I've spent my career helping powerful people build what's next.
It took my own experience inside incoherent systems to understand what was really in the way.
It took my own experience inside incoherent systems to understand what was really in the way.
I started working at 13. By 19 I was making $50K in Silicon Valley -- no degree, just drive. Then a CEO recruited me away from a successful career in radio advertising with the promise of building something like the next Google. Within a year the company had burned through $5 million in private investment and laid most of us off. I moved to Los Angeles. And kept building.
What followed were two jobs that looked like dream opportunities. And two bosses who were remarkable in some ways -- brilliant, even -- but deeply incoherent in others. I wasn't working for just anyone. I was working directly alongside top thought leaders in their fields. I learned everything from them -- what to do and what not to do.
Places where excellence in one dimension masked a complete breakdown in another. I watched what that cost the people around them. And eventually I suffered what it cost me.
I gave fifteen years to those roles. And when I finally left -- first one, then the other -- I went into business with a partner. The toxic patterns didn't disappear overnight. They just showed up in new forms -- until I got honest about the fact that my incoherence was part of the equation too.
You can't build something coherent from an incoherent state.
I rebuilt. And everything I now know about coherence -- across inner state, relationships, and systems -- came from living that.
RAW Coherent Leadership is that understanding made practical.
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