I spent 15+ years building companies, leading teams, and leading communities. I co-founded CMX, which grew into the world's largest network of community professionals. We scaled to over 20,000 leaders globally, grew our annual summit to 1,000+ attendees, and eventually sold to a software company, Bevy.

Along the way, I wrote The Business of Belonging (Wiley, 2021), a guide to making community a competitive advantage. It's been read by thousands, translated to multiple languages, and has become a go-to resource for founders, teams, and strategists at companies ranging from early-stage startups to Meta and Google.

A few years after the acquisition, I was running on empty. I felt disconnected from my work and my life. My feelings of not-enoughness had me perpetually pushing, proving, and achieving. I could build things on that fuel, but the costs were adding up.

So I stepped away to explore the question, “What does it look like to live and build consciously and sustainably?”

That led me to meditation, therapy, coaching, and formal training in several modalities. In my coaching containers, I bring in my experience as a founder and operator, as well as my training and experience in Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic work, Aletheia coaching, Zen practice, meditation, and breathwork.

What I learned is this: you don't have to choose between building something ambitious and taking care of yourself in the process. In fact, the leaders who do both, who work on their strategy and their inner patterns, build better companies with stronger teams and longer runways, and live more joyful and fulfilling lives.

I'm now committed to helping other founders and leaders learn what I had to learn the hard way: how to shift from dirty fuel to clean fuel, so you can scale without burning out, and lead while staying grounded.