Work with Me
You’ve got a good life. Maybe even a very good one!
But some essential part of you isn’t fully in it.
Year after year, you keep promising yourself you’ll complete the thing, launch the thing, pursue the thing—yet somehow it still hasn’t found a real place in your life.
Or perhaps you’re only beginning to realize that something more has been living inside you, and now is the time to discover what it is.
Your life doesn’t fully reflect who you are—or who you’re becoming.
Yet.
Maybe you long to…
Dust off a talent you’ve neglected—or finally take it seriously.
Bring an original project, venture or initiative to life.
Give more of you to your work or creative practice.
Integrate interests, talents and passions you’ve kept separate—or recombine them into something new.
Learn to be there for yourself as fully as you’ve learned to be there for others.
Create a life that looks and feels unmistakably your own.
This is the work I love.
For more than twenty years, I’ve worked with thoughtful, accomplished people who refused to allow another season, another year, to go by without realigning their focus and their lives to discover and do the thing.
I’m part ally, part strategist, part sounding board, part mentor.
Together, we create enough spaciousness to hear what’s actually calling you.
We experiment.
We make ideas and impulses real.
We learn from what happens.
And we learn to honor you in your entirety—reallocating your time, attention, energy, talent, courage and devotion toward exactly what matters now.
The aim isn’t to strain or distort your good life.
It’s to make that beautiful life of yours even more fully yours.
We can work together in two ways.
Private Mentorship
Sustained one-to-one support for creating something important, pursuing a new direction, or reshaping a significant part of your life or work.
We work closely together over 6 to 12 months, tending both to what you’re building and to making a life for it.
Lively Future Studio
An intimate, carefully curated community for people who want ongoing structure and very good company as they make, experiment and create lives that more fully reflect who they actually are.
Not sure which is right for you? That’s okay.
If you’re curious about working together, tell me a little about where you’ve been, what’s calling you—and what you’d like to make more room for.
“Marla is a subtle magician. When I began working with her, I felt my inner artist and writer were trapped.... With unmatched compassion and small doable steps, Marla helped me form portable and flexible habits that fit into my lifestyle.... Just a little over one year later, I have created over one hundred pieces of art from a place of flow and authenticity.
“I am forever grateful to Marla for helping me bring my inner gifts and passions to life.”
— Andrea Lee-Zucker, interdisciplinary artist and social entrepreneur
“With Marla’s coaching I didn’t just get more done; I learned to live in a way that was truer to my own values and priorities.”
— Richard Hermes, writer and teaching professor
“During one session, a small idea sparked in my mind: working with first responders. It was just a tiny thought, barely there. But Marla helped me nurture that small idea, giving me the confidence to transform it into a thriving national nonprofit.”
— Heidi Carman, Executive Director, First Responder Therapy Dogs
