Private Coaching for Women Who Want to Lead with Greater Self-trust, Clarity, and Ease
Trust Yourself. Take Up Space. Create What's Next.
You don't have to choose between being
kind and being effective
You know what needs to happen.
The conversation. The boundary. The decision. The next step.
But, you find yourself overthinking, second-guessing, or avoiding.
It's not because you don't know how to lead.
As women, we have spent a lifetime learning to be likable, accommodating, and mindful of everyone else's needs.
Then, leadership asks us to use our voice, hold boundaries, make difficult decisions, and disappoint people from time to time. That tension creates stress:
You know you need to have the conversation, but you don't want to hurt anyone.
You know you need stronger boundaries, but you don't want to let people down.
You know you need to advocate for yourself, but you don't want to seem selfish.
You know you need to make the decision, but you don't want to get it wrong.
We start to believe we have to choose between being a compassionate or an effective leader.
I don't believe that's true.
In fact, I believe the world needs more people who lead with both strength and compassion, confidence and humility, courage and care.
The strongest leaders learn how to embody both.
What’s actually getting in the way is not about competence - it’s about self trust.
Most of the women I work with are not looking for more information or training. They're intelligent, self-aware, and deeply committed to their growth.
What they don't always see are the patterns shaping how they respond when something feels difficult, uncertain, or emotionally charged.
The tendency to overthink instead of decide, to take responsibility for things that aren't theirs, to avoid a conversation because they don't want to hurt someone's feelings, to shrink, over-explain, or seek reassurance when they already know the answer.
The work we do together is about bringing those patterns into the light so you can stop being limited by them. When you change the pattern, everything else becomes easier. Decisions become clearer. Conversations become less daunting. Boundaries become less loaded. Leadership becomes less exhausting.
You stop questioning yourself and start moving forward in your authentic confidence.
Areas of Focus
Every coaching engagement is different because every leader brings a different set of challenges, goals, and questions.
For some women, the work begins with a successful career that no longer feels fulfilling. For others, it's a leadership opportunity they know they're ready for but don't feel fully confident stepping into. Sometimes it's a growing business that requires them to lead differently than they have in the past, or a feeling they can't shake that something needs to change.
Together, we may explore
Confidence + Self-Trust: Strengthen the self-trust needed to make decisions, take action, and lead from a place of grounded confidence.
Grounded Leadership: Learn to regulate yourself in difficult situations so you can stay present and grounded.
Leading with Intention: Step out of the weeds and lead with greater purpose, vision, and impact.
Communication + Difficult Conversations: Address issues directly and move forward without carrying the emotional burden with you.
Over-functioning + Boundaries: Step out of over-functioning, build trust in your team, and create the space needed to lead more intentionally.
Empowered Decision Making: Make decisions with greater clarity and confidence using both intuition and logical thinking.
Sustainable Leadership: Success shouldn't require constant overextension. Identify the patterns that drive burnout, create healthier ways of operating, and build the capacity to lead effectively over the long term, while enjoying your life right now.
Career Growth + Designing What’s Next: Explore what that next chapter looks like and how to move toward it with clarity and intention.
There’s a version of you that already knows, already trusts, already leads boldly.
The Work Beneath the Work
Many leadership challenges have both a practical and a personal dimension.
A difficult conversation may require stronger communication skills. It may also require addressing the fear of conflict that's been keeping you from setting boundaries for most of your life.
Delegation may require new leadership strategies. It may also require letting go of the belief that everything depends on you and learning to accept help.
Stepping into a bigger role may require developing new capabilities. It may also require strengthening your confidence and trust in yourself.
My coaching is unique in that I focus on the inner leadership it takes to be an excellent leader in your work, home, and life.
My specialty is helping you identifying the patterns, beliefs, and blind spots that may be limiting your growth. The result is a competitive edge that no one can teach.
WHAT LEADERSHIP COACHING LOOKS LIKE
Coaching is a collaborative partnership designed to help you navigate challenges, accelerate growth, and create meaningful change.
