What kind of life do you want to build next? Let's talk about it.
Hey there 👋🏼 I'm Mounica. I coach engineers, entrepreneurs and leaders through the changes that set your life on a different trajectory. A new business, a body of work, a different way of living. The kind you've thought about for years and haven't made progress on.
Notes from the Unknown is one letter a month from inside my own life: what I'm building, what stalled, and who I've been sitting with.
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is this you?
There's a point you reach when incremental progress in your work or personal life no longer feels enough. It doesn't match the size of what you're capable of.
It makes sense to build it the way you have before — on your own, thinking it through thoroughly. You start acquiring more skills, creating better plans, or working up the discipline to build. The care is real, and it has carried you this far. But what you want next has no visible path, except the incremental one. It lives in the unknown, and you feel an itch to move towards it.
You keep coming through for everyone who counts on you.
At work and at home, people rely on you to deliver, even when you're tired of being the one who always does.
You have a "someday" thing that keeps coming back.
A business, a book, a different way of leading or living. You've maybe even started it once or twice. It's the stopping that repeats, never the wanting.
You've already tried working on yourself.
Books, meditation, courses, maybe therapy. You're not looking for your first tool. You're feeling that they give you incremental progress that isn't enough any more.
The feelings get loud when the new thing starts getting real.
The 3 a.m. planning spiral, the guilt about your kids or partner, the jab of watching someone else ship their version of your idea.
What if you could make big leaps towards the next phase of your life and still have the freedom, joy and meaning you want?
meet mounica
My specialty is helping analytical folks make the kinds of big changes that set their lives on entirely different trajectories — building a new business or income stream, building a body of creative work, taking on leadership projects that lead to promotion, or finding a romantic partner.
My foundations come from training and professional practice across coaching and human behavior, with more than 450 hours of facilitation experience with professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs.
I've worked as an engineer at Microsoft and hold a master's degree in computer science. I also study meditation and spiritual paths, because the inner work provides the expansion to pursue our outer expression in work, relationships and personal life.
The biggest changes in my life happened by building and jumping into the unknown, especially through the work I did with my own coach who challenged my thought-structures and my relationship with the feelings that come with entrepreneurship.
"As she has been in the tech industry, she understood me easily, I didn't have to explain situations."
— Janani Vasudevan, Director of Engineering
work with me
The three stages of building something new.
Every big change moves through the same three problems. We start with thirty days, and you decide about the rest once you know what the work actually feels like.
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The 30 Day Experiment
one month · start here
You feel conflicted. Half of you is capable and excited, half is unsure it will work out. We separate the limits grounded in real data from the ones you're assuming.
A daily short coaching brief — a frame, a prompt, or a tiny experiment
Three private 1:1 coaching sessions over Zoom to catch your blindspots
Worksheets and meditations for when fear, doubt or guilt show up loud
Your life is already full, and finding time and energy for a big new project feels overwhelming. We reorganize the life around the thing you're building, without burning it down.
Three coaching sessions per month
New structures to hold your plan
Making the bold asks that require building courage
You're making real progress, the variables shift, and you start changing too. This is where it's easiest to collapse back into old patterns instead of updating the map.
Three private 1:1 sessions per month
Access to me between sessions
An objective guide to question the world view you're outgrowing