What was going on in your business & life when you began to work with Megan?

When I started working with Megan, I had just arrived in Berkeley with a single suitcase and an entire life unraveling behind me. I had launched my website the day before flying to the Bioneers Conference, running on adrenaline and stepping into a version of myself I had never met before.

I entered coaching in a moment of rapid expansion — maybe even catalyzed by the energy of the Bay Area. I was suddenly surrounded by opportunities, new connections, and the biomimicry ecosystem I had long dreamed of joining. And yet, that acceleration quickly became overwhelming. Every day something new was emerging, pulling me in multiple directions at once. I wanted to land a significant client within a few months, but my energy was oscillating between possibility and paralysis. Old patterns of procrastination, anxiety, and self-doubt resurfaced just when my work was asking more of me.

The timing was intense because I was still emerging from deeply challenging personal experiences while trying to build a business from the ground up. I knew I needed to stop playing small, but internally everything felt scattered and unstable. I was beginning to rewire my entire understanding of myself while simultaneously trying to create coherence in my professional identity. It meant walking through some of my darkest shadows — confronting the parts of me shaped by survival, burnout, and years of contraction — while still pushing forward toward a more authentic, unapologetic version of myself. It was messy, disorienting, and probably brave (even if I didn't feel like it!) all at once.

What hesitation or concerns did you have about working with Megan?

My primary concern was whether I had the capacity, stability, and inner resources to build something truly aligned with my full potential while living entirely on savings, healing from past experiences, and navigating a new country for ninety days — all while needing to relocate multiple times, eventually even back to Europe.

Investing in myself at a moment when everything felt so fragile was terrifying.
And yet, that same fragility was exactly what made the coaching essential.

What specific results have you achieved?

This process has truly felt like a quantum jump.
I experienced new levels of confidence and stepped out of my comfort zone in ways I never had before. When I started, I was completely unclear about what I was offering or how to position myself professionally. I was in a full experimentation phase — as Lilli Graf had once reflected to me — but I didn’t yet have the mindset or internal stability to understand what that truly meant.

Through coaching, I began to gain real clarity about the direction I want my business to take. I learned how to build a coherent narrative that weaves together my personal story, my expertise, and the contribution I want to make in the climate ecosystem. I started to understand how cultural patterns, embodied intelligence, and natural wisdom intersect in my work. I moved from scattered experimentation into aligned coherence.

I am learning to own my energy and time in ways I never could before. Having spent most of my life adapting to the needs of others, I can now pause, discern what matters, and protect my boundaries. Years of somatic work with Marion Brastel helped me slowly unlearn patterns of self-exploitation and reshape my relationship with my nervous system and trauma responses. With Megan, I discovered practical tools, such as the Big Four framework (Dreamer, Thinker, Warrior, Lover), that help me recognize imbalance and recalibrate smoothly. My relationship with dissociation and overwhelm has completely changed, and this shift has become the foundation upon which my business can finally grow.

I’ve also gained tremendous clarity about the systemic change I can create. I now understand my core contribution: to bridge people and nature through biomimicry by helping them feel at home in nature again. My work is not only about nature-based design or sustainability — it’s about reconnecting human identity with our natural intelligence. Through coaching, this vision became vivid, grounded, and actionable.

What did you like most about working with Megan?

What I appreciated most about Megan’s coaching was her deeply empathic, adaptive, and attuned presence. In moments when I began detouring or slipping into familiar patterns, she met me exactly where I was - not where I “should” be -  offering the perfect combination of grounding and expansion.

Her coaching space became a place where I could land, integrate, and rebuild during a time of intense acceleration. Megan provided a centered presence, emotional safety, clear structure, and a reflective mirror that helped me see myself with honesty and compassion. Together, we explored and untangled longstanding survival mechanisms, self-sabotage patterns, and cultural conditioning that had kept me shrinking, over-giving, and dispersing my energy.

Simultaneously, she supported me in translating my visionary insights into concrete narratives, offerings, and frameworks. The coaching became both an inner reorganization and a strategic emergence, a space where my healing and my leadership could evolve side by side.

What was the biggest thing that you took away from working with Megan?

Megan helped me understand that entrepreneurship is humanship; whatever energy I bring to my business is what my business becomes. I can’t compartmentalize my own growth from the process of building a business; they are completely interconnected.

My deepest transformation was learning to trust my own voice and value my own experience. I am learning to stop outsourcing my worth, diluting my truth, or shrinking to fit systems that were never designed for me. Even more profound was recognizing a pattern I had been repeating my entire life: getting close to success and then unconsciously self-sabotaging. Through coaching, I could finally see how deeply this was rooted in old survival mechanisms.

For the first time, I began to recognize that my ability to synthesize, sense, and translate complex living systems is not just something I “do”, it is rare, needed, and deeply aligned with who I am. Entrepreneurship became humanship: my inner ecology and my outer work are inseparable.

What do you think would have happened if you hadn’t worked with Megan?

I might have continued repeating the same self-sabotaging patterns that had followed me for decades, without the awareness to interrupt the pattern before it spirals. I might have kept pushing through, overriding my nervous system, and burning out again and again for some other years. I might have created something that didn’t truly reflect who I am. Without this work, I would have stayed longer trapped in the survival mode that had become familiar: frantic multitasking, over-committing, and never feeling grounded in my own truth. I would have kept trying to fit into other people’s systems instead of building my own.

I might have continued invalidating my own experience and looking outside myself for validation. I would have remained disconnected from my body and my intuition — the very sources of wisdom that are shaping my work in biomimicry and living systems. And I suspect I would have kept undervaluing myself, giving away my expertise for free simply because I didn’t understand my own worth. The deep work we did around trauma and vision was essential; without it, any business strategy that would come along my way would have been built on fragile foundations.

I don’t have it yet to figure it all out, but surely I am slowly rewriting my story… Even if still in the midst of facing lots of darkness, it is always the darkest hour that precedes the dawn.

Over these past months, I lived that entrepreneurship is humanship. It’s the ecosystem inside me — my nervous system, survival patterns, boundaries, wounds, and vision — shaping the ecosystem of my work.

Who would you recommend to work with Megan?

Anyone navigating a moment of transition, reinvention, or expansion, especially those whose work is deeply personal or mission-driven, will find in Megan a coach who holds both the emotional complexity and the strategic clarity required for true transformation.