Atmospheric ceremonial scene
· · ·   I   · · ·   San Francisco Bay · Los Angeles

— Hello Relatives.

A helper of the people. Ceremonies, coaching, and business strategy from Greg S. Carroll.

Thirty years at the intersection of the old ways and the modern world. Shamanic healing, empathic life coaching, and the turnaround work that built companies like Diamond Supply and Venture Trucks. One practitioner, two practices, held honestly.

Shamanic Practitioner Life Coach Reiki Master Teacher Business Strategist
· · ·   IV   · · ·   A Welcome

Hello Relatives.

I don’t use titles like Medicine Person, Shaman, Healer, or Reiki Master — though I’ve earned them. What I am is a helper. I am not a normal life coach. I work with what the modern room can’t name: lineage, energy, grief, and the long weather of a human life. If you’ve arrived here on purpose, or by what felt like accident — welcome. Come sit.
• • •
§ 03 · The Two Paths

Two practices. One practitioner.

The healing work and the business work are not separate rooms in my life — they sit on the same foundation. Listen deeply. Tell the truth. Help the person in front of you find their own power.

Forest — the healing path
— I.

The Healing Work

For individuals, families, and caregivers walking through grief, recovery, integration, or a threshold season. Ceremony, coaching, Reiki, and the slow work of remembering who you were before the world shaped you otherwise.

  • Empathic Intuitive Life Coaching
  • Healing Ceremonies & Reiki treatments
  • Psychedelic Integration support
  • Addiction Detox & Recovery walking
  • Long-distance Shamanic Healing
Enter the healing work
Waterfall — the business path
— II.

The Business Work

For founders, CEOs, boards, and creative teams at a crossroads. Thirty years of operator experience — scaling brands from zero, turning troubled companies around, and building cultures people don’t want to leave. Strategic, specific, unsentimental.

  • Strategic Planning & Turnaround Consulting
  • Executive & Leadership Coaching
  • Sales Growth & Team Training
  • Brand Development & Market Expansion
  • Product, Culture & Organizational Alignment
Enter the business work
§ 04 · The Healing Services

Six doorways into the deeper work.

Each service is a threshold — not a package. Some clients arrive called to one; others move through several across a season. I listen first, then we choose together.

Shamanic Energy Healing Treatment — labyrinth ceremony
— i.

Empathic Intuitive Life Coaching

For the crossroads moment — when the mind has exhausted itself and needs a different kind of counsel. I read the field, I listen for what the body is trying to say, and we build a path that is yours, not borrowed.

In Person · Virtual
— ii.

Healing Ceremonies

Grief ceremony. Release ceremony. Rite-of-passage ceremony. The old forms, held carefully for the modern nervous system. Candle, breath, sound, fire — and the quiet that does the real work when we stop performing it.

In Person · Long-distance
— iii.

Psychedelic Integration Support

For those returning from ayahuasca, psilocybin, ibogaine, or San Pedro and struggling to carry what arrived. We hold the experience gently, honestly, and without theatre, until it becomes your life instead of a memory.

Adjunct to your medicine path
— iv.

Addiction Detox & Recovery

Walking work — for individuals in recovery and for the families, healthcare facilities, and providers holding them. Honest, grounded, and without shame. Adjunct to medical and therapeutic care, never a replacement for it.

Individuals · Families · Facilities
— v.

Reiki Treatments & Classes

Reiki Master Teacher — Usui and Karuna lineages. Individual sessions for the subtle body, and ongoing Reiki I, II, and Master classes for students called to carry the work forward themselves.

Treatment · Training · Initiation
— vi.

Home, Land & Business Blessings

For a new home, a new chapter, a property that needs clearing, or a business ready for its next season. Blessing work is not superstition — it is the old practice of asking the space to hold what’s about to happen inside of it.

On-site · Long-distance
Greg S. Carroll
— Greg S. Carroll
§ 05 · Meet Greg

Not a normal life coach. Not a normal consultant.

I am a helper of the people. I come from an indigenous lineage of medicine carriers, and I was also raised inside thirty years of American business — building skateboard companies, rebuilding failing ones, and learning that the same listening that heals a person can also save a company. I refuse to pick a side, because the work has never asked me to.

I have spent decades sitting with professional athletes, CEOs, at-risk youth, cancer patients, mothers, fathers, and people who simply lost their footing. The title on the door doesn’t interest me — the person in the chair does.

Based
SF Bay Area
Los Angeles County
In Practice
Since 1995
Three Decades
Serves
Individuals
Organizations
I do not charge for ceremonies or for people to pray with me. People pay me for the time, wisdom and energy that I share with them.
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§ 06 · Immersive Experiences

Three containers, three depths.

For those ready to step further in. Each experience is a held arc — designed around where you are and what’s being asked of you. Availability is limited; inquiry is by conversation.

Experience I

The Empowerment Experience

A focused arc for reclaiming the seat of your own authority. For those emerging from a hard season, a recovery, or a long stretch of living for everyone else. We rebuild voice, boundary, and the simple capacity to choose.

Inquire
Experience II

The Source Experience

The deeper journey — ceremony, lineage, and the long look at what you inherited, what you carry, and what you’re ready to set down. For those who have done the surface work and know the real conversation lives further in.

