Private Pathwork
This is not a program you complete.
Private, one-to-one work for accomplished people who want to feel more present in their lives. Work directly with Diego Ugalde to understand why you repeat certain choices, and practice making changes in everyday life. Start with a private conversation about what you want to work on.
Who this is for
For the people you say you’re doing it all for.
You’ve built a great deal for the people you love. Your kids. Your partner. Your friends. The people who work for you. And somewhere along the way, despite everything you’ve provided, you became a stranger: to them, and to yourself. You’re home, but not present. You hear them, but you’re already solving. This work starts with awareness, and with the relationship underneath all the others: the one with yourself.
- Your childrenYou’re with them, and still managing the afternoon instead of being in it.
- Your partnerThey’ve stopped expecting all of you.
- Your peopleThey trust the role you play, not the person playing it.
- YourselfYou finally have enough, and you still can’t sit on vacation without checking your phone.
The path
This is not a program you complete.
01 · Six sessions
Enter
Not because transformation happens in six sessions, but because both of you need enough experience together to decide whether to continue. Offered once.
02 · Twelve months, twenty-six sessions
Go Deeper
Twenty-six sessions over a year, about every two weeks, shaped around what’s actually present. No curriculum.
03 · Six or twelve more months
Integrate
Continuation after the first year, when it’s useful, and only then. With the option to add Storytelling.
The goal is not permanent dependence on Diego. The goal is to learn to use the tools that already live within you.
Between sessions
Between sessions, you can always call or text Diego. In San Diego and Los Angeles, he comes to you, for anywhere from forty-five minutes to three hours. Diego works with eight private clients a year. That’s what makes this possible.
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.
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
Terry was chief financial officer of a pharmaceutical company in New York. By any outside measure she had arrived. Inside, she felt distant from her husband and her son, more at ease with her animals than with people, and sure she was missing her own life without knowing why.
She met Diego when her company brought him in for a keynote and a day of training on the beach. Afterward she called him; something he’d said had landed. Over two years, she stopped fighting the mother, the wife and the CFO she thought she was supposed to be, and started noticing who was actually showing up. What surprised her most was that she didn’t need to become someone different.
People who once called her stoic now see someone softer and more joyful. She can watch a sunset and feel it. Her son, in the relationship that had been hardest of all, began to trust her and confide in her. The guidance ended when she was ready to carry it herself. The work continues on her own path, with the tools she learned to use.
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
Hannah was a competitive athlete with what felt like endless potential. Now she’s a mother of two very young children in Los Angeles, and her identity has narrowed to mother and wife, in a world that rarely asks who she is.
She didn’t arrive with a diagnosis. She arrived with a feeling that life was supposed to be better than this, and no idea what was missing. Someone told her she needed to talk to Diego.
The same mind that won her championships now tells her who she’s supposed to be. A month in, things she had never let surface are starting to rise, and she’s beginning to see the abbreviated life she’d accepted. The work ahead is simple to say and hard to do: allowing herself to be. And discomfort is no longer proof that something has gone wrong. It’s the reason growth is possible at all.
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 story
Paul built an entertainment company that produces live events at stadium scale. He built it on what he believed were his values: being agreeable, keeping the peace, doing what it took to be accepted. He didn’t see that they were also a way of avoiding conflict.
During his exit, a difficult successor made it undeniable. The work started there, with leadership and the difference between niceness and kindness. Underneath, it became something else. Paul had built everything he’d worked decades for, and was showing up at home as a stranger: as a father, as a husband, and to himself.
What’s at stake isn’t the company. It’s a whole life lived slightly disconnected from the people in it. Paul is discovering a strength he has kept small his whole life, out of fear of what it might do to the people around him, and learning that it was never the threat he thought it was.
Why Diego
Diego has walked this path himself. Twenty years in the Navy SEAL Teams taught him pressure. Finding his way back to himself taught him stillness, and acceptance in the face of the biggest things he has lived through. That is what lets him sit with anyone, at any depth, without bringing his own unfinished business into the room. More than 600 people have done this work with him since 2020.
Read Diego’s storyPractical questions
How much time does this take?
Twenty-six sessions over twelve months, about every two weeks, plus what you practice between them. In person, sessions run from forty-five minutes to three hours.
Is this therapy?
No. Diego is not a clinician. If you’re working with a therapist or doctor, this can sit alongside that work.
Does this involve psychedelics?
Diego’s background is rooted in psychedelic experience and integration, and he’s open about it. The work opens awareness to elevated states of consciousness, and psychedelics are not required to reach them.
Will anyone know I’m working with Diego?
Not from us. Your name, your story and anything you share stay private unless you give specific permission otherwise. Before you start, you’ll get written privacy terms that spell out exactly what’s kept and how.
Can I start with something smaller?
Everyone starts with six sessions.
How long does it last?
As long as it’s useful. Diego has never needed to work with anyone for more than three years. The goal is that you leave with the tools, and know how to use them when it counts.
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