Six years ago this week, Interleap was born.
And honestly – I had no idea what this would become.
There was no grand vision early on, no five-year plan, no formal deck with a mission statement or market analysis. I just knew I was supposed to coach. To help leaders. I knew this was my gifting.
What I also had – and I don’t talk about this part enough – was fear. I worried it would take too long and cost too much. I felt the weight of the gap between who I was and who I thought I needed to be to do this work.
Thinking back to before I started coaching, I trained on weekends in hotel ballrooms, with body fatigue both inside and out. I did my own work and I learned how to help others do theirs. It felt long and I wondered – how will I get from A to B, and then C and beyond?
I didn’t know, but I kept going.
And here’s what I’ve watched happen, one year at a time: I grew. Then we grew. Not because of a perfect strategy or because we had it all figured out. But because we showed up for clients. We did the work. We got better. We took the next best step.
Every. Single. Year.
Looking back, it seems so clear – the growth was not about some big leap. It was about the accumulation. The conversations that mattered. The clients who trusted us. The slow, often behind-the-scenes, but profoundly meaningful work of helping someone see themselves more clearly and move forward with more intention.
Six years didn’t look like a highlight reel. It was a habit.
I think about the leaders out there who are sitting right now in that same gap I sat in. You know something needs to change. You feel the pull toward something more. But it feels too big, too uncertain, too expensive, too slow.
I get it. I really do.
But here’s what I want you to hear on our birthday: the version of Interleap that exists today was built entirely by beginning. By taking one imperfect step and then another. By trusting that the doing would eventually reveal the destination.
You don’t need the whole vision. You just need to start.
If you’ve been circling something – a conversation you haven’t had, a change you haven’t made, an investment in yourself you keep deferring…
Maybe this can be your beginning.
I couldn’t have done any of this alone. For as long as I’ve been coaching others, I’ve had a coach of my own. That’s not a coincidence – it’s the whole point. I believe in this work the way I do because I’ve lived it from both sides.
If you’ve been thinking about what it might look like to have someone in your corner, I’d love to explore that with you.
Here’s to six years of doing the work. And to whatever comes next.