Inquire
Experience III

The Illumination Experience

A year-long mentorship for those called to carry medicine work into their own life, family, or practice. Integration, teaching, ceremony, and the slow forming of a practitioner. Selective — by conversation only.

Inquire
· · ·   II   · · ·   The Work’s Name
Helper of the People
— the title the old ones gave it —
§ 07 · The Business Legacy

Thirty years of building, rebuilding, and leading.

The operator’s seat across five companies that shaped modern action-sports culture. Scroll to travel the line.

— I.
1998 – 2010

Diamond Supply Co.

Co-Founder
Restructured a struggling brand into a global powerhouse — $3M+ in sales within two years of the restructuring. Credited as one of the defining brands of the 2000s skate/streetwear era.
— II.
1989 – 2002

Venture Trucks

Brand Manager, Ermico Enterprises
Took Venture from a mid-tier product to the #1 selling skateboard truck in the world, at $20M+ in annual sales. Thirteen-year run of category leadership.
— III.
2002 – 2005

Girl Skateboards

General Manager
Led one of the most culturally influential skateboard companies through a pivotal stretch — team, product, and distribution alignment during its strongest growth seasons.
— IV.
2006 – 2009

Empire Skateboard Distribution

CEO & Co-Founder
Founded and led a multi-brand distribution company from zero — building the warehouse, the team, the accounts, and the operating systems end-to-end.
— V.
1989 – 2002

Street Corner Distribution

Founder
Founded and scaled Street Corner into a multi-million dollar distribution company, serving the independent skateboard shop network across North America for over a decade.
— VI.
1995 – Present

CreatingYouNow.com

Founder & Practitioner
Thousands of individuals and organizations served — professional athletes, CEOs, at-risk youth, cancer patients, founders, and families walking through thresholds.
§ 08 · The Business Services

Where the operator’s lens meets strategy.

I work with founders, CEOs, boards, and creative teams who are ready to stop reshuffling the org chart and actually name the thing that isn’t working. Honest counsel, specific moves, and a long view.

— I.

Strategic Planning & Turnaround

For companies in transition, decline, or needing a serious reset. We find the real problem — not the surface one — and build a plan with sequencing, accountability, and a realistic runway.

— II.

Executive & Leadership Coaching

One-on-one work with founders and C-level operators who want a thinking partner who has also sat in their seat. Private, direct, and tuned to both the person and the business they carry.

— III.

Sales Growth Strategy & Team Training

From building the channel strategy to training the sales team that works it. I’ve scaled products from zero and stabilized teams that lost their footing — the playbook is contextual, never copy-pasted.

— IV.

Brand Development & Market Expansion

Positioning, story, category entry, international distribution. We start with what the brand actually stands for, then build the market moves that let customers feel it, not just read about it.

— V.

Product & Creative Direction

Product development, line architecture, and creative direction for brands where the thing itself needs to communicate the story. Detail work. Opinionated work. The work most consultants skip.

— VI.

Team Building & Culture

Organizational alignment, leadership team formation, and the culture work that makes an operating plan actually stick. Cultures are built in the small decisions — we work on those.

§ 09 · What Clients Say

Words sent after the work.

Written testimonials from the people who’ve walked a portion of this path with me — some from years ago, still carrying forward.

Greg is such a magical being, full of wisdom, strength, insight, and good mojo. I’ve known him for years and am honored to call him my friend. The healing work Greg has done for me has been so profound. I can remember ceremonies five years ago as clearly as yesterday. Simply — WOW!

— Longtime Client
Healing Ceremony

I am forever grateful to Greg and my dear friend who put me in touch with Greg after seeing the difficult year I was having and the emotional and physical pain I was living with. I went on a nature walk with Greg and it immediately changed my life and the way I was feeling.

— Client
Shamanic Intuitive Nature Walk

Greg Carroll has been such a big inspiration to my life personally, emotionally and in my business. When we met I was at some major crossroads in my life and over the course of our relationship Greg has helped me sort them out and become more a powerful being.

— Founder & Client
Life Coaching & Business
§ 10 · On Payment · Plainly Said
“I do not charge for ceremonies or for people to pray with me. People pay me for the time, wisdom and energy that I share with them.”
— Greg S. Carroll
§ 11 · Scholarship & Sliding Scale

If money is the wall, say so.

I hold scholarship space and sliding-scale arrangements for people in genuine financial hardship — for individuals in recovery, at-risk youth, cancer patients, and families walking through serious loss. The work was never meant to be locked behind cost.

Write to me honestly. We’ll find a way for the work to happen.

· · ·   III   · · ·   Where I Work

Two home regions. One global practice.

In-person throughout Northern and Southern California. Long-distance and virtual work for clients across the United States and internationally.

San Francisco Bay Area
Life Coach · In Person
Los Angeles County
Life Coach · In Person
Ventura County
Life Coach · In Person
Internationally
Long-distance · Virtual
§ 13 · Begin

Come sit with me.

The door is open for consultations, ceremonies, coaching sessions, and business conversations. Write honestly about what you’re carrying — I read every note myself.