
Mindfulness Coaching with Jess Lipman
1:1 coaching that integrates targeted mindfulness strategies to enhance your daily life, as well as high performance strategies and attachment theory to support your professional success and growth. Elevate your whole life.
Where Mindfulness, Mindset and Career Growth Intersect
I help people serve as heart-centered, equanimous, courageous trail blazers, leaders and creators who can skillfully navigate their inner landscape and the world around them with targeted intention, guided by their values.
Want to join the mindfulness movement? Keep reading.
To be considered for this coaching experience, the first step is to book a discovery call, where we can see if there’s mutual alignment. If there is mutual alignment, you’re then welcome to a complimentary 45 minute Mindfulness Coaching Session (to see what it’s like).
Serious inquiries only.
What is mindfulness?
According to Unified Mindfulness, mindfulness is an awareness and practice and a skill-building slate of techniques. The practice is comprised of techniques that anchor your attention in the present moment (which you can perform while sitting with your eyes closed or even while you’re going about the activities of your day). In practicing, you are cultivating concentration, sensory clarity and equanimity. The practice can support you with increased self-awareness and self-mastery, emotional regulation, optimizing your happiness, and increasing your interpersonal skillfulness and service to your family, friends, community, organization, audience and the world.
Can you relate to any of these experiences?
ANXIETY, POOR SLEEP, ANGER…
You do awesome work in the world, and maybe you’re even leading up teams and big efforts to support brands and impact. Even so, do you ever feel like your emotions carry you away? Like you have no control over your actions once anger shows its face? Or that one moment you’re sad, and then next you’re enraged, and then you’re dancing around the house? (And you don’t know how to work with it or what to make of it?) You don’t have a grasp of how to emotionally regulate…
CHASING DOWN RELIEF
And, in order to slow the thinking or get away from yourself, you do things like: have a glass of wine, binge Netflix, scroll through your Instagram feed, embrace workaholism (I’m just your normal Type A!), chase adrenaline, drama bond with your coworkers, avoid your obligations, or [insert maladaptive coping mechanism here]. You find yourself taking refuge in some solutions outside of yourself (that are short-term and perhaps don’t lead to the results you’re looking for).
REACTION VS. RESPONSE
Are you triggered by certain situations or people in life or at work? No matter what intention you set, you can’t seem to figure out how to RESPOND skillfully in the moments that matter? You react, say some things that you maybe regret, or even procrastinate/delay, resulting in undesirable consequences and a corrosion of influence. Now you find yourself in a shame spiral, your self-esteem is in the dumps, and you’re chasing apologies… rinse and repeat.
SURFACE LEVEL MEDITATION
You know that mindfulness is the answer! And you listen to guided meditations sometimes when you can squeeze it into your schedule. But you find that you’re still feeling anxious regularly, you still feel caught in thinking. Maybe you find that your practice feels really distracted or aimless, like you’re doing something, but you have no idea what skills it’s cultivating inside of you, or when to expect results from your practice. You’re missing context and a framework!
THINKING SPIRAL
Do you live predominantly in your head? Thinking runs the show, the moment you wake up, to the moment your eyes shut at night. Compulsive thoughts. Ruminating about a work project. Maybe you wake UP working (in your head) in the morning! It’s exhausting, and is perhaps causing burnout and disinterest.
QUALITY THINKING: WHAT’S THAT?
Your ideas and innovation are low in quality, but your work and your creative life call for stronger muscles in that area! Maybe you’re a creativepreneur (like me!) and need to provide strong strategy to others (so if creative juice turns off, you’re screwed!) Or maybe you feel called to come up with new ideas that will help business pivot at this time and meet the needs of our current culture and marketplace. Perhaps you are thinking, but it’s more on the side of worried thoughts, and rumination on the past or future. It’s not the kind of thoughts that lead to that next big idea (but you crave that so much!)
Our next level requires the right strategies, frameworks, support system, accountability and willingness to engage the process.
Serving as a creative, impactive maker, and working in dynamic teams calls for elevated, strategic intrapersonal and interpersonal skills.
Do you find that you’re in need of skills to demonstrate more compassion, empathy, and heart while tending to business matters and while collaborating toward shared goals?
Do you find that you’re triggered by certain situations or people, and no matter what intention you set, you can’t seem to figure out how to RESPOND skillfully in those moments?
Do you have professional goals and intentions, but working with people toward those shared goals or in support of those goals feels like a mystery?
Are you in need of greater influence at work, so that you can steward a mission collectively, motivate others to support you and the cause, and ultimately do YOUR job effectively?
Do you find yourself weighed down by challenging emotions at work, pulling you out of your highest service or the work you need to get done? You want to stay ‘productive’, but that means you need to know how to process emotional triggers in the moments when they arise.
