Breakthrough Coaching, Leadership and Photography
I help high achievers honor the story that got them here, write the one that is truly theirs, and step onto the stage it deserves. One breakthrough, four months of coaching, and if you want them, editorial photographs of who you are becoming.
Over 20 years developing leaders · Leadership degrees, USF and USD · Certified leadership coach · Trainings and retreats coast to coast, and for Taipei’s Fair Winds Foundation
You have the degrees, the titles, the track record. You also have a story worth telling, and a new one starting to take shape. The hard part is knowing who to trust with either of them.
So the story stays private. You show up fully for clients, teams and family, and the person you are becoming waits for the right moment and the right guide.
Better habits and clearer goals help for a while. A new chapter asks for more. The change that lasts happens at the level of identity, where your story lives.
When the story changes at the root, everything you build on it changes too.
What becomes possible
You stop waiting for permission. You claim it. The story you were handed loses its grip, and you start writing a new story, a new life.
Then you step onto a new stage as yourself. Seen. Heard. Leading from your own inner authority.
The award kept its frame. Everything underneath it did not.
Somewhere along the way you started following someone else’s script. It worked. It built a career, a reputation, maybe a business. I honor every page of it, because that story got you here. It is just not the one you would write for yourself today.
Breakout is where you write the new one. We clear the old beliefs and emotions that no longer support your next chapter. We find what you value and where you want to go. Then we build the structure that lets you live it. If you choose the photo shoot, we capture the person who emerges on camera.
Some people call it a life reset. For others it is the moment they step onto a bigger stage. Either way, you stop waiting for permission and start claiming it.
You don’t need to become someone else. You need to stop carrying a story that was never yours.
Breakout runs for four months, one to one. It opens with a breakthrough, welcomes who emerges, then gives that person a direction, a structure, and a finish line worth celebrating. Photographs of that person are optional. They come with Breakout Signature, or you can add them to Breakout Core.
Days 1 to 2
Clear the old story.
It starts with a Breakthrough Session in the first days. We go to the unconscious level and clear the old stories, beliefs and emotions that no longer support your next chapter, right at the root where they started. This is where you take back the parts of yourself you buried in order to succeed.
What it gives youRoom. Space where the old weight used to sit, ready for the story you’re about to write.
Month 1
Meet who shows up.
In the weeks after the breakthrough, the person underneath the old story starts to show up. You notice it in how you speak, decide and lead. If you choose the photo shoot, this is when we capture that person, so you have proof of who you’re becoming and something to stand behind on your new stage.
What it gives youA version of yourself you recognize. Present, grounded, taking up space and leading.
The photo shoot is optional. It comes with Breakout Signature, or you can add it to Breakout Core.
Months 1 to 2
Find what you actually want.
We draw out the values already guiding your decisions. They come from you, not from a list. From those values we build SMARTER, embodied goals and a clear vision for the area of life you’re working on. Every goal carries real conviction, because it’s rooted in what you truly care about.
What it gives youA direction you trust. You know where you’re going and why it matters to you.
Months 2 to 4
Build the life that holds it.
From month two to month four we meet every other week for 90 minutes. Together we design the systems, structure and schedule that support the expansion of who you are. We test them in your real life, adjust what doesn’t fit, and keep what works. This is where the new story becomes how you live and lead.
What it gives youA life built around who you are now. The change holds long after we finish.
End of month 4
Step fully into it.
At the end of month four we look back at the whole journey and celebrate what you’ve built. We name what changed, what you now stand for, and your next step. Who you really are stops being something you keep private and becomes how you live, lead and choose every day.
What it gives youA finish line you can feel, and a clear next chapter you’re ready to write.
Underneath all five: text support between sessions, and an extra session when life gets heavy.
The deepest level of pattern disruption. Replacing limiting beliefs with empowering ones. Living your life in alignment with your truest values.
One hour. We talk about the chapter you are moving into and what stands in the way. You leave clear on your next step, whether or not you work with me.
Reclamation. The old story comes out at the root.
Soon after the breakthrough, while the shift is fresh. If you choose the photo shoot, it happens here. It is optional. It comes with Breakout Signature, or you can add it to Breakout Core.
Values, goals and vision, every other week.
Coaching every other week, 90 minutes each, to build the structure around the new you.
We celebrate and set your next step. If you chose Breakout Signature, your closing shoot happens here, so you see the before and the after.
All the way through. Text support between sessions, and an extra session for the heavy weeks.
After the four months. You can keep coaching with me at a reduced rate or book a single session any time. If you want to work on a different area of your life, a new Breakthrough Session is an option after six months.
The work is serious. The hours are not solemn.
Most people do this with three different people, months apart. A coach for the inner work. Someone else to shape the story. Then a photographer who was not in the room for any of it.
Here it is one person the whole way through. The one who goes down into it with you is the one holding the camera when you come out the other side.
The best frame is the one that holds the truth under the art. Composition, light, the moment it gets taken. None of that sits on top of a person. It is how the truth in them gets carried.
The shoot is optional. It comes with Breakout Signature, or you can add it to Breakout Core.
“In the photos he took of me right after my breakthrough, I saw myself present, taking up space, a leader. We only ever see the world from behind our own eyes. His photos showed me I was part of it the whole time, and that there was always a space for me.”
