Welcome to

Humanity First

Business Coaching

You are a business owner who is making huge moves in your field. You have big ideas and do very important, purpose-driven work. In other words, you’re a badass.

Your work is rooted in justice and liberation, but growing your work is calling on you to participate in systems that are not aligned with your values or your work…this doesn’t feel good AND you’re witnessing a stagnation of growth in your business.

Traditional business marketing tactics ask us to show up no matter how we’re feeling and to grow our businesses in ways that are more about transactions than relationships. Given that we’re out here to shake shit up and make change, these tactics weigh on our souls and don’t feel aligned with the spaces we’re working to build.

 I’m here to tell you that I believe traditional marketing tactics are absolute bullshit and that there IS another way.

I am honored to support disruptors, change makers, and revolutionaries like YOU grow their businesses in ways that are aligned with their values and that FEEL GOOD. You deserve to thrive, even as you build your business and I’m here to help you to do just that!

If being a part of building a liberated world asks for our authenticity, vulnerability, and deep communal relationships, then it’s vital that we weave these values into how we grow our businesses!

Are any of these you? If so, I made this offering for you!

You face the unique challenge of building representation in your field as a marginalized business owner

You have strong values, but aren’t sure how to stay rooted in them while growing your business

You’re always flooded with ideas, but are overwhelmed by them and don’t have clear steps to bring these ideas to life

You desire help in implementing/executing your brilliant ideas

You’re crystal clear on your work and what you are about, but you don’t know how to translate that authentically into your marketing

You feel overwhelmed by social media and are forcing yourself to show up in ways that don’t feel aligned or empowering

You feel like you’re having to separate who you are as a human from how you show up in your work

You’ve most likely been told your business will catapult if you just hire someone to manage your social media, create the perfect marketing plan, adopt standard marketing practices, and/or consistently post and spend time on social media.

Nope, nope, and nope.

The truth is, these strategies don’t work without first figuring out your goals, your strategy to meet those goals, the voice of your work and your business, who you are and what kind of strategies are aligned for you.

Without understanding all of the above, your marketing efforts are simply just marketing efforts. They’re not actually aligned with what you are trying to build and who you are!

Here’s what the Humanity First framework asks you to do before anything else:

Understand who you are and how that correlates with the work that you do

Understand your grand vision

Solidify the steps it will take to get to this grand vision

Understand the voice of your work…YOUR voice, and the message you want to convey

Create an aligned plan of action that allows you to channel your energy toward your vision while staying rooted in your values, purpose, and beliefs

The world needs your magic. I’m here to help you deliver it and find more people who have been waiting for you.

Why am I your guy?

Hi, I’m Kai!

I have spent my entire life disrupting every system I possibly could, and it’s been no different in running my business. Except with my business, it took me much longer to realize that I could actually grow it without following the marketing strategies I was hearing all around me. I was trying to post regularly on social media and in ways that were absolutely draining. I was sending newsletters in transactional ways. I was following these rules that I thought I was supposed to in order to see business growth.

I realized that these rules are made for and only work for people who aren’t marginalized and/or disruptors. As a white person, there are of course parts of these rules that work for me, but as a queer and trans person, I’m not able to receive the outcomes of following these marketing strategies while being my authentic self.

I’ve noticed that the more I lean into marketing in ways that feel authentic to me, the more business growth I experience.

I’ve found that I thrive on building relationships that go beyond transactions, that I don’t actually like being on social media regularly or hardly at all, that I was missing out on having time to write longer pieces of work because I was spending all of it on social media…the list goes on y’all. 

So, it’s through my own experience of rule-breaking and accepting that my core belief of “I’m not going to do what doesn’t feel good” I created in my late teens still applies today that has equipped me to support you in this journey.

The way I support business owners is deeply informed by my work as an equity-inclusion facilitator as well as the many years I’ve spent in deep and ongoing anti-racism and anti-oppression teachings and practices. I’m honored to have supported the badass business owners that I have already and look forward to working with many, many more.

In our work together, I will:

Provide an incredibly encouraging and loving space to better understand yourself, your goals, your vision

Acknowledge and skillfully hold the complexities of being a marginalized person building representation in your line of work

See your vision and clearly map out the steps it will take to get there

Help you find clarity around how you want to feel in every area of your business

See the voice of your work and reflect it back to you so you can start sharing it in a clearer way

Create an aligned strategy for you to meet your goals

Create the systems you need to reclaim time and labor, leaving you with more time to rest and be

What you’ll receive from our time together:

A clear understanding of what your goals actually are

Know what your brand is fully about

Know what your aligned marketing strategy is and how it will support your goals

A plan for aligning actions with your goals

A marketing strategy that brings your ideas to life AND factors in any and all barriers you face as a marginalized person

A multitude of systems that go beyond just the marketing, IG, and newsletters that you can start implementing right away

The queerleader you’ve always dreamed of having

My biggest curiosity when working together will be how the current ways you’re running your business make you feel somatically and how we can make shifts that support how you WANT to feel.

1:1 Humanity First Business Coaching

How we do it:

CONSULT:

We first have a 30-minute free consultation to see if we’re a right fit for one another and also to make sure this is the offer for you…if it isn’t, we may decide to craft a custom package for you!

HUMANITY FIRST BUSINESS MAP:

We have four 90-minute to two hour calls for a thorough intake process where we will deep dive into who you are, your values, your business today and the current systems you have in place to run it, your overall dreams and vision, the discrepancies between all of the above, and so much more.