That’s where my unique slate of personal development and business strategies come in. In 1:1 coaching, I share with you how to integrate specific attentional techniques and mindfulness philosophies, as well as high performance strategies and attachment theory into the ways in which you resiliently navigate work environments and scale your career sustainably.
This can be THE game-changer for your career growth, leadership, management, team and collaboration skills. And, ultimately, this impacts your legacy: the impact you make, the work you get done, the connections you share with others, and the meaningful creations born out of your collaborations.
Taking professional and personal risks are vital and necessary as we grow, but we need a RESILIENT inner system to do so.
Do you want to take the leap this year and launch that passion project that’s been calling you in for YEARS? Or do you simply want to find work that helps you engage your passions more fully?
What brings your soul alive (that you’ve been avoiding or minimizing)? Why have you been avoiding it?
Are you ready to unlock a part of yourself that’s been laying dormant, but not exactly sure how to?
What’s that next big venture that’s calling out to you?
What’s holding you back from feeling aligned in your relationships, passions, career and spiritual journey?
Ready to dive into life - your relationships, passions, new ventures - but don’t have the resilience and equanimity to do it well?
In 1:1 coaching, I create the space for you to identify YOUR growth edge (and the pivotal skills to approach it). There are key elements of mindfulness philosophy (like impermanence, non-attachment, equanimity, concentration, clarity, effective proximity, transcendence, and flow) that I fuse with mindfulness meditation techniques (for you to use in your daily life) that ultimately set the stage and foundation for you to truly develop a resilient nervous system so that you can lean fully into your life and core desires (with minimum friction and suffering).
COACHING
WITH UNIFIED MINDFULNESS L2 COACH JESS LIPMAN
Hi! I’m Jess Lipman, and I’m so happy you’re here.
I am a Mindfulness Coach, Founder of The Mindful Nest and Co-Founder of nonprofit Recovery Dharma. I help impact makers, creatives and entrepreneurs establish a mindful, aligned foundation and follow their joie de vivre (without burning out). Whether you’re looking for mindfulness interventions for stress reduction, or attachment repair to support your professional goals, or strategies for elevating your performance at work, your career growth, I’ve got you covered.
I am an Unified Mindfulness Level 2 Coach with over 15 years of mindfulness experience under my belt. I’ve been mentored by and worked with the best in the personal development industry, including the world’s leading High Performance Coach, Brendon Burchard; Brain Coach, Jim Kwik; Unified Mindfulness founder, Shinzen Young, and Mettagroup founder, George Haas. I integrate science-inspired mindfulness techniques, positive psychology, business development, high performance studies and attachment theory into my coaching.
I am committed to helping people fuse their personal development and impact work!
1:1 Coaching with Jess Lipman helps you achieve these results.
Learn more about mindfulness - the techniques, skills and philosophy to…
Decrease anxiety (and learn how to process challenging emotions and pain)
Manage stress (information overload, the enormity of your position at work, your multifaceted role at home!)
Leverage the uncertainties and the unknown factors in life to SCALE and ELEVATE (instead of letting them drive you into the ground with fear, anxiety, dread)
Uncover your authentic self (your desires, core passions and purpose)
UNLOCK and increase innovation and ideation that flows from your mind.
Increase concentration (so that you can access the FLOW state and get the most out of every moment, whether you’re on a walk in nature or on a work deadline!)
Cultivate an open hearted, compassionate, kind and patient attitude (so that you can be in acceptance of the people around you without the urge to change or fix them)
Develop adaptive, empowered inner dialogue (self-talk) and learn how to stop beating yourself up.

my coaching philosophy
Mindfulness makes it possible for us to appreciate the fullness and depth of life, and be there for it all. The joys, the sorrows, and the neutral moments in between. It allows us to be in acceptance of the nature of human existence, not in denial of it.
I’m not interested in necessarily showing you how to GET RID of anything. “Get rid of my anxiety. Get rid of my frustration. Get rid of that stinging pain.” That’s not really the promise of mindfulness. You see, I’m more interested in showing you how to you pay attention to things in a transformative way. Not to get rid of it. But to actually lean into it, build a relationship with it, and process it completely. Sure, you might want to get rid of anxiety, but perhaps the goal we’re all unknowingly after is to transmute and transform anxiety. Rather than throwing something away and rejecting it, mindfulness teaches how to lean in, how to pour concentration, clarity and equanimity into the discomfort. The transformation can be perceived like this: anxiety transform to relaxation, or anxiety can be perceived as vibratory flow (just like joy or fatigue!)
But to get to that flavor of freedom, we must take interest in where we’re looking, and how you’re looking at it. This takes consistent practice and training.
