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COACHING WITH MIKE
Private coaching for those who know they're ready for a new chapter—but aren't yet clear how to create it.
Discover the path you're meant to pursue and start living it now.
Schedule a free conversation with Mike to explore if coaching is right for you.
IS THIS YOU?
You've built what most people would call a good life. A stable career. Accomplishments. A life that looks great from the outside.
But there's something else pulling at you. A business you've been thinking about starting for years. A career change. A creative project living in a folder on your desktop. A bold life change you've been rehearsing in your head but never made.
Most people wait for the right moment — and the dream slips away.
What's in the way isn't information or strategy. It's something harder to name — a mixture of fear, obligation, identity, and the belief that you're not quite allowed to want more than what you already have.
That's exactly what coaching with Mike is for.
3 WAYS TO WORK WITH MIKE
Next Chapter Intensive
Single Session | $350
A preparation process + one coaching deep dive session to help you gain clarity on what's next.
Next Chapter Momentum
6 weeks | $1,200
A focused coaching engagement to help you figure out your direction and move into action.
Design Your
Next Chapter
6 months | $3,300
A deep coaching partnership to help you fully make your next chapter a reality.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
ABOUT WORKING WITH MIKE
"Mike is way more than a coach. I don't even know what to call what he does."
- Lauren, GM
"Working with Mike has been medicine for the soul."
- Toby, Real Estate Investor
"My work with Mike led me down a path I never expected. He helped me envision a future I hadn’t allowed myself to see. Thank you, Mike. You’ve reignited the fire in my belly!"
- Brian C., Entrepreneur
"I was at a major crossroads after a layoff and knew that this was the time to make a move that was more meaningful than just finding the next gig. Mike helped me reckon with needs I'd stifled and strengths and passions I'd forgotten I had. I came away with the confidence and excitement to take the steps toward where I should be heading."
- Cindy G., Software Leader
"Mike is an exceptional coach whose guidance has been instrumental in both my personal and professional growth. His holistic approach helped me understand my core motivations. He instilled a sense of clarity and peace of mind, empowering me to align my decisions with my deepest values and aspirations."
- Pradeep G., Growth and Strategy Leader
NEXT CHAPTER INTENSIVE
A Next Chapter Intensive is a single coaching deep dive to help you move from uncertain or "stuck" to having clarity about your next steps.
What's Included:
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Single 90 minute coaching session - Zoom, Phone, or Walk Outside (Chicago area)
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Preparation process (you'll receive an email after booking)
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Occasionally follow-up insights are shared. This is guided by what feels alive in the work, not by a fixed formula.
Investment: $350
NEXT CHAPTER MOMENTUM
Next Chapter Momentum is a focused coaching engagement designed to help you move from uncertainty to direction — and from direction into action.
We'll work together over 6 weeks to clarify what you want, sort through fears and competing voices, identify a direction that genuinely fits, and begin taking the first meaningful steps toward it.
This is a good fit if:
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You feel lost and you recognize you need more than one deep conversation to uncover your true path
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You want to move from clarity into tangible action toward your next chapter
You'll leave with clarity about what you want and how to get there, as well as tangible momentum toward your next chapter.
What's Included:
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Four 75-minute coaching sessions over 6 weeks — Zoom, phone, or in-person walks
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Reflections and exercises that are personalized to you
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A coaching relationship tailored to your needs
Investment: $1,200
Book a free call with Mike below to ask questions and see if it's a good fit for you.
DESIGN YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Design Your Next Chapter is a flagship six-month private coaching journey designed to help you discover your next chapter and successfully navigate a significant transition or reinvention along the way.
This is the best fit if you don't just need help discovering your path, but you want ongoing support to navigate the inevitable fears and forces that surface any time we undertake a journey of true significance.
We start by getting honest about where you are and what you've been avoiding — because the reasons are almost never the ones you think.
Then we enter a deep process of exploration that revolves around three essential questions:
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Who are you becoming?
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What's trying to emerge?
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What's keeping you from living it?
As we build toward a clear sense of what your next chapter should be, we also break down all the barriers to making it real.
