Business & Career Coaching
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA & ONLINE
From Tactical Hell to Strategic Heaven
It’s amazing how many people are in business without a coach of any kind. No professional athlete would operate in this way. We all need support and reflection to restore our energy, gain perspective & overcome our own biases & limitations. Without this, we linger in tactical hell feeling powerless, trapped, overwhelmed & burned out.
You may not realize the extent to which your career identity can be vitalized & strengthened to support your physical health, self-actualization & success.
Having a business coach can help you:
Identify your hill to die on,
Remain accountable to your goals,
Develop a robust core of self esteem,
Overcome fear & anxiety to lead & take risks,
Develop “systemic” or strategic intelligence,
Succeed in the way you define it.
When you work in this way, you are guided to your life work & your full potential emerges. Step by step you follow the golden road out of hell, until:
You are your business.
Imposter syndrome evaporates, mysterious forces are harnessed & your business grows effortlessly & in alignment with your values.
This is not a pipe-dream, it is a very real path that is currently being walked by many others who refuse to accept “business-as-usual” & toxic culture. I work with a wide range entrepreneurs, business leaders & creative professionals (see industries below).
I help the soulful be successful and the successful be soulful.
Contact me today for a free consultation & we can discuss what could be possible for you.
Client Industries
actors, aerospace engineers, agents, animators, AI engineers, art professors, band managers, brand strategists, breathwork instructors, business development officers, CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CTOs, climate scientists, climate strategists, creative directors, dancers, data analysts, doctors, HR directors, fund managers, investment bankers, lawyers, jewelers, lighting technicians, marketing directors, meditation teachers, mechanical engineers, musicians, music producers, podcasters, pharma executives, psychotherapists, psychology professors, rabbis, restaurant owners, sales directors, screenwriters & showrunners, social media influencers, software engineers, tax accountants, television producers, yoga teachers.
Progress Means
Clear goals defined
Small steps being taken toward goals
Inner guidance system online
Greater authenticity & feelings of purpose & integrity
Better product-market fit, or ikigai, where your passion is valued
Less fear, anxiety & stress & more energy, connection & flow
Better self-care & stewarding of biological systems
Better overall health
More assertiveness regarding compensation, fee-setting & boundaries
Transparency, robust vulnerability & emotional leadership
More meaningful, high-quality & high-bandwidth relationships
Less avoidances & false productivity
More delegation, outsourcing & systems building
Thinking big, putting skin in the game & doing the hard thing
Somatic Tools & Approach
I show you practices that support nervous system regulation. These practices allow blocked energy to discharge bringing you back to a state of restful alertness. As we reconnect the nervous system, you start to feel yourself again, burnout fades, & your energy & motivation are restored. You develop a wider window of tolerance, or your ability to stick with hard things.
We identify unhelpful patterns in your work & relationships that block your greater potential from emerging. Blocks involve limiting beliefs, triggers, bad boundaries, performance & social anxiety, inner deadness, social comparison, hang-ups around past events, character armor, mental rigidity, not being in your full power, etc.
We bring these blocks into awareness & unravel them by processing & unburdening the past events that live on in your nervous system. Often, we don’t need to dig deep into the past events themselves. What is important is the residue that still lives on in the present day.
We support you in developing exercise, sleep & nutrition habits that provide positive energy and help create a virtuous cycle of improvement in all areas.
You can drop off old baggage & bring your full authenticity into your career identity.
My Background
Hello,
I am Steven.
I live at the crossroads of Thinking and Feeling, where Soulland & Successville overlap.
I believe business success & soulful authenticity can overlap—the company Patagonia, for example. i work with people who want to inhabit this overlap.
My Life TLDR
I cheese-grated my soul in business-as-usual for seven years. Then I traveled and made art on a personal wandershaft for eight years. Then I started my own soul-aligned business as a business coach & psychotherapist.
On the business side, I have a Masters in Business Science and seven grueling years in Investment Banking (JPMorgan), Private Equity (Endeavour Capital) & Marketing Strategy (Johnny Was) obtained in New York & Los Angeles.
On the travel side, my wife and I turned on, tuned in, and dropped out to spend eight years living off the grid, traveling, rock climbing, sailing, making art, reading and reorienting to a deeper sense of purpose. Out of this, I realized I wanted to be deeply connected and to help other humans.
On the clinical side, I am a psychotherapist (though not in this capacity as a coach) with a Masters in Clinical Psychology. I am also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) & a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP). I have trained personally with Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing), Thomas Hübl (Collective Trauma), Bessel van der Kolk (Body Keeps the Score), Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems) & Laurel Parnell (Attachment-Focused EMDR).
I now run my own business in Los Angeles called Beyond Psychology Center. I also work as a Transformational Coach for senior executives through Mobius Executive Leadership.
I live with my wife in Santa Monica, California and still enjoy creating art and exploring wild and magical places. If you would like to know even more about me, you can read this article.
What Clients are Saying
Embark On Your Healing Journey
Contact me today to learn how coaching can help you develop your business & career.
I can answer your questions and support you as you take the next step toward a vibrant life.
Coaching is not psychotherapy, even if your coach is also a licensed therapist.
Coaching is not appropriate in the case of mental illness or a mental health diagnosis.