Career + Life coaching
UNLOCK your path to a more fulfilling career.
WHY USE A COACH
Make space each week to come together and work on your life and goals.
Lay everything out on the table and bring it all together, like ducks in a row.
Open the box and give allowance for your passions and desires. What would your life look like if you actually did what you love?
Set goals, make plans, follow them.
Unfurl.
Untangle.
Giving permission to explore.
I work with people who…
…are considering a career change, but are not sure where to begin.
…are unemployed trying to figure out what is next.
…have are desire to be in a more creative field.
…want a more fulfilling and purposeful life. A life connected with their values and principles.
…want to turn their dream or business idea into reality.
…want to navigate their way through the craziness. Finding ways to ensure any future plans contain rest, recovery, and space to check-in.
…identify as LGBTIQ+, Sex-worker, Feminist, Anti-capitalist, want to f*** the patriarchy, those with subversive agendas. or not…
About ME
Hey, I am Martin (he/him). I identify as a queer gay cis-man.
I grew up in Perth, Western Australia, spent 8 years in London and I have been in Berlin since 2015.
I studied Drama and Music at University.
I spent 11 years as an Executive Assistant/Administrative Business Partner at Google, McKinsey, and the British National Health Service.
I am now trained as a Creative Business Coach.
I have first-hand experience with high performing burnout and how long this lives in the body after leaving a job.
I am passionate about creating a calmer, more compassionate world. Or finding ways to protect ourselves from the crazy world out there.
A bit more…
I spent many years in the corporate environment in a job that was challenging to progress in. On paper it was amazing, but I felt like there was more to life, a better way to use my days, but I couldn’t quite grasp it. The daily grind was not allowing me to decompress and think expansively. I realise now that I was experiencing some sort of burnout for years, but could not acknowledge this, I just had to keep on going, working full-time, feeling uninspired.
Eventually, the routine of working long hours and partying every weekend got me.
So I quit, I didn’t have a plan, didn’t know what was next, I just knew I had to get out of “the system” in order to figure it out. I travelled, went on retreats, worked with a coach, read a lot, rested, danced, connected with nature. I was searching for meaning, hoping that the answer would come to me, but I eventually found out that the answer was already there, I just needed to give it permission to exist. I know it sounds cheesy, but I truly believe we already know the answer, we just need to let it out. It takes time to discover it, but it is there, quietly rumbling within.
As a coach, I have experience working with people who want to discover what they want to do, particularly those who are unemployed or seeking a career change.
I also serve people who already know what they want but need help developing their ideas into something real, be it a business idea, or project. Perhaps it was something they have done on the side and want to turn it into their primary income.
I am particularly passionate about helping people who are gay/queer/anywhere on the LGBTIQ+ spectrum.
In our sessions, we use tools, get analytical, make plans, set tasks, and get very real and detailed about things.
But we also breathe, tune in to our body, explore the emotions behind our decisions, inquire, and take a balcony view. There is no use ploughing ahead with a strong plan if you are not fully on board with it, resourced, rested, energised.
Details of my service are here