Somatic Coach for ambitious leaders & founders who want to continue to grow without running themselves into the ground.
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Helping ambitious leaders and founders manage chronic stress, break burnout cycles, and make clearer decisions through somatic coaching, science-backed breathwork and practical tools for sustainable high-performance that doesn’t drain you.
You shouldn't have to sacrifice your health or your life to build something meaningful..
Hey! I’m Polly…
I'm a Somatic Coach, and former business and marketing coach, helping ambitious leaders and founders do the work they love without running themselves into the ground.
From the age of 17 to 21, I worked on and off in corporate and scale-ups before becoming an entrepreneur myself, first as a personal development coach and later as a business coach.
Throughout my own journey of extreme highs and lows in business, and working with founders and leaders, I’ve noticed a pattern.
I saw time and time again people who had all the strategy in the world, but were still caught in constant cycles of stress, overworking and burnout.
They were told they needed to ‘relax more’, slow down or get better at managing their time.
But it's not that simple for ambitious people like you and me, is it?
When you're wired to keep going, take responsibility and push for more, you can't just think your way out of the patterns that keep you stuck.
Because a lot of the time, it isn't more planning or organisation you need.
It starts in the body, and with understanding what your biology is trying to tell you.
That's what led me to somatic coaching.
Today, I use somatic awareness and science-backed breathwork to help ambitious people regulate their nervous systems, build their capacity for stress and feel alive again, so they can keep doing the work they love without crashing.
Because I don't believe you should have to choose between ambition and feeling truly well.
Workshops for Your Leadership Teams
Better leadership starts with how you handle stress, not how much you try to ignore it.
When you're responsible for a business, a team or important decisions, the stress rarely ever stays at the desk.
It can affect how you think, how you communicate, how you respond to challenges and how much energy you have left when the working day ends.
And when being switched on becomes your default, it can be difficult to recognise just how much it's costing you.
My experiential workshops bring somatic awareness, breathwork and practical tools to help you and your teams become more resilient to stress, reduce burnout risk and sustain high-performance.
These aren't about telling ambitious people to care less, lower their standards or simply take more time off.
They're about helping leaders understand their stress patterns, reconnect with what their body is signalling to them and explore practical ways to navigate pressure without constantly either pushing through or burning out.
Workshop topics include:
Why ambitious leaders fall into overworking: A deep-dive into why ambitious leaders get caught in cycles of overworking, chronic stress, burnout and screen fixation from a body and nervous-system perspective.
The “both/and” framework: Breaking down the false narrative that you must choose between high performance and feeling well, with tangible tools to help leaders sustain their performance without sacrificing their health, life, or capacity.
Live Experiential Breathwork: An active, science-backed guided breathwork session to help leaders reduce stress, step out of their heads and reconnect with their bodies, exploring how the breath can support nervous-system regulation in their day-to-day lives.
Body-first decision-making: Practical breathwork patterns and somatic techniques leaders can use in real time to manage stress responses, regain mental clarity and approach high-pressure situations, challenging conversations and important decisions with greater awareness.
Workshops can be tailored to suit your needs.
Now taking bookings for January 2027
1:1 Somatic Coaching
You're used to figuring things out, putting out the fires and being the one people rely on. Whether you’re a founder, leader or entrepreneur… you know you’re holding a lot.
And maybe the way you’ve learned to succeed is starting to take it's toll?
Maybe you struggle to switch off, keep pushing through exhaustion, find yourself stuck in near-burnout cycles, or maybe you know what needs to change but can't seem to break the patterns that are keeping you here.
In our work together, we'll explore what's happening beneath those patterns, using coaching, somatic awareness, science-backed breathwork and appropriate body-based practices to help you respond to stress differently.
We'll also bring things back to the realities of your life and work, so insights can translate into practical changes in how you lead, make decisions, manage your time and use your energy.
I’m not the type of airy fairy coach who will tell you to become less ambitious.
I want to support you to pursue what matters to you without running yourself into the ground in the process.
For the human behind the hustle.
Tune in to the podcast…
The Breathe & Build podcast explores what it means to be ambitious without losing yourself in the process.
Through conversations, reflections and practical insights, we explore the relationship between stress, the body, leadership, work and the way we build our lives.
For founders, leaders and ambitious humans who want to do meaningful work, show up as themselves and feel alive beyond their achievements.
Membership-style support for founders and leaders who’ve already built the success, but maintaining it has become a constant cycle of overworking, screen addiction and disconnection from who they are.
If you know you want to keep growing, but not at the expense of your mental and physical health - and crave the type of freedom that was on your vision board back when you started this thing…
then Breathe & Build is where you learn how to take care of yourself and your work from the inside out.
Launching on November 1st for our 30-Day FREE open house
Contact me
Got a question or want to discover how we can work together? Shoot me a message here and I’ll get back to you!