You've built something real.
Now you need to become the person who takes it further.
You Don't Need A Map.
You Need a Compass.
You are already building something. You have been for a while.
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Most of the people I work with are successful by most measures. Revenue is coming in. The reputation is real. The work is happening. What they are dealing with is harder to name: a growing sense that something has shifted between who they are and what they are building, and that the gap is starting to cost them. Decisions that used to feel clear are taking longer. The energy is thinner than it should be.
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That is usually the moment people find me. Not in crisis. At a point where the current version of themselves is no longer quite the right fit for what comes next.
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The work I do is about closing that gap.
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What I Do
For the founder who has lost
their bearing
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You know how to build. You have been doing it for years. The compass has just stopped giving a clear reading, and the decisions that used to feel obvious are taking more out of you than they should. Find Your Bearing is where we start.
For the founder hitting the same invisible wall
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You can see exactly where you need to go. The question is why you keep stopping before you get there. Break the Ceiling is a focused piece of work that locates what is holding that ceiling in place and takes it apart.
Earl Talbot
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I am Earl Talbot. I work as a Guide.
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I spent years in high-performing sales and management consulting before walking away to find out what I actually wanted. What I found in that process became the foundation of the work I do now.
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I guide founders and leaders through the gap between who they have been and who this next stage requires, using the Inner Compass: a structured approach built around their specific situation, not a generic framework applied to everyone.
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Certified Trainer of NLP. International retreat facilitator since 2002. Author of Leading with Self-Awareness.
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"It is not often that, in this life, one comes across another human being who is not only extremely caring about one's life, but also has the training and inherent wisdom to act as a practical guide to one's inner soul.
It seems that within the space of two short face-to-face sessions and a few phone calls, you had the ability to turn my negativity into something both constructive and positive. Knowing you has quite literally, changed my life and my life's destiny for the better.
In contrast to the first telephone conversation I had with you and the subsequent first meeting, I am now able to think and act as though tomorrow is but one day in a long future of tomorrows; the real sense of "future" that I now feel is like having a weight lifted off my shoulders."
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- Alan Kummer
Programmes
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For founders and leaders who've lost orientation. A guided Inner Compass journey, mostly self-directed, with one live session at the moment where it matters most. You leave with a Compass Card and a calibration document: a clear picture of where you are and what direction you're moving in.
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For those who know their direction but keep meeting the same internal wall. A focused intervention using NLP-based frameworks to work through the impostor phenomenon, competing values, and the narrative that no longer fits. Not a conversation. A recalibration.
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For those ready to go all the way through. Six sessions over three months. The full identity recoding process, for founders who want to change the operating system they've been running on.
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Retreats​​
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The deepest work Earl offers. In-person, immersive, in places that hold space for real change: Thailand, France, and beyond. For those who want to do this properly, away from the noise of daily life.
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