Two things happen in parallel: the inner work that makes the outer move possible, and the outer move itself.
By the end of six months, you won't just know what you want to do. You'll be on the path you were always meant to pursue.
What's Included:
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Twelve 75-minute coaching sessions over 6 months — Zoom, phone, or in-person walks
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Voice message and email support between sessions
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Powerful reflections and exercises that are personalized to you
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Resources tailored to your journey
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Deep support, thought partnership, and accountability matched to your personality
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A coaching relationship built around your unique self and your life
Investment: $3,300
The 6 Month Journey
Phase 1 — See Clearly
We begin with truth-telling, which is harder than it sounds. We untangle your thinking. We separate your voice from everyone else's. We clarify where you actually are — not the story you tell at dinner parties, but the real one. This creates the opening.
Phase 2 — Discover What's Calling You
Beneath the responsible story — the career, the obligations, the cautious choices — there's usually something else. Something that's been trying to get your attention for years. Through specific exercises, we excavate the real pull underneath. Purpose. Meaning. Dreams. Longings. Future Vision.
Phase 3 — Become the Person Who Can Live It
We name the fears. We uncover blocks and patterns that have held things in place. We create new pathways of permission and possibility. We awaken fresh clarity and conviction. It's deep inner work. You exit this phase a different person than the one who entered it. Your dream life now feels possible.
Phase 4 — Build Your Next Chapter
Now we bridge the inner work with the outer work. We define your path forward. You cross the threshold and begin pursuing your true path. Your external reality begins to shift — the business, the career change, the creative project, the relationship upgrades, the health changes become real. You integrate the upgrades to who you've become — the clarity, conviction, and confidence settle into the core of your being.
Want to explore further? Book a free call:
ABOUT MIKE
I spent 22 years in corporate life — eventually reaching the C-suite of a large company — building something that looked right from the outside.
But for most of that time, I was putting off doing the work I felt genuinely called to do, choosing the safe path over the true one. The cost was real: a deep lack of fulfillment and even physical illness and addiction.
At some point something cracked open. I stopped deferring. I made the leap I'd been rehearsing for years. That decision changed everything — and it's the work I'm most built to help others do.
I'm a life coach specializing in midlife transitions — helping people in their 40s and 50s figure out what they're actually here to do, and then helping them begin. My work sits at the intersection of inner transformation and real-world action, because I've found that one without the other doesn't work.
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO KEEP DEFERRING WHAT YOU'RE MEANT TO DO.
You've read this far because something in here is true for you.
The best next step is to schedule a call to see if coaching is a fit or book a Next Chapter Intensive. You can also try this as an experiment... imagine two futures and see what happens inside you:
Future 1: You stay in your current status quo. You choose what feels safe and familiar. You squirrel away money for the future. You defer your desire for a new chapter a little while longer. How do you feel?
Future 2: You do something bold, audacious, maybe even out of character. You commit to something outside your comfort zone — financially and identity-wise. It's uncertain but also feels alive. How do you feel?
It takes some boldness to live a life of true alignment. The truth is that most people never step through that threshold.
But deep down you know you're not "most people," or this wouldn't resonate.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What kinds of people sign up coaching with Mike?
People in or approaching midlife who feel the pull toward something more — a major career change, a side hustle or a business, a creative project, a bold life change — but they haven't had the clarity on what it is they want to do, or they've felt stuck or held back by self doubt. And they're ready to finally figure it out and make it happen.
How is coaching different from therapy?
Therapy tends to focus on healing the past. Coaching is primarily oriented toward the future. That said, there is deep work involved (on occasion going into the past) and what surfaces is often significant and life-changing. But the primary direction is forward: toward clarity, toward beginning, toward the life you've been deferring.
Additional information:
You can reach Mike directly via email here: email [at] mikekav.com
If you have a strong desire to try coaching but cost is a barrier, Filmed Coaching may be an alternative for you. Alternatively, scholarships are sometimes available.
You can also follow Mike on YouTube and the Inner Freedom Podcast. Below are two videos of a real coaching journey in process: