ABOUT ME

My top two core values are connection & curiosity, and I root my decisions and communication in them as often as I can. I believe our careers and paths are much closer to expanding circles than a straight line or the “ladder” that we we grew up hearing about. I’ve moved from nonprofits to music promotion to recruiting and HR in the tech industry - always energized by figuring out how best to give people the right opportunities to grow, learn, and maybe even play. I’m deeply serious about taking things lightly when I can.

I love exploring, and I can tell you a little bit about a lot of things - just enough to see if it resonates with you. I’m not an expert on any topic, and I promise I will never pretend to be one. If we reach a limit on it together, I’ll find you an expert to go deeper!

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.

  • 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

  • Thousands of job seekers as a Recruiter

    Hundreds of clients on their Resume, LinkedIn, and my personal favorite: negotiating their job offer 😏💸

    So so so many engineers. Maybe too many? Kidding…

    So so so so so many HR and Recruiting folks, never too many

    A nurse wanting to get out of nursing

    A teacher wanting to get out of teaching

    A People Team/HR leader figuring out how to grow their organization thoughtfully

    A business owner wanting their employees to learn how to interview well and fairly

    Social workers wondering how to find better sustainability and freedom

    Folks in nonprofits feeling trapped and maybe a little bit jaded

    Creatives feeling overwhelmed with the “businessy stuff” of their work

    Creatives wanting to press pause on the “businessy stuff” and get back to why they do what they do

  • 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

  • Creativity being innate, not something for a select few

    Nonviolent communication

    Enneagram (I’m a 2w3)

    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

  • Decolonizing Therapy

    Spirituality away from Christian hegemony

    Hakomi

    Ecological Consciousness / Reciprocity

    Reiki

BIO | the long version

I remember doing those wildly misguided career tests in high school, and I’d get artist every time. I felt really excited, motivated and maybe a little elitist because, hey, I was in high school. I had no idea what that would look like, because I never gravitated to one specific area. I loved dancing, I loved theater, I loved writing, and I saw people start to specialize and work their ass off at their gifts, and I quickly realized that was :never going to be me”. Not that I didn’t want to work hard, but there were just too many topics I wanted to explore.

I landed in a degree in Human Services & Rehabilitation, thinking it was general enough that I could work in any number of areas. I plopped myself in Boys & Girls Club working with middle schoolers for a handful of years, exploring art, music, and technology with them, hosting some WEIRD field trips and chaperoning their school dances. I found myself facing financial instability - reality setting in that I’d be checking my bank account before filling up my car with gas for the foreseeable future, and I started to panic. The work was meaningful, interesting, creative, and ultimately unsustainable.

Through my network, I plunged into a brief stint in a jill-of-all-trades role at a women-artist-owned startup called Siren. I did marketing, operations, and found furniture at Goodwill for our first office. While it was one of the most interesting jobs I’ve ever had, I wasn’t quite ready for the volatility of a 10-person startup. From there, I got a contract job at Microsoft hiring Engineers out of college - it was less meaningful, but still interesting and creative. As anyone in Recruiting in the tech industry will tell you, you don’t quite mean to get there, but somehow you fell into it. I was learning a lot very quickly, which is one of my favorite places to be. As I continued on to bigger companies like Google and Dropbox, then startups like VSCO and Descript, I watched, absorbed, and participated in the good, bad, and ugly of the tech industry.

Along the way, I found myself being consulted more by senior leadership around how to thoughtfully scale both a culture and a business, how to balance transparency and discernment in communication, facilitating hard but necessary conversations and decisions, and how to make these places we spend an enormous amount of our time more human. The environments and the challenges changed, but I continued to love working with people, and figuring out how to connect them with opportunities.

When you work in Recruiting, you get asked a lot by your friends and your friends of friends and your neighbor’s cousins about resumes, interviewing, if LinkedIn even matters, and pay. Somewhere around deep quarantine in 2020 in the first round of layoffs, I started to do it a lot more, and more officially. I told people I could help, and people showed up. I consulted with Levels.FYI as they built out a negotiation service, and I kept practicing. Turns out, the scripts and the rules don’t change too much across industries - thankfully what I had been learning was transferrable. Suddenly, I wasn’t just working with Software Engineers trying to make more money anymore, I was partnering with a wider range of people all stuck on the same topics: what do I want, what do I care about, and how do I do that more, ideally with people who feel the same way?

In the past year, my career coaching business started to change, and I started to change with it! I had a few coaching clients where I realized we weren’t really talking about careers anymore - we would often start there, but the conversations shifted. We stopped talking about their jobs, and started talking about what they really love doing, and how to get them doing that more often. Somewhere in there I hosted an Artist’s Way Group, and now here I am: sharing with you all the things I care about and the things I’m good at, and seeing where we might go from there.

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