“Arrival - on exactly the right path, at just the right time - proves to be inevitable as an outcome of my consulting investment - again and again.
The results of my work with Rachel? Simply outstanding!”
So you’ve resolved to level up, to step into the potential of what’s next – even if you’re not quite sure how to get there. Wonderful!
We need leaders and courageous humans willing to actualize the unseen and unknown potential in themselves, with others, and in the world.
These humans understand the value in going beyond – those who seek to co-create what’s next; to (re)imagine, (re)create, (re)fine, and (re)engage in new ways.
This journey will take you into unknown territory.
So many people don’t embark on the journey of actualization out of fear – fear they won’t be able to see or navigate in the dark.
Taking your next chapter to the next level requires doing just that – being willing to carry a lantern into spaces and places previously unmapped and unknown.
An openness to seeing differently and looking at how you see: yourself, your relationships and connections, the world, and reality writ large.
Movement and experience are the best teachers for those willing to explore… yet investing in a guide – one who can provide you with uncommonly insightful perspectives and honest reflections, one who excels at seeing seeing – can make all the difference.
Guiding actualization and bringing vision to life
Consider the value of“positive disintegration” and state change. Ice is solid, rigid, and strong… and over time, it melts into life-giving water. Water is fluid and incredibly powerful, sometimes flowing with grace and ease, and other times, moving with incomparable destructive force.
Over the course of human lifetimes, water carves bedrock. Yet in the blink of an eye, it can evaporate into a vapor – an unseen form of itself.
State changes, cycles, and consistent evolution are the basis of our interconnected reality. Our systems, our contexts, our human relationships, and our very selves are, by nature, changing, evolving, and fluid.
Learning to “be like the water” is the work of accepting, creating, and directing through that fluidity and change. For those who choose to embrace this perspective and learn to navigate from it, entirely new possibilities and experiences await.
Learning to be like water
Rachel Fell is a coach, consultant, educator, and facilitator based in the Midwest United States.
She works across the globe – from Singapore to Los Angeles and beyond – viaZoom. (In-person engagements by request/design)
In addition to working with gifted, twice-exceptional, neurodivergent adults in the areas of identity, existential health, dis/integration, and holistic well-being, Rachel also works with businesses, teams, and independent entrepreneurs on brand, communications, and development initiatives.
“When in doubt, zoom out”
“Rachel, your strategy work is out of this world, but I need you to slow down a bit in stakeholder presentations – you’re forgetting that not everyone is gifted like you are.”
Gifted?
Hearing it was some sort of cosmic space gong that shook my entire body.
Today I’m indebted to that manager for his use of the word. “Gifted” was the missing link, the hidden key that helped me (re)connect with my unseen differences.
At the time, I was an externally-focused, career-oriented dynamo who had run out of steam and run out of places to hide from herself. Burnout, positive disintegration. Forcing myself to keep on in the same direction wasn’t possible any longer, and my body wasn’t shy about sending me distress signals, either.
The more I fought to hold it together, the worse it all got.
A lifelong self-guided learner, deep thinker, and next-level curious being, it was clear that I was (finally) going to have to turn all of my high-horsepower cognition, curiosity, and inquiry toward the most personal subject of them all: myself.
Why was I so unhappy, regardless of how much external success I achieved? Why was I so disillusioned with connection? Why did I feel like I had to singlehandedly help, save, and assist… everyone else? Do it all? Where were my motivations coming from, and were they even my own?
Why was understanding it all cognitively not enough? Why was I experiencing these weird, nebulous physical symptoms that specialists and scans couldn’t diagnose?
Gifted, and exceptionally/profoundly so. Autistic. ADHD. CPTSD. Highly sensitive and oriented to achievement with a penchant for override. Force. Mind-body disconnect. Living in intellect and representational intelligence, exclusively. Aphantasia. Synesthesia.
All of this made reference to that alient feeling; to my loneliness and sense of invisible differences. While hard to swallow initially, they framed the constant frustration I felt for not fitting in or having a terribly easy time of things. Most importantly, they provided me with an invitation to get curious, to explore my sense of self, my consciously held identity, and the lack of understanding I was carrying around about what it meant to be human – the same, different, and completely distinct.
Questions led to more questions and depth led to deeper depths. For the first time in my life, I couldn’t easefully or easily find/force answers and was led into places in which I learned to make friends with discomfort and unknowing.
I learned to dive into and explore my own sub- and unconscious, restoring the physical-existential connections of a human, being, one step at a time.
Neurocodivergence (neurocomplexity) was the missing lens through which the rest of my experience could be viewed in proper context. During this rebirth/rediscovery process, a previously hidden talent emerged as visible: my incredible strength in journeying into unknown territory in both my inner and outer worlds.
By learning to embrace my unique brand of neurocomplexity while tending to the health of my soma, psyche, and spirit, I learned to balance those worlds, creating harmony and coherence.
Bonus: the entire experience showed me what my work in the world truly is. I’m in the “business” of transformation and expansion, evolution and growth, and nurturing the full-spectrum of our unique human intelligence.
I work in the yet unnamed industry of the gestalt, relational dynamics of the inner and outer worlds. My focus is on the relationships between story, state, and meta-awareness, on how humans operate and co-create with themselves and each other. My KPIs and success metrics are those related to the inner world abundance, whole-istic growth, and the healthy, balanced development of humans and organizations.
I’m at my best as a thought partner and collaborator to leaders, visionaries, high-achievers, creatives, mystics, and gifted, neurodivergent, and neurocomplex folks.
I’m a guide and (very non-traditional) coach, consultant, facilitator and educator who walks with her clients in creating new ways of thinking and seeing. I’m an intellectual-existential type who will twist the prism of perspective alongside you, again and again, asking provocative and pragmatic questions while offering incredibly thoughtful reflections, insights, and possible paths forward, nurturing your capacity for meta-awareness and full body intelligence… the whole dang time.
“Rachel’s unique intelligence is both dynamic and precise, creating elegant and functional sense inside knowns, unknowns, and the relationships between both. She’s incisive, insightful, uncommonly meta, and uniquely flexible in perspective.”
My unique expertise is rooted in…
over a decade of organizational and team leadership, business-meets-brand strategy, marketing, community, culture, and communications
leading reinvention, maturation, and measurable growth across a vast swath of business-types and verticals: local/regional, national, and international, B2B and B2C, in-house and agency-side, technology (SaaS, healthtech, media), education, healthcare, manufacturing, tourism, civic/non-profits, private equity, startup through IPO, and more
3500+ hours of dedicated coaching and facilitation experience working with driven humans, (self)-leaders, creatives, gifted, neurocomplex, and neurodivergent folks
the capacity to See and hold an evolving big picture in parts, sum, and its connective tissue through scale with just enough grip
the capacity to guide what’s now into what’s next, moving ideas into actualization seamlessly, expediently, and with an incredible eye for detail
my own highly-rarified thinking and seeing capacities as a HEPG gifted/neurocomplex human being
a lifetime of engaging and cultivating my profound curiosity (we don’t arrive at the ‘right’ answers without the ‘right’ questions!)
a commitment to walking my walk, living self-leadership, and continuously engaging, tending to, and challenging myself
a passion for exploring what’s possible when rooted human consciousness consciously seeks to grow and expand for the greater good of our interconnected reality and a more egalitarian future