Every engagement is tailored to the individual, but our work typically includes:
Two coaching sessions over Zoom per month
Personalized support between sessions
Tools, homework, and resources as needed
A focus on both immediate challenges and long-term growth
What my clients are saying
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Grounded Through Uncertainty
I am so grateful my path crossed with Kara's. It truly felt like serendipity to meet her during a time of career transition. She provided the guidance I needed to step into a new chapter with clarity and a sense of peace about the past.
Being an executive female, she equipped me with the tools to stay grounded through uncertainty and self-doubt, to be able to show up with authenticity and confidence.
I would highly recommend Kara to anyone looking for a safe, trusted space to learn more about themselves, deepen & grow.
Talitha C - Sr Director Enterprise Sales
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Navigating a Pivot
I had the great pleasure to work with Kara as a coach. Kara helped me explore and reframe some of the past trauma I had, that was negatively impacting how I was interacting at both work and in my personal life.
In Kara’s empathetic, respectful, open, and joyful guidance, I also navigated a pivot point in my career I was exploring. I was approaching things from an all or nothing lens, and she helped me look at things from a place of abundance. It grounded me and allowed me to move forward.
I have recommended Kara to other colleagues and friends. The benefit I experienced from her coaching was not only felt by me, but also seen by my supervisor.
HR Director - Portland, OR
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Embodied Decision Making
I had a powerful coaching session with Kara where she introduced me to the concept of embodied decision making. I’ve read books and heard podcasts about listening to the body’s wisdom - but I’d never used my body to guide a decision that wasn’t health related. This was different. And surprisingly effective. It became clear which path felt right for me.
Senior Partner & Marketing Executive and Business Development Leader - Portland, OR
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Aligned with My Purpose
My sessions with my life coach Kara Sigua are coming to an end. After my 4 months with her, I am approaching life in a whole new way that has helped me stop procrastinating, break bad habits, and just live with more joy and purpose. I didn't know what I thought a life coach was, but Kara was what I needed at a point in my life where things felt unstable and inconsistent.
If you are looking to "get your shit together," which is what I told her my goal was during our first session, then check her out. Invest in yourself and follow her flow and you will see changes in your life.
The four months with Kara were life changing. Not just because of what we did in those four months, but because she taught me a different way of thinking, I can continue to grow and keep my mind open to what it can do.
Our work together has brought me to a place where I am working hard and hustling, but it feels so good to do it now that my life is aligned with my purpose.
Eloise - CEO The High-Achieving Housewife Podcast
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Confident, Empowered, Steady
Coaching with Kara was such an incredible experience. Her presence is loving, integrous, and sincerely genuine. You can tell that Kara really cares and is also so knowledgeable and so experienced in her coaching skills. I came to her feeling incongruent with the pricing for my business. I left feeling confidence, empowered, and steady in asking for the true value of my work. Immediately, I noticed a shift from our session and was able to execute on the actions that she and I had discussed. I highly recommend Kara for coaching.
Deanna T - Love, Life & Dating Coach
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Navigating Change
I started working with Kara during a significant period of transition in my life. My career, as I had known it for years, was shifting. My board positions were winding down, and my kids were growing up and heading off to college. I felt unanchored and uncertain about what was next.
Through our work together, Kara helped me find solid footing and reorient myself for this next phase of life. She guided me with compassion, clarity, and insight, helping me reconnect with my true north. Most importantly, she helped me learn how to be present—with myself, my choices, and the moment I’m in.
I’m leaving this experience feeling grounded, empowered, and ready for what’s next. I’m deeply grateful for her support and would recommend her wholeheartedly to anyone navigating change.
Dolly - Entrepreneur & Founder
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From Anxiety to Joy
I came to Kara needing help with the very anxious decision to change my career. Kara helped me immediately with tools I could use on myself. By the end of the first meeting, I was focused without any feeling of anxiety. With Kara’s coaching tools and kind encouraging support I see that anxiety may be with me any given day but so are my gratefulness and my joy and MY LIFE!
