Breakthrough Coaching
1:1 Transformational coaching to help you create and sustain a positive change in your life or work.
Break through to your true potential.
Set down frustrating patterns that hold you back...
and start creating what you want for yourself.
This program is about recovering dreams,
and creating change.
Sometimes in life, we find ourselves stuck in a holding pattern. A decade passes with little change: we haven't moved toward our true dreams, while those around us sail by. We start to feel like: maybe the dreams we used to hold for ourselves… weren’t really meant for us. Or worse: maybe we’re just not good enough.
To shield ourselves from the pain, we learn to lower our aspirations. We try something else. We tune out and perform as if we were happy, telling ourselves that if we just stay the course- or do what's expected of us- eventually we’ll be rewarded.
Sooner or later, we admit that we're stuck. We notice we avoid opportunities out of fear, or repeatedly land in a bad situation, or can't seem to thwart distraction. As we look ahead the finish line of our career, we realize that at this rate, we won't finish how we'd hoped.
If we're lucky, it begins to dawn on us… setting our dream aside didn't work, and it's time to find a way to write a new story. For the sake of our fulfillment, we can seize this opportunity- to admit what we really want, and brave the process of creating real change.
It's also about making what seems impossible... workable.
Our common cultural approach to creating change comes with an attitude of… just do it! What’s the big deal! Put yourself out there! Set that fear aside and go for it!
Those adages may work for some things, but for others they're overly simplistic. When it comes to unconscious patterns we've been carrying around for decades, undoing them isn’t a matter of willpower. (In fact, pushing ourselves via willpower and self-judgment can cause more harm.)
What’s actually needed is to recover to who we really are- and our natural abilities- with lots of love and compassion, learn to see through the fiction of our inner nay-sayers that led us astray in the first place, and develop the skills to truly support ourselves toward success.
The good news is, dissolving this pattern is doable and moving forward is deeply enriching not to mention liberating!
How It Works
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We look at what you're wanting to create in your life, no matter how impossible it may seem, and design your coaching goal around it. This can be an intrinsic goal (e.g. I want to more work/life balance), or it can be extrinsic (e.g. I want to finally write a book).
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There are 3 phases to this coaching. You will 1) learn how to see and unhook from the pattern that has stopped you until now 2) develop new confidence to take on challenges you'd have previously avoided, and 3) methodically create new outcomes and embrace success.
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We will coach 1:1 over 6 months, meeting twice per month. You’re free to purchase additional sessions if you prefer more time. Each week we will design homework between sessions to move you closer to your goal.
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We meet by phone or zoom, depending on your preference. We'll also create momentum by using a shared project page where you can upload exercises and any other artifacts relevant to your creative/change process.
Three Phases to Creating Real Change
Phase 1: emancipating yourself
In the first phase of our coaching, we’ll take a magnifying glass to this pattern you’re in, so that you can see it clearly and get out from under it. This creates new freedom, relief, renewed motivation, and hope. I help you answer questions like:
- How did I get here?
- Why is doing x so hard for me, when it really shouldn't be?
- How do I unhook from this pattern?
- How do I get my confidence back, or create it for the first time?
When you can accurately describe what's happening and and why- in a way that resonates as deep relief- you have no need to continue this pattern. At the same time, you reveal a way forward.
Phase 2: supporting change
In the next phase, you'll apply what you've learned to embracing new challenges. You'll identify steps that will move you toward your desired goal, and address them one by one. You'll answer questions like:
- What does a path to creating what I want look like?
- What do I actually need to focus on?
- How do I move through the things that scare me?
- How do I maintain belief in myself?
This is the process of building new skills, ones that will enable you to relate to challenges in a whole new way. It's less about strategy, and more about responsibility. All visions require us stay actively engaged in our creative process, and here you'll learn how.
phase 3: Sustaining new outcomes
In the final phase, you’ll watch those actions you took in the previous phase create new outcomes. You'll re-orient yourself to the future in a way that has you embracing success and being able to hold it. You'll answer questions like:
- Am I really worthy of getting what I want?
- Now that I've dissolved this pattern, what does it mean?
- How do I honor my past and also embrace my new future?
- Who am I becoming and what is it time to accept?
Success is vulnerable and we often resist it, because we aren't willing to be fully responsible for it. Here’s where you get to teach yourself what it means to have good things happen, to receive more than you thought you could.
BONUS MODULE: HOW TO DISSOLVE STICKY, RECURRING PATTERNS
When we're stuck, we're usually coming up against a pattern in our life. It's easy to think you're fated to stay there, but that's not true! Patterns ask us to look a little deeper at the parts of us who need love, attention, recognition, permission, and safety. Love and awareness can heal, and allow new chapters to begin. This module will help you see the reason your pattern exists, and how to heal it.
This program is right for you if:
There's something meaningful at stake.
You keep making the same choices and can't seem to change. You know you're missing opportunities to make your life or work better.
You've spent a several years in this pattern.
As much as it is bewildering, it's a little familiar to you. You're afraid that you might stay here forever, and never experience your potential.
You want real change.
You want someone with compassion and structure to help you reach your goals in a real, sustained way.
You want a great life.
You don't just want circumstantial change; what you really want is to be free to create whatever you want in life.
You're ready for this program if:
You're willing to look at yourself.
It feels vulnerable, but you sense that seeing where you get tripped up and knowing what to do about it is key to becoming free.
You're hungry to learn.
You want real insight into how staying empowered, confident, and in the flow of creativity/connection actually works.
You're willing to dream.
You may not feel connected to a dream right now, but you want to be a person who dreams. You want to feel excitement again.
Change matters to you.
Letting things get messy and taking a close look at your life is worth the courage it would require, if it would free you to live the life you really want.
