Master time, energy & focus in 90 days. Coaching stressed out tech professionals to prepare for volatility, tame uncertainty & thrive in ambiguity | Co-Founder of Changing Work Collective | Conscious Leadership Activist

Clients tell me they don’t have anyone they can speak honestly with about the struggle of being a high performer these days. 

We've built the resume, earned the money, and learned how to operate under pressure. 

We're capable, respected, and outwardly successful, but increasingly alone with questions we can’t ignore.

We know how to deliver, stay composed, and keep going when things get hard. 

But there is a cumulative cost to doing that indefinitely.

Things have changed.We have changed.
The strategies that once got us far stop working. 

The systems and habits we operate in demand more than they give back.

Our calendar stays full and output remains high, but focus is harder to access, breaks doesn’t restore us the way they used to, and the sense that something has to change  becomes hard to ignore.

Many people see this as a personal failure, but it's not...It's a signal.

The conditions most of us are operating under are VUCA: Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. 

Understanding that context can help, but awareness doesn’t resolve the problem on its own. We have to adapt.

That’s where Rebellion begins.

I work with leaders and professionals who are done sacrificing their health and integrity just to keep up.  

People who can't burn everything down and walk away, but also aren't willing to keep drifting on dwindling momentum, and the distant hope of retirement.

People who are ready to own this moment.

This Quiet Rebellion.

The core of this work is reclaiming capacity through deliberate attention to our time, energy, and attention. Not as another productivity hack, but as a way to interrupt deep patterns of self-betrayal and distraction, and regain agency over how we live and work.

I spent 13 years in big tech and more than a decade as an entrepreneur, thriving through reorgs, layoffs, pivots, bubbles, crashes and volatility inside and out. 

I've learned the real risk isn’t falling behind...

It’s staying "busy" on autopilot while slowly losing contact with who you are.

If you’re ready to take responsibility for what comes next, I can help. 

If not, it's worth reflecting on how long you’re willing to keep living this way.

Ask yourself, how long will you endure before you demand the best for yourself?

It doesn't have to be this way.
You have options.
You have help. 

Be Rebellious!
In Solidarity ✊

Nicholas Whitaker

One of the most important things I've done for my business and wellbeing in the last few years is setting up my routines and schedule to allow for more spaciousness and connection with myself first, before I take in input from the outside world. 

For me that looks like slow ramp into my days and weeks where possible.
 - No meetings before 9am PT. 
- No touching my phone first thing in the morning.
- No touching my phone the last thing before I go to bed. 
- No meeting Mondays and Fridays
- No meetings after 5pm PT.

That gives me an opportunity to fill my cup, ground myself and get clear about what's more important during the week that needs my attention. 
 
This also requires me to be ruthlessly and compassionately efficient with the rest of my week. 

Tuesday to Thursday are full of coaching calls, sales calls, partnership calls. 

That leaves Monday and Friday (and some weekends) for heads down creative, strategic or business development work. 

Those constraints don't leave a lot of room for distraction. 
It makes it easier to say no to things that aren't urgent and important. 
It makes it easier to bring my attention back on track when i notice myself getting distracted. 

I know not everyone has the luxury of adjusting their schedules in these ways, but we all have minutes and usually hours in our day that is frittered away by distraction, inputs and demands on our energy that aren't urgent or important. 

Curiosity around those moments is the first step. 

Notice how it feels to be immediately pulled into an algorithmic feed, the news, social media, or your inbox first thing in the morning.

Take 5 minutes today without that. Notice what it feels like to be present with you own experience instead. 

You could start and end your day like this for a few days this week and notice is anything shifts for you.

Let me know what you notice. 
This is on way to reclaim our capacity. 
This is Quiet Rebelion in action.

Be Rebellious!
In Solidarity ✊

Capacity Coach and Rebellion Guide For High Performers | Restore Your Time, Energy & Attention From Systems That Extract & Habits That Distract | Founder, Rebellion Collective

Transforming LinkedIn Profiles into High-Converting Landing Pages | Visual Strategist | Design Consultant | 270+ Happy Clients | Google Certified UXer | EU Aspirant ✈️

Eat. Sleep. Design. Repeat.

Scroll to my recommendations to see the proof.

Currently open to working student roles inside Germany.

Ubaid Ur Rehman

Everyone wants a high-value network.

Until you realize:

1. You have to be of high value yourself first.
2. Live with a give-first attitude.

Instead of taking away, always think about what I can add to this person's life.

People love to network with those who want to give.

Not to receive always.

Simple as that.

Ubaid Ur Rehman 

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I have not posted in the last 8 days.

My LinkedIn is averaging one post a week.

But I'm still:

- Closing in the DMs.
- Receiving invites full of kindness.
- Getting shouts in the rooms of the top 1%.

Your "daily posting schedule" is not your brand.

Your brand is:

- The network you choose for yourself.
- The culture you create with your beliefs.
- The value you overdeliver in your content.

It's okay to step away. It's okay to live more.  
 
But never build it at the cost of your life.  

Always. Life. First.

Design student in Germany. Coworking log.

7:28 AM - Left the bed
8:25 AM - Back to bed, cuz I slept late yesterday
11:52 AM - Left my apartment for Munich
12:28 PM - Got on the Deutsche Bahn
2:10 PM - Estimated arrival time, but DB did its thing.
3:02 PM - Arrived at friend's place
6:30 PM - We finished coworking

In just 3.5 hours of coworking, I completed 4 major tasks on my list with deep focus. 

(Including Link Up Design Feedback).

Came back fulfilled.

9:45 PM - Joined a friend for dinner Rosh.
10:46 PM - Casual sitting with a design friend.

The right circle has always been the hack.

Find yours.

448 days as a design coach. Takeaways.

1. What is simple to you takes hours for someone.
2. Design is not about the tool but the designer.
3. Great design follows an iterative approach.
4. Specific asks lead to specific feedback.
5. Great design shouts "less is more".
6. Premium design cares for details.
7. The fastest learners? They ask.
   
No. 3 and 5 are mostly ignored.

Design never thrives in isolation.

A simple LinkedIn example.

Consider 3 brand pillars.

1. Copy
2. Design
3. Positioning

✅ Positioning + ❌ Design = ❌ Flop.
❌ Positioning + ✅ Design = ❌ Flop.

To cut through the noise, your brand has to check all the boxes. And one of the crucial ones is design.

✅ Positioning + ✅ Design + ✅ Copy = ❤️

You can have the best offer or product, but a bad design will ruin the entire perception of your brand. 

Even before your customers give it a try.

PS. Ever made a purchase purely based on design?

Live from Bremen. 

Next we head Berlin.

Yesterday it was Hamburg.

Meeting amazing humans on the way.

Can’t be more grateful.

For the people. For the life.

Thank you LinkedIn.

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