When the business is succeeding
and the rest of your life is quietly falling apart
and the rest of your life is quietly falling apart
I am a private advisor to founders and executives doing between ten million and one hundred million dollars who are navigating the specific problems that success creates and that nobody around them is positioned to solve honestly.
The people who call me are dealing with one or more of these:
You are considering selling the company and you cannot tell if what you are feeling is genuine readiness or exhaustion — and the difference matters enormously for what comes next.
Your marriage is suffering quietly because the business has been the most present relationship in the house for longer than anyone wants to admit.
You hit the financial goal you spent a decade working toward and felt nothing the morning after — and you have no one safe to say that to.
You are making major decisions completely alone because everyone around you has something at stake in the outcome and nobody is telling you the truth.
You have lost the excitement that built the thing and you do not know if that means it is time to leave or time to rebuild.
You stepped away from something you built for twenty years and the other side of it is nothing like what you imagined — the identity is gone and you are figuring out who you are now.
You are at the top of something genuinely significant and completely isolated — surrounded by people who need things from you and no one who truly sees what you are carrying.
You are burning out in the quiet way that nobody around you notices because you are still performing at the highest level while running on empty underneath it.
WHO I WORK WITH — SPECIFICALLY
Founders and executives who have built something significant and who are navigating the specific problems that success creates — and who have outgrown everyone around them who could address those problems honestly.
WHAT WORKING WITH ME ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE
I am not a coach with a curriculum. I am not a consultant with a report. I am the private advisor you call when the decision is too significant and too personal for anyone inside your existing world to hold honestly.
One conversation at a time. Completely private. No agenda except your clarity.
Cannot make a major decision because everyone around them has a stake in the outcome.
Marriage or primary relationship suffering because of the demands and the identity the business requires.
Lost purpose or excitement after reaching a significant financial milestone.
Identity crisis after exiting or stepping back from something they built for decades.
Burned out at the top of something genuinely significant with no one safe to admit it to.
Completely isolated at the level they are operating at with no one who truly understands what they are carrying.
Making decisions from the top of a room where no one challenges them and beginning to feel the cost of that.
Private 60-minute session with Maria Fontana
The beginning of the most clarifying professional conversation you will have this year
I advise founders, business owners, and senior leaders at the stage where what they’ve built is successful, but no longer operating as cleanly as it should.
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