inner life coaching
for software engineers

transforming ⇢ work performance challenges
into ⇢ positional dominion and inner life success

Ground

Unstruck Ventures is a personal transformation and private, one-to-one coaching realm focused on evolving the inner life of software engineers facing a work performance challenge.You can read more here about how I define our inner life.

Path

To be "unstruck" is to be uncorrupted, unharmed, innately good, and regenerative.It speaks to the cosmic force of sound itself as a pure and loving energy, rooted in the heart.

Fruition

Reclaiming dominion – power, agency, rested authority – over your professional journey and daily workflow requires sourcing new strength, insight, and fresh direction beyond historical experiences and assumptions of what is possible.My work is to help you create and boldly travel through that map.

Dara Songye

It's a gift to have you here. I'm a work performance and inner life coach, and the founder of Unstruck Ventures.I view coaching as an artisanal, evolutionary, and collaborative practice, meant to increase self-awareness and personal power as we resolve difficulties, discover, own and activate our innate gifts, benefit others, and live with unconquerable joy.

Coaching Approach

• Immersive
• Exploratory
• Direct
• Strategic
• Compassion-driven
• Somatically-focused [body-based]Software engineers passionate about building dynamic products often experience conflict between the desire to increase personal wellbeing, while accomplishing organizational goals. This conflict often shows up as a work performance challenge.Neglecting to care for one’s inner life paired with the pressure learn quickly, efficiently produce high-quality code, and improve team collaboration often increases stress.The result being engineers who sacrifice their wellbeing to appear more productive.

Software engineers driven to transform a critical work performance challenge are who I'm here for.

Not every work performance issue can be fixed through operationalizing your daily workload, applying time management or automation tips and tricks, or even hiring a team assistant to take up the slack. It’s not always solved through "managing up"…pulling in HR…or quitting.Work performance challenges rooted in repetitive, cyclical patterns of thought, emotion and behavior — even after shifting responsibilities, changing jobs, companies, locations, teams, or pay grade — are a fundamental ⇢ inner life ⇢ issue.

Transforming your identity – mind, emotions, willpower – and where you source your innate worth from are at stake. That’s the foundation I help you investigate, excavate, clean up, and build anew from.

Training & Experience

I’m a Robbins–Madanes Trained Coach, a lifelong, ethical intuitive, and a practitioner-believer in the living word of Jesus Christ.Since 2015 I've worked within tech startups [in non-coaching roles] directly supporting early-stage founders and seasoned executives as they built teams to scale products and services for human benefit.Ironically, I often found myself unofficially coaching teammates and founders in moments of uncertainty and chaos, while repeatedly witnessing their relief, shifts and growth – even if my contribution was invisible.My heart for serving software builders started when working within two software engineering bootcamps [2015–2016] empowering students to evolve their career path, through program coordination and 1:1 support.I learned and developed: critical early-stage coaching, observation, reflective response, and change management navigation skills. It's what I pull from now, and continue to develop, while serving clients.

Upvotes

I highly recommend Dara as an exceptional career coach. I had the pleasure of working with Dara during my job search in 2016, and her guidance was instrumental in helping me secure my current position in software engineering.Dara's approach was both insightful and encouraging, providing me with the tools and confidence needed to navigate the job market successfully.Her ability to understand my strengths and tailor her advice accordingly made a significant impact on my career trajectory.Even years later, during a catch-up in 2019, I was reminded of how valuable her support was in my professional journey.Her dedication, expertise, and genuine care for her clients are truly remarkable.

Andur Carr

Dara is a company culture fortifier. She's incredibly empathetic, compassionate and great at helping with introspection.She brings an energy and warmth to a team that's hard to find, while helping others to better understand themselves, and the teammates around them.

Alan Heppenstall

Dara was my invaluable right-hand woman for a year with us at Accredible. She quickly became a trusted confidant I could rely on for important projects within the company.She also was invaluable in helping me to begin the journey of establishing a truly inclusive and diverse culture and workforce.She cares deeply about the people she works with and the culture she helps to cultivate.

Danny King

The next step

Immersive Coaching

The deepest shifts happen and are experienced over committed periods of time – rooted in focused immersion.Work performance and inner life coaching is a one-to-one exploration, excavation, and reset of your mind, emotions, willpower, and body to generate new habits of accomplishment and ownership.

PROCESS

  • Identify and deconstruct inner life obstacles hindering your work performance

  • Create new values to sharpen your unique contributions and deepen quality of life

  • Fortify desired change in behavior, thoughts, and emotional states through simple neuroscience-backed practices

  • Reset current physical health habits

OUTCOMES

You’ll know how to spot and disrupt internal habits and subtle atmospheres that derail your performance and focus. You'll also increase your mental, emotional, and physical energy – to continue building joyfully and sustainably, for the long-term.Most important: You'll have elevated your next feedback session or performance review into an unshakeable winner's mantle to build upon.

Options

Atomic Session | no cost

We'll utilize a swift, 30 minutes to map your inner world, and start identifying the factors behind the work performance challenge.You'll have the option to choose how long you'd like to work together, up to six [6] months.

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