Pep Talks
Thrive exactly as you are.
You can create a life true to yourself. Rich with deep, meaningful relationships.
The keys? Authenticity, connection and seeing reality as it is.
Ready to embrace who you are and be love(d)?
Connect With Yourself
Your relationship with yourself is the foundation for everything in life.
Without a strong self-connection, we may end up having a “successful” life that feels miserable to us.
We can enter into relationships that seem great but aren’t a match for us.
Or spend our days chasing self-improvement rather than figuring out who our “self” is and why we want to improve it in the first place.
Connect With Others
What if social skills didn’t have to be about saying all the “right” things?
What if it would be possible to be your real self and be loved for it?
To becomz the kind of person people naturally find it easy to relax and be more of themselves around?
What if connection wasn’t something to be “achieved” but something already there between you and other people, waiting to be discovered?
Connect With Reality
If you want to go anywhere, you must start where you are.
One of the reasons this can often feel challenging, is that us humans don’t spend a lot of time in the reality of where we are.
And spend most of it in stories about that reality.
What would happen if you dropped your stories (negative and positive) and tuned into the reality of what’s here now instead?
Hi, I'm Pep.
Questioning common knowledge and learning through a process of poking life in weird places, then seeing how it responds.
In 2015, I started writing “Pep Talks” on this website, sharing some of my experiences.
These eventually gathered tips and thank-you notes of up to $1000 from readers whose lives were impacted.
With time, I realized the essence of my work has always been about connection, authenticity, wholeness and alignment.
This led me to immerse myself in the mentorships of others who serve those same principles.
Acquiring tools like Authentic Relating, Bioenergetics and more. Which I now play with, combine and build upon as a guide, mentor and facilitator.
How We Can Work Together
Group Facilitation
You are planning a…
- Retreat
- Coliving
- Workshop
- Conference
- Online event
- Team building
…and want your participants to…
- Bond more deeply
- Turn conflict into connection
- Have facilitated integration time
Personal Guidance
You value…
- Clarity
- Authenticity
- Self-connection
- Deep personal growth
…and you want to…
- Forge your own path
- Deepen your relationships
- Develop your self-leadership
…without just being told by a coach that you should do things their way.
Workshops
You seek….
- Experiential learning
- Genuine human connection
- More fulfilling relationships
- New ways to relate to emotions
I create spaces where you can…
- Be welcomed as you are
- Develop emotional intelligence
- Learn conscious communication
…and have a lot of fun in the process.
"Effortless: Transcending the Illusions of Self-Development"
One of this world’s many ironies is that most self-development books take you away from yourself.
And while we’re applying their advice to our lives, we’re not always aware of this.
But the underlying message is:
“You must work hard so you can be better. And then you will finally thrive.”
What if the opposite was true?
What if it’s exactly all the effort you put into this pursuit that stops you from being where you long to be?
And what if the many ways you “sabotage” yourself (resistance, emotions, excuses…) are actually forms of wisdom we don’t fully understand yet?
This book is a Pep Talk on that paradox.
A collection of conversations to devour nose-to-tail, snack on daily, or digest as slowly as you desire.
There are no rules for life, how-to’s or habits in here.
But you can find everything you’re looking for, if you’re willing to see.
"Effortless: Transcending the Illusions of Self-Development"
One of this world’s many ironies is that most self-development books take you away from yourself.
And while we’re applying their advice to our lives, we’re not always aware of this.
But the underlying message is:
“You must work hard so you can be better. And then you will finally thrive.”
What if the opposite was true?
What if it’s exactly all the effort you put into this pursuit that stops you from being where you long to be?
And what if the many ways you “sabotage” yourself (resistance, emotions, excuses…) are actually forms of wisdom we don’t fully understand yet?
This book is a Pep Talk on that paradox.
A collection of conversations to devour nose-to-tail, snack on daily, or digest as slowly as you desire.
There are no rules for life, how-to’s or habits in here.
But you can find everything you’re looking for, if you’re willing to see.
Featured Pep Talks
This website was born in 2015 as a place to share insights, stories & lessons gathered from my exploriments.
(I still continue to share these with email subscribers.)
Here’s a selection of posts that were particularly impactful for people: