I can’t praise Martha sufficiently without first confessing that I was likely not an easy client. My business concept was vague when I approached her, and while I was adamant about what I didn’t want, I wasn’t at all clear about what I did. Patience, calm and knowledge are the tools Martha used to quell my resistance to technology. She even managed to happily engage me with the process—this is no small feat! |
Martha filled many crucial roles for me when I launched my new branding effort. She helped me present myself in imagery, layouts and words that reflect who I am better than I could have—even though I’m a writer! Martha has a gentle but steady way of keeping me moving through my to-do list. She will step in to do what I can't or don't want to, and she is highly capable of teaching me whatever I want to learn. She gave me valuable insights about where white cultural norms are showing up in my business and how I can increase my awareness of them. Martha is an intelligent, creative, and fun brain companion and my business has flourished with her support. 
Each time Martha shows up on Zoom, I present her with another of those dilemmas that comes with running your own business. She has a Mary Poppins bag of tricks and a contagious way of tackling problems. She coaches me without judgment to a resolution each time. |
Martha is an absolute pleasure to work with. She built my private practice website from the ground up. She coached and educated me through the process with great patience, computer prowess and adept insight despite my novice computer ability. She closely listened to my vision for the presentation, content and usability for my website. Martha continues to help me out along the way with updates and adjustments. She has been readily available and generous with her time and expertise. I highly recommend her services and have referred her to several colleagues. I was doing too many things at once and going crazy, as many self-employed people do. Martha turned my business (and life) from a scattered 15-ring circus to juggling just a few plates at once — much more doable! She helped me set up a work/life infrastructure that matches the way my brain works. Now I feel nourished by my business instead of panicked about it. |
Well-conceived visions often come without road maps.
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Manage the TransitionWhether your transition calls for a sudden jump or a slow build, we'll start with a thorough look at where you want to go and what needs to happen between here and there. Then we'll pool skills, resources and creativity to plot out a course that centers around priorities and minimizes overwhelm.
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Create System EaseWe'll seek out the systems that make you cringe - from filing to passwords, device synching to expense tracking - and replace them with ease, flow and efficiency. With the back of an envelope or the latest app, we'll build an infrastructure of organized systems that works for you.
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Personalize the PathBy leveraging your enthusiasms, exploring your hesitancies and sitting with your resistances, we'll invite your more human aspects to influence the path to your goal. Hand-holding, back-patting, confidence-fluffing and sound-boarding are key services in the mix.
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Self-Employment Business CoachingShort-Term A quick alignment of uncoordinated devices, a new newsletter template design, the shirking of nostalgia to clean out boxes and files; these can be accomplished in a short engagement that keeps the focus on relatively brief organizational, technical or training fixes.
Ongoing Accomplish a broad set of tasks or reach a particular goal in a multi-month engagement. Meet with Martha on a regular basis to strategize priorities, assign tasks, work with timelines through to achievement. You'll build some skills and develop a resource base along the way. Engagements last months to years.
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Racial Equity Business CoachingOne on One Engage in the personally profound and societally relevant work of exploring how dominant cultural values present themselves in your business. Raising your awareness of racial equity—in both yourself and your industry—is a critical first step in determining how to address what you find.
Group Join other sole proprietors, small business owners and entrepreneurs in a monthly exploration of how white normative culture shows up in our biases, businesses and best selves—no matter how good our intentions. We'll continually reflect on the impact of whiteness as well as the possibility of holding whiteness responsibly.
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Technical SupportMartha supplies technical prowess and keen teaching abilities to self-employed folks who lack access to an IT department or help desk. With a focus on tools and systems that work in alignment with your inclinations and idiosyncrasies, Martha will help solve your technological frustrations, increase your productivity and lower your blood pressure.
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Martha is an educator by training, with professional experiences spanning the inner life and out-of-doors, both intellectual content and physical skills, with individuals & groups of hundreds. Not one for travelling known routes, Martha's career has included teaching qigong to people with cancer, providing writing & workshop design for child welfare reform efforts and leading mountaineering courses for groups ranging from youth-at-risk to executives. An enduring interest in relationships of power has informed Martha's studies, career choices and persistent questions. She has studied the psychology of secrecy, co-founded an off-the-charts democratic school and doggedly pursues personal and societal accountability in the terrain of whiteness, anti-racism and racial equity. This winding route is the inspiration for Mountain Way: finding paths through obstacles, making & tossing plans, paying attention to what's presented, proceeding as the landscape calls for. |
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