People often think the problem that’s keeping them from their goal is a lack of discipline, clarity, or motivation, when the real issue is a protective pattern that keeps getting activated.


A lot of personal growth content teaches people to look at themselves as problems to solve.

Over time, that can turn into a form of self-rejection or never feeling good enough.


It's important for you to understand that you are not the problem.

The pattern is.

That is where Laser Coaching Lab comes in.

This is a living space for implementation, accountability, and support.

A place to bring the thing you are circling, get clear on what is actually happening underneath it, and take the next step with structure, witness, and real momentum.

Because lasting change is rarely built in isolation.

The pattern becomes easier to interrupt when it is named, supported, and practiced in real time.

What Laser Coaching Lab Is

Laser Coaching Lab is an ongoing support space for people who want more than insight.

Inside the Lab, you stop leaving the steps you know you need to take up to your mood, your energy level, or whether you feel extra brave that day.

It's the place you bring the things you keep circling, get clear on what is actually happening underneath it.

It's the space where we bridge the technological tools at our fingertips with human accountability and witness.

This is the space where we bridge the identity that helped you build your business or your career, with the one that will lead you forward with expansive courage and authentic action.

What You Get Inside

Unlimited access to AI-Powered Behavior Change Tools for the Insight

  • ⚡️ 5 Minute Laser Coach
  • The Bottleneck Behavior Finder
  • The Pattern Breaker Plan

Use them for yourself:

  • When a new edge appears
  • When you need a quick perspective shift
  • When you need to stop swirling

Use them with your client/team

  • If you are a coach, service provider, or leader, you can also use these tools in support of your clients and your work.

🔥 Pattern Breaker Power Hour 3x per month

Three times a month, we'll gather live for focused coaching and accountability.

You must submit your focus or question beforehand.

That means we are not wasting half the call figuring out what the problem is. We are coming in honest, and straight to the behavior bottleneck.

Inside the Power Hour, I will support you in:

  • identifying the behavior loop underneath the stuck point
  • naming the hidden narrative driving it
  • finding the most useful interruption point
  • clarifying the next step that creates actual movement

Some weeks you may receive live coaching. Some weeks you may witness someone else get coached and realize, with great affection and mild irritation, that your nervous system is doing the exact same thing in a different outfit.

Both are valuable.

11 AM Eastern, Three X per month (first three Tuesdays of the month)

*I will record the calls, but it will be much more valuable if you can attend at least one live per month.

Ongoing Community Accountability and Support

Between calls, you are not left alone with your beautiful plan and your old habits.

Inside the community, you can:

  • share what you are working on
  • name what you need accountability around
  • ask for support when the pattern shows up
  • get follow up and coaching from me inside the group

This gives the work and the messy middle somewhere to unfold and work through in real-time challenges that come with updating behavior and identity.

A place where you matter, where you are seen, and where someone can reflect back the truth before the old loop takes over the room.

Who this is for

The Laser Coaching Lab is for the coach, creative, entrepreneur, or leader who is already smart, capable, and deeply self-aware, but whose follow-through gets hijacked by familiar patterns.

This is for you if:

✅ You are thoughtful, relational, and excellent at your work, but you keep over-accommodating, softening expectations, or stretching yourself too thin to keep things feeling warm.

✅ You know a direct conversation needs to happen, but you keep waiting for a better moment, a gentler phrasing, or more evidence, while the resentment quietly starts building in the walls.

✅ You are the hub of everything. Clients, team, logistics, decisions, loose ends. You look productive on paper, but the deeper truth is that you do not have enough space for leadership, vision, or the work that actually grows the business.

✅ You carry more than is actually yours. You are reliable, generous, competent, and exhausted. You keep stepping in before anyone asks, then wonder why there is no room left for your own life, work, or rest.

✅ You are brilliant at repair mode. The second something slips, you overwork, overdeliver, or go into heroic cleanup instead of building the system that would stop the pattern from repeating.

✅ You are about to take visible action, then somehow end up “just checking” what someone else is doing and lose an hour to comparison, reworking, and unnecessary editing.

You are in the middle of an identity transition. The new version of your work is here. The new level of leadership is here. The new chapter is here. But when it is time to actually be seen in it, you drift back into planning, polishing, and hiding at the edge of the threshold.

This is for people who are ready for direction, structure, and truth.

❌ Not endless processing.

❌ Not exhaustive hustling - aligned steps mean less, not more on your to-do list.

❌ Not more circling.

Why this works

Insight matters.

But intentional structure is what makes change and brings freedom.

The Laser Coaching Lab gives this work structure.

A rhythm.
A place to practice.
A place to return when the old pattern tries to move back in and act like it still owns the house.

Humanity: Liberation from these patterns requires discomfort. That is what community is for.

I believe the coaching of the future will include AI-powered tools like we have in the Lab, but accountability, and human understanding, co-regulation and witness is how real, lasting, meaningful change happens.

