On paper, people think you’re crushing it. The round closed, the team keeps growing, and Slack is full of fire emojis. Then you lie down at night and your brain hits play on its greatest hits: Some AI startup just shipped our entire roadmap. I’m so tired. Any day now, everyone finds out I’m winging it.
I know every word. By day, I was "crushing it" too: the team was hitting its goals and investors were inviting me to fancy dinners. At home, my relationships were falling apart and vacations had stopped working.
Now I coach founders through it, on Zoom or walking Golden Gate Park.
We focus on two things: leading with calm intensity, so you get your clarity, confidence and energy back, and building faster teams by finding the right levers in the system. Every week you leave with an experiment to run, not a pep talk.
My most successful clients want to find out how far they can go personally, not just how far the company can.
For those who need receipts:
Operator: helped take IronPort ($830M), Optimizely ($300M) and Marketo (IPO) from seed to exit.
Coach: 35+ founders over 8 years, pre-seed to Series A, many from YC.
Training: Co-Active (CPCC), Positive Intelligence (Stanford), Dr. Michael Gervais (NFL), Transformational NLP (Masters), Enneagram, Pranic Healing and Qigong.
It doesn’t have to stay this way.
If any of this resonates, reach out for a complimentary coaching session. We’ll look at how you and your team are performing, find the chokepoints, and leave you with a tangible experiment to run that week.
