FOR HIGH ACHIEVERS WHO’VE NOWHERE LEFT TO CLIMB
Something in you knows
the life you’re living
no longer fits.
You’ve done everything right. Built the career, earned the respect, checked the boxes. And yet—often at 3am, when the performance stops—there’s a hollow dread that no achievement can reach. You may think it’s burnout. I’d like to suggest it might be something else: your soul is asking for its life back.
You don’t have to stay in the dark night alone. On the other side of this work is a life that’s more interesting, more meaningful, and unmistakably yours.
This is for the high achiever who has outgrown their own success.
You’re not falling apart. You’re not broken. You’re being initiated.
Maybe it feels like golden handcuffs; a life that looks impressive from the outside, built exactly the way you were taught to build it, and yet quietly costs you everything that matters. The restlessness, the flatness, the sense that something essential has gone missing even though nothing is technically wrong.
These aren’t problems to fix. This is the Soul Shareholder—the part of you that invested in this life expecting meaning, not just success—calling for a seat at the table.
I’m Benjamin Oliver Field. The Jungian coach for BigLaw attorneys and
high-achieving professionals navigating the shift from role to soul at midlife—where conventional success stops being enough, and deeper questions start insisting on being heard.
The work of the second adulthood isn’t self-improvement. It’s self-remembrance.
The Living Soul Method™ isn’t performance coaching with a spiritual veneer. It’s a depth-oriented process—informed by Jungian psychology, the iEQ9 Enneagram, and over a decade of inner work—that helps high achievers move from role to soul without abandoning their responsibilities or blowing up their lives.
This work is for the professional who senses that something larger is trying to live through them; and who’s ready to stop performing long enough to find out what that is.
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Secret Identity: A High Achiever’s Guide to Recovering Your Lost Soul at Midlife
The book that names what high achievers rarely let themselves say out loud. Part depth psychology, part field guide, part memoir.
What readers are saying…
★★★★★
“When success outruns meaning”
A psychologically sophisticated exploration of a phenomenon many high achievers experience but rarely articulate: the quiet erosion of meaning beneath a life of competence and success. For professionals navigating the tension between success and meaning, Secret Identity provides a compelling and humane guide to reconnecting achievement with soul.
★★★★★
“From burnout to self-remembrance”
A brilliantly crafted roadmap for high achievers to move beyond mere self-improvement and toward a profound process of self-remembrance. Field’s approach illustrates how reconnecting with something larger than ourselves can transform a sense of emptiness into a life of quietude, strength, and a profound renewal of meaning.
★★★★★
“It’s time to wake yourself up”
This isn’t a self-help book or a 5-step guide to becoming a better leader. It is a call for high achievers in their 40s to wake up to themselves — a loving reminder to listen to that inner nudge that it’s time to redefine success where you merge your inner world with your outer world.
Not sure where you stand?
The Soul Shift Scorecard™ takes five minutes and shows you exactly where your ego and Soul Shareholder are aligned, or pulling apart across five essential arenas of soul-aligned living.
It's the diagnostic I use with every client at the start of our work together. Often the fastest way to see what I mean by all of this is to take it.
Ready to begin?
If something here has named what you’ve been carrying, the next step is a conversation. No performance required; just an honest exchange about where you are and what’s calling you forward. This is the inner work of becoming a Soulholder.