work performance and inner life

coaching for tech builders

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Foundation

Unstruck Ventures offers private, one-to-one coaching to founders, software builders, and tech startup professionals driven to transform a critical work performance challenge into mission acceleration, deep fulfillment, and inner life success.You can read more here about how I define our inner life.

Focus

To be "unstruck" is to be uncorrupted, unharmed, innately good, and regenerative.Restoration, renewal, and a redemptive view concerning your professional and personal wellbeing is the focus.

Fruition

Exercising power and rested authority over your professional journey and daily workflow requires sourcing fresh strength, insight, and direction, beyond limiting past experiences.My job is to help you create and boldly travel through that map.

Dara Songye

It's awesome to have you here. I'm the founding coach of Unstruck Ventures.Discovery, activation, and accelerated use of your innate (often unrecognized) gifts toward building more joyfully, living more beautifully, and benefitting others is the ultimate goal in our work together.

Coaching Approach

• Immersive
• Direct
• Strategic
• Tactical
• Compassion-driven
• SomaticFor tech founders and software builders:
Resolving unusual work performance challenges requires conquering disruption of focus, depletion of energy, and damage to core relationships as you lead, build, scale, and serve.

For unique contributors:
Not every work performance challenge 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.

In all cases:
Work performance challenges rooted in repetitive, cyclical patterns of thought, emotion and behavior [even after shifting responsibilities, changing jobs, verticals, companies, locations, teams, or pay grade] are a fundamental ⇢ inner life ⇢ issue.

Transforming your identity [mind, emotions, willpower] and deepening your innate worth is critical. That’s the foundation I help you investigate, excavate, clean up, and build anew from.

Training & Experience

I’m a Robbins–Madanes Trained Coach, 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.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.

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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