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Big Life Changes for analytical people

You've been wanting to bring change into your life and work, and you're ambitious, so you might be thinking of:

a leadership project that leads to a promotion

exiting your founding position to build the next one

a consulting business

a community

a new income stream

a body of creative work

3 months to make real progress on the Big Life Change you've been working toward (but haven't cracked).

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“As she has been in the tech industry, she understood me easily, I didn't have to explain situations.” — Janani Vasudevan, Director of Engineering

Mounica Veggalam

Engineer at Microsoft before coaching. Since 2021, coaching ICs and leaders at Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Airbnb and tech startups.

You're really good at thinking through problems. Thoroughly.

There aren't many problems you can't solve with enough research and hard work. But if you're here, there's one big life change that keeps slipping away, despite your best efforts.

For most of my clients, that's landing a new job, a promotion, or finally starting an exciting side hustle. For others, it might be starting a community, or even finding lasting love.

Come to me with that ambitious goal. In three months, you'll make real progress without sacrificing every weekend.

Because, we're going to address the three elements most people miss when they're trying to do something BIG.

Here's what I've seen in my work with highly analytical people when their usual methods for succeeding aren't delivering results.

The roadblock isn't in what you've been doing — it's that you aren't able to see all of the potential ways to move forward. So you keep hitting the same blocks over and over, because you don't realize there is a workaround.

There are 3 reasons for this.

1. You've become entrenched in the same decision-making patterns.

Each human uses a finite set of decision-making patterns, based on our childhoods, or worldview. Which means some viable options aren't showing up as available to you (and you don't even realize it).

2. You haven't been leaning into your strengths as much as you should.

Your essential strengths likely haven't had full permission to shine, because it's a very normal survival mechanism to try to mold yourself into whoever you need to be to land the job or get the date. Those chameleon-like skills can get you pretty far, but leave you stressed out and feeling like your work and life are out of alignment.

3. Your feelings are creating blindspots — when they should open new paths forward.

We're not taught how to work with the emotions of fear, shame, anger and grief, so they stop us in our tracks. These keep our identity fixed and limit our options. Once you learn how to identify the deeper stories under those emotions, then the bigger possibilities suddenly come into your field of awareness and you are free to pursue them. Bonus: You'll also overthink less and feel less stressed!

Case Studies

This is how you build the next phase of your career with self-awareness and emotional intelligence that leads to bold actions, and real results.

Alice, a manager at a bigtech company, came to me after she'd been asking her manager for a leadership promotion for a year. She'd been taking on “stretch” projects, but after each one ended successfully, they still said the business case wasn't there yet.

Over two sessions, we got specific about her strength in building relationships, looked at her decision-making patterns in meetings with her team, worked with her frustration around all the effort she already put in, and worked through her anxiety about going to off-site events.

Outcome

After the sessions, she finally went to one off-site meeting and casually connected with a senior team manager, using her relationship-building strengths. Two weeks later, she was called in to talk about her Sr. Manager promotion.

Anish, another client of mine, manager at a large tech company, wanted to take on bigger projects but his team was relying on him too much. He had to hand-hold each person, working long hours to ensure they met the deliverables. Over 6 months, we worked through his decision-making patterns around the scope of work he takes on and how he hands out responsibilities. We also looked at his emotions around dealing with frustrating conversations with his team.

Outcome

By the end of 6 months, he was in conversation with his VP around taking on bigger projects and growing his team.

In both cases, their shortlist of what they could see and act on changed and they learned to use their inherent strengths to access creative ways to move forward. That's what our work does.

It unlocks new possibilities and perspectives.

About Mounica

I'm Mounica, and my specialty is helping analytical folks make the kinds of big changes that set their lives on entirely different trajectories.

Whether that's building a new business or new income stream, building a body of creative work, taking on large leadership projects that lead to promotion, or even finding a romantic partner.

