ABOUT ME
My core values are connection and curiosity, and I root my decisions and communication in them as often as I can.
I see our careers, relationships, and identities less like an always-upward-moving ladder and more like expanding circles. My own path has moved from nonprofits to music promotion to recruiting and HR in tech to burnout and back again. At the heart of it all is a throughline: I’m energized by helping people grow, learn, and (when possible) play.
I’m deeply serious about taking things lightly when I can. I love to explore, and I know a little about a lot, ideally just enough to offer a spark, a question, or a mirror that helps you hear your own truth more clearly.
I’ll never pretend to be an expert, and if we reach the edge of my knowledge, I’ll help you find someone great to go deeper with.
WHAT I DO
My coaching, consulting, advising, and facilitation work is fluid around what you do, and what you need. Feel free to explore my favorite topics, and we can always talk live about what you’re looking for and see if we’re a good match.
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Making big scary topics feel more accessible and manageable: money, power, direction, communication, relationships
Untangling brains to find clarity of thought, and ideally clarity of communication
Noticing misalignments and being unafraid to gracefully point them out
Being intentional, while still knowing when and how to not take something too seriously
Building networks, then nudging those networks to become communities
Boundaries: practicing, communicating, and sometimes re-defining them
Remembering tiny details about the people in my life and the stories they tell me
Exploring vulnerability and intimacy in ways that feel safe
Presence, compassion, empathy
Making playlists
Naps
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People who knew something needed to change but couldn't yet name what.
People who were burning out but couldn't afford to stop, or didn’t believe stopping was an option.
People who had spent so long being good at something that they'd lost track of whether they still wanted it.
Thousands of job seekers, hundreds of resume and negotiation clients, so so so many engineers and HR folks.
A nurse wanting out of nursing. A teacher wanting out of teaching. Social workers looking for more freedom.
Creatives drowning in the businessy stuff, and creatives who needed to press pause on all of it and remember why they do what they do.
Founders and People Team leaders growing their organizations thoughtfully. -
A musician starting their second album and having FEELS about it
A leader trying to figure out how to marry their work life and all their other authentic lives
Professional and hobbyist creatives seeking to deepen their creative practice
New parents wanting to reconnect with self
Couples wanting to explore topics together around how to feel both held and free
Someone wanting to open their own business and having no idea where to start
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Creativity being innate, not something for a select few
Nonviolent communication
Enneagram (I’m a 4 - specifically SP4)
Core Values work - individuals and organizations
Non-linear life paths
Non-traditional relationship structures
Queerness in self and in systems
Meditation, journaling
The moon - that’s it, just the moon
Recipes for flow states
Rock climbing, hiking, walking, swimming, yoga, dancing (see you at Dance Church?), MAYBE running
Artist’s Way in all its power and all its 1990s issues
Expanded state & medicine work
Astrology (oh yeah, we can go full woo - Cancer, Pisces, Pisces here)
Music in every possible form: listening, watching, writing, playlisting
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Decolonizing Therapy
Spirituality away from Christian hegemony
Hakomi
Ecological Consciousness / Reciprocity
Astrology, Tarot, and the many forms of artistic self-discovery
BIO | the long version
(aka “How did I get here?”)
I remember doing those wildly misguided career tests in high school — the ones that promised to tell you your future, and I got “artist” every time. That result made me feel excited, motivated, and (let’s be honest) a little smug. But I had no idea what being an artist would actually look like. I loved music, dancing, theater, and writing, but I never felt called to specialize. I saw people laser-focusing on their gifts, working hard at just one thing… and realized: that was never going to be me.
Not because I didn’t want to work hard, but because I was drawn to too many things.
Over time, I found myself being consulted by senior leaders on how to thoughtfully scale a business and a culture; how to hold hard conversations, communicate with clarity and care, and make the places we spend most of our waking hours more human.
I moved across sectors, from nonprofits to music promotion to recruiting and HR in tech, always fueled by the same drive: helping people grow, stretch, and maybe even play.
When you work in Recruiting, you get asked a lot about resumes, interviews, pay, and LinkedIn — by your friends, your friends’ friends, your neighbor’s cousin. In early 2020, during the first wave of layoffs, I started helping people more formally. I told folks I could support them, and they showed up.
I partnered with Levels.FYI to build out their negotiation support, and I kept coaching — mostly tech folks at first, but eventually people across industries. Turns out, the questions don’t change all that much:
What do I want? What do I care about? How do I do that more, and how do I find people who feel the same way?
Clients would come in thinking they wanted to talk about their jobs. But we’d end up exploring their creativity, relationships, values, or what it meant to feel like themselves. Somewhere in there, I hosted my first Artist’s Way group, led some workshops, started training in Hakomi, and now here I am: offering coaching across career, creativity, leadership, and identity, sharing what I care about, and seeing where we might go from there.
Most recently, I spent nearly five years at Descript as their first recruiter and eventually Head of Talent; building something from the ground up, and learning a lot about what it costs to stay somewhere past the point of aliveness. In early 2026, that chapter ended, and I've been in my own transition ever since: figuring out what I'm moving toward, finding language for it, sitting with the not-knowing.
That experience is now at the center of my work. I know that void, and I can climb down in it with you, and hopefully light a few lamps.
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