My Dualistic Coaching Approach to Support Social Impact
Personal Development
As your coach, I create the container for you to harness mindfulness and your mindset to live a life of true contentment, which is marked by happiness beyond conditions. When I talk about liberation, that’s what I mean. Through powerful questions, strategies, mindfulness meditation, perspective shifts and reflective exercises, you have the potential to unlock your authentic calling and a truly aligned way of being in the world. Uncover your unique signature and live into it, fully, each and every day.
Interpersonal Development
As your coach, I help you leverage your highest self for the collective good. I’ll help you leverage mindfulness, mindset and attachment repair strategies to heal, deepen and impact your relationships and community. This framework truly fosters personal and interpersonal growth, empowering you to make a meaningful mark on the people around you, in your greater community, and out in the world. Remember: we personally develop, so that we can show up for the biggest challenges and opportunities in our collective container.
Ultimately, I see mindfulness and my coaching approach as a vital tool-kit for fusing personal development and social impact. I believe strongly in the potential for us to raise our consciousness and resilience as a means to create micro and macro change in our collective humanity.
The secret sauce of mindfulness can be distilled into these 3 attentional skills. I integrate this foundation into my coaching approach.
Concentration.
Concentration power is a basic attentional skill that’s needed to be present-centered. It allows you to tap into what many people refer to as FLOW STATE, a zoned in focus on the task at hand. If you really want to connect with anything you’re doing in the moment (performing work in time blocks to optimize your efficiency, all the way to fully engaging in that yoga class), you’ll need to refine your concentration power.
It refers to your ability to hold your attention on an object of focus. The two main flavors of concentration are ‘durative’ and ‘momentary’ (and both types are significant). Durative refers to holding your attention in a restricted domain for an extended period (like focusing on the breath, for example). There’s also momentary concentration, which is marked by briefly but intently focusing on each sensory event as it comes up. Your attention might float broadly within a vast range of sensory experience, and you momentarily experience a moment of high concentration with each thing as it arises.
Clarity.
Sensory clarity is also a basic attentional skill that’s needed in order to be present-centered. Developing clarity is so important because it allows you to discern where pain is located in your body. It can allow you to know if you’re having an anxiety attack, or a heart attack. It gives you the power to discern the next right move to take in life (should I take that job offer? What’s the skillful thing to say to my coworker in this moment? What’s your true calling, and am I willing to pursue that?)
This skill is marked by your ability to know the difference between the 3 core sensory categories: See (sight and mental image, i.e. visualizations; Hear (sound and mental talk, i.e. thinking); and Feel (body sensation and emotional body sensation). Awareness of the senses and building an adaptive, healthy relationship with sensation are key on the path of cultivating self-actualization and refinement of your ability to orient with the world around you.
Equanimity.
This is a by-product and skill of a mindfulness practice. I personally think that this piece is the MOST powerful. Equanimity is a steadiness, an ability to hold steady and be fully in a situation without pushing it away or wanting MORE of it (regardless of its quality). For example, if you’re laying off an employee, equanimity allows you to be fully present in this challenging meeting, allowing you to be with whatever response they may have to the news, to hold that response with compassion and full attention, and to respond skillfully with boundaries and kindness. That’s possible with high levels of equanimity.
Equanimity is a flavor of the way you orient toward experience, marked by an ability to hold the sensory experiences with non-judgment, compassion, full acceptance as well as awareness. With increased equanimity, there’s a decrease in craving (wanting more) and aversion (turning away). Equanimity is like a strong ship at sea: you’re the steady ship at sea, amidst the sunny, calm days, as well as the amidst the hurricane winds and choppy sea. You stay afloat regardless of the weather conditions.
My Coaching Specialties
Mindfulness Meditation
I share with you how to develop an effective formal practice as well as daily practice to cultivate concentration, clarity and equanimity. Not only that, but I introduce to you the mindfulness philosophy and techniques to support you in addressing your challenges and goals.
Habit Development
I support clients in becoming aware of their active habits and patterns. From there, I help them uncover why those habits and patterns are in place, as well as the mindfulness and mindset strategy set to best undo or transform those habits and patterns into aligned ways of being in the world.
Career Growth
As a Business Coach, I support people in landing the role and career they truly want. My role as a coach is to help you identify the professional development needs and strategic action steps it will take to help you get from point A to point B, whether that’s landing a new role, getting a promotion, negotiating pay increases or making a career transition. Knowing how to navigate job interviews, important career conversations, writing contracts, identifying and holding boundaries (and more), are vital as you perform your meaningful work in the world. It takes greater influence, interpersonal skills, equanimity, necessity, clarity and courage. I guide people in developing the skills and taking skillful, effective actions to support them in achieving their career goals.
