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Hi! I’m Lenéa.
I'm a writer, creative, strategist, and coach.
I live in Berkeley, California with my partner, dog, and 2 cats in a 1915 Edwardian apartment that doubles as my office.
I like fashion, classic cars, coming of age stories, pilates, yoga, and very very long walks. I am an amateur photographer, cook, interior decorator, and sewist. I dabble in jewelry making, tarot reading, and reiki, too. I love craft and artisanship, movement, energetics, phenomenology, spirituality, animals, boardgames, sculpture, and design.
I believe liberation means transformation – the ability to evolve our perspectives and our lives for the better, however we as individuals define that word. I believe we all have the right and the responsibility to evolve and my life’s work centers upon helping people do that with more joy and more ease.
Lenéa Sims Does Good Work™
Since 2021, I’ve been a Ph.D. candidate in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecoposychologies at Pacifica Graduate Institute – basically, I study social change through the lens of the conscious and unconscious patterns that individuals and groups experience. I write about what I’m learning about cultivating liberation over on my Substack, sharing stories and strategies from my own life and my clients’.
In a former life, I was a marketing director and, for over a decade, I’ve been a strategic consultant. In the last decade, I've worked with over four dozen nonprofits, small businesses, lifestyle brands, influencers, and changemakers to design and evaluate programs, products, and campaigns that move the needle. I still work with select clients which you can learn more about here [coming soon].
As a guide, I’ve coached hundreds of creatives and entrepreneurs in bettering their relationship to themselves, their creative practices, and to source so that they can feel fulfilled and supported in their work. I’ve also lead groups and teams in cultivating supportive perspectives and practices including in offices and on stages like SXSW where I was invited to speak in 2018. Now, I work with coaching clients in both one-off and ongoing engagements.
I’m also the founder of Inner Play and Outer Work. Inner play (2020-2023) was an online self-care studio, hosting workshops and events for creatives focused on spiritual, creative, and energetic wellness. And Outer Work (2020-2022), was an online community care clubs, focused on building our collective capacity for the practice of social justice through education, reflection, and sustainable action. The Outer Work newspaper produced in collaboration with Practice, was featured in It’s Nice That and won the Public Service Award from Communication Arts.
My work across creative projects, guidance and coaching, and strategic consulting has been featured in numerous publications including Well+Good, Paper, Essence, The Fullest, Holisticism, Forbes, and more. Uou can also listen to me sharing my perspectives and work on numerous podcasts, linked in a playlist to the right.