I build out what I call your Humanity First Business Map, which is a 20-30 page PDF document that compiles all of my findings from our intake process in a really clear and succinct way. This map will also outline clear actions and several new systems for you to implement that are incredibly individualized and aligned to who you are, the goals of your business, and how you want to feel. 

There may be extra clarifying correspondence needed through email as I create your map. 

This map will serve as a guiding light for you and how you move forward to growing your business!

IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT:

After creating your map, we meet every other week for three months for me to support you in implementing the systems laid out in your Humanity First Business Map. 

I support you on the backend in preparing anything that’s needed before implementing the systems.

I help you in setting up an analytics process in tracking each and every system and help you strategize any adjustments that need to be made.

You have access to emailing me with questions as they arise.

Investment:

Community Rate

$1,000/month for 6 months
$500/month for 12 months
or $6,000 in full

Sustainer Rate

$1,250/month for 6 months
$625/month for 12 months
or $7,500 in full

Supporter Rate

$1,500/month for 6 months
$750/month for 12 months
or $9,000 in full

Discounts are available as needed!

Humanity First Business Coaching Cohort

A 6-MONTH GROUP COACHING PROGRAM

How we do it:

CONSULT:

Schedule a free 30-minute consultation so I can learn more about you, your business, your goals, and obstacles.

GROUP CALLS + 1:1 COACHING:

We meet for 90-minutes every other week at a day and time decided by the group over the course of 6 months.

You will also get a monthly 1:1 coaching session for the entirety of the 6 months so I can support you in any and all individualized ways you need.

We begin the week of May 8th and will meet on every other Wednesday from 10-11:30am PST.

THE JUICIER DETAILS:

During our 6 months together, we will go through my framework of building your very own Humanity First Business Map.

This first starts with an intake process where we will deep dive into who you are, your values, your business today and the current systems you have in place to run it, your overall dreams and vision, the discrepancies between all of the above, and so much more.

From there you will build out your map, which is a 20-30 page PDF document that compiles all of your findings from the intake process in a really clear and succinct way. It uses artistic imagery to help you create visuals for the feelings behind what you’re portraying on the pages (don’t worry, we will deep dive into how to use Canva together!).  The most important part of the map are the clear actions and several new systems created for you to implement. These are incredibly individualized and aligned to who you are, the goals of your business, and how you want to feel.  

I’ll walk through the process step by step both in our group coaching calls and our 1:1 sessions and support you in coming up with new actions and systems for your map. From there, I will be right by your side as you work to implement those new actions and systems.

After our 6 months together, you will have your very own Humanity First Business Map AND have implemented your new actions and systems that are more body, mind, and soul aligned. The goal is for you to end our time together feeling so nourished by the ways you run your business.

Investment:

Community Rate

$175/month for 6 months
or $1,050 in full

Sustainer Rate

$250/month for 6 months
or $1,500 in full

Supporter Rate

$325/month for 6 months
or $1,950 in full

There are optional add ons for more 1:1 coaching sessions and for me to make your Humanity First Business Map that we can discuss in your consult if needed.

 FAQs

  • Great (and valid) question! This is a several page (ranging from 20-30 slides) presentation and is my version of a brand guide. Instead of focusing on your color palette, fonts, etc, this document focuses on who you are (personality, values, things that bring you joy, your artistry, and so much more), how you currently run your business, and looks at the discrepancies between who you are and how you run your business. It also includes artistic visuals to reflect the overall feel of whatever each page is focused on. By taking time to create this map, we are able to build new systems for you that help you show up to and run your business from a very authentic place. Exciting, eh?! I’m happy to show you an example of a HFBM in our consultation, as well, for those of you who need visuals to understand. (I am you.)

  • To me, a system is anything that you do and work in a consistent manner. In this context, here are a few (of many) examples of systems we may come up with for you:

    → A posting schedule that feels good, sustainable, and nourishing to you

    → Writing a monthly article and repurposing pieces of it to many different platforms throughout each month

    → Developing a reach out process that will connect you with folks you want to work with, and a way to keep up with the relationships you are building

  • Yes! I’m happy to build you a custom package based on your needs. Go ahead and schedule a call with me so I can learn all about you and what kind of support you’re seeking!

  • It is a deep core value of mine to make my offerings accessible, especially for all BIPOC, disabled, and/or queer and trans folks. It is for this reason that I’ve created this work as a group program, which allows for a more financially accessible and communal pathway for you to receive this kind of support. If further support is needed, I’m always open to that conversation! You can learn more about my pricing model on my equity and values page. If working together 1:1 would be most supportive to you, but the price isn’t accessible for you, let’s talk!

  • Yes! Whether you work with me 1:1 or join the cohort, you will have access to each recording to download and keep forever, and ever, and ever.

  • While this is a framework that I’ve created over many years of running my own businesses and in the past few years of supporting others, I’m in the beginning stages of sharing this framework with the world. Both working with me 1:1 and the cohort are in a beta process which is reflected in the pricing. I will be spending the next year or so solidifying the Humanity First Reclamation framework and the ways I share it, and I’m excited for you to be a part of that journey! Prices will begin to go up after I feel the beta process is complete.

  • While I cannot guarantee business growth, this is most certainly the hope. The most important goal of mine is for you to feel more grounded, nourished and enlivened by your business and how you run it through creating new actions and systems that are more aligned and authentic to who you are, your goals, and how you want to feel. I’ve definitely experienced business growth operating from this space, and I hope you will as well.