How would moving beyond your blocks change your life?
Set things right again.
Feel relief knowing you can change and you have changed. Earn your own trust when it comes to following through and staying true to yourself.
Recover your optimism.
Aim higher and feel freer to live a more abundant life, now that you’re in touch with your resilience and can rely on it.
Get on track with your goals.
Revisit dreams you may have discarded in frustration, and approach them now with intention, confidence and responsibility.
Bring joy back into your life.
Experience pride, celebration, fun, and connection- the fruits of approaching life from your true strengths, instead of your greatest fears.
What if you could live more of your true potential?
Focus on what's important to you.
Feel clear in your heart what you want in your life and what you don’t. Grant yourself more and more permission to live a life that’s meaningful to you.
Shape your life the way you want.
Gain skill at creating the experiences you long for, and build your life around them. Allow yourself to make changes that allow you to live what you imagine is possible.
Align your life with your values.
Match your actions with your deepest beliefs, and feel the satisfaction that comes with that. Become a leader that others follow.
Create a positive impact.
Share your learning and your clarity with others. Use your strengths and your authenticity to create a ripple effect, enhancing the lives around you…
Common (and Important) Questions
This program is great for:
-Emotionally sensitive, intuitive, creative or spiritual types, who want more than what they're experiencing now.
-People who feel they've been stuck in a pattern of work experiences that leave them drained and disconnected from themselves.
-People who are curious about what's holding them back, and wanting to get to the bottom of it.
This program is not a good fit for:
-People looking for career strategy, but who don't acknowledge a relationship between this and their inner growth.
Clients who do well with me are clear that they have a personal need for growth. They've experienced repetitively getting stuck, and they know they have things to work through in order to create what they want. They understand it will take courage, but they’re willing to take an honest look at it all, with the right support. They intuitively know this as key to creating freedom and happiness.
I will introduce skills and tools throughout our coaching as they become relevant to your needs. Some will include reflection questions, and some will simply be new practices for you to try.
Each session, we create your 'homework' together; this is meant to keep you engaged and in forward motion between calls. For clients who are using this process to help them tackle a big creative or professional challenge, homework might be action-oriented, using a particular focus that we've explored in order to create success.
Many of my clients come to me when they’ve hit rock bottom. They really aren’t feeling like themselves. When these clients had their initial consultation, I helped them to see that they’re not ‘beyond help’. They’re just suffering the kind of symptoms (exhaustion, doubt, or anxiety) that are typical of someone who’s working hard to adapt to a job that’s just the wrong fit.
When we have our initial conversation, we'll both get a sense for if I can help you. If I think you need a different kind of help than I can offer, I'll be honest with you and share any recommendations regarding how you might move forward.
To see a description of my style of coaching, please head to the home page, where there is a section called "My Coaching Approach". Next, navigate to the 'About Me' page, which lists content under 'Coaching Experience' and 'Coaching Values & Philosophy'. If you have further questions, feel free to write me a note at the bottom of the home page!
We meet by phone or zoom, so as long as we can find a time that works in each of our time zones, we can meet.
Because this coaching work is done on a one-to-one basis, I find that there’s no wiggling out of it. Not only that, but our conversations help you address any fears that may have you resisting moving forward. Clients who have tried online programs before this program have found what they need in this work, and have made the discoveries and changes they want.
That said, it's up to you to stay in the process, and to communicate what you need. If you fear you may lack the right commitment, this is something we can talk through before you sign onto to the program. We can help discern together whether the timing is right for you.
This program involves reading and reflection questions (and supplemental exercises) between each session. You’re free to dive in as deeply as you want, and in a way that will serve you most.
You can always purchase additional sessions, or an additional package of sessions so that you can complete this process at your own pace.
Sessions are 1 hour long, with the exception of your first session, which is 90 minutes.
Rich's Story
Reviving and learning to support a longstanding creative vision.
During the pandemic, my work dried up, which made me really look at the kind of jobs I had been doing. I was stuck in a pattern that no longer fulfilled me (if it ever did), and was undercharging for my services. I wasn’t making time for my own creative work, partly because I didn’t see the value in it. I knew I needed help, and remembered that Julie's coaching had been a great support to me during a transitional time earlier in my career.
Julie helped me discover the emotional roots of my hesitancy to put myself out there as well as my scarcity mindset. She encouraged me to create little reminders to myself and helped brainstorm ways that I could make more money while also opening space for my personal work.
One of the concrete results of my work with Julie is that I rebranded my company and almost immediately started getting the kind of work that I was seeking. My revenue increased, which has enabled me to invest more time and money into my personal work.
I have really shifted how I accept work. I have also become much more comfortable valuing my time and charging appropriately for it. Giving myself permission to sit with an opportunity and make a full “yes” or “no” decision has been a great gift from Julie.
Julie also helped me to see the value in my personal films (both monetarily and otherwise), and bolstered my confidence to continue creating them.
I whole-heartedly recommend anyone that is considering working with Julie! She gently guides you to examine the emotional and practical obstacles in your life and helps craft and implement a creative strategy to meet your goals
Rich h.
-filmmaker-
Think this might be for you?
Your Next Steps Are Easy:
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Book a consult.
Book time with me below, to find out if this program is a right for you. It's free, and it's the best way to get clear on how to move forward.
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Fill out a form.
After you book your session, I'll send you questions to answer, to prepare us both for our call. I'll ask you to return answers to me an hour or more ahead of scheduled time.
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We'll talk!
We'll talk for up to an hour; I'll help you gain insight on what you're experiencing, and if the Jumpstart program is right for you. If it's a fit and you choose to move forward, I'll initiate your start up tasks, and we're off and running.