Gina - Business Owner
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Envisioning a New Future
Thank you for coaching us as a couple to envision a shared future that is free from constraint and inspired by possibility. Your coaching lifted up areas where our thoughts were limiting us. We discovered that thoughts that we were resisting became blocks that are freed up when we acknowledge them and welcome them. You invited us to consider that these thoughts served us in some way - to protect us or make us feel safe. Once we distinguished the function of the thought, it no longer seemed significant or scary.
You aptly coached us as we developed a future that we are living into as possibility. We left the coaching sessions being empowered, hopeful and excited to be alive. You are truly an extraordinary coach, Kara!
Gerry H - Social Worker
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Trust Myself Again
When you welcome Kara into your life as a coach, you will leave every session feeling uplifted, loved, understood and supported. I came to her really struggling to trust myself and my own intuition, and she gave me the tools to listen, believe in me, and to forgive parts of my past that were holding me back from a future filled with hope and beauty. Kara is amazing and will walk you through every step comfortably and genuinely. 100% recommendation!!!
Rachel - Single Mother Recovering After Divorce
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Remembering My Purpose
I have been fortunate enough to receive coaching from Kara, and it was the most magical, beautiful and transformative experience.
During the session, Kara guided me to connect with a part of myself which I felt I had been disconnected from since a very young age. Kara was so masterful in giving me a lot of space to soak up the experience to the point where I have been able to revisit the vision and feeling numerous times since, helping me to centre myself and remember what is my purpose.
The vision was full of such joy and beauty and I'm so grateful for Kara's guidance in allowing me to access it.
Libby B - Health Coach
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From Stress to Joy
Kara was welcoming and created a calm and supportive environment (even virtually) right from the start. She was the perfect balance of going at my pace while also providing proactive activities that I needed to reflect and hold myself accountable to healthier habits. Kara was able to highlight thought patterns and help me make a shift to actively rooting my busy stressful life in joy everyday.
Lisa C - Social Worker
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Landed the Job Aligned with My Calling
Thank you for your coaching and for your extraordinary listening of me! I got a call from the Program Manager for ODHS with a salary offer of level 8 (out of 10)! I have the precise position that aligns with my calling, I get to live in my favorite place in the world, I will be making a generous salary which will make a difference for our retirement, and we will be close to family. I am really living the lit up life!
Gerry H - Social Worker
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Finding My Power
When I started working with Kara, I didn’t know where to start or even what to say because I felt lost and inhibited by my anxiety and insecurities. Kara gently helped me accept who I am and acknowledge the power I already have to design my life.
Emily T - Teacher
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Thought Patterns Shift
Thank you so much! I have noticed some thought patterns that definitely need to shift! You are a great coach and will change many lives connecting from such a heart-centered, judgement free place! It's so powerful to normalize what so many of us are feeling with affirmation that we are not alone!
Lisa B - Elementary School Staff
Most leadership coaching focuses on how to lead others.
I believe leadership starts with learning to lead yourself.
Most women don't need more confidence or another strategy. They need greater self-trust.
The ability to stay grounded under pressure, navigate discomfort without abandoning themselves, and lead from the fullest expression of who they are.
I don't believe women need to become harder to become more effective.
I believe the world needs more women fully expressed in their strengths.
A Different Approach to Leadership
The first step is seeing clearly what's really driving the challenge.
Together, we uncover the patterns, beliefs, assumptions, and habits that may be influencing how you lead, communicate, make decisions, and show up in the world—many of which have been operating in the background for years.
MY PROCESS
Through my proprietary coaching framework, you will experience:
AWARENESS
EXPANSION
Once those patterns become visible, we create space for something new. Rather than judging or fighting the parts of yourself that developed these patterns, we seek to understand them.
From that place, we intentionally strengthen new ways of thinking, leading, communicating, and making decisions that are more aligned with the leader you want to become.
INTEGRATION
Awareness alone doesn't create change. Lasting transformation happens through practice.
Together, we experiment with new ways of operating in real-life situations, helping them become integrated into your leadership, relationships, and daily life until they feel natural and sustainable.