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You Need to Know Why
You’re at the stage in your journey where you’ve been doing the work—and still feel stuck. You’ve read all the books, gone to all the workshops and retreats, memorized affirmations, taken all the supplements—and yet, it’s not what you thought it would be.
Maybe you’ve heard: “Think less, be more.” But how? You’re someone who doesn’t just want to change—you need to understand why the patterns are there in the first place. Why you procrastinate. Why you put others’ needs before yours. Why perfectionism shows up, even when you’re exhausted.
You’ve tried to push through. You’ve been told to relax, let it go, stop overthinking. But that’s not how your mind works.
You’re not dramatic. You’re not too sensitive. You’re wired to go deep. And for you, knowing the why is what unlocks the path forward.
I work with people like you—root-cause thinkers who feel different and want something real. Together, we explore the patterns, programming, and parts of you that keep getting in the way—not to fix you, but to help you understand yourself enough to trust yourself again.
We look at how your system is built: how you make decisions, relate to pressure, set boundaries, recharge, and communicate. We get honest about what’s yours and what was never meant to be.
Because once you get it, once it clicks, something shifts. You stop faking it. You stop numbing out. You start moving differently.
If you’ve always felt like you’re too much and not enough at the same time, you’re not alone.
This work is for you
You are the elephant
Imagine four people in a dark room with an elephant, none of them knowing what it is.
One touches the ear: “It’s like paper.”
Another presses the belly: “It’s a wall.”
The third grabs a leg: “It’s a tree trunk.”
The last holds the tail: “It’s a rope.”
They’re all partly right—and also wrong. But one being in the room knows the full truth: The elephant.
The elephant knows its own shape, not because it studied itself, but because it is itself. It feels every part from the inside. It remembers what it’s been, what it’s becoming.
That’s you. You are the elephant. And, so am I.
Others may see parts of us—our role, our talents, our vibe.
They might call us hardworking, sensitive, brilliant, aloof, generous, confident.
But they’re just holding one piece. No one sees it all.
Except you. You have the most access to all of you. You are the expert on you. Just as I am the expert on me. And a seven year-old is the expert on being a seven year-old far better than any adult.
You’ve lived every moment of your life. You hold all of it—your humor, emotion, belief, contradiction. You are the only expert on you there is.
So why do we still feel lost? Disconnected?
Because we’re constantly told who we’re supposed to be—by family, systems, media, even well-meaning people.
That’s where our work comes in. As a coach, I don’t tell you who you are. I help you remember. Together, we spot the conditioning, name what’s been hidden, and make the unconscious conscious.
And from that place, you choose: To act. To heal. To show up as the real you—full send, unapologetic, alive.
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How does it work?
When you are ready to dive in, you’re ready. But what level of support are you calling in? I offer two levels of support:
Life Coaching À La Carte
I offer high-impact readings in CliftonStrengths and Human Design. These are 1:1 single sessions that you can book for yourself or as a gift for someone in your life. Both options are 60-minute power-hours where you leave with tangible insights and actions. You leave the session with practical next steps that you can use that day. If you’re looking for something fast and straightforward, this option is for you. It’s an energy-rich deep-dive that people text me about years later.
Lots of people choose this option simply because they are curious and want to know more about themselves or want to see their life through the lens of systems like Human Design and CliftonStrengths.
* If you are not exactly sure what you’re looking for, an À La Carte offer is a good place to start as well. Some people chose this option because they just want to get their toes wet and experience what coaching is all about.
Click here to book sessions in CliftonStrengths and Human Design.
Transformational Coaching | 3-6 Months
Maybe you are looking for more than a single session.
Maybe you are looking for a coach to walk with you through a full season of life, someone to be in your corner as you create massive transformation and change? Someone to help you define, refine, and follow-through on a new vision for your life—accountability, strategy, and depth? Do you want a coach that is available throughout the week, someone to connect with in the moment and get immediate support?
If that describes you, transformational coaching is the best fit for what I offer. With this option, I don’t charge per session. I work with people in 3 to 6 month seasons & my clients get on-going support throughout the day, week-by-week. We work together using an “unlimited coaching” model.
It’s for the people who have already tried other methods—from the rah-rah mindset work to the metaphysical path of spiritual bypassing. Transformational coaching is for people who are ready to start owning their future, leaning in, daring greatly & seeing sustainable results from their blood, sweat, tears, & investment.
It’s about clearing blocks, breaking patterns, & integrating lost parts of ourselves. It means getting real about who we are and what we’ve come here to do. It’s about owning a new version of our self in every area of life.
Working with me at this level means going all in. We do this through a process of expansion that is data & science based, trauma-informed, and backed by an “unlimited” level of support.
How It Works
Transformational coaching clients get a minimum of one deep-dive coaching call per week via Zoom with on-going support between sessions through phone and text. (You read that right, one call per week is the minimum—if extra support is needed, we schedule additional sessions free of charge.)
Why Do I Do It This Way?
The answer is pretty simple: Life isn’t happening just one hour a week. So, why hire a coach who is only there for 60 minutes of it?
