““You should call Jefferson.” Those four words have been the best advice I’ve received in the past 5 years; I thank my cousin Tanner Cropper for caring enough to listen and to make the recommendation and connection to Jefferson.

After 10 years of grinding and growing our business, I felt stuck. Or better yet, plateaued, professionally as well as personally. As the saying goes, “you rise to the level of your incompetence.” That’s where I felt I was – at the level of my own incompetence. That thought is hard to deal with and caused me to wrestle internally.
Was I really at my peak?
Was this the end of the road of progress?
Where do I go from here? What do I do next?
Yep, stuck. Plateaued? Definitely!

Jefferson has helped me more than I can describe. In short, he has successfully helped me accomplish the following:
• Understanding and dealing with internal demons and road blocks I have, which hold me back.
• Creating a new vision for my life and business and helping me find the hope to believe in this vision, and the will to work for it.
• Empowering me to discover and use the practical tools necessary to make meaningful progress toward my vision.

The problem with the phrase, “the level of your own incompetence,” is that it is not true. None of us are ever truly stuck, and the “level of our incompetence” is not fixed. But, in my case, I needed help to break through and to push the horizon of my potential further. If this story sounds even remotely familiar, hiring Jefferson may be the best investment of the decade for you.”

“I’ve had the privilege of working with Jefferson in both long-term and his current shorter-term coaching frameworks. Jefferson’s coaching gave me crucial support for becoming a better leader and manager of my business. The coaching and support I experienced played an integral part in successfully selling that business and launching a new one simultaneously!

The lessons and business growth I experienced are measurable and meaningful, but it’s in the area of personal development that I am most grateful to Jefferson. He has a true desire to empower people to succeed (if they want to!), as defined by the individual, and help create a clear roadmap for the future. I know more about myself today because of Jefferson and that has and will continue to help shape my business and personal life for many years to come. I’m looking forward to more targeted coaching opportunities with him in the future.
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““Working with Jefferson has been nothing short of miraculous for me. I arrived at his door steps carrying in me much confusion, fear and doubt. As business owner responsible for leading over 900 clients across various age groups, these challenges were affecting far more than just myself.

Jefferson helped me connect deeply with myself as a business owner, visionary and human. The issues I was facing were not to be solved by logical linear “scientific” approaches. There was nothing that had to be “ticked off”, “sorted” or “dealt with”. They lay in the unexplored places where I had to search, ordinate and embrace parts of myself that were costing me my sanity and the life of my business.

He helped me better navigate through the unknown and the challenges to where the source of the issues hid. Each session with him felt like a pocket of air that I didn’t even know I needed until after. His style is unique, ancient, modern, poetic and profound. Inside Start was not just the name of his practice, it was my initiation as a business owner in aligning my deeper purpose with the pragmatic elements of running the business.

I came to him not knowing what up was from down. There was much work to be done and I didn’t know if I could make it through or not. With great patience, care, challenge and encouragement in the coaching, I found my center. This now allows me to lead my team from a grounded, passionate place.

It’s a privilege to have worked with Jefferson. He lives from the center of his being and in so doing, helped me do the same for myself and all of the people my business impacts.”
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““When I came into the coaching I was frustrated with how my reactiveness was getting the best of me in client relationships, and I was unclear about where my best efforts would generate the most revenue. If I wasn’t upset when things didn’t go as planned, I’d be running anxiety about what might go wrong in the future. These are things I took for granted before, I assumed this was how things were.

Exactly as promised, in the time frame promised, Jefferson handed me the tools to take control of my mindset and reactions. It’s incredible what we’re capable of as business owners. Work is fun again! I am sleeping better, and I can control my thoughts and recognize when my thoughts are controlling me. The coaching gave me the tools to not only to maintain balance and focus, control my own mindset, it allowed me to slow things down and choose differently.

By the completion of our engagement, my values were clear in my business, I prioritized my income streams, and I have a renewed drive and ideas that I’m already putting into play.””

