Support that doesn’t make you wait for your next appointment.
No standing weekly appointments. Reach out when you’re second-guessing the decision, preparing for the conversation, freaking out afterward, or simply need someone steady in your corner.
Knowing what to do when you’re calm is one thing.
Remembering any of it when your nervous system is losing its mind is another.
Sometimes you just need someone there to help you find your way back to yourself.
What is On-Demand Coaching?
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This is the only session we’ll schedule in advance. We’ll meet for 45 minutes on Zoom to get to know each other a bit and talk through what’s going on, what you’re navigating, and where you’d like some support.
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Whenever something comes up, you can send me a voice or video message via Marco Polo (a free app), and I’ll respond within 24 hours. Only the messages you send count toward your 60 minutes—my responses don’t.
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Your Marco Polo time isn’t tied to a weekly schedule, so you can use more during a particularly hard week and none when things feel steady. You have an entire year to use your minutes.
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This is designed for a specific decision, transition, or challenging season—not months of sessions without a clear reason for continuing.
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Our conversations are casual, no filter required. I’ll be real with you and, when appropriate, share relatable stories from my own life so you know you’re not alone. But unlike talking to a friend, you get to keep the conversation 100% about you without feeling like a burden.
MY PHILOSOPHY
You are the expert on your own life.
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There’s no assumption that someone outside of you knows what’s best for you. But we all need someone outside our own heads who can ask good questions, notice patterns, reflect back what you’ve said, and help us recognize when fear has grabbed the microphone.
Fear and intuition aren’t the same thing.
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Sometimes the answer is actually pretty clear—the scary part is accepting it or acting on it. We make room to untangle what you know from all the fear, doubt, and but what ifs surrounding it.
Discomfort doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong.
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A good decision can still feel terrifying. A necessary boundary can still make you feel guilty. The right next step can come with grief, uncertainty, or a strong desire to crawl under a blanket and avoid the whole thing.
Curiosity over Judgement
There’s no judgment here. Instead of deciding that a choice, reaction, or old pattern means something is wrong with you, we’ll get curious about it. Why does this keep coming up? What is this reaction trying to protect? What makes this feel so hard? Curiosity gives us something to work with. Judgment usually just makes an already hard thing harder.
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Being human is not a problem to solve.
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You can know better and still fall into an old pattern. You can be brave and scared at the same time. You can need reassurance about something you were completely certain about yesterday. There’s no shame attached to any of it.
We aren’t meant to do hard things alone.
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Needing support isn’t a reflection of your capability. Humans are relational creatures. Sometimes having someone steady beside you makes it a whole lot easier to do the brave thing you already know you need to do.
Hear what past clients are saying
Do any of these sound like you?
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You finally say what you need and then immediately want to take it back because it made someone else uncomfortable.
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You keep giving something “a little more time” even though you’ve been saying that for quite a while now.
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You’re going through something hard and don’t want to feel like a burden or like you have to make it sound less hard so other people don’t worry.
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You know something needs to change, but actually changing it feels terrifying.
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You wish you had someone who understood how big the little wins actually are.
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You’re trying to figure out whether the feeling in your gut is intuition or anxiety doing a very convincing impression of intuition.
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You’re capable, thoughtful, and self-aware, and still occasionally need another human to say, “Nope, you’re not crazy. Keep going.”
Frequently Asked Questions
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Nope. Never. That’s the beauty of voice and video messaging. You get to reach out when you’re in the moment, and I respond within 24 hours. This lets you share when you need to and it allows me to have the flexible schedule I need to manage the lives of my four busy teenagers.
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For a 45 minute onboarding session plus 60 Marco Polo Minutes the cost is $375. Only your messages to me use your minutes. (I don’t want anyone to have to pay extra because I can be long-winded.)
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I use Marco Polo. It’s a free app that I have been using for 10 years. It is very user friendly and I love the company, its mission, and its values.
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The primary reason is that I don’t want you to pay for more than you need. Sixty minutes may not seem like a lot but the average Marco Polo message is between 3 to 5 minutes (only your messages to me use your minutes). You can keep adding 60 minute blocks until you don’t need me anymore.
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You can always purchase individual sessions as needed.
Not ready for coaching, but would love an occasional positive message?
You’re in luck! I made the Sarah Left You a Message Podcast for you.
These are short messages (typically under 2 mins), to remind you that you’re doing great and we are in this together. Make sure you select to be notified when new messages are posted!