Ryan Rigoli

Ryan V. Rigoli is a gentle opener of truth. He is a Co-Founder and the Chief Soul Strategist at Soulful Brand.

Ryan has a unique ability to tune into what makes people unique and help them move through challenges with lightness and ease.

He specializes in helping service entrepreneurs to experience greater clarity of focus in their business and to deeply feel and communicate their own uniqueness. The outcome is a powerful resonance and deeper emotional connection with their community.

With more than 15 years of Brand and Product Marketing experience, Ryan has held leadership roles at Yahoo! and Homestead.com and launched a number of innovative services into the market. He has consulted for dozens of start-ups and entrepreneurs who are creating positive change and helping to restore greater balance in their communities and in themselves.

Some things that are important to him: speak your truth; walk your own path; know the gifts you’ve been given and use them in the service of others; balance the past, present and future in the now; and when appropriate, play your bongos loudly.

Ryan’s Gift: Helping people discover and live in alignment
with their unique purpose and gifts.

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Certifications and Other Mentionables

Integral Coach® with New Ventures West
Mentor for new Coaches in NVW Coaching School
Trained True Purpose™ Coach
Trained Voice Dialogue Facilitator
B.S. Economics and Environmental Science, Stanford University
Student of Persian martial arts form
Student of spiritual and somatic practices from multiple wisdom traditions
Ryan’s Life Coaching Business supporting Marketing Professionals: http://rigolicoaching.com
Inspiration: http://carmelorecordings.com

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My Story

Like many people I’ve spent a good portion of my life asking some basic questions. Who am I really? Why am I here? What can I uniquely bring into this world?

From an early age I read anything I could get my hands on to help me. I asked my teachers lots of questions. I observed the nuances of language, the way people communicated, the way they impacted others. I wondered what they were really good at in their lives and what they really weren’t.

Over time, I was fortunate enough to channel this incessant curiosity into some real work. Like many connoisseurs of consumer behavior and consumer language I landed in the field of brand marketing.

I found myself passionate about identifying what a company stood for and how to ‘make people believe it.’ I found this strangely fascinating but also frustrating.

Although I was working with great people and some fun brands, I felt like I was approaching marketing with just my mind. I didn’t feel like my gifts were being fully expressed or I was truly being of service in a way that felt fully aligned for me. Over time a lack of passion and feeling of exhaustion set in.

I decided to leave my corporate job and go on an exploration of what felt most true for me.

Delving into this took a huge leap of faith and lot of unlearning and letting go of who I perceived myself to be.

At one point a teacher of mine helped me realize that I couldn’t offer my gifts fully to others until I first offered them to myself.

Even though I was using my gifts at work and in other areas of my life, I realized they still weren’t being fully expressed. My fears were keeping me from really playing big.

I went through self-development courses, spiritual quests and shamanic journeys only to realize that what I was trying to find was already in me. In essence, it was me.

As it happens, I discovered that my gift (or one of them) is to help others discover and live their gifts and to see how unique and special they really are.

Once I was able to really see myself, to start loving more parts of myself, even the parts I didn’t like that much or that seemed to act up at funny times, then I was really able to start helping people, and companies, to do the same.

At a certain point I was able to hold enough space for others and really see them deeply enough that they could then eventually see themselves—their own sense of purpose, their own gifts, and their own unique contribution to the world.

When people more fully know themselves and the people they are meant to serve, what they can bring to the world is nothing short of extra-ordinary.

It’s in this work that I find a deep sense of joy and meaning just for being alive. And sometimes I just play the bongos to do that too.