How to Clear Up Miscommunication using the Drama Triangle
Recycling the same arguments and conversations is draining and unproductive.
Founder of the Reset Lab| Restorative Dialogue Consultant
From being overwhelmed with conflicting advice to five-figure contracts
When Rochelle first reached out to me, she was overwhelmed.
She had just left her W-2 job to start her coaching business while raising two young kids. Her bookshelf was stacked with business and personal development books that left her feeling anxious, unsure how to actually get clients, and overwhelmed by conflicting advice.
She told me:
“I was reading everything from 100 Million Dollar Leads to You Are a Badass at Making Money, but I was drowning in information and cognitive overload.”
🔻 The Challenge
🔺 The Approach
In our work together, we focused on:
→ The First Five Method: a simple approach to secure her first 5 clients without bro marketing, cold DMs, or compromising her values.
Frequent Laser Coaching & Accountability: helping her implement step-by-step, stay focused, and take aligned action.
→ Scripts, Systems & Templates: so she wasn’t reinventing the wheel for proposals, onboarding, and client delivery.
→ Heart-Centered Sales Strategy: shifting from fear-based “convincing” to authentic conversations rooted in service and integrity.
→ Mindset Coaching grounded in real strategy: combining inner work with tangible systems for financial results.
✨ The Results
Her words:
“I’ve invested in many programs, including high-ticket ones that left me feeling scammed. Carly’s support was worth every penny – I got more than what I put in, and it will benefit my business for years.”
Why it worked
Rochelle didn’t need another mindset book. She needed a human to challenge her assumptions, offer proven strategies, and hold her accountable with directness and compassion. She got the strategy and soul approach that helped her business grow in a way that felt aligned with who she is.
If you’re craving a simpler, more human way to grow your business – without fear-based tactics, pushy sales scripts, or trends, this is the work we will do together.
Fractional CFO | Strategic Financial Leadership
When Emily first came to me, she was buried under 100-hour workweeks as an investment banker.
From the outside, she was successful – a high performer at a prestigious firm.
Inside? She felt trapped, burnt out, disconnected from her true self, and struggling with:
🔻 The Challenge
Her words:
“My true self was buried under 1000 feet of concrete. I had become someone who cared about brands, status, and being a cog in the corporate wheel – things I never cared about before.”
🔺 The Approach
Our work focused on:
→ Creating Radical Self-Awareness: reconnecting her to what she actually felt, wanted, and valued that went deeply beyond corporate conditioning.
→ Building Boundaries & Reclaiming Time: supporting her to have difficult conversations with bosses and co-workers, set limits, and prioritize rest.
→ Navigating Career Redirection: from burnout and medical leave to building a life and career on her own terms.
→ Integrating Strategy & Soul: not forcing decisions before she was ready, but supporting her to fight the battles she needed to feel complete before leaving investment banking.
✨ The Results
“Working with Carly led to a drastic change, in a good way. She helped me return to myself. Now, instead of working until 2 am fueled by pressure and adrenaline, I now choose my own schedule, and I'm building a business that feels right for me. Carly helps you identify what’s making you feel off, and then brings her skills and tools as a seasoned coach to solve it. My therapist couldn’t do that. Carly could.”
Why it worked
Emily didn’t need another productivity hack. She needed a coach who could:
→ Reflect her truth back to her
→ Challenge her assumptions with compassion
→ Translate her thoughts into clear reflections that felt like the truth
→ Support her to rebuild her life from the inside out
✨ From burnout to building a soul-aligned business. That’s what happens when you return to yourself.
If you’re feeling trapped in a career that doesn’t fit anymore, can and will make positive changes happen in your life.
Ali C.
Author, PR Executive, Author, Yoga & Meditation Teacher
From the Masculine Energy of Hustling in NYC to writing her novel.
"Working with Carly has been transformational in my life. As a coach and as a person, she truly comes from a place of integrity and truth, and you can feel that when you work with her.
Four years ago, when I was at the beginning of my self-discovery journey. I thought she was going to make me quit my job right away!
Instead, Carly met me where I was. I needed to get to know myself and why I wanted to leave so I could figure out where I needed to go next.
I got to really know myself, so I had the internal trust to take the big leap.
I'm so grateful for her warmth, genuine curiosity, no-nonsense, direct feedback, and ability to guide me through whatever I'm going through at any time.
If you're considering working with her, just take the leap.
You'll be happy you did."
P.S. For anyone on the fence, this best decision and investment you will ever make.
Seriously!
Diane was feeling social pressure for her business to be a certain way. Instead of going with trends, now business now feels fully aligned with HER values.
"I was feeling stuck in my wellness business and couldn’t seem to find the work-life balance I always strived for. Carly helped me to align my business with my values in a way that felt authentic to me.
Carly’s heart-centered approach and her calm, non-judgemental demeanor….but also, her commitment to holding me accountable! I am so grateful to her that I can now truly enjoy my day-to-day activities and feel aligned.”
DIANE I.
Registered Dietitian
Jessica found her 'anchor' within herself to support her business AND her life!
The community has been an anchor of who I am as a coach, and how I want to serve. Carly's care and facilitation are skilled and supportive.
The support ranges from practical systems to aligning what is alive for us in our lives, in the moment, in our wholeness.
The group offers the opportunity to be witnessed, to be completely held no matter how we show up or what we're moving through, and offers a mirror for what is possible by hearing others' experiences and being coached by Carly.
I've raised my rates exponentially, and I've been supported in taking action that sustains my vision in how I want to spend my days, not just in my biz but in my life!
JESSICA K.
Grief Support & Death Doula
Jules uncovered the CORE of her desires & it led to clarity in her business!
"I've always struggled with my ideal client. Inside one of our first lessons, I EASILY found my "Core Desired feeling" which helped me reverse engineer from the feeling to what the value was, and then the people ideal clients who share those values were clear! Totally worked... Brilliant! Now I can EASILY define who I work with! BOOM!”
JULES H.
Certified Advanced Rolfer
Breaking ingrained conditioning can unbind you from generations of patterns that keep you stuck, silent, and settling.
Michelle simplified her sales process so it felt authentic, and won best life coach in her town... TWO years in a row!
I used Carly's simplified Sales Call framework, and the client said yes, paid on the spot and I took the money (instead of brushing it aside!)
I now have a new record for the most coaching clients at one time! And I gave myself a $400 raise!
This was the first time I made my offer at this price, there were no objections. I felt confident that the value was worth more and that I was worth more.
I really enjoy the framework and it's resonating with clients and it makes it easy! Yay!
BodyMind Coach
"Making choices and decisions for my business from the energy of how I WANT to feel... this is how ease and flow get to show up. "
Tanya Bodsford
BodyMind Coach
"I’m in a new relationship… with Google Drive! Totally infatuated. I felt so damn fancy when I signed up my new client and had a clear and easy process to follow… and I was able to make it my own!"
Dawn Denzin
BodyMind Coach
Recycling the same arguments and conversations is draining and unproductive.
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I stand in solidarity with Black, Brown, Indigenous, Minority Ethnic, and People of Colour, LGBTQIA+ & those who hold culturally and systemically marginalized identities to dismantle systemic racism. I pledge to continue to comb through my cultural bias, vet coaching tools and philosophies, and question business systems & practices for their equality and effectiveness instead of blindly following what has been done before. After all, if you've read this far you know that this is everything I'm here to dismantle both systemically and within ourselves.
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