Hi, I’m Jane ~

I’m a curious earthling cultivating and tending to my life.

To do this, I’m exploring my fullest human expression through living out my core values of freedom, connection, joy, generosity, and beauty.

I offer my presence so you can also figure out what it means to live a cultivated life, one where you can live as the fullest expression of you.

My hope is for our efforts to contribute to the fullest expression of our collective conscious existence.

My cultivated life is one full of freedom, connection, joy, generosity, and beauty.

But I wasn’t always living this way.

I had boxed myself into a life of shoulds for a long time.

As is typical for many children of immigrants, I grew up in a state of tension.
In tension with my family’s unrequitable sacrifices, unrealized dreams, and unaddressed pain that I unwittingly internalized.
In tension with conditions of scarcity while also being told to follow my dreams.
In tension with growing up in an environment that had me confused about my identities and how these identities could be sources of both love and loathing.

These kept me trekking down a path of known quantities, status markers, and rat racing that led to my days being filled with anxiety, numbness, and dread.

But life kept whispering to me, nudging me to poke my head up out of my box every once in awhile.
A stirring of curiosity here.
A prick of envy there.
A glimpse of joy here.
An ache of longing there.

Eventually, enough of these whispers got through to where I couldn’t ignore their calls to me anymore.
Something had to change.

Then I realized that something was me.

I draw from many different sources of guidance and knowledge in my own continuing evolution. The journey has asked much of me. Humility, sacrifice, surrender, faith. But there is always something in return. Freedom, knowingness, trust, peace. I now have access to a lightness of being that makes the experience of living a true gift, even despite inevitable hardships.

A humbling and heartening realization has been this journey is not one to be undertaken alone. While others can’t take on our work for us, they can guide, encourage, and witness us in ways we can’t do for ourselves.

I offer my spirit, encouragement, and witnessing to you so you might uncover your own gifts that lead you into your intended life.

You don’t have to go it alone.

Embodied Experiences

Child of immigrants
Second generation
Korean-American
Woman
Older sister
Eldest granddaughter
Sensitive person
Friend
Community member
Life partner

Learning Experiences

Given and chosen family
Katonah Yoga
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Singing
Dancing
Backcountry backpacking
Coaching
Vipassana meditation
Self-cultivation practices
Mentorship

Institutional Experiences

London School of Economics & Political Science
MSc Behavioural Science

Wellesley College
BA Psychology

International Coaching Federation
Associate Certified Coach (ACC)

iPEC
Certified Professional Coach (CPC)

Work Experiences

Jane Pak Coaching LLC
Founder & Coach

Alphabet: Google and X
People Operations

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Talent