Weekly Update: Mar 14–20, 2026
Ended a client engagement that wasn't working, joined a $24,000 coaching program for career coaches, Client G got an offer before he even landed in Germany, and broke my 10k PR: 57:57!! 🏅
Chiara Cokieng
Why I Joined Opny's $24,000 Coaching Program for Career Coaches
I just joined a $24,000 coaching program. Here's the decision log I wrote immediately after signing up, and why I'm publishing it.
When the Work Piles Up: Notes from Year Two of Building Brave New Path
Building a business is never as balanced as you'd like. You grow faster than your systems, or you build systems before you have clients. The timing is always off. This is an honest update from the middle of Year Two: what's actually hard right now, and why I think that's exactly right.
Weekly Update: Mar 7–13, 2026
Week of a client getting hired, the onboarding overhaul I finally did after 1.5 years, and group calls that finally felt like a group conversation.
Book Recommendation: Super Skill by Joe Lazer (tl;dr: Storytelling is the new coding)
I just finished Super Skill: Why Storytelling Is the Superpower of the AI Age by Joe Lazer (Amazon) and posted this review on Goodreads. 5 stars.
I normally avoid new books. I'd rather spend time with "foundational" books than whatever's hot right now. This
My Origin Story, Part 2: The Hardest Year of My Life
In 2013, I quit my job with ₱150,000 in savings and the absolute conviction that I'd triple my income in three months. I had read the books. I had seen the blogs. Other people were doing it. There was no reason I couldn't too. I was wrong about everything.
My Origin Story, Part 1: Little Rock
In 2012, I was 21 years old, sitting in a client's office in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was my first time in the United States and I had just built my first model. I thought it was going to be my moment, then my manager brought someone else to present it.
Weekly Update: Feb 28–Mar 5, 2026
Week of hitting KPIs (€1,800 booked, 2 new clients closed) and making a hard decision: cancelled 6 discovery calls to protect capacity and focus on the clients who've already paid. Also ran 100km in February.
Weekly Update: Feb 21-27, 2026
Major pricing decision (raised the price by 43%, from €2,100 → €3,000), sales & marketing flow (4 discovery calls, 1 confirmed new client, and 4 closing calls lined up for next week), and published a post I'm most proud of yet: my values.
What I’m Willing to Lose Money For: My Core Values
Originally published at Brave New Path.
This week, I reached out to a client who hadn't been engaging with the program. I asked if she's still looking for a job in Germany, offered to get on a call to see how I can help her, and