Consultant. Collaborator.
Change Agent. Beatnik.
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I spent my entire life listening to everyone else. Trying to make them happy. Trying to avoid getting hurt. Only to be left alone on the worst day of my life.
This is about sovereignty over my own life. What experiences I actually want. How I want to feel. Who I actually want to be. What's most important to me......and what happens when I serve those things first.
I'll tell you what happened. I'm the happiest, most honest person I've ever been. I suddenly have the one thing that kept me from working with people as a career......integrity. I'm walking the walk. It's not bragging. It was earned. Came at great cost. I'll never go back.
Working with me won't be easy. You'll be challenged. I'll hold you accountable. You'll push yourself in ways the old you will hate. You'll likely lose a few people......that's part of it. When you shift big things in your life it rocks the boat and threatens some people's identity. You may even hear "how dare you" or "who do you think you are?" That's how you'll know you're getting somewhere.
I wish I could say change is easy. To be honest, it is. It's the people and the process that are hard. That's what I'm here for.
I am the reminder that the only permission you've ever needed is your own. The garage with the tools to borrow to get the job done. You even get to keep the tools.
Who I am, in plain language
My name is Jhöl. I came out the other side and realized I couldn't sit by knowing other men were in it. My journey wasn't just for me and my sons. It's for anyone who knows that pain and that struggle and wants to change it......or make it better for themselves. That's who I am.
I lost my dad in 2025. I lost one of my closest friends to suicide that same year. I lost my sister to suicide twenty-three years earlier. I rebuilt my relationships with my two sons from the studs out. Two failed marriages taught me the difference between fixing something and letting it go. Most of what I know I learned the hard way......the only way most of us learn anything that sticks.
I'm not a certified counsellor. I never will be. I have a degree in solutions-focused coaching, twenty years of practice, and a school enrolment because the people in front of me deserve a better listener than the one I used to be. What I am is somebody who's been on the floor and built a way of standing back up that other people can use. It's called Beatnik Consulting......and sometimes it takes a Jholt to find a new path.
I'm a guy who lost three of the people he loved most inside the same hard year......and didn't go where the math said he was going to go. This page is for the man who's not sure which way the math is leaning right now.
Why I do this
The mission is small and large at the same time. The small version: I want to lower the rate at which men take their own lives. The large version: I want a generation of men to grow up watching their dads learn how to feel things out loud, so they don't have to learn it the way I did.
That's it. That's the whole thing.
Beatnik Consulting is what came out of a declaration I made to my son and to my life that day.......No more.......I never want another man to feel the way I felt the day my wife left me, the day my dad died, and everything I knew abandoned me. Peer-to-peer, not top-down. Renovation, demolition when needed. Sometimes what you've built is solid and just needs a fresh set of eyes. Sometimes it's rotten and we name it rotten. We don't decide which until we sit down together.
How we work together
Beatnik isn't therapy. It's part coaching, part course, mostly a peer practice......one human across the table from another, doing the actual work.
There are four doors in:
A discovery session. One conversation. We sit down, you tell me what's loud right now, I tell you whether I'm the right person for the room. No charge for the first one.
A 10-session plan based on what works, backed by research and a lot of things I wish I never tried to make work myself. We sit down, we get honest about what is so, and then get busy making a plan to get YOU what YOU want. That's it. Show up, do the work, change your results.
The workshop. Small group. In person when possible, online when it's not. Built for people who are tired of running and aren't sure where to put it down.
Custom coaching. Sometimes the standard 10-session arc isn't the shape of what you need. Maybe it's three sessions on one specific thing. Maybe it's a deeper build on something the arc only touches. We talk, we figure out what fits, we build it.
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Conferences. Trades nights. Men's gatherings. Recovery rooms. Workshops. Podcasts.
If your room needs an honest voice and a guy who's done the homework......let's talk.
You know why you're still on this page.
You've got options. My door's open......