Designing your next chapter with clarity and intention.
Hello, brave soul.
I see you.
You’re a creative, entrepreneurial spirit—evolving and reinventing. Shaping big changes in your life and work.
You’re driven to make a difference and mindfully pursuing your deepest purpose.
Me too.
I’m Megan McCarthy, and at networking events I write “Design Partner & Career Coach” on my nametag. But the result of working with me is much more than a job change or a website that makes you proud.
Together, we make your purpose visible—and your next chapter intentional.
Ways we can work together:
Career & Transformation Coaching
1:1 Career Coaching
Looking for a career coach who does more than rewrite your resume? I blend values- and strengths-based career coaching with brand consulting to help you land a role or build a business that gives you purpose and pays your worth. This is one of my favorite things to do because it makes me happy to see you earn with more ease.
What the Funk?! Transformation Group Coaching Program
Sometimes we get stuck and life feels funked up. That’s why my friend Kelly Villmer, MSW and I created this light-hearted yet deeply transformative small-group coaching program. Using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and improv exercises, What the Funk?! is designed to help you understand your inner patterns, why they’re there, and how to change them so you can move forward freely as your best self.
Branding & Web Design
1-Week Websites
You read that right. Up to 5 pages of sparkling, strategic, SEO-optimized online beauty that reflects the heart of your solopreneur business, in just one week. This is another of my favorite things to do, and yes, we can add on visual identity and marketing designs too.
Bespoke Design
If your business or nonprofit needs a heavier design lift, head over to my collective brand atelier Sage by Design. There I bring together talented creatives and trusted experts for full-service brand, web, and marketing endeavors so you don’t have to cobble together freelancers (or pull your hair out with DIY).
But the most profitable lesson of this journey between temples and tuk-tuks was learning that there are billions of ways to make a living and make a life.
I came to understand my own values for the first time as I built a working style that supported the way I want to live every day: with ease and delight, authenticity and intention.
So the next logical step was—you guessed it—not getting another office job. Instead, I took another chance on myself and began building an online business, creating dynamite websites and brand identities for other brave, heart-led solopreneurs and businesses around the world.
Now I also coach people seeking greater peace in life and more purpose in their work to pave their own paths as I did—but for their own reasons and in their very own ways. No visas or international flights required (though I’m always happy to talk about those).
More about me
After a decade in corporate America designing in award-winning agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and a world-renowned art museum, in January 2017 I quit my job and sold all my stuff.
To be fair, I’d spent the last six months fighting acute viral meningitis & transverse myelitis, so following my heart felt less dramatic than going back to an office.
I took a chance on myself and followed a dream that terrified me: I bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok and asked my network to send me any freelance design projects they had. It paid off—my earnings kept me backpacking solo through Southeast Asia for nearly two years.
So, like I said… I see you.
And I’m here to help you lay down some bricks in the right direction on your own path.
I’m still paving mine, too. My website is in “keep it simple” mode while I, like you, attend to the noble task of Shaping What’s Next—so you’re in good company.
In the meantime, I’m very much here behind the screen, eager to hear your story and start co-creating what’s next for you.
My story of purpose-led life and work
After a decade in corporate America designing in award-winning agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and a world-renowned art museum, in January 2017 I resigned from my job and sold everything I owned.
To be fair, I’d spent the last six months fighting acute viral meningitis & transverse myelitis, so following my heart felt less dramatic than going back to an office.
I took a chance on myself and followed a dream that terrified me: I bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok and asked my network to send me any freelance design projects they had. It paid off—my earnings kept me backpacking solo through Southeast Asia for nearly two years.
But the most profitable lesson of this journey between temples and tuk-tuks was learning that there are billions of ways to make a living—and make a purpose-filled life.
Launching a dream: starting my online design business dream in Hoi An, Vietnam, 2017.
New dream, same glasses: coaching clients worldwide in 2025.
I came to truly discern my own values for the first time as I built a working style that supported the way I want to live every day: with ease and delight, authenticity and intention.
So the next logical step was—you guessed it—not getting another office job. Instead, I took another chance on myself and began building an online business, designing dynamite websites and brand identities for brave, heart-led solopreneurs and businesses around the world.
Now I also coach people seeking greater peace in life and more purpose in their work to pave their own paths as I did—but for their own reasons and in their very own ways. No visas or international flights required (though I’m always happy to talk about those).
So, like I said… I see you.
And I’m here to help you design the next chapter of your own path.
Let’s talk about your next chapter.
Reach out to me today so we can start shaping your tomorrow with clarity and intention.