Carly Clark Zimmer
Carly Clark Zimmer

I'm Carly.

An ICF-certified Life and Leadership Coach with eight years of experience supporting seasoned entrepreneurs and senior leaders through high-stakes transitions.

I specialize in identity-based leadership work, with formal training in Internal Family Systems and advanced behavioral pattern recognition.

Most of my clients look successful on paper.
What they experience privately is internal strain during growth, visibility shifts, or structural change.

Nothing is broken.

Their operating structures simply no longer match who they’ve become.

I've seen this pattern hundreds of times:
Clarity is rarely the issue.


Sustainable growth requires internal coherence. The alignment between identity, decision-making, and structure.

My work restores that coherence.

Clients describe feeling calmer, clearer, and more decisive.

What shifts inside the Lab

Over time, this work helps you:

  • make cleaner decisions
  • follow through faster
  • interrupt old loops earlier
  • trust yourself in real time
  • build new evidence that a different way is possible
  • create more space for leadership, visibility, boundaries, rest, and meaningful momentum

Investment: $150 per month!

I've run many groups in the past, but this is the very first time the Laser Coaching Lab is open!

  • ~ unlimited access to your tools
  • ~ 3 LIVE Calls: Pattern Breaker Power Hour each month
  • ~ ongoing community accountability and support

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A note about the rhythm

The live calls happen three times per month at 11 AM.

The fourth week is intentionally left open.

I believe rest matters. Integration matters. Sabbatical weeks matter.

We are here to create a rhythm that supports real change, and it gives us space to add develop the lab so it continues to support you in the best possible way we can.

Not into group support?

1:1 Laser Coaching might be better for you.

  • Decision Map Intensive to Map out your goals and strategy
  • Three 1:1 sessions a month
  • Voxer support in between
  • 24-hour response time
  • Weekly high-touch accountability check-in and progress update
  • Lifetime access to my signature coaching Toolkit Library

Click here to book a recommendation call if you're unsure which option is right for you.

Testimonials

This is the first time I will be running this community, yet I have many years of expereince facilitating groups!

Here's what some of my past clients have shared:

Rochelle Y.

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

  • Overwhelm from conflicting advice
  • Anxiety around money and sales
  • A desire to build her business with integrity, not fear-based tactics
  • Lack of a clear, simple, proven system to get clients

🔺 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

  • Secured her first paying 1:1 coaching clients and landed her first five-figure retreat client.
  • Built a repeatable system to keep getting new clients
  • Created a clear pathway for  financial stability with realistic goals
  • Gained clarity on her niche and value proposition
  • Learned to prioritize self-care as a direct contributor to business success

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.

Emily J.

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

  • Zero boundaries between life and work
  • Loss of identity and passions
  • Anxiety, exhaustion, and declining health
  • Feeling there was no other option beyond her high-stress career
  • A deep dissonance between her values and how she was living

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

  • Left a draining career with clarity and confidence
  • Launched her own payroll and HR services business, supporting small and medium-sized businesses
  • Reconnected with her authentic self, values, and sense of freedom
  • Created a daily life that includes movement, rest, autonomy, and choice
  • Broke free from the “investment banking is the only way” mindset to build a life aligned with her soul

“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.

If you are ready for a space that helps you follow through on

what you already know is true,

this is your sign.

Bring the pattern.
Bring the thing you are avoiding.
Bring the decision, the draft,

the conversation, the boundary, the launch, the messy middle.

We will work with what is real.
 We will make it livable.
 And we will keep going.

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Coaching Community Feedback

Carly Clark Zimmer and Tonya Leary

Wow. Just...WOW.

"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: FIRST 5

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BodyMind Coach

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TOTALLY Infatuated!

"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!"

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Dawn Denzin

BodyMind Coach

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Beyond Grateful

FIRST 5 with Carly Clark Zimmer

Found her SPARK and unique niche!

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Confidence BOOST!

Bria: FIRST 5

Program Sold!

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Sold FIRST Program EVER!!!

Meg: FIRST 5

Felt like a mess... and client still said YES!

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Perfectly Aligned!

Lauren: FIRST 5

On-boarding her first client!

Carly Clark Zimmer: FIRST 5

Total shift in energy!

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If you're unsure which option is right for you, please reach out to me with questions. I'm happy to answer them to help you make the best choice for where you are right now!

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Cross-Cultural Competency, Awareness, and Equity Pledge:

I stand in solidarity with Black, Brown, Indigenous, Minority Ethnic, and People of Colour,  LGBTQ+ & 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.

Anti-Racism and Hate Speech: We are committed to building an anti-racist business and do not tolerate hate speech, racism, bigotry, sexism, or bullying of any kind.

We do our very best to provide a safe, trauma-informed space for people of all identities to learn, grow, ask questions, and provide their own valuable insight and feedback for us all to learn from.

After all, if you've read this far, you know that this is everything I'm here to dismantle both systemically and within ourselves.