Live Without Pretense

I’m Karen Hsu, your Life Doula, here to help you bring your next greatness into the world.

Walk Your Path is an approach designed to inspire you to name it and encourage you to give yourself permission to make it happen. We will go on a journey to amplify your inner voice and bring your truth forward. Whether it’s recommiting to a path you’re already on, or moving in a new direction, you will emerge as a more whole and complete version of yourself.

“It’s your path – you hold the truth. Everything else is an opinion.

- Karen Hsu

 

You have your own unique blends of needs and ambitions, of opportunities and constraints, of experience and wonder. My experience as an outsider has helped me be able to hear you – all of you. By integrating business experience, interpersonal intuition, and communication skills we will work together to bring order to the chaotic experience of moving into your next adventure.

Satisfaction transforms vision into action and aspiration into reality.

Curiosity: Asking the hard questions.

Fear is relentless and can be your biggest barrier to your authenticity. Together, we will explore your questions and doubts openly. You are accepted as you are without judgment. Not only do we bring forward what you truly think, feel, and believe, we meet in the spaces in between to discover what is being missed, skipped, or avoided.

Compassion & Candor: Be all that you are wherever you are.

You are the same package, the same brain, and the same heart all the time. Your desires and fears will be allowed to come forward in a blunt but loving vision of your truth. You will be able to see how your privacy, shame, and needs play well together and where they don’t.

Clarity: Dare to Dream

You will see the vision of your future clearly with a healthy ego and clear intentions. With this clarity you will be able to plan next steps to become your future self.

Confidence: Fundamentally Transform

Throughout your life, you will continue to have experiences that will make your foundation tremble. With your confidence bolstered you will move toward your future with greater faith in yourself to dream, do, and contend with whatever comes your way!

Hear from people who are living their future today!

  • "Karen helped me by creating a space to be open and candid about my professional goals and needs as I transitioned into senior management. She built a professional relationship based on trust and sharing the skills and insights learned through her unique career path to meet me where I am currently in order to help me get to where I want to go."

    - Eric Madison,

    Division Chief, East Dovetail Consulting, Rail Transit Safety and Security Experts

  • “Karen’s ability to be a constant in the world of change has allowed me to navigate career, personal and health changes. She listens to the words I use, she listens to what I have not said and she does it with the sole desire to understand and help me walk my life’s journey. My life’s journey. When she asks questions and provides insight, I always feel heard, feel seen and feel safe. I also feel challenged to question my own outlook, the stories I live in and what choices and decisions I have in front of me. In the world of leadership, she is truly a trusted source with my best intentions at heart and she continues, in every interaction, to support me to be my authentic self throughout my life.”

    - Laura Krafka

    Director of Ventures, Arbor Day Foundation

  • "Karen totally understood my desired direction through a series of activities that gave me clarity with my professional goals. Her understanding of my goals through her in-depth questioning and consistent challenging has given me the professional transformation I was looking for. She provided her full support that was needed for this transition to occur. Her attitude and positive interaction is pivotal in refining my leadership direction. "

    - Ishu Chhabra

    Managing Director, Enterprise Iron

Fearless

I am fearless in the face of humanity. Fearless—not devoid of fear, but transcending it, 

because vulnerability and true strength go hand in hand. This is the game changer I’ve seen in every success story and it’s what I add to support your own process of exploration and self-actualization. You are a human, and humanity doesn’t discriminate. You can’t outrun the universally human challenges, but you also have access to the human capacity to thrive.

When you’re stuck, or resistant, or unsure of what’s next, there is something in you that you’re not hearing. Together, we will exercise vigilant curiosity. This will help you hear, believe, and accept whatever it is in you that’s ready to come into the world. Together, we will have radical and compassionate candor for your truths and fears. 

Your future self is not an indictment of your experience so far. We will make space for you to consider the outside pressures, needs, and wants that you also face across the spheres of your life.

Together, we will help you make your “next” possible and real.

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