Unlock Your Why, Achieve Impacting Wins, & Ride Spectacular Life Waves.

Joe Jacobi

Olympic Gold Medalist, Performance Coach, & Author.

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Let Me Present Myself

I am an Olympic Gold Medalist and Performance Coach who positions the art of surfing waves as a process for deep reflection and meaningful life transitions. My life at home in the Spanish state of Catalunya and daily movement in nature anchor how I guide others to navigate challenge and ride their best Life Waves with clarity and purpose.

From Midlife Obstacles To
Midlife Peak Performance

Transforming your professional and personal journey in midlife activates a critical choice… and yields an exciting opportunity.

An intentional transition through uncertain conditions that becomes an impactful trajectory of growth and connection... But you initiate the first step.

Doing so launches a better version of yourself for the moments that matter most. You experience the change from:

  • Foggy to Focused
  • Consuming to Creating
  • Feeling stuck to Fully Engaged
  • Watching “the waves” to Better Rides on Your Life Waves

Ready to explore your Midlife Peak Performance? Performance Coaching with Joe brings you the clear feedback, strong accountability, and measured growth that you need ride the right waves with confidence and enjoyment.

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Joe's guidance has helped me trust a process that I have never been down before. One that is unseen. Untested. Counterintuitive. Counter Cultural. Highly Uncertain. I have been amazed at how much this concept has allowed me to learn about things I need to know and understand at midlife. I am leaning into my power of choice - the simple, meaningful people, experiences, and things I value that not only don’t take energy to carry, but rather become a joy to hike and travel with alongside.

Scott Higgins - Former High-Performance Manager Olympic & Paralympic Sport Team NZ
Team USA | Law Enforcement Chaplain | Father & Husband

Joe’s conversational + deep listening skills and your ability to read the client quickly and intuitively are exceptional. He has an amazing gift for envisioning and articulating tangible solutions to the struggles that his client faces. He helps formulate both the strategies and actionable steps to bring those solutions to life! This helped lead me to where I am today – more liberated and stronger in mind, soul + body.

Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, CEO
Career + Business Storyteller, CareerTrend

My regular conversations with Joe have both improved my interactions with my own coaching clients and helped me ask myself the right questions. His feedback and guidance simplifies the complex and uncovers surprising insights from what at first seems simple. Joe’s advice helps me feel confident that I’m asking myself the right questions about what matters most in my life.

Joe Maloy | Olympian
Owner, Joe Maloy Coaching

Working with Joe has been a gift during a time of personal exploration into new ways of approaching my days, weeks, months, years. He's helped re-frame my approaches and thought patterns with key areas of life including work, relationships, and personal ambitions. I can recommend working with Joe without reservation as I've experienced the level of care, kindness, and wisdom that he continuously exudes.

Ryan J.

Your Midlife Transformation Begins Here

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Our 1:1 Coaching Collaboration Empowers You With:

  • Growth opportunities outside of the comfort zone
  • Proven models, mindsets, and frameworks for improving performance
  • “Lead Self” practices that facilitate reflection, preparation, and capacity
  • Course Correction functions that address mistakes, resistance, and setbacks more effectively and efficiently  

Slalom

Confront Obstacles, Advance Amid Uncertainty, & Bring Focus To What Matters Most.

  • How can we align with strong forces of uncertainty?
  • How can we move on our river with more agility and optionality?
  • As large rocks appear, how can we intentionally confront our obstacles?

In a rapidly-developing and noisy world, the value of flow and simplicity cannot be underestimated. These powerful performance states foster agility, alignment, and awareness that not only help the best paddlers in the world to improve responsiveness and choices on the river but can help all of us improve our responsiveness and choices in navigating the river of life.

You can buy my book here
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