You achieved what you thought would set you free.
So why aren’t you free?
Your son takes his problems to someone else. You’re at the game, but already on the next call. Home for dinner, still at work. Former Navy SEAL Diego Ugalde works privately with founders, executives and leaders who want to be present for the people they’ve been working so hard for.
Body · Mind · Spirit
The Contradiction
The things that helped you win can eventually keep you from being free.
You built the company. Made the money. Earned the title. Survived environments most people could not. You learned how to perform under pressure, solve impossible problems, carry responsibility, lead others, and keep moving.
And still, the pressure remains. The restlessness. The distance. The inability to fully experience the life you worked so hard to create.
At some point another deal, another title, another mountain stops being the answer.
The next frontier isn’t another achievement. It’s you.
Client stories
Different lives. Same underlying territory.
Executive
Terry
Terry was the CFO of a pharmaceutical company. By every outside measure she had arrived, and she still felt she was missing her own life. Two years later she’s softer, more joyful, and her son has started to confide in her.
Read Terry’s story
Former athlete, mother
Hannah
Hannah was a competitive athlete. The same mind that won championships now tells her who she’s supposed to be: a mother, a wife, nothing more. A month into the work, she’s beginning to let herself simply be.
Read Hannah’s story
Founder, navigating an exit
Paul
Paul built a company that fills stadiums, on values he didn’t realize were a way of avoiding conflict. He had everything he’d worked for, and came home a stranger to it. The work started with leadership and went much deeper.
Read Paul’s storyThe Trident Approach
Three dimensions. One human being.
These are not stages. They are places the work visits. Enter through the mind and discover the body. Enter through achievement and eventually confront meaning.
Body
The body learned pressure.
Stress, breath, energy, recovery, somatic awareness, nervous-system experience.
Mind
The mind learned control.
Beliefs, identity, stories, patterns, judgments, mental models.
Spirit
Who am I beneath all of it?
Meaning, connection, awareness, truth, love, surrender, purpose, presence.
Diego during his years in the Navy.
Diego
He didn’t study pressure from a distance.
Diego guides spiritual guides, coaches life coaches, holds space for mental-health practitioners, and works with fellow Special Operations veterans and high-net-worth executives. The common denominator is not profession. It is capacity: people accustomed to being the person everyone else calls.
Who holds space for the people who hold space for everyone else?
Meet Diego
The mountain didn’t have fireworks.
The Pursuit
Ten years to become a Navy SEAL. On graduation day, nothing.
The Summit
Twenty years. Senior Chief. The top of the mountain, and silence. Then a voice: the one place you haven’t looked is within.
The Realization
A second mountain, the mountain within. The fireworks were never out there.
Private Pathwork
For the people you say you’re doing it all for.
This is not a program you complete.
01
Enter
Six sessions, to decide together whether to continue.
02
Go Deeper
Twelve months, twenty-six sessions.
03
Integrate
Six or twelve more months, when it’s useful, and only then.
The goal is not permanent dependence on Diego. The goal is to learn to use the tools that already live within you.
This is probably not for you if:
- You’re attached to knowing, and certain you already know what the problem is.
- You value comfort and avoidance more than discovering your potential.
- There’s a part of you that built everything, and it’s off-limits.
- You need the people around you to change, but not you.
- You need a guarantee.
None of these are flaws. Everyone carries some of each. What matters is whether you’re willing to lean into the discomfort that is keeping you small.
You do the work. Diego walks beside you. The path gets dark. He brings a torch. You still have to walk.
Storytelling
The story you tell about your life is part of the work.
After a year of Private Pathwork, clients can learn the craft of telling their own story: building it, shaping it and delivering it live on stage. A real skill, built one-on-one with Diego.
Storytelling
Mission: Seva
The work should serve something larger than the work.
The Trident Approach is the work. Warriorside is its seva. When someone works with Diego, part of what they pay supports Warriorside, so veterans and first responders can do this work at low or no cost.
Library
Three conversations worth your time.
Apply
The next step is inward.
This isn’t a discovery call. It’s an application for a relationship: enough to make you think, never artificially difficult.
- What are you confronting?
- Why now?
- If nothing changes, what does the next six months look like?
- How did you find Diego?
- How to reach you
You do not need another mountain simply because you know how to climb.
Body · Mind · Spirit