We help creatives, entrepreneurs, and aspiring corporate escape artists break free from the systems that were never built for them and create businesses where people, creativity, and courage come first.
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Feeling trapped in corporate, restless, and are quietly planning a way out that doesn't blow up your life.
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The business works on paper but still costs you something it shouldn't ... and you're ready to do something about it.
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I built and scaled a design and culture consultancy that Fast Company named one of the most innovative companies of its year, working with teams like Capital One, Google, and Patagonia. I have a graduate degree in counseling, which is why everything here is trauma-informed rather than hustle-informed.
I've made the leap you're considering, the messy version and the sustainable one. The work here is everything I wish someone had handed me on the way out.
On the Choose Courage Inc. Podcast
If you’re the one everybody calls resilient, and you’re tired in a way that sleep doesn’t fix, this episode is for you. Vivianne, a former therapist, names how corporate reward systems feed on childhood wounds. That voice telling you to keep going sounds like strength… but it’s often “a survival reflex that never got updated.”
The Choose Courage Inc. Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and RSS more!
In Episode 72 of the Choose Courage Inc. podcast, Vivianne Castillo, founder of Choose Courage Inc., leans on her former training as a therapist and unpacks the career advice she wishes she'd given her 20-something self, the four childhood setups...
In this revisited episode, founder Ash Coleman Hynie comes back on the show for an unfiltered conversation about boundaries, guilt, healing from corporate trauma, and why the traditional entrepreneurship blueprint was never drawn with most of us in mind. This...
In Episode 70, I sat down with Patrice Perkins, founder of Creative Genius Law and my business attorney for the last six years, for a fireside chat about who owns work that AI touched, what belongs in your contracts now,...
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