”Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.“
– Bruce Lee

With this deceptively simple line, Bruce elucidated an approach to life that asks each of us to discover who we truly are. We can try techniques and approaches developed by others, but ultimately, it’s up to you and me as individuals to connect to our own wisdom to understand what’s useful or useless, and empower ourselves to uniquely develop our own special sauce for living.

Knowing and developing ourselves, however, is a project that rarely flourishes in a vacuum. Personally, I have leaned on teachers, friends, parents, mentors, books, myths, coaches, spirituality, movement practices, integrative medicine, and more in order grow… And you know what? After all that searching around, the main thing I’ve learned is a very simple, mundane truth: I am responsible for the obstacles in the way of my happiness, my success, my relationships.

I’m interested in working with courageous self-reflective explorers who are interested in understanding the breadth and depth of who they are and what they have to offer. People who have the humble intelligence to recognize that they need to get out of their own way… Reflections like the following might resonate with you:

• What causes me to get stuck in unhelpful patterns that are deviously difficult to diagnose and address?

• Instead of pointing outside yourself to blame the world or a situation, you admit: “the way I'm seeing a situation or relationship is unhelpful… How can I approach it differently to have a more harmonious outcome?”

• Who am I really? What do I truly want? What is my authentic truth?

If I assess myself honestly, I fall prey to faulty thinking often. I forget to act from my highest wisest self. I get angry, frustrated, disappointed, and reactive. That being said, I have spent the last 16 years dedicated to Self-understanding. That’s a capital “S” for a reason.

Wisdom traditions and spiritual disciplines the world over have different language for the Self, but they all point to the same thing: a sense of inner peace. A clear compassionate confidence to charge on despite difficulties and a faith that despite the need for improvement, we are ok just as we are.

Inner Work is all about identifying the obstacles that stand in the way of abiding in that peaceful, strong, confident, equanimous state of being that lives within each of us.

That’s the core of my coaching.

I’m not here to optimize your performance or maximize you. It might seem like a subtle shift, but it’s massive: I’m here to support you in realizing your potential for peaceful performance. To ground you in your sense of Self.

From that place, problems unravel. Relationships resolve. Peace proliferates. You evolve.

My own Inner Work has been a syncretic, multi-modal approach informed by:

• Deep coaching training and certification through the Co-Active Training Institute.

• Having the privilege of serving as a Team Experience Specialist at Tuft & Needle, a DtC start-up known for its award-winning culture and disruption of the mattress industry.

• Rock climbing around the world. Memorable ascents: The Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, an epic failed attempt on Triple Direct, adventuring up Hasse Brandler in Italy while jetlagged, and a successful multi-season project climbing Hands Across America.

• Meditation practice since 2013. (Emphasis on “practice.” It took me 7 years to finally be consistent).

• Graduation with the 4th cohort of the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program developed and led by mindfulness luminaries Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield.

• A 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training certification and on-going continuing study of yoga as a spiritual practice.

• Learning to thrive without medication despite being labeled by big pharma as Bi-Polar Type 2.

• Laughter Yoga teacher certification (LY is a practical application of positive psychology that could be summed up as ”Joy for the hell of it”).

• Becoming a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda through Ananda Sangha.

• Walking alongside my father through a 10-year journey with stage 4 prostate cancer. Our relationship had always been a challenge, yet we arrived at a place of peace and love prior to him leaving the body on September 16, 2024. Thank you for never giving up on me and encouraging me to be my own person, Dad.

• Working with and integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness since 2018.

In my collaboration with you as your coach, I draw on these experiences and the diverse skillsets they afford me to unfailingly see and believe in your best.

I work primarily with what I call Heart-Centered Leaders and individuals walking their path of personal awakening.

Heart-Centered Leaders

Leaders who care more about deliverables than their team need look elsewhere.

If you’re looking to scale your company for sale, improve the bottom-line, or dominate the boardroom, I’m also probably the last coach you should consider. There are plenty of coaches who have expertise in those realms. They’re not my zone of genius.

So what am I any good for? Well to be 100% transparent with you, often times, my inner critic asks me that exact same question. So for starters, if you’re wrangling that jerk, I am adept at helping clients evolve that voice into something more helpful.

Central to my work with leaders is what I would sum up as Peace and Strength.

These two qualities might seem antithetical… Our divided world, however, is asking for leaders who can wield both simultaneously.

Peace and Strength means a leader:

• Can take charge without bulldozing other’s opinions

• Stays cool, calm, and collected while navigating yet another dumpster fire

• Leans on emotional intelligence and technical competence without over-indexing in either

If you nod your head, or better yet, have a resonant gut, heart, and head feeling with some of the following criteria, we probably have some synergy cooking and I encourage you to reach out for a conversation:

• Firstly, and probably fundamentally, you a leader who truly wants to cultivating an environment of care in your team. IE: Does it frustrate you when policy or profit come before people?

• You want to discover and fully embrace a true-to-you unique style of leadership that lights you up from the inside out (and thereby your team 💃🕺).

• You are working towards your next milestone of success and impact, but don’t want to lose yourself along the way.

• You recognize that an even-keeled temperament, equanimity of mind, and balanced collaboration are more effective than forceful juggernaut-esque charging.

• You’re tired of falling into cycles of performance / burnout. What could sustainable productivity feel like instead of extractive self-sacrifice?

• You are ready to unleash your inborn creativity in new, potentially astonishing, ways.

• Your perspectives. Your attitudes. Your habits… Not all of them, but have you noticed some are crucially flawed? That how you’re showing up at work is the problem that needs addressing not [insert other external factors here]. Not to downplay market or workplace factors, but they can live outside your locus of control and therefore irrelevant to how you can exert influence in your world.

• You are optimistically growth oriented à-la The Beatles’ Getting Better.