Coaching · Reflection · Galway, Ireland

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Jakub Smigielski

Jakub Smigielski

Coach · Writer
Galway, Ireland

✦ Substack ✦ LinkedIn ✦ jakub@shamrock.academy

About

I spent years thinking my way around things. Then I started moving through them.

I'm a coach, writer, and operations leader based in Galway. I work with people who are stuck in their heads — leaders, career transitioners, people in the middle of something they can't quite name yet.

My own experience as a recovered overthinker shapes how I work. I don't judge the pattern. I know the way out of it.

I'm completing my PDCM qualification with Kingstown College Dublin — accredited by the ICF and EMCC — and I write a Substack on reflection, awareness, and what happens when you finally start moving.

Approach

Coaching that changes how you see — not just what you do.

"Action creates insights. Not the other way around. Real clarity only comes when you start moving — even imperfectly, even unsurely."

Most coaching focuses on behaviour — new habits, new goals, new plans. That can help. But the changes that actually last tend to happen at a different level. They happen when something shifts in how you see yourself, other people, and what's possible.

That's the work I'm drawn to. Not fixing what's broken, but helping you see it — properly, clearly, from the inside — so that what needs to change can change on its own terms.

Reflection first

We slow down before we speed up. Understanding the pattern matters more than fixing it quickly.

Action as insight

Small moves create clarity that planning never can. We find the next step — then reflect on what it showed us.

You already know

Most people don’t come to coaching to find something new. They come because they can’t quite hear what they already know. My job isn’t to give you answers — it’s to create the conditions where you can hear yourself clearly.

Writing

Thoughts on reflection, action, and seeing differently.

I write on Substack — occasional, unhurried pieces on the things I notice in coaching, in life, and on long walks.

Reflection and Action — Why Disconnecting Immediate Response Matters → Reflection Is Not Only a Mindful Process — It's Also a Brain Thing → Action Creates Insights → What If Money Wasn't the Issue? → My 2026 Resolutions: Not Really →
Read all essays on Substack →

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Start with a conversation.
No commitment required.

A discovery session is 30 minutes — free, informal, no agenda other than finding out if working together makes sense for both of us.

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