’s going on, and what you want to work toward. From there, we’ll figure out what kind of support makes sense, if any.
Coaching and mentoring begin with a three-month foundation. The first month typically involves three to four sessions to get clear on where you are and where you want to go. Months two and three move the work into action, with sessions about every two weeks. From month four onward, the work continues month-to-month for as long as we both find it valuable, with check-ins, accountability, exercises, and time between sessions when you need a sounding board or a focused conversation about a single question, decision, or idea.
The exact focus and cadence can evolve as your needs change. We’ll decide together what to focus on based on what you’re actually working through.
People aren’t linear, so I don’t expect the work to be either. The goal isn’t to give you a formula for your life. It’s to help you understand what you want, what’s standing between you and it, and develop the clarity, courage, and tools to move toward it.
SO, HOW DID I GET HERE?
My childhood dream became reality at 32. I'd worked with some of the best creative companies in the world. On paper, I'd made it. In practice, I'd become someone else to get there, and I didn't know how to find my way back. And then I found my footing, and everything started to change for the better…