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For creatives who are exceptionally good at their jobs... and quietly dying inside.
This is where we untangle the story you’ve been performing, reconnect you with the creatively feral version of yourself you left behind somewhere between art school and your last promotion, and design a life that doesn’t require method acting/girlbossing to get through.
If you’re a creative who’s ~slayed~ fortune 500 pitches, conjured slick OOH, or built beautiful, gorgina decks—but can’t shake the vibe that showing up to team stand-up is Oscar-worthy method acting in a Big Brother–meets–creative-industry hellscape you never auditioned for—this is for you.
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I do get the weirdness of this moment. LinkedIn says you’re ~thriving~. Your headshot and logo-sprinkled profile beams “competent, hireable.” Your parents have finally relaxed—the punk-to-creative-professional pipeline did work out! But at 3 a.m., between doomscrolling and side-eying that dusty meditation cushion, it hits: you’re playing the Sim you designed at 12 who is really good at going to work, checking the mail (and paying those student loans) except the fun meter is permanently in the red and Rosebud;!;!;!;!;!;! isn’t coming to save you.
Here’s the secret no one told you: there’s another way.
A way of working, creating, and actually living that doesn’t require selling your nervous system to the highest tech-conglomerate bidder or Julia Cameron-ing your way through morning pages you’ll never read again. A way to burn the “circle back” scripts instead of designing new custom emojis for the team Slack.
Imagine moving through your days with that early-aughts, pre-Spotify-Discover-Weekly buzz—back when you spent entire afternoons deep in Last.fm rabbitholes, burned CDs with Sharpie’d tracklists for your crushes, and built moodboards the old-fashioned way: magazine clippings, glue sticks, and stolen wi-fi at coffee shops where everyone was reading Hipster Runoff and no one was selling a course. When “algorithm” wasn’t a word in your vocabulary and you made things because you were possessed by the idea, not because it would perform well or move the needle on your personal brand.
Imagine your creativity returning like that. The creatively feral version of you—the one who knew what they liked before LinkedIn told them what to optimize for. Not the production-ready content bot you stitched together from thought leadership, a Young Guns application, and imposter syndrome.
That shift? It’s not hiding behind an MFA or an AI bootcamp promising to make you irreplaceable (by making you indistinguishable). Or becoming a DJ. It’s closer than the gap between who you LARP as in Zoom and who you actually are.
If you’re ready to flirt with your next timeline, book a free intro session. I’d love to help you find a story that actually fits. Not like that Jacquemus Chiquito you convinced yourself was practical—a story that actually holds your life, not just your lip gloss and existential dread. A story that fits for the long run, even if you don’t yet know what it looks like.
WHAT ACTUALLY SHIFTS
You stop pretending the plan is working
Most people think they need a better strategy. What they actually need is permission to admit the current one is killing them softly. You stop white-knuckling through the next milestone and start asking the question you’ve been avoiding: what if I just... didn’t?
You remember what wanting feels like
Not the impressive wants—the ones that look good in a LinkedIn post or make your parents exhale in relief. The weird, specific, alive ones. The ones that make you feel 19 again in the best way, before you learned to pre-edit your desires for palatability.
You stop waiting for a signal that’s never coming
The title, the timing, the right moment, the MFA you don’t actually want—revealed as elaborate stalling tactics. You learn to self-elect. To say “I'm doing this now” before the imposter syndrome has filed its full report.
Your creativity comes back as aliveness, not output
Not another deck. Not optimized content. Not something you’d put in a portfolio. Curiosity. Obsession. That juicy, possessive I have to make this feeling you haven’t felt since you were torrenting music at 2 a.m. and launching a niche Tumblr that made sense only to you.
You start designing your life instead of performing it
Autopilot shuts off! You stop making choices for the person you were five years ago—the one who thought this was the ~dream~. You start making them for who you’re becoming, even if that person doesn’t have a LinkedIn headline yet..
Julie, Designer @ BUCK
HOW WE WORK
This isn’t traditional career or life coaching. It’s not resume building and affirmations. It’s not a 12-week program with a workbook you’ll abandon on week three.
It’s design thinking meets intuition—a hybrid approach that treats your life like a creative project worth prototyping, except this time you’re the client who actually matters.
We use design thinking because you already speak this language. You know how to ideate, iterate, and test when it's for a client deck. We’re just applying that same rigor to your actual life: reframe the problem, prototype small experiments, track what gives you energy versus what quietly drains you until you’re refreshing your inbox at 11 p.m. for no reason.
No dramatic burn-it-all-down moments. No quitting your job to “find yourself” in Bali. Just intentional tests of different futures—the kind you’d run in a sprint, except the user is you.
We use intuition because logic alone won’t get you out of a hole you thought your way into. Sometimes the breakthrough comes from pulling an Oblique Strategies card. Or sitting with what emerges in a FigJam when you stop trying to make it make sense. Or following a thread that doesn’t fit the narrative you’ve been performing but feels more true than anything you’ve said in a meeting all week.
The knowing is already in you. We’re just creating space for you to hear it over the noise of what you should want.
Together, they create something neither could alone.
Clarity that’s grounded in both strategic thinking and embodied wisdom. A path forward that your head and your gut can both get behind. Not because it’ s the “right” move—but because it’s yours.
WE MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF:
You look incredible on LinkedIn
Clean arc, impressive logos, tidy promotions that make your old professors forward your profile to current students as proof the degree works. But privately, you know you’ve optimized yourself into a corner. The portfolio’s strong, the Slack emoji game is impeccable, the decks are airtight… and yet the life underneath feels like you’re watching it happen to someone else.
You’re not melting down; you’re breaking open
This isn’t a crisis. It's not dramatic. You’re still showing up, still delivering, still the person everyone assumes has it together. But years of being the reliable one—the “we knew you’d figure it out” one, the one who makes it look easy—have delayed a truth that’s getting louder: this version of success is too small for who you’re becoming.
You want support from someone who *actually* gets it
Someone who knows that “just quit and follow your passion” is advice written by people with trust funds and no student loans. Someone who understands that creative industry burnout isn’t a personal failure of resilience—it’s a feature of a system that treats your nervous system like an always-on Slack channel.
You want to figure out what's next without blowing up your life
You don’t need to quit your job and move to Berlin (unless you want to—no judgment). You need to test new identities before you commit. To prototype different futures. To feel desire again that isn’t dictated by brand prestige, an Are.na approved aesthetic, or what will read well in a carefully crafted rebrand IG announcement post.
If you’re tired of performing certainty—on Zoom, in stand-ups, in the mirror—while quietly outgrowing the story you built your career on, then we should talk.
READY TO BEGIN?
Book a free intro session! One full 60-minute coaching session. No pitch, no pressure, no “let me tell you about my three-tier package options” energy—just the actual work. (BTW, I offer one package and it’s transparently listed here)
It’s the best way to get a feel for how I coach, whether we’re a good match, and if this approach resonates with where you are right now (not where you think you should be, or where you were three years ago when the plan still made sense).
And if I’m fully booked or we’re not the right fit? I’ll tell you that too. I’m connected to other coaches, therapists, and healers, and I’m happy to make an aligned introduction.
As for my books: I work with a small number of people at a time because this work requires actual attention—not the kind you perform in back-to-back Zooms, but the kind where I actually remember what you said last week and why it mattered. My waitlist is always open :)
No obligation. No weird follow-up sequence. Just a conversation about what’s possible.