Single Session
$200
A one-off deep dive for a specific knot — or a taste before committing.
- One focused session
- Take-home practice
ADHD & Depth Coaching with Nico
Coaching for creatives, founders, & professionals who are done white-knuckling their focus.
Boutique 1:1 coaching, transforming scattered attention into self-led work you can sustain over the long haul to achieve your dreams.
Hundreds of clients · Lived ADHD experience · Sliding scale available upon request
On old maps, the Latin phrase HIC SVNT DRACONES — Here Be Dragons — marked the edge of the “known” world where the cartographer’s knowledge ran out and fantastic beasts came out to play.
Those old cartographers give us a clue to our own work.
Once we venture past the bounds of our known worlds, the beasts come out to play.
We feel our dragons, lions, and leviathans as emotions and behavior patterns that seem to prevent us from actually achieving what we want: nervousness, fear, distraction, anger, frustration, avoidance, and more.
But your dragons are not the enemy.
Those powerful emotions let you know you are entering into uncharted waters.
Which is where our work begins. I coach clients who have projects, goals, business(es), life plans, or dreams that they want to finally realize.
We all have the experience of a project we keep circling, or our focus that shows up for everything except the work we need to do today, or even sense that our own attention belongs to someone else.
We treat these as flaws to be fixed, and so we run away from our own potential and back into the safe part of the map.
Sound familiar?
You’ve tried every system and they work for a time, but eventually, the wheels come off again.
Missing the Mark
An important goal keeps sliding while my focus is on everything else. Why do I struggle to make time for something I actually care about?
Success without fulfillment
I’ve made it to the promised land but I still feel scattered and unfulfilled with what I do. What’s that about?
The Shame Spiral
Every abandoned project becomes fresh evidence that I cannot make your dreams reality. Why do I seem to be unable to keep it up?
About Nico
I’m Nico — and I’ve lived this from the inside.
ADHD has been the operating system I’ve run on for my entire life, powering my success over the past decade — from working in real estate and consulting to international development operations. I’ve worked with hundreds of students, creatives, professionals and founders who also have ADHD or struggle with attention, helping them achieve success in their lives and careers, from corporate offices to the fields of sub-Saharan Africa to the foothills of the Himalaya.
I launched Here Be Dragons in 2025 as an agentic amplifier for high-potential founders, creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, and teams who struggle with their attention. In our attention-hungry world of the 21st Century, working with your attention is THE unlock to achieve your goals. Through the coaching frame, we tackle your goals head-on while building the two pillars of attention:
- Strengthen your attentional muscle through advanced meditation techniques and heuristics based on some of the world’s oldest contemplative traditions.
- Resolve your internal resistances — your dragons. Disorganization masks potential for higher levels of achievement. Fear of putting yourself out is your own determination to succeed working against you. Task paralysis is an overactive mind that has not learned to focus yet. Overactivity at work masks inner fear that you haven’t resolved yet.
I work with people on all levels — from single 1:1 sessions to small groups to 3-hour interactive workshops designed for larger companies and incubators.
So let’s chat. It’s about time you stepped out of the shadow and realized your potential.
How we work
Stepping into a coaching framework amplifies your own agency in work and in life.
01
Behavioral Mapping
We work with a simple map to connect our current behaviors within a matrix of: what brings us meaning, where can we embody self-authority and responsibility, how can we apply and grow our knowledge and skills, and how can we best take precise action?
02
Truth & Ownership
Your self-direction is key here, as I will be the most honest person in your life. I always tell you what I think, and I will never introduce goals to you, because everything we work on comes from you. To do this work effectively asks radical honesty of you so that you can finally take ownership of your own development.
03
Embodied Mindfulness
Explore practical attention training grounded in Buddhist mindfulness practice, IFS parts work, and Jungian archetypes so you can start training your attention. The mind is a muscle that can be trained — unfortunately, there is a lot of poor “mind training” apps out there that simply fragment our attention even more.
04
Experimental Framework
Every session, come away with experiments that can help you turn a vague or loose goal into novel experiments that you can test to find what works best for you.
Working together, 1:1
Choose the route that fits.
Most people start with a free discovery call, and every route below can begin there.
Sliding scale available for all 1:1 work.
Most chosen
The 8-Month Program
$3,000
Discover how you work best, rewire your focus, and learn how to actually follow through.
- 2 × 90-min sessions / month
- 1 × 30-min sprint / month
- WhatsApp support
- Monthly Attention Scoreboard
12-Month Depth
Sliding scale
The full journey, for deep or complex work.
- Everything in the 8-month
- Extended timeline
- Deeper archetypal & IFS work
Nico also offers relationship coaching for couples & co-founders, group programs & workshops, and open meditation sessions.
Ready to go past the edge of the map?
Start with a free 60-minute discovery call. No pitch — just a real conversation about what you’re navigating.
Book your free discovery call