For women in senior leadership and founders navigating a threshold that won't resolve in a single conversation.
You've handled the tactical decisions. You know how to deliver under pressure, lead through complexity and show up with authority when it counts.
But something's shifted.
The same patterns keep surfacing. The decision you thought you'd made keeps reopening. The boundary you set doesn't hold. The leadership presence you've built feels increasingly performative — and the cost of maintaining it is becoming unsustainable.
You're not stuck in one moment. You're navigating a longer threshold — and you need sustained support as you learn to lead from a different place.
At a glance | The advisory includes:
2 private, one-hour advisory conversations / month
3-month minimum, then month-to-month
$500/month (founding pricing)
By inquiry only (limited)
Click the button below and share where you are, what you’re facing in your life/work and what would feel most supportive right now.
When this is the right fit
You're navigating a professional threshold
Repositioning publicly, pivoting your work, stepping into new visibility, or renegotiating the terms of your leadership — and the old playbook doesn't apply anymore.
You've hit a pattern you can't think your way out of
The same dynamics keep showing up: overriding your intuition, softening boundaries, rehearsing conversations that never land. You've tried thinking it through. That's not what's missing.
The gap between private and public is costing you
You've built authority by performing certainty. But maintaining that performance is becoming untenable — and you're ready to lead from presence instead.
What this work is
This is relational, intuitive and bespoke advisory work — not a program, not a framework, not a content calendar.
I stay with you over time. I pay attention to what's emerging. I hold patterns you can't see yet. And I help you make grounded decisions in moments when clarity matters more than speed.
The work includes:
Two strategic conversations per month — These aren't coaching sessions. They're witnessing and discernment in real time.
Responsive resources between sessions — Essays, frameworks, somatic practices, questions. Not curriculum. Responsiveness.
Pattern recognition across contexts — I help you see the patterns you're too close to recognize on your own.
Guidance in threshold moments — When you're at a decision point, I'm available for counsel. Not to tell you what to do, but to help you find your ground.
What shifts over time
You stop second-guessing. The internal negotiation quiets. You make grounded calls faster — not because you're bypassing complexity, but because you trust your discernment.
You stop rehearsing. The performance energy drops away. You can speak with authority without performing certainty.
The boundaries you set actually hold — not because you've gotten "better at saying no," but because you've learned to trust the signal before it becomes a crisis.
How you lead publicly begins to match who you are privately. The cost of showing up drops dramatically because you're no longer maintaining a performance.
The somatic dimension
Much of this work happens through the body, not around it.
I work with women who have been rewarded for living in their heads — for strategic thinking, quick execution and intellectual performance. But the intelligence you're learning to trust now doesn't live there.
It lives in your body. In sensation, hesitation, impulse, breath.
Part of my work is helping you learn the language of your own nervous system — so you can distinguish between fear and intuition, between resistance and boundary, between what your conditioning says and what your body knows.
This isn't therapy. It's not somatic coaching in the traditional sense. But it is embodied leadership development — learning to make decisions, use your voice and navigate consequence from a place of grounded presence rather than performance or reaction.
This is for you if:
You hold real responsibility — for a business, a body of work, a team, a professional reputation
You've outgrown borrowed frameworks and are ready to build your own relationship with authority
You're willing to slow down, pay attention and work relationally over time
This is not a fit if you're looking for:
Tactical execution support or done-for-you services
Traditional business coaching or strategic planning
Prescribed frameworks or step-by-step programs
Short-term consulting without relational depth
About my work
I'm Amanda Bray. I've spent nearly 20 years inside editorial systems, content operations and publication strategy — working with senior leaders, decision-makers and women building authority in public.
I'm also a certified meditation instructor with an active contemplative practice since 2013. My work integrates strategic discernment and somatic intelligence. I can read systems, audiences and professional consequence with precision — but I'm equally attuned to what's happening beneath the surface.
Investment & next steps
$500/month* | Minimum 3 months | Most engagements run 6–12 months
This work is offered selectively and limited by design. I work with a small number of women at a time to ensure depth, presence and sustained attention.
If this resonates, reach out via email and share where you are, what threshold you're navigating, and what would feel most supportive. I'll respond within 48 hours and we'll schedule a brief call to ensure fit.
*Founding member pricing.
Not sure yet?
Start with a 20-minute Discernment Session. Bring one decision — and we'll find your next grounded step.