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— one of my favorite lines by Joseph Campbell.

I believe that discovering who we truly are, beneath the conditioning, roles and expectations, is the real work we're here to do.

What does that have to do with leadership? — Everything!

Leadership begins with the self. To lead well, you have to learn what's driving things beneath the surface and where your potential lies. You need to be in right relationship with yourself - with your body,  story and history, values and environment. Otherwise, what you build will always be at odds with who you are.

"The privilage of a lifetime is being who you are"

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This isn’t performance coaching. 
It’s the real, raw, and often confronting process of exploring who you are and your capacity to create
a life and work that makes you feel alive. 

Why are we here?
What happens when we die?
Is there a God?


I still remember the moment when I realized our mortality.
I was five or six when I asked my grandmother about death.

That moment was the beginning of a lifelong curiosity - one that led me to study philosophy and psychology, and to explore both Eastern and Western wisdom traditions as maps for understanding the human experience and our potential.

At the age of 20, I moved to the U.S. alone, no roadmap - just $500  and a sense that I was meant to be in a place I could build a life on
my own terms.

I bet on myself and trusted my ability to make things happen.
I knew I wasn't interested in corporate and I wanted a path where
my intellectual and spiritual curiosity could meet my entrepreneurial nature. I discovered coaching in 2016 and started my practice in
New York City. 

I saw that startups moved differently. There was more drive, more chaos, more creative energy and also more existential pressure.

I started working with founders and leaders because I understood them. I shared their drive. I also knew that drive alone wasn’t enough to meet the complexity of being a leader or to experience the deeper impact, purpose, and aliveness available. 


How I got into this work?

Ever since I was a child, I’ve been asking the big questions:

Early on, that path gave me a sense of agency.
I realized I could build a life aligned with my values—one that gave me freedom, depth, and impact. 

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I've always lived at the intersection of  business and consciousness. Merging the practical with intuitive, the 

Business

Consciousness

  • Outer results
  • Strategic and linear
  • Solution- oriented
  • Inner work
  • Trust-led and non-linear
  • Insights - oriented

And I came to realize: this is the work. To build bridges within seeming polarities. To help high-performing leaders reconnect with the parts of themselves they’ve left behind in the name of ...

Coaching found me through lived experience, not through theory. Through leading in rooms where I felt out of place. Through navigating uncertainty without a map. Through sitting in silence on retreat and feeling a clarity I couldn’t find anywhere else.

A new, integrative approach:

I’m fluent in both.

The world needs more integrated leaders.

My Why

People who are not only competent, but connected.
People who can hold tension without collapsing.
People who can create without leaving themselves behind.

I work with founders, VCs, and executives — the people who are actively shaping culture, products, economies. And I help them lead from a place that’s rooted, whole, and alive.

When you're in the pressure cooker of growth — navigating high-stakes decisions, relational complexity, and internal patterns that no longer serve you — having a space to come back to yourself is not a luxury. It’s a necessity.

That’s what this work is. A space to come back. And from there, lead forward.

Spirituality

Psychological
Insight

Tactical
Development

Relationships

Emotional
Intelligence

Somatic
Practices

Self

Relationships

Business

Community

Purpose

I combine deep inner work with grounded leadership coaching. That means we might move between breathwork and business strategy. Nervous system regulation and board dynamics. Early childhood patterning and co-founder conflict.

I bring in what’s needed — and only what serves.

What matters most to me is that this work is real, relational, and rooted in your actual life — not just ideas about it.

Life as an Unfolding 

Because real transformation isn’t linear — it spirals, deepens, reveals.

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