“In May of 2022, I completed a 3-month targeted coaching engagement with Jefferson to support my business in building a solid foundation and getting off the ground. Having previously been in a short coaching engagement with Jefferson as an employee, I knew what a powerful impact this experience would have on driving my dream of business ownership towards fruition. However, what I received was far more than I could have imagined.

When starting my business, I could only view things from an employee’s perspective. The coaching offered major support to begin to see things from a “mile high view”, looking at the big picture of my business and how strategy helps better day to day action.

Jefferson provided a safe space for me to be vulnerable, and as a result I developed a practice of showing myself grace while remembering that I am continually learning. All these elements went into a recipe for growth with the key being that I’m taking steps out of my comfort zone, regularly.

Learning how to zoom in and out from the owner to employee perspective has been extremely effective in teaching me how the things I previously saw as a loss are actually gains in the grand scheme of things. Those techniques coupled with Jefferson’s encouragement to incorporate a set of systems that set the business up for success are truly the tools I didn’t even know I needed!

Watching the vision I dreamed up come to life more and more each day has been the greatest reward of all. I cannot fathom how differently things might be today if I hadn’t engaged Jefferson in this process.

Jefferson is not only highly accessible when you need support between meetings, he holds you accountable in the most caring way while coaching you around how to most effectively prioritize what’s truly most important. ”

“My savings account is healthy for the first time in years. My credit score is up a couple hundred points. My net worth is increasing, so is customer loyalty, profitability, work-flow consistency, employee growth, communication, order, predictability, faith, hope, clarity, and serenity.

I’m a survivor - I would have survied - but I don’t think that Synergetic would still be in business if I had not come into coaching with Jefferson at the time I did. I am a better person for having persevered...and maybe that makes the world a little better.

Lots of lines cross between the things that we want to confine to the realms of business and personal when a human as thoughtful and confused as I am tries to create and build a for-profit business out of an interest or aptitude. Jefferson stood perfectly balanced, watching that line, in exactly the way I needed as I worked through some, let’s say deeply challenging times; and he did it quitie intuitively. His empathy and respectfulness are powerful onion peelers.

Jefferson has a special ability to help those who dare dig deeper within themselves, face the scary questions, squirm through the embarrassing answers, envision something different, and take these first and subsequent shaky steps toward liberty.”
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““Jefferson is one of the most thought provoking, intuitive people I know. He has the ability to understand where you are mentally & emotionally in life & business. He uses this understanding to develop an engaging plan that will push you to the next level. He guides you on your journey by holding you accountable and being encouraging at all times. My experience with Jefferson has left me a much more organized, confident leader. He helped me see that your business is a direct reflection of yourself. By helping me become a better leader, he helped my company become a better company. I would recommend Jefferson to anyone that has a difficult time seeing the big picture of business and life in general. If you feel like your business is running you instead of you running your business, Jefferson will help you see the light.””

“Jefferson helped me build bridges over unsurmountable cliffs, and provided support to get out of deep holes.
He always found the language and engaged me in ways that kept me moving forward in my startup business. He’s helped me bring needed structure to my business including a strong foundation for employees and systems.

The insights he’s brought have translated into real solutions for the everyday problems and decisions I’ve faced as CEO.

I learn something new with every coaching session. I’ve matured and become not only a better leader, but a better person throughout the process!

Kristina sold her company in 2015. ”

““The work I did with Jefferson in the Coaching process has made a dramatic impact on me personally and professionally. He challenged me to see how my choices were limiting my success and to make a shift toward creating a more sustainable business model that supports where I want to go in life. Of course this is an ongoing journey, but I have a clear vision of where I am going and systems in place to scale my business in a meaningful and positive way.”

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““At a time where I had many things going on with my life, Jefferson was able to coach me through using his own unique style of care and understanding yet identifying excuses as he saw them. Jefferson changed the way I looked at things and took me away from being a technician and a cog in my business to being able to stand back, gain a better work life balance and enjoy being a business owner. I highly recommend him as a coach, and I hope will remain a friend. He firmly holds a vision of you succeeding as a more complete version of yourself, holding you accountable to your goals. If the content of what you’re doing day to day is detached, however good it may be it just won’t stick. Jefferson makes it stick by caring about you and the outcome you’re driven to achieve.””

