UNFOLD

A year long rebellion to quiet the societal BS so that you can unfold into what is calling to you.


“you can fold yourself up into halves, quarters, or more, and you still won’t be small enough for the ones that feel entitled to your space. so fuck it. unfold.” from the book While You Are Healing by Parm K.C

Here’s what I believe:

  • There is a deeply fulfilling version of yourself, your life, and your leadership available to you.

  • You have more wisdom inside of you than anyone else could ever have for you.

  • In the rare moments where you can be still, there is something you want calling to you.

 

And let’s be real. We’ve got a lot of societal, cultural, systemic and familial conditioning getting in the way of that.

The societal bullshit often disguised as truth.

And because we start being fed “the rules” at such a young age it is difficult to discern what is truly “ours” and what is “theirs”.

The tension between the two can be maddening.

 

Here’s the thing…

None of this is a personal failing on our part and yet our inner voice can twist it into feeling like it is.

The confusion you feel. The angst you feel. The exhaustion you feel. The WTF you feel.

It’s a lifetime of learning rules that weren’t designed with you in mind.

Eww.

Let’s unlearn that shit.

Let’s. Unfold. Together.


The Details

We officially kick things off on Tuesday, July 2nd with our first Unfolding Deep Dive Call.

(note: you’ll start receiving a big ol’ welcome and other unfolding pieces within 48 hrs of signing-up.)


  • One year program from July 2024 to June 2024 for up to 20 leaders that have been socialized as women.


  • Four one-on-one 45 minute coaching sessions with me (a highly trained + certified coach with 20 yrs of experience in coaching, leadership, small business, corporate dynamics, and transitioning from employee to entrepreneur).


  • Self-guided reflection prompts through-out the month.

 

  • One unfolding themed deep dive masterclass call per month for 60 minutes. (recorded)

  • 07.02.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    08.06.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    09.03.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    10.01.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    11.04.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    12.03.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    01.07.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    02.04.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    03.04.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    04.01.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    05.06.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    06.03.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST


  • One unfolding group coaching circle once a month for 90 minutes. (not recorded)

  • 07.17.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    08.21.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    09.18.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    10.16.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    11.20.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    12.18.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    01.15.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    02.19.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    03.19.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    04.16.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    05.21.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    06.18.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST


  • Drop in unfolding open hour calls at least once a month to get supported on whatever you like. (not recorded)

  • These will be scheduled month to month at alternating times to accommodate more schedules.

PSST!: You do not need to be on every single call to get something from this program. Do I encourage you to attend as much as possible? Sure, because it gives you lots of intentional, supportive space for unfolding. And you are a grown-ass adult and I trust you to do what you need to do given what’s going on in your life.

This is messy work. This is meaningful work.

Together, with coaching, awareness + skill development, and intentional practice we will:

  • discover the conditioning that informs your beliefs, values, thoughts, and decisions

  • disrupt the noise so that you can tap into what it is you really want to cultivate

  • design the foundations and pathways that will have you on your merry way

Come as you are and let’s un-fucking-fold together.

*If you need a different payment plan, let me know. I have happily co-created all kinds of payment plans with people over the years. Email me at sarah@sarahschneiderco.com.

An analogy a client and I came up with once is that she was molding herself into a pretzel to make things work for others - tasty for them, painful for her.

A wickedly smart, well-respected, highly successful woman - who had spent a life-time bending herself to fit what the world wanted.

Many of us can see ourselves in that story. Molding ourselves for that long wears on us. It can show up as:

  • A sadness that’s just below the service

  • Being driven by unrelenting expectations

  • A tiredness you just can’t shake

  • Talking yourself out of things you want

  • Working yourself to burnout

 
  • Making one identity your whole world (like work for example)

  • Being everything to everyone

  • Forgetting what awe and wonder feel like

  • Not trusting your intuition, your skills, or what you know

  • Trying to blend in when you were never meant to

  • Being likable (you know smiling at something even though you’d rather throat punch them)

  • A resentment you can’t quite put your finger on

  • Leaving money on the table

  • Not making decisions that you know would be good for you

  • Not being able to identify what truly matters to you

    AND AGAZILLION OTHER THINGS.

