HARNESS YOUR
CREATIVE POWER

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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.

CLIENTS SAY:

“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

"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."

– MARISSA FEDDEMA, principal at Feddema Design

“You’ve provided me 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.”

– BRITTANY HOLLOWAY-BROWN, art director and visual artist

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:

  • They’re 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.

  • They’re stuck in a job or career, likely that has burned them out multiple times, and they need to pivot. 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.

  • They work a day job and feel 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, we 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.

  • They’re creative as hell but feel 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.

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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.)

COLLEAGUES SAY:

“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

“You have this unique way of breaking down reality and piecing it back together thoughtfully. What draws me most is your ability to create a safe space for genuine conversation, offering constructive feedback that inspires everyone to be their best selves.”

– SUZETTE LEE, creative director of design and cultural experiences

“Just a sense of, like, untangling. Untangling ideas and ambitions and fears from one another. And it's nice to have advice from someone that I think is discerning and critical.”

– DAVID MICHON, writer of domestic interiors newsletter For Scale

“I tend to think of you as strongly driven to solve problems, comfortable with business ambiguity (i.e., there is no ‘right’ answer or perfect solution), and willing to ask insightful questions that raise the likelihood a project and/or team will succeed.”

– SARAH MILSTEIN, coach for executives and emerging leaders

“You taught me about trusting my intuition and finding my voice, and niching myself and leaning on my strengths. Also finding what works and dropping what isn’t.”

– MARGARET LIN, associate director, Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Entertainment

“Really making people feel seen and heard. You're generous in conversation and always seem present. I truly appreciate that you will sometimes tell me what I don't want to hear!”

– EMILY STEPHENSON, cookbook author and editor

“You taught me how to push through mental blocks in the day-to-day. You care about people and producing good quality work, are a really great listener, were attentive to my goals and development, and helped keep me grounded and more productive.”

– JAYNA GAVIERES, community and social media specialist

“You taught me how to think more systematically and also how to navigate different people's processes in the workplace. Your mentorship always affirmed that empathy and compassion are as necessary in the workplace as they are in the rest of life.”

– SARA POLSKY, book author, journalist, and editor

“You brought me optimism, belief in myself and my own unique value and potential. You excel at being an authentic leader — pushing and championing your team, transmitting passion, transparency, and urgency as the circumstances demand them. ”

– JENNY XIE, writer, artist, and content designer at CookUnity

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. Book an hour with me, gratis, to learn more.