The Heartfelt Journey
One event, three leaders, all different gifts.
Sound and Sun
Your Craft Is Your Mirror
What the picture had to hold.
He helped me become the kind of leader I once thought I needed permission to be.
Since our work together, people have told me I seem like a completely different person. I show up with greater confidence, decisiveness, consistency, and authenticity.
It was the best breakthrough I’ve ever had. I was faced with myself in such a stark and honest way that there was no going back to my old identity. I felt free, and it gave me some of the most momentum I’ve ever had in my life.
Before working with Anthony, I kept telling myself I was a failure, especially when it came to relationships. I sabotaged my own work and kept myself stuck living with my parents instead of trusting my path forward. I felt lighter right after our release, and the momentum and clarity came after that. Now I trust myself, I do what my work needs, and I have a much better relationship with myself. Anthony is incredible at revealing your blocks, and he delivers them in an honest and loving way, like a wise sibling would.
I work with people who are ready to grow into a life that fits who they are now. Your title does not matter. Your field does not matter. What matters is that you are ready for the next version of you.
Who I love to work with
You do not have to arrive in crisis for this to work. Most of the change I have watched happen started with a quiet decision.
My parents left Vietnam with nothing and built a life out of it. I grew up understanding the terms. Achieve, and you earn your place.
So I achieved. Worked at a pre-IPO startup, then eBay, then Google, where I helped design and led training workshops. I was also having panic attacks. Later, a diagnosis. Generalized anxiety disorder.
From the outside the life looked exactly right. Inside it I was performing. It took me years to name it. I had not been building a life. I had been paying off a debt that was never mine to carry.
So I did the work on myself. Leadership development, the unconscious mind, and the Hawaiian healing arts I trained in, all of it together, because no single one was enough on its own. Every time I chose what actually excited me over what I was supposed to want, I came back more like myself.
That is the work I do now. Not helping you achieve more. Helping you find the person who got buried under everything you achieved, and then helping the world see them.
I guide you through your journey of self discovery as well. You don’t have to find your way back to yourself alone.
Why work with me
I honor your story, the one you lived and the one you are writing. The old story got you here, and it deserves respect. The new one deserves someone who can see it before you can.
I understand the deep principles of life, leadership and storytelling. Over 20 years developing leaders, and training in the unconscious mind and the Hawaiian healing arts. I work with what sits under the behavior, not tips on top of it.
I tell your story in words and in photographs. We put the new story into language you can stand behind. If you choose the shoot, it also becomes editorial photographs of who you have become.
I respect your time. Breakthrough, coaching and editorial photo storytelling in one place, with one person who knows your whole story, instead of three different people starting from zero.
Two complete experiences. Both run four months, one to one. The photo shoot is optional. It comes with Breakout Signature, or you can add it to Breakout Core.
Breakout
The breakthrough and four months of coaching.
Breakout
Everything in Core, plus the photo shoot, the new story and the new stage.
Extras, only if you want them: the photo shoot added to Breakout Core, travel, an extra shoot, hair and makeup, location fees, or a new Breakthrough Session for a different area of life.
We start with a one hour call. Not everyone who applies is offered a place. I will tell you honestly on the call, even if the answer is no.
No. Often the best fit is someone who is doing fine and knows the next chapter asks something different of them. A dramatic session is not the point, and it is not the measure of whether this worked.
We work on the beliefs and decisions underneath the behavior, at the level where they live. I trained through Empowerment, Inc. under my Kumu, Dr. Matt James, in the Bray-James lineage, and I am certified in Mental and Emotional Release® and in Huna. I name that because you deserve to know whose work you are standing in.
No. This is coaching and breakthrough work for people who are ready to move. If you are in crisis right now, start with a clinician, not with me. The order matters, and this will still be here.
Then you do not have to be. The photo shoot is optional. It comes with Breakout Signature, or you can add it to Breakout Core. Breakout Core without it is a complete experience. If you do want it, know that most people say some version of this. Being seen registers as exposure to a nervous system that has not practiced it. That is a capacity you build, and it is most of the reason the inner work comes first. By the time the camera comes out, you are not the same person who was nervous about it.
If you choose a shoot, it happens somewhere that belongs to your life. Natural light in real places photographs better than a paper backdrop. We pick the place together. Travel is not included.
Breakout Core is the Breakthrough Session and four months of coaching. Breakout Signature is the Breakthrough Session, four months of coaching, and the photo shoot: an Emergence shoot after the breakthrough and a closing shoot so you see the before and after. Breakout Signature also adds work on putting your new story into words and planning the stage where you share it next. If you choose Breakout Core and want photographs later, you can add the shoot.
No. Breakout is about you, not your logo. You leave with a clear story, a plan for where you show up next, and photographs if you chose the shoot. What you build on top of that is yours.
You can keep coaching with me at a reduced rate, or book a single session whenever you need one. If you want to work on a different area of your life, a new Breakthrough Session is an option after six months.
“The door to the past was closed. I felt so free, and I was put on a better path.”
Jenitza Maldonado“If you’re ready to stop playing small and start becoming the hero of your own story, Anthony is someone I cannot recommend highly enough.”
One hour. Come as you are. We’ll begin with your story.