The journey of achievement
The quest for meaning
For many, achievement and meaning are strangers destined never to meet.
But what if they were never meant to be apart?
Achieve Meaning is how I companion with others — inviting you to see the relationship between achievement and meaning, where what’s changing in your life becomes the path toward what’s true in you. It’s not about fixing or striving, but becoming fully alive, grounded, and whole.
Achieve Meaning focuses on Life After — the success or struggle, the coming together or breaking apart, the confusion or coincidence. When what was once familiar becomes uncertain, and the comfortable becomes vulnerable — no matter what came before.
This is an invitation to explore what is true to you and in you. In this space where I companion with you — not to fix or direct, but to help you hear what’s calling from within the change. The things hard to name, harder to face and hardest to share.
The relationship between Achieve and Meaning is already happening in your life — in your relationships, your career, your health, and your spirituality. As you notice how they relate, you’ll also become aware of what it feels like when they are in harmony — one movement: alive, grounded, and true to you.
The companioning experience is a personal, confidential partnership for those who’ve achieved what they set out to do and still feel something missing, and for those facing change they didn’t ask for and can’t yet see a way through.
This is not about losing your “edge.” It’s about reclaiming the one that’s true to you.
In this work, I companion rather than coach.
I don’t diagnose or direct; I listen with you — so you can hear what’s within you.
We meet in the midst of what’s real — the clarity and the confusion, the movement and the mystery.
It’s a space of vulnerability, compassion, and courage. Yours. And mine. A space to explore the ache, the longing, and the quiet questions that follow change.
A freedom to be true to who you are.
The Companion Experience
Initial Connection
Let’s connect, no charge
Your current situation and hopes/expectations
Some sharing of my background and approach
Discuss if this would be meaningful work to engage in together
Ongoing Connection
A space to share without fear of judgement or the need to defend
An invitation — and encouragement to go deep within yourself, face what’s there and listen for what is true to you
Meetings are once or twice per month for up to 90 minutes – enough time to share deeply without rushing
Logistics
Zoom and in-person options (depending upon geography)
You can start or stop whenever you choose, no commitments beyond showing up for scheduled meetings
$500 USD per session
The Garden
Achieve Meaning was not a plan or a goal I aspired to. It was the reflection of my heart and desires that bloomed over three decades of journaling.
I did not find it; it found me. Sometimes by intention, often messy in the moment, and usually avoided. Yet over time, a knowing unfolded. The kind that is deeply personal, transformative, and true.
The Seeds
Many gifts in my life included heartbreak and healing. Success and self-sabotage. Crisis and breakthroughs. In all areas of life — family, relationships, health, business, and spirituality.
Most of what I’ve come to trust arrived in the Life After—after plans fell through, after my goals cratered, after identities shifted, and realizing even with tremendous accomplishment, it would fade and I was still left with me.
Achieve Meaning is an ongoing invitation to unconditionally receive this life I’ve been given. To let go of the illusion of certainty and of my desire to know “how” and instead trust that the greatest journeys lead us inward to our own depths. And then outward as an expression of our lives that is genuine and real.
The Roots
As the fourth of six children in an Irish-Catholic family with New York roots and a deep Chicago influence, I am familiar with both chaos and connection. I am a husband and a Dad. I was a Division I scholarship athlete and captain, a two-time Ironman finisher, president of a software company that was acquired in 2022 and completed a three-year program in Spiritual Direction in 2025.
Family, relationships, health, business, and spirituality have shaped and influenced Achieve Meaning — these are the frontiers I explore with others.
I call myself a companion and not a coach because I’m on the path too.
I bring to a partnership real-world experience, a sense of adventure and playfulness, as well as commitment, compassion and trust.