 

These rules, beliefs, habits, ways of navigating the world are all learned from the messages, lived experiences, and conditioning we are exposed to our entire life.

Some of these messages have allowed us to survive and get to where we are now. Go Us!

Some of these messages have allowed us to grow into the remarkable humans we are. Yay!

And some of these messages are a toxic brew that keeps us in molds we deeply want out of. Boo!

I’m over it. Most of the women I know are over it.

 But a lot of the options we are presented with to change things are hacks, or 10 steps to, or someone else’s formula, or 30 other surface level solutions.

The thing is, what we need to unfold out of all of the societal toxic brew, isn’t surface level work.


Because if all that was needed was a good hack, we would already be merrily on our way to doing whatever the fuck we wanted. Which is why you often know intellectually what would make the difference for you but you stop short of applying it.

You know how many times I’ve heard “I know what to do, I’m just not doing it.” from a very capable badass woman? Loads. Including myself. So if we truly want to make a lasting change in our life, we have to take a deep look at what compels us towards and away from things.

SO WHY BOTHER DOING THIS MESSY, MEANINGFUL WORK?

Because what the world wants FROM you doesn’t have to be what you want FOR you.

Maybe you want:

  • Be the best damn leader that ever lived without losing yourself in the process

     

  • Move Somewhere Else

  • Find your style. Dye Your Hair Pink. Go Full Goth

  • Be more comfortable with the uncomfortable

     

  • Add some wild to your sex life

  • Go on an epic adventure

  • Go after a different job

     

  • Get some damn sleep

  • Start a business you love having the impact you care about

  • Develop a hobby

     

  • Get your mojo back

  • Make a big decision

  • Be in your soft era or your villain era (or both)

     

  • Develop your self-trust

  • Fuck right off, delightfully

Whatever it is that you deeply truly want, you get to discover it by quieting all the external noise, come up with with your own definitions, and design it in a way that delights you.


That’s exactly what we are going to do in Unfold.

So that you can answer the big questions with a buttload of soul-level alignment. Questions like:

  • What’s next for me?

  • What do I really want?

  • Who the fuck am I?

(or whatever questions are gnawing on you)


 SOUND DELICIOUS?

MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE DAUNTING?

That’s cool. And pretty on par with shaking up a lifetime of conditioning.

The program is designed with the delicious and daunting parts in mind.

  • One year with a max of 20 people

  • One deep dive type masterclass call per month for 60 minutes

  • One group coaching session once a month for 90 minutes

  • Four one-on-one 45 minute coaching sessions with me

  • Optional drop in “office hours” type calls at least once a month

  • Self-guided reflection prompts through-out the month

We officially kick things off on Tuesday, July 2nd with our first Unfolding Deep Dive Call.

(note: you’ll start receiving a big ol’ welcome and other unfolding pieces within 48 hrs of signing-up.)

 

And now maybe you are thinking, Yo, bitch … Why you?

So glad you asked.

I’m Sarah (she/her). I’ve turned my volatile upbringing that required me to be a student of people into a mission to humanize the spaces we exist in so that we can all flourish.

I’ve reinvented my life, work, and identity many times over. From where I have lived, to my professional life, to how I navigate the world, to which parts of myself I hold the most dear. I understand the magical, messy work that this is on a deep level. I’m forever unfolding.

And I am a highly experienced and trained professional certified coach.

    • 20 years of working with leaders and teams within organizations and directly with individuals.

    • Building, running, and growing my own business.

    • A decade in the tech industry.

    • Years of sanitizing and assimilating who I am so that I don’t offend people or make people uncomfortable or disappoint people.

