Founder & Job Search Coach at Brave New Path. I help skilled immigrants land tech and business jobs in Germany, and write about the process. Filipino in Berlin. Writer, wrestler, runner.
Started using CoCareer with clients, built an expenses projection file I can update directly in Claude Code, and added "struggles" section in updates. This week's: exhaustion, the line between coaching and doing the work for them, and letting the pipeline dry up while I was heads-down on product.
I have been around since before the dinosaurs. Long before chickens, long before humans, long before anyone had opinions about breakfast. I have outlasted every extinction event except, apparently, the 1968 American Heart Association dietary guidelines. Here is what I actually am. I contain every vitamin a human body needs
This week, a client accepted an offer. She's starting in June and said she couldn't have done it without me. 🥹 On the product side, I finally finished the client journey spec and built two new mini lessons.
This week: exceeded my old Forto salary, put my entire business into a GitHub repo, and got a lot of product thinking done: feature matrix, CMF questionnaire, and client journey spec.
The numbers look great this week, but it doesn't feel that way. I built my first app with Claude Code!
tl;dr Earn up to €100K with full effort. Save aggressively to €2.5M. Beyond €10M, give deliberately or stop — because past that point, the money owns me more than I own it.
This week I evaluated two tools: Google Calendar for scheduling and Copper as my CRM. Context: Previously, I'd used Brevo for both scheduling and CRM. I switched away because the different tools (schedule, pipelines, contacts...) didn't work well together, and the interface and workflows felt poorly
New client, finally driving the north star metric for client success, picking a CRM, and a case study that reminded me the program works and changes lives.
Published quarterly review, refreshed ICP and offer, and broke my half marathon PR!
The easiest way to be happy is to keep your expectations low. But what if you still want big goals? Here's how to have both.
The most disciplined quarter of my business yet. 18 months of revenue data, a $24k investment in myself, and feeling like a €100k year is within reach.
Here's everything I know about starting a business so far: the freelancer vs. business owner decision, the multiple streams of income trap, the three phases of building and the key skills for each. Beware of taking advice at the wrong phase.
Rather than my standard sections, I wanted to focus this week on the big picture: getting to a six-figure €100k run rate in 2026, managing cashflow after joining a $24k program, and what I'm changing to make it happen, starting with the offer and ICP.
Ended a client engagement that wasn't working, joined a $24,000 coaching program for career coaches, Client G got an offer before he even landed in Germany, and broke my 10k PR: 57:57!! 🏅
I just joined a $24,000 coaching program. Here's the decision log I wrote immediately after signing up, and why I'm publishing it.