My clients are my focus & I know firsthand how much can shift, change, & evolve in 3-6 months when we go all in together—I see this happening every day. Literally. The people I serve as a coach are serious about doing the work and I am serious about serving them at every level. It’s all I do. I, too, am all in on this work, which is one reason why my clients see consistent, continual growth & transformation.
Even world-class, professional athletes at the top of their game have coaches, so why not you?
To do this work we use tools & modalities including: somatics and nervous system regulation, high-performance habits, StrengthsFinder, Human Design, mindfulness, trauma-informed visualization, breathwork, non-violent communication (NVC), attachment styles, masculine/feminine energetics, archetypes, storytelling, and holistic wellness.
If you feel a call to explore this option, your best next step is to schedule a Discovery Session with me or to book an À La Carte reading where we can really get a sense of what working together could look like and feel like.
Human Design
readings
For Individuals: 60-minute one-on-one deep dive into your Human Design. We cover all the fundamentals and need-to-knows of your chart—with a focus on answering the question: ‘How can I use my Human Design’ starting now? What makes a reading with me different is that I won’t try to explain every detail of your chart—books can tell you all of that. Instead, what I love to do is to use Human Design to explore a current challenge or experience you’re working through here and now. Where do you feel lost or stuck? Where are the mysteries getting in the way? How is Human Design relevant to the real world? Let me show you.
Book your Human Design Reading here.
For Coaches: I work with coaches for seasons of 5-weeks, 3-months, and 6-months using Human Design to amplify the impact you have with each client. Each season is tailored around what you, as a coach, are wanting and needing. For some coaches, I meet 1:1 with each of their clients for a private reading and offer insights based on the charts (ie best practices for coaching a 1/3 Manifestor). For other coaches, I never meet their clients directly—I meet 1:1 with them (the coach) and we explore each client’s chart (always with the client’s knowledge beforehand). And, at times, we choose a blend of both styles and I meet with both coach and client. If you’re taking your coaching offers to the next level, this is an option that more and more coaches are selecting. Send me a message to get started or book a call here.
What Is Human Design?
Human Design was created in 1987 by Ra Uru Hu on the island of Ibiza and the system itself contains the confluence of many things, including astrology, the I Ching, western psychology, archetypes, biology and genetics, the Hindu Brahman Chakra System, and elements of the Kabballah as well as others. Human Design is a system made of systems—some cosmic, some data-driven, some personal. The element that makes Human Design unique among other systems like it is that it relies on our own personal experience and encourages us to treat our lives with curiosity and spaciousness—to explore more and to experiment.
Human Design is the science of differentiation. It’s like having a user’s manual to our unique wiring how we best operate in the game of life—not just mentally, but holistically down to the cellular level. It offers guidance that is personal and unique to our individual decision making process and illustrates how we can best create our lives with intention and alignment, rather than fear, scarcity, and comparison.
Five Basics to Know About Human Design:
1. Everyone Has a Type: Human Design has five broad Types, each which expresses a unique way of interacting with the world: those who lead, those who build, those who guide, those who mirror, and those who multitask.
2. Each Type Has a Strategy for Making Decisions: Our Strategy is like the roadmap for how we can put ourselves into alignment with our highest timeline. Your Strategy is the one specific approach you can take—each one of us—that will deliver consistently meaningful results.
3. Everyone Has an Authority: From the perspective of Human Design, no one is supposed to make decisions with their head. We’ve all been conditioned to believe that decision making is a mental process (pro/con, 5-year plan, etc.) The brain, mind, and head are here, first and foremost, to be the witnesses of our lives. Beyond that, we are each designed with an Authority, which acts like a micro-brain, which offers each of us the correct way to make decisions in our lives.
4. We Each Have 1 of 12 Profiles: Profile in Human Design is about how you play your character. How are you designed to get things done? Profile offers the strategic details for fulfilling your purpose and understanding your life’s significant themes. It also specifies your personal magnetism by clarifying what others naturally expect from you energetically or unconsciously. Profile is often what others see in us and want from us.
5. What Is The BodyGraph: The BodyGraph is the core visual representation of our Human Design chart. It maps our unique constellation of channels, gates, energy centers, as well as our conscious and unconscious astrology. It may look like a randomly interconnected circuit of colors, lines, numbers and shapes, but each detail means something specific and unique to your chart.
“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it persists for ever.”
ABOUT
zach carlsen
I have been coaching and educating professionally for the last decade. My adventures in leadership and holding space have brought me all over the world. The core and foundation of this work is Human Design—a modern science containing ancient systems for exploring the nature of being. I am trained in more than a dozen coaching modalities, including: men’s work, mindfulness, high-performance habits, goal setting, 12-step recovery, and holistic wellness.
I hold advanced academic degrees in pedagogy, linguistics, and rhetoric as well as certifications in leadership from Gallup, Inc in CliftonStrengths Coaching and SSC in Human Design Coaching. In 2021 I obtained a Master Coach certification from the Elementum Coaching Institute.
My primary philosophy, in the words of Ram Dass, is that “we are all just walking one another home”. No one is broken or incomplete or half—but we forget that. When folks are ready to grow out of unsatisfying self-limiting patterns, I am there to assist. When you are ready to take action to change, expand, and evolve, I am here for you—as I have been for 500+ clients over the past ten years—offering the latest and most advanced holistic coaching and support.
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