Transition Coaching for life’s big changes.

Think of me as an integrative business coach. Or even a business mindset coach. I coach you while you run your business.

My favorite thing about coaching business owners is that they’ve answered the call. They’ve done the hard work of stepping into business and, in doing so, they’ve created a container for growth - personally, financially, even spiritually.

Business constantly forces us to grow. It brings up our stuff in countless ways. And when our stuff comes up - there’s an opening to see it and transform it… To let it go.

Business, from that lens, is a container and catalyst for transformational personal growth. If you have the courage to grow with it.

I’ve worked with business owners in almost any industry you can imagine, guiding them through all the transitions that business necessitates -

• Identity shifts - from worker to owner

  • This is a big one that most small business owners don’t know to make - or they don’t know how. Most of us start a business because we’re great at doing the work that the business produces.

    In the beginning, that’s a great strength, but without an identity shift, it will hold us back from growth and scale. You need to find new ways of being and doing to really grow. All of this brings internal growing pains.

• Growth Phase transitions

  • The growth of your business will always be limited by your internal capacity to navigate the changes.

    Business growth requires owners to shift internal beliefs, mindsets and ways of being. “What got you here won’t get you there.”

  • Putting yourself out there in the marketplace can be scary. “What will people say?” “They’ll reject me.” “I’m bothering them.” Fear of rejection and being criticized can cripple us if we don’t grow through it.

• Maturation Phase transitions

  • As a business grows or changes, the roles and responsibilities of an owner change with it.
    I’ve had many business owner clients struggle internally with the transition to the business depending on them less. We root much of our identity in “being essential to the business.” The shift to a higher-level leadership role can be a painful (if liberating) transition. But it requires a shift in identity and a letting go of who and how we’ve been so far.

• Transitions out of business

  • Whether selling the business, shutting it down, or just trying to figure out “What now?”

    When our identity is rooted in who we are as a business owner, this transition feels can be especially disorienting. You worked for years to get here - blood, sweat and tears…

    So… what’s next for you?

  • *My own transition out of my first business was one of the most painful (though, in the long run, rewarding) periods of my life. It led me closer to me and started me on the path that I’m on today. As with any big transition, it was a painful letting go of who I’d been which created an opening for more of who I am.

• Transitions into Leadership and Management

  • Managing people can be one of the most difficult but rewarding parts of business ownership. And leadership comes with a heavy burden.
    Learning to ask for what we need, hold people accountable, communicate clearly, delegate well, hold boundaries, have hard conversations, steer the ship, inspire and excite, and more…

    These are the demands on a manager and leader. And all of them can require big shifts in our approaches and our beliefs.

• Shifting with the market

  • If only business happened in a vacuum - where our plans always came seamlessly to life…
    But it doesn’t. There are market realities - buyer preferences, hiring constraints, and more.
    When our plans don’t go to plan, it can be painful and frustrating. It can send us into a tailspin of self-doubt and worry.

    I can help you keep your focus pointed in the right direction, find the gifts in every obstacle, and your truth through all the frustrations.

• Creating an Aligned Business

  • Many business owners start their business from a place of frustration - “I can’t work for that person anymore.”

    Or our motivation that isn’t really aligned to who we are and what we want.
    Building the business that you want takes courage and a deep alignment to your Self. I can help you find your why and create the business that aligns to that.

You’re feeling a call to start a business. Maybe you’ve been feeling it for a long time.

But something is keeping you from doing it. Maybe it’s…

• Self-doubt…

• Fear of the unknown…

• Fear of letting go of the life or job you have now…

• Fear of letting people down…

• Fear of failing…

• Imposter syndrome…

• Not knowing where to start…

Or maybe it’s a combination of those things or others.

It feels important but you just can’t seem to pull the trigger.

Many people get stuck here in various ways. There’s nothing wrong with you. The fear doesn’t mean you’re not up to the task - in fact, it likely means it’s the right next growth edge for you.

There’s just something you need to let go of.

I can help you

• Find your way to clarity and a strong start.

• Shed the fears and limiting beliefs that are keeping you stuck.

• And launch your business with clarity, purpose and confidence.

Sometimes we choose job or career changes and sometimes they choose us.

Whether you have a nagging sense that you’re in the wrong career - you’ve climbed the wrong ladder - or you just feel a pull toward something new, you’re in the midst of a career transition.

…If you have the courage to answer the call.

That nagging sense, that layoff, that pull to something new… that’s your purpose calling.

…But often it’s hard to hear it through the limitations we imagine and the fears we have about making the change.

We often form our identities around our work. It’s not just what we do - it’s who we are.

A career transition can be a powerful (if painful) time of introspection and renewed alignment. It can be a time to re-evaluate our hopes and aspirations. It can bring us closer to who we are so that we can bring more of fullest selves into the world - and lead a purposeful life.

My friend, the world needs more of you.

I can help you sort out the longings from the fears. I can help you reinvent yourself and your contribution to the world.

Life is funny. Sometimes we’re thriving and on-purpose. Other times we feel lost, stuck, or discontent.

Many coaches (including me) can talk all day about the ways to make change in our lives. I can even give you a four step formula:

1. Let go of what’s holding you back,

2. Set a compelling vision for the future,

3. Take aligned action,

4. And stay focused on what you want.

And that formula works.

But in its simplicity, it misses one crucial element - and most coaches miss it too…

…It’s hidden in the context in which that formula exists. It’s hidden in the seasonality our lives naturally exude. It’s hidden in plain site…

It’s the emerging readiness to change.

It’s like the earth in which we plant those seeds of change. The earth needs to be tilled and nurished to allow the seeds of change to take root.

Your stuckness? Your discontedness? Your restlessness? Your lack of motivation or drive?

Those are all signs that there’s a readiness emerging in you.

The trick is to see them as the calling that they are. To recognize that they represent a shift in the soil - a shift in you.

Exploring those signs to find the calling they’re calling you toward - that’s tilling the soil. That’s preparing to make the change.

When you’re ready, we can do the work, but you have to create space first to hear the longings from deep within you.

I can hold space for you to explore those emerging shifts and find the calling that’s calling you.

Someone recently told me “I just got out of a 15 year relationship and it’s like I don’t remember who I am anymore.”

Relationships are like a bedrock in our lives. They teach us about ourselves and we form identities around them. The help to shape our values, beliefs, and goals.

When new relationships begin or old relationships end, it can feel like a loss of identity.

And that’s because it is one.

Beginnings and endings of relationship represent moments of dramatic change in our lives. And an invitation to transformation.

We’ve all known people who jump quickly from one relationship to another. And with each change, find the same old patterns - the wrong types of partners, the same types of fights. New, but not different.

These people haven’t transitioned through the loss of the old relationship, they’ve just changed partners.

Change is like moving the furniture around - a new couch in a different location. Transition means using the change as a catalyst to learn more about yourself - what you really want, who you really are, what patterns you need to let go of.

As with all big transitions, we have to answer the call if we want to transform.

Relationship changes can be a pathway back to a more aligned you. You just have to have the courage to go within and discover what life wants you to learn.