    • Seven years leading and facilitating an ontological coach and leadership training program.

    • Founding (now retired ) The Badassery Project™, that was dedicated to women really getting how remarkable and powerful they are.

    • Thousands of hours of coaching, training, and leading people.

    • Working with my own coaches and teachers to continuously get supported to be aware of my own bias, conditioning, edges, harmful beliefs, learn new skills, and more.

    • My teachers and influences include The Institute for Equity Centered Coaching, The Adaway Group, Kelly Diels, Accomplishment Coaching, The Greater Us, The Riveter School and many, many, more.

    • Ongoing education and training that includes an MBA and Professional Certified Coach designation by the International Coach Federation and loads of training from the teachers above.

    • Giving a shit.

    • Life.

    I highlight these things about me because 1) Let’s toot our fuckin’ horns 2) I want to use all of it to support you in your unfolding.

There is something you are longing for.

Maybe you know exactly what it is. Maybe it’s just a whisper you are still figuring out.

Unfold can be the container in which you quiet the noise so you can really hear what it’s saying.

It can be your time to get to know and trust yourself on a deeper level.

It can be a space to explore the questions that matter most so that you can disrupt, decide, and design the thing you want.


In this collective it doesn’t matter what your job, title, or status is. 

What does matter is that:

  • You have been socialized as a woman.

  • You are willing to be a part of creating a safe space.

  • You understand that different identities may need different things to feel seen, heard, and known.

  • You aren’t here for a magic pill, quick fix, or another person to tell you the answers.

  • You are willing to do the intentional work it takes to disrupt a lifetime of conditioning.

  • You want to be in community with others that are also unfolding.

  • You are open to having vulnerable, life-giving conversations.

  • Ready to have some damn fun along the way.

WHAT’S THE NITTY GRITTY?

  • Timeframe

    1 Year

    July 2024 to July 2025

  • The Group

    20 People Max

  • Location

    Virtual via Zoom

    Plus WhatsApp, Email, Google Docs

  • Investment

    12 monthly payments of $400 USD or one payment of $4,800 USD

    *different payment plans are wildly available

  • Unfolding Themed Deep Dives

    One deep dive call each month for 60 minutes. This is more of a masterclass where I will bring learnings and prompts for us to explore the theme for that month.

  • Unfolding Coaching Circles

    One group coaching session once a month for 90 minutes. These sessions are where the group and individuals will get coaching from me as well as as the opportunity to receive support, encouragement, and ideas from the group.

  • Unfolding Support Sessions

    These are optional drop in “office hours” type calls at least once a month, where you can use the time for whatever you like. Have something you want some coaching on? Want to get some extra celebration? Have an idea you want to brainstorm? Want some accountability and space to work on your unfolding self-reflection prompts? Cool. Anything in this session is fair game.

  • Unfolding One-on-One Coaching Sessions

    Once a quarter for 45 minutes (four calls in the year) you and I have an individual coaching call where we work on a coaching request of your choosing.

  • Self-Guided Reflection

    There will be prompts provided through-out the month so that you can have space for your own self-guided reflection and discovery.

  • Keeping it Simple Yet Meaningful

    The goal is to keep it as simple as possible to engage in a meaningful way. Which means as little tech as possible as we all already have enough tech noise in our life. Examples used include: WhatsApp, Email, & Google Docs.

We officially kick things off on Tuesday, July 2nd with our first Unfolding Deep Dive Call.

(note: you’ll start receiving a big ol’ welcome and other unfolding pieces within 48 hrs of signing-up.)

  • Unfolding Themed Deep Dives

    07.02.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    08.06.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    09.03.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    10.01.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    11.04.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    12.03.2024 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    01.07.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    02.04.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    03.04.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    04.01.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    05.06.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    06.03.2025 - 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST

    Unfolding Coaching Circles

    07.17.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    08.21.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    09.18.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    10.16.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    11.20.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    12.18.2024 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    01.15.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    02.19.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    03.19.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    04.16.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    05.21.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    06.18.2025 - 11:00 to 12:30 pm EST

    Unfolding Drop-In Sessions

    These will be scheduled month to month at alternating times to accommodate different schedules.

