meet your coach.

Hey! I’m Kirn.

I’m an anti-capitalist business + clarity coach, strategist + guide for creative women who are seeking more joy + alignment in their life + work.

I've spent over 8 years in the white male dominated corporate world, feeling like I was suffocating + completely out of place.

Like many daughters of Indian immigrants, I also spent a lot of time feeling disconnected from my culture, facing + challenging misogyny, patriarchy + familial expectations.

A stress-induced breakdown in mid-2017 changed the way I viewed my life and to begin on a journey towards finding myself, connecting to my core values, and living in deep alignment + joy.

Now, I support women in uncovering and living out their wildest dreams + desires in business + life.

my story.

I spent most of my life subscribing to a narrow, linear trajectory set for many daughters of immigrants: go to school, get a degree (in a "respectable" field like business, law, engineering, or medicine), get a job, climb the ladder, get married, start a family…

I checked a lot of those boxes off over the years, but watched the promise of happiness on this linear path fail to deliver each time.

The business world made no sense to me, even when I was getting my undergrad in finance / economics — why were we so fixated on profit + shareholders, at the expense of people + the planet? Why were we being taught to manipulate, shame, and instill fear in order to market and sell goods + services?

Struggling, but not wanting to disappoint my parents by quitting, I took 6 years to complete a 4 year program, and then I spent 8+ years in the corporate world, helping grossly rich old white men get richer.

For a while, my life looked pretty perfect on the outside — great job, salary, new car, nice apartment. But on the inside, I had become very disconnected from myself, was deeply unhappy, and super unfulfilled.

In 2017, I went through a semi-public, stress-induced breakdown, fueled by burn out. That was a turning point, and I was in a state of trance as the belief systems and conditioning I thought were true appeared to no longer serve me.

I spent several years in deep introspection — a process of coming to terms with the conditioning that had been instilled in me through family systems, society + schooling. I started to question what was truly mine and what was taught to me.

This reflective work put me on a path to begin getting clear on my values, learning to embody them, unlearning old patterns, and, as the eldest daughter of immigrants, it also involved healing (and letting go of) toxic relationships.

In September 2020, I got my Conscious Life Coaching Certification, flipped business strategy on its head, and began the work to serve women of colour in uncovering and living out their deepest dreams + desires in business + life, with an anti-oppressive, intersectional feminist lens.

My journey has led me to build a life + business in integrity that centers my joy, gives me permission to dream, and brings me freedom.

Now, I want to help you do the same.

my influence + approach.

I aim to work with an anti-oppressive lens that challenges the capitalist, patriarchal, white supremacist ways of working + doing that our minds + bodies have been rooted in thanks to the society and systems we live + work in.

We replace this BS with intuitive, embodied strategies that feel really good in our being.

By honouring the multiplicity + intersectionalities of our existence as women of colour, we aim to reimagine the way we live + work to serve our souls better.

My work is deeply influenced by Black + Indigenous feminist theory + teachings, including the words written + spoken by brilliant folks including bell hooks, Maya Angelou, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Tricia Hersey, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Rachel Ricketts, Mikki Kendall, Robin Wall Kimmerer and many others.

My approach is guidance, prompt + nudge-based — which means I'm not here to tell you what to do, or to follow a framework. Instead, I take a holistic approach through a brave, non-judgmental space to share thoughts, challenges, ideas, emotions + progress.

I offer sliding scale pricing to bring a community-based, accessible practice to my clients.

Our relationship is built on trust, empathy + support, allowing you to explore your true self + make empowered choices. My role is to bring you a new perspective, thought-process, + critical lens and to support you in aligning your life + work with your values.

you should probably also know…

I’m sarcastic AF and I’m also real AF — I call it like it is, and I’m not afraid to tell the truth.

I’m a sensitive, intuitive, introverted, work in progress.

I’m also able bodied, neurotypical, cisgender, and a light-skinned woman of colour living on Turtle Island, or Canada — I acknowledge that I work from a place of privilege (as most of us do in the western hemisphere), but it’s important for you to know where my privilege lies as you consider working with me!

challenge traditional ways of working + break all the rules.

we’re probably a good fit if…

  • you’re tired of trying to fit your life + work into a box, want to move purpose-first, and remain in integrity

  • you believe love is love

  • you know Black lives always matter

  • you’re open to:

    • new ideas + changing your perspective

    • challenging traditional systems + processes

    • testing + iterating on new ways of working / thinking / being