Health and personal practices
Another evening goes to the business. The workout, rest, or practice that supports you gets postponed again.
Helm · 90 days of private coaching with CK
Keep building your business.
Live the life you’re building it for.
Private coaching for founders who want to move the business forward without continuing to sacrifice the rest of their life.
Together, we understand what keeps happening under pressure, find a response that fits your circumstances, and put it into practice.
Apply for Helm$7,500
Founder experience
Experience alongside founders.
I served as founder coach and Head of Culture while a company grew from 15 to 250 people and reached a $2 billion valuation.
“My time with CK was a journey of profound self-discovery and impactful leadership.”— Ross McCray, founder of VideoAmp
The cost of carrying it all
You can be successful and still be paying too much for it.
Your company needs you. You care about the commitments that matter, and every decision to put business first has a reason.
Each choice can make sense in the moment. Over time, the same parts of life may keep paying the bill.
Family and relationships
Your partner or children may receive the distracted version of you, or whatever attention remains after work.
Quick relief, another cost
When you are tired, stretched, or alone, a habit that helps you switch off may begin creating another cost.
Your actual life
Bring what keeps repeating.
The meeting that ran late.
The commitment you dropped.
The argument at home.
The decision you keep postponing.
The habit used for relief.
We examine what happened, what you were trying to protect or achieve, what you assumed, what the situation demanded, and what got displaced.
Sometimes the decision served a real need. Sometimes a familiar pattern narrowed the options you could see. Often, both are true.
A shared process
Find a response that fits your reality.
Regulate
Create enough space to think clearly under pressure.
Integrate
Consider the full situation, including competing needs, relationships, assumptions, and timing.
Decide
Choose a response that fits your circumstances.
Engage
Put your response into practice, observe what happens, and adjust. If you choose to wait, decide what you are watching for and when to revisit.
RIDE gives us a repeatable way to understand the situation and discover an appropriate response.
That response may be a conversation, boundary, agreement, support structure, environmental change, deliberate pause, or something else entirely.
You choose it. I help you examine it.
Practice and adjustment
Learn from what happens next.
You put your response into practice, then bring back what happened.
What helped? What became difficult? What did you learn about yourself, the people involved, or the situation?
When an attempt goes badly, bring that too. It gives us something specific to understand.
A useful next step may be a conversation or boundary. It may also be gathering information or deliberately waiting while you watch for the right conditions to revisit the situation.
Across the engagement, I keep track of what you are working toward, notice what keeps repeating, and help you learn and adjust without losing your direction.
Your progress
Know what progress looks like.
At the beginning, you identify what progress means for you. The work returns to it across the engagement.
Possible signs of progress may include:
What is changing in how you respond?
You keep a commitment during a difficult week. Speak before resentment builds. Ask for support. Make a decision you have been postponing. Recognize when a pause is wiser than force.
How is your experience of life changing?
You feel more present. More grounded. More able to enjoy what you have built. More trusting of your own judgment.
Beyond the engagement
A way of navigating you can keep using.
You practice understanding the situation, recognizing your pattern, finding where you have influence, and learning from your response.
The aim is progress on what matters now and a stronger ability to find your way as life changes.
Helm
90 days of private, one-to-one coaching with CK
For founders who want to build the business without continuing to sacrifice the life they are building it for.
$7,500
We will discuss fit, schedule, and support before you commit.
What keeps getting sacrificed when business asks for more?
Tell CK what you want to change, what you have tried, and where it keeps becoming difficult.
Helm is coaching. When addiction or another clinical concern is involved, this work belongs alongside qualified care.