    Unfolding One-on-One Coaching Sessions

    You will be provided a link to schedule these to fit your timing needs.

Reminder: You do not need to be on every single call to get something from this program. Do I encourage you to attend as much as possible? Sure, because it gives you lots of intentional, supportive space for unfolding. And you are a grown-ass adult and I trust you to do what you need to do given what’s going on in your life.

We are here to celebrate you. Lovingly challenge you. And be disruptive to the norms that get in the way of you unfolding into this one miraculous life.

Come as you are and let’s un-fucking-fold together.

*If you need a different payment plan, let me know. I have happily co-created all kinds of payment plans with people over the years. Email me at sarah@sarahschneiderco.com.

Got Questions? Check these out.

  1. Why is this only for people socialized as women? Much of our conversations and learnings will be around the conditioning that people socialized as girls and women receive. That may not be how you identify now; however, there was likely a time in your life that you were socialized by those rules.

  2. Why is the max group size 20 people? I wanted this to be a small enough group that we all could get to know each other well, do deeper coaching, and really be in this unfolding journey together. I also wanted to keep it more accessible at a lower price point (this is relative of course), while also balancing the energy, time, skills, care and resources that I will be delightfully pouring into it.

  3. Will the calls be recorded? The Unfolding Deep Dive calls will be recorded. The other calls where there is coaching or more personal dialogue happening, will not be recorded. This is to ensure a confidential space where people can really open up.

  4. How much time will I need to plan for? The really annoying answer - the more you put in, the more you will get from this experience. With that said, to get something from this program, you will likely want to plan for 2 hrs a week for self-reflection, calls, etc. I’m intentionally creating this program so that it isn’t one more thing you have to do but instead something that can be a breath of fresh air for you.

  5. Why is the program a year long? Whatever your age is, that is how many years on this planet that you have had messages, conditioning, and ways of doing things to sink their way in. To unfold into something else, takes practice. It may take you the rest of your life in some areas; however, a year allows enough time to create awareness and actions that allow for new ways to take root.

  6. What happens after I sign up and pay? Within 48 hrs you will receive a Welcome email from me with next next steps.

  7. How will you choose call times? I am connected to and this is open to people all over the world. Finding a time that will work for all timezones is tricky. I will be alternating the call times so that there will be a variety timezones the calls will fall in.

  8. Can a few of my friends join this together? Absolutely. As long as you feel comfortable enough to share openly and vulnerably with them in the space with you. You will get to know yourself and each other on a whole nother level.

  9. Why don’t you have what the theme of each month will be outlined on this page? The way I coach, facilitate, and build things has a heavy lean towards meeting people where they are and paying attention to what the “room” needs. While the goal of this program will be all of our unfolding and the key topics we will cover will stay aligned with that, the order in which we do things will be customized accordingly.

  10. You used Ontological Coaching in your introduction. What does that mean? Ontology is the study of being, also defined as the the study of existence. It is about asking questions, listening, and providing reflections that are looking underneath the surface. It looks at what could be interconnected vs. just the thing that is being presented in the moment. It’s an expansive way to coach that can create real transformation and change. I balance ontological coaching with facilitative coaching (which includes making sure there are practices and actions and tactical things to apply from the coaching) and also with my consulting background that helps tie all of it together so support you in internal and external changes.

 

This is a commitment of your time, energy, and financial resources. It requires an element of trust in me and yourself to take this leap. I don’t take any of that lightly.

If this isn’t for you for whatever reason, that’s completely ok. No FOMO required.

If this is for you, let’s fucking go!

Have additional questions? Want to chat before signing up? You got it.