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HI, I'M AYA

I spent years ghosting my own existence

I built the career, closed the numbers, and collected the proof that I had everything I wanted. Then I found out what it had cost me.

THE DRIVE home

I hit $1.2M in closed revenue one quarter and cried in my car on the way home. It took two miles of driving to recognize my own tears. It took three more months to acknowledge why.

I had spent five years relentlessly improving every angle of my pitch. But my life was on autopilot, and I was ghosting my own existence. I felt like I was hovering on delay outside of myself, in a chronic corporate dystopia that presented itself as glittering success.

And who was my most in-demand client? My ego. My ego lived for the pitch that I had achieved everything I'd always wanted. But when the tears were flooding down my face, the pitch washed out with them.

So I did the reflective soul searching I'd been avoiding. The Return to Self was born out of it.

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As a founder dealing with burnout, Aya provided a non-judgmental space to discuss my fears, concerns, and helped me pivot my perspective.

ADAM HOFFMAN · Serial Founder

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WHERE STRATEGY MEETS the human heart

My work has always lived where strategy meets the human heart. I began with seven years at Sony Interactive Entertainment, growing enterprise partnerships and learning early that lasting revenue is built on trust.

At Kopius Media, I shaped the path that carried emerging artists from unknown to market-ready, and built the systems and shared language the company had been missing. Today I also craft the narrative a clinical-stage biopharma company brings to its investors.

For more than fifteen years, I've guided founders, executives and accomplished professionals through their most defining moments, from C-suite power dynamics to the leap out of corporate life and into a venture of their own.

I understand your world because I built a career in it, and I know what it costs because I paid it.

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HOW I work

I'm not here to hand you a framework and a checklist. I'm here to help you hear yourself clearly, then build the structure that lets that truth carry.

Plant medicine has been part of how I found my way back to myself, both through years of deep research and in personal experience. This is one of the reasons clients feel safe with their questions, in addition to my sessions being a private space of non-judgment. For those who are curious, I offer educational material on innovative tools and approaches, including microdosing. It is absolutely not a requirement.

WHAT I believe

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You already know the answers.

The work is clearing enough space to hear them.

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Success and a meaningful life can live in the same house.

You can keep what you built and still come home to yourself.

The point of this work is to have fun.

Not fun as in nothing matters. Fun as in you get to be curious about your own life again.

YOUR CROSSING starts with a conversation

Thirty minutes. Bring me the question you haven't been able to answer yet, and we'll see whether The Return to Self is your next step.

LET'S CONNECT

Not ready yet? Start with First Steps to Clarity, twenty minutes and a notebook. Send it to me →

I split my time between Nashville and Los Angeles, and I work with clients everywhere, on video.