Interpersonal Development
Enhancing and supporting your relationships is vital to your happiness and legacy! Across romantic, platonic, familial and professional relationships, I’ll support you in integrating the mindfulness strategies, high performance strategies and attachment theory so that you can enjoy meaningful, aligned, deep and secure relationships. Not only that, but I’ll create the container for you to strategize on your deepest impact on our world’s most pressing issues and causes, and gain momentum toward social impact in areas that call out to you most.
Sober Living and Addiction Recovery
If you are living a life in addiction recovery or are interested in pursuing sober living, I will provide you with the accountability, reflective questions and frameworks to support new habit development and shedding the old habits and behaviors, in support of your new lifestyle. I bring to you over 6 years of experience in addiction recovery, with experience using multiple psycho-spiritual frameworks to support successful recovery and abstinence.
Attachment Repair
Attachment theory is a psychological framework that makes sense of the ways in which you orient toward yourself and to the world (and others). Your attachment strategies as an adult are determined by the way your caregiver oriented toward you in adolescence. Attachment is adaptive and malleable. I support clients in coming to understand the tenets of secure and non-secure attachment styles, and the psycho-spiritual approach to repairing your attachment strategies to ultimately be secure in relationships.
Mindset + Positive Psychology
Having worked for the world’s leading High Performance Coach for over 3 years, I bring to you the game-changing positive psychology and mindset strategies and curriculum that are used to support leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, creatives and more. As part of my coaching consulting, I offer you new perspectives, strategies, questions, journaling prompts and exercises to disrupt thought patterns and help you adapt, thrive and grow.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE
SAYING
“Jess makes me feel powerful, calm, and loved and inspires me to shine. These days, I’m making choices based on new revelations brought up during our coaching sessions and reflection, instead of fear.”
— Hannah H., Creative Agency Manager,
Minneapolis, MN
“Before working with Jess, I didn’t believe that I could have the life I so badly wanted. I was so accustomed to hiding my authentic self from the world and honestly...myself. Despite being professionally successful, I had no sense of direction or motivation because I was making choices in my life based on what I believed others thought was best for me. I would frequently wake up in the night with a feeling of anxiety. I had a million things to do, yet none of them really excited me. I never wanted to admit that I wasn’t happy. Deep down, something told me there was something more I needed to do with my life…more meaning, more purpose. And I didn’t even know where to begin to uncover this.
That’s when I called Jess!
Since working with Jess, I stepped into a major role in building a company (something I never thought was possible) that now provides great work/life balance and true excitement. I’m more present in my relationships, and I beat myself up a lot less. I’m more willing to be an honest, authentic version of myself without obsessing about what people are going to think. Jess makes me feel powerful, calm, and loved and inspires me to shine. These days, I’m making choices based on new revelations brought up during our coaching sessions and reflection, instead of fear. I am more confident in who I am than I have ever been and have been using my voice and shining my light in the world.
Instead of feeling like a victim of circumstance, I finally feel like the creator of my own life and it’s all thanks to the bright and brilliant soul that is Jess Lipman! If you ever get the chance to work with her - I HIGHLY recommend that you do!”
— Hannah H., Creative Agency Manager, Minneapolis, MN
“Jessica helped me successfully navigate two job transitions with great results.
I was at an impasse with a long time employer due to compensation and culture. I needed help to pull the trigger and make some changes.
I am not typically a “self-help” enthusiast, but Jess’s method is grounded and logical, and ultimately fit my needs perfectly. She helped me realize my value and convinced me to take the risk with another employer. While, the new employer turned out not to be a good fit, she helped me identify it as the learning experience that it was and try again.
She coached me through the tough conversations I would face and gave me the tools to believe in myself and negotiate for what I needed. She showed me that it’s all about focusing on what you can offer while staying true to your own needs. She was a great advocate.
My next move resulted in a 30% more compensation, increased responsibility, upward mobility, and even company-paid grad school. I am very grateful for her coaching!”
— Joseph A., Environmental Division Manager
Philadelphia, PA
“Jess’ impact on my life has been immense.
Before I met her, I was caught up in co-dependency, living in cyclical patterns and denying my own truth. Jess helped me to see all of this with deep compassion and patience. She held my hand as I struggled to break free of my patterning, and believed in and celebrated with me at every new step into freedom.”
“I have a lot of respect for Jess’ knowledge and guidance.
She approaches situations with kindness and wisdom and really makes you feel like she’s on your team. If you need a compassionate guide to transition you into a better, more aligned life - she’s the one you want.”
— Jessica M., Co-Founder and Vice President, Oneness Tribe Portland, OR