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.
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.
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🔥 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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
Over time, this work helps you:
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!
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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.
Click here to book a recommendation call if you're unsure which option is right for you.
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:
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.
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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"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
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!
Email carly@carlylclarkzimmer.com
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.
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