Become the best story
you've ever told.
How you lead, love, collaborate, and create — all of it changes
when you stop performing and start living from who you actually are.
STEP INTO YOUR
BURNING GROUND
This book is a story and a companion for the season that asks you to let go of what has been holding you together. With Soul Inquiry prompts woven throughout, it guides you to hear your truth clearly, trust what your body knows, and come home to yourself.
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You’ve built what most dream of:
The title. The track record.
The room where decisions get made.
... And it's costing you more than anyone can see.
There's not enough of you to go around. You keep choosing what's familiar over what's true. You're running, proving, staying one step ahead... and quietly wondering when it gets to feel like enough.
You know the old tools give you the old results. What you're looking for is clarity on what comes next — and the courage to actually lead from it.
That's exactly where this work begins.
Executives, founders, and thought leaders find me when they're ready to toss out the playbook and live, lead, and communicate on their own terms.
Success Stories
Celinne is quite magical. She has a powerful process and incredible intuition that guide the experience. She has a way of tapping into what I most want and why, and enabled me to find my own answers that were buried deep. I love her. The time I have spent with her feels like a special gift.
After coaching with her, everything started clicking together. I knew I was onto something when I sat down to write the intro for my book, in which I shared my fears, and my co-author raved about the depth of my honesty. Additionally, being completely raw and clear about why I am doing this work was a huge motivator. The chapters wrote themselves. Through my work with Celinne, I had major insights of clarity about my book and how to describe its essence in a very simple way. She taught me this, I never would have done this a million years
My book is now published and I feel incredibly proud of what I have achieved! To me, the possibilities are unlimited, but it’s all about reaching as many possible people in the world as I can with this work.
Celinne really does have a way of bringing out your story in the most powerful, honest way possible. If you get the chance to work with her, definitely take that opportunity.
I recently got to work with Celinne around crafting my own story and really putting it out there in a way that was real, authentic, gritty, and honest, as well as making sure it had a business focus.
When I got to work with Celinne, it was magical! It was crazy how she was able to ask me the questions that really got to the heart of my story and had me think of things that I never would have thought of in the way that she presented them. She made sure that I dug really deep into my own story: “what is most important?”, “what do I want to share?”, “why do I want to share it?” When my story was all put together, it was not only beautifully done, honest, real, but had that business side of it as well so I could relate to those that I want to attract and serve inside my own business.
The content she helped us create for our Portugal Stopover campaign had stellar engagement, told a unique story, and helped the internal marketing team better understand the brand’s strengths.
Celinne has a special skill of finding a story where most people won’t – the content she helped us create for our campaign had stellar engagement, told a unique story, and helped the internal marketing team better understand the brand’s strengths.
I was really happy with the brand story work Celinne did for us… I’ve already hired Celinne to do similar work with my other airline, and will continue to hire her in the coming future.
Celinne is absolutely BRILLIANT at what she does. If you’re in ANY line of work that requires you to authentically connect with a group of people, you need to work with Celinne. She will save you so much time, money and energy from trying to figure all of this out on your own!
As a multiple 7-figure business owner with over 100,000 social media followers, one would think that I’ve got this “story clarity” thing figured out. However, something called me to work with Celinne 1:1, starting with her Story Clarity Intensive, because I knew I could make this simpler, easier, and bring even more alignment into my business.
The fact that I was on a Tony Robbins stage in front of 10,000 people was absolutely transformational for me. If you told me 2 years ago, there’s no way I would believe that.
My favorite part about working with Celinne was seeing her commitment and support. So consistent that it will make the non-believers, believers. The level of commitment that she has for this work, and the level of commitment she has for being there for me is such a joy because I know no matter what’s going on, there’s no judgment. She can love and support me where I’m at… It’s an amazing gift.
As a result of the work that she did and the story that she created about my brand, it got picked up by huge publishers. Some of the biggest brands were writing about me in Business Insider, Forbes, Travel & Leisure.
Celinne was the reason why all of that happened. This was the next step of helping me to expand further and I’m at a point now where I have a great network. My life is completely free. I do what I want whenever I want. My brands are beautiful and solid. There’s a really strong structure behind my brand. There is a lot of value behind me, it’s not just a fluffy brand. It’s real. And that’s the power of storytelling.
Celinne's Phiosophy
Most leadership development teaches you what to "do" differently.
This work changes where you're leading from.
There are four capacities that set extraordinary leaders apart. Without them, your leadership hits a ceiling, your communication lands as information instead of truth, and the gap between who you are and how you're experienced by others never fully closes.
- Tracking —The ability to read what's actually happening in a room: beneath the words, beneath the performance. Leaders who track make others feel seen in ways they can't explain. They make better decisions because they're working with the full picture.
- Transmission —The difference between speaking and being heard, between presence and pretense. When you transmit, what you say lands in the body, not just the mind. People don't understand you; they feel you.
- Articulate — Not eloquence, but precision. The ability to say the true thing clearly, without diluting it to make others comfortable. The leaders who change rooms are the ones who've learned to speak from clarity instead of from approval.
- Aliveness — The energy underneath everything else. Without it, you can track, transmit, and articulate perfectly... and still not move anyone. Aliveness is what makes people want to be in your orbit. It's not a personality trait. It's a practice.
What becomes possible:
- From Fortune 150 executive who couldn't publish her book → to bestselling author, sought-after speaker, and the most herself she's ever been.
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From exited executive on sabbatical, no through-line, no idea what came next — to C-suite leader, crystal clear on her story, redefining the culture of the organization she now leads.
- From 9-figure entrepreneur afraid to be seen → to speaking on Tony Robbins’ stage to 10,000+ people and becoming a recognized voice in personal transformation.
meet Celinne da costa
executive Coach | Speaker | Author
I didn't come to this work through a single path.
I came through 70+ countries, conversations with hundreds of people across every walk of life, thousands of hours of training, and the realization that the story we tell about who we are determines everything: how we lead, how we love, how we show up when it actually matters.
For the past decade I've worked privately with Fortune 150 executives, founders, and thought leaders at the moments that don't make the LinkedIn profile — the crossroads, the quiet reckonings, the chapters that don't have a name yet.
What makes this work different is where it operates. Most coaches work on one dimension: strategy, mindset, or communication. I work across all of them: the inner game, how you show up interpersonally, the cultural dynamics around you, and the concrete actions that move things forward.
What I bring is the ability to see what's actually happening beneath what you're saying — and help you find the language for who you're becoming.
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