Hi, I’m Jen.
I’m a coach, facilitator, and entrepreneur.
I help curious, driven people become more regulated, resourceful, and creative. So they can better navigate what they can’t control and create a dope life with what they can.
I work best with people who believe they have some agency over their lives. They’re open-minded, willing to look honestly at themselves, and interested in growing, not because they think they’re broken, but because they give a damn about how they show up in the world.
Getting strong. Staying soft.
I’m not particularly interested in insight for insight’s sake. I want our work to change something.
That usually starts with regulation. When your nervous system is overwhelmed, your options get smaller. So we build the skills to get steadier, understand what’s actually going on, see more possibilities, and choose what to do next.
My coaching is practical, reflective, and human. We work with your nervous system, patterns, relationships, values, work, body, and actual life.
The goal isn’t to become perfectly calm or endlessly optimized. It’s to become more resourced. To have more range. To get stronger without getting harder.
Sometimes that means taking action. Sometimes it means loosening your grip. Sometimes it means having the hard conversation, changing course, asking for help, taking a risk, or accepting something you wish were different.
Getting strong. Staying soft. That’s the practice.
How I Got Here
Before becoming a coach, I spent a decade leading marketing teams at high-growth tech companies. In 2018, I founded Zest, where I still design and facilitate leadership and professional development programs for organizations across the country.
My private coaching practice was shaped through two accredited coach-training programs and years of study in mindfulness, relationships, communication, behavior change, and the nervous system.
But this work also comes from how I’ve lived.
Dance and movement have taught me to trust the body. Meditation has taught me to stay with what’s here. Entrepreneurship has taught me to make things happen. Parenting and partnership continually teach me that control is mostly an illusion.
Again and again, I seem to be learning the same lesson: knowing when to act and when to let go. When to push and when to listen. How to weather the hard stuff without becoming hardened by it, while staying brave and creative enough to make more of the good stuff.
That’s what I bring to coaching, too.
Training + Influences
I’m an ICF-trained coach and have studied across a range of coaching, mindfulness, communication, relationship, and therapeutic frameworks.
My education and influences include Georgetown University, Mindfulness Coaching School, Braver Coach, mentor coaching with Lyssa deHart, Relational Life Therapy, Nonviolent Communication, The Gottman Institute, Safe Conversations, Betty Martin’s School of Consent, Internal Family Systems, and more than 20 years of meditation practice.
I’m also deeply influenced by dance floors, Burning Man, entrepreneurship, motherhood, relationships, and a long list of teachers, mentors, clients, and humans who have helped me see things differently.
My wish is for all people to have the skills & support they need to build lives they’re damn proud of —and leave the world a better place.
We’ll probably work well together if…
You’re curious. You’re driven. You’re willing to own your stuff.
Maybe you’re navigating a transition. Maybe you’re successful but restless. Maybe you’re overthinking the hell out of something. Or maybe nothing is particularly wrong and you simply know there’s more available to you.
You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what you want. You do need to believe you can learn, experiment, change, and participate in creating what comes next.
Sound like you? Let’s talk.
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Newsletter
I have a free substack. It’s called “Well, That’s Interesting” because it’s all stories from my life that have sparked my curiosity. Subscribe to get occasional emails that have my personal reflections, self-coaching tips, upcoming events, free resources, and more.
I respect your time, attention, and privacy, and aim to keep each email useful. 👇
Coaching
You’re invited to explore my coaching programs. If you feel called or drawn to who I am, I don’t think it’s an accident.
Book a free consultation so we can get to know one another. Or just read more about my current offerings.👇