What do you want to write?
How much do you desire this?
What kind of results do you want?
Book a Zoom call with Frankie. We’ll talk about some history (or non-history) of your reading/writing life, we’ll identify your obstacles, and we’ll talk about things you’ve written or dream of writing. It’s an inspiring space, totally free flowing, and you’ll come away with a road map for connecting yourself to your writing.
You don’t have to prepare anything. Frankie will ask you questions to get us where we’re going. I am a coach for writers who want to understand themselves, their imaginations, and leave their mark on the world. No one else will write what you dream of writing. It has to be you.
FIFTH BRAIN LEADERSHIP COACHING
You already have everything you need to lead.
Not the polished version of you. Not the credentials or the title or the performance of competence. The real thing: the accumulated weight of every experience, relationship, memory, and hard-won knowledge you carry. That's your fifth brain, and most leaders have never been taught to stand in its power.
Here's how Frankie sees it. The first brain tracks your interior world, how you feel in any given moment. The second takes in the physical space around you. The third attends to relationships, who's in the room and what's happening between you. The fourth pulls from memory, making associations between now and everything that came before. The fifth brain is the one that synthesizes all of it. It's the meaning-maker. The muse. The place where your singular wisdom lives. A leader who knows how to access the fifth brain doesn't just react to the room. They read it, synthesize it, and know what to do next.
Most leadership development ignores it entirely. Frankie doesn't.
Many leaders spend enormous energy managing what they can't change, past failures, external limits, the gap between where they are and where they thought they'd be. What gets ignored is the wealth of material those exact experiences created. The narrative that only you can live is not a detour from your leadership. It is your leadership. When you learn to lead yourself first, from that specific, irreplaceable accumulation of who you are, everything else follows.
In Fifth Brain Leadership coaching, we work with who you are, held in radiant warmth and genuine curiosity. We'll find the throughlines of your history, the moments where your power showed up, sometimes gloriously, sometimes in the wreckage, and learn to read what your fifth brain has been trying to tell you all along. What you'll leave with is not a list of action items. It's a clearer, more tender relationship with the leader you actually are, and a living map for becoming the one you already know yourself to be capable of becoming.
Join Frankie for a free 30-minute consult.
Come ready with your honest desire. If it's a fit, she'll tell you.
COACHING TESTIMONIALS
FREE-FLOATING COACHING WITH FRANKIE
We design your coaching package together!
During our free consult, we’ll talk about your intention, history, ideas, and craft your package for a small project or a book length project.
The frequency is based on the results you want.
Do you need a companion? Accountability?
Do you want to meet and talk every week?
Once or twice a month?
What are you ready to invest in the dream of your writing life?
Need help getting the idea going? I create prompts based on your work.
Need visionary feedback on what you’ve written? I read or listen to you read and show you themes, symbols, gaps, and strengths.
Need a few sessions to talk about preparing materials to submit? Book descriptions, query letters, ways to understand the book you’ve written.
Helping writers is my work on this earth.
Together we will figure out how to move forward and the size and scope of a package.
(Payment installations available. )
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKAGE?
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Live zoom meetings with Frankie on your schedule
Frankie reads work ahead of time, or you read it live on a call.
Freely email and/or use a walkie–talkie app, Voxer, with questions about the writing life, the writing spirit, craft questions, artistic confidence wobbles, etc.
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Set goals for the month, vast and impressive ones, realistic ones, or minimalistic ones (while being open to letting the work tell you what to do).
Work with Frankie to generate personalized writing prompts & other guidance for your particular project
Get deadlines: Schedule a Zoom meeting at intervals to create deadlines for you to think about a certain idea, submit pages, or develop questions.
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Develop the flexibility needed by a writing life. You can send work ahead of time for Frankie to read, or read work aloud during Zoom meetings, discuss your particular obstacles, write together on Zoom, or try any ideas you have.
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If desired, at the end of the month, write a paragraph or a page articulating any learnings from the month and get a response from Frankie.
IS THIS YOU?
You want someone to pay attention, be curious, and keep you company as you learn what you are writing about.
You have nothing written yet, just an idea in your head.
You have a chapter scratched out. You have a handful of poems. You have a whole book draft.
You want someone to remind you of the original idea when you need to remember it, or to encourage you to move past it when you need to be pushed.
You need deadlines, but don’t want to drown in guilt.
You’re beset by tiny rules that hinder you at every turn (such as, “I shouldn’t write about that,” or limiting beliefs like “I can’t write dialogue”).
You need someone who isn’t afraid of your experiments, who encourages you to dig deeper, trust your ideas, who reminds you to be patient, who reminds you that you own your writing and writing life.
WHO IS THE COACH?
MEET FRANKIE
Hi. I’m Frankie. I’m a writer and a writing mentor. I love the real, tangible, important puzzle of helping you find the voice and confidence and craft you need to write the project simmering inside of you. This is so important to me that I started my own writing biz. I have time blocked out so that it’s just you and me and your writing. I will write prompts for you or listen to you read or read your work and give you feedback. I can give you powerful tools of writing craft. I want to get you into your project with joy and support and curiosity.
Get some Free-Floating Frankie Time in your life, including reading, and personalized prompts developed just for your project!
NOT SURE YET?
The Fifth Brain Collective has several online courses, live workshops, a community membership, and more! Check out our other offerings below, and make sure to sign up for our newsletter to stay updated on future announcements!
Celebrating New Books in the World!
We are thrilled to share two extraordinary books to be published last summer. As a writing coach, Frankie had the privilege of supporting the authors in their journeys.
A memoir
BACKBENDS
by Timothy Dyke
The upcoming nonfiction exploration:
Lily in a Codebox: The Search for AI's Poetic Voice
by Eric Fischman and Lee Frankel-Goldwater
As a coach and creative collaborator, Frankie offers guidance and love for the intention of the text, and she finds it deeply rewarding to see writers bring their visions to life. All of these authors did the beautiful, brave work of writing books that have an uncanny clarity of voice and freshness of vision.
Here’s to more voices, more books, and more creative courage.