Stories
Stories about building businesses, leading teams, and navigating change — including profound loss. Different situations, different challenges, one shared thread: reclaiming the ability to choose how you show up.
A retired naval officer, now building his own small business. He's working through the practical side of starting a company, plus the leadership and identity questions that come with it.
He couldn't get his old life back. What he found instead was the agency to build a new relationship with the life he had. When his lungs no longer let him canoe, hike, or fish, it raised real end-of-life questions. Three months of working together didn't undo the loss — but it gave him back the ability to choose joy, resolution, and connection on the other side of it.
A coach herself, figuring out what it takes to grow her practice and lead it more fully.
Losing his wife wasn't something he could undo. What he could do was decide how he'd carry it — and how he'd help his children carry it too. After she died in October, we spent three months working to ease the weight of what he was holding, and building tools he could lean on, for himself and for his kids.
Navigating a divorce, and building a new life alongside it — both the practical and emotional sides of it.
I couldn't change the circumstances I was angry about. What I could reclaim was who I wanted to be in the middle of them. There was a period where that anger had me on my soapbox, pushing my own family away. I worked through it myself — not to fix the situation, but to change my relationship to it. The intensity dropped, and I found my way back to the person I actually wanted to be.
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