I was an engineer at Microsoft before becoming a full time coach. Since 2021, I have coached ICs and leaders at Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Airbnb and startups. I've spent years training in how people can better support themselves to make changes and chase big possibilities, which helps me see when people slip into decisions and moves that are not aligned with what they actually want and who they are.

My work comes from formal education, lived experience of running my solo business and years of seeing what holds up in real life. The biggest changes in my life happened by building and jumping into the unknown, especially through the work I did with my coach who challenged my thought-structures and my relationship with various feelings that come with entrepreneurship.

Mounica Veggalam

“The transformational shifts I experienced have been so pleasantly surprising. I created impossible things on impossible timelines.”

Dhivyapriya, People Manager

Ready to make that big change?

I offer a 3-month partnership. All you have to do is bring a big goal and the willingness to try things you haven't tried before, and sit with some emotional intensity in service of taking bold actions.

The investment is $7000.

If you're curious, then I'd like to invite you to apply here, and if it looks like we might be a good fit, I'll schedule a free call with you.

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“I don't have words to describe the clarity and freedom I experience now. I'm doing my best work and I feel extremely empowered.”

K Jani, CTO

Not sure if this is for you?

The clients who tend to get the best results from our work together tend to have a few things in common:

Analytical folks

You work in tech, finance or adjacent industries that demand knowledge work. You have passion to explore your potential and brilliance beyond what you've achieved till now through solving hard problems.

Inwardly curious folks

Maybe you have some history with meditation paths, non-traditional paths that explore teachings of consciousness and human mind, or some sense of connection to something larger than yourself.

Builders

Your natural inclination is to make useful things, create tools, build communities or businesses or products. Once you have an idea, your brain cannot switch off! This isn't a requisite to work together, just a common thread I've seen. Maybe because I'm that way too.

While we can work on any type of big goal, past clients have worked on:

Building a consulting business

Building a community

Starting a side-hustle that becomes their new income stream

Writing a book, or building a body of creative work

Taking on leadership projects that lead to promotions

“Working with Mounica, I've learnt to lean into my fears and stopped running away from them.”

Reetch, People Manager

Questions people ask me.

How is this different from therapy?

Therapy generally works backward into what happened to you. Coaching works forward into what you want to build. We do touch difficult feelings, but always in service of an action you're trying to take.

How much time does it take each week?

Around an hour of session time a week, plus whatever you choose to do in between. The clients who move fastest treat it like a project, not an appointment.

I'm so burnt out. Is this for me?

It is if you have some energy to slow down, examine internally and take some action that energizes you, that feels like play. I often find that people who come to me are burnt out because of misalignment. In our work together, we'll make sure every action you take is aligned to what you actually want and who you are, every step of the way.

I'm not quite sure about the change I want. Can you help?

Yes, finding out what you actually want can be part of the process. In the first month, we'll run experiments to try out your ideas, collect real data and get clarity about what you really want to build next. Then we'll implement and iterate that in months two and three.

My life is full of commitments and complex demands. Is this still for me?

In our coaching sessions, I will support you in analyzing how your current environment and life are organized, and creating new structures to hold the change you want to make. You do still have to make space for our calls. In the past, I have supported people with complex health conditions and limitations. If you're unsure, I encourage you to apply anyway. We'll discuss your needs in our call together and see if this is really a fit for you.

It's time to make the next move you've been thinking about for years.

Make real progress, and love your life. That's my mission in my private coaching.

Here's what happens next:

Submit your application

Answer the questions as best you can. Even if you're not sure you're ready, submit anyway. I'll review every single answer.

Get on a call together

In our hour, we'll come to clarity on whether this is right for you at this time. If we're going to work together, we'll talk it out first.

If it's a fit

You'll be sent a contract and a time to begin onboarding. You can start chatting with me about your goals within 24 hours.

If it's not a fit

That's okay too. Sometimes I have 1-day intensives or a 1-month offer that might work better for where you're at. Or I might refer a colleague in my network who can support you better. You won't know unless you apply.

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