“Working with Jefferson without exaggeration has been life and business altering.

From my very first conversation, he was able to earn my trust and respect with his heart based approach, his sharing of lived experiences, and his knack for asking strategic questions.

Each question he’s asked me over the course of our work together over the years has invited me into deep, (and be forewarned I mean REALLY DEEP) parts of my being, exposed me to blindspots I may have been unaware of or aware but not ready to face, and opened up dormant wells of wisdom, creativity, and passion.

As a result of working with Jefferson, I’m able to lead from a much more confident and grounded place. I’m able to contextualize my challenges as a business owner and their solutions from a new and empowering paradigm and get less in my own way. Most importantly, Jefferson has helped me create an intentional organization that meets its highest needs as it grows while allowing me to stay focused on living my own best life.

For any founder, entrepreneur or executive feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated and know that you are capable of SO MUCH more in your organization and in your own life you need to have Jefferson in your corner.”

““Working with Jefferson was a recurring opportunity to self-examine what I was doing, why I was doing it, and to discover opportunities to let go, reconfigure, add, or to reimagine. More than anything the lingering impact of his coaching is evident years later and, to my mind, speaks to the effectiveness of his ‘eyes and heart wide open’ approach to serving his clients.””

“Hands down one of the most transformative experiences I’ve ever had was getting coached by Jefferson.  His aptly named Inside Start program literally builds strength from within in order to effectively face the challenges of life and business from an empowered point of view.  He demonstrated an uncanny ability to quickly read the underlying issues that needed to be addressed and then focused on them with laser accuracy to get the major obstacles out of the way. From there he empowered me to find resources I didn’t know I had in myself to make the changes.

I experienced a paradigm shift in my perspective and learned that I am always in full control of my life regardless of the situation.  He helped me put structure to my days and I went from “winging it” and falling short on my goals as a result, to a much more structured approach where confidence stems from knowing that my days are well planned ahead of time and all in sync with my goals. 

Jefferson is extremely resourceful and repeatedly provided me with helpful recommended reading on the issues that matter.  He showed up to every single call very well prepared and showed genuine care for my development.  I couldn’t recommend him enough to anyone looking to get real results in turning his or her life around.”

““I’m continually surprised by Jefferson’s ability to distill our coaching calls, to filter through my comments, even those that seem like tangents, and truly hear the themes at their core. His experience has given him a 50,000 ft view of the mosaic called Small Business Development Struggle and Success, and, from this perspective, he instantly knows where to place each color chunk I toss him. Our coaching calls are a process of focusing and re-focusing toward a big picture, and, over the past year, he’s helped me push through barriers to see, and also to act, from 30,000 ft. The transformation in my business - and in my ability to lead it - has been remarkable. In the past, I didn’t recognize the value in coaching, and now I don’t know why I waited so long.””

““Jefferson is a terrific coach. He not only is instrumental in clarifying goals and setting the steps in motion to reach those goals, he also has an uncanny ability to recognize psychological intricacies of his clients that may be holding them back.””

““The impact of working with Jefferson is difficult to capture in a few words. His way of engaging stretches me and encourages me to grow in areas I wasn’t even consciously aware of. One way he does this has been through a nuanced ability to find questions about the impacts of my limiting beliefs and behaviors. Exploring them and finding my own answers has inspired me to figure out what my roadblocks to growth are and work on changing that part of myself. He’s always respectful, even when bringing difficult questions that sometimes start out feeling awkward, but have led me toward true growth and change. I’ve become a better boss as a result, and relate to my employees with a more mature directness and care. One of the best results of his work with me is that I am more aligned with what I want my life to look and feel like, and I can see and experience now my relationship with the business and results supporting this kind of life. Interestingly enough, this was a primary goal when we began working together.””

““After every coaching session with Jefferson we left the conversation more confident, calm and excited about our business/life. I highly recommend Jefferson for entrepreneurs who need help with vision, execution, building systems, or a neutral teammate to solve problems.””