Meet Pauline Larmaraud
Your Mindset Coach
"I'm going to thrive through this."
I've said those words at the hardest moments of my life, and they're the reason I coach. Again and again, I've learned how to turn a curveball into the best thing that ever happened to me. Being coached is what helped me become a calmer, stronger, more joyful version of myself. Now I help you do the same.
The training that changed everything
That's when I found the training that changed my life. I earned my certification in Unbeatable Mind, built by retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine, and put it to the test in two SEALFIT Crucibles: civilian versions of Navy SEAL Hell Week, a 6-hour and a 12-hour.
For the twelve-hour, I decided beforehand: I'll do this shoulder to shoulder with my teammates, and we'll have a blast. We did. I learned to turn life's hardest challenges into opportunities to thrive, and I loved it so much I made it my work.
Off the clock
Off the clock, I'm a lifelong chocolate lover, a serious foodie, and a total nature freak, happiest hiking, scuba diving, sailing, or on a horse. I train and mind my sleep, exercise, and nutrition, not because anyone's watching, but because it's how I live fully. I practice what I coach.
Certified Unbeatable Mind Coach (2022) · Two SEALFIT Crucibles · ~20 years at Stanford · Coaching individuals and teams
The outer game
For most of my career I was a product manager at Stanford, obsessed with people's experience: making it better so faculty and students would not stumble through clunky systems, waste time on anything that wasn't their mission (research and teaching). I was good at that outer game. What I hadn't done was the inner work.
Like a lot of driven people, I'd been trained at home, in school, and at work to just perform: do a great job, hit the target, repeat. What I couldn't see was that the things quietly holding me back had nothing to do with performance. For all my education and success, I felt overwhelmed and short of my potential, barely aware of why. Sound familiar?
Life kept testing me.
I was laid off out of nowhere, and chose to thrive through it, committing fully to the coaching I love most. Then perimenopause arrived years early. Same choice: I'm going to thrive through these years and get better as I age. I'm doing exactly that.
It's why perimenopause matters so much to me. The hardest part isn't only physical. It's that almost no one brings inner work to it. The conversation stops at hormones and symptoms, but training your mind, your beliefs, and your identity is what changes the experience, and it touches everything I train: sleep, mood, focus, energy. It's under-discussed, it can be lonely, and you can absolutely thrive through it.
Now I bring all of it to the experience that matters most: your experience of your own life. Not just whether you hit your goals, but whether your life feels good to live.
"Pauline has a gift for helping others realize their vision. She helps people to clarify their values, understand how their beliefs influence their lives and loves, and align their actions to what is most important. She has a knack for connecting people to what truly drives them."